New Polio Vaccine Rolled Out In Massive Synchronized Worldwide Switch

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New Polio Vaccine Rolled Out In Massive Synchronized Worldwide Switch

April 17, 201612:08 PM ET
MERRIT KENNEDY

A Pakistani health worker gives a polio vaccine to students in Peshawar, Pakistan, in March. Polio remains endemic in Pakistan after the Taliban banned vaccinations, attacks targeted medical staffers and suspicions lingered about the inoculations.

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Starting today, 155 countries and territories will start switching to a different polio vaccine.

The shift, which is expected to be completed by May 1, is the "largest and fastest globally coordinated rollout of a vaccine into routine immunization programs in history," according to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.

"We're closer than ever to ending polio worldwide, which is why we are able to move forward with the largest and fastest globally synchronized switch ever," Michel Zaffran, Director of Polio Eradication at the World Health Organization, said in a press release.

According to The New York Times, it's the "first worldwide vaccine change ever attempted."

The progress towards complete eradicating polio shows in the numbers. Last year, 74 cases of wild poliovirus were reported, exclusively in Pakistan and Afghanistan, according to the initiative. In 2016, 10 cases have been reported so far — also in those two countries. By comparison, when the initiative started its work in 1988, "more than 350,000 children were paralyzed every year."

As health officials strategize about how to rid the world of the disease, which can cause paralysis, "one important step is to gradually withdraw the oral polio vaccine, starting with the type 2 component," Jackie Fournier-Caruana from the initiative explains.

The old oral vaccine (tOPV) protected against three strains of poliovirus, while the new oral vaccine (bOPV) protects against two of the strains. According to the initiative, the transition is possible "because type 2 wild polio has been eradicated."

It stresses the importance of closely synchronizing this transition globally: "if some countries continue to use tOPV it could increase the risk of the spread of type 2 poliovirus to those no longer using tOPV."

This "massive undertaking" will involve deploying thousands of monitors to make sure tOPV is no longer in use.

The New York Times details the disposal methods during the switch:

"Approved disposal methods include incineration, boiling, autoclaving, bleaching or burying in concrete-sealed containers. Each has drawbacks, like the possibility that glass vials will explode.



"Adding to the possibility of confusion, the old and new vials and boxes are almost identical. Warehouse managers are supposed to mark the old vaccine with an "X" and bag it for disposal."

Dr. Walter Orenstein, who is the associated director of the vaccine center at Emory University School of Medicine, tells the Times, "This is going to be hard. ...For a long time, we've driven people to think of vaccine as valuable. Now we're asking them to destroy it."

The initiative says there's a global stockpile of type 2 vaccines, ready to be used in the unlikely case of an outbreak. Type 2 was last detected in the wild in 1999,according to the initiative.


New Polio Vaccine Rolled Out In Massive Synchronized Worldwide Switch




hopefully we'll see 100% vaccination rates someday

 

[Brosef]

The worldwide eradication of such a disabling disease would be one of humanity's great wins

 

[Domingo Halliburton]

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Pakistan polio: Seven killed in anti-vaccination attack

• 20 April 2016
  
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Image captionPakistan is one of only two countries where polio remains endemic
Seven Pakistani policemen, three of whom were guarding polio workers, have been killed in Karachi, officials say.

Eight gunmen on motorcycles fired at a group of three police guards and later at a van containing four officers, officials told the Pakistan Tribune.

Islamist militants oppose vaccination, saying it is a Western conspiracy to sterilise Pakistani children.

In January, 15 people were killed in a bomb attack on a vaccination centre in the south-western city of Quetta.

Reward
Polio workers called off the vaccination drive in Karachi following the attack, despite the home minister's order to continue, the Tribune reported.

According to Pakistan's Dawn newspaper, police have offered a reward of 5 million rupees (£33,000) for information on the killers, and 2 million rupees (£13,000) compensation to the victims' families.

Talking to reporters at the scene, Sindh police Inspector General AD Khawaja said polio drops would be "administered to our children at all costs" and said security for polio teams would be increased.

Pakistan is one of only two countries, along with Afghanistan, where polio remains endemic. Militants have repeatedly targeted vaccination programmes, killing nearly 80 people since December 2012.

The country recorded more than 300 polio cases in 2014 - its highest number since 1999.

Most of the new infections were in north-west Pakistan, where militants regularly target roving health teams, and health officials blamed the rise in cases on several deadly attacks on police workers that year.

The number of cases fell to just 52 in 2015, largely because vaccination teams could reach areas that were previously off limits because of militancy.

Bloody struggle to cure polio

• February 2015: Four kidnapped polio workers found dead near Quetta
• January 2015: 15 killed by suicide bombing near a polio centre in Quetta
• November 2014: Four killed in Quetta
• December 2012: Five killed, four in Karachi, one in Peshawar

Polio around the world

Image captionBy 1988, polio had disappeared from the US, UK, Australia and much of Europe but remained prevalent in more than 125 countries. The same year, the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution to eradicate the disease completely by the year 2000.

Image captionIn 2015, polio was endemic in only two countries - Pakistan and Afghanistan. No new cases were reported in Africa.
What is polio?
Polio (poliomyelitis) is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus which invades the nervous system. It mainly affects children aged under five.

Symptoms include fever, fatigue, headache, vomiting, stiffness in the neck and limb pain.

One in 200 infections leads to irreversible paralysis, and between 5-10% of those who suffer paralysis die because their breathing muscles are immobilised.

Cases have fallen dramatically since polio eradication programmes were introduced; from 350,000 globally in 1988 to around 70 in 2015.

Polio remains endemic in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but Nigeria was removed from the list in October after a year with no new cases.


Pakistan polio: Seven killed in anti-vaccination attack - BBC News


Come on Pakistan!

 

[newworldafro]

So the old polio vaccine was making people sick...although thecoli tells me vaccines never ever do that...
So they decide to roll a newer and weakened polio vaccine, so people will not get sick from an old vaccine.....that thecoli tells me can never happen....
So now we have to hope that none of the old vials leak out and cause problems or something or another....cause the old is the new and the new is not quite the old.....yippe-ky-yay.

I understand now.

New Polio Vaccine Rollout Comes With A Big Risk

< New Polio Vaccine Rollout Comes With A Big Risk
April 18, 20164:24 PM ET

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:

This week, health workers all over the world are attempting a first, to pull off the largest and quickest rollout ever of a new vaccine. It's for polio. The goal is to replace the existing vaccine with a safer one. And as NPR's Michaeleen Doucleff reports, this extraordinary effort comes with a risk.

MICHAELEEN DOUCLEFF, BYLINE: The world uses nearly 2 billion doses of polio vaccine each year. They're all stored in little vials at clinics and hospitals across the globe. Now every single vial has to be destroyed and switched out with a new one, and it all has to get done in two weeks.

WALTER ORENSTEIN: This is a tremendous amount of difficult logistics.

DOUCLEFF: That's Walter Orenstein. He's the associate director of the Emory Vaccine Center. He says countries have been training for this switch for months. Health workers have been taught to destroy the old vaccine by boiling it, incinerating it, even burying it in the ground.

ORENSTEIN: And what's being done is to go out and have independent monitors visit these sites to make sure the vaccine has been collected and destroyed.

DOUCLEFF: Do you know how many sites there are, like just scale wise?

ORENSTEIN: That I don't know, but it's huge. It's mind-boggling.

DOUCLEFF: Thousands of monitors are visiting thousands and thousands of sites. But Orenstein says it's all being done for a really good reason, to get the world closer to eradicating polio. Robin Nandy is the chief of immunization at UNICEF, which is helping with the vaccine switch out. He says the vaccine used in most countries contains a live virus. Now, the virus has been weakened, so it doesn't make people sick but...

ROBIN NANDY: In very rare instances, the live vaccine virus can mutate and cause polio.

DOUCLEFF: Last year, the world recorded about 100 cases of polio. About 30 of them were caused by mutant strains from the old vaccine. The new vaccine also has a live virus in it, but it mutates much less often. So in the long run, it should cause about 90 percent fewer cases.

But there's one big catch. You see, the new vaccine doesn't protect against one type of polio, a type that the world eradicated 15 years ago. And that's why it's so important that all those vials of the old vaccine are completely destroyed. If some aren't, some of that virus could leak out into the world, and we could have outbreaks of a type of polio we haven't seen since 1999.

NANDY: We do expect this and we have put in place measures to detect this very quickly and respond to this.

DOUCLEFF: And Nandy says it's all worth the risk because if the world is ever going to wipe out polio, we have to first make sure the vaccine isn't causing it. Michaeleen Doucleff, NPR News.

Wanted to make sure the source was nice and visible in technicolor.

 

[Brosef]

So the old polio vaccine was making people sick...although thecoli tells me vaccines never ever do that...
So they decide to roll a newer and weakened polio vaccine, so people will not get sick from an old vaccine.....that thecoli tells me can never happen....
So now we have to hope that none of the old vials leak out and cause problems or something or another....cause the old is the new and the new is not quite the old.....yippe-ky-yay.

I understand now.

New Polio Vaccine Rollout Comes With A Big Risk

< New Polio Vaccine Rollout Comes With A Big Risk
April 18, 20164:24 PM ET

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:

This week, health workers all over the world are attempting a first, to pull off the largest and quickest rollout ever of a new vaccine. It's for polio. The goal is to replace the existing vaccine with a safer one. And as NPR's Michaeleen Doucleff reports, this extraordinary effort comes with a risk.

MICHAELEEN DOUCLEFF, BYLINE: The world uses nearly 2 billion doses of polio vaccine each year. They're all stored in little vials at clinics and hospitals across the globe. Now every single vial has to be destroyed and switched out with a new one, and it all has to get done in two weeks.

WALTER ORENSTEIN: This is a tremendous amount of difficult logistics.

DOUCLEFF: That's Walter Orenstein. He's the associate director of the Emory Vaccine Center. He says countries have been training for this switch for months. Health workers have been taught to destroy the old vaccine by boiling it, incinerating it, even burying it in the ground.

ORENSTEIN: And what's being done is to go out and have independent monitors visit these sites to make sure the vaccine has been collected and destroyed.

DOUCLEFF: Do you know how many sites there are, like just scale wise?

ORENSTEIN: That I don't know, but it's huge. It's mind-boggling.

DOUCLEFF: Thousands of monitors are visiting thousands and thousands of sites. But Orenstein says it's all being done for a really good reason, to get the world closer to eradicating polio. Robin Nandy is the chief of immunization at UNICEF, which is helping with the vaccine switch out. He says the vaccine used in most countries contains a live virus. Now, the virus has been weakened, so it doesn't make people sick but...

ROBIN NANDY: In very rare instances, the live vaccine virus can mutate and cause polio.

DOUCLEFF: Last year, the world recorded about 100 cases of polio. About 30 of them were caused by mutant strains from the old vaccine. The new vaccine also has a live virus in it, but it mutates much less often. So in the long run, it should cause about 90 percent fewer cases.

But there's one big catch. You see, the new vaccine doesn't protect against one type of polio, a type that the world eradicated 15 years ago. And that's why it's so important that all those vials of the old vaccine are completely destroyed. If some aren't, some of that virus could leak out into the world, and we could have outbreaks of a type of polio we haven't seen since 1999.

NANDY: We do expect this and we have put in place measures to detect this very quickly and respond to this.

DOUCLEFF: And Nandy says it's all worth the risk because if the world is ever going to wipe out polio, we have to first make sure the vaccine isn't causing it. Michaeleen Doucleff, NPR News.

Wanted to make sure the source was nice and visible in technicolor.

Stop.

"More than 90% of all cVDPV outbreaks are caused by the type 2 component of trivalent OPV. Also, up to 38% of all VAPP cases are estimated to be caused by this component."

That's all there is to it.

We should bump this thread when Polio is eradicated, so anti-vaxxers can hold a lifelong L.

 

[hashmander]

So the old polio vaccine was making people sick...although thecoli tells me vaccines never ever do that...
So they decide to roll a newer and weakened polio vaccine, so people will not get sick from an old vaccine.....that thecoli tells me can never happen....
So now we have to hope that none of the old vials leak out and cause problems or something or another....cause the old is the new and the new is not quite the old.....yippe-ky-yay.

I understand now.

New Polio Vaccine Rollout Comes With A Big Risk

< New Polio Vaccine Rollout Comes With A Big Risk
April 18, 20164:24 PM ET

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:

This week, health workers all over the world are attempting a first, to pull off the largest and quickest rollout ever of a new vaccine. It's for polio. The goal is to replace the existing vaccine with a safer one. And as NPR's Michaeleen Doucleff reports, this extraordinary effort comes with a risk.

MICHAELEEN DOUCLEFF, BYLINE: The world uses nearly 2 billion doses of polio vaccine each year. They're all stored in little vials at clinics and hospitals across the globe. Now every single vial has to be destroyed and switched out with a new one, and it all has to get done in two weeks.

WALTER ORENSTEIN: This is a tremendous amount of difficult logistics.

DOUCLEFF: That's Walter Orenstein. He's the associate director of the Emory Vaccine Center. He says countries have been training for this switch for months. Health workers have been taught to destroy the old vaccine by boiling it, incinerating it, even burying it in the ground.

ORENSTEIN: And what's being done is to go out and have independent monitors visit these sites to make sure the vaccine has been collected and destroyed.

DOUCLEFF: Do you know how many sites there are, like just scale wise?

ORENSTEIN: That I don't know, but it's huge. It's mind-boggling.

DOUCLEFF: Thousands of monitors are visiting thousands and thousands of sites. But Orenstein says it's all being done for a really good reason, to get the world closer to eradicating polio. Robin Nandy is the chief of immunization at UNICEF, which is helping with the vaccine switch out. He says the vaccine used in most countries contains a live virus. Now, the virus has been weakened, so it doesn't make people sick but...

ROBIN NANDY: In very rare instances, the live vaccine virus can mutate and cause polio.

DOUCLEFF: Last year, the world recorded about 100 cases of polio. About 30 of them were caused by mutant strains from the old vaccine. The new vaccine also has a live virus in it, but it mutates much less often. So in the long run, it should cause about 90 percent fewer cases.

But there's one big catch. You see, the new vaccine doesn't protect against one type of polio, a type that the world eradicated 15 years ago. And that's why it's so important that all those vials of the old vaccine are completely destroyed. If some aren't, some of that virus could leak out into the world, and we could have outbreaks of a type of polio we haven't seen since 1999.

NANDY: We do expect this and we have put in place measures to detect this very quickly and respond to this.

DOUCLEFF: And Nandy says it's all worth the risk because if the world is ever going to wipe out polio, we have to first make sure the vaccine isn't causing it. Michaeleen Doucleff, NPR News.

Wanted to make sure the source was nice and visible in technicolor.

oh just shut the fukk up.

 

[newworldafro]

Stop.

"More than 90% of all cVDPV outbreaks are caused by the type 2 component of trivalent OPV. Also, up to 38% of all VAPP cases are estimated to be caused by this component."

That's all there is to it.

We should bump this thread when Polio is eradicated, so anti-vaxxers can hold a lifelong L.

oh just shut the fukk up.

Yall can't handle the truth? ., the article from NPR says the old vaccines are unsafe, ( I highlighted and bolded and underlined), where they are going to destroy them. Are yall not reading with comprehension? Yall can't find a post of me being against vaccinnes as a concept. It's the integrity of the vaccines that is the question, along with a lot of other posters, and the actual men and women that you see on TV have said the exact same thing (Kennedy, Wakefield, De Niro).

Is it clean? These old polio vaccines integrity apparently wasn't up to par, so now they rushing in "better" vials.... This is just one type, all the other stories out there have the same plot line, where they ask what is in the vaccine? is it clean? Why do they have a vaccine court to give out hush money to people that have been injured? It's not complicated.

 

[IShotTheSheriff]

@newworldafro just posting articles and people getting upset? Lol friendly debates shouldn't involve emotions.

I'm not entirely "anti-vaccination" but... Where do we draw the line in the sand between people who fall ill because of generations of malnutrition and compromised immune systems? There will always be some type of disease to eradicate as long as malnutrition is an issue in this world. Thats a larger issue in my honest opinion.

 

[hashmander]

there is nothing friendly about discussions with anti-vaxxers. they are pointless, mind-numbing exercises.

 

[CHL]

 

[newworldafro]

@newworldafro just posting articles and people getting upset? Lol friendly debates shouldn't involve emotions.

I'm not entirely "anti-vaccination" but... Where do we draw the line in the sand between people who fall ill because of generations of malnutrition and compromised immune systems? There will always be some type of disease to eradicate as long as malnutrition is an issue in this world. Thats a larger issue in my honest opinion.

They upset , cause when you use an independent or alternative bews website, they get media bougie and claim its not a reliable source. So now I provide a "reliable" NPR source........and they are upset cause of the highlighted NPR parts that sound like alt/indy media talking points...

 

[IShotTheSheriff]

there is nothing friendly about discussions with anti-vaxxers. they are pointless, mind-numbing exercises.

Yes because all people who aren't fully onboard or have questions have the exact same intelligence level.

That statement was mind numbing lol