The 2022 Malawi Polio outbreak

After 30 years of no polio cases reported in Malawi, on 17th February 2022, the government declared a polio outbreak following a confirmed 4-year-old child case of the disease in the nation’s capital, Lilongwe. This was the first case of wild poliovirus in Africa in more than five years after Africa...

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Published in:Malawi medical journal 2022-09, Vol.34 (3), p.223-224
Main Authors: Chunda, Penjani, Chisema, Mike N, Mwale, Annie, Kambalame, Dzinkambani, Mapemba, Daniel, Muula, Adamson S
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Disease Outbreaks
Humans
Malawi - epidemiology
Poliomyelitis - epidemiology
Poliomyelitis - prevention & control
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Summary:After 30 years of no polio cases reported in Malawi, on 17th February 2022, the government declared a polio outbreak following a confirmed 4-year-old child case of the disease in the nation’s capital, Lilongwe. This was the first case of wild poliovirus in Africa in more than five years after Africa was declared free of indigenous wild polio in August 2020. Laboratory analysis showed that the strain detected in Malawi was linked to that which had been circulating in Sindh Province of Pakistan.  
ISSN:1995-7270
1995-7270
1995-7262
DOI:10.4314/mmj.v34i3.14