Polio and industrial pollution/pesticides.An extremely interesting article.

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Polio: the virus and the vaccine

http://www.theecologist.org/archive_detail.asp?content_id=278 (Part-1)

 

[This goes beyond the article on Pesticides & Polio that appeared in the British Medical Journal. I have always maintained that the role of lead and arsenic in groundwater/atmosphere coupled with pesticides such as DDT can never be ruled out. It also mentions the dubious role of viruses that I support and for which I have often been ridiculed in medical circles. - Jagannath.]

There is a rarely mentioned epidemic raging in the world today, one that is crippling children in more than 100 countries. In extreme cases the disease starts with a fever, which is followed by vomiting, delirium and spreading pain. Within days of being infected, the motor-neurone cells in victims’ spines cease to function properly. Pain intensifies as victims’ limbs are paralysed. In the very worst cases, their chests are also paralysed, which prevents them from breathing. Even when the children recover, the illness often returns in later life. Health authorities say it has no cure. The number of cases increased by over 250 per cent worldwide between 1996 and 2003 1. It is a disease with a long history and many names. The condition’s official name now is ‘Acute Flaccid Paralysis’ but it was once known as ‘infantile paralysis’/ ‘poliomyelitis’ (polio for short). Some people called it ‘the crippler’. A shot in the dark

Polio is a devastating disease; the preferred method for fighting it is vaccination. Yet there is a mass of historic evidence that suggests it is not caused by a virus but by industrial and agricultural pollution.

http://www.theecologist.org/archive_detail.asp?content_id=278 (Part-1)

 

 

 

Date:01/05/2004

 

 

Author:Janine Roberts

 

Part-2 is here: I could not open the link hence am copying it. - Jagannath.

 

A year earlier investigators from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had announced: `The finding of [liver] cell alteration at dietary levels as low as five parts per million of DDT, and the considerable storage of the chemical [in body fats]... makes it extremely likely that the potential hazard of DDT has been underestimated.' Polio epidemics had been becoming more and more severe from 1945 onwards. Biskind reported that this was due to the `most intensive campaign of mass poisoning in known human history', the spraying of some 3.1 billion pounds of pesticides.(35)In a 1953 paper published in the American Journal of Digestive Diseases Biskind said: `It was known by 1945 that DDT is stored in the body fat of mammals and appears in [their] milk... Yet, far from admitting a causal relationship [between DDT and polio] so obvious that in any other field of biology it

would be instantly accepted, virtually the entire apparatus of communication, lay and scientific alike, has been devoted to denying, concealing, suppressing, distorting and attempts to convert into its opposite the overwhelming evidence. Libel, slander and economic boycott have not been overlooked in this campaign.' (36)US farmers had been officially recommended to stop washing cattle with DDT in 1949, but this advice was not enforced and was mostly ignored. In 1950 supplies of US milk were found to contain up to twice the amount of DDT that was needed to produce severe illness in humans. Biskind and fellow poliomyelitis researcher Ralph Scobey were invited to testify to Congress in 1950 and in 1951, respectively.(37) They drew up a formidable case for banning DDT, citing the work of many scientists. In 1951 the US Public Health Service said: `DDT is a delayed-action poison. Due to

the fact that it accumulates in the body tissues, especially in females, the repeated inhalation or ingestion of DDT constitutes a distinct health hazard. The deleterious effects are manifested principally in the liver, spleen, kidneys and spinal cord... DDT is excreted in the milk of cows and of nursing mothers.'Effective action was slow to be taken, however: the health establishment was in total denial as far as pesticide effects on humans were concerned. Precautions were put in place too slowly and too late to stop the greatest of all the infantile paralysis epidemics - that of 1952, when some 57,700 cases were reported across the US, of which a third had paralytic symptoms..By the end of the 1952 epidemic there was a vast amount of evidence to suggest that infantile paralysis was not caused by a virus:1 Farm and domestic animals were paralysed at the same time

as children. Chickens that had become lame were found to have suffered motor neurone damage. The poliovirus only infected humans and thus could not have caused the animals' paralysis. Exposure to poisons, on the other hand, can damage many different species at the same time.2 Most cases of paralysis were incurred within 48 hours of each other. That is not the pattern for infectious outbreaks, which start slowly, grow faster as the infection spreads and then diminish as immunity develops. It is the pattern of a mass poisoning event.3 Parents reported that some children fell ill immediately after eating fresh fruit Fruit was sprayed heavily with lead arsenate at the time.4 The illness was relieved by the administration of antidotes for chemical poisoning, and chemicals associated with poisoning appeared in the diseased tissues of the victims of paralytic polio - including

oestrogenic chemicals now widely associated with environmental poisoning.5 The spread of poliomyelitis was not affected by the closure of schools, as it should have been if the disease was infectious. Nor did close contact with paralysed children spread paralysis. Yet the virus presumed to cause the illness was highly infectious, as was shown by the widespread presence of antibodies for it among healthy individuals.6 There was little or no correlation between the prevalence of polio antibodies in the population and the incidence of paralytic polio. In fact patients deemed to be recovering from paralytic polio were found to `be completely lacking' in polio antibodies.(38)7 And the most virulent viral epidemics occur when viruses are newly introduced into populations. The poliovirus had been present long before the epidemics started. The use of chemical pesticides, in

contrast, began just before the epidemics started.Slowly, the US authorities began to act. Following the FDA secured legislative restrictions on the use of pesticides in 1954(39) and 1956(40), the incidence of infantile paralysis in the US plummeted immediately. By the time Jonas Salk's polio vaccine was publicly released in 1955, the level of infantile paralysis in the US was already below a half of what it had been in 1952. The figures for the UK were even more dramatic: the incidence of infantile paralysis fell by more than 82 per cent between 1950 and the first mass administration of the vaccine in 1957.The case against the polio virusWhen it was eventually photographed using an electron microscope, the poliovirus was shown to be tiny: an elegant sphere made up of triangular equal-sized sides, and in all just 25 millionths of a millimetre across. Is this

`poliovirus' the cause of infantile paralysis / polio? Or is it an ancient and harmless companion of the human race? All the evidence suggests the latter:1 It had been around humans for thousands of years and in nature only reproduces in human throats or guts. Such viruses are normally totally harmless, since we have become adapted to them and they to us. It lived in the dirt ingested by human infants, and did not hurt them. Instead it helped activate their immune system, giving them a stronger resistance to illness.2 If it were the dangerous pathogen that causes infantile paralysis, then it would be more common in countries with infantile paralysis epidemics, and less common in countries with no infantile paralysis epidemics. But the reverse is true.3 To say it causes polio may violate one of the most famous laws of virology. These are called the Koch Postulates.

They set up the rules for declaring a disease to be caused by a virus. The 1st Postulate states that the virus must be found in every case of the disease as defined by its symptoms - but the poliovirus was not always present in such cases of poliomyelitis.(25)4 It widely infects children without causing them any illness. The Koch Postulates lay down that if it causes a disease, it should do so whenever it infects.5 It seemed mostly to infect the cleanest children of middle-class parents. Infectious viruses are not supposed to behave in this way: they are indiscriminate as to social class, and do not thrive in conditions of good hygiene.The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has published a theory to explain this extraordinary behaviour. The children of US middle-class parents were uniquely liable to fall ill with infantile paralysis because in their

infancy parents kept them away from the dirt in which the virus lives. This meant these children were not infected when it was safest - while protected by their mothers' milk. Once again, this theory contradicted everything known about infectious illness: good hygiene nearly always stops epidemics; with infantile paralysis, the CDC argued, good hygiene was the cause.(26)Furthermore, the CDC's theory was based on the assumption that working-class children are uniquely exposed to ordinary dirt. Yet surely middle-class children also go out into the garden? The theory was also conceived without checking medical reports on the early epidemics of infantile paralysis. Referring to a 1908 epidemic in Massachusetts, US health inspector Herbert Emerson noted that most cases occurred in households with no sewers and low hygiene. If the CDC's theory was sound these children would have

had antibodies and been immune to polio. In reality, they were the ones who fell ill.6 If guilty of causing paralysis, it would have to travel from the gut through the formidable blood-brain barrier that protects our brains and spinal cords. We still have not observed it doing this, despite many decades of intense research.7 It is rarely found in human blood - the easiest route from the gut to the blood-brain barrier. Yet this is where Jonas Salk's vaccine was supposed to intercept it.8 It has never been observed reproducing in victims' motor neurone cells.27An alternative propositionPoliomyelitis researcher Dr Ralph Scobey suggested in 1954 a reason why viruses might be found on damaged motor neuron cells in cases of infantile paralysis. He posited that the body itself might activate or produce these viruses, perhaps when under threat or to clean up cellular

damage. While `the fundamental cause of human poliomyelitis appears to be a poison or toxin', Scobey said, `the virus is synthesised or activated within the human body as a result of the poisoning'. He suggested that the virus might remain `dormant' within cells until something activates it. We now know that the poliovirus can be dormant. It is also widely known that toxic-damaged tissues attract viruses. One of the standard tests for toxins, the Ames Assay, utilises the fact that if viruses mutate and multiply in the presence of a certain amount of a chemical then that amount is dangerously toxic. Scobey went on to list anti-toxins that had proved effective in curing polio, citing 11 scientific papers written between 1936 and 1949.(28)

 

 

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