NEW YORK – The Nassau County government named a briefing Friday afternoon soon after current sewage exams returned constructive traces of the polio virus.
It is the last county to detect polio considering that the Condition Office of Well being verified that four Sullivan County specimens, two in July and two in August, analyzed beneficial for the form of virus that can lead to paralytic polio.
So considerably, the point out has only a single confirmed case of paralytic polio infection, in Rockland County. But linked viral samples have been also identified in Orange County and New York Town wastewater.
Backtesting of the samples confirmed that the virus had been circulating in the community since April, long before the unvaccinated youthful Rockland was infected.
“Polio in New York today is an imminent menace to all older people and kids who are not vaccinated or are up to day with polio vaccinations,” Overall health Commissioner Mary Bassett explained in a assertion.
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