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Polio Emergency US: Should It Worry India?; Read Here!

Pooja YadavOctober 21, 20220

When poliovirus was found in wastewater samples from three counties earlier in September, New York declared a State disaster emergency. This year, the environmental surveillance of sewage samples from Kolkata in India revealed the presence of vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV), however, the Health Ministry noted that this might happen in any nation where oral polio vaccinations (OPVs) are administered. The Global Polio Eradication Drive has now identified 30 nations where either imported wild or vaccine-derived poliovirus or circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV) has been detected. The United States is now included on this list. Israel, Ukraine, Nigeria, and Egypt are among the other countries on the list. Since polio is still prevalent in Afghanistan and Pakistan, those two nati...

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Covid-Restrictions Brought Down Polio Cases: A Healthcare Achievement Or Numbers Deceiving?

Pooja YadavJuly 4, 20220

Polio eradication has remarkably enhanced its level despite the COVID-19 pandemic. the restrictions on travel and movement during the pandemic contained the spread of poliovirus in endemic countries — Afghanistan and Pakistan. Even circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV) cases that accounted for many polio-related paralyses in recent years, have dropped. But the impact of the pandemic on health and routine immunisation systems might make it tougher to stay the planet polio-free, even after the last case. To avoid recurrence, polio vaccines will be administered long after polio is eradicated. The first case of untamed poliovirus in Africa in additional than five years underlines the danger of infections in the future. Thousands of biological samples round the world should st

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