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Polio: Background and perspective on how international travel can be made safe against polio

Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease
International spread of polio continues to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern since its declaration by the World Health Organization in 2014 and its reiteration in 2024.
Dhanya Dharmapalan, Thekkekara Jacob John, Robert Steinglass, Norbert Hirschhorn   +3 more
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Emergence of Vaccine-Derived Polioviruses during Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak, Guinea, 2014–2015

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2018
During the 2014–2015 outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Guinea, 13 type 2 circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPVs) were isolated from 6 polio patients and 7 healthy contacts.
Maria Dolores Fernandez-Garcia, Manasi Majumdar, Ousmane Kebe, Aichatou D. Fall, Moussa Kone, Mouctar Kande, Moustapha Dabo, Mohamed Salif Sylla, Djenou Sompare, Wayne Howard, Ousmane Faye, Javier Martin, Kader Ndiaye   +12 more
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Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Respiratory Syncytial Viral Infection: Its Implications for Prophylactic and Therapeutic Pharmaceuticals

MedComm, Volume 6, Issue 10, October 2025.
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) causes substantial global morbidity, particularly in infants and elderly populations. This review summarizes key viral pathogenesis mechanisms and highlights recent advances in both prophylactic (vaccines, antibodies) and therapeutic (antiviral agents) strategies against RSV.
Xiaowen Liang, Yue Yin, Yuanlong Lin, Shiman Chen, Qi Qian, Jing Yuan, Liuqing Yang, Yang Yang   +7 more
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Next generation inactivated polio vaccine manufacturing to support post polio-eradication biosafety goals. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
Worldwide efforts to eradicate polio caused a tipping point in polio vaccination strategies. A switch from the oral polio vaccine, which can cause circulating and virulent vaccine derived polioviruses, to inactivated polio vaccines (IPV) is scheduled ...
Yvonne E Thomassen, Aart G van 't Oever, Monique G C T van Oijen, René H Wijffels, Leo A van der Pol, Wilfried A M Bakker   +5 more
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Acute flaccid paralysis with anterior myelitis - California, June 2012-June 2014. [PDF]

, 2014
In August 2012, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) was contacted by a San Francisco Bay area clinician who requested poliovirus testing for an unvaccinated man aged 29 years with acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) associated with anterior ...
Ayscue, Patrick, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Clayton, Anna, Feikin, Daniel, Glaser, Carol, Harriman, Kathleen, Nix, William Allan, Padilla, Tasha, Pan, Chao, Reichel, John, Sejvar, James, Sheriff, Heather, Van Haren, Keith, Waldron, Paul, Watt, James, Waubant, Emmanuelle, Yagi, Shigeo, Yen, Cynthia   +17 more
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Macaque models of human infectious disease. [PDF]

, 2008
Macaques have served as models for more than 70 human infectious diseases of diverse etiologies, including a multitude of agents-bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites, prions.
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Pleural Mesothelioma: Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, Treatment, Prognosis, and Survival

MedComm, Volume 6, Issue 9, September 2025.
This is an overview of current and emerging therapeutic strategies for pleural mesothelioma (PM), including chemotherapy, immunotherapy (ICIs, dendritic cell vaccines, CAR‐T therapy), anti‐angiogenic therapy, epigenetic modifications (DNA methylation, histone changes, non‐coding RNAs), and targeted therapy focusing on genomic alterations and signaling ...
Libo Zhang, Meijuan Huang
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The eradication of polio in Bhutan in the context of global polio eradication

Bhutan Health Journal, 2019
Bhutan has made tremendous health gains in public health, particularly in vaccine-preventable diseases. Polio was eradicated two years ahead of the launch of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative and only 12 years after the introduction of oral polio ...
Thinley Dorji, Tandi Dorji, Bjørn Melgaard   +2 more
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Circulating Vaccine‐Derived Poliovirus Type 2 (cVDPV2) Outbreak Response With Novel Oral Poliovirus Vaccine Type 2 (nOPV2), Sierra Leone's Experience

Public Health Challenges, Volume 4, Issue 3, September 2025.
ABSTRACT Background In March 2024, a circulating vaccine‐derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) was isolated in environmental samples (ESs) collected at the Mabella Sawmill Bridge environmental surveillance (ES) site. The Ministry of Health and its partners responded to the outbreak by conducting a novel oral poliovirus vaccine type 2 (nOPV2) nationwide ...
Desmond M. Kangbai, Edwin N. Sesay, Nella Clemens‐Kangbai, Andrew K. Kemoh, Sallu Lansana, Hassan Benya, Aminata Nunie, Joyce M. Kallon, Edna G. Samuels, Amanda Clemens, Michael Jones, Braima Patrick Kanneh, Peter B. James, Andrew Alfred Nyakeh Jimmy, Mohamed T. M. Kallay, Tom Sesay   +15 more
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Do Childhood Vaccines Have Non-Specific Effects on Mortality [PDF]

, 2003
A recent article by Kristensen et al. suggested that measles vaccine and bacille Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine might\ud reduce mortality beyond what is expected simply from protection against measles and tuberculosis.
Boyce , G. Thomas, Cooper, O. William, Griffin, R. Martin, Wright, F. Peter   +3 more
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