Four countries report more vaccine-derived polio cases
Four African countries Benin, Burkina Faso, Liberia, and Yemen reported new polio cases this week, all involving vaccine-derived strains, according to the latest weekly update from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI).
Three of the four countries reported circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2). Benin reported one case from Northern province, marking its first of 2021. So far, all of its cases are linked to Nigeria s Jigawa outbreak. Burkina Faso also reported one more case, which involves a patient from Bobo and is counted in the country s 2020 total, now at 62. The country is experiencing different outbreaks, including ones linked to events in Nigeria and Toto. Also, Liberia reported a cVDPV2 case from Bong county, its second so far.
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Chronic pain is becoming more common in the United States
Americans are in chronic pain, and a comprehensive new study exploring trends in this major public health concern reveals that what has been a long-standing and under-acknowledged problem is getting substantially worse.
The findings, published in the latest issue of the journal
Demography, suggest blanket increases across multiple measures, with pain rising in every adult age group, in every demographic group, and at every site of pain for which data exists.
People today are experiencing more pain than individuals of the same age in earlier decades. In fact, each subsequent birth group is in greater pain than the one that came before it.
The findings, published in the journal
Demography, suggest blanket increases across multiple measures, with pain rising in every adult age group, in every demographic group, and at every site of pain for which data exists.
People today experience more pain than people of the same age in earlier decades. In fact, each subsequent birth group is in greater pain than the one that came before it.
“We looked at the data from every available perspective including age, gender, race, ethnicity, education, and income, but the results were always the same: There was an increase in pain no matter how we classified the population,” says coauthor Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk, associate professor of sociology in the University at Buffalo.
University at Buffalo
Americans are in chronic pain, and a comprehensive new study exploring trends in this major public health concern reveals that what has been a long-standing and under-acknowledged problem is getting substantially worse.
The findings, published in the latest issue of the journal Demography, suggest blanket increases across multiple measures, with pain rising in every adult age group, in every demographic group, and at every site of pain for which data exists. People today are experiencing more pain than individuals of the same age in earlier decades. In fact, each subsequent birth group is in greater pain than the one that came before it.