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PRO/EDR> Poliomyelitis update (06): Nigeria cVDPV environmental sample, global, RFI

Polio, Vaccine Complication -- NigeriaDespite recording the 1st case of type 2 circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV2) in Maiduguri district of Borno province, Nigeria is on course towards being certified polio- free by the World Health Organisation (WHO) after July 2017.And in response to this outbreak, Nigeria is planning to conduct the 1st ever campaign using monovalent oral polio vaccine type 2 even as the Director General of the WHO has authorized the vaccine release from the global Read more [...]