Mortality rates are decreasing. Before vaccination as living standards improved life expectancy increased but more so after vaccination introduced. Polio is not really what I would be worried about if I was a parent in Syria though any help would be welcomed. The Middle East is very complex, I lived in Saudi for 3 years. Vaccination according to your beliefs does more harm than good. Enjoy the being free of many communicable diseases, just ask yourself why that’s so and enjoy what others have accepted as a reasonable risk versus the benefit. No vaccine is without risk. Without vaccine how’s smallpox et al looking. You’re right, vaccine may have caused problems as a side effect, but without??
