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Vaccine-associated poliomyelitis in Pakistan

submitted by profvrr on December 21, 2012
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Tags: eradication , IPV , mutation , OPV , pakistan , poliomyelitis , poliovirus , reversion , Sabin , Salk , Taliban , vaccine , viral , virology , virus
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An outbreak of ten cases of poliomyelitis caused by circulating vaccine-derivied poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) is ongoing in Pakistan, centered in the Kila Abdulla/Pishin area of Baluchistan. The same virus strain has spread to the neighboring Kandahar province in Afghanistan, where two paralytic cases have been reported. Vaccine-derived poliomyelitis is a well-known consequence of immunization with the Sabin poliovirus vaccine.
 
 

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