For the majority, also not dangerous to the unvaccinated. Most of the time people use numbers for paralytic polio (death rate of like 20% IIRC) and just call i

For the majority, also not dangerous to the unvaccinated. Most of the time people use numbers for paralytic polio (death rate of like 20% IIRC) and just call it "polio", which is completely wrong and misleading. The actual numbers for polio in general: https://www.cdc.gov/polio/what-is-polio/index.htm https://www.cdc.gov/polio/what-is-polio/index.htm * 72% of infections are asymptomatic * 25% of infections are flu-like * 3% of infections result in something serious (not just paralysis) * Between 1 in 200 and 1 in 2000 infections (0.5% to 0.05%) result in paralytic polio (which includes weakness, not just fully paralyzed limbs) Polio is scary because of the visibility of the survivors in that 0.5%, but as a proportion of the population the vast majority of the population won't get that (and polio infects by ingestion, so on top of all this making it less visible, clean food and good hygiene can also prevent infection).