The
Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) has announced the success in the adoption of a
polio vaccine according to the WHO’s strategy, while vaccination services will
be expanded with the goal of complete polio eradication worldwide within 2018.
The
MOPH’s Permanent-Secretary Sopon Mekthon has announced Thailand’s success in
changing the polio vaccine, from injection of three serotypes of polio virus to
the injection of inactive virus in addition to giving oral polio vaccines
containing the live virus.
The new
method cuts down polio virus serotypes introduced into human’s body to two
types by eliminating the second type of virus, which no longer exists outside
labs, reducing risk of mutation.
The
MOPH’s permanent-secretary has said the vaccination method adjustment goes in
keeping with the World Health Organization's (WHO) policy. Thailand will be
able to achieve the goal within half a year earlier than previously expected.
The result
from this change has been signed by the National Committee, and submitted to
the WHO for acknowledgement.
Although
Thailand has not discovered cases of polio during the past 19 years, Thailand
currently only has 50 percent of polio vaccination coverage. This figure is
expected to be increased to 100 percent to prevent the disease from resurfacing
in the country, due to known infections in neighbouring countries. The global
eradication of the polio disease is expected to be achieved in the year 2018.
On this
matter, The Department of Disease Control Director-General Amnuay Gajeena is
calling upon parents to take their children to receive the vaccination of polio
other diseases as recommended, to prevent them from being contracted with
communicable diseases.
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