poliovirus
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The disease is caused by the poliovirus, which spreads through contact with an infected person's faeces or droplets when they cough and sneeze.
From BBC ● May 16, 2025
Perhaps Israel had no choice; the reality of a variant type 2 poliovirus outbreak in Gaza had the whole region bracing for a public health crisis.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2024
But wastewater surveillance — the testing of sewage for signs of pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2, poliovirus and mpox virus — has yet to be employed in the tracking of H5N1 bird flu virus.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2024
Planned after wild type 2 poliovirus had been eradicated, the switch—which the report calls “the largest coordinated public health effort in history”—was like a trial run for that ultimate goal.
From Science Magazine ● May 7, 2024
Second, cells often behave differently, even if they’re all from the same sample, which means some grow faster than others, some produce more poliovirus, and some are resistant to certain antibiotics.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
The first polio vaccine, which went into use in 1955, was a shot containing inactivated polioviruses, and although it protected people from paralytic disease, it did little to stop poliovirus transmission.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 18, 2023
Since January 2020, vaccine-derived polioviruses have sprung up in more than 50 countries — including some that eradicated polio long ago.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 21, 2023
Wastewater surveillance has been critical in finding vaccine-derived polioviruses in the United Kingdom and Israel before any paralytic cases have been detected, Orenstein said.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2022
She found that harmless enteroviruses in the intestinal tract appeared to interfere with the polioviruses.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 17, 2022
To eradicate polio, the world must eradicate all wild polioviruses and vaccine-derived polioviruses.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2022
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