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Category: Polio

Posted on August 2, 2018

Polio outbreaks in Congo raise global concern

The polio endgame is proving to be much more challenging with 28 children becoming paralysed by the circulating type 2 vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPVs) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It has…

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Posted on May 1, 2017May 1, 2017

Number of wild poliovirus cases drop in Pakistan, Afghanistan

In the last six months, there have been only eight wild-type poliovirus (type 1 and type 3) cases reported in Afghanistan and Pakistan, down from 32 cases during the same…

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Posted on February 11, 2017February 11, 2017

Waking up to MCPG toxin’s role in causing litchi mystery disease

There is evidence that as late as March 2014, Delhi’s National Centre for Disease Control, India (NCDC) and Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta (CDC) researchers were in the…

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Posted on February 3, 2017June 27, 2017

Litchi: Controversy erupts over Muzaffarpur mystery disease study

The scientist who investigated the mystery disease that proved fatal for many 15-year old children in Muzaffarpur, Bihar at the instance of the State government has raised ethics issues about…

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Posted on December 28, 2016December 29, 2016

Top health stories of 2016

On the health front, the year 2016 witnessed a few setbacks and but also a few positive developments. Here are the most important health developments of 2016 1. Trial results…

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Posted on June 20, 2016June 20, 2016

When the media created the ‘wild’ type-2 polio virus

The last case of wild type-2 poliovirus was seen in West Bengal way back in 1999.  Since then no child in the world has been stuck by wild type-2 poliovirus…

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Posted on April 25, 2016June 28, 2016

Polio: Off-label use of IPV vaccine to tide over shortage

Due to shortage of Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV) globally, India and a few other countries are stretching the supply of the vaccine to cover all children. The IPV vaccine was…

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Posted on April 24, 2016April 29, 2017

Global ‘switch’ to reduce vaccine-derived polio cases

Beginning Monday, April 25, India will stop using the oral polio vaccine (OPV) with all three strains of the poliovirus (type 1, type 2 and type 3) and instead use…

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