Polio -- India
The country completed 5 polio-free years on Wed [13 Jan 2016], but it still faces a hurdle virologists had been warning about all these years -- the very vaccine used to fight polio is causing infection in some children.
In 2015, 2 children, including a 2-year-old child from New Delhi, tested positive for vaccine-derived polio virus (VDPV). So far, 44 cases of VDPV have been reported in India. The King Institute of Preventive Medicine in Chennai, 1 of the 8 WHO-authorized laboratories for
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