The polio virus has been found in India after 5 free-polio years and World Health Organization stating India as a polio-free country in March, 2014, at a sewerage water in the city of Hyderabad.
The Telangana government has decided to launch a special campaign against polio after the reports came that particular type of polio virus has been found in the city.
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The samples of sewerage water from Amberpet in Telangana was tested in the lab and the virus, vaccine derived polio virus type-II, was found in the test, according to Rajeshwar Tiwari, Principal secretary (Head) of the state government.
He said, “The government has decided to conduct a special campaign against polio here and parts of Ranga Reddy district from June 20 to June 26”.
The last case of polio was registered in states of West Bengal and Gujarat in January 2011.
The virus was found at the place in the checks which was placed as a part of a monitoring system, according to the reports.
The state government would target children in the age group of six weeks to three years through the special program to eradicate the disease.
WHO had declared India as a polio-free country on March 27, 2014 as no case of wild polio registered in the country since three years.
Only Afghanistan and Pakistan have wild polio cases according to the reports published in mid-2015.
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By Prajakt K.
