Rajahmundry Nov. 13: The Centre has proposed to introduce injec-table trivalent polio vaccine in the immunisation schedule of children below one year, shortly.

To check recurring cases of polio in the country, health ministry is going to introduce an Injectible Polio Vaccine (IPV) in nine districts of UP and Bihar from where maximum cases have been reported.

The ministry will introduce IPV in the two vulnerable states alongside the ongoing countrywide oral immunisation programme to eradicate the disease.

After failing to end recurring cases of polio in the country, 80 per cent of which have occurred in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh so far, the Centre has now decided to introduce injectable polio vaccine (IPV).

There seems to be more forces backing the virulent polio virus in Uttar Pradesh. Or else why would children suffer from the crippling disease despite being

The resurfacing of the Polio 1 virus , which was largely believed to be on the verge of eradication in the country, in UP has set off alarm bells among health experts across the country. The virus re-entered the state through Bihar and has now established a firm hold in Western UP despite intensive immunisation of children with a new monovalent Oral Polio Vaccine.

The health department has blamed the World Health Organisation (WHO) for rise in polio cases in the NWFP, sources claimed.

A complaint in this regard was made by the executive district officer (EDO), health Peshawar, in response to an explanation sought by the provincial secretary health, regarding rise in the polio cases in the province this year, the sources said.

DH News Service, Bangalore:

Even after 13 years of Polio immunisation programme as many as 486 cases have been reported this year alone in 87 districts.

New polio vaccination strategy suggested
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, October 23
The Indian Academy of Paediatrics (IAP), the premier association of pediatricians in India, has expressed deep concern over increase in the number of polio cases in the country and has recommended a new vaccination strategy in immunization schedule 2008.

October 24 is observed as the birth anniversary of Jonas Salk, leader of a team that invented one of the two anti-polio vaccines in 1955. The disease had been rendering countless children paralyzed for life until the vaccine was developed.

The day is globally known as

A newer vaccine that targets the most common form of the polio virus works up to four times better than the conventional vaccine that tries to protect against all three types of the crippling disease, researchers said on Wednesday.