Poliomyelitis - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2017

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Poliomyelitis. In: ECDC. Annual epidemiological report
for 2017. Stockholm: ECDC; 2019

Surveillance report
  • Publication series: Annual Epidemiological Report
  • Time period covered: This report is based on data for 2017 retrieved from The European Surveillance System (TESSy) on 25 March 2019.
The WHO European Region was declared polio-free in 2002. Neither wild-type nor vaccine-type viruses were notified in the WHO European Region in 2017, but the risk of importation and subsequent transmission remains high in certain countries.
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Poliomyelitis - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2017

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