Nov 11, 2015

Cases of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV)

In places where polio immunization with oral polio vaccine (OPV) rates are extremely low, the vaccine virus is able to spread in the community. Sometimes the virus mutates and regains its virulence, because it's a live virus so it has the possibility of recovering its original properties and cause polio - circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV).