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Thankfully polio is an extremely treatable disease. Vaccination is still the best form of defense against poliovirus. There’s no free lunch though, and more peo

Thankfully polio is an extremely treatable disease. Vaccination is still the best form of defense against poliovirus. There’s no free lunch though, and more people are infected with polio from vaccines worldwide than with the wild virus. https://apnews.com/article/health-united-nations-ap-top-news-pakistan-international-news-7d8b0e32efd0480fbd12acf27729f6a5 https://apnews.com/article/health-united-nations-ap-top-news...

ggm 5y ago
This is a really dangerous comment. Thankfully polio is an extremely treatable disease -What exactly do you think is the treatment, beyond prophylaxis? That the rate of vaccine caused infection is now higher than the rate of wild infection is no reason to stop vaccinating. It's really sad but this is why we have indemnity processes. Eradication depends on continual vaccination, well beyond any kind of epidemic. Even though it has been years since wild polio raged worldwide, this is no time to stop vaccinating. I cannot fathom what you are trying to communicate.
- ed25519FUUU 5y ago
  There’s nothing dangerous about my comment and in fact it represents the status quo for fighting polio worldwide: 1. Vaccines are the best defense against poliovirus. 2. The vaccines sometimes but rarely give people polio (more often than the wild virus in fact). 3. Polio is a very treatable disease, so contracting polio either from the vaccine or the live virus represents low risk. I’m literally just stating the worldwide polio eradication strategy: vaccinate, monitor, treat. Not sure why you’re so sensitive about it.
  - ggm 5y ago
    https://www.health.gov.au/health-topics/polio-poliomyelitis https://www.health.gov.au/health-topics/polio-poliomyelitis Polio has no treatment, but good physiotherapy may help with recovery. The small number of people who get paralysis need to go to hospital and may need intensive care. Some people will need long-term treatment for limb paralysis.
    - ed25519FUUU 5y ago
      Wow I was so wrong! The treatment is basically ibuprofen and bed rest. Sad we've been unable to eradicate it yet!
  - gus_massa 5y ago
    After some years without cases and if the country has a high vaccination rate, the recommendation is to switch to use only the injectable vaccine that uses inactivated virus (informally "dead"), so it can not revert and cause cases later. More details in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine#Schedule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine#Schedule

ggm 5y ago

This is a really dangerous comment. Thankfully polio is an extremely treatable disease -What exactly do you think is the treatment, beyond prophylaxis? That the rate of vaccine caused infection is now higher than the rate of wild infection is no reason to stop vaccinating. It's really sad but this is why we have indemnity processes. Eradication depends on continual vaccination, well beyond any kind of epidemic. Even though it has been years since wild polio raged worldwide, this is no time to stop vaccinating. I cannot fathom what you are trying to communicate.

ed25519FUUU 5y ago
There’s nothing dangerous about my comment and in fact it represents the status quo for fighting polio worldwide: 1. Vaccines are the best defense against poliovirus. 2. The vaccines sometimes but rarely give people polio (more often than the wild virus in fact). 3. Polio is a very treatable disease, so contracting polio either from the vaccine or the live virus represents low risk. I’m literally just stating the worldwide polio eradication strategy: vaccinate, monitor, treat. Not sure why you’re so sensitive about it.
- ggm 5y ago
  https://www.health.gov.au/health-topics/polio-poliomyelitis https://www.health.gov.au/health-topics/polio-poliomyelitis Polio has no treatment, but good physiotherapy may help with recovery. The small number of people who get paralysis need to go to hospital and may need intensive care. Some people will need long-term treatment for limb paralysis.
  - ed25519FUUU 5y ago
    Wow I was so wrong! The treatment is basically ibuprofen and bed rest. Sad we've been unable to eradicate it yet!
- gus_massa 5y ago
  After some years without cases and if the country has a high vaccination rate, the recommendation is to switch to use only the injectable vaccine that uses inactivated virus (informally "dead"), so it can not revert and cause cases later. More details in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine#Schedule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine#Schedule