Polio Vaccines Now The #1 Cause of Polio Paralysis

January 23, 2012

The Polio Global Eradication Initiative (PGEI) holds up India as a prime

example of its success at eradicating polio, stating on its website (Jan. 11

2012) that " India has made unprecedented progress against polio in the

last two years and on 13 January, 2012, India will reach a major milestone -- a

12-month period without any case of polio being recorded. " This report,

however, is highly misleading, as an estimated 100-180 Indian children are

diagnosed with vaccine-associated polio paralysis (VAPP) each year. According

to the Polio Global Eradication Initiative's own statistics there were 42

cases of wild-type polio (WPV) reported in India in 2010, indicating that

vaccine-induced cases of polio paralysis (100-180 annually) outnumber

wild-type cases by a factor of 3-4. Even if we put aside the important question

of whether or not the PGEI is accurately differentiating between wild and

vaccine-associated polio cases in their statistics, we still must ask

ourselves: should not the real-world effects of immunization, both good and

bad,

be included in PGEI's measurement of success? For the dozens of Indian

children who develop vaccine-induced paralysis every year, the PGEI's recent

declaration of India as nearing " polio free " status, is not only disingenuous,

but could be considered an attempt to minimize their obvious liability in

having transformed polio from a natural disease vector into a man-made

(iatrogenic) one.

Sayer Ji, Activist Post

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