The British fitness government says it is cooperating with its Israeli and American counterparts to hint at the source of the polioviruses discovered in sewage samples from north and northeast London, launching a vaccination crusade to boost immunity in children.
On Wednesday, Britain’s Health Security Agency said it had detected poliovirus derived from the oral polio vaccine in sewage in 8 London boroughs, but was unaware of any cases.
His investigation of virus samples indicated that “transmission exceeded a narrow network of a few people” but that he had not discovered that they were infected with the virus. According to the World Health Organization, only one in two hundred polio infections causes paralysis; Maximum other people have no symptoms.
The UK fitness firm said it “works intensively with fitness agencies in New York and Israel alongside the World Health Organization to investigate links between poliovirus detected in London and recent polio incidents in the other two countries. “
Israel’s fitness ministry did not respond to a request for comment on the investigation.
New York officials announced last month that they had detected polio in an Orthodox Jewish man in Rockland County, marking the first case of polio in the United States in nearly a decade.
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative said on July 28 that the case was genetically related to virus samples discovered in London and the Sorek wastewater treatment plant in Israel.
Officials in Rockland and Orange counties, spaces north of New York City with a giant, developing haredi population, later said lines of the virus were discovered in sewage samples.
Israel diagnosed its first case in decades in March, in a 4-year-old boy from Jerusalem. Several other asymptomatic cases have been found in other children and the fitness government has launched a national vaccination campaign that they say has increased the vaccination rate among infants to 96 in line with one hundred.
No link has been shown between the virus samples and the Jewish community. However, the New York government and the United Kingdom noted that the virus was discovered in a domain where vaccination rates were lower.
“We know that places in London where poliovirus is transmitted have some of the lowest vaccination rates,” said Dr. Lisa Schoen. Vanessa Saliba, epidemiologist representing the UK Health Security Agency. “That’s why the virus spreads in those communities and exposes citizens who are fully vaccinated to an increased risk. “
The districts were known as Brent, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, Islington and Waltham Forest.
Ultra-Orthodox communities have below-average vaccination rates. In 2018 and 2019, Jerusalem and Rockland County experienced measles outbreaks that were reportedly fueled by vaccine vacillation among Haredi Jews.
The UK Health Agency said it would start providing a higher dose of polio spice to children aged 1 to 9 in London to stimulate inoculation against the disease.
“This will ensure that protection against paralysis and aid decrease the spread,” the company said. Most people in Britain get vaccinated against polio in childhood. He said the risk to the general population is low.
Polio is a disease that spreads in water and basically affects children under the age of five. It has been eliminated in much of the developed countries, but epidemics continue in Pakistan, Afghanistan and parts of Africa. The first symptoms are fever, fatigue, headache. , vomiting and muscle stiffness. Among other people paralyzed by the disease, death can occur in up to 10% of cases when their respiratory muscles become paralyzed.
In rare cases, the live virus contained in the oral polio vaccine used in the global effort to eliminate the disease can mutate into a new bureaucracy strong enough to cause new outbreaks. The vaccination booster effort in London will use injected polio vaccines that do carry this risk. .
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