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Letter: No sex please, we're viruses

Published 3 January 2018

From Eric Kvaalen, Les Essarts-le-Roi, France

Unfortunately, the idea of an “extinction drive” won't work for poliovirus, as suggested by Bruce Denness (Letters, 16 December 2017). The method is based on sexual reproduction, and a virus doesn't reproduce sexually.

Issue no. 3159 published 6 January 2018

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