Polio ’ s Arrival in the U.S. Is Another Urgent Reminder That Kids Need to Get Vaccinated
The global pandemic isn’t the only current example of what happens when vaccine skepticism and misinformation infect the public. Childhood vaccination rates around the world are also experiencing their largest drop in three decades. And on July 21, another viral disease with remarkably effective vaccines to prevent it made a very unwelcome appearance. A single case of polio turned up in Rockland County, New York—the first time any case of polio had been detected in the U.S. in nearly a decade. The infected individual, whose name is being withheld, is a man in his twenties who recently developed polio-related pa...
Source: TIME: Health - July 22, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Vaccines Source Type: news
First U.S. Polio Case in Nearly a Decade Reported in New York
Investigators are now working to determine specifically how the infection happened and whether others were exposed, while health officials have scheduled polio vaccination clinics for Friday and Monday in New York. (Source: WebMD Health)
Source: WebMD Health - July 22, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Health Highlights: July 22, 2022
First U.S. case of polio in a decade reported in New York: Rockland County officials say the young adult was not vaccinated and they have since opened polio vaccine clinics to encourage shots. Read more
As searing heat stretches across much of the... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - July 22, 2022 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
First Polio Case in Nearly a Decade Is Detected in New York State
A man who lives in Rockland County was infected by someone who received the oral polio vaccine, which is no longer used in the United States, officials said. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - July 21, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Hurubie Meko Tags: Poliomyelitis Vaccination and Immunization Viruses Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Health Department (NYS) Rockland County (NY) Source Type: news
New York Reports First U.S. Polio Case in Nearly a Decade
NEW YORK — New York health officials on Thursday reported a polio case, the first in the U.S. in nearly a decade.
Officials did not immediately offer details on who the Rockland County resident was, whether the person was vaccinated or their current condition.
State officials said it appeared the person had a vaccine-derived strain of the virus, perhaps from someone who got live vaccine — available in other countries, but not the U.S. — and spread it.
Polio was once one of the nation’s most feared diseases, with annual outbreaks causing thousands of cases of paralysis — many of them in childre...
Source: TIME: Health - July 21, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mike Stobbe/AP Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate New York wire Source Type: news
‘Red alert’ issued on global child health after drop in vaccinations
WHO and Unicef point to sustained fall in immunisations against diseases such as diphtheria, polio and measles (Source: FT.com - Drugs and Healthcare)
Source: FT.com - Drugs and Healthcare - July 14, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
‘Red alert’ on global child health issued after drop in vaccinations
WHO and Unicef warn of fall in immunisations for diseases such as diphtheria, polio and measles (Source: FT.com - Drugs and Healthcare)
Source: FT.com - Drugs and Healthcare - July 14, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Venezuela's alarmingly low vaccine rate among worst in world
Measles, rubella and polio shots are going in children’s arms in Venezuela in recent weeks as part of a countrywide vaccination campaign (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - July 14, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
News Fatigue, Anti-Vax and Wars
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
Michel de MontaigneBy Jan LundiusSTOCKHOLM, Jul 13 2022 (IPS) During the beginning of the pandemic, people wanted to learn more about COVID-19. Enclosed in their homes they watched with fear and fascination how the pandemic swept over the world, while comparing ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - July 13, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jan Lundius Tags: Armed Conflicts COVID-19 Global Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news
Mozambique: Polio Vaccination Campaign Extended
[AIM] Maputo -- The Maputo city health authorities have extended the third round of the polio national vaccination campaign by a further 24 hours, in an attempt to cover all children under the age of five in the Mozambican capital. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - July 11, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Mozambique: Third Round of Polio Vaccination Campaign Launched
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican Health Ministry on Tuesday launched the third round in the national campaign of vaccination against polio. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - July 7, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
'Get the vaccine!' Polio survivor lost arm control 60 years after initial infection
A 69-YEAR-OLD, who contracted polio when he was three, is losing control of his arms decades after recovering from the disease because of a condition experts describe as "polio's long Covid". (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - July 3, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Is polio in our sewage as worrying as it sounds?
Last week, public health officials declared a ‘national incident’ after they found vaccine-derived poliovirus in London sewage samples. No cases of polio symptoms have been reported but there is evidence the virus is spreading. So what does it mean to have found the virus almost 20 years after the UK was declared polio-free? Ian Sample spea ks to epidemiologistNicholas Grassly to find out how worried we should be and what it means for the global effort to eradicate polio.Archive: Sky NewsContinue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 30, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Presented by Ian Sample with Nicholas Grassly. Produced by Joleen Goffin , sound design by Tony Onuchukwu. The executive producer is Lorna Stewart Tags: Science Polio Health Global health Vaccines and immunisation Source Type: news
Africa: Statement of the Thirty-Second Polio IHR Emergency Committee
[WHO] The thirty-second meeting of the Emergency Committee under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) on the international spread of poliovirus was convened by the WHO Director-General on 15 June 2022 with committee members and advisers attending via video conference, supported by the WHO Secretariat. The Emergency Committee reviewed the data on wild poliovirus (WPV1) and circulating vaccine derived polioviruses (cVDPV) in the context of global eradication of WPV and cessation of outbreaks of cVDPV2 (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - June 29, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
There May Be A New Polio Epidemic On Its Way- If So, What We Can Do: Part III
These outbreaks are evidence that the two polio vaccines currently in use are not sufficient to reach complete eradication, and the development of an even safer and more effective vaccine is essential. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - June 28, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: William A. Haseltine, Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation business pharma & Source Type: news
