“Public health officials have declared a national incident after routine surveillance of wastewater in north and east London found evidence of community transmission of poliovirus for the first time…No cases of the disease or related paralysis have been reported, and the risk to the general public is considered low, but public health officials urged people to make sure that they and their families were up to date with polio vaccinations to reduce the risk of harm.”
Howie52
Vaccinations are one of the items which were critical and continue to be a worry.
And in the remote, squalid precinct of St. Giles-in-the-Fields outside the city wall, Goodwoman Phillips was pronounced dead of the plague. Her house was locked up and the phrase “Lord Have Mercy On Us” was painted on the door in red. By the following Christmas, the pathogen that had felled Goodwoman Phillips would go on to kill nearly 100,000 people living in and around London almost a third of those who did not flee. This epidemic had a devastating effect on the city’s economy and social fabric, as well as on those who lived through it. Yet somehow the city continued to function and the activities of daily life went on.
This is from The Great Plague: The Story of London’s Most Deadly Year 1664-65
Why do you assume that the blame goes to anti-vaxers? Have you taken the time to read a bit about this issue from a couple of sources?
I had the polio vaccine via a sugar cube way back in the late 1950’s/early 1960’s.
Polio has not been an issue in the U.S. for many, many decades. With few exceptions
the only time a person is getting the polio virus is when they are exposed to
babies via diapers after a live vaccine was found in their stool. That is only for a
short period of time but it seems to depend upon what type of vaccine the child was
given.
Perhaps we can take a deep breath and not get all worked up until we find out more
truthful information.