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reported Health Authority In the state, Friday, that polio virus It was detected in 4 samples of Sullivan CountyTwo in July and two in August.
Sullivan County is located dozens of miles northwest of Rockland County, where officials announced on July 21 the first case of polio in United State Almost a decade ago.
It turned out that the unknown young man had not been vaccinated.
The Sullivan County samples are genetically linked to a virus case poliomyelitis Paralytic in Rockland County.
In this context, State Health Commissioner Mary T. Bassett again urged residents to make sure they receive the vaccine, saying: "A New Yorker being paralyzed by polio is something that actually happens quite often".
As Bassett said in a prepared statement: "Polio in New York today poses an imminent threat to all adults and children who have not been vaccinated or kept up to date with polio vaccinations".
The virus has currently been identified in sewage samples from three contiguous northern New York counties: Rockland, Orange and Sullivan.
The polio virus was also found in sewage water in the city of New York.
Officials said it’s possible hundreds of people in the state have contracted polio but don’t know it.
Most people infected with polio do not develop any symptoms, but they can still transmit the virus to others within days or weeks.
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reported Health Authority In the state, Friday, that polio virus It was detected in 4 samples of Sullivan CountyTwo in July and two in August.
Sullivan County is located dozens of miles northwest of Rockland County, where officials announced on July 21 the first case of polio in United State Almost a decade ago.
It turned out that the unknown young man had not been vaccinated.
The Sullivan County samples are genetically linked to a virus case poliomyelitis Paralytic in Rockland County.
In this context, State Health Commissioner Mary T. Bassett urged residents again to make sure they receive the vaccine, saying: “A New Yorker being paralyzed by polio is something that really happens very often.”
“Polio in New York today presents an imminent threat to all adults and children who have not been vaccinated or kept up to date with polio vaccinations,” Bassett said in a prepared statement.
The virus has currently been identified in sewage samples from three contiguous northern New York counties: Rockland, Orange and Sullivan.
The polio virus was also found in sewage water in the city of New York.
Officials said it’s possible hundreds of people in the state have contracted polio but don’t know it.
Most people infected with polio do not develop any symptoms, but they can still transmit the virus to others within days or weeks.