It's not that "they thought" that the polio vaccine was giving people polio BTW. It happened. I nursed a woman in ICU who got polio from changing the nappy of her baby who'd just had the polio vaccine. She was on a ventilator for months, paralyzed from the neck down. In the end we discharged her to a rest home, aged 30, on a ventilator t…
It's not that "they thought" that the polio vaccine was giving people polio BTW. It happened. I nursed a woman in ICU who got polio from changing the nappy of her baby who'd just had the polio vaccine. She was on a ventilator for months, paralyzed from the neck down. In the end we discharged her to a rest home, aged 30, on a ventilator to essentially wait until she got a chest infection and died. Never able to touch her child ever again. It's not "they thought", it happened. It was about 30 years ago, back when New Zealand still used the oral polio vaccine.
Don't put so much stock into what they say happened 75 years ago. Again, if the vaccine doesn't have the live virus or live bacteria in it, you can't get virally or bacterially infected. It's as fundamentally as simple as that. That said, they have played with pathogens over the years and offered up myriad modified forms of the antigens - is it possible a live strain fell through the cracks. Okay, but just know that only a live strain can do this.
It's not that "they thought" that the polio vaccine was giving people polio BTW. It happened. I nursed a woman in ICU who got polio from changing the nappy of her baby who'd just had the polio vaccine. She was on a ventilator for months, paralyzed from the neck down. In the end we discharged her to a rest home, aged 30, on a ventilator to essentially wait until she got a chest infection and died. Never able to touch her child ever again. It's not "they thought", it happened. It was about 30 years ago, back when New Zealand still used the oral polio vaccine.
Don't put so much stock into what they say happened 75 years ago. Again, if the vaccine doesn't have the live virus or live bacteria in it, you can't get virally or bacterially infected. It's as fundamentally as simple as that. That said, they have played with pathogens over the years and offered up myriad modified forms of the antigens - is it possible a live strain fell through the cracks. Okay, but just know that only a live strain can do this.