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In 2021, Types 2 and 3 were fully eradicated from every country; however, type 1 cases still remain in Pakistan and Afghanistan. [176] A majority of countries have successfully eradicated polio, with Pakistan and Afghanistan being the last countries with endemic cases of poliovirus. [177]
A country is regarded as polio-free or non-endemic if no cases have been detected for a year. [60] [61] However, it is still possible for polio to circulate under these circumstances, as was the case for Nigeria, where a particular strain of virus resurfaced after five years in 2016. [62]
But polio is one of the world’s most infectious diseases and is still spreading in a small number of countries. ... Most people infected with polio don’t have any symptoms, but it can cause ...
[31] [32] (There have been no cases caused by wild strains of poliovirus in Nigeria since August 2016, [33] though cVDPV2 was detected in environmental samples in 2017.) [34] Nigeria was removed from the WHO list of polio-endemic countries in September 2015 but added back in 2016, and India was removed in 2014 [35] after no new cases were ...
Pakistan records six new cases to take total for year to 39
As of 2020, five of the six WHO regions are now certified polio-eradicated (Europe, the Americas, Africa, South-East Asian, and Western Pacific Region). India was certified polio-free in 2014, [14] and Africa was declared polio free in 2020. [15] The only countries with endemic polio were Afghanistan and Pakistan as of 2021. [16]
The polio vaccine has all but obliterated the illness that once killed thousands and paralyzed 15,000 people nationwide every year. ... is administered in some countries, inactivated polio vaccine ...
Since 1994, the Pakistan Polio Eradication Programme has been fighting to end the crippling poliovirus from the country. The initiative is driven by up to 339,521 trained and dedicated polio workers, [15] the largest surveillance network in the world, [16] quality data collection and analysis, behavioral change communication, state of the art laboratories, and some of the best epidemiologists ...