Malawi records Africa’s first wild polio virus cases in over 5 years

The case was detected in a three-year-old girl who began showing signs of paralysis from November 19, 2021

Frequency of polio vaccination linked to paralysis: study

The number of cases of non-polio acute flaccid paralysis increased from 7,260 in 2000 to 59,462 in 2012, says a study 

Polio eradication: ‘Need to invest in polio vaccines now to prevent resurgence’

Oral vaccine key defence against polio but also behind detection of vaccine-derived poliovirus in wastewater samples

Pakistan sees 70 per cent drop in polio cases

Government attributes decline to crackdown on militants

Africa eradicates polio, but vaccine-driven outbreaks rise

In Asia, India too was declared polio-free in 2014, but cVDPV was reported 50 times in the country in the past six years