Rowan Counterintuitive

• It can spread through feces. It can spread through a stream. It lives in the human intestine. It can also spread through a fly landing on feces and carrying it elsewhere.
• It kills 1 in 1,000 kids that it effects. It thrives in places with turmoil and chaos among them. Yet, it can also spread in more advanced countries as well. Children are sadly the most vulnerable to this disease.
• If the we could manage to have the world be polio free for a few minutes and sustain that, it would be gone and a thing of the past from there on out. Tens of billions of dollars have been put to use in an attempt to eliminate the disease. Yet, it is a disease that has not been seen by these people because the places most affected by polio do not embrace this help. It spreads rapidly and is extremely deadly.
• Much like  cases of measles, we do not care because we are vaccinated and think it cannot happen to us. This same lazy mentality applied to cases of polio could be potentially dangerous because just since you cannot see it, does not mean it is not there.
• Adults fight it off better than children do, and shockingly children under 5 are the most vulnerable to contracting polio. If every child under 5 years old were to be vaccinated for polio at the same time, 250 kids would be paralyzed as a result and actually contract polio.
• Vaccinations that do not run the risk of giving patients polio do exist, but they are significantly more expensive. And this disease exists primarily in areas that are not very wealthy to say the least. Years ago our country went into Pakistan to give immunizations for polio, but were really there primarily to gather intelligence about Osama Bin Laden. After killing him, the trust of their people when it comes to immunizations from the U.S. was greatly diminished.

Practice Opening:

Polio is a deadly disease with a cure, but still revolves and spreads rapidly in less advanced countries. The likelihood of the disease being eradicated in the next 20 years is slim. The reason behind this is that the countries that suffer the most from polio are extremely poor. Therefore, they resort to the less expensive vaccinations that still give certain patients polio. In this case, it will continue to circulate until these countries come into some more money, which is not expected to happen within the next 20 years.

• The government  shouldn’t punish his citizens especially, the future of the citizens.
• Polio free could existence if we find a cure.
• Smallpox could come back again and be deadlier than polio.
• It’s hard to get rid of something that can ill children especially if you don’t have a cure for it.
• Back then, parents were questioning why their children were dying.
• Is polio really the deadliest disease in the world.
• This world as comeback from so many diseases.
  • Measles, Polio, Black plaque
• People should get vaccinated because their could be a spread of something and you haven’t gotten vaccinated and is more likely to catch the disease.
  • Maybe because of religious reasons, laziness
• Measles can be hidden from doctors causing it to continue to spread to whoever the individual gets in contact with.
• The world should always prepare for an outbreak of a deadly disease that has cause death to people in the past.
•  I think it’s a good idea because when we get a flu shot the doctors are giving us the flu to have our body know how to fight it off.
• Countries should help get polio out of the few countries that still have it.
• About a million people are helping to eliminate the Polio virus from the face of the earth.
• Pork or Vaccination, that is the question.
• The children were mistaken of having the measles  because at their age they are likely to have measles.
• It could be impossible that measles virus cause autism because that is what happened in the study.

Practice Opening

I believe that polio wouldn’t be eradicated in the next 20 years because their is to much evidence that shows that it will take longer then 20 years to get rid of something that was a big outbreak in the 20th century. It is gong to take sometime complete get rid of it because of the different test and samples. Plus, the changes of different medication because someone is allergic to something that is in the medicine or either the fact the someone can’t have something in the medicine because of religious reason. For example, the myth that their was pork in the medicine that could cure polio and therefore, the people didn’t let there children receive the vaccination from their doctors.

• “It was a fact that if the world was free of polio at one point it would be free forever.”However if this is true than that would indicate that nothing can come back, once it is eliminated it is gone. But that may not be true in terms of bacteria because some bacteria rather than being eliminated, the disease lies dormant.
• “This generation is not ready to eradicate polio.”This is stating that because of the circumstances, or the resources around us that polio is not capable of being eliminated. However this might not be true because through research, data, and tests we can change circumstances. One example would be how at one point measles was an epidemic and we were able eliminate this disease and the same is possible for polio
• Lack of vaccination due to religious reasons or because people choose not to get the vaccination such as herd immunity. Herd immunity is when the majority is immune however a select few are not such as 95%  of the population is immune while 5% is not. Herd immunity has setbacks because in doing so instead of people getting things that could prevent diseases such as polio and measles because people say they don’t need a vaccination to since every one else is vaccination
• The religious aspect for muslims is taken into consideration because there is a fact that states there is pork within the  vaccination
• The united states went into Pakistan to give vaccinations to children to cure polio. However this was a cover up because the people conducting the vaccinations were U.S. spies trying to gather information about Osama Bin Ladin. Now when the U.S. desires and attempts to help Pakistan with its epidemic, Pakistan does not trust the U.S. for their offer to help because before there true intensions were not to help Pakistan but for the U.S.’s own gain
• “The world is too fragmented to come together and eradicate a disease.” This may not be a true statement because people can come together out of the goodness of their hearts as well as using force to make people come together.

Practice Opening

The world is capable of eliminating polio within the next 20 years due to fact we are able to come together as a population and eradicate the disease. We are capable of eliminating the disease in various ways because we can come together either by the goodness of our hearts, by force or by the technology and research that we gather. Due to the research we gather more people will be informed and know what is required to eradicate the disease.

• 250 kids will have to be handicapped
• only 4 countries still have polio
• others believe in putting time into other disease
• kills and cripples 1 in 200
• everyone would need to get a shot to help kill disease
• affects child mostly

I believe polio is something that wont be gone in the next 20 years, to cure something like this in really such a short time it would you to require get all the countries in the world involved. Without having all the countries involved that still leaves the chance for that one country who doesn’t get involved still leaves them the chance to be effected by this. In my beliefs we wont be able to get rid of polio in the next 20 years

Polio is very contagious

Paralyzed millions of children a year

Kills 1 in 1000

Paralysis in most

Thrives in low hygiene environments – Warzones

Polio will be gone forever if we get rid of it once

Smallpox was removed from planet by global inoculation effort

Not wholly embraced – other diseases more prevalent

Tons of money has been poured into this effort

Measles disappeared until 2015 when a Disney guest spread it to other visitors who continued to spread it far and wide

Other diseases considered wiped out have made comebacks

Doctors have not prepared for these outbreaks

Polio vaccine is not without risk – 1 in 3 million will develop disease

Polio is slowly being fought – 2k cases in 2009

Endemic countries- Afghanistan, India, Nigeria, Pakistan

Setbacks have been caused by rumors and fear – some based on truth

1 paper with small sample size published links between vaccines and autism

10 coauthors of original paper has retracted support for conclusion

Threats and violence have reduced the number of volunteers

Practice Opening

Polio is a disease that once left millions dead or disabled and many more millions in fear of the devastation in can cause. Since we have found a vaccination for it, we have come a long way in defeating the disease once and for all, but there have been many setbacks all over the world that prevents us from eradicating it once and for all. Polio is highly contagious, and it thrives in low hygiene areas. As such, war zones and poverty stricken countries still struggle with the disease. It remains unlikely that we will be rid of the disease within the next 20 years as those setbacks have one grown stronger in the past few years.

As of right now, I do not think that polio can be completely eradicated. While I do believe that polio has been eradicated in the United States and Canada, for it to be eradicated in the third world countries would take a lot of effort and time. Polio can be spread through bodily fluids. So in countries where hygiene is poor, polio can reappear quickly in society. Though if people are vaccinated against polio, they are much less likely to become infected and have a better chance of fighting it off before major symptoms occur.  Being vaccinated does not mean that someone is one hundred percent immune. So if there is not  a vaccine that can completely immunize someone against the virus, someone may still have it. As long as one person is infected, it will never be eradicated.

Practice Opening

Within twenty years I do not think that polio can be completely eradicated. Even though many people are vaccinated, were will always be someone in the world who is not.

• Polio is not nearly as harmful in our lifetime as in past lifetimes, so we have made progress.
• Any country can have an outbreak of polio; we are all vulnerable in some way.
• Polio clings to war-torn, chaotic countries because of the lack of immunizations in children and unsanitary conditions.
• If the world is polio free once, it will always be so.
•  Polio vaccination efforts are common, but people resist because polio is not seen as a problem.
• People in poor countries generally distrust vaccinations, but they are not the only ones. As they resist polio vaccinations, the United States resists measles vaccinations.
• It is important to get vaccinated, as one person who has not been vaccinated can cause an outbreak for those around them.
• The theory that most people being vaccinated protects us all is ludicrous, as proven by the above note.
• States should require parents to vaccinate their children in order to protect everyone around them.
• Just because a disease is declared “wiped out” doesn’t mean it is going to stay that way.
• Doctors should be trained to recognize all diseases, even those considered eradicated.
• Outbreaks caused by one person do not just harm a few; in our world of international travel, disease spreads faster than ever.
• Though adults are more naturally resistant to polio, booster vaccinations should still be required, as they could pass it on to someone more vulnerable.
• The system of vaccinating people en mass is broken, as it often fails to protect everyone by pure lack of effort to do so.
• The benefits of vaccinating every child under five far outweighs the cost of giving very few children polio; it protects more people than it hurts.
• Even if polio only effects a few hundred kids a year, those kids could spread the disease and cause detrimental harm; we need to vaccinate everyone just in case.
• Use the inactive virus to immunize people. Even though it is expensive, it prevents about 250 ruined lives.
• It doesn’t take much to make a disease go from nearly eradicated to nearly epidemic.
• People simply need to care more about immunizations. We need more funds and volunteers willing to help people across the world.
• In many cases, one small flaw in a system can become blown out of proportion. This does not mean this flaw should not be fixed, but it may not be as horrible as people say.
• Vaccines do not cause autism. Six children that could possibly, maybe have been “given autism” by vaccines does not make for a basis of worldwide panic about vaccines.
• If people think that the measles virus causes autism, they should vaccinate their children against measles. That way, no measles, and no autism. Very few children actually get measles from the vaccination.

Practice Opening

It will not be easy, but it is entirely possible that we will eradicate polio in the next 20 years. Put very simply, we need people to care more. More financial donors and willing volunteers would make it possible to safely and extensively vaccinate children and eliminate the disease. As far as resistance, some sort of collective effort to require immunization would be necessary, such as needing vaccines to attend school. If we are able to come together, and I believe that we are, we can and will eradicate this terrible disease in the next 20 years.

Polio is almost going extinct.  Majority of people fear mass vaccination especially in poor countries mass vaccination is looked at as the governments way of infecting them to spread the disease.  We start to feel invulnerable to disease but this is what happens when we get lazy and by we I mean the American people choose not to get vaccinated.  Doctors are not trained to recognize measles.  Our generation is not ready to eradicate Polio.  It occurs as soon as we say to ourself “That will never happen to me or anyone I know”.  Instead of just getting vaccinated a counterintuitive solution to this disease is to just kill the people who have it and could be contagious.

Survival of the fittest right?  If people are that lazy and end up contracting Polio we should just exterminate them.  Everyone would get vaccinated and if they didn’t we should not try to treat them because that costs money and we could be led to believe that the reason they became infected is because they were lazy.  Lets just assume it is their fault unless they can prove otherwise.  This would put an end to the disease once and for all.  This would ensure that people go out and get vaccinated to avoid this repercussion.

I believe that Polio will be eradicated eventually aside to my rant which was just a ramble that I knew would start an argument.  I believe that without doing this if governments become more stable and vaccinations are taken seriously Polio will be eradicated not in the next twenty years but we will be closer to it.  This is only because countries like Pakistan have trouble getting people to perform vaccinations due to the Taliban fatally performing drive by shootings exterminating the people performing the procedure.

Many diseases thought to be eradicated are making a comeback because of anti-vaxxers

Polio kills 1 in 1000, paralyzing most.

Polio mostly affects children

Thrives in poorly-hygienic locations

Smallpox was eradicated from the natural world with a global inoculation effort

Some vaccines are not foolproof

Vaccines may lose efficacy over time

1-2 out of 1000 will die from measles

Most americans are vaccinated, however, many in foreign countries are not.

Disneyland January 2015

• measles outbreak
  • 137 in california
  • migrated to 8 states and Canada
  • 150 sickened in Quebec by an Anti-Vaxx group (oh the irony)
• Measles was banished from US generations ago by vaccinating children (We’ve become complacent)
• Parents think they have little to fear,  which has increased the number of unvaccinated citizens which creates the perfect conditions for the disease to return

Polio (Polio Myelitis)

• invades the Nervous System
• Most often children younger than 5
• No cure
• Vaccine needs to be given only once for a lifetime
• To eliminate polio from the earth, every child must be vaccinated until transmission stops
• Enters the body through the mouth
• Multiplies in intestines
• Passed to others through feces
• Flies can pass feces particles to food, sickening others
• Most infected people are carriers of the disease until it naturally dies in their body

Vaccination created in 1961, administered by volunteers

• creates antibodies in the blood to all three types of polio virus which prevent the virus from spreading to the Nervous System.
• Costs less than a dime
• 100% immunity is not required for total eradication

1 in 3,000,000 polio vaccines cause paralysis.

• Opportunity cost
• Saves hundreds of thousands of people
• Cost of NOT vaccinating children is catastrophically higher

152 cases of paralytic poliomyelitis from 1980-1990. 8 cases per year.

• 6 cases acquired outside of the US and imported
• Last imported case was in 1993
• 2 cases indeterminate
• Remaining 144 cases were vaccine-associated paralytic polio (VAPP) cased by the live polio vaccine

Vaccinations supply us with the privilege of immunity towards bacteria and viruses that could otherwise cripple or kill you. Polio Myelitis is a disease that is passed on through feces and it entered through the mouth. Flies may land on feces and transfer the bacteria to food. The disease typically invades the nervous system of a child under the age of 5, for which there is no cure. However, Polio can be avoided by utilizing vaccinations for the disease; although 1 in 3,000,000 vaccinated are infected with the disease. Not everybody who has the disease is paralyzed or killed. Many people infected with the disease are simply carriers who may infect others without knowing, until the disease dies naturally within their body.

PRACTICE OPENING

The world is too fragmented and mistrustful to ever join in a truly global effort, even to eradicate a dreaded disease. 

People are like snowflakes; no two are exactly alike. Every body thinks, behaves, and responds differently to different ideas and situations. To place the amount of trust  needed to eradicate a disease or join a truly global effort in the arms of society as a whole is preposterous. Before the 1960’s, there were nearly a half a million cases of measles nationally. This number dropped to around 2,000 in 1983. Then in 1989 and 1991 the diseases made a comeback. Although some vaccines are not fool-proof, vaccinations are still required for the safety of society as a whole. Further,  1 in 3,000,000 vaccinated are infected with the disease, not everybody who has the disease is paralyzed or killed. Many people infected with the disease are simply carriers who may infect others without knowing, until the disease dies naturally within their body. There are many variables that play into the attempt to eradicate a disease that is too much for the fragmented society to logically comprehend. Mandatory regulations for vaccinations must be implemented if we really want complete eradication of these terrible diseases.