By Donald G. McNeill Jr. Nigeria is fighting an unusual outbreak of polio caused by a mutating polio vaccine, world health authorities say, but the only remedy is to keep vaccinating children there. Officials of the World Health Organization fear that news of the outbreak, which began last year, will be a new setback for […]
Polio Outbreak From Oral Vaccine Identified — And Controlled — In China
ScienceDaily (Aug. 15, 2006) — A 2004 outbreak of polio in China traced back to live attenuated oral polio vaccine (OPV), which is widely used in global eradication efforts, highlights the small but significant risk to eradication posed by the use of OPV at suboptimal rates of coverage. The study, reported in the Sept. 1 […]
VRM: Polio – United Nations & The Great Cull
By Joel Lord According to the World Health Organization vaccines aren’t to blame for the spread of Polio in Nigeria; but rather low vaccine uptake amongst the poorest communities. This despite the fact that, by their own admission, children receiving LIVE POLIO VIRUS DROPS will continue shedding the virus amongst their family & neighbors for […]
The ‘Unknown’ About Polio Vaccine: SV40 and Cancer
By Catherine Frompovich After half a century, the 108th U.S. Congress House of Representatives Subcommittee on Human Rights and Wellness finally held a hearing September 10, 2003, on the simian virus (SV40) that was included in the original polio vaccine produced and administered to children in the 1950s and 1960s. Candidly, the first page of […]
The polio virus fights back
By Wendy Orent Sabin’s oral vaccine is actually causing new outbreaks of the disease. We’ve been waiting a long time for the eradication of polio. Since the World Health Organization’s 1988 decision to eliminate polio from nature, as it once did smallpox, billions of dollars have been funneled into this long war. The Bill & […]
