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Polio this week

Headlines 

  • New Global Polio Surveillance Action Plan (GPSAP) online – Partners of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) have updated the Global Polio Surveillance Action Plan (GPSAP) for 2025-2026, to maximize benefits of available technical and operational tools. The GPSAP 2025-2026 is aligned with the GPEI Polio Eradication Strategy 2022-2026: delivering on a promise, extension to 2029, and reflects the key surveillance activities that will facilitate achievement of the GPEI strategic goals to eradicate wild poliovirus type 1 and interrupt transmission of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2. The GPSAP is available here, and a Webinar is being organised later in the January on Tuesday 28 January 2025, 15.00hrs CET, to formally launch the GPSAP.  The Zoom link for the Webinar is:  https://who.zoom.us/j/91464319713.

Summary of new polioviruses this week, cases and positive environmental isolates:

  • Afghanistan:  13 WPV1-positive environmental samples
  • Pakistan:  three WPV1 cases and four WPV1-positive environmental samples
  • Algeria:  one cVDPV2-positive environmental sample
  • DR Congo:  one cVDPV1 case
  • Occupied Palestinian territory:  three cVDPV2-positive environmental samples
  • South Sudan:  one cVDPV2-positive environmental sample
 
There were 98 wild polio virus type 1 cases in 2024 Calendar Year  and 1 in the 2025 Calendar Year January 28, 2025: https://polioeradication.org/wild-poliovirus-count/