MMWR Provides Update On 2017-2018 Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus Outbreaks In DRC, Horn Of Africa

CDC’s “Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report”: Update on Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus Outbreaks — Democratic Republic of the Congo and Horn of Africa, 2017-2018
Chukwuma Mbaeyi, epidemiologist in the Global Immunization Division in the Center for Global Health at the CDC, and colleagues provide an update on vaccine-derived polio outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Horn of Africa, including Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia, from 2017-2018 (3/8).

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