Wild polio has almost been eradicated, but vaccine-derived strains retain the potential to paralyse. Better vaccines have arrived — but they are only part of the answer. The nOPV2 polio vaccine has been administered to more than 650 million children across 30 countries.Credit: Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty When smallpox was declared eradicated in 1980, there were hopes...
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Vaccine-derived polio is on the rise. A new vaccine aims to stop the spread
April 26, 2022 6:15 PM ET ARI DANIEL A health worker administers the oral polio vaccine to a young girl as other children wait for their turn at a school in Karachi, Pakistan on February 28, 2022. In response to an uptick in cases of vaccine-derived polio — a form of the disease that stems...