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Fwd: Global Polio Update 1 message Sarah Carr To: District Administrator Sarah Carr Bcc: [email protected]

20 February 2016 at 10:06

Attention: Presidents and Secretaries Please see below latest Polio figures. Please pass on to your club members.Thank you. Sarah Carr District 9910 District Administrator Email: [email protected]   Be a Gift to the World Headlines

·         GPEI: As we enter February 2016, GPEI bids farewell to Hamid Jafari, the former director of GPEI, whose tenure has seen the removal of Nigeria from the list of polioendemic countries, certification of the eradication of wild poliovirus type 2, and the lowest number of cases reported in the fewest number of places in any one year. GPEI welcomes Michel Zaffran, former coordinator of the WHO Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), as its new director, as we enter a pivotal part of the Endgame Plan. ·         Iraq: Iraq has introduced the inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) into its routine immunization system. ·         Environmental surveillance is playing an increasingly important role in ensuring that the poliovirus is found, wherever it continues to circulate. Find out more about environmental surveillance through this series of photographs. ·         Switch from the trivalent to bivalent oral polio vaccine: There are nine weeks to go until the globally synchronized switch from the trivalent to bivalent oral polio vaccine, an important milestone in achieving a poliofree world.   Pakistan: The first case of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) in 2016 was reported in the past week, with onset of paralysis in Karachi Gadap, Sindh on 17 January 2016. The total number of WPV1 cases for 2016 is now 1, compared to 7 reported for 2015 at this point last year. Poliovirus Weekly Update as on – February 10, 2016   World Wide as Reported by WHO:   New wild poliovirus cases reported in the past week for 2015: 1 Total number of wild poliovirus cases in 2016: 1 Total number of wild poliovirus cases in 2015: 74 (Samples collected  in 2015 still under test) Wild Polio Virus case reported in the past week World Wide in 2016: 1

No New Case of  WPV was reported from Afghanistan   1 New Case of WPV1 was reported from Pakistan.   OFFICIALLY REPORTED WILD VIRUS CASES ON – February 10, 2016 in Endemic Countries: 1 (Compared with 7 in the same period in 2015)   Afghanistan: 0 cases in 2016 (compared with 0 for the same period in 2015) Pakistan: 1 cases in 2016 (compared with 7 for the same period in 2015) OFFICIALLY REPORTED WILD VIRUS CASES ON – February 10, 2016 in Importation Countries continues at 0 (Compared with 0 in the same period in 2015)   Officially reported cVDPV cases on – February 10, 2016   World Wide as Reported by WHO.   New cVDPV cases reported in the past week for 2016: 2  (compared with 0 for the same period in 2015

Total global cases in 2016: 2 (compared with 0 for the same period in 2015) Total global cases in endemic Countries in 2015: 0 (compared with 0for the same period in 2016) Total in nonendemic countries in 2015: 2 (compared with 0 for the same period in 2015)

∙ Lao People's Democratic Republic: 2 cases in 2016 (compared with 0 for the same period in 2015), onset of paralysis of most recent case: 11‐Jan‐16

∙ Myanmar: 0 case in 2016 (compared with 0 for the same period in 2015), onset of paralysis of most recent case: 05‐Oct‐15 ∙ Guinea: 0 case in 2016 (compared with 0 for the same period in 2015), onset of paralysis of most recent case: 02‐Oct‐15 ∙ Madagascar: 0 case in 2016 (compared with 0 for the same period in 2015), onset of paralysis of most recent case: 22‐Aug‐15 ∙ Ukraine: 0 case in 2016 (compared with 0 for the same period in 2015), onset of paralysis of most recent case: 07‐Jul‐15 ∙ Nigeria: 0 case in 2016 (compared with 0 for the same period in 2015), onset of paralysis of most recent case: 16‐May‐15 ∙ Pakistan: 0 case in 2016 (compared with 0 for the same period in 2015), onset of paralysis of most recent case: 09‐Feb‐15

· Total global cases in 2015: 28

· Total in endemic countries: 3

· Total in nonendemic countries: 25

L  Ford Lindsay Ford District Governor 20122013 District 9910 Vanuatu Projects/Partnerships Chair District 9910 Polio Plus Programme Chair Rotary Club of Norfolk Island EMail: [email protected] Skype; lindsay.alison.ford