Pathfinder
Editor, Senior Moderator
WEEKLY BULLETIN ON OUTBREAKS
AND OTHER EMERGENCIES
Week 50: 9 - 15 December 2019
Data as reported by: 17:00; 15 December 2019
Ethiopia Poliomyelitis
(cVDPV2) Ungraded 24-Jun-19 20-May-19 11-Dec-19 5 5 0 0.00%
Two cases of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) were reported this week with one each from Somali and Oromiya provinces. The onsets of paralysis were between 24 July and 9 September 2019. A total of five cVDPV2 cases have been reported in Ethiopia in 2019, with four linked to the outbreak in neighbouring Somalia and the fifth case is part of a newly reported Ethiopian outbreak this week.
https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/330150/OEW50-16122019.pdf
AND OTHER EMERGENCIES
Week 50: 9 - 15 December 2019
Data as reported by: 17:00; 15 December 2019
Ethiopia Poliomyelitis
(cVDPV2) Ungraded 24-Jun-19 20-May-19 11-Dec-19 5 5 0 0.00%
Two cases of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) were reported this week with one each from Somali and Oromiya provinces. The onsets of paralysis were between 24 July and 9 September 2019. A total of five cVDPV2 cases have been reported in Ethiopia in 2019, with four linked to the outbreak in neighbouring Somalia and the fifth case is part of a newly reported Ethiopian outbreak this week.
https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/330150/OEW50-16122019.pdf