Discovered: Vaccine-Resistant Polio Strain
Wednesday, November 5, 2014 - 01:40
in Health & Medicine
A serious epidemic of poliomyelitis that struck the Republic of the Congo in 2010 has been identified as a vaccine-resistant strain of polio. The epidemic affected 445 people in the city of Pointe-Noire, the economic capital of the country, killing almost half of them. The researchers fear the emergence of other strains against which vaccines would have little effect. read more