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Gaborone \u2014 The Ministry of Health has issued a statement reassuring the public that Botswana remains polio-free, with no confirmed cases of poliovirus reported to date.<\/p>\n
However, the detection of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) in neighbouring countries, particularly in districts sharing borders with Botswana, has prompted the ministry to heighten surveillance and take precautionary measures.<\/p>\n
According to a press release, the virus is identified through environmental…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Gaborone \u2014 The Ministry of Health has issued a statement reassuring the public that Botswana remains polio-free, with no confirmed cases of poliovirus reported to date. However, the detection of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) in neighbouring countries, particularly in districts sharing borders with Botswana, has prompted the ministry to heighten surveillance and take […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":226541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00611908:d7850d7b12a4a25a6d677a4c33d1c3b3:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,13490,4718,2462,10498,7041,6507,10766,257,5799,254],"class_list":["post-226540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alert","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-cases","tag-confirm","tag-countries","tag-neighbouring","tag-news","tag-polio","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00611908:d7850d7b12a4a25a6d677a4c33d1c3b3:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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