Friday, June 07, 2013

Maharashtra infant gets polio from vaccine, third such case in the country...

An 11-month-old boy from Maharashtra's Beed district has been found infected with the vaccine derived polio virus (VDPV). This is the first such case in the state and the third in the country since March 2012.

Health officials said the boy's stool sample tested positive for VDPV on June 1. "The child has been ill for prolonged periods, indicating the possibility of immunodeficiency," an official said.

The discovery does not threaten the polio-free status that India was recently awarded. Detecting VDPV is part of the surveillance system, but it does not get enumerated when putting together a country's polio numbers. Only infections caused by wild polio virus strains like P1 and P3 get counted, not P2 strain that causes VDPV infection.

 "Detailed follow-up investigations are being carried out. The child had high grade fever. He suffered paralysis in all four limbs thereafter and a bout of convulsion," said H V Wadgave, district reproductive and child health officer. "Such a case of VDPV is found if the immunity of the child is low, it suffers from chronic illnesses of the heart or kidney or if it is severely malnourished. In such cases, the P2 virus mutates and can cause paralysis.'' Full story...

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