This is as the global health body stated that Nigeria had caused international spread of the CVDPV2 to other countries, while giving the official number of confirmed cases as 385 so far. Sunday PUNCH reports that the WHO Independent Africa Regional Certification Commission for Polio Eradication, on August 25, 2020, officially declared Nigeria and the African region free of wild poliovirus. The explosive outbreak of CVDPV2 in Nigeria has caused international spread to neighbouring countries. Baba said, “The vaccine-derived poliovirus has mutated so much and has the capacity of causing paralysis, just like the wild polio, because among the three stereotypes of polio, Type 2 is genetically so unstable and mutates very fast. Most of us knew what the country went through before the wild poliovirus was eradicated.

Source: Punch January 09, 2022 01:57 UTC