Mutant Strains Of Polio Vaccine Cause More Paraylsis Than Wild Polio stat : NPR

Mutant Strains Of Polio Vaccine Now Cause More Paralysis Than Wild PolioEnlarge this image toggle caption Carsten Koall/Getty Images Carsten Koall/Getty ImagesFor the first time, the number of children paralyzed by mutant strains of the polio vaccine are greater than the number of children paralyzed by polio itself. After a child is vaccinated with live polio virus, the virus replicates inside the child's intestine and eventually is excreted. The regular polio vaccine protects children from vaccine-derived strains of the virus just as it protects them from regular polio. "The fact is this [the live oral polio vaccine] is the only tool that we have that can eradicate the disease," says Zaffran. "Four regions of the world have totally eradicated the disease with the use of the oral polio vaccine," he notes.




The Inactivated Polio Vaccine is the newest type of polio vaccine in the country and was launched on Monday, July 3 across Liberia. YARPAH TOWN, River Cess – The River Cess County Health Team, Last Mile Health, and WHO joined the rest of the country to launch a new polio vaccine. Flomo Yorgie, the health promotion focal person of the River Cess County Health Team, told The Bush Chicken that the new vaccine is now available at the various health facilities in the county. The first dose of the vaccine was administered by River Cess County Inspector Trokon Browne, with the assistance of health practitioners. In River Cess, the ceremony marking the launch was held at the Yarpah Town Market, where a cross section of citizens was in attendance.

This Report About The Polio Vaccine Shouldn't Stop You From Getting Your Kids Their Shots

The polio vaccine will protect kids from both kinds of polio: both wild and vaccine-derived. To be clear, vaccine-derived polio isn't polio that infects recipients of the vaccine. Rather, it's an interesting — and tragic — case that can develop at the crossroads of oral polio vaccine use and poor sanitation in developing countries. For those who trust in the life-saving qualities of vaccines, the idea of a vaccine-derived disease can sound terrifying, but there's several reasons why the recent reports about the polio vaccine shouldn't stop you from getting your kids their shots. Only six of this year's polio cases have come from naturally occurring "wild" polio — the virus as it's found in the environment — while worryingly enough, another 21 cases have been instances of vaccine-derived polio.


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