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Re:Public Relations Company for Big Pharma Now “Embedding” E... by JumpCrisscross on Saturday October 15, 2022 @03:06PM (#33217623)
> these so-called “vaccines” don’t stop transmission like the vaccines you’re thinking about

Like the inactivated poliovirus [1]? Sterilising vaccines [2] haven’t been a priority because the subpopulation that enjoys getting measles was historically small.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine

[2] https://www.niaid.nih.gov/research/vaccine-types

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Re:Public Relations Company for Big Pharma Now “Embedding” E... by glerk on Saturday October 15, 2022 @03:13PM (#33217684)
From the article you linked:

> OPV produces excellent immunity in the intestine, the primary site of wild poliovirus entry, which helps prevent infection with wild virus in areas where the virus is endemic.

It seems like the polio vaccine actually prevents infection which is not the case for the COVID “vaccine” which is purely therapeutical.

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Re:Public Relations Company for Big Pharma Now “Embedding” E... by arrosenberg on Saturday October 15, 2022 @03:31PM (#33217842)
The vaccine isn’t therapeutic, it just doesn’t confer total immunity like some vaccines, mostly because COVID mutates frequently. Are you thinking of the monoclonal antibody treatment?
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Re:Public Relations Company for Big Pharma Now “Embedding” E... by JumpCrisscross on Saturday October 15, 2022 @05:04PM (#33218647)
> seems like the polio vaccine actually prevents infection

OPV (“o” as in oral) sterilises. IPV (“i” as in inactivated) doesn’t. IPV doesn’t spread vaccine-derived poliovirus, so it’s the more widely-used one. (It comes down to whether the virus is neutralised in the gut or the blood.)

The polio case in Brooklyn was an unvaccinated man getting a vaccine-derived infection from the sterilising OPV [1][2].

[1] https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/1010...

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12931339/

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