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Implementation of poliovirus containment in the US
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October 7, 2020
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Description:In December 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) requested that all countries conduct an inventory of their poliovirus-containing materials. On behalf of the US Department of health and Human Services, CDC initiated a survey of federal facilities, academic institutions, state and local health departments, industrial facilities, commercial diagnostic laboratories, and hospitals in the United States. This survey, which was limited in scope to those entities known or presumed to work with poliovirus and other at-risk enteric microbes, marked the beginning of Phase 1 in the implementation of the Global Action Plan to Minimize Poliovirus Facility–Associated Risk after Type-Specific Eradication of Wild Polioviruses and Sequential Cessation of Oral Poliovirus Vaccine Use (GAPIII).
In January 2018, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services designated the CDC Poliovirus Containment Activity as the U.S. National Authority for Containment (NAC). The NAC is responsible for implementing the containment plan in the U.S., which includes completing all three phases of GAPIII.
National inventory activities expanded in December 2018 with the launch of a new online survey – National Inventory for Poliovirus Containment. This survey is ongoing and expected to remain open through 2020.
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