Polio Outbreaks in Burundi and Other African Nations Caused by Vaccine Strain of the Virus
The government of Burundi has declared a national public health emergency due to an outbreak of live vaccine strain poliovirus infections in that country. A mutated strain of the vaccine strain poliovirus, which originally came from the type 2 monovalent oral polio vaccine (mOPV2), was identified in a four-year-old boy in western Burundi and in […]
AFM Vaccine Pushed Despite Lack of Scientific Evidence for Cause of Polio-like Syndrome
In the years just prior to onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019-2020, there was a mysterious polio-like syndrome emerging among some children in the United States, as well as other countries such as India, called acute flaccid myelitis (AFM)—also sometimes referred to as acute flaccid paralysis (AFP). The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and […]
Protests Against COVID Lockdowns Flare Up in 2021 Around the World
At the end of last year, there were large public demonstrations opposing severe restrictions on civil liberties, including in Germany and Great Britain. In Denmark, there was a public protest…
WHO: Polio Outbreak in Sudan Caused by Oral Polio Vaccine
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently reported that a new poliovirus outbreak in Sudan is linked to an ongoing string of vaccine strain polio outbreaks in Africa caused by continued use of the live attenuated oral polio vaccine (OPV).1 On Aug. 9, 2020, the Federal Ministry of Health in Sudan notified the WHO of the […]
Viral Link to AFM Sought in University of Alabama Study
The U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has awarded the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) a five-year $10 million contract to study the polio-like condition known as acute flaccid myelitis (AFM), also sometimes referred to as acute flaccid paralysis (AFP).1 2 According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), “As part […]
EV-D68 Virus Pushed as Cause of AFM Paralysis
You may be familiar with the idiom, “square peg into a round hole.” It is an expression that is often used to describe something that cannot fit, but yet every effort is made to try and force it to fit. That is the image that is emerging in the quest to find an answer to […]
