I usually find that golfing eagles is medically accurate even if we differ on some politics. But this post is simply wrong in the one fact, as opposed to opinion, it contained:
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Originally Posted by golfing eagles ....
With poliomyelitis making a comeback, why not a passport for that? Far more contagious and deadly than COVID, and while it is primarily transmitted by the fecal-oral route, it can sometimes be respiratory. Besides, ever check out an airplane bathroom or the restrooms at the airport?????
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Polio is not making a comeback. There are two broad categories of people getting polio. One is the wild virus which is the traditional case of polio that the Salk and Sabin vaccines were designed to eliminate. There are three strains of wild polio conveniently called type 1, 2, or 3. All 3 strains are contained in both vaccines. In the oral vaccine the virus is alive but very weakened so that it is extremely rare but not impossible that someone who gets the vaccine can get real active polio from the vaccine. In the polio shot the virus is dead and cannot cause disease.
If someone gets polio from the vaccine it is called vaccine derived polio VDP. If it is wild polio then WPV.
Here are the
data for the week ending March 31, 2021:
Summary of new WPV and cVDPV viruses this week (AFP cases and ES positives): AFP mean acute flaccid paralysis, or clinical polio, ES means environmental sample, they tested the water and found vaccine polio in the water
Afghanistan: five cVDPV2 cases and two cVDPV2 positive environmental samples
Pakistan: two WPV1 and one cVDPV2 positive environmental samples
Côte d’Ivoire: 34 cVDPV2 positive environmental samples
Guinea: one cVDPV2 positive environmental sample
Liberia: three cVDPV2 positive environmental samples
*****: one cVDPV2 positive environmental sample Really censor? This is a country in Africa N i g e r
Senegal: two cVDPV2 cases and one positive environmental sample
South Sudan: three cVDPV2 positive environmental samples
So the only cases of wild polio in the entire world last week were two in Pakistan where there is now a huge issue getting the fundamental Islamic areas to accept vaccines as they believe vaccines are a Western biological warfare agent. Funny about people believing such wrong things about vaccines isn't it.
In Afghanistan there were 5 people diagnosed with polio they caught from being vaccinated.
The total wild polio cases for 2020 were:
Afghanistan 56
Pakistan 84
No other country in the world has had a single case of wild polio in either 2019, 2020 or 2021. For comparison in 1988 there were an estimated
350,000 cases of wild polio in the world. No, polio is not making a comeback.