The health care system is concerned about the polio case in Jerusalem: "It can be dangerous for those who are not vaccinated"
The Ministry of Health estimates that the attenuated polio virus has undergone a mutant change in sewage and has become violent and dangerous without vaccines.
Senior doctors: "It is important to maintain hygiene. We are concerned about the growing fears of vaccines, and that due to the inattention of the corona period - we will again see diseases that we thought we had already migrated."
Meirav Cohen
07/03/2022
Monday, 07 March 2022, 16:00 Updated: 16:01
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The health system today (Monday) expresses concern about the rare case of polio infection, which was diagnosed yesterday in Jerusalem.
The infected woman, a four-year-old girl, was hospitalized at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem and was diagnosed with a neurological symptom that caused paralysis in half of her limbs.
She will undergo rehabilitation tomorrow at the Aline Association.
The chairman of the Association of Public Health Physicians, Prof. Hagai Levin, explains that in the case of symptomatic infection and deterioration of paralysis - the working assumption is that this is only the tip of the iceberg. "This is an unusual and rare case.
The question of whether it will continue to spread depends on the immune coverage of the rest of the community and family members surrounding the girl, "Levin said." One has to understand why the girl was not vaccinated and be very careful because polio is highly contagious.
Vaccines can be infected, but they are highly protected against the disease. "
Child vaccine against polio, August 2013 (Photo: Dave Boymovich)
The vaccine for the wild-type polio virus is obtained in early childhood in two forms.
The first is an injection of a killed virus at the age of six months, which protects the blood system, but not the intestine.
To protect the gut, babies at one year of age also receive drops of attenuated live virus, which protect the intestinal tract cavity and prevent the virus from being able to harm the baby.
This combined protection gives maximum protection.
In Israel, until 2005, children received the combined vaccine.
From then until 2013 the infants received only the first injection, but after the outbreak of the disease in the south of the country that year, in which no symptomatic infections were recorded, the combined format was restored.
"It is important to understand that we are not in the situation of 2013 yet," Prof Levin reassures, "but when hygiene is not maintained properly, especially before and after meals - there is a risk. Care must be taken especially in kindergartens and schools - it is very important."
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The working assumption at this stage in the Ministry of Health is that a vaccinated person has transmitted the killed virus - which exists in all vaccinated people - orally to the sewer.
This process happens all the time and in fact the virus is among us frequently.
It becomes dangerous again when it undergoes a mutant change in the sewer, which turns an attenuated virus into a violent virus.
When an unvaccinated person encounters the violent virus - he is completely exposed.
"We have eradicated the wild virus, but when the attenuated live vaccine gets stronger then without the vaccinated it can be dangerous. The ratio for the non-vaccinated to develop symptoms is one in a thousand, while for the vaccinated the ratio decreases considerably," explains the chairman of the Pediatricians Association, Prof. Tzachi Grossman .
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