Tag: polio

Polio Vaccine Brings Polio Back to Zambia

by Ernest Dempsey • October 24, 2019 • 2 Comments

The oral polio vaccine (OPV) given to millions of children in the under-developed world each year has been spreading polio around the world for decades. The latest of these places is Zambia. An Associated Press story on Voice of America…

Polio News: cVDPV1 confirmed in Papua New Guinea

by admin • June 24, 2018 • 0 Comments

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) reported this week on a advance notification of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus-1 (cVDPV1) in Papua New Guinea. Following identification last month of an Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) case from which VDPV type 1 had been isolated,…