New York polio case is the 'tip of the iceberg,' hundreds of others could be infected

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31. Problem why polio is not erradicated around the world is that

People in the Americans and EU get dead virus polio vaccines - poorer countries in Asia and Africa still use live attenuated vaccine and children can catch it from the feces of recently vaccinated kids. With all the money in this world - why can’t the whole world get the dead virus vaccine? The following article is a few yrs old - but it tells about the live attenuated vaccine.


More polio cases now caused by vaccine than by wild virus.



LONDON -- Four African countries have reported new cases of polio linked to the oral vaccine, as global health numbers show there are now more children being paralyzed by viruses originating in vaccines than in the wild.

In a report late last week, the World Health Organization and partners noted nine new polio cases caused by the vaccine in Nigeria, Congo, Central African Republic and Angola. Seven countries elsewhere in Africa have similar outbreaks and cases have been reported in Asia. Of the two countries where polio remains endemic, Afghanistan and Pakistan, vaccine-linked cases have been identified in Pakistan.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/polio-cases-now-caused-vaccine-wild-virus-67287290