POLIO [to 2 April 2016]
Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)

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Polio this week as of 30 March 2016
:: There are two weeks to go until the globally synchronized switch from the trivalent to bivalent oral polio vaccine. Learn more about the switch through this series of videos.

Selected Country Levels Updates [excerpted]
Afghanistan
:: One new cases of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) were reported in the past week, in Nawzad district of Hilmand province, with onset of paralysis on 23 January. The total number of WPV1 cases for 2016 remains 2, compared to 1 reported for 2015 at this point last year.
Pakistan
:: One new wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) case was reported in the last week, in Shikarpur district of Sindh province, with onset of paralysis on 5 March. The total number of WPV1 cases for 2016 is now 7, compared to 20 reported at the same date last year.
:: One new WPV1 environmental positive sample was reported in the past week, in Peshawar district with collection date on 2 March.