Nationwide novel polio vaccine rolled out in Egypt, in Region first
Egypt is the first country in the Eastern Mediterranean Region to use nOPV2, a next-generation version of the existing type 2 monovalent OPV (mOPV2) CAIRO, Egypt, A nationwide campaign to vaccinate 16.5 million children under age five with novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2) began this week in Egypt. Egypt is the first country in the Eastern Mediterranean…