Source: Global Polio Eradication Initiative
Country: Afghanistan, Guinea, Lao People's Democratic Republic (the), Madagascar, Nigeria, Pakistan
Polio this week as of 26 January 2017
- The Executive Board of the World Health Organization is meeting this week in Geneva, Switzerland. Ministers of Health will agree on the agenda for the May World Health Assembly (WHA), and will review various international public health topics. Ministers are expected to receive a comprehensive review and overview of the latest global poliovirus epidemiology.
- Summary of newly-reported viruses this week (see country-specific sections below for further details): Afghanistan – one environmental wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) sample; Pakistan – one environmental WPV1 positive sample.