Nick Reisman is reporting for State of Politics that continuous monitoring of wastewater in the New York City metropolitan area has found repeated evidence of poliovirus in sewage, the state Department of Health on October 11, announced. The most recent results, discovered in samples from Brooklyn and Queens, found polio genetically linked to a case previously found in Rockland County. State officials on October 9, extended an executive order declaring a disaster emergency to allocate more resources for polio vaccinations and detection statewide. The state Department of Health earlier this summer confirmed the first case of polio in New York in a decade in Rockland County. A wastewater detection system has since turned up traces of poliovirus in the greater New York City area. "These findings put an alarming exclamation point on what we have already observed: unvaccinated people are at a real and unnecessary risk," state Health Commissioner Mary Bassett said. Between July 21 and October 2, more than 28,260 people have been vaccinated for polio in Rockland, Orange, Sullivan, and Nassau counties as health officials conduct an outreach effort for communities to improve vaccination rates for the virus. Read the full story at nystateofpolitics [dot] com.