(John) Hager contracted polio in 1974 when his son was vaccinated for the disease. As a result, he uses a nonmotorized wheelchair for daily ambulation.
What???????
Dad contrtacted polio because the son was vaccinated?
They used to use a live polio virus in the vaccine. It could be transmitted through bodily fluids of a vaccinated person. Usually happened while changing the diapers of a baby who had recently received the live vaccine.
Yes it is possible. They use a live form of the virus; and if a parent was never themselves immunized they can contract polio from thier child; it doesn’t happen too often anymore. but is is a good idea to keep children who have been recently vaccinated away from elderly folks who never have been.
the attenuated virus (weakened) is given to mount an immune response thereby giving you immunity from the disease, but it's excreted in stool and was probably the source for dad's infection. Say...always wash your hands after changing the baby's diaper.
This is basically from the Oral polio vaccine and not the killed injectable viral vaccination.
Yep. When a kid gets a polio vaccine, they cannot be in contact with someone who has not been vacinated.
It was a live virus, but it seems like they have come out with a vaccination with one that is not live.
obviously the story can’t relate to THIS Hager son .. he’s 26, wasn’t born in 1974.