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Pulse Polio Program 2019
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- The Government has launched the Pulse Polio Programme 2019 on March 9.
- Under this programme, polio drops would be administered to children less than five years of age.
- It is conducted every year.
- It aims to protect children from the polio disease by conducting two nationwide mass polio vaccination campaigns and two to three sub-national campaigns each year.
- This pulse polio programme 2019 is aimed at sustaining the polio eradication from the country.
Polio
- Polio, also known as poliomyelitis, is a highly contagious viral disease.
- Children younger than 5 years old are more likely to contract the virus than any other group.
- Polio virus spreads by food or water containing human faeces and less commonly from infected saliva.
- India was declared polio-free country in the year 2014.
- India’s last reported cases of wild polio were in West Bengal and Gujarat on 13 January 2011.
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