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  • New York detects case of vaccine-derived polio

    07/21/2022 11:58:54 AM PDT · by Right Wing Vegan · 50 replies
    Healio ^ | 7/21/2022
    According to the state health department, testing done at a state lab and confirmed by the CDC showed that the virus is a vaccine strain Sabin type 2, which indicates that transmission occurred from someone who received an oral polio vaccine. Different from wild polio, which has been nearly eradicated globally, cases of vaccine-derived poliovirus occur when a live but weakened strain of virus that is included in vaccines spreads between people. Like wild polio, vaccine-derived poliovirus can cause paralysis. According to the state health department, it is the first case of vaccine-derived polio recorded in the United States since...
  • WSJ: Polio and Rotary

    04/12/2005 5:31:39 AM PDT · by OESY · 3 replies · 334+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | April 12, 2005 | Editorial
    Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Salk polio vaccine. Poliomyelitis, also know as infantile paralysis, used to be one of childhood's most feared diseases. A few years after Dr. Jonas Salk announced his vaccine on April 12, 1955, nearly every child in the U.S. was protected. Today polio has disappeared from the Americas, Europe and the Western Pacific.... A too-little known part of this feat is the role played by Rotary, the international businessman's club, which 20 years ago adopted the goal of wiping out the disease. Rotary understood that medical breakthroughs are worthless unless people aren't afraid to...