The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has advised that a targeted inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) booster dose should be offered to all children between the ages of one and nine in all London boroughs, following the discovery of type 2 poliovirus (PV2) in sewage.
The booster dose will be in addition to the NHS childhood vaccination catch-up campaign across London, where childhood vaccination uptake is lower than the rest of the country, and aims to ensure a high level of protection from paralysis and reduce further spread of the virus.
No cases of polio have been reported. Nationally, the risk of paralytic polio is considered low because most people are already protected by vaccination.
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