The NHS is to contact parents of children under the age of five in London who are not up-to-date with their polio vaccinations to invite them to take up the jab.
In the UK, the polio vaccine is given as part of the NHS routine childhood vaccination schedule at 8, 12 and 16 weeks old. At three years and four months old children are given a booster and again at age 14.
The message comes after the UK Health Safety Agency (UKHSA), working with the Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), found poliovirus in sewage samples collected from the London Beckton Sewage Treatment Works.
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