Despite being taken off polio endemic list, CDC issues advisory for Nigeria
by Robert Herriman from Outbreak News Today on (#TT81)
In September, the World Health Organization (WHO) said that Nigeria, one of the three remaining polio endemic countries on the globe, has interrupted transmission of wild poliovirus and is no longer polio endemic. Although the latest wild poliovirus case in Nigeria occurred on July 24, 2014, the West African nation has seen one case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus ["]