This is Brian Lair's Daily Politics podcast from WNYC Studios.

It's Wednesday, July 27th.

I'm Bridget Bergen from the WNYC and Gothamus Newsroom, filling in for Brian today.

While we're still in the thick of the COVID

pandemic caused by a new virus, there's news of a young man in Rockland County stricken with an old

virus, one that was thought to have been eliminated in this country, polio virus. Depending on your age,

you might remember when it caused panic in this country in the 1940s and 50s

until a vaccine was developed in 1955.

This young man, and very little information has been released about him, has developed paralysis.

To find out more about this virus and the disease it can cause, were joined by Alan Dove,

a science journalist with a PhD in microbiology,

who is one of the co-hosts of this week in virology, T-W-I-V podcast. Welcome to the Brian Laird Show, Alan.

Thanks. It's good to be here. So let's start with how this young man is thought to have been infected. He was not vaccinated

against polio as a child, unlike something like 80 or 90 percent of American children,

but he probably caught it by way of someone who was vaccinated in another country. Can you

explain the route that probably led to this infection?

Right.

So this is,

it sounds like a simple question,

how did you catch the virus?

But in this case,

we have to kind of step back

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