DDT and the Origns of the "Polio Virus" Timeline - Nolabutterfly

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Okay guys, I read one article about the origins of polio and I'm gonna read another one here Each one offers a little something more but still paints the same picture driving at home Forest Merady wrote a year ago The polio story as you learned it is wrong. It's one of the most often misunderstood sequence of events in the last 200 years I wanted to explain a few things about the disease to help people understand what actually happened The first modern account of something resembling polio was in 1789 a physician named Michael Underwood described an illness in children he called the ability of the lower extremities He attributed it to teething and foul bowels One of the next mentions was from Louisiana in 1841 a few children came down with paralysis the supposed cause teething Why would teething be associated with paralysis? various stories appeared throughout the 1800s of children coming down with paralysis almost always in their legs Many people called the teething paralysis but others settled on infantile paralysis This was a new phenomenon Dr. said never seen it before and didn't know what it why it was happening Research began to reveal that the cause of paralysis Or lesions on the gray part of the spinal cord If you developed a lesion on your spinal cord they called it polio myelitis polio gray myelitis inflammation of the spinal cord A polio myelitis was a lesion on your spinal cord You could have more than one of them But they didn't know why children had begun developing them seemingly out of nowhere Scientists conducted research on animals by purposefully poisoning them with arsenic An ingredient of popular medical remedies at the time The result paralysis in their hind legs When they did autopsies of the animals they discovered lesions in their spinal cord The animals had what was called polio myelitis During the 1800s the most common medical treatment for any sickness contained mercury In order to clear the bowels Infants received mercury containing teething powder This wasn't a French-Trint treatment But something as common as Tylenol might be considered today If the metal arsenic was known to cause polio myelitis then perhaps So could mercury Throughout the 1800s there were a few cases of infantile paralysis That would pop up here and there not really any epidemics In the 1890s something changed A new pesticide was invented in 1892 called lead arsenate near Boston mass To combat the spread of a foreign invader the gypsy moth It combined lead and arsenic together because it couldn't be easily washed off If you're interested I talk about this whole story in my book The Moth and the Iron Lung You can get it here The pesticide began being sprayed aggressively and within two years the first real epidemics of polio myelitis Infantile paralysis began to appear in the northeastern US Rather than a few children coming down with something it started getting into the hundreds These epidemics affected children more than anyone but had another strange set of victims animals Horses dogs chickens pigs all dead from polio myelitis Sleetians in their spinal cord that caused paralysis and death That's a strange because the polio virus doesn't affect animals Besides old world monkeys These early outbreaks are referred to as the first polio outbreaks in the US But we know it couldn't have been due to the polio virus if animals were being struck Another event would confuse scientists of the day In effect, which is the main reason people get the polio story is so wrong even today Cokes postulates Cokes postulates were some research guidelines that basically stipulated there was a single causative microbe for every disease It was true for all the other diseases cholera typhoid fever diphtheria Over the next few years scientists discovered that many things could cause a polio myelitis It wasn't just arsenic There were several other viruses in bacteria that if injected directly into the nervous system could cause lesions that would trigger paralysis But the cloud of coaxed postulates hung over their research and many scientists felt like All the other diseases polio myelitis had to be due to one thing a bacteria or a virus. They just had to find it You can see the shift in their thinking around this time They start referring to the disease as a proper noun polio myelitis rather than using it as a symptom The patient has polio myelitis At this time viruses were still very difficult to work with They couldn't see them only to do their presence by the symptoms they might cause In 1908 a virus was found to be able to cause paralysis in monkeys They named polio virus because it could cause polio myelitis in the monkeys Other viruses in bacteria would cause the same thing Cogs acu virus echo virus D68 etc With coaxed postulates guiding their search they began to focus on this one virus as the cause of polio myelitis Despite knowing there were many other causes This mistake would create suffering for millions of people over the next few decades The question is if viruses in bacteria could cause polio myelitis why then and not before Why did epidemics of polio suddenly appear in the 1900s when they did not exist before Some have suggested improvements in sanitation as the cause They suggested better sanitation prevent people from picking up the infections as children When they were protected by their mother's breast milk antibodies This hypothesis is weak The disease was called infantile paralysis by many even in the 1940s because it seemed to always strike infants If better sanitation was the cause Teens or adults should have been the ones with the problems Also the early outbreaks were always in rural areas where there was little change in sanitation practices Not coincidentally these rural areas were subjected to heavy pesticides spraying The real question is if the spinal cord was well protected from these paralytic infections Why did it suddenly seem to become vulnerable starting around this time? I believe ingestive pesticides known to cause cellular membrane dysfunction Created a path directly from the intestines to the bottom of the spinal cord Located directly behind For the viruses and bacteria to take hold This is why multiple viruses polio virus, coxacchi virus, echo virus etc I'll begin paralyzing children around the time It wasn't a genetic mutation It was in sanitation improvements It was a physical alteration of the gut integrity by pesticides Modern scientists will say that the virus gets in the blood and reaches the spinal cord that way But why did the infection nearly always affect the bottom of the spinal cord when the blood supply reaches the entire cord evenly? This is why I believe infants and children were the worst affected The bottom of the infant spinal cord, the part that control the legs, lies directly behind the intestines As you grow the spinal cord does not grow as much as the vertebrae and in adults The bottoms of the spinal cords end up being much higher in relation to the intestines Well out of reach for most toxic or microbial assaults This is why they injected cell polio vaccine worked so poorly It created antibodies for only one of many viruses that could paralyze and it created antibodies in the blood A useless defense against an intestinal infection As a lead arsenate fell out of favor because of its toxicity A new set of synthetic pesticides came into play and made this problem much worse After World War II DDT began being applied everywhere spray directly into children's food They're clothing they're bedding etc It made people very sick in the paralysis of polio myelitis exploded It was horrible Oh Jesus By 1952 it was clear many of the insects were becoming DDT resistant And its toxicity began to concern people They began to use safer pesticides and with lead arsenate also fading out of the picture infantile paralysis began to disappear Trimms DDT children's room wallpaper and ceiling paper. Oh my god So all these die right after contact but you're not worried about your little bugger Oh look Donald Duck Gully there's Pluto too Even Steedman's cheating powder the mercury containing product administered to teething infants for so long changed its formula By 1960 the ineffectiveness of the sulk vaccine concerned scientists and they gathered in Chicago to discuss the problem People were getting paralyzed after even four more shots They were also concerned about studying Detroit where they had taken stool samples of nearly 1,000 people diagnosed with polio Just one third of those people tested actually had polio Everyone else had been stricken with some other paralyzing virus This presents a problem because many of the people were told they had polio when they were affected as children The reality is doctors could not have known what caused the paralysis It could have been what a many different viruses pesticides are even bacteria The Sabin oral polio vaccine soon came into use and it could actually control the polio virus infection within the gut Where it actually made a difference But it didn't matter it only affected the polio virus none of the other paralyzing microbes The oral polio vaccine is a live virus So if you're ingesting a live virus vaccine and you have heavy metal poisoning You're you're introducing risk There's that point too By this time 1963 polio myelitis aka polio had all but disappeared as it turns out neither of the vaccines were actually necessary well, I guess not if Ecovirus and coxacu viruses were not treated and they went away The sock vaccine was horrible at actually preventing paralysis And the Sabin vaccine came too late to make a difference Today countries that use toxic pesticides still struggle with infantile paralysis aka polio Extremely aggressive oral polio vaccine use may help control polio virus infections But with several other paralyzing viruses in existence It's not that penetrile people believed it to be To complicate matters the oral polio virus vaccine itself occasionally creates paralysis That's because if you have heavy metal poisoning and you consume the live virus You're back where you were With a virus and heavy metal damage and a vulnerability to disability and paralysis The utin strains of polio vaccine now cause more paralysis than the actual So what is the one to take away from all this? polio is a man-made problem the paralysis caused from direct pesticide exposure or from viruses being allowed into the spinal cord Can be directly attributed to a man-made cause It appeared in epidemic form in the 1890s from the introduction of lead arsonate and disappeared in the 1950s when DDT usage fell Because we know it was caused by many different things the effect of a single virus vaccine on planets decline is minimal As I mentioned earlier, I have a book that covers the entire story in detail And I mentioned many things I've skipped. It's called the moth and the iron lung. I hope you'll You're able to read it If we can get the polio story correct in our heads many other problems can be solved the infantile paralysis That still takes place in many developing countries will not be solved from a polio vaccine Cleaning up their environment is absolutely necessary Many thanks for reading and I'm happy to try and answer any of your questions One more thing this picture is what everyone thinks of when they think of polio This was a publicity stunt arranged for life magazine Most of these iron lungs were brand new and were headed around the country to other hospitals It was taken in the auditorium of Ranchos Los Amigos Hospital in Los Angeles Which had been emptied of its rows of seating to make this picture It was designed to show worried parents that the US was ready for battle Although the hospital had the largest polio ward in the country at its peak It would have never had this many iron lungs in operation Most hospitals in big cities had a couple of iron lungs And even when there is paralysis you don't have iron lungs anymore, but then again you're not You're not Dusting the kids With DDT are you There were around a one one one thousand one hundred in the whole country at their peak Nothing like this Picture would indicate The next time you look at this photo you should be struck at the destructive power of men and his inventions The polio virus like all the other paroletic causes of that era were incapable of harming us without some of our help And And there you have it Annette Hi This is with you