polio

New 4’s Investigate Reporter Sarah Wallace reports.

New York state health officials have issued a more urgent call for unvaccinated children and adults to get inoculated against polio, citing new evidence of possible “community spread” of the virus. Health officials said Thursday that the polio virus has now been found in seven different wastewater samples in two adjacent counties north of New York City. So far, only...

New York has one confirmed polio case but health officials say wastewater surveillance indicates there may be hundreds of people infected. While most Americans are vaccinated against polio, experts say the case should serve as a wake-up call to those who aren’t. Here’s what you need to know.

There are new concerns about the potential spread of polio in New York, with the state health commissioner saying there could be “hundreds” of people infected as new evidence shows the virus has been found in samples from multiple counties. The state health department, which launched wastewater surveillance earlier this month after officials announced the first confirmed U.S. polio...

Polio has now been found in wastewater samples from two different locations in Orange County, raising concerns that the virus is spreading, Sarah Wallace reports.

The CDC has detected more polio virus in more Hudson Valley wastewater samples, now in a different New York county — and state health officials are now warning that the latest environmental evidence “further indicates potential community spread” of a childhood disease that the United States declared eradicated more than four decades ago. The state health department, which launched wastewater…

The polio virus was detected in wastewater samples from the suburban county near New York City where an unvaccinated adult recently contracted the life-threatening disease, but health officials said Tuesday they have not identified any additional cases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the presence of the virus was detected in wastewater samples collected in early June from…

Following a Rockland County resident coming down with the first case of polio in almost a decade, the Rockland County Health Department has set up vaccine clinics, Chris Jose reports.

New York reported its first polio case in nearly a decade on Thursday, and with the word “vaccination” entrenched in our collective forefronts amid the COVID pandemic and now the monkeypox outbreak, many are trying to make sure they’re protected against the once-dreaded childhood disease the U.S. declared eliminated more than four decades ago. The case involved an unvaccinated...

Polio is the state of paralysis caused by the highly contagious poliovirus. Here’s what you need to know to protect your family.

A 20-year-old male in Rockland County has polio, which is the first recorded case in the United States in almost a decade, Sarah Wallace reports.

Rockland County Executive Ed Day said the county was now working to vaccinate people and see if there were any other cases.

A New York individual has been diagnosed with polio, in what may be the first U.S. case of the dreaded disease in decades.

Authorities are investigating the spread of poliovirus found in London sewage samples.

For some, getting the coronavirus vaccine this year brought back memories of other historic vaccination moments.

As the nation is weeks into its campaign to vaccinate against the coronavirus, people who lived through fear of polio recall the environment of the time.

Four African countries have reported new cases of polio linked to the oral vaccine, as global health numbers show there are now more children being paralyzed by viruses originating in vaccines than in the wild. In a report late last week, the World Health Organization and partners noted nine new polio cases caused by the vaccine in Nigeria, Congo, Central...

New York eliminated the religious exemption to vaccine requirements for schoolchildren Thursday, as the nation’s worst measles outbreak in decades prompts states to reconsider giving parents ways to opt out

New Jersey has seen three confirmed cases of a rare paralyzing illness affecting children that has been on the rise throughout the country this year, its state Department of Health said.

Health officials are reporting a jump in cases of a rare paralyzing illness in children, and say it seems to be following an every-other-year pattern. At least 62 confirmed cases have been reported in 22 states this year, and an additional 65 illnesses in those states are being investigated. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the latest numbers...