Anonymous ID: ad447a Aug. 10, 2022, 4:54 p.m. No.17347756   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Monkeypox is sooooo last season.

Polio has decided to make a comeback.

 

All children under-10 in London will be offered a polio vaccine, after a patient suffered paralysis in New York caused by polio linked to a suspected outbreak in Britain.

An unprecedented polio booster campaign will now see all children aged under 10 in London offered an additional polio vaccine in a bid to protect them against paralysis caused by the virus.

The UK Health Security Agency is now also expanding wastewater testing to up to 15 sites nationwide after detecting poliovirus in the London sewage works.

Seven out of 32 London boroughs have seen poliovirus samples detected in the north east and central areas of the capital where polio vaccine uptake is lower.

The UK has detected 116 poliovirus samples in London and some are genetically linked to the unvaccinated adult hospitalised with paralysis in New York.

Genetically linked samples have also been detected in the Israel sewage works and health officials believe the virus is spreading via travel between the countries.

New York state Health Commissioner Mary Bassett said: “Based on earlier polio outbreaks, New Yorkers should know that for every one case of paralytic polio observed, there may be hundreds of other people infected.

 

Moar: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/breaking-kids-under-10-offered-27704790

 

https://www.ladbible.com/news/children-under-10-london-offered-polio-vaccine-virus-found-sewerage-20220810