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Mull-a-light, get the good going. It's been almost 20 years since the UK was declared polio free, on almost 40 years since the country

reported its last case of the disease.

No wonder then that last week's news got some people worried.

Well, let's bring you some breaking news this lunchtime,

and polio has been detected in sewage samples collected from a treatment works.

In East London, our health...

Public health officials declared a national incident

because they had found polio virus derived from a vaccine

in London sewage samples taken between February and May.

But for clarity, what they detected was Poliovirus and not Polio the disease.

As of today, no cases have been reported.

Polomyelitis or Polio is a highly infectious viral disease that mostly affects children under five.

Most people won't have symptoms and will fight the virus off without knowing they were even infected.

But in a small fraction of cases the virus can cause

paralysis. Globally the disease has been almost entirely eradicated thanks to the

rollout of mass vaccination campaigns.

The crucial word though is almost.

Because as the COVID pandemic reminded us,

as long as there's virus out there in our hyper-connected world, the chances are we'll encounter it.

Fortunately though, a fully vaccinated person is 99 to 100% protected against the disease.

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