The AFP surveillance system in Xinjiang was sensitive enough to detect polio cases, with the AFP incidence of 3.28/100,000 among children < 15 years of age.
The number of cases reported each year is used as an indicator of a country's ability to detect polio, even in countries where the disease no longer occurs.
The reason they failed became apparent when Dr. Horstmann's team detected the polio virus in the blood of infected monkeys and chimpanzees before signs of paralysis appeared.
Statistically significant regional differences in the immunity level between the adult populations in the East and West of Germany have been detected for Polio 3 (86,6% / 90,9%; p = 0,001).
We are greeted by a group of elders sitting at the entrance of the quarter and then walk another 200 meters inside to meet Ms. Awoua, 38 years old whose 18 months old son Adamou was detected with Polio last month in July.
To detect potential polio cases, AFP surveillance was intensified in Xinjiang after the confirmation of the WPV outbreak.
Based on WHO guidelines of AFP surveillance for the objective of poliomyelitis eradication, AFP surveillance is routinely conducted by the China CDC and the target population was expanded to improve the ability of AFP surveillance to detect potential polio cases in Xinjiang.
New cases of polio prompts further immunization drive in Bangladesh DHAKA, 4 August 2006 – Only one month after completing three polio National Immunisation Days (NIDs), the Government of Bangladesh has ordered a further three polio NIDs this year in response to at least 10 new cases of polio detected in the country.
The Government of Bangladesh (GOB) with support from UNICEF, WHO, Rotary International and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention CDCC, Atlanta) mounted a model response to immunize all under-5 children across the country when the first case of polio was detected in March 2006 after the country had been polio-free for five years.
On 30 March 2014, the Iraqi Ministry of Health declared a polio outbreak when one case of polio was detected in a child in the Al-Rusafa area in the capital Baghdad.
