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.'"

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NPAFP: It was name "polio" that was eradicated

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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. "

Re:Not so fast !

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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. They just don't happen to be dominant anywhere, thankfully.