Granny Danger Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 1 hour ago, Sergeant Wilson said: You're thinking of laughter is the best medicine. That’s the new Tory NHS policy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 Polio is a fucking awful disease- read about folk who had to live in "iron lungs" for example-and it's a good thing it was conquered As for diseases that should come back "clownitis" from Henry's Cat would be a good one 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Tattiescone Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 45 minutes ago, Zen Archer (Raconteur) said: Hold my beer. Jinx 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SweeperDee Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 Surely the vast majority of working folk are vaccinated against polio anyhow? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williemillersmoustache Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 14 minutes ago, SweeperDee said: Surely the vast majority of working folk are vaccinated against polio anyhow? They are but numbers particularly in London seemed to have dropped off a bit recently. What's been detected is vaccine derived polio so someone who has been inoculated with live virus vaccine and has either shed some of the virus or shed some which has then mutated. We don't inoculate with live polio virus vaccines in the UK or developed parts of the world now as case numbers are very very low and the risk of live vaccines re-seeding an outbreak is too high. We use inactivated virus vaccines to reduce the chances of this. Explained beautifully on sky earlier by P&B favourite and all round good egg Devi Sridhar. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 13 hours ago, Granny Danger said: So long as you’re not accusing me of getting confused and bombing Hiroshima. Well it was someone's Granny. Her name was Enola Gay IIRC. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 1 hour ago, Fullerene said: Well it was someone's Granny. Her name was Enola Gay IIRC. Now you’re accusing me of being gay, any more and I’ll report you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillonearth Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 There was an old-school chemist shop down from where I was brought up that still had one of these in the doorway as late as the 1980s...hopefully they've kept it in storage... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawk89 Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 2 hours ago, williemillersmoustache said: They are but numbers particularly in London seemed to have dropped off a bit recently. What's been detected is vaccine derived polio so someone who has been inoculated with live virus vaccine and has either shed some of the virus or shed some which has then mutated. We don't inoculate with live polio virus vaccines in the UK or developed parts of the world now as case numbers are very very low and the risk of live vaccines re-seeding an outbreak is too high. We use inactivated virus vaccines to reduce the chances of this. Explained beautifully on sky earlier by P&B favourite and all round good egg Devi Sridhar. Africa was declared free of wild Polio a couple of years ago, what wasn't mentioned at the time was that vaccine derived polio is absolutely rife throughout central Africa and into parts of Asia. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, Hillonearth said: There was an old-school chemist shop down from where I was brought up that still had one of these in the doorway as late as the 1980s...hopefully they've kept it in storage... Were they for polio, I thought they were for The Spactics Society? I know someone who stole one. Edited June 23, 2022 by Sergeant Wilson 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 3 hours ago, Hillonearth said: There was an old-school chemist shop down from where I was brought up that still had one of these in the doorway as late as the 1980s...hopefully they've kept it in storage... 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 18 hours ago, ICTChris said: When do we declare a lockdown, close the schools and stop going to huge orgies? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 TBH I'd rather see Polio come back than Oasis or Abba. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 16 hours ago, tamthebam said: Polio is a fucking awful disease- read about folk who had to live in "iron lungs" for example-and it's a good thing it was conquered As for diseases that should come back "clownitis" from Henry's Cat would be a good one You must have seen the movie. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthernLights Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 16 hours ago, tamthebam said: Polio is a fucking awful disease- read about folk who had to live in "iron lungs" for example-and it's a good thing it was conquered As for diseases that should come back "clownitis" from Henry's Cat would be a good one There are still people who use iron lungs who had polio decades ago. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherrif John Bunnell Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 1 hour ago, NorthernLights said: There are still people who use iron lungs who had polio decades ago. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Tattiescone Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 Most primary schools in the 70s had a "Special" department, with 1 or 2 classes of kids with disabilities caused by Polio, Thalidomide or who had Downs Syndrome. At my school, the teacher in charge of them had no hands, he wore plastic ones with string-backed drivers gloves over them. He'd lost his hands escaping from a burning plane in WWII. I think they lock those kids out of sight now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 4 hours ago, Richey Edwards said: TBH I'd rather see Polio come back than Oasis or Abba. You would have had fun at the Inverness Ironworks a few months ago. Tribute acts for Beatles, Oasis, Abba and Queen. "Hey where's Richey? He's missing the show." "Oh, never mind him, he is seeing if he can catch polio." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted August 10, 2022 Author Share Posted August 10, 2022 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-62492784 Polio booster vaccines to be rolled out among children in London. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 1 hour ago, ICTChris said: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-62492784 Polio booster vaccines to be rolled out among children in London. "Polio starts as a tummy infection" I get the story is about children but why has the article been written for 5 year olds? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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