Why a rare case of vaccine-derived polio in Meghalaya has sparked debate on ‘Do Boond’ method
New Delhi: A two-and-a-half-year-old toddler from West Garo district in Meghalaya has been diagnosed with poliomyelitis or polio. The Union government says it’s a case of vaccine-derived polio in an immuno-deficient child (iVDPV), reigniting demands for India to switch to the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) rather than the oral polio vaccine (OPV). While polio was … Read more