Polio Resources

Useful Websites
WHO Polio: https://www.who.int/health-topics/poliomyelitis

ECDC Poliomyelitis: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/poliomyelitis

CDC Polio: https://www.cdc.gov/polio/index.htm

Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI): https://polioeradication.org/

Public Health Management of Facility-Related Exposure to Live Polioviruses (WHO): https://polioeradication.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Public-Health-Management-of-Facility-related-Exposure-to-Live-Polioviruses-EN-20210520.pdf

Publications

i. Reporting Forms
ii. AFP Surveillance Form
v. Epi-Insight Articles
vii. Posters

Education
The American Academy of Paediatrics provides a useful video series on AFP, and can be found here: https://shop.aap.org/acute-flaccid-myelitis-what-pediatricians-should-know-about-diagnosis-treatment-and-care-of-ped/

News

i. Polio cases: polioeradication.org 
ii. Circulating polio virus in New York: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2212115 
iii. Polio detection in London sewage: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)01804-9/fulltext 
iv. Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 3 – Israel: https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2022-DON366 

Last updated: 6 March 2023