Vaccines

From The Washington Post, “Mass polio vaccination to begin in Gaza after the deadly disease reemerges”:

“All his limbs are now paralyzed,” the boy’s mother, Nevin Abu al-Jidyan, said in a telephone interview this week from her tent in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza. “The left side is more rigid. He is even unable to bend over. I cannot even help him sit.”

Polio’s reemergence in Gaza poses a looming threat to the war-torn territory and adjacent regions, health and humanitarian experts said. The highly infectious and deadly disease affects the nervous system and is a significant challenge to contain because the majority of people infected either have no symptoms or mild flu-like symptoms, potentially spreading the virus unknowingly.

Polio is only a “mythological disease” because everyone for a generation got vaccinated. I would hate to see it come back because of poor education. polio is a real disease. Many innocent children lived entire lives paralyzed and some people lived with iron lungs. It’s a torture parents should not put their children through. Vaccines are safe and effective.