WHO declares a polio international public health emergency

Tuesday, May 6th 2014 - 06:41 UTC

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The World Health Organization warned Monday that polio has reemerged as a public health emergency, after new cases of the crippling disease began surfacing and spreading across borders from countries like Syria and Pakistan. Read full article

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ChrisR
Now I wonder why this is?

There are two reasons:

1) The WHO must take some of the blame for crowing about the end of Poliomyelitis BEFORE it has actually happened because a number of western countries relaxed their programmes;

2) Third world countries like those named do not (for a myriad of reasons) manage to provide the vaccine to the vulnerable.

Polio is a terrible disease with lifelong disabilities for anybody who survives an attack. When I was very young my best friend had to wear leg irons and walk with crutches at times because of polio.

Not only that he had idiot children trying to trip him up, until I showed them the error of their ways by kicking the legs from under them so they could see for themselves what it was like to be David. Of course in those days not one child would dare tell their parents what they had done for one simple reason: they would get another thrashing for letting their parents down. Not the case now in the UK, I would have been put into “care” for my “bad” behaviour and the miscreants given a pat on the back.

These Third World countries are also responsible for their people distributing Tuberculosis around western countries when they migrate. My next door Argentine friend has only this year recovered from the mild version of TB after two years of treatment. At least his doctor recognised the signs, not many of them do.
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