Polio update as of Jan. 3, 2018

Posted by David Hurt on Jan 03, 2018
District 5790 Polio
One new Wild Polio case reported this week
a total of 21 cases worldwide in 2017 versus 37 cases in 2016
 
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!
 
Advocate, Donate & Educate to END POLIO NOW & FOREVER!
                                                                      
Do You Know?  the Ten Interventions Bringing Afghanistan Closer To Ending Polio? - # 10 is - Stepping Up cross Border Collaboration - Polio Vaccination Campaigns, carried out at the same time in neighboring countries, goes a long way toward catching many of the migrant and on the move populations from both sides of the border.  
 
 
 Total paralysis cases
Year-to-date 2017
 
LY to D 2016
Total
2016
 
Total
2015
Total
 2014
Globally
21
34
37
74
359
- in endemic countries:
21
34
37
74
340
- in post-endemic countries:
0
0
0
0
19
 Wild Polio cases reported this week:
Pakistan 0, Afghanistan 1, Nigeria 0   
 
2017 Polio Case Breakdown by Country (Green Numbers are 2016 Totals)
Endemic Countries –8 Pakistan (2016-20), 13 Afghanistan (2016-13),
0 Nigeria (2016-4)
 

Pakistan - No new Polio cases reported this week.  Eight cases reported in 2017 -the most recent from the Balochistan province with an onset of paralysis on 11/14/17.  Twenty Polio cases were reported in 2016.  No new Environmental Samples reported this week.  A Bivalent Oral Polio Vaccine campaign will target 36 million children later this month.

Afghanistan - One new Polio case reported this week.  Thirteen cases reported in 2017 - the most recent from the Khandahar province with the onset of paralysis on 12/03/17.  A Bivalent Oral Polio Vaccine campaign targeting 5 million children will begin later this month.  Thirteen Polio cases were reported in 2016.  Two new Polio-positive Environmental Samples (from Khandahar & Nangarhar) were collected this week.

 

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.