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Polio: we're developing a safer vaccine that uses no genetic material from the virus

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par Keith Grehan, Postdoctoral Researcher, Molecular Biology, University of Leeds
Jessica Swanson, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds

Recent reports of poliovirus detected in samples from a sewage treatment works in London have rightly generated significant concern among public health agencies and medical staff. The poliovirus detected is what is called vaccine-derived poliovirus – this is not “wild poliovirus”.

There are currently two poliovirus vaccines: the oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) and the inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV). Vaccine-derived poliovirus is linked to the use of the OPV…

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