MissVelvetDress_75
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My sister has a lovely polio shot scar on her arm. Now will someone kindly explain why those shots left that mark?
Polio Vaccination Appreciation THREAD!!!!
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WildHoneyAlways
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Yeah, what sort of evil needle leaves a scar like that? I guess we can't expect salk to think of everything. 
Carek1230
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ugh did that one hurt?
Carek1230
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OMG that's horrible, I am so sorry to hear that news. 
MissVelvetDress_75
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[q]Four Children in Minnesota Contract Polio
By MARTIGA LOHN, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 32 minutes ago
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Four children in an Amish community in Minnesota have contracted the polio virus — the first known infections in the U.S. in five years, state health officials said Thursday.
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Dr. Harry Hull, the state epidemiologist, said the cases do not pose a threat to the general public because most people have been vaccinated against polio and are unlikely to have contact with Amish people. But he said he expects to find more infections within the Amish community because some of its members refuse immunizations on religious grounds.
None of the children have shown any symptoms of the paralyzing disease. About one in 200 people who contract the polio virus suffer paralysis because of it; others typically rid themselves the virus after weeks or months.
None of the four children had been vaccinated. Three are siblings; the fourth is a baby from another family.
The infection came to light when the baby was hospitalized for various health problems and underwent tests. Authorities then began testing other members of the community for the virus.
Officials would not identify the Amish community but said it consisted of 100 to 200 people.
Hull said the infections were traced to an oral vaccine that was administered in another country, probably within the past three years.
The use of oral polio vaccine containing the live virus was stopped in the United States in 2000. The live-virus vaccine caused an average of eight cases of polio a year in the United States. The U.S. and Canada now use an injected vaccine made from the killed virus.
State and federal officials are investigating how an infection from a vaccine given in another country reached Minnesota. Stool or saliva from an infected person can transmit the virus.
Health officials said they are working with the Amish community to determine who may have been exposed to the virus, and to encourage immunizations.
"We have been going house to house, talking with them about the risk, offering the vaccine and attempting to collect specimens to see if the virus has been spreading," Hull said. "Some families have said, `No, thank you, we do not want to interact with you at all.' Other families have said, `Sure, we'll get vaccinated. We'll provide specimens.'"
Without the community's cooperation, Hull said, there is a chance of an outbreak similar to one that occurred in 1979 in Amish communities in Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri and Pennsylvania. Ten people were left paralyzed by the disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The last naturally occurring case of polio in the United States was in 1979, and health officials consider the disease eliminated in the Western Hemisphere. It persists in other parts of the world, with the vast majority of cases concentrated in India, Nigeria and Pakistan, according to the
World Health Organization.
According to the
CDC, more than 95 percent of U.S. children are vaccinated against polio by the time they enter school.
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On the Net:
Minnesota Department of Health: http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/idepc/diseases/polio/index.html
World Health Organization: http://www.polioeradication.org/disease.asp[/q]
By MARTIGA LOHN, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 32 minutes ago
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Four children in an Amish community in Minnesota have contracted the polio virus — the first known infections in the U.S. in five years, state health officials said Thursday.
ADVERTISEMENT
Dr. Harry Hull, the state epidemiologist, said the cases do not pose a threat to the general public because most people have been vaccinated against polio and are unlikely to have contact with Amish people. But he said he expects to find more infections within the Amish community because some of its members refuse immunizations on religious grounds.
None of the children have shown any symptoms of the paralyzing disease. About one in 200 people who contract the polio virus suffer paralysis because of it; others typically rid themselves the virus after weeks or months.
None of the four children had been vaccinated. Three are siblings; the fourth is a baby from another family.
The infection came to light when the baby was hospitalized for various health problems and underwent tests. Authorities then began testing other members of the community for the virus.
Officials would not identify the Amish community but said it consisted of 100 to 200 people.
Hull said the infections were traced to an oral vaccine that was administered in another country, probably within the past three years.
The use of oral polio vaccine containing the live virus was stopped in the United States in 2000. The live-virus vaccine caused an average of eight cases of polio a year in the United States. The U.S. and Canada now use an injected vaccine made from the killed virus.
State and federal officials are investigating how an infection from a vaccine given in another country reached Minnesota. Stool or saliva from an infected person can transmit the virus.
Health officials said they are working with the Amish community to determine who may have been exposed to the virus, and to encourage immunizations.
"We have been going house to house, talking with them about the risk, offering the vaccine and attempting to collect specimens to see if the virus has been spreading," Hull said. "Some families have said, `No, thank you, we do not want to interact with you at all.' Other families have said, `Sure, we'll get vaccinated. We'll provide specimens.'"
Without the community's cooperation, Hull said, there is a chance of an outbreak similar to one that occurred in 1979 in Amish communities in Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri and Pennsylvania. Ten people were left paralyzed by the disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The last naturally occurring case of polio in the United States was in 1979, and health officials consider the disease eliminated in the Western Hemisphere. It persists in other parts of the world, with the vast majority of cases concentrated in India, Nigeria and Pakistan, according to the
World Health Organization.
According to the
CDC, more than 95 percent of U.S. children are vaccinated against polio by the time they enter school.
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On the Net:
Minnesota Department of Health: http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/idepc/diseases/polio/index.html
World Health Organization: http://www.polioeradication.org/disease.asp[/q]
zonelistener
ONE love, blood, life
I read that today! 
Paralysis.
:salk:
Paralysis.
:salk:
Carek1230
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Polio is 
JessicaAnn
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:salk:
U2SavesTheWorld
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:salk:
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zoney!
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more amish minnesotans are getting polio
they probably won't read this, so......
they probably won't read this, so......
Screendoor
The Fly
Do they even give polio shots anymore?
therulz
Acrobat
The IPOL polio vaccine does not leave a scar to my knowledge unless they had a localized infection or reaction to a component of the vaccine. If you use Emla cream first...they don't even feel it.MissVelvetDress_75 said:
The smallpox vaccine left a round scar on the deltoid but was discontinued I think in the 70's.... I had one on my fifth birthday which was my first day of school in Detroit, and it was pretty traumatic for me. After my school shots, I spent all night strategically placing two toy boxes on top of each other and filling them so they couldn't be easily lifted...then spent the morning with my cat Fifi and Mrs Beasely behind them in the back of a closet. I was dead set that if I had to get any more shots I was never ever going to go to school. They did my school shots and all I can remember is that vaccination 'gun' that they used to shoot me. I think I seriously thought she was going to kill me with it. Then the nurse gave me a yucky tasting sugar cube and said it was my 'birthday treat'<old polio vaccine.
They still vaccinate for polio (IPOL) as I do them all the time but it is better than the nasty tasting liquid one of old and to prevent a devastating illness...it is worth it.
bono_gal
Rock n' Roll Doggie VIP PASS
U2SavesTheWorld said:
Lardences loves Salk
Everyone loves Salk!!!
:salk:
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zoney!
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Screendoor said:
Yes. Unless yoy are Amish.
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zoney!
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beegeee,
thank you!
thank you!
beegee
Neon Zebra
for what?
but...you're welcome!
gee, i never really realized before just how much i APPRECIATE salk!
:!!!!!!!!!!!!:
but...you're welcome!
gee, i never really realized before just how much i APPRECIATE salk!
:!!!!!!!!!!!!:
fah
Blue Crack Addict
'Salk' was one of the Jeopardy answers last night 
:appreciates:
:appreciates:
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zoney!
ONE love, blood, life
bonosgirl84 said:for what?
Oh Cherry:
I am of Ireland.
oddly, you know that's from "Words for music perhaps"
beegee
Neon Zebra
you're just too smart for me, feffers.
let's all talk about poetry for like, 2.5 days.
let's all talk about poetry for like, 2.5 days.
U2SavesTheWorld
Rock n' Roll Doggie ALL ACCESS
Is this our new home?
beegee
Neon Zebra
U2SavesTheWorld
Rock n' Roll Doggie ALL ACCESS
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zoney!
ONE love, blood, life
bonosgirl84 said:you're just too smart for me, feffers.
let's all talk about poetry for like, 2.5 days.
I have a book of his poetry from my Irish Literature class I took in 1993. It was neat to study Irish literature IN Ireland!
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verte76
Blue Crack Addict
I salute Dr. Jonas Salk and his vaccine. God knows how many people he's saved from lives of paralysis.
JessicaAnn
ONE love, blood, life
WildHoneyAlways
Rock n' Roll Doggie FOB
I got a flu shot yesterday. Who do I appreciate for that??
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