Reemergence of polio in the Philippines
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The World Health Organization points a reminder that every one youngsters youthful than 5 must obtain vaccination towards polio, which the Department of Health discovered to have reoccurred in the Philippines years after it was purported to be eradicated.
Physician Rabindra Abeyasinghe, the WHO consultant in the Philippines, tells ANC that the viruses seem to have been circulating someday earlier than 2015 in the nation.
The DOH hyperlinks the reemerge of polio to the renewed fears of dad and mom over vaccines, influenced by the controversy over Dengvaxia, the dengue vaccine, final 12 months.
The Department of Health reported final week that the near-extinct illness of polio abruptly reappeared in the Philippines. This is a thread on the problem.
