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Polio: WHO approves new vaccine for emergency use

William Ukpe by William Ukpe
November 15, 2020
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The World Health Organization announced the approval of a new Polio vaccine for emergency use – to curb global outbreaks. The vaccine is manufactured by Indonesia’s Bio Farma PT.

This was disclosed in a report by Bloomberg on Saturday.

WHO said the approved vaccine is to prevent circulating vaccine-derived polio viruses in several African and East Mediterranean countries.

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The WHO disclosed that the weakened strains of polio can circulate in under-immunized societies for a long time. The Emergency listing will give vaccines the catalyst to be produced faster if there is a threat of a pandemic.

“The assessment essentially weighs the threat posed by the emergency against the benefit that would accrue from the use of the product based on a robust body of evidence,” the WHO said.

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UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) warned last week of a need to avert major measles and polio epidemics as COVID-19 continues to disrupt immunization services worldwide, leaving millions of vulnerable children at heightened risk of preventable childhood diseases.

Both organizations estimated that US$655 million (US$400 million for polio and US$255 million for measles) is needed to address dangerous immunity gaps in developing nations and target age groups. Bloomberg disclosed that the nOPV2, despite unlicensed is “aimed at containing so-called circulating vaccine-derived polio viruses in several African and East Mediterranean countries as well as the Western Pacific and Southeast Asian regions, the WHO said in a statement on Friday.”

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced in August that polio is no longer endemic in Nigeria, leaving the devastating disease endemic in only two countries and bringing the world one major step closer to achieving its goal of ending polio for good.


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