Notes 10-30-09 Part 5

Polio virus: RNA genome infects intestinal epitheial cells and neurons only in humans
Eradication: destory disease, so never infects again.
Good candidates for eradication:
viral diseases that only effect humans
have reliable vaccines against
Small pox was wiped off the face of the earth in 1977

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