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Program to eradicate Polio in the U.K.

Submitted on Wednesday 1st March 2017

Rejected on Friday 17th March 2017

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)

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Program to eradicate Polio in the U.K.

Petition Details

Polio is a highly infectious condition resulting in various degrees of physical disabilities,


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

You might this page about polio on the NHS website helpful:

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/polio/Pages/Introduction.aspx

You'll see from this that there hasn't been a case of polio caught in the UK since 1984. That's because routine vaccination was introduced in the mid-1950s.

The polio vaccination is already offered as part of the NHS routine childhood vaccination programme. We're not sure what additional action you'd like the UK Government or Parliament to take.

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