Progress Toward Poliomyelitis Eradication - Pakistan, January 2017-September 2018

Published on November 8, 2018

Among the three wild poliovirus (WPV) serotypes, only WPV type 1 (WPV1) has been reported in polio cases or detected from environmental surveillance globally since 2012. Pakistan remains one of only three countries worldwide (the others are Afghanistan and Nigeria) that has never had interrupted WPV1 transmission.

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