ONGOING CORRUPTION FROM THE PAST
The Moth and the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio, by Forrest Maready reveals that neurological damage (poliomyelitis) is a condition that had many causal factors other than the polio virus. Other causes include many other viruses, the chemical DDT, arsenic, and components of vaccines. The use of DDT became prolific throughout the 1940’ to 1960’s, and beyond. Yet, the epidemic of paralysis was blamed solely on one virus– the poliomyelitis virus- by the media who was used to promote a polio vaccine as the solution.
Changes to the definition of an ‘epidemic’ and to the diagnostic criteria and surveillance of polio occurred after 1954, when the vaccine was introduced into the population. This resulted in the appearance of a decline in the disease, as DDT was phased out and polio vaccination campaigns were implemented.
This decline was largely a result of the manipulation of statistics due to changes in the definition of ‘polio’ that had previously included both paralytic and non-paralytic cases of the disease. After 1954, the diagnostic criteria for polio was changed, and the two examinations were spaced 60 days apart instead of 24 hours apart. This meant that all the short-term paralyses were no longer included in the definition of "polio". This appearance of a decline in polio was further enhanced by changing the definition of an 'epidemic' from 20/100,000 population to 35/100,000 population per year.
Prior to 1954, the surveillance of polio was also enhanced by the Health Department through increased funding for hospitals. Diagnosing polio was incentivised by linking its diagnosis to the funding of hospital services, just as they are doing today, in 2020, with COVID19. This increased surveillance for polio prior to 1954, was removed after the vaccine was introduced.
Hence, whilst the statistics indicated that polio in the US declined from 1955 onwards, the reality was that paralysis increased by 50% from 1957-1958 and 80% by 1958-1959. The decline in polio was enhanced again in 1958, when non-paralytic cases of polio that showed meningeal signs were re-classified as "aseptic meningitis."
These changes in diagnostic criteria and surveillance have been well documented by Dr. Suzanne Humphries, MD, in her book Dissolving Illusions: Diseases, Vaccines and History you don’t Know.
"Smoke, Mirrors & the Disappearance” of Polio, Dr. Suzanne Humphries, MD