Polio found in New York’s drinking water, hundreds possibly infected.

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

 

[Webster]

*shrugs* Even a dumb-ass squirrel is right once in a while....

 

[Webster]

Polio found in sewage samples outside New York City suggests it's spreading in the community, health officials says

The findings come after an unvaccinated adult in Rockland County contracted polio, suffered paralysis and had to be hospitalized last month.

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Polio has been found in wastewater samples taken from two counties outside of New York City indicating the virus is spreading in the community, according to state health officials. Wastewater samples taken from two different locations in Orange County during June and July tested positive for the virus, according to the New York State Department of Health.

The findings come after an unvaccinated adult in Rockland County contracted polio, suffered paralysis and had to be hospitalized last month. Polio was subsequently found in Rockland County wastewater samples. Rockland County neighbors Orange County.

“These environmental findings — which further indicate potential community spread — in addition to the paralytic polio case identified among a Rockland County resident, underscore the urgency of every New York adult and child getting immunized against polio, especially those in the greater New York metropolitan area,” New York health officials said.

The polio strain the adult in Rockland County caught suggests the chain of transmission did not begin in the United States. The strain the individual contracted is used in the oral polio vaccine, which contains a mild version of the virus that can still replicate. This means people who receive the oral vaccine can spread the virus to others.

But the U.S. hasn’t used the oral polio vaccine in more than 20 years. The U.S. uses an inactivated polio vaccine that is administered as shot in the leg or arm. The vaccine uses a non-replicating virus strain, which means people who receive the shot cannot infect other people.

The polio case in New York is genetically linked to the Rockland County wastewater sample as well as samples from the greater Jerusalem area in Israel and London in the United Kingdom. Health authorities in the U.K. declared a national incident in June after they detected polio in London sewage samples.

“New Yorkers should know that this does not imply that the individual case identified in Rockland County, New York has travel history to Israel or the UK,” the New York state health department said.

No polio cases have originated in the U.S. since 1979 and the nation has been considered polio free since then, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Polio caused widespread fear in the 1940s before vaccines were available. The virus disabled more than 35,000 people every year during that time, according to the CDC.

But a successful vaccination campaign in the 1950s and 1960s dramatically reduced the number of infections. Polio cases are still reported in the U.S., but they are linked to travelers who bring the virus into the country. The case in Rockland County is the first time the U.S. has confirmed an infection since 2013. New York state last confirmed an infection in 1990.

 

[Nebulous]

Who drinks tap water?

 

[Webster]

Who drinks tap water?

*raises hand in defiant manner*

 

[Nebulous]

*raises hand in defiant manner*

Why?

 

[Webster]

Why?

Why waste money on bottled water?

Yes, I do buy bottled water and drink it on occasion but most days I'll just get a glass of water and be done with it.

 

[Nebulous]

Why waste money on bottled water?

Yes, I do buy bottled water and drink it on occasion but most days I'll just get a glass of water and be done with it.

Not me, it’s all bottled water and water from 5 gallon jugs we refill at the grocery store. I dont trust the local water. At all...

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Who drinks tap water?

Well we do but have a great three stage filter system. I installed this after my step mother was getting sick from bottled water and they couldn’t figure it out until the doctor said stop drinking bottled water. Within a week all her body pains and arthritis like symptoms went away. It turned out the bottled waters plastic containers was releasing plastic and getting into her system.

 

[Webster]

Well we do but have a great three stage filter system. I installed this after my step mother was getting sick from bottled water and they couldn’t figure it out until the doctor said stop drinking bottled water. Within a week all her body pains and arthritis like symptoms went away. It turned out the bottled waters plastic containers was releasing plastic and getting into her system.

See, Neb, it pays to drink tap water.

 

[Nebulous]

Well we do but have a great three stage filter system. I installed this after my step mother was getting sick from bottled water and they couldn’t figure it out until the doctor said stop drinking bottled water. Within a week all her body pains and arthritis like symptoms went away. It turned out the bottled waters plastic containers was releasing plastic and getting into her system.

i worry about that. Maybe I should get a filtration system too.

 

[Webster]

Maybe I should get a filtration system too.

Brita is your friend, Neb.

Brita

www.brita.com

 

[Nebulous]

Brita is your friend, Neb.

Brita

www.brita.com

I know about those.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

I know about those.

There good for chlorine and basic filtering but not for the serious stuff in the water.

 

[Webster]

There good for chlorine and basic filtering but not for the serious stuff in the water.

I think most municipal water systems do a pretty decent job of keeping the bad stuff out, all things being equal here.

Still doesn't hurt to try and avoid drinking bottled water (just the environmental costs of the plastic alone should turn people away from it most times).

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

I think most municipal water systems do a pretty decent job of keeping the bad stuff out, all things being equal here.

Still doesn't hurt to try and avoid drinking bottled water (just the environmental costs of the plastic alone should turn people away from it most times).

Problem is they are having problems filtering out drugs in the water, ever since the pandemic people have been putting high amounts of prescription drugs down the toilet.

 

[Webster]

Problem is they are having problems filtering out drugs in the water

True that.

 

[Nebulous]

There good for chlorine and basic filtering but not for the serious stuff in the water.

Yeah I think they're bullshit personally. I need a real water filter.