Re:Why Polio (Poliomyelitis), Once Nearly Eradicated, Is Reb...
by dopylitty on Friday August 12, 2022 @11:21PM
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The YouTube video here[0] by the guy who first sequenced the polio genome and who studied it his whole career is pretty enlightening.
There’s a lot of breathless reporting about polio but he’s not surprised it’s circulating because the oral polio vaccine strain is replication competent and the inactivated vaccine doesn’t prevent gut infection (no vaccines prevent infection. They prevent disease).
There’s a lot of breathless reporting about polio but he’s not surprised it’s circulating because the oral polio vaccine strain is replication competent and the inactivated vaccine doesn’t prevent gut infection (no vaccines prevent infection. They prevent disease).
0: https://youtu.be/P-5KGHzHTsI
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pakistan-polio-idUSKCN1UA...