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Re:India Manages to Free Itself of Polio by sobkas on Sunday January 12, 2014 @11:38PM (#7048948)
>Frankly, even if true, and they actually vaccinated the children, I'd still consider it a positive.

To get hepatitis b immunity, You need to get two to three doses of vaccine. In this case children only got one. I don't think it was an effective immunization effort.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/14/cia-fake-vaccin...

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Re:India Manages to Free Itself of Polio by waps on Monday January 13, 2014 @08:22AM (#7050358)
Even one would protect you for ~10 years. It would still have a profound positive effect. And yes, there are always better options in existence, and there is always a shortage of people wanting to pay for it.
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Re:India Manages to Free Itself of Polio by sobkas on Monday January 13, 2014 @02:09PM (#7052622)
I tough that the first dose of HBV vaccine doesn't give protection to every vaccinated person, only roughly 30-50%?

http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/data/chi31-2_vaccination-ri... (paragraph starting with "Administer the full 3-dose HBV vaccine")

I'm interested where did you found an info about that 10years period of protection?

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