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Polio Wasn’t Vanquished, It Was Redefined

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Perhaps the most egregious example of clever sleight of hand (… not to mention the outright, blatant rewriting of history) on the part of public health officials in the United States occurred in 1954 when the U.S. government changed the diagnostic criteria for polio.1 It was the year that medical researcher and virologist Jonas Salk produced his inactivated injectable polio vaccine (IPV). The vaccine was licensed in 1955 and began to be used to inoculate millions of children against polio.

The Salk vaccine has been widely hailed as the vanquisher of polio, and it is commonly used as the shining example of how vaccines are the miracle drugs for combating infectious diseases… and now even against diseases that are not infectious. Pick any disease, illness or disorder you want. You got cancer, cholera, peanut allergies, stress, obesity… we’ll develop a vaccine for it.

What the apologists for the Salk vaccine regurgitate from a common script (… some might say scripture) is that before the vaccine was introduced and tested on one million children—the so-called “Polio Pioneers”—in 19542 more than 50,000 people in the U.S. were contracting polio each year, and that by the end of the 1950s the numbers were down to less than 10,000.3 Ergo, the Salk vaccine saved the U.S. from polio. Open and shut case.

Hmm, not so fast.

What is conveniently omitted from this heroic story is that the reason the number of polio cases in the U.S. dropped so precipitously following the mass introduction of the Salk vaccine in 1955 was not medical, but rather administrative. Yes it’s true, in 1952 there were 52,879 reported cases of polio in the U.S. And yes, in 1955 the number went down to 28,985, and by 1959 it had dropped to 8,425.3 But first of all, it’s important to note that the numbers were already declining significantly prior to the initial use of the Salk vaccine. In 1953, there were 35,592 cases of polio in the U.S.3 So there were other things going on in the U.S. at the time totally unrelated to the Salk vaccine.

More importantly, though, in 1954 the U.S. government simply redefined polio. Yes, the government can do that. It does this kind of stuff occasionally in order to help it meet its public policy objectives when it is unable to actually achieve them. How often have you heard of Congress playing smoke and mirrors, gimmicks with the national budget deficit, or on the issue of the unemployment rate? Exactly.

When it comes to government and public policy, the truth is seldom absolute. That’s just the nature of the beast.

According to Dr. Bernard Greenberg, head of the Department of Biostatistics of the University of North Carolina School of Public Health:

In order to qualify for classification as paralytic poliomyelitis, the patient had to exhibit paralytic symptoms for at least 60 days after the onset of the disease. Prior to 1954, the patient had to exhibit paralytic symptoms for only 24 hours. Laboratory confirmation and the presence of residual paralysis were not required. After 1954, residual paralysis was determined 10 to 20 days and again 50 to 70 days after the onset of the disease. This change in definition meant that in 1955 we started reporting a new disease, namely, paralytic poliomyelitis with a longer lasting paralysis.1

As I wrote in my piece “The Salk ‘Miracle’ Myth“…

Under the new definition of polio, thousands of cases which would have previously been counted as polio would no longer be counted as polio. The change in the definition laid the groundwork for creating the impression that the Salk vaccine was effective.4

So as radio broadcaster Paul Harvey used to say for decades at the close of each of his charming commentaries, “And now you know… the rest of the story.”


References:

1 James W. Immunization The Reality Behind the Myth. p. 36.
2 About Jonas Salk. The Salk Institute for Biological Studies N.d.
3 The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. U.S. Polio Cases 1952-1962. The History of Vaccines.
4 Cáceres M. The Salk ‘Miracle’ Myth. The Vaccine Reaction June 2, 2015.

93 Responses

  1. Marco
    Great piece! I really enjoyed it. Concise, clear and factual with clear references. It would be great if your piece could be handed to every single person who asks the question “but what about polio?” in their attempt to prove that vaccines have been our savior.

    I will certainly share it as far and wide as possible! Keep up the great work of exposing FACTS and SCIENCE in the face of this philosophical vaccine debate!
    Becky

    1. For more information on the real cause of Polio, go to harvoa.pub and read Jim Wests article on DDT and Polio.

      1. What a breathtakingly dishonest article! I had a friend at school who had contracted polio and was lame. How many children do you see in calipers these days? Where are the huge hospital wards full of children in Iron Lungs? Yes, polio cases declined somewhat with better hygiene and sanitation but it was a world-wide scourge until vaccines were introduced.
        Anti-vaccination fanatics will lie, twist statistics, hide facts and appeal to the lazy and gullible who don’t bother to spend 5 minutes looking for independent and neutral sources of information.

        1. Read “Dissolving Illusions, the Forgotten History.” There is also a database with hundreds of peer-reviewed, published studies from PHD’s around the world with data against the effectiveness and safety of vaccines. I can give you that link if you’re interested. I have a BS in Engineering from an accredited University in the State of Washington and have spent a decade researching this issue. I know how to find and validate reputable information. I am neither dumb nor lazy. I am also the parent of a vaccine injured child. Maybe it’s time we all came to the table informed and had an honest and open discussion on the subject. All lives matter.

          1. I would love to get some sources and information from you. I have done my own studies but no longer have any information on hand. My sister is a “doctor” and fights me about this not to mention I have a few friends and family members that get on my case as well.

        2. Iron lungs? That is old technology.

          That is like asking where are the horse and buggies??? Oh yeah…replaced by the car.

          The lack of an out of date technology does not render the threat moot.

        3. Seems you were taken in by the PROMOTION for the Polio crisis too! Many believed that the photos were real but they were NOT, they were used for an article and NOT real at all. Look up the history on the photos you have stuck in your head and you will see that you are part of a national hoax.

        4. Maybe you should have read the article before decrying it as dishonest. The number of people in calipers or iron lungs was very small in the first place, as polio was defined to include anyone who’d suffered paralysis for 24 hours; in 1954, the requirement for polio diagnosis was that the patient had to suffer paralysis for at least 60 days. I’m sure you’re aware that that constitutes a 6000% increase in paralysis time.

    2. Facts? Science? Really? I have only one comment: Show me the studies. Show me the studies that prove that the Salk vaccine is ineffective. Did you ever consider supporting your arguments with evidence-based medicine instead of a fanatical, near-religious, voodoo science supported hatred of the boogey man vaccines?

      I’ll be happy to show you the studies that support the efficacy of the Salk vaccine.

      1. True, there are polarizing evidence for the effective nature of Salk’s polio vaccine. The one detriment for the vaccine was the contaminant SV40 (Samilian Virus 40)which was removed in the early 1980’s. This virus has repeatedly been present in autopsies of visceral cancers. Paralytic poliomyelitis is most prevalent in populations where lifestyle conditions are immune suppressant so there are a larger number of polio cases due to the vaccine. If we really want to eradicate disease from the world why not rid the fear with knowledge to say no to drugs: biological and petrochemical?

      2. But IT WASN’T SAID the vaccine didn’t work, IT WAS SAID that it wasn’t the massive saviour that it was mooted to be. No one said that the vaccine didn’t do it’s job, they just the stats were redefined to make it look like it did a lot more healing than it actually did. Vaccines work, but some just like anything else in life do not work like they are supposed to, and some do more damage than good. Because someone says be prepared for big PHARMAS LIES doesn’t mean they are ANTI VAXERS.

  2. Sadly, vaccine makers have no incentive to change their ways. They make huge profits but are totally protected from lawsuits because Congress granted them immunity in 1986. Families are paying for the damages vaccines are causing. If you want to change this, please sign this petition

    petitions.moveon.org/sign/repeal-immunity-for-drug
    facebook.com/pages/Repeal-The-National-Childhood-Vaccine-Injury-Act-of-1986/693229134132332

    Protect kids, not drug makers!The law is corrupt and immoral.

    Kindly pass this on to everyone you know. Together, hopefully, we can make a difference!

  3. Well, another slight of hand….. anyone in epidemiology knows that the natural course of a disease may be plotted on a graph and segmented into uprise, plateau and descent. THIS is the NATURAL course of EVERY disease.

    Big Pharma’s game is to introduce ‘a’ vaccine at the plateau phase, then claim credit for it’s natural descending.

    fun game, huh? all you need to do is hoodwink the public and condition into your greatness.

  4. Nice job summarizing and showing clear support for some of the things I’ve read here and there, but never saw put in one place and referenced so well. I am curious about what “other things” were going on at the time which contributed to the decline of polio back then? I’m under the thinking diseases run their course, peaking and tapering once enough natural immunity is built up. But, were there other factors which can be cited? THANKS for a great piece – I will share!

  5. Thank you. Like Becky, I was always brought to a complete stop when people counter with: “Well, what about Polio?”
    Is it true that J.Salk recanted?

    Thank you!!

    db

    1. I believe sometime ago I read where Dr. Salk said there were fewer illnesses BEFORE vaccines and I can completely agree with that statement. Vaccines did and still come with ingredients that are hurting rather than helping. I live in CA and this disgusts me that they do not allow us to have a way to get out of injecting these poisons in our bodies. And, now the feds want to spread this garbage to everyone, but especially the elderly, who, with weak constitutions will obviously die off sooner!

  6. For more information about the polio vaccine, I recommend people read “Dr. Mary’s Monkey” by Edward T. Haslam,from TrineDay.com (the publisher). His father was a well known MD who was an associate of the researcher Dr. Mary Sherman, and he is a lay person who ended up doing much research on his own. It’s also his opinion that the polio vaccines were not only ineffective but 2 medical researchers at the time warned that they were contaminated with cancer causing monkey viruses, which was borne out in horrifying “experiments” and data he followed up on. He has an informed opinion about the origins of the polio epidemic, the cancer epidemic, and the AIDS epidemic, and much to say about top secret government coverups around the polio vaccine. I think every American should have this information.

    1. I almost did not buy “Dr. Mary’s Monkey” because of the sub-title linking several of the characters and the assassination of JFK. However, I am grateful that I did because I could not put it down. The author, while there is some conjecturing, does supply valid references to show how the Simian 40 virus, originally found in polio vaccines, does, in fact, cause several forms of cancer – which begs the question, “Is the ever increasing cancer deaths due to the polio vaccines we got when we were children? Personally, I’ve no doubt. He does show how a few doctors realized this in the 1960’s and began trying to develop another vaccine to offset the Simian 40 virus – this is where Dr. Mary comes into the picture as the others, including Lee Harvey Oswald. Yep, that’s right.

      For those interested in the so-called HIV virus, I recommend the March 19, 1992 Rolling Stone article, “The Origin of AIDS” by T. Curtis. It will send chills down your spine as did Dr. Mary’s Monkey for me.

  7. Ok article but it just barely scratches the surface. How about how they took polio and broke it down into several diseases, dramatically reducing the amount of “polio diagnosis”. Meningitis which used to be called polio now had it’s own name……Meningitis. This was a big case of smoke and mirrors to make an un-effective vaccine look effective. I believe polio was split into 3 different diseases IIRC.

  8. Excellent article, thanks.

    People should know that at the height of the polio epidemic in the 1950s, Dr. Fred R. Klenner had cured 60 cases of polio using massive dosages of Vitamin C. It was administered either intra-muscularly, intra-veniosly, or, orally, depending on the situation. He published his work but it was/is ignored by the medical establishment.

    No need for a polio vaccine, or any other vaccine, if using vitamin C. Vitamin C is cheaper, safer, more effective, and can be self administered orally and intra-muscularly. Unfortunately for the drug companies, Vitamin C cannot be patented and thus they (drug companies) cannot make any money off it.

    1. Not only did Dr. Frederick Klenner cure cancer he showed how it destroyed the virus. Others did the same as he and published their results in the medical journals of the time. There are several studies written showing how Measles was treated with Vitamin A, an sometimes with the addition of D. Could it be these so-called childhood diseases are actually nutrient deficiencies? What the media NEVER says is how so many of the third-world diseases are related to malnutrition and very poor hygienic living conditions.
      Nano-particle silver has shown it’s capacity to kill all micro-organisms effectively without damage to the host. Silver has been used for centuries.

      1. A graduate in Chinese medicine and in an integrated program for my doctorate, in both masters and doctorate we also have to study Western Medicine. So many are fed poor foods (sodas, chips, pizza, wheat flour, dairy, etc.) that their constitutions are so weak they are susceptible to all kinds of diseases. As a health consultant I know and have found that large intake of several supplements make a huge difference. Since vitamin A is for the skin antibodies, yes it can help avoid measles, vitamin C great for the complexion and also found in large doses to destroy HIV/AIDS, and on and on. Changing diet, taking really outstanding supplements (i.e. Shaklee Corporation’s vitamins (company since 1915) have made a world of difference in my own health and those with whom I work. The body can heal given a chance and proper diet and supplements (not those with synthetic or out of balance).

      2. >Could it be these so-called childhood diseases are actually nutrient deficiencies?

        Of course they are. The nutrient deficiencies, especially in A,C, and D, have very negative effects on the immune system and its balancing act between Th1 and Th2 responses, and imbalancing that balance leads to permanent damage that presents in such ways as allergies, neural disorders like ADD/ADHD and ASDs, and immune system disorders like AIDS. That imbalance also causes (and is caused by, it’s cyclical) inflammation which can lead to meningitis, arthritis, encephalitis, and even cancers.

        But you can’t explain that to the world addicted to chemical pills, either.

  9. There is a lot of info online about how Polio was broken down into numerous diseases.

    This is a quote from Suzanne Humpries:

    “Prior to 1954, the following undoubtedly hid behind the name “poliomyelitis”: Transverse Myelitis, viral or “aseptic” meningitis, Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS)- (what Franklin Delano Roosevelt had)[4], Chinese Paralytic syndrome, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, epidemic cholera, cholera morbus, spinal meningitis, spinal apoplexy, inhibitory palsy, intermittent fever, famine fever, worm fever, bilious remittent 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 are wondering why there is no data prior to 1996, go to the WHO website for AFP and you will see that there 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 a sudden onset of paralysis. It is the most common sign of acute polio, and used for surveillance during polio outbreaks. AFP is also associated with a number of other pathogenic agents including enteroviruses, echoviruses, and adenoviruses, among others. But in 1955, there was no attempt to detect anything other than polio in cases of AFP. Once the vaccine was mass marketed, the game changed.”

  10. As Suzanne Humphries stated in “Dissolving Illusions”, many Polio like illnesses, such as Coxsackie and ECHO viruses, syphils, Arsenic, lead and DDT toxicity, transverse myelitis and Guillain Barre syndrome, hand foot and mouth disease were all reclassified as separate disorders, having previously been considered Polio. In addition, dietary factors may have played a role in polio prevalence. I believe the vaccination probably did contribute to the reduction in the incidence of polio in the Western Hemisphere, but the fact that the role has been overstated and distorted by the propagandists who wish to promote vaccination by spreading an unhealthy fear of non-vaccination is morally indefensible and weakens their argument immeasurably.

  11. Very interesting and informative article and comments. Can anyone direct me to any studies or statistics regarding adverse reactions to polio vaccine injections?

    I reacted to my second shot with a sudden and severe asthma attack. Was given a shot of adrenalin to stop the reaction.

  12. To tell you the truth, the article needs to be further improved, in two areas: 1) you need to give citations of the official US government definition of polio before and after 1954. Since you refer to the government policy and to specific years, it is an absolute must, and shouldn’t be too hard to do. Citing Dr. Bernard Greenberg is not enough, as he was not a government official.

    2) explain polio symptoms, and how the change in definition could have decreased the “polio” cases. What are other deceases named? (Dr. Humphries seems to have them listed in her book). Did they rise in numbers whilst “polio” decreased? Is it truly the same decease? Because right now in actually reads that the criteria for counting something as polio became more strict – which doesn’t necessarily mean is bad. Calling any paralysis as “polio” is also not fair or correct.

  13. The decline in polio cases in the US coincides with the introduction of indoor household plumbing. People had access to clean food and clean water. It’s smoke and mirrors, not the polio vaccine that they’re selling to us that is truly indicative of the decline in reported polio cases.

  14. The information presented in Marco Cáceres’ articles is obviously of a great value to the public. The only problem with these pieces is that they are written in a rather pedestrian style and sprinkled over with the same type of humour. Dear Marco, why not have your papers professionally edited so that they will be so much more important to our community and would not be so easily dismissed as unqualified and amateurish.

    1. Hi Helen… your point is well-taken. I suppose the best answer I can give you is that these are Opinion pieces, and simply not meant to be used in the manner you propose. If you look on the NVIC website, you’ll definitely find plenty of what you’re looking for. TVR is seeking to do something slightly different. I think there is room for both styles. Our audience is extremely broad.

      Cheers, Marco

  15. EV68D === Salk Type-1 IPV (Mahoney Strain) clever trickery..

    As Chair of the Vaccine Injury Court Committee which investigated Salk Vaccine if caused paralysis outside the Cutter Incident, a few significant things were determined.

    The low points are –

    First – The Francis Field Trials, CDC`s Gold Standard for vaccine trials, had the same reaction rate as did the Cutter incident – 2-3 times as many personal contacts of IPV recipients acquired polio from Salk IPV as did the recipients.

    Cutter had 78 direct recipient case and over 200 family and community contacts and served as the basis for CDC to classify vaccine caused cases in family members of recipients as `Contact Cases`.

    Second – EFFICACY in the Francis Field Trials was based on the fact that Vaccine recipients acquired polio at a rate 2-3 times lower than the placebo group…However, the Placebo group were classmates and close contacts of the recipients, sharing the same bathrooms and playing together at recess.

    Third – Salk excluded the 100+ recipient polio cases arising within 14 days of vaccine administration in the Field Trial on his theory the polio had been acquired before receipt of IPV…

    CDC records of the Cutter Incident shows that most of the Recipient Cutter Cases arose within 14 days of administration…but those records were not made public.

    After Cutter a Pittman-Moore vaccine ignited a polio epidemic in Massachusetts in over 1,000 people…CDC prohibited release of the data under threat of criminal prosecution.

    The only evidence of safety CDC put before Sen.Kennedy`s hearing re the vaccine injury table on IPV was the testimony of Salk…who stated his vaccine had no reactions in 450,000,000 doses of vaccine. In short CDC suborned perjury, as it knew differently…Massachusetts banned IPV for a brief period and CDC knew why.

    The Result of the Committees Investigation…the committee members were personally attacked by Justice Department lawyers and monies due from other cases was held by HEW. One attorney was indicted and served time in Federal Prison for using funds already received while waiting for money HEW owed him. Disbarment proceedings were initiated against a second member of the Committee, and no victims were compensated.

    In Italy, recently, there was a report of an Italian Cutter incident in 1959..

    We just have a lousy compensation program for vaccine injuries and corrupt oversight.

  16. Excellent piece. Thank you for “exposing” the truth. Science and fact seem to have disappeared from modern man’s thought processes. So happy to see your article that reflects the government’s hoodwinking of the American public. I read this piece that supports your report and also claims that the polio vaccine was the CAUSE of most polio cases.

    “When national immunization campaigns were initiated in the 1950s, the number of reported cases of polio following mass inoculations with the killed-virus vaccine was significantly greater than before mass inoculations, and may have more than doubled in the U.S. as a whole. For example, Vermont reported 15 cases of polio during the one-year report period ending August 30, 1954 (before mass inoculations), compared to 55 cases of polio during the one-year period ending August 30, 1955 (after mass inoculations)–  266% increase. Rhode Island reported 22 cases during the before inoculations period as compared to 122 cases during the after inoculations period — 454% increase. In New Hampshire the figures increased from 38 to 129; in Connecticut they rose from 144 to 276; and in Massachusetts they  swelled  from 273  to 2027 — whopping 642% increase.

    Doctors and scientists on the staff of the National Institutes of Health during the 1950s were well aware that the Salk vaccine was causing polio. Some frankly stated that it was “worthless as a preventive and dangerous to take” They refused to vaccinate their own children. Health departments banned the inoculations. Even Salk himself was quoted as saying: “When you inoculate children with a polio vaccine you don’t sleep well for two or three weeks” But the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, and drug companies with large investments in the vaccine coerced the U.S. Public Health Service into falsely proclaiming the vaccine was safe  and  effective .

    Link: http://vaxtruth.org/2012/03/the-polio-vaccine-part-2-2/

  17. REDEFINTION was tantamount to HIV=AIDS, the various Hepatitis versions, and especially the F.E.A.R. (False Evidence Appearing Real) of the FLUS YOU CHOOSE TO USE & LOSE: bird flu, avian flu, Hong Kong flu, more bird flus, swine flue, bird flu, Mexican Swine Flu, SARS & MERS, etc. Buy drugs!! There are criminals in the Executive Branch alphabet Agencies, and they create massive apparent needs for grants for research & embezzlement, etc. They were already overpaid and should be in Guantanamo.
    I was going to tell you this, already, but we all died from those various Earth pandemics—buy vaccines!! Vaccines are frequently untested & made without quality control in Chinamanlaniana. These greedy companies are From Hell. Buy drugs, there!
    Zombie Spanish Influenza!! VITAMINS WERE ONLY DISCOVERED IN THE 1930s; Electron Microscopes to see viruses were in vented in the 1950s? F.D. Roosevelt was a communist-symp who allowed WWII Pearl Harbor attack, AND swindled these united States with the “Social Security” Ponzi debacle. GLOBAL LYING!!!

  18. I appreciated reading this article and the reasonable comments below.
    As a mother with a Two year old who has been thus far unvaccinated, I am concerned about the hostile atmosphere surrounding this issue.
    Also, since she will have to go to a day care school, I am concerned about vaccine shedding from the other attendees. It is my understanding that the live polio. vaccine is no longer given in the states but is still given in 3rd world countries. The one in the states is inactivated which should not shed.
    It is a tricky topic. What can I say, but the more I research, the more apprehensions I have.
    We had planned to vaccinate at age two, but I am still unsure.
    I would mention the interesting link between Rockefeller and vaccines.

    1. Move somewhere they still allow exemptions. Despite whatever you might read here, the drug companies and politicians are covering more ground than NVIC can ever dream of. Short of the people posting here, nobody cares about articles like these when their doctor, lord of the universe, the alpha and omega, tells them they need a shot. Yes, the American public have their heads completely up their asses.

    2. Stay strong Mothe! I too thought I would vaccinate my child at 2 years old but the more I read the more I didn’t want to. I didn’t want my child to become autistic. I still haven’t vaccinated and now my boy is nearly 9 years old. He is strong, rarely sick and is considered gifted because nothing has inhibited him. He has not been injected with unknown DNA-altering toxic serums that could mess up his mind and gut flora. People think he is 11 years old because of his intellect and height/size. He started school at 3 years old. It helps that we don’t eat toxic chemical food either. Find yourself a good naturopathic doctor and a homeopath to help you if your child does become sick. Find a school that will allow personal/religious exemption. If that day comes in my state that my child is not allowed in school, then I will pull him out. I will make life changes to be sure he is safe.

  19. To be clear, I certainly meant the medical/pharmaceutical industrial complex are liars & frauds; not the excellent-article author.
    SO MUCH information is intentionally ignored by Hollowood-wanna-be’s mainstream media, and our paid-off CONgressjacks, et al. To see why they don’t read the bills before passing, visit the database, at Maplight.org–to see just how much your “representatives” were paid for their votes.
    And just try beating the Electronic Voting Machines to change anything.
    Note while Pres.former-General D.D. Eisenhower coined, in his farewell speech, “Military Industrial Complex” (MIC), the written speech his family retained had said, “Congressional MIC.” Insiders KNOW. Even commie Roosevelt admitted nothing in politics is by accident.
    And now insurance companies wrote prez Hussein Obamarx’s HillaryCare bill, to fleece We The Poor People.
    Pres. Woody woodpecker Wilson wrote,
    “Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the Field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.” —-Woodrow Wilson (President T. Woodrow Wilson)
    The New Freedom: A Call for the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People (New York and Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913) But possibly also from 1916, per here–National Economy and the Banking System, Senate Documents, Col. 3 No. 23 (Owen, Robert L., 1939).

  20. Well, this is the most interesting stuff I’ve learned in months, and very scary. I tried to like it on Facebook, and the link did not work. I presume you also have a post on facebook icon, but could not find one.

    I got the vaccine in the late 50’s.

  21. This is great info and replies…

    Anyone see the Corbett Report, specifically the one on Rockefeller Medicine? definitely a rec!

  22. Now for the rest of the rest of the story… In 1997, the NIH admitted that the Salk live injectable vaccine was contaminated with the green monkey virus. Research also indicates that 70% of the cases were due to the Salk vaccine. Makes sense if the green monkey virus negatively impacts the immune system. Vaccine value has been based on false information time and again.
    Most Americans have a compromised immune system. Fixing that issue would eliminate the need for most vaccines overnight.

  23. I know I had total paralytic polio as a child about 6 years old, which would have been 1953. I won’t go into the true miracle that kept me from an iron lung, but I can tell you it was a terrifying time for me and my parents! And now there are some people who had polio as a child and are,by ears later, having “rebound” polio. We just lost a dear friend to its affects. Whether the Salk vaccine was effective or not, how do you explain a disease, which took the lives of mostly children in the 1950s, eradicated? I certainly haven’t heard of any!

    1. Scarlet fever. Eliminated without vaccine, and was once just as prevalent and deadly as measles or polio. Better sanitation and nutrition beat that – just like it was doing for polio and measles before their respective vaccines came along.

  24. Good article, next you should write about how the polio vaccine was made from monkeys who carried Simian Virus 40, a known cancer causing virus, so vaccinating the world, they were also infecting everyone with a cancer causing virus (hence the HUGE climb in cancer rates 30 yrs later)

  25. More on SV40: it contaminated both the dangerous Salk vaccine & the still dangerous Sabin which replaced it.
    “In the 1950’s, SV40 was one of several dozen viruses that contaminated the original Salk & Sabin polio viruses administered to millions of school children ..”. This from the 1947 Journal of the National Cancer Institute (a government organization). Quoted in Chapter 7, p.216 of “Dr Mary’s Monkey”.
    Also see “The Virus & the Vaccine: The True Story of a Cancer Causing Monkey Virus, Contaminated Polio Vaccine, & Millions of Americans Exposed”, by Debbie Bookchin & John Schumacher.
    By the way, this virus is now so widespread that it can be transmitted from person to person.

  26. I can’t help but think about the plague. In the 14th century this deadly disease killed half of the population in Europe in a few short years. My question is, why didn’t it kill the other half? There was nothing to stop it. Why did it stop? Did the other half get ‘vaccinated’?
    It seems that the disease had simply run its course, only to reappear years later. Could it be that polio had also run its course in 1955?

    1. HAhA so funny I was thinking the same thing. To many people believe when a disease comes about it stays until everyone is dead. Ask the American native Indians who got bombarded with all of the white mans disease, that is the diseases they had already survived and are now naturally immune to. They suffered massive deaths but without vaccines and they didn’t become extinct. As Darwin would say ” These diseases simply killed off the weak, malnourished people, Survival of the fittest !

      1. Joseph Kelly

        “As Darwin would say ” These diseases simply killed off the weak, malnourished people, Survival of the fittest!”

        Making arguments like this makes you look like an imbecile. It’s a very myopic way to talk about Darwin, and Darwin had absolutely NOTHING to do with this conversation. Survival of the fittest didn’t mean everyone should be body builders. It means you need to fit into a niche’. Those that fit best. The fittest.

        I imagine Darwin if he was still alive would have argued that the governing class failed those people, and they died as a result. They didn’t die because it was their fault, they died because they were suppressed, and a society that does that will collapse under it’s own weight eventually.

        Which is why we vaccinate. We can’t lose future scientists and great minds to easily preventable diseases!

        1. You clearly are not a scientist or you are a pharmaceutical scientist which is very different from a true scientist. A scientist is one who observes the natural world and makes hypothesis based on their observations. I was once a brainwashed pharmaceutical scientist, Toxicologist in fact, now I am a true scientist once I personally did the experiments. And learned about true history. All you trying to claim that the polio vaccine worked are missing the point of this article. Your so thick headed that you cannot see the forest through the trees. The article is explaining that Polio has not been eradicated, the definition and name of it has changed. You still here about viral meningitis….yeah, that is the name the used to rename polio so that people would think it was eradicated. And yes survival of the fittest is about those who are healthier and smarter, not because they are body builders (they are not necessarily healthy) or because people find some “niche.” All of our laws and safety tags, like the one on the hair dryer that says don’t use this in the bathtub eliminate Darwins idea of survival of the fittest. If you do not know that you shouldn’t use a hair dryer in the bath tub, your not one of the mentally fit. All of our laws and common sense safety tags eliminate survival of the fittest because it allows otherwise stupid people who create issues for other smart people because of their lack of intelligence to continue thriving and being stupid and not contributing anything to the world. Finding your “niche” what an asine thing to say. Again, look past your brainwashing and read the article, Polio was not eradicated, so stop commenting that your mom or her sister died of it and because of the vaccine you didn’t. It’s because of improvement in sanitation and healthier living, and because they started calling Polio things like viral meningitis instead of calling it polio. If you study science anyone can see that the two diseases are identical. Smoke and mirrors, dog and pony show. And the biggest farce for all you vaccine apologist is, if you think vaccines are so effective, why are you threatened by children who are not vaccinated? You believe so strongly that they work, then how could you be threatened by someone who isn’t vaccinated? You are all so illogical. I have studied unvaccinated children and hands down they are healthier than vaccinated children, this is fact before your eyes if you ever take the time to study the children and families that do not vaccinate. I have personally studied these children, not just researched about them. How’s that vaccine effort that Bill Gates was running in Africa going? Oh that’s right, his forced vaccines created a mutated strain and know they have 10X the problem before he ever started forcing the vaccine on these people. Experience researcher talking here, not some “anti-vaxxer” just anti-stupid.

          1. I agree with your comments, but,think about this, all disease known to man has a underlying Leukeamia retrovirus that causes cancers because of infectious prion proteins. Yes, CJD/BSE research a naturally evolved Leukeamia retrovirus.

    2. The plague was quite different because it was spread by rats and fleas. When this was realised, better sanitation and pest control eliminated the threat.

  27. The polio vaccine doesn’t work?? How many people with polio have YOU personally encountered? Go back a generation or two and death and paralysis by polio were common. My grandma’s sister died of polio. Polio was redefined? Wait, a second, I’ve never met anyone that died of polio…oh yeah, cuz the vaccine works.

    1. We should change the name or give a version number to a disease if the definition changes. Pre-1954 there was Polio Version 1.0, post 1954 we had Polio Version 2.0. This concept needs to be introduced to the CDC, WHO and NASA. Any graph showing statistics but not indicating a change in definitions is fraudulent.

    2. Rebecca – how many people do you know died of scarlet fever these last 50 years? None? Whoops! No vaccine!

      1. Scarlet fever is a rash from strep throat. No one is suffering severe complications from scarlet fever/strep throat because we now have the antibiotics to treat it. It is not a virus. It is a bacterial infection, one that is treated with antibiotics.

        1. Sorry, I shouldn’t say *no one. The risk of developing severe complications is much lower now because of our use of antibiotics to treat it.

          1. Diptheria is also caused by bacteria, and can be serious. A vaccine was created for this disease. Why didn’t we simply use antibiotics for treating diptheria just like we did for scarlet fever, which can cause pneumonia?
            The fact is that both these diseases became far less dangerous as the sanitation and hygiene improved in the US. No one can prove that this drop for diptheria was ONLY because of the vaccine !

  28. This makes no sense. Polio is nearly eradicated worldwide, with only 96 cases reported last year.

    You claim that redefining it brought it down to 10,000 cases (in the US alone)
    Clearly the vaccination *is* working, whatever you say about its other effects….

    1. How can you be so sure that the vaccine is working just because the disease is disappearing? Scarlet Fever has all but disappeared, and that used to be as prevalent and as deadly as measles, yet there has never been a vaccine available.

      Interestingly, both measles and scarlet fever bottom-lined just before the measles vaccine appeared, and yet we still see measles outbreaks, but never scarlet fever.

      What that information proves is that through better sanitation and nutrition, these diseases were in sharp decline – including polio. The vaccines cannot claim victory in each case because they were well on the way to being vanquished before arrived.

  29. The FACTS are that there have been no cases of polio in the US and much of the world for many years. Without the vaccine, there would still be polio. The false narrative of this article is breathtaking. It goes against your narrative to acknowledge that vaccines actually work, and save millions of lives. Wow. The lack of scientific thinking is astounding. My mother had polio. I am exceedingly thankful that I did not have to fear getting polio and suffering the devastating consequences.

    1. The facts are that A) polio still exists, in spite of the vaccine, which had nothing to do with it, B) Vaccines do not work, and are in fact CONTRAINDICATED for the immune system when one actually understands the real biology and how the immune system actually works, and C) the real reduction in communicable diseases is from hygiene, sanitation, and nutrition, not toxic poison shots. Not only do the diseases mutate in response to the ineffective snapshot of immunity that humoral immunity actually is (vs. the ever-adjusting cellular immunity), but the governments mutate their names as well. Here in 2018, there is a return of acute flaccid myelitis–POLIO. This in spite of the vaccine. Why? Because it mutated, making the vaccine ineffective. Same reason why whopping cough mutated in 2010-11 and the shot was ineffective there, too.

      Oh, yeah, one more thing: vaccines don’t prevent the disease, nor do they eradicate it. One can be vaccinated and still contract, transport, and transmit the disease. All a vaccine does is create an abnormal and damaging, potentially permanent, immune snapshot of the disease at that time so antibodies can be generated. However, as mutations happen, the snapshot is incorrect, and the immune system discards it–why vaccines wear off over time. But most sheeple don’t understand this basic immunology and instead blindly follow allopathic doctors,most of which don’t know it, either.

  30. Okay, so people are really missing the point of this article completely. If, in fact, they actually read it in the first place. Let’s give a much easier example to follow of what happened to Polio, and one of the most important reasons why it appears to be eradicated.

    Let’s say for example that in 1960 wife abuse was at an all time high (just for argument’s sake, these are not actual crime statistics). Maybe the official record shows 10% of reported crime is husbands violently attacking their wives. That would suck if it were that high, but just using it as an example. Now, the mayor says that we have to bring down the incidence or he will not get reelected. The police department (who are responsible for reporting these incidences of wife abuse don’t know what to do, because nothing has changed).

    So, the chief of police then announces (not to the public, but just to his officers) that in 1962, we are going to change the way wife abuse is reported. We will change the definition so that a weapon has to be used in order for a wife to claim abuse. As well, the wife has to come in to the police station more than 2 times, before it counts as actual wife abuse. So if a woman comes in with a black eye, and says her husband did it, it does not qualify as abuse, because he didn’t use a weapon, and secondarily, she must report it two more times before it is counted at all. And voila, suddenly, wife abuse drops to 2% in 1962. Mayor gets reelected.

    Does this make it a little easier to understand what the article was trying to get across? Because just repeating that wife abuse “Polio” went down in 1962, and continuing to give credit to your incredible life-saving mayor “Vaccine” for having accomplished this feat, seems like you’re really missing the point! And as someone else stated above, making a chart of the incidences going down, but then not making a disclaimer as to the altered reporting tactics used, is entirely deceptive. And in fact, wife abuse may have gone up in 1962 (or stayed exactly the same), but you certainly wouldn’t be able to prove it one way or the other by looking at the chart alone! Please at least acknowledge that you understand the premise above before continuing to make the same exact argument over and over again, ad infinitum!

  31. I was one of the “polio vax pioneers”–the first group of little guinea pigs marched into school gyms and mass vaxxed. I remember those days. We hardly heard about polio cases by the time the vax was introduced. Actual HERD immunity had already kicked in, not the pretend herd immunity falsely claimed from vax. The main thrust of the worldwide epidemics had ended, including in countries without vaccination. At first it was just the US & Canada. But for those that eventually got the vax, cases INCREASED before they died back down, and the criteria for what was polio did indeed get changed to create the illusion of vax efficacy. I’ve got an ’87 Merck Manual much more forthcoming about the changed criteria than I’m guess the newer editions are, beside have begun my own research in ’86 after my child got a flesh-eating infection from her first/last vax and known about this for decades, including that the polio vaccines were contaminated with monkey viruses SV-40-cancer, SIV-AIDS, and HTLV-leukemia, after which outbreaks of previously unknown childhood leukemia became among the top 10 killer of kids. They knew about the leukemia virus and SV40–which is apparently inheritable and found in a high percentage of cancers these days. Cancer is the 2nd leading cause of death in the US now. They released these poisonous, ineffective and dangerous vaccines to be injected into over 97,000,000 people. Besides that, vaccines suppress the immune system, making people MORE susceptible to disease than before. Except when immunity is muted, it changes form. When the ability to mount acute responses to infection is gone, disease comes in the form of far worse, deeper-seated chronic disease instead of recognizable acute diseases, creating an illusion of protection while people get sicker. The US has the WORST overall health of all industrialized nations, including infant mortality. SIDS, autism ….the list of vaccine injuries is very long. All one has to do is read a vax package insert to get an idea of just how bad it is, and that certainly doesn’t list all adverse reactions (like flesh-eating infections) while minimizing the percentage of injuries, which is over 99% unreported because drs & scientists know what will happen to them if they step forward with the truth–and those who do, risk everything, including their lives.

  32. OK all of this is misleading. First of all, the article refers to the changing definition of paralytic poliomyelitis – not polio. Paralytic poliomyelitis is the permanent paralysis experienced by 1 in 200 people infected with the polio virus. So the only thing that can be reported is that the dwindling rates of paralysis since the definition was changed can potentially be attributed in part by the change in definition. However polio affected death rates cannot be linked with this change in definition. Both dropped to a point where they are zero today.

    Any case where there is suspicion of polio including AFP (Acute Flaccid Paralysis), a polio test is done to verify it is not polio related. It is how we can safely say it has been eradicated from most countries. Polio still exists in 3 countries and is highly infectious so it can spread again. There is no cure and the only form of protection is prevention through vaccination.

    This article is dangerously misleading.

  33. So my question is, do they still use the name Polio to diagnose the disease? There certainly do not appear to be very many cases anymore, which is a wonderful thing if it is true. What can the great decline in cases be attributed to? I long for in depth studies to be done and the truth to be known regarding the dangers of vaccines. As a parent, it is so hard to discern the truth in this corrupt world.

  34. So what happened to all the iron lungs? Where are all the kids in leg braces? My mother’s cousin had polio at age 8 and was paralyzed from the waist down for life. She was confined to a wheelchair. She had to have help getting on and off the toilet. She died in her 40s when the paralysis affected her breathing so much she got pneumonia. If all they did was change the name, where are all the victims?

  35. Pete…You’re WRONG…& even the Corrupt Pseudo-Scientific CDC doesn’t agree with your fearmongering dis-information LIES. You stated..

    ….”Paralytic poliomyelitis is the permanent paralysis experienced by 1 in 200 people infected with the polio virus.”….

    –Approximately 95% of People infected with Polio will have No Symptoms. (So, Polio isn’t bad for MOST People to catch)
    –About 4-8% of infected persons have minor symptoms e.g. fever, fatigue, nausea, headache, flu-like symptoms, stiffness in neck/back, pain in limbs which often resolves completely.
    –Polio is a Disease that wasn’t recognized prior to the 1900’s, therefore Environmental Factors triggered its severe paralysis side-effects.
    –Fewer than 1% of Polio cases result in permanent paralysis of limbs (usually legs).
    –Of those that were actually paralyzed…about 1/10th of 1% actually died and we’re still not sure if it was the Polio Virus that was responsible. Pre-existing conditions played a role in these deaths back then, because as you can see, 95%++ of the population had no issue with this Virus. Arsenic Poisoning & DDT Poisoning had indistinguishable symptoms of Poliomyelitis and there was no Genomic DNA (PCR) mapping back then, therefore we’re looking at educated guesses by Doctors back then..

    Today…and since the year 2000…10,000’s of Children will be CRIPPLED every year due to the ALWAYS FAILED (OPV) Oral Polio Vaccines, but the Psychopaths pushing these Poisons care not for Humanity or Science itself. It doesn’t matter if Polio Paralysis has been “Redefined” as AFM, NPAFP…a Crippled Child is a CRIPPLED CHILD, which can also Kill these kids if it moves to their lungs…per Dr. Jonas Salk & below is PROOF of what I state & this is not merely my Opinion, but FACT.

    Dr. Jonas Salk admits the US Govt./Alphabet Soup Shills/BigPharma have known since BEFORE 1961 that the Oral Polio Vaccine CASUES debilitating CRIPPLING Polio. Go listen at the 2:22 -3:54 min mark on a rare 1977 CBC News interview. https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/sabin-vs-salk-oral-vs-injected-vaccine
    Dr. Salk stated;
    ….”….It has now come to light in the United States, as we have known now since 1961 in the United States and *PRIOR* to that in other Countries. That the Live Virus Vaccine for Polio does cause the disease itself.”….

    Polio programme: let us declare victory and move on
    http://ijme.in/articles/polio-programme-let-us-declare-victory-and-move-on/?galley=html
    …”while India has been polio-free for a year, there has been a huge increase in non-polio acute flaccid paralysis (NPAFP). In 2011, there were an extra 47,500 new cases of NPAFP. Clinically indistinguishable from polio paralysis* but *twice as deadly, the incidence of NPAFP was directly proportional to doses of oral polio received. “…

    Correlation between Non-Polio Acute Flaccid Paralysis Rates with Pulse Polio Frequency in India
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6121585/
    ….”This increase in NPAFP was noticed only because of excellent surveillance methods, the meticulous recording of data, accurate pooling of the figures nationally and making it available in the public domain—the 491,000 additional cases of paralysis would not have been noticed otherwise.”….

    Africa declares wild polio is wiped out…Yet it persists in Vaccine-Derived cases.
    https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/08/25/905884740/africa-declares-wild-polio-is-wiped-out-yet-it-persists-in-vaccine-derived-cases
    ….””It’s actually an interesting conundrum. The very tool you are using for [polio] eradication is causing the problem,” Raul Andino, a professor of microbiology at the University of California, San Francisco,told NPR in 2017.”….

  36. Scary and fraudulent practices.
    I am now 82 and did get a vaccine, most likely in the mid-1950’s.
    It was a sugar cube.
    I can remember at about age 10-11 my mother was terrified of polio and even getting into a swimming pool scared her.
    Not sure if I even should be careful and aware or just live my life in 2021?

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