Why in news The case of acute flaccid paralysis , likely due to polio , in a child from Tikrikilla in Meghalaya , was reported by the Stat...
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The case of acute flaccid paralysis, likely due to polio, in a child from Tikrikilla in Meghalaya, was reported by the State government
Even after the government confirmed the case, there is still no official report on whether it is vaccine-derived and not caused by wild poliovirus
In April 2022, a case of vaccine-derived poliovirus was detected from an environmental sample collected in Kolkata.
After genetic sequencing, it was considered likely to be immunodeficiency-related vaccine-derived poliovirus (iVDPV), excreted by an immune-deficient individual.
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