Progress in eradicating polio

by charvaka Sun Jan 15, 2012 10:06 pm

India has just completed a year of no new polio cases reported. A Pakistani newspaper talks about some of the innovative outreach techniques used in India, including getting imams to preach the benefits of the vaccines and issue fatwas in support of the vaccine.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=87752&Cat=6&dt=1/16/2012

India now gets off the short list of countries where the WHO consider polio endemic, leaving behind Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan. If there are no additional cases over two more years, WHO will consider India "polio free."

by harharmahadev Sun Jan 15, 2012 10:10 pm

charvaka wrote:India has just completed a year of no new polio cases reported. A Pakistani newspaper talks about some of the innovative outreach techniques used in India, including getting imams to preach the benefits of the vaccines and issue fatwas in support of the vaccine.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=87752&Cat=6&dt=1/16/2012

India now gets off the short list of countries where the WHO consider polio endemic, leaving behind Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan. If there are no additional cases over two more years, WHO will consider India "polio free."

Good job. Well done.

by Guest Mon Jan 16, 2012 1:51 am

Excellent! Thanks for posting this. Fingers crossed for 2 more years. The eradication program coincided with my kids being under 5 yrs of age. On one occasion we were in nainital. It was still very easy to get to the vaccine drops - well coordinated program. A Bachchan campaigned big. where there is a will...

by doofus_maximus Tue Jan 17, 2012 3:30 pm

But with the brilliant campaign by anti-vaccine idiot celebrities here in the US, previously eradicated diseases are rearing their ugly heads again.

My best friend didn't vaccinate his child. I was stupefied.

by artood2 Tue Jan 17, 2012 3:54 pm

doofus_maximus wrote:But with the brilliant campaign by anti-vaccine idiot celebrities here in the US, previously eradicated diseases are rearing their ugly heads again.

My best friend didn't vaccinate his child. I was stupefied.

all that was based on bogus research. AFAIR, they banned that guy from practising medicine.

by artood2 Tue Jan 17, 2012 4:00 pm

artood2 wrote:
doofus_maximus wrote:But with the brilliant campaign by anti-vaccine idiot celebrities here in the US, previously eradicated diseases are rearing their ugly heads again.

My best friend didn't vaccinate his child. I was stupefied.

all that was based on bogus research. AFAIR, they banned that guy from practising medicine.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/13/opinion/13thu2.html?ref=andrewwakefield

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/health/policy/25autism.html?ref=andrewwakefield

by doofus_maximus Tue Jan 17, 2012 4:02 pm

I know that. And thanks for the links.

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