{"id":1663,"date":"2022-12-05T07:58:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T13:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=1663"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:21:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T17:21:08","slug":"cdc-expands-wastewater-testing-for-polio-to-michigan-and-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/12\/05\/cdc-expands-wastewater-testing-for-polio-to-michigan-and-pennsylvania\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC expands wastewater testing for polio to Michigan and Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2022\/11\/30\/polio-wastewater-testing\/\">Washington Post<\/a>) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expanding efforts to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2022\/04\/14\/coronavirus-in-wastewater-sewer\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2&amp;itid=lk_inline_manual_2\">test wastewater<\/a>\u00a0to detect the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2022\/08\/22\/polio-vaccine-spread-explained\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2&amp;itid=lk_inline_manual_2\">polio virus<\/a>\u00a0in Philadelphia and the Detroit area, targeting communities at highest risk for the life-threatening and potentially disabling illness, officials said Wednesday. The expansion of wastewater monitoring for polio comes amid pressure to increase efforts to fight the disease after the first U.S. polio case in nearly a decade was discovered in New York\u2019s Rockland County\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2022\/07\/21\/polio-rockland-county-unvaccinated\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_3&amp;itid=lk_inline_manual_4\">in July.<\/a>\u00a0Ever since the unvaccinated man was diagnosed, the virus has been detected in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2022\/08\/12\/polio-wastewater-nyc-rockland-orange-county\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_3&amp;itid=lk_inline_manual_4\">\u00a0wastewater samples<\/a>\u00a0from nearby communities: New York City, Orange County, Sullivan County and Nassau County on Long Island.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Washington Post) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expanding efforts to\u00a0test wastewater\u00a0to detect thepolio virus\u00a0in Philadelphia and the Detroit area, targeting communities at highest risk for the life-threatening and potentially disabling illness, officials said Wednesday. The expansion of wastewater monitoring for polio comes amid pressure to increase efforts to fight the disease after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-infectious-diseases","category-polio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1664,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions\/1664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}