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 31, 2013
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.
“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.
Read more http://www.thenews.com.pk
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.”
Read more http://dawn.com/news
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.
Read more www.dailymail.co.uk
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.
Read more www.ngrguardiannews.com
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.
Continúa leyendo www.postpolioinfor.org
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.
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.
Read more http://zeenews.india.com
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.
Read more http://tribune.com.pk/
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. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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.
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