re: Paul Alexander - 'The Man in the Iron Lung' - dies after 70 years living in tank

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Polio vaccine is an oral vaccine given to toddlers. Most people would not remember this. It would be in your vaccination record.

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That makes sense then, that hasnt been used for a while but was probably used on us.

They give you a shot now, i never received a polio shot.

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The oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) is a weakened live vaccine that is still used in many parts of the world, but hasn't been used in the United States since 2000.

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Oh and wash your hands, remember most dudes dont wash their hands after using the restroom.

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Vaccinated people are not in harm’s way if they catch poliovirus, which spreads from the human intestinal tract via the fecal-oral route: a person gets stool germs on their hands, touches something or shakes hands with another person, and that person puts their contaminated hands in their nose or mouth. This is why younger kids – those still in diapers – are especially susceptible to infection.

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the polio case in nY is from the oral vaccine. Go figure.

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“So while we were preventing polio with this vaccine, we were also rarely creating vaccine-associated polio myelitis,” said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.

This is what happened to the young adult in New York. Genetic sequencing showed that the virus that paralyzed him originated from an oral vaccine, which is still used in other countries.

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So this is the rare case the vaccinated caused the problem.

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“The big drawback to the oral polio vaccine is you shed it,” said Dr. James Campbell, a pediatrician and vaccine researcher at the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health

Very rarely, about once in every 3 million times it is given, the weakened virus in the oral vaccine can escape the gut and cause paralysis.

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and of course the injection is not perfect either.

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There is a drawback to using the injected vaccine, however. While it prevents paralysis, it doesn’t necessarily prevent infection.


Because of this, young adults and children vaccinated since the switch can still be infected with poliovirus in their intestines and shed the virus in their stool.

“They’re protected against a paralytic disease, but they can still harbor the virus and spread it to others. And that’s the circumstance we have now in New York,” Schaffner says.

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So yeah your unvaccinated kid can catch it from a vaccinated kid shedding the virus.