ROGER HARRIS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images For the first time in nearly a decade, vaccine-derived polio was detected in the United States. “The big lesson, with monkeypox and polio now: What happens somewhere else in the world, it doesn’t stay there,” said Dr. Scott Roberts, the associate medical director of Infection Prevention at Yale New Haven Hospital. “It wasn’t …
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Sunday announced vaccinating Afghanistan returnees against polio for free as a preventive measure against the wild polio virus. “We have decided to vaccinate Afghanistan returnees with free Polio Vaccine – OPV & fIPV, as a preventive measure against Wild Polio Virus. We have decided to vaccinate Afghanistan returnees with free Polio Vaccine – OPV …