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RE: I just wanted you see who your kindred spirits were. : )

Polio has been eradicated in most of the world. The vaccine is solely responsible for that. If we had gotten over the last vestiges of vaccine resistance in a few Muslim populations, polio would have been eradicated for good. Instead, we're fighting to keep it down.

It's true that vaccine-derived polio is more common than wild strains in Africa. But that doesn't mean much since these cases occur in areas where the vaccination rate is low. The vaccinated individual in which the mutation takes place and the virus becomes transmissible again doesn't get polio, and neither do other vaccinated individuals. It ends up spreading through unvaccinated people.

The solution is to get 95% or more of the population vaccinated, and then you don't have to worry about it. We've been polio-free in the USA since 1979. If it does come back, it will be through unvaccinated people. Just like the measles comeback.


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