When New York public health officials announced a case of paralytic polio in Rockland County, New York, in July 2022, it was the first reported instance of polio in the USA since 2013.
Because the patient had not traveled internationally during the potential exposure period, detection of Vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (VDPV2) in the patient’s stool samples indicates a chain of transmission within the USA originating with a person who received a type 2-containing oral polio vaccine (OPV).
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