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Indeed, it'd be wonderful to see polio eradicated. Eradication has been a decades long program; they originally aimed to do it by the year 2000, then ?, then 20
by orra 3y ago
Indeed, it'd be wonderful to see polio eradicated. Eradication has been a decades long program; they originally aimed to do it by the year 2000, then ?, then 2018.
Even if the last stage of eradication is stubbornly slow, we have obviously been quite successful at limiting the number of cases.
- alfredpawney 3y agoHonestly never thought i’d see the day.
- smegger001 3y agoWell it didn't help when the CIA got caught posing as health workers giving out polio vaccination in Pakistan.
- LordShredda 3y agohttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/11/cia-fake-vaccinations-osama-bin-ladens-dna https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/11/cia-fake-vacci... The taliban started attacking polio vaccine workers and the UN suspended operations. Polio exists in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria
- codezero 3y agoThe scheme was for hepatitis vaccinations. The article linked below just mentions that only health workers giving polio vaccines had previously been able to access the compound.
- jryle70 3y agoWhy that certainly didn't help, the main reason has been misconception and religious belief: According to a study conducted in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, respondents misconceived the vaccine to be capable of causing harm to the immune system (93%), triggering adverse reactions 97.5%, to be against their social and moral values (95%), and to be not as good as traditional methods for treating children 98.5% https://www.emro.who.int/emhj-volume-28-2022/volume-28-issue-7/understanding-the-reasons-for-refusal-of-polio-vaccine-by-families-in-quetta-block-pakistan.html https://www.emro.who.int/emhj-volume-28-2022/volume-28-issue...
- honksillet 3y agoPakistani parents have good reason to not trust anything administered by a needle. 700 children recently contracted HIV. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/hundreds-of-children-in-pakistan-have-been-infected-with-hiv-used-needles-could-be-to-blame/2019/06/06/467aac92-86cf-11e9-9d73-e2ba6bbf1b9b_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/hundreds-o...
- freshpots 3y ago"Pakistani parents have good reason to not trust anything administered by a needle. 700 children recently contracted HIV." Is not a good rationale for making a decision. Parents, indeed anyone, shouldn't be worried about anything administered by a needle unless proper protocols are not followed, and they always should.
- austhrow743 3y agoThey should pretend proper protocols are followed because proper protocols should be followed?
- ceejayoz 3y agoThat's like saying the cure for cancer is not getting cancer.
- polynomial 3y agoworks every time.
- TomK32 3y agoAlso works against speeding tickets. But don't tell anyone
- K0balt 3y agoThe outbreak of HIV in Pakistan is because of needle reuse.
- pyuser583 3y agoYeah there was an X-Files episode where the CIA gathered DNA via polio vaccines. Which means someone at the CIA said, “Hey that thing that happened in the X-Files, let’s do that but for real!”
- smegger001 3y agoIt doesn't inspire confidence when your spy agencies start stealing ideas from the villain spies who got caught in a TV show from the 90s
- slavik81 3y agoWasn't it the Smallpox Eradication Program?
- pyuser583 3y agoThat may have been it! Spoiler: It was the one where Mulder finds his sister’s record, then tears off the name to see his own underneath. I doesn’t really matter though. The real world CIA vaccines were against Hepatitis B.