DOH, WHO join forces in battle against polio in PH

A baby gets an oral anti-polio vaccine during the launch of a campaign to end the resurgence of polio after health authorities confirmed a polio case in the country Friday, Sept. 20, 2019 at suburban Quezon city northeast of Manila, Philippines. Philippine health officials declared a polio outbreak in the country on Thursday, nearly two decades after the World Health Organization declared it to be free of the highly contagious and potentially deadly disease.

DOH earlier confirmed the second case of polio in the country, involving a five-year-old boy from Laguna and a three-year-old girl from Lanao del Sur.The WHO also vowed to work and support the country in preventing the polio virus from spreading in other parts of the country.The OPV contains an attenuated or weakened form of the virus activating an immune response in the body.

|”The outbreak calls for urgent action to protect more children from being infected. It reminds us of the importance of increasing immunization coverage to 95% of children to stop polio virus transmission in the Philippines.”

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