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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Martin Bagot & Kelly-Ann Mills

Polio continues to spread in UK as schoolchildren offered emergency catch-up jabs

A fresh round of polio catch-up jabs are being offered to primary school pupils as sewage samples show the virus is still spreading.

The UK Health Security Agency last summer revealed polio was on the rise in Britain for the first time in decades and the NHS was warned to look out for paralysis cases.

Lower vaccine rates in the capital are believed to be contributing to its spread as surveillance suggests the disease is still circulating.

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