On: Africa declared free of wild polio

[dennis_jeeves]

Yes, the polio induced by the vaccine is actually the the more prevalent one today. They call it by fancy name: 'paralysis-something-something' so that the vaccine is not blamed for the polio.

[mkl → dennis_jeeves]

It's explicitly called "vaccine-derived polio" in every article I've read about it, including from the WHO: https://www.who.int/westernpacific/news/q-a-detail/what-is-v...