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Category: Polio

Posted on April 29, 2020April 29, 2020

Can we rely on natural herd immunity to end COVID-19 pandemic?

All previous influenza pandemics — 1918 Spanish flu, 1957 Asian flu, 1968 Hong Kong influenza, and 2009 H1N1 — came to an end when herd immunity acquired naturally reached a…

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Posted on April 25, 2020

Sewage surveillance can help know coronavirus spread in the community

Researchers have found that sewage surveillance can help in understanding the circulation of novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) in the community. Sewage surveillance becomes particularly useful as a large percentage of infected…

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Posted on January 11, 2020January 11, 2020

Polio continues to remain a public health emergency

With the continued risk of international spread, WHO has announced that polio will remain a public health emergency for three more months. Polio was declared as public health emergency of…

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Posted on November 2, 2019November 3, 2019

Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, stop spreading vaccine misinformation

At the United Nations, talking about the importance of vaccines and how they have saved millions of children from debilitating illnesses across the world, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev ends up spreading…

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Posted on October 26, 2019October 26, 2019

Focus must be on reducing vaccine-associated polio cases

Now that wild poliovirus type 3 has been officially declared as eliminated, the only way to reduce the risk of vaccine-associated polio cases is by switching over to oral vaccine…

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Posted on September 20, 2019September 21, 2019

Nigeria on the brink of becoming polio-free

On August 21 this year, Nigeria crossed an important milestone in the eradication of polio when it successfully completed three successive years without a single case of wild poliovirus. The…

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Posted on June 18, 2019June 18, 2019

Litchi toxin kills over 100 children in Muzaffarpur

The death of over 100 children in about a month in Muzaffarpur district of north Bihar due to low blood sugar level is caused by a toxin present in litchi…

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Posted on November 8, 2018November 8, 2018

India eradicated wild polio virus but at what cost

Despite oral polio vaccine causing vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) and vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis (VAPP) cases, India did not switch over from OPV to inactivated polio vaccine (IPV). While circulating VDPV strains…

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