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I live in a developing south american country. Whenever I'm in a conversation and someone starts questioning vaccines, the first thing I say is "Stop. Tell me, when was the last time you saw or heard of someone getting child paralysis?" They have no answer, because usually the only people you can find carrying the effects of this terrible disease are over fifty years old. The last case documented in my country was in 1989.

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It happens all the time, we just call it something else now: https://www.ninds.nih.gov/health-information/patient-caregiv...

That's just one of a myriad of conditions that cause paralysis.

You know I was talking specifically about poliomyelitis, the infectious disease caused by the poliovirus, which in many countries (mine included) is called 'child paralysis'.

Remember the part where I said 'they call it something different now?' You don't have poliomyelitis anymore, you have Guillain Barre, and unfortunately, nobody knows what causes that shrugs. Some other paralyzing ailments are ALS and MS.

Only argument I have heard against the polio vaccine was from my brother who argued that the infection rates were declining before the vaccine. He couldn't really explain why there is still polio in Pakistan and Afghanistan the only to places that have barriers to vaccination.

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