Notes from the Field: Circulating Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus Type 1 and Outbreak Response - Papua New Guinea, 2018

Published on February 7, 2019

The last poliomyelitis cases reported in Papua New Guinea occurred in 1996. Papua New Guinea is one of 37 countries (or areas) of the World Health Organization Western Pacific Region that were certified free of indigenous wild poliovirus in 2000.

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