According to the latest information from UN authorities dated June 19, seventeen cases of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type-2 (cVDPV2) have now been confirmed in Syria—16 cases are from Mayadeen...

Syria In an update on the polio ( circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2–cVDPV2) outbreak in Syria, the World Health Organization (WHO) reports  there is evidence of genetic linkage among...

In a follow-up to a report last month concerning suspected polio in Syria, a circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) outbreak has been confirmed in Deir-Ez-Zor Governorate, according to The...

In an update on the global polio situation in 2017, there were two separate outbreaks of circulating vaccine derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). According...

Although the number of wild poliovirus 1 (WPV-1) cases in Nigeria has dropped significantly in 2014 with only 6 confirmed cases (compared to 53 recorded  last year), the west African country has seen...

Both Pakistan and Afghanistan, two of the remaining endemic countries,  reported new wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases during the past week, according to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI)...

Nigeria is one of the three remaining polio endemic countries on the planet with Afghanistan and Pakistan being the others. The African nation reported 53 wild poliovirus-1 cases in 2013, while so far...