Polio -- Nigeria
[This information was excerpted from a larger article mentioning Lassa fever cases and a yellow fever case in addition to this cVDPV case occurring in Kwara state. - Mod.MPP]
The government has confirmed an outbreak of circulating vaccine derived polio virus (cDVPV), which claimed the life of 2-year-old girl.
Speaking on Tue [15 Jan 2019] during a news briefing, the Kwara Commissioner for Health, Alhaji Usman Rifun-Kolo, disclosed that an outbreak of circulating cDVPV in a Fulani Camp in
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6260612&promed&0
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