For New Yorkers adjacent to Rockland Co., the news of this case is maddeningly deficient on details. Most likely, the federal government's on-going and illegal clandestine transportation of medically unchecked illegal aliens and refugees into New York and other states may be the likely source of this case of polio. This inept, malfeasance policy by the federal government begs the question: "Are more people regardless of citizenship being put at a health risk(s) from sundry diseases which should have been detected and treated prior to perfunctory travel"? Thankfully, the local health authorities and medical practitioners have rapidly implemented vaccination clinics and health checks. Refer to: the analysis of politicians by the American journalist H.L. Mencken.