Mozambique: 'Xivotxongo' producers may be shut down
Polio Travel Alerts issued for Angola, Benin, Central Africa, Ethiopia, and Mozambique by the CDC
3:27 CAT | 22 Aug 2019
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- CDC Alert – Level 2, Practice Enhanced Precautions
Outbreaks of the poliovirus have been reported in five (5) African countries by the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
To notify travellers to Africa, the CDC issued Level 2 Travel Alerts on August 21, 2019, for the African counties of Angola, Benin, Central Africa, Ethiopia, and Mozambique.
These polio outbreaks are caused by vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV), a sign of low oral polio vaccine coverage.
These vaccine-derived polio outbreaks cannot spread in the United States because the US has high vaccination rates against polio and the oral polio vaccine is not used here, says the CDC.
Source: VAX Before Travel
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