Polio disease - take care of your kids

[David48]

OK … this is serious … dead serious.

Give some consideration to making sure your kids are immunised against the Polio disease.

It’s personal to me … even in today’s modern Thailand, within our generation, Polio is still around. My partners (blood) Uncle has Polio.

He gets by OK, he’s a motorcycle taxi guy, but watch him walk … you will know.

So, why is it a concern to us in Thailand?

Well, it has it roots going back some years ago to, believe it or not, the CIA and Bin Laden.

To discover the exact whereabouts of Bin Laden the CIA used the cover of health workers and the polio vaccine to discover this.

Since then, the Taliban has made the link that anyone giving the Polio Vaccine is an Agent for the West.

Forty, yes 40 Polio Vaccine givers are dead … seriously.

Polio is growing in only 3 countries around the world … Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan.

None of those three are Thailand … but their tourists do visit Thailand.

So just take this as a friendly reminder to make sure your kids have had the vaccine.

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Polio … it’s a bugger of a disease to get.

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[pigeonjake]

little jannet is getting all the vaccines available david,,

and im sure you will do the same for your 2 little men,

good point mate,

jake

[Tywais]

A news article on Thaivisa just recently.

WHO declares Thailand and other 10 Asian countries polio-free

BANGKOK, 18 April 2014 (NNT) - Thailand and 10 other Asian countries have been declared free of polio by the World Health Organization.

The WHO certified the south-east Asian region polio-free on March 27 after years, without a single new case being reported.

The countries recently certified were Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, India, Indonesia, Maldives,Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Timor-Leste. Earlier, America, Europe, West Pacific had been certified.

There are only three countries where polio is still endemic which are Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria. The disease has been eradicated in 80% of the world.

Thailand has been free from polio for 17 years, with the last case reported in Loei in 1997. Provinces have participated in polio vaccination campaigns throughout the years to boost immunity of residents.


-- NNT 2014-04-18