A strain of poliomyelitis has resurfaced in Adamawa State.
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The government disclosed this at the start of a response action against the strain.
“One case of Circulating Vaccine Derived Poliovirus type 2 has been detected in the state,” Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Prof. Abdullahi Isa, said.
The Commissioner, who spoke during the official flag-off of the first round outbreak response immunisation on Saturday in the state capital, Yola, assured of government’s readiness to contain the strain.
Isa explained that Vaccine Derived Poliovirus type 2 (VDPV) is a strain of the weakened Poliovirus initially included in Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) that has changed over time and behaves like the wild or naturally occurring virus.
He said the resurfacing of the virus in the state was a challenge for a possible outbreak of the transmitted virus but reiterated that necessary steps were being taken.
“The resurface of the Poliovirus type 2 necessitated the immediate flag-off of the first Round Outbreak Response for Oral Polio Vaccine,” he said.
He disclosed that the state government, with support from developmental partners: WHO and UNICEF, among others, had trained about 800 health personnel to carry out the routine immunisation for polio.
He said about one million children below five years were targeted in the outbreak response vaccination across the state.
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