Africa: Polio-Free World in Sight as Largest Vaccine Rollout in History Kicks Off

[Unicef] Geneva -Next week marks the beginning of the largest and fastest globally coordinated rollout of a vaccine into routine immunization programs in history. Between 17 April and 1 May, 155 countries and territories around the world will stop using the trivalent oral polio vaccine (tOPV), which protects against all three strains of wild poliovirus, and replace it with bivalent OPV (bOPV), which protects against the remaining two wild polio strains, types 1 and 3. This effort will provide better protection for children
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - Category: African Health Source Type: news