“Deathly Scared”: 1st US Polio Case In A Decade Stirs Fear
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Health officials are urging anyone not immunized to get vaccinatedNew York: When Brittany Strickland heard that the United States recorded its first polio case in almost a decade, she was "deathly scared" -- the 33-year-old wasn't vaccinated against the disabling disease."My mom was an anti-vaxxer, so I found out that I had never had any polio vaccines as a child," the designer explained to AFP, after finally receiving a shot this week.Strickland was inoculated in Pomona, in New York's Rockland County where the first US polio case since 2013 was identified in July.Since then, the disease has been detected in wastewater samples in the area, as well as in a neighboring county and in New York City sewage, suggesting the virus is spreading.The developments are leading experts to fear ...