Public Health Response to Restore Polio Free Status in Malaysia

  • Avoi R
  • SYED ABDUL RAHIM S
  • Rao P
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Abstract

Malaysia started the polio immunization programme since 1972 and achieved polio-free certification in 2000. After 27 years from the last reported polio case in 1992, on 8 December 2019, the Ministry of Health Malaysia announced the return of polio into the country when the first polio case detected in Sabah involving a 3-month-old male child (Abdullah, N.H., 2019). The child confirmed to be infected with vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1 (VDPV1) which later classified as a circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1 (cVDPV1). Further test confirmed that the virus is genetically linked to poliovirus (PHL-NCR-2) circulating in the southern Philippines (Alleman, M.M. et al., 2020). To date, a total of four polio cases were confirmed in Sabah of which due to vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1 (VDPV1). The vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (VDPV2) was also detected from environmental samples taken from various locations in Sabah.

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Avoi, R., SYED ABDUL RAHIM, S. S., & Rao, P. V. (2020). Public Health Response to Restore Polio Free Status in Malaysia. Borneo Epidemiology Journal, 1(2), 93–95. https://doi.org/10.51200/bej.v1i2.2743

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