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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." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"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." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"A HALF-CENTURY OF MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS The elimination of polio, the most feared disease of my childhood, is a perfect example of the triumph of American ingenuity. In 1953 about one out of every 100 Americans below the age of 20 had experienced some degree of paralysis caused by polio. Then, with well-deserved fanfare, the Salk vaccine was launched for use on April 12, 1955, exactly 10 years after the death of our most famous polio victim, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The vaccine was immediately put into widespread use." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"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." - Leo Galland, Power Healing: Use the New Integrated Medicine to Cure Yourself (Get the book.)

"American health authorities, still traumatized by the polio epidemic of the mid-1900s, embraced the concept of vaccination, and were willing to accept the negative aspects of thimerosal as a reasonable element of the risk/benefit ratio. However, even as further evidence of thimerosal toxicity kept accumulating, children began to be exposed to increasing amounts of it in vaccinations. For example, baby boomers who were born before 1963 received only one vaccination for polio, and one other combination vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (DTP)." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"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." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"He reserved high technology to refer to truly curative treatments or effective prevention techniques. polio vaccine is a good example. While many wouldn't consider polio vaccine to be high-tech, it reflects a deep understanding of the cause of the disease, the body's response, and how to effectively alter that response. Rather than offering expensive amelioration, it prevents the disease entirely. Before polio vaccine, the "high-tech" solution to severe polio was the iron lung. Unfortunately, most of what we consider high-tech is really halfway technology that offers no cures." - Richard A. Deyo M.D. M.P.H., Donald L. Patrick, Hope or Hype: The Obsession with Medical Advances and the High Cost of False Promises (Get the book.)

"There is some evidence to indicate that the only organs in the body that can produce a defense against polio are the tonsils and adenoids. If true, removal of these organs in children would make them more susceptible to polio. The Complementary Immune System At a certain point, when the macrophage immune system is totally overwhelmed, the "complementary immune system" kicks in. This secondary system is comprised of approximately 25 proteins/enzymes that activate in a cascading sequence and end with what's called the "membrane attack complex." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"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." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"An article in the Washington Post on January 26, 1988, mentioned that all cases of polio since 1979 had been caused by the polio vaccine with no known cases of polio from a wild strain since 1979. This might have created a perfect situation to discontinue the vaccine, but the vaccine is still used. Mass vaccination programs have nearly eradicated the childhood infectious diseases from the U.S. However, at the same time there has been a simultaneous increase in the number of children diagnosed with serious autoimmune illnesses." - James A. Howenstine, A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.)

"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." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"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." - John E. Sarno, M.D., The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders (Get the book.)

"I remember lining up in the elementary school gym as a third-grader to get my first polio shot, my childhood fear eased (mostly) by the understanding that I would no longer have to worry about getting polio. Huge strides have also been made in biomedical engineering and surgical techniques in the last 50 years. The cardiopulmonary bypass machine, which pumps blood through an artificial lung, replacing carbon dioxide with fresh oxygen, and then back into the body, allows surgeons to perform intricate heart surgery." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Past generations thought vaccination successful: 1878, smallpox defeated; 1885, rabies; 1911, typhoid; 1921, tuberculosis; 1925, diphtheria and tetanus; 1937, yellow fever; 1954, polio; 1960, measles; and 1967, mumps. Today, every child in the USA is vaccinated against whooping cough, hepatitis, chickenpox, measles, polio, diphtheria, mumps and tetanus. In fact there are 40 recommended childhood immunizations in all as of January 2002. If parents resist, they come into conflict with the law. Vaccinations, so it seems, are the great unquestionable victory of modern medicine." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"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." - Valerie V. Hunt, Infinite Mind: Science of the Human Vibrations of Consciousness (Get the book.)

"An article in the Washington Post on January 26, 1988, mentioned that all cases of polio since 1979 had been caused by the polio vaccine with no known cases of polio from a wild strain since 1979. This might have created a perfect situation to discontinue the vaccine, but the vaccine is still used. Mass vaccination programs have nearly eradicated the childhood infectious diseases from the U.S. However, at the same time there has been a simultaneous increase in the number of children diagnosed with serious autoimmune illnesses." - James A. Howenstine, A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.)

"If a "dirty bomb" exposed a large segment of US citizens simultaneously to Hepatitis B, Hepatitis A, tetanus, pertussis, diphtheria, Haemophilus influenza B, three strains of polio viruses, 3 strains of influenza viruses, measles, mumps, and rubella viruses, the chickenpox virus, and 7 strains of Streptococcus bacteria, we would declare a national emergency. We would call it an "extreme act of BIOTERRORISM." The public outcry would be immense and our government would act accordingly." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Second year: three for polio; three for hepatitis B (one at a time); and MMR (sometimes split, sometimes together, depending on the family's wishes) and varicella vaccine (one each). • Check titers of all antibodies at four to five years old. Dr. Rosen also told me that regardless of his advice, about 95 percent of his patients still opt for the standard vaccine schedule. Many medical insurers won't cover multiple office visits, and according to Dr. Rosen, there are also concerns about what's known as "standard of care." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Just when modern medicine had almost eradicated the traditional childhood epidemics of measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, polio, and tetanus, these even more insidious new disorders began to haunt our children with unprecedented occurrence. The end of one set of epidemics and the beginning of the other was not a coincidence. The medical technology that defeated the old epidemics was created by America's burgeoning industrialism, and this industrialism also created the ubiquitously toxic environment that has indirectly triggered the new epidemics." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"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." - Leo Galland, Power Healing: Use the New Integrated Medicine to Cure Yourself (Get the book.)

"For example, baby boomers who were born before 1963 received only one vaccination for polio, and one other combination vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (DTP). By 1989, children were still only receiving three different vaccinations. In 1991, though, the Centers for Disease Control recommended that all infants receive the hepatitis-B vaccine and the vaccination for HIB {Haemophilus influenzaetype B)." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"The epidemic of polio that brought panic to American parents in the mid-twentieth century reflects a changing pattern of specific immunity, paradoxically caused by improvements in sanitation. 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." - Leo Galland, Power Healing: Use the New Integrated Medicine to Cure Yourself (Get the book.)

"Louis Pascal describes the process of manufacturing oral polio vaccines (OPVs) at the time. Unbelievable as it may seem, the oral polio vaccine consisted of nothing more than the culture fluid from the polio-inoculated monkey kidney cell cultures after passage through a filter small enough to remove bacteria but large enough to permit passage of the polio virus, and whatever other viruses may have been infecting the monkeys before they were killed. This filtered culture fluid constituted the finished vaccine fed to hundreds of millions of people around the world." - Stephen Harrod Buhner, The Lost Language of Plants: The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicines for Life on Earth (Get the book.)

"The vaccinations for influenza, polio, yellow fever, and tuberculosis (BCG vaccine) may also bioenergetically weaken this field. The Lung Driver Infoceutical can help restore correct functioning to your lung field, especially through its energetic link to erythroblasts, which are the cells in the red marrow that synthesize hemoglobin. ENERGETIC DRIVER 8: STOMACH DRIVER The major organs of your digestive tract, including your stomach, intestines, and bowels, generate the Stomach Driver field." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"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." - E. D. Hirsch, Joseph F. Kett, James Trefil, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Get the book.)

"Researchers at the University of Chicago Medical Center say that 98 million Americans who took polio shots in the 1950s and 1960s may get a deadly brain cancer from the inoculations. Whether manufactured vaccines directly or indirectly cause cancer is irrelevant. It is important to know, however, that conventional immunization programs can prevent the body from developing a potentially life-saving healing crisis. All these different vaccines administered to millions of children and adults every year profoundly affect the body's ability to heal itself." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

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