polio

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I am quite sure that it is possible for DDT to poison the body, to make it sick

or even paralyze it. But I have a doubt that DDT caused every case of polio or

the spraying of fruit trees with arsenic. First these sprays and DDT were used

extensively all over the U.S. They even sprayed the city of Chicago with DDT

hoping to kill their polio  virus in the fifties.  On the other hand there were

so few cases of paralytic polio  in the first place that you would think there

would be a lot more cases if DDT and arsenic were the main cause. In the worst

year which was 1952 they reported 21,269 cases of paralytic polio. I can't

exactly remember but I think there were about three hundred  million people in

this country. If we just take 10% and say they ate poisoned fruit  and were

around other toxic chemicals, that would be thirty million people who would be

subject to paralytic polio.. If only 21,000 had the condition I think that would

make a strong

argument against the DDT and other poisons . Because the question would be why

didn't more people who ate the fruits or were contaminated with other toxic

chemicals get it. Now you can add all the other toxic poisons that people were

subjected to and that weakens the case even more.

On a personal note during that time,  there was no panic from my  neighborhood

parents about polio. I remember some one saying not to go swimming in lake

Michigan, but the lake was always filled with swimmers. As far as spraying

the fruit trees my friends and neighbors and I always ate from these trees and

never washed the fruit. The point is my Uncle always sprayed the trees out of

the back of his pickup truck. I don't even remember any one wearing a mask of

any kind.  I asked my older  brother what he and my uncle were using in that

spray and he said it was arsenic. I also attended four schools during the

fifties: one being in California, a school of 3000 and only recall one girl with

a whithered leg.

The part of her book that appealed to me was the virus liquid. This is what I

read about in all my old books. There was no virus like they teach today. That

is they didn't pick out specks which was magnified 50,000 times and inject them

into a body.

Let me quote what they really did>

Flexner, S.  The transmission of poliomyelitis to monkeys, J.A.M.A. Nov. 13

1909.

" The virus of poliomyelitis was carried successfully through a series of

monkeys by intracranial inoculations of emulsions of the spinal cord of children

who died of poliomyelitis. "

Flexner again Dec. . 18, 1909.  " Report of experiments the results of which

indicated that the infecting agent of poliomyelitis " belongs to the class of

minute and filterable viruses. "

Like the lady in the book said the electron microscope was not invented until

the 1930s.

And the word  virus to these people clearly meant poison. These sick and

demented men ground up the spinal cords of dead kids, added their poisons and

made the liquid soup and this is what they injected into the monkeys brain. When

the monkey survived they concluded,assumed,guessed that the reason the monkey

didn't get polio was because the virus(poison) injected into it  created

antibodies and then they concluded, assumed, guessed that if a body had

developed antibody that these antibodies would attacked the so-called imaginary

virus(bug) that they believed was the cause of polio or any other disease.

Flexner again.  " Lists a number of other animals in which the virus was

introduced into the brain but without causing any appreciable effects. In

paralyzed monkeys lesions similar to those in the cord and brain were found in

the intervertebral ganglia "

The key word here is lesions .  Moving up to 1949 it was Enders they said

grew the polio virus in tissue culture. What he really did was to inject his

liquid poison into the monkey kidney cells and a few days later he saw the

lesions(destroyed cells) and concluded, assumed, guessed that it was something

in the liquid that destroyed  the cells rather then the poison itself. In other

words these idiots evidently didn't think that the poison had the power to

destroy. They wanted to believe it was something alive they couldn't see.  The

term live virus, from the research I have been doing refers to the cell or

actual disease that comes from a live cell or person. It is not a dead speck

that magically comes alive.

As far as what happen to polio in the 1950s let me quote.

Leegaard, C. Poliomyelitis in Norway.  1914

" Leegaard also describes an outbreak in 1868 of 14 cases with five deaths,

originally regarded as cases of meningitis. "

Louria, L.  " Personal experience of the abortive and meningitis types(of

poliomyelitis) 

Arch. Pediat.  1916.

Poynton, F.J.  " The meningitic form of acute poliomyelitis. "   Clin. J.  1919

Newark, N.J. Dept of Health.  " Poliomyelitis, Meningitis, becoming rare. Forty

second annual report, for year ending Dec. 31.. 1926, p. 45

And last but not least, because I am really tired the book I suggested the other

day clearly says Salk did not concern himself with viruses. He believed that if

there were antibodies in the blood then you were protected from polio period. He

knew that almost any poison injected into the body could provoke the body into

making antibodies.

There is of course tons more of supporting evidence to the above quotes.

Jim