Polio: it can’t be eradicated when you use current live vaccines that may revert to virulence.

Because lots of people continue to grow and shed vaccine strain polioviruses in stool for months to years afterwards, and some strains eventually mutate to become dangerous again.

CDC was very cagey about its plans for sewage surveillance after one young man in New York developed paralytic polio. They limit such surveillance to areas around outbreaks, said a CDC spokesperson. WHY? Because they know they will find lots of polio in the wastewater around the country—and they do not want to alert you to this until they have a polio vaccine campaign or drug to roll out.

Up to 12 months after an oral polio vaccine campaign was conducted in Finland in 1985, 5 of 93 samples detected vaccine-strain polio in sewage. The Finns stopped looking after 12 months:

The efficacy of the vaccination campaign in regard to elimination of the epidemic type 3 strain was evaluated by a follow-up study on viruses in sewage waters continued for 12 months through the subsequent expected season of poliomyelitis. Several types of enteroviruses, including five vaccine-related poliovirus strains, were identified in the 72 virus-positive specimens out of 93 studied. No wild-type polioviruses were found, indicating the success of the campaign.

Most polio cases in the world are due to vaccine strains. The “wild-type” or natural polio only is found in 2 countries presently, Afghanistan and Pakistan, while the vaccine strain viruses are causing polio in 30 countries, including in Europe.

Regarding the London polio virus in sewage, Science magazine uses quotes to paint a confusing picture.

There is an admission that yes, polio is found intermittently in sewage when checked, but this time it might be circulating between people. But maybe not. But anyway, keep your vaccinations up to date:

In the United Kingdom, the virus was detected in samples taken between February and June…

Such sewage traces usually disappear again fairly quickly. This time, the virus continued to appear in London over several months, and several closely related versions of the virus turned up in recent samples. The genetic changes suggest the virus is continuing to evolve, a sign that it may be spreading in a small number of people.   

Joseph Swan, a polio communications officer at WHO, says broader spread is unlikely, given the generally high vaccine coverage in the UK, which like most wealthy countries uses multiple doses of a killed-virus vaccine. And he emphasizes there is not yet direct evidence that the virus is spreading from person to person. But officials are encouraging people to check that they and their children have received all recommended vaccine doses…

Officials in London are now taking samples in sewer systems upstream from the Beckton treatment plant, to see whether they can narrow down the source of the virus and perhaps target vaccination campaigns more precisely.

The OPV [oral polio vaccine] that brought the virus to both the United Kingdom and Israel has advantages in regions where poliovirus is spreading. Not only is it cheap and easy to administer, but also the live virus in the vaccine can still replicate in a recipient, triggering strong immune protection in the gut that can stop further transmission of the virus, helping boost community defenses against future outbreaks. And although it occasionally evolves to regain its virulence, health officials are starting to roll out a more stable form of OPV that they hope will reduce the risk of these reversions.

The developed world “Salk” polio vaccines are not as effective as the cheaper, live and mutable oral “Sabin“ vaccines used in poorer countries. But the Sabin vaccines cause some recipients, and some people exposed to sewage, to develop polio, so they were banned in the US in 1999.

Why does WHO need a polio communications officer to provide the one polio narrative?

I think that Science magazine just told us, reading between the lines, that live polio vaccines cause infections that spread from person to person, certainly in areas with open sewers. They did not use the term “self-spreading vaccine” but that is exactly what they meant.

Self-spreading, replicating COVID vaccines have been in development. Science magazine ran an article in January about such vaccines, titled, “Eroding norms over release of self-spreading viruses: Risky research on lab-modified self-spreading viruses has yet to present credible paths to upsides” by Filippa Lentzos et al.

Such a program could remove your right to consent to vaccination. Tuck away this concept in the back of your mind. Just one more thing the new normal has up its sleeve.