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Polio this week
Headlines
- The Global Health Technologies Coalition (GHTC) recently honored the novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2) development consortium with its 2024 Innovating for Impact Award. These awards, issued annually by GHTC, recognize multisectoral partnerships and policymakers helping to transform breakthrough scientific research into lifesaving drugs, diagnostics, vaccines, and other health tools for unmet global health challenges. More.
- The Global Polio Eradication Initiative wishes all of its partners, stakeholders and friends a happy and joyous holiday season, and all the very best wishes for a successful 2025!
Summary of new polioviruses this week, cases and positive environmental isolates:
- Pakistan: four WPV1 cases and eight WPV1-positive environmental samples
- Cameroon: one cVDPV2-positive environmental sample
- Chad: four cVDPV2 cases and two cVDPV2-positive environmental samples
- Côte d’Ivoire: one cVDPV2-positive environmental sample
- Finland: one cVDPV2-positive environmental sample
- Germany: seven cVDPV2-positive environmental samples
- Nigeria: three cVDPV2 cases and three cVDPV2-positive environmental samples
- South Sudan: three cVDPV2-positive environmental samples
- United Kingdom: five cVDPV2-positive environmental samples
There are 8 wild polio virus type 1 cases in 2024 Calendar Year to date, as of December 23, 2024: https://polioeradication.org/wild-poliovirus-count/