“We cannot emphasize enough that polio is a dangerous disease for which there is no cure,” Dr. José R. Romero, Director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said, urging people to ensure they are fully immunized against polio.
, disruptions to routine immunization during the Covid-19 pandemic and distance from the consequences of contracting the virus. There is no cure or treatment for polio and vaccines are safe and have brought the virus—which only lives in humans—to the brink of eradication, though pushing it over the edge has proven tougher than officials hoped.
The weakened virus can spread in communities with poor immunization levels, which can provide immunity to those who didn’t receive the vaccine but can also mutate into a strain that can cause paralysis in rare circumstances if allowed to spread. Like the original poliovirus, this vaccine-derived strain can circulate in a community and, in some cases, kill or paralyze.“We cannot emphasize enough that polio is a dangerous disease for which there is no cure,” Romero said.
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