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New Strains Intended for the Production of Inactivated Polio Vaccine at Low-Containment After Eradication
31 Dec 2015
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Poliomyelitis has nearly been eradicated through the efforts of the World Health Organization's Global Eradication Initiative raising questions on containment of the virus after it has been eliminated in the wild. Most manufacture of inactivated polio vaccines currently requires the growth of large amounts of highly virulent poliovirus, and release from a production facility after eradication could be disastrous;...
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