Source: Global Polio Eradication Initiative
Country: Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Pakistan, Syrian Arab Republic
Polio this week as of 6 September 2017
New on www.polioeradication.org: [Stopping polio in Syria](http://polioeradication.org/news-post/stopping-polio-in-syria/); and, painting a picture of the benefits of polio vaccination.
Summary of newly-reported viruses this week: Pakistan: one new wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) case from Karachi (pre-notified last week) and four environmental WPV1-positive samples. See country-specific sections for further details.
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” at [pdf]