Polio surge in Nigeria after vaccine virus mutatesLONDON (AP) — Polio, a dreaded paralyzing disease stamped out in the industrialized world, is spreading in Nigeria despite efforts to stamp it out. And health officials say in some cases, it's caused by the vaccine used to fight it.
In July, the World Health Organization issued a warning that this vaccine-spread virus might extend beyond Africa. So far, 124 Nigerian children have been paralyzed this year — about twice those afflicted in 2008.
The polio problem is just the latest challenge to global health authorities trying to convince wary citizens that vaccines can save them from dreaded disease.
For years, myths have abounded about vaccines — that they were the Western world's plan to sterilize Africans or give them AIDS. The sad polio reality fuels misguided fears and underscores the challenges authorities face using a flawed vaccine.
Nigeria and most other poor nations use an oral polio vaccine because it's cheaper, easier, and protects entire communities.(You can see in the kids face the inherent knowledge that dripping monkey virus juice into their mouths is some wicked evil stupid shit)
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I guess you really, really missed me, since you've spent the last 12 hours tweaking your site to insert my name into more than one of your posts. I'm flattered. But I still don't suffer fools. And as always, you are "factually-challenged".
DV is funny when he gets to missing a mug.
Kinda sweet, really.
The blogger equivalent of hiking up his skirt.
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