Standard operating procedures: responding to a poliovirus event or outbreak, version 4

Download or read book Standard operating procedures: responding to a poliovirus event or outbreak, version 4 written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a significant revision of the existing Standard Operating Procedures necessitated by recent advances in outbreak response, principally the Emergency Use Listing of novel oral polio vaccine type 2 in 2021. This is the fourth version of the polio outbreak SOPs which give response teams in countries step by step guidance on how to respond, including vaccine choice and scope of the response in countries, and how these steps are supported by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI).