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African Traditional Medicine Day

Wild poliovirus in the Horn of Africa – update

Submitted by ebrahimj@who.int on Thu, 15/06/2017 - 10:35

1 OCTOBER 2013 - Three suspected cases of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) from South Sudan are currently being investigated. All three patients are girls, two of whom are approximately two-years-old and one is eight-years-old. All had previously been immunized with oral polio vaccine (OPV).