Polio Is Back How Worried Are Americans
New York’s governor declared a state of emergency after health officials found polio virus in the sewage of five counties – proof that the disease is circulating. The statement also follows a report by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of an unvaccinated person in Rockland County, New York, who was diagnosed with paralytic polio this summer – the first case identified in the United States in nearly a decade ....