DISINFO: Bill Gates vaccination leaves 496,000 children paralysed in India
SUMMARY
Bill Gates vaccination leaves 496,000 children paralysed in India. Indian doctors blame Gates for a devastating epidemic caused by a polio strain from a vaccine that paralysed 496,000 children between 2000 and 2017.
RESPONSE
Reccuring the disinfo narrative about Bill Gates interested in reducing the number of the global population through vaccination. See here a similar case claiming that Bill Gates generates the coronavirus outbreak by founding both the creation of the virus and the vaccine. No evidence given. The Gates Foundation has supported a polio eradication program in India throw the immunization, during many years. The claim that was denied by the Gates Foundation in an email sent to the Poynter Institute in the USA. In March 2014 the World Health Organization declared the Southest Asia, including India, zone a region polio-free, due to the vaccination. In an explicative note, WHO says it is possible to contract polio from vaccine, but it is extremely rare, 1 in 2,7 million oral doses could result in vaccine-associated paralytic polio. As for India, between 2000 and 2017, there were 17 cases of vaccine-associated paralytic polio (cVDPV cases) – 15 cases in 2009 and 2 cases in 2010, as it is shown in a WHO data table.