NYC Health Department: Hundreds NYers May Be Infected With Polio

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New York state health officials issued a more urgent call Thursday for unvaccinated children and adults to get inoculated against polio, citing new evidence of possible “community spread” of the dangerous virus.

The polio virus has now been found in seven different wastewater samples in two adjacent counties north of New York City, health officials said.

New York state health officials have found indications of additional cases of polio virus in wastewater samples from two different counties, leading them to warn that hundreds of people may be infected with the potentially serious virus.

Just two weeks ago, the New York Health Department reported the nation's first case of polio in almost a decade, in Rockland County, north of New York City. Officials said that case occurred in a previously healthy young adult who was unvaccinated and developed paralysis in their legs. Since then, three positive wastewater samples from Rockland County and four from neighboring Orange County were discovered and genetically linked to the first case, the health department said in a press release on Thursday, suggesting that the polio virus is being spread within local communities.

"Based on earlier polio outbreaks, New Yorkers should know that for every one case of paralytic polio observed, there may be hundreds of other people infected," State Health Commissioner Dr. Mary T. Bassett said. "Coupled with the latest wastewater findings, the Department is treating the single case of polio as just the tip of the iceberg of much greater potential spread. As we learn more, what we do know is clear: the danger of polio is present in New York today." 

The health department reiterated that it is still investigating the virus' origin, and said that it is not yet clear whether the infected person in Rockland County was linked to the other cases.

Polio is "a serious and life-threatening disease," the state health department said. It is highly contagious and can be spread by people who aren't yet symptomatic. Symptoms usually appear within 30 days of infection, and can be mild or flu-like. Some people who are infected may become paralyzed or die.

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/polio-virus-hundreds-of-infections-possible-new-york-health-department/

 

https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-climate-and-environment-new-york-city-70185547b47eece66cc8e3347ecc1e44

 

 

[garbage day 11,816]

What's next? Prohibition?

[Dancing Shadow 1,171]

Okay SERIOUSLY UNIVERSE. WHATS WRONG? do you just not want us here? are you kidding me? 

i really hope that those people survive and that its not actually polio and instead its a disease that is easily cured 

[tylertremallose 1,398]

disease is definitely gonna wipe us out

[Franch Toast 27,737]

Thanks anti-vaxxers 

[PartySick 172,484]

1 minute ago, Franch Toast said:

Thanks anti-vaxxers 

Came to say this

I actually don't know if I'm vaxxed or not...wouldn't even know how to check...

[Franch Toast 27,737]

5 minutes ago, PartySick said:

Came to say this

I actually don't know if I'm vaxxed or not...wouldn't even know how to check...

I assume I had this as a kid, as my parents brought me for the standard vaccinations, and polio has been one of them. 

[SharkmanthaC 115,042]

4 minutes ago, PartySick said:

Came to say this

I actually don't know if I'm vaxxed or not...wouldn't even know how to check...

You likely are vaccinated against it. It’s in the vaccines you get as an infant. Your health department will likely have record of it. 

[PartySick 172,484]

1 minute ago, Franch Toast said:

I assume I had this as a kid, as my parents brought met for the standard vaccinations, and polio has been one of them. 

Same assumption tbh

[SharkmanthaC 115,042]

I wonder how many people are unvaccinated against polio. My great aunt had polio as a young adult. She had to spend time in an iron lung. She is also permanently crippled because of it and it has progressively gotten worse as she’s got older. She has to live in assisted living now. 

[SharkmanthaC 115,042]

1 minute ago, PartySick said:

Same assumption tbh

Also, it’s one of the required vaccines for public school. 

[PartySick 172,484]

Just now, SamanthaC said:

Also, it’s one of the required vaccines for public school. 

Oh then I definitely have it

[PartySick 172,484]

Imagine. It's 2022 and we're talking about a new coronavirus, a "-pox" disease, and polio.

We really said "1900s but let's do it again with internet and smartphones"

[nATAH 56,916]

not the diseases getting inspired by all the pop culture reboots and nostalgia act comebacks

[PartySick 172,484]

2 minutes ago, NATAH said:

not the diseases getting inspired by all the pop culture reboots and nostalgia act comebacks

The comeback tour none of us asked for