A federal team has been deployed to New York to investigate the state's one positive case of polio — found in an unvaccinated adult in Rockland County who suffered paralysis.
The polio patient in Rockland County is the first person known to be infected with the virus in the U.S. in nearly a decade. Wastewater samples collected in June and July in adjacent Orange County also contained the virus.
A majority of people infected with polio have no symptoms, but can still shed the virus and give it to others for days or weeks. A small percentage of people who get the disease suffer paralysis. The disease is fatal for between 5-10% of those paralyzed. The Orange County wastewater samples were initially collected from municipal wastewater treatment plants for COVID-19 testing.
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