Have any of you heard of this before?
It was brought to my attention by my future father-in-law. Apparently there's a group of people claiming that the polio vaccine didn't cause the decline in polio cases, but that the decline was caused by a redefinition of meningitis, thus there was no actual decline, just a name switch, attributing the widespread use of the vaccine to corporate greed. Their evidence is that as polio declined meningitis cases rose. I haven't done much initial research, only finding crackpot websites like
http://www.whale.to/vaccine/polio1.html that support the position.
I smell bullshit, but I don't like to dismiss anything out of hand so I'm coming to you guys for some collaborative assistance. I have to go and bust my ass at a piss-poor construction job in about 9 hours (student loans in the U.S. suck ass) so I'll probably try to look into it either tomorrow night or later this week.
thanks