Category Archives: White Paper Polio

“Though oral polio vaccine has succeeded in polio eradication from many countries but there is high incidence of vaccine failure in India. Oral polio vaccine (OPV) has failed to provide full protection to many children who have developed paralytic polio … Continue reading →

I did a Google search for conspiracy theories revolving around the international efforts for vaccinations for the polio virus. I found an article from the newspaper The Guardian titled “Vaccines, the CIA, and how the War on Terror helped spread polio in Nigeria,” that … Continue reading →

For my source, I googled polio eradication and found a link to the website – http://www.polioeradication.org/Polioandprevention.aspx “Polio is a crippling and potentially fatal infectious disease. There is no cure, but there are safe and effective vaccines. The strategy to eradicate polio … Continue reading →

When researching polio vaccine rumors on google, I found an LA Times article (http://articles.latimes.com/2011/oct/17/world/la-fg-pakistan-polio-20111017) about a more recent situation in pakistan in which muslim extremists and religious leaders denounce the polio vaccine as a western plot to sterilize their daughters and … Continue reading →

I decided to do my research on the effectiveness of the vaccination for polio and thats exactly what i typed in google, which led me to http://www.immunizationinfo.org/vaccines/polio . “The incidence of paralytic polio peaked in the U.S. in 1952 with 21,000 … Continue reading →

I did a search on Google and found a article titled “Researcher Behind Debunked Autism-Vaccine Study Stood To Make Millions” By: Michelle Diament on a website called “disabilityscoop”. It talks about how the researcher the debunked the research that first … Continue reading →

After using Google to find more research, it led me to http://www.cdc.gov where i researched the effectiveness of vaccine. “A 1916 polio epidemic in the United States killed 6,000 people and paralyzed 27,000 more. In the early 1950’s there were more than … Continue reading →

The topic I have chosen to look more in depth into was the oral “Sabin” vaccine. The search technique I used was going to the Academic Search Premier and searching “oral sabin vaccine”. http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=228d9423-c3e5-49da-a0d6-a8abdae3fa4e%40sessionmgr4&vid=4&hid=7 The first link takes you to … Continue reading →

I used academic search premier to find information on polio. http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=e1547f6f-a42c-4897-a07f-58965b612cc3%40sessionmgr11&vid=4&hid=11 “As of 24 August 2010, there have been 30 reported cases of wild poliovirus in India compared to 236 during the same period in 2009. [2]. Almost all wild … Continue reading →

I went to google and searched “effectiveness of the polio vaccine.” I came upon this site http://www.kidrisk.org/mainFrame/poliopub3.html, which talked about how many lives the vaccine has saved and the cost efficiency of the vaccination. “The U.S. invested over $35 billion … Continue reading →