Nigeria: 2011/2012 Polio cases

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Fresh outbreak of polio recorded in Kebbi, Jigawa
By Ajewole Ebenezer
April 6, 2011 02:34AM


Four new cases of the wild polio virus have been recorded in Kebbi and Jigawa States, in a shocking reversal that underscores the continued threat posed by the disease in Nigeria.

The new cases brings to five the number of cases of the wild polio virus, which cripples and even kills children, recorded so far in the country in 2011.

Nigeria is one of only four countries across the world where the wild polio virus is still found. The others are Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.

Reacting to the discovery of the new cases of the wild polio virus in the two northern states, the Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Muhammed Ali Pate said the affected states are conducting a "mop-up" vaccination campaign with the support of the NPHCDA and international development partners to eradicate the virus.

Mr Ali Pate also said that despite Nigeria's progress in polio eradication, the virus is still a threat to the Nigerian child. He called for the support of state and local government to ensure that every single child under five years of age receives the polio vaccine...

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Polio resurgence in Nigeria could reverse gains: UNICEF
Northern Nigeria has seen signs of a resurgence of polio cases, threatening to erase gains that had...

Northern Nigeria has seen signs of a resurgence of polio cases, threatening to erase gains that had led to the near eradication of the disease in the country, UNICEF officials said Tuesday.

"In recent times, we have made some commendable strides in our commitment to kick polio out of Nigeria...," said deputy head of the UN children's fund for Nigeria, Jacques Boyer.

"However, there are challenges in sustaining the progress made in polio eradication as Nigeria is currently experiencing new polio outbreaks."

Polio cases in Nigeria dropped to 21 in 2010 from a staggering 338 cases in 2009.

But "as at this month, 20 cases of wild polio virus were reported in six states" in the north, Boyer told a gathering of traditional and religious leaders in the northern city of Kano.

"It is clear from the figures that we are beginning to lose some of the grounds covered in our polio eradication efforts."

The World Health Organisation has pledged to stop polio transmission by the end of the year and to stamp out the crippling virus worldwide by 2012.

"We have come too far in our fight against polio to contemplate a relapse. Complacency is probably the biggest danger that might jeopardise success in eradicating polio," Boyer told the community leaders.

The change has been blamed on a decrease in vaccinations for the highly contagious virus, which has been a problem in the past in Nigeria.

Between 2003 and 2004, the Nigerian state of Kano suspended polio immunisation for 13 months following allegations by some Muslim clerics that the virus was laced with substances that could render girls infertile.

They alleged it was part of a US-led Western plot to depopulate Africa,...

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Nigerian Polio Outbreak Is A Cause For Concern
Posted on 26. Oct, 2011 by Louise MacLean in Lifestyle

A mutated polio vaccine is causing major problems in Nigeria.

October 27, 2011- Health officials in Nigeria are fighting an unusual polio outbreak. The officials have said a mutating polio vaccine is the cause for the outbreak. However, they said the only way to remedy the situation is to continue to vaccinate the children in Nigeria.

World Health Organization officials fear news of the recent outbreak will be detrimental to the efforts of eradicating the disease in the northern part of Nigeria. In 2003, vaccinations were stopped for close to a year when rumors circulated that Muslim girls became sterilized from the vaccine or that it contained the HIV virus that caused AIDS. During just that short time span of no vaccinations, polio spread to other countries.

Officials denied they had maintained the outbreak a secret and said no one realized until a short time ago that close to 70 of the last 1,300 Nigeria polio cases was from the mutant vaccine virus instead of the ?wild type? that caused the majority of polio cases...

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21 November 2011

Polio in Nigeria 'shows big increase'

A four-fold increase in polio has been reported in Nigeria, with the disease spreading to other countries, a World Health Organisation official says.

Forty-three cases were reported in Nigeria this year, compared to 11 last year, the official, Thomas Moran, said.

Curbing the polio virus in Nigeria is key to eradicating the crippling disease in Africa, he said.

In 2003, northern Nigeria's Muslim leaders leaders opposed vaccinations, claiming they could cause infertility.

Nigeria is one of four countries in the world - along with Pakistan, India and Afghanistan - where polio is still a major health risk.

More: BBCnews

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Polio fights back as Nigeria records 44 new cases

TUESDAY, 29 NOVEMBER 2011

15 million children receive polio vaccine

NIGERIA has recorded 400 per cent increase in polio cases in one year, with 44 cases in 2011 compared to 11 cases by this time in 2010.

However, in the continuous onslaught against the scourge in the country, no fewer than 15 million children under the age of five have received the trivalent Oral Polio Vaccine (tOPV) during the Maternal and Newborn Child Health Week (MNCHW) held last week.

According to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) latest report on Nigeria, ?two cases of Wild Polio Virus (WPV) were reported last week, both in Kano State. The total number of cases for 2011 is now 44.

The most recent case had onset of paralysis on October 15, in Kumbotso district. The other case reported last week was in Gaya district - a district which had not previously reported a case of WPV this year.?

read more - The Guardian Nigeria

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Nigeria records new polio case in Jigawa

MONDAY, 05 DECEMBER 2011

NIGERIA has recorded a new case of Wild Polio Virus type 1 (WPV1) in Jigawa, bringing the total number of cases for 2011 to 45. According to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) Weekly Polio update, it is the most recent case in the country and had onset of paralysis on October 29.

To address the issue, the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) plans rapid surveillance assessments before the end of the year in three southern states with suboptimal surveillance indicators. The agency also plans assessments for key high-risk areas in the North, including Kaduna, Taraba and Bauchi in January.

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Jigawa records 46 polio cases
On December 22, 2011
By Tina Akannam
DUTSE?Jigawa State has recorded two new cases of wild poliomyelitis in Ringim and Gwiwa local government areas of the state, bringing the total cases of wild poliomyelitis in Nigeria this year to 46 as against 14 recorded last year.

Director-General, Jigawa State Gunduma Health Systems Board, Alhaji Usman Abubakar, made this known at a news briefing on Free Polio Torch launch scheduled to hold in Dutse, the state capital, tomorrow.

Abubakar said the two new cases were reported to the board, yesterday.

He said: ?Previously we had the following cases of poliomyelitis: two cases in Guri in the months of March and April; one in Roni, and two at Ringim in the months of September and October.?

?Other cases were also reported in Babura in October.?
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7 polio cases discovered as Jigawa reiterates commitment to eradication
Sunday, 25 December 2011

GOVERNOR Sule Lamido of Jigawa State has reiterated the state government?s commitment to the polio eradication campaign as seven cases of polio virus was discovered in the state.

Alhaji Lamido disclosed this while speaking at the launch of the polio-free torch campaign held in the state capital, Dutse...

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Nigeria: More Cases of Polio Recorded in Kano
Halima Musa
27 December 2011

Kano ? Despite the efforts of Kano State, the Federal Government, and development partners to eradicate polio in Kano State, more cases are being recorded. Now there are 16 cases against the 14 that were earlier recorded.

This was disclosed by the state Commissioner for Health Dr Abubakar Labaran Yusuf during the flag off of 9th Round of Immunization Plus Days and handing over of motorcycles for surveillance exercise by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Kano. Yusuf said the new case was recorded in Gaya Local Government Area of the state.
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Jigawa records 2 new polio cases
Written by Adamu Amadu Wednesday, 28 December 2011

TWO new polio cases have been reported in Gwiwa Local Government Area of Jigawa State, few days after this year?s last round of immunization exercise was concluded in the state.

This was disclosed by the state?s UNICEF Representative, Mrs Jane Nyanzi, while speaking with newsmen in preparation for polio-free torch campaign.

Mrs. Jane Nyazi explained the Gwiwa new cases had brought the total cases recorded so far in the state to 11 this year alone.

She said that Ringim, Babura, Guri, Roni, Birnikudu, Dutse and Gwiwa were the affected local government areas...

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Nigeria: 22 States in Nigeria Are Polio Free - NPHCDA
Abu Nmodu
6 January 2012

The Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, NPHCDA, Dr Ado Mohammed, has disclosed that 22 States in Nigeria have remained polio free for three years even as the country is among the four most endemic polio countries in the world.

Ado, who spoke in an interview in Minna, yesterday, said that as at the end of January 2011, the country has recorded as low as 51 cases of wild polio virus in only eight States.

According to him, the statistics represent 90 per cent of reduction in wild polio virus spread in the country as the country set 80 percent vaccine coverage in order to prevent further spread of the virus...

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New Polio Cases Discovered In Zamfara Fulani Settlements

Thu, 23/02/2012 - 10:36am | OUR CORRESPONDENT News Health



Two new wild polio cases have been discovered in two Fulani settlements in Bukkuyum and Bakura local government areas of Zamfara, bringing the number of new cases to five in the state.

Confirming the new cases in Gusau on Wednesday, the state Immunisation Officer, Mr Aliyu Idris, said that the new cases were discovered in the state in last quarter of last year.

According to him, and that the sufferers were taken for analysis and confirmation abroad ?and the results came back positive in January this year.?

He said that initially, there was only one confirmed case in 2011 in Talatan Mafara Local Government Area, which was due to the rejection of rejection of vaccines by the parent of the victim.

Aliyu added that two cases were reported in Badarawa village of Shinkafi Local Government Area.
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Nigeria: Zamfara Recorded Five Polio Cases Last Year - Official
By Lawan Danjuma Adamu, 23 February 2012

Gusau ? Immunization officials in Zamfara State have confirmed the outbreak of four new cases of wild polio virus within the last quarter of 2011, which brought the number of recorded cases in the state last year to five. The state's Immunization Officer, Aliyu Idris, told Daily Trust yesterday that the fresh cases were confirmed in January by results of tests conducted overseas.

Reports last year indicated only one case of the disease in Talata Mafara Local Government Area of the state, and it was attributed to rejection of the polio vaccine.

Idris however said two of the fresh cases were reported in a village called Badarawa in Shinkafi Local Government Area, while one case each was recorded in Bakura and Bukkuyum Local Government Areas.

He attributed the fresh outbreaks to non-compliance or rejection of vaccine and non-coverage of some areas...

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Nigeria records fresh polio cases as India beats virus
Posted by Information Nigeria in Home ? Uncategorized on February 27, 2012

WITH the three remaining polio endemic countries ? Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan ? still grappling with the Wild Polio Virus (WPV), India was over the weekend officially taken off the list by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

According to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) Weekly Polio Update, Nigeria last week reported two new cases of type 1 WPV (WPV1s).

According to the GPEI, India has not had a case since January 13, 2011, in West Bengal.

The report stated: ?One of the cases had onset of paralysis in 2012 (from Sokoto), bringing the total number of cases in 2012 to two. The other case had onset of paralysis in 2011 (from Zamfara), bringing to total number of cases in 2011 to 61. The most recent case had onset of paralysis on January 14 (WPV3 from Borno).

?Security concerns remain in northern states with new attacks in Kogi, Yobe, Borno, and Abuja. Eleven ?Stop Transmission of Polio? (STOP) personnel arrived and were deployed. Sixteen short-term consultancy personnel arrived and were deployed into high-risk areas...

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Polio Constitutional Debate Brews in Nigeria
Posted Wednesday, February 29th, 2012 at 3:20 pm

A constitutional debate is under way in Nigeria over whether the government can prosecute parents who refuse to have their children vaccinated against polio, or if it has the power to force parents to have their children vaccinated against any communicable disease.

The debate comes on the heels of a resolution by the government of Nigeria's northern Kano state to prosecute any parent who refuses to have their children receive the oral vaccine against the highly contagious disease...

...The U.N. children's agency, UNICEF, has been pressuring Nigeria's northern states to promote vaccination against polio. But efforts to contain it have been complicated by rumors that the vaccine is harmful to children and by discover of 15 new polio cases in Kano state.