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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 poli
by 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 agohttps://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 agoWow I was so wrong! The treatment is basically ibuprofen and bed rest. Sad we've been unable to eradicate it yet!
- gus_massa 5y agoAfter 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