Smoke, Mirrors and the “Disappearance” of Polio.

Suzanne Humphries, MDDrSuzanne.net

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The limited vista of human beings

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Center For Disease Control and Prevention. Department of Health and Human Services, USA. “Polio disease in short.” http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-

vac/polio/in-short-both.htm

Polio Virus Morbidity

asymptomatic 95%

minor symptoms +/- stiff neck 4-8%

paralysis less than 1%

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Poliomyelitis

• Poliomyelitis = inflammation of the gray matter of the spinal cord

• Polios = gray • myelos = marrow • itis = inflammation

Anterior horn

ventral

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The Fear Element

• Many doctors of the 1940s were aware that the pitchmen of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (NFIP) and March Of Dimes were responsible for the expanded terror that swept the nation. ~Cohn V, Sister Kenny,The Woman Who Challenged the Doctors. University of Minnesota Press. 1975, Page 5 with reference to Interview with Dr John Pohl. Page 125.

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Worst of all…

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Disease incidence

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BreastfeedingDDT, arsenicTonsillectomyDefining diseaseRefined sugar and flour

MV strain escape Rockefeller Labs

Polio definition cast a wide net

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Source: Hirschman 1981; Trends in differentials in breastfeedingDemography

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– Breast milk• Inactivates pathogens, orchestrates

immune system. (Hanson 2007, Newburg 2005 Isaacs 2005)

• Probiotics and microbiome- (Beatty 2010)

• Stem cells to the infant (Hassiotou F 2012)*• HAMLET folding protein patrols a baby's body, nuking cancer wherever it is found. http://discovermagazine.com/1999/jun/featcancer Svanborg 2010 FEBS journal• Higher IQ neuronal connections –(Isaacs 2010)

• 70% lower type I DM – (Rosenbauer 2008)

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What??? Are they serious???

Read more on biology of breastfeeding at http://www.beyondconformity.org.nz

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Susceptibility: Xavante Tribe Brazil

• Brazilian Xavante native people: immune to all three types of polio and had no disease.

“The paradox of a virtual absence of paralytic poliomyelitis among such heavily infected groups as this, despite high antibody titers, is well known... “

~Neel JV et. al, 1964. “Studies on the Xavante Indians of the Brazilian Mato Grosso.”Am J Hum Genet, Mar;16:52-140 PMID 14131874

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What did the white man bring to native cultures?

• Injections- antibiotics and vaccines (provocaion polio)-Gray 1954, Gromeier 1998

• Tonsillectomies- Faber 1949,Top 1939, Southcott 1943,Wilson 1952, Weinstein 1954, Ogra 1971

• White sugar-Van Meer 1992, Sandler 1951

• DDT, arsenic and lead

Synergy, added circumstances

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Time magazine 194715

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Image from http://harpub.co.cc/ courtesy of Jim West

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DDT poisoning: a cause of polio-like illness.

• Sprinkled in drawers• Sprayed on window sills• Lunch boxes, directly on sandwiches• In water to rinse clothes, bedding, mattresses• Painted on walls of children’s rooms

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Children sprayed with DDT

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Children sprayed with DDT

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This WWII-era Army poster from the collection of the National Museum of Health and Medicine at Walter Reed Army Medical Center instructs how to delouse an incoming recruit with DDT.

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DDT as a sole cause or an added circumstance of poliomyelitis

• Induces symptoms that can be indistinguishable from poliomyelitis - even in the absence of a virus ~Biskind M., 1949. “DDT Poisoning and the Elusive “Virus X:” A New Cause For Gastroenteritis.”Am J Dig Dis. Vol 16 Num 3. Pp 79-84.

• DDT tox. Anterior horn spinal damage, respiratory failure, spasm, flaccid paralysis. ~Burgess F and Cameron GR. The Toxicity of D.D.T. Br Med J. 1945 Jun 23;1(4407):865-71. PMID 20786134

• Enhances the release and intracellular multiplication of poliovirus. ~Gabliks J, Effects of insecticides on mammalian cells and virus infections. Ann NY Acad Sci, 1969, 160(1):254-271.

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DDT poisoning description• “Acute gastroenteritis occurs, with nausea, vomiting, abdominal

pain, and diarrhea usually associated with extreme tenesmus. Coryza, cough and persistent sore throat are common, often followed by a persistent or recurrent feeling of constriction or a "lump" in the throat; occasionally the sensation of constriction extends substernally and to the back and may be associated with severe pain in either arm. Pain in the joints, generalized muscle weakness, apprehension and exhausting fatigue are usual; the latter are often so severe in the acute stage as to be described by some patients as "paralysis.”

Biskind M., 1949. DDT Poisoning and the Elusive “Virus X:” A New Cause For Gastroenteritis.Am J Dig Dis. Vol 16 Num 3. Pp 79-84. PMID:18113629

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Arsenic

• “potent,” “effective” and “safe” ?• “generally agrees very well” with children?

~Bartrip P 1992 A “Pennurth of Arsenic for Rat Poison” The Arsenic Act, 1851 and the prevention of secret Poisoning.” Medical History 36:53 – 69, pg 55 second paragraph. Bartrip quotes several medical texts of the times.

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Other uses of arsenic..• “Paris Green” and “Scheele’s green” dyes• in lung problems, doctors would prescribe

arsenic, added to tobacco for smoking. • used in cholera on the basis that a greater

poison would destroy the lesser poison • Dentists used arsenous acid to kill nerve endings in decayed teeth

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Arsenic in Rx

• Tryparsamide 1939– Merck, Rockefeller

• Syphilitics, 100 Injections to a single patient.“Another patient who had previously received thirty-four injections of arsphenamine, twenty-three injections of bismuth and seventy-six mercury rubs had a paretic type

of serologic relapse after I04 injections of tryparsamide. ~Cormia F., “Tryparsamide in the treatment of syphilis of the central nervous system.” Br J Vener Dis. 1934 April; 10(2): 99–116. PMCID: PMC1052955 27

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Was arsenic benign?• “Dr. Popow concluded that arsenic, even in a few hours after

its ingestion, may cause acute central myelitis or acute poliomyelitis.”

~Scobey, Ralph. “The poison cause of poliomyelitis and obstructions to its investigation.” Statement prepared for the Select Committee to Investigate the Use of Chemicals in Food Products, United States House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. From Archive Of Pediatrics (April, 1952)

A very agitated father of seven children came to me with the appalling announcement that his ten-year old son and his four-year-old daughter had been taken with what he called the ‘cow disease’ and neither of them could stand or walk. ‘They went lame yesterday, just like the cattle have been doing for the past two or three weeks’, he explained, ‘and today they can’t move.’ ~Sister Elizabeth Kenny And they shall walk, Dodd, Mead and Co. (1943)

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Where did polio go?

• Advances in physical therapy.

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Sister Elizabeth Kenny

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Where are the contracted limbs?

Before she came… If you could have visited the hospital, you would have seen little kids lying stiff and rigid, crying with pain, even though – as she saw – they were not necessarily paralyzed. We’d take the children to the operating room in those days, straighten them out under anesthetic, and put them in plaster casts. When they woke up, they screamed. The next day they still cried from the pain. That was the accepted and universal treatment virtually all over the world. I saw it in Boston and New York City and London. She said, “That’s all wrong.” ~Cohn, Victor, Sister Kenny, The Woman Who Challenged the Doctors. 1975, University of Minnesota Press. Page 5 with reference to Interview with Dr John Pohl.

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Immobilization and surgery = deformity

• “orthopedists… believed in the "extreme fragility" of poliomyelitic muscle. Many victims of this disease were cast in plaster for 6 months or so, and their deformities were operated on in due course. Not even massage-much less, vigorous exercise of the affected muscle was countenanced.”~ Mead S.,”A century of the abuse of rest.” 1962 Oct 27;182:344-5. PMID:13934298

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Where polio went contin.

• Advances in physical therapy.• The power of the pen

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Dr. Bernard Greenberg• Prior to 1954 physicians reported polio to subsidize

the cost of hospitalization, and report communicable disease.

• The criterion of partial or complete paralysis of one or more muscle groups, detected on two examinations at least 24 hours apart was all that was required.

• Laboratory confirmation and presence of residual paralysis was not required…

• Ratner H. et al., 1980“The Present Status of Polio Vaccines, 1960” Child and Family 19;195-213.Statement by Dr. Bernard Greenberg, a biostatistics expert, chairman of the Committee on Evaluation and Standards of the American Public Health Association during the 1950s. He testified at a panel discussion presented before the Section on Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the 120th annual meeting of the Illinois State Medical Society in Chicago, May 26, 1960.

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Greenberg contin.• 1955 was the year Salk’s vaccine was licensed and marketed• New diagnostic criteria: Two exams 60 days apart with paralysis• “The change in 1955 meant that we were reporting a new disease, namely,

paralytic poliomyelitis with a longer-lasting paralysis[60days]• Paralysis had actually increased 50% from 1957-8 and 80% from 1958-9. The new

defs. helped hide that.

Ratner H. et al., 1980“The Present Status of Polio Vaccines, 1960” Child and Family 19;195-213.Statement by Dr. Bernard Greenberg, a biostatistics expert, chairman of the Committee on Evaluation and Standards of the American Public Health Association during the 1950s. He testified at a panel discussion presented before the Section on Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the 120th annual meeting of the Illinois State

Medical Society in Chicago, May 26, 1960.

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The undead virus in Salk’s vaccine

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Paved way for today’s unquestioned compliance with

the absurd.

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Redefining polio• Polio epidemic used to be 20/100K population, but moved up to 35/100K

per year after the Salk vaccine release.• Redefined length of paralysis from 24 hours to 60 days in order to be called

paralytic polio as of 1955.(most paralysis of 24 hours resolves, the minority persists to 60 days)

• Any polio within 30 days of vaccination was not logged as vaccine-induced but as pre-existing. This ignored vaccine failures and vaccine-induced cases.

• July 1958, non-paralytic poliomyelitis with meningeal signs was renamed ASEPTIC MENINGITIS. This “eliminated” a large portion of non-paralytic polio.– Even if polio virus was present non-paralytic polio was no longer reported as its

used to be, after 1958.• Defined polio by diagnostic testing that had not been required pre-vaccine.

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Where polio went contin.

• Advances in physical therapy.• The power of the pen• Increased use of diagnostic testing.

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Post-vaccine vigilance• Concerted effort to distinguish “polio” cases with

wild polio virus from cases without virus and to label them as . . .

• Transverse Myelitis, viral or “aseptic” meningitis, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, spinal meningitis, post-polio syndrome, acute flaccid paralysis(AFP), enteroviral encephalopathy, traumatic neuritis, Reye’s syndrome etc.

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Post-1954

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Michigan polio epidemic 1958

fecal specimens = 869

no viruspoliovirusECHO viruscocksackie virusunidentified

No virus 401

Poliovirus 292

Echo virus 100

Cocksackie 73

Unidenti-fied 3

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Michigan polio epidemic 1958

Antibody changes blood tests, 191 patients

no antibody changepoliovirusECHO viruscocksackie virus

No antibody change 123

Poliovirus48

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ECHO 14

Coxsackie 6

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asymptomatic 95%

minor symptoms +/- stiff neck 4-8%

paralysis less than 1%

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24 hours to 60 days

Aseptic meningitisTotally removed

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Did FDR have polio?

• According to a team of modern doctors who analyzed FDR’s extensive medical records assessing the liklihood of FDR

having polio. They determined the paralysis was Guillain-Barre Syndrome, not polio.

~Goldman.2003.”What was the cause of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s paralytic illness?” J Med Biog, 11:233-240

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Polio’s makeover complete.

• Advances in physical therapy.• The power of the pen• Advances in diagnostic testing. • Advances in life support.

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Today’s iron lung.

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One example of today’s polio

• “Infants as young as five months old can get Transverse Myelitis, and some are left permanently paralyzed and dependent upon a ventilator to breathe… my colleagues at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and I hear about or treat hundreds of new cases every year.”~ Dr Douglas Kerr, Johns Hopkins. Forward to “The Autoimmune Epidemic.”

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Acute Flaccid Paralysis• non-polio enterovirus like Coxsackie, ECHO virus, vaccine-associated

poliomyelitis (which can include polio vaccines) • cytomegalovirus, rabies virus, varicella zoster virus, Japanese

encephalitis virus• Guillain-Barré syndrome• sciatic neuritis from injection = provocation polio• transverse myelitis• epidural abscess, spinal cord compression, exotoxin of corynebacterium

diptheriae, toxin of clostridium botulinum, Karwinskia, tick bite paralysis, Lyme borreliosis, myasthenia gravis, polymyositis autoimmune, viral myositis, trichinosis, toxic myopathies among others. – Marx et al. Differential Diagnosis of Acute Flaccid Paralysis. Epidemiol Rev.

2000;22(2):298-316. PMID: 11218380

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Vashisht and Puliyel, 2012

• In the states which have pulse polio rounds nearly every month, the non-polio[non-wild polio] AFP rate is 25 and 35-fold higher than the international norms

• The non-polio AFP rate correlates to the cumulative doses of vaccine received in the previous three years

• children who were identified with non-polio AFP were at more than twice the risk of dying than those with wild polio infection

~Vashisht, N and Puliyel, J.,2012. “Polio programme: let us declare victory and move on.” Indian Journal of Medical Ethics Vol IX No 2 April-June pp. 114-117 50

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NPSP Polio surveillance data on Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) and non-polio AFP National Polio Surveillance India data 2000 -2010.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqNiOudoaPlfdG1xQ3pzVFNwRUFQOGtPV1Z2Q3BYalE&hl=en&pli=1#gid=0

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Solution: More polio vaccines?

• Response by WHO and GAVI is to ramp up the current oral polio vaccination campaigns in recent years

• Some children are reported to have received 32 vaccinations for polio by 5th birthday– “At a vaccinators' meeting in Sultangunj Referral Hospital

held Tuesday, supervisors reported a "new" resistance coming from the "educated middle class people" who were getting tired of several rounds of immunisation: one family claimed that their five year old child had received pulse polio vaccination 32 times.”• ~Times of India. “Multiple doses of pulse polio vaccine irritate

people.” Aug 25 2002.

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Cuba 1992-1994 epidemic

• Thought to be polio. 50K people affected. • Vitamin/nutrient deficiency: methionine, vitamin B-12,

riboflavin, and niacin.• Coxsackie virus and smoking also had a role. • Guantanamo area was unaffected by the virus. Blood

riboflavin status, carotenoid, and selenium concentrations were significantly higher in Guantanamo smokers. Intake of plantain banana, pepper (Capsicum spp.), bovine meat and milk products were higher.

• Implications for polio and all infectious disease are huge.

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Summary

• Polio of the late 1800s-1950s was not just a single viral illness, therefore a vaccine could not have eliminated it

• Immobilization treatment of polio resulted in the images we know and fear

• Poison cause of polio never investigated by government, though it surely contributed to epidemics of poliomyelitis. Reversed with vit C and chelation.

• “Polio” is still here, renamed after implementation of much more stringent diagnostic criteria

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Did anyone have poliovirus paralysis?

• Yes, I am NOT saying that poliomyelitis was NEVER viral in nature. – However, more than half of viruses isolated in epidemics were not polio viruses– Many cases of poliovirus paralysis CAME FROM THE VACCINES THEMSELVES. If your

grandmother had polio she could have gotten it from the polio vaccine OR from someone else’s polio vaccine. This goes on even today.

• There were added circumstances that led any virus to affect the CNS.– Some of those circumstances were injections including vaccines such as DPT, smallpox

etc.– Other susceptibility factors; tonsillectomy, refined sugar/flour, toxins eg.

• Many cases of poliomyelitis were poisonous in nature and involved no virus at all.

• The treatment of polio by orthopedists led to many of the physical deformities.

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Disease, vaccines, and a history you don’t know

Suzanne Humphries, MD and Roman Bystrianyk

•History of smallpox and polio that was never publicized, but is well supported by data•Show you why smallpox and polio were not eradicated by vaccination. •Over 50 graphs of worldwide disease and mortality data•Documentation of natural treatments with far more success than vaccination •Poor sanitation, child labor, disgusting living conditions were the norm when death rates were highest•Unsafe infected vaccines were common

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