It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Britain is rolling out urgent polio vaccinations for all London-based children under 10 as a reemergence of the virus across the U.K., U.S. and Israel stoked fears of a wider outbreak.
The immunization campaign is aimed at providing a "high level of protection from paralysis" and limiting further spread of the virus, U.K. health authorities said Wednesday.
"All children aged 1 to 9 years in London need to have a dose of polio vaccine now — whether it's an extra booster dose or just to catch up with their routine vaccinations," Dr. Vanessa Saliba, consultant epidemiologist at the U.K.'s Health Security Agency, said.
"It will ensure a high level of protection from paralysis. This may also help stop the virus spreading further," she added.
Parents and carers in affected areas will be contacted by their health practitioner to schedule an appointment for their child to receive an inactivated polio vaccine, with up to a million children expected to be offered the shot.
Most adults (i.e., persons aged >18 years) residing in the United States are presumed to be immune to poliovirus from previous routine childhood immunization and have only a small risk of exposure to poliovirus in the United States.
However, adults who are unvaccinated, incompletely vaccinated, or are at higher risk for exposure to poliovirus should receive polio vaccination. Higher risk situations include:
Travelers who have recently traveled or are going to areas or countries where polio is epidemic or endemic (For additional information, see Polio: For Travelers).
Laboratory and healthcare workers who handle specimens that might contain polioviruses.
Healthcare workers who are treating patients who could have polio or have close contact with a person who could be infected with poliovirus.
People who are in contact with or caring for a person who could be infected with polio or has been exposed to polio.
Unvaccinated adults whose children will be receiving oral poliovirus vaccine (for example, international adoptees or refugees).
Investigations are underway after several closely-related viruses were found in sewage samples taken between February and May. The virus has continued to evolve and is now classified as a ‘vaccine-derived’ poliovirus type 2 (VDPV2), which on rare occasions can cause serious illness, such as paralysis, in people who are not fully vaccinated.
The detection of a VDPV2 suggests it is likely there has been some spread between closely-linked individuals in North and East London and that they are now shedding the type 2 poliovirus strain in their faeces. The virus has only been detected in sewage samples and no associated cases of paralysis have been reported – but investigations will aim to establish if any community transmission is occurring.
The majority of Londoners are fully protected against Polio and won’t need to take any further action, but the NHS will begin reaching out to parents of children aged under 5 in London who are not up to date with their Polio vaccinations to invite them to get protected.
It is thought that traces of a virus derived from vaccines administered abroad have mutated and become potentially dangerous to those not inoculated
Concern about polio in London became official in June when the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) reported that “several closely-related viruses were found in sewage samples taken between February and May” at the Beckton sewage treatment works. It looked likely to the UKHSA at the time that “there has been some spread between closely-linked individuals in North and East London”.
Today, in a bid to reduce further spread, it’s been announced that all children in Greater London aged between one and nine-years-old will be offered a polio vaccine – about 900,000 children altogether, including those who are already fully vaccinated.
Polio viruses have since been detected in eight boroughs: Barnet, Brent, Camden, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey, Islington and Waltham Forest. A total of 116 examples have been identified in 19 sewage samples as of 5 July.
Vaccine-derived poliovirus in sewage in north and east London
Genetic diversity (RNA virus)
Most are vaccine-like virus
A few have sufficient mutations to be classified as vaccine derived poliovirus (VDPV2),
originally posted by: Crackalackin
a reply to: putnam6
There is no reason for a polio booster.
originally posted by: Kurokage
a reply to: v1rtu0s0
You really do enjoy panicing about vaccines and trying to twist this stuff don't you? ...
The first successful demonstration of a polio vaccine was by Hilary Koprowski in 1950, with a live attenuated virus which people drank. The vaccine was not approved for use in the United States, but was used successfully elsewhere. The success of an inactivated (killed) polio vaccine, developed by Jonas Salk, was announced in 1955. Another attenuated live oral polio vaccine was developed by Albert Sabin and came into commercial use in 1961
originally posted by: Kurokage
Poliovirus detected in East London
Investigations are underway after several closely-related viruses were found in sewage samples taken between February and May. The virus has continued to evolve and is now classified as a ‘vaccine-derived’ poliovirus type 2 (VDPV2), which on rare occasions can cause serious illness, such as paralysis, in people who are not fully vaccinated.
The detection of a VDPV2 suggests it is likely there has been some spread between closely-linked individuals in North and East London and that they are now shedding the type 2 poliovirus strain in their faeces. The virus has only been detected in sewage samples and no associated cases of paralysis have been reported – but investigations will aim to establish if any community transmission is occurring.
The majority of Londoners are fully protected against Polio and won’t need to take any further action, but the NHS will begin reaching out to parents of children aged under 5 in London who are not up to date with their Polio vaccinations to invite them to get protected.
OnLondon
It is thought that traces of a virus derived from vaccines administered abroad have mutated and become potentially dangerous to those not inoculated
Concern about polio in London became official in June when the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) reported that “several closely-related viruses were found in sewage samples taken between February and May” at the Beckton sewage treatment works. It looked likely to the UKHSA at the time that “there has been some spread between closely-linked individuals in North and East London”.
Today, in a bid to reduce further spread, it’s been announced that all children in Greater London aged between one and nine-years-old will be offered a polio vaccine – about 900,000 children altogether, including those who are already fully vaccinated.
Polio viruses have since been detected in eight boroughs: Barnet, Brent, Camden, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey, Islington and Waltham Forest. A total of 116 examples have been identified in 19 sewage samples as of 5 July.
I think this more along the lines of people not having their children vaccinated or coming from abroad not properly vaxxed.
Polio Vaccine Effectiveness and Duration of Protection
Vaccine Effectiveness
Two doses of inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) are 90% effective or more against paralytic polio; three doses are 99% to 100% effective.
A person is considered to be fully vaccinated if they received:
Four doses of any combination of IPV and trivalent oral polio vaccine (tOPV), or
A primary series of at least three doses of IPV or tOPV
AND
The last dose in either series should be given after 4 years of age and at least 6 months after the previous dose.
The first successful demonstration of a polio vaccine was by Hilary Koprowski in 1950, with a live attenuated virus which people drank.[9] The vaccine was not approved for use in the United States, but was used successfully elsewhere.[9] The success of an inactivated (killed) polio vaccine, developed by Jonas Salk, was announced in 1955.[2][10] Another attenuated live oral polio vaccine was developed by Albert Sabin and came into commercial use in 1961
As to the contents of any "vaccine" that is offered (or mandated), I have no confidence left in the medical system, governments, or corporations to trust them with anything they want to put into my body.
originally posted by: incoserv
a reply to: Kurokage
Yes, COVID happened! Be afraid. Be very afraid!
China locked down cities of millions because of a handful of "COVID cases." Sure, that was for the sake of "public health."
Be afraid. Be very afraid. Believe everything you are told. Do not question. Be afraid.
:
originally posted by: v1rtu0s0
originally posted by: incoserv
a reply to: Kurokage
Yes, COVID happened! Be afraid. Be very afraid!
China locked down cities of millions because of a handful of "COVID cases." Sure, that was for the sake of "public health."
Be afraid. Be very afraid. Believe everything you are told. Do not question. Be afraid.
:
I'm afraid. Also I will be watching CNN and I won't question anything they say.
originally posted by: paraphi
...
Question - how are all these old diseases getting back into circulation? Where has all this polio come from? Well, it's still endemic in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
...