Unbelievable, we have a vaccine for polio! This is bringing us backwards almost 70 years

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The US is a third world country.

People in third world countries listen to reason and science. Access is the problem usually.

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.

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I feel for the kids at risk. First you've got morons for parents, then you get polio as a result. Hoping for the best for them.

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We’ve been so far gone from the days of polio ravaging people that idiots really wanna remember what it was like to have it again. The anti-vax movement is a fucking blight.

Bold claims require evidence. The Polio vaccine has been safely administered for over half a century now and if not for anti-vax sentiment and some politically unstable areas of the world, the disease would have been eliminated by now. Cities of old used to be full of shops that sold crutches and walking assists for the victims of the disease, prior to the vaccine.

Poliovirus has been eradicated from most of the world due to mass vaccination efforts of the World Health Organization and Global Polio Eradication Initiative in the latter half of the 20th century. However, polio remains endemic in a few areas of the world with fewer than 200 cases reported annually over the past five years. While still rare, vaccine-derived polio is more common than wild (naturally occurring) poliovirus infection, with 682 cases reported in 2021 compared to six cases of wild polio in the same year.

If my other reply wasn't proof enough here's a report from the World Health Organization that deals with the finding of polio virus in the UK, Ireland and the US https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2022-DON408

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

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.

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.