{"id":278190,"date":"2019-05-30T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEJIKXwVE5dkkiZHNtnKD5DcqGQgEKhAIACoHCAow4OH9CjCg6_UCMJ-42gU?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-24T11:28:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:28:18","slug":"who-said-ethiopia-destroyed-mopv2-vials-after-a-horn-polio-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278190","title":{"rendered":"WHO said Ethiopia destroyed mOPV2 vials after a Horn polio response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 WHO reported that Ethiopia destroyed monovalent type 2 oral polio vaccine vials used in two vaccination rounds across five zones of Somali Region during a synchronized Horn of Africa response to circulating vaccine-derived type 2 poliovirus.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-602499\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/health-stpauls-1280.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"WHO said Ethiopia destroyed mOPV2 vials after a Horn polio response\" \/>\n<p>After the global switch away from type 2 in routine oral vaccine, leftover mOPV2 must be tightly controlled and destroyed once outbreak campaigns end, under WHO and UNICEF stockpile rules.<\/p>\n<p>The Horn campaign had followed detections in Somalia and Kenya, and technical advisers warned the region remained at continuing risk.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as health archive, the vial-destruction notice is a dated polio-response compliance marker for Ethiopia and the Horn.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/ethiopia\/ethiopia-destroyed-mopv2-vials-used-first-phase-cvdpv-response\">ReliefWeb \/ WHO<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia destroyed the mOPV2 vials used for the first phase cVDPV response &#8211; Ethiopia&nbsp;&nbsp;ReliefWebAddis Ababa, Ethiopia, 30 May 2019: Ethiopia destructed the monovalent type 2 oral polio vaccine (mOPV2) vials that were used in two-rounds of vac&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":602499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/health-stpauls-1280.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1amW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754966,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278190\/revisions\/754966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}