Docs confirm polio death in Minnesota (from vaccine?!!!)

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Docs confirm polio death in Minnesota

You know this was bound to happen sooner or later. Health officials in Minnesota

have reported that a man who recently died was infected with polio. The doctors

are saying that they don't know what part the polio played in his death, since

he had already been suffering from multiple other health problems. But they did

report that he had polio symptoms, including paralysis.

In typical damage-control fashion, Minnesota State epidemiologist Dr. Ruth

Lynfield said, " It's important to note that while there is no risk to the

general public … this is a very rare occurrence and does not signal a

resurgence of polio. "

Maybe. Maybe not. But when you find out how officials think this man contracted

polio in the first place, I doubt you'll feel any better.

They believe it was caused by the polio vaccine.

Until nine years ago, the polio vaccine actually pumped a live strain of the

virus into your system (as opposed to the inactivated virus currently in use).

But health officials don't think he obtained the virus from getting vaccinated

himself – but that he picked it up from someone else who had received the live

virus over nine years ago!

How could this be no cause for alarm? If one man could have caught the virus

from someone who received the live virus vaccine that long ago, what's to say

the same thing couldn't happen to someone else?

It's not a comforting thought, and unfortunately, I don't have any encouraging

words for you. What's done is done at this point.

The best thing you can do is make sure your immune system is firing on all

cylinders so that you can fight off any infection or virus that might come your

way.

Always giving you a shot of the pure truth,

s II, M.D.

Love, Gabby. :0)

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Minnesota health officials are reporting an unusual death linked to a strain of

polio once used in vaccines.

The Minnesota Department of Health said yesterday that a man, whom they did not

identify, with symptoms of the paralyzing disease died last month. The officials

said that he was infected with a strain of polio used in an oral, live-virus

polio vaccine that was discontinued in the U.S. in 2000, suggesting that he

caught the infection from someone who had received the live vaccine before it

was pulled from the market. Polio vaccines used in the U.S. today are injected

and contain only inactivated virus, though live-virus vaccines are still used in

some developing countries, according to the Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention (CDC).

The health department didn't release any details about the man, including his

age, but said he had a weakened immune system and multiple health problems.

Since 1961, there have been only 45 reported cases in the world of so-called

vaccine-derived paralytic polio (disease from a mutated version of the vaccine

strain) in people with immune deficiencies, according to Minnesota officials.

It's transmitted when an unvaccinated person or someone with a weakened immune

system comes in contact with the polio shed in the stool of a person who

received the oral vaccine. That disease is distinct from vaccine-associated

paralytic polio (infection from the strain in the oral vaccine), of which an

estimated one case occurs for every 3 million doses of the oral vaccine, said

Devries, an epidemiologist with the Minnesota agency.

The last U.S. case of naturally occurring polio (virus caught in the community,

not from a vaccine) was in 1979. The disease is still endemic in India,

Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria, where it resurged last year, CDC officials

recently reported.

Polio virus coating protein/ S. Goodsell, Scripps Research Institute, U.S.

Government via Wikimedia Commons

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IC Blues at 10:58 AM on 04/16/09

This unfortunate accident, with respect to the bereaved ones, can provide new

information to develop better vaccines. It opened my eyes also, because

previously I hadn't even noticed whether the polio vaccine given in my country

was the oral/live kind or not.

I hope nobody will twist this news to support anti-vaccination measures.

Although my country is still plagued by some diseases against which vaccines are

available, including polio, there's a growing number of people who stand against

vaccines (many of them, perplexingly, for some uncanny, debatable religious

reasons). They like to grab every opportunity to present 'evidence' (despite

false, incomplete or misinterpreted) that vaccines are totally dangerous.

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