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During the week ending 20 September 2019, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative
reported a case of polio in Lanao Del Sur district, Mindanao. The infection was identified in a patient who became paralysed on 26 June 2019.
The World Health Organisation recommends
that "all travellers to polio-affected areas be fully vaccinated against polio. Residents (and visitors for more than 4 weeks) from infected areas should receive an additional dose of OPV or inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) within 4 weeks to 12 months of travel."
Travellers to polio-affected areas should be offered a booster of poliomyelitis vaccine if it has been more than 10 years since their last dose.
For further information see Poliomyelitis.
