The Sindh health department is expected to place the issue of vulnerability of children beyond five years to polio in a meeting of international experts on polio eradication scheduled to be held in the city on June 24 and 25. Sources in the health department said that prior to the emergence of cases of polio among children above five years of age, the authorities had no clue to the pattern of the disease in this age group, and now they were considering raising the age-limit for polio vaccination from five to 10 years, to provide protection to children in this age bracket as well.
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/polio-vaccine-age-limit-likely-be-raised
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/dawn-pakistan
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/health
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/children
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/vaccination
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/polio
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/pakistan
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/sindh
