Syrian children get Polio from oral Polio vaccine

The Vaccine Reaction
Sun, 18 Jun 2017 13:20 UTC

Syrian authorities conducted polio vaccination campaigns in Deir-Ez-Zor in March and April 2017 using “bivalent oral polio vaccine.”

Three children in the Deir-Ez-Zor eastern region of Syria have contracted polio during the past three months. The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed on June 8, 2017 that a polio virus strain designated as vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) was found in a healthy Syrian child and two other children diagnosed with Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP)—an acute form of paralysis. The children with AFP experienced the onset of paralysis on March 5 and May 6.^{1, 2}

The cVDPV2 strain is a "mutated version of the [polio]virus in some vaccines rather than a wild polio strain." This vaccine-derived poliovirus is caused by the oral polio vaccine (OPV), which uses an attenuated (weakened but still alive) form of the poliovirus.²

AFP, also known as Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM) or non-polio AFP (NPAFP), has been reported by the media since 2014 as a "mysterious polio-like illness"³ and some researchers believe it is caused by enterovirus-68 (EV68)^3,4 A recent animal study found that the EV-D68 strain associated with a nationwide outbreak of enterovirus respiratory disease in 2014 can cause paralysis in mice.⁵

In a paper published in the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics in 2012, Neetu Vashisht, MD and Jacob Puliya, MD wrote:

"Clinically indistinguishable from polio paralysis but twice as deadly, the incidence of NPAFP was directly proportional to doses of oral polio [vaccine] received."^4,6

Syrian authorities conducted polio vaccination campaigns in Deir-Ez-Zor in March and April 2017 using "bivalent oral polio vaccine."¹ The polio eradication program in Syria has received reports of 58 children who have been diagnosed with AFP in Deir-Ez-Zor. Tests conducted on the children thus far have determined that vaccine-derived polio viruses were not responsible for the onset of the disease in 11 of the cases. Further testing is planned for the remainder of the children.⁷

The WHO confirmed two cases of vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1 (cVDPV1) in Ukraine in 2015.⁸

References

1. Polio Global Eradication Initiative. Circulating Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus Confirmed in Syria. PolioEradication.org June 8, 2017.
2. Cara E. Polio Cases Reemerge In Syria, But The News Isn't All Bad. Vocativ June 8, 2017.
3. Piper-Terry M. Acute Flaccid Myelitis and Routine Childhood Vaccinations: This is Nothing New. The Vaccine Reaction Nov. 3, 2016.
4. Fisher BL. India Still Reporting Cases of Polio-like Acute Flaccid Paralysis. The Vaccine Reaction July 9, 2015.
5. Hixon Am, Yu G et al. A mouse model of paralytic myelitis caused by enterovirus D68. PLOS Pathogens Feb. 23, 2017.
6. Vashisht N, Puliyel J. Polio programme: let us declare victory and move on. Indian Journal of Medical Ethics 2012 9(2): 114-117.
7. Branswell H. Polio outbreak is reported in Syria, WHO says. STAT June 8, 2017.
8. Cáceres M. WHO Reports Two Cases of Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus in Ukraine. The Vaccine Reaction Sept. 6, 2015.

Comment: Are Polio Vaccines Increasing The Rate of Polio Paralysis?

Polio underscores the need for a change in the way we look at so-called "vaccine preventable" diseases as a whole. In most people with a healthy immune system, a poliovirus infection does not even generate symptoms. Only rarely does the infection produce minor symptoms, e.g. sore throat, fever, gastrointestinal disturbances, and influenza-like illness. In only 3% of infections does virus gain entry to the central nervous system, and then, in only 1-5 in 1000 cases does the infection progress to paralytic disease.

Due to the fact that polio spreads through the fecal-oral route (i.e. the virus is transmitted from the stool of an infected person to the mouth of another person through a contaminated object, e.g. utensil) focusing on hygiene, sanitation and proper nutrition (to support innate immunity) is a logical way to prevent transmission in the first place, as well as reducing morbidity associated with an infection when it does occur.

Instead, a large portion of the world's vaccines are given to the third world as "charity," when the underlying conditions of economic impoverishment, poor nutrition, chemical exposures, and socio-political unrest are never addressed. You simply can't vaccinate people out of these conditions, and as India's new epidemic of vaccine-induced polio cases clearly demonstrates, the "cure" may be far worse than the disease itself.