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Commentary
Nature 434, 699-700 (7 April 2005) | doi:10.1038/434699a; Published online 6 April 2005
A global call for new polio vaccines
David L. Heymann1, Roland W. Sutter1 & R. Bruce Aylward1
- David L. Heymann, Roland W. Sutter and R. Bruce Aylward are at the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, World Health Organization, 20 Avenue Appia, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland.
During the next 12 months the world could see the end of the crippling disease polio. That is, if sufficiently high levels of vaccination are achieved in the last few countries with endemic poliovirus, and if surveillance for the paralysis caused by polio manages to find all new cases1.
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