The Adamawa Government has confirmed the reemergence and detection of Circulating Vaccine Derived Poliovirus type 2 cases in the state.
Prof. Abdullahi Isa, the state commissioner for Health and Human Services, disclosed this during the official flag-off of the first Round Outbreak Response immunisation on Saturday in Yola.Isa described Vaccine Derived Poliovirus type 2 is a strain of the weakened Poliovirus that was initially included in Oral Polio Vaccine that has changed over time and behaves more like the wild or naturally occurring virus.
“The resurface of the Poliovirus type 2 necessitated the immediate flag-off of the first Round Outbreak Response for Oral Polio Vaccine,” Isa said. Mr Iyobosa Igbinovia, the WHO state Coordinator, recalled that Nigeria was in August 2020 declared a free and safe country from poliovirus.
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