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Migrant children to get extra dose of polio vaccine
Ramya Kannan
CHENNAI: The recent reporting of a polio case from Bangalore, with a two-year-old child of a migrant worker being affected, has revived Tamil Nadu’s apprehensions about migrant populations bringing back the polio virus into the State.
Determined to prevent this entry route for the polio virus, the State’s public health department has decided to target migrant workers for special attention and for an extra dose of oral polio vaccine for their children.
The first round will be started immediately for the migrant populations of Kelamangalam village in Krishnagiri, one of the two districts bordering Karnataka.
As a precaution, the extra dose will also be administered in Bagalur, Thalli and Hosur in Krishnagiri and Hogenekkal (Dharmapuri).
With 80 per cent of the 676 polio cases reported in 2006 coming out of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, health department officials felt their apprehensions were justified, considering the large number of migrant workers from these two States.
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