Maharashtra infant gets polio from vaccine.

[Ronan Kelly]

Maharashtra infant gets polio from vaccine, third such case in the country
Himanshu Nitnaware & Umesh Isalkar, TNN | Jun 7, 2013, 02.34 AM IST

AURANGABAD/PUNE: 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.
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Fresh case of polio in India, infected child had taken oral vaccine
India Today Online New Delhi, June 7, 2013 | UPDATED 14:07 IST


A year India went off the list of polio endemic countries, a third case of the dreaded disease has been reported.

An 11-month-old baby has tested positive for vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) in Beed district in Maharashtra, said a newspaper report on Friday. The boy's stool was found carrying the vaccine-virus.

The first case of VDPV infection was reported last year. A five-month-old from West Bengal got infected after taking oral polio vaccine.

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Source: http://www.business-standard.com/art...0700934_1.html

Press Trust of India | Beed (Maha) June 7, 2013 Last Updated at 21:20 IST
Beed VDPV case: 42 stool samples collected for analysis

Alarmed by a ten-month-old boy being detected with rare strain of polio virus derived from oral vaccine here, health authorities have taken stool samples of as many as 42 children from Kanhapur village to ascertain the source of infection, a senior official said today.

"The samples were collected yesterday and sent to Enterovirus Research Centre in Mumbai. The laboratory report of the samples is expected by June 11", Beed district Reproductive and Child Health Officer Dr H V Wadgave said today...

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Setback to govt's efforts to make India polio-free, 11-month-old boy in Maharashtra succumbs to virus
Sunday, Jun 23, 2013, 10:17 IST | Place: Latur | Agency: IANS
According to information available from health officials, the child was paralysed May 4 and was admitted to the SRTR Hospital in Ambejogai, Beed, which suspected that he could be polio positive.

In a severe setback to the government's efforts to make the country polio-free, an 11-month-old male child succumbed to the dreaded virus in a government hospital here late Saturday, an official said.

The victim, Rohit R Shelke, who was detected as "polio positive" around two weeks ago, breathed his last at the Maharashtra Institute of Medical Science and Research (MIMSR) Medical College, Latur, MIMSR dean Deepti Dongaonkar said Sunday.
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http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/1851798/report-setback-to-govt-s-efforts-to-make-india-polio-free-11-month-old-boy-in-maharashtra-succumbs-to-virus

see also http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=207346

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Vaccine Derived Poliovirus detection in Maharashtra renews focus on Routine Immunisation

An eleven month old immune-deficient boy in Dharur block of Beed district was found to be afflicted from Vaccine Derived Polio Virus (VDPV). He had been suffering from brain lesions and was admitted to a Government Medical college hospital on 7th May after a month-long illness. The boy succumbed on 22nd June. The Main cause of his illness or death has been reported as infection in the brain.

VDPVs are extremely rare and are detected in children with immunodeficiency or in populations with low levels of immunization. VDPVs are different from wild polioviruses and India has not reported any case of polio due to a wild poliovirus since January 2011. A total of 741 children had gotten paralyzed due to the wild poliovirus in 2009 in India accounting for over half of the global polio cases against this backdrop, India?s success in keeping children free from any wild polio virus for the last more than two years is being globally acclaimed as a major public health achievement. WHO removed India from the list of polio endemic countries in 2012 following one year without any case due to wild poliovirus in the country. Having completed more than two years without the wild poliovirus, India has moved closer to a polio-free certification in early 2014.

?The Government of India and the States have been focusing on intensifying routine immunization to minimize the risk of VDPVs. The response is consistent with the global strategy.

?The most important strategy for prevention of emergence of VDPVs is achieving and maintaining high routine immunization coverage with OPV doses among infants?, said ShriKeshavDesiraju, Secretary, Department of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India.

To achieve higher routine immunisation rates and protect children against all vaccine preventable diseases, the government declared 2012-13 as ?Year of Intensification of Routine Immunisation?.

In 2013, the government is holding four ?Special Immunisation Weeks? in the 411,129 high risk areas identified by the polio eradication programme. These areas comprise of slums, nomadic sites, construction sites, brick kilns and other areas housing people on the move, who often miss out on immunisation due to their transient nature. These special immunization weeks in April, June, July and August are aimed at protecting the vulnerable populations with all vaccines available under routine immunisation, including tOPV. Of the 411,129 high risk areas, 82,965 are in Maharashtra.

WHO Representative Dr NataMenabde said, ?India?s polio surveillance programme is geared to detect VDPVs as part of AFP surveillance system supported by World Health Organization.?

Detection of VDPVs will not impact the polio eradication certification process. The pre-requisites for polio free certification of a region includes absence of wild poliovirus in all countries of the region for three consecutive years, presence of certification standard surveillance and the completion of laboratory containment activities.

Though India has not reported any case of polio for over two years, an importation of wild poliovirus remains the larger threat to the children in India, especially in view of close proximity to polio endemic Pakistan and Afghanistan, Dr Menabde said.

To ensure eradication of wild poliovirus andminimise the risk of emergence and circulation of VDPVs, the Government of India is working in coordination with the Global Polio Eradication Initiative on the polio end game strategy. A group of experts headed by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has been formed to work on this strategy.

For more information and details on VDPV visit http://www.npspindia.org/Polio11.asp

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