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.
Concerns as polio variant hits 13 states, FCT
Medical experts say the outbreak is a public health concern and warned that it is a threat to Nigeria’s wild polio virus-free status..
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Thu Jul 08 2021
There are growing concerns over the outbreak of Vaccine Derived Poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) in 13 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The virus is contracted as a result of many factors, including refusing to take the shots or not completing polio vaccines.
While the Wild Polio Virus (WPV) is the most common form of poliovirus, circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus or cVDPV is another form of polio that can spread within communities which Nigeria is currently experiencing.
The National Primary Healthcare Development Agency
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Tue Jul 06 2021
The National Primary Healthcare Development Agency said as of yesterday, Nigeria had recorded another form of polio called circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus, cVDPV, in the FCT, Abia, Bayelsa, Borno, Delta, Jigawa, Kano, Kebbi, Lagos, Niger, Rivers, Sokoto, Yobe and Zamfara States.
NPHCDA Executive Director, Faisal Shuaib, disclosed this in Abuja on Monday during the agency’s second quarter meeting with northern traditional leaders committee on primary health care delivery.
Nigeria had, last year, been certified Wild Polio Virus-free by the Africa Regional Certification Commission (ARCC).
Experts say the circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus, Cvdpv, particularly type 2, is rare, but has been increasing in recent years as a result of low immunization rates and can spread within communities.
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Barely one year after Nigeria was certified Wild Polio Virus (WPV) free, the government has alerted on the outbreak of Circulating Vaccine-derived Poliovirus Type 2 (cVDPV2) in 13 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
It therefore stressed the need for the country to jealously guard its WPV-free status and stop the cVDPV2 transmission in communities. It also announced the formal closure of the Phase 1 COVID-19 vaccination rollout.
Executive Director of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr Faisal Shuaib, who stated this at the second quarter meeting of the Northern Traditional Leaders Committee on Primary Healthcare Delivery (NTLC), yesterday, in Abuja, disclosed that there are cVDPV2 outbreaks in FCT, Jigawa, Kano, Kebbi, Lagos, Niger, Rivers, Sokoto, Yobe, Zamfara Abia, Bayelsa, Borno and Delta States, noting that the ag
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