{"id":150882,"date":"2022-11-23T11:24:40","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T17:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/how-polio-came-back-to-new-york-for-the-first-time-in-decades-silently-spread-and-left-a-patient-paralyzed"},"modified":"2022-11-23T11:24:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T17:24:40","slug":"how-polio-came-back-to-new-york-for-the-first-time-in-decades-silently-spread-and-left-a-patient-paralyzed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/how-polio-came-back-to-new-york-for-the-first-time-in-decades-silently-spread-and-left-a-patient-paralyzed","title":{"rendered":"How polio came back to New York for the first time in decades, silently spread and left a patient paralyzed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-polio-came-back-to-new-york-for-the-first-time-in-decades-silently-spread-and-left-a-patient-paralyzed2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s difficult to trace the epidemiology since the patient didn\u2019t travel<strong>,<\/strong> the mutations in the viruses are small and international travel in and out of New York is heavy, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith a single case there\u2019s no way to know exactly how many infections there were between the vaccine vial and the paralyzed person,\u201d Oberste said.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unlikely public health authorities will figure out the origin of the virus that paralyzed the patient in New York, Oberste said. Dozens of countries around the world \u2014 primarily in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia \u2014 are still using oral vaccines that contain the Sabin Type 2 strain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s difficult to trace the epidemiology since the patient didn\u2019t travel, the mutations in the viruses are small and international travel in and out of New York is heavy, he said. \u201cWith a single case there\u2019s no way to know exactly how many infections there were between the vaccine vial and the paralyzed person,\u201d Oberste [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150882","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=150882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}