Sunday 24 August 2014

Mutated Virus Breaches Polio Vaccine Protection

A mutated virus that was able to resist the polio vaccine protection to a considerable extent was found in victims of an outbreak in the Congo in 2010, says study. The pathogen could also potentially have infected many people in Germany. The results appear now in the magazine emPNAS/em. The polio epidemic in the Congo in 2010 was especially serious. 445 people were verifiably infected, mostly young adults. The disease was fatal for 209 of them. This high ...

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