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Africa: Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) reported in Kenya and Tanzania

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) has reported circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) cases in Kenya and Tanzania recently. Kenya Two cases of circulating...

Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus in Ukraine: GPEI update

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By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 In a follow-up on the circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) case reported in Ukraine, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) added some information concerning...

Uganda: Polio confirmed in Kampala environmental samples

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By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Ministry of Health has declared Polio a Public Health Emergency in Uganda following confirmation of positive laboratory tests from environmental samples in Kampala. The...

WHO Polio Emergency Committee ‘Very concerned that cVDPV2 continues to spread rapidly’

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By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 The twenty-seventh meeting of the Emergency Committee under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) on the international spread of poliovirus was convened by the WHO...

Africa: Chad measles vaccination campaign postponed, Polio cVDPV2 vaccination campaign resumes

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By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has reported updates on two important vaccination campaigns in the north-central Africa nation...

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Ghana reports polio in environmental sample from Tamale

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By NewsDesk    @infectiousdiseasenews Last week, Ghana health officials reported a confirmed circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) in an environmental sample collected from Tamale...

Syria: cVDPV2 (polio) outbreak stopped

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In a follow-up on the polio outbreak of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2), UN health officials report the outbreak has been successfully stopped. The first cases of the cVDPV2 outbreak...

Nigeria reports vaccine-derived polio case in Jigawa state

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Nigeria reported no wild poliovirus cases since 2016 when the most recent case (by date of onset) was reported in Monguno Local Government Area, Borno, with onset on 21 August 2016. In addition, no circulating...

Somalia: Circulation of vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 confirmed in environmental samples

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The World Health Organization (WHO) reported Friday that three vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) strains were isolated from environmental samples collected on 4 and 11 January 2018, in Banadir...

Three more circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus cases reported in DRC

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In an update on the number of  circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) cases reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 2017, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI)...