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VACCINATION MYTH #6: "Polio was one of the clearly great
vaccination success stories..." ...or was it?
Six New England states reported increases in polio one year after the Salk vaccine was
introduced, ranging from more than doubling in Vermont to Massachusetts' astounding
increase of 642%. In 1959, 77.5% of Massachusetts' paralytic cases had received 3 doses of
IPV (injected polio vaccine). During 1962 U.S. Congressional hearings, Dr. Bernard
Greenberg, head of the Dept. of Biostatistics for the University of North Carolina School
of Public Health, testified that not only did the cases of polio increase substantially
after mandatory vaccinations (50% increase from 1957 to 1958, 80% increase from 1958 to
1959), but that the statistics were manipulated by the Public Health Service to give the
opposite impression.[39]
According to researcher-author Dr. Viera Scheibner, 90% of polio cases were eliminated
from statistics by health authorities' redefinition of the disease when the vaccine was
introduced, while in reality the Salk vaccine was continuing to cause paralytic polio in
several countries at a time when there were no epidemics being caused by the wild virus.
(For example, in the U.S., thousands of cases of viral and aseptic meningitis are reported
each year--these were routinely diagnosed as polio before the Saulk vaccine; the number of
cases needed to declare an epidemic was raised from 20 to 35; and the requirement for
inclusion in paralysis statistics was changed from symptoms for 24 hours to symptoms for
over 60 days; it is no wonder that polio decreased radically after vaccines--at least on
paper.) In 1985, the CDC reported that 87% of the cases of polio in the U.S. between 1973
and 1983 were caused by the vaccine, and later declared that all but a few imported cases
since were caused by the vaccine--and most of the imported cases occurred in fully
immunized individuals.
Jonas Salk, inventor of the IPV, testified before a Senate subcommittee that nearly all
polio outbreaks since 1961 were caused by the oral polio vaccine. At a workshop on polio
vaccines sponsored by the Institute of Medicine and the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, Dr. Samuel Katz of Duke University cited the estimated 8-10 annual U.S. cases
of vaccine-associated paralytic polio (VAPP) in people who have taken the oral polio
vaccine, and the [four year] absence of wild polio from the western hemisphere. Jessica
Scheer of the National Rehabilitation Hospital Research Center in Washington, D.C.,
pointed out that most parents are unaware that polio vaccination in this country entails
"a small number of human sacrifices each year." Compounding this contradiction
are low adverse event reporting and the NVIC's experiences with confirming and correcting
misdiagnoses of vaccine reactions, which suggest that the actual number of VAPP
"sacrifices" may be many times higher than the number cited by the CDC.
VACCINATION TRUTH #6:
"Vaccines caused substantial increases in polio after years of steady declines,
and they are the sole cause of polio in the U.S. today."
INTRODUCTION
MYTH #1: "Vaccines are completely safe..."
MYTH #2: "Vaccines are very effective..."
MYTH #3: "Vaccines are the main reason for low disease rates
in the U.S. today..."
MYTH #4: "Vaccination is based on sound immunization theory
and practice..."
MYTH #5: "Childhood diseases are extremely
dangerous..."
MYTH #7: "My child had no short-term reaction to
vaccination, so there is nothing to worry about..."
MYTH #8: "Vaccines are the only disease prevention option
available..."
MYTH #9: "Vaccinations are legally mandated, and thus
unavoidable..."
MYTH #10: "Public health officials always place health above
all other concerns..."
SUMMARY and About the Author...
(39) Hearings before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of
Representatives, 87th Congress, Second Session on H.R. 10541, May 1962, p.94.
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