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A call went out to British parents on Wednesday to check their polio jabs were up to date after the virus was detected in sewage and it emerged as few as a third of teens are vaccinated in some areas.
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Data from the World Health Organization shows 114 of 160 nations, including the UK and US, have not jabbed at least 95 per cent of their one-year-olds against polio.
Parents of unvaccinated children are to be contacted by the NHS as part of a targeted vaccine drive in London amid fears the disease could take off in the UK for the first time in decades.
Polio, which scientists believe has been circulating since ancient Egypt, spread like other common bugs and viruses for millennia. But as hygiene improved in the 1800s, outbreaks took off.
While it is normal for one to three 'vaccine-like' polioviruses to be detected each year in UK sewage samples, the UKHSA has reported that several closely-related viruses have been found during routine surveillance of samples taken between February and May this year. LSHTM polio experts Professor David Heymann and Dr Kathleen O'Reilly comment:
Polio may be spreading in the UK for the first time in nearly 40 years, health chiefs warned today as they declared a 'national incident'. Officials have found traces of a vaccine-derived version of the virus in sewage samples in parts of London...