Terry's Polio Eradication Update
For the week ending 8/19/23
Dear Polio Eradication Warriors,
No new Wild Polio cases reported this week. We are now 3 weeks since the most recent reported Wild Polio Case - in Pakistan. Intensified efforts continue to be implemented in Pakistan, particularly in the Southern area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, to urgently eradicate the remaining endemic WPV1 transmission. Intensified efforts continue to be implemented in Pakistan, particularly in the Southern area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, to urgently eradicate the remaining endemic WPV1 transmission.
How does the polio landscape look today?
Since the Republic of Congo first confirmed a case of circulating variant poliovirus type 1 in March 2023 (the first such detection in more than two decades), the country has been pioneering the deployment of Geospatial Tracking Systems (GTS) to help curb further transmission.
Total paralysis cases | Year-to-date 2023 |
Total 2022 | Total 2021 |
Total 2020 | Total 2019 |
Globally | 7 | 30 | 6 | 140 | 176 |
- in endemic countries: | 7 | 22 | 5 | 140 | 176 |
- in post-endemic countries: | 0 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 Circulating Vaccine Derived Polio Case Total - 198 | ||||
| Benin - 3 | Burkina Faso - 2 | Burundi - 1 | Central African - 10 Republic | Chad - 23 |
| Cote d' Ivoire - 2 | DR Congo - 109 | Guinea - 1 | Indonesia - 3 | Israel - 1 |
| Kenya - 2 | Madagascar - 13 | Mali - 3 | Mozambique - 3 | Nigeria - 19 |
| Somalia - 2 | Tanzania - 1 | Zambia - 1. | ||
| 2022 Circulating Vaccine Derived Polio Case Total - 912 | ||||
| Afghanistan - 43 | Algeria - 3 | Benin - 11 | Burundi - 1 | Cameroon - 3 |
| Central African Republic - 6 | Chad - 44 | DR Congo - 507 | Republic of Congo - 1 | Eritrea - 1 |
| Ethiopia - 1 | Ghana - 3 | Indonesia - 1, | Israel - 1 | Madagascar - 14 |
| Malawi - 4 | Mali - 2 | Mozambique - 22 | Niger - 16 | Nigeria - 48 |
| Pakistan - 8 | Somalia - 5 | Sudan - 1 | Togo - 2 | United States - 1 |
| Yemen - 1624 | ||||
New Polio Cases & Samples reported this week
- Afghanistan: one WPV1 positive environmental sample
- Algeria: one cVDPV2 positive environmental sample
- Benin: one cVDPV2 positive environmental sample
- Botswana: two cVDPV2 positive environmental samples
- Burundi: one cVDPV2 case and one cVDPV2 positive environmental sample
- Cameroon: two cVDPV2 positive environmental samples
- Chad: three cVDPV2 cases
- DR Congo: one cVDPV1 case, two cVDPV2 cases and one cVDPV2 positive environmental sample
- Guinea: one cVDPV2 case
Quote of the Day
"Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them."
- George Washington Carver - Scientist/Inventor
The Final Two Polio Endemic Countries
Pakistan
No new Wild Polio cases reported this week. Two Wild Polio cases reported in 2023. Twenty Wild Polio cases reported in 2022. The most recent case had an onset of paralysis on 7/20/23.
No WPV1 Samples and no cVDPV2 Positive Environmental Samples were reported this week in Pakistan.
Afghanistan
No new Wild Polio cases reported this week. Five Wild Polio cases reported in 2023 - all from the Nangarhar Province. Two Wild Polio Cases reported in 2022. The most recent case had an onset of paralysis on 5/18/23. No WPV1 Samples and no cVDPV2 Positive Environmental Samples were reported this week in Afghanistan.
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Terry Ziegler, Polio Update Newsletter Editor
Rotary Region 36 END POLIO NOW Coordinator 2024-27