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
With Polio ’s Return, Here’s What Back-to-Schoolers Need to Know
Because polio has been vanishingly rare in the United States for nearly a half-century, doctors may not consider it when diagnosing patients with typical symptoms. Here are the signs and the science behind an infectious disease that is largely a mystery to modern society. (Source: WebMD Health)
Source: WebMD Health - September 16, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News 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
Community spread of polio prompts CDC wastewater surveillance
Federal officials are stepping up efforts to fight the disease after the first U.S. polio case in nearly a decade was discovered in Rockland County, N.Y. (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - September 15, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Lena H. Sun Source Type: news
How To Reduce Your Child ’s Risk Of The Enterovirus Infection (EV-D68) That Is Causing Paralysis
The CDC is warning about a rise in enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) cases, which can rarely cause acute flaccid myelitis (AFM), a polio-like illness. Here's how to protect your family. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - September 14, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Judy Stone, Senior Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation Source Type: news
Polio Outbreak In New York Puts U.S. On List Of Countries Where Virus Circulates, CDC Says
“We cannot emphasize enough that polio is a dangerous disease for which there is no cure,” Dr. José R. Romero, Director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said, urging people to ensure they are fully immunized against polio. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - September 14, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Robert Hart, Forbes Staff Tags: Business /business Innovation /innovation Healthcare /healthcare Breaking breaking-news Source Type: news
US joins Congo and Yemen on WHO watch-list for countries where polio is spreading
The virus has been detected in wastewater from five counties in New York, and one man in the state has been paralyzed by an infection. This met the definition for the WHO-run list. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 13, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News 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
Who Needs to Worry About the Polio'Emergency'?
TUESDAY, Sept. 13, 2022 -- Even though New York Governor Kathy Hochul recently declared polio a state emergency after samples of the virus were found in wastewater in New York City and four surrounding counties, public health experts say it ' s not... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - September 13, 2022 Category: General Medicine 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
CDC: More Kids Hospitalized With Respiratory Disease Linked to Non-Polio Enterovirus
(MedPage Today) -- Healthcare providers reported an increase in pediatric hospitalizations across the country for severe respiratory illnesses last month, which may be linked to an enterovirus strain that causes rare neurologic complications, the... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - September 10, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: news
New York declares a DISASTER over polio outbreak
New York state officials have declared a disaster over the states polio outbreak where there has been one confirmed case and dozens of positive wastewater samples dating back as far as April. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 9, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
New York declares state of emergency over polio
Evidence emerges that the virus - once declared eradicated from the US - is spreading across the state. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - September 9, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
NY Gov Declares State Disaster Emergency Over Polio NY Gov Declares State Disaster Emergency Over Polio
Polio virus has been detected in wastewater samples in New York City and in four New York counties: Rockland, Orange, Sullivan, and Nassau.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines)
Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines - September 9, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Infectious Diseases News Alert Source Type: news
Poliovirus detected in more wastewater near New York City
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says the state is stepping up its polio-fighting efforts as the virus was detected in the wastewater of yet another county in the New York City area (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - September 9, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
