@ Polio in NYC waste water.

[cous0226]

Wouldn’t we all be unvaccinated at this point since we got vaccinated I don’t even know when.

[Velar Fricative]

Well that's just swell.

There's one particular ZIP code in my borough whose polio vax rates are horrendously low. It's not too far from me, so yay.

[cous0226]

I added an @ since it seems to be most related to children. I guess the vaccines we got as kids are still good.

[wanderingback]

There has been no change in polio vaccine recommendation as of now. So if you received the 4 doses as recommended previously, then you are vaccinated. If you’ve never been vaccinated then you can get the vaccine as an adult.

Now whether or not that recommendation is going to change, who knows, but no we’re not all unvaccinated if you previously got the 4 dose series.

[timorousbeastie]

Aug 12, 2022 9:31:25 GMT -5 cous0226 said:

Wouldn’t we all be unvaccinated at this point since we got vaccinated I don’t even know when.

From a quick google search, I don’t think it’s known how long the vaccine is protective in the general public. But, anecdotally, my H happened to have his annual checkup right when the news about the NY case came out, so he had his antibodies checked. He still has high levels of antibodies 40+ years after his last dose, so hopefully that is indicative of how most people are.

[Velar Fricative]

Aug 12, 2022 9:58:14 GMT -5 timorousbeastie said:

Aug 12, 2022 9:31:25 GMT -5 cous0226 said:

Wouldn’t we all be unvaccinated at this point since we got vaccinated I don’t even know when.

From a quick google search, I don’t think it’s known how long the vaccine is protective in the general public. But, anecdotally, my H happened to have his annual checkup right when the news about the NY case came out, so he had his antibodies checked. He still has high levels of antibodies 40+ years after his last dose, so hopefully that is indicative of how most people are.

Yes, a few months ago I had all my antibodies checked and I'm still protected from polio (I'm 40).

[lostrn]

It's a Facebook link so ugh, but a helpful little write up on the polio vaccine.

www.facebook.com/105461361242203/posts/pfbid027566TTV7Ck9ZyHHTTAzK54CR5n1y46HGhSQoJg2Y6k5gKq7szT1SqMKM4fQ3kdHAl/

[cous0226]

Aug 12, 2022 10:00:24 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

Aug 12, 2022 9:58:14 GMT -5 timorousbeastie said:

From a quick google search, I don’t think it’s known how long the vaccine is protective in the general public. But, anecdotally, my H happened to have his annual checkup right when the news about the NY case came out, so he had his antibodies checked. He still has high levels of antibodies 40+ years after his last dose, so hopefully that is indicative of how most people are.

Yes, a few months ago I had all my antibodies checked and I'm still protected from polio (I'm 40).

Was that just a blood test? Thks.

[Velar Fricative]

Aug 12, 2022 10:08:07 GMT -5 cous0226 said:

Aug 12, 2022 10:00:24 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

Yes, a few months ago I had all my antibodies checked and I'm still protected from polio (I'm 40).

Was that just a blood test? Thks.

Yes.

[pixy0stix]

Related but random, I found my original handwritten vaxx card, and the polio vaxx stood out to me.

[plutosmoon]

pixy0stix, I also recently found my handwritten vaccine record, it's in a little blue book. I had 5 doses of oral polio vaccine in the late 70s and early 80s, I'm guessing that is equivalent to 4 shots. There was a brief period after I had a severe allergic reaction to my MMR shot that my mom was super vaccine hesitant with me, so I'm glad to see this. Fortunately, she's all in on vaccines again. Hopefully my polio vaccine is holding up as well as my single MMR shot. I have my MMR antibodies checked every few years, I'm due for a recheck, I'll have them throw a polio titer too.

[wanderingback]

Aug 12, 2022 10:26:52 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Related but random, I found my original handwritten vaxx card, and the polio vaxx stood out to me.

My mom is super organized plus we were a military family so moved a lot so she needed records, so I still have my original vaccine record card with all my vaccines from birth to 17. I’ve realized that’s not normal lol.

[pixy0stix]

Aug 12, 2022 10:48:37 GMT -5 plutosmoon said:

pixy0stix, I also recently found my handwritten vaccine record, it's in a little blue book. I had 5 doses of oral polio vaccine in the late 70s and early 80s, I'm guessing that is equivalent to 4 shots. There was a brief period after I had a severe allergic reaction to my MMR shot that my mom was super vaccine hesitant with me, so I'm glad to see this. Fortunately, she's all in on vaccines again. Hopefully my polio vaccine is holding up as well as my single MMR shot. I have my MMR antibodies checked every few years, I'm due for a recheck, I'll have them throw a polio titer too.

I had my mmr antibodies checked, and had to get it again. My measles antibodies weren't there.

[lo]

So should we start worrying about our kids who aren’t fully vaccinated yet? I think my younger 2 have had 3/4 of the vaccines. I’m in NY, but closer to Albany.

[Velar Fricative]

Aug 12, 2022 12:54:49 GMT -5 lo said:

So should we start worrying about our kids who aren’t fully vaccinated yet? I think my younger 2 have had 3/4 of the vaccines. I’m in NY, but closer to Albany.

www.nytimes.com/2022/08/12/nyregion/polio-nyc-sewage.html

Three doses confers 99% protection.

[wanderingback]

Aug 12, 2022 12:54:49 GMT -5 lo said:

So should we start worrying about our kids who aren’t fully vaccinated yet? I think my younger 2 have had 3/4 of the vaccines. I’m in NY, but closer to Albany.

3 vaccines are good protection. The 4th and final dose isn’t given till age 4.

I should have a newborn in Oct/Nov and between covid, flu, monkeypox and polio, I plan to continue to stay in a "bubble" until 6 months when they can be vaccinated for polio (3 shots), flu and covid. After that I don’t think I’ll continue to change daily actions drastically (like avoiding subway, planes, etc)

Polio is spread fecal oral route so reminder for continued good hand hygiene for all of us.

[msmerymac]

When I had my vaccination status checked about 7-8 years ago, the only one I was no longer immune to was chicken pox - the only disease I actually caught as a child. Polio, MMR, etc were all good. So I got 2 varicella vaccines.

[wanderingback]

I have never once checked a polio titer on a patient because most physical forms don’t ask for polio vaccine to be updated or proof of it. It’s always been measles, mumps, rubella and more recently chicken pox that have been the ones people need of proof for employment. Even the order to check the titers has those 4 together. I wonder if that’ll change over time and more places will want to see polio as well.

[macmars45]

Aug 12, 2022 11:29:37 GMT -5 wanderingback said:

Aug 12, 2022 10:26:52 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Related but random, I found my original handwritten vaxx card, and the polio vaxx stood out to me.

My mom is super organized plus we were a military family so moved a lot so she needed records, so I still have my original vaccine record card with all my vaccines from birth to 17. I’ve realized that’s not normal lol.

When I graduated high school I was given the vaccine record my school district had for me from K-12. My mom and H's mom also gave us our original vaccine record card as adults.

[rubytue]

Aug 12, 2022 18:00:31 GMT -5 macmars45 said:

Aug 12, 2022 11:29:37 GMT -5 wanderingback said:

My mom is super organized plus we were a military family so moved a lot so she needed records, so I still have my original vaccine record card with all my vaccines from birth to 17. I’ve realized that’s not normal lol.

When I graduated high school I was given the vaccine record my school district had for me from K-12. My mom and H's mom also gave us our original vaccine record card as adults.

We have a box of misc childhood stuff from the in-laws. During some move, we culled a lot of it (first communion record type stuff). I know I saw his little blue book vaccine record in there. 90% chance that, back in the 2011 move, we tossed it. Because, it seemed irrelevant.

oh how times have changed 😂

[basilosaurus]

Aug 12, 2022 11:29:37 GMT -5 wanderingback said:

Aug 12, 2022 10:26:52 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Related but random, I found my original handwritten vaxx card, and the polio vaxx stood out to me.

My mom is super organized plus we were a military family so moved a lot so she needed records, so I still have my original vaccine record card with all my vaccines from birth to 17. I’ve realized that’s not normal lol.

I had mine added to my record in the military emr. I probably still have the card somewhere.

I did get a booster recommended by the travel clinic as I was traveling through an area with an active outbreak. The clinic was military, and they just kind of their everything at people for deployment, so they just added me to the line. I'm not sure a civilian clinic would have recommended it since I did have evidence of childhood opv series

[Deleted]

Aug 13, 2022 5:40:41 GMT -5 basilosaurus said:

Aug 12, 2022 11:29:37 GMT -5 wanderingback said:

My mom is super organized plus we were a military family so moved a lot so she needed records, so I still have my original vaccine record card with all my vaccines from birth to 17. I’ve realized that’s not normal lol.

I had mine added to my record in the military emr. I probably still have the card somewhere.

I did get a booster recommended by the travel clinic as I was traveling through an area with an active outbreak. The clinic was military, and they just kind of their everything at people for deployment, so they just added me to the line. I'm not sure a civilian clinic would have recommended it since I did have evidence of childhood opv series

I have to check, but I’m pretty sure polio was one of the vaccines I got before my most recent deployment. Yep, they just kind of throw vaccines at us! “Here, have one of these, and one of these, and let’s update your….”

We had to take our kid’s vaccine record to his new civilian doctor for his school physical, and it was over a page long. He’s 8. Gotta love military medicine!

[sonrisa]

Aug 13, 2022 5:47:46 GMT -5 @villainv said:

Aug 13, 2022 5:40:41 GMT -5 basilosaurus said:

I had mine added to my record in the military emr. I probably still have the card somewhere.

I did get a booster recommended by the travel clinic as I was traveling through an area with an active outbreak. The clinic was military, and they just kind of their everything at people for deployment, so they just added me to the line. I'm not sure a civilian clinic would have recommended it since I did have evidence of childhood opv series

I have to check, but I’m pretty sure polio was one of the vaccines I got before my most recent deployment. Yep, they just kind of throw vaccines at us! “Here, have one of these, and one of these, and let’s update your….”

We had to take our kid’s vaccine record to his new civilian doctor for his school physical, and it was over a page long. He’s 8. Gotta love military medicine!

lol!  But I think that's just a standard kid vaccine sheet. We have generic Kaiser coverage and the vaccine print out is usually two pages.

[bugandbibs]

My grandfather had polio. He was left permanently disabled from it and walked with a cane his whole life. He was lucky to live (not all of his family did). My grandfather was adamant about all of his children getting their immunizations as a result. It’s about the only time he ever interfered or gave parenting advice.

[mrsukyankee]

All children aged one to nine and living in Greater London will be offered a polio vaccine after the virus was detected in sewage.

The virus, which can cause paralysis, has been found 116 times in London's waste water since February.

The urgent immunisation campaign will see nearly a million children offered the vaccine - including those already up to date with their jabs.

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