Richard Avoi and Syed Sharizman Syed Abdul Rahim and Pasupuleti Visweswara Rao (2020) Public health response to restore polio free status in Malaysia. Borneo Epidemiology Journal, 1 (2). pp. 93-95. ISSN 2716-7070
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Abstract
Malaysia started the polio immunization programme since 1972 and achieved polio-free certification in 2000. After 27 years from the last reported polio case in 1992, on 8 December 2019, the Ministry of Health Malaysia announced the return of polio into the country when the first polio case detected in Sabah involving a 3-month-old male child (Abdullah, N.H., 2019). The child confirmed to be infected with vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1 (VDPV1) which later classified as a circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1 (cVDPV1). Further test confirmed that the virus is genetically linked to poliovirus (PHL-NCR-2) circulating in the southern Philippines (Alleman, M.M. et al., 2020). To date, a total of four polio cases were confirmed in Sabah of which due to vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1 (VDPV1). The vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (VDPV2) was also detected from environmental samples taken from various locations in Sabah.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keyword: | Public health , Vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1 , Malaysia |
Subjects: | ?? RA0421 ?? ?? RJ101 ?? |
Department: | FACULTY > Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences |
Depositing User: | DG MASNIAH AHMAD - |
Date Deposited: | 27 Apr 2021 14:22 |
Last Modified: | 27 Apr 2021 14:22 |
URI: | https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/26816 |
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