We keep on saying that " our surveillance system is doing an excellent job and we could trace the type 2 vaccine virus in sewage swab in time and we could trace the source, withdraw all vaccine back, took a case against manufacturers " Of course a good argument to pacify layman. But not the scientific community, which we think we belong to . But, we should feel ashamed of the incident which happened last month. All of us stand for immunization.
We are proud as we played a key role in smallpox eradication in the last century. We are proud about the manner in which we could achieve a polio-free India (wild virus) in January 13, 2011, and we are sustaining the status for the last seven and half years We are proud that no VDPV reported in India since 2017. We are joining hands with WHO, UNICEF and other agencies in the Polio endgame strategy Here we demand answers to a few…