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Somalia: Weekly EPI/POL Update Week 28 (15 July 2018)

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VDPVs from environmental samples

  • No new cVDPV2 isolate. The date of collection of most recent positive environmental sample was on 17th May 2018

  • No new cVDPV3 isolate. The date of collection of most recent positive environmental sample for cVDPV3 in Somalia was on 19th April 2018

  • In 2018, a total of 10 cVDPV2 and seven (7) cVDPV3 viruses have been isolated from environmental samples compared to two (2) VDPV2s and 0 VDPV3 in 2017

  • There are four (4) environmental sites in Somalia, all of which are located in Banadir region (Mogadishu)

VDPVs from human samples

  • Two (2) suspected PVs isolated from two (2) Contact samples collected from L. Jubba and M. Shabelle

  • VDPV2: A total of 2 VDPV2 were isolated from human in Somalia. While one is an AFP case with coinfection (cVDPV2 & cVDPV3) reported from Bulloburti districts of Hiran region in Central zone, the other VDPV2 is isolated from a contact sample from Dolo in South zone

  • VDPV3: Eight (8) VDPV3 were isolated from Human samples in 2018. Isolates are from two (2) AFP cases (1 is a coinfection), four (4) contacts and two (2) community samples

  • Cases are distributed across access-compromised areas of South and Central zones of Somalia

  • No reporting of a new positive human cVDPV2 or cVDPV3 samples this week; the date of onset (collection) of most recent positive human sample for cVDPV2 was on 29th May 2018 from a contact sample in Gedo region, Dolo town in South Somalia