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May 6, 2007	Peer review	Reviewed
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June 15, 2024	Featured article review	Demoted

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Move logs: Polio
Poliomyelitis

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RM, Poliomyelitis → Polio, Not moved, 28 October 2009, discussion
RM, Poliomyelitis → Polio, Moved, 28 February 2019, discussion

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The what's genetic material?

Doesn't Wikipedia have a style-manual that mandates that if genetic material is owned by a virus, it is the virus's genetic material? I think it should be trivial for Wikipedia to have ROBOTIC proofreaders that find things like "virus' genetic material", correct them, issue warnings to editors who caused the article to contain such abuses, and, upon finding that an editor has done it on a prior occasion, proceed to remedies beyond issuing warnings. Wikipedia COULD be great, but over and over again I see that it is unwilling to implement measures that would make it BE great.2600:1700:6759:B000:E894:BFCC:705D:880 (talk) 06:48, 18 January 2025 (UTC)Christopher Lawrence Simpson[reply]

Page not found in reference 14

The link to the reference for the prequalification of nOPV2 (ref. 14) leads to a page not found on the website of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. Would it be possible to substitute it for a working one, that also contains the necessary information (e.g. https://polioeradication.org/news/gpei-press-release-on-nopv2-prequalification/)? 147.142.51.76 (talk) 14:24, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done!! Thank you. Bob (talk) 21:21, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

update figures

Replace

Between 25 percent and 50 percent of individuals who have recovered from paralytic polio in childhood can develop additional symptoms decades after recovering from the acute infection, notably new muscle weakness and extreme fatigue.

With

Around 85 percent of individuals who have recovered from paralytic polio in childhood can develop additional symptoms decades after recovering from the acute infection, notably new muscle weakness and extreme fatigue.

As the PPS indicates that current research gives the higher figure and the older figure is incorrect. 91.154.169.156 (talk) 20:28, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What is your reference(s)? This one from 2023 still has "PPS afflicts between 25% and 40% of poliomyelitis survivors and mimics motor neuron diseases (MNDs), such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), due to its selective impairment, degeneration, or death of motor neurons in the brainstem and spinal cord."

Punsoni M, Lakis NS, Mellion M, de la Monte SM. Post-Polio Syndrome Revisited. Neurol Int. 2023 Apr 13;15(2):569-579. doi: 10.3390/neurolint15020035. PMID: 37092507; PMCID: PMC10123742. Jaredroach (talk) 21:50, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]