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Cutter incident - The mistake produced 120,000 doses of polio vaccine that contained live polio virus. Of children who received the vaccine, 40,000 developed ab
by t0bia_s 3y ago
Cutter incident - The mistake produced 120,000 doses of polio vaccine that contained live polio virus. Of children who received the vaccine, 40,000 developed abortive poliomyelitis (a form of the disease that does not involve the central nervous system), 56 developed paralytic poliomyelitis—and of these, five children died from polio.[2] The exposures led to an epidemic of polio in the families and communities of the affected children, resulting in a further 113 people paralyzed and 5 deaths.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutter_Laboratories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutter_Laboratories
- anon291 3y agoI already addressed this concern. I am categorically against live polio vaccines. Thankfully, today, only the oral one is live. There is no longer live injectible vaccine. The inactivated injectible vaccine is very safe. You reference an incident from 1955 when injectible vaccines were similar to oral ones today. Don't take these. Luckily, in 2024, you don't have to. It is irresponsible TODAY to not get vaccinated. None of what I wrote above applies to 1955. You're smarter than this.
- t0bia_s 3y ago[flagged]
- ikrenji 3y agoso? if they stop vaccinating it WILL come back. FAST. also the ONLY way to eradicate an infectious disease is through vaccination. even then we only manage to do it once with smallpox
- t0bia_s 3y agoYou ignore hygiene and wealth that rised up significantly over the world during last century. All polio cases today are in countries where it is not common or even possible to wash hands regularly. It wonders me why we are able to give them milion doses of vaccines but there is not same attitude with drinking water?
- ikrenji 3y agohand washing won't protect you from neither measles nor polio. a vaccine will
- t0bia_s 3y agoIt's not only way, sure. But have huge impact. As well as access to clean drinking water. Polio occurs naturally only in humans. It is highly infectious, and is spread from person to person either through fecal–oral transmission[1][6] (e.g. poor hygiene, or by ingestion of food or water contaminated by human feces), or via the oral–oral route. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio
- ikrenji 3y agoeven in countries with good hygiene and clean water ~ 1st world countries ~ when vaccination rates dip because of anti science anti vaxx nonsense, you get outbreaks of measles, rsv, whooping cough you name it. i don't understand why anyone would prefer to let their childs body be ravaged by all kinds of exotic viruses rather than protect them with the generally gentle and safe vaccines
- t0bia_s 3y ago- you get outbreaks of measles What is a base of this hypothesis? - why anyone would prefer to let their childs body be ravaged by all kinds of exotic viruses rather than protect them with the generally gentle and safe vaccines. If there is no reasonable possibility to get in touch with that virus, why should you "put" it in body of your health child by medical intervention that is based on irrelevant fear? But it's choice that every parent can freely make. Should we all be vaccinated against for example malaria?
- ikrenji 3y agoat this point you're just ignoring facts. u can look it up or not
- BitwiseFool 3y ago>"You're smarter than this." Regardless of how correct you are, or how persuasive you might have been up to this point, uttering this accomplishes nothing and is entirely counterproductive.