{"id":21261,"date":"2022-08-05T14:57:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T21:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=21261"},"modified":"2022-08-05T14:02:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T21:02:18","slug":"polio-fears-rise-in-new-york-amid-possible-community-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/polio-fears-rise-in-new-york-amid-possible-community-spread\/","title":{"rendered":"Polio Fears Rise in New York Amid Possible Community Spread"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Newsmax – August 5, 2022<\/p>\n

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 \u201ccommunity spread\u201d of the dangerous virus.<\/p>\n

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

So far, only one person has tested positive for polio \u2014 an unvaccinated adult in Rockland County who suffered paralysis.<\/p>\n

But 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,\u201d the state’s health commissioner, Dr. Mary T. Bassett, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cCoupled 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,” she said. “As we learn more, what we do know is clear: the danger of polio is present in New York today. We must meet this moment by ensuring that adults, including pregnant people, and young children by 2 months of age are up to date with their immunization \u2014 the safe protection against this debilitating virus that every New Yorker needs.\u201d<\/p>\n

The polio patient in Rockland County is the first person known to be infected with the virus in the U.S. in nearly a decade. Wastewater samples collected in June and July in adjacent Orange County also contained the virus.<\/p>\n

Polio, once one of the nation\u2019s most feared diseases, was declared eliminated in the United States in 1979, more than two decades after vaccines became available.<\/p>\n

A majority of people infected with polio have no symptoms, but can still shed the virus and give it to others for days or weeks. A small percentage of people who get the disease suffer paralysis. The disease is fatal for between 5-10% of those paralyzed.<\/p>\n

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