Poliomyelitis on the verge of its eradication posed another challenge to the scientific community to combat the emergence vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV) from the manufacturing practice of Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV). In line with this, scientists have discovered a better attenuated strain than presently recommended Sabin's strain, which can be safely propagated as immunization tool in the polio-free world. Polio was once a disease feared worldwide, striking suddenly and paralysing mainly children for life.
Global Polio Eradication Initiative, the largest private-public partnership for health supported by World Health organisation, which has reduced polio by 99%, since 1988, from an estimated 350 000 cases then, to 359 reported cases in 2014. Presently, Oral polio vaccine (OPV) is used for immunization across the globe. It contains an attenuated (weakened) vaccine-virus,…
