Polio: Forgotten, Not Gone
Since 2019 and before COVID, the poliovirus has begun to spread again with a continued upswing in 2020.
Wild Poliovirus:
>Significant increase in wild poliovirus cases globally in 2019 and 2020, with 175 cases in 2019 compared to 33 in 2018, and 32 cases already as of March 2020 (37% increase from 2018), compared to six for the same period in 2019, with no significant success yet in reversing this trend.
>In 2018 Venezuela had first case of polio since 1989.
>Pakistan and Afghanistan still have polio cases. War and religious suppression sometimes make vaccination impossible, as vaccinators are being assassinated in Pakistan.
https://www.dawn.com/news/1521526
>December 2019: Malaysia had country’s first reported case since 1992. Its resurgence was just months after the Philippines September report of its first cases of polio since 1993.
Mutated Oral Polio Vaccine-derived Polio:
>Spread through West Africa and the Lake Chad (Chad, Cote d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Togo, and Zambia), Somalia, Indonesia, Myanmar, and Burkina Faso.
https://centerforvaccineethicsandpolicy.net/2020/04/12/polio/