New York City: Testing of sewersheds indicate presence of polioviruses in the city

NewsDesk @bactiman63 A case of poliovirus with acute flaccid paralysis was confirmed in an unvaccinated adult in Rockland County, New York last month. The Rockland County case is a case of vaccine-derived poliovirus, the first in the U.S. since 2013. Vaccine-derived poliovirus is a strain of the weakened poliovirus that was included in oral polio vaccine [...]

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