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Muslims' New Tack on Polio: A Vaccine en Route to Mecca
NY Times ^ | August 20, 2005 | DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.

Posted on 08/19/2005 8:08:47 PM PDT by neverdem

Saudi Arabia, which gets millions of visitors each year making their pilgrimage to Mecca, has ordered all young visitors from countries with polio cases to bring proof of vaccination and will vaccinate them again when they arrive, the World Health Organization announced yesterday.

In issuing the order, which applies to everyone under age 15 from 19 countries, the kingdom is moving to stem the global spread of the polio virus, which now affects mainly Muslim countries and regions. Although the next pilgrimage, or hajj, will not reach its peak until early January, the order will take effect as soon as possible.

"This is extremely welcome," said Dr. Bruce Aylward, coordinator of the health organization's polio eradication drive. "They realized they could be part of the solution."

The Saudi order applies to visitors from Afghanistan, Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea, India, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sudan and Yemen.

Global health experts expressed confidence that the Saudis could stop any spread of the virus in their country, even though at times up to two million pilgrims may be pressed closely together in crowds around the holy sites and in the tent cities and hostels where they will be staying.

The virus, which is spread by feces and sewage-contaminated water, mostly affects young children, and can cripple within hours of the appearance of symptoms. Children do not normally make the pilgrimage, which Islam expects of each Muslim once in a lifetime. But many families, especially poor ones entering Saudi Arabia by bus or ferry, have no choice but to bring their children along.

All visitors under age 15 from the countries involved will get drops of oral polio vaccine. A weakened virus, the oral vaccine provokes greater immunity than the killed virus...

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: health; mecca; medicine; muslims; polio; poliomyelitis; publichealth; saudiarabia; vaccine
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1 posted on 08/19/2005 8:08:47 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem

So?


2 posted on 08/19/2005 8:09:58 PM PDT by nosurrender
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To: neverdem

Isn't that the vaccine that was discivered in Israel and is grown in a pig blood culture?


3 posted on 08/19/2005 8:14:52 PM PDT by Tacis ("Democrats - The Party of Traitors, Treachery and Treason!")
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To: nosurrender
So?

Well let's see - the eco-nuts in America have been bad-mouthing polio vaccines for enough years now and have cast enough doubt that there is a very high percentage of Americans with NO PROTECTION from diseases that WERE eradicated solely due to the use of these vaccines.

So we have recurrences of POLIO, SMALLPOX, TB, not counting all the new antibiotic resistant strains courtesy of the homosexual perversions and other self-destructive types (anti vaccine people fall here)

SO ?

Muslim countries encouraging - no - forcing vaccinations? Hmmmm - it does not take a rocket-scientist to figure out that this is worth a "Hmmmmm" rather than a "SO"?
4 posted on 08/19/2005 8:17:17 PM PDT by hombre_sincero
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To: neverdem

Vaccine? Sounds like some sort of black magic. Durka, durka, durka.


5 posted on 08/19/2005 8:17:24 PM PDT by NathanBookman (See the deer. Does the deer have a little dough?)
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To: neverdem

JOO VACCINE? No virgins for you, mohammed!


6 posted on 08/19/2005 8:20:30 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (LET ME DIE ON MY FEET IN MY SWAMP, ALEX KOZINSKI FOR SCOTUS)
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To: hombre_sincero

Ah, got it.


7 posted on 08/19/2005 8:22:22 PM PDT by nosurrender
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To: hombre_sincero; Chieftain

Let me get this right.....

Vaccines to eradicate diseases: good
Scientists of the Modern Twentieth Century = Infidels: Bad

Burkas: Good
Madame Curie, Infidel female scientist in a dress: Bad


8 posted on 08/19/2005 8:23:52 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Everything I need to know about Islam I learned on 9-11!)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

So, I guess it is a good thing that ALL Iraqi children have been vaccinated against polio, already. It's Bush's fault.


9 posted on 08/19/2005 8:41:55 PM PDT by ClaireSolt (.)
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To: neverdem
The Saudi order applies to visitors from Afghanistan, Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea, India, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sudan and Yemen.

But, not...KOOK-ahh-MONG-gah?

And isn't Yemen in Jamaica? Seems like that was what they said everytime I asked a local for anything. "Yemen, this...", "Yemen, that...", Yemen, that way...".

All visitors under age 15 from the countries involved will get drops of oral polio vaccine.

ordered all young visitors from countries with polio cases to bring proof of vaccination and will vaccinate them again when they arrive

Series, why are they asking 'proof', if they are going to vacinate them again anyway?

10 posted on 08/19/2005 8:41:57 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The Marching Morons are coming...and they're breeding more Democrats beyond all reason!)
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To: neverdem
Sadly, they are inoculating for the wrong disease.  I'm more likely to die from the hands of a bloodthirsty Islamofacist than I am of polio, even if random.

No matter where on the planet.

11 posted on 08/19/2005 8:44:09 PM PDT by quantim (I'm at the point now where I refer to all liberals as "insurgents.")
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To: nosurrender

I wasn't very civil in my answer - sorry - we have too many radical anti-vaccine people here in Arkansas and their viewpoint is spreading so much it is becoming a health hazard.

My entire family has been vaccinated for the majority of diseases - my kids, my grandkids!

I am in the belief that the majority of the American anti-vaccine people are just "useful-idiots" in the hands of our enemies who can easily wipe out this nation with the introduction of a common, once eradicated therefore forgotten, disease.

Look at what has been introduced already --- and we are looking at a level-VI flu pandemic that was produced in communist china.

If I were a chi-com, I would get Americans convinced that the flu vaccine was deadly so they would rather die of the flu than take a little shot that could make them a bit ill.


12 posted on 08/19/2005 8:56:03 PM PDT by hombre_sincero
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13 posted on 08/19/2005 9:00:27 PM PDT by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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To: neverdem

I can very much relate to the "waiting" article. In fact, I may post that one tomorrow when I'm rested. It's very pertinent.


14 posted on 08/19/2005 9:10:35 PM PDT by GummyIII (If you have the ability, it's your responsibility." Marine Sgt. John Place, Silver Star recipient)
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To: Tacis
From know-vaccines.org:

Vaccine Fillers and Ingredients

In addition to the viral and bacterial RNA or DNA that is part of the vaccines, vaccine fillers and ingredients include:

aluminum hydroxide
aluminum phosphate
ammonium sulfate
amphotericin B
animal tissues: pig blood, horse blood, rabbit brain,
dog kidney, monkey kidney,
chick embryo, chicken egg, duck egg
calf (bovine) serum
betapropiolactone
fetal bovine serum
formaldehyde
formalin
gelatin
glycerol
human diploid cells (originating from human aborted fetal tissue)
hydrolized gelatin
monosodium glutamate (MSG)
neomycin
neomycin sulfate
phenol red indicator
phenoxyethanol (antifreeze)
potassium diphosphate
potassium monophosphate
polymyxin B
polysorbate 20
polysorbate 80
porcine (pig) pancreatic hydrolysate of casein

-snip-

15 posted on 08/19/2005 9:19:30 PM PDT by technomage
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To: neverdem

The glorious muzzie culture has also produced vaccines? Who knew?


16 posted on 08/19/2005 9:41:20 PM PDT by Let's Roll ( "Congressmen who ... undermine the military ... should be arrested, exiled or hanged" - A. Lincoln)
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To: technomage

whoa hey!


17 posted on 08/19/2005 10:26:19 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: neverdem

The US should find out where that shipment is and sieze it.


18 posted on 08/20/2005 6:48:55 AM PDT by nonliberal (Graduate: Curtis E. LeMay School of International Relations)
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To: nonliberal

A crippled terrorist is not as effective.


19 posted on 08/20/2005 6:49:22 AM PDT by nonliberal (Graduate: Curtis E. LeMay School of International Relations)
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To: neverdem

Thanks for the ping.


20 posted on 08/20/2005 6:58:50 AM PDT by GOPJ
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