Health Alerts

The country’s first vaccine-derived polio cases, which are linked to Chad's outbreak, have been reported (three total – from the provinces of Warrap and Western Bahr El Ghazal), and in further developments on cVDPV2 in Africa, two other nations registered three cases each: Chad (Logone Oriental and Mayo Kebbi East provinces) and Guinea (Kankan and N'zerekore). In Asia, Afghanistan recorded a new wild poliovirus type 1 case (WPV1) in Kandahar province and another cVDPV2 infection (Kunar province) and Pakistan’s three new WPV1 cases were from the provinces of Balochistan and Punjab, plus two cVDPV2 cases in Sindh province. Read More