Texas man with polio who spent nearly all of his 78 years using an iron lung has died, longtime friend says
(Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 13, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
How iron lungs work: Life-saving contraption devised in the 1920s saved the lives of thousands of polio victims - and had to be repaired by mechanics
The contraption used by Paul Alexander in the US saw him lay flat on his back, with his head resting on a pillow and body encased in the metal cylinder. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 13, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Nigeria: Return of Poliomyelitis
[Leadership] The resurgence in Nigeria of Poliomyelitis, a severe infectious viral disease, usually affecting children or young adults, that inflames the brainstem and spinal cord, sometimes leading to loss of voluntary movement and muscular wasting, is bad news. But it is a distressing reality, marking a significant setback in the nation's collective efforts against a disease that was once successfully combated. It is disheartening that Nigerian children are once again exposed to and confronted with this threat. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - March 13, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Health and Medicine Nigeria Polio West Africa Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe Surpasses 4 Million Polio Vaccination Target
[263Chat] The Ministry of Health and Child Care (MOHCC) in collaboration with UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO), Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), US Centre for Disease Control (USCDC) and other partners have surpassed the four million target for polio vaccination using the nOPV2 vaccine. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - March 13, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Health and Medicine Polio Southern Africa Zimbabwe Source Type: news
Sudan to respond to new emergence of variant poliovirus in Red Sea State
A child is given the oral polio vaccine during a polio vaccination campaign, Sudan, November 2020. Photo credit: WHO/WHO Sudan11 March 2024, Port Sudan, Sudan – Sudan’s Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) will launch a polio vaccination campaign in April 2024 in response to a new emergence of variant poliovirus type 2 reported in January 2024. It was detected in six wastewater samples collected from September 2023 to January 2024 in the Port Sudan locality, Red Sea State.
The FMOH, with support from the World Health Organization (WHO), has completed field investigations and a risk assessment to determine the extent of t...
Source: WHO EMRO News - March 11, 2024 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: news
West Virginia Lawmakers OK Bill Drawing Back One of the Strictest Child Vaccination Laws
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia’s GOP-controlled state Legislature voted Saturday to allow some students who don’t attend traditional public schools to be exempt from state vaccination requirements that have long been held up as among the most strict in the country.
The bill was approved despite the objections of Republican Senate Health and Human Resources Chair Mike Maroney, a trained doctor, who called the bill “an embarrassment” and said he believed lawmakers were harming the state.
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Source: TIME: Health - March 10, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: LEAH WILLINGHAM / AP Tags: Uncategorized News Desk wire Source Type: news
Column: Trump and RFK Jr. want to make the world safe again for polio and measles. You should be terrified
Iron lungs are lined up in an emergency polio ward in Boston during the 1955 polio outbreak. Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. advocate policies that would turn the U.S. back to this era. What are the chances that the noted anti-vaxxers Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would make common…#boston #donaldtrump #robertfkennedyjr #trump #florida #josephladapo #minnesota #richmond #virginia #nt (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Huge push to get kids vaccinated against illnesses like measles, polio and diphtheria as uptake rates plunge to decade low in wake of Covid
Fronted by children, the advert aims to appeal directly to parents and boost the numbers getting their children vaccinated with experts concerned about the risk illness falling jab uptake. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - February 29, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: Govt Calls for Vaccination of Children As Polio Resurfaces
[263Chat] Zimbabwean health authorities have urged parents to vaccinate their children against polio. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - February 27, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Governance Health and Medicine Polio Southern Africa Zimbabwe Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: Mass Polio Vaccination Campaign Gets Off to a Smooth Start
[The Herald] Trust Freddy and Primrose Zimano-Herald Reporters (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 22, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Polio Southern Africa Zimbabwe Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: Government Rolls Out Polio Vaccination After Detecting Rare Mutation Cases
[New Zimbabwe] The Zimbabwean government on Tuesday rolled out a polio vaccination campaign following the recent confirmation of an outbreak in the country. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 21, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Polio Southern Africa Zimbabwe Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: Mass Polio Vaccination Starts
[The Herald] The mass polio vaccination campaign against a new variant that has not been vaccinated against since 2015 is set to start across the country today, targeting all children aged 10 years and below. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 21, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Polio Southern Africa Zimbabwe Source Type: news
Zimbabwe starts an emergency polio vaccination drive after detecting cases caused by a rare mutation
Zimbabwe has started an emergency campaign to inoculate more than 4 million children against polio after health authorities detected three cases caused by a rare mutation of the weakened virus used in oral vaccines (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - February 20, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Africa: World News in Brief - DR Congo Clashes, Invest in Ending Polio, Say #idont to Child Marriage
[UN News] Tensions remain high in North Kivu province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), particularly in the town of Sake, as clashes persist between M23 rebels and Government forces, the UN mission in the country, MONUSCO, reported on Wednesday. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - February 15, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Africa Central Africa Children and Youth Congo-Kinshasa External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Polio Source Type: news
After a two-decade hiatus, Joni Mitchell emerged as the queen of songstresses in the best year yet for women artists
Joni Mitchell has learned to walk three times. The first as a toddler; the next as a wheelchair-ridden 9-year-old recovering from post-polio syndrome; and once more after she survived a nearly fatal brain aneurysm in her early seventies in 2015. The polio, as it turns out, weakened her left hand…#jonimitchell #grammys #grammy #bothsidesnow #mitchell #lanadelreys #lucydacus #phoebebridgers #joséruizresto #universityofflorida (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 10, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
