the polio-vaccine history involves a massive public health servicemakeover during an era when a live, deadly strain of poliovirus infected the Salk polio vaccines, andparalyzed hundreds of children and their contacts. These were the vaccines that were supposedlyresponsible for the decline in polio from 1955 to 1961! But there is a more sinister reason for the“decline” in polio during those years; in 1955, a very creative re-definition of poliovirus infections wasinvented, to “cover” the fact that many cases of ”polio” paralysis had no poliovirus in their systems atall. While this protected the reputation of the Salk vaccine, it muddied the waters of history in a bigway.Even during the peak epidemics, unifactorial poliovirus infection, resulting in long-term paralysis, was alow-incidence disease[2] that was falsely represented as a rampant and violent crippler by BasilO’Connor’s “March Of Dimes” advertising campaigns. At the same time as Basil O’Connor was pulling in45 million dollars a year to fund the Salk vaccine development, scientists started to realize that otherviruses like Coxsackie, echo and enteroviruses, could also cause polio. They also discussed the factthat lead, arsenic, DDT, and other commonly-used neurotoxins, could identically mimic the lesions ofpolio. During the great epidemics in the United States, the pathology called polio was reversed byalternative medical doctors who attested to great success, using detoxification procedures available atthe time – yet they were categorically ignored[3].Now it is admitted in the medical literature that other viruses can cause polio, yet few people on thestreet have any idea.Prior to 1954, the following undoubtedly hid behind the name “poliomyelitis”: Transverse Myelitis, viral Smoke, Mirrors, and the “Disappearance” Of Polio | International Medical Council on Vaccinationhttp://www.vaccinationcouncil.org/2011/11/17/smoke-mirrors-and-the-disappearance-of-polio/[7/25/12 9:39:05 AM]or “aseptic” meningitis, Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS)- (what Franklin Delano Roosevelt had)[4],Chinese Paralytic syndrome, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, epidemic cholera, cholera morbus, spinalmeningitis, spinal apoplexy, inhibitory palsy, intermittent fever, famine fever, worm fever, biliousremittent fever, ergotism, post-polio syndrome, acute flaccid paralysis(AFP).Included under the umbrella term “Acute Flaccid Paralysis” are Poliomyelitis, Transverse Myelitis,Guillain-Barré syndrome, enteroviral encephalopathy, traumatic neuritis, Reye’s syndrome etc.Before you believe that polio has been eradicated, have a look at this graph of AFP and Polio. If you arewondering why there is no data prior to 1996, go to the WHO website for AFP and you will see thatthere is no data prior to 1996, and note that AFP conitnues to rise in 2011. Acute Flaccid Paralysis(AFP) is just another name for what would have been called polio in 1955, and is used to describe asudden onset of paralysis. It is the most common sign of acute polio, and used for surveillance duringpolio outbreaks. AFP is also associated with a number of other pathogenic agents includingenteroviruses, echoviruses, and adenoviruses, among others. But in 1955, there was no attempt todetect anything other than polio in cases of AFP. Once the vaccine was mass marketed, the game change.
