New Polio case reported in New York Since 2013 - Swipe Know More

The first case of vaccine-derived polio to be reported in the United States since 2013 has been detected, according to New York State, in Rockland County, north of New York City.

The state department of health stated in a statement that the unnamed patient had type 2 vaccine-derived poliovirus infection, which likely originated from oral polio vaccines.

In 2000, the US ceased administering the oral polio vaccination. In order to train the immune system, the United States uses the injectable polio vaccine that includes killed viruses. Paralysis cannot result from it.

A case of polio from a vaccination is not unexpected, according to Kimberly Thompson, who also noted that health officials in the UK recently found vaccine-derived polioviruses in London's sewage.

Children who have received the oral vaccine excrete weakened, live viruses in their faeces. These viruses can pass and immunise others. The vaccine viruses can, however, recover their ability to paralyse as they spread. These conditions are known as vaccine-derived polio.

What is vaccine-derived polio?

According to Mary Bassett, the health commissioner for New York State, those who have received the polio vaccine are not at danger from the recently identified case. However, vaccination against the virus should be given to children.

What you need to know

Bassett stated, "The Department of Health highly urges that unvaccinated persons get vaccinated or boosted with the FDA-approved IPV polio vaccine as soon as possible.

What you need to know

A young, unvaccinated child in Minnesota was the last person in the United States to have vaccine-derived polio. The child had not left the nation, and it was not known how the vaccine viruses that paralysed her body.

Details abaout the case

In this nation, the final case of polio brought on by wild polioviruses happened in 1979. Finding the source of the virus in the New York incident, according to Emory University researcher Walter Orenstein, is crucial.

Details abaout the case

Two of the original three kinds of polio, types 2 and 3, have been eliminated thanks to decades of global efforts to eradicate the disease. But up until now, attempts to stop the spread of the only surviving variant, type 1, have failed.

polio variants & ERADICATED

There aren't many cases of wild-type polio at the moment; the viruses are primarily prevalent in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where 12 cases have been reported this year. However, a most unwelcome event was recently found: viruses from Pakistan had travelled to Malawi and Mozambique.

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Meanwhile, following the failure of a 2016 attempt to remove type 2 viruses from the oral vaccine, the incidence of vaccine-derived infections has skyrocketed in Africa and several other regions of the world.

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Without counting the person in New York, type 2 vaccine viruses have paralysed 167 kids in 12 countries so far this year.

polio VACCINE STATISTICS

The discovery, according to the Global Polio Eradication Program, which is in charge of the fight to eradicate polio, highlights the need for nations to continue to keep an eye out for the disease, noting that "any type of poliovirus anywhere is a hazard to children everywhere."

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