@sheperdless
“Well Matt, you
probably won’t want to peer out (from) under your tin-foil hat to
read this”
“You should do a
little cross checking before you circulate other people’s crackpot
conspiracy theories”
Can you offer
anything more than posting insults with no content?
“Polio is a
highly contagious virus that can result in spinal cord and brainstem
paralysis. It most commonly affects children under 5 years old.”
from Healthline.com
….compare that
quote to this: “studies by
Lillie and his collaborators of the National Institutes of Health,
published in 1944 and 1947 respectively, which showed that DDT may
produce degeneration of the anterior horn cells of the spinal cord in
animals.”
Dr.
Morton
S.
Biskind
….he
also said “When the population is exposed to a chemical agent known
to produce in animals lesions in the spinal cord resembling those in
human polio, and thereafter the latter disease increases sharply in
incidence and maintains its epidemic character year after year, is it
unreasonable to suspect an etiologic relationship?”
Ralph
R. Scobey, M.D. points to the historical manifestation of polio:
“Paralysis,
resulting from poisoning, has probably been known since the time of
Hippocrates (460-437 B.C.), Boerhaave,3
Germany, (1765) stated: "We frequently find persons rendered
paralytic by exposing themselves imprudently to quicksilver,
dispersed into vapors by the fire, as gilders, chemists, miners,
etc., and perhaps there are other poisons, which may produce the same
disease, even externally applied." In 1824, Cooke,4
England, stated: "Among the exciting causes of the partial
palsies we may reckon the poison of certain mineral substances,
particularly of quick silver, arsenic, and lead. The fumes of these
metals or the receptance of them in solution into the stomach, have
often caused paralysis."
More
common sense from Scobey: “In
the spring of 1930, there occurred in Ohio, Kentucky, Alabama,
Mississippi and other states an epidemic of paralysis.16,17
The patients gave a history of drinking commercial extract of ginger.
It is estimated that at the height of the epidemic there were 500
cases in Cincinnati district alone. The cause of the paralysis was
subsequently shown to be triorthocresyl phosphate in a spurious
Jamaica ginger. Death resulted not infrequently from respiratory
paralysis similar to the bulbar paralysis deaths in poliomyelitis. On
pathological examination, the anterior horn cells of the spinal cord
in these cases showed lesions similar to those of poliomyelitis.”
….following
up on the phosphorous connection, “During an epidemic of
poliomyelitis in Australia in 1897, Altman9
pointed out that phosphorus had been widely used by farmers for
fertilizing that year. This observation may be of significance since
in recent years organic phosphorus insecticides, such as parathion,
have been suspected as possible causes of poliomyelitis.”
Scobey
continues: “There
are two abnormal findings in cases of poliomyelitis that point
strongly to poisoning as the cause of this disease. One consists in
the appearance of increased amounts of porphyrin in the urine; the
other is the presence of increased amounts of guanidine in the blood.
It is a well-known fact that porphyria can follow poisoning by a
number of chemicals. Guanidine has been found in increased amounts in
the blood in arsenic, chloroform, and carbon tetrachloride
poisonings.”
Shepherdless,
if you’ve read this far, you have seen arsenic (among other toxins)
mentioned twice. DDT,
as you mentioned, followed the time of your father’s polio
experience, but arsenic based pesticides
were
in widespread use starting in the latter 19th
century, continuing up to and paralleling the use of DDT. Massive
applications of arsenic based and other pesticides result in food
being one main vector as illustrated by these observations…
...Chenault65
(1941) noted that the history of poliomyelitis points to a "suggested
parallelism between a number of epidemics and the appearance of fresh
fruits and vegetables."
[With regard to these numerous statements regarding fruit and milk,
note the high production of pesticides in the form of lead and
arsenic compounds during this pre-DDT period, graphed]
Goldstein et al66
(1946) reported an epidemic of polioencephalitis at a naval training
school among the cadets. The epidemic was explosive in character and
involved over 100 persons. Epidemiological evidence suggested that
some food served in the mess hall was the cause of the disease.”
Scobey also pointed out:
“In 1936, during a campaign to eliminate yaws in Western Samoa by
the injection of arsenicals, an epidemic of poliomyelitis appeared
simultaneously.23 In one community all of the patients
developed paralysis in the same lower limbs and buttocks in which
they had received the injections and this pattern was repeated in 37
other villages, whereas there was no paralysis in uninoculated
districts. The natives accused the injections as the cause of the
epidemic of poliomyelitis. Most of the cases of paralysis occurred
one to two weeks after the injection of the arsenic.”...how’s
that for another feather in the cap of vaccination? Inducement of
polio by injection of arsenicals.
