Polio strain in Rockland County linked to Jerusalem and London, NY health officials say

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NY polio patient may have caught infection from strain found in Rockland County sewage water

NY polio patient may have caught infection from strain found in Rockland County sewage waterAccording to researchers, America's first polio patient in nearly a decade was infected with the same strain of the virus that was discovered earlier this year in Jerusalem and London. Testing revealed that the Jewish man in his twenties from Rockland County, New York, who was paralyzed by the disease, had caught type 2 vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV), …