"Polio has been eradicated from the western hemisphere, and there have been no cases of wild polio in the U.S. since 1979. Since then the only cases of polio have been caused by the live oral vaccine. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that the risk of a child getting vaccine- associated polio from OPV is 1 in 520,000 first doses and 1 in 12.4 million subsequent doses. The CDC reports that eight to ten American children and adults come down with vaccine-associated polio every year. The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) maintains that many more children and adults are neurologically affected by OPV, but are never properly diagnosed." (emphasis mine)
So the only cases of polio in the US in recent years have actually been caused by the vaccine... and yet we keep giving it to kids. This is a situation where I posit that by not giving my kid the vaccine, I actually helped the greater good by NOT taking the action that is the ONLY way to infect people.
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Date: 2009-11-02 02:07 pm (UTC)"Polio has been eradicated from the western hemisphere, and there have been no cases of wild polio in the U.S. since 1979. Since then the only cases of polio have been caused by the live oral vaccine. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that the risk of a child getting vaccine- associated polio from OPV is 1 in 520,000 first doses and 1 in 12.4 million subsequent doses. The CDC reports that eight to ten American children and adults come down with vaccine-associated polio every year. The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) maintains that many more children and adults are neurologically affected by OPV, but are never properly diagnosed." (emphasis mine)
So the only cases of polio in the US in recent years have actually been caused by the vaccine... and yet we keep giving it to kids. This is a situation where I posit that by not giving my kid the vaccine, I actually helped the greater good by NOT taking the action that is the ONLY way to infect people.