A polio case identified in New York last month is 'just the very, very tip of the iceberg' and an indication there 'must be several hundred cases in the community circulating,' a senior official with the CDC told CNN.
A polio case identified in New York last month is"just the very, very tip of the iceberg" and an indication there"must be several hundred cases in the community circulating," a senior official with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told CNN on Wednesday.
The case was found In Rockland County, which has a stunningly low polio vaccination rate. Dr. José Romero, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, noted that the majority of people with polio don't have symptoms and so can spread the virus without knowing it. Polio 101: Signs, symptoms and dangers of an ancient virus "There are a number of individuals in the community that have been infected with poliovirus.
That makes sense to Romero. "I grew up in Mexico. I saw this disease, the complications," he said."I went to school with children that had braces." He said many Americans don't recognize the"devastating" effects of"lifelong paralysis" from polio. "I think most of the American public has never seen a case of polio. People have lost that fear, if you will, of the disease." CNN's Danielle Herman and John Bonifield contributed to this report.
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