Polio is the disease most people thought we had put behind us here in the United States. But earlier this summer, an individual in Rockland County, N.Y., contracted the virus likely from exposure in this country, and ended up paralyzed.
This carefully-worded and designed infographic from Rockland County, NY describes — in English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, and Yiddish — what polio is and that immunization is the best way to protect yourself and others.
And polio, with its possibility of paralysis, is an especially terrifying disease."Polio cannot be cured," Montal explains."And once it's paralytic polio, you're paralyzed. Plain and simple." "It's very difficult to predict how many people, but it's definitely a number of individuals that would have to be actively transmitting," says, Commissioner of Health, Orange County, which is next door to Rockland."Clearly a confirmed case of polio in the United States is major news."
"It's a multitude of reasons spread across a multitude of demographics," says Bernstein."There's no one single group that is not vaccinated." This is true not just of these communities in and around New York City. "Social and secular media is not really something that's brought in," Bernstein says."So it's a lot of word of mouth," which, she acknowledges, makes some within her community vulnerable to anti-vaccine messaging."We always say it's extremely easy to instill fear and extremely difficult to undo it," says Bernstein.
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