161. Oregon Seal Text-Only Site State Directory Agencies AZ polio is an ancient scourge that became vaccinepreventable in the 1950 s. Transmission of wild-virus polio stopped in the Western hemisphere from July 1991 http://www.oregon.gov/DHS/ph/acd/diseases/polio/polio.shtml

Text-Only Site State Directory Agencies A-Z Accessibility ... Diseases A-Z Polio On this page More info/links Reporting Polio is an ancient scourge that became vaccine-preventable in the 1950's. Transmission of wild-virus polio stopped in the Western hemisphere from July 1991 to July 12, 2000, when the disease erupted again in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, places where coverage with three doses of oral polio vaccine was low. When symptomatic, polio causes paralysis of the muscles. Most people never completely recover. Luckily, however, up to 95% of all polio infections occur without symptoms. Infected persons without symptoms shed viruses in the stool, and are thus able to spread the virus to others. Childhood immunization is recommended. More info/links The CDC fact sheet answers some common questions about polio. CDC Vaccine Information Statements (english only) CDC Vaccine Information Statements in other languages from the Immunization Action Coalition Information on Vacccines Disease reporting Health care providers and clinical laboratories are required by law to report cases and suspect cases of polio to local health departments within 24 hours of identification. On weekends and holidays, call 503/731-4030 to reach the state health department doctor on call.

162. "Bienvenidos" Dr. Carlos Canseco González Promotor de la erradicaci³n de la polio en el mundo entero. Curr­culum, biograf­a y fotograf­as. http://mx.geocities.com/drcarloscanseco

163. MPR: Fighting Polio With "gentle Hands" The reason was polio. Health officials worried large gatherings helped spread polio was crippling thousands and there was no known cure or prevention. http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/200208/22_olsond_sisterkinney/ind

Skip over navigation MPR Home News Radio Listening ... Help Today: Sunday, September 25, 2005 Twin Cities: Regional NEWS CATEGORIES NEWS HOME AGRICULTURE EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT ... SOCIAL ISSUES SEARCH Enter relevant words or phrases. Visit the search help page to learn more. In the Spotlight Tools Print this page Sign up to receive e-mail newsletters Your Voice Join the conversation with other MPR listeners in the News Forum Submit your issue-related commentary to MPR, and read others we've selected in Commentaries Fighting polio with "gentle hands" By Dan Olson Minnesota Public Radio August 22, 2002 Sister Elizabeth Kenny. See historic images. (Photo courtesy of Margaret Opdahl Ernest) Fifty-six years ago this month, the Minnesota State Fair was cancelled. The reason was polio. Health officials worried large gatherings helped spread the disease. Polio was crippling thousands and there was no known cure or prevention. Throughout the l940s and early '50s, polio struck 15,000 Minnesotans - 900 died. Those who survived were consigned to a life with metal braces, crutches and deformed limbs. Then Elizabeth Kenny arrived. The single-minded, self-taught nurse from Australia brought to Minnesota a treatment that got paralyzed polio victims up and walking.

164. Thomas Sowell: The Polio Fallacy American military power was like the polio vaccine that was considered unnecessary. The latest version of the polio fallacy is the demonizing of the Patriot http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20050616.shtml

About Us Our Members Newsletters Store ... Historical Docs Advertisements* Townhall.com 214 Massachusetts Ave NE Suite 310 Washington, DC 20002 Fax 202-544-7330 Email us Advertise With Us *Advertisers may or may not share political views with Townhall.com. -Advertisement- More on Family and Society Young Elite Women Choose Family Over Careers Administration Again Denies Funds for Population Control Oral Sex: The Big Surprise More Today's Opinion Top Ten as rated by you Sunday Paul Jacob What's love got to do with it? George Will Marshall's legacy Doug Giles Riding the Storm Out Mark Tapscott Republicrats are taking care of each other in Able Danger Today's American Minute More Opinion The polio fallacy Thomas Sowell archive June 16, 2005 Print Send The disappearance of an American teenager in Aruba has been more than a tragedy for her and for her family. It is the latest of many tragedies to strike trusting people who have long been sheltered from dangers and who have acted as if there were no dangers. Not only individuals but whole nations have lost their sense of danger after having been protected from those dangers.

165. Prinses Beatrix Fonds Het Prinses Beatrix Fonds spant zich sinds 1956 in om de kwaliteit van leven van pati«nten met polio, MS, Parkinson, Huntington en ruim 600 andere spierziekten en aandoeningen zo hoog mogelijk te houden. http://www.beatrix.nl/

166. BBC NEWS | Health | Africa 'faces New Polio Threat' Africa could be on the verge of a major polio outbreak, the World Health Organization warns. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3594694.stm

News Sport Weather World Service ... Newswatch Last Updated: Tuesday, 24 August, 2004, 13:33 GMT 14:33 UK E-mail this to a friend Printable version Africa 'faces new polio threat' The WHO wants to vaccinate 74m children over the next year Africa could be on the verge of a major polio outbreak, the World Health Organization has warned. Mali and Guinea have reported their first cases of the disease in five years. Three cases have also been reported in the Darfur region of Sudan. The WHO had previously predicted that polio could be eradicated by the end of this year. These latest cases are being blamed on problems vaccinating people in parts of Nigeria last year. Islamic clerics in Kano state condemned immunisation campaigns as an American plot to make Muslim women infertile. Unable to vaccinate in the region, the WHO tried to prevent polio spreading further by protecting people in neighbouring countries. This is an extremely important development Bruce Aylward, Global Polio Eradication Initiative However, Guinea and Mali were outside the ring of countries targeted by WHO and the United Nations Children's fund (UNICEF) in an immunisation campaign launched in February.

167. Post-Polio Syndrome Related Calendar Of Events: Conferences, Seminars, Get-ToGet Calendar of noncommercial events concerning post-polio syndrome. http://www.skally.net/ppsc/event.html

Post-Polio Syndrome Related Calendar of Events: Conferences, Seminars, Get-ToGethers, Reunions, Etc. If you have information on a PPS related even please email scout@skally.net to submit it. These events will be listed by date, most recent first, and as soon as a date has passed, will be removed, in order to make this page as easy and fast to use as possible. NOTE: we will NOT publicize commercial events ~ PPS EVENTS - PPS EVENTS - PPS EVENTS - PPS EVENTS - PPS EVENTS ~ MAPS: find your way around or to these cities! Currency Exchange Rates Table Michigan Polio Network 's 20th Anniversary Education Conference August 19-20, 2005 At the Best Western Midway in Lansing, Michigan. 20th Anniversary Education Conference. Hosted by the Michigan Polio Network. Keynote Speaker: Fred M. Maynard, MD,Founding Board Member of the Michigan Polio Network, Inc., Post-Polio Health International Board President, and Director of the post-polio clinic at U.P. Rehabilitation Medicine Associates in Marquette, Michigan, and the guest speaker is Sunny Roller, MA, leader of Post-Polio Connection, Ann Arbor. For more information, contact Barbara Oniszczak, Michigan Polio Network (989-739-4065 or bufflogal@charter.net

168. BBC NEWS | South Asia | India Starts 'final' Anti-polio Push A nationwide polio vaccination campaign begins in India as part of the global UN drive to eradicate the virus. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4029673.stm

News Sport Weather World Service ... Newswatch LANGUAGES Urdu Hindi Bengali Pashto ... More Last Updated: Sunday, 21 November, 2004, 13:52 GMT E-mail this to a friend Printable version India starts 'final' anti-polio push By Ania Lichtarowicz BBC health reporter The authorities hope the disease will be eradicated A nationwide polio vaccination campaign has started in India as part of a World Health Organization initiative to eradicate the virus around the world. More than 170 million Indian children under the age of five are being immunised over the next three days. Despite an epidemic in 2002, India - by vaccinating as many children as possible with multiple doses - looks likely to stop the spread next year. Another 80 million children are being vaccinated in 24 African countries. Future in doubt In the last campaign, about 90% of children were immunised and this time health care workers will be trying to reach those in remote areas. Click here for a map of countries affected by polio There is concern though about polio in the Ivory Coast - this year 15 children have been paralysed by the virus, and conflict there means that vaccinations have been postponed.

169. Polio And The Era Of Fear Millions of Americans had taken the Salk and Sabin antipolio vaccines by For all its pain and grief, polio s era of fear provided knowledge that is http://www.uthscsa.edu/mission/fall94/polio.htm

Fall 1994 Polio and the era of fear M illions of Americans had taken the Salk and Sabin anti-polio vaccines by 1962, and an era of fear ended. "Seeing polio go away was like witnessing a major miracle," said Malcolm C. Lancaster, MD, clinical professor of family practice Highly contagious, the poliovirus spread by contact with contaminated feces or oral secretions. Children were most vulnerable. The virus inflamed nerves in the brain and spinal cord, causing paralysis of the muscles in the chest, leg or arms in severe cases. In 1950, 33,300 people were stricken. Lacking a vaccine, the nation tried to halt the spread of polio by closing public pools and parks. Parents ordered their children not to drink from public water fountains. Schools canceled graduations as a precaution. The March of Dimes raised money for a cure. Few people who saw them can forget the organization's poster children adorable tots with braces and crutches who posed in fund-raising pictures. For all its pain and grief, polio's era of fear provided knowledge that is useful today and would have been invaluable back in the '50s. For example:

170. Post-Polio Syndrome Survey A survey for polio survivors with PPS http://www.skally.net/pps_survey/

POST-POLIO SYNDROME: NEW HEALTH PROBLEMS SURVEY: The PPS Survey is a 39 question survey regarding New Health Problems Polio Survivors with Post Polio Syndrome are experiencing. Take PPS: New Health Problems Survey View and download Text Version of The Survey Click on Graphic to View PPS Survey Results Post-Polio-Med Email List Post-Polio Syndrome Central

171. Polio Warning Issued For Travel To Nigeria (washingtonpost.com) There has been little or no polio immunization in Nigeria s northern polio Eradication Faces Setback in Africa (The Washington Post, Jun 23, 2004) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17940-2004Jun30.html

thisNode = 'world/africa/westafrica/nigeria'; commercialNode ='technology/specials/biotech'; var SA_Message="SACategory=" + thisNode; Hello Edit Profile Sign Out Sign In Register Now ... Subscribe to SEARCH: News Web var ie = document.getElementById?true:false; ie ? formSize=27 : formSize=24 ; document.write(''); Top 20 E-mailed Articles washingtonpost.com World Africa ... Nigeria Polio Warning Issued for Travel to Nigeria By David Brown Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, July 1, 2004; Page A02 The World Health Organization warned travelers to northern Nigeria yesterday to get polio vaccine boosters because of "uncontrolled transmission of polio virus" in the region. The announcement comes as the region enters the season when polio transmission increases, typically rising five- to tenfold. There has been little or no polio immunization in Nigeria's northern states for more than a year because of rumors that the vaccine is a tool in a global plot to sterilize Muslims. WHO's warning, announced in Geneva, is purely advisory. The organization has no power to force the immunization of travelers, or even to monitor it. Nevertheless, the suggestion that visitors get a polio booster if they have not had one in four years further sounds the alarm that the outbreak in Nigeria presents an "extreme danger" and a "threat to every country," said David L. Heymann, a WHO physician helping lead the 16-year effort to eradicate polio.

172. NEW HOPE India Organization working with people who have leprosy. Raises funds for crippled childrens polio surgery and street children rehabilitation. http://www.zyworld.com/newhopeindia/index.html

Children's Goodwill Care You please tell us (Click Here) Secure Online Giving with CharityCard ... (Click Here) The 'core' of our work, the thing on which we stay focused, is the care of those affected with leprosy. It is true that the number of new cases is declining and that about the most wonderful news we can tell anyone but... The already deformed and those too old to go begging still need our help. One of the simple things we do is to give at Christmas - a 'Bundle of Love' containing a set of clothing, winter blanket, toiletries and protective footwear to prevent ulcers. Give Pounds 10 or Euro 16 and we will put your name on the gift if you wish.

173. NEW HOPE India Organization working with people who have leprosy. Raises funds for crippled childrens polio surgery. Donors needed for street children rehabilitation. Also accepts other help from volunteers. http://www.zyworld.com/newhopeindia/

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174. BMVSS Provides free artificial limbs, jaipur foot, polio calipers, crutches, prosthesis to amputees and disabled in India and abroad. http://www.jaipurfoot.org/

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175. :: Rogerebert.com :: A Very Long Engagement The movie is seen largely through the eyes of Mathilde (Audrey Tautou), an orphan with a polio limp, Review by Roger Ebert. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041216/REVIEWS/41201

176. CNN.com - Tests Rule Out AIDS Link To Polio Vaccine - September 11, 2000 CNN http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/09/11/health.virus/index.html

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