Bruce Thorley
Medical Scientist
Bruce Thorley is the Head of the Australian National Enterovirus Reference Laboratory and Chief Investigator for the National Poliovirus Surveillance Program. The laboratory is accredited by the World Health Organization as a Polio Regional Reference Laboratory to test specimens from Australia and neighbouring countries for poliovirus infection in children with acute flaccid paralysis. The laboratory also monitors Australia’s polio-free status by testing for poliovirus in wastewater at sentinel sites.
Polio - Past, Present and Post Polio Syndrome
Polio, the condition that spurned innovations from Physiotherapy, vaccines, Intensive Care Units and Rehabilitation Medicine is one of those diseases we’re taught as “solved”, yet the people who survived Australia’s epidemics...