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State and City Departments of Health Update New Yorkers On Polio |
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Friday, October 14, 2022 09:04 AM |
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On Sunday, October 9, New York State extended the Executive Order to continue to maximize the resources available to protect New Yorkers against polio through vaccination. While only one case of polio has so far been identified, ongoing wastewater surveillance provides evidence of repeated poliovirus detections in sewage samples in the greater New York metropolitan area. The latest wastewater results include an August sample, collected in New York City from Brooklyn (Kings County) and a small, adjacent part of Queens County, tested by CDC, that is genetically linked to the case previously identified in Rockland County. Read more.
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