Linked poliovirus incidents in the UK, USA and Israel: Silent transmission or missed warnings of vaccine inequity?

Vaccine. 2023 Mar 31;41(14):2339-2342. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.02.043. Epub 2023 Feb 23.

¹ Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK; Centre for Health, Law & Society, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1RJ, UK. Electronic address: ben.kasstan@lshtm.ac.uk.
² Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK; The Vaccine Centre, Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK.
³ Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing, City University of New York, First Avenue, NY 10065, USA.
⁴ Immunisation and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Division, UK Health Security Agency, London, UK.
⁵ Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel.

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Keywords: Childhood vaccination; Polio; Strategy; high income countries; inequity.

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