Open AccessBulgaria’s response to cases of poliomyelitis caused by imported wild poliovirus
Author(s) -
Frances M. Reid
Publication year - 2001
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 9999-1233
DOI - 10.2807/esw.05.45.02052-en
Subject(s) - poliomyelitis , poliovirus , setback , virology , geography , medicine , political science , virus , law
In May this year, Eurosurveillance Weekly reported on the occurrence of two cases of poliomyelitis in Bulgaria (1). These cases were important because they were the first of the disease in Bulgaria since 1991 and in Europe since 1998, and might therefore have constituted a setback for the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region, which was on track for certification of polio eradication (2). The patients – two children of Romany origin – were infected with a wild poliovirus closely related to a strain isolated from India in July 2000.