Why can't the world eradicate polio?

[anewmama]

http://www.newsweek.com/id/180968

Scientists don't understand exactly why, but they suspect that the typical child harbors so many intestinal bugs that the immune system is overwhelmed and fails to pick up on the vaccine. In relatively sanitary Europe or the United States, a child typically requires three doses of an oral vaccine to gain immunity; kids in northern India need as many as 12 doses.

Yikes.

[kiara7]

12, 24, 36....

Sanitary living conditions and clean water didn't cross anyone's mind, huh?

[buttercupmama]

I'm stunned. Someone admitted polio doesn't paralyze the majority of people it infects. Truly stunned.

This is just irritating:

A campaign of mass inoculations around the world, led by the World Health Organization, has reduced cases by 99 percent, cornering the disease in a few pockets of resistance.

I grew up in the Caribbean and no one was vaccinated against it there. One of my family members did obviously have it, but no one else I've ever heard of did, not even his many siblings. Yet vaccines are the reason, nevermind that they were never part of the equation at all. Give credit only where it's due, please.

[Super Glue Mommy]

Originally Posted by kiara7

12, 24, 36....

Sanitary living conditions and clean water didn't cross anyone's mind, huh?

exactly! because they are trying to eradicate polio with a vaccine when the real issue is health and sanitation!!

[laralee16]

Originally Posted by kiara7

Sanitary living conditions and clean water didn't cross anyone's mind, huh?

There is no money in making the living conditions better...

[Full Heart]

Originally Posted by Super Glue Mommy

exactly! because they are trying to eradicate polio with a vaccine when the real issue is health and sanitation!!

Thank-you for saying that in 1 concise sentance. Thats what I was trying to get at in the Bill Gates thread. Throwing vaccines at every disease is not the answer.

$600 million to eliminate the last 1600 cases. Wow, thats expensive.

[dinahx]

Ummm because the Oral Vaccine keeps putting the virus in the water supply??? This is KNOWN to happen! The US did not eradicate Polio until we switched to the Inactivated Vaccine.

The article is erroneous if it states that kids in Europe or the US get the Oral Vaccine. They do NOT. And when they did, 50+ children per year got paralytic polio as a direct consequence.

[just_lily]

Originally Posted by Full Heart

$600 million to eliminate the last 1600 cases. Wow, thats expensive.

$600 million a year.

[GTyler]

Polio and all the other diseases -
vaccines did NOT reduce these diseases.

www.vaccinationdebate.com/web1.html
see the graphical charts posted in the link

"Scientific medicine has taken credit it does not deserve for some advances in health. Most people believe that victory over the infectious diseases of the last century came with the invention of immunisations.

In fact, cholera, typhoid, tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough, etc, were in decline before vaccines for them became available - the result of better methods of sanitation, sewage disposal, and distribution of food and water."