Publications by authors named "Deborah Odame"
Trop Med Infect Dis
November 2024
Article Synopsis
- The Global Polio Eradication Initiative was launched in Ghana in 1996, successfully stopping the wild poliovirus by 2008, but faced vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 outbreaks in 2019 and 2022.
- A retrospective analysis of Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) surveillance data from 2018 to 2022 revealed that most cases involved young children, with over 77% experiencing fever at the onset of paralysis.
- The surveillance system in Ghana exhibited effectiveness with high non-polio AFP rates and stool adequacy, but improvements are needed in data completeness and timely processing of stool samples.
