Chirlaque López, María DoloresCabrerizo, MariaGuzmán Herrador, Bernardo RMasa-Calles, JosefaAlarcón-Linares, María EsterAllende, AnaAznar Cano, EstebanBarranco Boada, María IsabelCantero Gudino, ElenaFernandez-Balbuena, SoniaFernández Dueñas, AnaFernandez-Garcia, Maria DoloresGarcía Hernández, LauraGarcía Ortúzar, VisitaciónLopez-Perea, NoemiMartínez-Salcedo, EduardoMoreno-Docón, AntonioOrdobás-Gavín, MaríaRodero Garduño, InmaculadaSierra Moros, María JoséSimón Soria, FernandoLimia Sánchez, AuroraSuárez Rodríguez, Berta2022-05-092022-05-092021-12Euro Surveill. 2021 Dec;26(50):2101068.http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/14349The monthly retrospective search for unreported acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) cases conducted as a complementary component of the Spanish AFP surveillance system identified a case of AFP in a child admitted in Spain from Senegal during August 2021. Vaccine-derived poliovirus 2 was identified in the stool in September 2021. We present public health implications and response undertaken within the framework of the National Action Plan for Polio Eradication and the Public Health Emergency of International Concern.engVoRhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Acute Flaccid ParalysisPoliovirusEradicationPublic health emergency of international concernVaccine-derived poliovirusAn imported case of vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2, Spain in the context of the ongoing polio Public Health Emergency of International Concern, September 2021Atribución 4.0 Internacional349159742650210106810.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.50.21010681560-7917Euro Surveillance: bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletinopen access