The American Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed on August 16 that a young man in the suburbs of New York (USA) is sick with poliomyelitis. A member of an Orthodox Jewish community known for its low adherence to vaccinations, he was never vaccinated against polio as a child. Most likely, he was infected with a long chain of transmission of a live attenuated version of the virus used in oral polio vaccines. A phenomenon that has been known for a long time and that should disappear in the coming years thanks to the new generation of vaccines.
Polio is seen by many in the West as a disease from another era. Moreover, only two countries, Afghanistan and Pakistan, have not yet joined the list of countries where it has been “eliminated”. A word that actually feeds a misunderstanding of the subject. “This elimination applies to three…
Source: Le Figaro
