Polio Vaccination—Still Causing Polio After All These Years
By the Children's Health Defense Team
Oral polio vaccines are “spawning virulent strains” of polioviruses. The surge in vaccine-derived polio cases presents vaccine planners with a conundrum. A CDC virologist has stated that the use of the type-2-only vaccine has created more new cases of the virus than has been stopped.
What should health authorities do when the very tool they are using for polio eradication is causing the problem to be worse? The WHO announced they will combat the outbreak with two new oral polio vaccines. While the WHO describes polio as just one possible cause of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP), African labs have been isolating type 2 vaccine virus in case after case of AFP.
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