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Polio cases in Burundi
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- Burundi’s health authorities declared an outbreak of Polio in the landlocked east-African country in its first in 30 years.
- Poliovirus type 2 was also confirmed in five samples from environmental surveillance of wastewater from the region
- The type 2 infection can occur when the weakened strain of the virus contained in the oral polio vaccine, circulates among under-immunised populations for a long period.
- There is no treatment for the disease that mostly affects children under the age of five.
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