Gates Faces Scientific Opposition in His Push to Eradicate Polio - NYTimes.com

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And polio is NOT even contagious or infectious (never proven to be)

No family member ever caught it from another family member

No doctor or nurse ever caught it from a patient

Look to toxic exposure to pesticides for one reason why there is a such a

thing labeled poliomyelitis

http://www.wellwithin1.com/PolioJimWest.htm

Sheri

However, even as he presses forward, Mr. Gates faces a hard question

from some eradication experts and bioethicists: Is it right to keep

trying?

Although

caseloads are down more than 99 percent since the campaign began in

1985, getting rid of the last 1 percent has been like trying to squeeze

Jell-O to death. As the vaccination fist closes in one country, the virus

bursts out in another....

By contrast, the 14-year drive to wipe out

smallpox, according to Dr. A. , the former

World Health Organization officer who began it, cost only $500

million in today’s dollars.

Dr. has argued so outspokenly that polio cannot be eradicated

that he said in an interview last week: “I’m one of certain people that

the W.H.O. doesn’t invite to its experts’ meetings anymore.”

Recently, Horton, editor of The Lancet, the influential British

medical journal, said via

Twitter that “Bill Gates’s obsession with polio is distorting

priorities in other critical BMGF areas. Global health does not depend on

polio eradication.” (The initials are for the

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.) ...

Also, in roughly one of every two million

vaccinations, the live vaccine strain can mutate and paralyze the

child getting it. And many poor families whose children are dying of

other diseases are fed up with polio drives.

“Fighting polio has always had an emotional factor ­ the children in

braces, the March of Dimes posters,” Dr. said. “But it

doesn’t kill as many as measles. It’s not in the top 20.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/01/health/01polio.html?ref=world

[Guest guest]

And polio is NOT even contagious or infectious (never proven to be)

No family member ever caught it from another family member

No doctor or nurse ever caught it from a patient

Look to toxic exposure to pesticides for one reason why there is a such a

thing labeled poliomyelitis

http://www.wellwithin1.com/PolioJimWest.htm

Sheri

However, even as he presses forward, Mr. Gates faces a hard question

from some eradication experts and bioethicists: Is it right to keep

trying?

Although

caseloads are down more than 99 percent since the campaign began in

1985, getting rid of the last 1 percent has been like trying to squeeze

Jell-O to death. As the vaccination fist closes in one country, the virus

bursts out in another....

By contrast, the 14-year drive to wipe out

smallpox, according to Dr. A. , the former

World Health Organization officer who began it, cost only $500

million in today’s dollars.

Dr. has argued so outspokenly that polio cannot be eradicated

that he said in an interview last week: “I’m one of certain people that

the W.H.O. doesn’t invite to its experts’ meetings anymore.”

Recently, Horton, editor of The Lancet, the influential British

medical journal, said via

Twitter that “Bill Gates’s obsession with polio is distorting

priorities in other critical BMGF areas. Global health does not depend on

polio eradication.” (The initials are for the

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.) ...

Also, in roughly one of every two million

vaccinations, the live vaccine strain can mutate and paralyze the

child getting it. And many poor families whose children are dying of

other diseases are fed up with polio drives.

“Fighting polio has always had an emotional factor ­ the children in

braces, the March of Dimes posters,” Dr. said. “But it

doesn’t kill as many as measles. It’s not in the top 20.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/01/health/01polio.html?ref=world