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Pulse polio . Needs rethinking

Before you read this write up please go through this link written about the same topic in May 2018 . Last week i had a talk with one of senior official in communicable disease. I wanted to have the latest data about the polio vaccination status of with Oral polio vaccine (OPV) and Injectable polio vaccine (IPV) both at national level and Kerala as i could nt get any data beyond 2016. What was worrying me was about the weekly report of Polio status WHO . Most of us worrying about recent political developments are blind about a real threat which any moment is likely to grip our nation. We are sitting on a time bomb. I don't know whether i am permitted to write about a govt policy . I am supposed to endorse all govt policies as a govt servant.  Yes  i ll do that . But as a person who is keenly watching all these scientific facts i feel it is my duty to warn our fellowmen about this threat. May be it is nothing like Ebola or NIPA which ll result in mass casualties .  All  the