Authored by BlueAngel on
Thursday, October 14, 2004
This is a new message just received from Scout@skally.net who presents this information from St. John's . Thought it was interesting and comforting that future dangers of taking the vaccine is safer.
POST-POLIO-MED@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
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Date sent: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 17:33:15 -0400
Subject: CDC Says Vaccine-Caused Polio Wiped Out
http://news.findlaw.com/ap/o/1500/10-13-2004/20041013050009_26.html
Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2004 | Associated Press
CDC Says Vaccine-Caused Polio Wiped Out
CHICAGO (AP) - A switch in the type of polio vaccine recommended for
use in the United States appears to have wiped out U.S. cases of the
disease caused by the vaccine itself, the government says.
In 2000, U.S. policy-makers recommended that doctors use only shots containing inactivated polio virus. They reached that conclusion after receiving evidence that the oral vaccine containing live polio virus might have actually caused cases of the disease in rare instances.
The strategy seems to have worked: Government data from 1990 to 2003 show that the last case of vaccine-related polio occurred in 1999, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association.
Researcher Lorraine Nino Alexander and colleagues from the CDC pronounced that a "major public health accomplishment in the United States."
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On the Net:
JAMA: http://www.jama.com
CDC: http://www.cdc.gov
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