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London kids to be offered polio shot after more virus found

British health authorities say they will offer a polio booster dose to London children age 1 to 9 after finding evidence the virus has spread in multiple regions of the city

The Independent UK

Polio questions answered as children set to be offered vaccine

Youngsters in London will be able to have a jab

Wales Online

All you need to know about the rapid polio vaccination programme

Almost a million children will be asked to get a polio vaccine in the coming weeks.

The Independent UK

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Millions of children to be vaccinated against polio after virus detected in sewers

ALMOST one million children aged one to nine across London are to be offered a polio vaccine to try to prevent the spread of the virus.

The National (Scotland)

Children aged nine and under in London to be offered polio vaccine after virus found in sewers

116 samples of the polio virus have been found by health officials since February

Manchester Evening News

Polio booster vaccine to be offered to all children aged 1-9 in London after virus found in sewers

Booster to be offered to children after poliovirus found in sewers in capital

Evening Standard

Children in London to be offered polio vaccine in bid to stop outbreak

Even youngsters who are fully vaccinated are to be offered a booster.

The Independent UK

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One million children to be offered polio vaccine to stop spread of virus

The jab will be given to children aged between one and nine

Wales Online

All children aged one to nine in London to be offered polio vaccine booster

Public health officials hoping to curb spread after polioviruses found in sewage samples across capital

The Guardian - UK

Children aged 1 to 9 in London to be offered polio vaccine as rare infection spreads

116 samples of vaccine-like poliovirus detected in London sewage water between February and July 2022, health officials say

The Independent UK

Kids under-10 to be offered polio jab as paralysed patient linked to suspected outbreak

Polio booster vaccines will now be offered to all children under-10 in London to prevent the first community outbreak of the virus in Britain since the 1970s

Daily Mirror

Why polio is making a comeback

Unlike COVID-19, vaccinations for polio are nearly ubiquitous. Could an outbreak actually happen again?

Salon

Children under 10 will get polio boosters as virus returns to UK after 40 years

Youngsters to be offered shots from Wednesday

The Independent UK

Polio boosters for under-10s amid fears of spreading outbreak

The amount of poliovirus samples picked up suggests it has been passing from person to person.

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Polio booster to be given to under-10s to prevent first UK outbreak in 50 years

The UK Health Security Agency has repeatedly detected the poliovirus in London’s sewage works and is now calling on parents to make sure their children are fully vaccinated

The Independent UK

New York health officials warn there ‘may be hundreds of other people infected’ with polio

The sole case detected in Rockland County could be the “tip of the iceberg,” says New York state health commissioner

The Independent UK

Polio fears rise in New York amid possible community spread

New York state health officials have issued a more urgent call for unvaccinated children and adults to get inoculated against polio, citing new evidence of possible “community spread” of the virus

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Polio remerges as possible threat

In rare cases, the weakened live poliovirus in the vaccine can mutate, regain virulence, and cause polio

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The Independent UK

Polio virus found in New York wastewater, but no new cases

The polio virus has been detected in wastewater samples from the suburban county near New York City where an unvaccinated adult recently contracted the disease

The Independent UK

Polio virus found in New York wastewater after first confirmed case in a decade

Presence of virus in wastewater indicates people in the community could be shedding virus in their stool, CDC says

Daily Mirror

New York polio patient left paralysed has same strain found in UK and Jerusalem

A New York man who has been left paralysed has suffered the same polio strain as found in London and Jerusalem it has been confirmed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Tribune News Service

What the polio case in New York tells us about the end of polio

No one studying polio knew more than Albert Sabin, the Polish-American scientist whose vaccine against the crippling disease has been used worldwide since 1959. Sabin’s oral vaccine provides lifelong immunity. It has one drawback, which Sabin, who died in 1993, fiercely disputed: In rare cases, the weakened live poliovirus in…

Salon

How polio crept back into the U.S.

Health agencies generally don’t test wastewater for signs of polio, which may have given virus time to circulate

Tribune News Service

Therese Raphael: Why the WHO wants everyone to wake up about monkeypox

The World Health Organization had a hard time deciding whether to label monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) or not. That’s a rare designation, given to COVID-19 and a handful of other diseases such as swine flu in 2009, polio in 2014 and Ebola (twice). It carries…

Tribune News Service

Peter Salk, the son of polio vaccine's developer, says the newest US polio case sounds a warning

PITTSBURGH — After a man in Rockland County, New York, became the first patient to contract polio in the United States in nearly a decade, experts such as Dr. Peter Salk — whose late father, Jonas, developed a vaccine for the disease — said the public shouldn't be alarmed but…

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