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Polio Weekly Highlight, week (44) ending 7 November 2009
Progress Toward Poliomyelitis Eradication Nigeria, January 2008--July 2009  MMWR
Polio Weekly Highlight, week (43) ending 31 October 2009
Update: Global wild polio cases, 2000-2009 Global wild polio cases
Polio Weekly Highlight, week (42) ending 24 October 2009
Decreasing AFP Rates in Latin American Countries  Descending AFP Rate
Polio Weekly Highlight, week (40) ending 10 October 2009
Monthly distribution of Wild Poliovirus (WPV) cases, 2001-2009  Wild Poliovirus Cases
Polio Weekly Highlight, week (39) ending 3 Octobert 2009
Technical Advisory Group on Vaccine-preventable Diseases (TAG) recommendation on polio containment  
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Polio Weekly Highlight, week (38) ending 26 September 2009
Pilgrims Who Travel to Mecca This Fall Will Get an Oral Polio Vaccine on Arrival  
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Polio Weekly Highlight, week (34) ending 29 August 2009
Comparison of 2008 and 2009 Data  AFP Data Comparison
Polio Weekly Highlight, week (33) ending 22 August 2009
Outbreak Management 
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Polio Weekly Highlight, week (31) ending 8 August 2009
Officially reported wild virus cases (11 Aug 2009) 
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Polio Weekly Highlight, week (30) ending 1 August 2009
Achieving polio eradication: a review of health communication evidence and lessons learned in India and Pakistan  
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Polio Weekly Highlight, week (29) ending 25 July 2009
Circulating Vaccine-derived Polioviruses Circulating VDPV
Polio Weekly Highlight, week (28) ending 18 July 2009
Polio Eradication: Strengthening The Weakest Links  
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Polio Weekly Highlight, week (27) ending 11 July 2009
Progress Toward Poliomyelitis Eradication --- India, January 2007--May 2009 MMWR. July 10, 2009 / 58(26);719-723. MMWR
Polio Weekly Highlight, week (26) ending 4 July 2009
Rate of Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP), The Americas, 2008 Afp Rate, 2008
Polio Weekly Highlight, week (25) ending 27 June 2009
Nathanson et al on US polio surveillance, 1956 and the Cutter incident in 1955.  
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Polio Weekly Highlight, week (24) ending 20 June 2009
UN Head in Polio Eradication Call  
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Polio Weekly Highlight, week (23) ending 13 June 2009
Wild Poliovirus-infected Districts*, 17 Dec 2008 – 16 Jun 2009 Wild Polio-infected Districts
Polio Weekly Highlight, week (22) ending 6 June 2009
US PRESIDENT OBAMA ON POLIO 
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Polio Weekly Highlight, week (21) ending 30 May 2009
SABIN-DERIVED POLIO CASE REPORTED BY ARGENTINA: MAY 2009 A vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) has been isolated in an AFP case in Argentina. The case is a 15-month old child with hypogammaglobulinemia. Control measures have been conducted by the national authorities. No other AFP cases were found. (Report available Only in Spanish)  Case of VDPV in Argentina
Polio Weekly Highlight, week (20) ending 23 May 2009
Polio in the World Health Assembly 2009  
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Polio Weekly Highlight, week (19) ending 16 May 2009
Percent of AFP cases with one stool sample taken within 15 days of paralysis onset, Region of the Americas, 2007-2008 AFP with Adequate Sample
Polio Weekly Highlight, week (18) ending 9 May 2009
Update: Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP)Cases Pending Classification, 2008 AFP Pending Final Classification
Polio Weekly Highlight, week (17) ending 2 May 2009
In response to the current outbreaks of A(H1N1) influenza, the polio surveillance network - comprising almost 3400 technical staff in more than 70 countries - has been requested to actively look for any unusual clusters of influenza-like cases. (Source: World Health Organization) Update: Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP)Cases Pending Classification, 2008 AFP Pending Classification
Polio Weekly Highlight, week (15) ending 18 April 2009
Update: Global wild polio cases, 2000-2008  Global wild polio cases
Polio Weekly Highlight, week (14) ending 11 April 2009
Update: Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP)Cases Pending Classification, 2008 
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Polio Weekly Highlight, week (13) ending 4 April 2009
Update: Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP)Cases Pending Classification, 2008 AFP Pending Classification
Polio Weekly Highlight, week (12) ending 28 March 2009
Performance of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance and incidence of poliomyelitis, 2008 Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin
Polio Weekly Highlight, week (11) ending 21 March 2009
Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP)Cases Pending Classification, 2008 AFP Pending Classification
Polio Weekly Highlight, week (10) ending 14 March 2009
Progress towards poliomyelitis eradication in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2008 Poliomyelitis in Sudan: heightened risk of international spread Available at: http://www.who.int/wer/2009/wer8410/en/index.html  Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin
Polio Weekly Highlight, week (9) ending 7 March 2009
Comparison of 2007 and 2008 Data  AFP Data Comaprison
Polio Weekly Highlight, week (8) ending 28 February 2009
Case definition for notification of poliomyelitis due to wild-type poliovirus under the IHR (2005)  
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Polio Weekly Highlight, week (7) ending 21 February 2009
Acute Flaccid Paralysis Rate per 100,000 children <15 years of Age, 2000-2008 Central America, Brazil, Mexico and the Caribbean  Andean Region and Southern Cone
Polio Weekly Highlight, week (6) ending 14 February 2009
Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) cases by Classification Status, the Americas, 2008 AFP Classification, 2008
Polio Weekly Highlight, week (5) ending 7 February 2009
Estimating the Extent of VDPV 
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Polio Weekly Highlight, week (2) ending 17 January 2009
Global wild polio cases, 1988-2008  Global polio cases
Polio Weekly Highlight, week (1) ending 10 January 2009
Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) Rate per 100,000 Children <15 Years of Age, Latin America and the Caribbean, 2008* AFP Rate, 2008
Polio Weekly Highlight, week (50) ending 13 December 2008
Albert Sabin and the Coalition to Eliminate Polio From the Americas 
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Polio Weekly Highlight, week (49) ending 6 December 2008
Comparison of 2007 and 2008 Data Year to Date  Polio Data Comparison
Polio Weekly Highlight, week (48) ending 29 November 2008
Distribution of virus isolated from AFP cases, Latin America and the Caribbean, 2007-2008 Polio Virus Isolation, 2007-08
Polio Weekly Highlight, week (47) ending 22 November 2008
Proportion of Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) cases pending classification, the Americas, 2008 AFP Pending Classification