He lamented how donor funding for polio had reduced drastically and called on traditional rulers to continue to draw the attention of political leaders to properly fund polio outbreak response campaigns.
While the WPV is the most common form of poliovirus, cVDPV is another form that can spread fast in communities. As the name suggests, cVDPV2 is derived from the vaccine. In a child that is under-immunised, the vaccine virus can multiply and cause polio disease because of the low level of immunity in the child. When such a virus is transmitted from child to child within a community, it is called a cVDPV. Medical experts have warned that cVDPV is a threat to Nigeria’s wild polio virus-free status.