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Pulse Polio Immunization (PPI)
January 28 , 2018
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- As part of the National Immunisation Day observed on 28 January, PPI programme for 2018 was launched.
- More than 17 crore children of less than 5 years across the country will be given polio drops.
- The poliovirus causes paralysis, known as an acute flaccid paralysis (AFP).
- This is characterised by sudden muscle weakness, and fever in one or more limbs.
- India reported its last polio case in 2011 and is also declared polio-free by WHO in 2014.
- In India two types of vaccines administered for Polio.
- Injectable Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV)
- OPV (oral polio vaccine)
- The injectable Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV) has also been introduced recently into the Universal Immunisation Programme.
- IPV is an injectable form of polio vaccine administered alone or in combination with other vaccines including the OPV (oral polio vaccine).
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