Experts warn against lowering of polio vaccine quotas

Despite the drop in the number of polio cases in the world
Experts do not consider the danger of new polio infections in Germany
allowed to avoid. "The risk of reintroduction exists," said Kathrin
Keeren of the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin (RKI) of the German Press Agency
before World Polio Day on October 24th. Reasons for this sees the head of the
Office of the National Commission for Polio-Radio in
Germany down vaccination rates in children and in migration
Countries affected by polio.

The vaccination rate at the school entrance exam was 2016
according to the latest RKI data at 93.9%. "We are already concerned about this"
said Keeren, "further down, we really should not go, we should
is better again. "Previously, the value for years at about 95 percent
located. This threshold is deemed necessary by the World Health Organization (WHO)
so that the population is armed against a reintroduction of the virus. in the
For example, the state with the lowest rate, Baden-Württemberg,
only nine out of ten children were vaccinated against polio (90.6%). at
Polio has lost its terror? Hermann Josef Kahl, spokesperson of the
Bundesverband der Kinder- und Jugendärzte, said that he saw no polio
readiness for the vaccine in ruins. This is only in isolated cases that parents have to suffer the incurable consequences
Remember the disease as permanent paralysis. Generally this is
An attitude towards polio vaccine, but "very different from measles," says Kahl.