Polio Update Report

In 1988, when most of the world's children were unvaccinated against polio, Rotary took on the cause of eliminating the crippling disease by universally vaccinating every child. Today, with more than 2.5 billion children worldwide vaccinated and immune from polio, new cases have be reduced to a few per year and contained to two countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
 
This page contains information gathered by the World Health Organization and is updated weekly. For more information, contact District Polio Chair Lorna Gunning Fratschko.
 
Poliovirus Weekly Update
08-Jan-2025, World Health Organization
 

Officially reported WPV1 and cVDPV cases as of 07 January 2025

Wild poliovirus (WPV)

·         Total global WPV1 cases in 2023: 12

·         Total global WPV1 cases in 2024: 93 (compared with 12 for the same period in 2023)


Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV) cases

·         Total global cVDPV cases in 2023: 528

·         Total global cVDPV cases in 2024: 255 (compared with 454 for the same period in 2023)

New wild poliovirus isolates reported this week:
AFP cases: 1
Environment: 13
Others: 3

New cVDPV isolates reported this week:
AFP cases: 1
Environment: 1
Others: 0

 

HEADLINES

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative wishes all of its partners, stakeholders and friends all the very best wishes for a successful 2025! 

 Summary of new polioviruses this week:

  • Pakistan:  one WPV1 case and 13 WPV1-positive environmental samples
  • Indonesia:  one cVDPV2 case
  • Nigeria:  three cVDPV2 cases
  • United Kingdom (UK):  one cVDPV2-positive environmental sample

 
For more country information, please visit the respective pages within the Outbreak and Endemic country sections of the GPEI website.