What the WHO Coronavirus Declaration Means - TIME
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 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 meant to mobilize international response to an outbreak. It's an opportunity for the WHO, with guidance from its International Health Regulations Emergency Committee, to implement "non-binding but practically & politically significant measures that can address travel, trade, quarantine, screening, treatment. WHO can also set global standards of practice," the organization tweeted. WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus emphasized that, at its core, a PHEIC is about prompting countries to work together to contain a threat. It is not about punishing China, nor doubting its ability to contain the outbreak, he said at a press conference Thursday. Related Stories  "This declaration is not because China is not doing what it can," Ghebreyesus said. "It's actually doing more than what China is required to do. [The PHEIC is about] protecting countries with weaker health systems." In this case, the WHO advises countries not to unnecessarily restrict travel and trade to China; to support nations with weaker health systems; accelerate the development of vaccines and treatments; stop the spread of rumors and misinformation; work to treat those who are already sick while limiting spread; share knowledge with the WHO and other countries; and work together "in a spirit of solidarity and cooperation." In a statement also released Thursday, the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board, an independent body that works toward preparedness for global health crises, encouraged nations to invest in their own public health and outbreak response systems while supporting the WHO's Contingency Fund for Emergencies. Countries are not compelled to contribute based on the PHEIC designation, but Ghebreyesus tweeted that the WHO "welcome[s] their call for countries to sustainably finance WHO's preparedness and response activities."  |
| Two more polio cases detected in Sabah; both children unimmunised foreigners - New Straits Times Posted: 10 Jan 2020 12:00 AM PST SANDAKAN: Two more cases of poliomyelitis (polio) have been detected here, bringing the total number of children infected with the re-emerging disease in Sabah to three. The new cases were detected after the Health Ministry implemented preventive and control measures in the state after a 3-month-old boy in Tuaran was the first to be diagnosed with the disease. Health Ministry director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said both of the new victims' stool samples have been sent to the World Health Organisation Polio Regional Reference Laboratory (WHO Polio RRL) in Melbourne, Australia for confirmation and genetic sequencing. "On Jan 9, the virus isolated from both cases was confirmed to be the polio virus by the WHO Polio RRL. "The test also confirmed that the virus for the three cases has genetic associations with polio cases in the Philippines," he said in a statement, adding that both children are immigrants who were never immunised. One of the victims is an 11-year-old boy living in Kinabatangan, near here, who was brought to a clinic for having fever since Nov 17, last year. The boy was hospitalised on Dec 1 after he complained of back pain and had to use a walking stick. The second victim is an 8-year-old from here, who has suffered paralysis and was placed on a ventilator three days after becoming feverish on Dec 9. "With the confirmation of the two latest polio cases, it makes three positive polio cases in Sabah. "All of the patients are still receiving treatment in hospital and are stable," Dr Noor Hisham added. Following the confirmation of the cases here, the ministry inspected 705 people in the areas where both children live. "There were 65 children (in those areas) who missed their polio immunisation and (have since) been given polio vaccine injections," he said. The large-scale Sabah Polio Immunisation 2019/2020 initiative, which began on Dec 27, is targeting all children aged 5 and below in the state. Each child is given two doses of oral polio vaccine (OPV) to boost immunity in their intestines to fight against the polio virus should they become infected. It also prevents the spread of the disease in the community.  |
| Dr. Gifford-Jones: People are dying needlessly of coronavirus - MPNnow.com Posted: 28 Jan 2020 07:56 PM PST Why "needless" deaths from this threatening virus? Because doctors, health authorities, hospital administrators and politicians have not read history. Not even the Chinese! This week several members of the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service (OMNS) were asked, "How would you treat the coronavirus?" Here are opinions of experts who study the potential of nutrients to fight disease. Dr. Andrew W. Saul, an international expert on vitamin therapy, says, "The coronavirus can be dramatically slowed or stopped completely with the immediate widespread use of high doses of vitamin C. Bowel tolerance levels of C taken in divided doses throughout the day, is a clinically proven antiviral, without equal." Saul adds, "Dr. Robert F. Cathcart, who had extensive experience treating viral diseases remarked, 'I have not seen any flu yet that was not cured or markedly ameliorated by massive doses of vitamin." Professor Victor Marcial-Vega of the Caribe School of Medicine responds, "Given the relatively high rate of success of intravenous vitamin C in viral diseases and my observation of clinical improvement within 2 to 3 hours of treatment, I strongly believe it would be my first recommendation in the management of the coronavirus." He adds, "I have also used intravenous vitamin C to treat patients with influenza, dengue fever, and chikungunya, for 24 years." Dr. Jeffery Allyn Ruterbusch, Associate Professor at Central Michigan University, says, "I believe all of us agree on the greatly increased benefits of vitamin C when people are placed under any stressful condition." Dr. Damien Downing, former editor of the Journal of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine, writes: "Swine flu, bird flu, and SARS, all developed in selenium-deficient China. When patients were given selenium, viral mutation rates dropped and immunity improved." Several other authorities agreed that high doses of vitamin C, along with 3,000 IU of vitamin D, and 20 milligrams of zinc, was a good combination to help fight viral diseases. And Drs. Carolyn Dean and Thomas Levy, both world authorities on magnesium, stressed that the mineral is involved in 1,000 metabolic reactions and that maintaining adequate levels improves immunity. Another over-riding opinion was that few people know that high doses of C increase immunity and destroy viral diseases. This information is not new. During the great polio epidemic of 1949-50 Dr. Frederick R. Klenner, a family physician in North Carolina, treated 60 polio patients with high doses of intravenous vitamin C. None developed paralysis. This discovery should have made headlines around the world but Dr. Klenner's news fell on deaf ears. Later, Klenner proved that high doses of C could also be effective as treatments for meningitis, pneumonia, measles, hepatitis and other viral and bacterial diseases. Even the bite of a rattlesnake. Again, only scorn from the medical profession. What does this mean to North Americans? Patients with a diagnosis of coronavirus should be given intravenous vitamin C, and it will save lives. The problem is that most doctors still refuse to believe IVC is effective. I'm not your doctor. But my family and friends know to visit a health food store and stock up on Medi C Plus, a powdered form of vitamin C that I developed which allows for high doses to be easily consumed and which contains needed lysine and magnesium. Vitamin C pills will do, but you must swallow many of them. Start taking 2000 mg twice a day to build up immunity. If flu symptoms develop, take 2,000 mg every hour up to bowel tolerance, and see a doctor. Large doses of C cause loose stools. But better to sit on a toilet than under a gravestone. Dr. Ken Walker (Gifford-Jones) is a graduate of the University of Toronto and The Harvard Medical School. He trained in general surgery at the Strong Memorial Hospital, University of Rochester, Montreal General Hospital, McGill University and in gynecology at Harvard. He has also been a general practitioner, ship's surgeon and hotel doctor. Sign up for medical tips at docgiff.com, and take a look at the new web site.  |
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