VIROLOGY:
Poliomyelitis Eradication--a Dangerous Endgame
Neal Nathanson and Paul Fine
Efforts to eradicate poliovirus from the face of the
Earth have been very successful, thanks in large part to the oral
poliovirus vaccine developed by Albert Sabin. However, as
Nathanson and Fine explain in their Perspective, maintaining a world
free from poliomyelitis will not be easy. They discuss the implications
of a recent outbreak of paralytic poliomyelitis on the island of
Hispaniola from which wild poliovirus was eliminated 10 years previously
(Kew
et al.).
N. Nathanson is in the Departments of Microbiology and Neurology,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. E-mail:
nathansn@mail.med.upenn.edu
P. Fine is at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London
WC1E 7HT, UK. E-mail: paul.fine@lshtm.ac.uk
