Emergency declared after polio found in Nassau County

Unfortunately Nassau is the most recent country in the state, where polio has been detected.

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Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state disaster emergency amid "evidence of circulating polio."

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This order would allow different type of facilitators like pharmacists, to administer the polio vaccine to make it easier to get.

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But luckily its not denoting an outbreak. If there is any outbreak, the vaccine will prevent any further break.

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Polio was recently identified in wastewater gathered in examples in Rockland, Orange and Sullivan regions and in New York City.

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The strains recuperated in the wastewater in the past three districts and New York City were all hereditarily connected to the state's sole distinguished polio case.

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During a press meet on Friday, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman stressed there is no polio case in the county.

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"I don't want to alarm anybody, there are no cases of polio that has been discovered here in this region or in Nassau County," Blakeman said.

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"Nobody should panic, there is no crisis right now, there is no active case of polio in Nassau County."

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The Department of Health is requesting anyone who hasn't done yet so to get the polio vaccine.

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