Just my own opinion. Polio is bad news. In my youth, I had the Salk and years later the Saban. I think the Saban was about 1967. Seriously, everyone should get vaccinated for Polio. Chicken pox...no big deal. Polio...a horror story. Get the vaccine. Get it for the kids. The kids need the vaccine for Polio.
The truth about polio: it’s an enterovirus and most people who got polio had flu symptoms, or no symptoms, and were fine after. Only a small percentage of people with polio got the worst symptom of all, permanent loss of limb function or paralysis.
My mom just retold recently the story of when she was sick one summer as a young child, and the doctors feared she had polio. But then they said she had not had polio. Why? Because she was not paralyzed. At this point, I figure she probably DID have polio, but not the paralysis. I guess back then, docs didn’t dx polio except for those who were affected by the limb sysmtoms?
This is ongoing right now. Enterociruses d68 and C105 are two examples of enteroviruses circulating the human population today that may cause flaccid paralysis. Again, most people affected by those viruses will not have that ghastly symptom. But some do. There is no vaccine against all potential enteroviruses that might cause paralysis.
Taking in adequate vitamin d3 will go far to prevent your child or you getting the worst case of a virus. It’s cheap and simple and has no bad side effects. Even an infant can take vitamin d, with a drop of liquid d on whatever nipple he drinks from (mom or bottle). The children with vitamin d deficiencies will be more likely to have worse sequelae from illnesses.
Polio is bad news.
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I agree, but the last cases of naturally occurring paralytic polio in the United States was in 1979.
However, there have been around 170 cases that are vaccine related.
Plus, vaccines only last about 10 - 20 years. So, most people no longer have any immunity for polio anyway.