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Polio in New York City

New York State health officials are urging people to get vaccinated for polio after detecting the virus in New York City's sewage system, suggesting it has been spreading locally. Polio, which had not been seen in the US in about a decade, can sometimes lead to permanent disability and death (see 101). 

The New York announcement comes shortly after the UK began rolling out urgent polio vaccines for all London-based children under the age of 10 following identification of the virus in its wastewater. However, no individual cases of the disease have been reported in the UK.

In the US last month, one unvaccinated man in his 20s from Rockland County, New York, who had traveled to Poland and Hungary recently, was found to be paralyzed by a poliovirus. New York State health officials have also found polio samples in Rockland County and Orange County, both north of New York City.

See history of the poliovirus and vaccine here.

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