Ron Garner
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 In brief, some of Miller's findings are:17
The polio death rate was decreasing on its own before the vaccine was introduced (1923 to 1953).
In five New England states, cases of polio increased after mass inoculations (1954 and 1955).
87% of all polio cases were caused by the polio vaccine (US Federal Center for Disease Control figures, 1973 to 1983). The measles death rate decreased by more than 95% in the U.S. and Britain before the vaccine was introduced (1915 to 1958). Among all U.S. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Whatever may have been the reason for polio outbreaks in the past (see section on natural immunization), it is highly questionable today to immunize an entire population against a disease that does not even exist any more. It raises major questions about the motives behind polio vaccination.
Further, the history of some simian virus 40 (SV40) infections in humans is linked to the use of polio vaccines. |
Ron Garner
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| In five New England states, cases of polio increased after mass inoculations (1954 and 1955).
87% of all polio cases were caused by the polio vaccine (US Federal Center for Disease Control figures, 1973 to 1983). The measles death rate decreased by more than 95% in the U.S. and Britain before the vaccine was introduced (1915 to 1958). Among all U.S. school-age children in 1984, 58% of all measles cases were contracted by people who had been vaccinated against the disease. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 My only problem was that I was supposed to be the one to grow up and cure polio. Now my work was really cut out for me. I'd have to switch my attention and cure cancer.
I did not learn until much later that the celebration over the Salk vaccine was as much myth as science. Yes, the vaccine did work. But what I did not know was that the death rate from polio had already declined precipitously from 1900 to 1955. Surprisingly, the new vaccine accounted for only about 6% of the decline in mortality from polio. Every life saved being the greatest achievement, this is no small feat. |
John E. Sarno, M.D.
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 These misdiagnoses include:
• Myofascial pain, usually in the back (actual cause unknown)
• The postpolio syndrome (pain in parts of the body previously afflicted by polio). Such pain is routinely attributed to the polio, but there is no proof that this is the cause. There is a Latin phrase commonly quoted in scientific circles that refers to this particular kind of misdiagnosis: "post hoc ergo propter hoc." It means "after this [i.e, polio] therefore because of this," a classic error in logic leading to a dangerous and unscientific conclusion. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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| But what I did not know was that the death rate from polio had already declined precipitously from 1900 to 1955. Surprisingly, the new vaccine accounted for only about 6% of the decline in mortality from polio. Every life saved being the greatest achievement, this is no small feat. Tens of thousands of children would not acquire this dread disease. Yet to focus to closely on the 6% is to ignore the greater lesson from the other 94%.
The polio story was not unusual. |
Leo Galland
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 Paralytic polio was uncommon a hundred years ago. Outbreaks were recorded with increasing severity during the first two decades of the century, and the incidence of the disease steadily increased until just before the introduction of the Salk polio vaccine in the middle of the 1950s. The prevalence of infection with poliovirus did not change during that time. What changed was the frequency of polio, the crippling disease. In crowded urban slums, most children acquired the poliovirus before the age of three, either from other children or through contaminated water. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 The most serious of these, the family of polio enteroviruses, have been eradicated in the United States as a result of aggressive vaccine campaigns. But researchers today are concerned about a more common and seemingly innocuous type of virus within the family of sixty-one nonpolio enteroviruses known as the coxsackie B viruses.
In the mid 1990s, researchers in Sweden examined stored blood samples from mothers who had delivered babies in Swedish hospitals, in hopes of better pinning down the relationship between coxsackie B viruses and childhood diabetes. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 In the mid 1950s, a vaccine was developed for polio. It was not a cure for those who already had polio. More recently, a vaccine has been created to prevent certain types of the human papillomavirus (HPV), which is known to cause cervical cancer. If you already have HPV, as millions of people do, you are out of luck. What about a real cure for a major disease like cancer or even a minor one like the common cold? Now that would be a cosdy discovery to the pharmaceutical industry with $2. |
Andreas Moritz
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| Polio, for example, is more common in developing countries where children receive more injections than in developed countries. A study published in 1995 by the New England Journal of Medicine showed that injection of the polio vaccine actually caused outbreaks of the disease.
A 1993 report released by the American National Academy of Science Institute of Medicine concluded that virtually all nine vaccines given to children have at some time been proved to cause damage, including such complications as shock, convulsions, or paralysis. |
| What most people don't know is that some polio vaccines, adenovirus vaccines, rubella and hepatitis A and measles vaccines have been made with aborted human fetal tissue. Dr. Davis found what he believed were bacterial fragments and poliovirus in these vaccines from time to time which may have come from that fetal tissue. In addition, he also found "fragments" of human hair and human mucus. Apart from such contamination, it is worth mentioning that standard chemicals like formaldehyde, mercury, and aluminum are purposely put into vaccines. |
John E. Sarno, M.D.
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| Before the eradication of polio in the United States, "hysterical paralysis" was a common diagnosis for what was, in fact, a psychogenic (conversion-hysterical) disorder. The paralysis resulting from polio (a structural cause) was the template for the psychogenic paralysis. But when polio was eradicated through the advent of a vaccine, hysterical paralysis became exceedingly rare. During large-scale chemical or toxic exposures such as from war or industrial accidents, many patients who did not have a direct exposure will show up with identical symptoms to those who did. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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| On that day, Jonas Salk announced the successful testing of a vaccine against polio, the last of the dreaded infectious diseases to be controlled. There was a new hero. My family rejoiced. My only problem was that I was supposed to be the one to grow up and cure polio. Now my work was really cut out for me. I'd have to switch my attention and cure cancer.
I did not learn until much later that the celebration over the Salk vaccine was as much myth as science. Yes, the vaccine did work. |
Valerie V. Hunt
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 During the great polio epidemic in the late 1940's, I supervised polio treatments using the Sister Kenny methods at a major New York hospital which handled the most acute polio cases in the state. When I saw this polio victim, I was aghast that Emilie thought she could restore muscle. The young woman wore a long leg brace and walked with great difficulty. Although she had had excellent and lengthy Kenny treatments when the polio occurred in infancy, her condition had not changed since then. |
Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon
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 Familia / Family: ASTERACEAE
Partes usadas / Plant part used: Toda la planta, fresca - Whole plant, fresh
Administracion / Administration: Oral
Preparacion / Preparation: Chancar y extraer el jugo, 1 cucha-rada para cada polio - Mince and extract juice, 1 tbsp for every chicken
Usos / Uses: Buche inflamado en polios - Inflammed gall bladder in chickens
Diente de Leon
Taraxacum officinale Wigg. |
Valerie V. Hunt
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| I thought I understood the muscular paralysis of polio. At Columbia University before World War II, I was trained in physical therapy. During the great polio epidemic in the late 1940's, I supervised polio treatments using the Sister Kenny methods at a major New York hospital which handled the most acute polio cases in the state. When I saw this polio victim, I was aghast that Emilie thought she could restore muscle. The young woman wore a long leg brace and walked with great difficulty. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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| Surprisingly, the new vaccine accounted for only about 6% of the decline in mortality from polio. Every life saved being the greatest achievement, this is no small feat. Tens of thousands of children would not acquire this dread disease. Yet to focus to closely on the 6% is to ignore the greater lesson from the other 94%.
The polio story was not unusual.
A careful study of historical demography teaches us two things— both quite important for this book—which seem completely counterintuitive. |
Valerie V. Hunt
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| During the great polio epidemic in the late 1940's, I supervised polio treatments using the Sister Kenny methods at a major New York hospital which handled the most acute polio cases in the state. When I saw this polio victim, I was aghast that Emilie thought she could restore muscle. The young woman wore a long leg brace and walked with great difficulty. Although she had had excellent and lengthy Kenny treatments when the polio occurred in infancy, her condition had not changed since then. |
H. Winter Griffith, M.D.
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 Other household members should not take oral polio vaccine. It could pass the polio virus on to you. Avoid any contact with persons who have taken oral polio vaccine.
• Possible delayed effects (including some types of cancers) may occur months to years after use. Your doctor should discuss with you all risks involving this drug.
You will have increased risk of infections. Take extra precautions (handwashing), and avoid people with infections. Avoid crowds if possible. Contact your doctor immediately if you develop signs or symptoms of infection. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| In the span of the next thirty to forty years scientists discovered a range of antibiotics, invented vaccines that would wipe out polio and prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths from rubella and typhus, and America began the war on cancer. Heart surgeons were opening up chest cavities in living patients and transplanting hearts, pacemakers were invented, and neonatal care began to save infants so small it seemed God's hand had reached down from heaven itself and snatched them from death. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| It was not a cure for those who already had polio. More recently, a vaccine has been created to prevent certain types of the human papillomavirus (HPV), which is known to cause cervical cancer. If you already have HPV, as millions of people do, you are out of luck. What about a real cure for a major disease like cancer or even a minor one like the common cold? Now that would be a cosdy discovery to the pharmaceutical industry with $2.9 billion spent on over-the-counter drugs, $400 million on prescription medicines for symptomatic relief and $1. |
Andreas Moritz
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| This is quite outrageous given the fact that polio itself hasn't killed anyone for a long time.
Involuntary Vaccinations
The vast majority of vaccinations—for children or adults—are needless. And they cause hundreds of deaths per year from adverse reactions, reactions that wouldn't otherwise occur if mass vaccinations didn't exist. According to a recent announcement (November 14,. 2007) by State and County officials in Maryland (USA), parents were threatened with jail if they didnt submit their children to forced vaccinations. State Attorney General Glenn F. |
| Among other human viruses, such as those causing polio, flu, hepatitis, etc., HIV may be one of the most harmless ones; it is quickly and easily neutralized by our immune system. The incubation period for every known virus does not exceed more than a maximum of six weeks, as is the case with the human hepatitis virus. It is a well-established biological law that any germ that does not cause symptoms before it is cleared by the immune system cannot be considered a cause of disease. No virus is capable of surviving 10-15 years in a normal healthy body with an active immune system. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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 In another study, however, the aqueous solution of the ethanol extract was not shown to have an antiviral effect against the polio virus Type 1, measles, coxsachie-B2, adeno- or Semliki forest virus.
Antimicrobial: The fraction of an extract produced with 80% ethanol was shown to have an inhibitory effect on the growth of Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Staphylococcus aureus. In the serial dilution test, growth of Micro-sporum canis and Trichophyton mentagrophytes was completely stunted.
Hypotensive effect: Only described in general reviews. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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| Yet to focus to closely on the 6% is to ignore the greater lesson from the other 94%.
The polio story was not unusual.
A careful study of historical demography teaches us two things— both quite important for this book—which seem completely counterintuitive. First, modern medicine has had little to do with the control of deadly infectious diseases, such as typhoid, scarlet fever, and diphtheria.. According to two prominent medical sociologists: "3. |
Andreas Moritz
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| Immunization Programs under Scrutiny Poisonous Vaccines against Harmless Infections
For many decades, leading scientists and doctors have vehemently promoted the idea that immunization of children is necessary to protect them from contracting such diseases as diphtheria, polio, cholera, typhoid, or malaria. Yet evidence is mounting that immunization may not only be unnecessary but even harmful. Pouring deadly chemicals into a lake doesn't make it immune to pollutants. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| In 1994, the Journal of the American Medical Association reported a dangerous relationship between diphtheria, tetanus, and oral polio vaccines and a number of autoimmune disorders, including Guillian-Barre syndrome. Similarly, a correlation has been reported and debated in scientific journals for years between the hepatitis B vaccine and multiple sclerosis as well as rheumatoid arthritis. Other evidence links the measles vaccine to multiple sclerosis and the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) and hepatitis B vaccines to rheumatoid arthritis. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 Routine vaccination for polio, smallpox, and whooping cough meant that losing a child to infectious disease was no longer the norm but a rarity. Hospitals were no longer simply warehouses for the sick and dying, where little more than comfort could be offered; they had become factories whose product was miracles—"gleaming palaces of medical science," as sociologist Paul Starr puts it, where doctors were in the midst of pioneering work that would soon allow them to mend damaged hearts with open-heart surgery, transplant organs, and routinely postpone death with kidney dialysis. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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| Research is being conducted to determine its antiviral effect in flu, HSV-1 and polio.
PRECAUTIONS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS
General: All parts of the plants are poisonous, due to the presence of mucous membrane-irritating saponins and of the toxic, perorally-effective lectins. The toxicity is reduced through cooking, since this destroys the lectins.
Pediatric Use: Emergency poison treatment procedures should be instituted in small children who consume even one berry. |
James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch
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 Pneumonia can be caused by many factors, including bacterial infections, viral infections, and the inhalation of chemical irritants. polio (poH-lee-oh) See poliomyelitis. poliomyelitis (polio) (poh-lee-oh-meye-uh-leye- tis) An acute disease, and an infectious disease, caused by a virus, that brings about inflammation of certain nerve cells in the spinal cord. It can have a wide range of effects, from mild to severe, including paralysis, permanent disability, and death. In the United States, the disease has now largely vanished since the development of a vaccine against it. |
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