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We recently hired a caretaker who has polio, can we get infected with it?
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Doesn't have polio: Your caretaker doesn't have polio; he or she has complications from prior polio. There has been no polio in the western hemisphere for many, many years. You can't get polio from this person.
Answered 12/30/2013
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