Polio patients in the United States again after a decade!

Polio patients have been diagnosed again in the United States. A person in New York state has been diagnosed with the polling virus, US health authorities said on Thursday. After almost a decade, such a patient was identified in the United States. News AFP

The New York State Department of Health said the man, who lives in Rockland County, about 30 miles north of Manhattan, tested positive for polio. However, his age or identity has not been revealed.

According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the last case of polio was in 2013.

Officials say the current case is a single infection, possibly because the person received the oral polio vaccine (OPV). He received polio vaccine from a country outside the United States.

The United States has suspended the oral polio vaccine since 2000. The country has since been using the 'inactivated' vaccine (IPV), which is pushed into the body by injection.

The IPV vaccine is made from inactivated polio virus. And the oral vaccine (OPV) is made of weakened poliovirus. Oral vaccines can sometimes cause adverse reactions, which can lead to paralytic poliomyelitis, although this is uncommonightmare.In 1952, polio became a serious infectious disease among children in the United States. Thousands of children were crippled by the polio epidemic. Crippling and infant mortality made this disease a nightmare.

Later, on April 12, 1955, when the polio vaccine was invented, the country was able to prevent the outbreak of the disease. The last naturally infected polio patient was identified in the United States in 1979.

Once considered as an epidemic, later it became an endemic disease in 125 countries of the world. By 1988, 99 percent of polio was eradicated from the world thanks to vaccination. Currently, polio infection is seen in Afghanistan and Pakistan.