A baseless propaganda against polio vaccination is observed on social media for some days by individuals of certain mindset urging others not to vaccine their children on basis of groundless assumptions.
Not going into details of words uttered by each Tom, Harry and Dick in scattered streets of Pakistan about conspiracy theories we are focusing mainly on debunking those reasons that are somehow propagated on social media as outcome of some sort of serious research in this regard. Following are most common misconceptions regarding this subject.
- That the vaccine is invention of the Jews and Christians
- That the vaccine itself contain polio virus
- That there is no laboratory to test vaccine safety
- That why do they (WHO and West) worry so much about our health?
- That why our government use Police force to impose vaccines?
Not only does the polio vaccines but a lot more things are also made by Jews and Christians than why not prohibit all of them? A car made by a Christian, according to this theory, may contain virus in its dashboard intended to harm the Muslim driver that may drive it. From a simple cough syrup to a cancer cure , there are many medicines the inventions of which are credited to people of other religions specially Christians and the Jews, so this is not a reason that anything prepared by them should necessarily be harmful for Muslims.
Yes, the vaccine contain polio virus but inactive and without antigens. All vaccines contain sample of inactive viruses for introduction and identification of the same to the human immune system so that whenever the system encounters one it has already developed force to fight with it. So it is baseless to say that Polio is transmitted through polio vaccines itself because it contain polio virus. Had this the case every hospital should have filled with polio patients up to now.
Obviously a wrong assumption as polio vaccines are tested by Drug Control Authority of Pakistan and has found nothing harmful. Click here and here to read details in this regard.
They do worry not because that they are in some emotional relation with you but because you are part of the same system that they are living into. Unless polio virus is eliminated completely from the entire system there always be chances that other entities of the system can be infected through transmission of virus from an infected element of the same system. By now many countries in the world have effectively eliminated polio except Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan which has persistent reports of Polio discovery every year. That is why WHO has focus on Pakistan and Afghanistan in this regard.
Because there are elements in Pakistan who kill the innocent polio workers which are declared by these elements as part of international biological warfare against Muslim population. The Police is there not to force your children to be vaccinated but for the safety of Polio workers who refused to work without proper safety measures.
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