Four-year-old Israeli child tests positive for polio, first case since 1989

Post by fastaguy88 » Mon, Mar 07, 2022, 2:22 AM UTC

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This is also somewhat complicated because, as the article notes, sewage monitoring in Israel picks up polio virus with some degree of frequency, despite there being no recorded cases - there's definitely shedding going on, and it's sort of an odd case due to a number of demographic and geopolitical factors. This is not necessarily something that can be attributed to the vaccine. Will be curious to see what the result…

Does polio not have animal reservoirs?

Post by axiolite » Mon, Mar 07, 2022, 2:27 AM UTC

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Post by selimthegrim » Mon, Mar 07, 2022, 2:28 AM UTC

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> Most anger at the un-vaccinated (due to the assumption that they are causing the spread) seems mis-placed since those vaccinated by the injected form (that's probably you commenting on Hacker News!) will spread the polio virus as well. Seriously. In what population does polio spread, the unnvacinnated or the vaccinated? In what population are you exposed to it?

> In what population does polio spread, the unnvacinnated or the vaccinated? In what population are you exposed to it? This is all so weird. An explanation of how I understand it: Polio definitely spreads in the unvaccinated. If you've given the IPV vaccine, you can later be infected and spread polio (with a little less likelihood), but won't become sick. If you're given the OPV vaccine, you eventually will have ster…

Post by undersuit » Mon, Mar 07, 2022, 2:33 AM UTC

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Humans remain humans. Blame the systems that amplify extreme voices.

Post by Retric » Mon, Mar 07, 2022, 2:39 AM UTC

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> Indications of the virus have been found in sewage samples in the area Oh this decade is going to be insane. We have the technology to solve so much but people no longer have the education and thinking process to use it. Disease and war back on the front burners.

> people no longer have the education I'm pretty sure we're better educated than any time in human history. EDIT: Thinking about it, I would guess that we don't have as much humanities education as the prior generation (because it's been devalued), and humanities are what address the questions and problems plaguing our society, the big ones that are too complex to yield to scientific method or algorithms.