“It appears that the most effective way to protect your child from polio is to make sure that he doesn’t get the vaccine.”
—Robert S. Mendelsohn, M.D
When polio is mentioned, what immediately comes to mind is children, paralysis, and iron lungs. These three things alone would scare any parent into demanding a vaccine for their child. But let’s look at this a little more in detail.
Crippling diseases similar to polio have been described as early as 8th century B.C.325 In 1789 an English scientist described paralysis in the lower extremities of children which was recognized as poliomyelitis.326 Some of the first outbreaks occurred in Europe during the early 19th century and then in the United States a few years later.327
Polio is caused by three poliovirus serotypes, P1, P2, and P3.328 “The words polio (grey) and myelon (marrow, indicating the spinal cord) are derived from the Greek. It is the effect of the poliomyelitis virus on the spinal cord that leads to the classic manifestation, paralysis.”329
The incubation period for poliomyelitis is from six to twenty days, with a range of three to thirty-five days.330 Polio has four different classifications depending on the severity.331
1. Inapparent or Asymptomatic: Up to 95 percent of all polio infections are of is type.332 There are no symptoms and the individual does not even know they have come in contact with the virus.333
2. Minor, Nonspecific Illness: (abortive poliomyelitis):This occurs in approximately four to eight percent of polio infections.334 The symptoms are indistinguishable from the common cold.335 Symptoms include fever, sore throat, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and constipation.336 Complete recovery ensues in less than a week.337
3. Nonparalytic Aseptic Meningitis:This occurs in one to two percent of polio infections.338 The symptoms include stiffness in the neck, back and legs.339 The symptoms can last from two to ten days followed by complete recovery.340 This infection is “similar to that of minor illness.”341
4. Flaccid Paralysis:This occurs in less than one percent of all polio infections.342 Paralysis usually begins one to ten days after the initial flu-like symptoms and sometimes will progress for two to three days.343 When the temperature returns to normal no further paralysis occurs and the majority of cases completely recover.344 If paralysis is still present after a year, it is permanent.345 This occurs in approximately 0.1 to 0.5 percent of cases.346
Everything you have read regarding polio so far has come directly from the CDC. So according to the CDC, a person who comes in contact with the polio virus has over a 99 (99.5-99.9) percent chance of developing nothing more than a common cold. So if everything stated this far is true, then how does one explain the polio epidemics the U.S. experienced back in the 1950’s and 60’s? And what caused the epidemics? Could the polio vaccine itself have been the culprit?
Dr. Jonas Salk developed the first inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) which was introduced in 1955.347 This “killed” virus vaccine was used extensively from 1955 through 1963.348 But was the vaccine safe and effective?
Within weeks of the release of Salk’s vaccine cases of polio started developing in the vaccinated.349 On June 23, 1955 the American Public Health Service announced that Salk’s vaccine had caused 149 confirmed cases of polio and six deaths.350 The vaccine was starting to create “satellite” polio.351 Satellite polio is where parents and family members would develop polio from being in contact with children who where recently vaccinated. Dr. Lloyd Florio, the Denver Medical Officer estimated that all of the 1,500 children vaccinated in Denver had become carriers.352 Dr. Florio stated, “we have created a group of carriers” and if vaccination continues “there will be another group and so the cycle will go on. It is very distressing.”353 The cases of satellite polio were often times the most severe form of polio and it was caused from the vaccine!354
In 1955 Idaho experienced eighty six cases of polio and seven deaths, all due to the vaccine.355 This was the largest outbreak Idaho had ever experienced.356 The Health Director for the State of Idaho stated “We have lost confidence in the Salk vaccine”357 and “I hold Salk vaccine and its manufactures responsible for a polio outbreak that has killed 7 Idahoans and hospitalized 79.”358 Idaho completely halted the state’s immunization program July 1, 1955.359 The surge in polio cases in Idaho after the introduction of Salk’s vaccine was not an isolated incidence.
Other states reported increased numbers of polio cases after vaccination campaigns. In Massachusetts from January through August 1954 there had been 273 cases of polio (before the introduction of the Salk vaccine).360 That same time period a year later there were 2,027 cases (after the introduction of the Salk vaccine).361 Salk’s vaccine didn’t prevent a single case of polio; it actually caused a 642 percent increase in the number of cases of polio in the state of Massachusetts alone.362 Other states where polio rates increased can be found in Table 3.4.363
Polio Vaccine and Cancer
“It’s real troubling because 60 laboratories I understand around the world have done testing and said that the SV-40 is a cause of cancer, and I can’t understand how 60 laboratories could be wrong and the FDA be correct.”
—Congressman Dan Burton Congressional Reform Hearing September 10, 2003
During the 1950’s vaccine manufacturers did not screen vaccines for any potential contaminates, such as animal viruses. Monkey kidney cells were used in the manufacturing of the polio vaccines. The Salk vaccine was manufactured using rhesus monkey kidney cells.403 It was discovered in 1960 by the National Institutes of Health that the Salk polio vaccine was contaminated with a virus know as Simian Virus 40, or SV40.404 It was given this name because SV40 was the fortieth monkey virus discovered. SV40 has been identified in brain and lung cancers of children and adults.405 It is also associated with bone cancer and Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphomas.406
Polio Vaccine and AIDS
So what causes AIDS? AIDS is caused by animal viruses that invade white blood cells (WBC), suppressing the immune system, causing cancerous growths and opportunistic infections leading to progressive wasting. And, with current medical treatments the end result is death. So what on earth caused this pandemic? The U.S. government will lead you to believe that AIDS was caused by monkey bites, needle sticks, global warming, international travel, and even the most absurd explanation of them all—that AIDS was spread by unprotected sex between a human and the monkey primate!
The origin of AIDS can be traced back to the OPV vaccine. A monkey virus called simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) was known to reside in African green monkeys. Scientists have proven that the HIV virus is simply the “SIV virus adapting to a human host.”416 SIV viruses have the same effect on white blood cells as HIV viruses are theorized to have.417 Due to the SV40 virus residing in rhesus monkeys, vaccine manufacturers switched to using African green monkeys to grow the live polio virus.418 Merck’s chief vaccine virologist Dr. Maurice Hilleman even stated, “I brought African greens in. I didn’t know we were importing AIDS virus at the time.”419 Dr. Sabin’s OPV vaccine was manufactured from the kidneys of African greens from 1961 onward.420 Sabin’s OPV vaccine was contaminated with as many as 100 simian virus particles which were distributed throughout North America and Africa.421
