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Polio virus
THE Department of Health and the World Health Organisation yesterday confirmed that the strain of poliovirus first detected in a child from Morobe Province in April is now circulating in the same community.
June 26, 2018
THE Department of Health and the World Health Organisation yesterday confirmed that the strain of poliovirus first detected in a child from Morobe Province in April is now circulating in the same community.
According to a media statement released yesterday, the one confirmed case is a six-year-old boy with lower limb weakness, first detected on April 28, a vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1 (VDPV1) had been isolated as the cause of the paralysis on May 21.
On June 22, the United States Centres for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that the same virus was also isolated from stool specimens of two healthy children from the same community, meaning that the virus was circulating in the community, representing an outbreak of the virus.
?We are deeply concerned about this polio case in Papua New Guinea, and the fact that the virus is circulating.
?Our immediate priority is to respond and prevent more children from being infected,? Health Secretary Pascoe Kase said...
Polio virus
THE Department of Health and the World Health Organisation yesterday confirmed that the strain of poliovirus first detected in a child from Morobe Province in April is now circulating in the same community.
June 26, 2018
THE Department of Health and the World Health Organisation yesterday confirmed that the strain of poliovirus first detected in a child from Morobe Province in April is now circulating in the same community.
According to a media statement released yesterday, the one confirmed case is a six-year-old boy with lower limb weakness, first detected on April 28, a vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1 (VDPV1) had been isolated as the cause of the paralysis on May 21.
On June 22, the United States Centres for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that the same virus was also isolated from stool specimens of two healthy children from the same community, meaning that the virus was circulating in the community, representing an outbreak of the virus.
?We are deeply concerned about this polio case in Papua New Guinea, and the fact that the virus is circulating.
?Our immediate priority is to respond and prevent more children from being infected,? Health Secretary Pascoe Kase said...