United States of America: 2nd New York county reports polio in wastewater

11 August 2022

More evidence of a wider circulation of poliovirus in New York State, with seven positive environmental samples in total collected in June/July from Rockland County and two separate locations in adjacent Orange County. The Orange County government issued a press release on Aug 2 advising, the ‘virus is circulating in the community according to wastewater analysis reports’. While no cases have been confirmed in the county, there however there are pockets of low immunisation rates ‘in certain areas’.

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