336 sats \ 8 replies \ @clr 30 Mar \ parent \ on: Childhood Vaccine Schedule Thoughts and Questions health
Of course, widespread clean running water, sewage and vast improvements in cleanliness and sanitation have absolutely nothing to do with reductions in infant mortality. /s
It’s probably the biggest factor
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Not at all. Consider smallpox as an example, it was not eradicated because of sanitation or whatnot, but vaccine! Unfortunately this is the only disease eradicated to date.
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They got pretty close with Polio, but now that's reemerging, possibly in part because people are getting it from the vaccines.
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Maybe, maybe not. It sounds strange to me however: we got it almost eradicated using vaccines but now the vaccines cause its reemergence? I would say it is because of insufficient collective immunity.
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I'm certainly not an expert, but you can read up on the phenomenon here if you want to. The search I did just now indicates that it's a well recognized phenomenon.
The situation is that the vaccine has a very small chance of actually creating polio in the recipient and since the disease had been nearly eliminated many current cases are from the vaccines.
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People do get it from vaccines. The only polio vaccine that prevents you from giving it to others is live polio. If you give a bunch of people the live polio vaccine, some of them will get polio. Since polio hardly exists in the wild anymore, as we're close to eradicating it with the polio vaccine, the main way people get polio is the polio vaccine.
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That's what I recall having read, too.
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Of course, it does!
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