What to know about vaccine-derived polio after rare case found in New York [More]
This country had it eradicated. What brought it back?
They won’t tell you what you really need to know.
Good thing this has nothing to do with that “single issue” …
What Not to Know
I’m not a doctor, nor do I play one on television, but my understanding of the polio vaccine situation is this.
When I was a kid, polio and masses of kids in iron lungs were still a thing. Then the “Salk” vaccine came out and we, or at least a lot of us, got jabbed at our doctor’s office or in a public health clinic. The Salk vaccine was made from dead virus and had to be injected.
A short time later the “Sabin” vaccine came out. I remember my entire school lining up class by class then parading down the halls and through the cafeteria where we each got a small paper cup of maybe a half ounce of a cherry flavored liquid to swallow. The Sabin vaccine could be taken orally, was made from a live but supposedly weakened virus that would cause the generation of antibodies but not cause the disease, and perhaps more importantly, was cheaper to make and administer.
And we were all good until recently. Apparently, the virus used to make the current vaccine has mutated, and in a very few percentage of cases can cause polio, that can then be transmitted to other people.
Probably more than you ever wanted to know about the subject is here:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4370356/