Global polio digest

27 October 2023

Local media have announced a wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) case in a two year-old child from Karachi, and positive WPV1 environmental virus samples have recently been collected from sewage in the city as well as in Peshawar, Rawal­pindi, and Chaman. In other news on polio from the GPEI weekly update, circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) cases were logged by the Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali and Yemen, while the DR of Congo recorded both cVDPV1 and cVDPV2 cases. Read more

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