The Telegraph Calcutta, India By G.S. MUDUR New Delhi, Jan. 15: India’s health ministry, celebrating a year of freedom from wild polio, now faces a dilemma that public health experts had predicted years ago: the very vaccine it is using to fight polio is causing more polio paralysis than the wild poliovirus. India observed last Thursday as […]
Parents refusing vaccination in Nigeria
Vaccine Injury Help Center Posted on August 3, 2011 by Vaccine Injury Lawyer In the U.S., the last case of naturally occurring polio happened in 1979. Today, despite a concerted global eradication campaign, poliovirus continues to affect children and adults in Afghanistan, India, Nigeria and Pakistan. According to the Associated Press, hundreds of parents are […]
Taking steps to care for vaccines' victims
By Natasha Bita AS a baby, Jacob McCarthy swallowed a spoonful of vaccine given by his doctor to protect him from polio. That “live” vaccine, which contained small amounts of weakened polio virus and has since been replaced by a safer version, gave him the painful and paralytic symptoms of the devastating disease it was […]
WHO hides the continuing polio epidemic
By Janine Roberts excerpt from a chapter of “Fear of the Invisible” How a Continuing Polio Epidemic is being Hidden I have been told again and again by health authorities that the polio vaccine is a marvellous lifesaver – and I had accepted this on trust. As no one I knew doubted this, I had […]
New polio case traced to refusal
PESHAWAR, March 29: A new case of polio has been reported in the semi-tribal Frontier Region of Lakki Marwat, as parents continue to refuse vaccination of their children in parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Fata. Deputy director of the Expanded Programme of Immunisation, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Dr Jan Baz Afridi told Dawn on Tuesday that an […]
