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Health officials have found poliovirus in New York City wastewater, according to an announcement from the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene on Friday. The discovery likely means that polio is circulating, currently undetected, in the city.
The virus was recently detected in wastewater samples north of the five boroughs in Orange County and Rockland County, and one case of paralytic polio was identified in Rockland County in July in an unvaccinated adult.
New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan said in a statement, "The risk to New Yorkers is real, but the defense is so simple — get vaccinated against polio."
Most people get the shots as part of their routine childhood vaccination cycle. According to an NBC News report, about 86% of children aged 6 months to 5 years have received all three polio vaccine doses. Across the state, about 79% of New Yorkers have received all three doses by the age of 2.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/health/polio-virus-detected-new-york-city-wastewater
Salman Rushdie, 75, who has lived for decades under threat of death by Islamist radicals including Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini for authoring The Satanic Verses in 1988, was stabbed on stage at an appearance in Chautauqua, New York Friday morning. The attacker was detained at the scene.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/salman-rushdie-stabbed-appearance-new-york/
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Anne Heche is on life support after suffering a brain injury in a fiery crash a week ago and her survival isn’t expected, according to a statement from a representative.
The actor, who is in a coma and in critical condition, is being kept on life support for possible organ donation, according to the statement released Thursday night on behalf of her family and friends.
Heche, who’s been hospitalized at the Grossman Burn Center at West Hills hospital north of Los Angeles, suffered a “severe anoxic brain injury,” the statement said. Such an injury is caused by a sustained lack of oxygen to the brain.
“She is not expected to survive,” the statement said. “It has long been her choice to donate her organs and she is being kept on life support to determine if any are viable.”
On the morning of Aug. 5, Heche’s car smashed into a house in a neighborhood in west Los Angeles and a fire erupted with the car embedded inside the home.
Earlier Thursday, police said they were investigating Heche for driving under the influence. Detectives with a search warrant took a sample of her blood and found narcotics in her system, LAPD spokesperson Officer Jeff Lee said.
https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-los-angeles-driving-under-the-influence-anne-heche-1