Progress Toward Poliomyelitis Eradication -- Afghanistan, January 2012-September 2013.

The article reports on the progress toward the eradication of polio in Afghanistan through vaccination between January 2012 to September 2013. It says that nine cases of indigenous wild poliovirus (WPV 1) were confirmed during the period. It adds that no WPV 1 cases have been reported from the main WPV reservoir, the Southern Region, since November 2012, while all 9 cases were in the Eastern Region and caused by the WPV that originated from Pakistan.