A pastor who rejects “established science” decided polio & measles vaccination is optional

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CJxxJ-5oKw

The Anti-Vax Movement’s Wildest Claim Yet: Polio Wasn’t So Bad – Mother Jones

Over the last few months, a handful of influential anti-vaccine activists have dabbled in polio denialism. In September, for example, Larry Cook, founder of the anti-vaccine group Stop Mandatory Vaccination, falsely claimed to his 137,000 followers on X that polio "was cured with high dose vitamin C" and that "the polio vaccine NEVER stopped polio. We've been lied to for decades and decades."…

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/the-anti-vax-movements-wildest-claim-yet-polio-wasnt-so-bad/ 

 

RFK Jr key adviser petitioned regulators to revoke approval of polio vaccine

Poliovirus, the cause of a disease that used to be one of the most feared by Americans, has been eliminated from the country by the US through polio vaccines. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes that the best way to avoid its return and keep people safe is through vaccination...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/13/rfk-jr-aaron-siri-polio

4 ways vaccine skeptics mislead you on measles and more - CBS News

Measles is on the rise in the United States. So far this year, the number of cases is about 17 times what it was, on average, during the same period in each of the four years before, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Half of the people infected — mainly children — have been hospitalized. 

It's going to get worse, largely because a growing number of parents are deciding not to get their children vaccinated against measles as well as diseases like polio and pertussis...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/measles-vaccine-skeptics-truth/

Fears of a polio resurgence in the US have health officials on high alert – a virologist explains the history of this dreaded disease

The decline in polio in the U.S. and globally is a direct result of the introduction of vaccines and the willingness of the public to accept them...

https://theconversation.com/fears-of-a-polio-resurgence-in-the-us-have-health-officials-on-high-alert-a-virologist-explains-the-history-of-this-dreaded-disease-189107

A mutated virus, anti-vaxxers and a vulnerable population: how polio returned to the US | US news | The Guardian

…growing distrust of government public health agencies and the spread of anti-vaccine talking points has taken a toll…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/29/polio-us-vaccines-new-york-rockland-county

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Makes Her Most Ignorant Vaccine Claim Yet | HuffPost Latest News

The thing she has "never seen" is right out where everyone can see it…

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/marjorie-taylor-greene-polio-vaccine_n_62341b4ee4b0f1e82c47cbf9

The defeat of polio proved that immunisation saved lives, but there's a sting to the tale

The rising number of vaccine-derived polio outbreaks has important implications for how we deal with Covid-19...
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2020/nov/15/the-defeat-of-polio-proved-that-immunisation-saved-lives-but-theres-a-sting-to-the-tale

I met this gentleman at the grocery store today and asked if I could take a photo of him. - pics

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7y2q7a/i_met_this_gentleman_at_the_grocery_store_today/ 

My Polio Story Is An Inconvenient Truth To Those Who Refuse Vaccines

No one wanted to be near my family....
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/my-polio-story-is-an-inconvenient-truth-to-those-who-refuse-vaccines_us_57b22672e4b07184041270f6