Polio cases in Canada decreased markedly with the introduction of immunization programs in the 1950s, when up to 5,000 children had polio per year. The last case of wild poliovirus in Canada occurred in 1977, while cases associated with oral vaccines continued until 1995. Polio ...
Polio case counts have declined by >99% worldwide, from an estimated 350,000 cases in 1988 to 223 cases reported in 2012. However, progress has been uneven, with repeated setbacks after 2000 as wild polioviruses from endemic reservoirs reinfected polio-free countries and emerging circulating ...
In 1976, Dr. Jonah Salk, creator of the killed-virus vaccine used in the 1950s, testified that the live-virus vaccine (used almost exclusively from the 1960s-2000s in the U.S.) was the “principle if not sole cause” of all reported polio cases since 1961 in the United States. ...
Even Franklin Delano Roosevelt was diagnosed with polio in 1921—more than a decade before he became president of the United States. Although some Canadian families may wrestle with the benefits and potential secondary reactions to vaccination, today polio is eradicated in Canada because of the past...
A RECENT ALARM WARNING against complacency in polio vaccination has come from an unlikely place: Canada. Infectiouspoliomyelitis, eradicated in much of the world during the past 2 decades, remains endemic only in Nigeria, India, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. But a newoutbreaklastspringinTajikistanhas ...
The Philippine government said in late November that a total of eight polio cases have been confirmed after an "outbreak" of the disease in September. The boy is being treated in an isolation ward and is in stable condition. But he still needs breathing assistance, the statement added. ...
Canada also last week reported a sudden September spike in cases, raising the year's total from fewer than five reported cases to 30. Meanwhile, several doctors treating the disease, including four who advise the CDC on it, have criticised the agency's response and its use of the word "...
The viruses isolated in Alberta have identical genomic sequences to those isolated in the Netherlands. There are no cases of paralytic poliomyelitis thus far in Canada. This is the first detected importation of wild poliovirus into the Americas since the interruption of indigenous transmission in ...
illegal aliens bringing them in. Biden's Center for Disease Control and Department of Homeland Security refuste to even comment on the problem. Infectious diseases expert Dr. Jay BBhattacharya of Stanford University declared "the recent polio and leprosy cases are almost certainly ...
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