Editing Polio (section)

==== Western Pacific ====
In 2000, polio was declared to have been officially eliminated in 37 Western Pacific countries, including China and Australia.<ref name=Pacific>{{cite journal | title = General News. Major Milestone reached in Global Polio Eradication: Western Pacific Region is certified Polio-Free | journal = Health Education Research | year = 2001 | volume = 16 | issue = 1 | pages = 109–114 | doi = 10.1093/her/16.1.109 | bibcode = 2001PDiff..16..110Y | last1 = Yamazaki | first1 = S. | last2 = Toraya | first2 = H. }}</ref><ref name="D'Souza_2002">{{cite journal | vauthors = D' Souza RM, Kennett M, Watson C | title = Australia declared polio free | journal = Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report | volume = 26 | issue = 2 | pages = 253–60 | year = 2002 | pmid = 12206379 }}</ref>

Despite eradication ten years earlier, an outbreak was confirmed in China in September 2011, involving a strain common in Pakistan.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/21/health/china-polio-outbreak/index.html | work=CNN | title=New polio outbreak hits China - CNN.com | date=21 September 2011 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120101174601/http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/21/health/china-polio-outbreak/index.html | archive-date=1 January 2012 }}</ref>

In September 2019, the [[Department of Health (Philippines)|Department of Health of the Philippines]] declared a polio outbreak in the country after a single case in a 3-year-old girl.<ref name="Polio in PH">{{Cite news |vauthors=Paris J |url=https://www.rappler.com/nation/240493-polio-back-philippines |title=PH declares polio outbreak as disease returns after 19 years |work=[[Rappler]] |location=Manila, Philippines |date=19 September 2019 |access-date=22 September 2019 |archive-date=22 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190922014536/https://www.rappler.com/nation/240493-polio-back-philippines |url-status=live }}</ref> In December 2019, acute poliomyelitis was confirmed in an infant in [[Sabah|Sabah state]], [[Borneo]], [[Malaysia]].<ref name="VOAMalaysia">{{cite news |date=9 December 2019 |title=Malaysia Reports First Case of Polio in 27 Years |work=[[VOA News]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |url=https://www.voanews.com/a/science-health_malaysia-reports-first-case-polio-27-years/6180817.html |access-date=10 December 2019 |archive-date=8 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200108134117/https://www.voanews.com/science-health/malaysia-reports-first-case-polio-27-years |url-status=live }}</ref> Subsequently, a further three polio cases were reported, with the last case reported in January 2020. Both outbreaks were found to be linked instances of vaccine-derived poliomyelitis.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Snider |first1=Cynthia J. |last2=Boualam |first2=Liliane |last3=Tallis |first3=Graham |last4=Takashima |first4=Yoshihiro |last5=Abeyasinghe |first5=Rabindra |last6=Lo |first6=Ying-Ru |last7=Grabovac |first7=Varja |last8=Avagyan |first8=Tigran |last9=Aslam |first9=Syeda Kanwal |last10=Eltayeb |first10=Abu Obeida |last11=Aung |first11=Khin Devi |last12=Wang |first12=Xiaojun |last13=Shrestha |first13=Achyut |last14=Ante-Orozco |first14=Carla |last15=Silva |first15=Maria Wilda T. |date=2022-03-23 |title=Concurrent outbreaks of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus types 1 and 2 affecting the Republic of the Philippines and Malaysia, 2019–2021 |journal=Vaccine |volume=41 |issue=Suppl 1 |pages=A58–A69 |doi=10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.02.022 |pmid=35337673 |pmc=10546869 |s2cid=247652342 |issn=0264-410X |doi-access=free}}</ref>