Dr. Muhammad Ali Pate is Minister of State for Health in Nigeria. Dr. Christopher Elias is president of Global Development at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The views expressed in this article are solely those of Pate and Elias.
By Drs. Muhammad Ali Pate and Christopher Elias
The two of us are roughly the same age but we grew up in very different parts of the world. One of us had the luxury of never giving polio a second thought. The other saw his best friend paralyzed by the disease and, some years later, killed by a car as he struggled to cross the street.
It’s a tragic story of the inequities that separate rich countries like the United States from developing countries such as Nigeria. But it's also a hopeful story as progress on polio eradication is made.
In less than a quarter century, the number of children paralyzed by polio has dropped spectacularly — from 350,000 cases annually to just 650 last year. In 1988, there were 125 countries where polio was endemic. Today, there are just three - Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Earlier this year, India was removed from the list of polio-endemic countries. Just two years ago, India — a subcontinent with a population of more than 1 billion — was thought to be the last place on earth where polio would be eliminated.
India’s success proves that polio is a disease that can be defeated in the most challenging circumstances, and for the most part has been. But finishing the job in a remaining few pockets in Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan will take a stronger commitment.
We are at a critical moment in the effort to create a polio-free world: Anything short of complete eradication means we give up on the promise of providing all children, no matter where they live, the benefit of living a life free of this debilitating disease. It also means every year tens of thousands of children — not just in the currently endemic countries but also children in countries that have been polio-free for years — run the risk of getting paralyzed from polio.
The reality is that until the remaining three endemic countries eradicate polio, the virus could make a comeback anywhere. As recent outbreaks in China and Tajikistan have shown, polio knows no borders.
We learned from India’s experience that stopping polio transmission requires a strong commitment by political and community leaders, well-managed and high-quality vaccination programs tailor-made to local circumstances, and adequate financial resources.
The three countries where polio is still endemic are applying these lessons. At the highest levels of government, there is a deep and unwavering commitment. To address unique local conditions, Afghanistan and Pakistan have established permanent polio teams to serve provinces where security conditions have made it difficult for volunteer teams to reach children with vaccines. In Nigeria, satellite technology is being used to help ensure every community is reached.
We need to do all we can to support these kinds of efforts and ensure that leaders at all levels are accountable for getting the job done.
Follow-through of another kind is just as important. The global partnership that has worked so successfully to eradicate polio is nearly $1 billion short of the funds necessary to fully implement the campaign through 2013. Already, the funding shortage has forced cancellation or scaling back of essential vaccination activities in 24 high-risk countries.
This is where governments and other donors can make a key difference — continuing to support the level of funding necessary to sustain the eradication effort. The lagging economy is putting extra pressure on donors, but inaction will not only lead to terrible human suffering; it will also carry a far greater economic price tag than continuing to invest now.
In fact, a successful eradication effort will result in benefits of up to $50 billion by 2035 in the world’s poorest countries, according to world health groups. The world’s investment in polio eradication is also paying dividends by laying the foundation for delivery of other cost-effective health services—including vaccines for other preventable diseases.
Last week, health ministers representing nearly 200 countries underscored their strong belief in the effectiveness of vaccines and their importance of protecting all the world’s children by passing two resolutions. One declared polio eradication a worldwide health emergency. The other endorsed a global plan to ensure that all children — not just those in wealthy countries — have access to vaccines that prevent diseases.
As public health practitioners and as parents, we believe that every child, no matter whether they were born in a U.S. hospital or a hut in Nigeria, deserve to be protected from this preventable disease. And we believe that because eradicating polio is something that benefits us all, we all share in the responsibility to make that happen.
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The real tragedy here is that had the Communists triumphed some 20 years ago, polio would have been eradicated years ago. This is another by-product of Western interference.
Polio is a Virus which is how anybody that doesn't have the antibodies against it can get the disease, just like Smallpox. Antibodies come from vaccinations. Every person in the world has to be inoculated before the disease can be wiped out (just like Smallpox).
I do not think they can innoculate the monkeys-this was not needed with smallpox.
Thank God for Rotary. If it weren't for Rotary and Rotarians all over the world, Polio would be much worse. To learn more, or how you can help, visit http://thisclose.net.
No kidding. We had a great presentation at our Rotary Club today from a polio victim who has made it his life's work to eradicate polio. He's met with Presidents, Prime Ministers, and even the Queen of England to keep the focus of ending Polio. Makes me proud to be part of the leading edge in finally defeating Polio for good.
Yeah....thank God....but if you all weren't such a religious organization, I may just join you....but you have to go pushing your God along with your vaccination.
Grumpster, you're confusing them with some other organization. Rotary is completely secular, and has members and leaders from all faiths, and the faithless as well.
I was fine with the article until it mentioned Nigeria. Just tell them to take the millions of dollars that those folks from Nigeria tell me I have coming if I'll just share my bank account information and buy polio vaccine.
Well, they'll take 99 cents on the dollar anyway, so good luck with that!
No, they think the vaccine is a Western/Zionist plot to sterilize their children. Thanks to ingorance, xenophobia, and Islamic anti-Semitism, these diseases still linger.
Get rid of the ignorance bred by religion, and we can get rid of polio and other diseases once and for all.
We should foster their fear and mistrust, and then they will choke on it. Boko Haram – "western education is sacrilege" – good luck with that, lunatics. We will keep our western vaccine, and those guys can have – polio.
Amen, thank you! You hit the nail on the head!
Strange comment. I grew up in Pittsbugh, where the University of Pittsburgh's Jonas Salk, developed the polio vaccine. This article states polio dropped from 350,000 cases to 650. If that's 'Western interference', I'll take it!
Are you on drugs? How would polio been eliminated by communism when communism could barely feed its own people?
Communism would have dragged the world down a path of collapse like it did for the soviet empire. Look at Russia, it is almost a failed state in terms of public health.
Say what you will about the commies, but if you want every man, woman, and child in a country held down while you stick a needle in them, they're a good bet.
Joe, "This is another by-product of Western interference." Yes, we interfered when we western people invented the vaccine for polio.
Funny thing is that COmmunism was invented in the West. Communism is far more western than capitalism. Capitalism and merchant trade was arose in many cultures around the world .. it's communism that is a western invention. Look up the history of communism to see who invented it.
Is this the Oil Pince.
Is this the Oil Prince.
Ignorance is bliss...
A doc film on polio showed families in rural areas in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Many parents there don't let their children have the essential vaccination. They feared these shots were used by the West to sterilise their children.
Can you really blame them j.von hettlingen, seeing that the West is willing to do any and everything to gain a military victory there? We need to take a laissez-faire policy toward those countries and make peace with the Taliban and then send in medical aid workers from neutral counties that the Afghans and Pakistanis can trust.
Do you really think the Taliban will allow precious vaccines to be "wasted" on girls and women? Get with it. There is no working with the Taliban where human rights are concerned.
Or not. Let's just leave them alone, and let them descend into their self-made hell. Sometimes you gotta learn the hard way.
If the US really, truly wanted and military victory in Afganistan, and the government and the public were behind it, it could be done in about a week.
Willie; please give me your address & I will send your T-shirt you ordered; it says, "I fling poo!"
Scary thought if Polio were to raise its head again in the US. It might actually be a huge problem with all these people refusing to vaccinate their children.
Does the US still vaccinate against polio? I remember having the sugar cube as a kid, but my daughter never had it. If she's been vaccinated against it, it was done with her other baby shots.
From the CDC website:
"There are two types of vaccine that protect against polio: inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) and oral polio vaccine (OPV). IPV, used in the United States since 2000, is given as an injection in the leg or arm, depending on patient's age. Polio vaccine may be given at the same time as other vaccines. Most people should get polio vaccine when they are children. Children get 4 doses of IPV, at these ages: 2 months, 4 months, 6-18 months, and booster dose at 4-6 years. OPV has not been used in the United States since 2000 but is still used in many parts of the world."
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/polio/default.htm
Yes, the U.S. still vaccinates against polio. The oral vaccine isn't, or is rarely used here but the injectable vaccine is included along with the other childhood shots. There was a recent article in Scientific American (might be on-line) that explains the difference between the oral and injected vaccines – one is made from dead virus while the other consists of weakened live virus – forgot which is which, but both have up and down sides.
The shot is IPV (inactivated polio vaccine) meaning it's the dead virus. The oral solution is the weakened live virus.
No one below 30 has a smallpox scar on their arm either. It rarely happens in the West and Medical Science can stop it early if it does occur. People in remote locations, where health care is limited, exposed to the virus are likely to get it, as is any Western child without the antibodies that visits the area. That is why travelers typically have to get shots before they travel to risky locations.
Southern Celt, "Medical Science" can only offer supportive care to anyone infected by smallpox. Smallpox is ablout 50% lethal whether a person receives treatment or not. The last smallpox death in the USA was an infectious disease scientist who had been accidentally infected while working in their hot lab at the CDC. He had the very best and earliest care available. Vaccination is a must and everyone who was vaccinated as a child (>= 40 years ago in the USA) is no longer immune. That has been demonstrated.
Yes, of course we who vaccinate our children protect them against this dread disease. Those foolish parents who don't vaccinate their children are going to have some angry children one of these days...polio kills as often as it cripples.
The US absolultely vaccinates against polio, in a series of three. IPV and OPV have been mentioned, but now IPV is the only one recommended because of the miniscule chance of actually transmitting poliio with the oral version.
Thing is, it's actually superior than the IPV because it sets up not only a systemic immunity to polio, but also a localized one in the intestinal tract mucosa, where the poliio virus woudl be contracted. However, given that for years, the only cases of polio in the US were from the vaccine, they finally stopped recommending it. You cannot get polio from IPV, so that is what is now recommended.
A very, very sad story about your friend with polio. Life can be inexplicably cruel. We have to help when we can.
I am pleased that my polio experiences, captured in my biopic, "Too Early for Flowers: The Story of a Polio Mother" have attracted the attention of beautiful actress Ksenia Solo.
She has optioned the screen rights to produce and star in an effort to bring about polio awareness.
Very noble indeed, for a 24-year old!
Parents in western countries who do not vaccinate their children against polio are criminally negligent. The horrors visited on individuals and families are not within most Americans' experience. Your child gets a fever...headache...neckache...can't breathe...can't stand. By the time you know what's happening to them (because most doctors in the U.S. may not readily recognize the symptoms), it's too late for intervention. Your child is on a respirator or, at the very least, with loss of neuromuscular function elsewhere...if they are "lucky" enough to survive.
As a polio survivor, with my four older siblings, I can unequivocally state that the end of the active, communicable virus does NOT mean the end of polio's effects. Polio survivors are, in many cases, visited years, sometimes decades later, with Post-Polio Syndrome. It can make the original polio disabilities worse or, in the instances where people experienced mild cases of polio, it can insidiously reveal motor neuron damage that the survivor didn't realize they had or thought they had "gotten over it."
I am so, so happy to support all efforts to end this very preventable disease. I would just, for once, like to see an article of this nature address the Post-Polio Syndrome future of survivors, especially in underdeveloped nations. The spectre of PPS will haunt survivors long after eradication of the disease.
AbbieR, I scanned through the comments hoping to find someone mention PPS. My father had polio when he was very young. He's in his 60s now, and he's getting worse every year. Doctors don't know how to help him.
I am so empathetic, hawk802. Google Post-Polio International; it is a web site that is all about PPS. Many, many resources, contacts, etc.
PPS is a weird one. The common thinking used to be, "you need to exercise more." Worst thing you can do. When the virus first hit your father, he lost many motor neurons. As he recovered, he most likely grew "replacement" nerve bundles to compensate for those lost ones. As he is ageing, those replacements are dying back, either from overuse or simply from the ageing process. His old disabilites are being revealed, plus ones he never knew he had. The absolute best thing he can do is learn to listen to his body. "Pace yourself" takes on a whole new meaning – he must rest periodically throughout the day. (Very difficult, as polio survivors tend to be Type-A++ personalities!) Good nutrition is essential. He also needs to do VERY mild exercising, to keep the muscle tone he has – BUT DON'T OVERDO IT! He should also look for a neurologist or physiatrist who has experience with PPS; Post-Polio Intenational is a good place to start looking.
My very best to your father – this is so very difficult to go through. I wish there were a way for you or him to contact me.
and there is a growing number of parents in the U.S. that refuse to vaccinate their children for any disease.
Hurray! They will self-limit themselves from the gene pool.
Seriously? You do realize that by "refuse(ing) to vaccinate their children" they have already bred and therefore have already passed on their genes, right?
And polio isn't always fatal, so the whole "well, their children will die!" argument is invalid.
The trouble with that is that their un-vaccinated children can give the disease (or others) to kids too young to be vaccinated, to people with compromised immune systems, and to those who, for whatever reason, were also not vaccinated.
"Vaccine deniers" may be the biggest public health risk in the United States today.
And, because of these misguided people, many kids will needlessly die in an epidemic. This should not be allowed.
The rights of the children should take precedence over the rights of the adults who make dangerous decisions that harm people.
Well, that's a VERY slippery slope. I wrote a moment ago that vaccine deniers might be the biggest public health thread in the U.S. and I believe it. However, children can't make their own informed decisions, and I am very frightened of further expanding the powers of the government.
Parents who are refusing the vaccines for their children are basing their decision on a refuted study done by a British physician. They are also counting on "herd immunity". They are depending on you to have your children vaccinated which will keep the disease out of circulation. I am 59 years old and remember polio well. The community swimming pool would be closed and camps canceled when there was a local outbreak. My family went every year for our polio shots until they came out with the oral vaccine. All seven of us lined up once a month for three months at the community center for our oral vaccine when it came out. I had hoped my generation would be the last to grow up attending school with children who had withered extremities and braces. The measles/mumps vaccines are another blessing. One of my elementary classmates died from measles related meningitis. I see in the news that pertussis is now on the upswing. One of my granddaughters will have to have a booster shot before entering the 7th grade because of this. I think it is wonderful.
Thanks for commenting on this. There are too many people in the US refusing to have their children vaccinated because they are convinced that childhood vaccines cause autism, or some other reason (religious or otherwise) . A this point it is reaching a critical point in some California communities (see this link http://www.economist.com/node/21554252).
If we have our children vaccinated against diseases but people come in this nation who have not been vaccinated then maybe that disease will never be go away. The first thing you do when you get a Pass Port is show your vaccination chart right? So illegals just another reason you should come in the proper way.
I had polio when I was 7. I had a mild case and was only paalized for 6 weeks, but I know 2 guys who were in iron lungs for 6 months. I have had weak legs ever since, at times I can hardly walk, and I was a lucky one. This s one disease that should be eradicated everywhere.
As a child my mother almost died from a disease that vaccines prevent.
Vaccination for diseases has been the greatest triumph of modern medicine. Why so many parents forgo this blessing is beyond me. I remember when polio was the scourge of summer and cast fear over everyone. I know people who sustained life long injuries from it. I understand the fear that is so easily spread today, but the fear should be of the disease not the vaccines.
Why do they put the most toxic substance on this planet in vaccines then? Can't they find another preservative that DOESNT have mercury in it?
PantyRaid, thimerosal does have a small amount of murcury in it (as does your tuna sandwich and sushi) but it is harmless (as is your tuna sandwich and sushi). Additionally, vaccines in the USA stopped containing thimerosal decades ago as we moved to a single-dose mode of packaging. Don't you know this yet? Did you know that the Earth was also recently confirmed to be round?
PantyRaid: I also want to point out that potassium cyanide has an oral LD50 in humans of about 5 mg/kg. Nicotine (that stuff in your tobacco) has an inhalational and dermal LD50 of 0.1-1 mg/kg. Nicotine is AT LEAST 5 times more lethal than potassium cyanide. Do you smoke? Stop whining about a safe preservative that stopped being used decades ago but please do it after eating your tuna. You will enjoy watching your unvaccinated children pick up measles virus, spread it to many others and end up killing any elderly or very young people who contracted it.
The LD50 dose for Botulinus Toxin is 10,000,000 (10 million) times smaller than the LD50 dose for mercury. So, not only is PantyRaid incorrect, but he's incorrect by a factor of 10 million. It takes 10,000,000 times more mercury to kill you than Botulinus Toxin. Hardly makes mercury the most toxic substance on the planet, does it?
The dose makes the poison. Even water is toxic in large enough amounts. (And I'm not talking about drowning. Drink enough in a short time, and you'll die.) The largest mercury exposure in the fully-vaccinated American is still from fish, not vaccines. By far. And most of that comes from coal-fired power plants. (Unless you live near an old mine. What they used to do there is scary!)
And as noted, mercury was removed from almost all US vaccines years ago. And it was removed from ALL of the standard give-em-to-every-child-on-a-schedule vaccines. The exception is the flu vaccine – there are special reasons it is still in that one. And the amount in the flu vaccine is less than it was before.
Keep raising the body-count, Jenny.
Have fun with the new Playboy shoot.
Table salt is loaded with chlorine (a deadly gas) and sodium (an explosively reactive metal).
Well, it's obvious to me who gets their medical information from the Woman with Large Artificial Breasts...
Wakefield's "study" was discredited, and he lost his medical license for being Ethically challenged. Oh, I know, it was all a conspiracy by PHARMA, yes? Wrong.
Shouldn't we still be vaccinating for smallpox too? Given the militirization of communicable disease during the cold war, I'm sure we would release polio strains on ourselves again as well as smallpox(modified) and some other really nasties like ebola, hemorrhagic fever, on and on...
The only place the Smallpox Virus exists is at the CDC and maybe a Government Lab in other countries. It doesn't occur naturally anymore so there is no need for a Smallpox Vaccine unless you work at one of those labs. The type of war you are suggesting is outlawed by all civilized nations.
Yes, biological warfare has been outlawed by all civilized nations. Unfortunately, there are many so-called nations that do not subscribe to the rules of civilized warfare. These nation-states would be only too happy to unleash a biological weapon on the rest of the world.
P.S.: Most of said nation-states refer to the rest of the world as "infidels".
The CDC does keep a trove of frozen smallpox vials as does the former Soviet Union. Read "The Demon in the Freezer" by Richard Preston for an excellent non-fiction look at smallpox as a virus, the illness it causes and the careful cultivation by our and other governments for [theoretical] use in biological warfare.
Small pox is considered eradicated. However, the US (specifically the CDC) and Russia have a lab where samples of small pox exist. Military personnel (and no doubt state department and high ranking gov`t personnel) are vaccinated for small pox before going to war zones since no one can be 100% sure that there is not a sample or two elsewhere. Otherwise, the presumption is that the general public no longer needs it. Several vaccine companies are developing (possibily have completed development) rapid production methods for vaccines which no doubt gives better assurance that mass produciton can occur for small pos if it is ever needed.
Reason why Polio got eliminated from India: 1. There was a good scocial awareness in the media from last several years..... 2. One Particular Minority Group was misled by some of their Religious Leaders that Polio vaccination causes the children to become impotent and it is against their religion etc..... It took some years for this particular backward Miinority group to understand the benifits of Polio Vaccination and here we see the positive results in a country of 1 Billion. Same steps have to be followed for Paksitan and Afghanistan. Awareness and Assurance it is not against the resligion in anyways.
The efforts are for absolutely nothing if parents won't vaccinate their children – the population in general is at a huge risk for people with low mentality and decency for health standards.
I really don't see polo making a comeback. It's far to expensive to keep that many horses healthy, and the field takes a horrible beating.
This is NOTHING to joke about. You are seriously not funny.
a) It was funny.
b) the more serious a subject is, the more it needs to be joked about.
c) you have no sense of humor.
Nice! Rstlne, this is indeed a serious subject, but I'll tell the truth; it will remain nearer the front of my mind more for the joke than for the article.
My aunt caught polio. She has been disabled all her life, and there are health-related flare-ups now and then. It is a horrible disease and we are so lucky to live in a place where there is vax for it.
Some good points...however, I am disappointed that Rotary International was not mentioned once in the article. Rotary clubs have been a major factor in trying to eliminate polio worldwide for years. They deserve a lot of credit!
I was disappointed as well. No mention of the Gates Challenge Grant or how Rotarians met it by raising $202 million. No mention of the countless Rotarian volunteers who travelled annually to areas like Utar Predesh for National Immunization Days. Rotarians worldwide have contributed more than $1 billion to the eradication of polio since they took on the cause in 1985. Yet not one word...
Since specific strains of the virus have specific genetic signatures, the cluster of cases in China in 2011 were traceable back to Pakistan.
Maybe the author had a similar experience to me. I was invited to be a guest speaker at a Rotary Club, showed up and found out they had double booked speakers. They blew me off and only gave me 10 minutes to talk (after I had driven over 30 minutes to attend) and to add insult to injury, the person "introducing" me told an insulting joke at my expense. Needless to say, I don't have anything to do with the Rotary Club since that day!
Hello, I am the wife of a former African king who died of Polio. I have 800 billion in funds that I need you tor help me transfer blah blah blah....
Unfortunately there are many diseases which could be exterminated – IF only all parents would have their children immunized. But in today's world many parents choose to not to do this due to various reasons. Polio is a horrible disease and I had a great-uncle who had it. Even lesser diseases like whooping cough or meningitis could be erased – if only parents would choose to do so. Those and others are making a major come-back. I am usually against government regulations if possible – but when it comes to vaccinations i think it should be mandatory and no excuses.
My Mother was a nurse in a county hospital polo ward in the early fifties, I was first in line for the Salk vaccine and also took the sugar cube one when it showed up. I have a friend who still has problems from it.
Hopefully, smallpox will help thin the "Muzzy" herd considerably. Finish off the survivors with a nice surface burst!
Polio is a good start!
The world has made great strides to attempt to eradicate a second disease from the world. But management, insufficient participation of the community at the commune level coupled with social/civil unrest has delayed the achievement. Polio eradication will be eventually be eradicated, if the political leaders in all countries with virus circulation make it their daily business, the donor community and the infected countries provided the additional required resources, and the field management of the effort is improved.
Eradication of first smallpox and soon polio represent a shining light for positive steps by and for humanity in a world in which there are precious few such victories.
Polio is in Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan? Those are the wages of ignorance, fear and mistrust in human terms. It's like hate is anti-hygenic.
Hate is not good for children or other living things.
Thank goodness we have Jenny McCarthy. She and all the other Google-University graduates moms will stop polio dead in its tracks!
Your apostrophe is not needed; "Ethics Board" is spelled like this.
Natural News 4/20/2012:
"The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation program in India was promoted as "The Last Mile: Eradicating polio in India." The promotional video displayed numbers showing thousands of cases of polio in India decades ago, with the number of cases dropping to 42 by 2010. But it appears that wild polio virus stats have been traded for polio from vaccines and non-polio acute flaccid paralysis (NPAFP).
In India, over 47,000 cases of NPAFP were reported in 2011. The paralysis symptoms of NPAFP are practically the same as what's attributed to "eradicated" wild virus polio. Apparently, vaccine polio viruses also cause polio paralysis."
http://www.naturalnews.com/035627_polio_vaccines_paralysis_India.html
Anyone who refuses to vaccinate their children should be required by law to take a week-long tour through "endemic" areas for every disease that is easily prevented by a vaccine.
Why eradicate polio anyway , check out what species it follows and it is doing a good job, less of them better for us all, remember polio was created by God not Dr Mengele and it's a lie to blame him for that.
One thing the writers failed to point out is that in Pakistan and Afghanistan, polio vaccine is seen as a western conspiracy to sterilize population. This is announced frequently in Mosques by Mullahs.
If we keep allowing people from those countries to come and go to and from the west they will eventually reintroduce polio to the west.
India: Paralysis cases soar after oral polio vaccine introduced
"A new report by two Delhi pediatricians suggests that the sharp rise in childhood paralysis in India is due to the increased usage of the oral polio vaccine, a drug that was banned in the U.S. over a decade ago."
Read more: http://digitaljournal.com/article/323371#ixzz1wfy8ffEs
In some Haryana villages in India, the young girls are routinely threatened, abused and killed all under Khap (tribe/clan) verdicts. It is acceptable for the families to feed pesticide pills to the teenage girls and then dispose off their bodies by burning them without any police records.
I am the i d i o t who posted this message using Patrick's name.
As a muslim, I was taught to lie, cheat, kill and hate. Therefore, I know nothing else.
I keep stealing Patrick's name and those of others because I feel really powerful when I am naughty.
Well, bedtime, if I stay up any later, my mommy will be mad as hell.
Well, sure, it could make a comeback in the world's worst countries. These people believe poisoning young girls is okay. They believe that only men should rule. they live for their hatred of all things.
They are the sickest of all the sickos in religion.
I DONT THINK SO POLIO IS A RICH MANS GAME...EVERYBODY IS TOO POOR NOW...BOWLING RULES!!!
I think that the hardest thing to combat when it comes to vaccination programs in third world countries are the superstions surrounding them. It's less about opportunity and monies, and more about ignorant belief systems and irrational fears. But then again, that is true about so many other topics, too.
Good luck with Pakistan and Afghanistan. They don't even recognize females as human. Even if you could successfully argue the science behind vaccination, how are you going to argue that females should be protected when they'll kill them at a moment's notice for things that are far more minor in scope? You know, like daring to want to know the alphabet?
Yes it may if we don't stop the influx of illegals who sneak in without proper paperwork. You know a shot register showing they have been vacinated against diseases already irricated in this nation. Bed Bugs are an example of what is being brought in across our border. Time for stopping it? Who will listen?
The boy in the orange tee shirt in that photo has the hallmarks of a fetal alcohol syndrome child...in a country where alcohol is verboten?
Wow – your diagnostic skill beats the snot out of Gregory House, MD. You should have your own TV show where you can just look at someone and heal them!
Idiot.
Funny how a country that has nuclear weapons , Pakistan, is on the list. . . .
Pat, I want to know why you are not at the Bilderberg Meeting or even reporting on it? Why as a Christian, are you not standing up to this evil in this world with Prayers & Leadership, shining Gods light on their Darkness being executed in secret right now as the Global Agenda?
You should be rallying people peacefully to be there with the protesters and leading them in prayers for this world and Country, and binding up the Principalities and Powers of Darkness as they discuss our demise right in your own backyard. Why is there not even a whisper of this event coming from CNN and who do you really stand up for, the Globalists or God? Shame on you!
I am a 62 year old who got polio back in 1952. I just want to say how grateful I am to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for pouring tens of millions of dollars into the WHO to help eradicate polio. We are almost there!
Polio – along with mumps, measles, rubella, pertussis, and even tetanus – will continue to make a comeback in the US as long as there are those idiots who are either too lazy to get their kids vaccinated using the "It's against our beliefs" argument, or are stupid enough to blindly follow the now completely disproven myth that vaccines and autism are linked. Don't think parents use the "beliefs" argument? Check with any school nurse. They can give you numbers on how many parents who simply don't want to take the time or spend the money to get their kids vaccinated, so they simply send a note – which they often have to have the kid write! – telling the nurse that "We do not believe in having our children vaccinated."
And of course, which kids usually end up with some easily preventable disease? You guessed it.
Why do articles like this have to start off with a frickin' guilt trip about rich countries having better vaccination rates than poorer countries? Would it be better if rich countries didn't vaccinate so that it would be 'fair'? And let's remember that the polio vaccine was developed BY a rich country.
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