How to Use poliovirus in a Sentence

poliovirus

noun
  • There are two types of poliovirus vaccines that have been in use for decades.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 June 2022
  • As a result, twice as many of the mice survived a bout of poliovirus.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 13 Oct. 2011
  • Just two years ago, the whole African region was declared free of wild poliovirus.
    — Rose Gana Fomban Leke and Zulfiqar Bhutta, STAT, 17 Nov. 2022
  • As a stomach bug, poliovirus spreads best via contact with feces.
    — Saima S. Iqbal, Scientific American, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The poliovirus can attach to a protein on the surface of cancer cells.
    — Jonathan Lapook, CBS News, 26 June 2018
  • Doctors proposed that a milder relative of the poliovirus must be at fault.
    — New York Times, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Two forms of the virus can cause paralysis, one of them being the wild poliovirus found in nature.
    — Brianna Abbott, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Just last week, officials found traces of the poliovirus in the city's wastewater system.
    — Kyla Guilfoil, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2022
  • The poliovirus mostly affects the intestines, which are lined with mucus.
    — Claire Bugos, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Which parts of the world are seeing poliovirus circulation now?
    — Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The viruses had to be destroyed, as part of a global campaign to get rid of old poliovirus samples.
    — Bykai Kupferschmidt, science.org, 7 Sep. 2024
  • Fear of poliovirus’ spread forced closure of theaters, swimming pools, and libraries.
    — Andrew Lam, Hartford Courant, 21 Mar. 2024
  • But the poliovirus is a different type of virus than the novel coronavirus.
    — Thomas Curwen, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Apr. 2021
  • Throughout the 1940s, researchers learned a lot about the poliovirus.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2023
  • That vaccine, given orally, uses a weakened but live form of the poliovirus.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 12 Sep. 2024
  • That vaccine, given orally, uses a weakened but live form of the poliovirus.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 23 July 2024
  • But then, in 2016, four new cases of wild poliovirus were reported.
    — Ruth MacLean, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2020
  • One version of the polio vaccine works by exposing people to a live but weakened form of the poliovirus.
    — Abdallah Fayyad, Vox, 1 Sep. 2024
  • Some specialists see the creation and circulation of stronger strains of the poliovirus as the culprit.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The poliovirus can cause flulike symptoms, such as fever and nausea, as well as more serious cases that affect the brain and spinal cord.
    — Betsy Morris, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Others still, such as poliovirus, are acute in most people but persistent in a few who have trouble clearing the virus from their bodies.
    — Lois Parshley, National Geographic, 3 June 2020
  • The poliovirus had three wild types, and people had to receive all three types of the vaccine to be fully inoculated.
    — Cameron Fields, cleveland, 13 Jan. 2021
  • Scientists have been searching sewage for pathogens since at least the 1940s, most notably for poliovirus.
    — Kyle Bibby, The Conversation, 31 Aug. 2020
  • Polio is caused by the poliovirus, which can affect various parts of the body depending on the severity.
    — Alexa Mikhail, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The oral version contains the live poliovirus, while the shot, administered in the leg or arm, has various non-living parts of the virus in it.
    — Alexa Mikhail, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Because of this, young adults and children vaccinated since the switch can still be infected with poliovirus in their intestines and shed the virus in their stool.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Today, Pakistan and Afghanistan are the last two countries in the world where the wild poliovirus remains endemic.
    — Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
  • In 95% of cases, the poliovirus is only present in the bloodstream and the infection is asymptomatic.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 June 2022
  • The massive push for vaccines began after tests found the poliovirus in wastewater samples taken from two sites in Gaza over the summer.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 12 Sep. 2024
  • The world is now on the verge of eradicating the final one, wild poliovirus 1 (WPV1).
    — William Petri, The Conversation, 22 July 2022

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