Polio this week as of 24 February 2016

 

  • GPEI have published six new videos on ‘Securing a Polio Free World’ covering topics including the polio vaccines, circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses and the upcoming ‘Switch’. The videos are available in both English and French.
  • There are eight weeks to go until the globally synchronized switch from the trivalent to bivalent oral polio vaccine, an important milestone in achieving a polio-free world. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Wild poliovirus type 1 and Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus cases
 

Total cases

Year-to-date 2016

Year-to-date 2015

Total in 2015

WPV

 cVDPV

 WPV

 cVDPV

 WPV

 cVDPV

Globally

2

2

10

0

74

31

- in endemic countries

2

0

10

0

74

 3

- in non-endemic countries

0

2

0

0

0

 28

 

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