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  • n  the virus causing poliomyelitis

  • Says Oliver Rosenbauer, spokesman for WHO's Global Polio Eradication Initiative: "That's a lot of breathing space for the poliovirus to survive.
  • But even the best immunization campaign will leave a lot of poliovirus at large, at least for a while.
  • Type I poliovirus used to cause 85% or more of all paralytic polio; Type II caused less than 5%; and Type III was blamed for the rest.
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    The World Health Organization (WHO) said today that, because of "increasing geographic extent of circulation over a prolonged period of time," the risk of international spread of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) from Israel is moderate to high.
    Aug. 15, 2013 - Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy

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