Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 22:16:21 -0500 (EST)
From: ProMED-mail <promed@promed.isid.harvard.edu>
Subject: PRO/EDR> Poliomyelitis, suspected - India: post-vaccination
POLIOMYELITIS, SUSPECTED - INDIA: POST-VACCINATION
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[see also:
Poliomyelitis - India: alert 20000506.0695
Poliomyelitis - India: background 20000520.0792]
Date: Wed 20 Dec 2000 11:37:32
From: M. Cosgriff <mcosgriff@hotmail.com>
Source: The Times of India Online, PTI Report, Wed 20 Dec 2000 [edited]
<http://www.timesofindia.com/today/20hlth2.htm>
Suspected Poliomyelitis in 2 Children After Vaccination
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KENDRAPARA, (Orissa): Sources in the Health Department said on Tue 19 Dec
2000 that 2 5-year old children in Orissa's Kendrapara district are
suspected of carrying poliovirus after having received a pulse polio dose
in March. The children, resident in Kharidasahi village and Pabitrapada
village, both fell ill after being administered the [vaccine] dose on 26
Mar 2000 and are now under care.
Experts from UNICEF and WHO are monitoring the condition of the 2
children. District Medical Officer D.P. Panigrahi [could] neither confirm
nor deny that the children were afflicted with polio. He said the cases
are either of polio or flaccid paralysis. Medical tests like
electro-myography and nerve conduction had been done on [both patients] and
the final report of experts at the S.C.B. Medical College Hospital,
Cuttack, is awaited. Further tests are being done at the Central [Virus]
Laboratory in Calcutta to confirm [presence] of poliovirus.
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[This report is too imprecise to be evaluated properly. Interpretation of
this incident must await further information. - Mod.CP]
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