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India-Pakistan

US actions may set polio eradication back, says WHO

2025-03-04

[GEO.TV] The eradication of polio
...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain...
as a global health threat may be delayed unless US funding cuts — potentially totaling hundreds of millions of dollars over several years — are reversed, a senior World Health Organisation
...Kind of like the Center for Disease Control only run by the UN, with about the results you'd expectt...>
(WHO) official has warned.
"Give us money!"
The WHO works with groups such as UNICEF and the Gates Foundation to end polio. The planned withdrawal of the United States from WHO has impacted efforts, including stopping collaboration with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Last week, UNICEF's polio grant was terminated as the State Department cut 90% of USAID's grants worldwide to align aid with President Donald Trump
...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!...
's "America First" policy.

In total, the partnership is missing $133 million from the US that was expected this year, said Hamid Jafari, director of the polio eradication programme for the WHO's Eastern Mediterranean region.

The area includes two countries where a wild form of polio is spreading: Afghanistan and Pakistain.

''If the funding shortfall continues, it may potentially delay eradication, it may lead to more children getting paralysed,'' he said, adding that the longer it took to end polio, the more expensive it would be.

He said the partners were working out ways to cope with the funding shortage, which will largely impact personnel and surveillance, but hoped the US would return to funding the fight against polio.

''We are looking at other funding sources [...] to sustain both the priority staff and priority activities,'' he said.

He said vaccination campaigns in both Afghanistan and Pakistain would be protected.

UNICEF did not respond to requests for comment, and a spokesperson for the Gates Foundation reiterated that no foundation could fill the gap left by the US Saudi Arabia

...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
gave $500 million to polio eradication last week.

The partnership already faces a $2.4 billion shortfall to 2029, as it accepted last year that it would take longer, and cost more, to eradicate the disease than hoped.

Posted by:Fred

#7 With the migrating populations, especially of Afghans driven out by the Taliban, wild polio is being reintroduced all along the migration route, separate from situation like the big polio vaccination drive in Gaza that was necessary because they cheaped out on the vaccine, infecting the entire vaccine-age cohort with vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2. They discovered that when polio was found in the sewage after the second part of the first round.

Posted by: trailing wife 2025-03-04 17:15

#6 I wouldn't trust the WHO to tell me what today's date is.

Posted by: Crusader 2025-03-04 16:26

#5 According to the once-useful World Health Organization: Of the 3 strains of wild poliovirus (type 1, type 2 and type 3), wild poliovirus type 2 was eradicated in 1999 and wild poliovirus type 3 was eradicated in 2020. As at 2022, endemic wild poliovirus type 1 remains in two countries: Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Surely the WHO can manage two punk-ass countries without our help.

Posted by: SteveS 2025-03-04 14:55

#4 Guess the country getting the vaccines should pay WHO for the vaccines.

Posted by: Skidmark 2025-03-04 12:13

#3 Get it from the Gates Foundation. He has the dough. He loves vaccines. He loves minors. Sound like a match to me.

Posted by: Regular joe 2025-03-04 12:08

#2 We'll need the resource for Portland soon enough.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2025-03-04 10:46

#1

US The UN, WHO, Islamic nations refusals, Open-Border Liberals, USAID-Corruption and Terrorism actions ~~may~~ have set polio eradication back, ~~says WHO~~ as shown by the facts.

Posted by: NN2N1 2025-03-04 05:52

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