Posted on 10/01/2022 9:20:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
New York’s top health official is urging the public to get vaccinated against poliovirus if they haven’t yet done so.
State Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett declared polio "an imminent threat to public health" in New York State Wednesday, Sept. 28.
The declaration will free up resources to help local health departments set up vaccination clinics and better focus their outreach efforts to unvaccinated or under-vaccinated New Yorkers, Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office said.
Health officials are hoping to boost immunization rates particularly in areas that have been most affected by the virus and among children.
“Thanks to long-established school immunization requirements, the vast majority of adults, and most children, are fully vaccinated against polio,” Bassett said.
“Our focus remains on ensuring the on-time administration of polio vaccination among young children and catching kids and adults up who are unimmunized and under-immunized in the affected areas.”
With the declaration, local health departments will be able to claim financial reimbursements for costs incurred from community outreach and education.
State and local health officials also continue to monitor wastewater samples across New York, which can indicate whether polio is spreading, officials said.
The disease has been found in wastewater samples taken from several areas, including Rockland, Orange, and Sullivan counties, as well as Nassau County and New York City.
It was first confirmed in Rockland County wastewater in July 2022, days after health officials confirmed that the county had the first confirmed case of polio seen in the United States in nearly a decade.
When the disease was found in more wastewater samples, Gov. Hochul declared a state disaster emergency on Friday, Sept. 9, which expanded the network of polio vaccine administrators to include EMS workers, midwives, and pharmacies.
It also authorized doctors and certified nurse practitioners to issue standing orders for polio vaccines and required healthcare providers to send immunization data to the state health department to better target vaccination efforts, Hochul’s office said.
Polio is a highly contagious, viral disease that can lead to permanent paralysis of the arms and legs and can be fatal due to paralysis in the muscles used to breathe or swallow.
Symptoms of polio include fatigue, fever, headache, stiffness, muscle pain, and vomiting, and can take up to 30 days to appear, during which time an infected person can be transmitting the virus to others.
The most important way for children and adults to protect themselves is to get vaccinated if they have not received all recommended polio vaccine doses, health officials said.
More information about polio and vaccines can be found on the Department of Health’s website.
Swell- so it looks like folks that were inoculated prior to 2000 might not even be protected in that state?
We had it licked, and then Democrats came along and decided they needed to re-import it. Immigration and disease diversity/equity across the globe is their motto.
Long-gone diseases making a comeback.
Ironic that it’s being found in feces and that they’re pushing jabs to “stop it” - the jabs cause the body to shed the polio virus...into the feces...
You trust this panic based on PCR tests of wastewater and one claimed case diagnosed by the NYST Dept of Public Health?
https://www.wadsworth.org/home
An oh-so-convenient excuse to jab the unjabbed?
Update on the polio situation in the EU/EEA and the world
VDPVs can cause outbreaks in places where vaccine coverage is low. In addition, people with certain immunodeficiency disorders can shed the virus for long periods of time, during which the virus can continue to change and can infect an unvaccinated person. Because OPV has not been used in the United States since 2000 and vaccine coverage with IPV is high, it is unlikely that any VDPV would become widespread in the United States.
The growing threat of wild poliovirus 1 and vaccine-derived cases in the COVID-19 era
Case numbers suggest the vaxx derived is a bigger problem.
Bingo
It’s so depressing to see America going backward. Hard to believe there are humans that would cause this to happen when they know there’s a way to prevent it. Many years ago, I had an uncle who became a victim in the initial wave of polio in this country. As a young child, I witnessed this guy as an adult moving around as you can visualize a monkey using his strong arms to swing his worthless lower limbs forward for another ‘step.’ He was stubborn and refused to be straddled to a wheelchair. He was quite good at scooting around on the floor or ground with his thick built-up calluses on the outside of clinched fists (feet). His arms were so strong he could lift, hang, and swing himself with them to climb up on vehicles. The guy had boundless grit. He became an auto mechanic with that perseverance, a good one at that. Good enough to run his own local shop and perform community auto repairs. Now, there will be more who are handicapped like him with this scrouge.
We had a teacher that refused to give up too. She used those arm crutches that wrap around the arm and leg braces, and would throw her body forward for a “step” too. She was a tough woman. A girl in our school had it but could sort of walk with the help of crutches too, though her feet would drag on the outside of her shoes as she “stepped”. She was a tough girl too. Didn’t let it stop her from doing a lot of things others with polio would give up on. I can still. See her “running” around the playgrounds having fun.
WOW!
IIRC, we’re about the same age (I’m 77) and all I can remember is one polio shot, diptheria Schick and TB scratch tests. My sister born in ‘48 was slated for a booster for the polio vaccine but I can’t remember if she got it.
This was in NYC, so different Health Depts. may have had different procedures due to local conditions.
They can all go EFF themselves. They've sent trust in medicine, and science overall back to the 1500's.
Every CHINA VIRUS and "vaccine" death that's happened is on their heads. I hope they all rot in hell.
Polio spreads from person-to-person through contact with the poop (often tiny, invisible amounts) of an infected person. More rarely, it can spread through the sneeze or cough droplets from an infected person.
So if you don't want polio, don't touch other people's poop.
New Zealand
After that first one they must have been boosters
They would line up the whole primary school seniors in front
Aaaahhhh, that explains it. Everything was upside down 😜
Youre thinking of Aussie
Thanks for the link to that article - funny how on vax can cause the spread of a ‘weaker” strain of polio and another may not cause a spread, but also has a lower degree of efficacy in stopping the wild versions - and they want us to think they can keep us safe if we only take their jabs.
Brought back to the United States because of Illegal Aliens?
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Mostly likely cause to me, but they’re trying to pin it on the Hasidic Jews.
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