CDC survey seeks info on poliovirus containment
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. National Authority for Containment of Poliovirus are asking research centers and institutes across the country to complete a survey in support of a national inventory of materials that potentially contain poliovirus. This includes human respiratory secretion and fecal specimens collected for non-polio related work in a time where wild poliovirus was circulating or where oral polio vaccine was in use. For example, investigators who collect environmental samples, such as water and soil, would fall into the survey.
Historical domestic and international specimens are more likely to fall into these categories. The specimens should be identified on the basis of where and when they were collected, not on the basis of test results.
The survey is online at www.cdc.gov/cpr/polioviruscontainment/NIPC.htm.
Principal investigators with questions about completing this survey should contact Trent Peacock, Mississippi State University's biosafety officer, at tp1230@msstate.edu or (662) 325-0620.
The deadline to complete the survey is June 3.
