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Polio this week as of 2 August 2017

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Polio this week as of 2 August 2017

  • Read the latest WHO & UNICEF situation report on the outbreak of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) in Syria.
  • The July edition of Polio News is out – subscribe and get the newsletter delivered to your inbox each month.
  • Pakistan and Afghanistan programs continue coordination at the national and sub-national levels, with special focus on improving the quality of program implementation (supplementary immunization activities & surveillance) in the southern corridor (Quetta Block – Greater Kandahar) with ongoing WPV1 transmission.
  • Summary of newly-reported viruses this week:  Pakistan – one new wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1)-positive environmental samples.  See country-specific section below, for more details.

Wild poliovirus type 1 and Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus cases

Total cases Year-to-date 2017 Year-to-date 2016 Total in 2016
WPV cVDPV WPV cVDPV WPV cVDPV
Globally 8 31 19 3 37 5
—In Endemic Countries 8 0 19 0 37 2
—In Non-Endemic Countries 0 31 0 3 0 3

Case breakdown by country

Countries Year-to-date 2017 Year-to-date 2016 Total in 2016 Onset of paralysis of most recent case
WPV cVDPV WPV cVDPV WPV cVDPV WPV cVDPV
Afghanistan 5 0 6 0 13 0 19-Jun-2017 NA
Democratic Republic Of The Congo 0 4 0 0 0 0 NA 18-Apr-2017
Lao People’s Democratic Republic 0 0 0 3 0 3 NA 11-Jan-2016
Nigeria 0 0 0 0 4 1 21-Aug-2016 28-Oct-2016
Pakistan 3 0 13 0 20 1 11-Jun-2017 17-Dec-2016
Syrian Arab Republic 0 27 0 0 0 0 NA 6-Jun-2017

NA: onset of paralysis in most recent case is prior to 2016. Figures exclude non-AFP sources. Lao PDR cVDPV1, all others cVDPV2. cVDPV definition: see document “Reporting and classification of vaccine-derived polioviruses” at [pdf]

Weekly country updates as of 2 August 2017

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Health.BV5AG 飛抵 英國London Heathrow airport，航程約16小時。

在新竹市的兩位國中孫，已於日前自行先飛往倫敦。

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Terrifying ‘dark universe’ discovered within our universe and it spells DOOM for humanity

Terrifying ‘dark universe’ discovered within our universe and it spells DOOM for humanity.
A MYSTERIOUS ‘dark universe’ which exists alongside our own visible universe has been mapped by scientists. And the findings spell ultimate doom for humankind.
By JON AUSTIN, PUBLISHED: 15:03, Thu, Aug 3, 2017 | UPDATED: 16:21, Thu, Aug 3, 2017

A team from the international Dark Energy Survey (DES) collaboration believes their findings support the theory that about just four percent of the present composition of the universe is ordinary matter.
The rest, the team says, is made up of substances that remain ‘dark’, largely un-knowable and in many cases simply theoretical.
The research backed scientific hypothesis that 26 percent of the universe is made up of mysterious cold dark matter, and the bulk – a whopping 70 percent – is “in the form of an elusive dark energy.”
Our knowledge of both is extremely limited but Dark Energy is believed to be responsible for the accelerating expansion of the universe.
And the continued expansion seem to provide concrete evidence that the universe will ultimately suffer a ‘heat death’ where energy is exhausted and what is left behind is very cold and very dead.

Dark-Matter

This image of the NGC 1398 galaxy was taken with the Dark Energy Camera.

Cold dark matter is theorised to be a non-luminous material which exists is comprised of weakly interacting particles.

When it is made of high-energy randomly moving particles, created soon after the Big Bang, it is described as hot dark matter.

Meanwhile, dark energy is a theoretical form of energy thought to permeate space, accelerating the expansion of the universe at an increased rate.

David Bacon of the University of Portsmouth said: “Dark matter is invisible to us, but we can see its effects – its gravity is bending the light from distant galaxies, so they look distorted to us. We can work back from measuring the distortions to mapping the cause. It’s so exciting to see this truly vast map of the dark Universe at last.”

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Stunning imagery taken from Space

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