Lagos State Government, in collaboration with the National Primary Health Care Development Agency , has started Polio Outbreak Response Campaign following discovery of circulating poliovirus strains in the state.
Mustafa, however, said some countries still transmitted the wild polio variant, which had been on increase in some states across Nigeria due to low routine immunisation coverage. “The campaign aims to vaccinate all children, aged 0 to five years, with two drops of the oral polio vaccine, regardless of their previous vaccination status to prevent poliomyelitis that may result in paralysis of the limbs or death,” he said.
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