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This isn't only a matter of antivaxers. If you're in a country in which Polio has been eradicated, such as the US, double check that you're vaccinated. Various

This isn't only a matter of antivaxers. If you're in a country in which Polio has been eradicated, such as the US, double check that you're vaccinated. Various vaccines are no longer recommended because of the virtually nonexistent risk. I know that Africans receive the TB vaccine as part of our regular schedule, where many developed countries do not.

couchand 5y ago
The Polio vaccine is still administered in the US as standard practice.
- MerelyMortal 5y ago
  TB as well.
  - DoingIsLearning 5y ago
    As a counter example TB and some meningitis vaccines have been dropped in many EU countries because of cost/benefit, as in not enough of a disease incidence to justify covering the cost of the vaccine. You can still get them voluntarily but you have to pay from your own pocket.
CorrectHorseBat 5y ago
>Various vaccines are no longer recommended because of the virtually nonexistent risk. Such as?
- Drybones 5y ago
  smallpox
  - CorrectHorseBat 5y ago
    Smallpox has been eradicated, that's not even virtually nonexistent. Only risk I see is biological warfare, but why do that with a virus we have a vaccine for?
    - mschuster91 5y ago
      There are multiple other scenarios where the virus could become released into the wild again: infection by clearing up old storage sites, a laboratory accident, or some terrorist spending 100k US$. And all of these have happened (although the latter was "just" horse pox). [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox#Post-eradication https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox#Post-eradication
- pabs3 5y ago
  From elsewhere in the thread: https://www.npr.org/2019/11/16/780068006/how-the-oral-polio-vaccine-can-cause-polio https://www.npr.org/2019/11/16/780068006/how-the-oral-polio-...
  - CorrectHorseBat 5y ago
    The other type of polio vaccine is still recommended (and even mandatory in many countries) so there is nothing to be worried about if you take all the recommended vaccines.
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couchand 5y ago

The Polio vaccine is still administered in the US as standard practice.

MerelyMortal 5y ago
TB as well.
- DoingIsLearning 5y ago
  As a counter example TB and some meningitis vaccines have been dropped in many EU countries because of cost/benefit, as in not enough of a disease incidence to justify covering the cost of the vaccine. You can still get them voluntarily but you have to pay from your own pocket.

CorrectHorseBat 5y ago

>Various vaccines are no longer recommended because of the virtually nonexistent risk. Such as?

Drybones 5y ago
smallpox
- CorrectHorseBat 5y ago
  Smallpox has been eradicated, that's not even virtually nonexistent. Only risk I see is biological warfare, but why do that with a virus we have a vaccine for?
  - mschuster91 5y ago
    There are multiple other scenarios where the virus could become released into the wild again: infection by clearing up old storage sites, a laboratory accident, or some terrorist spending 100k US$. And all of these have happened (although the latter was "just" horse pox). [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox#Post-eradication https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox#Post-eradication
pabs3 5y ago
From elsewhere in the thread: https://www.npr.org/2019/11/16/780068006/how-the-oral-polio-vaccine-can-cause-polio https://www.npr.org/2019/11/16/780068006/how-the-oral-polio-...
- CorrectHorseBat 5y ago
  The other type of polio vaccine is still recommended (and even mandatory in many countries) so there is nothing to be worried about if you take all the recommended vaccines.
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