Polio this week

Headlines

  • This week marks 22 years since the WHO Region for Europe was certified as free of wild polioviruses.

Summary of new poliovirus this week

  • Pakistan:  ten WPV1-positive environmental samples
  • Ethiopia:  one cVDPV2 case
  • Madagascar :  two cVDPV1-positive environmental samples
  • South Sudan:  one cVDPV2-positive environmental sample
  • Yemen:  five cVDVP2 cases

Country updates as of 26 June 2024

  • One WPV1 case was reported in Hilmand. There are six cases reported this year. The total number of cases in 2023 remains six.
  • 10 WPV1-positive environmental samples were reported; four each Hilmand and Kandahar and one each in Uruzgan and Hirat.

 

  • No WPV1 case was reported this week. There are five cases reported this year. The number of 2023 cases remain six.
  • Ten WPV1-positive environmental samples were reported this week, collected on 3 and 4 June, from Balochistan, Sindh, Islamabad and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
  • No cVDPV2 cases were reported this week. There were three cases reported in 2022.
  • No cVDPV2-positive environmental sample was reported this week.
  • No cVDPV2 case was reported this week. There are two cases reported this year.
  • No cVDPV2-positive environmental sample was reported this week.
  • No cVDPV2 cases were reported this week. There are 3 cases reported in 2023.
  • No cVDPV2-positive environmental sample was reported this week.
  • No cVDPV2 positive environmental samples were reported this week.
  • No cVDPV2 cases were reported this week. The number of 2023 cases remains three.
  • No cVDPV2-positive environmental samples were reported this week.
  • No cVDPV2 cases were reported this week. There was one case reported in 2023 and one in 2022.
  • No cVDPV2 cases were reported this week.
  • No cVDPV2-positive environmental samples were reported this week.
  • In August 2022, cVDPV2 was isolated from two environmental samples from a large wastewater treatment plant and a target site in the city of Montreal, Quebec. This was after the country conducted retrospective analysis of wastewater samples. Genetic sequencing confirmed linkage to the cVDPV2 case from New York, USA.
  • No cVDPV2 cases were reported this week. There have been 14 cases reported in 2023 and six cases in 2022.
  • No cVDPV2 cases were reported this week. There are four cases reported this year and 55 cases reported in 2023.
  • One cVDPV2-positive environmental sample was reported in N’Djamena.
  • No cVDPV2-positive environmental samples were reported this week.
  • No cVDPV2 case was reported this week. There are 6 cases reported in 2023.
  • One cVDPV2-positive environmental sample was reported in Abidjan 2.
  • There are no polio cases reported in the country.
  • No cVDPV2-positive environmental samples were reported this week.  
  • One cVDPV1 case was reported in Tanganyika. There are four cases reported this year and 106 cases in 2023.
  • No cVDPV2 cases were reported this week. There are three cases reported this year and 118 cases in 2023.
  • No cVDPV2-positive environmental samples were reported this week.
  • There are no polio cases reported in the country.
  • No cVDPV2-positive environmental sample was reported this week.
  • No cVDPV2 cases were reported this week. There was one case reported in 2022.
  • One cVDPV2 case is reported this week, with onset of paralysis on 28 February, from Afar province.  This brings the total number of cVDPV2 cases for this year to six.
  • No cVDPV2-positive environmental sample was reported this week.
  • No cVDPV2-positive environmental sample was reported this week.
  • No cVDPV2 cases were reported this week. There were three cases reported in 2022.
  • One cVDPV2-positive environmental sample was reported in Ashanti.
  • No cVDPV2 cases were reported this week. There are two cases reported this year. The number of 2023 cases remain 47.
  • Two cVDPV2-positive environmental samples were reported in Conakry.
  • No cVDPV2 cases were reported this week. The total number of 2023 cases remain 6.
  • No cVDPV2-positive environmental sample was reported this week.
  • No cVDPV2 cases were reported this week. There has been one cVDPV2 case reported last year.
  • No cVDPV2 cases were reported this week. There have been eight cases reported last year.
  • No cVDPV2-positive environmental samples were reported this week.
  • Four cVDPV2-positive environmental samples were reported in Montserrado.
  • Two cVDPV1-positive environmental samples are reported this week, from 2022 and 2023, from Analamanga province.  No new cases were reported.
  • The total number of cVDPV1 cases for 2023 remains 24.
  • No cVDPV1 cases were reported this week. There were four cases reported in the country in 2022.
  • No cVDPV2 cases were reported this week. There have been 15 cases reported in 2023 and one in 2024.
  • No cVDPV2 cases were reported this week. There was one case reported in 2023.
  • No cVDPV2-positive environmental sample was reported this week.
  • No cVDPV1 case was reported this week. The number of 2023 cases remains four.
  • No cVDPV2 case was reported this week. There was one case reported in 2023.
  • No cVDPV2 case was reported this week. There are two cases reported this year.
  • One cVDPV2-positive environmental sample was reported in Maradi.
  • Three cVDPV2 cases were reported this week; two in Bauchi and one in Katsina. There are 30 cases reported this year and 87 cases reported in 2023.
  • No cVDPV2-positive environmental sample was reported this week.
  • No cVDPV2-positive environmental sample was reported this week. The last cVDPV2 case in the country was in October 2021.
  • Two cVDPV2-positive environmental samples were reported in Dakar.
  • Six cVDPV2-positive environmental samples were reported in the Western Area.
  • No cVDPV2 cases were reported this week. There have been eight cases reported in 2023 and two in 2024.
  • No cVDPV2-positive environmental sample was reported this week.
  • No cases were reported this week.  There are six cVDPV2 cases reported this year.
  • One cVDPV2-positive environmental sample was reported in Central Equatoria, collected on 7 May 2024.
  • No cVDPV2 cases were reported this week. There was one case reported in 2022.
  • No cVDPV2-positive environmental samples were reported this week.
  • No cVDPV2 cases were reported this week. The total number of cases for 2023 remains two.
  • No cVDPV2-positive environmental samples were reported this week.
  • No cVDPV2-positive environmental samples were reported this week.
  • Five cVDPV2 cases are reported this week, bringing the total number of cases this year to 15.  The cases had onset of paralysis in April and June 2024, from Alhudaidah province (four cases, with onset of paralysis in April), and Dhamar province (one case, with onset of paralysis in June).
  • No cVDPV2 positive environmental samples were reported this week.
  • No cVDPV2 cases were reported this week. There was one case reported last year.
  • No cVDPV2 cases were reported this week. There is one case reported in 2023.
  • Two cVDPV2 positive environmental samples were reported in Harare.

For more country information, please visit the respective pages within the Outbreak and Endemic country sections of the GPEI website.