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| Question mark over efficacy of polio vaccine | |
| 2014-10-27 | |
| [DAWN] The recent confirmation of polio virus in two siblings despite their vaccination during routine anti-polio drives and half a dozen additional boosters in special campaigns has raised serious questions over the very efficacy of the vaccine. Officials conveniently put the blame on lack of immunity among the siblings for the crippling disease despite being inoculated and said it might have been caused by malnutrition or some other genetic reasons. But a senior official in the provincial health ministry admitted that such incidents raised many questions over the very efficacy of the vaccine and the cold chain system, which had been reported not up to the mark by the authorities from time to time. Maybe they oughta buy the same brand everybody else uses instead of buying from the pharmaceutical company run by somebody's brother-in-law. If a kid's had three doses of the vaccine and still comes down with it, you're using the wrong vaccine.
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| Posted by:Fred |