The Government in Brazzaville, the capital of the nation, has declared an emergency and has announced plans to vaccinate the entire population with oral drops three times with help from the w.h.o, UNICEF and the US Centers for disease control and prevention.
"In Pointe-Noire,"We have two hospitals with hundreds of paralyzed people and many deaths, the port, where most cases are concentrated,"Dr. Bruce Aylward said the w.h.o.'s, Director of the global polio in an interview of Geneva.""And a few things about this outbreak are different and deeply worrying."
Polio strikes usually young and girls alike, kill not more than 20 percent of those which paralyzes it follows death if paralysis back on the nerves moves the breathing muscles to control. Click in Pointe-Noire are 85 percent of cases in adolescents and adults, most victims are male, and the death rate is much higher.
However, Dr. Aylward said the outbreak than his team on the way more learns it could more start typical when even serious look. "We have heard about this in the last seven days," he said. "This is very much under investigation."
Pointe-Noire is unusual, rebel activity performed its streets, the city "almost like an island," he said, is:, few outside children visit.Routine polio vaccination in Central Africa began in the 1980s and focuses on children younger than 5, so few adults are protected.Also, the weakened spreading virus in the vaccine live, in the same way that does the disease in the faeces shed virus erhalten.Weil go to mothers and sisters baby diapers tend to, you can up, accidental form of protection have picked up.
"Also, see the hospitals are likely only serious cases, the death rate make up artificially."" We do still with the fog of war, "said Dr. Aylward.""We have not exact data."
In 1996 he mentioned, an adult Albania outbreak in long isolated after a few years where only children got the modern vaccine.
It will take to see a couple of weeks whether the intensive central African immunization of the last few years from this outbreak fence can, said Dr. Aylward.Er called the situation in the Republic of Congo an unexpected setback in what was otherwise a great year in the fight against polio.
Nigeria, long Africa polio hot spot, had a 98 percent reduction in cases since 2009 and 14 of the 15 countries with outbreaks of Nigerian tribe erased you out.
The Republic of the Congo outbreak is an Indian tribe that was first discovered in Angola in 2007 and crawls North.
In the meantime, in northern India other polio Epicenter, "it is located in the high season, and we had no cases in five weeks," Aylward.Die said Dr. worldwide polio eradication campaign has $800 million less than it is estimated that it needs to finish the job, he said, "and we have never again an opportunity like this."
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