ABC27 1/18/2020
In rare cases, the live virus in oral polio vaccine can mutate into a form capable of sparking new outbreaks. Western countries use a more expensive injectable polio vaccine that contains an inactivated virus incapable of causing polio. In a report late last week, the World Health Organization and partners noted nine new polio cases caused by the vaccine in Nigeria, Congo, Central African Republic and Angola.
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