Global Responses To Outbreaks Of cVDPV Has Slowed Over Past Decade, Research Shows

Healio (5/1, Weldon) reports that global responses to outbreaks of circulating vaccine-derived polio virus (cVDPV) “has slowed over the past decade, according to” researchers who “investigated the responses to 64 cVDPV outbreaks in 44 countries from 2016 through the end of 2023” and found an increase in “the median time from outbreak declaration to the first” supplementary immunization activity. The finding were presented at the CDC’s Annual Epidemic Intelligence Service Conference.