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| WHO: 83 Cases of Polio Confirmed in Yemen |
| 2005-05-18 |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 Being epidemiolgical we can't, unfortunately, let these medieval idiots stew in their own juices. As I mentioned on another polio thread, I am all too familiar with this horrible disease: my grandmother, father, brother and sister all had it in varying degrees from mild to near-fatal with permanent muscle loss. I think the worst for my mother (beyond the obvious) was that when my siblings had it at the same time she was pregnant and couldn't even be in the same room with her desperately sick 1 and 2-year-old kids. God bless Jonas Salk! |
| Posted by: Xbalanke 2005-05-18 16:56 |
| #7 Would it be mean-spirited of me to say that I've been vaccinated? More than once. In fact, I'm old enough to remember when there wasn't any vaccine against polio. AND the relief on our mothers' faces when it came out. With any luck, the mullahs will be the ones infected. In fact, I think it would be just and fitting if Allen arranged it. Soon. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2005-05-18 15:11 |
| #6 Another problem: the subclinical cases shed the virus in their stool for weeks or months afterward. Soooo, unless you have clean water supplies free from fecal contamination, you're SOL. Literally |
| Posted by: Weird Al 2005-05-18 13:13 |
| #5 I heard an ad on the radio yesterday that one of the service clubs (Rotary IIRC) is raising money to fight polio. So I thought, hey, put contracts out on some mullahs in Nigeria. Sorry to say, but I find it hard to generate sympathy for a disease caused by stupidity, even though it isn't the fault of those afflicted, but their religious "leaders". |
| Posted by: Spot 2005-05-18 08:41 |
| #4 OOps! My math was wrong, that should have been in the region of a 10,000 people have been infected. This is why polio is so difficult to control compared to diseases where most infected persons show symptoms. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2005-05-18 08:08 |
| #3 They should have when they started the myth that started this outbreak. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet 0’ Doom 2005-05-18 05:39 |
| #2 Those Islamic clerics in Nigeria that started this crap should be lined up and shot. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-05-18 01:14 |
| #1 83 doesn't sound like a lot, but 99% of polio cases are subclinical or have only mild symptoms. So in the region of a 1,000 people have been infected. Sixty-one percent of Yemeni children are not vaccinated against the disease, and WHO plans to launch a vaccination campaign May 30 Its gonna take a while to bring this under control. A vaccination rate of 90%+ is required. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2005-05-18 00:52 |