"It's actually an interesting conundrum. The very tool you are using for [polio] eradication is causing the problem," Raul Andino, a professor of microbiology at the University of California, San Francisco, told NPR in 2017. 🤡
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/08/25/905884740/africa-declares-wild-polio-is-wiped-out-yet-it-persists-in-vaccine-derived-cases
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https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/08/25/905884740/africa-declares-wild-polio-is-wiped-out-yet-it-persists-in-vaccine-derived-cases
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Oral polio drops linked to paralysis in India
Hard fail at logic:
[NEW DELHI] While India’s oral polio vaccine (OPV) drives have eliminated polio from the country, they have also resulted in over 490,000 cases of paralysis during 2000—2017, says a new study based on national surveillance statistics.
https://www.scidev.net/asia-pacific/news/oral-polio-drops-linked-to-paralysis-in-india/
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Hard fail at logic:
[NEW DELHI] While India’s oral polio vaccine (OPV) drives have eliminated polio from the country, they have also resulted in over 490,000 cases of paralysis during 2000—2017, says a new study based on national surveillance statistics.
https://www.scidev.net/asia-pacific/news/oral-polio-drops-linked-to-paralysis-in-india/
#polio
Asia & Pacific
Oral polio drops linked to paralysis in India
India’s successful oral polio vaccine drives have been linked by a study to high paralysis incidence.