The Anti-Vax Movement Isn ’t Going Away. We Must Adapt to It
America’s immunization policies are facing a bleak future. Political polarization about vaccine policies is likely to cause outbreaks of previously controlled infectious diseases. If we cannot prevent these disasters, we should pivot our focus towards managing them.
Resistance to vaccination is not a new problem, but the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated it. It should be clear by now that neither persuasion nor coercion is sufficient to change the minds or the behavior of people who are determined to refuse vaccines. Education and research cannot defeat coordinated misinformation. And government efforts—at feder...
Source: TIME: Health - September 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mark Christopher Navin and Katie Attwell Tags: Uncategorized freelance Source Type: news
Malawi: Ministry to Conduct Polio Supplementary Immunization Campaign From 13-16th Sept, 2023
[Nyasa Times] The Ministry of Health has announced that it will conduct a 2023 second round of polio supplementary immunization campaign from 13th to 16th September 2023 targeting all children under the age of 15 years. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - September 6, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Malawi Polio Southern Africa Source Type: news
Africa: Health Leaders Vow to Enhance Response As Africa Marks a Year Without Wild Polio Detection
[WHO-AFRO] Gaborone -- As the African region marks one year since the last confirmed detection of wild poliovirus type 1, Ministers of Health and other health leaders gathering for the Seventy-third session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for Africa today pledged to intensify efforts to end all forms of the virus. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - September 1, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Africa External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Polio Source Type: news
Africa: Statement of the Thirty-Sixth Meeting of the Polio Ihr Emergency Committee
[WHO] The thirty-sixth 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 16 August 2023 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 target of eradication of WPV and cessation of (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - September 1, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Africa External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Polio Source Type: news
Cameroon: Reports of Polio Outbreak After Largest Vaccination Programme Since 2020
[VOA] Yaounde -- Cameroon officials say a fifth case of polio was reported in the capital, Yaounde, this week, despite the launching of a new polio vaccination campaign in the central African country and its neighbors. Health officials are increasing surveillance and encouraging parents, many of whom still resist vaccination programs, to have their children inoculated. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - August 30, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Cameroon Central Africa Health and Medicine Polio West Africa Source Type: news
Africa: Vaccine Hesitancy 'Widens Immunity Gaps, Increases Risk of Outbreaks'
[allAfrica] In 1999, Grade 5 brought for me a revelation like no other - vaccines! The idea that weak disease-causing organisms could transform our bodies into warriors against killer diseases was nothing short of miraculous. From the top of my head I remember that some of the killer diseases were polio, diptheria, measles, whooping cough, tetanus and tuberculosis. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 29, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Africa Health and Medicine Science and Biotechnology Sustainable Development Source Type: news
Nigeria: The Climate-Health Nexus - Time to Build Evidence for Global Health Action
[Nigeria Health Watch] Editor's note: In the run-up to COP 28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) later this year, Nigeria Health Watch, interviewed Simon Bland, Chief Executive Officer of the Global Institute for Disease Elimination (GLIDE), a partnership between the President of the UAE and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. GLIDE works to progress disease elimination and eradication in endemic countries, with a particular focus on malaria, polio, lymphatic filariasis, and river blindness. Simon Bland shares his (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 24, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Climate Environment Health and Medicine Nigeria West Africa Source Type: news
Kenya: Kenya Launches Polio Vaccination Drive Targeting 7.4 Million Children
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The government has launched a National Polio Vaccination Drive targeting 7.4 million children to prevent resurgence in the country. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 23, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: East Africa Health and Medicine Kenya Polio Source Type: news
Floods, Now Torrential Monsoon Rains Leave Pakistani Women in Crisis
Women outside an emergency vehicle aimed at helping those affected by flooding. CREDIT: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPSBy Ashfaq YusufzaiPESHAWAR, PAKISTAN , Aug 18 2023 (IPS) Torrential monsoon rains have left the people, especially women, in crisis as they are still grappling to recover from the last year’s floods in Pakistan.
“We are yet to return to normal lives after devastation caused by severe rains in June 2002 when the new series of rains have started only to further aggravate our problems,” Jannat Bibi, a resident of Kalam in the Swat Valley, told IPS.
Bibi, 44, a housewife, along with co-villagers, must walk about a ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ashfaq Yusufzai Tags: Asia-Pacific Climate Change Development & Aid Environment Featured Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Pakistan Source Type: news
New technique cuts time to detect polio in half, study finds
Outbreaks may be addressed sooner by avoiding need for sending stool samples abroadPolio could be detected in wastewater in half the time using a new technique, helping public health authorities to respond quickly to deadly outbreaks, a study has found.The research in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), supported by the UK ’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), represents the first time that (DDNS) has been used to detect polio, reducing the average testing time from 42 to 23 days, with an accuracy rate exceeding 99%.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 17, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Oksana Pyzik Tags: Infectious diseases Medical research Science Polio Source Type: news
Progress Toward Poliomyelitis Eradication - Pakistan, January 2022-June 2023
This report describes progress towards eliminating wild poliovirus type 1 cases in Pakistan. (Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - August 17, 2023 Category: American Health Tags: MMWR Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report Source Type: news
Surveillance To Track Progress Toward Poliomyelitis Eradication Surveillance To Track Progress Toward Poliomyelitis Eradication
This report summarizes the latest data on acute flaccid paralysis surveillance worldwide. Where do we stand in terms of progress toward polio eradication?Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - August 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases Journal Article Source Type: news
How the Modern ICU Was Galvanized By a Polio Epidemic How the Modern ICU Was Galvanized By a Polio Epidemic
The medical and dental students who kept polio patients alive by hand-ventilating them around the clock are among the cast of characters in this incredible story.Medscape (Source: Medscape Orthopaedics Headlines)
Source: Medscape Orthopaedics Headlines - August 15, 2023 Category: Orthopaedics Tags: Internal Medicine Expert Interview Source Type: news
How Covid lockdowns opened Pandora's box of diseases: From old foes like polio to new enemies like monkeypox - how avoiding common germs left us MORE vulnerable to outbreaks
Increasingly, evidence shows that lockdowns, mask mandates, school closures and canceled hospital appointments triggered a mental health crisis and robbed children of vital learning. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Gunmen attack police guarding polio team in northwest Pakistan and kill 1 officer
Police say gunmen have attacked police officers providing security for polio vaccination workers during a door-to-door campaign in northwest Pakistan, killing one of them (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - August 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
