India to launch surveillance after vaccine-derived polio virus detection

Following the detection of vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) in sewage samples last year in  Kolkata in 2021, an alarmed India is now gearing up to launch nationwide surveillance from January 1, 2024, to ascertain whether the pathogen is present in any case of a clinically diagnosed child with primary immune deficient (PID), a rare class of hereditary diseases.

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