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Ep 7 Hit Me With Your Best (Polio) Shot

This Podcast Will Kill You

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Is the Sabin Vaccine Really Safe?

In several countries where wild polio had been completely wiped out, there were still a few dozen cases each year as all a direct result of the Sabin vaccine. One in 750,000 doses administered will result in vaccine-associated paralytic polyamide like this. And that's if you're fully immunocompetent. You are three to six thousand times more likely to end up getting vaccine- associated paralyticpolyamide-itis than a person who's immunocompromised. So it's not a insignificant fear.

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