A committee has been created by India's union health ministry to investigate whether three batches of contaminated polio vaccines administered in Uttar Pradesh have caused the disease to re-emerge in the country, which was declared polio-free by the World Health Organisation in March 2014. The Drugs Controller General of India has also asked the company to stop "manufacture, sale or distribution till further orders". The first batch of vaccines, given between October and December last year, were found to contain a small amount of live virus.
A committee has been created by India's union health ministry to investigate whether three batches of contaminated polio vaccines administered in Uttar Pradesh have caused the disease to re-emerge in the country, which was declared polio-free by the World Health Organisation in March 2014. The first batch of vaccines, given between October and December last year, were found to contain a small amount of live virus.