[IsraelTimes] WHO spokesperson says situation ’very serious’; kids infected from specific type of vaccine.A polio
...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set...
outbreak in war-ravaged Syria has paralyzed at least 17 children since March, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, describing the situation as "very serious."
Fifteen more cases have thus been confirmed since WHO first announced, less than two weeks ago, that Syria had been hit by its first outbreak of the crippling disease since 2014.
"We are very much worried, because if there is one case of polio with a kid that is paralyzed, it is already an outbreak," WHO front man Tarim Jasarevic told news hounds in Geneva.
He pointed out that for every polio-caused paralysis, there are on average nearly 200 children who have the virus but no symptoms.
"The virus is circulating. It is very serious."
The new cases all surfaced between March 3 and May 23, but were only just confirmed, since it can take up to two months to determine with certainty that a case of acute flaccid paralysis stems from polio, he said.
"It is expected that we will have more confirmations," Jasarevic warned.
All but one of the cases were registered in the Mayadeen district of the oil-rich Deir Ezzor province, most of which is controlled by the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group and where a siege of the capital has restricted access to basic goods and services for some of the population.
WHO did not specify whether the Deir Ezzor cases were in areas under IS control.
One case of the crippling and potentially fatal viral disease that mainly affects children under the age of five has also surfaced in IS stronghold Raqqa.
But Jasarevic said it remained unclear if polio was actually circulating in Raqqa, or if the paralyzed child had caught the virus elsewhere.
Vaccine-derived polio
Unlike the last polio outbreak in Syria, which affected 36 children, the current outbreak does not involve the so-called "wild" version of the virus.
Instead, it originated from a specific type of polio vaccine, which contains small amounts of weakened but live virus.
Oral polio vaccine (OPV) replicates in the gut and can be passed to others through fecal-contaminated water -- meaning it won’t hurt the child who has been vaccinated, but could infect their neighbors in places where hygiene and immunization levels are low.
| Who on earth decided this version was a good idea in a war zone, where hygiene and immunization levels are necessarily abysmal?? |
| ...the same vaccine, or will they be smart this time? |
| ...which is mostly under ISIS control, as was just mentioned. Is ISIS likely to let them just waltz in, vaccinate all the kiddies including the Yezidi slave girls and unwilling Lion Cubs, then waltz out again? |
"We still don’t know how we will get the vaccine in... by truck or helicopter," he added.