Rwanda: 90% Children Vaccinated Against Polio
[New Times] As Rwanda marks the international day against polio, numbers show that more than 90 per cent of children in the country are immunised against polio (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - November 9, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news

A Case of Paralytic Poliomyelitis in an Unvaccinated Person A Case of Paralytic Poliomyelitis in an Unvaccinated Person
This case of community-acquired poliovirus in an unvaccinated immunocompetent adult underscores the need for all persons to stay up to date on recommended poliovirus vaccination.Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - November 9, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health & Prevention Journal Article Source Type: news

Samuel L. Katz, doctor who helped develop measles vaccine, dies at 95
Witnessing a polio outbreak in 1955 began Dr. Katz on a path to work on a life-saving measles vaccine. (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - November 3, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Brian Murphy Source Type: news

Wastewater Testing and Detection of Poliovirus Type 2 Genetically Linked to Virus Isolated from a Paralytic Polio Case - New York, March 9-October 11, 2022
This report describes the testing and detection of Poliovirus Type 2 in wastewater found in 5 neighboring counties within New York. (Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - November 3, 2022 Category: American Health Tags: MMWR Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report Polio Vaccination Vaccines Polio (poliomielitis) Source Type: news

The Differences Between the Two Polio Vaccines —and the New One on the Horizon
Before this year, polio didn’t feel like an urgent threat. The disease was eradicated in the U.S. in 1979, and thanks to a global vaccination campaign, it’s endemic (though far from widespread) in just two countries—Pakistan and Afghanistan. But the calculus changed in 2022. In July, an unvaccinated man in New York state contracted polio. And this year, poliovirus has circulated in wastewater in London, Jerusalem, and—as recently as Oct. 28—in New York City and several surrounding counties. “Unvaccinated and undervaccinated in these areas are at risk for paralysis disease,” resear...
Source: TIME: Health - November 2, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Vaccines Source Type: news

Africa: Statement of the Thirty-Third Polio IHR Emergency Committee
[WHO] The thirty-third 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 12 October 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 cVDP (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - November 2, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news

Africa: Overcoming Vaccine Hesitancy in Mozambique's Polio Fight
[WHO-AFRO] Lichinga, Mozambique -- It is the last day of polio vaccination campaign in Niassa, a province in northern Mozambique, and a mobile vaccination team headed by health worker Celina Miguel is going house-to-house in a small village. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - November 2, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news

Why the U.S. Doesn ’t Have a Nasal Vaccine for COVID-19
The U.S. led the world in quickly developing COVID-19 vaccines—one of the few bright spots in the country’s otherwise criticized response. But while injectable vaccines are effective in protecting people from getting sick with COVID-19, they are less able to block infection. In order to put the pandemic behind us, the world will need a way to stop infections and spread of the virus. That’s where a different type of vaccine, one that works at the places where the virus gets into the body, will likely prove useful. Here, though, the U.S. is losing its edge. In September, India approved a nasal COVID-19 vacc...
Source: TIME: Health - October 31, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

Surveying Sewage for Polio; Physical Activity and COVID Vaccines
(MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - October 29, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: news

EARLY RELEASE: Wastewater Testing and Detection of Poliovirus Type 2 Genetically Linked to Virus Isolated from a Paralytic Polio Case - New York, March 9-October 11, 2022
This report describes the testing and detection of Poliovirus Type 2 in wastewater found in 5 neighboring counties within New York. (Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - October 28, 2022 Category: American Health Tags: MMWR Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report Polio Vaccination Vaccines Polio (poliomielitis) Source Type: news

Zimbabwe: 'Polio Vaccine Is Safe for Children'
[The Herald] THE poliovirus vaccine being administered to children during the ongoing vaccination and revaccination campaign is totally safe and will protect them from illness, the Government has said. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - October 28, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news

Pakistan says gunmen killed policeman guarding polio workers
Pakistani police say gunmen riding on a motorcycle have shot and killed a police officer assigned to guard a polio vaccination team in volatile southwestern Baluchistan province (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - October 25, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news

Polio returns to the US after decline in vaccine uptake
Health threat re-emerges globally as jab coverage misses targets (Source: FT.com - Drugs and Healthcare)
Source: FT.com - Drugs and Healthcare - October 24, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

CDC could bring back oral polio vaccine that contains LIVE VIRUS
The oral polio vaccine could return in America after it was pulled in the US in 2000 because of the relatively small risk it poses of infecting people that receive it. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 21, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Panel Votes to Add COVID-19 Shots to Recommended Vaccinations
NEW YORK — COVID-19 shots should be added to the lists of recommended vaccinations for kids and adults, a panel of U.S. vaccine experts said Thursday. The panel’s unanimous decision has no immediate effect—COVID-19 shots already are recommended for virtually all Americans. Rather, it would put the shots on the annually updated, formal lists of what vaccinations doctors should be routinely offering to their patients, alongside shots for polio, measles and hepatitis. The expert panel’s decisions are almost always adopted by the CDC director and then sent to doctors as part of the government’s ad...
Source: TIME: Health - October 21, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mike Stobbe/AP Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news