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Sewage surveillance is the next frontier in the fight against polio

  • Written by Marisa Eisenberg, Associate Professor of Complex Systems, Epidemiology, and Mathematics, University of Michigan
Monitoring sewage for virus allows for a quick public health response if any polio is detected.AP Photo/Matt Rourke

The world is at the brink of eradicating polio. Only three countries now have ongoing transmission: Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan. And in 2017, there were only a couple dozen cases of paralytic wild polio reported worldwide...

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