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Pakistan to learn from India’s polio success

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Paralytic polio returns to dent India’s pride
Paralytic polio returns to dent India’s pride

Paralytic polio - derived from oral polio vaccine (OPV) — used for vaccinating millions of children — has struck India to cripple a child in West Bengal within a week of the World Health Organisation (WHO) declaring the country free from the wild polio virus.



The NPSP claimed that none of the VDPVs detected in India in the last two years showed evidence of circulation. None of the VDPV strains detected in India during 2010 and 2011 are genetically linked to each other.

VDPV is risk, long recognised in the OPV campaign. “VDPVs may already be in silent transmission. If so they will flare up into outbreaks, epidemics and exportation. So we must stop OPV but we cannot simply stop OPV. Its a Catch 22 situation,” John commented.

Wished they had given you the drops @ right time...
 
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