Re: Polio found in N.Y.'s Rockland County wastewater following first confirmed U.S. case in almost a decade

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ALBANY — Polio was discovered in wastewater samples from a
Rockland County sewage treatment plant dating back to early
June, state officials announced Monday.

The wastewater testing began last week, shortly after the county
recorded the first case of the life-threatening virus in the
U.S. since 2013.

Going back over sewage samples already collected for COVID-19
testing, state officials worked with the federal Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention and the international Global
Polio Laboratory Network to determine that the virus found in
Rockland is genetically linked to a strain recorded in Jerusalem.

“Further investigations – both genetic and epidemiological – are
ongoing to determine possible spread of the virus and potential
risk associated with these various isolates detected from
different locations around the world,” the Global Polio
Eradication Initiative said in a statement.

Polio is a highly contagious and potentially deadly virus that
paralyzed or killed thousands of U.S. children prior to
widespread vaccination efforts in the latter half of the 20th
century.

Areas with lower vaccination rates can see the virus spread
quickly because those infected can transmit it even if they
aren’t sick.

Symptoms, which can be mild and flulike, can take up to 30 days
to appear.

The variant recorded in Rockland as well as Israel is linked to
a vaccine used across much of the world, but no longer utilized
in the U.S. The oral vaccine uses weakened live viruses that
prompt the immune system to create protective antibodies.

However, the weakened strains can occasionally spread among the
unvaccinated and, often in areas with poor sanitation systems
and the absence of clean drinking water, genetically revert to a
form that can cause paralysis.

State officials note that Rockland County currently has a polio
vaccination rate of 60.5% among 2-year-olds compared with the
statewide average of 79.1%.

“Polio is a dangerous disease with potentially devastating
consequences,” state Health Commissioner Mary Bassett said.
“Given how quickly polio can spread, now is the time for every
adult, parent and guardian to get themselves and their children
vaccinated as soon as possible.”

The vaccine used in the U.S. does not contain any active viruses.

Rockland was the epicenter of a measles outbreak back in 2018
and 2019 that saw the now rare viral infection spread largely
among children in the Orthodox Jewish communities whose parents
refused to get them vaccinated.

That outbreak led New York lawmakers to put an end to
vaccination exemptions based on religious beliefs.

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