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In reply to the discussion: New York polio case is the 'tip of the iceberg,' hundreds of others could be infected [View all]BumRushDaShow
(128,748 posts)9. Here is some info from CDC
https://www.cdc.gov/polio/what-is-polio/index.htm
I would think more the unvaccinated as you have a couple generations now who might not have gotten the vaccine - which is nowadays an injection vs the old oral one that was phased out back in the '90s.
Oddly enough, before I took a trip to Egypt literally 30 years ago last month, the travel medicine doc who gave me some vaccines for stuff like yellow fever and typhoid, included an oral polio booster (the type that I later found out was being phased out around that time and I think completely pulled by 1997). As a kid, I had already had whatever doses were given for Polio back in the '60s.
I would think more the unvaccinated as you have a couple generations now who might not have gotten the vaccine - which is nowadays an injection vs the old oral one that was phased out back in the '90s.
Oddly enough, before I took a trip to Egypt literally 30 years ago last month, the travel medicine doc who gave me some vaccines for stuff like yellow fever and typhoid, included an oral polio booster (the type that I later found out was being phased out around that time and I think completely pulled by 1997). As a kid, I had already had whatever doses were given for Polio back in the '60s.
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New York polio case is the 'tip of the iceberg,' hundreds of others could be infected [View all]
BumRushDaShow
Aug 2022
OP
Some people have lost their minds today! I don't understand the mindset of choosing ignorance.
Lonestarblue
Aug 2022
#22
We basically have polio back because the world will not spend the money to give kids in Africa &Asia
womanofthehills
Aug 2022
#32
Does the oral medications we got in the early 60s provide lifetime protection?
Chainfire
Aug 2022
#4
Polio was eradicated from the US before these antivax idiots brought it back
IronLionZion
Aug 2022
#13