Mozambique polio case similar to Malawi case – Africa CDC
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -A brand new case of untamed polio present in Mozambique is similar to a case beforehand reported in Malawi, the performing director of the Africa Centre for Illness Management and Prevention mentioned on Thursday.
“When sequenced, that individual case (in Mozambique) had very shut similarities to the case that had been reported in Malawi some weeks again,” Ahmed Ogwell Ouma instructed a weekly information briefing.
In February, Malawi declared its first case of untamed poliovirus in 30 years, when a three-year outdated woman within the Lilongwe district was paralysed on account of her an infection.
The case raised alarm as a result of Africa was declared free of untamed polio in 2020 and there are solely two international locations on the earth the place it’s endemic: Afghanistan and Pakistan. Pakistan marked a 12 months with out circumstances in January 2022.
Polio, a extremely infectious illness unfold primarily by contamination by faecal matter, used to kill and paralyse 1000’s of youngsters yearly. There isn’t any treatment, however vaccination introduced the world near ending the wild type of the illness.
(Reporting by James Macharia Chege and Estelle Shirbon)
