{"id":28025,"date":"2019-11-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/25\/polio-vaccines-causing-polio-cases\/"},"modified":"2019-11-26T17:10:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T17:10:05","slug":"polio-vaccines-causing-polio-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/25\/polio-vaccines-causing-polio-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Polio Vaccines Causing Polio Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Although rare, live virus in oral polio vaccine can mutate into a form that can cause new cases<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>MONDAY, Nov. 25, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; More children worldwide are being paralyzed by polio viruses from vaccines than from viruses in the wild, according to new data.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization and partners last week noted nine new vaccine-linked polio cases in Nigeria, Congo, Central African Republic, and Angola, the <i>Associated Press<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Seven other African countries have similar outbreaks, and there have also been cases in Asia.<\/p>\n<p>It is rare, but the live virus in oral polio vaccine can mutate into a form that can cause new cases. All the current vaccine-related cases have been caused by a type 2 virus in the vaccine. The wild version of the virus was eliminated years ago, the <i>AP<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/7d8b0e32efd0480fbd12acf27729f6a5\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>AP News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/polioeradication.org\/polio-today\/polio-now\/this-week\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More Information: WHO<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although rare, live virus in oral polio vaccine can mutate into a form that can cause new cases<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":28043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-28025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}