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Irkutsk, Russia (ex Tajikistan): Confirmed polio importation

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One case - not a reason for panic
Автор: Вся неделя. Author: whole week. Ангарск , дата: 12.05.2010 - 23:43 Angarsk , Date: 12/05/2010 - 23:43
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На днях наш город вновь оказался в эпицентре внимания всей страны, но, увы, не по самому приятному поводу. Recently our city once again became the epicenter of attention throughout the country, but, alas, not very pleasant occasion. Дело в том, что на прошлой неделе главный санитарный врач РФ Геннадий Онищенко обнародовал официальную информацию о том, что именно в Ангарске зафиксирован первый в стране случай заболевания полиомиелитом. The fact is that last week the chief sanitary doctor Gennady Onishchenko, announced the official information that is recorded in Angarsk, the country's first case of polio.

Да не простым, а ?диким? - то есть природным вирусом, который на территории Российской Федерации не обнаруживался с 1996 года. And not just as "wild" - that is, the natural virus, which in the Russian Federation was not found in 1996. И вот нынешней весной произошла вспышка в Таджикистане, на данный момент там заболели уже 278 человек и 13 умерли. And this spring there was an outbreak in Tajikistan, at the moment there is already 278 people became ill and 13 died.

Таджикский полиомиелит завезла в Ангарск 9-месячная девочка, приехавшая с семьей из удаленного населенного пункта, в котором официально зарегистрированы случаи ?дикого? вируса. Tajik polio was brought to Angarsk 9-month-old girl, who came with his family from a remote village, which is officially registered cases of "wild" virus. Ребенок прилетел в аэропорт Иркутска 1 мая, при этом девочка, как и вся ее родня, прошла медицинский осмотр, введенный еще в апреле для всех граждан, прибывающих из Таджикистана. The child landed in Irkutsk airport on May 1, while the girl, like the rest of her family, passed a medical examination, introduced in April for all citizens arriving from Tajikistan. На тот момент все было нормально, и только 3 мая у малышки начались первые признаки заболевания: подъем температуры, рвота, понос, а затем и парез лица. At that time everything was normal, and only on May 3 at the little girl started the first signs of disease: the rise of temperature, vomiting, diarrhea, and then paresis of the face. Девочка была доставлена в ангарское отделение областной инфекционной больницы, где ее поселили в отдельном изолированном боксе. The girl was taken to the Angarsk Branch of the Regional Infectious Diseases Hospital, where she lived in a separate stand-alone box.

В данный момент состояние ребенка стабильное, средней степени тяжести. At the moment the child's condition is stable, moderate severity. Всех, кто контактировал с заболевшим ребенком (24 человека, в том числе 11 детей), сейчас ежедневно осматривают медики, и пока новых случаев заболевания не отмечено. Everyone who came into contact with the sick child (24 persons, including 11 children), now visiting the doctors every day, and while new cases were observed. Карантин будет продолжаться до 25 мая, поскольку инкубационный период полиомиелита составляет от 5 до 21 дня. Quarantine will continue until May 25 because the incubation period of poliomyelitis from 5 to 21 days.

Несмотря на то что в городе зарегистрирован всего один случай заболевания, в Управлении здравоохранения АМО уже говорят о ?неблагополучной эпидситуации в Ангарске? и советуют пройти дополнительную вакцинацию от полиомиелита всем детям до 15 лет. Despite the fact that the city recorded only one case, the Department of Health AMO is already talking about "at risk of epidemic situation in Angarsk," and advised to pass additional polio vaccine to all children up to 15 years. Ирина Гимова, заместитель начальника Управления здравоохранения, отметила, что в целом по городу достаточно высокий охват прививками среди населения - 97 процентов. Irina Gimova, Deputy Head of Health, noted that the city in general rather high vaccination coverage among the population - 97 percent.

?В отказе? всего лишь 90 ребятишек, при этом у 18 из них - длительный медотвод по причине различных заболеваний. "In denial" only 90 children, while 18 of them - long medotvod due to various diseases. Ирина Александровна посоветовала родителям, сознательно отказавшимся от вакцинации для детей, пересмотреть свои взгляды в данном конкретном случае и привить ребятишек инактивированной (?неживой?, а значит - более безопасной для детского организма) вакциной от полиомиелита. Irina advised parents who consciously refused vaccination for children to revise their views in this particular case, and to teach the children of inactivated ("dead" as a result - more safety for the child's body) of polio vaccine. Также подвергнутся переоценке поводы для медицинских отводов. Also re-examining reasons for medical elbows. Но при этом, подчеркнула заместитель начальника Управления здравоохранения, без согласия родителей прививку ребенку ставить запрещено, и никаких приказов о ?поголовной иммунизации? пока никто не отдавал. But at the same time, stressed the Deputy Head of Health, without the consent of the parents put a child's immunizations is prohibited, and any orders "of universal immunization" no one has to give.

Таким образом, поводов для паники пока нет. Thus, the reason to panic yet. Медики советуют почаще мыть руки, воздержаться от употребления в пищу таджикских продуктов и (по возможности) общения с приезжими из Таджикистана, а также вовремя обращаться к врачу при появлении симптомов заболевания. Physicians are advised to wash their hands more often, to refrain from eating Tajik products and (if possible) to communicate with visitors from Tajikistan, as well as time to consult a doctor with symptoms of the disease.

Внимание! Warning
* Полиомиелитом чаще всего болеют дети до 5 лет, но заразиться может и взрослый человек. * Polio mostly affect children under 5 years old, but can become infected and an adult.
* Заражение происходит воздушно-капельным путем или при попадании активного вируса в рот через загрязненные руки и пищу. * Infection occurs by airborne droplets or contact with active virus in the mouth via contaminated hands and food.
* Примерно в 90-95 процентах случаев полиомиелит развивается бессимптомно. * Approximately 90-95 percent of the polio develop no symptoms. У привитых людей он протекает в виде легких парезов, заканчивается полным выздоровлением. Vaccinated people he proceeds in the form of light paresis, ends in complete recovery. У непривитых в 10 процентах случаев вызывает глубокий паралич. In unvaccinated 10 per cent of cases causes a deep paralysis.
* Смертность от полиомиелита составляет 1-4 процента от общего числа заболеваний, причиной летального исхода становится паралич дыхательной мускулатуры. * Deaths from Polio is 1-4 per cent of the total number of diseases, the cause of death is paralysis of respiratory muscles.
* Симптомы заболевания: повышение температуры, признаки расстройства со стороны желудочно-кишечного тракта (рвота, понос, боли в животе и так далее), слабость в руках и ногах, асимметрия лица (признаки развивающегося пареза - ограничения функции мышц). * Symptoms: fever, signs of frustration on the part of the gastrointestinal tract (vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, and so on), weakness in arms and legs, facial asymmetry (signs of the developing paresis - limiting the functions of muscles).

Ольга ЕФИМОВА Olga EFIMOVA
 
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Subject PRO / RUS> Poliomyelitis (imported cases) - Russia (Angarsk)

Poliomyelitis (imported cases) - Russia (Angarsk)
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In Angarsk registered case of poliomyelitis
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Incidents, 12.05.2010

Dangerous disease caught a nine-month girl. First of May, together with the parents the child has arrived in
Irkutsk from Tajikistan. The symptoms appeared she had a third of May.

The girl was hospitalized in the infectious diseases hospital. The child had a fever, vomiting, runny
chair, the next day appeared paresis of mimic facial muscles, facial asymmetry.
We remind that in April in Tajikistan, an outbreak of polio, which killed 12 children.
Last week, in response to the outbreak of poliomyelitis in Tajikistan in Russia imposed a ban on the import
dried fruits and nuts from this country.

Poliomyelitis - an acute infectious disease, children's spinal paralysis. But they fall ill
an adult can. People do not tolerate graft disease is much harder. You can even lethal
outcome, reports GazetaIrkutsk.ru.

[Comment Cor. VM. A typical example of that infection does not forgive errors in the conduct
Immunization against them, is an example of outbreaks of poliomyelitis in Tajikistan. Angarsk
registration of imported cases of polio in the child, who had come first of May from Tajikistan.
Consideration should be given vaccination history from the child, in particular, whether he was vaccinated previously and what
vaccines. If vaccinations were necessary to find out why not formed immunity
infection. If vaccines were not carried out, this case should be as broadly as possible to cover in
Media, so that parents understand that joke with the health and lives of their children can not. - C
or. VM
 
Re: Irkutsk, Russia (ex Tajikistan): Confirmed polio importation

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In Russia entered a dangerous disease
00:04 / 13.05.2010

00:04 / 05.13.2010

В Иркутской области обнаружен зараженный полиомиелитом ребенок, прибывший из-за рубежа. In the Irkutsk region was found infected with polio child, who arrived from abroad. На территории страны этой опасной болезни не было уже несколько десятилетий. In the country of this dangerous disease has not been for several decades.

Со своей стороны главный государственный санитарный врач Геннадий Онищенко сообщил, что девочка была госпитализирована. For its part, the chief sanitary doctor Gennady Onishchenko said that the girl was hospitalized. Температура ее тела нормализовалась, однако сохраняется неполный паралич мышц лица. Her body temperature returned to normal, but still incomplete paralysis of facial muscles. Медик также отметил, что те, что жил с больной девочкой, "заразиться могли вполне". Medics also said that those that lived with a sick little girl, "could get quite. При этом Онищенко не исключил возможности, что эти люди стали переносчиками инфекции. This Onishchenko not rule out the possibility that these people have become carriers of infection. Врач напомнил, что данная болезнь может сделать человека инвалидом . The doctor recalled that the disease can make a person disabled. "В стране, где полиомиелит не регистрируется уже многие годы, появление хоть и завозного случая - это действительно опасно", - подчеркнул медик. "In a country where polio is not recorded for many years, though the appearance of imported cases - it is really dangerous," - said a doctor.

В то же время Андрей Нестеренко напомнил, что в соседнем Таджикистане зафиксированы уже около 280 случаев полиомиелита. At the same time, Andrei Nesterenko, recalled that in neighboring Tajikistan has recorded about 280 cases of polio. При этом свыше 50 заражений подтверждены лабораторно. At the same time more than 50 infections confirmed by laboratory tests. Около 90% заболевших составляют дети до пяти лет, сообщает РИА Новости . Тринадцать инфицированных уже скончались . About 90% of the patients are children under five years, reports RIA Novosti . Thirteen infected have died. "В целях недопущения завоза полиомиелита на территорию Российской Федерации приняты дополнительные меры профилактического и противоэпидемического характера", - подчеркнул Нестеренко. "In order to prevent the importation of polio into the territory of the Russian Federation has taken additional measures prophylactic and anti-nature", - said Nesterenko.

Он напомнил, что в соседней стране зафиксированы уже около 280 случаев полиомиелита. He recalled that in the neighboring country has recorded about 280 cases of polio. При этом свыше 50 заражений подтверждены лабораторно. At the same time more than 50 infections confirmed by laboratory tests. Около 90% заболевших составляют дети до пяти лет, сообщает РИА Новости . Тринадцать инфицированных уже скончались . About 90% of the patients are children under five years, reports RIA Novosti . Thirteen infected have died. "В целях недопущения завоза полиомиелита на территорию Российской Федерации приняты дополнительные меры профилактического и противоэпидемического характера", - подчеркнул Нестеренко. "In order to prevent the importation of polio into the territory of the Russian Federation has taken additional measures prophylactic and anti-nature", - said Nesterenko.

Представитель внешнеполитического ведомства уточнил, что специалисты приступили к проведению дополнительной вакцинации детей против полиомиелита. The representative of the Foreign Ministry said that experts have begun to conduct additional vaccination of children against polio. Кроме того на границе усилен санитарно-карантинный контроль над пассажирами, прибывающими из Таджикистана. In addition to enhanced border quarantine and sanitary control over the passengers arriving from Tajikistan. Помимо этого введен временный запрет на въезд в Россию юных таджиков, которым еще не исполнилось шести лет . In addition, placed a temporary ban on entry into Russia of young Tajiks, who have not yet turned six years old. Данная мера будет действовать до тех пор, пока в соседней стране не завершится массовая вакцинация. This measure will apply as long as the neighboring country will not end mass vaccination.

Однако несовершеннолетние россияне могут спокойно вернуться на родину из Таджикистана и получить необходимую медицинскую помощь. However, juveniles Russians can safely return home from Tajikistan and receive necessary medical care. Одновременно в России планируется осуществлять вирусологическое обследование ранее прибывших таджикских граждан. At the same time Russia is planned to virological survey earlier arrivals Tajik citizens. Москва также распорядилась временно приостановить импорт в страну сухофруктов и орехов, поскольку они употребляются в пищу без термической обработки. Moscow also ordered to temporarily suspend imports to the country of dried fruits and nuts, as they are eaten without heat treatment.

Вместе с тем Россия заверила Таджикистан, что готова оказывать помощь по вопросам диагностики и лечения больных детей . However, Russia has assured Tajikistan, it is ready to provide assistance in diagnosis and treatment of sick children. В частности отечественные специалисты уже выезжали в соседнюю республику для расследования случаев полиомиелита. In particular, domestic experts have already visited the neighboring republic to investigate cases of polio. Эксперты также занялись изучением собранных материалов в лабораториях. The experts also undertook a study of the collected materials in laboratories.

Как сообщает деловая газета "Взгляд" , эпидемии полиомиелита в западных странах нередко принимали характер национального бедствия. According to business newspaper "Sight" , an epidemic of polio in the Western countries often take the character of national disaster. Но после введения практики вакцинации количество инфицированных стало резко снижаться. But after the introduction of vaccination the number of infected was sharply reduced. На территории Советского Союза последние случаи выявления этой болезни были зафиксированы в начале 60-х годов ХХ века. In the Soviet Union for several cases of detection of this disease have been recorded in the early 60-ies of XX century.
 
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"The representative of the Foreign Ministry said that experts have begun to conduct additional vaccination of children against polio.
In addition to enhanced border quarantine and sanitary control over the passengers arriving from Tajikistan.
In addition, placed a temporary ban on entry into Russia of young Tajiks, who have not yet turned six years old. This measure will apply as long as the neighboring country will not end mass vaccination"
 
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Source: http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=15121031&PageNum=0

2 poliomyelitis-infected Tajik babies in satisfactory condition
13.05.2010, 14.15


MOSCOW, May 13 (Itar-Tass) -- The two Tajik poliomyelitis-infected girls, who arrived in Russia, are in a satisfactory condition, head of Russia?s Federal Service for Supervision of Consumers Protection and Welfare (Rospotrebnadzor) Gennady Onishchenko told a news conference on Thursday.

According to Onishchenko, one of the girls, a nine-month baby, is undergoing treatment at an Irkutsk-based hospital. ?Later in the day the poliomyelitis diagnosis is likely to be confirmed for another Tajik girl in Moscow,? he added.

The baby in Irkutsk ?has normal temperature, her condition is considered as stable, but she still has a facial nerve paralysis,? Onishchenko said, adding that the girl in Moscow is also in a satisfactory condition.

The babies had been brought to Russia before the latter banned any children under the age of six from entering Russia from Tajikistan, the chief sanitary officer said and promised that the two sick babies will receive all necessary treatment and ?medics will do their best to prevent their disability.?

The poliomyelitis situation in Russia is under control, with the bulk of population being vaccinated against the disease, Onishchenko said and added that the poliomyelitis virus might be carried by adults from Tajikistan.

Currently, about 1,000 children of Russian servicemen are staying on the territory of Tajikistan, Onishchenko said and vowed all of them would be vaccinated. Those of them who are not vaccinated before leaving Tajikistan, will receive a vaccine in Russia. Moreover, about 1,000 Russian regular soldiers serving in Tajikistan will also be vaccinated against poliomyelitis, as will be those servicemen who will arrive to replace them, Onishchenko said.

As of now, 298 poliomyelitis cases have been registered in Tajikistan, of which 15 were lethal. The Russian chief sanitary officer described efforts taken by Tajik medics as ?inefficient.?
 
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The red statement is a bit bizarre - Russian hasn't reported any polio in years.

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=15122677&PageNum=0

2 poliomyelitis cases registered in Russia



13.05.2010, 17.54




MOSCOW, May 13 (Itar-Tass) - The two Tajik poliomyelitis-infected baby girls, who have been hospitalized in Russia, are in a satisfactory condition, head of Russia?s Federal Service for Supervision of Consumers Protection and Welfare (Rospotrebnadzor) Gennady Onishchenko told a news conference on Thursday.

According to Onishchenko, one of the girls, a nine-month baby, is undergoing treatment at an Irkutsk-based hospital. Another polio case was diagnosed in an infant girl in Moscow.

The baby in Irkutsk ?has normal temperature, her condition is considered as stable, but she still has a facial nerve paralysis,? Onishchenko said, adding that the girl in Moscow is also in a satisfactory condition.

The babies had been brought to Russia before the latter banned any children under the age of six from entering Russia from Tajikistan over a polio outbreak in the republic, the chief sanitary officer said and promised that the two sick babies will receive all necessary treatment and ?medics will do their best to prevent their disability.?

The poliomyelitis situation in Russia is under control, with the bulk of population being vaccinated against the disease, Onishchenko said and added that the poliomyelitis virus might be carried by adults from Tajikistan. According to Onishchenko, this is a ?so-called wild virus of the Indian origin.?

Currently, about 1,000 children of Russian servicemen are staying on the territory of Tajikistan, Onishchenko said and vowed all of them would be vaccinated. Those of them who are not vaccinated before leaving Tajikistan, will receive a vaccine in Russia. Moreover, about 1,000 Russian regular soldiers serving in Tajikistan will also be vaccinated against poliomyelitis, as will be those servicemen who will arrive to replace them, Onishchenko said.

As of now, 298 poliomyelitis cases have been registered in Tajikistan, of which 15 were lethal. The Russian chief sanitary officer described efforts taken by Tajik medics as ?inefficient.?

Poliomyelitis, often referred to as polio or infantile paralysis, is an acute viral infectious disease spread from person to person, primarily via the fecal-oral route. Although around 90% of polio infections cause no symptoms at all, affected individuals can exhibit a range of symptoms if the virus enters the blood stream. In about 1% of cases the virus enters the central nervous system, preferentially infecting and destroying motor neurons, leading to muscle weakness and acute flaccid paralysis. Different types of paralysis may occur, depending on the nerves involved. The disease mainly affects children of up to three to five years of age and can be prevented by immunization. Babies under one year of age are most sensitive to polio.

The world?s first living polio vaccine technology was elaborated in 1959 in the Soviet Union, and ever since the Poliomyelitis Institute of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences has been producing the vaccine to meet the Russian and foreign demand.

A year before the collapse of the Soviet Union, in 1990, the United Nations set a daring task to eradicate the disease by 2000, but failed. Nonetheless, the World Health Organization (WHO) has succeeded to do away with poliomyelitis in North America in 1994, and in Europe in 2002. Large-scale immunization campaigns of children under five years of age have brought polio occurrence from 350,000 cases in 1988 down to 1,163 cases in 2005. However, polio cases have again been registered in ten countries, where the disease was reported to be eradicated. These countries include Somalia, Indonesia, Yemen, Angola, Ethiopia, Chad, Sudan, Mali, Burkina Faso, Eritrea, Cameroon. Poliomyelitis outbreaks have also been registered in India, Nigeria, Niger, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia.

As one of the ten most dangerous infections, poliomyelitis has been on Russia?s national preventive immunization calendar since 2001. Under this calendar, children are first vaccinated against poliomyelitis at the age of three months, and then vaccination is repeated four times. Epidemiologists say that a freshly inoculated vaccine is enough to protect children from enteric virus-71 causing aseptic meningitis, but in cases of outbreaks its is strongly recommended to have one more immunization.

According to epidemiologists, from 10 to 15 polio cases are registered in Russia annually, but in such cases the disease is diagnosed after a classical inoculation with a living vaccine. ?Such cases are very rare, since they are registered in children with primary immunodeficiency,? a source in the Research Institute of Epidemiology told Itar-Tass. To prevent such cases, since 2008 children have been inoculated with inactive vaccines incapable of causing the disease.
 
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Contrast this with the above article.

http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/05/13/7763994.html

The first case in 50 years of poliomyelitis have been registered in Russia, ITAR-TASS reported Thursday. A 9-month girl who came with her parents from Tajikistan to the town of Angarsk in the Irkutsk region was diagnosed with the disease. The child was taken to hospital. The second case has been fixed in Moscow but it has not been confirmed yet. In April about 240 children in Tajikistan were diagnosed with poliomyelitis and 13 of them died.
 
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MOSCOW, May 13 (Itar-Tass) - The two Tajik poliomyelitis-infected baby girls, who have been hospitalized in Russia, are in a satisfactory condition, head of Russia?s Federal Service for Supervision of Consumers Protection and Welfare (Rospotrebnadzor) Gennady Onishchenko told a news conference on Thursday.
According to Onishchenko, one of the girls, a nine-month baby, is undergoing treatment at an Irkutsk-based hospital. Another polio case was diagnosed in an infant girl in Moscow.
The baby in Irkutsk ?has normal temperature, her condition is considered as stable, but she still has a facial nerve paralysis,? Onishchenko said, adding that the girl in Moscow is also in a satisfactory condition.
The babies had been brought to Russia before the latter banned any children under the age of six from entering Russia from Tajikistan over a polio outbreak in the republic, the chief sanitary officer said and promised that the two sick babies will receive all necessary treatment and ?medics will do their best to prevent their disability.?
The poliomyelitis situation in Russia is under control, with the bulk of population being vaccinated against the disease, Onishchenko said and added that the poliomyelitis virus might be carried by adults from Tajikistan. According to Onishchenko, this is a ?so-called wild virus of the Indian origin.?
Currently, about 1,000 children of Russian servicemen are staying on the territory of Tajikistan, Onishchenko said and vowed all of them would be vaccinated. Those of them who are not vaccinated before leaving Tajikistan, will receive a vaccine in Russia. Moreover, about 1,000 Russian regular soldiers serving in Tajikistan will also be vaccinated against poliomyelitis, as will be those servicemen who will arrive to replace them, Onishchenko said.
As of now, 298 poliomyelitis cases have been registered in Tajikistan, of which 15 were lethal. The Russian chief sanitary officer described efforts taken by Tajik medics as ?inefficient.?
Poliomyelitis, often referred to as polio or infantile paralysis, is an acute viral infectious disease spread from person to person, primarily via the fecal-oral route. Although around 90% of polio infections cause no symptoms at all, affected individuals can exhibit a range of symptoms if the virus enters the blood stream. In about 1% of cases the virus enters the central nervous system, preferentially infecting and destroying motor neurons, leading to muscle weakness and acute flaccid paralysis. Different types of paralysis may occur, depending on the nerves involved. The disease mainly affects children of up to three to five years of age and can be prevented by immunization. Babies under one year of age are most sensitive to polio.
The world?s first living polio vaccine technology was elaborated in 1959 in the Soviet Union, and ever since the Poliomyelitis Institute of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences has been producing the vaccine to meet the Russian and foreign demand.
A year before the collapse of the Soviet Union, in 1990, the United Nations set a daring task to eradicate the disease by 2000, but failed. Nonetheless, the World Health Organization (WHO) has succeeded to do away with poliomyelitis in North America in 1994, and in Europe in 2002. Large-scale immunization campaigns of children under five years of age have brought polio occurrence from 350,000 cases in 1988 down to 1,163 cases in 2005. However, polio cases have again been registered in ten countries, where the disease was reported to be eradicated. These countries include Somalia, Indonesia, Yemen, Angola, Ethiopia, Chad, Sudan, Mali, Burkina Faso, Eritrea, Cameroon. Poliomyelitis outbreaks have also been registered in India, Nigeria, Niger, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia.
As one of the ten most dangerous infections, poliomyelitis has been on Russia?s national preventive immunization calendar since 2001. Under this calendar, children are first vaccinated against poliomyelitis at the age of three months, and then vaccination is repeated four times. Epidemiologists say that a freshly inoculated vaccine is enough to protect children from enteric virus-71 causing aseptic meningitis, but in cases of outbreaks its is strongly recommended to have one more immunization.
According to epidemiologists, from 10 to 15 polio cases are registered in Russia annually, but in such cases the disease is diagnosed after a classical inoculation with a living vaccine. ?Such cases are very rare, since they are registered in children with primary immunodeficiency,? a source in the Research Institute of Epidemiology told Itar-Tass. To prevent such cases, since 2008 children have been inoculated with inactive vaccines incapable of causing the disease.:tiphat: http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=15122677&PageNum=0
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Re: Irkutsk, Russia (ex Tajikistan): Two confirmed polio importations

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13.05.2010 18:36: In Russia officially confirmed two cases of polio
Заболели две 9-месячные девочки, приехавшие из Таджикистана. Ill two 9-month-old girl who came from Tajikistan.

Опасную болезнь, которая грозит инвалидностью и в тяжелых случаях смертью, в России считали побежденной. Dangerous disease that threatens to disability and death in severe cases, in Russia felt defeated. С 97 года после вспышки в Чечне, никто ей не болел. In 1997 after the outbreak in Chechnya, no it does not hurt. И все-таки полиомиелит опять добрался до нашей страны. Yet polio again reached our country.
В этот раз его привезли из Таджикистана. This time he was brought from Tajikistan. Одна заболевшая девочка в больнице Москвы, другая - в Иркутске. One girl fell ill in hospital in Moscow, the other - in Irkutsk. Оба случая заболевания полиомиелитом подтвердил сегодня Роспотребнадзор. Both cases of polio confirmed today Federal Service. Они завозные, утверждают в ведомстве. They are imported, according to the Office. Двум девочкам по 9 месяцев. Two girls and 9 months. Состояние малышки, госпитализированной в Москве, удовлетворительное. Condition girl, hospitalized in Moscow, is satisfactory. Это сообщили РИА Новости в первой столичной инфекционной больнице. It told RIA Novosti in the first Metropolitan Infectious Diseases Hospital. Ребенок там находится вместе с мамой. The child is there with his mom. Температуры у девочки сегодня не было, говорят медики. Temperatures girl today was not, say doctors. Малышку привезли в больницу во вторник и поначалу поместили в отделение, где лежат люди с неясным диагнозом. The baby was taken to hospital on Tuesday and initially placed in the office, where lay people with an unclear diagnosis. В стране приняты все меры, чтобы не допустить распространения опасного заболевания, рассказал радиостанции ?Эхо Москвы? главный санитарный врач Геннадий Онищенко. The country has taken all measures to prevent the spread of dangerous diseases, told Radio Ekho Moskvy's chief sanitary doctor Gennady Onishchenko.

Онищенко также посоветовал нашим соотечественникам, которые находятся в Таджикистане, поскорее оттуда уехать. Onishchenko also advised our compatriots who are in Tajikistan, as soon as possible to leave this town. Тем временем в Липецкой области медики начали вакцинировать всех детей, которые приехали из южной республики. Meanwhile, in the Lipetsk region doctors started vaccinating all children who come from the southern republic. Дело в том, что область участвует в программе переселения соотечественников из-за рубежа. The fact that the region participates in the program of resettlement of compatriots from abroad. Семьи, приехавшие из Таджикистана, могут навестить их родственники или знакомые из этой республики. Families come in Tajikistan, may visit their relatives or friends of this republic. Поэтому нужно обезопасить всех детей, сказала ИТАР-ТАСС главный эпидемиолог региона Людмила Кириллова. Therefore, we should protect all children, said Itar-Tass chief epidemiologist of the region Lyudmila Kirillova. Большинство детей в России были вакцинированы от этой болезни, для остальных полиомиелит представляет серьезную угрозу. Most children in Russia have been vaccinated against the disease for the remaining polio poses a serious threat. Об этом ?Эхо Москвы? рассказала доктор медицинских наук, ведущая программы ?Здоровье? на Первом канале Елена Малышева. This is "Echo of Moscow told the doctor of medical sciences, a leading" Health "program on Channel Elena Malysheva.

В свою очередь, санэпиднадзор Таджикистана утверждает, что случаи полиомиелита в республике единичны. In turn, Sanepidnadzor Tajikistan argues that cases of polio in the country isolated. В большинстве случаев это лишь острый вялый паралич, уверяет начальник службы государственного санитарного эпиднадзора Самариддин Алиев. In most cases this is only an acute flaccid paralysis, says the chief of public health surveillance Samariddin Aliyev. По его словам, в республике от болезни умерла только одна девочка. According to him, in the republic of the disease died, only one girl. Таджикские власти также ограничили поездки с детьми в поездах из-за полиомиелита. The Tajik authorities also restricted the travel of children on the trains because of polio.

Между тем лидер ЛДПР Владимир Жириновский сегодня предложил закрыть границу России с Таджикистаном. Meanwhile, Zhirinovsky LDPR leader today proposed to close Russia's border with Tajikistan. ?Заболел один ребенок, потом заболеют тысячи?, - заявил вице-спикер Госдумы. "Sick child, then thousands of sick," - said vice speaker
 
Re: Irkutsk, Russia (ex Tajikistan): Confirmed polio importation

Baby Hospitalized in Rare Polio Case

13 May 2010
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A 9-month-old girl from Tajikistan has been hospitalized in Moscow with polio as a Tajik outbreak reached the Russian capital, top government doctor Gennady Onishchenko said Thursday.
The baby and her parents arrived in Moscow on April 26 on a flight from the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, Interfax reported.
Her parents sought medical assistance after she came down with a high fever.
Health authorities are trying to contact other passengers on the flight to check their health, said Onishchenko, chief of the Federal Consumer Protection Service.
He said a second 9-month-old Tajik girl was confirmed with polio in the Irkutsk regional town of Angarsk on Wednesday. The baby arrived with her parents from Tajikistan in early May, he said.
The polio cases are Russia's first in 15 years, he said.
Onishchenko on Monday banned children under the age of 6 from entering Russia from Tajikistan amid a polio outbreak that has killed 12 children there. Onishchenko last week banned imports of nuts and dried fruit from Tajikistan.
Onishchenko said Thursday that there was no risk of an outbreak in Russia.;)
"The situation is under control and largely depends on measures taken in Tajikistan," he told reporters.
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Poliomyelitis, though a defeat in Russia, returned

Эта зараза особенно опасна для детей до 5 лет. This infection is especially dangerous for children under 5 years.
Фото: PHOTOXPRESS Photo: PHOTOXPRESS Жуткую болезнь, которая может закончиться параличом, последний раз фиксировали в нашей стране около 15 лет назад [будьте начеку!] Terrible disease, which can result in paralysis, and was last recorded in our country about 15 years ago [stay alert!]
Александра КУЧУК ? 13.05.2010 Alexander Kucuk - 05/13/2010
В Таджикистане сейчас вспышка полиомиелита - болезни, которая может закончиться параличом. In Tajikistan, now an outbreak of polio - a disease that can result in paralysis.

Еще в начале мая главный санитарный врач Геннадий Онищенко ввел карантин: запретил ввозить в Россию из Душанбе сухофрукты, орехи. In early May, the chief sanitary doctor Gennady Onishchenko, has introduced quarantine: banned the import into Russia from Dushanbe dried fruits and nuts. Эти продукты едят сырыми, а значит, через них в организм может попасть зараза. These products are eaten raw, which means that through them in the body can get an infection.

Онищенко также запретил таджикским детям до 6 лет въезжать на территорию России. Onishchenko also banned the Tajik children under 6 years old to enter the territory of Russia.

Меры оказались не лишними! 13 мая стало известно, что у 9-месячной малышки, которая прилетела с родителями в Москву из Душанбе еще 26 апреля, проявились признаки полиомиелита. The measures were not redundant! May 13 it was announced that a 9-month-old baby, who flew with his parents in Moscow from Dushanbe is 26 April, the symptoms of polio. Девочку отправили в первую инфекционную больницу. The girl was sent to the first infectious diseases hospital.

Врачи оценили ее состояние как ?удовлетворительное?. Doctors put her condition as "satisfactory". Медики проверили родителей и родню девочки, у них полиомиелита нет. The doctors checked the girl's parents and relatives, they do not have polio.

Еще один случай полиомиелита зарегистрировали 3 мая в городе Ангарске (Иркутская область). Another case of polio recorded on 3 May in the city of Angarsk (Irkutsk Region). Там также заболела 9-месячная девочка, прибывшая из Таджикистана. There is also ill 9-month-old girl, who arrived from Tajikistan.

- Температуры у нее нет, состояние стабильное, но остается парез (онемение. - Прим. ред. ) лицевого нерва, - рассказал журналистам Геннадий Онищенко. - Temperatures she had no stable condition but remains paresis (onemenie. - approx. Ed.) Facial nerve - Gennady Onishchenko told reporters.

Представители Роспотребнадзора досматривают пассажиров поездов и самолетов, прибывающих из этой страны. Representatives Rospotrebnadzor inspect passenger trains and planes arriving from that country. И в обязательном порядке проводят вакцинацию приехавших из Таджикистана детей от полиомиелита. Решено было также активнее прививать российских детей. And the mandatory vaccination came from Tajikistan children against polio. It was decided to also actively teach Russian children.

Болезнь действительно опасная, с конца апреля в Таджикистане от нее умерли 15 человек, у 300 развился паралич разной степени тяжести. Практически все заболевшие - дети. The disease is really dangerous, since the end of April in Tajikistan from her dead 15 people in 300 developed paralysis of varying severity. Almost all patients - children.

Последний раз полиомиелит регистрировали на территории России 13 лет назад, в 1997 году. Last polio were recorded in Russia 13 years ago, in 1997. Тогда вспышка опасного заболевания произошла в Чеченской республике. Then an outbreak of a dangerous disease occurred in the Chechen republic.

ОФИЦИАЛЬНО OFFICIALLY

Роспотребнадзор подтвердил второй случай полиомиелита в России Rospotrebnadzor confirmed the second case of polio in Russia

Хотя окончательные результаты анализов придут 14 мая, медики уверены - это та инфекция, что вызвала эпидемию в Таджикистане. Although the final results of the tests will come on May 14, doctors assured - this is an infection that caused an epidemic in Tajikistan.

У 9-месячной таджикской девочки, госпитализированной в Иркутске, подтвержден полиомиелит. In 9-month-old Tajik girl, hospitalized in Irkutsk, confirmed polio. Под вопросом оставалась вторая малышка, что с подозрением на тот же диагноз оказалась в первой инфекционной больнице Москвы. The question mark remained the second baby, what with a suspected diagnosis was the same in the first infectious diseases hospital in Moscow.

- По тем данным, которыми мы располагаем на сегодняшний день, у девочки в Москве подтверждается полиомиелит, - сообщила руководитель пресс-службы Роспотребнадзора Любовь Воропаева. - According to the data that we have to date a girl in Moscow confirmed polio, - said Head of Press Service Rospotrebnadzor Love Voropayev. - Но окончательные результаты анализов будут известны завтра. - But the final test results will be known tomorrow.

?СПРАВКА ?КП? "HELP" KP "

Полиомиелит - острое вирусное заболевание, которое может вызывать временные или постоянные параличи и онемение различных нервов. Poliomyelitis - an acute viral disease that can cause temporary or permanent paralysis and numbness of various nerves. Возбудитель может жить по 2-4 месяца в продуктах, воде, не боится высушивания и заморозки. The virus can live for 2-4 months in food, water, is not afraid of drying and freezing. Зато быстро погибает при нагревании (поэтому сухофрукты, орехи и зелень и советуют обливать кипятком). But quickly die when heated (which is why dried fruits, nuts and herbs and recommend pouring boiling water).

Заразиться можно при контакте с больным, не только через прикосновение, общие вещи, но и воздушно-капельным путем. You can become infected through contact with patients, not just through touch, common things, but also by airborne droplets.

КОММЕНТАРИЙ ВИРУСОЛОГА COMMENTARY VIROLOGY

?В Москве и Сибири эпидемии не будет. "In Moscow and Siberia, the epidemic will not be. Под вопросом юг страны!? The question mark south of the country! "

- Прививка от полиомиелита у нас в стране обязательная, - говорит известный вирусолог, доктор биологических наук Игорь Красильников. - Vaccination against polio in our country fail - says renowned virologist, Dr. Sci Igor Krasilnikov. - До школы ребенку пять раз вводят вакцину. - Before school child five times giving immunizations. Но все равно прививают далеко не всех детей. But still teach far from all children. У нас есть регионы, где привиты 80-90 % людей, там опасность эпидемии полиомиелита ничтожна. We have regions where 80-90% of people vaccinated, there is danger of an epidemic of poliomyelitis is negligible. Это Центральная Россия, Дальний Восток, большая часть Сибири. This Central Russia, Far East, much of Siberia. А вот на юге страны достаточно много непривитых. But in the south of the country quite a lot of unvaccinated. Можно сказать, там зона риска. We can say there is a zone of risk.

И второе ?слабое звено? - это дети с ослабленным иммунитетом. And the second "weak link" - children with weakened immune systems. Их прививка не может защитить до конца. Their vaccine can not protect to the end. Они могут заболеть, хотя и без смертельного исхода. They can get sick, though no fatalities.

Начеку стоит быть всем родителям. Should be alert to all parents. Первый и самый главный совет - не пить сырую воду! The first and most important advice - do not drink tap water! Она чаще всего становится источником заражения. It often becomes a source of infection. Если нет прививки у ребенка, стоит пойти привиться. If there is no vaccination for the child, you need to go grafted. На выработку иммунитета уйдет две недели. On the development of immunity will take two weeks. Вакцинация - бесплатная. Vaccinations - for free.


Эксперт Всемирной организации здравоохранения: ?Полиомиелит грозит одному проценту россиян. Experts from the World Health Organization: "Polio threatens one percent of Russians. Пусть трясутся!? Let the shaking! "

Полтора миллиона человек в нашей стране не привито от опасной инфекции, приводит данные Всемирная организация здравоохранения (ВОЗ). One and a half million people in our country are not vaccinated against dangerous infections, cites the World Health Organization (WHO).

- Вакцинация - единственная защита от полиомиелита, - сказал в интервью РИА ?Новости? главный научный сотрудник научного Центра здоровья детей РАМН, эксперт ВОЗ, Владимир Таточенко. - Vaccination - the only protection against polio, - said in an interview with RIA Novosti Chief Researcher Research Center, Children 's Health, WHO expert, Vladimir Tatochenko. - Не привито в России около одного процента жителей. - Do not vaccinated in Russia about one percent of residents. Пусть теперь трясутся! Suppose now shaking! Те же, кто привились, сидят спокойно (читать далее) . Those who caught on, sit quietly (read more) .
 
Re: Irkutsk, Russia (ex Tajikistan): Confirmed polio importation

Thursday, 05/13/2010
Polio reached Moscow from Tajikistan
Moscow / Dushanbe. For the first time since 1997, Russian doctors have to do again with polio cases: In Moscow and in the Irkutsk region, two infants with the disease under treatment. They came from Tajikistan.

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The last time polio had occurred in Russia in 1997 in Chechnya. Since 2002, the disease is eradicated in Russia - as well as in Europe and the CIS. Now the disease is mainly in Central Asia to Tajikistan - and has spread because of the intensive flow of immigrant workers to Russia.


Two cases in Russia - jewils nine-month girl

Thus, polio diagnosed in a nine-month-old girl, at 1 May with her parents in Angarsk in Irkutsk region came. On 3 May came to the hospital where the baby. The virus was also detected in four other children 9-16 years from the environment of the baby.


A second, also nine month-old Tajik girl with the same diagnosis in a Moscow hospital infection in treatment. The child has probably never been vaccinated against poliomyelitis, the chief medical officer of Russia Gennady Onishchenko. Both became ill babies were in satisfactory condition, he said.


In Tajikistan, are ill after the last data 293 children to the dangerous disease. Since February 15 deaths were registered. The diseases occur mainly in the capital Dushanbe and in the adjacent to the southwest of Afghanistan desperately poor country.


Migration flows take the disease with

A spread of the disease to Russia is almost inevitable, since the one hand, many Tajiks working in Russia, the other to be in Tajikistan Russians as professionals and members of a military unit stationed there - and children often travel with.


But in Moscow and the Moscow region, according to the immigration authorities have reported more than 20,000 Tajiks, including 124 children under 15 years. In Tajikistan, live about 1,000 Russian children. For it was the Russian Portion of Health sent a vaccine to make an additional vaccination.


Russian children should be evacuated

Also, try Russia, now as many Russian children evacuated from the infected area.
This measure has been hampered temporarily in Dushanbe, after Russia had adopted because of the epidemic, an official travel ban for Tajik children under six.


In addition, the sale of dried fruits and nuts from the Central Asian country was banned - allegedly because the disease could be transmitted this way. Incoming trains and flights from Tajikistan will be reviewed by the Medical Service detail.

Polio worldwide has been greatly suppressed by vaccination campaigns in the past 50 years and could be completely eradicated in the foreseeable future. So far, in fact, only Nigeria, India and Pakistan were regarded as countries where the disease occurred more frequently.


Vaccination campaign in Tajikistan

The entry barrier for Tajik children to Russia to apply until a tarnished in Tajikistan mass vaccination has led to widespread immunization. Onishchenko accused the Tajik authorities to have worked after the outbreak of the infection ineffective and lost a lot of time.




This is particularly the support of the World Health Organisation WHO vaccination by floods in the south of the country.

The UN Children's Fund UNICEF Tajikistan has announced the provision of 4 million doses of vaccine for all children up to five years.
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Another polio case has been reported in Moscow, Russia?s Chief Health Inspector Gennady Onishchenko said. The first case occurred in the Irkutsk region (Siberia). Both diseased are children who returned from infection-hit Tajikistan. Onishchenko said that thousands of Russian soldiers located in Tajikistan will get polio- vaccines as soon as possible. Currently 215 children in Tajikistan are in hospitals and 15 died of polio.:tiphat: http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/05/13/7774347.html
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Re: Irkutsk, Russia (ex Tajikistan): Confirmed polio importation

Tajikistan denies blocking Russian children from leaving

By Stan Rogers
2010-05-12



DUSHANBE ? The Russian Embassy said May 12 that polio-stricken Tajikistan is not blocking the evacuation of Russian children, news media reported May 12.


Accusations by Russian Chief Public Health Physician Gennady Onishchenko that Tajikistan is keeping Russian children from leaving are unfounded, the Russian embassy in Dushanbe said.


Onishchenko on May 10 recommended that all Russians, especially children, leave Tajikistan. May 11 he vowed firm measures impacting the Tajik economy if Tajikistan did not lift its alleged block on the exodus of Russian children, Interfax reported. Tajikistan has had 12 deaths from polio this year. :tiphat:http://centralasiaonline.com/cocoon...riefs/caii/newsbriefs/2010/05/12/newsbrief-07
 
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Polio epidemic in Tajikistan: travel ban on children under six years
19:41 | 13 / 05 / 2010




JURMALA 13 May (RIA Novosti). The management of the Tajik Railways has decided, because of the poliomyelitis epidemic to the sale of tickets for travel departing from Tajikistan passengers with children under six years to 8 July to discontinue it altogether.

As the spokesman for the Tajik railway Machmadjussuf Abdurachmanow further announced on Thursday, are to travel by train passengers only in vaccinated children (aged six years allowed), the vaccination against polio can prove. Abdurachmanow is currently in the meeting of the CIS Council of Railway Engineering in Jurmala (Latvia) participated.

According to him, the passengers on the medical aid posts of all railway stations and stations of Tajikistan will receive a free immunization against poliomyelitis.

In Tajikistan, almost 300 cases of poliomyelitis disease are registered, of which 52 are confirmed laboratortechnisch. 13 fatalities. Most of the patients (90 percent) are children aged under five.

Earlier, the Supreme Hygiene Doctor of Russia, Gennady Onishchenko, the Russian citizens had recommended, Tajikistan to leave because of the polio epidemic.

In Russia, the polio for more than ten years, was no longer registered. This can be a very dangerous virus disease, leading to disability and even go out deadly.

Onishchenko, according to more than 1,000 children are Russian officers in Tajikistan. Russia has supplied more than 20 000 doses of vaccine for mass vaccination to Tajikistan.

were, according to the Russian Defense Ministry on 11 and 12
May all Russian military personnel and their family members in Tajikistan under the age of 25 years vaccinated.

In Tajikistan, the Russian is two hundred and first
Military base and the optical-electronic Fr?hwarnzentrale Nurek.

In Russia, meanwhile, two cases of polio disease in nine months to two girls - were confirmed in Irkutsk and Moscow -. :tiphat:http://de.rian.ru/society/20100513/126297017.html
 
Re: Irkutsk, Russia (ex Tajikistan): Confirmed polio importation

Polio alert in Russia
18:50 | 13 / 05 / 2010

MOSCOW, 13 May (RIA Novosti). A nine-month-old girl from Tajikistan, which is suffering from poliomyelitis, is in a satisfactory condition in a Moscow hospital infection. The RIA Novosti was told on Thursday unofficially from the hospital.

According to the information of the infant's body temperature was normal on Thursday.

As the party with which the agency announced on, the girl was taken to hospital last Tuesday and sent to the department for patients with unexplained symptoms were.

On Wednesday in Irkutsk region, were eastern Siberia, with another nine-month also girl who had come with his parents in Tajikistan, established poliomyelitis. In another child in Moscow suspected of having poliomyelitis.

In Tajikistan, some 300 polio cases have been registered. 52 of which were confirmed by laboratory tests. 13 polio patients died. About 90 percent of sufferers are children under five.

Russia's chief doctor Gennady Onishchenko hygiene had been recommended after the outbreak of poliomyelitis in Tajikistan, the Russian citizens to leave this country.

When polio is a highly contagious disease that infected the nerve cells of the spinal cord and can cause pathology of the nervous system. Poliomyelitis runs mostly asymptomatic or indiscriminately. In a few cases of polio viruses may penetrate into the central nervous system and increase in motor neurons, resulting in death or irreversible paralysis. :tiphat:http://de.rian.ru/russia/20100513/126295939.html
 
Re: Irkutsk, Russia (ex Tajikistan): Confirmed polio importation

In Russia, reported two cases of polio

13.05.2010, 16.37

Rospotrebnadzor confirmed the second case of polio in the territory of Russia. Told the head of Rospotrebnadzor Gennady Onishchenko.

Thus, formally registered two cases - in Moscow and Irkutsk. In both cases, this 9-month-old girl from Tajikistan. They arrived in Russia even before the entry into Russia of children under 6 years of this country was banned in connection with the spread of the disease.

According to Onishchenko, the children are in satisfactory condition.

"The presence of imported polio cases could complicate the epidemiological situation in the country" - did not rule out the head of Rospotrebnadzor. However, he stressed that "all measures implemented to prevent the spread of this infection in Russia."Among measures implemented was held epidproverka all been in contact with sick children. No other patients were not identified.

In April of Tajikistan informed the World Health Organization concerning the registration on its territory of cases of acute paralytic poliomyelitis. According to the Ministry of Health of Tajikistan, from 26 January to 20 April were recorded 120 cases of acute flaccid paralysis among children under the age of 16 years, of which 108 cases - among children under 5 years old. Deaths of 10 children. The incidence was reported in central and southwestern parts of Tajikistan. The epidemic involved 20 territories of the republic.

World Health Organization and UN Children's Fund responded swiftly to this information, sending in Tajikistan of 4 million doses of vaccine for mass immunization of children.

It emphasizes the official report of head of the mission of UNICEF in Tajikistan Hongveya GAO outbreak of polio in the country extends an alarming rate, so that we together with the Tajik doctors to immediately vaccinate about 1.5 million children under five years. "

Help prevent the spread of polio suggested that the Russian Federation. Rospotrebnadzor sent to Tajikistan a letter of offer.

Rospotrebnadzor banned the import into Russia from Tajikistan, dried fruits and nuts. Head Office, Gennady Onishchenko, said he did not intend to allow importation of these products until the epidemiological situation in the republic will not be normalized.

In Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have been reinforced preventive measures to prevent emergence and spread of polio. The resolution of the chief state sanitary doctor of Kazakhstan Kenes Ospanov noted that these measures have been taken "in connection with the complication of the epidemiological situation of polio in the world."

"Entrusted to strengthen quarantine and sanitary monitoring of passengers arriving from polio-deprived countries," a course of vaccination for children under 15 years of the number of Tajik citizens, "not vaccinated and do not have documentary evidence of graft, to ensure the immunization of persons traveling in Tajikistan and poor countries where polio. This is stated in the message of Kazakhstan Ministry of Health, which distributed the republican media.

Chief State Sanitary Inspector, Deputy Minister of Health of Uzbekistan Bakhtiyor Niyazmatov told reporters that the republic since 1996, there have been no cases of polio. However, he noted, "most recently in some countries of Central Asia have been reported new cases of the disease, and in this connection the Ministry of Health signed an agreement on cooperation with WHO and UNICEF to conduct national immunization days against polio." "She will cover all children from birth to 5 years - a total of about 3 million children. The campaign will be held in two rounds - 17 to 23 May and from 7 to 13 June this year", - quote Niyazmatova local media. :tiphat:http://www.itar-tass.com/level2.html?NewsID=15122197&PageNum=0
 
Re: Irkutsk, Russia (ex Tajikistan): Confirmed polio importation

Forgotten once the disease appeared in Europe
Thursday, May 13, 2010


The slaughter of animals, the bacteria are released during poroduPolio, also known as polio stood at the gates of Russia - rustic alert the media. In neighboring Tajikistan, 300 people have fallen ill, several had died. Russians are afraid of an outbreak of serious disease. Polio has not been in Russia for 10 years.


According to information from the agency Ria Novosti in Irkutsk in May reported the first case of polio in Russia. The hospital also resides in Moscow, nine children with suspected disease. Both cases are children, whose parents came from Tajikistan. The health status of the two girls is stable. The main sanitary doctor Gennady Onishchenko told Russia that the terms of the family are citizens of Tajikistan who are looking for work in Russia. May 10, Russia introduced a ban on arrival in the territory of Tajikistan for their children under the age of six.Hospitalized girls arrived in Russia before the entry into force of this prohibition.

Russia is afraid of an epidemic

In neighboring Tajikistan has not yet been reported almost 300 cases of polio. 52 of them laboratory confirmed. 13 patients died. Most patients are children.
At airports and train stations of many Russian cities intensified checks on travelers from Tajikistan and food products imported from that country. The shares were recommended preventive vaccination of children and teenagers who come from that country. Inoculated with the families of Russian military stationed in Tajikistan.

The Russians are worried that exceeds the boundaries of serious illness. For now, health services transmit reassuring messages. However, there is no shortage of ideas of radical solutions.

Known for his controversial speeches deputy Vladimir Żyrinowski demanded the closure of the border with Tajikistan. "Why should we expose our children? Today a child is sick, then become sick and thousands of "- he warned at a press conference in Moscow.:tiphat: http://www.polskieradio.pl/wiadomosci/swiat/artykul161740.html
 
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Outbreak of polio in Moscow leaves medical officials concerned

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The second case of poliomyelitis in two days was registered in Russia, this time in the capital. In both cases, the virus was imported.
<!-- bookmarks start -->Today doctors have confirmed the diagnosis for a 9-month-old daughter of immigrants who came to Moscow from Tajikistan in search for work.


On May 12, the same diagnosis was confirmed for a 9 month-old girl in Irkutsk, Siberia ? also a daughter of recently arrived Tajik workers.
According to Russia?s chief medical officer of health, Gennady Onishchenko, now there is no danger for the lives of both children, who have been given proper and timely medical help. However, there is a risk that imported cases of poliomyelitis will affect the epidemiological situation in the country.
?There is no need to worry, because we have taken all the necessary measures to prevent an epidemic,? Onishchenko underlined.
In order to fight the threat, Russian authorities have organized additional vaccination of children in both countries and boosted borderline quarantine control for passengers coming from Tajikistan by all means of transport. All Tajik citizens currently in Russia will be subjected to medical examination and vaccination.
The authorities have also introduced a temporary ban on Tajik children under 6 entering the country until the end of the mass immunization, which took off on May 1. The measure does not apply to Russian children temporary residing in Tajikistan. Moreover, Russian citizens are strongly recommended to leave the country. Now more than 1,000 Russian children ? mainly from officers? families ? remain in the infected area.
On May 5, Russia banned the import of Tajik nuts and dried fruits, which can contain the wild type of virus. The products already in sale will be confiscated.
For their part, Tajik authorities prohibited children under 6 from leaving the country. Only those immunized will be able to board long-distance trains.
All in all, there have been 300 officially recognized cases of poliomyelitis in Tajikistan. Thirteen people have died. 90% of those infected are children under the age of 5.
Poliomyelitis is an acute viral infectious disease spread from person to person. Around 90% of polio infections cause no symptoms at all. However, in about 1% of cases the virus enters the central nervous system, infecting and destroying motor neurons, leading to muscle weakness and acute flaccid paralysis.
There have been no cases of poliomyelitis in Russia for more than 15 years.:tiphat:http://rt.com/prime-time/2010-05-13/poliomyelitis-russia-tajikistan-measures.html
 
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