Zimbabwe: Health Ministry to Roll Out Polio Vaccination Campaign For Children Under Five
[263Chat] Addressing journalists during a training on outbreaks and immunisation, Expanded Program and Immunisation Manager Colline Chigodo said they are targeting all children below the age of five even if they were immunized before. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - October 6, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Supply Issues a Major Challenge to Polio Vaccination Programs
(MedPage Today) -- This is a sidebar to a story on whether global polio eradication can be achieved.
While the novel oral polio type 2 vaccine (nOPV2) offers some hope that poliovirus may still be eradicated globally, supply-side issues have... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - October 4, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Sudan: UNICEF Declares Polio Outbreak Successfully Stopped
[Dabanga] Khartoum -- Sudan's outbreak of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) has come to an end, according to UNICEF, the World Health Organisation, and the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 4, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
UKHSA is warning parents and guardians of the serious health risks from children missing routine immunisations, UKHSA (published 29th September 2022)
UKHSA is urging parents and guardians to ensure their children are up to date with all their routine childhood immunisations including polio and MMR vaccinations. This comes as new data shows vaccination coverage for young children fell last year for virtually all programmes. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - September 30, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Polio in 2022: Some Concerns but Vaccine Still Works Polio in 2022: Some Concerns but Vaccine Still Works
Christopher J. Harrison, MD, discusses the resurgence of polio and the vaccines.MDedge (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - September 28, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pediatrics Commentary Source Type: news
HHS: Meeting of the National Vaccine Advisory Committee; Correction
Notice from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health making corrections to theSeptember 14, 2022, notice announcing a meeting of the National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC). The meeting will be held on September 22-23, 2022. Agenda items include presentations on COVID-19, monkeypox, influenza, and polio vaccination, as well as vaccine safety, innovation, and gaps in rural vaccination coverage. The confirmed meeting time and agenda will be posted on theNVAC website. Pre-registration for the meeting is required. (...
Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center - September 20, 2022 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
Polio Making a Comeback in the US Polio Making a Comeback in the US
Poliovirus is spreading in the wastewater in New York City, and the United States has already seen one case of paralytic polio. We cannot accept a low vaccination rate.Medscape Blogs (Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines)
Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines - September 19, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Infectious Diseases Blog Source Type: news
Fauci Warns Pandemic-Era ‘Anti-Vaxxer Attitude’ Could Hurt Child Vaccination Rates
His warning comes as diseases like polio and measles stage a comeback in the U.S. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - September 18, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Carlie Porterfield, Forbes Staff Tags: Business /business Innovation /innovation Healthcare /healthcare Breaking breaking-news Coronavirus consumer Source Type: news
Polio has reemerged in the US. Who should get a polio vaccine now?
An August report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that "even a single case of paralytic polio represents a public health emergency in the United States." CNN Medical Analyst Dr. Leana Wen explains why. (Source: CNN.com - Health)
Source: CNN.com - Health - September 18, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
We Can ’t Lose The Fight Against Polio. Here’s How To Beat It Again — For Good
The re-emergence of polio is worrisome, particularly considering the politicization of and uneven response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Panic, however, is unwise. What is needed is vigilance& vaccination coverage. Fortunately, there are millions of people who are living proof that polio vaccines work. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - September 16, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Gayle E. Smith, Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation Source Type: news
Why Infectious Disease Outbreaks Are Becoming So Common
SARS-CoV-2. Monkeypox. Polio. Marburg. These viruses are no longer familiar just to public-health experts, but household names around the world, thanks to their recent incursions into human populations. People have always confronted pathogens of all sorts, but the attacks are becoming more commonplace, and more intense, than they ever have before.
“We are going through an era of epidemics and pandemics, and they are going to be more complex and more frequent,” says Jeremy Farrar, director of Wellcome, a global health charitable foundation that addresses health challenges. “We tend to see each [outbreak] i...
Source: TIME: Health - September 15, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Disease feature healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Polio is back in rich countries, but it poses a far bigger threat to developing world
Here’s how this year’s closely related polio outbreaks in New York state, London, and greater Jerusalem might have started. A child in Afghanistan or Pakistan received two drops of Albert Sabin’s oral polio vaccine (OPV), which contains a weakened, live virus, in December 2021 or so. Soon after, when the child was still shedding some virus in their stool, their family traveled to the United Kingdom, where the vaccine virus found fertile ground in an undervaccinated Orthodox Jewish community in London and began to circulate person to person. Somewhere along the way, it also began to change, picking up mutations that c...
Source: ScienceNOW - September 13, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news
New York governor declares state disaster emergency amid circulating poliovirus evidence, samples found in 5 counties
New York Governor Kathy Hochul declared a state disaster emergency amid evidence of circulating poliovirus, a move that will increase the availability of resources including expanding the network of polio vaccine administrators, state health officials said. (Source: CNN.com - Health)
Source: CNN.com - Health - September 10, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Detection of a Highly Divergent Type 3 Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus in a Child with a Severe Primary Immunodeficiency Disorder - Chongqing, China, 2022
This report describes a case of vaccine-derived poliovirus in a child with an immunodeficiency disorder in China. (Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - September 8, 2022 Category: American Health Tags: MMWR Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report Polio (poliomyelitis) Polio Vaccination Source Type: news
Researchers Are Now Tracking Monkeypox in Wastewater
If the past two years have taught us anything, it’s that testing for viral diseases is complicated. Sometimes, the tests are difficult to get, like in the early days of COVID-19. And even if people have access to testing, they might not feel they need it. People with COVID-19 often don’t have symptoms and may not always know to get tested. And now, with the availability of at-home self-tests, most people test themselves and don’t report the results. With other diseases—such as monkeypox—stigma surrounding the disease and the group most affected can deter access to testing.
These limitations hi...
Source: TIME: Health - September 7, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate monkeypox Source Type: news
