Analysis
Several social media posts about polio campaigns in the Democratic Republic of the Congo received negative comments about polio vaccines. Some posts called polio vaccines “poison.” Other commenters say that the vaccines are not needed because children survive without them and the disease is “almost nonexistent.”
Recommendations
Some people believe that polio vaccines are unnecessary or unsafe, but that is not true. Continuing to explain that polio vaccines are safe and the only way to protect children against polio is recommended.