POLIO [to 30 August 2014]
GPEI Update: Polio this week – As of 27 August 2014
Global Polio Eradication Initiative
Editor’s Excerpt and text bolding
Full report: http://www.polioeradication.org/Dataandmonitoring/Poliothisweek.aspx
:: Continued transmission in Kano: wild poliovirus 1 transmission continues in a geographically limited area of southern Kano state, Nigeria, indicating pockets where vaccination campaigns and social mobilization are still too weak to assure sufficient coverage during campaigns. Kano is the only state in Nigeria reporting cases of wild poliovirus since April.
:: Protecting west Africa: Even as polio programme staff across west Africa support efforts to control the Ebola outbreak affecting the region, preparations are going ahead for large scale multi-country vaccination campaigns in those countries not affected by Ebola, in mid-September.
Afghanistan
:: Vaccination activities have resumed in parts of Helmand Province, Southern Region, where no vaccination had taken place for 5 months.
Nigeria
:: One new case of WPV1 was reported in the past week. This most recent case, which had onset of paralysis in Sumaila Local Government Area (LGA), southern Kano, on 24 July, is the second to be reported in the LGA this year. Nigeria’s total case count for 2014 is now six. Kano is the only state with cases of WPV since April.
:: One new case of type 2 circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV2) was reported in the past week. The total number of cVDPV2 cases for 2014 is 19. The most recent cVDPV2 case had onset of paralysis on 22 June, also in Kano.
Pakistan
:: Two new WPV1 cases were reported in the past week, one from Khyber Agency in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and one from Karachi in Sindh, bringing the total number of WPV1 cases for 2014 to 117. The FATA case is the most recent WPV1 case in the country, with onset of paralysis on 30 July.

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The Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER) 29 August 2014, vol. 89, 35 (pp. 377–388)
Includes:
:: Assessing and mitigating the risks of outbreaks due to wild poliovirus in polio-free African countries, 2013–2014
:: Monthly report on dracunculiasis cases, January– July 2014
http://www.who.int/entity/wer/2014/wer8935.pdf?ua=1