Health officials detected polio in New York wastewater samples from two counties, building evidence of local transmission within the U.S.
Health officials detected the poliovirus in wastewater samples from two New York counties north of New York City, providing further evidence ofThe
positive samples from June and July appeared in two different geographic areas in Orange County and in Rockland County. The samples are genetically linked to
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