Poliomyelitis

How a vaccine scare caused polio to re-emerge in the Philippines after 19 years - UN Dispatch How a vaccine scare caused polio to re-emerge in the Philippines after 19 years - UN Dispatch Posted: 15 Oct 2019 12:00 AM PDT By: Joanne Lu on October 15, 2019 Nineteen years after polio was officially eradicated in the Philippines, the incurable disease has made a resurgence due to widespread fears about vaccines. On September 14, health officials in the Philippines confirmed the first case of polio, involving a three-year-old girl, in nearly two decades. By September 19, an outbreak was declared after a second case, involving a five-year-old boy, was confirmed. Polio is a highly infectious disease that is caused by the poliovirus. Although about 72 percent of people infected with the virus will not experience any symptoms, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), if the virus invades an infected person's brain ...

World Polio Day: Why Pakistan is failing to eradicate the disease - TRT World World Polio Day: Why Pakistan is failing to eradicate the disease - TRT World Posted: 27 Oct 2019 09:21 AM PDT Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria are the only countries in the world, where polio is endemic. And in contrast to recent years of gradual improvement, this year there have been at least 72 cases of polio in Pakistan after only eight in 2018. A Pakistani health worker gives polio vaccine to a child at a neighbourhood of Lahore, Pakistan, in 2015. (AP Archive) In Pakistan's Balochistan province,  health workers consider it a productive workday when they are able to vaccinate enough children with polio shots -  supported by their parents - as they pass from house to house in the provincial capital city of Quetta. Once a vaccine is administered, the health workers mark the child's house to record it, while police and security officers kee...

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Rotary provides millions in polio funding as wild poliovirus type 3 is eradicated - Democratic Republic of the Congo - ReliefWeb Rotary provides millions in polio funding as wild poliovirus type 3 is eradicated - Democratic Republic of the Congo - ReliefWeb Posted: 30 Oct 2019 07:49 AM PDT US$50 million will impact over 38 million children as the program reaches two key milestones: wild poliovirus type 3 eradication and Africa reaching three years with no wild poliovirus transmission EVANSTON, Ill. (October 30, 2019) — Rotary is giving US$50 million in grants to support the global effort to end polio. The funding will provide surveillance, technical assistance, and operational support for immunization activities, and will reach up to 38.4 million children with polio immunizations. The funding comes on the heels of the announcement that wild poliovirus type 3 (WPV3) has been eradicated globally. WPV3 is just the third human disease-causing ...

Syria: EWARS Weekly Bulletin, Week 37 (8th to 14th September 2019) - Syrian Arab Republic - ReliefWeb Syria: EWARS Weekly Bulletin, Week 37 (8th to 14th September 2019) - Syrian Arab Republic - ReliefWeb Posted: 22 Oct 2019 12:00 AM PDT Highlights • A total of 257 428 consultations were recorded in all the 14 governorates in week 37. • The leading causes of morbidity among all age groups were influenza-like illnesses (52.3%) and acute diarrhea (33.6%). • 43 suspected measles cases were reported during week 37. Among them, the blood specimens of 35 cases were collected and tested at the reference laboratory in Damascus. The laboratory result showed all negative for measles. • Three acute flaccid paralysis cases were reported in Tartous (2 cases), and on case in Homs. The stool samples were collected and transported to the polio reference laboratory in Damascus. The all samples tested were negative for poliomyelitis. • There was increa...

Rotary invites community to honor World Polio Day Oct. 24 - Chaffee County Times Rotary invites community to honor World Polio Day Oct. 24 - Chaffee County Times Posted: 19 Oct 2019 12:00 AM PDT Buena Vista's Rotary Club, in partnership with Rotary International, is inviting everyone to join us in honoring World Polio Day on Oct. 24. Rotarians around the world will focus on ending polio worldwide. Rotary has had a long-term, sustained battle against polio for many decades and we are proud of all that has been accomplished. An inactivated polio vaccine was developed by Jonas Salk and came into use in 1955. Massive vaccination programs were launched across the United States. As a child I remember standing in line with my family and being handed a small paper cup containing a sugar cube that was the oral vaccine. By 1961 Albert Sabin's live polio virus vaccine was recommended by the U.S. Surgeon General to be licensed. The vac...

PLANNING AHEAD: A chance to make a difference - The Mercury PLANNING AHEAD: A chance to make a difference - The Mercury Posted: 29 Oct 2019 09:30 PM PDT There are few times in life when we get the chance to make a difference that will continue on into the indefinite future. Even fewer opportunities present themselves where average people can do it. Eradicating a disease from the face of the earth entirely would be one of these chances. It was done with smallpox. Now, according to Rotary International, an organization I believe in, it is polio's turn to end completely. World Polio Day — Oct. 24 — was marked with a gathering in front of the Historic Courthouse in West Chester, Chester County. For information about how to participate in the movement to end this disease worldwide, visit the Rotary International website, www.rotary.org . There is also another way. On Sunday, Nov. 3 at 4 p.m., West Chester's Knauer Uptown Performing Arts...