The CDC has deployed a federal team to New York to investigate the case of polio detected in Rockland County.
It's unclear how long the CDC will remain in the county or if the findings will be released to the public.
agency said in a statement to ABC News. "These efforts include ongoing testing of wastewater samples to monitor for poliovirus and deploying a small team to New York to assist on the ground with the investigation and vaccination efforts."a patient in Rockland County had contracted a case of vaccine-derived polio, the first case in the United States in nearly a decade.
Unlike the polio vaccine given by injection, which uses an inactive virus, the oral vaccine uses a live weakened virus.
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