Unofficially, as per a Telegraph report in 2006, the cases up to that year were 3,00,000. I doubt even this figure. Polio is not just cases of paralysis of the limbs or AFP. It is also aseptic meningitis, cerebral palsy, Guillain Barre Syndrome, Coxsackie Virus. Again, we really do not know how the OPV, administered orally, is doing to the intestine of infants. Dr Pushpa Bhargava says we do not know enough about intestinal immunity to trust the OPV.
Horrendous!! OPV behind 1,28,375 polio cases in India?
by , Alobar.livejournal.com, 11 January, 2009