The New York Department of Health issued a HEALTH ADVISORY: Update #2 on August 19, 2022, stating: All children, adolescents, and adults who are unvaccinated or under-vaccinated should be brought up to date with all routine CDC-recommended IPV doses.
This is particularly important and urgent if they live, work, attend school, or have frequent social interactions with Rockland and Orange Counties communities.
The U.S. CDC’s website says, ‘for best protection, children should get multiple doses of a polio vaccine, and previously vaccinated people can get a one-time polio vaccine booster, under certain conditions.’
There are two types of vaccines that can prevent polio, the Inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) and the Oral poliovirus vaccine, which is offered abroad.
The IPV protects against both wild-type polio and this weakened poliovirus strain.
The good news is that IPV is readily available in the USA.
In addition to public health clinics, local pharmacies and pediatricians offer polio vaccination services.
‘Until poliovirus eradication is achieved worldwide, importations of both wild polioviruses and VDPVs into the United States are possible,’ says the CDC.
Source: Are Many New Yorkers Infected with Poliovirus? — Precision Vaccinations
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