Talk:Joseph L. Melnick

A fact from Joseph L. Melnick appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 October 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that epidemiologist Joseph L. Melnick found that polio chiefly spread through fecal contamination, usually by soiled hands, and that the poliovirus could survive for extended periods in sewage?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/October.

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Dead link substituted

The Link for Ref 2 (Herpesvirus and Cervix cancer) was dead. I substituted the reference by a PDF link from Google scholar. Feel free to comment on it. --Hans (talk) 10:30, 5 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]