It is a disease that seemed from another age in the West. On July 21, the United States reported its first case of poliomyelitis in almost ten years. The 20-year-old man lives in Rockland County, 30 miles from New York. He had gone to the hospital following a paralysis of the leg. Quickly diagnosed as being infected with poliovirus, the causative agent of the disease, he still suffers from partial paralysis. He was not vaccinated.
Faced with the resurgence of poliomyelitis, the vaccine as the best defense weapon
