As posted in the Deccan Herald Paralytic polio – derived from oral polio vaccine (OPV) — used for vaccinating millions of children — has struck India to cripple a child in West Bengal within a week of the World Health Organisation (WHO) declaring the country free from the wild polio virus. A case of vaccine […]
Fatal Polio Reported 12 Years After Exposure to Vaccine
By Nancy Walsh, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Published: June 15, 2011 Reviewed by Dori F. Zaleznik, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston and Dorothy Caputo, MA, RN, BC-ADM, CDE, Nurse Planner In an unusual case of vaccine-derived polio, an immunodeficient woman receiving regular intravenous immune globulin treatment became paralyzed and died […]
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 […]
