What About Polio?
How is Polio Transmitted? Fecal-Oral Route.
“What about Polio?
Do you want epidemics to come back?”
“Do you know how you catch Polio?”
“Breathing, I guess?”
“No. Polio is transmitted Fecal-Oral.
Do you understand you have to ingest the fecal material of an infected person?
When is the last time you ingested anybody’s fecal material, much less that of a Polio infected person?”
WHO: “The virus is transmitted by person-to-person spread mainly through the faecal-oral route or, less frequently, by a common vehicle (for example, contaminated water or food) and multiplies in the intestine.”
That is why in the countries where polio is endemic, it is where they practice “Open Air Defecation”.
They lack modern flush toilets, frequently don’t have the luxury of toilet paper, have poor access to potable water and soap to wash their hands after relieving themselves, and often residents are forced to drink surface water that is frequently contaminated upstream.
How significant is the impact of
“Open Air Defecation”?
“There are 41 million people who do not have access to a toilet in Pakistan and as a result they are defecating in the open. And open defecation has significant health and nutritional consequences,” said Geeta Rao Gupta, deputy executive director at Unicef.
She recently spoke to the AP during a trip to Pakistan to draw attention to the problem.
“Open defecation is a major contributor to stunting and that's why we've got to do all we can to stop it,” she said. The problem can spread disease and lead to intestinal infections, which can contribute to stunting in young children, she said.
“However, the situation for sanitation is still bleak: approximately 43 million Pakistanis still defecate in the open, and our Millennium Development Goal (MDG 7) of increasing access to sanitation may not be met until 2027.
Read more: ‘52pc of Pakistanis combat unsanitary conditions’
The public health implications are severe.
Some three million Pakistanis face infections from
waterborne diseases every year.
Children are especially affected by
illnesses such as diarrhoea,
often caused by unsafe water and inadequate sanitation,
which kills more under-fives around the world than
AIDS, malaria and measles combined.”
https://www.dawn.com/news/1168181
Sounds like getting clean water and
sanitation facilities in these countries
should be a top priority.
How protective are modern sanitary facilities?
The protective nature of modern sanitation is demonstrated by this story of a man in Britain who was shedding polio virus for 30 years.
Why wasn’t there a polio ward in his neighborhood?
Flush toilets, disposable toilet tissue, soap and water to wash hands, & potable drinking water.
“A British man who was vaccinated against polio has been producing the virus for nearly 30 years.
He had an immune disorder that meant the weakened polio virus used to vaccinate him in childhood survived in his body.
Over time it has mutated into a form of the virus that can cause paralysis, and he had no idea the jab had not worked.
Polio is only endemic in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria although Nigeria has now gone more than a year without a case.
The discovery was made by a team from the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire.”
Full study linked here http://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1005114
“The man had a full course of polio vaccinations, including three doses of weakened live virus at five, seven and 12 months old, followed by a booster when he was about seven.
He was later diagnosed with a condition that suppresses the immune system, affecting its ability to kill viruses in the gut.
His stool samples contained high levels of polio virus - the researchers estimated the man had been shedding live polio in his stools for as long as 28 years.
The virus had also mutated dramatically and were no longer the weakened, or "attenuated", versions of the virus which are used in the vaccinations.”
“First case of polio in the US in years was detected this week in New York — here's what to know about polio vaccines
By Amy McGorry Fox News”
“Health officials said on Thursday that the oral vaccine — which contains live strands of the poliovirus — is no longer used in the U.S.
However, it is still used in many countries, including those in Eastern Europe.”
“They could not confirm where the individual who received the oral polio vaccine was from or where the person who is ill encountered this person. (The patient's identity has not been released.)
The N.Y. State Department of Health’s public health laboratory showed "revertant polio Sabin type 2 virus, according to a news release.
The U.S. stopped using the oral polio vaccine (OPV) in 2000 — and instead uses the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), which does not contain the live virus.”
“Physicians explained to Fox Digital News that the poliovirus typically is transmitted when the contaminated fecal matter of an infected person enters the body through the mouth, usually from hands containing the fecal matter.”
How did this person encounter the fecal matter of the infected person who was shedding Sabin type 2 virus? Food contamination? Or other intimate contact?
The US IPV, Inactivated Polio Vaccine,
does not stop transmission.
When is a Westerner most likely to encounter polio
infected fecal material?
Changing the diaper of a vaccinated infant.
Polio outbreaks in the West require severe breaches of
sanitary hygiene protocols, or the collapse of sewage and
water treatment facilities.
More information on why you cannot eradicate an
infection with a live virus vaccine.
https://www.npr.org/2019/11/16/780068006/how-the-oral-polio-vaccine-can-cause-polio
Not only that Karl, as CDC has openly admitted in their global surveillance data: "Circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPVs) can emerge and lead to outbreaks of paralytic polio as well as asymptomatic transmission in communities with a high percentage of undervaccinated children."
Translation: Vaccinated individuals can infect unvaccinated individuals - polio vaccine is not a "sterlizing" vaccine - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39418214/
I just had a "spat" with a poster calling "anti-vaxxers" stupid or such. It's a religion that needs enlightening. I do it post at a time. But Goodonya for putting this together.