Congratulations anti vac-ers! Well done!

[MohRokTah]

54. There was no sarcasm in my post whatsoever.

By October of 2014, there had been 243 cases primarily in three endemic countries. In Nigeria, there were 6 cases. Efforts there are hindered by the political situation. In Afghanistan, there were 12 cases. And in the Taliban controlled region of Pakistan, there were 206 cases. The remaining cases were spread out across non-endemic countries.

Al-Queda and the Taliban have hindered the efforts and refuse to allow children to be vaccinated.

And as I said, they now know that a single infected child in a venue like Disneyland that exists in a cluster where herd immunity has been broken can result in an outbreak of polio in the United States, setting back the eradication effort by decades.

If the efforts continue and there are no cases in non-endemic first world countries, we can hopefully eradicate polio in the wild on schedule by 2018. This depends upon Al-Queda and the Taliban stopping their anti-vaxxer bullshit, though.