By Lee Shearer Eradicating polio from the world is a lofty goal, but University of Georgia virus researcher Ralph Tripp is willing to try – with a little help. Working with scientists from the federal Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, the private company Thermo Fisher Scientific and other researchers at UGA, Tripp is trying […]
The Polio Endgame
By Bruce Aylward, M.D, and TadaTaka Yamada, M.D., (New England Journal of Medicine) [Excerpts] Infection with poliovirus can have devastating consequences, including paralysis and death. In 1988, a year when an estimated 350,000 or more children were paralyzed by polio, the World Health Assembly initiated a global effort to eradicate the infection once and for […]
Mutating vaccine causes polio outbreak in Nigeria
By Donald G. McNeill Jr. Nigeria is fighting an unusual outbreak of polio caused by a mutating polio vaccine, world health authorities say, but the only remedy is to keep vaccinating children there. Officials of the World Health Organization fear that news of the outbreak, which began last year, will be a new setback for […]
Polio Outbreak From Oral Vaccine Identified — And Controlled — In China
ScienceDaily (Aug. 15, 2006) — A 2004 outbreak of polio in China traced back to live attenuated oral polio vaccine (OPV), which is widely used in global eradication efforts, highlights the small but significant risk to eradication posed by the use of OPV at suboptimal rates of coverage. The study, reported in the Sept. 1 […]
Villagers make polio campaign a tool to demand development
KANPUR: Though the government agencies are spending millions of rupees to fight polio, a couple of instances have surfaced where people had refused get polio drops administered to their children. In the first incident reported from Naglabhara village in Kannauj district, locals facing shortage of schools and proper roads boycotted the polio campaign on March […]
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