Does the polio vaccine work?
The invention of the polio vaccine was touted as a triumph for humanity. Dr. Jonas Salk, its creator, was hailed as a national hero. It was the first of many industrially produced vaccines to come, and the current vaccine infrastructure is based on it. Unfortunately, evidence suggests that the polio campaign was and is predicated on misinformation.
It was in 1977 that Dr. Salk himself testified to congress the majority of polio cases in the US since 1961 were caused not by wild viruses but by his polio vaccine35.
Dr. Sabin, who shared in the fame of creating one of the first polio vaccines, later said, “Official data shows that large scale vaccination has failed to obtain any significant improvement of the diseases against which they were supposed to provide protection”22.
How could this be? It was not only his testimony that questioned the vaccines efficacy. There are are a number of studies suggesting that the polio virus vaccine can indeed increase the risk of developing paralytic polio50, 51, 52, 53.
Furthermore, in Oman between 1988 and 1989, thousands of fully vaccinated children contracted polio36. Those regions with the highest rates of vaccination had the highest rates of the disease, while the regions with the lowest rates of vaccination had the lowest rates of disease.
What follows comes from the work of investigative journalist Janine Roberts, who is well known thanks to her work exposing the horrors of blood diamonds.
The history of polio
Polio first came to be known around 1909-1910, but it presented as a strange sort of epidemic because it did not spread within families12. Kids only seemed to fall ill in the summer, so it came to be known as the summer plague12.
1909 was the same time that new pesticide sprays began to be used. One example was lead arsenate, a combination of two deadly heavy metals, which was so toxic that it was not legal in England12. Later on in the post WW2 era, a number of other chemicals were introduced. These included organophosphates and then organochlorines, which are basically watered down nerve weapons12. To get an idea of how toxic these are, if you want to build a house or other development on land where these chemicals were used, you are legally required to get rid of all of the soil down to the bedrock12. It was only when large numbers of birds started dying that the Kennedy Administration began to restrict their use12.
The pesticides worked, in fact, by causing paralysis in insects12. Apple crops would be sprayed again and again during the summer, sometimes ten times or more12. The sprays were used on cotton in the south in a similar fashion12.
Could it be that simple, that the “summer plague” was in fact caused by some potent toxins?
Corroborating evidence
The “polio” virus is in fact commonly found in the soil of places in Turkey and Africa, where the virus is not correlated with the contraction of polio12.
The polio virus only grows in humans, but during the polio epidemic ducks and other farm animals suffered from polio-style paralysis12.
Apparently there is now known to be a “post polio” syndrome, where some of the symptoms come back later in life12. Detoxification therapies have been shown to be effective in these situations12.
In one British town, all of the children in one part of town got sick with polio while all of the children in another part of town remained healthy12. It was traced back to different sources of milk, because one farm was washing their herd with DDT12. Stopping this stopped the epidemic.
One doctor had been successfully treating polio with detoxification therapies, and, outraged, wrote to congress12. Unfortunately, his advice has gone unheeded.
The real reason for the “decline” of polio
What about the reason for the supposed decline of polio?
As mentioned previously, one of the reasons was that the Kennedy Administration restricted the use of the worst of the pesticides12.
But contrary to popular history, evidence suggests that kids were still dying in spite of vaccination. The Eisenhower Administration had staked its reputation on the polio vaccine. This might explain why between 1956 and 1961 the US government fundamentally changed the classification of the disease polio such that the majority of cases of polio came to be known under different names.
In 1956, it was decided that polio could only be diagnosed as polio if the condition lasted for sixty days or longer, which excluded most mild cases of polio12.
In 1958, almost all cases of non-paralytic polio began to be called “aseptic meningitis”12. This category consisted, in fact, of the majority of polio cases, which tended to be characterized by muscular weakness and widespread pain12. Between 1951 and 1960, there were 70,083 cases of polio and zero cases of aseptic meningitis12. Between 1960 and 1980, there were over 100,000 cases of aseptic meningitis and 589 cases of “non-paralytic polio”12.
It doesn’t end there. From Julia Roberts: “Other cases previously diagnosed as polio would in future be classified as ‘cerebral palsy’, as ‘Guillain-Barre syndrome’ and even as ‘muscular dystrophy’. Some were called ‘Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease’, which can also cause paralysis”12.
The final nail in the polio coffin came when health authorities were instructed not to diagnose polio themselves. Cases that presented as polio were to be diagnosed as “Acute Flaccid Paralysis” or AFP, and then a polio diagnosis could be obtained if stool samples were sent to official laboraties12. Data from Detroit indicates that under this rule, 49% of people who previously had polio were no longer considered to have the disease12.
AFP is rampant to this day, perhaps caused by the increased use of the same pesticides that are linked to the original polio epidemics.
The poor science that led to the vaccine
To get some perspective on how this tragedy unfolded, let’s look at the historical context. The theory that germs were behind most diseases was a pressing concern of the modern medicine of the day, and there was lots of government funded virus research going on3. After forty years of searching for a polio virus, they found a bacteria in 1909 in the backbone of a child with polio3. When injected into the brains of monkeys, it led to paralysis3.
This sort of experiment went on for decades until in 1949, two scientists at a New York hospital conducted the following test. They took the excrement from two children with polio, made a suspension with the excrement, spun it, injected it into the brains of mice, and when the mice became paralyzed, they decided the virus was in the excrement3.
They looked in the excrement and found a little particle one million times smaller than a cell; they decided this “virus” was the cause3. They sprinkled it onto monkey cells to try to grow it, and thus the vaccine was born3. The first vaccines were made from human excrement.
There are all sorts of problems here. The virus was found in the digestive tract, not in the muscles, backbone, or nerve cells where polio is active. The virus was never found in these places.
As for excrement injected in the brain causing paralysis, it is surprising that it had to be injected into the brain. Lots of things can cause paralysis, such as a blow to the head, and some experts suggest that the mere act of injecting a toxic substance into the brain itself could cause paralysis consistent with polio3. It isn’t altogether surprising that injecting fecal matter directly into the brain could cause paralysis.
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