3 kids in MN have polio...

[Deja Q]

The newscast now being macho and asking WHY they weren't vaccinated.

(uh, could it be because such vaccinations ended in 1970?!?! :eyes: The religious bit was a nice touch, but more or less irrelevant given prevailing circumstances...)

[Poiuyt]

1. I heard 4 kids

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20051014/D8D7FH386.html

Four Children in Minnesota Contract Polio

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Four children in an Amish community in Minnesota have contracted the polio virus - the first known infections in the U.S. in five years, state health officials said Thursday.

[KitchenWitch]

2. Vaccination did not end in 1970 for polio

Just FYI, it was Small Pox that was discontinued in 1970.

Polio vaccination is still very much alive and well.

[northzax]

3. um, I was born in 1974

and I remember polio vaccinations very clearly. although I did get the oral vaccine, I think, and that was discontinued in 2000, since it carries live virus, and the WHO is trying to eradicate polio.

the question is, since the Americas have been certified as polio-free, does this outbreak of non-wild polio virus mean the Americas are no longer polio free? I guess so, since the last cases in the US were in 1979, also in an Amish community.

[JVS]

4. That's unfortunate.