Britain is launching a polio booster vaccination campaign for children under 10 in London after confirming the virus is spreading in the capital for the first time since the 1980s. Britain’s health safety agency has identified 116 polioviruses from 19 sewage samples in London this year, after first issuing a warning about the virus in […]
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USA: Polio outbreak in New York for the first time in three decades
A case of polio has been identified in suburban New York City and confirmed by federal health authorities, the New York State Health Service announced today. It is the first case of this disease recorded in the US in the last 30 years. According to tests done on the patient, the highly contagious virus found […]