What is wrong with this picture?  The vaccine creates a new virus and you must be vaccinated to be protected from it.  - SM

 

“Outbreak of Poliomyelitis—Dominican Republic and Haiti, 2000-2001” Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (www.cdc.gov/mmwr)

(03/02/01) Vol. 50, No. 8, P. 147

In the Dominican Republic, 12 laboratory-confirmed poliomyelitis cases attributed to vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1 were identified between July 2000 and February 2001.  All of the case-patients were either unvaccinated or inadequately vaccinated, and 11 of the case-patients were six years of age or younger.  The date of the onset of paralysis of the last case was January 2 of this year.  In Haiti, an unvaccinated child aged two years old developed polio attributed to vaccine-derived type 1 poliovirus, with the onset of paralysis taking place on August 30, 2000.  As of February 21, three acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) cases from Haiti and 33 AFP cases from the Dominican Republic were pending final classification.  In December 2000 and February 2001, the Dominican Republic held nationwide mass vaccination campaigns with oral poliovirus vaccine, and a third round is planned for April 2001.  Haiti has also initiated regional oral poliovirus vaccination campaigns that will be carried out approximately every two months.  [The risk of AFP from vaccine-derived poliovirus is directly related to a low overall immunization rate in the population, and is best prevented by a high immunization rate.]

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