This is one of the reasons they discontinued the use of the live vaccine in the US. I personally know 2 people who contracted polio within a week or so of having had the live vaccine in the late 50’s. One of them spent time in an iron lung. This was a known side effect of the live vaccine.
The live vaccine is still used in the 3rd world. The feces of the vaccinated person can still transmit polio virus for several weeks after they’ve been vaccinated. It was a problem in the 3rd world with ‘sanitation problems’ when they first started vaxing for that. Mom would change the baby’s diaper/tend the baby’s feces and contract polio. Also the fact that open sewers ran down the middle of most of the streets helped spread it as well.
The live vaccine also spread another virus (a contaminent in the green monkey kidneys used to culture the vaccine) called SV40 which has been linked to soft tissue cancer and also appears to be spread by sexual contact. Ie, they’ve found it in children of those who were vaccinated with batches known to be contaminated who have themselves never received a live vaccine.
““”After mass inoculations began in 1954, everyone marveled at the high success rate—some 60-70 percent—until the vaccine caused a sudden outbreak of some 200 cases. After it was determined that the cases were all caused by one faulty batch of the vaccine, production standards were improved, and by August 1955 some 4 million shots had been given. Cases of polio in the U.S. dropped from 14,647 in 1955 to 5,894 in 1956, and by 1959 some 90 other countries were using Salk’s vaccine.”
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I was unaware of a bad batch-—thanks for the info.
I was teaching 1st grade in 1954-55 and the kids received the vaccine during that school year. It was a great thing for all of us.
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Confirmed – India’s Polio Eradication Campaign in 2011 Caused 47,500 Cases of Vaccine-Induced Polio Paralysis
By Dr. Mercola August 28 2012
Story at-a-glance
• The media is reporting that polio has been eradicated in India, thanks to a massive oral polio vaccination drive encompassing nearly 170 million children; however, the vaccine uses a live virus that is linked to vaccine-induced polio paralysis
• A paper published in the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics found 47,500 cases of so-called non-polio acute flaccid paralysis (NPAFP), a polio-like condition that is clinically indistinguishable from polio paralysis but twice as deadly, linked to the oral polio vaccine
• It’s also estimated that up to 180 Indian children develop vaccine-associated polio paralysis (VAPP) each year
Vaccines alone don’t eradicate disease; polio spreads largely through feces-contaminated water, so ignoring the poor sanitation and lack of clean water in third-world countries, along with the lack of healthy food to support their immune systems, is ignorant if the goal is really to eradicate the disease