Zimbabwe: 2024 Polio

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Source: https://english.news.cn/20240216/c0d30282384145c08fa823bd2dde5a3a/c.html

Zimbabwe declares polio outbreak, rolling out vaccination program
Source: Xinhua
Editor: huaxia
2024-02-16 23:10:30

HARARE, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- The Zimbabwean government on Friday declared a polio outbreak in the country and announced a rollout of vaccinations starting Feb. 20.

Deputy Minister of Health and Child Care Sleiman Kwidini made the announcement at a media briefing and urged the public not to panic as the government has taken swift action to contain the outbreak.

He said his ministry has done laboratory tests and confirmed the presence of a Type 2 circulating poliovirus variant in environmental samples that were collected toward the end of 2023 from some sewage sites in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe. A similar variant was also detected in a 10-year-old child in another province.​..

 

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Source: https://www.newsday.co.zw/local-news/article/200023373/polio-cases-rise-to-3


Polio cases rise to 3
By Vanessa Gonye and Lorraine Muromo | 18h ago | 3 Min read

​TWO more polio cases have been recorded, bringing to three since the country recorded its first case in Sanyati in December last year.

Speaking during a media briefing in Harare yesterday, Polio incident manager Colline Chigodo said the cases were discovered after they carried intense surveillance and testing in four areas around Harare where they discovered the cases.

She said the cases were asymptomatic, meaning the children who tested positive had no signs of having polio which usually results in weakness of limbs.

“During the course of last year, we started to detect this circulating vaccine derived polio virus at four sites in Harare,” said Chigodo.​..

 

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Source: https://reliefweb.int/report/zimbab...tion-report-no-3-polio-response-14-march-2024

UNICEF Zimbabwe Humanitarian Situation Report No. 3 (Polio Response) - 14 March 2024
Format Situation Report
Source UNICEF
Posted 15 Mar 2024
Originally published 15 Mar 2024


Highlights

To date, Zimbabwe has detected twenty-one (21) circulating vaccine derived polio virus type 2 (cVDPV2) cases in environmental samples (ES) in Harare since October 2023. The samples were from four polio environmental surveillance sites in Harare.

The Polio outbreak was declared a public health emergency (PHE) by the Minister of Health and Child Care in October 2023.

An index human cVDPV2 was reported in a 10-year-old female acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) case in January 2024.

In the reporting period four new cVDP2 and one cVDPV1 cases have been reported from environmental sites (ES) in Harare. The samples were from four polio environmental surveillance sites in Harare.

No new acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) case reported this reporting weeks (cumulative 23) with a NPAFP rate at 1.3 per cent children over 15 years.

Round one campaign has been completed in the country, with a cumulative coverage of about 4.6 million (108 per cent) of targeted children.

Preparations and pre-campaign activities have been accelerated for round two in the country which will be conducted from 19 March to 23 March 2024 across the country.

Situation Overview & Humanitarian Needs

Zimbabwe last reported a case of indigenous Wild Polio Virus (WPV) in 1986 and had been certified polio free in 2005. Following the detection of WPV1 in Mozambique and Malawi, in 2022, Zimbabwe also undertook the multi-country supplementary immunization activities (SIAs) with bOPV2 and managed to conduct four rounds of SIA.​..