Polio vaccination

[Chris Upton]

I just read in our local newsaper "health column" that polio booster shots
were not being recommended since of the low prevalence of the disease in the
Western Hemisphere!!!
      Comments please!

What kind of protection exists 10 or 20 years after vaccination?
If there's a reduced resistance in the population.....  is there going to be
a call for work with polio to be done under level 3/4 containment?
Or maybe all stocks to be destroyed (as per smallpox)?????
Hmm....

Cheers,
 Chris
 Chris Upton  
Biochemistry & Microbiology
University of Victoria
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