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Saturday, March 21, 2020

Medical Xpress (20 March 2020) - Urgently needed: New way to combat vaccine-derived poliovirus

Title:
Urgently needed: New way to combat vaccine-derived poliovirus

Author:
Bob Yirka

Published:
Medical Xpress, 20 March 2020

From the article:
"A team of researchers from the U.K., Switzerland, the U.S., and the Congo has found that there is an urgent need to combat a vaccine-derived poliovirus. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes their study of the vaccine-derived virus and what they found."

To read this article:
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-03-urgently-combat-vaccine-derived-poliovirus.html

For more information, see scholarly article:
Macklin, G.R. [et al.]. (2020). Evolving epidemiology of poliovirus serotype 2 following withdrawal of the type 2 oral poliovirus vaccine. Science
Available: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/03/18/science.aba1238