Google – AFP, 8 November 2013
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Syrian
refugee children walk in the Bab al-Salam refugee camp in Syria's
northern city
of Azaz on July 15, 2013 (Jm Lopez/AFP/File, Jm Lopez)
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Geneva —
Emergency plans are under way to vaccinate more than 20 million children in the
Middle East after polio resurfaced in war-torn Syria, the United Nations said
on Friday.
Unveiling
the region's largest-ever polio campaign, the UN Children's Fund (Unicef) and
World Health Organisation (WHO) said vaccinations would be carried out over six
months in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Syria and
Turkey.
The
initiative was announced 10 days after the WHO reported that polio had
re-emerged in Syria for the first time in 14 years, leaving 10 children
paralysed.
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Syrian
refugees fleeing the civil war in
their country stand at a makeshift camp
in Ankara
on October 4, 2013 (AFP/File,
Adem Altan)
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Preliminary
evidence suggests the virus in this outbreak -- and also polio samples found in
sewage in Egypt, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip -- came from Pakistan,
one of the disease's last bastions, the agencies added.
"The
polio outbreak in Syria is not just a tragedy for children; it is an urgent
alarm -- and a crucial opportunity to reach all under-immunised children
wherever they are," said Peter Crowley, who heads Unicef's polio division.
Inside
Syria, the campaign is targeting 1.6 million children with vaccines against
polio, measles, mumps and rubella, the agencies said.
More than
650,000 children in Syria, including 116,000 in war-ravaged Deir Ezzor province
where the polio outbreak was confirmed, have already been immunised.
"In
Jordan, over 18,800 children under the age of five were vaccinated against
polio in a campaign in the past few days targeting all children at Za?atari
camp, and a nationwide campaign is currently under way to reach 3.5 million
people with polio, measles and rubella," the statement said.
"In
Iraq, a vaccination campaign has started in the west of the country, with
another campaign planned in the Kurdistan region in the coming days.
"Lebanon?s
nationwide campaign begins later this week and Turkey and Egypt by
mid-November."
Polio
immunisation hit by war
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A child
receives a polio vaccine at a health
center on June 2, 2013 in the Yemeni
capital, Sanaa (AFP/File, Mohammed
Huwais)
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Polio is
caused by a highly infectious virus that invades the nervous system through the
mouth and can cause irreversible paralysis within a matter of hours.
Among those
paralysed, between five and 10 percent die when their breathing muscles fail to
work.
Children
under the age of five are those most at risk.
Infection
typically occurs through water that carries the virus.
There is no
cure for the disease, but there are highly effective vaccines to prevent it.
The 10
polio cases in Syria involved children who had either not been immunised or not
received all three doses of the vaccine.
Syria has
seen its immunisation rate plummet from more than 90 percent before the
conflict began in March 2011 to 68 percent today.
In March
this year, health watchdogs celebrated the 60th anniversary of the first
successful polio vaccination trial.
But they
warned that vaccinations would have to continue so long as a single person
still had the virus.
According
to WHO figures, polio cases fell by more than 99 percent from 1988 to 2012,
from around 350,000 cases to a known 223 cases.
In 1988,
polio was endemic in 125 countries, but by 2012, this was reduced to three
countries -- Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan -- where health systems are poor
and vaccination campaigns have been disrupted by Islamists.
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A rebel
fighter is pictured on November 7,
2013, in the northern Syrian city of
Aleppo (AFP, Karam al-Masri)
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Experts say
polio can spread through so-called asymptomatic carriers.
These are
people who have been infected by the virus but do not develop any symptoms of
disease. Only around one in 200 people who are infected by the virus become
paralysed.
Asymptomatic
carriers shed the virus in their faeces, which enters the sewage system, posing
a risk for those who are not innoculated or are under-innoculated, especially
in areas where sanitation is makeshift.
The
European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC) has urged European
countries to beef up sewage surveillance for polio and to be vigilant about
vaccinating Syrian refugees and analysing stool samples.
Since the
start of the Syrian uprising in March 2011 some seven million people have been
displaced, with two million of them fleeing across the border, according to UN
figures.
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Question: Dear Kryon, I have a new grandson. He's going for his first vaccination in the next few weeks. If we're beginning to transmute toxins with reconnections to our endocrine system through our DNA, then what happens to our babies, who by law have to be vaccinated? What are your thoughts on this subject?
Answer: First, know that vaccinations are a God-given science that humanity earned. They're a tried and proven homeopathic method that have been with you for years. You were probably vaccinated yourself, and it worked.
We have three answers: (1) God is not in a vacuum. Even the vaccinated Human Being who's older can modify and rework their DNA. So there's no time limit, and there are no rules that say "Once vaccinated, you're ruined." (2) The Human who is of the age of awareness can say, even as they are vaccinated, "Let nothing inappropriate enter my chemistry." This is a conscious instruction given to your "intelligent cellular structure" (the same one responsible for kinesiology and homeopathic results). This will result in your cells only using what they need and casting away everything else. (3) Finally, about babies: There has been a push by your science lately to vaccinate against many things at the same time. You'd be advised to seek out a doctor who will only vaccinate your child for only the basic diseases that have been known in the last 40 years. Eliminate the vaccinations for the new ones. This leaves you with approximately seven or eight - the very ones that have been used for years. What your science is not appreciating yet is the results of combining all the vaccination substances together. There's a problem that will show itself in time. Stick with the basic ones.
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