“Some of us are friends with people who got polio from the vaccination.”
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Where did this happen? I’ve never heard of such a thing.
The polio vaccination was a miracle as far as I’m concerned-—I remember the epidemics.
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It happened, there was a bad batch of vaccine that infected a couple of hundred people.
“”After mass inoculations began in 1954, everyone marveled at the high success rate—some 60-70 percent—until the vaccine caused a sudden outbreak of some 200 cases. After it was determined that the cases were all caused by one faulty batch of the vaccine, production standards were improved, and by August 1955 some 4 million shots had been given. Cases of polio in the U.S. dropped from 14,647 in 1955 to 5,894 in 1956, and by 1959 some 90 other countries were using Salk’s vaccine.
A later version of the polio vaccine, developed by Albert Sabin, used a weakened form of the live virus and was swallowed instead of injected. It was licensed in 1962 and soon became more popular than Salk’s vaccine, as it was cheaper to make and easier for people to take. There is still no cure for polio once it has been contracted, but the use of vaccines has virtually eliminated polio in the United States.””
This is one of the reasons they discontinued the use of the live vaccine in the US. I personally know 2 people who contracted polio within a week or so of having had the live vaccine in the late 50’s. One of them spent time in an iron lung. This was a known side effect of the live vaccine.
The live vaccine is still used in the 3rd world. The feces of the vaccinated person can still transmit polio virus for several weeks after they’ve been vaccinated. It was a problem in the 3rd world with ‘sanitation problems’ when they first started vaxing for that. Mom would change the baby’s diaper/tend the baby’s feces and contract polio. Also the fact that open sewers ran down the middle of most of the streets helped spread it as well.
The live vaccine also spread another virus (a contaminent in the green monkey kidneys used to culture the vaccine) called SV40 which has been linked to soft tissue cancer and also appears to be spread by sexual contact. Ie, they’ve found it in children of those who were vaccinated with batches known to be contaminated who have themselves never received a live vaccine.
It was a miracle.
Vaccinations that were developed in the 20th century are the height of human achievement. The height of conservative rational achievement.
The suffering and deaths of millions upon millions were avoided.
I often think one of the reasons we are so messed up now as a society is because of our triumphs, life became so easy.
if you look at the polio data, it was naturally dying off, then when vaccinations came out, there was a jump in cases.