[HTML][HTML] Progress toward polio eradication—worldwide, January 2019–June 2021

JP Bigouette - MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2021 - cdc.gov
From 2019 to 2020, the number of WPV1 cases increased in Afghanistan and decreased in
Pakistan and the number of cVDPV2 cases increased and cVDPV2 outbreak countries …

Polio vaccination activities in conflict-affected areas

C Mbaeyi - Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Conflict poses a threat to the stability of health-care systems around the world. Within the
context of immunization service delivery, conflict-affected geographies are often dogged by …

The polio vaccination story of Pakistan

S Rahim, Z Ahmad, J Abdul-Ghafar - Vaccine, 2022 - Elsevier
Background To describe in chronological detail Pakistan's decades long battle against
poliovirus and evaluate the multiple factors impacting it. Main body Pakistan's fight is …

[HTML][HTML] Progress toward poliomyelitis eradication—Pakistan, January 2020–July 2021

C Mbaeyi - MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2021 - cdc.gov
WPV1 cases in Pakistan declined by 43% from 2019 to 2020, and only one case has been
reported to date in 2021. A circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) outbreak …

[HTML][HTML] Surveillance to track progress toward polio eradication—worldwide, 2019–2020

JN Tuma - MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2021 - cdc.gov
Surveillance to Track Progress Toward Polio Eradication — Worldwide, 2019–2020 | MMWR
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[HTML][HTML] Progress toward poliomyelitis eradication―Afghanistan, january 2020–november 2021

KS Sadigh - MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2022 - cdc.gov
Despite an increase in the numbers of inaccessible children in Afghanistan in 2021 and
disruption of polio eradication activities caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and abrupt …

[HTML][HTML] Wide circulation of type 1 vaccine-derived poliovirus strains in clinical specimens from suspected cases of poliomyelitis, their contacts and in wastewater in …

J Raharinantoanina, ML Joffret, M Bessaud… - Virology, 2024 - Elsevier
Madagascar has faced three major outbreaks of vaccine-derived polioviruses (VDPVs) in
recent decades, with VDPV type 1 reemerging in late 2020. Here, we report the molecular …

[HTML][HTML] Progress toward poliomyelitis eradication—Pakistan, January 2022–June 2023

C Mbaeyi - MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2023 - cdc.gov
Since the establishment of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative in 1988, Pakistan remains
one of only two countries (along with Afghanistan) with continued endemic transmission of …

Updated characterization of poliovirus transmission in Pakistan and Afghanistan and the impacts of different outbreak response vaccine options

DA Kalkowska, MA Pallansch, SL Cochi… - The Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background Pakistan and Afghanistan remain the only reservoirs of wild poliovirus
transmission. Prior modeling suggested that before the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID …

Modeling scenarios for ending poliovirus transmission in Pakistan and Afghanistan

DA Kalkowska, K Badizadegan, KM Thompson - Risk Analysis, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Pakistan and Afghanistan pose risks for international transmission of polioviruses as the last
global reservoir for wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) and a reservoir for type 2 circulating …