How to wipe out polio and prevent its re-emergence

Sunday, June 21, 2015 - 16:30 in Health & Medicine

Public health officials stand poised to eliminate polio from the planet. But a new study shows that the job won't be over when the last case of the horrible paralytic disease is recorded. Using disease-transmission models, graduate researchers demonstrate that silent transmission of poliovirus could continue for more than three years with no reported cases.

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