In line with the Health Ministry’s decision, all of Jerusalem’s 31 baby well-care clinics beginning on Sunday, 12 Elul 5773 will begin giving the oral polio booster vaccine.
The ministry’s program began in the southern district but as health experts became aware of the realization that the polio threat was significant enough to warrant extending the program nationwide.
In Jerusalem there are 130,000 children who must be vaccinated, including children of foreign workers and tourists. The ministry announced all children from 2 months until 9-year-old will be vaccinated.
For additional information, Jerusalem residents my phone the city Moked information center at 106.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Just wondering, why is there a picture of a needle if this vaccine is ORAL?
While most affluent nations now rely on inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV), many third-world countries still use an oral polio vaccine as it’s less expensive and simpler to administer. However, the oral polio vaccine is made from a live polio virus, which carries a risk of causing polio. The virus in the vaccine can also mutate into a deadlier version, igniting new outbreaks. Genetic analysis has proven that such mutated viruses have caused at least seven separate outbreaks in Nigeria. Polio outbreaks in Haiti and the Dominican Republic in 2002 were also traced to a strain of oral polio vaccine (OPV) that mutated back to virulence. Is it so difficult to understand why there is a picture of a Needle together with this article?
So they’re actually going through with the program eh? This morning העמותה להפצת ההשכלה הבריאותית petitioned the high court of Israel to put the program on hold, claiming that the program is not intended to protect the children receiving the vaccine, but rather because it’s easier to enforce vaccine policy on children the hope is that the overall so called ‘heard immunity’ will protect the ‘harder to enforce vaccine policy’ population. BG”TZ issued a ruling asking the state to answer to the claim in the petition by Thursday. Well it seems like by the time the state will come up with an explanation ‘by Thursday’ a large proportion of the children will have been vaccinated. So it won’t really matter,heh heh heh… I love how the mafia works… Well in the US it’s pretty much the same thing, or worse. “The Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) authority allows FDA to help strengthen the nation’s public health protections against CBRN threats… Under section 564 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the FDA Commissioner may allow unapproved medical products or unapproved uses of approved medical products to be used in an emergency to diagnose, treat, or prevent serious or life-threatening diseases or conditions caused by CBRN threat agents when there are no adequate, approved, and available alternatives.” So when ‘they decide’ it’s an emergency {like if 5 people get a kind of flu they give a new and scary name to} then technically they can shoot you with all kinds of ‘unapproved’ chemicals, and if anyone gets hurt in the aftermath, then; well; they can just say, whoops where sorry it was an ’emergency’. Wink.