WHO declares the international spread of wild poliovirus a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)

We just learned that the WHO declared the international spread of wild poliovirus a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). Pakistan, Cameroon, and the Syrian Arab Republic pose the greatest risk of further wild poliovirus exportations.

Afghanistan, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Iraq, Israel, Somalia and particularly Nigeria pose ongoing risk for new wild poliovirus exportations.

For more information, go to:

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2014/polio-20140505/en/