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by corty 2132 days ago
Polio is available as an oral vaccine that used to be widespread in the west. I still remember demanding a sugarcube with every oral medication after getting one for the polio vaccination :)

That doesn't seem to stop anti-vaxxers: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-09-04/anti-v...

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The oral polio vaccine is a live vaccine. It is much more effective than the injected dead vaccine we now get in the west but it does occasionally cause polio outbreaks...