For the first time in decades, the U.K.'s Health Security Agency said Wednesday, leading British health officials to declare a national incident and urge the public to bevaccinated
There is a vaccine distribution center at the hospital. The photo was taken by Pradeep Gaur/SOPA Images/ LightRocket.
Wastewater from North and East London had been found to contain vaccine-derived polioviruses.
The live oral version of the vaccine hasn't been used in the U.K. since 2004, so it's most likely that the virus came from someone who got it.
In the last few years, small amounts of the vaccine have been found in sewage, but all of them have been unrelated to each other.
According to the HSA, the samples identified between February and June were genetically related.
There have been no reported cases of the disease in the U.K., and the risk of a vaccine-derived outbreak is very low.
In 1984 the U.K. became the first country in the world to be free of the disease.
The live virus can be passed from person to person through sewage and be detected in the wastewater. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been monitoring the levels of Covid-19 in the US.
In rare cases, a person can be paralyzed from the waist down due to the disease, which is spread mostly through contact with fecal material and less often through coughs and sneezes. Due to a successful global vaccine drive, many countries around the world have been free of the disease. Some parts of the world still use the live oral vaccine, even though it is weakened. Some countries in Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia have previously eradicated the disease, but in the past year there have been cases of vaccine-derivedpolio.
There was a 92 percent success rate. According to the National Institute of Health, between 2020 and 2021, there will be a full series of the vaccine. The vaccine rate in London is below the target rate.
The consultant doctor at Great Ormond Street Hospital said in a statement that anyone who is not up to date on their immunizations should get a vaccine. Although we are an island, we are not isolated from the rest of the world. The point was proved by the finding of vaccine-derived polioviruses in sewage.
There may be a new outbreak of the disease.
There is a rise in the number of vaccine-derived diseases. A vaccine is meant to stop the spread.
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