Total paralysis cases | Year-to-date 2017 | LY to D 2016 | Total 2016 | Total 2015 | Total 2014 |
Globally | 21 | 34 | 37 | 74 | 359 |
- in endemic countries: | 21 | 34 | 37 | 74 | 340 |
- in post-endemic countries: | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 |
Pakistan - No new Polio cases reported this week. Eight cases reported in 2017 -the most recent from the Balochistan province with an onset of paralysis on 11/14/17. Twenty Polio cases were reported in 2016. No new Environmental Samples reported this week. A Bivalent Oral Polio Vaccine campaign will target 36 million children later this month.
Afghanistan - One new Polio case reported this week. Thirteen cases reported in 2017 - the most recent from the Khandahar province with the onset of paralysis on 12/03/17. A Bivalent Oral Polio Vaccine campaign targeting 5 million children will begin later this month. Thirteen Polio cases were reported in 2016. Two new Polio-positive Environmental Samples (from Khandahar & Nangarhar) were collected this week.
Nigeria - No new Polio cases reported this week. Four Polio cases reported in 2016 - with no cases reported in 2015 or 2017. The most recent case was reported on 8/2016 in Borno State. Nigeria has once again gone over one year without a Wild Polio case after previously going two years before an undetected outbreak of four cases was reported on 8/20/16.