HEALTH - POLIO
Polio, short for poliomyelitis, is a disease that can damage the nervous system and cause paralysis. Since polio immunization has become widespread in the United States, cases of polio are rare. However, polio remains a problem in many parts of the world. The polio death rate was decreasing on its own before the vaccine was introduced, and there is no credible scientific evidence that the vaccine caused polio to disappear. Cases of polio increased after mass inoculations. The United States Centre for Disease Control (CDC) admitted that the vaccine has become the dominant cause of polio in the US today, with 87% of cases between 1973 and 1983 caused by the vaccine. More recently, 1980-1989, every case of polio in the US was caused by the vaccine. Doctors and scientists on the staff of the National Institute of Health during the 1950's were well aware that the Salk vaccine was ineffective and deadly. Some frankly stated that it was "worthless as a preventative and dangerous to take". The Salk "inactivated" or "killed-virus" was actually regulated to permit 5,000 live viruses per million doses.
A large vaccine trial in 1955 showed a total failure of the Salk vaccine to protect against poliomyelitis. During a 1959 epidemic in Massachusetts, 77.5% of the paralytic cases had received three or more doses of the inactivated vaccine. In 1956 with the infamous Francis Field Trials they discovered large numbers of children contracted polio after receiving the vaccine. Instead of removing the vaccine from the market, they decided to exclude from the statistics all cases of polio that occurred within 30 days after vaccination on the pretext that such cases were "pre-existing". In 1958 mass vaccination triggered a disastrous increase in polio, the highest being 700% in Ottawa, Canada. The highest incidence in the USA occurred in those states which had been induced to adopt compulsory polio shots. Four of the five Salk vaccine companies ceased producing this vaccine due to its failure, and because of the lawsuits against them.
"Use of either Salk or Sabin vaccine will increase the possibility that your child will contact the disease. It appears that the most effective way to protect your child from polio is to make sure that he doesn't get the vaccine " -Dr Mendelsohn M.D.(1984).
Treatment
It begins with fever and headache, followed by neck stiffness and meningitis. Muscles are painful and tender. Paralysis soon follows and reaches its maximum in 2-3 days. Limbs are weak and there may be difficulty with breathing and swallowing. If the patient does not succumb to respiratory failure, pain and pyrexia subsides after 7-10 days and the patient enters the convalescent stage. This stage is prolonged. The return of muscle power is most noticeable during the first 6 months, but there may be continuing improvement for up to 2 years. Some cases do not progress beyond the early stage of meningeal irritation. In others, however recovery is incomplete and the patient is left with some degree of asymmetric flaccid paralysis or muscle weakness.
other information
www.polionet.org
www.mdguidelines.com
www.ippso-world.org