Re:Four-year-old Israeli child tests positive for polio, fir...
by couchand on Sunday March 06, 2022 @10:17PM
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The Polio vaccine is still administered in the US as standard practice.
Re:Four-year-old Israeli child tests positive for polio, fir...
by MerelyMortal on Sunday March 06, 2022 @10:52PM
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TB as well.
Re:Four-year-old Israeli child tests positive for polio, fir...
by DoingIsLearning on Monday March 07, 2022 @02:48AM
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As a counter example TB and some meningitis vaccines have been dropped in many EU countries because of cost/benefit, as in not enough of a disease incidence to justify covering the cost of the vaccine.
You can still get them voluntarily but you have to pay from your own pocket.
Re:Four-year-old Israeli child tests positive for polio, fir...
by CorrectHorseBat on Sunday March 06, 2022 @10:20PM
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>Various vaccines are no longer recommended because of the virtually nonexistent risk.
Such as?
Re:Four-year-old Israeli child tests positive for polio, fir...
by Drybones on Sunday March 06, 2022 @10:44PM
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smallpox
Re:Four-year-old Israeli child tests positive for polio, fir...
by CorrectHorseBat on Monday March 07, 2022 @03:29AM
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Smallpox has been eradicated, that's not even virtually nonexistent.
Only risk I see is biological warfare, but why do that with a virus we have a vaccine for?
Re:Four-year-old Israeli child tests positive for polio, fir...
by mschuster91 on Monday March 07, 2022 @06:32AM
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There are multiple other scenarios where the virus could become released into the wild again: infection by clearing up old storage sites, a laboratory accident, or some terrorist spending 100k US$. And all of these have happened (although the latter was "just" horse pox).
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox#Post-eradication
Re:Four-year-old Israeli child tests positive for polio, fir...
by pabs3 on Sunday March 06, 2022 @10:42PM
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From elsewhere in the thread:
https://www.npr.org/2019/11/16/780068006/how-the-oral-polio-...
Re:Four-year-old Israeli child tests positive for polio, fir...
by CorrectHorseBat on Monday March 07, 2022 @03:26AM
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The other type of polio vaccine is still recommended (and even mandatory in many countries) so there is nothing to be worried about if you take all the recommended vaccines.
I know that Africans receive the TB vaccine as part of our regular schedule, where many developed countries do not.