It was found that some polio vaccine made by Gaziabad based firm, contain type 2 polio virus ,it was withdrawn globally in 2016.
1.5 lakh vials have been found contaminated with type 2polio virus.
Earlere trivalent vaccine containing type 1 2and 3 were in use but after the type 2polio virus were eradicated worldwide,government switched only bivalent vaccine. Contain type 1 and type 3 virus.
Some stools samples are collected from children reporting polio like symptoms..Samples from Allahabad tested positive for the Type 2polio virus. A health ministry board said that "There is no clarity on how to Gazuabad based firm got the type 2 virus and so the drug regulator will be testing samples from other companies too "
Type 2 virus is the weakest of the three and this is not a health risk of the children. "Our children is protected by injectable polio vactine." said by chairman of the national certification comitee for polio education Dr. N.K.Arora.
Government has ordered immunization of children with the additional doses in the states ,though it is difficult to identify those children quickly.
Ministry has setup a panel to probe how the virus has introduced again . The panel has been ask to submit its report withen a week.
The health and family welfare ministry said that i t has banned a Ghaziabad based pharmaceuticals company from manufacturing and supplying type 2polio virus.
1.5 lakh vials have been found contaminated with type 2polio virus.
Earlere trivalent vaccine containing type 1 2and 3 were in use but after the type 2polio virus were eradicated worldwide,government switched only bivalent vaccine. Contain type 1 and type 3 virus.
Some stools samples are collected from children reporting polio like symptoms..Samples from Allahabad tested positive for the Type 2polio virus. A health ministry board said that "There is no clarity on how to Gazuabad based firm got the type 2 virus and so the drug regulator will be testing samples from other companies too "
Type 2 virus is the weakest of the three and this is not a health risk of the children. "Our children is protected by injectable polio vactine." said by chairman of the national certification comitee for polio education Dr. N.K.Arora.
Government has ordered immunization of children with the additional doses in the states ,though it is difficult to identify those children quickly.
Ministry has setup a panel to probe how the virus has introduced again . The panel has been ask to submit its report withen a week.
The health and family welfare ministry said that i t has banned a Ghaziabad based pharmaceuticals company from manufacturing and supplying type 2polio virus.
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