Polio Vaccine Leads to Cases of Polio in Nigeria

Fri Oct 12 18:52:40 -0700 2007
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An oral polio vaccine used in Nigeria, that uses weakened but still alive virus, apparently mutated and has actually caused the disease it was meant to help stop.

.."In 2000, the United States switched to injected vaccine made from killed virus, which cannot mutate. But oral drops with the live, weakened version of the virus are still used in most poor countries, including those where the disease has never been eliminated: Nigeria, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan."..more, serious bummer, there