[HealthyIndia] Polio cannot be eradicated, say experts.

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On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 Jagannath Chatterjee wrote :

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>Polio is here to stay! So says a professor who chaired the World Health

>Organization's smallpox eradication campaign using Sabin's live oral polio

>vaccine. He is calling for every child in the world to be vaccinated with

>Salk's killed version of the vaccine.

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>He says polio infection often is mild without symptoms so it is harder to

>track down than the more visible smallpox infections. He's right.

>Ninety-nine percent of all polio infections in the pre-vaccine era were mild

>and either went unnoticed or resolved within three weeks, leaving the person

>with antibodies to protect against future infection. It was the rare case

>of polio that progressed to paralytic polio. But those crippling, often

>deadly, cases got all the publicity.

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>It isn't a mystery why polio won't go away. Seems the M.D./Ph.D. brain

>trusts who brought us live oral polio vaccine (OPV) contaminated with SV-40

>(a monkey virus present in Sabin's original seed stocks) failed to take

>into account the fact that OPV could spread the vaccine strain polio virus

> from child to child and child to adult. Live vaccine strain polio virus can

>even be detected in water supplies. It is everywhere!

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>The U.S. stopped used OPV in 1999 and switched to inactivated polio vaccine

>(IPV), which cannot cause polio. But vaccine strain polio virus is alive and

>circulating among children and adults in Africa, South America, India and

>other countries where relentless mass vaccination campaigns take place two

>to five times a year. Often government and WHO health officials accompanied

>by soldiers with guns sweep into a community and hunt down the children in

>order to squirt one more dose of live oral polio vaccine down their throats.

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>Save us from the vaccinologists and drug companies who exploit the people in

>order to pursue eradication of infectious microorganisms with a religious

>fervor not seen since the medieval Crusades. And let the citizens of the

>world vote out of office the politicians who use our money to pay them to do

>it.

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>http://theaustralian.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,19134268%255E23289,00.h

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>Polio here to stay, says smallpox scientist

>Leigh Dayton

>15may06

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>HE helped rid the world of smallpox but eminent Australian virologist Frank

>Fenner claims we will never see the end of polio.

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>Despite an 18-year global effort to eradicate polio, Emeritus Professor

>Fenner claimed the most that experts could hope for was " effective control "

>of the crippling central nervous system disease.

>He chaired the World Health Organisation commission that declared in 1980

>that smallpox had been eradicated after a 10-year campaign.

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>But polio remains a serious issue in 16 nations in the Indian subcontinent,

>the Middle East and Africa. Last year, 1948 cases were reported.

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> " The best thing to do would be to include the inactivated Salk polio

>vaccine -- that's the one used in America and Australia -- in a

>(combination) vaccine and give it to every child worldwide, " said Professor

>Fenner who, at 91, still works at the John Curtin School of Medical Research

>at the Australian National University in Canberra.

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>The current $US4 billion ($5.2 billion) polio eradication campaign --

>co-ordinated by the WHO -- relies on saturation vaccination for all children

>younger than five when outbreaks occur or where the disease remains

>uncontrolled.

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>Along with Isao Arita, of the Agency for Co-operation in International

>Health in Japan -- another central player in the eradication of smallpox --

>and the ACIH's Miyuki Nakane, Professor Fenner argues political, economic

>and biological factors work against this type of strategy.

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>Writing last week in the journal Science, the trio claimed resources spent

>trying to eradicate every polio case would be better used ramping up routine

>childhood vaccination.

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>They said that meant continuing emergency vaccinations to limit the spread

>of polio in hard-hit nations such as Nigeria, Africa's most populous

>country. Fewer than 13 per cent of Nigerian children are routinely

>vaccinated against disease.

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>Once the annual global number of cases is fewer than 500 -- and the number

>of nations with polio is fewer than 10 -- all efforts should be folded into

>a global immunisation and surveillance program.

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>Commenting in a separate Science article, Donald A. Henderson, director of

>the smallpox program, agreed polio eradication was unlikely. " Let's create a

>program to keep it under moderate control and say that is the best we can

>do, " he said.

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>According to Professor Fenner, the key difference between polio and smallpox

>is that every infectious smallpox patient had obvious symptoms. But there

>are as many as 200 " invisible " polio infections for every person who becomes

>paralysed.

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>He said extreme poverty, increased warfare and population growth have made

>global co-ordination more difficult today than during the Cold War.

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