Friday, November 15, 2013

[News & Analysis] Infectious Disease: Israel's Silent Polio Epidemic Breaks All the Rules

Science 8 November 2013:
Vol. 342 no. 6159 pp. 679-680
DOI: 10.1126/science.342.6159.679 Infectious Disease Twenty-five years after it was dispatched, wild poliovirus is back and circulating widely in Israel but, surprisingly, there have been no cases. Like many other wealthy countries, Israel relies on the inactivated polio vaccine, or IPV, to protect against this crippling disease. Paradoxically, Israel's very high vaccination rate is what has allowed the virus to circulate silently for months.


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