Polio may be spreading in the U.K. for the first time in nearly 40 years after mutating from a live vaccine, health chiefs warned today as they declared a “national incident”. MailOnline has more.
Officials have found traces of a vaccine-derived version of the virus in sewage samples in parts of London and say it is “likely” transmitting within the community.
Parents are being urged to ensure their children are up to date with their polio vaccinations, particularly after the pandemic when school immunisation schemes were disrupted.
Polio spreads through coughs and sneezes or contact with objects contaminated with faeces, causing permanent paralysis in around one in 100 cases. Children are at a higher risk.
The virus was detected several times between February and May and has continued to mutate, according to the U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA).
It is thought someone vaccinated with the live polio vaccine – which uses a weakened version of the virus – travelled to the U.K. and shed part of the pathogen in their stool.
But health officials insist the risk to the public overall is “extremely low”, with urgent investigations now underway to find anyone who has been infected.
The last time someone caught polio within the U.K. was in 1984 but there have been dozens of imported cases since then. Britain was declared polio-free in 2003…
No cases have been confirmed yet but the UKHSA said it is likely there has been some spread between closely linked individuals in North and East London.
It is normal for traces of the virus to be occasionally detected as part of routine testing of sewage, but the findings are normally a one-off.
These normally come from people who were vaccinated with the live oral vaccine overseas and then travelled to the U.K. People given the oral vaccine can shed the weakened live virus used in the vaccine in their faeces for several weeks. Most countries have switched to polio jabs that use inactivated pieces of virus but some developing nations still rely on the live vaccine.
The London samples have caused concern because they were from different people and contained two mutations that suggest the virus is evolving as it spreads between people. It is unclear how far the virus has spread but it is hoped the outbreak will be contained to a single household or family.
Polio used to paralyse millions of children around the world every year in the 1940s and 1950s and consign thousands to ‘iron lungs’ — large and expensive machines that helped them breathe.
Most people show no signs of infection at all but about one in 20 people have minor symptoms such as fever, muscle weakness, headache, nausea and vomiting. Around one in 50 patients develop severe muscle pain and stiffness in the neck and back. Less than 1% of polio cases result in paralysis and one in 10 of those result in death.
Hepatitis in children (which has gone quiet now), monkeypox mainly among gay men (also dropped off the news cycle), and now polio – why does every month bring another outbreak of a strange disease? Is it coincidence, is something causing them all, or are we just paying more attention to such things?
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Is this the latest Scariant?
They are unstoppable!
Nah, the latest would be “Delta Plus”, or, in proper Orwellian fashion, “DoublePlusDelta”. LOL
Nice to know we’re importing useful stuff again.
But, but… vaccines protect us from dangerous viruses that are cunning creatures always looking for a way to get us. Now they’re saying the vaccines give us the virus? Oh nooooooooo, all hope is lost, the end of the world is nigh. If we haven’t got vaxxes, what have we got? Our silly immune systems?
I can already guess the solution – jab, jab, jab and jab some more. More covid vaxxes coming up, the minkypox vaxx campaign is gearing up, now a polio vaxx campaign – besides my suspicions that all this may be related to damaged immune systems thanks to the ‘novel’ mrna jabs, I am also starting to think pharma companies know they are going to get thrown under the bus by the politicians who exerted pressure on them to okay vaxxes they knew were not ready for wide-spread use and were far from ‘safe and effective’ – and want to rake in the money before they run. Just a heads up for them in case I’m right – you insisted on jabbing the entire world with this junk, I don’t think there is anywhere left to hide.
That’s a well-known feature of a certain kind of polio vaccines, namely, those made from so-called attenuated viruses. These are capable of mutating into fully functional viruses vaccinated people may shed which may cause unvaccinated people to get polio.
So nothing to worry about as pretty much everyone is vaccinated for polio. Unless polio vaccines don’t protect you from polio. In which case what has been keeping polio out all this time?
Nothing to worry about for us. But in countries where polio vaccination is more patchy (and where sanitation is rather ppor), polio cases caused by polio vaccination have outstripped those caused by wild poliovirus for the first time in 2017.
[source: Wikpedia on Polio Vaccination]
One thing I’ve come to believe in recent months: We don’t have “public health” agencies, we have Vaccine Promotion Agencies.
‘It is thought someone vaccinated with the live polio vaccine – which uses a weakened version of the virus – travelled to the U.K. and shed part of the pathogen in their stool.’
Polio is a virus which reproduces in the gut. It is passed on by contact primarily with fæces but also can be via saliva and mucus.
So never mind vaccination, personal hygiene prevents it and evidently vaccination spreads it.
FWIW, Robert Kennedy Jr. is skeptical about the role the polio vaccines played in eradicating (or almost eradicating) polio. It had already almost disappeared by the time polio vaccines were mandated, he says in his book. (Better sanitation, nutrition, clean water, etc. should probably get the bulk of the credit for dramatically reducing incidences of polio, he suggests). He also thinks these vaccines may have caused many adverse events (and deaths) that have not been fully reported. More people have likely died or been seriously harmed by the vaccines than from polio, he argues or suggests.
Until recently, I thought it was a 100-percent certainty that it was the polio vaccines that eradicated this disease by themselves. Now, I think they might have played a role, but it probably wasn’t as prominent a role as I previously believed.
And, yes, it is very possible that the Covid vaccines might have somehow triggered new cases of polio (new cases of just about everything).
Plumbers save more lives than Doctors…
That and banning DDT helped reduce polio as well. DDT literally neurotoxic by design, and can apparently increase one’s susceptibility to polio, and especially for severe polio cases and sequelae. And in the 1940s, 50s and 60s they actually used to spray the stuff directly on kids (!) to delouse them, or something.
In the Netherlands there have been sporadic outbreaks of polio amongst the non-vaccinated religious communities.
To be clear, I’m not prepared (yet) to say that polio vaccines should not be administered. I am, however, now more open to the suggestion that maybe the positive role of at least some vaccines has been over-stated.
I definitely believe the “flu vaccines” are a massive scam.
1) They’ll get all the children in to top up their polio and do pressure sales on Covid
2) And may be they have an mRNA polio vaccine up their sleeves
No more state sponsored jabs for my kids. Or the dog.
Nail. Head.
It’s headlining the DT so it’s true, we’re all going to die!! But of polio!
A couple of things don’t ring true in this article with regards to the virus shedding. Aren’t most people vaccinated against polio as a child? And if you had a child, live in a low income country but have the means and intention to come to the UK, wouldn’t you just wait two weeks until your child could have the much safer ‘dead’ version of the vaccine?
They might still be, but the jabs might have a ‘shelf life’. The last time I had one was in 2007 (with anti-Tetanus & Diphtheria in the same mixture), and the recommended duration was 10 years. When I had that it was for travel to Karachi in 2007, but I haven’t had it updated since 2007.
It may not have been a choice; it can be difficult to avoid the mobile vaccination teams in low-income countries, they can be ruthless, vaccinating sick children for example. Healthcare in those countries can be dire but their vaccination stats are typically only slightly below Europe and North America.
Ah the joy of Multiculti enrichment for us all.Note early reports say samples found in East London now not mentioned by radio Doom .I am certain that all arrivals to the country are fully upto date whether they are legal or illegal and they make certain before they travel . as the welfare of the native community is high on their list of concerns dont you??
Given the number of poxes circulating in these Isles the one thing you would make sure of before getting in the dinghy was that all your vaxes were up to date. Basic ph#oking common sense…
‘Innit?’
We should not forget the new super-duper untreatable pox – gonorrhoea, spreading to a country near you.
However I have read about this many times over the years and cure is always found. Will it be different this time ? Maybe Bill can make a vaccine against this?
ROTFL
Oh FGS, will it ever end?
Check out Chapter X (Hidden Dangers in Polio Vaccine) in “The Poisoned Needle” by Eleanor McBean Ph.D., 1956 (or 1957). Very hard to get an original print and the internet copies are poor scans it seems including that evidently used for the reprint (sans photographs) sold by Amazon. Nevertheless it offers a whole new vista of possible cause(s) awareness.
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I don’t understand the fuss.
As far as I know Polio has not been eradicated. So in a way it is not surprising you will find this virus if you go looking for it. And in this case it appears to be coming from live vaccine shedding. So what?
There are occasional outbreaks amongst the non-vaccinated communities.
Wouldn’t have anything to do with all the unvaxxed immigrants pouring into Britain, would it?
Are there? many countries have polio campaigns. But they don’t use sterilising vaccines unfortunately, so they can still spread polio….maybe to those with compromised immune systems….like those who have taken experimental mRNA injections….
The oral polio vaccine as used in low-income countries induces mucosal antibodies, so it should be sterilising. The injected inactivated vaccine as used nowadays in high-income countries is non-sterilising for similar reasons to the COVID-19 vaccines.
It hasn’t even been made clear whether the polio viruses found in the sewage are just the result of viral shedding that commonly happens following the oral polio vaccine, perhaps from recent arrivals from low-income countries. The health authorities are claiming it’s being transmitted, but how do they know? Is it a mutant form? They haven’t said so it could be just a scare story.
Could it be that those vaccinated with the OPV (like me) when we were kids, and now have suppressed immune systems (thanks to COVID vaccines), are giving the virus a new lease of life? Maybe we are not as protected against polio as we think we are
We’re all getting wound up about events/outbreaks that used to be considered commonplace risks. However, if you’re Covid jabbed it’s important to be careful because your immune system may not be clearing the Covid virus and could be activating latent viruses. See intriguing discussion between Bret Weinstein and Geert vanden Bossche on Odysee, June 16th “a tale of Covid trade offs”. (For some reason I can’t copy and paste the link here.)
Fortunately I haven’t taken the death jab, but lots of people I know have (including my husband). I’ll check out the Weinstein chat – thanks!
Presume this is the latest control mechanism/scarient. Pathetic really. Have we had the “monsters from outer space” scare yet? I’m getting confused as to where we are in the saga.
As a slight aside, I seem to remember years ago and I mean years ago having the booster polio vaccine plonked on a sugar cube and the quack placing it on one’s tongue. Do they still do that? Any other old gits around?
They don’t normally use the oral polio vaccine nowadays in the UK, because of the small risk that comes with with any attenuated vaccine of contracting the disease itself. But you should have lifelong protection from that sugar cube.
So they detected (supposedly) a genetic string that matches some polio virus?
Did they use PCR for that test?
How many cycles?
And the main point: Not a single actual person found with polio….
Honestly its like the entire Western world has the worst case of hypochondria and OCD combined.
One thing that seems evident is that Governments, Public Health Officials and pharmaceuticals policies and efforts to promote, coerce and mandate covid vaccines while hiding side effects and inflating efficacy has created an enormous increase in the lack of trust and a healthy skepticism in all vaccines in general.
https://www.gov.im/news/2022/jun/22/vaccination-bus-launching-soon/
I maintain only a transient awareness of what’s up on the Isle of Man (mainly on the basis of first there, then here) but government initiatives over the last few years including life termination at start and end and now, in between, are starting to look like a covert eugenics programme.
What a dilemma, eh? We are either going to be surrounded by the masses covered in suppurating pustules, courtesy of the pox or a dearth of people due to them being in ICU on modern-day iron lungs.
What other ‘health events’ have they got brewing, ready to inflict on (gullible) people?
I wonder who amongst our ‘illustrious leaders’ in government or those in the showbiz world are going to be the first in the news to be admitted to hospital due to polio?