Polio’s source could be traced back to a single house or street, a minister revealed today amid fears the paralysis-causing virus is once again spreading in Britain.
Lord Kamall said ‘world-beating’ tactics learned during the Covid pandemic were being deployed to track down ‘patient zero’.
He revealed the investigation will see officials ‘go along the pipes’ to locate where the virus — not responsible for an outbreak in the UK since the mid-1980s — came from.
Positive samples were first…