| progress toward poliomyelitis eradication - pakistan, january 2012-september 2013. | pakistan is one of three countries where transmission of indigenous wild poliovirus (wpv) has never been interrupted. this report describes polio eradication activities and progress in pakistan during january 2012-september 2013 and updates previous reports. during 2012, 58 wpv cases were reported in selected areas, compared with 198 cases throughout the country in 2011; 52 wpv cases were reported during january-september 2013, compared with 54 cases during the same period in 2012. of the 110 wp ... | 2013 | 24257203 |
| progress and peril: poliomyelitis eradication efforts in pakistan, 1994-2013. | pakistan is one of 3 countries where transmission of indigenous wild poliovirus (wpv) has never been interrupted. numbers of confirmed polio cases have declined by >90% from preeradication levels, although outbreaks occurred during 2008-2013. during 2012 and 2013, 58 and 93 wpv cases, respectively, were reported, almost all of which were due to wpv type 1. of the 151 wpv cases reported during 2012-2013, 123 (81%) occurred in the conflict-affected federally administered tribal areas (fata) and in ... | 2014 | 25316830 |