But, MT, isn't this all about distraction and diversion? They have their unvaccinated scapegoat and something to divert the media to and use it to further push the "necessity" for mass vaccination. I'm sure "they" are loving this, as even many peds here are doubting the continued necessity for this vaccine.
I know I'm not the only one that noticed all the contradictions and condescention in this piece.
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| "If that child is a message in a bottle," said Bruce Aylward, coordinator of the global polio eradication initiative at the World Health Organization, "it has just washed up on shore." |
Is this to drive home the "it's only a plane ride away" scare tactic?
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| The farms could have come straight out of children's books. There are ducks and chickens, cattle and hogs. Fence posts are columns of stones enclosed by wire mesh. Lacking electricity, the farms are remarkably quiet. At one, the children rarely yelled or even spoke in the presence of a stranger. The air smelled of turned earth, manure and wood smoke. |
Is the author trying to actually pretend they went to this community to write this article?
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Since many Amish use outhouses, however, state officials geared up to go door to door. They unearthed a public health form explaining how to collect stool samples. The form had pictures of a flush toilet and a garbage can with a plastic liner - things foreign to many Amish communities. Officials changed the form.
The Amish commonly take buses and trains, and occasionally even planes. Families from the baby girl's community recently attended a wedding in Ontario, Canada, that health officials said drew more than 1,000 guests. Some have visited Wisconsin in recent weeks. |
So, did the new forms have a picture of an outhouse and a paper bag? Because, ya know, they probably have no clue what that porcelain bowl with the silver lever is in that little closet on the airlplanes, buses and trains. They must wait until it stops and go squat outside behind a bush. I hope they had a porta-potty at the wedding or there's going to be a whole lot of people with bladder infections from holding it all night at the reception.
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So far, no one has been crippled by the disease; only 1 in 200 cases of polio results in paralysis.
Polio experts have long feared that an immune-deficient person could cause an outbreak of paralytic polio. That is a particular hazard in poorer countries.
In much of the developing world, children are given an oral vaccine made of a live, nonparalytic polio virus.
A fear is that such a person could unwittingly incubate a polio infection for a decade or more and then accidentally reintroduce it - years after experts have declared it eliminated from the world and vaccinations have stopped.
That prospect has long seemed remote, because such children are so rare, |
Why would they even mention the stats for the natural disease, since this situation has nothing to do with wild polio? But then they go on to say how the oral vaccines is a "nonparalytic" virus, yet it CAN cause paralytic polio if given the right circumstances (like an immune-deficient child). But, I guess that's the child's fault, not the vaccines fault. And why is this prospect so remote, since they even make mention of how it's not "rare" to find a sick child among the poor in these 3rd world countries where there are still cases of polio?
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| But if the virus spreads too far among previously unvaccinated people, its genes will change and the virus will regain its ability to cripple and kill. Such a virus caused an outbreak of paralytic polio in Haiti and the Dominican Republic in 2000 and 2001, crippling 21. (The outbreaks in Africa and Asia began after many Nigerians refused vaccinations in 2003, suspecting they were a Western plot to sterilize Muslim girls.) |
Did "they" just admit that these cases of polio were from the vaccine, not wild polio making a "comeback" because people refused vaccination? Wow! Good reason to keep on keepin' on...so you don't get paralysed from someone spreading the vaccine virus! They just admitted this "campaign" will NEVER end.
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"It's a model of what might happen if we stop vaccinating too soon," he said.
"Or we may need to revisit the strategy and time frame for stopping the use of the oral polio vaccine," |
To the first sentence I say, YES! Let's keep on vaccinating to stay safe from your vaccination! Morons.
To the second......I amazed that any intelligent statement came out of the mouth of an "official" among this entire fiasco.
