I saw an article at Powerline this morning which reports that in Seattle, just under 20% of children in the city's elementary school have not had the polio vaccine. Think about that for a moment. Polio has not been eradicated around the world. It is very rare due to public health efforts and vaccination, but the disease is still out there. All it would need is a group of susceptible people exposed to the virus. Seattle is building such a group with its anti-vaccine fanaticism.
Imagine that just one person travels to Seattle carrying active polio and spends a week there. While traveling around the city, that person could come in contact with hundreds of non-vaccinated children. By the time that the polio virus manifested itself in its first victim, there could be a great many people infected.
Polio is not measles which has seen a major outbreak in Washington state due to the lack of vaccinations. Measles can be deadly, but the percentages so affected is small compared to what polio does. Seattle could actually see mass deaths and paralysis due to a polio outbreak.
This is extremely frightening, especially since it is the result of something that is so easily avoided.
Imagine that just one person travels to Seattle carrying active polio and spends a week there. While traveling around the city, that person could come in contact with hundreds of non-vaccinated children. By the time that the polio virus manifested itself in its first victim, there could be a great many people infected.
Polio is not measles which has seen a major outbreak in Washington state due to the lack of vaccinations. Measles can be deadly, but the percentages so affected is small compared to what polio does. Seattle could actually see mass deaths and paralysis due to a polio outbreak.
This is extremely frightening, especially since it is the result of something that is so easily avoided.
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