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  View in browser   BY  JOANNE KENEN Presented by Visa With help from Tyler Weyant A final check on iron lungs before they are loaded onto a plane headed for Belgium to combat polio in 1945. | AP Photo LOST IN TRANSLATION  — Alarmed by a polio case in New York state and detection of the virus in wastewater in the region, White House and state health officials  are developing ways to monitor, detect and try to halt any spread  of polio decades after the virus was declared eradicated in the United States. Any strategy they set will center on vaccination. There is no cure or treatment. But unlike the 1950s and ‘60s, when the public  largely embraced new vaccines  as salvation from a disease that terrified communities and condemned paralyzed children to iron lungs, public health officials today have to deal with rising anti-vax misinformation and disinformation . So the last thing they need is a particularly inartful and confusing expression — “ vacci...