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 By Sydney Pead and Samantha Hawley for ABC News Daily

Is polio back? Cases emerge overseas and Australia starts testing sewage

New South Wales will join other states in testing sewage for polio, as cases of the largely eradicated disease emerge overseas.

Last month, authorities confirmed polio is spreading in London for the first time since the 1980s, and in July an unvaccinated person in New York was officially diagnosed with paralytic polio — the first case in nine years.

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