Tag: polio
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Tragedy When the Polio Vaccine Caused Polio
In what became known as the Cutter Incident, some lots of the polio vaccine (made by Cutter Laboratories) were not completely inactivated. Despite passing required safety tests, the vaccine contained *live* polio virus even though it was supposed to be an inactivated virus vaccine. Cutter withdrew its vaccine from the market on April 27, 1955…
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Polio Vaccine
Do you know the difference between non-polio acute flaccid paralysis (NPAFP) and polio paralysis? “…while India has been polio-free for a year, there has been a huge increase in non-polio acute flaccid paralysis (NPAFP). In 2011, there were an extra 47,500 new cases of NPAFP. Clinically indistinguishable from polio paralysis, but twice as deadly, the…
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Fast Tracked EBOLA VACCINE Contaminated with Cancer Causing Monkey Cells
The new experimental Ebola vaccine being fast-tracked for mass production was developed using a continuous cell line (Vero) culture derived from the stockpile remains of an African Green Monkey.(1963). ‘The Vero 1008 C (E6) cell line was originally obtained from ATCC (Maryland, USA) and cultured in Gibco® Dulbelcco’s modified Eaggle’s medium (DMEM) with GlutaMAX™, high…
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Polio Vaccines Now The #1 Cause of Polio Paralysis
The Polio Global Eradication Initiative (PGEI), founded in 1988 by the World Health Organization, Rotary International, UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, holds up India as a prime example of its success at eradicating polio, stating on its website (Jan. 11 2012) that “India has made unprecedented progress against polio in…
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POLIO not eradicated, just renamed.
This article originally appeared at: https://thinklovehealthy.com/2016/11/05/the-eradication-of-polio/ “Polio is the iconic epidemic, its conquest one of medicine’s heroic dramas. The narrative is by now familiar: Random, inexplicable outbreaks paralyzed and killed thousands of infants and children and struck raw terror into 20th century parents, triggering a worldwide race to identify the virus and develop a vaccine.…