Polio cases in the United States of America
3 August 2022
More on the paralytic polio case in New York State, USA announced in late July, with the strain genetically linked to two Sabin-like type 2 isolates collected from wastewater in Rockland County a month earlier, as well as earlier environmental detections in Israel and more recently, London, UK. An Aug 1 state health department press release said ‘Unvaccinated New Yorkers who live, work, go to school in, or visit Rockland County are at the highest risk of exposure’; polio vaccination rates for children at two years of age in the county are 60.5 percent. Read more