Effective Vaccine Delivery to Isolated Endemic Regions: A Remaining Obstacle to Global Eradication of Poliomyelitis : Table 1

Table 1: Global status of poliomyelitis cases from 2016-17 (as of 6 December 2017) [17].
* indicates a polio-endemic country. + indicates a country currently affected by circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus. WPV: wild polio virus; cVDPV: circulating vaccine-derived polio virus; NA: not applicable; date prior to 2016.

Country	Year-to-date 2017		Total in 2016		Onset of paralysis of most recent case
	WPV	cVDPV	WPV	cVDPV	WPV	cVDPV
*Afghanistan	11	0	13	0	05/11/2017	NA
*Pakistan	5	0	20	1	21/08/2017	17/12/2016
*Nigeria	0	0	4	1	21/08/2016	28/10/2016
+ Syria	0	70	0	0	NA	09/09/2017
+ DDR Congo	0	10	0	0	NA	14/09/2017
+Lao PDR	0	0	0	3	NA	11/01/2016