A patient from New York state who contracted polio in the United States for the first time since 1979 has been infected in the states. TASS Citing Rockland County Public Affairs Chief Beth Cefalu.
“This person did not go out of the country during the incubation period,” Cefalu said.
He added that since 95% of those infected do not show symptoms, there are difficulties in diagnosis. Doctors suggest that a US citizen contracted polio from a foreigner from abroad.
Poliomyelitis is an acute infectious disease that affects the spinal cord and causes nervous system pathology. There is no cure for polio in the world today, but there is a vaccine to protect yourself.
previously in the USA registered First case of polio since 1979.
Doctors and officers were asked to watch carefully for possible new cases of infection.