Hyderabad: Hours after the Telangana government has
declared an alert in Hyderabad city, another statement released from the state authority
said that the country is polio-free.
On Tuesday, the Telangana government was forced to announce
a polio-alert in the state capital, the virus was found in water sample
collected from a drain at Amberpet in Hyderabad. The wild polio virus, vaccine
derived polio virus type II, therefore forced the Telangana government to
immediately arrange two lakh vaccines from Geneva to vaccinate around three
lakh children of the state. India was a polio-free country since in 2011 as the
central government has announced complete eradication of the disease from the
nation.
“The country has eradicated the wild polio virus and the
last case was seen on 13th January, 2011, and it is more than five years that
no wild polio virus has been detected,” as the official statement has asserted
noting that the resurface of the polio virus is not true.
EXIN Times sources said that the statement released by the
Telangana government explained thoroughly the type of the polio virus. Being a vaccine
derived poliovirus or VDPV, the statement said that detection of the virus does
not change the polio-free status of India. “It only indicates
the robustness of the surveillance system and willingness of the country to
detect any kind of polio virus even from the environment (sewage),” the
statement stated.
Following the stir, the Hyderabad city authority has
announced a weeklong polio vaccination campaign to 3,50,000 children, all aged
between six weeks and three years, which will start on Monday.
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