Polio outbreak in Nigeria

[BTox]

Not really new news (this is from late oct, 2003), but pertinent to other recent discussions on the importance of vaccinations, and specifically to a thread in the politics forum (of all places) on flu and polio vaccines. Sadly, only 16% of children in some of these regions are being vaccinated against polio, no wonder it is making a comeback.

Mass immunization campaign launched to protect 15 million children from polio, as outbreak in Nigeria spreads across West Africa.

Experts call outbreak ‘grave public health threat’


22 October 2003 | GENEVA -- A new polio outbreak spreading from Nigeria to neighbouring countries is putting 15 million children at risk, requiring a massive immunization campaign across five countries in west and central Africa. Beginning today, hundreds of thousands of volunteers and health workers in Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Niger and Togo will aim to reach every child in those countries with polio vaccine in just three days.

Source: who polio outbreak in nigeria

Too bad rouser doesn't have the cojones to post in this forum...

 

[Eos of the Eons]

The campaign, organized at a cost of more than US$ 10 million, comes in response to nearly a dozen children being paralyzed in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Niger and Togo, from poliovirus genetically traced to northern Nigeria.

[sarcasm] Yeah but, the only cases of polio today are caused by the vaccine. You see, one kid gets a shot that wasn't made right before they figure out it's a bad batch. Then the kid is contagious and spreads it, and you get an epidemic. It's not a natural form of the virus you see. And it kills the good polio that resides in an interdependent relationship with your gut. So you have this hole in the gut flora that really puts the body off balance and causes paralysis. So get rid of the vaccines, they are evil and cause epidemics![/sarcasm]


I'm just hoping whacky parents who don't vaccinate their kids, but go travelling anyways don't get their kid infected and bring it into areas where vaccination is down. Or maybe I hope they do to teach people a lesson. None of them are going to believe the body can't fight it off on it's own with all the junk out there to 'naturally' boost the immune system.
The are invincible to this manmade monster![/sarcasm]

Right.
And you know, if it does come to UK or Australia or USA, only the vaccinated kids with immune systems damaged by vaccines will get the polio that will paralyze them. [/sarcasm]

I'm really waiting for an outbreak in the more first worldish countries. All the non vaccinated kids will get it and it will mutate into a form that don't match our vaccines well, and all kids will get sick...proving vaccines don't work...so why bother.

Yes, woo logic will win in their minds no matter what happens.

 

[Eos of the Eons]

The campaign, organized at a cost of more than US$ 10 million, comes in response to nearly a dozen children being paralyzed in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Niger and Togo, from poliovirus genetically traced to northern Nigeria.

[sarcasm] yeah, but vaccines are the only cause of polio in the world today. If they get rid of those then we won't see anymore polio. You see, a kid gets a vaccine that wasn't made right. The kid gets all contagious and spreads it...and causes the epidemic. You see, This is not a natural polio that would do no harm and actually just reside in an interdependent relationship with your other gut flora.

 

[BTox]

bump - for anti-vaccination kook Rouser - an early Christmas present.

 

[Eos of the Eons]

BTox, don't encourage him!

 

[UnrepentantSinner]

I've been reading his replies in the other thread and I'm getting the impression he feels he's already pithily dismissed your weak anecdote with a one line response over there.

 

[Prester John]

Yeah you been Skooled!