http://www.polioeradication.org/Dataandmonitoring/Poliothisweek.aspx
India
No new cases were reported in the past week. The country's first and only case of WPV reported for 2011 (WPV1) had onset of paralysis on 13 January, in Howrah district, West Bengal.
The historically polio-prone state of Uttar Pradesh has gone a year without a single case of polio (the most recent reported case was on 21 April, 2010, in Ferozabad). Meanwhile, environmental sampling has not detected WPV at any of the three sites in Mumbai and five sites in Delhi since November 2010.
The country remains cautious and continues to regard the WPV1 detected in West Bengal as a serious event requiring a large scale outbreak response. The West Bengal outbreak response team is currently training vaccinators, improving microplans and continuing social mobilization efforts in preparation for the Sub-national Immunization Days (SNIDs) to start this Sunday, 24 April in West Bengal and other high risk areas of India. Activities have been staggered to avoid conflicts with election dates in West Bengal.
A surveillance review is being planned for Gujarat (tentatively scheduled for late May/June) and a series of National Polio Surveillance Project Regional Review meetings are scheduled for May.
India
No new cases were reported in the past week. The country's first and only case of WPV reported for 2011 (WPV1) had onset of paralysis on 13 January, in Howrah district, West Bengal.
The historically polio-prone state of Uttar Pradesh has gone a year without a single case of polio (the most recent reported case was on 21 April, 2010, in Ferozabad). Meanwhile, environmental sampling has not detected WPV at any of the three sites in Mumbai and five sites in Delhi since November 2010.
The country remains cautious and continues to regard the WPV1 detected in West Bengal as a serious event requiring a large scale outbreak response. The West Bengal outbreak response team is currently training vaccinators, improving microplans and continuing social mobilization efforts in preparation for the Sub-national Immunization Days (SNIDs) to start this Sunday, 24 April in West Bengal and other high risk areas of India. Activities have been staggered to avoid conflicts with election dates in West Bengal.
A surveillance review is being planned for Gujarat (tentatively scheduled for late May/June) and a series of National Polio Surveillance Project Regional Review meetings are scheduled for May.