Investigation underway to protect public, who are urged to ensure polio vaccines are up to date, especially parents of young children who may have missed an immunisation opportunity.
Polio used to paralyse millions of children around the world every year in the 1940s and 1950s and consign thousands to iron lungs - large machines that helped them breathe.
Parents of young children are being encouraged to check their child’s immunisations are up-to-date following the detection of the Polio virus in sewage in London.
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A strain of poliovirus that can sometimes cause paralysis has cropped up in the sewers of London and may be spreading among closely-linked individuals in the north and east regions of the city, the U.