Thursday November 19, 2020

New Oral Polio Vaccine to Bypass Key Clinical Trials

Health officials are rushing a genetically engineered product into the field to counter uncontained outbreaks of vaccine-derived polio. To stem a growing polio crisis, health officials are accelerating the development of a new oral vaccine with plans for emergency approval and deployment in regions with active polio transmission as early as June 2020. The new […]

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Thursday November 19, 2020

Africa declared free from wild polio — but vaccine-derived strains remain

Africa is free from wild poliovirus, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on 25 August 2020 — leaving just two countries where the virus remains endemic, Afghanistan and Pakistan.The Africa Regional Certification Commission, an independent body responsible for overseeing the eradication of polio, has certified that all 47 countries in the WHO’s Africa Region have […]

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