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| Southeast Asia | |
| Indonesia confirms girl has polio | |
| 2005-05-03 | |
| Indonesia has recorded its first case of polio in almost a decade. It raises fears that the crippling childhood disease could be making a comeback in one of the world's most populous nations. The case, a young girl, was found in west Java, close to the Indonesian capital, Jakarta. DNA tests done on a viral sample from the infant girl has determined the polio arrived in Indonesia from Nigeria, via Saudi Arabia.
The World Health Organization had suspected that the girl's paralysis might be related to polio for more than a week and has already vaccinated more than 4,000 children against the disease. It is the first move in a programme that is expected to reach more than five million children in all. The head of the WHO in Indonesia, Dr Georg Petersen, told the BBC that there were more suspected cases, with a number of other children also showing tell-tale signs of paralysis. He said those cases were being investigated to rule out other possible causes, such as meningitis. Until the middle of last century, when a vaccine was discovered, poliomyelitis was endemic across the globe and the international campaign for universal vaccination has been one of the great successes in the fight against disease of recent years. | |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #10 hopefully we won't have to re-up. IIRC there were some % of vaccinated who had side effects - Dr. Steve can set me straight on that. My bitch is about these ignorant moon-worshipping asshats enabling the return of what should be a dead disease. What next? Small Pox? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-05-03 21:05 |
| #9 I have no idea about ''re-upping'', Frank, but that could be handled easily and quickly by offering the innoculation at grocery stores and such, just like the flu vaccine. I may look into it for Mr. Wife, just in case -- he's going to be spending a lot of time overseas, the next six months. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-05-03 20:17 |
| #8 My Grandmother had Polio,her left arm was about a third the size of her right.But let me tell you,that right arm could knock-out a horse at 20'with one of those big cans of cling peaches(heavy syrup of course).Bless her fried pie makeing heart. |
| Posted by: raptor 2005-05-03 19:48 |
| #7 Damn shame, kind of. |
| Posted by: BH 2005-05-03 17:14 |
| #6 Polio could have been eradicated from the face of the earth by now but these islamist conspiracy nuts, full of hatred towards kafirs, have suceeeded in making polio a muslim disease. It is always the kafir (whether western christian or indian hindu) plotting to sterilize them or give them AIDS. |
| Posted by: john 2005-05-03 16:50 |
| #5 prolly true for mine, too, TW - but I understand that it might be necessary for us born in the 50's, 60's to re-up. As for running those parts of the world, the aid programs should start with a bullet in the heads of the mullahs and imams who tell these children (via their ignorant f*ck parents) not to get vaccinated. Consider it the first ''shot'' |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-05-03 16:39 |
| #4 We should start now, I don't want to see another iron lung or person walking with leg braces and crutches ever again. I had a friend get polio when I was a kid. I remember taking the sugar cube vaccine, every kid in town must have been lined up getting theirs at the same time. If I could burn these shit heads down I would. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet 0’ Doom 2005-05-03 4:16:05 PM |
| #3 Frank, my children were vaccinated against polio as part of the standard infant vaccination program... and I suspect yours were, too. So I can tell you that at least in the U.S. and Germany this is standard procedure, and likely in the rest of the Western World. The sad thing is, we are likely to see significant population contraction in the Muslim and Sub-Saharan parts of the world, as diseases like polio and AIDs -- and similar ''diseases of behaviour'' continue to run rampant, killing off the adults and crippling the children. In the end, regrettable as the West's last experiment in Colonialism/Imperialism was, we may need to run those parts of the world until a generation can grow up that is protected, healthy and educated enough to be self-supporting and self-ruling. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-05-03 16:11 |
| #2 how long before we have to reestablish vaccination here in the non-Islamoid world? one year? two? Freaking morons |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-05-03 14:33 |
| #1 Those "Holy Men" who are responsible for this should have to pay to support every child that has contracted Polio/ If they refuse, kill them. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet 0’ Doom 2005-05-03 2:23:15 PM |