Re: US officially added to WHO's list of poliovirus outbreak countries

[Biden Imports POLIO in 2022!]

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Obama brought EBOLA into the USA. Not to be outdone, Joe Biden
allows millions of polio carrying illegal aliens into North
America.

The United States, one of the world's richest and most developed
countries, has met the World Health organization's criteria to
be listed as a country with circulating vaccine-derived
poliovirus, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
announced Tuesday.

The US now joins the ranks of around 30 other polio outbreak
countries, largely low- and middle-income, including Ethiopia,
Mozambique, Somalia, and Yemen. Notably, the list includes just
two other high-income countries—the United Kingdom and
Israel—which have detected the circulation of a poliovirus
strain genetically linked to the one spreading in the US.

Specifically, the US met the criteria for WHO's list by
documenting a patient with vaccine-derived poliovirus and having
at least one environmental sample of vaccine-derived poliovirus.
In July, health officials in New York's Rockland County reported
a case of paralytic polio in an unvaccinated resident who had
not recently traveled. Since then, New York officials and the
CDC surveilled the spread of the virus in wastewater, finding 57
positive samples from four New York counties and New York City.
The dates of the positive samples span from April to a recent
sampling in August.

Inclusion on the WHO's polio outbreak list is a new low point
for the US. On the one hand, it reinforces a key global public
health message in the campaign to fully eradicate that virus,
which is that "any form of poliovirus anywhere is a threat to
children everywhere." But it mainly spotlights the dangerous
foothold that anti-vaccine sentiments have gained in the country
over the past several decades.

The vast majority of the US population is vaccinated against
polio and well protected from the dangerous disease. The CDC
recommends that children get three doses of the inactivated
polio vaccine by 24 months, followed by a fourth dose between
the ages of 4 and 6 years. But vaccination rates have been
slipping in recent years, and small pockets of states and
counties can have shockingly low coverage. For instance, in
Rockland County, just northeast of New York City, the
vaccination rate of 2-year-olds was 67 percent in 2020, but
slipped to 60 percent currently. And according to zip-code level
vaccination data, one area of Rockland County has a vaccination
rate as low as 37 percent, with a couple of others in the 50s.

Vaccination challenges
Polio is a particularly prime target for anti-vaccine
misinformation. Much of the poliovirus currently circulating in
the world today—including in the US—is derived from oral
vaccines, which use live, weakened poliovirus to spur immunity.
Oral polio vaccines are highly effective at protecting against
paralytic polio and are safe and affordable. But, if they're
used in areas with low vaccination rates, the harmless,
immunizing vaccine viruses can spread to others through poor
sanitation and/or hygiene. If the vaccine continues to moves
from person to person, it can pick up mutations along the way
that allows it to regain the ability to cause infection and
paralytic polio. At this point, the vaccine virus is
reclassified as a vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV).

The circulation of VDPV has been gobbled up by dangerous anti-
vaccine advocates—such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his
organization, Children's Health Defense—who giddily tout the
false claim that polio vaccines cause polio. To be clear, polio
vaccines are highly effective at safely preventing polio. As
always, the lack of polio vaccination causes polio outbreaks.

The US has not licensed or used oral polio vaccines since 2000.
Instead, the US and many other high-income countries now use an
inactivated polio vaccine, which does not include a live virus.
Nevertheless, a VDPV is what is spreading in the US. The vaccine
virus was likely carried into the US through someone vaccinated
elsewhere. The downside of using an inactivated vaccine is that
it is not as potent as the oral doses, meaning that vaccinated
people may still be able to spread poliovirus—including
VDPVs—though they will be highly protected from paralytic
disease.

The CDC and New York officials are now trying to convince
vaccine holdouts to get their shots. Last week, New York
Governor Kathy Hochul declared a state emergency in an effort to
boost vaccination and surveillance efforts.

In a statement today, José R. Romero, director of CDC's National
Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, pressed that:

"Polio vaccination is the safest and best way to fight this
debilitating disease and it is imperative that people in these
communities who are unvaccinated get up to date on polio
vaccination right away. We cannot emphasize enough that polio is
a dangerous disease for which there is no cure."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/09/us-officially-added-to-
whos-list-of-poliovirus-outbreak-countries/