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Unvaccinated New Yorker contracts polio, first case in US in a decade
theGrio via AOL· 2 years agoNEW YORK (AP) — An unvaccinated young adult from New York recently contracted polio, the first U.S....
Hundreds may have contracted polio after the virus was detected in wastewater, New York Health...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThis 2014 illustration made available by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention depicts...
The Polio Threat Continues to Grow—But a New Vaccine Could Make a Difference
Time via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA health worker administers polio vaccine drops to a child at a school during a door-to-door polio...
Polio found in US for the first time in years, New York officials say. What to know
Miami Herald via AOL· 2 years agoPolio, a viral disease responsible for nationwide outbreaks during parts of the 20th century, was...
Polio may be spreading in NYC, officials say after finding traces in the sewage. Here's what you...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA model of poliovirus.theasis/Getty Images New York City health officials identified the polio virus...
The Differences Between the Two Polio Vaccines—and the New One on the Horizon
Time via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA health worker gives a dose of the polio vaccine to a child during a vaccination campaign against...
What to know about vaccine-derived polio after rare case found in New York
ABC News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhen the New York State Department of Health announced a patient in Rockland County -- north of New...
Worried About Polio? Here's What Experts Want You To Know.
HuffPost Life via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFor the first time in nearly a decade, vaccine-derived polio was detected in the United States....
Polio in New York – an infectious disease doctor explains this exceedingly rare occurrence
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPolio is endemic only in Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2022. Sarah Poser, Meredith Boyter Newlove/CDC...
Polio was detected in New York. But most people don't need to worry
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMore than 92% of people in the U.S. are vaccinated against polio as children. But if you haven't...