The Union Health Ministry on Monday claimed it had identified hundreds of children who received contaminated polio vaccine in states like Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana. As per the local media reports, police arrested the managing director of Bio-Med after routine testing which revealed it had made and shipped some 150,000[Read More…]
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Gujarat ignores WHO warning, Polio virus detected in sewerage in Ahmedabad
Despite the WHO warning about the return of Vaccine-Derived Type 2 Polio Virus (VDPV2), some of the blood samples collected on August 30 in Ahmedabad city tested positive for Sabin-like type 2 polio virus. Earlier, World Health Organization had warned Gujarat and Telangana about the return of the polio virus.[Read More…]