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India Frees Itself of Polio
An anonymous reader writes "It's been three years since the last recorded polio case in India and health officials hope to officially certify India polio free in the next few weeks. 'Hamid Jafari, director of the WHO's polio-eradication campaign, says the agency's ambitious quest to stop all polio transmission by the end of 2014 is now within reach. If that is achieved, and no new cases crop up for three years, polio—like smallpox—will be officially banished from the planet. "India was one of the most important sources" from where the virus spread to other countries, said Dr. Jafari.'"
These are fantastic news!
Jenny McCarthy wouldn't lie to me!
Given the epidemic of stupid parents that refuse to immunise children nowadays it should not be long till many of the old virus's and diseases rear their ugly heads again.
Considering Polio has been around since before the U.S. Government even existed that is a damn fine effort to have invented it.
Current information on the fight against polio can be found here: http://www.polioeradication.org/Dataandmonitoring/Poliothisweek.aspx While India is polio-free, the worldwide cases actually increased last year. Well, let's hope for the best, that the optimistic assessment of Dr. Jafari is true.
Great job on the part of India, the Gates foundation, and all involved. For polio to be eradicated forever would be a great thing.
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From the Polio Eradication Website:
Polio remains endemic in three countries – Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan. Until poliovirus transmission is interrupted in these countries, all countries remain at risk of importation of polio, especially in the ‘poliovirus importation belt’ of countries from west Africa to the Horn of Africa.
Only 372 cases worldwide last year! If we're careful, if we can convince certain political groups that polio is not an appropriate weapon of terrorism(*), we'll soon eliminate it completely.
Interestingly, polio is monitored from the sewage system in India. Since that appears to work for polio, people are thinking about using this method to monitor other things: other diseases, weapons manufacture, drug manufacture, and so on.
(*) Not making this up - some groups in Afghanistan think that spreading polio is a good way to get back at the Great Satan.
Given the epidemic of stupid parents that refuse to immunise children nowadays it should not be long till many of the old virus's and diseases rear their ugly heads again.
Can't we feel good about doing something noble for a change? Even for a minute?
Have a heart, guy!
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As much as everyone likes to hate Bill Gates - India and a number of other countries owe him (and the global Rotary community) for helping in this effort. More on End Polio.
Well done India
Next door to India, Polio is making a come back.
Same thing also happening in Nigeria, as well as in Mali.
The common thread in the three locations that is helping Polio making a revival is Islam.
Yes, Islam is helping to make Polio a permanent fixture to the human race.
In Pakistan, they actually KILL health workers trying to eradicate Polio. Same thing happen in Nigeria, where Boko Haram has threaten (and sometimes kill) people trying to stop the spread of Polio.
India will still be at constant risk. This modern secular country is right next to a muzzy hell-hole where attacks on polio workers are frequent. Among the many other things that Islam forbids they have now decided that polio vaccines are unislamic.
yet again this (literally) diabolical 'religion' brings death and suffering to the world.
I doubt they would have patented it because then their work would be public. But I have no doubt they have reserves of purified polio in underground bunkers. Although you have to wonder if this is would be an effective wartime weapon. Surely something faster-acting and more challenging to inoculate against would be a better choice.
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Why did God striken children with polio? Why? Because the would have gone to hell anyway is why. Better to get them before they do the devil's bidding.
The virus itself will not be gone for a long time though. It can still be easily found even in the western world. For example in Finland there have been numerous cases of polio virus among wastewaters in the larger cities. We are safe only as long as the virus does not mutate beyond our current vaccines...
Paper from: Indian J Med Ethics. 2012 Apr-Jun;9(2):114-7
Polio programme: let us declare victory and move on
"while India has been polio-free for a year, there has been a huge increase in non-polio acute flaccid paralysis (NPAFP). In 2011, there were an extra 47,500 new cases of NPAFP. Clinically indistinguishable from polio paralysis but twice as deadly, the incidence of NPAFP was directly proportional to doses of oral polio received. Though this data was collected within the polio surveillance system, it was not investigated. The principle of primum-non-nocere was violated. "
Don't make a claim and then expect the skeptics to find your evidence for you.
U.S. government have reserves of polio. THey invented and patented it.
Considering Polio has been around since before the U.S. Government even existed that is a damn fine effort to have invented it.
oh sorry - I was thinking of polo mints
Are you so retarded that you do not know how to google for information yourself ?
You have the burden of proof here.
As a general rule, allowing others to provide biased sources for you may not be a wise choice. Searching for your own evidence might indeed be the best course of action.
Finally an entry on the extinct species list that we can actually be proud of.
Polio is one nasty disease and its (almost) eradication is one of the bravest examples of human accomplishment and proof of what things our grandparents thought impossible we can achieve if we work together for a change.
Unfortunately, once again, religion is the final obstacle in mankinds road to a better world. If they create an eradication of religion program next, sign me up.
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"Well-educated" implies, among other things, the ability to rationally think about one's own religion.
Fact: Many Islamic Terrorists were college educated !
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/14/opinion/14bergen.html?_r=0
"We examined the educational backgrounds of 75 terrorists behind some of the most significant recent terrorist attacks against Westerners. We found that a majority of them are college-educated, often in technical subjects like engineering. In the four attacks for which the most complete information about the perpetrators' educational levels is available - the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, the attacks on the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, the 9/11 attacks, and the Bali bombings in 2002 - 53 percent of the terrorists had either attended college or had received a college degree"
The 1993 attack on World Trade Center
"The 1993 World Trade Center attack involved 12 men, all of whom had a college education"
Of the 9/11 attack
"The 9/11 pilots, as well as the secondary planners identified by the 9/11 commission, all attended Western universities, a prestigious and elite endeavor for anyone from the Middle East. Indeed, the lead 9/11 pilot, Mohamed Atta, had a degree from a German university in, of all things, urban preservation, while the operational planner of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, studied engineering in North Carolina . We also found that two-thirds of the 25 hijackers and planners involved in 9/11 had attended college"
They were educated in colleges in America as well as in Europe. If they still can't THINK RATIONALLY after getting their college education in WESTERN UNIVERSITIES, who is to blame ?
The Western Universities or that bloody religion of Islam ?
One of the reasons for that was some IDIOT in the CIA apparently using a polio vaccination program as a cover for a covert operation in Pakistan
Isn't it so swell that you get to blame CIA for *EVERYTHING* ??
Did CIA plan the 9/11 attack or was it Osama Bin Laden who led the planning committee ?
Was Pakistan offering a sanctuary for Osama Bin Laden, or was it CIA which pressured Pakistan to offer sanctuary for Osama Bin Laden ?
Do you have a brain ?
Do you know how to think ?
Blaming the CIA for everything may be a trendy thing, but you sir are a certifiable *IDIOT* to blame CIA on their killing the health workers in Pakistan !
Boom times ahead for Indian antivaxxers
smilies are for reetards
You have way too many facts here. Even if you wanted to say something it was buried by them.
Oh, wow. cold_fjord going ballistic. Nice fireworks :-)
I was waiting for the strawman to make an appearance, and you never disappoint me.
Well-educated fundamentalist Muslim is an oxymoron; just as well-educated Christian fundamentalist is. Education is supposed to impart the ability to critically think (indeed, many argue that it is the main point of it).
And yes, Christian fundies are just as dangerous.
Pulling a strawman trick will never make your lame point any more stronger.
Why the need to mention the Christian fundies, may I ask ?
Is it because you have run out of boogieman ?
Or is it a way to divert the attention away from that bloody religion of Islam ?
It was Islamic terrorists which brought down the WTC. Not Christian fundies, not Buddist fundies, not Hindu fundies, not even Atheist fundies.
Shame on you !!
These are merely temporary measures. These diseases come back. We've already seen some of them come back in the US.
yes, this is largely due to the anti vaccination movement. But consider, that that is all it takes for them to come back.
They are still out there. Waiting. Breeding. Evolving.
The only real counter against pandemics is to control the vectors of transmission.
Take hospitals. What is more effective at controlling infection.
1. having doctors wash their hands.
2. spraying everything with industrial antibacterial agents regularly.
Answer: 1
Why? While 2 is effective at first it leads to mass bacterial resistance and eventually the immunity of that bacteria to our anti bacterial which renders them ineffective.
Where as washing your hands will probably always work.
Look at the way our digestive system handles food. Acid bath. Brutal but effective.
As to the rest all the various disease we get... control the vectors. The insects that spread some diseases... kill them all. Genocide them. I know some will say "but we need them"... we don't. Mosquitoes are entirely dispensable. Some ecosystems will be disrupted by their loss but something else will fill the void and life will carry on.
Same thing with ticks etc. Pretty much all the blood suckers should go.
Next we should make some kind of effort to keep people from coughing on each other and getting each other sick. The chinese have their funny face masks. That's one way to accomplish this task but I'd like to have something less intrusive.
Something to think on.
In any case, do that along with keeping the water/food clean and we should be pretty safe.
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That's the way they did it and there's really no way to "spin" it.
The blowback death toll of murdered medical staff and disease victims is increasing daily.
... Rabies. Good God they have a lot of rabies cases, and it's just an awful way to die.
I contracted polio in rural India when I was about 5, 10 years after Salk's vaccine was deployed all over the USA. I had switched schools about six times in k-12, (civil servant dad posted to all the distant corners of the realm). In almost every class, in every school I had another victim as classmate. That is anecdotal evidence with the survivor bias too. How many had died? How many did not even attend school?
Well, I am glad the scourge has been eliminated in India. Hope the fundie clerics do not stand in the way of complete eradication. It is very disheartening the fundie clerics and the Haj pilgrimage is re-introducing it again in far flung regions of the world. If polio found an able adversary in science, it has found a reliable ally in the form of Muslim fundamentalists.
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Come out of the closet. So should you.
Don't worry, Jenny McCarthy will be over with a horde of uneducated soccer moms to fuck it all up for you soon enough.
Vaccinations are haram, that is, against sharia. Every year following the annual Hajj, the Muslim world sees an uptick in polio as a result. With the largest Muslim population in the world, India is bound to always have polio.
If a patent on polio really existed, Time-Warner would own it and be publicly lobbying Congress to extend it into infinity. And the vaccine would be outlawed as "circumvention."
Now if they can devoid funds to providing toilets to the hundreds of millions that lack such service, instead of wasting money on the pissing contests that the Indian government is so fond of, India would gain international respect.
Oprah! Call Jenny McCarthy, quick! We've got a situation in India that requires ignorance, stat!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polo_(confectionery)
Polo mints are from the United Kingdom. Evil bastards. Selling Polo to fine American kids.
Could you cite a source or two for that claim?
Forbid? You speak as if condoms were outlawed. The Church only "forbids" condoms in the sense that vegan literature "forbids" eating meat. It is up to individual choice.
You speak as if priests and bishops chose such lives seeking money and comfort. In fact, it is much more comfortable to live a secular life than it is to be a celibate priest.
Also, see
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ni/2009/03/aids_expert_who_defended_the_p.html
Did all horses drown or something?
Polio "banished from the planet"? I guess all those cases in Afghanistan just don't count, then.
I doubt they would have patented it because then their work would be public. But I have no doubt they have reserves of purified polio in underground bunkers. Although you have to wonder if this is would be an effective wartime weapon. Surely something faster-acting and more challenging to inoculate against would be a better choice.
Biological agents make pretty terrible weapons in practice.
It's too difficult to control their spread, too slow and they don't kill enough of the enemy to be worth bothering with, too fast and you can't get them to stop killing once you've won. And anyone with the technology level necessary to even try to tailor a decease to the level of precision you need to make it match the usefulness of say: mustard gas, will have access to many more effective weapons of mass destruction (like mustard gas).
Cut off its air supply!
Gates found a better place for his skills.
They *WANT* to take over and they ARE as psyhcotic and dangerous and because we know what you people want to do in your secret blackest of black little hearts.
Sorry, this isn't about religious preference, its about fear of psychos.
I'm pretty sure that there are still cases in Nigeria and Pakistan.
There is also detectable polio virus genomes (they checked waste water by PCR) in Israel. The presence of genomes (not vaccine, since Israel switched to a protein-only vaccine) indicates that there is low level replication that is not causing disease (probably in vaccinated individuals). If vaccination drops-off or the virus encounters someone immunodeficient, then there will eventually be more cases of polio.
The US and, of course, Russia, still have live smallpox in their "labs"...just in case (i.e. needed for weapons and maybe, just maybe for research) so I have to assume that the US and Russia (and now China) will keep a supply of live Polio virus just in case...
It is Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle and the Ice-9.
Islam is as much a part of India as it is of Pakistan, in fact India has 11% of the world's Muslim population (0.5% more than Pakistan). So do not confuse one cleric in one province to represent Islam.
That's why you click on sources and see where they lead before blindly accepting them...
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" polio—like smallpox—will be officially banished from the planet."
If that is the end result then bravo. One more down. That also raises the question of when do we stop using the polio vaccine? If like smallpox there is no more virus then we wouldn't need to. I got my smallpox shot (yes I'm that old) and drank the polio vaccine. Yep the live one that was the only cause of polio in the western world in the 1980s according to Salk. When I read that interview with him my heart skipped a beat or two. We all thought it was great that we didn't have to get a needle.
I'm wondering if the polio virus is still around or completely eradicated? Can it survive in other animals, mutate and come back?
Indian regime is spending $1 billion/year on space research when 50% of its children are malnourished.
http://m.timesofindia.com/india/Every-second-Indian-child-is-malnourished-Report/articleshow/25724848.cms
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