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Week 30: http://www.searo.who.int/india/topic...08aug.pdf?ua=1
Madhya Pradesh
Alarm over suspected polio case, WHO alerted, probe on
TNN | Aug 10, 2016, 07.14 AM IST
BHOPAL: Two months after polio scare in Telengana, a suspected case of polio in Bhopal, prompted the state health department to alert WHO and initiate a probe. Stool samples of the young patient have been sent for testing to WHO-authorised lab in Mumbai and test results are expected in three weeks, government officials told TOI.
The patient was admitted to a private hospital on last Thursday. The five-year-old had fever and reported weakness along with difficulty in walking, said private hospital's director and consulting paediatrician Dr Rakesh Mishra.
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Polio virus detected in city?s sewer again
HYDERABAD, September 23, 2016
Updated: September 23, 2016 05:36 IST
ROHIT P.S.
: Polio virus was detected in the city's sewers again, the second time this year. Advising against panic, the State government suspects unauthorised use of an older vaccine as the source of the virus.
The Commissioner of Health and Family Welfare received results of tests from Mumbai's Enterovirus Research Center on Wednesday about two samples collected at Nagole and Amberpet Sewerage Treatment Plant containing the virus. A sample from Amberpet had tested positive in May this year.
"We received word that it was a vaccine virus. We will now check to see if the older trivalent oral polio vaccine is still being used," said Dr. G. Srinivas Rao, Telangana's Chief Programme Officer, National Health Mission said.
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