Public health response to restore polio free status in Malaysia

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
Keyword: Public health , Vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1 , Malaysia
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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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