From United Press International (also on blogroll at right), August 4:
New York health officials say they have detected the polio virus in wastewater samples in another county, just days after the virus was found in Rockland County.
The virus in Rockland County was discovered last month. It was the first time the polio virus was found anywhere in the United States in more than a decade.
Earlier this week, officials in Orange County said they have also found it in wastewater samples from June and July.
"The New York State Department of Health informed the Orange County Department of Health that analysis from the CDC detected the polio virus" in two different regions, Health Department spokesperson Samantha Fuld said in a statement.
"These environmental findings -- which further indicate potential community spread -- in addition to the paralytic polio case identified among a Rockland County resident, underscore the urgency of every New York adult and child getting immunized against polio, especially those in the greater New York metropolitan area."....
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Turning to our analyst:
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action"
—Auric Goldfinger to James Bond in Ian Fleming's Goldfinger.
