Sunday 21 October 2018

illness on the rise. if a child "develops weakness of a limb, especially in the context of cold-like symptoms or other viral symptoms, they should see their health-care provider immediately

illness on the rise. if a child "develops weakness of a limb, especially in the context of cold-like symptoms or other viral symptoms, they should see their health-care provider immediately

Increase first seen in the US and now in Toronto.
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4872205
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7 comments:

  1. Lieonte Munoz21 October 2018 at 18:10

    This is frightening!

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  2. Phil Stevens21 October 2018 at 18:23

    Any correlation with clusters of antivaxxers?

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  3. Mel V21 October 2018 at 20:22

    I'd bet you this is from the live polio vaccine. It had been found replicating and combining with other enteroviruses in the sewers (Minnesota I want to say?) years after it was discontinued. I'm too lazy to dig the study up at the moment but I remember they said the polio hybrids were especially neurovirulent meaning they attacked the brain and nervous system. Most polio is asymptomatic, some is a cold/flu type thing, and a very tiny percentage (<1%) resulted in the very severe cases which unfortunately no longer seems to be the case now that it's mutated.

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  4. Mel V21 October 2018 at 20:26

    Well since I know saying anything remotely negative about vaccines tends to cause fits, here's a link to some of the research on "circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses" and their propensity for causing paralytic disease. Not the specific study I referenced but for anyone interested, there's plenty of information on this:
    ncbi.nlm.nih.gov - Characterization of a Highly Evolved Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus Type 3 Isolated from Sewage in Estonia

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  5. Cass Morrison21 October 2018 at 22:13

    Mel V I wouldn't be surprised if you're right and the reason it's hitting youngsters is because the polio vaccine is no longer part of the routine (I'm pretty sure I read that) schedule. Does factual negatives about live vaccines cause fits? Seems to me that's why they aren't routinely used.

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  6. Mel V21 October 2018 at 22:31

    Cass Morrison Polio is still on the schedule at least here in the states, they use inactive virus now. The entirety of North and South America is considered polio-free for some time now but we still do vaccinate. They made the switch though because even an attenuated virus can cause illness and there were a certain number of cases annually of what they call vaccine-derived poliovirus including paralytic polio (and despite attenuated virus being the source, there is "no clinical difference between the paralysis caused by wild poliovirus, OPV, or VDPV.").

    Sadly, the live virus vaccine is cheaper and is often used in developing countries. Poliovirus + malnutrition + inadequate sanitation means these vaccination campaigns often cause outbreaks.

    https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/polio/hcp/vaccine-derived-poliovirus-faq.html
    cdc.gov - Polio Vaccine | Vaccine-derived Poliovirus | CDC

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  7. Cass Morrison22 October 2018 at 13:05

    It's on the schedule in Canada as well. I was thinking of smallpox Mel V . In any case, vaccinations should be a work in progress to adjust protocols as viruses evolve.

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