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Article: Recent Outbreak of Oral Poliovirus-1 Vaccine-Derived Viral Infection in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.(Clinical report)
- Article from:
- Infectious Disease Alert
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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Recent Outbreak of Oral Poliovirus-1 Vaccine-Derived Viral Infection in Haiti and the Dominican Republic
Special Feature
Synopsis: The recent occurrence of an outbreak of poliovirus infection due to a mutant strain of vaccine-derived OPV-1 in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, which has left at least 6 children paralyzed, should provoke reconsideration of current OPV vaccine programs in developing countries.
Health care experts around the world have been stunned by the recent news of an outbreak of an infection with an unusual strain of mutant Sabin-derived oral poliovirus-1 (OPV-1) in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Although reports first ...