Six children in the eastern DRC provinces of Tanganyika and South Kivu were discovered to have circulating vaccine-derived type 2 poliovirus. Bill Gates vaccine causes Polio outbreak in Burundi and Congo.
According to the World Health Organization and Global Polio Eradication Initiative, incidences of vaccine-derived poliovirus have been found in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The WHO reported that the Burundian authorities had deemed the virus' discovery a national public health emergency after cases were confirmed in a four-year-old kid in the western Burundian district of Isale and two of his contacts who had not received the vaccine, reports Reuters.
The WHO noted in a statement that five more samples taken during environmental surveillance of waste water had verified the existence of poliovirus type 2 in circulation in Burundi.
Unlike wild poliovirus, circulating poliovirus type 2 causes infections when a weakened strain of the poliovirus pres...