[net-gold] MEDICAL: DISEASES: POLIO: Polios Return After Near Eradication Prompts a Global Health Warning
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- Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 00:50:18 -0400 (EDT)
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MEDICAL: DISEASES: POLIO:
Polios Return After Near Eradication Prompts a Global Health Warning
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Polios Return After Near Eradication Prompts a Global Health Warning
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
MAY 5, 2014
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/06/health/
world-health-organization-polio-health-emergency.html
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Alarmed by the spread of polio to several fragile countries, the World
Health Organization declared a global health emergency on Monday for only
the second time since regulations permitting it to do so were adopted in
2007.
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Just two years ago after a 25-year campaign that vaccinated billions of
children the paralyzing virus was near eradication; now health officials
say that goal could evaporate if swift action is not taken.
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Pakistan, Syria and Cameroon have recently allowed the virus to spread to
Afghanistan, Iraq and Equatorial Guinea, respectively and should take
extraordinary measures to stop it, the health organization said.
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Things are going in the wrong direction and have to get back on track
before something terrible happens, said Gregory Hartl, a W.H.O. spokesman.
So were saying to the Pakistanis, the Syrians and the Cameroonians, Youve
really got to get your acts together.
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The declaration, which effectively imposes travel restrictions on the
three countries, represented a newly aggressive stance by the health
organization. In the past, it has often bent to pressure from member
states demanding no consequences even as epidemics raged inside their
borders and sometimes slipped over them.
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This is a fundamental shift in the program, said Dr. Bruce Aylward, the
organizations chief of polio eradication. This is the countries of the
world signaling that they will no longer tolerate the spread of the virus
from the countries that arent finished.
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The emergency was declared though the total number of known cases this
year is still relatively small: 68 as of April 30, compared with 24 by
that date last year.
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What most alarmed experts, Mr. Hartl said, was that the virus was on the
move during what is normally the low transmission season from January to
April.
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What we dont want is cases moving into places like the Central African
Republic, South Sudan or the Ukraine, said Rebecca M. Martin, director of
global immunization for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
which has provided money and expertise to the eradication campaign since
it began in 1988.
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Fighting the virus normally includes several rounds of vaccination of all
young children in a target country. But, in an unusual step, the agency
also said that all residents of Pakistan, Syria and Cameroon, of all ages,
should be vaccinated before traveling abroad, and that this restriction
should be retained until one year after the last exported case.
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