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 |
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.