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India stops Polio in it's tracks, no new cases in the last year.

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In the year since January 13, 2011, India has had zero cases of polio. Previously, India led the world, accumulating over 5,000 cases since 2000. Polio's last victim in India was 18 month-old Rukhsar, a girl in West Bengal who began showing signs of paralysis on this day in 2011. Now, epic immunization efforts have brought global eradication of the disease a giant step closer. Outside India, however, backsliding Pakistan and Nigeria and splotches of polio across Africa have blocked the final stamping out of the disease worldwide.
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http://arst.ch/s43

This may be one of the best arguments that vaccination works I've seen in a long time.
 
Nah, India must have improved its sanitation and diet throughout the nation in just a few years, to produce such a dramatic reduction in polio despite the adverse health effects of the despotic forced vaccination program. :tinfoil
 
Myriad said:
Nah, India must have improved its sanitation and diet throughout the nation in just a few years, to produce such a dramatic reduction in polio despite the adverse health effects of the despotic forced vaccination program.
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Don't forget all the advances in traditional Indian homeopathy.
 
Vaccines have nothing to do with it.

As said above the real reasons are:
1. Homeopathy/Ayurveda. India has used this for, oh I dunno, what seems like forever, but the effects must be somewhat delayed by a few decades/centuries/whatever, so I guess their success against polio is expected about now. India is currently waiting for these remedies to cure every other disease that afflicts the subcontinent and drag its life expectancy up to the dizzy levels reached by the US about a 100 years ago - just give them time please.
2. Lack of vaccination. Don't you know that all cases of polio are due to the vaccine? You should. So logic says if there are no cases, there must have been no vaccination. Way to go antivax team!
3. Sanitation. Clearly there must have been some form of hygeine revolution in the last year or so. I think there must have been a national "wash your hands" drive, followed by sewage engineers putting in toilets in every shack in India, including all the Kolkatta slums, and by the roadside at 100yd intervals too, to stop people squatting.
4. Homeopathy. Oh did I already say that? Well it's so good it counts twice.
5. WHO conspiracists. I believe there is actually more polio than ever in India. It has just been covered up, so epidemiologists, doctors and hospitals report the cases as something else, like aseptic meningitis. Why the aseptic meningitis rates haven't risen I am not sure though. Perhaps the conspiracy is not complete enough to extend through the entire healthcare system.
 
Wow, stopping polio in India was a point of emphasis for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. I have to offer some thanks if their efforts were part of the reason for this.
 
This is very good. Very good.
Occasionally, humans can be quite impressive.
 
TB is very hard to vaccinate against and quite antibiotic resistant and relatively easy to prevent. That means its not a disease widely spread in the west anymore and that also means that unfortunately there isnt much funding available to combat it.
 
Deetee said:
Vaccines have nothing to do with it.

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You are too good at the Poe parodies. In another thread I saw folks who thought you were serious. It is very scary.

ArmillarySphere said:
Time for a TB vaccine perhaps?
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Apparently there is research in that now. The BCG is not very effective, and there are now frightening numbers of persons with antibiotic resistant versions of TB.
 
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