Bangladesh at risk of polio from India

[CaPtAiN_pLaNeT]

Bangladesh at risk of polio from India

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By Mizan Rahman/Dhaka

Health Minister A F M Ruhal Haque has said Bangladesh is at the risk of polio as neighbouring India is not free from the contagious disease.
The minister was addressing a press conference at Mohakhali EPI Building in Dhaka city yesterday on the occasion of the 19th National Immunisation Day.
Claiming that no polio patient has been detected over the last four years in the country, the minister said Bangladesh is in a much better position in the south. “Southeast Asian countries could not yet secure the polio-free certificate.”
To get the certificate from the World Health Organisation, he said, polio has to be on a zero level for three consecutive years.
Asked whether any action will be taken against the physicians for not visiting rural areas, the minister said a monitoring committee had been formed to ensure physicians presence in rural areas.
“The committee is visiting different hospitals. Physicians will have to go to the specified locations to keep their jobs. The situation will improve in two years,” the minister said.
On the National Immunisation Day, the minister said the first round would begin on January 8 while the second round on February 12.
As usual, he said, all children under five would be given two drops of polio vaccine during both the phases.
Twenty mobile teams will be sent to remote areas to distribute polio vaccines.
Officials said some 2.2mn children under five will be fed two drops of polio vaccine in each of these phases.

 

[PRACTICAL PATRIOT]

Bangladesh at risk of polio from India

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By Mizan Rahman/Dhaka

Health Minister A F M Ruhal Haque has said Bangladesh is at the risk of polio as neighbouring India is not free from the contagious disease.
The minister was addressing a press conference at Mohakhali EPI Building in Dhaka city yesterday on the occasion of the 19th National Immunisation Day.
Claiming that no polio patient has been detected over the last four years in the country, the minister said Bangladesh is in a much better position in the south. “Southeast Asian countries could not yet secure the polio-free certificate.”
To get the certificate from the World Health Organisation, he said, polio has to be on a zero level for three consecutive years.
Asked whether any action will be taken against the physicians for not visiting rural areas, the minister said a monitoring committee had been formed to ensure physicians presence in rural areas.
“The committee is visiting different hospitals. Physicians will have to go to the specified locations to keep their jobs. The situation will improve in two years,” the minister said.
On the National Immunisation Day, the minister said the first round would begin on January 8 while the second round on February 12.
As usual, he said, all children under five would be given two drops of polio vaccine during both the phases.
Twenty mobile teams will be sent to remote areas to distribute polio vaccines.
Officials said some 2.2mn children under five will be fed two drops of polio vaccine in each of these phases.

where is anything related to INDIA mentioned in article???

so maybe BD is not having polio patients from few years and INDIA is having. so how does that give risk of polio to BD from india?
now even Bangladeshis are taking pleasure in dragging INDIA into anything that is not related to INDIA .

 

[CaPtAiN_pLaNeT]

where is anything related to INDIA mentioned in article???

so maybe BD is not having polio patients from few years and INDIA is having. so how does that give risk of polio to BD from india?
now even Bangladeshis are taking pleasure in dragging INDIA into anything that is not related to INDIA .

This quotation was not from an ordinary bangladeshi but from the health minister of bangladesh... as bd is surrounded by india from 3 sides... so obviously there are chances of spreading the diseases from bordering area as India still has this polio patient...

 

[IamINDIA]

india is doing a good job on polio eradication,and is trying very hard to eradicate it

 

[PRACTICAL PATRIOT]

This quotation was not from an ordinary bangladeshi but from the health minister of bangladesh... as bd is surrounded by india from 3 sides... so obviously there are chances of spreading the diseases from bordering area as India still has this polio patient...

INDIA too dont have 100's of polio patients, there are very few cases found ,so if you dont allow this polio patients to migrate to BD then problem is solved. and since there is no illegal migrations according to all BD members its easily possible.

 

[wild_fire1979]

This quotation was not from an ordinary bangladeshi but from the health minister of bangladesh... as bd is surrounded by india from 3 sides... so obviously there are chances of spreading the diseases from bordering area as India still has this polio patient...

So don't illegally cross the border and send a thank you card to BSF for taking care of people crossing back to BD. No migration, no polio

 

[fallstuff]

Awesome news. Keep the good work up and stop those polio cases from entering.

 

[wild_fire1979]

Awesome news. Keep the good work up and stop those polio cases from entering.

BSF says: Ur welcome! We are doing our level best

 

[idune]

Crowding and poor hygiene fuel India's polio problem
17 November 2006 | EN


Overcrowding is linked to the persistence of polio in India, say scientists

Jad Davenport, World Lung Foundation
[NEW DELHI] Crowded conditions and poor hygiene are fuelling India's recurrent outbreaks of polio, hampering global efforts to eradicate the disease.

The findings are reported today (17 November) in Science.

By the end of October this year, 360 people had contracted polio in Uttar Pradesh (UP), north India, compared to just 66 last year. The UP strain has now spread to other Indian states as well as Bangladesh, Nepal and parts of Africa, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Now a research team led by Nicholas Grassly of Imperial College London, United Kingdom, suggests that polio transmission in India is linked to high population density and inadequate sanitation — both conditions that boost the likelihood of infectious contact.

"Generally improving sanitation is very important to controlling the spread of not only polio but also enteric [intestinal] diseases," Grassly told SciDev.Net.

"It is an important public health priority, but may take longer to achieve in India than the currently envisaged window for polio eradication."

According to the Indian government, the WHO and UNICEF, the UP outbreak was caused by gaps in immunisation coverage.

But Grassly's team are challenging this conclusion.

They say that children in UP have received far more doses of vaccine than those in the rest of India and other endemic countries. By the end of 2005, children under five in UP and neighbouring Bihar state received on average almost 15 doses of the oral polio vaccine, compared to ten for children of the same age in the rest of India.

The problem is not the vaccine's quality, say the researchers, but its efficacy — they estimate it to be just nine per cent effective, compared to 21 per cent elsewhere in India.

They say the lower efficacy observed in UP must be due to serious environmental problems — UP is India's most populous state and has one of the worst infrastructures and sanitation records.

Grassly and his colleagues analysed more than 96,000 cases of paralysis caused by the polio virus since 1997 and prepared computer models to track infection rates.

The new findings are consistent with observations by T. Jacob John, a member of India's national advisory board on polio, who found that the oral polio vaccine is less effective in India than in the West.

John told SciDev.Net that although more research is needed in the field, part of the problem could be due to the prevalence of intestinal viruses and diarrhoea — facilitated by crowding and inadequate sanitation — which cause the vaccine to be washed out of children's bodies.

Crowding and poor hygiene fuel India's polio problem - SciDev.Net

 

[idune]

BSF says: Ur welcome! We are doing our level best

According to your logic shouldn't bsf be killing 600 million indian poor so india can shine instantly???

 

[idune]

India must take responsibility for polio eradication

When polio prevention is so simple, it is immoral for wealthy Indians to allow the virus a safe future

A week ago, I happened to watch three different television programs in the US on the same day. Although seemingly unrelated they were linked in a profoundly troubling way.

The first was an interview with the eminent American author Philip Roth, who has a new book out, Nemesis. The second was the lush opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi. The third was the investigative journalism program, 60 Minutes, one segment of which was devoted to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's richest charity. Linking these three with metal braces and leather straps was one word – polio.

Roth's novel evokes the terror of the polio epidemic that swept the writer's hometown of Newark in the 1940s. People did not know that polio was spread through human faecal matter. Terrified that flies were spreading it, whole households hunted down a single fly before it could infect a sleeping child. As inescapable as the paranoia was the poignant irony that the US president of the time was the world's most famous polio victim, Franklin D Roosevelt.

Polio is now a distant nightmare in the west. But in four remaining polio-endemic countries – India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria – it continues to maim and kill.

Three of these – India, Pakistan and Nigeria – were proudly present at the Commonwealth parade. Nothing can be more antithetical to an event that celebrates the power and grace of the human body than a disease that cripples children.

The Gates Foundation and Rotary International have together put in more than a billion dollars to ensure that every single child worldwide tastes the life-saving vaccine.

60 Minutes travelled with Melinda Gates to a polio ward in Delhi, full of children lying in hospital beds. The camera then zoomed into a slum where a boy calmly filled a jug of water from a tap under which ran an open gutter bobbing with faeces.

Bad plumbing facilitates the spread of the polio virus but sadly the issue gets an airing only when westerners are involved, as in the recent case of toiletgate and the Games.

Hearteningly, India's war against polio is a few drops from being won. The virus is now limited to only two states, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Last year there were 741 cases. This year, after the government introduced a new bivalent vaccine, there have been only 39 cases compared to 395 this time last year.

Hobbling this last and critical stage of the polio war is a huge shortfall in funding. Where will the money come from to support the 2 million-strong immunisation army of health workers? The international community have done outstanding work. Perhaps it's now time for Indians to pick up the tab.

How embarrassing that a medieval disease such as polio should be the white man's burden in a country that wants to be a superpower and has the fourth and fifth richest men in the world, Mukesh Ambani and Laxmi Mittal, for citizens? The same affluent, Facebook India that shudders at the ****** toilets and corruption plaguing the Commonwealth Games could eradicate polio if it chooses to. When prevention is so achingly simple – four doses of the oral vaccine – and the potential resources so plentiful, it is immoral to allow the virus a safe future.

The US government didn't defeat polio. It was defeated through science and a volunteer movement called the March of Dimes started by FDR, calling on every American to contribute a dime toward the fight. To galvanise the drive, writes Roth, was a blizzard of posters, "a pretty little girl wearing leg braces … a clean-cut little boy with leg braces". Amazingly, it was this deluge of dimes that funded the research that led to Jonas Salk's lifesaving polio vaccine and later Dr Albert Sabin's oral vaccine.

India needs its own Rally of Rupees. The Pulse Polio campaigns endorsed by Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan would be far more effective if they not only called on the poor to get their babies to open their mouths but on the rich to open their wallets.

If the educated middle class is uninvolved it is because there is no palpable fear of a "pretty little girl" or "clean-cut little boy" being infected.

But as long as polio threatens even one child in any part of the world, children everywhere remain at risk because the highly contagious virus travels without a passport. In 2003 there was a polio case in Lebanon and genetic sequencing traced it to India.

Devastated by a disease that paralyses children, Roth's protagonist asks in despair: "Doesn't God have a conscience?" It's a question we Indians could well ask of ourselves.

India must take responsibility for polio eradication | Nina Martyris | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

 

[Gabbar]

Ok Idune you are free to close BD border. Go ahead..........protect BD from polio.

 

[Ammyy]

Bangladesh at risk of polio from India

So first stop Bangladeshi who crossing border illegally .

 

[Kinetic]

According to your logic shouldn't bsf be killing 600 million indian poor so india can shine instantly???

Yes, your BDR is doing something same. But BSF has nothing about poor but they are there to shoot every BD people crossing into India as its their duty to protect India. You must understand that BSF is not like BDR that massacre own chief and personals.

 

[saleen_s7]

We have much bigger issues with India than transferring of polio disease.