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Polio this week as of 24 July 2018

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  • Strengthening vaccine trust in Pakistan: How a vaccine refuser became an advocate for polio eradication.

  • Disease surveillance innovations help defeat the poliovirus: Across the Lake Chad Basin, e-Surve technology is reshaping the way that the polio programme conducts disease surveillance.

  • Summary of new cases this week: One wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) case in Afghanistan in Kunar province, previously reported as an advance notification, has been confirmed. In Afghanistan, five WPV1 positive environmental samples have been reported, and in Pakistan, three WPV1 positive environmental samples have been reported. In Nigeria, two circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) positive environmental samples have been confirmed, following advance notification last week. See country sections below for more details.