[NEWS] Setback for Nigeria's Polio Fighters

[TIME] Setback for Nigeria's Polio Fighters

"Health workers in Nigeria fear they're on the verge again — of collapse. When the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control revealed in early October that 69 Nigerian children had been paralyzed by polio virus since 2005 — and had contracted the illness through exposure to the live virus found in the oral vaccine drop — it was the nightmare situation public health workers had been dreading: the rare vaccine-related outbreak that could spark renewed paranoia and permanently halt eradication efforts."

這是今天上課老師提到的新聞，在 Science 期刊上也有，聽到的時候一直在想 Polio 的中文是什麼，原來是小兒麻痺。那 smallpox 呢？我知道疫苗是用 vaccina virus 做的，大家小學的時候都打過，手臂上會有一小塊疤，那是打什麼的？中文一直想不起來，腦海中只一直冒出「小兒痲痺」四個字，想說到底 smallpox 和 Polio 哪個才是小兒麻痺？厚，smallpox 是天花啦！

牛痘疫苗有很貴嘛？老師說現在美國都沒在打的，因為他們認為 smallpox 已經絕種了，但是其實…嗯，還是有爭議的吧！不過美國認為打疫苗不重要，而且沒在打，讓我覺得很不可思議，老師也覺得難以理解，疫苗很重要的阿！台灣的新生兒應該出生沒多久，每個都什麼能打的疫苗都打了吧！