Should we be worried that polio has been detected in the UK?

A national incident has been declared after the virus was found in a London sewer. The past weeks have seen continued transmission of SARS-CoV-2, new cases of acute hepatitis in children, monkeypox and now poliovirus has been found in the UK. Several decades ago, poliovirus caused serious epidemics in many countries throughout the world. These poliovirus infections would […]