The launch of March marks a full year free of polio in downstate New York's wastewater. The last test that showed positive for the polio virus was taken in February 2023 in Rockland County.
ROCKLAND COUNTY, NY — It has been a full year since the poliovirus was found in the wastewater in Rockland and neighboring counties’ sanitary sewer systems, officials in the county health ...
Paul Alexander, who spent the vast majority of the past 70 years in an iron lung and defied expectations by becoming a lawyer ...
Some of New York City's area have less than 60% of kids fully vaccinated against polio, according to data from the city's Department of Health. Just last week, officials found traces of the ...
Polio used to be one of the most feared diseases in the United States, especially during the height of the epidemic in the ...
Polio is caused by a virus and spread through contact with feces. The virus infects the throat and intestines, and can cause flu-like symptoms. Paralysis from the polio virus is rare. This year ...
A Texas man who spent decades using an iron lung after contracting polio as a child has died at the age of 78.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) - According to new guidance from the CDC, you won't be required to isolate for five days after getting a positive COVID test result. Trump attorneys seek to call new ...
DALLAS -- Paul Alexander, who spent the vast majority of the past 70 years in an iron lung and defied expectations by becoming a lawyer and author, died Monday afternoon at the age of 78 ...