When Brittany Strickland heard that the United States recorded its first polio case in almost a decade, she was "deathly scared" the 33-year-old wasn't vaccinated against the disabling disease. "My mom was an anti-vaxxer, so I found out that I had never had any polio vaccines as a child,"…
When Brittany Strickland heard that the United States recorded its first polio case in almost a decade, she was "deathly scared" the 33-year-old wasn't
When Brittany Strickland heard that the United States recorded its first polio case in almost a decade, she was "deathly scared" the 33-year-old wasn't vaccinated against the disabling disease.
Brittany Strickland was "scared to death" when she learned this summer that the United States had recorded its first case of poliomyelitis in nearly ten years, a young New Yorker struck down with paralysis.
The developments are leading experts to fear that polio, once one of the most feared diseases in America but now endemic to just a couple of developing countries, may wreak devastation stateside again.