An Arizona woman contracted paralytic polio last year after being exposed to an infant in Costa Rica who had been administered a live oral polio vaccine just days earlier, health officials reported. The 22-year-old woman developed polio in March while participating in a university-sponsored study-abroad program and was transported back to the United States for treatment, according to a report in the current issue of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report.
"This case highlights the previously unrecognized risk for paralytic polio among unvaccinated persons exposed to [oral polio vaccine] during travel abroad," the team of international, federal and state epidemiologists said.
The authors noted that polio is rare in the United States because of the success of a universal childhood immunization and the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
The woman who contracted polio in Costa Rica had never been vaccinated against polio because of a religious exemption. The Costa Rican family with whom she lived included a mother, father and daughter with no young children. However, the couple's son and daughter-in-law, who had two children -- 2 months old and 3 years old -- lived next door and visited the host family frequently.
The host couple's infant grandson received his first dose of oral polio vaccine on Jan. 19, 2005, just four days after the Arizona woman arrived. Contact with that baby was her only known exposure to the oral vaccine during her travels, the authors said.
When she was transported to a Phoenix hospital, the woman had severe weakness in her lower extremities and was suffering respiratory failure. Magnetic resonance imaging showed abnormalities of the cervical and thoracic spine. The woman eventually recovered respiratory function and was sent home for out-patient therapy. But two months later, she still had residual weakness in both legs.
As of late 2004, polio remained endemic in six countries -- Egypt, Afghanistan, India, Niger, Nigeria and Pakistan -- and transmission had been re-established in six other African countries. The Americas were certified as being polio-free in 1994. But unvaccinated U.S. travelers or those incompletely vaccinated could still be at risk in countries where the live-virus oral polio vaccine remains in use, the authors said.
An older friend of ours had polio as a kid. A milder case, she could walk with 2 canes - and had to do so for most of her life. If you haven't vaccinated your kids, it's playing with fire now that there is such easy travel between countries.
I take care of several patients with post-polio syndrome. It's a problem that crops up 20 to 40 years after the first polio infection has resolved, and leads to progressive weakness, deformity and (eventually) respiratory failure and death. Lotp is absolutely right: this isn't a time to stand on one's religious principles, it's a time to be vaccinated.
I know of one young woman afflicted- it is no joy
to have post polio syndrome. God accepts you in sickness and in health----look out for yourself -GET VACINATED. God will still accept you!
Andrea
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Is this Arizona woman a native-born American?
Because I thought our kids had to get all kinds of vaccinations to attend school.
When did they stop requiring polio vaccination? And why? The disease is certainly not wiped out.
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"The woman... had never been vaccinated against polio because of a religious exemption."
A group of Japanese husbands keen to improve their marriages have declared Tuesday to be Beloved Wives Day. The Japan Doting Husbands Association is urging men to be home early - by eight o'clock - this evening and express their gratitude to their wives.
The group has also come up with five golden rules, like calling one's wife by her name rather than grunting, and looking into her eyes when talking.
That works at home.
The move comes as the divorce rate in work-obsessed Japan continues to rise. "Many men can't put their feelings of gratitude towards their wives into words. Work is number one for them," the group says on its web site.
I realize I'm teeing this up for the Burg denizens ...
The organisation was set up by Kiyotaka Yamana, a 45-year-old businessman in Kawasaki. He and his first wife divorced because she was fed up with his workaholic ways. When Mr Yamana remarried three years ago, he vowed to do things differently.
Since the group's web site was set up in December, about 100 people have signed up, according to The Asahi Shimbun. Men can try out phrases on the web site, before springing them on their wives. One member has written: "Though we fight from time to time, I feel very happy when I am with you."
"Okay. Now I have to go back to work."
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A sweet follow-on to yesterday's article about the Army offering spouse-picking training. Could have been titled, "What to do now that you've got her."
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The group has also come up with five golden rules, like calling one's wife by her name rather than grunting, and looking into her eyes when talking
ummmm.... maybe if she have shinney in her hair.
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He'll probably go to Denmark, try to get political asylum (because he can expect persecution prosecution upon return, and as soon as he does it's off to join the mob to burn someone they heard was a cartoonist...
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Hopes fade.
It's been 72 hours. "hope" doesn't count here.
They're dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Deal with it.
But cartoons are more pressing, aren't they.
the cartoons caffuffel was meant to draw attention from the Mekkah trampede. Now there's Egypt with a freebie as a result.
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It took the Egyptian navy 10 hrs to get to the location where the ferry went down. They refused help from the US and Israel, then later requested it (when it was too late).
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They were living, breathing human beings. These weren't terrorists caught in the act, they were workers commuting IIUC. I personally won't demean their memory and their humanity, whatever else I think or feel about events and the societies in that part of the world ....
The United States has ordered the expulsion of a senior Venezuelan envoy in a tit-for-tat move that has drawn criticism from Caracas. Venezuela attacked the US decision to expel its diplomat on Friday as "disproportionate and incongruous".
Disproportionate? Some newbie in the front office making statements?
On Thursday, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced the expulsion of a US naval attaché for spying - a charge the US described as "baseless".
Friday saw US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack announce that Jeny Figueredo Frias, chief of staff to Venezuela's ambassador, must leave the country within 72 hours. Mr McCormack said the move was a direct response to the action taken against Capt Correa, and Ms Frias was "the most appropriate" choice. "We don't like to get into tit-for-tat games like this with the Venezuelan government, but they initiated this and the US chose to respond," Mr McCormack said.
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(2006-02-03) The Democrat National Committee (DNC) responded to todays news of another drop in joblessness by warning that overworked Americans might be too tired to shop, thus sending the economy into a tailspin.
According to the Labor Department, the unemployment rate fell in January to 4.7 percent, the lowest rate since July 2001, thanks to a boost in hiring across most sectors of the economy.
George Bushs tax cuts and other failed economic policies continue to sap the energy of potential shoppers, said DNC Chairman Howard Dean. Wages are up, but people are working so hard that they have no time to spend that money. Its a recipe for disaster.
Mr. Dean said the latest unemployment figures are a boon to Democrats running for election in 2006.
Our progressive ideas, he said, will rescue people from the stifling confinement of offices and factories, and put them back on the streets where the stores are. Its this kind of thinking that will allow Democrats to sweep Congressional elections, unless overworked Americans are too exhausted to get out and vote.
About 1,000 people gathered in rain-swept Washington, D.C. today at an anti-Bush rally organized by the World Can't Wait, a front group for the Revolutionary Communist Party.
I've been seeing their dumb little stickers all over town for weeks. "Bush Step Down", in black and green. It always seems to rain at these things, doesn't it?
Held on the grounds of the Washington Monument, the rally capped a week of activities by the group demanding President Bush leave office immediately because of their opposition to the Iraq war and other Bush policies. The organizers planned for a crowd in the tens of thousands, but as the photos show, they spent a whole lot of money planning for people who never showed. One woman who did attend the rally made it all worthwhile them, though. She carried a poster that featured a blood-dripping beheaded President Bush... Good pictures. Maybe they need all of those porta-potties because they are so full of it.
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The people see this for what it is. I would imagine the largest parts of the crowd were the organizers followed by the free press reporters and the bums looking for a meal.
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Maybe the latest outbreak of seething in the Muslim world kept the turnout lower?
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I wonder if this showing will make the Dems rethink their quasi support for the moonbats? I hope not, because I want the Republicans to be able to tie them tightly to every moonbat/anti semite/anti american/conspiracy theory in hte next couple of elections. These groups aren't popular and DO NOT represent anything close to the 'Amercian Mainstream' and that needs to be exploited.
WACO, Texas Two fighter jets forced a small plane to land after the pilot flew too close to President Bush's ranch in central Texas while he was spending the weekend there.
The Secret Service on Saturday confirmed that the pilot violated restricted air space over the ranch on Friday night, several hours after the president arrived, and was forced to land at nearby Waco Regional Airport. The pilot was interviewed and sent on his way, said Tom Mazur, a spokesman for the Secret Service in Washington. The matter, which appeared to be an inadvertent violation, was referred to the Federal Aviation Administration.
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OH, so it was a guy pilot? For a minute there I thought that the Victorville Viper had learned to fly a plane.
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Cindy will take jihadi pilot lessons -- "You only need to learn how to take off" -- when she can't get publicity anymore. Which can't happen too soon.
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...The pilot was interviewed and sent on his way...
This guy must have been a WAP! Had he been an Arab, I doubt he would have been released so quick. The SS just want to be sure he wasn't testing defense perimeters or reaction times!
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) - The U.S. military is shutting down its last MASH. This month, the Army will donate the last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital to Pakistan where it has been caring for survivors of last year's massive earthquake, Rear Admiral Michael LeFever said Saturday at an air base outside the capital Islamabad. "This is the last MASH unit in the United States Army," said LeFever. "We are excited that this MASH will live on in Pakistan."
Can we leave Mike Farrell there when we pack up and go?
The 84-bed, $4.5-million MASH unit includes a surgical suite with two operating tables, two intensive care units, a pharmacy, laboratory, radiology units and a power generation system, the military said.
And an 84 bed hospital with lab, xray, and generators will earn us precisely diddly squat in terms of gratitude. The seething and eyerolling will start before the plane wheels leave the runway...
After the last MASH goes to Pakistan on Feb. 16, its personnel will return to Germany for training before they are sent to Afghanistan. The U.S. military has been told plans to wrap up its relief mission in Pakistan by March 31, LeFever said.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
An Arizona woman contracted paralytic polio last year after being exposed to an infant in Costa Rica who had been administered a live oral polio vaccine just days earlier, health officials reported. The 22-year-old woman developed polio in March while participating in a university-sponsored study-abroad program and was transported back to the United States for treatment, according to a report in the current issue of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report. 
A group of Japanese husbands keen to improve their marriages have declared Tuesday to be Beloved Wives Day. The Japan Doting Husbands Association is urging men to be home early - by eight o'clock - this evening and express their gratitude to their wives.
About 1,000 people gathered in rain-swept Washington, D.C. today at an anti-Bush rally organized by the World Can't Wait, a front group for the Revolutionary Communist Party. 
