New oral vaccine for Polio found more effective

New oral vaccine for Polio found more effective A new Polio vaccine is helping leaps and bounds in eradicating the epidemic of Polio from the country. Research published online in the journal The Lancet, shows that the new vaccine already used in Afghanistan, India and Nigeria is effective enough in combating the virus of Polio and is believed to eradicate the epidemic of Polio very soon. A study has been carried out in India where the old vaccines and new oral vaccines were compared by subjecting 830 infants to either the new Vaccine or one of the old vaccines in two doses one at birth and one 30 days later. Results revealed that seroconversion the rise in antibodies produced by the immune system against polio, over the examined blood samples, is about 30% more in the new oral vaccine than the older vaccine.Not just the new vaccine, credit goes to the mass vaccination campaigns and awareness campaign that spread the universal message of eroding the epidemic from the society. Records reveal that the number of polio endemic countries has fallen from 125 in 1988 to just 4 in 2005. Also an actual drop in cases from 350,000 to just 1,606 in 2009 has been noticed.In India the cases for Polio affected saw a steep fall from 464 case last year to 39 cases this year. Nigeria too has seen a fall on 95%.Well, then finally human effort has achieved a remarkable triumph over a monster named, Polio