Progress Toward Poliomyelitis Eradication — Afghanistan, January 2016–June 2017

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• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Personal Author:
  Martinez, Maureen ; Shukla, Hemant ; Nikulin, Joanna ; Wadood, Mufti Zubair ; Hadler, Stephen ; Mbaeyi, Chukwuma ; Tangermann, Rudolph ; Jorba, Jaume ; Ehrhardt, Derek
• Description:
  Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nigeria remain the only countries where the Transmission of endemic wild polioVirus type 1 (WPV1) continues (1). This report describes polio eradication activities, progress, and challenges in Afghanistan during January 2016-June 2017 and updates previous reports (2,3). Thirteen WPV1 cases were confirmed in Afghanistan in 2016, a decrease of seven from the 20 cases reported in 2015. From January to June 2017, five WPV1 cases were reported, compared with six during the same period in 2016. The number of affected districts declined from 23 (including WPV1-positive acute flaccid paralysis [AFP] cases and positive environmental sewage samples) in 2015 to six in 2016. To achieve WPV1 eradication, it is important that Afghanistan's polio program continue to collaborate with that of neighboring Pakistan to track and vaccinate groups of high-risk mobile populations and strengthen efforts to reach children in security-compromised areas.
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Child Child, Preschool Disease Eradication Humans Infant Poliomyelitis PolioVirus PolioVirus Vaccine, Oral Population Surveillance Vaccination

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• Source:
  MMWR Morbidity Mortal Weekly Rep. 66(32):854-858.
• Series:
  Weekly Report: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• DOI:
  http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6632a5
• ISSN:
  0149-2195 (print) ; 1545-861X (digital)
• Pubmed ID:
  28817551
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5657670
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Afghanistan
• Pages in Document:
  5 pdf pages
• Volume:
  66
• Issue:
  32
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Main Document Checksum:
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/54100/cdc_54100_DS1.pdf
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