{"id":1663419,"date":"2022-09-29T03:02:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T07:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1663419"},"modified":"2022-09-29T03:04:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T07:04:12","slug":"vaccine-derived-poliovirus-is-the-next-public-health-issue-you-cant-talk-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vaccine-derived-poliovirus-is-the-next-public-health-issue-you-cant-talk-about\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus\u2019 Is The Next Public Health Issue You Can\u2019t Talk About"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvaccine-derived-poliovirus-is-the-next-public-health-issue-you-cant-talk-about%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1663419&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Polio, a virus once thought to be a thing of the past, recently reemerged in New York state\u2019s wastewater. Politico helpfully <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/politico-nightly\/2022\/09\/20\/polio-is-the-next-front-in-the-disinformation-wars-00057898\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explained<\/a> that this recent emergence is, in fact, a form of \u201cvaccine-derived poliovirus.\u201d And the term, while technically true, is \u201cparticularly inartful and confusing\u201d and ought not to be used. As Yale School of Medicine <a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.yale.edu\/news-article\/is-polio-making-a-comeback\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">puts it<\/a>, \u201cthere\u2019s a lot of nuance\u201d on the issue. To translate from public health jargon to plain English, this means: Get it out of your system now because you\u2019ll likely be banned from social media for using it by next month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So what is vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) anyway, and is it something you need to worry about? Here are some key takeaways.<\/p>\n<h2>Spread by the Vaccinated to the Unvaccinated<\/h2>\n<p>There are two kinds of vaccines against polio. One, given via injection, uses an inactivated virus and is known as IPV. The other is an oral vaccine, using a weakened but not fully inactivated strain, and is known as OPV. OPV, the original polio vaccine you might remember getting if you\u2019re of a certain age, was widely used in America for decades. It is cheap, easy for anyone to administer, and provides strong protection against the virus. However, since it was not inactivated, it could cause paralytic polio in some recipients and was not safe to administer to the immune-compromised nor their close contacts. Due to these problems, America, like most Western nations, transitioned to the safer, inactivated IPV vaccine injection decades ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As our overworked fact-checkers are learning to their unease, it turns out there\u2019s another big problem with the OPV vaccine: vaccine-derived polioviruses. When immunodeficient people are exposed to the weakened OPV version of the disease, the virus can stay in their gut for years, slowly mutating into new strands, which can then emerge and spread to infect others.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The good news? If your children have been vaccinated against polio with IPV, they are safe from any scary polio symptoms even when the oral-vaccine-derived variants show up in your town.\u00a0 A frightening reemergence of polio is unlikely in America as long as traditional childhood vaccination rates hold steady. On the other hand, considering that we are facing a catastrophic loss of trust in the public health community due to a long train of abuses, such as the scary push to inflict <a href=\"https:\/\/gaty.substack.com\/p\/immunobridge-in-brooklyn-for-sale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">unnecessary experimental vaccines<\/a> on children, we may not be able to count on those traditional vaccination rates holding up for long.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, even if you got the short straw and live in a country whose public health authorities are notoriously incompetent, chances are you\u2019ll be safe. Why?<\/p>\n<h2>Spread Only from Poor Countries<\/h2>\n<p>Thankfully, all advanced countries adopted the inactive IPV vaccine ages ago, so there is no threat of OPV vaccine-derived variants hanging around to cause problems, even if vaccination rates in those countries do decline. The only nations that still use the OPV vaccine are the undeveloped ones, as it is much cheaper and requires much less medical infrastructure to administer. Current nations using OPV and at risk of developing vaccine-derived polioviruses include places such as Afghanistan and Yemen.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Considering that there is now growing worldwide awareness about the spread of these vaccine-derived variants, you have nothing to worry about: Any responsible country will,<em> of course<\/em>, zealously guard its borders to ensure that travelers from these countries are carefully screened before entry.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In sum, the only conceivable scenario in which the long-forgotten scourge of polio could reemerge in America would be some sort of dystopian convergence of elite mismanagement: a vaccine spokesmen credibility crisis combined with wide-open borders. Sound familiar?<\/p>\n<p>On the bright side, polio is spread through the fecal-oral route. So if it does come to your neighborhood, you won\u2019t need to wear a mask.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Dr. Adrian Gaty writes at <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/profile\/44958118-adrian-gaty\">Substack<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polio, a virus once thought to be a thing of the past, recently reemerged in New York state\u2019s wastewater. 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