The Polio Game by Stan Burke
How does one play the Polio Game?
According to Dr. Dennis H. Geffen, O.B.E.. M.D.. D.P.H., of every 100
people who become infected with the virus, 90 per cent, remain
symptomless, 9 show some slight sign of disease, such as sore throat or
stiffness of the neck, whilst only 1 develops definite paralysis.
He is reported in Public Health (March 1955) to have told the Metropolitan Branch, Society of Medical Officers of Health that:
“We are apt to forget that poliomyelitis
is the least serious of all infectious diseases with the exception of
that one complication or extension of the disease which destroys motor
cells in the brain and spinal cord and causes paralysis. Apart from this
it appears to be a mild infection lasting a few days, the symptoms of
which are probably less serious than a cold in the head, and from which
recovery is complete and immunity lasting. If we could be sure that an
individual contracting poliomyelitis would not become paralysed then
there might be much to be said for spreading the disease in order that a
community might develop natural immunity.”
- One ignores that polio was disappearing on its own before the introduction of the vaccine.
- One ignores what actually happened when the vaccine was introduced.
Only thirteen days after the vaccine had been acclaimed by the whole
of the American Press and Radio as one of the greatest medical
discoveries of the century, and two days after the English Minister of
Health had announced he would go right ahead with the manufacture of the
vaccine, came the first news of disaster. Children inoculated with one
brand of vaccine had developed poliomyelitis. In the following days more
and more cases were reported, some of then after inoculation with other
brands of the vaccine. Then came another, and wholly unlooked-for
complication. The Denver Medical Officer, Dr. Florio announced the
development of what he called ‘satellite’ polio, that is, cases of the
disease in the parents or other close contacts of children who had been
inoculated and. alter a few days’ illness in hospital, had returned
home: they communicated the disease to others, although not suffering
from it themselves.
On June 23rd, 1955 the American Public Health Service announced that
there had been 149 confirmed cases of poliomyelitis among the
vaccinated, with six deaths, and 149 cases among the contacts of
children given the Salk vaccine, with six deaths. Nor is this the end of
the story; how many vaccinated children will eventually be reported as
developing the disease is as yet unknown, but it is at any rate limited
by the fact that the distribution of further batches of vaccine was
suspended on May 6th, the actual manufacture of Cutter vaccine, which
had been responsible for most of the polio cases, having been stopped
altogether, pending a full inquiry, by the National Institute of Health
on April 28th.
But with regard to the “satellite” cases the situation is far worse.
According to Dr. Florio, children when inoculated with a faulty vaccine
may become carriers of the virus. He estimated (Daily Express. May 16.
1955) that all of the 1,500 vaccinated Denver children had become
carriers. “We have created a group of carriers”, he said, “and then
there will be another group and so the cycle will go on. It is very
distressing.” Some of the contacts acquired the disease in its deadliest
form.
The interval between inoculation and the first sign of paralysis
ranged from 5 to 20 days and in a large proportion of cases it started
in the limb in which the injection had been given. Another feature of
the tragedy was that the numbers developing polio were far greater than
would have been expected had no inoculations been carried out. In fact,
in the state of Idaho. according to a statement by Dr. Curl Eklund, one
of the Government’s chief virus authorities, polio struck only
vaccinated children in areas where there had been no cases since the
preceding autumn: in 9 out of 10 cases the paralysis occurred in the
arms in which the vaccine had been injected. (News Chronicle. May 6,
1955).
This experience led to Mr. Peterson, the Health Director for the
State of Idaho, calling a halt to the mass inoculation programme.
According to the Daily Telegraph (June 19. I955) he stated: “We have
lost confidence in the Salk vaccine.” The report continues: “He said
that he holds the vaccine, together with the instructions for its
manufacture. directly responsible for the outbreak of polio in Idaho.
This outbreak has resulted in 86 cases of the disease, including seven
deaths, since the mass immunisation programme began in April. Mr.
Peterson expressed disappointment that scientists and officials had not
visited Idaho.” He contended: “This was the H.Q. of the biggest outbreak
there was. This was the place where they could study the facts.”
An article in Time (May 30. 1955 commented: “In retrospect, a good
deal of the blame for the vaccine snafu also went to the National
Foundation, which, with years of publicity, had built up the danger of
polio out of all proportion to its actual incidence. and had rushed into
vaccinations this year with patently insufficient preparation.”
Dr. Geffen is Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, and in his
address from which the foregoing has been quoted he had some very
interesting things to say about the importance of predisposing factors
in the host as compared with that of the infecting virus. He gave a list
of four main host factors which predispose a person to developing the
disease:
(1) Operations for the removal of tonsils and adenoids.
(2) The condition of pregnancy.
(3) Undue exertion, fatigue and chill.
(4) Small injuries such as the
inoculation of vaccines, injection of drugs like penicillin. In these
cases paralysis is usually observed in the limb which has received the
trauma.
From
The polio vaccine: a critical assessment of its arcane history, efficacy, and long-term health-related consequences:
“Several studies show that injections
increase susceptibility to polio. When diphtheria and pertussis vaccines
were introduced in the 1940s, cases of paralytic poliomyelitis
skyrocketed.
This chart
shows the average number of polio cases per 100,000 people during five
year periods before and after the vaccines were introduced. (Source:
National Morbidity Reports taken from U.S. Public Health surveil- lance
reports; Lancet (April 18, 1950), pp. 659-63.)
“A 1992 study, published in the Journal
of Infectious Diseases, validated earlier findings. Children who
received DPT (diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis) injections were
significantly more likely than controls to suffer paralytic
poliomyelitis within the next 30 days [16]. According to the authors,
‘this study confirms that injections are an important cause of
provocative poliomyelitis’ [16:444].
“In 1995, the New England Journal of
Medicine published a study showing that children who received a single
injection within one month after receiving a polio vaccine were 8 times
more likely to contract polio than children who received no injections.
The risk jumped 27-fold when children received up to nine injections
within one month after receiving the polio vaccine. And with ten or more
injections, the likelihood of developing polio was 182 times greater
than expected [17].
“Why injections increase the risk of
polio is unclear [18]. Nevertheless, these studies and others [19-24]
indicate that ‘injections must be avoided in countries with endemic
poliomyelitis’ [18].”
“For four decades, government officials have insisted that there is
no evidence the simian virus called SV40 is harmful to humans. But in
recent years, dozens of scientific studies have found the virus in a
steadily increasing number of rare brain, bone and lung-related tumors –
the same malignant cancer SV40 causes in lab animals,” the report said.
“Even more troubling, the virus has been detected in tumors removed
from people never inoculated with the contaminated vaccine, leading some
to worry that those infected by the vaccine might be spreading SV40.”
“Barbara Loe Fisher, president and co-founder of theNational Vaccine
Information Center, a non-profit organization which advocates vaccine
safety, testified before the House Government Reform Committee’s
subcommittee on Human Rights and Wellness in September 2003 that
“[T]oday, U.S. federal health agencies admit the following two facts:
(1) Salk polio vaccine released for public use between 1955 and 1963
was contaminated with SV40; and SV40 has been proven to cause cancer in
animals.
“Continuing, Fisher said that at a 1997 conference on SV40 and human
cancers held by the National Institutes of Health which she attended,
“there was no disagreement among both government and non-government
scientists about these two facts.
“The only disagreement was whether SV40 was actually being identified
in the cancerous tumors of children and adults alive today and, if it
was, whether the monkey virus was in fact responsible for their cancer.
Non-government scientists working in independent labs around the world
said, ‘Yes.’ But the scientists connected with the U.S. government said
‘No.’
“SV-40 is transmitted through sexual intercourse, and from mother to
child in the womb. Monkeys that were used to make polio vaccines were
infected with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), a virus closely
related to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the infectious agent
associated with AIDS. Some researchers question whether HIVs may simply
be SIVs “residing in and adapting to a human host.” Polio vaccines also
contain calf serum, glycerol and other parts of the cow that may have
been infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow
disease, a fatal brain-wasting ailment that some researchers link to
Cruetzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), its human equivalent.”
http://www.thinktwice.com/Polio.pdf
- One ignores that there were cautions issued about the polio vaccine.
The editor of the News Chronicle (January 1, 1956) wisely headed his
editorial column “A Case for Caution “, stating: “Parents have the
assurance that this vaccine will be as safe as the scientists can make
it.” No doubt; but is this as safe as the public will demand? It is
scarcely reassuring to learn from the Minister of Health that “the
British vaccine will have been subject to stringent safety tests and
will, I am advised, be as safe as any vaccine can be.” One recalls the
statement of Dr. Scheele, the American Surgeon General, in June 1955
that “no batch of the vaccine can be proved safe before it is given to
children.”
When national immunization campaigns were initiated in the 1950s, the
number of reported cases of polio following mass in- oculations with
the killed-virus vaccine was significantly greater than before mass
inoculations, and may have more than doubled in the U.S. as a whole.
When national immunization campaigns were initiated in the 1950s, the
number of reported cases of polio following mass in- oculations with the
killed-virus vaccine was significantly greater than before mass
inoculations, and may have more than doubled in the U.S. as a whole.
Doctors and scientists on the staff of the National Institutes of
Health during the 1950s were well aware that the Salk vaccine was
causing polio. Some frankly stated that it was “worthless as a pre-
ventive and dangerous to take [26:142].” They refused to vacci- nate
their own children [26:142]. Health departments banned the inoculations
[26:140]. The Idaho State Health Director angrily declared: “I hold the
Salk vaccine and its manufacturers responsi- ble” for a polio outbreak
that killed several Idahoans and hospital- ized dozens more [26:140].
Even Salk himself was quoted as say- ing: “When you inoculate children
with a polio vaccine you don’t sleep well for two or three weeks
[26:144;43].” But the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, and
drug companies with large investments in the vaccine coerced the U.S.
Public Health Service into falsely proclaiming the vaccine was safe and
effective [26:142-5].
- One ignores the simple categorization changes to determine incidence of the disease.
“Polio cases were predetermined to decrease when the medical
definition of polio was changed. Cases of polio were more often reported
as aseptic meningitis after the vaccine was introduced, skewing
efficacy rates. Source: The Los Angeles County Health Index: Morbidity
and Mortality, Reportable Diseases.
“The fact that dubious tactics were used to fabricate efficacy rates
was corroborated by Dr. Bernard Greenberg, chairman of the Committee on
Evaluation and Standards of the American Public Health Association
during the 1950s. His expert testimony was used as evidence during
Congressional hearings in 1962. He cred- ited the “decline” of polio
cases not to the vaccine, but rather to a change in the way doctors were
required to report cases: “Prior to 1954 any physician who reported
paralytic poliomyelitis was do- ing his patient a service by way of
subsidizing the cost of hospi- talization… two examinations at least 24
hours apart was all that was required… In 1955 the criteria were
changed… residual paralysis was determined 10 to 20 days after onset of
illness and again 50 to 70 days after onset… This change in definition
meant that in 1955 we started reporting a new disease… Furthermore,
diagnostic procedures have continued to be refined. Coxsackie virus
infections and aseptic meningitis have been distinguished from
poliomyelitis… Thus, simply by changes in diagnostic criteria, the
number of paralytic cases was predetermined to decrease… [52:96,97]”
- One ignores nearly 50,000 cases of paralysis itself.
As the WHO is praising India for nearly eradicating polio,
tens of thousands of cases of paralysis
are appearing in India immediately following vaccination. Polio has
“statistically disappeared” from India, while the huge spike in cases of
paralysis is categorized as non-polio acute flaccid paralysis (NPAFP).
- One ignores that Bill Gates, out of the goodness of his
mega-investment strategy, created a vaccine saturation campaign to
“eradicate” polio with a vaccine known to cause polio.
“… it [the oral polio vaccine]
cannot be given to people with compromised immune systems [1,35].
Plus, it is capable of causing polio in some recipients of the
vaccine, and in individuals with compromised immune systems who come
into close contact with recently vaccinated children [1,35-38]. As a
result, in January 2000, the CDC “updated” its polio vaccine
recommendations, reverting back to policies first implemented during the
1950s: Children should only be given the killed-virus shot. The oral
polio vaccine should only be used in “special circumstances [39-41].” ….
[Needless to say, children in India who are forced to take Gates'
polio vaccines, live with compromised immune systems because of often
severe malnutrition, so it would be contraindicated to give them the
polio vaccine or to give it to anyone who would come in contact with
them.]
In 1976, Dr. Jonas Salk, creator of the killed-virus vaccine used in
the 1950s, testified that the live-virus vaccine (used almost
exclusively in the U.S. from the early 1960s to 2000) was the “principal
if not sole cause” of all reported polio cases in the U.S. since 1961
[44]. (The virus remains in the throat for one to two weeks and in the
feces for up to two months. Thus, vaccine recipients are at risk, and
can potentially spread the disease, as long as fecal excretion of the
virus continues [45].) In 1992, the Federal Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC) published an admission that the live-virus vaccine
had become the dominant cause of polio in the United States [36]. In
fact, according to CDC figures, every case of polio in the U.S. since
1979 was caused by the oral polio vaccine [36]. Authorities claim the
vaccine was responsible for about eight cases of polio every year [46].
However, an independent study that analyzed the government’s own vaccine
database during a recent period of less than five years uncovered
13,641 reports of adverse events following use of the oral polio
vaccine. These reports included 6,364 emergency room visits and 540
deaths (Figure 3) [47,48]. Public outrage at these tragedies became the
impetus for removing the oral polio vaccine from immunization schedules
[36:568;37;38]. [Emphasis added.]
- One ignores that Pakistan, having recognized that the polio vaccines
from GAVI (Gates, Rockefellers, WHO) were causing polio, is being
threatened by the WHO for trying to suspend polio vaccination.
- One ignores the possible link between the polio vaccines and AIDs and the polio vaccine and Mad Cow disease. www.thinktwice.com/Polio.pdf
“If AIDS originated in Africa via contaminated polio vaccines, how
did this disease spread to male homosexuals in America? In 1974, clinics
in New York and California began experimental treatments for gay men
afflicted with herpes. Therapy consisted of multiple doses of the live
polio vaccine [132]. As noted earlier, this vaccine was produced in the
kidneys of the African Green monkey, a known reservoir for simian
immunodeficiency virus (SIV), a likely precursor to HIV [59;84;97-104].
Beginning in the early 1980s, simultaneous outbreaks of Kaposi sarcoma
and seri- ous opportunistic infections (later associated with AIDS) were
reported among homosexual men, especially in New York City, San
Francisco, and Los Angeles [99]. This time span coincides with the
average incubation period between HIV infection and the development of
AIDS [100].
“In 1982, the CDC concluded that such outbreaks “strongly sug- gests
the occurrence of a single epidemic of underlying immuno- suppression…
[133]” The following year, HIV was identified as the causative agent
[99]. And in 1992,
“Lancet published the first scientific explanation showing how
repeated doses of SIV- contaminated polio vaccines may have seeded HIV
among Ameri- can homosexual men [99]….
“BSE [Mad Cow disease] associated infectious agents are capable of
contaminating polio vaccines because they are not only grown in monkey
kid- neys, but in calf serum as well [3]. In fact, many parts of the cow
are used in vaccine production. Glycerol is derived from cow fat;
gelatin and amino acids come from cow bones; and the growth medium for
viruses and other microorganisms may require cow skeletal muscle,
enzymes, and blood [139].
“Authorities knew that vaccines could be infected with BSE associated
transmissible agents as early as 1988. Yet, in England, vaccine
manufacturers waited months before switching to cows less likely to be
infected, and refused to remove current stock off the shelves and out of
doctor’s offices until it was all sold, or ex- pired five years later
towards the end of 1993 [146]. One outraged legislator declared that
“the Department of Health was potentially criminally negligent in not
requiring the immediate withdrawal or cessation of use of vaccines from
potentially contaminated sources [146]. Despite nationwide apprehension,
manufacturers continued to disregard European guidelines [150].
Finally, in October 2000, the Department of Health became so concerned
about the likeli- hood of children being infected with BSE-contaminated
vaccines and falling prey to vCruetzfeldt-Jakob disease (dozens of
people, including children, had already contracted it) [151] that they
is- sued a recall of hundreds of thousands of polio vaccines made using
fetal bovine serum extracted from British cows [139,148,152].”
- One ignores that after previous honesty about the polio vaccines,
and numbers showing that the vaccines were causing polio, and warnings,
such honesty has almost disappeared but not so the vaccines or the
victims. The public has been led to believe the polio vaccines are
essential. The are now mandated and are given in many doses.
This is how the polio game is played. One ignores history and science
and reality and simply believes what one is told – that the polio
vaccine eradicated polio. And based on the wonder of the polio vaccine,
one believes, despite all maiming and disease and financial corruption
to the contrary, that vaccines are miracles of modern medicine.
