29/10/2011
China’s all-out fight against polio
Immunizing over 9 million
Polio had broken out in China in late August, 2011 for the first time since 1999. Genetic sequencing of the isolated viruses indicates that they are related to wild polioviruses circulating in Pakistan.
China is undertaking an aggressive outbreak response: Within 15 days of confirmation that wild poliovirus had been detected, a ‘level two’ public health emergency had been declared, both the Minister and Vice-Minister of Health had travelled to the affected region, almost 150 health professionals from around China had been deployed, five million doses of oral polio vaccine had been airlifted to the province and more than 200,000 hospital records had been reviewed for potential polio cases. Full story
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