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polio vaccine
Britannica ^ | 12/3/23 | Britannica

Posted on 12/29/2023 11:43:47 AM PST by DallasBiff

polio vaccine, preparation of poliovirus given to prevent polio, an infectious disease of the nervous system. The first polio vaccine to be widely used in humans, known as inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) or Salk vaccine, was developed in the early 1950s by American physician Jonas Salk. This vaccine contains killed virus and is given by injection.

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To: DallasBiff

My Dr. persuaded me to get pneumonia and tetanus vaccines this week but I refused the flu and covid shots.


21 posted on 12/29/2023 12:25:31 PM PST by Newtoidaho (All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
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To: PAR35

Alex Jones has said his grandmother (?) developed polio from the early vaccine.


22 posted on 12/29/2023 12:39:40 PM PST by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: DallasBiff

At age 5 in 1954, I contracted polio just before the vaccines were distributed.

I had a mild case—spent three weeks in a hospital bed, restricted to laying on my back. Once released, lots of arduous physical therapy, followed by a lifetime of muscular impairment.


23 posted on 12/29/2023 12:42:43 PM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (“It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn.” John 21:11)
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To: DallasBiff

I got the Salk vaccine in 1956. Five years later, I went to Germany, so I got vaccinated for typhoid fever and typhus. The side effect of the typhoid shot was a sore arm that felt like it had taken a hard punch, but the typhus shot felt like a bee sting.

I later got vaccinated against Asiatic cholera, since I was headed for the Soviet bloc, where it still could be found.


24 posted on 12/29/2023 12:46:16 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: DallasBiff

I was born in 1955. In that year over 1,000 people died of polio in the United States alone. By 1975 there were more than 250,000 people in the U.S. still at least partially paralyzed by the results of polio.

There are a lot of younger folks who are anti-vax. A lot of us older folks remember polio, and measles, and other diseases.


25 posted on 12/29/2023 1:41:40 PM PST by Engraved-on-His-hands
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To: DallasBiff

They left out the part where thousands of people died from the polio vaccine.


26 posted on 12/29/2023 2:21:32 PM PST by roving (Deplorable Listless Vessel Trumpist With Trumpitis)
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

Still, not getting the shot.


27 posted on 12/29/2023 2:22:19 PM PST by roving (Deplorable Listless Vessel Trumpist With Trumpitis)
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To: pops88

You’ve never seen a ward full of iron lungs

Polio is and was dangerous. I’m glad there exists a vaccine against it


28 posted on 12/29/2023 2:26:34 PM PST by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Nifster

I was an RN in a university pediatric hospital. I’ve done my research. Go ahead an get vaccine up, and may your faith save you. The truth will set one free, and who the Son sets free is free indeed. One may believe in the vaccine, but don’t believe the lies they told to get people to take it.


29 posted on 12/29/2023 2:31:45 PM PST by pops88 ( Helping usher the glory of God into Las Vegas)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

sad but true ...


30 posted on 12/29/2023 2:36:08 PM PST by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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To: null and void

Well, almost everyone :-)


31 posted on 12/29/2023 2:36:44 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s ("If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there")
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To: DallasBiff

Believe it or not there is really some doubt that polio is an infectious disease, and not a toxic syndrome caused by certain insecticides. See the book “Turtles All the Way Down” for an exposition of the evidence on that subject. https://www.amazon.com/Turtles-All-Way-Down-Vaccine/dp/9655981045/ref=asc_df_9655981045&mcid=b33ff121d0123161bf647bf96d3b9254?tag=bngsmtphsnus-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80195816670293&hvnetw=s&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4583795283483207&psc=1

Whatever causes polio, it was successfully cured by large doses of vitamin C years before the Salk vaccine was developed. In July 1949 Dr Frederick Klenner published curing 60 out of 60 cases of polio with massive doses of vitamin C, and the medical world took no notice. https://www.seanet.com/%7Ealexs/ascorbate/194x/klenner-fr-southern_med_surg-1949-v111-n7-p209.htm


32 posted on 12/29/2023 2:39:56 PM PST by devere
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To: Newtoidaho

unfortunately, tetanus shot is no longer just tetanus vax, as the one given by default is the TDAP vax, namely tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis (whooping cough) ... when was the last time you heard of anyone getting diphtheria?


33 posted on 12/29/2023 2:40:30 PM PST by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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To: Nifster

34 posted on 12/29/2023 2:44:26 PM PST by Engraved-on-His-hands
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To: DallasBiff

As young kids in the early 50’s, we were all terrified of catching polio. We saw the horrible pictures of patients in iron lungs.

The vaccine was a great relief. I got mine in school.


35 posted on 12/29/2023 2:55:19 PM PST by Oldhunk
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To: catnipman

Strictly TD shots are available. The pertussis vaccine is troublesome and many people have an adverse reaction to it. If I had a gardening accident and needed a tetanus booster that’s what I would get.


36 posted on 12/29/2023 3:05:51 PM PST by devere
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To: Hebrews 11:6
At age 5 in 1954, I contracted polio just before the vaccines were distributed.

I had a mild case—spent three weeks in a hospital bed, restricted to laying on my back. Once released, lots of arduous physical therapy, followed by a lifetime of muscular impairment

Ditto, exactly what happened to me, physical therapy, etc., except I got it at age 5 in 1955. My back muscles are still weak.

37 posted on 12/29/2023 3:12:21 PM PST by Inyo-Mono
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To: ChildOfThe60s

There’s one in every crowd...


38 posted on 12/29/2023 3:17:23 PM PST by null and void (I identify as a conspiracy theorist. My personal pronouns are told/you/so.)
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To: Inyo-Mono

If you get to heaven, finally your back will be strong.


39 posted on 12/29/2023 3:39:28 PM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (“It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn.” John 21:11)
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To: pops88

So are you against getting vaccinated eithe polio vaccine


40 posted on 12/29/2023 4:23:38 PM PST by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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