Re: Did DDT cause polio??

How do you explain all of the recent (1990's) outbreaks of polio CAUSED by the children who were vaccinated with the sabine live polio vaccine who shed it in their feces and infecting others who weren't vaccinated? Because of this method CAUSING polio outbreaks, the government discouraged use of the live vaccine in favor of the killed salk vaccine

http://www.post-polio.org/edu/pphnews/pph11-3f.html

"There are several factors which have caused officials to debate the issue. The last naturally occurring case of polio in the US was 1979, and the last naturally occurring case of polio in the Western Hemisphere was in September 1991. With the risk of wild poliovirus in check, the usually 10 or fewer cases of paralytic polio associated each year with the live virus vaccine (OPV) have become a concern for public health officials. Additionally an enhanced potency IPV (inactivated polio vaccine) has been available in the US since 1987. It will not cause vaccine-associated polio (if properly produced) and is recommended for use in immunodeficient individuals and their family members."

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8576799.html


Article: ORAL POLIO VACCINE DISCOURAGED PEDIATRIC GROUP, ALTERING POLICY, URGES INJECTIONS

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommended yesterday that doctors stop using the oral polio vaccine, made from a weakened live virus, and switch to injections, which contain the dead polio virus.

As part of the routine childhood immunization schedule, all infants get the vaccine for polio, the highly contagious intestinal infection that can spread quickly to the brain and spinal cord.

But there has been controversy about the oral vaccine because, although indigenous polio has been eliminated in the United States since 1979, a few people get polio each year from the vaccine that was designed to prevent the disease.

The academy's new policy, which will go into effect Jan. 1, is published ... Tweet