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RECOMBINATION BETWEEN POLIOVIRUS AND COXSACKIE A V ...

RECOMBINATION BETWEEN POLIOVIRUS AND COXSACKIE A VIRUSES OF SPECIES C: A MODEL OF VIRAL GENETIC PLASTICITY AND EMERGENCE Viruses. 2011 August; 3(8): 1460–1484. Nicolas Combelas,1,2 Barbara Holmblat,1,2 Marie-Line Joffret,1,2 Florence Colb ... read more

PRESENTATIONS ON VACCINE DERIVED POLIOVIRUS

PRESENTATIONS ON VACCINE DERIVED POLIOVIRUS Thanks to WHO for the presentations of the Vaccine-derived polioviruses (VDPVs) meeting which took place from 30 May to 1 June 2012 in Geneva. LINK: http://workspace.who.int/sites/polio_work/gpln/defa ... read more

WHAT'S NEW: TEN ON VACCINE DERIVED POLIOVIRUS

TEN ON VACCINE DERIVED POLIOVIRUS To readers new to the subject, posting 10 items on vaccine derived poliovirus may seem like a lot. Or is it? Writing recently in Current Opinion in Virology, Olen Kew places VDPV in its context: Since its launc ... read more

WHAT'S NEW THIS THURSDAY: POLICY DECISION OPTIONS ...

POLICY DECISION OPTIONS FOLLOWING POLIO ERADICATION  Editorial by W.H. Foege, followed by policy discussion Excerpt from Foege: ‘oral polio vaccines, if used posteradication, provide unacceptable risks for individual cases and for va ... read more

WHAT'S NEW THIS THURSDAY: THREE ON POLIO

  THREE ON POLIO   THE FINAL PUSH FOR POLIO The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Volume 12, Issue 8, Pages 591 - 592, August 2012 Original Text Talha Burki At first glance, efforts to eradicate poliomyelitis seem in excellent sh ... read more

The Final Push for Polio

THE FINAL PUSH FOR POLIO The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Volume 12, Issue 8, Pages 591 - 592, August 2012 Talha Burki At first glance, efforts to eradicate poliomyelitis seem in excellent shape. “Epidemiologically, the picture has neve ... read more

Polio Endgame Issues

  POLIO ENDGAME ISSUES   Excerpt below; full text is at http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/90/7/BLT.12.020712.pdf WHO Director-General Dr Mar­garet Chan told the [World Health] Assembly that polio eradication was “at a ti ... read more

WHAT'S NEW THIS TUESDAY: FOUR FEATURES ON POLIO FR ...

WHAT’S NEW THIS TUESDAY ON WWW.CHILDSURVIVAL.NET : FOUR FEATURES ON POLIO FROM NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO WIPING OUT POLIO: HOW THE U.S. SNUFFED OUT A KILLER by Jason Beaubien, National Public Radio Best viewed at http://www.npr.org/blogs/hea ... read more