Poliomyelitis

Polio programme accelerates efforts to respond to new polio outbreaks in Sudan and Yemen - UNICEF Polio programme accelerates efforts to respond to new polio outbreaks in Sudan and Yemen - UNICEF Posted: 11 Sep 2020 12:00 AM PDT AMMAN/CAIRO, 11 September 2020 -  "The recent vaccine-derived polio outbreaks confirmed in Yemen and Sudan are consequences of increasingly low levels of immunity among children. Each outbreak has paralysed children in areas that have been extremely difficult if not impossible to reach with routine or supplementary polio vaccination for extended periods of time. "These outbreaks do not come as a total surprise. In Sudan, extensive population movement by nomadic communities, people displaced by conflict, frequent movement between neighbouring countries and restricted access in some areas have made it enormously difficult to reach every child with vaccines. The cases in Yemen are clustered in the Sa'adah Go...

Who created the polio vaccine? - Livescience.com Who created the polio vaccine? - Livescience.com Posted: 01 Jun 2020 12:00 AM PDT In the early 1950s, two prominent medical researchers each found a way to protect the world from poliomyelitis, the paralysis-causing disease commonly known as polio. The vaccines created by Dr. Jonas Salk and Dr. Albert Sabin resulted in the near-global eradication of polio. Here's how they did it.  What is polio?  Polio is a disease caused by three variants of the poliovirus, according to a 2012 review written by microbiologist and polio expert Anda Baicus and published in the World Journal of Virology . The virus, which only infects humans, can damage the neurons that control movement, resulting in partial or complete paralysis. A person can become infected with the virus by consuming contaminated food or water, or by allowing contaminated items (such as dirty hands) to touch or enter the mouth, accord...

Vaccinations, Polio and COVID 19: A Personal Reflection - The Globalist Vaccinations, Polio and COVID 19: A Personal Reflection - The Globalist Posted: 27 Sep 2020 12:55 AM PDT He was the cutest little boy. Like too many little children at the time and in the decades before, he was stricken by polio. He was three years old and I was eight. That was the first major shock of my life. I remember hearing him cry through the window as I stood outside the hospital, waiting for my mother, who had gone to visit him. The anguish on her face was also not to be forgotten. I learned the big words "quarantine" and "isolation" (I thought my little brother had been put on ice). Dr. Jonas Salk and the live polio vaccine My brother had the bad luck of being in the very last group of children to be stricken prior to the mass distribution of the Salk vaccine. Now in his sixties, he wrote recently to ask what I remembered about the tim...

Lessons from how the polio vaccine went from the lab to the public that Americans can learn from today - The Conversation US Lessons from how the polio vaccine went from the lab to the public that Americans can learn from today - The Conversation US Posted: 16 Sep 2020 12:00 AM PDT In 1955, after a field trial involving 1.8 million Americans, the world's first successful polio vaccine was declared " safe, effective, and potent ." It was arguably the most significant biomedical advance of the past century. Despite the polio vaccine's long-term success , manufacturers, government leaders and the nonprofit that funded the vaccine's development made several missteps . Having produced a documentary about the polio vaccine's field trials, we believe the lessons learned during that chapter in medical history are worth considering as the race to develop COVID-19 vaccines proceeds. [embedded content] Trailer from ...

You can’t get the flu from a flu shot. Here’s why. - The Washington Post You can’t get the flu from a flu shot. Here’s why. - The Washington Post Posted: 26 Sep 2020 05:00 AM PDT One of the common myths that leads people to avoid the flu shot is that they think the shot will give them the flu. But that is simply not true. The virus in the vaccine is not active, and an inactive virus cannot transmit disease. What is true is that you may feel the effects of your body mounting an immune response, but that does not mean you have the flu. I am a nursing professor with experience in public health promotion, and I hear this and other myths often. Here are the facts and the explanations behind them. Inactive virus Influenza, or the flu , is a common but serious infectious respiratory disease that can result in hospitalization or even death. The CDC estimates that during a "good" flu season, approximately ...

Here is what you need to know about the two polio vaccines! - ARY NEWS Here is what you need to know about the two polio vaccines! - ARY NEWS Posted: 21 Sep 2020 02:34 AM PDT Polio was once a disease feared worldwide, striking suddenly and paralysing mainly children for life. Polio now survives only among the world's poorest and most marginalized communities, where it stalks the most vulnerable children. The development of effective vaccines to prevent paralytic polio was one of the major medical breakthroughs of the 20th century. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative uses two types of vaccine to stop polio transmission – inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) and oral polio vaccine (OPV). If enough people in a community are immunized against polio, the virus will be deprived of susceptible hosts and will die out. High levels of vaccination coverage must be maintained to stop transmission and prevent outbreaks occurring. The Global Poli...