At 08:21 PM 10/31/1999 -0500, Graham Barden wrote: >I have heard that the the Powers That Be plan to discontinue >the use of Polio vaccination in North America in just a few >years. I was discussing this with a friend who received his >masters in Public Health from UNC. He mentioned that in the >last 2-3 years, they discovered by RTCPR Type I Polio in two >populations by analysis of sewage - the Amish and a French >sect in North Dakota with similar religous feelings against >vaccinations. They notified the CDC who haggled back and >forth until confirming the 158 base pairs were in fact from >type I polio. >Has anyone heard of any similar findings? For the CDC to say >North America has no wild type polio that did not walk off of >an airplane, and then to have a non-MD say "well we found >some..." doesn't give me much confidence in the plan to stop >vaccination for polio! According to the CDC, the last wild-type found in North America was in an Amish sect in Pennsylvania in 1979. If you have any references to published information on this, please share it. Len Leshin, MD, FAAP Corpus Christi, TX mailto: