{"id":149618,"date":"2022-11-06T23:22:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T05:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/spate-of-polio-outbreaks-worldwide-puts-scientists-on-alert"},"modified":"2022-11-06T23:22:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T05:22:45","slug":"spate-of-polio-outbreaks-worldwide-puts-scientists-on-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/spate-of-polio-outbreaks-worldwide-puts-scientists-on-alert","title":{"rendered":"Spate of polio outbreaks worldwide puts scientists on alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spate-of-polio-outbreaks-worldwide-puts-scientists-on-alert2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The virus found in these regions is derived from an oral polio vaccine used in some countries. So far, only two cases of polio-related paralysis have been reported, in Jerusalem in February and New York in June<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-022-02233-6#ref-CR1\">1<\/a><\/sup>; the New York infection was the first such US case in nearly a decade. But wastewater samples in all three areas suggest that the virus is circulating more widely.<\/p>\n<p>Polio causes irreversible paralysis in less than one in 200 of the susceptible people it infects, so the cases of paralysis suggest that many other people there have been infected, says Walter Orenstein, who studies infectious diseases at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. \u201cCases like that are just the tip of the iceberg,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s very concerning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Nature<\/i> talked to researchers about the scale of the outbreak, and what can be done to stop it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The virus found in these regions is derived from an oral polio vaccine used in some countries. So far, only two cases of polio-related paralysis have been reported, in Jerusalem in February and New York in June1; the New York infection was the first such US case in nearly a decade. But wastewater samples in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}