Health officials say we should all be worried about this news.
"Even one case of paralytic polio is a public health emergency," says Dr. Adam Ratner from NYU Langone Health. "It's conceivable that if you see one case that's it's one very unlucky person and there's not community spread, but it's much more likely there are hundreds and thousands of cases that gave us that one case of paralytic polio.
"What we're seeing now is evidence that we are still at risk, even though there hasn't been polio in this country for many years."That's leaving many people scrambling to find out if they're protected. Parents have been getting texts across the country from their grown kids, looking for their childhood immunization records.If you can't find them, doctors say there's no harm in getting a new vaccine.
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