Is Polio Eradication by Vaccine a Myth?
Polio and smallpox: vaccines saved us!!
Inevitably, this is the first reason brought up in conversation to explain why vaccines are essential. The image immediately conjured up is of iron lungs and calipers on poor defenseless children in a hideous epidemic. The vaccines of Sabin and Salk supposedly led us to freedom from this dreaded illness.
Points of discussion:
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Polio is generally just a mild respiratory illness.
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Intramuscular injections of antibiotics to counter pneumonia appeared to cause paralysis.
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Inoculations of live polio caused paralysis, which is why they changed to an oral polio vaccine (OPV) by a spoon or sugar cube.
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Polio never went away. It was redefined as ‘acute flaccid paralysis‘ , Guillian Barre Syndrome etc.
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After mass vaccination, diagnosis of polio was changed from an upper respiratory illness to a paralysis greater than 60 days, making many polio diagnoses disappear.
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Before this reclassification, polio was just a flu-like illness and paralysis was quite rare.
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Polio has not been eradicated, particularly from poorer countries, and is now predominantly ‘vaccine-derived polio’.
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The vaccine was introduced after the incidence of polio deaths had dramatically declined.
Acute flaccid paralysis surveillance indicators in the Democratic Republic of Congo during 2008-2014
Vaccination Dilemma – Understanding the Vaccination Debate
Research/Articles:
12 July, 2022 – Toxicology vs Virology: Rockefeller Institute and the Criminal Polio Fraud
10 August, 2021 – How Flawed WHO Vaccination Policies Led To Polio Paralysis In India In 1970s
Vaccine (and antibiotic injections) associated paralytic Poliomyelitis (VAPP)
The Economist explains – What is vaccine-derived polio?
The Economist explains – What is vaccine-derived polio?.pdf
Routine vaccinations and child survival_ follow up study in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa..
The Introduction of Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis and Oral Polio Vaccine Among Young Infants.
The Introduction of Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis and Oral Polio Vaccine Among Young Infants in an Urban African Community.pdf
The relation of prophylactic inoculations to the onset of poliomyelitis: a study of 620 cases in the victorian epidemic of poliomyelitis in 1949.
The relation of prophylactic inoculations to the onset of poliomyelitis_ a study of 620 cases in the victorian epidemic of poliomyelitis in 1949 – PubMed.pdf
Vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis: a retrospective cohort study of acute flaccid paralyses in Brazil
Vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis_ a retrospective cohort study of acute flaccid paralyses in Brazil _ International Journal of Epidemiology _ Oxford Academic.pdf
What Polio Vaccine Injury Looks Like, Decades Later.
What Polio Vaccine Injury Looks Like, Decades Later • Children’s Health Defense.pdf
Correlation between Non-Polio Acute Flaccid Paralysis Rates with Pulse Polio Frequency in India.
The Polio & “Non-Polio” Shell Game in Africa & U.S. – 2020 Update
How the CDC Made 30,000 Polio Diagnoses Disappear
Getting Polio from the Polio Vaccine
Paralytic Poliomyelitis Associated With Sabin Monovalent and Bivalent Oral Polio Vaccines in Hungary
Paralytic Poliomyelitis Associated With Sabin Monovalent and Bivalent Oral Polio Vaccines in Hungary _ American Journal of Epidemiology _ Oxford Academic.pdf
Polio programme: let us declare victory and move on
Polio programme_ let us declare victory and move on _ Indian Journal of Medical Ethics
Support for children identified with acute flaccid paralysis under the global polio eradication programme in Uttar Pradesh, India a qualitative study
Support for children identified with acute flaccid paralysis under the global polio eradication programme in Uttar Pradesh, India_ a qualitative study _ BMC Public Health _ Full Text.pdf
WHO: Polio Outbreak in Sudan Caused by Oral Polio Vaccine
Hundreds of Pakistani children hospitalized with nausea and vomiting, following polio vaccines
Hundreds of Pakistani children hospitalized with nausea and vomiting, following polio vaccines – New York Daily News.pdf
Polio Eradication Stalls with More Wild-Type and Vaccine Strain Polio Outbreaks
“Vaccine-Derived” Polio on the Rise
Britain, 1912 to 1963 Pesticides and Polio.
Polio & The Poisoning of America
Polio & The Poisoning of America – The Other Side of Vaccines.pdf
13 March, 2021 – Dismantling the matrix of “everybody knows” – Here’s a mindblower for you
Feb 19, 2025 – Polio’s Vanishing Act
Before the vaccine, temporary muscle weakness sufficed for a polio diagnosis. Afterward, only cases with paralysis lasting 60+ days counted.
Those cases were relabeled as viral/aseptic meningitis, transverse myelitis, Guillain-Barré, and more.