Polio in Syria: An outbreak that threatens the Middle East
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they themselves get a watered down version of the disease ,or become a carrier , the one who get the watered down version get a fever and have a diarrhea and after several day nothing happened , the one who become a carrier are a menace to all children around the world as the terrorists come from more than 90 country around the world and in many of those country they don't vaccinate children regularly anymore
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It won't have any impact in the civilized world (developed countries). The developing countries that have issues with such diseases need to get their heads out of their asses and spend more time on science, development and secular thinking/way of life instead of being *** backward religious shit holes.
If there's an outbreak, it will have a massive impact in countries like Pakistan and those bordering Syria. In the developed world there will be a few cases (those who have just recently returned from the area) and quarantine measures will stop the disease right in its tracks.
In essence, its gonna be a Middle Eastern/South Asian problem. Nobody in Europe, East Asia or the Americas will give a shit and nor should they.
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Abii ,clearly you have no degree in medical field
it affect worse Europe and USA . in a country like Iran we use weakened live virus to vaccinate our children as a result our people are immune against this virus and as this vaccine administrated orally , we can't become a carrier .
countries like European and USA either stopped vaccinate their children or moved toward using vaccines obtained from dead viruses , that vaccine is injected so it won't stop you become a carrier it just made you yourself immune . and using that vaccine also is not mandatory .
so if you are a Jihadist from England even if you are vaccinated , you can become a carrier without yourself knew anything about it and when you go back home you can pass the virus to all your neighborhood and believe me you don't find ay immune children there . but if the Jihadist is from middle east well the country is itself polio or is actively vaccinate the children so the impact is minimal or nonexistence .
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Polio Spreads From Syria to Iraq, Causing Worries
By RICK GLADSTONE
APRIL 7, 2014
Syria’s polio outbreak has now officially spread to Iraq, the first neighbor of the war-ravaged country to be hit by the crippling virus despite an ambitious Middle East inoculation effort, and global health officials warned Monday that dozens of vulnerable Iraqi children could potentially be infected.
The transmission of polio, a highly contagious disease that primarily afflicts children younger than 5 and can lead to partial and sometimes fatal paralysis, reflects one of the most insidious effects of the three-year-old Syria conflict, which has sent millions of refugees across the country’s borders and severely undermined its public health system.
For Iraq, the outbreak is the first time in 14 years that polio has appeared; the disease was absent even during the 2003-2011 war that began with the American-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein.
World Health Organization officials said the first Iraqi polio case, that of a 6-month-old boy in Baghdad, was confirmed on March 30 by Iraq’s Ministry of Health and had the same genetic fingerprint as the virus that paralyzed 27 children in eastern Syria in October — both having originated in Pakistan, one of the few countries in the world where polio has not been eradicated. The Polio Global Eradication Initiative, a partnership that includes the W.H.O., reported two new Syria cases last week — in Aleppo and Hama, far from the original outbreak area.
Christopher Maher, the eastern Mediterranean manager of the W.H.O.’s Polio Eradication and Emergency Support unit, said that Iraqi officials had been immunizing children protectively since the Syria outbreak began, and that in light of the first confirmed case in their home country they were now expediting another scheduled round of vaccinations.
“At the moment, they’re madly preparing their response plan,” Mr. Maher said in a telephone interview. It takes multiple rounds of vaccine, taken orally, to immunize a child.
Iraq has an estimated five million children under the age of 5. While estimates vary on the number of infections for every confirmed case, and not all children develop symptoms, Mr. Maher said, “in all likelihood it would be dozens — you’ve got to assume there’s some extension of the transmission.”
The W.H.O. and Unicef said in a joint statement on Sunday that Iraq’s expedited polio response was part of a broader vaccination effort in the region, with the goal of reaching more than 20 million children this week. Lebanon and Turkey will participate later this month, and Jordan and the Palestinian territories will be part of future vaccination rounds, said Juliette S. Touma, a spokeswoman for Unicef’s regional office in Amman, Jordan.
“The recent detection of a polio case in Iraq after a 14-year absence is a reminder of the risk currently facing children throughout the region,” Maria Calivis, the Unicef regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, said in the statement. “It is now even more imperative to boost routine immunizations to reach every child multiple times and do whatever we can to vaccinate children we could not reach in previous rounds.”
The statement acknowledged that the effort had “yet to reach especially vulnerable groups such as children who are on the move fleeing violence from Syria or those living in the midst of active conflict.”
Some rights advocates and public health experts have criticized the W.H.O. and other United Nations agencies for adopting an accommodating policy toward President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, who they contend has deliberately withheld inoculations against polio and other contagious diseases to insurgent-controlled areas.
Dr. Annie Sparrow, a pediatrician and deputy director of human rights at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, said in a study published in February that the polio outbreak in Syria was far more widespread than just the cases reported by the W.H.O. The health organization has disputed her findings.
Dr. Sparrow said in a telephone interview on Monday that the most recent polio news from Iraq and Syria was both expected and alarming. “It should signal an absolute failure of the global eradication effort,” she said.
Mr. Assad’s forces, she said, “have been bombing the heck out of the people of Aleppo instead of vaccinating them, which is what they should be doing.”
While Mr. Maher said the spread to Iraq was not in itself surprising, health officials were uncertain about its precise path to Baghdad, where the victim had no obvious contact with possible carriers from Syria, most of them refugees concentrated near Iraq’s border with Syria.
“It’s great if you have clear-cut chain of transmission so you can easily see how this would happen — maybe a refugee child,” he said. “But where you would expect to see the virus would have been in the northwest, and not down in Baghdad.”
At the same time, he said, the confirmed case reflected the ability of the polio virus to find vulnerable victims, touching a child who had been part of “a pocket of under-immunized children in the community.”
Ms. Touma said the inoculation effort in Syria had made progress but was still failing to regularly reach an estimated 323,000 Syrian children at the highest risk of contracting polio, in areas of fighting or restricted access.
“The trick with polio is that we can’t give up, we have to do multiple inoculations continuously and as wide as possible,” she said.
By RICK GLADSTONE
APRIL 7, 2014
Syria’s polio outbreak has now officially spread to Iraq, the first neighbor of the war-ravaged country to be hit by the crippling virus despite an ambitious Middle East inoculation effort, and global health officials warned Monday that dozens of vulnerable Iraqi children could potentially be infected.
The transmission of polio, a highly contagious disease that primarily afflicts children younger than 5 and can lead to partial and sometimes fatal paralysis, reflects one of the most insidious effects of the three-year-old Syria conflict, which has sent millions of refugees across the country’s borders and severely undermined its public health system.
For Iraq, the outbreak is the first time in 14 years that polio has appeared; the disease was absent even during the 2003-2011 war that began with the American-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein.
World Health Organization officials said the first Iraqi polio case, that of a 6-month-old boy in Baghdad, was confirmed on March 30 by Iraq’s Ministry of Health and had the same genetic fingerprint as the virus that paralyzed 27 children in eastern Syria in October — both having originated in Pakistan, one of the few countries in the world where polio has not been eradicated. The Polio Global Eradication Initiative, a partnership that includes the W.H.O., reported two new Syria cases last week — in Aleppo and Hama, far from the original outbreak area.
Christopher Maher, the eastern Mediterranean manager of the W.H.O.’s Polio Eradication and Emergency Support unit, said that Iraqi officials had been immunizing children protectively since the Syria outbreak began, and that in light of the first confirmed case in their home country they were now expediting another scheduled round of vaccinations.
“At the moment, they’re madly preparing their response plan,” Mr. Maher said in a telephone interview. It takes multiple rounds of vaccine, taken orally, to immunize a child.
Iraq has an estimated five million children under the age of 5. While estimates vary on the number of infections for every confirmed case, and not all children develop symptoms, Mr. Maher said, “in all likelihood it would be dozens — you’ve got to assume there’s some extension of the transmission.”
The W.H.O. and Unicef said in a joint statement on Sunday that Iraq’s expedited polio response was part of a broader vaccination effort in the region, with the goal of reaching more than 20 million children this week. Lebanon and Turkey will participate later this month, and Jordan and the Palestinian territories will be part of future vaccination rounds, said Juliette S. Touma, a spokeswoman for Unicef’s regional office in Amman, Jordan.
“The recent detection of a polio case in Iraq after a 14-year absence is a reminder of the risk currently facing children throughout the region,” Maria Calivis, the Unicef regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, said in the statement. “It is now even more imperative to boost routine immunizations to reach every child multiple times and do whatever we can to vaccinate children we could not reach in previous rounds.”
The statement acknowledged that the effort had “yet to reach especially vulnerable groups such as children who are on the move fleeing violence from Syria or those living in the midst of active conflict.”
Some rights advocates and public health experts have criticized the W.H.O. and other United Nations agencies for adopting an accommodating policy toward President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, who they contend has deliberately withheld inoculations against polio and other contagious diseases to insurgent-controlled areas.
Dr. Annie Sparrow, a pediatrician and deputy director of human rights at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, said in a study published in February that the polio outbreak in Syria was far more widespread than just the cases reported by the W.H.O. The health organization has disputed her findings.
Dr. Sparrow said in a telephone interview on Monday that the most recent polio news from Iraq and Syria was both expected and alarming. “It should signal an absolute failure of the global eradication effort,” she said.
Mr. Assad’s forces, she said, “have been bombing the heck out of the people of Aleppo instead of vaccinating them, which is what they should be doing.”
While Mr. Maher said the spread to Iraq was not in itself surprising, health officials were uncertain about its precise path to Baghdad, where the victim had no obvious contact with possible carriers from Syria, most of them refugees concentrated near Iraq’s border with Syria.
“It’s great if you have clear-cut chain of transmission so you can easily see how this would happen — maybe a refugee child,” he said. “But where you would expect to see the virus would have been in the northwest, and not down in Baghdad.”
At the same time, he said, the confirmed case reflected the ability of the polio virus to find vulnerable victims, touching a child who had been part of “a pocket of under-immunized children in the community.”
Ms. Touma said the inoculation effort in Syria had made progress but was still failing to regularly reach an estimated 323,000 Syrian children at the highest risk of contracting polio, in areas of fighting or restricted access.
“The trick with polio is that we can’t give up, we have to do multiple inoculations continuously and as wide as possible,” she said.
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Iran is the one that poses a grave danger on the ME and the world with terrorism and filthy policy. Iran is the virus in the ME and the world. Wherever Iran has influence, there must be bloodshed, terrorism and chaos. Pakistan is just a victim:
All the info is in here supported by facts and several sources, please visit:
Al Qaeda in Iran, Why Tehran is Accommodating the Terrorist Group?
All the info is in here supported by facts and several sources, please visit:
Al Qaeda in Iran, Why Tehran is Accommodating the Terrorist Group?
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Syria had a great healthcare system before conflict, but thanks to thousands of monsters with numerous unidentified diseases who came from caves and mountains to bring freedom for Syrians with support of Arab oil states, this country is infected with a virus that had been eliminated years ago. It has nothing to do with Iran, we too have eliminated Polio years ago. Though I understand the obsession and anger here.
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Iran didn't do any better either - if not worse -
The thousands upon thousands of Iranians being sent to fight for a dead cause shows its willingness, once again, to sacrifice its own people, not to mention the bankrolling of Iraqi, Lebanese, Syrian pro-Assad militants of its oil revenues, despite the fact that its people are in bad need for it the most.
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Thousands upon thousands of Iranians sent to fight? Did you discover that all by yourself dear? Where did that happen?
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Yea even the earthquakes and storm Iran behind it
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You will want to attribute this to your commanders, openly admitting sending thousands to fight from Iran to Syria:
Iran boosts military support in Syria to bolster Assad
Iran admits involvement in Syria dispute - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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Q. Sulaimani craying so hard after M. Jamali's assasination in Syria. M. Jamali was a Commander in the IRG, just like his crying friend.
Too bad.
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Before reading your own sources, don't post them here please. It says nothing about Iran sending thousands upon thousands of fighters there, just military advisers to help SAA in logistics and military campaign planning. Believe me, number of Saudi nationals who have either been killed in Syria or are fighting there is tens of times more than any Iranians fighting on the ground.
You are posting this pic almost everyday on this forum. Don't know what you would do if hadn't heard about Q. Suleimani given this excessive obsession about him.
How does this pic prove that thousands of Iranains are fighting in Syria?
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The prophet(PBUH) cried hard when his uncle hamza(ra) martyred in uhudd
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@Yzd Khalifa @Full Moon
Do you really support the mujahideen out of your heart or what is the real case? They are very unlike you, here is one dying and not scared at all, only Islam creates this bravery So please tell me are you supporting the Syrian people because it's Islamic to?
Do you really support the mujahideen out of your heart or what is the real case? They are very unlike you, here is one dying and not scared at all, only Islam creates this bravery So please tell me are you supporting the Syrian people because it's Islamic to?
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