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Published online 17 November 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news031110-20
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Polio vaccine may spawn disease
Study highlights need for polio eradication exit plan.
A new report fuels fears that mutated vaccine might seed new bouts of poliomyelitis, even after the disease is stamped out. Its findings will inform the ongoing debate on how to phase out the vaccine.
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