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A 23 year old medical student is planning a 2-month elective in a pediatric hospital in Northern Nigeria. The student wants to know whether any additional polio immunization is necessary. The student remembers having had injectable polio vaccine in the past, but does not recall, and cannot document, whether oral polio vaccine was ever given.


OK. Suggest a course of action in the following situation. . . A 23 year old medical student is planning a 2-month elective in a pediatric hospital in Northern Nigeria. The student wants to know whether any additional polio immunization is necessary. The student remembers having had injectable polio vaccine in the past, but does not recall, and cannot document, whether oral polio vaccine was ever given. What should you advise?
A.	A booster dose of IPV.
B.	A booster dose of OPV.
C.	Begin the series of three doses of OPV in preparation for the trip.
D.	No polio vaccine. It is not necessary.