February 23, 2025
Burundi declares circulating polio virus outbreak

KIGALI (Rwanda): Health authorities in Burundi on Friday said they had detected eight samples of polio, officially declaring the landlocked African nation’s first outbreak in more than 30 years.The cases were “confirmed in a four-year-old boy in Isale district in western Burundi who was unvaccinated and two other contacts of the sick boy,” Anadolu Agency cited the World Health Organisation (WHO).In addition…
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