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| Africa: Subsaharan | |
| Scourge of polio returns to Africa | |
| 2005-01-23 | |
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #12 Whooping caugh is alive and well in east Tennessee courtesy of unvaccinated immigrants. This is not a rant against immigrants, just lets get these children vaccinated. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2005-01-23 8:19:58 PM |
| #11 Last case of "wild" polio in US was in 1979. Link here. |
| Posted by: 11A5S 2005-01-23 5:31:08 PM |
| #10 And how to stop those who refuse to be inconvenienced by a little personal illness? I remember the executive's wife whose Xmas trip home from Germany had been booked months in advance. The inconvenience of all four children having full blown chicken pox did nothing to change her plans. I often wonder how the other passengers on her various connecting flights fared... |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-01-23 2:59:56 PM |
| #9 Ed - she said polio. That's why I remembered it, I know about TB. Frank, you mean the 1st weekend in September host city to the annual meeting???? Hey, whooping cough's making a comeback here this winter. Of course I heard that on the radio, too. Don't forget everyone, a child needs all its' shots by kindergarten. Doesn't mean they're going to get them on a regual schedule. And think about it, Lex, what the American public would demand if there were largish numbers, why we'd have to tighten up security at the airports. Can't come in unless you've had your shots. But then there's the religion issue.... |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2005-01-23 1:07:29 PM |
| #8 The Salk vaccine is a killed-virus injection. the Sabin vaccine is a live attenuated-virus oral preparation; the attenuated virus survives in the intestines. You can guess which one children prefer, and the there is a little 'community immunity' as people get the attenuated virus from each other. Unfortunately, some children with immune deficiencies (usually unrecognized) can develop full-blown polio. This is why the Salk vaccination has become much more popular. See the Sabin Vaccine Institute for more information. |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2005-01-23 11:11:27 AM |
| #7 They do, however, forget to mention that the superstitious, 'anti-western' types who opposed vaccination were of a certain religious persuasion. Forget?? Yeah, they forgot all right. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-01-23 4:48:12 AM |
| #6 A2U, you are probably thinking of antibiotic resistant tuberculosis, brought in by immigrants, and spread to the native population. There is no native polio left in the western hemisphere. There are a few cases of polio in the US each year in immigrants. Due to the short incubation period, a carrier passing it on undetected is unlikely. The other cause of polio infection was a tiny incidence of a polio innoculation (live vaccine?) causing the disease in a few people each year. |
| Posted by: ed 2005-01-23 1:35:44 AM |
| #5 any Imams in Chicago? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-01-23 1:16:56 AM |
| #4 Talk radio doesn't count. Are there any Cook Co health worker/docs blogs you know of? This is potentially a HUGE story if true. |
| Posted by: lex 2005-01-23 1:16:30 AM |
| #3 You're not going to like this, but, talk radio, the 50K watt powerhouse WLS-am. I think the topic was immigration, dr. called in and made that point as a reason to slow it down. I'm in greater Chicagoland. There might be some Cook County stats out there somewhere. |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2005-01-23 1:14:12 AM |
| #2 ?? Evidence? |
| Posted by: lex 2005-01-23 1:08:26 AM |
| #1 It's coming back in America, too. |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2005-01-23 1:07:10 AM |