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Independent Monitoring Board of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, 13th Report

Saturday, 27th of August 2016 Print

Independent Monitoring Board of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, 13th Report

The IMB meeting, which forms the basis for this report, took place before the identification of new WPV cases in northeast Nigeria. The report focuses largely on Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Full text is at http://www.polioeradication.org/Portals/0/Document/Aboutus/Governance/IMB/14IMBMeeting/14IMB_Report_EN.pdf

Vaccine derived poliovirus remains a major concern of the IMB. The switch from tOPV to bOPV is associated with a decline in the number of cVDPV outbreaks, but not in the intensity of the VDPV outbreaks, notably in Guinea and Madagascar.

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