Peru has identified another paralysis case in a child and is awaiting test results for that patient as well as asymptomatic contacts of the first case.
All of the cases involved vaccine-derived polio strains.
In other developments, Pakistan reported its first WPV1 case of the year, and the DRC and Indonesia reported more vaccine-derived cases.
Six children in the DR Congo and 3 in Burundi have polio cases linked to the novel oral polio vaccine type 2.
Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Madagascar, and Nigeria all have new cases, and the GPEI confirms the earlier-reported case in Israel.
Israel's health ministry recently reported an illness in an unvaccinated 8-year-girl from Safed.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Yemen, Mozambique, and Madagascar all recorded new cases.
Four countries confirmed more cases this week, all involving circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus, including 30 new cases in DR Congo.
Nigeria is seeing a Lassa fever spike, Paraguay reports its first local measles case since 1998, and 5 nations have new polio cases.
In the lab breach, virus was detected in a sewage sample and was genetically similar to vaccine stocks used at the facility, then a lab worker tested positive.
