The head of the public health services, Dr. Sharon Elrai-Price, is currently holding a press briefing following the case of polio infection that was discovered yesterday in Jerusalem, for the first time in Israel since 1989.
According to a source in the Ministry of Health, the infected child suffers from weakness in the body and this is a condition that can develop to the point of paralysis.
He is at home and not hospitalized.
It is estimated that this is a child who has not been vaccinated and is infected with a virus that originated in the attenuated animal vaccine but has undergone a change and is therefore more violent.
The Ministry of Health estimates that the current case of a child with symptoms is an "extreme case" and that there are hundreds to thousands of children behind it who have been exposed to a virus that has changed.
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