IndiaOne 05/02/2010 Surat, May 2: Parents of a two-month old baby said that their daughter died after 48 hours of being given polio vaccine on by local civic authorities in Surat. “After giving drops, health workers gave us tablets and asked us to give it to Khusbhu if she catches fever. We gave her the […]
UN News Centre 04/30/2010 Nearly 1.1 million young children in Tajikistan will start receiving vaccines next week against polio, the sometimes deadly disease which has returned to the Central Asian country where it was thought to have been eradicated 13 years ago, United Nations agencies reported today. At least 32 wild poliovirus cases in Tajikistan […]
Kounteya Sinha The Times of India 05/01/2010 NEW DELHI: India has exported a polio virus to Tajikistan, re-infecting the region for the first time since it was certified polio-free in 2002. In what is the first outbreak of the crippling disease in a Central Asian country, the virus till April 22 had caused acute flaccid […]
Maulshree Seth Indian Express 04/16/2010 In a significant study which may force India and a few other countries to change polio eradication strategy, experts from Britain, India and the WHO have found that even vaccinated children in India play a role in transmitting wild polio virus. So far, health agencies — including Global polio eradication […]
langes A small portion from a study on how Polio affected the midbrain
. . . . Poliomyelitis in Hypogammaglobulinemics Author(s): H. V. Wyatt Source: The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 128, No. 6 (Dec., 1973), pp. 802-806 Published by: The University of Chicago Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/30061657 (excerpt) “The incidence of natural poliomyelitis in hypogammaglobulinemics has been esti- mated to be similar to that in nonimmune normal […]
“A social worker said I should stop believing the injection has anything to do with Ashleigh’s condition because I am putting my thoughts on to her and stopping her getting well.”
Polio, the dreaded paralyzing disease stamped out in the industrialized world, is caused by the vaccine used to fight it.
