Polio booster vaccines are expected to be offered to children under 10 to prevent the first outbreak in Britain since the 1970s. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has repeatedly detected the poliovirus in London’s sewage works and had called on families to check children are fully vaccinated.
Now it is planning to give booster jabs to kids aged one to nine in Greater London regardless of where they are on their polio vaccine schedule. The NHS has warned doctors to look out for paralysis symptoms in patients.
The amount of poliovirus samples picked up in sewage suggests it has been passing from person to person., reports The Mirror.
