The Bi-weekly African Polio Laboratory Bulletin is a regional compilation including highlights on the polio laboratory network in the African region and its efforts towards polio eradication. This...
Algeria + 47 more
Algeria + 47 more
The Bi-weekly African Polio Laboratory Bulletin is a regional compilation including highlights on the polio laboratory network in the African region and its efforts towards polio eradication. This...
KEY HIGHLIGHTS On 6 October 2021 a cVDPV2 outbreak was confirmed in Ukraine. As of 18 November 2021, testing for cVDPV2 in specimens collected among contacts of the index case has been completed. A...
In September: No case of WPV1 was confirmed 41.5 million children were vaccinated during NIDs. 0.8 million children were vaccinated at 72 Permanent Transit Points
In March: No case of WPV1 was confirmed 37.7 children under the age of five were vaccinated during the March National Immunisation Days (NIDs)
WPV1 + cVDPV2 Cases: Every month, surveillance system report, investigate and confirm poliovirus cases. In January, the first case of WPV1 of the year has been confirmed in a child from Balochistan...
POINTS SAILLANTS ▪ Déclaration des épidémies de cVDPV2 par lettre N°0001847 du 18 août 2020 du Ministre de la Santé et des affaires sociales ▪ 1 cas de cVDPV2 chez 1 cas de PFA dans le DS...
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MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS •Associated Press: Pakistan army chief says anti-polio campaign to restart soon •Associated Press: COVID-19 just the latest epidemic in areas struck by disease •France 24: New polio...
The First 100 Days of the Polio Outbreak Response in Papua New Guinea: A Summary Papua New Guinea confirmed a polio outbreak on 22 June 2018 when a vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1 (VDPV1), first...
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More than 6 months have passed since the most recent case of wild poliovirus in central Africa was detected in Cameroon on the 9 July 2014. This indicates that progress towards stopping the outbreak...
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As of 18 August 2014 : Syria No new WPV1 cases were reported in the past week. The most recent WPV1 case had onset of paralysis on 21 January 2014, from Salamiyah district, Hama governorate. The...
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As of 21 July 2014 : Syria No new WPV1 cases were reported in the past week. The most recent WPV1 case had onset of paralysis on 21 January 2014, from Salamiyah district, Hama governorate. The...
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As of 14 July 2014 : Syria No new WPV1 cases were reported in the past week. The most recent WPV1 case had onset of paralysis on 21 January 2014, from Salamiyah district, Hama governorate. The...
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The total number of confirmed wild poliovirus type 1 cases in the Syrian Arab Republic is 16. Please note that the case from Douma, Rural Damascus with an onset of paralysis of September 2013 is now...
Pakistan + 9 more
The data table below is as of 31 December 2013. The text is as of 18 December 2013. As the year 2013 draws to a close, the GPEI takes stock: In Afghanistan, no indigenous cases of wild poliovirus...
Somalia + 4 more
Situation analysis In the Horn of Africa, the outbreak of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) has reached 31 cases, 25 from Somalia (primarily from Banadir region) and 6 from Kenya (Dadaab in north-eastern...
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KEY FACTS Confirmed wild poliovirus outbreak in Horn of Africa (Somalia and Kenya) – 6 WPV1 cases Emergency outbreak response being implemented High risk of further spread of virus Surveillance alert...
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Two years polio-free: January 13 will mark two years since a child was paralyzed by wild poliovirus in India, a country once considered the most complex challenge to global polio eradication. ...
Advance notification has been received of two new polio cases detected in southern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the far west of China, in the same area where all other cases in this outbreak...
Kenya + 5 more
Situation analysis On 25 August 2011, a Kenyan child was struck with paralysis due to type 1 wild poliovirus (WPV1). This most recent case of WPV is closely linked genetically not only to this...
Afghanistan + 5 more
FACTS & FIGURES - There have been 950 cases globally* in 2010 (864 type 1 and 86 type 3), compared with 1,595 cases at the same time in 2009 (477 type 1 and 1,116 type 3 and 2 mixtures). - 20...