49 EFTA00615244 Introduction Somalia is ground zero in the global fight against poliovirus. Beginning with a single case in Polio Cases 2013 Banaadir region in April 2013, the current epidemic had claimed 194 victims in Somalia by April of 2014.11 Another 24 victims have been recorded in neighbo

month, another case of paralysis was reported in Dadaab, a refugee camp in Kenya that houses an estimated 423,496 Somali refugees. On May 9th, the Banaadir case was confirmed as wild poliomyelitis (WPV1), genetically similar to strains found in West Africa. Health authorities moved rapidly to mitigate