es moved rapidly to mitigate the emerging epidemic, initiating a vaccination drive using oral polio vaccine (OPV) in Banaadir and some areas of the Lower Shabelle region on May 14th.'" Number of Cases By Region 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 • es'y•F' zzi''' .0.4, e same ., \ •0 at .c..t. es ,a

il 2014, the tally of paralytic victims stands at 218. In Somalia, thirty three per cent of cases were registered in Banaadir province, followed by Lower Shabelle with seventeen per cent.17' The vast majority of cases in the 2013 epidemic, sixty per cent, occurred in areas that have been partially or fully co