Children aged 1-9 in LONDON to be offered polio vaccine

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www.independent.co.uk/news/health/polio-vaccine-children-london-outbreak-b2142219.html?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=IND_Breaking_News%20polio&utm_term=IND_Breaking_Newsletter

Why only London?

Because that's where they've found polio in the water.

public health is a mess at the moment

Sewage in the following areas has tested positive. SEWAGE, not humans.

Barnet, Brent, Camden, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey, Islington and Waltham Forest, UKHSA said.

I thought polio was transmissible human to human? Is it safe to only vaccinate Londoners?

One of my neighbours many years ago had one leg shorter than the other and apparently he had contracted polio as a child. This is kind of worrying? I actually thought that it was eliminated? Do they vaccinate for it still?

In the current circs I would start with a programme in London, since presumably it hasn't been found in any other city yet. Obvs there is some transmission risk to people visiting London but living elsewhere (or if the infected visit them outside London) but no evidence of a need for vaccinations - yet.

If you’ve been vaccinated as part of the normal vaccine cycle you’re fully vaccinated against polio anyway.

Interestingly there’s signs it’s in New York also.

Monkeypox, Polio, Covid, WW3, incompetent government, incoming Blackouts, rising prices.

What next.

I have signed up to receive various gov.uk newsletters.
One of them is this "Weekly Statutory Notification of Infectious Diseases (NOIDs) Report"
It's useful, unless you're a hypochondriac. 😂

We find out that a secret sect rules the world?

Are we all vaccinated? I only remember my children getting the mumps, measles, rubella, meningitis ones. Can't recall them being vaccinated against polio? I also have no idea whatsoever what I have been vaccinated against apart from Rubella and Tuberculosis. Obviously, Covid more recently.

I know that as a child, we were not vaccinated against mumps or measles as I had measles as a child and my brother had mumps as an adult.

I think it's a brilliant and proportionate response. Can obviously mobilise to go wider if needs be, but essentially that's where it's been found in the sewage, it's not transmitting massively in the population yet so get the DCs vaccinated.

I just hope there's a good take-up after all the Covid anti-vax chat.

Yes. Nobody in London has polio. It's in the sewage, so likely from people who have been live vaccinated then traveled to the uk. This isn't another 'covid'

All children are vaccinated against polio as part of the standard NHS vaccination schedule. It's part of the 6-in-1 jab given at 8, 12 and 16 weeks. They then get vaccinated against it again in their 3 year 4 month boosters, and their teenage boosters.
(I have a 12 week old and a 3 year old so I'm more aware of what they're given than I'd normally be)

But the news today is that even children fully vaccinated as per the NHS schedule will be offered an additional booster.

Why bother vaccinating?
I did emphasise SEWAGE when posting.

Why boost them?

Why bother vaccinating?

Do you think they shouldn't?

I did emphasise SEWAGE when posting.

I know.

It’s not unusual to target vaccines like this. They do it with BCG, certain areas they give it to newborns because of the increased TB in those areas. But it’s not routinely on the vaccination schedule.

It’s a booster for the group that would be most at risk if it did become a risk again. Polio is in the normal vaccine schedule here so a large majority of people will already be fully vaccinated this is just an extra sensible precautionary measure

Polio is part of the 6-in-1 you get at 8, 12 and 16 weeks so babies are still vaccinated. DD is only 11m though so not sure about later jabs!

But if children are already vaccinated, why vaccinate again?

Extra precaution to reduce the risk further.

prevention is better than cure

Why bother vaccinating in the first place if now they think it needs to be boosted?

Are we all vaccinated? I only remember my children getting the mumps, measles, rubella, meningitis ones. Can't recall them being vaccinated against polio? I also have no idea whatsoever what I have been vaccinated against apart from Rubella and Tuberculosis. Obviously, Covid more recently.

Polio is in with the diphtheria, whooping cough etc dtap. Or used to be given as drops but that was before my time (just) and I'm 42