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News Scan for May 14, 2021

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Four countries report more vaccine-derived polio casesFour African countries—Benin, Burkina Faso, Liberia, and Yemen—reported new polio cases this week, all involving vaccine-derived strains, according to the latest weekly update from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI).Three of the four countries reported circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2).

Benin reported one case from Northern province, marking its first of 2021. So far, all of its cases are linked to Nigeria's Jigawa outbreak.

Burkina Faso also reported one more case, which involves a patient from Bobo and is counted in the country's 2020 total, now at 62.

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