And what about looking at the toxic load of where they are living
see http://www.geocities.com/harpub
for the toxic cause of poliomyelitis -
not viral or infectious
Sheri
NVIC response to: India: Highly Vaccinated Babies Get Polio
NVIC response to
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6082970.stm
National Vaccine Information Center Newsletter
e-NEWS
October 26, 2006
"They say almost all the cases have been reported from areas where
sanitation is an issue and most of the children belong to poor families
unable to give them a nutritious diet. In the developed countries, a child
needs three doses for immunisation. But in India, a child may need up to 10
doses, they say. Officials have confirmed that one child in Delhi has
contracted the virus despite veing given nine shots of the vaccine." -
Geeta Pandey, BBC News, Delhi
Barbara Loe Fisher Commentary:
It is painful to watch doctors and public health officials squirt
unlimited amounts of live oral polio vaccine down the throats of babies in
India rather than address the poor nutrition and sanitation that comes with
poverty, the true cause of most disease. With a religious zeal not seen
since the Crusades, these public health officials bearing live polio
viruses capable of being causing vaccine strain polio and transmitting it
to others through the open sewage pits of poor communities in India,
apparently have no idea what they are doing.
Have the relentless polio vaccine campaigns in India and other poor
countries put pressure on one or all of the three polio viruses contained
in the live oral polio vaccine to mutute into vaccine resistant forms? Have
the malnourished, poor children repeatedly exposed to live polio viruses
become immune compromised and more vulnerable to other diseases? These and
other questions are ignored as the vaccinators mindlessly conduct one polio
vaccine campaign after another, determined to eradicate a virus from the
earth using a live virus vaccine which gives the virus opportunity to thrive.
The people, like lambs led to slaughter, do not know how to stand up to
the officials in white coats. Some run. Others submit, afraid of
retribution. And the highly vaccinated children living in poverty without
enough to eat continue to get sicker and sicker.
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Indian alarm at new polio cases
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6082970.stm
BBC News, Delhi
26 October 2006
By Geeta Pandey
Wednesday, 25 October 2006, 07:48 GMT 08:48 UK
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Indian alarm at new polio cases
By Geeta Pandey
BBC News, Delhi
Polio baby
A health worker in India gives polio drops to a baby
Officials in India say they are worried over the growing number of polio
cases in the country.
They say 119 new cases have been reported in the past month, taking the
total number of infections to 416.
The disease, which attacks children under five years, affects the nervous
system and can result in paralysis.
With almost one-third of the total 1,449 cases in the world, India is seen
as a big stumbling block in the struggle against polio.
Particularly dismal has been the case of the northern state of Uttar
Pradesh where 358 polio cases have been recorded.
Spreading virus
Earlier it was believed that the virus was confined to some pockets of
western Uttar Pradesh, but health ministry officials say now it has spread
to 41 of the 70 districts in the state.
The neighbouring state of Bihar comes second with 28 infections.
With new cases being reported from the capital, Delhi, and in the western
city of Mumbai, experts say the virus has now travelled out of the region
and is afflicting children in the whole of northern and western India.
Officials blame it on people moving out of the worst-affected states to
other parts of the country.
"It is the migrants who have taken it out of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. All
the cases found in Delhi or Mumbai can be linked to the state as these
children had travelled there in the last few months," a spokesman for the
health ministry told the BBC.
Experts say the spread of the virus is dependent on three factors - lack of
nutrition, environmental causes and poor hygiene and sanitation.
Concerned
They say almost all the cases have been reported from areas where
sanitation is an issue and most of the children belong to poor families
unable to give them a nutritious diet.
In the developed countries, a child needs three doses for immunisation. But
in India, a child may need up to 10 doses, they say.
Officials have confirmed that one child in Delhi has contracted the virus
despite being given nine shots of the vaccine.
"We're still in the process of examining how that happened, but she may
have had diarrhoea at the time she was given the vaccine. In such a
situation, her body will expel the medicine and it will not have the
desired affect," says the health ministry spokesman.
Last month, India's health minister held an emergency meeting of officials
from the states affected by the disease.
Last year, only 66 cases of polio were recorded in India and officials say
the current numbers are giving them sleepless nights.
A huge pulse polio campaign is being launched in November and officials say
they hope the virus will be contained soon.
Although polio has no cure, it is easily preventable through vaccine.
Before 1988, when the World Health Organisation (WHO) launched a global
anti-polio campaign, there were more than 350,000 cases worldwide.
Today the disease has been eradicated in much of the world but is still
found in some countries.
A strain of the disease, which originated in Uttar Pradesh state, has also
travelled to the neighbouring countries of Nepal and Bangladesh.
It has also infected people in faraway African countries like Angola,
Namibia and Congo.
India's failure to contain the virus has caused serious concern to the
World Health Organisation in Geneva. It has written to India's health
minister, seeking a meeting with him.