Seattle Kids Have Lower Polio Vaccination Rate Than Rwanda

[Teddy Pollins]

Seattle Kids Have Lower Polio Vaccination Rate Than Rwanda KUOW News and Information
These have got to be people that don't remember the horrors of the polio epidemic in the 40's and 50's. Kids in iron lungs, heavy braces and death.
Stupid vaccination. Why do we still argue it?

 

[Donald Polish]

Is there any other medical procedures that they would like to force on the population?
Sterilization of the undesirables and lobotomies for the mentally ill and maladjusted?
It's my own business how to treat my health...

 

[waltky]

Only 74 cases of polio reported worldwide in 2015...

New, Noninfectious Vaccine Could Help Eliminate Polio
April 03, 2016 - With only 74 cases of polio reported worldwide in 2015, the disease is well on its way to eradication. But re-emergence through accidental release from a bio-containment factory is a small but real risk.

So researchers have developed a strain of poliovirus to use in a new generation of vaccine that could help stamp out the disease once and for all. The so-called cold-adapted strain is noninfectious, so there would be no outbreak if the poliomyelitis pathogen were ever to escape from a plant. In the journal PLOS Pathogens, investigators led by Dutch scientists report that the cold-adapted vaccine strains can multiply only in temperatures lower than that of the human body.

The cold viral strains contained in the vaccine were genetically engineered so they are able to grow well at 30 degrees Celsius but not at all at 37 degrees, the normal human temperature. That means if there were an accidental release and a human were to come into contact with the poliovirus, it couldn't grow and multiply inside the person.

An Indonesian boy is given polio vaccine in Jakarta, Indonesia.​

Another reason for developing the new vaccine, said Jerome Custers, a senior vaccine scientist at Jannsen Infectious Disease and Vaccines in the Netherlands, is that the stockpile of the current injectable vaccine is low and it's fairly expensive to make. “So it would be great if you could manufacture this in a lot of countries in the world," Custers said. "And by allowing that, you really need viruses that are safer to work with, so less virulent, not disease-causing.”

Only six Western countries — Canada, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland and France — are now licensed to manufacture the vaccine. But Custers said having a safe polio vaccine strain that’s easily reproducible would bring down the cost of the drug as more countries, such as India, began manufacturing it.

New, Noninfectious Vaccine Could Help Eliminate Polio

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Seattle is a liberal town, they are more concerned about their dogs than kids.

 

[Preacher]

The Polio Vaccine Myth: “The Vaccine Stopped Polio”

 

[Katzndogz]

Seattle is a liberal town, they are more concerned about their dogs than kids.

Maybe it's the water. My stepdaughter lives in Seattle. She has two boys, 18 months and 3 months. She puts them both in dresses because she doesn't want them to grow up feeling pressured into being boys.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Seattle is a liberal town, they are more concerned about their dogs than kids.

Maybe it's the water. My stepdaughter lives in Seattle. She has two boys, 18 months and 3 months. She puts them both in dresses because she doesn't want them to grow up feeling pressured into being boys.

Wow, seriously ?

 

[Katzndogz]

Seattle is a liberal town, they are more concerned about their dogs than kids.

Maybe it's the water. My stepdaughter lives in Seattle. She has two boys, 18 months and 3 months. She puts them both in dresses because she doesn't want them to grow up feeling pressured into being boys.

Wow, seriously ?

Well, she went to college in Santa Barbara. This is what she learned. It's all nurture and no nature. She got a female bulldog and tried to get the dog to lift her leg instead of squat. The dog should be freed of stereotypes. She's not raising her boys as girls. She just feels like they shouldn't be pressured into being boys.