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The World Health Organization announced in a statement that health officials in Burundi announced, on Friday, an outbreak of the polio virus, following confirming 8 cases, in the first outbreak of its kind in 3 decades.
The organization said that the confirmed cases are a 4-year-old child who did not receive the vaccine once morest the disease, and two other children who had contact with him in Isaly region, western Burundi.
And she continued, “In addition, 5 samples from environmental monitoring of wastewater confirmed the presence of poliovirus type 2.”
Poliovirus type 2 infection can occur when the weakened strain of the virus found in the oral polio vaccine (OPV) spreads among a population that has not been immunized for a long time.
