Public health response to restore polio free status in Malaysia
Malaysia started the polio immunization programme since 1972 and achieved polio-free certification in 2000. After 27 years from the last reported polio case in 1992, on 8 December 2019, the Ministry of Health Malaysia announced the return of polio into the country when the first polio case detected...
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Borneo Epidemiology Journal
2020
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/26816/3/Public%20health%20response%20to%20restore%20polio%20free%20status%20in%20Malaysia-%20abstract.pdf https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/26816/2/Public%20Health%20Response%20to%20Restore%20Polio%20Free%20Status%20in%20Malaysia.pdf https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/26816/ https://jurcon.ums.edu.my/ojums/index.php/bej/article/view/2743 |
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| Summary: | Malaysia started the polio immunization programme since 1972 and achieved polio-free certification in 2000. After 27 years from the last reported polio case in 1992, on 8 December 2019, the Ministry of Health Malaysia announced the return of polio into the country when the first polio case detected in Sabah involving a 3-month-old male child (Abdullah, N.H., 2019). The child confirmed to be infected with vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1 (VDPV1) which later classified as a circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1 (cVDPV1). Further test confirmed that the virus is genetically linked to poliovirus (PHL-NCR-2) circulating in the southern Philippines (Alleman, M.M. et al., 2020). To date, a total of four polio cases were confirmed in Sabah of which due to vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1 (VDPV1). The vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (VDPV2) was also detected from environmental samples taken from various locations in Sabah. |
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