Polio is Back, PA Survivors Recall its Terrible Toll, Urge Vaccination.

By Carol Ferguson and Joe Randig for GoErie.com

The July announcement of a 20-year-old man from Rockland County, New York, paralyzed by the poliovirus, brings back memories of the fear, disability and death that came each summer with the polio epidemics. How can polio be happening here? We have had an injectable polio vaccine (IPV) that is 99% effective available to all children in the U.S. since 2000. Vaccines can't do their job if people don't take them, and the young man from New York was not vaccinated. That's why polio is happening again.

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