London primary-school pupils not fully vaccinated against polio are to be offered catch-up jabs after Easter.
The disease, common in the UK in the 1950s, was eliminated by 2003. But poliovirus traces were found in north and east London sewage in early 2022.And in early November, the latest tests found less of the virus - but officials say there is no room for complacency.
Last month, an eight-year-old in northern Israel was paralysed in an outbreak that saw three other children infected. And an unvaccinated man was paralysed by the virus in New York.another booster at 14
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