GLOBAL HEALTH: Type 1 Polio Vaccine Could Help Finally Eradicate Polio

Audio Journal of Global Health Issues Type 1 Polio Vaccine Could Help Finally Eradicate Polio REFERENCE: Lancet 2007; 369:1356-62 NICHOLAS GRASSLY, Imperial College London A case-control study performed in India has provided hope that polio could finally be eradicated. India is one of six countries in which polio transmission has not yet been interrupted and, specifically, it is the type 1 poliovirus that persists there. Nicholas Grassly of Imperial College London told Derek Thorne about his team’s study, published in the Lancet.