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Routine environmental surveillance effectively detected the silent importation of wild-type poliovirus in Israel in 2013, enabling a rapid public health response through enhanced monitoring and supplementary immunization. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

September 11, 2014New England Journal of MedicineOpen Access

Lessons from a Public Health Emergency — Importation of Wild Poliovirus to Israel

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Environmental surveillance samples from a sewage-treatment plant in Israel

Authors

EKEran KopelTel Aviv University EKEhud KalinerIsrael Ministry of Health IGItamar GrottoBen-Gurion University of the Negev

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Implication

Alerts to reintroduction risk via sewage monitoring; leaves open optimal response strategies in vaccinated populations.

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Population

Environmental surveillance samples from a sewage-treatment plant in Israel

Intervention

Ramped up environmental surveillance and supplementary immunization activities

Describes the public health response, including increased surveillance and immunization, following the detection of wild poliovirus in Israel in 2013.

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Kopel et al. (2014) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1d2d40ba3016ff712f34c2 https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmp1406250

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Lessons from a Public Health Emergency — Importation of Wild Poliovirus to Israel

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Lessons from a Public Health Emergency — Importation of Wild Poliovirus to Israel

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