Thank goodness for Jonas Salk and later Albert Sabin too.
Time to vac...

 

That is not a very well written article.

It seems odd that only 50% of the kids are vaccinated even with the "no vaccine" movement. I'll bet the 50% is because access to the vaccine is not available or the cost is too high.

 

Polio has not been eradicated.

Polio has been given to people in India through an experimental vaccine distributed by Bill Gates.

Unvaccinated people just don't develop polio and as such can not distribute it to other people.

 

Are you on drugs???

 

This news is deplorable in light of the cure, thanks to Dr. Salk, is available and has been since the 50's! Eradification is a must for such a crippling disease. Poor Jonas must be turning over in his grave.

 

Yeah, they got rid of it across the planet and now it's back. I remember the people in braces, deformed and in iron lungs as a result of polio. And those are the ones that didnt die from it, at least initially. The neighbors kid was in a lung and it had to be a living hell for him. Not good and we don't want to go there again.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H1WOPsA_gL8

 

It isn't the fault of people not vaccinating their kids. It's the fault of these governments, ours included, for allowing all these third-world petri dishes to flood across the boarders.

 

I knew some people with post-polio syndrome.

It's pretty awful.

 

Wow Pitbull, that video is something. What a nightmare.

 

I had an older cousin that came down with polio.. and only a few years older than I was at the time. I recall being lined up at a local school getting the vaccine, must have been in 1960 or so. I worked with a couple of older guys (way older) that were on crutches for life due to polio. Kinda sticks in my mind. What a dreadful disease.

 

Not true Pitbull, my sister and I were vaccinated at the same time....neither one of us got a scar

 

Yep, another ignorant post. He must be referring to Smallpox vaccination scars, as Polio has been an oral vaccine for decades.
And the Smallpox vaccine no longer causes scarring either, not that they are given much anymore.

 

The smallpox vac is the one that gave you a scar.
The bifurcated needle thingy...

 

There's more to the story. Apparently this stain was created by the vaccine.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/09/02/outbreak-of-rare-mutated-poliovirus-in-ukraine-leaves-two-children-paralyzed/

 

Crap, that sux. That means there might be a chance we have to go through this again..

 

NO

No.
It is back because the Vaccine Virus mutated.

 

There are only 3 places in the world polio is still common.
Afganistan packis tan and somolia.

It has almost been wiped out. I find it curious that everyone blames the anti vaxxers for this co sidering the human tidal wave from the me and Africa flooding into europe.

 

Oral vaccine with live attenuated virus causes paralysis in about 1: 2.7 million after a first dose. That is very few but since polo is not a risk in the us, and the virus would be defecated, the oral vaccine has not been used for over a decade here. Where polo is more of a risk the oral vaccine is still used. It is very cheap, less than 20 cents per dose.

Smallpox has been eradicated, the last case I think was in the mid eighties. I also think it is the only disease ever eliminated. The only official samples are held by the cdc and Russia. Military and some medical personnel still get vaccinated because of fear of a biological weapon virus. It's not really an injection, I think it's called scarification.

 

I guess the Europeans better be giving shots to all that human flotsam washing up on their shores. In the pictures I've seen of people waving passports and such, I never noticed that yellow shot record.

The time to do it when they get off the boat, wet from the crossing. Crimp a record in the passport.

 

I would tend to agree. Same with the us med issues popping up the anti vaxxers are a super small minority compared to migrant populations with no med checks.
this is what causes the breakdown in herd immunity.
which and I may be wrong is 90% or better has to be immune to prevent transmission. It's been a while since I had that in class

 

But, but, indoor plumbing eradicated polio. Not vaccination. At least that's what someone on this site maintains. So it must be true.

 

You do realize that almost no one in the US is vaccinated because it's no longer on the recommended vaccine list so parents aren't even given the option, right? It's been eradicated everywhere but a few 3rd world hell holes. The was no logical reason to keep exposing kids to side-effects and potential infection with polio for a disease they had no chance of getting. The vaccine had a greater chance of triggering a brand new polio epidemic than it did preventing even 1 child in the industrialized world from getting it. There are 2 vaccines. A live vaccine which is cheaper and more popular in poor countries that especially if given to someone who's immuno-compromised can give someone a polio infection, or a damaged version that if not damaged just the right amount in processing can inject someone with a live infectious virus.

It was ALMOST wiped out completely except the CIA got caught posing as polio vaccine workers and triggered a mass murder of polio vaccine workers in those countries. This is a mix of problems caused by violating medical neutrality creating a resurgence in those 3 countries (and a horde of dead physicians, nurses, and aid workers that should still be around to deal with the outbreak), followed by terrible immigration practices allowing people to carry the disease out of those countries.