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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
Sewage surveillance is the next frontier in the fight against polioMonitoring 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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