July 21, 2022, New York health officials reported a polio case, the first in the U.S. in nearly a decade. (Dr. Karp/Emory University/CDC via AP)
This 1964 microscope image made available by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows damage from the polio virus to human spinal cord tissue. On Thursday, July 21, 2022, New York health officials reported a polio case, the first in the U.S. in nearly a decade. (Dr. ...
2022, in New York City. Since the first polio case was identified in July in New York's Rockland County, the virus has been detected in New York City sewage, suggesting wider spread.ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images
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In 2022, a case of paralytic polio caused by vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 was identified in an unvaccinated young adult in New York. This case and subsequent detection of community transmission underscored the ongoing risk for importation of poliovirus into the United Stat...
The polio virus is still circulating worldwide. In 2022, an unvaccinated man in Rockland County, New York, was paralyzed by polio. Earlier this year, the virus paralyzed a child in the Gaza Strip, the first case in the region in 25 years, which prompted a mass vaccination campaign against...
Analysis of wastewater by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found samples of the virus in several counties across the state, and although only one case has so far been confirmed earlier this year, it was the first the country has seen nearly a decade. CGTN’...
Polio can cause permanent paralysis of limbs and even death in some cases. Before this outbreak, the last case of polio in the United States was in 2013. Today's announcement came after a man in Rockland County, New York, north of the city, was stricken with polio at the end of July...
New York state health officials on Thursday reported apolio case, the first in the U.S. in nearly a decade. Officials did not immediately offer details on who the Rockland County resident was, but later said in astatementthat the patient was a previously healthy young adult who was unvaccina...
The Sullivan County samples are genetically-linked to the case of paralytic polio in Rockland County.