The West African country of Mali is seeing its first reported case of polio since 2011, but it’s not from the “wild-type” strain.
An Afghan health worker administers polio vaccine drops to a child on the second day of a vaccination campaign in Kabul on March 16, 2015. The oral vaccine, which is commonly used worldwide, has a live, weakened version of the virus in it. Though rare, sometimes this virus can mutate and cases infections. (SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images)
A 19-month-old boy, originally from Guinea, has been paralyzed by what the World Health Organization calls vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2. This type, which …read more
Source: The Blaze
