Posted by David Hurt on Sep 28, 2017
No new Wild Polio cases reported this week.
What is that Polio Eradication Picture?   World Polio Day! - Tuesday we celebrated How Close We Are to Ending just the Second Disease in History!  In this picture, Dr. Jay Wenger, Epidemiologist and Director of Polio Eradication for the Gates Foundation, is interviewed by Jeffery Kluger, Science Editor of Time Magazine.  The Live Stream will be available to review at  - www.endpolio.org  soon.    
 
The Gates Foundation is matching all Rotarian Raised Polio Donations $2 for each $1 Contributed (Up to $50 Mil/Yr.)
Our Rotary-wide 2017-18 Rotary Year Polio Fundraising Goal is $50 Million + the $2 for $1 Gates Foundation Match
Our Goal is Global Polio Eradication!
 
 
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16,000,000 Children Saved from the Paralysis of Polio Since 1988                                                                                       
 Total paralysis cases
Year-to-date 2017
 
LY to D 2016
Total
2016
 
Total
2015
Total
 2014
Globally
12
27
37
74
359
- in endemic countries:
12
27
37
74
340
- in post-endemic countries:
0
0
0
0
19
 Wild Polio cases reported this week:
Pakistan 0, Afghanistan 0, Nigeria 0   
 
2017 Polio Case Breakdown by Country (2016 Totals)
Endemic Countries –5 Pakistan (2016-20), 7 Afghanistan (2016-13),
0 Nigeria (2016-4)
 

The Final Three Endemic Countries: 

Pakistan - No new Polio cases reported this week.  Five cases reported in 2017 -the most recent from the Lakki Marwat district, Khyber Pakhtoon province with an onset of paralysis on August 21.  Twenty Polio cases were reported in 2016.  One new Environmental Sample reported this week, from Sindh provionce, bringing the total WPV1 positive samples in 2017 to 91. 

Afghanistan - No new Polio cases reported this week.  Seven cases reported in 2017 - the most recent from the Batikot district in Nangarhar Province with the onset of paralysis on 09/15/17.  The case occurred in a 15 month old child who had received one dose of IPV previously.  Thirteen Polio cases were reported in 2016.  Two new Polio-positive environmental samples were collected this week in Afghanistan, one from Nangarhar and one from Kandahar provinces.

 

Nigeria - No new Polio cases reported this week.   Four Polio cases reported in 2016 - with no cases reported in 2015 or 2017.  The most recent case was reported on 8/2016 in Borno State.  Nigeria has once again gone over one year without a Wild Polio case after previously going two years before an undetected outbreak of four cases was reported on 8/20/16.