Ethiopia: 2013 Polio cases

[Shiloh]

Source: http://nazret.com/blog/index.php/2013/08/22/polio-spreads-to-ethiopia

Polio Spreads to Ethiopia
By Steve Baragona
VOA News

A polio outbreak on the Horn of Africa has spread to Ethiopia.

An 18-month-old child in the Warder district of Ethiopia is the country?s first polio case since 2008.

Warder district is just across the border from Somalia, where 108 polio cases have been reported this year...

 

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Polio Spreads to Ethiopia

Re: Polio Spreads to Ethiopia

On 14 August, a case of WPV1 was reported in a child living in Ethiopia with date of onset of paralysis of 10 July 2013. The case is an 18-month old child from the Somali Region (Warder district) of Ethiopia who had never been vaccinated with oral polio vaccine (OPV).
Because of the known routes of poliovirus spread in previous outbreaks in the Horn of Africa, the Somali region of Ethiopia had been considered at ?high risk?, and since June, two large-scale supplementary immunization activities (SIAs) had already been conducted as part of the broader Horn of Africa outbreak response.
In Ethiopia, an immediate local immunization campaign is being conducted in the vicinity of the case, with a larger-scale SIA planned targeting 950,000 children under the age of five years. Additional SIAs are planned from September to November. Confirmation of the case in Ethiopia underscores the risk this outbreak continues to pose to countries across the region.
- See more at: http://www.polioeradication.org/Dataandmonitoring/Poliothisweek.aspx#sthash.6yLdFl7e.PfvlAObC.dpuf

 

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Polio Spreads to Ethiopia

Re: Polio Spreads to Ethiopia

"The two new cases from Ethiopia are both from Somali region, bordering Somalia. It is from this region that the first case from the country had been reported. Active case searches for any additional potential cases is continuing." - See more at: http://www.polioeradication.org/Dataandmonitoring/Poliothisweek.aspx#sthash.6yLdFl7e.5B688BNw.dpuf

 

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Polio Spreads to Ethiopia

Re: Polio Spreads to Ethiopia

WEEKLY HUMANITARIAN HIGHLIGHTS IN ETHIOPIA
30 September 2013

Key Events
 Two additional confirmed polio cases were reported in the country over the past two months. The cases were
children that had not received a dose of OPV since birth (zero-dose) in Bokh and Geladi woredas of Doolo
zone, Somali region. The first case was confirmed on 10 July on an 18 months old child in Injiro kebele of
Geladi woreda in Doolo zone. The Government and health partners continue to conduct polio immunization
campaigns and to strengthen surveillance to curb the spread of the disease.
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http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/Humanitarian Bulletin_30 September 2013.pdf

 

[Shiloh]

Re: Ethiopia: 2013 Polio cases

Source: http://www.zegabi.com/articles/?p=5258


Ethiopia tackles emerging cases of polio
Abiy K
November 4, 2013
Ethiopia, Health

The Ethiopian government is taking action to eradicate a recent outbreak of polio in the Somali region of the country.

The polio infections, which sprung from Somalia, have spread to Kenya, South Sudan and Ethiopia.

So far Ethiopia has reported only six cases of polio, compared with 174 in Somalia. But the landlocked country shares a thousand-mile border with Somalia. Most of it is unmarked and uncontrolled. Goat, sheep and camel herders move back and forth across the arid plains between the two countries seeking fresh pastures for their animals.

The international boundary in the border town of Wajaale is marked by a knotted rope strung across the road. For this reason, Ethiopian authorities acknowledge that it is impossible to have complete control of the flow of people between the two countries...

 

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Ethiopia: 2013 Polio cases

WEEKLY HUMANITARIAN HIGHLIGHTS IN ETHIOPIA 04 November 2013
http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/Humanitarian Bulletin_ 04 November 2013.pdf

...
Health Update
The response to the Horn of Africa polio outbreak continues, at regional, national and sub-national levels. Regionally,
the joint WHO/UNICEF Horn of Africa Polio Outbreak Response - Sub-regional Action Plan was developed and
shared with relevant bodies. In Ethiopia, preparations for the second round of the national polio immunization
campaign (NID) planned for 15 to 18 November, are on-going. Meanwhile, the National Polio Emergency
Preparedness and Response and Communication Plan was finalized, and the Somali Regional Outbreak Response
plan, comprising four innovative strategies to reach children in insecure and hard to reach areas was developed. The
polio caseload in Ethiopia remains at six, including five cases in Geladi woreda and one case in Bhok woreda of Doolo
zone, Somali region. Similarly, the polio caseload in Somalia (174) and Kenya (14) remain unchanged. However in
South Sudan, the government declared on 25 October that the country is free of polio after recent tests revealed that
the three reported cases were misdiagnoses. For more information, contact: who-wro@et.afro.who.int