Polio outbreak in Albania, 1996

M L Ciofi Degli Atti; R Prevots; A Sallabanda; P Malfait; E Diamantil; B Aylward; D Greco; S Wassilak

doi:10.2807/esm.02.05.00162-en

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Polio outbreak in Albania, 1996
M L Ciofi Degli Atti¹ , R Prevots² , A Sallabanda³ , P Malfait^1,4 , E Diamantil³ , B Aylward⁵ , D Greco¹ , S Wassilak⁶
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Affiliations: ¹ Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Laboratorio epidemiologia e biostatistica , Roma, Italia ² Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Immunization Program, Atlanta, USA ³ Instituti e Shendetit Public, Tirana, Albania ⁴ European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training, Brussels, Belgium ⁵ World Health Organization, Expanded Program on Immunization, Geneva, Switzerland ⁶ World Health Organization (WHO), Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark

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Citation style for this article: Ciofi Degli Atti M L, Prevots R, Sallabanda A, Malfait P, Diamantil E, Aylward B, Greco D, Wassilak S. Polio outbreak in Albania, 1996. Euro Surveill. 1997;2(5):pii=162. https://doi.org/10.2807/esm.02.05.00162-en

Abstract

Between April and November 1996, a large outbreak of polio occurred in Albania, which had reported to be free of polio since 1985. Although Albania had not reported polio in that interval, the risk of introduction and circulation of wild poliovirus had in