ARCHIVED - Poliomyelitis, Indonesia - Update

 

Eleven new poliovirus cases were confirmed on 30 September 2005 from Banten, Central Java and Lampung provinces. This brings the total number of poliovirus cases to 251.

Central Java and Lampung provinces were not included in two emergency vaccination campaigns held on 31 May and 28 June. The first round of the national immunization days was held on 30 August; the second round was conducted on 27 September. Each round targeted 24.4 million children aged < 5 years throughtout the country.

Prior to this outbreak (caused by importation of type 1 wild poliovirus), Indonesia had not had a wild poliovirus case since 1995.

Source: WHO Weekly Epidemiological Record, Vol 80, No. 40, 2005.


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