Polio spreads through air, need injectable rather than oral vaccines now, say experts

Dr. T Jacob John, the expert who pushed for the pulse polio campaign over 25 years back, now wants to tweak the strategy to eradicate the paralysing virus. It begins with "unlearning" a medical statement that polio spreads through the orofecal route, and also increasing the injectable polio vaccine's dosage in the national polio vaccination programme.

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