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New polio vaccine more effective in reducing disease by Ania Lichtarowicz

A new vaccine against the Polio virus has helped reduce the number of cases by more than 90%. Research published online in the journal The Lancet, shows that the new vaccine is significantly better at protecting children against polio than the current popular vaccine. It has already been used in Afghanistan, India and Nigeria. The scientists behind the work believe this new vaccine could help to finally eradicate the disease. Disease elimination Mass vaccination campaigns...

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India records sharp drop in polio cases: WHO by Shalini

According to recent estimates by the World Health Organisation (WHO) there's been a sharp drop in the number of polio cases this year as compared to the last. "This is the biggest drop we have seen in the last six years," said Dr J S Bhasin. The number of cases of type-1 polio is only 16 this year as compared to 51 last year, while type-3 cases stand at 23 against last...

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Kicking polio by Malia Politzer

Sitting on his father’s shoulders, two-year-old Rahul Kumar giggles and tugs on a lock of his father’s hair. A happy, healthy-looking boy, Rahul has already seen much of India. Born in a small village in northern Bihar, he has spent roughly half of his short life in Punjab, where his parents work as seasonal farm labourers. He has spent a few months in his parents’ village. The rest has been spent...

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Left to quacks by Alok Gupta

Unauthorized medical practitioners find business where Bihar’s health machinery deserts polio victims Two-year-old Khushi Kumari loves racing with her siblings and at the end of each run she gives out a hearty laugh. The only time she breaks into fits of inconsolable crying is when approached by a stranger. “She fears she would get injections again,” said her mother Dinapati Yadav of Haldichapra village in Patna district. “In September last year...

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Polio vaccine

A new type of oral polio vaccine will be introduced in the country tomorrow as part of the campaign to eradicate polio, which has stubbornly resisted more than a decade of mass immunisation efforts based on orally administered vaccines. The bivalent vaccine is intended to immunise children against two types of wild Polio viruses -- P1 and P3 -- that have persisted in India. A third type of the wild...

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