The New York State Department of Health says a polio state of emergency is ending.
The New York State Department of Health says a state of emergency is “no longer necessary” to battle polio following its unexpected reappearance in New York this year.on who could administer polio vaccines, but it’s not needed now that some 50,000 doses of the polio vaccine have been given out and fewer samples of polio have been detected in wastewater, the department said.
Most of the 94 positive samples are genetically linked to a case involving a Rockland resident who became in July the first known New Yorker in decades to get the disease.Matthew McDermott A state press release also said: “With the number of positive wastewater samples declining over time, the emergency order was no longer necessary.”
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