The fact that Oral Polio Vaccine can create polio in otherwise healthy children is still kept out of public discussion even as GOI went ahead with the programme 11years ago in 1995. Both IMA and the NPSP now acknowledge that Vaccine Associated Paralytic Poliomyelitis (VAPP) \"is an issue\". The complex classification system that NPSP chose to adopt resulted in masking allinstances of childhood paralytic diseases in India including VAPP related deaths, cVDPV and non-polio paralysis cases, in favor of \"confirmed polio cases\' that never formed more than 3% of the AFPcases chosen by NPSP.
Need to revisit the Oral Polio Vaccine initiative in India
by Dr.Samatha Potu, Narayana, Satya Ayurveda Vaidyasala, 05 February, 2007