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NEW THREAT First outbreak of highly infectious polio detected in UK since 1984 – the 6 signs to know
The Sun (UK) ^

Posted on 06/22/2022 6:18:39 AM PDT by TigerClaws

POLIO is spreading in the UK for the first time in decades, officials claim.

Health bosses urged Brits to check their children's jabs are up to date after picking up signs of the virus being passed between individuals.

Experts have detected the same bug in London sewage samples since April – a clear signal of a community outbreak.

The last case of polio being contracted in Britain was in 1984 and the country was declared polio-free in 2003.

Before a vaccine was introduced in the 1950s, epidemics would result in thousands of people being paralysed annually and hundreds of deaths.

UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) experts believe a traveller – likely from Pakistan, Afghanistan or Nigeria - shed the virus in their stools after being given the oral polio inoculation.

But the bug has now spread to others after mutating, with the same strain being repeatedly detected in sewage samples since May.

Health bosses have now launched an urgent investigation to pin-point the source and boost vaccination in affected areas.

Despite clear evidence of an outbreak, no cases have yet come forward.

And officials insist the overall risk to the public remains very low. Dr Vanessa Saliba, Consultant Epidemiologist at UKHSA said: “Vaccine-derived poliovirus is rare and the risk to the public overall is extremely low.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: diversity; invasion; polio
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1 posted on 06/22/2022 6:18:39 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

And Joe just told us a second pandemic is coming …

https://mobile.twitter.com/thomas1774paine/status/1539403874645299200


2 posted on 06/22/2022 6:19:45 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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Let me guess - big Pharma luckily has an mRNA vaccine that on hand that can deal with polio.

Ramping up production in this emergency situation, they’ll have to dismantle their mRNA COVID production to make for the mRNA Polio production. Might take them as much as a week to do this though...


3 posted on 06/22/2022 6:22:01 AM PDT by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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To: TigerClaws

And why am I not surprised that this version of polio likely came from a country without a healthcare system like the UK or US has. Used to be, immigrants were medically vetted.


4 posted on 06/22/2022 6:23:21 AM PDT by Savage Rider
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To: TigerClaws

Do travellers from Pakistan, Afghanistan or Nigeria have to be inoculated for polio in order to enter the UK?


5 posted on 06/22/2022 6:23:35 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: C210N

IF they would be willing to do it.


6 posted on 06/22/2022 6:24:04 AM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: nuconvert

Guessing it’s more difficult to enter the UK than the US so the UK is able to inoculate a higher percentage of immigrants and travelers.

But our borders .... pffftttt...


7 posted on 06/22/2022 6:28:03 AM PDT by jcon40 (Machinery is only as good as its design and quality of parts. A citizen is only as good as...)
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To: TigerClaws

Looks like CDC is combing through bottles in the past pandemic cabinet.


8 posted on 06/22/2022 6:28:08 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed the nation whose GOD is the LORD. ~ Psalm 33:12)
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To: C210N

heh, yeah, after the virus had “mutated” ... designer viruses for big profits.


9 posted on 06/22/2022 6:28:25 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: TigerClaws

Latest in a long line.

The Left has them all lined up. The virus deliberately created and distributed from Wuhan, China worked so well to advance the Left’s Worldwide Totalitarian Government agenda that they can’t wait to do it again.


10 posted on 06/22/2022 6:29:32 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: TigerClaws

Didn’t Bill Gates cause a polio outbreak in Africa with a failed vaccine?


11 posted on 06/22/2022 6:30:54 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: TigerClaws

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/sep/02/vaccine-derived-polio-spreads-in-africa-after-defeat-of-wild-virus

Gates vaccine spread polio


12 posted on 06/22/2022 6:32:38 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: nuconvert

Read the article.


13 posted on 06/22/2022 6:33:13 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every leftist is a blood-thirsty fascist yearning to be free of current societal constraints.)
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To: TigerClaws

UK has illegals coming into their country and now will possibly have a Polio Pandemic.......


14 posted on 06/22/2022 6:33:16 AM PDT by chopperk
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To: TigerClaws

Bill Gates agenda
What could go wrong

“More polio cases now caused by vaccine than by wild virus
More polio cases now caused by vaccine than by wild virus as 4 African countries report them”

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/polio-cases-now-caused-vaccine-wild-virus-67287290

Now the vax variant is mutating


15 posted on 06/22/2022 6:35:44 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: TigerClaws

Vaxx side effects.


16 posted on 06/22/2022 6:36:16 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: TigerClaws

My take on this is that unrestricted migration from 3rd world countries brings not only their culture but their diseases.

Western nations are going to pay a price for their desire to have cheap labor.


17 posted on 06/22/2022 6:38:40 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: TigerClaws

Polio survives in some backwards moslem countries, where the natives think it’s all a plot.

With hundreds of thousands of invested unvaccinated aliens flooding our border, it’s just a matter of time till this appears here.


18 posted on 06/22/2022 6:39:06 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: TigerClaws

War is Hell and this War hasn’t ramped up yet


19 posted on 06/22/2022 6:40:20 AM PDT by no-to-illegals ( The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

My thoughts exactly.

cheap labor and expensive votes...


20 posted on 06/22/2022 6:44:09 AM PDT by YouGoTexasGirl ( )
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