WHO says wild polio remains a 'risk' for the world as Africa's first case in five years detected

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The detection of wild polio in Malawi has sparked a warning from the World Health Organization that the virus poses a risk to all countries.

The use of oral vaccine treatments helped to reduce outbreaks of polio following a case that was identified in northern Nigeria in 2016.capital Lilongwe, the first case of wild poliovirus in Africa inLaboratory analysis showed the strain detected in Malawi wasstill endemic, the WHO said in a statement.

affect the African region's wild poliovirus-free certificationMalawi was in a three-year-old girl who experienced the onset ofAfrica's National Institute for Communicable Diseases and the"Detection of WPV1 outside the world's two remaining endemicunderscores the importance of prioritising polio immunisationA health worker administers polio vaccine to an Afghan refugee at their camp on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan in 2022.rapidly because of a high level of surveillance.

 

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