Polio outbreak in Nepal - ALL cases are in vaccinated kids

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Out of Nepal:

Polio in dangerous stage of transmission

http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&amp...

Excerpts:

KATHMANDU, Aug 8: Over 10 years after its last indigenous case was traced in Nepal, polio has reached a dangerous stage of local transmission. Doctors warn that the local transmission of polio, if not tackled effectively at the earliest, may result in a deadly epidemic.

Of the total five recent cases of polio detected in Rautahat and Mahottari districts, three have been transmitted locally. Even more shockingly, in all five cases, polio victims had been administered at least a dose of vaccines.

“The acute infectious viral disease has started to spread locally within Nepal. On the other hand, vaccines used to eradicate polio have proved evidently ineffective,” said a doctor on condition of anonymity.

However, the government has failed to introduce such a comprehensive program that includes nutrition and sanitation apart from vaccination. Investment only in vaccination, according to health experts, is unlikely to help eradicate polio from Nepal.

(COMMENT): Only when the vaccines are CAUGHT failing do they blame sanitation, hygiene and nutrition. Perhaps sanitation, hygiene and nutrition are what prevents polio in the first place, not the vaccine. It’s almost like how in the commercials for sugary/processed breakfast cereals for kids, they always announce at the end, “part of this balanced breakfast”, as they show other foods around the cereal that actually contain nutrition.

“VACCINES – PART OF THIS BALANCED REGIMEN OF NUTRITION AND SANITATION”.

Of course, as we all know, vaccines shouldn’t be part of ANY regimen unless someday they are actually proved to be safe and effective. Until then my kids won’t be engaged in guinea-pig-ism.

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