Polio

Cela peut causer une grave maladie et une paralysie chez les gens non vaccinés. La polio, maladie virale extrêmement infectieuse qui touche en grande partie les ...

Les responsables sanitaires new-yorkais ont demandé aux médecins de surveiller d’éventuels nouveaux cas et exhorté les habitants du comté n’étant pas vaccinés à le faire. La dernière infection naturelle ayant eu lieu sur le territoire date de 1979. Quelqu’un aurait cependant pu le recevoir à l’étranger, avant de contaminer, avec sa souche virale atténuée, d’autres personnes non vaccinées.

Les États-Unis ont enregistré jeudi leur premier cas de polio depuis près d'une décennie, selon les autorités sanitaires de l'État de New York.

La dernière infection naturelle ayant eu lieu sur le territoire date de 1979. Le dernier cas connu de polio aux États-Unis date de 2013, selon les Centres de prévention et de lutte contre les maladies (CDC). Les États-Unis ont enregistré jeudi leur premier cas de polio depuis près d'une décennie, selon les autorités sanitaires de l'État de New York.

The virus was discovered in Rockland County, a suburb of New York City, according to the state Department of Health.

“Based on what we know about this case, and polio in general, the Department of Health strongly recommends that unvaccinated individuals get vaccinated or boosted with the FDA-approved [inactivated polio vaccine] as soon as possible,” Health Commissioner Mary Bassett said in a statement. According to the CDC, the last time that happened was in 1993. It has also advised medical practitioners to be on the lookout for other potential cases.

The unvaccinated young adult began experiencing weakness and paralysis about a month ago, county Health Commissioner Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert said Thursday ...

The last naturally occurring case of polio in the US was in 1979. in 1952, the virus infected 58,000 people in the US, paralyzed more than 21,000 and killed more than 3,100. County health officials reported at the time that only 8% of people there had been vaccinated against measles, mumps and rubella before the outbreak began. The oral polio vaccine is no longer authorized for use in this country. Health officials think the strain of virus the individual contracted originated this way. Officials said the individual is not expected to be contagious right now because they are past that window of time and have normal immune function.

The patient, who has developed paralysis but is no longer contagious according to the AP, may have contracted the virus overseas. The CDC says no cases of ...

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Polio invades the nervous system and can cause irreversible paralysis within hours. It cannot be cured, but infection can be prevented by vaccination.

The last time this happened was in 1993, it said. Polio invades the nervous system and can cause irreversible paralysis within hours. However, the virus has been brought into the country by travelers with polio.

Person who tested positive in New York state no longer contagious, but investigators are checking if others exposed.

In rare instances, the weakened virus can mutate into a form capable of sparking new outbreaks. But some countries where polio has been more of a recent threat use a weakened live virus that is given to children as drops in the mouth. The CDC, which confirmed Thursday’s case, has said no cases of polio have originated in the US since 1979. Polio was once one of the nation’s most feared diseases, with annual outbreaks causing thousands of cases of paralysis. A 2018-2019 measles outbreak there infected 312 people. The person is no longer deemed contagious, but investigators are trying to figure out how the infection occurred and whether others were exposed.

Polio was once one of the nation's most feared diseases, with annual outbreaks causing thousands of cases of paralysis — many of them in children. Vaccines ...

Rarely, travellers with polio have brought infections into the U.S., with the last such case in 2013. A 2018-2019 measles outbreak there infected 312 people. Polio spreads mostly from person to person or through contaminated water. The disease mostly affects children. New York health officials on Thursday reported a polio case, the first in the U.S. in nearly a decade. New York reports 1st U.S. polio case in close to a decade

Most Americans are vaccinated against polio, but unvaccinated people may be at risk, said Rockland County Health Commissioner Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert.

In rare instances, the weakened virus can mutate into a form capable of sparking new outbreaks. Rarely, travelers have brought polio infections into the U.S. The last such case was in 2013, when a 7-month-old who had recently moved to the U.S. from India was diagnosed in San Antonio, Texas, according the federal health officials. But some countries where polio has been more of a recent threat use a weakened live virus that is given to children as drops in the mouth. Polio spreads mostly from person to person or through contaminated water. Officials said the patient, who lives in Rockland County, had developed paralysis. The U.S. and many other countries use shots made with an inactivated version of the virus.

The polio vaccine is the best protection against potential outbreaks, health officials say. Here's what to know about polio.

It enters the body through the mouth and lives in the throat and intestines, and is most commonly spread through contact with tiny particles of an infected person's feces in food and water. The most serious symptom is paralysis, occurring in about one out of every 200 people infected. Polio was declared eliminated in the U.S. in 1979, meaning that there was no longer year-round transmission of the poliovirus in the country. In rare cases, the weakened virus can mutate and become capable of transmission. There are two types of polio vaccines given throughout the world. Since there is no cure for polio, vaccines are the only protection against it.

The patient, who has developed paralysis but is no longer contagious according to the AP, may have contracted the virus overseas. The CDC says no cases of ...

According to the CDC, no cases of polio have originated in the United States since 1979. Only 175 cases were reported worldwide in 2019, according to the World Health Organization. The highly infectious virus can cause debilitating damage to the spine and muscles, and is typically spread orally, through fecal matter or saliva. "The fact is, the urgency of safe and effective vaccines has always been here, and we need New Yorkers to protect themselves against completely preventable viruses like polio." The patient is no longer considered contagious, the AP reports, but has developed paralysis. Inactivated vaccines — ones that use dead germs from the disease — have been the only polio vaccines authorized in the U.S. since 2000.

Une particule du virus de la polio, tel qu'illustrée par les Centres américains de prévention et de lutte contre les maladies (CDC). Les autorités de santé ...

Le commissaire à la santé du comté de Rockland, Patricia Schnabel Ruppert, a déclaré que les autorités « collaborent avec les partenaires locaux et les leaders de la communauté pour alerter le public et rendre disponibles des doses de vaccin pour la polio », selon ce qu’a rapporté le média Politico. D’ailleurs, elle a été éradiquée de la plupart des pays grâce à la vaccination, elle persiste dans certaines régions du monde, notamment au Nigéria et en Afghanistan. Les autorités de santé publique de l’État de New York ont rapporté jeudi un cas de poliomyélite, mieux connue sous le nom de « polio », le premier à être détecté aux États-Unis depuis près d’une décennie.

The polio vaccine was introduced in the US in 1955 with the last known naturally occurring case of the virus reported in 1979. New York health officials added ...