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Volume 25, Number 7—July 2019
Historical Review

Facility-Associated Release of Polioviruses into Communities—Risks for the Posteradication Era

Ananda S. BandyopadhyayComments to Author , Harpal Singh, Jacqueline Fournier-Caruana, John F. Modlin, Jay Wenger, Jeffrey Partridge, Roland W. Sutter, and Michel J. Zaffran
Author affiliations: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, USA (A.S. Bandyopadhyay, J.F. Modlin, J. Wenger, J. Partridge); World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland (H. Singh, J. Fournier-Caruana, R.W. Sutter, M.J. Zaffran); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (R.W. Sutter)

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Reported incidents of facility-associated poliovirus release from laboratories and manufacturing sites in the pre–polio vaccine era (shown inside dashed-line frames) and the time of poliovirus vaccine introduction to the present (shown inside solid-line frames). AFP, acute flaccid paralysis; IPV, inactivated poliovirus vaccine; MEF-1, wild poliovirus type 2 laboratory reference strain; WPV, wild poliovirus; WPV3, wild poliovirus type 3.

Figure. Reported incidents of facility-associated poliovirus release from laboratories and manufacturing sites in the pre–polio vaccine era (shown inside dashed-line frames) and the time of poliovirus vaccine introduction to the present (shown inside solid-line frames). AFP, acute flaccid paralysis; IPV, inactivated poliovirus vaccine; MEF-1, wild poliovirus type 2 laboratory reference strain; WPV, wild poliovirus; WPV3, wild poliovirus type 3.

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