Polio Update

Regarding the final two Polio Endemic Countries:  Pakistan has had no new wild polio cases reported in 2021 with the most recent case having an onset of paralysis on 11/23/2020.  Pakistan had a total of 84 Wild Polio cases reported in 2020.  Afghanistan has had one new case in 2021 with the most recent case having an onset on 1/19/2021.  Afghanistan had a total of 56 Wild Polio cases reported in 2020.

 

The biggest news is that Rotary and our Global Polio Eradication Initiative partners are working to deploy a new polio vaccine – novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2) – to better assist the countries fighting circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus outbreaks. We look forward to more information on this innovative new tool when it is deployed in the very near future.  A total of 1,007 Vaccine Derived Polio cases were reported in 2020.