26th July, 2013
Dear All,
ONE MORE WEEK WITHOUT POLIO IN INDIA
JUST 24WEEKS LEFT FOR DECLARING INDIA POLIO FREE
NO new Polio case reported this weekf/y 2013. The status of Polio cases is as under:
NO new Polio case reported this weekf/y 2013.The status of Polio cases is as under:
Year 2005=66 wild Polio cases
Year 2006=676 wild Polio cases
Year 2007=874 wild Polio cases
Year 2008=559 wild Polio cases
Year 2009=741 wild Polio cases (from 56 Revenue Districts)
Year 2010=42 wild Polio cases (from 17 Revenue Districts)
Year 2011=01 wild Polio case (from 01 Revenue District)
Year 2012=NO CASE reported
Year 2013=NO CASE (as on July 26, 2013)
Last case reported in Uttar Pradesh=P-3 with onset on 21 April 2010
Last case reported in Bihar=P-1 with onset on 1 September 2010
Last Case reported in India in West Bengal=P-1 with onset on 13 January 2011
POLIO INCIDENCE (Comparative as on July 26, for the year 2013, 2012 and 2011)
2013
/2012
/2011
No New Case Reported
/No New Case Reported
/ 01 case in 01 revenue district(P1-01) district f/y 2011
POLIO CASES STATUS – GLOBALLY AS ON July 24, 2013.
Country
------
Year /India
/Nigeria
(Endemic Country) /Pakistan
(Endemic Country) /Niger
/Afghanistan
(Endemic Country) /Chad
/Somalia
(Non-Endemic Country)* /Kenya
(Non-Endemic Country) /TOTAL
Year 2012 /0
/122
/58
/1
/37
/5
/ 0 / 0 /223
Year 2013 /0
/35
/21
/0
/3
/0
/ 72 / 9 /140
STATUS OF AFP CASES AS ON July 22, 2013
Year
/AFP
/VDPV
/Confirmed Polio
/Compatible
/Discarded
/Pending
2012
/60922
/1
/0
/31
/60885
/5
2013
/25186
/ 3 /0
/2
/22017
/3164
Dr.P.Narayana,
Vice – Chairman, Rotary International's India National Polio plus Committee
The world loses one of the “true heroes” of polio eradication
The world loses one of the “true heroes” of polio eradication
24 July 2013 - Ali Maow Maalin, recently described as being one of the “true heroes” of polio eradication, passed away on Monday in his home district of Merka, Somalia, due to sudden illness.
The last person to be infected with naturally occurring smallpox anywhere in the world, Mr Maalin was struck with the virus in 1977 whilst working as a cook at a Merka hospital. Fearing the needle would be painful, he’d previously avoided vaccination by holding his arm when vaccinators came to visit, pretending he’d already received the shot. But after recovering from the potentially deadly illness, he vowed not to let others make the same mistake.
Mr Maalin used his story to illustrate the importance of vaccination and became an important advocate for polio eradication in Somalia, playing an instrumental role in its defeat of the disease in 2008: “Somalia was the last country with smallpox. I wanted to help ensure that we would not be the last place with polio too,”he told the BBCat the time.
A district polio officer, he died on the second day of the polio eradication vaccination campaign he was conducting in Merka district, part of the Supplementary Immunization Activities taking place 21-25 July in response to thecurrent outbreak. A profile of Mr Maalin’s workdescribed himas one of the eradication programme’s “most valuable local polio coordinators”.
Mr Maalin leaves behind a wife and three children. The thoughts of everyone at the Global Polio Eradication Initiative are with his family at this time.