medicalcondition:viral disease

WHO confirms two cases of polio in Ukraine’s Zakarpattya Oblast
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/who-confirms-two-cases-of-polio-in-ukraines-zakarpattya-oblast-397038.html

The discovery of polio in two children in Ukraine’s westernmost Zakarpattya Oblast is causing concern, marking the country’s first cases of the paralytic disease in nine years.

One child was 4 years old and the other 10 months old at the time of onset of paralysis, according to the World Health Organization, taking place on June 30 and July 7, respectively. Both children had not been vaccinated against polio.

The WHO blames the low vaccination rate in Ukraine against poliomyelitis, the viral disease that can affect nerves and lead to partial or full paralysis. In 2014, only 50 percent of Ukrainian children were fully immunized against polio and other vaccine-preventable diseases, the international institution reported on Sept. 1 in an online statement.
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The WHO’s representative in Ukraine, Dorit Nitsan, warned the Ukrainian Health Ministry that an epidemic is still possible. This year’s polio vaccination rate in Ukraine among children aged 1-year-old is only 14.1 percent.

The WHO advises giving oral vaccines.

Genomes reveal start of Ebola outbreak

▻http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6200/989.full

When the young woman arrived at the Kenema Government Hospital in Sierra Leone in late May, she had high fever and had just miscarried. The hospital suspected she had contracted Lassa fever, because the viral disease is endemic in the region and often causes miscarriages. But Ebola virus disease, another hemorrhagic fever illness, had been spreading in neighboring Guinea for months, so when she began bleeding profusely, staff tested her for that virus as well. The results were positive, making her the first confirmed case of Ebola in Sierra Leone.

The young woman, who eventually recovered, is now at the heart of a tragic but potentially important research tale. In a paper online this week in Science, a collaboration led by Stephen Gire and Pardis Sabeti of Harvard University and the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, report sequencing and analyzing the genomes of Ebola virus samples from 78 people in Sierra Leone who were diagnosed with Ebola between late May and mid-June, including the young woman who came to Kenema’s hospital. The 99 complete sequences—some patients were sampled more than once—provide insights into how the virus is changing during the outbreak, which could help improve current diagnostic tests and, in the long term, guide researchers working on vaccines and treatments.

#ebola

#Virus Advances Through East Caribbean
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/world/americas/virus-advances-through-east-caribbean.html

#Chikungunya fever, a viral disease similar to dengue, was first spotted in December on the French side of St. Martin and has now spread to seven other countries, the authorities said. About 3,700 people are confirmed or suspected of having contracted it.

It was the first time the malady was locally acquired in the Western Hemisphere. Experts say conditions are ripe for the illness to spread to Central and South America, but they say it is unlikely to affect the United States.

“It is an important development when disease moves from one continent to another,” said Dr. C. James Hospedales, the executive director of the Caribbean Public Health Agency in Trinidad. “Is it likely here to stay? Probably. That’s the pattern we have observed elsewhere.”

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Vaccines Get Past Taliban, Finally | Inter Press Service
►http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/09/vaccines-get-past-taliban-finally

Over thirty thousand children in the remote Tirah area of the Khyber Agency, part of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in Northern Pakistan, have waited four years for protection from polio, a viral disease that is sometimes referred to as ‘infantile paralysis’ due to its crippling effects on children.
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Up until this year, children in all seven FATA agencies have been the worst victims of the Taliban’s ban on the oral polio vaccination (OPV), which the organisation claims was a ploy by the United States to render the recipients impotent and infertile, thus strangling the growth of the Muslim population.

#polio #santé #vaccinations #complot #afghanistan

Est-ce que les enfants qui contracteront la polio suite à cet épisode seront comptés comme victimes de la CIA ou comme victimes des talibans ?

cf ►http://seenthis.net/messages/77542 et ►http://seenthis.net/messages/70358