Bengal records this years 1st polio case

  • 14/02/2011

  • Indian Express (New Delhi)

This year, the first type 1 polio case has been reported in an 18-month-old girl in Howrah district of West Bengal. According to Union Health Ministry officials, the girl had not received any dose of the oral polio vaccine (OPV) before the onset of paralysis on January 13. Dr Hamid Jafari, the Project Manager of WHO-National Polio Surveillance Project (NPSP), said,