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Second Under-Vaccinated New York County Confirms Local Poliovirus

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The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) announced it had detected poliovirus in wastewater samples from June and July 2022 in two geographically different locations in Orange County and July samples from Rockland County, New York.
On August 4, 2022, the NYSDOH confirmed sequence analysis by the U.S. CDC found that seven positive samples from both Rockland County (three) and Orange County (four) are genetically linked to the individual case of paralytic polio previously identified in a Rockland County resident.