I listened to a talk about polio today. There are, or rather were, three types of polio. Polio type 2 has been wiped out already but what about the other two? They have been strongly reduced but not eradicated - yet. The following video explains the current situation. I find it exciting that there wiping out this terrible disease is within our grasp.
With the complete eradication of small pox, and now the considerable reduction of polio, I don't understand how people can doubt the value and importance of vaccine. Are they so blissfully unaware of how horrible the diseases they are risking are? Do they really want their children to be struggling for breath from whooping cough, or risking death from measles?
