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Vaccine-derived polio spreads in Africa after defeat of wild virus
The Guardian ^ | 09/02/2020 | Peter Beaumont

Posted on 09/02/2020 7:57:17 AM PDT by BenLurkin

A new polio outbreak in Sudan has been linked to the oral polio vaccine that uses a weakened form of the virus.

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WHO said two children in Sudan, one from South Darfur state and the other from Gadarif state, close to the border with Ethiopia and Eritrea, were paralysed in March and April. Both had been recently vaccinated against polio.

The WHO said initial outbreak investigations showed the cases were linked to a continuing vaccine-derived outbreak in Chad that was first detected last year and is now spreading in Chad and Cameroon.

While so-called vaccine-derived polio is a known risk, the emergence of these cases so soon after the announced eradication of wild polio in Africa is a setback.

At issue is the fact that the oral polio vaccine – preferred in some places because of its ease of delivery and the lack of need for sterile syringes – uses an attenuated or weakened version of polio.

When a child receives the oral vaccine, the weakened virus replicates in the intestine, encouraging the production of antibodies, and can be present in excreta. In an area where there are high enough levels of immunity in the population, this usually does not present a problem, even if sanitation is poor.

But in areas where there is both poor sanitation and a lack of general immunisation the virus can survive and circulate for months, mutating over time until it poses the same risk of paralysis-causing disease as wild polio.

Use of the oral polio vaccine was discontinued in the UK in 2004 and the US in 2000, and the UN agency advises that the use of the oral vaccine should be discontinued after polio is judged to be eradicated because of the risk of vaccine-derived outbreaks.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: africa; diseas; disease; health; oops; outbreak; polio; poliooutbreak; poliovaccine; sudan; vaccine
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1 posted on 09/02/2020 7:57:17 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Yeah, but be sure to take the untested Covid vaccine, which you are assured will be safe, and maybe 50% effective...


2 posted on 09/02/2020 7:59:26 AM PDT by CondorFlight
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To: BenLurkin

We had a version of the same problem in the U.S. a few years back. Use the DEAD version of the virus . . . NOT the weakened version. It isn’t as effective, but you don’t cause polio with it.

P.S. for those who do not know me. I am NOT a medical doctor. I am a comic book mad scientist doctor.


3 posted on 09/02/2020 8:02:46 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: BenLurkin
the emergence of these cases so soon after the announced eradication of wild polio in Africa is a setback.

1) We've eradicated polio in Africa.
2) But we still vaccinate people in Africa against polio.
3) The polio vaccine is giving people polio.
4) This is, let us say, a "setback".

4 posted on 09/02/2020 8:03:55 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: BenLurkin

Faulty polio vaccines are a huge scandal in India. Bill Gates is in the thick of it.


5 posted on 09/02/2020 8:04:39 AM PDT by Spirochete
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To: BenLurkin

Is this the Gates vaccine?


6 posted on 09/02/2020 8:06:06 AM PDT by vigilante2 (Make liberals cry again)
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To: BenLurkin; All

Trey Billygoat Gates will save us. He’s Commander-in-Chief of the microSoftkill Army. Tony Wormhead Fauxi is a 5-star general.

German eugenics borrowed by American eugenicists in conjunction with Chinese eugenicists...

https://www.edge.org/response-detail/23838

CDC + CCP + PCC (Population Control Centers) = Lots of DEATH


7 posted on 09/02/2020 8:06:17 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Spirochete

Gategate


8 posted on 09/02/2020 8:06:30 AM PDT by Cowgirl
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To: All

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/about/covid-19/


9 posted on 09/02/2020 8:08:06 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: CondorFlight
All the COVID-19 vaccine candidates are going through full phase 1, phase 2, and phase 3 clinical trials. None are untested. They're being tested with tens of thousands of volunteers over the course of months. And since we don't yet have phase 3 trial results from any of the candidates, we don't have efficacy numbers. Your 50% number is pure speculation intended to drum up fear that it won't work.

Stop drumming up fear. That's the media's job.

10 posted on 09/02/2020 8:11:18 AM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest (The media is banging the fear drum enough. Don't help them do it.)
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To: Dr. Sivana
We had a version of the same problem in the U.S. a few years back. Use the DEAD version of the virus . . . NOT the weakened version. It isn’t as effective, but you don’t cause polio with it.

That was the Salk vaccine, developed by Jonas Salk--and that's what I was given. The Sabin oral vaccine, developed by Albert Sabin, was phased in during the Kennedy administration.

11 posted on 09/02/2020 8:11:42 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: BenLurkin; All

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/?term=2019-nCoV+OR+2019nCoV+OR+COVID-19+OR+SARS-CoV-2+OR+((wuhan+AND+coronavirus)+AND+2019%2F12%5BPDAT%5D%3A2030%5BPDAT%5D)%20AND%20%22open%20access%22%5BFilter%5D

Lots of reading material to decode for scientists, etc., etc. and those interested.


12 posted on 09/02/2020 8:12:18 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Agreed. Somebody made a stupid decision about which vaccine to use and now people are suffering the consequences of that decision. None of this would be an issue with the third generation platform, but we have to see whether that’s actually viable.


13 posted on 09/02/2020 8:13:10 AM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest (The media is banging the fear drum enough. Don't help them do it.)
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To: BenLurkin

I’ll be glad when 2020 is over.


14 posted on 09/02/2020 8:14:40 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: vigilante2

I think it is.


15 posted on 09/02/2020 8:14:53 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: CondorFlight

I wouldn’t go to Sudan for medical treatment.


16 posted on 09/02/2020 8:15:07 AM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: BenLurkin

In an area where there are high enough levels of immunity in the population, this usually does not present a problem...

So if you are already immune to polio, you won’t be adversely affected by this vaccine which uses a live attenuated polio virus. In which case, you likely didn’t need the vaccine in the first place. Conversely, if you have no polio antibodies, this vaccine will give you polio. Sounds like a problem.


17 posted on 09/02/2020 8:16:30 AM PDT by Flick Lives (My work's illegal, but at least it's honest. - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds)
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One of Tony Wormhead’s favorite utterances...

“Gain-of-function” is the euphemism for biological research aimed at increasing the virulence and lethality of pathogens and viruses. GoF research is government funded; its focus is on enhancing the pathogens’ ability to infect different species and to increase their deadly impact as airborne pathogens and viruses. Ostensibly, GoF research is conducted for biodefense purposes. These experiments, however, are extremely dangerous. Those deadly science-enhanced pathogens can, and do escape into the community where they infect and kill people. What’s more, this line of research can be used for biological warfare.


18 posted on 09/02/2020 8:19:38 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: BenLurkin

The Guardian?

Nowhere in the article says WHO/which country manufactured the oral vaccine. Why is it not been revealed by both W.H.O. and the british reporting journalist(s)? Wouldn’t you think “it” mighty important info?


19 posted on 09/02/2020 8:20:06 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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To: Flick Lives

Third world Africa hellholes have always been an ongoing battle against diseases the rest of the world has put behind.


20 posted on 09/02/2020 8:21:37 AM PDT by LouieFisk
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