Poliomyelitis

What the WHO Coronavirus Declaration Means - TIME What the WHO Coronavirus Declaration Means - TIME Two more polio cases detected in Sabah; both children unimmunised foreigners - New Straits Times Dr. Gifford-Jones: People are dying needlessly of coronavirus - MPNnow.com What the WHO Coronavirus Declaration Means - TIME Posted: 30 Jan 2020 01:45 PM PST The World Health Organization (WHO) took the rare step Thursday of declaring a novel coronavirus outbreak that originated in Wuhan, China a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). But what does that actually mean? The WHO defines a PHEIC as an "extraordinary event" that "constitute[s] a public health risk to other States through the international spread of disease" and "potentially require[s] a coordinated international response." Since that framework was defined in 2005—two years after another coronavirus , severe acute...

What the WHO Coronavirus Declaration Means - TIME What the WHO Coronavirus Declaration Means - TIME Posted: 30 Jan 2020 01:45 PM PST The World Health Organization (WHO) took the rare step Thursday of declaring a novel coronavirus outbreak that originated in Wuhan, China a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). But what does that actually mean? The WHO defines a PHEIC as an "extraordinary event" that "constitute[s] a public health risk to other States through the international spread of disease" and "potentially require[s] a coordinated international response." Since that framework was defined in 2005—two years after another coronavirus , severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), spread through China—it has been used only six times: for outbreaks of "swine flu" in 2009, polio in 2014, Ebola in 2014 , Zika virus in 2016 , Ebola in 2019 and, now, coronavirus in 2020. A PHEIC is m...

3-year-old boy in QC gets Type 2 polio after being vaccinated against types 1 and 3 - Coconuts 3-year-old boy in QC gets Type 2 polio after being vaccinated against types 1 and 3 - Coconuts Posted: 17 Jan 2020 12:00 AM PST Four more children have been added to the tally of recent polio infections since the disease's reappearance in the Philippines in September, including a 3-year-old boy from Quezon City who fell ill despite receiving vaccinations. In a statement yesterday, the Department of Health (DOH) said that two boys from Maguindanao, aged 2 and 3, were diagnosed with polio , while another 2-year-old boy fell ill in Sultan Kudarat. All of the patients, including the fourth boy in Quezon City, manifested signs of fever, diarrhea, muscle pain, paralysis, and weakness of the body. Quezon City's local government, meanwhile, said that the polio patient there is a resident of Sitio Kaliwa, in the city's Batasan Hills, and had p...

A novel gamma radiation-inactivated sabin-based polio vaccine. - Physician's Weekly A novel gamma radiation-inactivated sabin-based polio vaccine. - Physician's Weekly Posted: 31 Jan 2020 06:11 AM PST A concerted action on the part of international agencies and national governments has resulted in the near-eradication of poliomyelitis. However, both the oral polio vaccine (OPV) and the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) have deficiencies which make them suboptimal for use after global eradication. OPV is composed of attenuated Sabin strains and stimulates robust immunity, but may revert to neurovirulent forms in the intestine which can be shed and infect susceptible contacts. The majority of IPV products are manufactured using pathogenic strains inactivated with formalin. Upon eradication, the production of large quantities of pathogenic virus will present an increased biosecurity hazard. A logical ideal endgame vaccine would be...

Coronavirus shows disease prevention needs to be a policy priority - CNN International Coronavirus shows disease prevention needs to be a policy priority - CNN International Posted: 30 Jan 2020 11:09 AM PST [unable to retrieve full-text content] Coronavirus shows disease prevention needs to be a policy priority    CNN International Facebook and Instagram to remove coronavirus misinformation - The Verge Posted: 31 Jan 2020 02:41 AM PST Facebook will remove false claims and conspiracy theories about the coronavirus if it risks causing harm to people who believe them, the company has announced . The policy applies across both Instagram and Facebook, and includes misinformation about fake cures or prevention methods, or any claim that could confuse people about what health resources are available. Hashtags used to spread misinformation on Instagram will also be blocked or restricted. The social media company has pre...

WHO: New coronavirus not yet a global emergency but may become one later - S&P Global WHO: New coronavirus not yet a global emergency but may become one later - S&P Global Posted: 24 Jan 2020 10:48 AM PST A new coronavirus spreading in China and other parts of the world is not yet a global public health emergency, the World Health Organization said after convening a special panel to evaluate the situation. The chair of WHO's special panel, Didier Houssin, said during a Jan. 23 briefing that with "limited" cases of the virus and the containment efforts China has put in place, now was not the time to declare a public health emergency of international concern. "Make no mistake, this is an emergency in China, but it has not yet become a global health emergency," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters. He added, however, that the spread of the virus "may yet become" an internatio...

Coronavirus Is Declared a Global Health Emergency as Threat Rises Outside China - The Wall Street Journal Coronavirus Is Declared a Global Health Emergency as Threat Rises Outside China - The Wall Street Journal Posted: 30 Jan 2020 07:46 PM PST In a news conference Thursday, the director-general of the World Health Organization called the coronavirus outbreak "unprecedented" and declared a global public-health emergency. Photo: Jean-Christophe Bott/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock By Brianna Abbott , Katie Camero and Erin Mendell Updated Jan. 30, 2020 10:46 pm ET The World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a public-health emergency of international concern Thursday as the first person-to-person transmission of the virus was reported in the U.S. The WHO designation , pointing to an increase in the number of cases, indicates that international public-health authorities now consider the respirator...