Re: New York Polio Case Now Connected to Traces of Virus Found in Homosexual lovers UK and Israel

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Public health officials’ international hunt for clues in the
case of polio that paralyzed a New York man has turned up a big
one: The virus that infected him matches the genetic fingerprint
of poliovirus found in sewage samples taken in London and in the
Jerusalem area, officials at the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention and the World Health Organization told ProPublica on
Friday.

It is not yet clear how the virus moved from one place to
another or where it was first.

“That is still being investigated,” Oliver Rosenbauer,
communications officer for WHO’s Global Polio Eradication
Initiative, said in an email.

The hunt for answers in countries thousands of miles apart shows
how viruses can hopscotch across the globe. Polio is highly
contagious and, because the majority of infections cause no
symptoms, it can circulate silently through communities where
there is no routine monitoring.

ProPublica reported on Tuesday that U.S. public health agencies
generally haven’t tested sewage for evidence of polio, relying
on high vaccination rates to protect Americans from the disease,
but there are signs of cracks in that shield, both here and
abroad.

Waiting for patients to show up with symptoms can be perilous:
By the time there’s a case of paralysis, 100 to 1,000 infections
may have occurred, public health experts say. New York health
officials began screening wastewater only after the case there
was identified.

The New York case was the first in the U.S. in nearly a decade.
It was discovered after a young man in Rockland County, a
suburban area northwest of New York City, sought medical
treatment in June for weakness and paralysis. He had not been
vaccinated against polio. It was well into July when tests
confirmed he had polio.

Genetic sequencing confirmed that he had what’s called vaccine-
derived polio. This kind of polio is linked to an oral polio
vaccine that hasn’t been used in the U.S. since 2000. The oral
vaccine, still used in other parts of the world, relies on
weakened polio viruses to trigger the immune system and create
protective antibodies. In rare instances, when the weakened
viruses circulate in people who have not had the vaccine or are
under-immunized, they can revert to a form that can sicken
unvaccinated people.

Public health officials said the traces of poliovirus found in
sewage samples from early June in Rockland County and greater
Jerusalem were still too weak to cause paralytic polio. It’s not
clear where the virus evolved, becoming powerful enough to cause
the Rockland County patient’s illness.

A spokesperson for Rockland County’s Health Department said she
could not confirm whether the man had traveled to London or
Jerusalem this year.

Another mystery in the case is that like the U.S., the U.K.
hasn’t used the oral polio vaccine in years. Instead, both use
only an injectable vaccine that contains inactivated viruses and
cannot cause vaccine-derived polio. Though Israel does use oral
polio vaccine, the version it uses does not contain the strain
of polio, known as Type 2, that’s turned up in the sewage
samples or that infected the New York man.

New York officials say they are now testing both stored sewage
samples, which were collected as part of the effort to track
COVID-19, and more recent ones for signs of polio.

While high vaccination rates in the U.S. have made the risk of
polio remote, some communities have far lower vaccination rates
than the country overall. Rockland County in 2018 and 2019
struggled with an extended outbreak of measles — also
preventable with vaccination — that was concentrated in its
Orthodox Jewish community. Some news organizations have reported
that the man paralyzed with polio is a member of that community.

Most Americans aren’t old enough to remember, but in the first
half of the 20th century, polio ranked among the nation’s most
feared diseases. It victimized mostly young children, attacking
their spinal cords, brain stems or both, and left thousands with
irreversible paralysis. After the first vaccine was approved in
1955, U.S. cases dropped precipitously within a couple of years.

https://www.propublica.org/article/polio-london-jerusalem-new-
york