Syria war: Polio paralyses 17 children in Mayadin and Raqqa

After sickness occurred in Syria, 17 children were paralyzed by polio. It was called "very serious" by the World Health Organization

Earlier this month the agency reported 2 cases of polio in the Mayadin area of ​​Deir al-Zour province. Most of them were dominated by so-called Islamic nations.

There are 14 new cases confirmed in the same area, but other cases are recorded in Raqqa prefecture.

It causes irreversible paralysis once every 200 infections. 5 to 10% of the deaths of people paralyzed when respiratory muscles are fixed

A World Health Organization spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic told reporters that 17 children with acute flaccid paralysis experienced symptoms for the first time between 3rd March and 23rd May.

But in a laboratory test he said that it was recently confirmed that these children have a "vaccine-derived" polio, rather than a more toxic "wild type" virus, he said.

Oral polio vaccine (OPV) contains a small amount of weakly live virus that grows only for a limited period of time in the intestine and may infect other people living in regions with weak immunity .

Mr. Jasarevic pointed out that the high vaccination rate in the Mayadin area means that the World Health Organization plans to vaccinate 50,000 children under 5 years old and other 32,000 children accordingly Said.

"We are extremely worried because it is clear that if children have already had polio cases, it is already an outbreak," he warned.

"For example, for obscene kids, we know that nearly 200 people are asymptomatic, so this means that the virus is spreading, so that is very serious."

Jasarevic pointed out that the World Health Organization still maintains a health assessment to determine whether polio cases are infected with polio at Raqqa, or elsewhere where the virus is trying to kick IS militants from the state capital He said he was going. Inflammatory virus Travel there

In the six-year conflict in Syria, more than 300,000 people were murdered in protest against the president Bashar al-Assad before being promoted to a full-scale civil war. Other 11 million people fought and evacuated

After the outbreak of polio, Syrian health authorities rushed 320,000 children to vaccinate in some of the most difficult regions in the country and left at least 22 children paralyzed . Health care workers may need to work in collaboration with Isis and other radical groups. UNICEF polio spokesman Rod Curtis said in New York, "It is worth noting that the vaccine is the source of polio." Children including Maya Dean's 90,000 children were vaccinated. Not all children are in the government area. "

The outbreak of polio in Syria is one of the most difficult and obvious occurrences of polio eradication. Polio paralyzed the children and greatly reduced the national health base and the health effects of the people of Syria. When society and order become unstable, the health system will collapse and people will be affected. Syria is no exception. Media coverage over the past few months has raised questions about the activities of Syria's World Health Organization, particularly in response to the outbreak of polio. The following table intends to answer some of these questions and recognizes the seriousness of the crisis and the challenges that are taking place in Syria.