Reticent_User t1_je4qasx wrote on March 29, 2023 at 12:21 PM

Is this wild polio virus or vaccine derived polio virus? Also it was only one sample in February. It may very well have been a visitor to the county who has moved on.

2gat123_ t1_je7lf3b wrote on March 30, 2023 at 12:03 AM

The downvotes on this comment are unfortunate. This comment itself isn’t antivax conspiracy.

Vaccine derived polio is possible in places where OPV vaccines were predominant but coverage isn’t good. US stopped doing OPV in 2000. Other countries still use OPV due to its convenience.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/polio/hcp/vaccine-derived-poliovirus-faq.html

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/04/26/1092867458/vaccine-derived-polio-is-on-the-rise-a-new-vaccine-aims-to-stop-the-spread

Reticent_User t1_je7t9k7 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 1:01 AM

Thank you for a voice of reason. No where in any of my comments did I claim anything but the facts. Maybe I'm wrong but I thought asking whether this was a wild virus or vaccine derived polio virus was an important question to be asking.

nybx4life t1_jea19fg wrote on March 30, 2023 at 2:39 PM

Honestly didn't know there was different variants of polio.

But CDC site linked by 2gat says that it's only one case of it in Rockland county:

> UPDATE: In July 2022, CDC was notified of a case of polio caused by vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (VDPV2) in an unvaccinated individual from Rockland County, New York, and is consulting with the New York State Department of Health on their investigation.