Polio Vaccine in America
The Polio Vaccine in America
When my daughter was a baby, and we decided to delay vaccination, a friend of my mother-in-law seemed thrilled with our decision. However, she advised to look into the polio vaccine because there wasn 't much they could do if someone did contract polio. During my research, I have found that the polio vaccine is all but completely unnecessary for anyone in the United States. Let 's take a look at some of the most interesting information I have found.
Taken directly from the CDC website:
Is polio still a disease seen in the United States?
The last cases of naturally occurring paralytic polio in the United States were in 1979, when an outbreak occurred among the Amish in several Midwestern states. From 1980 through 1999, there were 162 confirmed cases of paralytic polio cases reported. Of the 162 cases, eight cases were acquired outside the United States and imported. The last imported case caused by wild poliovirus into the United States was reported in 1993. The remaining 154 cases were vaccine-associated paralytic polio (VAPP) caused by live oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV).
Okay, let 's recap that. There hasn 't been a case of someone in the USA getting polio naturally for 33 years. For the next 19 years, 8 cases were contracted outside the USA, and the other 154 cases were actually CAUSED by the vaccine. What this doesn 't say is that there hasn 't been a case of polio in the entire western hemisphere since 1991, over 20 years.
In 1992, the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published an admission that the live-virus vaccine had become the dominant cause of polio in the United States.
If that isn 't enough to make us say no to the polio vaccine, let’s pretend that somehow she contracts a disease that isn 't even on the continent. What are the chances of it causing detrimental effects? The following is from vaccinate.org:
Surprisingly, 95% of all individuals infected with polio have no apparent
When my daughter was a baby, and we decided to delay vaccination, a friend of my mother-in-law seemed thrilled with our decision. However, she advised to look into the polio vaccine because there wasn 't much they could do if someone did contract polio. During my research, I have found that the polio vaccine is all but completely unnecessary for anyone in the United States. Let 's take a look at some of the most interesting information I have found.
Taken directly from the CDC website:
Is polio still a disease seen in the United States?
The last cases of naturally occurring paralytic polio in the United States were in 1979, when an outbreak occurred among the Amish in several Midwestern states. From 1980 through 1999, there were 162 confirmed cases of paralytic polio cases reported. Of the 162 cases, eight cases were acquired outside the United States and imported. The last imported case caused by wild poliovirus into the United States was reported in 1993. The remaining 154 cases were vaccine-associated paralytic polio (VAPP) caused by live oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV).
Okay, let 's recap that. There hasn 't been a case of someone in the USA getting polio naturally for 33 years. For the next 19 years, 8 cases were contracted outside the USA, and the other 154 cases were actually CAUSED by the vaccine. What this doesn 't say is that there hasn 't been a case of polio in the entire western hemisphere since 1991, over 20 years.
In 1992, the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published an admission that the live-virus vaccine had become the dominant cause of polio in the United States.
If that isn 't enough to make us say no to the polio vaccine, let’s pretend that somehow she contracts a disease that isn 't even on the continent. What are the chances of it causing detrimental effects? The following is from vaccinate.org:
Surprisingly, 95% of all individuals infected with polio have no apparent