Polio this week as of 2 March 2016

Polio this week as of 2 March 2016

• The Director General of WHO, Dr Margaret Chan, upon the advice of the Emergency Committee, concluded that poliovirus continues to constitute a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). Read the statement here.

• The Journal of Infectious Diseases has published a supplemental journal on Nigeria’s polio eradication effort. Read more here.

• A new method to administer the inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV), developed by a collaboration of Australian institutions, has had promising results in animal trials. The Nanopatch may enable unprecedented levels of dose reduction.

• There are seven weeks to go until the globally synchronized switch from the trivalent to bivalent oral polio vaccine