Christopher Wolff1, Sigrun Roesel2, Galina Lipskaya3, Mauricio Landaverde4, Asghar Humayun5, Nalini Withana6, Nalini Ramamurty7, Oyewale Tomori8, Samuel Oumo Okiror9, Mbaye Salla10, Walter Dowdle11. 1. World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. 2. World Health Organization, Manila, Philippines. 3. Lomosov Moscow State University, Russia. 4. Pan American Health Organization, Washington, D. C. 5. World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt. 6. Kalubowila, Sri Lanka. 7. World Health Organization, Regional Office for Southeast Asia, New Delhi, India. 8. Redeemer's University, Mowe, Nigeria. 9. World Health Organization, Harare, Zimbabwe. 10. World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa, Brazzaville, Congo. 11. Task Force for Global Health, Decatur, Georgia.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The first steps (phase 1) toward laboratory containment of poliovirus after eradication are a national survey of biomedical facilities and a global inventory of such facilities retaining wild poliovirus (WPV) infectious and potentially infectious materials. METHODS: We reviewed published reports on national laboratory surveys and inventories of WPV materials from each of the 3 polio-free World Health Organization (WHO) regions (the European Region, completed in 2006; the Western Pacific Region, completed in 2008; and the Region of the Americas, completed in 2010), as well as reports on progress in polio-free countries of the remaining 3 regions (the African Region, the Eastern Mediterranean Region, and the WHO South-East Asia Region). RESULTS: Containment phase 1 activities are complete in 154 of 194 WHO Member States (79%), including all countries and areas of the polio-free regions and most polio-free countries in the remaining 3 regions. A reported 227 209 biomedical facilities were surveyed, with 532 facilities in 45 countries identified as retaining WPV-associated infectious or potentially infectious materials. CONCLUSIONS: Completion of containment phase 1 global activities is achievable within the time frame set by the Polio Eradication and Endgame Strategic Plan 2013-2018.
BACKGROUND: The first steps (phase 1) toward laboratory containment of poliovirus after eradication are a national survey of biomedical facilities and a global inventory of such facilities retaining wild poliovirus (WPV) infectious and potentially infectious materials. METHODS: We reviewed published reports on national laboratory surveys and inventories of WPV materials from each of the 3 polio-free World Health Organization (WHO) regions (the European Region, completed in 2006; the Western Pacific Region, completed in 2008; and the Region of the Americas, completed in 2010), as well as reports on progress in polio-free countries of the remaining 3 regions (the African Region, the Eastern Mediterranean Region, and the WHO South-East Asia Region). RESULTS: Containment phase 1 activities are complete in 154 of 194 WHO Member States (79%), including all countries and areas of the polio-free regions and most polio-free countries in the remaining 3 regions. A reported 227 209 biomedical facilities were surveyed, with 532 facilities in 45 countries identified as retaining WPV-associated infectious or potentially infectious materials. CONCLUSIONS: Completion of containment phase 1 global activities is achievable within the time frame set by the Polio Eradication and Endgame Strategic Plan 2013-2018.
Authors: K M O'Reilly; N C Grassly; D J Allen; M Bannister-Tyrrell; A Cameron; A I Carrion Martin; M Ramsay; R Pebody; M Zambon Journal: Epidemiol Infect Date: 2020-05-13 Impact factor: 2.451