Jul 31, 2013

Otro caso más de polio por vacuna con resultado de muerte, tras meses de sufrimiento.

Hasta cuando seguirán existiendo casos de polio y muertes evitables. A pesar de titulares de prensa, nunca fue una negligencia, fue un crimen y es un crimen.

Jul 19, 2013

High incidence of polio cases in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan has set alarm bells ringing. According to National Coordinator of the Prime Minister Polio Monitoring and Coordination Cell Dr. Altaf Bosan, the polio situation in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) is very critical.

High incidence of polio cases in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan has set alarm bells ringing. According to National Coordinator of the Prime Minister Polio Monitoring and Coordination Cell Dr. Altaf Bosan, the polio situation in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) is very critical.

“There is a danger that a large number of polio cases will emerge in the next months if the current outbreak in FATA with epicenter in restive Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency and North Waziristan Agency is not contained,” he told this scribe on Thursday. Dr. Bosan said that FATA was the region with the highest number of polio cases in the country in 2013.


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A polio virus found recently in southern Israel is exactly of the same kind as prevalent in Pakistan.

ISLAMABAD, July 18: A polio virus found recently in southern Israel is exactly of the same kind as prevalent in Pakistan.
 
Dr Nima Abid, a representative of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Pakistan, while talking to Dawn expressed surprise over the development. 

“We don’t have details how the virus travelled all the way to Israel.” 

Jul 18, 2013

Julia thought she'd beaten polio 50 years ago. Now it's returned to haunt her... and it's a timebomb that could affect thousands more.

TV presenter Julia Roberts has an enviable, toned physique, but when you learn that as a child she was struck with polio, her fitness is even more impressive.
The infectious disease attacks the nervous system and can lead to paralysis, disability and even death.




Jul 16, 2013

After about two weeks without recording any case of Wild Polio Virus (WPV), Nigeria Thursday reported nine new cases of the crippling virus, bringing the number of cases for 2013 to 35.

According to the latest edition of Weekly Polio Update published by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), this is despite a sub-national Immunisation Plus Days (IPDs) held from July 6 to 9, 2013 in northern and middle-band states.

Jul 3, 2013

Lola Corrales Presidenta de la Asociación Afectados de Polio y Síndrome Post-Polio.

VIVIMOS CONDENADOS A UN ETERNO COMIENZO, DESEAMOS A LOS RESPONSABLES QUE SUFRAN LO MISMO QUE NOS HAN PROCURADO A LOS AFECTADOS DE POLIO Y SINDROME POST-POLIO. 50 AÑOS DE LA PRIMERA CAMPAÑA DE VACUNACIÓN ANTIPOLIO EN ESPAÑA.

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Lola Corrales, Presidenta de la Asociación Afectados de Polio y Síndrome Post-Polio.

Me dice Lola Corrales, Presidenta de la Asociación Afectados de Polio y Síndrome Post-Polio, que este año se cumplen 50 años de la primera campaña de vacunación en España con la vacuna oral. Esta vacuna de pobres, pues los ricos se vacunan con la de 1955, la inyectable que no da polio y llegó antes a España para algunos y que solo volvió para todos en 2004.

Mientras Ana Mato, ministra de Sanidad, Servicios Sociales e Igualdad participa en la conmemoración de esta campaña de vacunación antipolio de España, rebajando el numero de casos de polio que facilitaba la Dictadura que ya no eran los reales.

Peshawar: A woman polio worker was on Wednesday shot dead by suspected militants in northwest Pakistan during an anti-immunisation drive, the latest in a series of attacks targeting the government's vaccination campaign.

Peshawar: A woman polio worker was on Wednesday shot dead by suspected militants in northwest Pakistan during an anti-immunisation drive, the latest in a series of attacks targeting the government's vaccination campaign.

Other members of the team managed to escape unhurt in the incident that took place in Swabi District of Khyber-Pakthunkhwa province, which last month witnessed two polio workers being killed by militants, police said.

The National Institute of Health (NIH) in Islamabad on Monday confirmed nine-month-old Said Akbar, from Kotla village, Datta Khel in NWA is infected with the virus of polio. The ill-fated child has not received a single dose of the polio vaccine as the area has been out of reach.

Third child contracts polio in North Waziristan.

PESHAWAR: As the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) struggles to continue anti-polio campaigns against all odds, a third child from North Waziristan Agency (NWA) has been diagnosed with the crippling disease.

The National Institute of Health (NIH) in Islamabad on Monday confirmed nine-month-old Said Akbar, from Kotla village, Datta Khel in NWA is infected with the virus. The ill-fated child has not received a single dose of the polio vaccine as the area has been out of reach. Vaccination teams have not been able to access the region since June 2012 after a ‘ban’ against polio immunisation was imposed by Taliban commander Hafiz Gul Bahadur.

 

Oral polio vaccine (OPV) contains an attenuated (weakened) vaccine-virus, activating an immune response in the body.

If a population is seriously under-immunized, an excreted vaccine-virus can continue to circulate for an extended period of time. The longer it is allowed to survive, the more genetic changes it undergoes. The vaccine-virus can genetically change into a form that can paralyse – this is what is known as a circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV).

INDIA - PUNE: Fourteen children with acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) found during a routine surveillance in the state this month are considered "highly suspected polio cases" on the basis of their clinical characteristics and epidemiological data.

14 higly suspected polio cases found in state.

PUNE: Fourteen children with acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) found during a routine surveillance in the state this month are considered "highly suspected polio cases" on the basis of their clinical characteristics and epidemiological data.

The state health department has found 1,043 AFP cases during their routine surveillance so far this year. Acute flaccid paralysis is a term which applies to the exact clinical symptoms doctors see in polio virus infection. But this may not necessarily be caused by polio viruses. 
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MIRANSHAH: The detection of dangerous poliovirus P1 in a child of the North Waziristan Agency (NWA) has raised concern among the health authorities.

Dangerous polio strain detected in NWA.

MIRANSHAH: The detection of dangerous poliovirus P1 in a child of the North Waziristan Agency (NWA) has raised concern among the health authorities. According to details, type P1 virus has been detected in a nine-month-old child of Datakhel area of NWA. 
 
Health authorities noted that due to the creation of hurdles by the tribal people in the anti-polio vaccination, spread of poliovirus on a large scale was feared in FATA. 
 
The health authorities also said that the three-day anti-polio vaccination campaign would kickstart in FATA, except North and South Waziristan agencies, from Monday (today). Due to security threats more than two hundred thousand children of NWA and SWA would remain deprived of the vaccination.