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Correcting factual errors:
Neither does polio. "Some diseases have no non-human reservoir: poliomyelitis and smallpox are prominent examples."
First, the inactivated/killed polio vaccine cannot come back to life. Second, that risk for the attenuated vaccine is well known.
Will.
You can disagree as to whether the benefits are worth the costs, of course. And perhaps finite problems can be analyzed within the usual framework - but I wanted to bring them up.
No, may. Even if you have zero known cases, you have not eradicated polio for sure because of the carriers and natural reservoirs and obscure little hidden villages. So you still need vaccines. And your own links point out that the attenuated vaccine can still be infectious!
To quote from one of the references:
What is a "contaminated natural source"? I am genuinely curious.
A variation on natural reservoir.