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QCOSTARICA - The United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a travel alert for its population due to the malaria outbreak that has hit the Huetar Caribbean Region in recent weeks. Issued on April 17, 2023, the alert "Malaria in Costa Rica" is a Level 2, Practice Enhanced Precautions which recommends that…
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the Republic of Indonesia recently joined an expanding list of countries deploying a new polio vaccine to curtail an active outbreak. The WHO announced on December 19, 2022, Indonesia’s Ministry of Health had notified the WHO of a confirmed case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) with acute flaccid paralysis from Pidie district in Aceh province.
Indonesia's Ministry of Health notified World Health Organization (WHO) in November 2022 of a confirmed case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) with acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) from Pidie district in Aceh province. There is low population immunity against all polioviruses in Indonesia but primarily type 2 in children born after the switch from the trivalent to the bivalent Oral Polio Vaccine (bOPV) in April 2016.
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) recently reported three African countries confirmed additional vaccine-derived polio cases last week. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) reported one case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1 (cVDPV1) in Haut Lomami. There are now 29 cVDPV1 cases reported in 2022. And the DRC confirmed six cases of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2), bringing the number of cases reported in 2022 to 160. There were 28 cases in 2021.
As the world continues to struggle with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, another infectious disease is raising alarm bells on the global stage. On 23 July 2022, the World Health...