Polio update: 5 total cases in 2017, Suspected VDPV case in Syria
by Robert Herriman from Outbreak News Today on (#2PFCN)
In all of 2016, the three polio endemic countries of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria saw a combined 37 wild poliovirus (WPV) cases, plus five circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV) cases including three in non-endemic Laos, according to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI). Through May 10 this year, only five WPV cases have been reported ["]
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