Polio, the dreaded paralyzing disease stamped out in the industrialized world, is spreading in Nigeria. And health officials say in some cases, it’s caused by the vaccine used to fight it. In July, the World Health Organization issued a warning that this vaccine-spread virus might extend beyond Africa. So far, 124 Nigerian children have been paralyzed this year – about twice those afflicted in 2008 . . . In 2007, health experts reported that amid Nigeria’s ongoing outbreak of wild polio viruses, 69 children had also been paralyzed in a new outbreak caused by the mutation of a vaccine’s virus. Back then, WHO said the vaccine-linked outbreak would be swiftly overcome – yet two years later, cases continue to mount. They have since identified polio cases linked to the vaccine dating back as far as 2005 . . . Some experts now say that once viruses from vaccines start circulating they can become just as dangerous as wild viruses.
— From Associated Press article: “Polio surge in Nigeria after vaccine virus mutates” by Maria Cheng, August 14, 2009, The San Diego Union-Tribune.
The 2009 announcement from the World Health Organization:
Polio in Nigeria
17 JULY 2009 – In 2009, the northern states of Nigeria have experienced a large polio outbreak due to wild poliovirus type 3 (WPV3) with 258 cases, compared to 32 cases for the same period in 2008. WPV3 from northern Nigeria has this year spread internationally to Niger. Since February 2009, there has also been an increasing number of polio cases due to a type 2 circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV2) in northern Nigeria (103 cases to date in 2009 compared to 31 cases for the same period in 2008). Both serotypes are at continued, and in the case of the cVDPV2 increasing, risk of international spread. While the number of cVDPV2 cases is lower than WPV3 cases, circulation of this serotype is of particular international concern as the last case of polio due to a circulating wild poliovirus type 2 (WPV2) was in 1999. . . .
http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/203/7/898.full “Outbreak of Type 2 Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus in Nigeria: Emergence and Widespread Circulation in an Underimmunized Population” by Steven Wassilak et al., Journal of Infectious Diseases. J Infect Dis. (2011) 203 (7): 898-909. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiq140
. . . The cornerstone of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative is immunization of children with multiple doses of oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV), via both routine immunization (RI) and supplementary immunization activities (SIAs). . . .
Despite its advantages, OPV use carries the infrequent risks of vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis among OPV recipients and their direct contacts and the emergence of genetically divergent vaccine-derived polioviruses (VDPVs), both a consequence of selection against the attenuated phenotype during intestinal replication. . . .
The head polio “eradication” official at WHO, Canadian Bruce Aylward, is quoted by AP saying it’s “very disturbing.”
I totally agree.
If you read the above accounts from AP and WHO, they admit that the WHO vaccines paralyzed children, but they blame Nigerians for not taking all the vaccines they were told to. That’s their version of events.
And the incredible thing is they keep doling out the same type of oral polio vaccine containing the live virus.
In this insane elitist, collectivist way of thinking, it’s OK if some people get hurt (for whatever they’re touting as the “greater good”).
These people just make their declarations of “reality” and that’s what we are to believe. I don’t choose to go along with their mystique of “authority.”
We’re paying for these people to push these vaccines. Someone was “wrong” as the article says. So let’s see some accountability for these mistakes. In a sane world, the guilt is determined, the guilty pay up and people stop them from doing any more harm.