This article is from Jun 04, 2021

Did polio vaccination launched in India only after 1995?

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Polio disaster in India… The United States invented the polio vaccine in 1955… but in India, the polio vaccination was launched only after 1995.

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People are coming forward enthusiastic to get vaccinated as corona infection created a huge impact in India. In this context, the BJP’s Twitter page claims that “the BJP government produced the vaccine for coronavirus in India in 2020, which was invented in December 2019… but in the Congress regime, it took 40 years for the bring in the polio vaccine”.

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Fact Check:

The polio vaccine for juvenile rheumatoid arthritis is not a shortly invented vaccine. The polio epidemic in India has been eradicated only after many decades.

Searching for the introduction of the polio vaccine data in India, an article published on the website pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov stated, “Oral polio vaccine was introduced in the National Immunization Program of India in 1979-80”.

An article published on vaccine.icmr.org in 2014 states, “OPV (Oral Polio Vaccine) Available in India in 1967, and Indigenous Oral Polio Vaccine Trivalent was first developed in India in 1970”

“The Extended Immunization Program in India (EPI, 1978), then introduced the polio vaccine in India under the Universal Immunization Program (UIP, 1985). However, special polio campaigns have been launched since 1995,” the Indian Health Ministry stated on its website.

Photos of people who were vaccinated against polio in India before 1995 have also been published on the alamy site. The polio vaccine , invented in 1955, began to be used worldwide in the 1960s.

Explanation

In our search, the information shared that “The United States invented the polio vaccine in 1955… but in India, the polio vaccination was launched only after 1995” was incorrect.

The oral polio vaccine has been available and developed in India since the 1970s. With the EPI program in 1978 and the UIP program in 1985 people have been vaccinated against polio. The Pulse Polio Vaccine Program, commonly known as National Immunization Day, was launched in 1995.

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