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
"The nOPV2 vaccine is expected to effectively interrupt poliovirus transmission and thus markedly reduce the risk of seeding further polio outbreaks," Medford said.
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
Unexpectedly, vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 has continued to circulate after the switch, paralyzing more than 3300 children.
From Science Magazine • May 7, 2024
This discovery meant that if HeLa was susceptible to poliovirus, which not all cells were, it would solve the mass-production problem and make it possible to test the vaccine without millions of monkey cells.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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