{"id":16581,"date":"2021-08-28T17:10:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T17:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=16581"},"modified":"2021-08-28T16:33:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T16:33:10","slug":"8-7-million-children-to-be-immunised-against-polio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/8-7-million-children-to-be-immunised-against-polio","title":{"rendered":"8.7 million Children to be immunised against polio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Ministry of Health said earlier that the country stopped immunising children against type 2 polio in 2016 after the world was declared free of it<\/p>\n<p>Government will immunised 8.7 million children against polio in a new drive to prevent a major outbreak of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Alfred Driwale, the manager of Uganda National Expanded Programme on Immunisation (Unepi), said the immunisation will be for all children who are five years and below.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApparently, children born in 2016 upwards are not protected against this variant of the poliovirus [type 2]. They are given the injected form of inactivated polio [which works against type 1 and type 3 poliovirus]. It can protect them to some extent but it doesn\u2019t prevent them from passing the virus to other children who are not vaccinated,\u201d he told the media in Kampala yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Health said earlier that the country stopped immunising children against type 2 polio in 2016 after the world was declared free of it. Only the vaccines for type 1 and 3 are in use in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry, two weeks ago, announced an outbreak of the infectious strain of polio dubbed \u201ccirculating vaccine derived polio virus type 2 (cVDPV2), after detecting the virus in samples collected from sewage plants in Bugolobi and Lubigi in Kampala.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Henry Mwebesa, the director general of health services in the August 12 statement, warned that \u201cidentification of a cVDPV2 from the environment in Uganda confirms that there are persons in the Kampala area shedding the disease.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Driwale said immunisation will be effective in stopping the outbreak and shielding the children from the infectious and potentially fatal disease.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Immaculate Ampaire, the Unepi deputy manager, said the immunisation will happen in two rounds in October and December.<\/p>\n<p>She said in each round, 8.7m children across the country will be immunised by health workers that will be moving from door to door.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Ampaire also appealed to communities to report any case of a child aged 15 years and below who is experiencing weaknesses in the arms or legs for diagnosis on whether they have polio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolio starts manifesting with fever and sore throat, two weeks after the infection,\u201d she said, adding that only about 1 per cent of those infected may get paralysed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. The Ministry of Health said earlier that the country stopped immunising children against type 2 polio in 2016 after the world was declared free of it Government will immunised 8.7 million children against polio in a new drive to prevent a major outbreak of the virus. 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