Thursday, 24 October 2019

PRO/EDR> Poliomyelitis update (82): global (WPV: 2 countries, cVDPV: 7 countries)

Polio -- Angola
New wild poliovirus isolates reported this week:
AFP cases: 6
Environment: 12
Other: 3
New cVDPV isolates reported this week:
AFP cases: 7
Environment: 5
Others: 3
Headlines
- Wild poliovirus type 3 (WPV3) has been declared globally eradicated. At an event held on World Polio Day 2019, Professor David Salisbury, chair of the independent Global Commission for the Certification of Poliomyelitis Eradication (GCC), presented the official certificate of WPV3 eradication to WHO

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6745453&promed&0

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