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Health & Medicine

Sewage surveillance is key in the fight against polio

The Conversation

October 19, 2018

The world is at the brink of eradicating polio. A surprise polio outbreak in Israel in 2013 led researchers to look closely for the poliovirus in sewage to detect virus shed in the feces of non-paralyzed people infected with polio, what epidemiologists call the "silent circulation" of polio.

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