Polioviruses in wastewater, that sounds threatening at first. Why finds of this kind are not uncommon and why the current cases still require our attention – the most important information.
Polio. The name is reminiscent of times believed to be bygone, black-and-white photos of children with paralysis or people in iron lungs. Reports from the past few weeks that the virus was recently detected in sewage in London and New York should have been all the more worrying. In the US metropolis, a young, unvaccinated man recently fell ill with the paralysis typical of polio. How are the reports classified? And what does this mean for the situation in Germany? An overview.
What is polio again exactly?