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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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Main Authors: Richard Avoi, Syed Sharizman Syed Abdul Rahim, Pasupuleti Visweswara Rao
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Published: Borneo Epidemiology Journal 2020
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spelling my.ums.eprints.268162021-04-27T06:22:59Z https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/26816/ Public health response to restore polio free status in Malaysia Richard Avoi Syed Sharizman Syed Abdul Rahim Pasupuleti Visweswara Rao 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. Borneo Epidemiology Journal 2020-12-22 Article PeerReviewed text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/26816/3/Public%20health%20response%20to%20restore%20polio%20free%20status%20in%20Malaysia-%20abstract.pdf text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/26816/2/Public%20Health%20Response%20to%20Restore%20Polio%20Free%20Status%20in%20Malaysia.pdf Richard Avoi and Syed Sharizman Syed Abdul Rahim and Pasupuleti Visweswara Rao (2020) Public health response to restore polio free status in Malaysia. Borneo Epidemiology Journal, 1 (2). pp. 93-95. ISSN 2716-7070 https://jurcon.ums.edu.my/ojums/index.php/bej/article/view/2743
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description 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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author Richard Avoi
Syed Sharizman Syed Abdul Rahim
Pasupuleti Visweswara Rao
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Syed Sharizman Syed Abdul Rahim
Pasupuleti Visweswara Rao
Public health response to restore polio free status in Malaysia
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Syed Sharizman Syed Abdul Rahim
Pasupuleti Visweswara Rao
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title Public health response to restore polio free status in Malaysia
title_short Public health response to restore polio free status in Malaysia
title_full Public health response to restore polio free status in Malaysia
title_fullStr Public health response to restore polio free status in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Public health response to restore polio free status in Malaysia
title_sort public health response to restore polio free status in malaysia
publisher Borneo Epidemiology Journal
publishDate 2020
url 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
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https://jurcon.ums.edu.my/ojums/index.php/bej/article/view/2743
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