[NVIC] Polio Can't Be Eradicated Says Expert

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I would add that polio is caused by toxins, not a virus and that is why

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BL Fisher Note:

Polio is here to stay! So says a professor who chaired the World Health

Organization's smallpox eradication campaign using Sabin's live oral polio

vaccine. He is calling for every child in the world to be vaccinated with

Salk's killed version of the vaccine.

He says polio infection often is mild without symptoms so it is harder to

track down than the more visible smallpox infections. He's right.

Ninety-nine percent of all polio infections in the pre-vaccine era were mild

and either went unnoticed or resolved within three weeks, leaving the person

with antibodies to protect against future infection. It was the rare case

of polio that progressed to paralytic polio. But those crippling, often

deadly, cases got all the publicity.

It isn't a mystery why polio won't go away. Seems the M.D./Ph.D. brain

trusts who brought us live oral polio vaccine (OPV) contaminated with SV-40

(a monkey virus present in Sabin's original seed stocks) failed to take

into account the fact that OPV could spread the vaccine strain polio virus

from child to child and child to adult. Live vaccine strain polio virus can

even be detected in water supplies. It is everywhere!

The U.S. stopped used OPV in 1999 and switched to inactivated polio vaccine

(IPV), which cannot cause polio. But vaccine strain polio virus is alive and

circulating among children and adults in Africa, South America, India and

other countries where relentless mass vaccination campaigns take place two

to five times a year. Often government and WHO health officials accompanied

by soldiers with guns sweep into a community and hunt down the children in

order to squirt one more dose of live oral polio vaccine down their throats.

Save us from the vaccinologists and drug companies who exploit the people in

order to pursue eradication of infectious microorganisms with a religious

fervor not seen since the medieval Crusades. And let the citizens of the

world vote out of office the politicians who use our money to pay them to do

it.

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Polio here to stay, says smallpox scientist

Leigh Dayton

15may06

HE helped rid the world of smallpox but eminent Australian virologist

Fenner claims we will never see the end of polio.

Despite an 18-year global effort to eradicate polio, Emeritus Professor

Fenner claimed the most that experts could hope for was " effective control "

of the crippling central nervous system disease.

He chaired the World Health Organisation commission that declared in 1980

that smallpox had been eradicated after a 10-year campaign.

But polio remains a serious issue in 16 nations in the Indian subcontinent,

the Middle East and Africa. Last year, 1948 cases were reported.

" The best thing to do would be to include the inactivated Salk polio

vaccine -- that's the one used in America and Australia -- in a

(combination) vaccine and give it to every child worldwide, " said Professor

Fenner who, at 91, still works at the Curtin School of Medical Research

at the Australian National University in Canberra.

The current $US4 billion ($5.2 billion) polio eradication campaign --

co-ordinated by the WHO -- relies on saturation vaccination for all children

younger than five when outbreaks occur or where the disease remains

uncontrolled.

Along with Isao Arita, of the Agency for Co-operation in International

Health in Japan -- another central player in the eradication of smallpox --

and the ACIH's Miyuki Nakane, Professor Fenner argues political, economic

and biological factors work against this type of strategy.

Writing last week in the journal Science, the trio claimed resources spent

trying to eradicate every polio case would be better used ramping up routine

childhood vaccination.

They said that meant continuing emergency vaccinations to limit the spread

of polio in hard-hit nations such as Nigeria, Africa's most populous

country. Fewer than 13 per cent of Nigerian children are routinely

vaccinated against disease.

Once the annual global number of cases is fewer than 500 -- and the number

of nations with polio is fewer than 10 -- all efforts should be folded into

a global immunisation and surveillance program.

Commenting in a separate Science article, A. , director of

the smallpox program, agreed polio eradication was unlikely. " Let's create a

program to keep it under moderate control and say that is the best we can

do, " he said.

According to Professor Fenner, the key difference between polio and smallpox

is that every infectious smallpox patient had obvious symptoms. But there

are as many as 200 " invisible " polio infections for every person who becomes

paralysed.

He said extreme poverty, increased warfare and population growth have made

global co-ordination more difficult today than during the Cold War.

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