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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired
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 Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 10:32 am Post subject: Polio resurfaces in..... |
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Pakistan!!
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: An eight-month-old Pakistani girl has tested positive for polio in an area where militants campaigned against vaccination, a World Health Organization official said Thursday.
The girl, identified only as Tanzila, comes from Ali Gram village in the Swat Valley where militants had "beaten up" anti-polio vaccination teams, said Dr Khalid Nawaz, a WHO official supervising local health authorities.
Nawaz said the last confirmed case of the disease in Swat had been in 2003. Tanzila is infected with type 1 polio, the most dangerous and contagious strain, he said.
A Swat-based pro-Taliban cleric, Maulana Fazlullah, had reportedly opposed polio vaccination, saying it was a Western conspiracy to render Muslims infertile.
Nawaz said authorities are planning to resume the vaccinations after a fragile peace deal was reached this year between militants and the government.
However, there have been sporadic attacks in recent weeks, and several girls schools have been burned down, amid signs that militants are reasserting themselves.
In the past year, Islamic militants have extended their influence across Pakistan's northwestern frontier with Afghanistan, posing a growing security threat to both countries.
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http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/07/17/asia/AS-Pakistan-Polio.php
Why can't disease be more multicultural and tolerant?? |
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Kikomom
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: them thar hills--Penna, USA--Zippy is my kid, the teacher in ROK. You can call me Kiko
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Polio puts a severe hurting on everyone it touches, victim or family members.
Interesting...
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| Salk's vaccine was composed of "killed" polio virus, which retained the ability to immunize without running the risk of infecting the patient. A few years later, a vaccine made from live polio virus was developed, which could be administered orally, while Salk's vaccine required injection. Further, there was some evidence that the "killed" vaccine failed to completely immunize the patient. In the U.S., public health authorities elected to distribute the "live" oral vaccine instead of Salk's. Tragically, the preparation of live virus infected some patients with the disease, rather than immunizing them. Since the introduction of the original vaccine, the few new cases of polio reported in the United States were probably caused by the "live" vaccine which was intended to prevent them. |
In the late 50's (showing my age again) I had a sugar-cube immunization that I seem to remember was for polio. That might have been the live vaccine? Perhaps I'm not completely immunized yet. An outbreak of this could affect thousands.
Yet if only these kids knew what's good for them... (a chuckle at their expense):
Study: Most Children Strongly Opposed To Children�s Healthcare
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