Uganda: Acute Flaccid Paralysis case detected in Adjumani

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Source: http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Natio...jumani/-/688334/1716348/-/qpxhfn/-/index.html

Suspected polio case detected in Adjumani

By MARTIN OKUDI & FELIX WAROM OKELLO

Posted Monday, March 11 2013 at 02:00

In Summary

Case detected in a 22-month-old baby who had reportedly been immunised from South Sudan by his parents.

Health officials in Adjumani District have reported a suspected case of Acute Flaccid Paralysis which they said is one of the signs of the polio virus.

The case was detected in a 22-month-old baby boy at Maasa B Health Centre II in Ukosijoni Sub-county on Wednesday last week...

 

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Re: Uganda: Acute Flaccid Paralysis case detected in Adjumani

This is the list of countries that have reported wild poliovirus (WPV) cases in the past year:

http://www.polioeradication.org/Dataandmonitoring/Poliothisweek.aspx

Notably, neither Sudan, South Sudan, or Uganda is on the list. It seems unlikely this infant could have contracted WPV in that location.

Might this be a vaccine-derived virus? The migration of the child from Sudan to Uganda 10 days before onset might have been accompanied by a vaccination....

Or is this just due to some other cause?