Previous incident linking polio vaccine to polio outbreak used to spread misinfo

An article originally written in September 2020 states that the Gates-funded polio vaccine is causing vaccine-derived polio in Sudan. This story is being reshared as a cautionary tale against trusting vaccines funded by the Gates Foundation, and stoking lack of trust in the WHO. Circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses are very rare, particularly in comparison to the number of polio vaccines that are distributed each year. Since 2000, more than 10 billion doses of the oral polio vaccine have been administered worldwide. Vaccine-derived polio can occur if the weakened strain of the poliovirus contained in the oral polio vaccine circulates in under-immunized populations for a long period of time. If a population is optimally immunized with polio vaccines, it will be protected from both wild and vaccine-derived polioviruses. This historical incident is not misinformation itself, but is being used to promulgate misinformation.

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