Polio Vaccine Debate
The cluster centers on discussions about the polio vaccine's success in nearly eradicating polio, its efficacy and rare risks like vaccine-derived cases, and rebuttals to anti-vaxxer arguments often comparing it to COVID vaccines.
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Well, just check about Polio, which is allmost erradicated and what Antivaxxers think about it.(or rather don't)
Well throw the Polio vaccine out then.
Polio got reclassifed and the vaccines claimed a success. But keep the faith.
Given that the polio vaccine has >99% efficacy [1] and the fact that US has been polio free since 1979 [2], with the only threat being the occasional traveler to a region with polio, being nonsterlizing doesn't seem to be an issue. Quite different from our current situation.[1] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/polio/
> polio and smallpox were eradicatedFYI, polio has not been eradicated. It's been eliminated from all but eight countries, and is endemic on only two of those. But it has not yet been eradicated.> I am 45 years old and never had a smallpox or polio vaccine, so that makes me an anti-vaxxer regarding those two, yet here we are and I don't see those diseases making big comebacks?Well, don't travel to Afghanistan or Pakistan.More seriously: you can't con
Hardly any vaccinations? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse_Polio
It's like saying we don't need vaccines because we never hear about polio.
Polio is available as an oral vaccine that used to be widespread in the west. I still remember demanding a sugarcube with every oral medication after getting one for the polio vaccination :)That doesn't seem to stop anti-vaxxers: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-09-04/anti-v...
There are two similar but crucially different problems with the current live polio vaccine that both end in cases of paralytic polio. Vaccine-associated paralytic polio is a very rare complication where someone gets full-on paralytic polio as a result of being vaccinated; it can also happen to people who catch the vaccine virus from someone else rather than from vaccination, but it's just as rare there. Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus is the one that's really nasty for eliminati
There is a vaccine against polio that can infect and immunize others. It uses a live polio virus genetically modified to not cause severe disease."The OPV is less expensive and easier to administer, and can spread immunity beyond the person vaccinated, creating contact immunity. It has been the predominant vaccine used. However, under conditions of long-term vaccine virus circulation in under-vaccinated populations, mutations can reactivate the virus..."from <a href="https:/