Polio- tiggs18

• Polio goes in the mouth and live in the intestines
• Kids are more vulnerable because they lack hygiene
• used to be a global problem where 1000 kids a day were diagnosed
• 1980s – inexpensive vaccines have made possible to eradicate the virus to 98% of the world
• only lives in humans, once we eradicate for a minute, gone forever
• desire for people to help every child, which does not happen during war times
• couple of hundred cases a year, making us that close to getting rid of polio
• nigeria rumor spread on radio and tv that vaccine contained pork and that muslims couldn’t take it
• cia agents used the polio virus as an excuse to find Osama  so the town will think we are lying if we go there and try to cure everyone with polio
• sometimes vaccine has to be done 3 times to create a immunity that will last for life
• Immunity needs to be at 90% and not 100%
• In india we are at 9-10 cases a year which means we are that close

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Polio, a virus just like measles, has a way of dying off completely but we will never reach that time.  The problem with the vaccines are that one is dead in which we use in the United States, but in other less advanced countries with no money have a live one in which can still give a kid the virus with slim chance.  We can get them the dead vaccine but that comes with a high price in which we do not have for other countries.  So the only way to get rid of it as a whole is if all the countries come together which will not happen.  So sad to say, it will always be out there affecting people just because we are all to lazy and will not come together.