Polio this week as of 10 July 2024

Headlines

• A joint Polio Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) and Transition Independent Monitoring Board (TIMB) meeting will take place in Geneva next week from the 15 – 19 July. The goal of the meeting is to assess the challenges of eliminating polio in the endemic and outbreak countries. The meeting documents are available here for pre-reading.

Summary of new poliovirus this week

• Afghanistan: three WPV1 cases
• Pakistan: eight WPV1 positive environmental samples
• Angola: two cVDPV2 cases and one positive environmental sample
• Chad: one cVDPV2 case
• DR Congo: one cVDPV1 case and two cVDPV2 cases
• Guinea: one cVDPV2 case
• Mozambique: one cVDPV1 case
• Niger: one cVDPV2-positive environmental sample
• Senegal: two cVDPV2-positive environmental samples
• Yemen: six cVDPV2 cases and four positive environmental samples
• Zimbabwe: one cVDPV2-positive environmental sample