Performance of AFP and EV surveillance in Austria: All laboratories performing EV diagnostics recorded. These laboratories are required to submit their data quarterly or at the end of the year to the Ministry and submit the EV PCR-positive samples to the NRC for Poliomyelitis for further investigations (typing). Available data are from Vienna, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Carinthia, Burgenland and Styria from quarters 1 and 2 of 2018. This evidence concerns the gene AFP and poliomyelitis.