11 mayo, 2023
The Ministry of Health of Burundi declared an epidemic poliomyelitis on March 17, the first in 30 years, after confirmed cases of vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) in health districts of To father y Bujumbura City Hall.
On March 13, 2023, the Global Polio Laboratory Network confirmed 3 cases of poliovirus in the country. A four-year-old boy from the area of Winter in the Isale health district in Bujumbura province had not received any doses of polio vaccine, and there are two other contacts in the same case. Since then, the total cases have risen to 16.
The analysis of samples from the collection of sewage water of the environmental monitoring services showed the presence of poliovirus in 5 samples, including three from the Bujumbura Mairie Nord sites and two from the Bujumbura Mairie Center
The country’s health authorities and the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) have taken action. On April 27, Burundi received 3.8 million doses of the (nOPV2) vaccine. Aimed at vaccinating children between zero and seven years of age in a response campaign.
Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) is the most common form of polio in Africa. In 2022, more than 400 cases of acute flaccid paralysis were reported in 14 countries. Vaccine-derived poliovirus infection can occur in the very rare cases where the weakened strain of the virus contained in the oral polio vaccine circulates among undervaccinated populations for long periods of time. time, gradually becoming a disease-causing virus. The key to stopping cVDPV2 outbreaks is reaching all children with safe and effective polio vaccines.
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- 2023. March Isale; circulating poliovirus type 2 (CVDPV 2) outbreak
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