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19 lut 2024 · The last case of wild poliovirus serotype 3 was seen in 2012 in Nigeria and declared eradicated in 2019. The maps below the chart show how polio was eliminated in more and more countries. Back in 1980, polio was still endemic in 147 countries around the world.
25 paź 2021 · Three days after the first case of EVD had been confirmed in Nigeria, the polio EOC quickly transformed into an EVD EOC in the commercial city of Lagos, where the first case was...
1 wrz 2022 · Nigeria's Polio Journey to Zero. It's been three years now and Nigeria has not recorded a single case of wild polio. A network of frontline workers and traditional leaders have been instrumental in polio eradication and strengthening community health systems.
12 sie 2016 · In a major setback to the global campaign to eradicate polio, Nigeria has seen its first cases of wild poliovirus in more than two years, the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva,...
1 lip 2012 · Initial efforts, which focused only on polio vaccination, may be characterized as an “override approach.” In 2006, Nigeria had the greatest number of confirmed cases of polio worldwide.
The number of estimated polio cases by world region. The interactive visualization highlights the global decline in the number of paralytic polio cases from 1980 onwards. In the early 1980s, an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 people suffered from paralytic polio cases every year. In 2020 there were 1873 paralytic polio cases.
Reported cases of laboratory-confirmed polio cases. A polio case is confirmed if wild poliovirus is isolated from stool specimens collected from an Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) case.
