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New York Polio outbreak? 'thousands could be infected'

Postby redmanjp » August 2nd, 2022, 1:28 pm

good grief. as if we didn't have enough viruses to deal with.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/08/ny-county-with-polio-has-pitiful-60-vaccination-rate-1000s-may-be-infected/

NY county with polio has pitiful 60% vaccination rate; 1,000s may be infected
Hundreds need to be infected for one paralytic case to arise. And the virus keeps moving.


The vaccine-derived poliovirus that left an unvaccinated US resident with the country's first case of paralytic polio in nearly a decade has been genetically linked to spread in two other countries: the United Kingdom and Israel. Now that it has been detected in the US, health officials fear it has spread to hundreds or even thousands of people in a poorly vaccinated New York county.

On Monday, officials in New York urgently encouraged unvaccinated residents to get vaccinated "as soon as possible" to prevent further spread of the virus.

"Polio is very contagious, and an individual can transmit the virus even if they aren't sick," the New York State Department of Health said in a news release today. The virus spreads easily via a fecal-oral route through poor hygiene and sanitation. The virus transmits through direct contact with an infected person or contaminated food or water. "Symptoms, which can be mild and flu-like, can take up to 30 days to appear, during which time an infected individual can be shedding virus to others," the health department added.

About 1 in 200 people infected with poliovirus develop paralysis, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That means for the one case of paralytic polio to have arisen in New York—which was not linked to any international travel—hundreds of others were likely already infected.

Pockets of risk
Most Americans have been vaccinated against poliovirus, making them safe from the dangerous virus. The three-dose inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), given in the first 24 months with a fourth-dose booster between the ages of 4 and 6, is part of the CDC's standard immunization schedule. According to CDC data from 2015, nearly 93 percent of US children received their three doses of IPV by the age of 2.

But, the paralytic polio case in New York was found in Rockland County, a northern suburb of New York City, which has pockets of low vaccination rates. In fact, in 2019, the county struggled with an explosive measles outbreak due to the same problem.

According to the state health department, Rockland County currently has a polio vaccination rate of just 60.5 percent among 2-year-olds, compared to the statewide average of 79 percent.

The paralytic case in Rockland, which occurred in an unvaccinated young adult, was first reported by authorities on July 21, but the person's symptoms began in June. Since then, transmission likely continued, with epidemiologists now saying that thousands could be infected.

Multinational spread
And that's just in the US. On Friday, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) announced that the strain of vaccine-derived poliovirus behind the Rockland case—a type 2 VDPV—is genetically linked to viruses detected in wastewater sampling in London and Jerusalem, suggesting a sustained, multinational spread of the dangerous virus.

To be clear, vaccine-derived poliovirus strains evolve from oral polio vaccines (OPV), which are no longer used in the US or the UK. (Israel uses both IPV and OPV.) The oral polio vaccines use weakened viruses that, if able to spread from person to person amid poor sanitation and low vaccination rates, can mutate to regain disease-causing capabilities. It's unclear where and how this VDPV2 originated and spread.

"It is vital that all countries, in particular those with a high volume of travel and contact with polio-affected countries and areas, strengthen surveillance in order to rapidly detect any new virus importation and to facilitate a rapid response," GPEI said. "Countries, territories, and areas should also maintain uniformly high routine immunization coverage at the district level and at the lowest administrative level to protect children from polio and to minimize the consequences of any new virus being introduced."

Officials in New York are heeding that call, opening vaccination clinics and urging residents to line up for shots, particularly children.

"Polio is a dangerous disease with potentially devastating consequences," New York State Health Commissioner Mary Bassett said in a statement. "In the United States, we are so fortunate to have available the crucial protection offered through polio vaccination, which has safeguarded our country and New Yorkers for over 60 years. Given how quickly polio can spread, now is the time for every adult, parent, and guardian to get themselves and their children vaccinated as soon as possible."

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Postby hover11 » August 2nd, 2022, 1:32 pm

Last thing Americanos wanna hear is time to head back inside...

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Postby aaron17 » August 2nd, 2022, 1:40 pm

Like I said b4, covid pademic took precedence over everything. Now everything is loose without control...

now I hearing this marburg virus
https://www.yahoo.com/news/child-infect ... 00014.html

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Postby aaron17 » August 2nd, 2022, 1:41 pm

Who making the Virus ched?

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Postby aaron17 » August 2nd, 2022, 2:19 pm

" 5. Why is polio rebounding?

In 2020, Covid-19 prompted a four-month pause of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative’s campaigns and disrupted routine immunizations, resulting in more than 80 million children at increased risk of vaccine-preventable diseases, including polio. Vaccine-derived poliovirus outbreaks tripled from 2019 to 2020, when more than 1,100 children were paralyzed globally. Cases declined in 2021 as immunizations resumed. However, the pandemic continues to stretch health systems, risking further spread. In late 2021, wild poliovirus from Pakistan -- which along with Afghanistan hasn’t been able to stop transmission of the virus -- sparked an outbreak in Malawi. The humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan following the change in political regime there, and the war in Ukraine, where weak immunization has repeatedly given rise to outbreaks of vaccine-derived poliovirus, threaten to prolong the global polio scourge. The 32nd meeting of an emergency committee convened by the World Health Organization concluded in June that the risk of international spread remains a public health emergency -- a declaration first made in 2014."

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Postby redmanjp » August 2nd, 2022, 2:31 pm

so polio was a health emergency since 2014?

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Postby Les Bain » August 2nd, 2022, 3:49 pm

No surprise there. Before the COVID anti vax contrarians, Jenny McCarthy was a successful celebrity spokesperson for general anti vaxxing.

As a consequence, former dead diseases made a resurgence.

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Postby aaron17 » August 2nd, 2022, 8:24 pm

We not far from this



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Postby De Dragon » August 2nd, 2022, 8:25 pm

Rebellion Warriors have to oppose this!

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Postby maj. tom » August 2nd, 2022, 8:28 pm

Well thank you anti-vaxxers. Resurgence of Polio and Measles in children because you know more than the Paediatrician and the mandatory vaccines schedules to attend school.

Congratulations you got what you wanted. Mission Accomplished you selfish dumbasses, while you watch your children get crippled and blind from preventable diseases.

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Re: New York Polio outbreak? 'thousands could be infected'

Postby pugboy » September 10th, 2022, 10:50 am

like they fraid the lil paralytic disease more than the lil cough flu

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Re: New York Polio outbreak? 'thousands could be infected'

Postby adnj » September 10th, 2022, 12:20 pm

The only recent case in the US that resulted in paralysis was a NY State adult in one of the counties with the lowest vaccinations rate.

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Postby aaron17 » September 10th, 2022, 12:25 pm

So oral vacc..can reduce transmission but normal shot can't. Each has its downsides and upsides ..interesting

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Postby maj. tom » September 10th, 2022, 12:46 pm

where you get that info?

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Postby adnj » September 10th, 2022, 1:33 pm

aaron17 wrote:So oral vacc..can reduce transmission but normal shot can't. Each has its downsides and upsides ..interesting
That is a tremendous oversimplification:

Oral polio vaccine

The oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) is used in many countries to protect against polio disease and has been essential to the eradication effort. There are different types of oral poliovirus vaccine which may contain one, a combination of two, or all three different types of attenuated, or weakened, vaccine. Each has their own advantages and disadvantages over the others.

After wild poliovirus type 2 was declared eradicated in 2015, the world switched from trivalent to bivalent OPV (bOPV). Trivalent OPV contains all three types of poliovirus, while bOPV only contains poliovirus type 1 and 3. This switch means that OPV no longer protects against WPV2.

Though rare, when there is insufficient coverage in a community, the vaccine-virus may be able to circulate, mutate, and over the course of 12 to 18 months, cause paralysis.

Inactivated poliovirus vaccine

Inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) protects people against all three types of poliovirus. IPV does not contain live virus, so people who receive this vaccine do not shed the virus and cannot infect others, and the vaccine cannot cause disease. IPV does not stop transmission of the virus.  OPV is used wherever a polio outbreak needs to be contained, even in countries which rely exclusively on IPV for their routine immunization program. Once polio has been eradicated, use of all OPV will need to be stopped to prevent re-establishment of transmission due to VDPVs. Countries that use bOPV have added a single dose of IPV to protect against WPV2.

https://www.cdc.gov/cpr/poliovirusconta ... dvirus.htm

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Postby paid_influencer » September 10th, 2022, 2:50 pm

like the copy/paste krew get something to make them relevant again

or not prolly

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Postby De Dragon » September 10th, 2022, 2:54 pm

paid_influencer wrote:like the copy/paste krew get something to make them relevant again

or not prolly

:lol: :lol:
The irony of the tinfoil hat crew's comments never cease to amaze me

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Postby matix » September 10th, 2022, 2:59 pm

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Postby paid_influencer » September 10th, 2022, 3:06 pm

one day you too will want the foil

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Re: New York Polio outbreak? 'thousands could be infected'

Postby adnj » September 10th, 2022, 3:58 pm

paid_influencer wrote:one day you too will want the foil
You wouldn't need tin foil if you actually understood the underlying issue and knew what should be copied in the first place.

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Re: New York Polio outbreak? 'thousands could be infected'

Postby sMASH » September 24th, 2022, 3:28 pm

soooo, polio done?

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