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Daddy_Macron t1_je6u3xh wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in NY officials detect polio again by Unstoppable2020

Bold claims require evidence. The Polio vaccine has been safely administered for over half a century now and if not for anti-vax sentiment and some politically unstable areas of the world, the disease would have been eliminated by now. Cities of old used to be full of shops that sold crutches and walking assists for the victims of the disease, prior to the vaccine.

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Reticent_User t1_je6uyo1 wrote

Poliovirus has been eradicated from most of the world due to mass vaccination efforts of the World Health Organization and Global Polio Eradication Initiative in the latter half of the 20th century. However, polio remains endemic in a few areas of the world with fewer than 200 cases reported annually over the past five years. While still rare, vaccine-derived polio is more common than wild (naturally occurring) poliovirus infection, with 682 cases reported in 2021 compared to six cases of wild polio in the same year.

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