No polio cases detected in Labuan, says Health DG

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KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): No polio cases have been detected in the Federal Territory of Labuan thus far based on the Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) surveillance and random screenings involving 41 healthy children aged five and below, says Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

KUALA LUMPUR : No polio cases have been detected in the Federal Territory of Labuan thus far based on the Acute Flaccid Paralysis surveillance and random screenings involving 41 healthy children aged five and below, says Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah .

"This campaign involves the delivery of two doses of bivalent oral poliovirus types 1 and 3 vaccines to all children aged 13 and below in Labuan. Dr Noor Hisham said that in the meantime the Sabah health department was still conducting polio immunisation campaigns statewide and the number of cases in the state thus far remained at four.

"For children who have missed the procedure, parents are advised to go to the health clinic for the rescheduling of immunisation according to the child's age," he said.

 

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