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All about Polio in last 10 Months:

✔️ Meghalaya stated that WHO is investigating if a new strain of polio infected a two-year-old child in Tikrikilla , West Garo Hills

✔️ Union Health Ministry clarified that the case is of vaccine-derived infection , not wild polio

✔️ WHO had declared India polio-free in 2014 , after the last case of wild poliovirus in 2011

✔️ Oral polio vaccine (OPV) can mutate into vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) when the weakened virus in the vaccine replicates in the gut

✔️ WHO has reported detection of both wild poliovirus (WPV) and vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV) in Finland, Germany, Poland, Spain, and UK

✔️ The oral polio vaccine (OPV) , while effective for polio control, allows the spread of vaccine-derived polioviruses

✔️ Injectable polio vaccine (IPV) is non-transmissible , considered critical for global eradication of WPV and cVDPVs

✔️ Historically, polio transmission was believed to be via faecal-oral route , supported by virus shedding in the gut

✔️ Recent studies argue for respiratory transmission as dominant route, supported by virus shedding in the throat

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