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Ethiopia: 2014 Polio cases

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Source: http://www.theglobaldispatch.com/ethiopia-reports-first-polio-case-of-2014/


Published On: Tue, Mar 18th, 2014
Outbreak News / World News | By Robert Herriman
Ethiopia reports first polio case of 2014

The first case of wild poliovirus 1 (WPV-1) in Ethiopia for 2014 has been reported in a 25 month old boy, making it the 10th case overall in the country since the beginning of the Horn of Africa outbreak last year, according to an UN Humanitarian Bulletin published yesterday...

Link to 2013 thread http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=210381
 
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Re: Ethiopia: 2014 Polio cases

ECHO Daily Flash
29 March 2014
http://ercportal.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ECHO-Flash/ECHO-Flash-List/yy/2014/mm/3
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Ethiopia - Epidemics (ECHO)
A new case of wild polio virus has been reported in Dolo/Warder zone, bringing the total number of wild polio virus cases to 10 since the beginning of the current outbreak in May 2013.
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http://ercportal.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ECHO-Flash/ECHO-Flash-List/yy/2014/mm/3

Polio this week

The data table below is as of 26 March 2014 - See more at: http://www.polioeradication.org/Dataandmonitoring/Poliothisweek.aspx#sthash.dQXNFzIF.dpuf
One new WPV1 case was reported in the past week, from Ethiopia. It is the first case in the Horn of Africa in 2014, and had onset of paralysis on 5 January, from Somali region.
 
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