Nov 14
Polio has been
painted as some natural scourge of humanity. Yet, epidemics and outbreaks of
polio in Europe go back to only less than 100 years. Outbreaks of polio after
1950 were demonstrably caused by intensified diphtheria and whooping cough
vaccination, tonsillectomies, other injections (painkillers) and a variety of
traumas. There is now evidence that polio paralysis has also been a very common
yet discreetly hidden side effect associated with polio vaccines.
They called it the Cutter incident and claimed that some of the vaccines
(produced by the Cutter Laboratories) contained live polio virus. So, the
company withdrew their vaccines despite polio vaccines produced by other
manufacturers also causing paralysis in this outbreak.
Although the vaccines are officially causing paralysis, allegedly only
10-12 reported cases per year in the USA. The word ‘reported’ is the key word
here. With the mass use of the polio vaccines and continuing occurence of polio
in the vaccinated, the necessity arose to redefine the disease polio. The
classical definition of polio is a disease with residual paralysis which
resolves within 2 months (usually within days). The new definition of polio now
is ‘a disease with residual paralysis persisting for more than 60 days.’ This
is the secret formula of ‘eradication’ of polio. Children are still getting
polio, but those cases which resolve within 60 days (which represent some 90%
of cases) are not diagnosed as polio. A new disease emerged: viral meningitis
and as the incidence of polio plummeted, so did the incidence of viral
meningitis sky rocketed.
The best (and perhaps most frightening) example of these “elegant
administrative moves” is how they allegedly eliminated polio in the Americas
(meaning South America). The Journal of Infectious Diseases published in 1991
the results of a major vaccination drive between 1985 and 1989 to eliminate
polio. Within 4 months they had a huge outbreak of paralytic polio (350 cases).
They decided to reformulate the vaccine. Now if this outbreak had occurred in
the unvaccinated they would not have had to reformulate the vaccine. The
outbreak occurred in the vaccinated.
However, the outbreaks with ever increasing number of reported cases of
‘flaccid paralysis’ in the vaccinated continued. So what did they do? They
started discarding most of the reported cases of flaccid paralysis. Out of 2094
reported cases they only ‘confirmed’ 130, the rest (1964) were discarded. They
published a graph which shows ever increasing number of reported cases as shadowy
columns in the background and the ever decreasing numbers of confirmed cases as
black columns in the forefront. I praise them for publishing it this way: any
discerning and unbrainwashed reader can see very clearly what happened in the
Americas between 1985 – 1989: mass vaccination caused sustained outbreaks of
paralytic polio and they tried to camouflage it by discarding the vast majority
of cases. When they finally stopped the program in 1989, even the number of
reported cases (shown as those shadowy columns in the background) went down.
The same happened in other countries: huge epidemics of paralysis
followed mass-vaccination drives.
Acute Flaccid Paralysis is a term which applies to the exact clinical symptoms
you would expect to see from poliovirus infection, but which are not
necessarily caused by polioviruses. Paralytic polio is actually considered a
sub-category in the broad umbrella of acute flaccid paralysis. See pages
300-312 on the Oxford Journals website for a chart and summary of many
other causes of AFP, a few of which are: Guillaine-Barre syndrome,
Cytomegalovirus polyradiculomyelopathy, Acute transverse myelitis, Lyme
borreliosis, nonpolio enterovirus and Toxic myopathies.
For many years the medical profession assumed that when they saw
paralysis with a particular cluster of symptoms, it was poliomyelitis.
The 1954
Francis Trials of the Salk vaccine triggered a reconsideration of this
assumption, and a major change in the diagnostic criteria.
The 1954 “polio” data includes all paralysis. While
some of this may have been from polio, in reality, much of it was from other
causes. With the change of diagnostic criteria in 1955 that reduced case
numbers, followed by laboratory testing that excluded vast numbers of other
causes, the 1961 data only includes the small subgroup of paralysis caused by
poliomyelitis. This is then compared with the catch-all 1954 definition.
Because it was impossible to know what proportion of 1954 data were really
caused by poliomyelitis viruses, the 1954 data was left as it was, and nothing
of the back story is revealed to the readers. When people say: “we know the
polio vaccine saved us from huge epidemics of this devastating disease” they
are basing their knowledge on misinformation.
The numbers used in the worldwide program to eradicate polio were estimates
using very loose standards that hypothesized the number of cases, and
extrapolated them across large areas before vaccination campaigns were ignited.
This was followed by much stricter diagnostic standards that weeded out Acute
Flaccid Paralysis from other causes.
As the number of cases subjected to laboratory analysis rose, and the
number of cases of polio dropped, the number of cases of acute flaccid
paralysis rose.
The Polio Global Eradication Initiative (PGEI), founded in 1988 by the
World Health Organization, Rotary International, UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, holds up India as a prime example of its
success at eradicating polio, stating on its website (Jan. 11 2012) that “India
has made unprecedented progress against polio in the last two years and on 13
January, 2012, India will reach a major milestone – a 12-month period without
any case of polio being recorded.”
This report, however, is highly misleading, as an estimated
100-180 Indian children are diagnosed with vaccine-associated polio
paralysis (VAPP) each year. In fact, the clinical presentation of the disease,
including paralysis, caused by VAPP is indistinguishable from that caused by
wild polioviruses, making the PGEI’s pronouncements all the more suspect.
According to the Polio Global Eradication Initiative’s own statistics2
there were 42 cases of wild-type polio (WPV) reported in India in 2010, indicating
that vaccine-induced cases of polio paralysis (100-180 annually) outnumber
wild-type cases by a factor of 3-4. Even if we put aside the important question
of whether or not the PGEI is accurately differentiating between wild and
vaccine-associated polio cases in their statistics, we still must ask
ourselves: should not the real-world effects of immunization, both good and
bad, be included in PGEI’s measurement of success? For the dozens of Indian
children who develop vaccine-induced paralysis every year, the PGEI’s recent
declaration of India as nearing “polio free” status, is not only disingenuous,
but could be considered an attempt to minimize their obvious liability in
having transformed polio from a natural disease vector into a manmade (iatrogenic)
one.
Polio underscores the need for a change in the way we look at so-called
“vaccine preventable” diseases as a whole. In most people with a healthy immune
system, a poliovirus infection does not even generate symptoms. Only rarely
does the infection produce minor symptoms, e.g. sore throat, fever,
gastrointestinal disturbances, and influenza-like illness. In only 3% of
infections does virus gain entry to the central nervous system, and then, in
only 1-5 in 1000 cases does the infection progress to paralytic disease.
Due to the fact that polio spreads through the fecal-oral route (i.e.
the virus is transmitted from the stool of an infected person to the mouth of
another person through a contaminated object, e.g. utensil) focusing on
hygiene, sanitation and proper nutrition (to support innate immunity) is a
logical way to prevent transmission in the first place, as well as reducing
morbidity associated with an infection when it does occur.
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