also hereThe Health Ministry recommended Argentines to adopt measures to prevent a possible spread of poliomyelitis, a day after a case of the illness was reported in the City of Buenos Aires. It was the first case of polio in Argentina in the past 15 years.
Yesterday, the Epidemiology Department of Buenos Aires City notified that a child with flaccid paralysis was reported in a paediatric hospital. The hospital said the year-old child is stable, but reported the patient has an "uncommon illness," which exacerbated the paralysis caused by the polio.
"He was a boy from San Luis hospitalized after he sustained recurrent infections and a retard in his growth and development. The laboratory of the Malbrán hospital confirmed the case was poliomyelitis," reads a statement of the Health Ministry.
The ministry meanwhile ordered a "state of epidemic alert" and is spreading information to control possible cases of the illness, and reinforce vaccination tasks.
One of the big arguments you hear against getting the polio vaccine is that "we haven't had a case of wild polio in the western hemisphere for a long time" The western hemisphere was declared polio free in 1994. The last recorded case of paralytic wild polio was in 1991 in Peru.