Polio is a deadly disease that cannot be cured if a person is infected. It is highly contagious and falls under the category of viral diseases. It primarily affects the nervous system of a person ...

In 1947 Salk became head of the Virus Research Lab at the University of Pittsburgh. He began investigating the poliovirus. To start with, he had to sort the 125 strains of the virus. He found that ...

Mariachiara Di Cesare has received funding from the Department of Health and Social Care (2020-2021) Francis Hassard receives funding from the United Kingdom Water Industry Research (UKWIR) and ...

with environmental samples and human cases throwing up both wild polio virus as well as vaccine-derived polio virus. The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported that poliovirus had been ...