Poliomyelitis, which mainly affects children under the age of five, is a highly contagious disease caused by a virus that invades the nervous system and can cause paralysis within hours.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), its initial symptoms are fever, tiredness, vomiting, stiff neck, pain in the limbs and headache (severe and persistent headache that is accompanied by a feeling of heaviness): “One in 200 infections produces irreversible paralysis (usually of the legs), and 5% to 10% of these cases die from paralysis of the respiratory muscles“.
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The virus, which was on the verge of being eradicated, It was detected in recent months in the wastewater of two of the world’s main metropolises: New York (United States) and London (United Kingdom).
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In the face of widespread alarm, the European Center for Disease Control (ECDC) explained that it is not unusual for this to happen because the virus can be found in the fecal waste of those who are vaccinated with the attenuated pathogen -virus or bacteria weakened in the laboratory so that it does not cause disease.
Even so, the health department of the British capital launched a polio booster program for children aged 1 to 9 years.
The polio case reported in New York
In the US, the finding comes after the first case of polio in nine years was reported on July 21 of this month. This was an unvaccinated adult resident of Rockland County. -20 kilometers north of ‘The Big Apple’-.
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For this reason, the sewage system of the areas near New York was analyzed, giving a positive result for polio in Orange and Rockland counties.
According to the Spanish newspaper ‘El País’, the health authorities in the area are already carrying out an immunization campaign, especially for children, since it is estimated that almost 14 percent of children under five are not vaccinated. .
According to the WHO, there is no cure for polio, but there is prevention: the vaccine.
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