Sunday, December 13, 2009

Govt to introduce Bivalent Oral Polio Vaccine as trials prove its efficacy in India

The Union Health Ministry will soon introduce the Bivalent Oral Polio Vaccine (bOPV) in specific areas of the country in its polio eradication drive as trials in India have shown that the bOPV vaccine is more efficacious than the traditionally used trivalent oral polio vaccine (tOPV).

The details can be read here.

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