And then vaccine manufacturers across the world fuck up and cause an outbreak.
This is one of those cases that I have no sympathy for the hype piece, no sympathy for "the science", or the pharma companies making bank off of keeping this thing rolling. Only sympathy goes out to the people hurt by polio and human idiocy.
What?
Many years ago on Sixty Minutes, an elderly man who changed the diaper for his grandchild caught it and diagnosis and treatment was delayed because the doctor literally said something like "Decades ago, I would say this was polio. You have all the symptoms." and didn't consider that was possible because "we've eradicated it."
(And we use the non-sterilising, non-virus containing non-polio-producing IPV in the United States. So the unvaccinated can change babies’ diapers without fear.)
Not necessarily. All those migrants coming into the country? Mostly they got the cheaper OPV vaccine, if they got any. There was a case of it last year in New York: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/polio/hcp/vaccine-derived-p...