America has its first paralytic polio patient in a decade. Do you need to be worried about catching it? Probably not.
“The anti-vaccine movement really accelerated during the time of COVID-19,” said Dr. Peter Hotez, the co-director of the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children’s Hospital and the dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. He published a piece in the scientific journalthis week outlining how American anti-vaccine activism could threaten global progress on childhood vaccination for other diseases, including polio.
Today, he says, “I’d say they’ve won. It’s a pyrrhic victory, but they won. They won at great cost to human life.” The first major polio outbreak was documented in the U.S. in 1894. The disease reached pandemic levels of spread in the 1940s. Children were particularly susceptible. In 1952, more than 3,000 people died of polio in the United States, and many more were paralyzed. The disease is incredibly contagious and spreads via oral-oral and hand-fecal transmission: sharing a drinking glass, using the same water fountain, eating something prepared by a sick person.
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