Polio virus has been reported in sewage water samples in the British capital, London, which officials say is the first time since the 1980s ...
Polio virus has been reported in sewage water samples in the British capital, London, which officials say is the first time since the 1980s that the virus could have spread across the country, but no cases have been reported. ۔
According to a report by Reuters, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has stated that in less than one per cent of cases, the risk of infection with the disease, which causes disability in children, is actually a high rate of vaccination. Has also decreased due to.
However, the health agency has urged parents to ensure that their children are vaccinated after the virus has been detected through regular routine testing of sewage, especially those who have not been vaccinated against corona.
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According to the report, the level of vaccination required to control the virus in the country is more than 90%, but in recent years, the rate of vaccination of children in London has fallen below that.
The National Health Service will contact the parents of children under the age of 5 who have not been vaccinated in the city.
Polio is spread primarily through waste pollution, which kills thousands of children worldwide each year and leaves thousands with disabilities, the report said, adding that there is no cure for it initially. But vaccination has brought the world closer to eradicating this wild or natural disease.
The health agency says it typically receives between one and three samples of the polio virus in sewers each year, more than ever before.
The report said that this year, a sample was found at Becton Treatment Works in East London in February, and that cases at the same plant, which has been serving about 4 million people since April, are still being reported.
The health agency says that in the past, it was common for a person to return from abroad with the oral polio vaccine, or to travel around the country and briefly excrete the virus through his / her own waste. Then the virus appeared.
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The health agency believes this has happened again, but the main difference is that the virus may have spread even to people who are connected to each other, calling it a "vaccine-derived polio virus." Community transmission is being investigated, the agency said.
Although such cases are not effectively considered in the UK and are known as the vaccine-borne polio virus, the virus is a global threat in countries where immunizations are less accessible. The virus could spread, and cases of the virus have been reported recently in Ukraine and Israel, but are more common in countries such as Nigeria and Yemen.
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The last case of polio in the UK was reported in 1984, and this "wild" polio is now found only in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but in 2022 Malawi and Mozambique have been reported to have spread the virus from outside.
Tedros Adhanom Gabrias, director general of the World Health Organization, said the health agency was working in co-operation with the UK.
"Surveillance, vaccination and investment are important for polio eradication," he said in a statement on Twitter.
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