Poliomyelitis

Polio vaccination drive in Kayin, Mon, and Bago - Myanmar Times Polio vaccination drive in Kayin, Mon, and Bago - Myanmar Times Posted: 04 Jul 2019 12:00 AM PDT The programme from July 7 to 11 will cover seven townships in Kayin, three in Mon, and two in Bago, according to a statement by the Ministry of Health and Sports.  The vaccinations will cover children under 15 only in Hpapun township, Kayin, and those under five in the other 11 townships. It is estimated that 300,000 youngsters will receive the polio vaccines. "Vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1, or VPDP1, can infect children who have never been inoculated with the polio vaccine, so every child absolutely needs to take part in the vaccination programme," Htar Htar Linn, programme manager of the department's Extended Programme on Immunisation said. The vaccination campaign was ordered after a child in Sin Swel village near Hpapun township, Kayin, was found to have c...

Candy Land Was Invented for Polio Wards - The Atlantic Candy Land Was Invented for Polio Wards - The Atlantic Posted: 28 Jul 2019 05:00 AM PDT If you were a child at some point in the past 70 years, odds are you played the board game Candy Land. According to the toy historian Tim Walsh, a staggering 94 percent of mothers are aware of Candy Land, and more than 60 percent of households with a 5-year-old child own a set. The game continues to sell about 1 million copies every year. You know how it goes: Players race down a sinuous but linear track, its spaces tinted one of six colors or marked by a special candy symbol. They draw from a deck of cards corresponding to the board's colors and symbols. They move their token to the next space that matches the drawn color or teleport to the space matching the symbol. The first to reach the end of the track is the winner. Nothing the participants say or do influences the outcome; the winner...

Good old days of Custer County | Local Scenes - Post Register Good old days of Custer County | Local Scenes - Post Register Posted: 10 Jul 2019 12:00 AM PDT 25 YEARS AGO July 14, 1994 n Nancy Diane Lewis, 38, a resident of Nampa, was found dead on the North Fork of Baron Creek on June 28. Custer County's sheriff dispatch log indicated Gary Hacker from Carlsbad, California, came into the Sawtooth Ranger's office and said he and his hiking party had discovered the woman upside down in the creek. The circumstances appear to be that Lewis was trying to walk across a log over a creek and fell headfirst into debris. Her 65-pound pack either lodged in the debris or prevented her from rising out of the water once it was soaked. Cause of death was probably drowning or hypothermia. n Fire hit close to home Saturday after a lightning storm touched off two blazes in the immediate Challis vicinity. They came within a half-hour of each oth...

'Lack of a clear explanation' for polio-like illness that sickens mostly children - WJLA 'Lack of a clear explanation' for polio-like illness that sickens mostly children - WJLA Posted: 19 Jul 2019 12:00 AM PDT [unable to retrieve full-text content] 'Lack of a clear explanation' for polio-like illness that sickens mostly children    WJLA NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports there is still a lack of a clear explanation for a polio-like illness ... You are subscribed to email updates from "How is the polio virus transmitted" - Google News . To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now . Email delivery powered by Google Google, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States

Candy Land Was Invented for Polio Wards - The Atlantic Candy Land Was Invented for Polio Wards - The Atlantic Posted: 28 Jul 2019 05:00 AM PDT If you were a child at some point in the past 70 years, odds are you played the board game Candy Land. According to the toy historian Tim Walsh, a staggering 94 percent of mothers are aware of Candy Land, and more than 60 percent of households with a 5-year-old child own a set. The game continues to sell about 1 million copies every year. You know how it goes: Players race down a sinuous but linear track, its spaces tinted one of six colors or marked by a special candy symbol. They draw from a deck of cards corresponding to the board's colors and symbols. They move their token to the next space that matches the drawn color or teleport to the space matching the symbol. The first to reach the end of the track is the winner. Nothing the participants say or do influences the outcome; the winner...

Candy Land Was Invented for Polio Wards - The Atlantic Candy Land Was Invented for Polio Wards - The Atlantic Posted: 28 Jul 2019 05:00 AM PDT If you were a child at some point in the past 70 years, odds are you played the board game Candy Land. According to the toy historian Tim Walsh, a staggering 94 percent of mothers are aware of Candy Land, and more than 60 percent of households with a 5-year-old child own a set. The game continues to sell about 1 million copies every year. You know how it goes: Players race down a sinuous but linear track, its spaces tinted one of six colors or marked by a special candy symbol. They draw from a deck of cards corresponding to the board's colors and symbols. They move their token to the next space that matches the drawn color or teleport to the space matching the symbol. The first to reach the end of the track is the winner. Nothing the participants say or do influences the outcome; the winner...