From the AP:
A strain of polio that’s hit parts of Africa and the Middle East appears almost identical to one that has reached Indonesia, raising the prospect that a migrant worker may have brought it back to the world’s most populous Muslim nation, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
An 18-month-old girl in the West Java village of Girijaya was diagnosed with polio on April 21, becoming the first Indonesian to contract the disease since 1995. Authorities say the strain is genetically similar to one in Nigeria, where the disease spread rapidly after Muslims boycotted the vaccine in 2003, fearing a U.S.-led plot to render them infertile or infect them with AIDS.
Seven other people in Girijaya are also suspected of having polio, prompting Indonesian health workers to conduct house-to-house vaccinations in the area, intensify surveillance and draw up plans to vaccinate 5.2 million children under age 5 by July.
Criminal idiots.
“Authorities say the strain is genetically similar to one in Nigeria, where the disease spread rapidly after Muslims boycotted the vaccine in 2003, fearing a U.S.-led plot to render them infertile or infect them with AIDS.”
Another case where the ignorance of a few costs so much for so many others. Infuriating, and yet one more reason why ‘draining the cesspool’ that is radical Islam is so important for the world, whether the world recognizes it or not. This kind of malicious misinformation is a danger to everyone and sadly in this case, to children too young to understand.
Jeff’s got a newborn so he may be going through the ‘pumping poison in the baby’ message boards that deal with vaccination. Diploid cells – thimerosal – Big Pharm, et cetera …
the math impairment was shocking – risks from vaccines were in the 1 in thousands, to tens of thousands – in some cases milliions – whereas the risk of complication from the childhood disease itself was in the 1 in tens to hundreds to, maybe, thousands.
Yet complications from vaccines were, for them, a given, and complications from a childhood disease were non-existant.
jeesh.
fwiw – the CDC has specific guidelines on when vaccination is contraindicated, and some Pediatricians don’t give full information or treat parental concerns appropriately (Malkin wrote about this issue from a mildly idiotarian perspective.)
While too rich for my blood; I’ve always thought polo was an interesting sport.