100,000 five-year-olds haven’t had polio booster: Worrying figures show lack of protection among the young as deadly virus is found in London
- Only 85.3 per cent of children aged five in 2020/21 had received their booster
- More than 100,000 remain at risk of paralysis or death from the incurable virus
- The British Polio Fellowship urged parents to get their children vaccinated
- The disease is likely circulating in England for the first time in nearly 40 years
