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YANGON (AFP) – Burma is thinking a mass polio immunisation after a seven-month-old child was diagnosed with the virus, the country's prototypal housing in three years, according to the the United Nations Children's Fund.

Just digit housing is enough to trigger an "emergency response", UNICEF said, and health officials promptly vaccinated 10,000 children in the metropolis region, bicentric Myanmar, after the illness was prototypal suspected in Dec 2010.

"This housing of polio detected in Dec was rattling unfortunate as Burma was most to officially receive the polio-free position in Dec 2010," said Ramesh Shrestha, UNICEF allegoric in Myanmar.

The UN agency said the child was diagnosed with a lineage genetically mutated from the version contained in the test polio vaccine.

An unsusceptible person transmits the damaged virus to others and in rattling rare cases the virus in the vaccine crapper mutate into a form that crapper paralyse, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Shrestha said the drive of the newborn transmission was blurred but some children might hit been uncomprehensible during routine vaccination.

Two more suspected cases, digit in the metropolis Atlantic and another further south in Mon State, hit tested negative, the UN agency said.

UNICEF said a team from the WHO was already in the land to devise a strategy to kibosh the spread of the virus.

Vaccination module either direct 3.4 meg children in limited areas, or a domestic information module intend to accomplish around seven meg youths.

Myanmar's health ministry union a crusade mass a kindred housing in 2007 and unsusceptible 6.7 meg children.

Polio mainly affects children under fivesome and is transmitted through septic matter and water.

According to the WHO, digit in 200 infections leads to irreversible paralysis, usually in the legs, patch fivesome to 10 proportionality of those paralysed die when their breathing muscles embellish immobilized.

Worldwide cases hit decreased by over 99 proportionality from an estimated 350,000 in 1988, to 1,604 reportable in 2009, as a termination of the global effort to eradicate the disease.

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