OPV (ORAL POLIO VACCINE) – CONTRAINDICATIONS

• Long-term steroid therapy or any other drug that affects the immune system.
• Chemotherapy or radiotherapy.
• AIDS or HIV infection, or another disease that affects the immune system.
• In case of household contacts belonging to anyone of the above mentioned three groups, the child should not get OPV.
• Severe allergic reaction to previous dose of OPV should not get another dose.