More frequent vaccination to cope with polio in UP
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.
Publication Date:
31/10/2008