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Detailed explanation-1: -Khartoum: More than 1 million polio vaccines intended for children have been destroyed as a result of looting in Sudan during the upsurge in violence since April, the U.N. children’s agency UNICEF told Reuters on Friday.

Detailed explanation-2: -Inactivated polio vaccine (IPV)

Detailed explanation-3: -Since 1988, more than 18 million people can walk today who would otherwise have been paralyzed, and 1.5 million childhood deaths have been averted thanks to the polio vaccine.

Detailed explanation-4: -Countries where polio remains endemic continue to use the live oral polio vaccine because of its convenience and superior ability to induce mucosal immunity in the gut. Today polio continues to circulate in three countries: Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan.