‘Vaccine derived polio’ won’t stop Nigeria from being certified free – Official
He said the field epidemiologists, with the help of Nigerian soldiers “have been able to get as many missed children in Borno vaccinated”.Nigeria is one of the three countries aside Pakistan and Afghanistan yet to be certified polio free globally.
Mr Shuaib said Nigeria would not have been able to record the feat it made in the interruption of the disease without the assistance of field epidemiologists. He said the polio virus outbreak has been largely due to poor routine immunisation and environmental sanitation.Mr Shuaib said the report of the vaccine derived polio virus is not a new development as Nigeria has been experiencing it since 2008.
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