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In October:

Headlines The thirtieth meeting of the Emergency Committee under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) on the international spread of poliovirus was convened by the WHO Director-General...

KEY HIGHLIGHTS On 6 October 2021 a cVDPV2 outbreak was confirmed in Ukraine. As of 18 November 2021, testing for cVDPV2 in specimens collected among contacts of the index case has been completed. A...

Summary of new WPV and cVDPV this week (AFP cases and ES positives):

Polio this week as of 10 November 2021 Tajikistan has responded with full commitment and with the dedicated support of Global Polio Eradication Initiative partners to stop this outbreak,” said Dr...

The newly launched PIM Identification tool is a digital version of the PIM Guidance – 2nd edition allowing facilities worldwide to efficiently assess if the samples stored or handled are considered...

– Cameroon: one cVDPV2 case – Guinea-Bissau: three cVDPV2 cases – Madagascar: one cVDPV1 case and eight positive environmental samples – Mauritania: one cVDPV2 positive environmental sample –...

ANOTHER CHANCE: Don’t let it slip away Introduction From a position two years previously, that felt close to global interruption of poliovirus circulation, the Polio Programme had regressed to such...

The last detected case of polio in the Region of the Americas was in 1991. This year we celebrate 30 years without the disease! But what does 30 years without polio really mean? Before polio vaccines...