Polio Vaccine in Nigeria Has Paralyzed 124 Children This Year

Polio, the dreaded paralyzing disease stamped out in the industrialized world, is spreading in Nigeria. And health officials say in some cases, it's caused by the vaccine used to fight it.

In July, the World Health Organization issued a warning that this vaccine-spread virus might extend beyond Africa. So far, 124 Nigerian children have been paralyzed this year — about twice those afflicted in 2008

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Bill Gates Spends $630 Million to Vaccinate Children Against Polio

It sounds like a noble cause: A $630 million donation from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to "eradicate polio" around the world. There's only one problem: The vaccination approach to world health utterly ignores the far greater problem of nutrition, vitamin D and immune support for children who already have the immune system technology to resist polio infections -- it just needs proper nutritional support.

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