Will polio join smallpox as an extinct disease? Hope is very real in any case. In the thirty-five years since the Global Polio Eradication Initiative began, the disease has declined markedly. In August 2020, the WHO announced that it had been permanently eliminated from the African continent. Only one of the three existing strains of the virus still circulates in a small region of the world on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, causing a few dozen cases of polio each year.
But despite these impressive advances, the weakened viruses used in vaccines sometimes reactivate, causing hundreds of cases of polio each year in countries where so-called “wild” viruses no longer circulate. Two new vaccine candidates developed by an international consortium of American and British scientists are showing promising results in mice and could…
Source: Le Figaro
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