Source: Global Polio Eradication Initiative
Country: Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lao People's Democratic Republic (the), Nigeria, Pakistan, Syrian Arab Republic
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Summary of newly-reported viruses this week: two positive environmental samples of wild poliovirus type 1 in Pakistan and one in Afghanistan; three new cases of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus in Syria and three in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Details in country-specific sections below.
NA: onset of paralysis in most recent case is prior to 2016. Figures exclude non-AFP sources. Lao PDR cVDPV1, all others cVDPV2. cVDPV definition: see document “Reporting and classification of vaccine-derived polioviruses”