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Nigeria is the latest country to have officially stopped endemic transmission of wild poliovirus, with its last reported case in 2016. [4] Of the three strains of WPV, the last recorded wild case caused by type 2 (WPV2) was in 1999, and WPV2 was declared eradicated in 2015.
History of Polio. In the early 20th century, polio was one of the most feared diseases in industrialized countries, paralysing hundreds of thousands of children every year. Soon after the introduction of effective vaccines in the 1950s and 1960s however, polio was brought under control and practically eliminated as a public health problem in ...
1 wrz 2022 · Nigeria’s battle with poliomyelitis has been a huge success! There has been no recorded case of wild polio virus since 2016. The last case was recorded in Borno State, north-east Nigeria in 2016. To sustain Nigeria’s polio-free status, over 270 million vaccines are administered yearly in the country.
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.
The interactive map shows for each country when the last case of endemic paralytic polio was recorded. The map also shows when the four polio-free WHO regions achieved this status, three years after the last country in that WHO region recorded the last endemic polio case.
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,...
25 wrz 2015 · WHO announced today that polio is no longer endemic in Nigeria. This is the first time that Nigeria has interrupted transmission of wild poliovirus, bringing the country and the African region closer than ever to being certified polio-free.
