Nov 11, 2015

Cases of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV)

In places where polio immunization with oral polio vaccine (OPV) rates are extremely low, the vaccine virus is able to spread in the community. Sometimes the virus mutates and regains its virulence, because it's a live virus so it has the possibility of recovering its original properties and cause polio - circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV).

Oct 24, 2015

Lola Corrales - A los supervivientes de la polio, Spain in a day, sueños no, pesadillas y Francis Ford Coppola. Día Internacional contra la Polio 2015. Comunicado de la Asociación Afectados de Polio y Síndrome Post-Polio

Comunicado de la Asociación Afectados de Polio y Síndrome Post-Polio, con motivo del Día Internacional contra la Polio. 24 de octubre de 2015.

A los supervivientes de la polio, Spain in a day, sueños no, pesadillas y Francis Ford Coppola.

Ni Ban Ki-moon, Merkel o Rajoy cogen el toro por los cuernos en el asunto de la polio y sus supervivientes. Cada uno en su ámbito de actuación deberían haber dado pasos para corregir la injusticia que padecemos.

En medio de los recortes más terribles y de la crisis, el Gobierno de Rajoy con su mayoría decidió aplastarnos y buscaron tiempo para emitir un reportaje en Informe Semanal, con el que sembrar la mentira y la confusión. La primera mentira fue decir que la OMS acababa de reconocer el síndrome post-polio en 2010. Lo que hizo la OMS en 2010 fue cambiarlo de lugar, de síndromes a enfermedades del sistema nervioso central. Confundieron con las vacunas e instauraron la verdad que les interesa. En el Congreso decidieron no dar continuidad a los trabajos pendientes de la anterior legislatura, tan necesarios. Y no se han debatido las Proposiciones No de Ley, presentadas en enero de 2012 y marzo de 2015. También en Para Todos La 2 de RTVE, fuimos excluidos expresamente y como por entonces en el año 2012 se llevaban muy bien con CiU, promocionaron en su versión conjunta, a quien acababa de llegar en 2006, a esta causa, colaboracionista y sostenedor de la versión oficial en Cataluña. El Partido Popular dice que les ha faltado piel, no es cierto, no les ha faltado piel, la tienen de lagarto, dura y salvaje.

Al Sr. Pedro Sánchez, Secretario General del PSOE, decirle que su partido tiene una deuda con las personas afectadas de polio y síndrome post-polio. Dicen que cuando una sociedad es verdaderamente democrática y justa, lo demuestra en la atención que presta, por ejemplo, a las personas con discapacidad. Y discapacitados somos la inmensa mayoria desde la infancia. ¿Por qué han guardado silencio ante las mentiras sembradas?. ¿Por qué no han defendido la continuidad de los trabajos pendientes?. ¿Por qué han promovido y apoyado los agravios comparativos existentes?. Demuestre el verdadero cambio del Partido Socialista también en este asunto.

Gracias a Izquierda Unida, en la persona de Gaspar Llamazares por su apoyo desde 2008.

Spain in a day es un proyecto de RTVE que pretende narrar los acontecimientos que tendrán lugar el 24 de Octubre de 2015 a través de los ojos y voces de la gente. Hágalo usted mismo y seguramente nadie mencionara en RTVE, como siempre, que ese día también se conmemora el WORD POLIO DAY.

Sueños no, pesadillas. En la lucha por esta causa difícil, terrible, hemos visto cara a cara las miserias humanas, la maldad, la crueldad, la mentira, la indiferencia, el desprecio, el colaboracionismo. Hemos sido castigados, manoseados, usados, tirados, espiados. En definitiva, todo el que nos traiciona prospera.

Francis Ford Coppola Premio Princesa de Asturias de las Artes 2015, tuvo polio a los nueve años. Muchas personas que tuvieron polio han tenido gran éxito en la vida, desde los que piden limosna arrastras por el suelo, a los trabajadores de todo tipo de profesiones y oficios. En la vida personal tenemos pareja, hijos y demás familia. Somos millones, estamos por toda el mundo, pero nadie nos ve. Y ninguno tenemos respuesta a este nuevo ataque contra nuestra salud, a nuestra vida y vemos un constante goteo de éxitus (palabra médica para decir, el paciente ha muerto) y nadie hace nada por evitarlo.

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

Nov 13, 2013

United Nations: Polio vaccination campaign in Sudan has failed.

Efforts to vaccinate 165,000 children against polio in Sudan's violence-wracked South Kordofan and Blue Nile states have failed, the director of UN humanitarian operations told the UN security council on Monday.

John Ging said he urged the UN's most powerful body to use its clout to get the children vaccinated.

Last month, the security council expressed alarm at the imminent threat of the spread of polio through the two states and the continuing outbreak of polio in the Horn of Africa.Read more www.theguardian.com

Nov 12, 2013

Polio virus strain found in Syria confirmed as originating from Pakistan, WHO says.

Syria's polio outbreak has been genetically linked to the strain circulating in Pakistan and is also related to the wild poliovirus appearing in Egypt, Israel and Palestinian territories in the past year, the World Health Organization announced on Monday .

The agency also reported an increase in the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases in Syria, which jumped from 10 to 13 cases. Wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1), a highly infectious strain that causes paralysis, has not been detected in Syria since 1999.

Nov 11, 2013

EUROPEAN UNION - Cross-border healthcare: patients’ rights.

The freedom to receive health services throughout the European Union must be accompanied by guarantees of quality and security. In order to make an informed choice, patients must be able to access all the information they require on the conditions under which they will receive healthcare in another EU Member State and the conditions under which they will be reimbursed once they return home.

Under this Directive, patients from Member States of the European Union will be able to travel to a different country other than their own to receive healthcare treatment, paying for the services they receive and subsequently applying for reimbursement from their own country, under certain conditions and, in the case of certain treatments, following prior authorisation. The spirit of this Directive is a response to the free circulation of people, goods and services within the EU.

Nov 8, 2013

A polio outbreak in Syria threatens to spread into Europe, according to experts.

WHO has confirmed an outbreak of at least ten cases of polio in Syria, where vaccination coverage has dramatically decreased during the civil war.

Furthermore, wild-type poliovirus 1 (WPV1) has been isolated from sewage and faeces from asymptomatic carriers in Israel since February, 2013. Tourists and travellers could bring the infection to other countries.

Precautions during the Hajj in Saudi Arabia in October, 2013, ensured that visitors from regions with known polio transmission were vaccinated, but Syria was not on the list.

Moreover, hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing Syria and seek refuge in neighbouring countries and Europe.

20 million children are to be vaccinated in Syria and neighboring countries against polio.

(Reuters) - More than 20 million children are to be vaccinated in Syria and neighboring countries against polio to try to stop the spread of the crippling infectious disease following its re-emergence there after 14 years,United Nations agencies said on Friday.

The mass vaccination against polio, which can spread rapidly among children, is already under way in the Middle East a week after the region declared a polio emergency, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN children fund UNICEF said.

Nov 4, 2013

Syrian minister blames polio outbreak on 'jihadists' from Pakistan.

A Syrian government minister has claimed that foreign fighters waging a jihadist war are responsible for an outbreak of polio in the country.

Ten cases have been confirmed by the United Nations in the first substantiated outbreak of the disease in Syria in 14 years.Babies and toddlers under two years old have contracted the disease.

Kindah al-Shammat, the Social Affairs Minister, told the Associated Press news agency that jihadis from Pakistan were to blame.

Oct 31, 2013

Polio can make menopause more severe.

(NewsFix) A study shows that women who are disabled by polio have more trouble with the menopause than non-disabled women.

Polio is an illness which often affects children but whose symptoms – which are neurological in kind – may persist for many years. Doctors at the University of Michigan reveal how polio impacts on women going through the menopause.

They carried out a nationwide study covering half a million women in the US with a history of polio and compared them to men with a history of polio to see what impact menopause might have.

They found that the more severe a woman’s post-polio symptoms were, the worse her menopausal symptoms were. And while post-polio women approaching menopause were more happy than their male counterparts, when they were going through the menopause, the reverse was true.

And more post-polio women – 39 per cent – used hormone replacement therapy than women without a history of polio (the average rate for US women is just 21 per cent). The study will, hopefully, raise awareness of the difficulties that polio survivors may have with the menopause.

www.newsfix.ca

Oct 29, 2013

Ten cases of child polio confirmed in Syria by the WHO.

The United Nations says ten cases of polio have been confirmed among children in Syria and that there is a high risk of the outbreak spreading across the region.

The World Health Organization said it was waiting for the results of laboratory tests on 12 more cases.

Oct 28, 2013

PESHAWAR - Confirmed four new polio cases.

More polio cases surface in KP, Fata.

PESHAWAR: The National Institute of Health Islamabad has confirmed four new polio cases, including two from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and one from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, according to officials.

They said that the fourth victim of polio belonged to a Pakhtun family, currently living in Karachi.

Officials said that Fata had recorded 38 polio cases, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had seven, Sindh had five and Punjab had recorded three out of the total cases reported in 2013 so far.
According to them, the new cases have brought the nationwide polio count to 53.

Oct 27, 2013

700,000 children under 5 in Lebanon are to receive polio vaccines within the next two months after suspected cases of the incurable disease were discovered in neighboring Syria.

Lebanon to vaccinate children after suspected polio cases in Syria.

(Reuters) - Lebanon, which hosts more than 700,000 Syrian refugees, said on Friday it would vaccinate all children under five against polio after suspected cases of the crippling viral disease were found in neighboring Syria.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday at least 22 people had acute flaccid paralysis, a symptom of diseases including polio, in Syria's eastern Deir al-Zor province, which borders Iraq, most of them children.

Polio victims' families agree to S/. 1 million settlement.

Last child infected with polio lost his battle with the disease over the weekend.

The seven families of the children who contracted polio after being vaccinated in Ministry of Health (MINSA) hospitals between 2003 and this year, accepted an offer of S/. 994.420 as compensation for the harm caused to the minors, El Comercio reported.

According to El Comercio, Mario Rios, lawyer for the families, says that Minsa sent letters to the parents of seven children on July 23 making it clear that the almost one million soles for damages was the final offer that the ministry was willing to give. This came after the families had refused an offer made in June that was around S/.300.000.

Read more www.peruthisweek.com

Sep 17, 2013

Polio cases worldwide.

Sep 10, 2013

Verheerende Folgen der Kinderlähmung.

Hilfe für Afrika: Der an Polio erkrankte Cosmas Stivin benötigt einen speziellen Rollstuhl – Reise der Breitenbachs nach Tansania für November geplant.

Braucht einen Rollstuhl: Der 17-jährige Cosmas Stivin aus Tansania leidet an Kinderlähmung. Ein speziell angefertigter Rollstuhl soll sein Leben etwas erleichtern.

Ein Rollstuhl für die kleine Maria, Beinprothesen für Zacharias und ein Spezial-Stuhl für Emanuel: Tanja Breitenbach aus Partenstein hat dank vieler Spenden dafür gesorgt, dass das Leben dieser vom Schicksal gebeutelten Menschen aus Tansania etwas einfacher wurde. Nun hat sie ein neues „Sorgenkind“, dem sie helfen möchte: der 17-jährige Cosmas Stivin. Er ist an Kinderlähmung (Polio) erkrankt. Für ihn sammelt sie nun Geld, damit ein spezieller Rollstuhl angefertigt werden kann.

Weiter lesen http://www.mainpost.de

Sep 6, 2013

Pakistan - An official at the Chief Minister’s Polio Monitoring Cell said the stool of Hijab from Jarma union council tested positive for wild polio virus (WPV1) according to the National Institute of Health (NIH) in Islamabad.

Kohat reports first polio case of the year.

PESHAWAR.-Polio virus was confirmed in a 10-month-old girl from Kohat on Thursday, in what is the district’s first case of the year.

An official at the Chief Minister’s Polio Monitoring Cell said the stool of Hijab from Jarma union council tested positive for wild polio virus (WPV1) according to the National Institute of Health (NIH) in Islamabad.

Continue reading www.tribune.com.pk

Sep 3, 2013

W 1952 r zachorowałem na chorobe Heinego Medina. Słyszałem o tzw syndromie post polio. W Polsce nie ma Stowarzyszeń pomocy osobom pio przebytej HM.Kto zajmuje się problemtyką tej choroby.

Ministerstwo Zdrowia twierdzi , że w Polsce nie ma problemu. Lekarze chyba tez nie wiedza o co chodzi. Na stronach internetowych róznych krajów są informacje o syndromie post polio, a Polsce jak zwykle nie ma nic.

W 1951 roku wystąpiła pierwsza Epidemia poliomyelitis gdyż zanotowano 3060 zachorowań a już w 1958 roku zarejestrowano 6090 zachorowań, wśród których było 348 zgonów. W 1952 r tylko 2083 r Szpitale nie przechowują dokumentów archiwalnych.

O tej chorobie wiadomo było już wcześniej bo już w 1921 r zachorował na nią pozniejszy Prezydent Stanów Zjednoczonych Ameryki Franklin Delano Roosvelt. Ustanowił on Fundacje udzielającej pomocy ofiarom wirusa polio.

Europa podobno jest wolna od tego wirusa. Czyżby napewno? Jest w innych krajach a to nas podobno nie dotyczy. Czy wirus ten nie może się zmutować i szczepionki obecnie używane nie będą skuteczne.

http://www.zdronet.pl

Aboard the Jibon Tari (Boat of Life) Floating Hospital, patients are treated for a range of conditions including cataracts, club-foot, post-polio deformities, cleft lip and loss of hearing.

A floating hospital that travels across Bangladesh's waterways brings hope to thousands of people.

An estimated 16 million people in Bangladesh have a disability and most of them live in rural areas and cannot reach modern healthcare facilities. But the charity IMPACT is helping local medics treat disabilities aboard a three-deck floating hospital. The 40 by 10 metre vessel travels along 3,000 kilometres of waterway and includes wards, an operating theatre, a training centre, laboratories and even its own water purification plant. Aboard the Jibon Tari (Boat of Life) Floating Hospital, patients are treated for a range of conditions including cataracts, club-foot, post-polio deformities, cleft lip and loss of hearing. Continue reading www.aljazeera.com

Mehrere Jahrzehnte nach der Infektion tritt das sogenannte Post-Polio-Syndrom (PPS) als Folgeerkrankung der Kinderlähmung auf.

Vergessenes Leid: Spätfolgen der Kinderlähmung.

Die Kinderlähmung (Poliomyelitis) gilt in Europa seit rund 20 Jahren als ausgerottet - dank einer konsequenten Impfpolitik. Bis 2018 soll das Poliovirus weltweit ausgerottet sein. Doch auch wenn Neuinfektionen durch Polio-Viren hierzulande keine Rolle mehr spielen, leiden die Betroffenen unter den Folgen ihrer Krankheit: Mehrere Jahrzehnte nach der Infektion tritt das sogenannte Post-Polio-Syndrom (PPS) als Folgeerkrankung der Kinderlähmung auf.

Weiter lesen www.ndr.de

Spain’s hospital waiting lists hit historical highs on austerity.

Budgetary restrictions and the laying off of healthcare personnel have resulted in a record number of people awaiting surgery in Spain: 571,395, a 6.4-percent increase in a little over a year. Average waiting times have also gone up from 76 days to 100, the worst figures since the Health Ministry started recording these data in 2004.

Furthermore, the number of patients waiting more than six months to be admitted to hospital has risen seven percent, despite this timeframe being the maximum permitted by law for certain types of procedure.

There have been 27 confirmed polio cases in Pakistan so far this year.

Syed Wali desperately wants to immunize his three young children against polio but fears the Islamic militants who banned the vaccine from this remote area in northwest Pakistan will catch him if he tries to smuggle it in.

"I can afford to bring the vaccine for my children, but what answer will I give the Taliban if they recover the vaccine bag from my possession?" Wali asked.

Wali's fears are shared by many in the North Waziristan tribal area as health authorities recently confirmed five new polio cases there and suspect there are many more. It's one of a series of outbreaks this year in parts of the country where security threats have kept out vaccination teams.

There's concern that the virus circulating in Israel may spill out of the country, says Emory University's.

Israel is in the midst of a massive, emergency immunization drive of all children under the age of 9 against polio.

Why?

Health workers detected the virus in southern Israel in February. Since then, they've found it in 85 different sewage samples across the country, the said Wednesday. Yet so far, no children have gotten sick or been paralyzed by the virus.

Israel has one of the highest rates of immunization coverage in the world, says Chris Maher of the World Health Organization. And that's one reason why the country has avoided polio cases, so far. But health officials are still very concerned about the situation.

The vaccination campaign aims to give polio boosters to a million children.

"There's no way that 100 percent of the population can be immune at any given time," Maher says. "So any time that virus is circulating [in the environment], if there's a person who's not immune, there's a risk that that person is going to get clinical polio. They're going to get infected, and they're going to get sick."

Aug 27, 2013

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Improves Sleep in Patients with Post-Polio Syndrome.

According to Novel Study Published in Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience.

Amsterdam, NL, August 26, 2013 – Of the 15 million people around the world who have survived poliomyelitis, up to 80% report progressive deteriorating strength and endurance many years after infection, a condition known as post-polio syndrome (PPS).

Researchers in Italy from the National Hospital for Poliomyelitis, the Policlinico G.B. De Rossi in Verona, and the University of Milan have found that transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) for 15 days improved sleep and fatigue symptoms in patients with PPS, suggesting this non-invasive tool may be a new therapeutic option for this condition.

Their results are published in Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience.

Aug 26, 2013

SPAIN - In 2012, a total of 23 polio cases were reported.

Autonomous communities of Spain with polio cases reported in 2012.

Andalusia, 3 polio cases.
Aragon, 4 polio cases.
Asturias, 1 polio case.
Balearic Islands, 1 polio case.
Canary Islands, 1 polio case.
Castile- La Mancha, 1 polio case.
Catalonia, 1 polio case.
Valencian Community, 6 polio cases.
Region of Murcia, 3 polio cases.
Basque Country, 2 polio cases.

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Aug 18, 2013

Somalia is suffering an "explosive" outbreak of polio, 105 cases reported.

The UN has warned of a severe outbreak of polio in Somalia, days after a medical charity pulled out of the country, citing insecurity.

At least 105 cases of polio have been recorded in Somalia this year - almost half the number of cases around the world in 2012.

The World Health Organization is trying to eradicate polio and the number of cases has fallen dramatically.
Most of the Somali cases are in areas controlled by Islamist group al-Shabab.

Aug 2, 2013

WHO concerned polio virus found in Israel may spreading to other countries.

The World Health Organization (WHO) warned Wednesday that there was a medium to high likelihood that the polio virus found in Israel will spread overseas. The organization also issued a stark travel advisory warning tourists to make sure they were properly vaccinated before visiting Israel.

INDIA- Navi Mumbay. The family of nine-month-old Arsh Singh from Navi Mumbai, who tested positive for vaccine-derived polio virus (VDPV) in the second week of July, claims that they were kept in dark by the hospital and state health authorities about the child’s condition.

The family of nine-month-old Arsh Singh from Navi Mumbai, who tested positive for vaccine-derived polio virus (VDPV) in the second week of July, claims that they were kept in dark by the hospital and state health authorities about the child’s condition.

Arsh, who is tested positive for VDPV, is currently on ventilator.

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.

www.postpolioinfor.org

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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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. 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.

www.dailytimes.com.pk

Jun 27, 2013

COMISIÓN EUROPEA - INFORME DE LA COMISIÓN AL PARLAMENTO EUROPEO Y AL CONSEJO. Mejores medicamentos pediátricos — Del concepto a la realidad.

Los estudios realizados antes de que se adoptara el Reglamento pediátrico han puesto de manifiesto que más del 50 % de los medicamentos utilizados en niños no habían sido objeto de ningún estudio de los posibles efectos de su administración a este grupo de edad concreto.

Leer más www.europa.eu

COMMISSION EUROPÉENNE - RAPPORT DE LA COMMISSION AU PARLEMENT EUROPÉEN ET AU CONSEIL. De meilleurs médicaments pour les enfants – Du concept à la réalité.

Les études réalisées avant l’adoption du règlement avaient révélé que plus de 50 % des médicaments administrés aux enfants n’avaient pas été testés sur cette tranche d’âge spécifique.

En savoir plus www.europa.eu

EUROPEAN COMMISSION - REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL. Better Medicines for Children — From Concept to Reality.

Studies carried out before the Regulation was adopted showed that over 50 % of the medicines used for children had not been tested for use in this specific age group.

COMMISSIONE EUROPEA - RELAZIONE DELLA COMMISSIONE AL PARLAMENTO EUROPEO E AL CONSIGLIO. Medicinali migliori per i bambini: dall'ideazione alla realtà.

Da ricerche svolte prima dell'adozione del regolamento si evince che oltre il 50 % dei medicinali impiegati nei bambini non erano stati testati per l'uso in questa specifica fascia di età.

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EUROPÄISCHE KOMMISSION - BERICHT DER KOMMISSION AN DAS EUROPÄISCHE PARLAMENT UND DEN RAT. Bessere Arzneimittel für Kinder – Vom Konzept zur Wirklichkeit.

Vor der Annahme der Verordnung durchgeführte Studien zeigten, dass mehr als 50 % der Kindern verabreichten Arzneimittel nicht für die Verwendung bei dieser spezifischen Altersgruppe geprüft worden waren.

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KOMISJA EUROPEJSKA - SPRAWOZDANIE KOMISJI DLA PARLAMENTU EUROPEJSKIEGO I RADY. Lepsze leki dla dzieci – od koncepcji do realizacji.

Badania przeprowadzone przed przyjęciem rozporządzenia pokazały, że ponad 50 % leków stosowanych u dzieci nie zostało zbadanych pod kątem stosowania w tej szczególnej grupie wiekowej.

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Jun 23, 2013

BEED (Maharashtra), 23 JUNE: A 10-month-old boy, found infected with the vaccine derived polio virus (VDPV), died in Latur district civil hospital due to brain damage, doctor said.

Rohit Rajabhu Shelke was found to be infected with VDPV type 2. The child was diagnosed with fever on 27 April 2013, and suffered paralysis of left limbs on 4 May, followed by convulsions. The other limbs were eventually paralysed, after which he was admitted to a private hospital in Ambejogai.

Jun 21, 2013

A number of new polio cases have been reported in Mogadishu in the past week, sparking concerns that the outbreak of the disease may be spreading.

Somalia: Polio Virus Spreading in Mogadishu.

A number of new polio cases have been reported in Mogadishu in the past week, sparking concerns that the outbreak of the disease may be spreading, Radio Ergo reported Wednesday (June 19th).

More than 20 children infected with the virus were admitted to the hospital in the past week, according to Doctor Lul Mahmud Mohamed, head of Mogadishu's Banadir Hospital.

"The hospital has been admitting on average two children every day affected by polio virus. Some of them have not been vaccinated and some were vaccinated but not in the proper way," Mohamed said.

A case involving a 20-year-old man has also been reported, indicating that adults are also at risk of infection.

Jun 20, 2013

A resident of the southern Bedouin village of Rahat receives a polio immunization on June 4, 2013.

Polio scare gets parents rushing to immunize their kids.

Health Ministry officials begin making calls and visiting homes to ensure all children under the age of six get inoculated.

A resident of the southern Bedouin village of Rahat receives a polio immunization on June 4, 2013. (photo credit: Flash90)

(photo credit: Flash90)

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Jun 18, 2013

Ukraine is at risk of a polio outbreak, according to the World Health Organization.

Only about one-half of Ukraine’s children are fully immunized against vaccine-preventable communicable diseases in line with local health regulations, compared to over 90 percent in Western Europe, according to UNICEF, the United Nations children’s agency.

Such a low immunization rate has already led to a major outbreak of measles and a risk of an outbreak of polio, a highly dangerous disease which may cause paralysis and which has been unseen in Ukraine for more than a decade, UNICEF and the World Health Organization said ahead of the current World Immunization week.

Jun 17, 2013

Happy 100th for inspirational polio sufferer from Hampton.

A long term polio sufferer from Hampton was visited by the mayor of Richmond last month, when she celebrated her 100th birthday.

Dori Pomroy, who has suffered from polio since the age of two, opened her traditional card from the Queen with new mayor Councillor Meena Bond at her birthday bash on May 30.

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NIGERIA - The total number of WPV cases for 2013 to 25. It is the most recent WPV case in the country and had onset of paralysis on 4 May.

Nigeria: 25 Fresh Wild Polio Cases Discovered in Northern States.

Minna — Statistics indicated last Wednesday that there were 25 fresh cases of wild polio virus discovered in the country, the World Health Organization (WHO) Consultant on Vaccine, Security and Logistics, Bolagi Buari has announced.

The consultant made the disclosure yesterday while delivering his address during the flag off of the fifth round of Immunization Plus Days (IPDs) in Tagena, Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State, saying polio virus fresh cases were found in nine northern states of the country.

Polio volunteers shot dead in Swabi.

SWABI: The anti-polio campaign in the country received another blow when two volunteers were killed in Topi, Swabi during an attack on a polio team, Express News reported on Sunday.

“Gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead two health workers who were administering anti-polio drops to children in the area,” district police chief Mian Saeed told AFP.

The victims, both male, had refused to take security personnel along, he added.

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Jun 14, 2013

Instead of shielding children from polio, oral polio vaccine causes disease.

A 10-month-old baby in Beed district, Maharashtra who recently got infected by a vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) type 2 is yet another reminder that despite India being declared polio free more than two years ago, children are getting infected with the polio virus. The only difference is that the virus in question is not the wild type but a vaccine-derived one.

Viruses in OPV can become neuro-virulent and spread, causing polio in under-immunised, susceptible children. Photo: S.James

Jun 13, 2013

Traces of polio virus found in sewers in Ashdod and other locales in southern Israel.

Findings come after last week's discovery of polio virus in the Be'er Sheva sewage system; strain similar to one recently found in Egypt.

Traces of the polio virus have been detected in the sewage systems of a number of locations in the south, including Kiryat Gat and Ashdod. This follows the discovery last week of the polio virus in the Be’er Sheva sewage system.

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Austerity cuts to Spanish healthcare system may 'put lives at risk'.

A series of austerity reforms made by the Spanish government could lead to the effective dismantling of large parts of the country’s healthcare system, with potentially detrimental effects on the health of the Spanish people, according to new research published in BMJ.

Jun 12, 2013

European Polio Conference 2014.

The 2^nd European Polio Conference will be held in Amsterdam from 25-27 June 2014.

Post-Polio Syndrome: A Condition Without Boundaries.

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Jun 10, 2013

150.000 niños se quedan sin la vacuna contra la poliomielitis a causa de la guerra en el sur de Sudán.

Alrededor de 150.000 niños menores de cinco años se han visto privados de la vacuna contra la poliomielitis en los Montes Nuba y en el estado de Nilo Azul a causa del conflicto armado entre el Ejército de Sudán y el grupo rebelde Ejército de Liberación Popular de Sudán-Norte, que opera en estas regiones del sur de Sudán.

SPLM-N demands discussions on how to conduct vaccination campaign for children.

June 6, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement –North (SPLM-N) said ready for a polio vaccination and vitamin A distribution campaign that two UN agencies intend to carry out in its controlled areas, and demanded to negotiate how to carry out this operation and provided to exclude Sudanese from this operation.

Jun 5, 2013

Australia - The NDIS will provide support and services for hundreds of thousands of Australians who need help, but many polio survivors will likely be left out.

Polio survivors 'may be left out' of NDIS.

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Perú - Un bebé adquirió poliomielitis luego de ser vacunado en un hospital del Ministerio de Salud en Barranca. Es la séptima vez que ocurre en el país.

Ministerio de Salud habría provocado nuevo caso de poliomielitis en recién nacido.