Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus Found in London Sewage

June 22, 2022

Poliovirus has been found in samples of sewage in London, England. Health experts said the virus most likely came from someone who had received a live polio vaccine overseas.

They also said they find the virus in sewage samples from time to time, but this is the first time that a cluster of genetically-linked samples has been found repeatedly over a period of months.

While the live virus vaccine hasn’t been administered in England since 2004, many other countries still use the wild virus version — which also can cause vaccine-derived polio in some people who receive it or are exposed to it. Globally, there were 959 cases of vaccine-derived polio in 2020; the vaccine-derived virus is the only poliovirus currently circulating in Africa.

SOURCES:

BBC June 22, 1950

Global Polio Eradication Initiative

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