DUMB POLIO POLICIES

These words excerpted from Jason Beaubien's NPR article Hg151110.  My comments are in RED. 
The Oral Polio Vaccine Can Go 'Feral,' But WHO Vows to Tame It

The number of vaccine-derived polio cases relative to the hundreds of millions of doses of oral polio vaccine administered each year is incredibly low. In 2014, there were 56 vaccine-derived cases reported globally. But 56 starts to sound like a lot when the number of regular polio cases has fallen to just a couple dozen a year.

INCREDIBLY DUMB TO CHANGE THE FORMULA WITH THIS LEVEL OF SUCCESS

So last month the World Health Organization announced the beginning of a program to phase out oral polio vaccine and eventually switch to the injectable version, which contains no live virus.

THE ONLY REASON TO DO SO WOULD BE TO MAKE MORE MONEY

WHO is ordering every country still using oral polio vaccine to switch to a safer oral vaccine in April 2016. The first step in the WHO plan is to drop Type 2 polio virus from the new oral vaccine. Of the three types of virus in the vaccine, Type 2 accounts for roughly 90 percent of vaccine-derived paralysis cases. Type 2 itself has not been seen in the wild since 1999.

WHY CONTINUE VACCINATING FOR A VIRUS THAT NO LONGER EXISTS?  IF CASES APPEAR, WE CAN FLY VACCINES AROUND THE WORLD WITHIN MINUTES .

 

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