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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Maybe I will check out my military shot record- I wouldn't be surprised if I got it at some point considering the "vacation" spots they loved to send me to. I do remember that my shot record is missing all of the experimental shots that I got....
    You were vaccinated long before you joined the military, Peter.

    As a baby. They can do that now...

    It's not coming to this nation. It will remain rare here in the states because we vaccinate children early. As babies.

    I remember the return of the malaria scare too. Chances are much higher a newer virus such as the Zika virus come to the US. Polio is no longer a concern in the States.

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    Polio used to be very common in the United States and caused severe illness in thousands of people each year before polio vaccine was introduced in 1955. Most people infected with the polio virus have no symptoms, however for the less than one percent who develop paralysis (cannot move arms or legs) it may result in permanent disability and even death.
    There are two types of vaccine that protect against polio: Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV) and Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV). IPV, used in the United States since 2000, is given as an injection in the leg or arm, depending on age. OPV is taken by mouth. Polio vaccine may be given at the same time as other vaccines.
    For Children

    Most people should get polio vaccine when they are children.
    Children should be vaccinated with four doses of inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) at the following ages:
    • 1st dose: 2 months
    • 2nd dose: 4 months
    • 3rd dose: 6-18 months
    • Booster dose: 4-6 years
    Best check your records.......long before you joined the military, Peter.

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    Rare Strain of Polio Worries Pakistan, Global Community
    January 12, 2017 — Detection of a rare strain of polio in Pakistan’s southwestern Baluchistan province has alarmed authorities and prompted them to launch special immunization campaigns for children younger than 5.
    After concluding a five-day response campaign across the provincial capital of Quetta earlier this month, health officials said they plan to give anti-polio drops starting January 16 to millions of children across 27 districts of the province, including those near the Afghan border. The new, intensified immunization effort follows detection of the rare Type 2 strain of polio, which the World Health Organization found in sewage samples in one of the districts in the province. Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria are the only three countries in the world where the crippling virus is still active.

    Remarkable progress

    Despite security challenges and administrative weaknesses in national immunization efforts, Pakistan’s anti-polio fight achieved remarkable progress in 2015 when the country of about 200 million reported only 19 cases, down from a record of 309 cases in 2014. Aftab Kakar of the provincial emergency operation center in Quetta says that Type 2 polio struck about 15 children three years ago in the Killa Abdullah district toward the Afghan border.


    A Pakistani health worker gives a polio vaccine to a child in Karachi, Pakistan, Dec. 1, 2016. Polio remains endemic in Pakistan after the Taliban banned vaccinations, instigated attacks targeting medical staffers and spread suspicions about the vaccine.

    But routine immunization campaigns coupled with special response efforts at the time stopped the transmission of the virus until WHO’s findings released a couple of weeks ago confirmed its re-emergence in Baluchistan, where only one polio case was reported in 2016, Kakar said. “The international community has shown its concern over the detection of this (Type 2) virus in Pakistan because the rest of the world has eliminated it and reported no new cases for years,” he noted.

    Type 2 virus

    Pakistan stopped vaccinating children against the Type 2 polio during routine immunization campaigns since last April, believing the strain had been successfully eliminated from the country as in the rest of the world, Kakar said. “Now, our major concern and fear is that the group of children who were born after April 2016 are not immunized against Type 2 poliovirus. That group is now vulnerable and is in danger of contracting the virus,” he warned. On Wednesday, provincial health officials reported the first polio case of the new year in Killa Abdullah, but the strain of the virus was not known immediately.

    Border campaign

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    Jihadis attack polio vaccination team in Pakistan...

    Attack on polio vaccination team in Pakistan kills 3
    Sunday, March 18, 2018 — Militants have ambushed a polio vaccination team in a remote tribal region in Pakistan, killing two of the medical workers and seriously wounding another two, officials said Sunday.
    The gunmen also attacked tribal police and the paramilitary Frontier Corps when they responded to the attack late Saturday, killing one paramilitary and wounding another. Polio workers have come under attack on several occasions since it was revealed that the CIA used a polio vaccination campaign as a ruse to get information on Osama bin Laden, who was killed by U.S. commandos in Pakistan in 2011.Those revelations fed into claims by Islamic extremists that the vaccinations are part of a Western plot against Muslims. Pakistan is one of the only countries in the world where polio is still endemic, along with Afghanistan and Nigeria.


    In Pakistan, at least nine people have been killed and dozens more hurt in an attack on an agriculture college. Gunmen wearing burqas stormed the campus on Friday morning. Police say they arrived in an auto-rickshaw and shot a guard before entering. The incident occured at the Agriculture Training Institute in the northern city of Peshawar. A wounded student, Ahteshan ul-Haq, told Reuters the university hostel usually houses nearly 400 students, but most had gone home for a long holiday weekend and only about 120 students remained. The siege ended after two hours when police and army troops killed all the gunmen. The Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility saying it was targeting a military safe house. In December 2014, Pakistani Taliban gunmen killed 134 children at Peshawar's Army Public School, one of the single deadliest attacks in the country's history. The Pakistani Taliban are fighting to topple the government and install a strict interpretation of Islamic law. They are loosely allied with the Afghan Taliban insurgents who ruled most of Afghanistan until they were overthrown by U.S.-backed military action in 2001.


    An official in Pakistan's restive Mohmand Agency, Younus Khan, said two workers from the seven-member polio vaccination team went missing after the attack but later returned unharmed. He says security forces are still searching for the attackers. Jamaatul Ahrar, a faction of the Pakistani Taliban, claimed the attack. Khan said the bodies of the anti-polio workers were handed over to relatives and their funeral will take place later in the day. Provincial Governor Iqbal Zafar Jhagra condemned the attack, calling the polio workers "heroes."


    https://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/ar...n-12761864.php

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