WHO Recommends New Gates-Funded Polio Vaccine to Address Vaccine-Derived Polio Outbreak in U.K.
Megan Redshaw Health officials in the U.K. this month identified the country’s first polio outbreak in 40 years, and believe the outbreak was caused by a strain of polio found in the oral polio vaccine. Health officials in Britain warned parents on June 22 to ensure their children have been vaccinated against polio after multiple closely […]
Correlation Between Non-polio Acute Flaccid Paralysis Rates with Pulse Polio Frequency in India
Rachana Dhiman, Sandeep C. Prakash, V. Sreenivas, Jacob Puliyel We have previously shown that the NPAFP rate increases sharply when more than six rounds of pulse polio are used in the year. We speculated that repeated doses of the live vaccine virus delivered to the intestine may colonize the gut and alter the viral microbiome […]
Oral Polio Drops Linked to Paralysis in India
Ranjit Devraj While India’s oral polio vaccine (OPV) drives have eliminated polio from the country, they have also resulted in over 490,000 cases of paralysis during 2000—2017, says a new study based on national surveillance statistics.
