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CDC Will Test Sewage for Polio Outside New York to See If It's Circulating Elsewhere in Nation
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The CDC will initially work work with Michigan and Philadelphia to identify communities with low vaccination rates and begin testing sewage the in those areas.
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CDC says more US cities will begin testing for polio among sewage
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CDC Will Test Sewage for Polio Outside New York to See If It's Circulating Elsewhere in Nation
NEW YORK (AP) -- Philadelphia and Oakland County, Michigan, are joining the small list of U.S. localities that are looking for signs of polio infections
The CDC is expanding its Polio testing to include wastewater in Michigan and Pennsylvania. So far there has only been one case of paralytic Polio, found in New York.
Communities in New York state started testing wastewater earlier this year, after a case of paralytic polio. Philadelphia and Oakland County, Michigan, will also begin testing.
The expansion of wastewater monitoring for polio comes amid pressure to increase efforts to fight the disease after the first U.S. polio case in nearly a decade was discovered in July.
The CDC will initially work work with Michigan and Philadelphia to identify communities with low vaccination rates and begin testing sewage the in those areas.
THURSDAY, Dec. 1, 2022 (HealthDay News) – U.S. health officials will begin testing wastewater for poliovirus in select locations around the country, including possibly at sites in Michigan and Pennsylvania.
