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Nigeria: 2011/2012 Polio cases

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Katsina worst hit by polio as Nigeria records four new cases
MONDAY, 24 SEPTEMBER 2012 00:00 BY CHUKWUMA MUANYA

UN meets over scourge Sept 27



IF nothing is done urgently Katsina State, which accounts for 40 per cent of Nigeria?s Wild Polio Virus type one (WPV1), may export the virus to neighbouring countries, even as the country last week reported four new cases of polio.

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According to the latest edition of Weekly Polio Update published yesterday by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), four new cases were reported in the past week. Two of the WPV1s is from Kano while two WPV1s is from Jigawa, bringing the total number of cases for 2012 to 88. The most recent case, a WPV1 from Jigawa, had onset of paralysis on August 20.

Additionally, two new cases of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) were reported from Kano State, the most recent of which had onset of paralysis on August 1.

According to the GPEI, Nigeria remains the only country in the world with ongoing circulation of all three serotypes: WPV1, WPV3 and cVDPV2.
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http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/inde...ds-four-new-cases&catid=1:national&Itemid=559
 
Re: Nigeria: 2011/2012 Polio cases

Source: http://www.voanews.com/content/polio-surge-in-nigeria/1516673.html


News / Africa
Polio Surges in Nigeria
Heather Murdock
September 28, 2012

ABUJA ? Polio is again on the rise in Nigeria and doctors said the entire region should be on alert. An alarming number of new cases have been found in the north, where authorities are already dealing with the unrest caused by the militant group Boko Haram. Health officials warn that even a few cases of polio can lead to a devastating outbreak...
 
Re: Nigeria: 2011/2012 Polio cases

Source: http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2012/09/29/katsina-state-leads-in-polio-cases/

Katsina state leads in polio cases
Published on September 29, 2012 by pmnews

Katsina state, in Nigeria?s Northwest has the nation?s highest number of polio cases, Dr Mustapha Mahmud, Head of the Immunisation Unit of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), has said.

Mahmud said this in Katsina while speaking with journalists on Saturday.

He stressed that Katsina State recorded the highest number of polio cases out of the 88 confirmed cases in the country...
 
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Source: http://english.cri.cn/6966/2012/12/10/2982s737472.htm

Case of Type-one Wild Polio Reported in Nigeria
2012-12-10 01:17:31 Xinhua Web Editor: Yangyang

A case of type-one wild polio virus had been reported in Nigeria's Federal Capital Territory (FCT), an health official has said. The executive secretary for the Primary Health Care Development Board (PHCDB) Rilwanu Mohammed told reporters in Abuja on Sunday that the reported case had been confirmed. Mohammed said there was no reported case of polio in the FCT since 2010, but that one child had just been confirmed to have the type one polio virus...
 
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Source: http://leadership.ng/nga/articles/42160/2012/12/10/new_case_typeone_wild_polio_reported_fct.html

New Case Of Type-one Wild Polio Reported In FCT
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Mon, 10/12/2012 - 2:39am | CATHERINE AGBO

Two years after the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) recorded its last case of wild polio virus in Dobi village, Gwagwalada Area Council, a new case of the virus and another suspected case was yesterday recorded in Jahi village, a community in the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC).

The executive secretary, FCT Primary Health Care Development Board, Dr. Rilwanu Mohammed, disclosed this during the monitoring of a mop-up polio immunisation exercise in the area.

He said a case of weakness of limbs in a child of two years and six months, Yusuf Haruna, was reported to the board, and that during investigation in the area, similar symptoms were noticed in another child, prompting the authorities to send faecal samples from the suspected cases to Ibadan for test...
 
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Source: http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2012/12/13/who-to-compel-nigerians-going-abroad-take-polio-vaccine/

WHO to compel Nigerians going abroad take polio vaccine print
Published on December 13, 2012 by pmnews

From May 2013, Nigerians travelling abroad would be compelled to take the oral polio vaccine before leaving Nigeria, Dr Ray Nihar, an official of the World Health Organisation (WHO) said in Kaduna today.

Nihar said at the monthly review meeting of traditional rulers in Kaduna State involved in polio eradication campaign that WHO would issue a standing recommendation to all nations under the International Health Regulations...
 
Re: Nigeria: 2011/2012 Polio cases

Source: http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2012/12/29/nigeria-reports-eight-new-cases-of-polio/

Nigeria reports eight new cases of polio print
Published on December 29, 2012 by pmnews

Eight new cases of wild polio virus have been reported in Nigeria?s north western state of Kebbi, according to Hajiya Saudatu Abdullahi, the manager of National Programme on Immunisation in the state

The new cases increase to 10 the polio virus incidents in the state.

Last October, Anna Jones, UNICEF Information Consultant reported two cases.

A report on the activities of the programme signed by Adbullahi, made available to NAN in Birnin Kebbi showed that wild virus had also been uncovered in Aliero, Augie, Birnin Kebbi, Bagudo, Yauri Local Government Areas while two types of the virus were recorded in Gwandu Local Government Area alone...
 
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From Polio this week - As of 09 January 2013
http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/Polio this week As of 09 January 2013.pdf

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Latest case was reported with onset on november 24 2012: see previous post.

Nigeria Records Zero Case of Polio in Two Months

01 Feb 2013

Speaking with journalists in Abuja yesterday after meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan, the Director General of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr Ado Mohammed, said the committee on the eradication of polio had stepped up its efforts to totally eliminate the disease from the country in the next two years.

“What we told the president is that in the last two months, Nigeria has not recorded a single case of polio. What this means is that no child has been paralysed in Nigeria in the last two months. This is a major achievement,” he said.

“Secondly, we also shared with the president the global good analysis which is done by the World Health Organisation (WHO) which shows that the population immunity has increased in Nigeria from 50 per cent to 80 per cent. What this means is that even if the polio Virus finds itself in any location, it may not be able to paralyse a child and even if it paralyses a child, other children in those places would be secured. Population immunity has improved,” he said.

More: This Day Live
 
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FCT records fresh outbreak of type one wild polio

on FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Abuja – Three months after a reported case of wild polio in Jahi village, a community in the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), another case has been confirmed in Kabusa, Lugbe, FCT, an official said.

Dr. Rilwanu Mohammed, the Executive Secretary of the FCT Primary Health Care Development Board, said in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Abuja, that the case of two and a half-year old Abubakar Usman was reported to the board two weeks ago during the immunisation plus days.

Mohammed told NAN that Usman had a case weakness of the limbs and samples were taken to Ibadan for test, a confirmation of the result was out on Feb. 18.

“In December, we had the first case of polio positive and the second case was also positive, so we have three cases in three months.

More: Vanguard


FCT = the Federal Capital Territory;the home of Abuja, the capital of Nigeria

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