UNICEF Declares Polio Outbreak Successfully Stopped Radiodabanga: Sudan
"Sudan has been declared Polio free, two years after a confirmed outbreak triggered by the importation of Polio virus type 2 cases from neighbouring Chad," reads a statement by UNICEF on September 17.
Declared in 15 out of 18 states in 2020, the outbreak was caused by the vaccine-derived poliovirus, paralyzing 58 children. Sudan has not recorded any cases of cVDPV2 since December 2020, according to UNICEF.major setbacks in 2019, before the declaration of Covid-19 as a global pandemic.was launched by the Sudanese Ministry of Health in Khartoum.
The new outbreak in Sudan"presented a big challenge and was a risk to the children in Sudan," said UNICEF's Health Officer, Kattab Obeid.with two or three rounds of immunisation campaigns. The solution is the same for all polio outbreaks: immunise every child several times with the oral vaccine to stop polio transmission, regardless of the origin of the virus.
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