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Health Alert: Deadly 'Polio Virus' Detected In Hyderabad Water, Telangana Declares ‘Global Emergency’ 

By NEWSCOP | INNLIVE

A mass vaccination drive will be conducted from June 20 to 26, in which more than three lakh children will be inoculated in the city and Ranga Reddy district.

The Telangana government declared a “global emergency” after an active strain of wild poliovirus (P2 strain) was found in a water sample collected from a drain in Hyderabad. In a mass vaccination drive, more than three lakh children in the city and Ranga Reddy district will be inoculated Wednesday onwards as a “preventive measure”. Two lakh vaccines were airlifted from Geneva immediately after the virus was detected,The Times of India reported.

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