[SaneVax: Do the 47,500 new cases of acute flaccid paralysis in India mean they traded polio eradication for a disease with twice the risk of death? Is it coincidence these new cases of AFP correlate closely to the number of oral polio vaccine doses administered?] “Polio drops but leaves a deadly new trail,” by Shonali Ghosal […]
Action ordered against families resisting drive
Excerpt from The Nation (a print publication from Pakistan) MULTAN – The district administration has decided to launch police action against those families that resist vaccination of their children against polio. According to detail, District Coordination Officer (DCO) Zahid Akhtar Zaman has directed the Health Department to lodge report against such families with the police […]
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 […]
OPV cannot eradicate polio from India: do we need any further evidence?
Paul Y. Maharaja Agrasen Hospital, Paediatrics, Vidhyadhar Nagar, Jaipur, Rajasthan 302023, India. dryashpaul2003@yahoo.com Abstract: Polio eradication programme was launched in India in 1995, and polio eradication was expected to occur by 2000. Remarkable decline in polio incidence occurred, but, polio was not eradicated. Majority of polio cases are occurring in two states viz., Uttar Pradesh […]
Fighting Pakistan's Lingering Polio Problem
By Michael Galway Last December, I traveled to Peshawar, ground zero in Pakistan’s fight against polio. As the capital of Khyber-Paktunkhwa (KP) and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), this is where the debilitating disease needs to be stopped in order to prevent an explosive outbreak, one that can nonetheless be easily prevented by a […]
