Polio Concerns in New York

(New York, NY) — More clinics in suburban New York City are offering polio vaccine amid heightened concern about the disease. The Rockland County Health Department is giving polio shots today and next Wednesday in Spring Valley and next Thursday in Pomona. This, after an unvaccinated Rockland County man developed paralytic polio, the first known polio case in the U.S. since 2013. The CDC says the highly contagious virus may have been circulating under the radar for a year. It’s now known that it turned up in Orange County wastewater last April and in Rockland wastewater in May.