Polio this week as of 31 July 2019.
- July 2019 Polio News is available online for all the latest news, polio in numbers and the funding updates.
- Summary of new viruses this week: Afghanistan — one wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) case; Pakistan— two WPV1-positive cases and eight WPV1-positive environmental samples; Nigeria —one circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) case and one cVDPV2-positive environmental sample; Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) — one cVDPV2 sample isolated from a contact case and one cVDPV2 community isolate; Central African Republic — one cVDPV2-positive environmental sample and 13 cVDPV2 samples isolated from community; Myanmar — one cVDPV type 1 case and five cVDPV1 samples isolated from a contact case. See country sections below for more details.
Wild poliovirus type 1 and Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus cases
| Total cases | Year-to-date 2019 | Year-to-date 2018 | Total in 2018 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WPV | cVDPV | WPV | cVDPV | WPV | cVDPV | |
| Globally | 59 | 44 | 17 | 48 | 33 | 104 |
| —In Endemic Countries | 59 | 13 | 17 | 8 | 33 | 34 |
| —In Non-Endemic Countries | 0 | 31 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 70 |
