#Polio: The #Story You’ve Never #Heard

 

Posted By: Sherri Tenpenny, DO

I’m reading a fascinating book called, “Polio: An American Story,” by David Oshisky. This is an excerpt from the introduction:

“In 1949, San Angelo, Texas outbreak of polio in kids….Since poliovirus was often found in human feces and on the legs of houseflies, Dr R.E. Elvins, the city health officer, called for a heavy spraying of DDT, singling out the open pit toilets on the “Latin American” and “Negro” side of town….. Blaming the epidemic on the “wetbacks” who migrated north each year, monitoring the health of migrant workers become the target…

San Angelo bought two fogging machines to bathe the city in DDT. Twice each day, flatbed trucks would rumble through the streets, spraying the chemical from large hoses while children danced innocently in the mist that trailed behind. As a goodwill gesture, the local Sherwin-Williams store provided DDT at no cost, urging customers to drench the walls and furniture in their homes…..

By mind-June more than half of San Angelo’s 160 hospital beds were filled by polio patients, almost all of them children under 15.

In truth, polio was never the raging epidemic portrayed in the media, not even at its height in the 1940s and 1950s.  Ten times as many children would died in accidents in those years, and three times as many would die of cancer. Polio’s special status was due, in large part, to the efforts of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, better known as the March of Dimes, which employed the latest techniques in advertising, fund raising and motivational research to turn a horrific but relatively uncommon disease in to the most feared affliction of its time.

The genius of the National Polio Foundation lay in its ability to single out polio for

#BillGates’ #PolioVaccine Program Caused 47,500 Cases of #Paralysis #Death

In India, Monsanto hired Bollywood actors to promote genetically engineered cotton seed to illiterate farmers. Nana Petakar became a brand ambassador for Monsanto. The advertising has been called “aggressive, unscrupulous and false.” 

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Bill Gates, heavily invested in Monsanto’s GMOs as well as in vaccines, hired the most beloved of Indian actors, Amitabh Bachchan, to promote the oral polio vaccine.

Here is one example of the ads Bachchan created. Here is Bachchan and use of Bollywood itself to promote the vaccines, and here is another ad, in which Bachchan employs his acting skills. 

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says: 

“Worldwide efforts in the last two decades have reduced the number of polio cases by 99 percent. Until we reach eradication, however, we are working with governments and all partners in the polio effort to ensure no child is at risk of either contracting or transmitting this crippling disease.”

Monsanto used Bollywood actors and succeeded in selling India’s farmers Bt cotton seeds. Profits for Monsanto rose. 

When yields were less than promised, farmers incurred massive debt, leading many to suicide, in what is considered “the worst-ever recorded wave of suicides of this kind in human history.” To date, the number of suicides has surpassed 250,000. 

P. Sainath details this neoliberal terrorism: 

“With giant seed companies displacing cheap hybrids and far cheaper and hardier traditional varieties with their own products, a cotton farmer in Monsanto’s net would be paying far more for seed than he or she ever dreamed they would. Local varieties and hybrids were squeezed out with enthusiastic state support. 

“In 1991, you could buy a kilogram of local seed for as little as Rs.7 or Rs.9 in today’s worst affected region of Vidarbha. By 2003, you would pay Rs.350 — ($7) — for a bag with 450 grams of hybrid seed. By 2004, Monsanto’s partners in India were marketing a bag of 450 grams of Bt cotton seed for between Rs.1,650 and Rs.1,800 ($33 to $36).” 

Long after it was apparent that Monsanto was having a lethal impact on India, Bill Gates who says he wants to help the poor in India, made a huge investment in Monsanto. 

Does Gates care that he invested in a company that has left poor children of India without their fathers and lost them their land they had lived on? 

How is Gates’ other investment – vaccines – faring? Mimicking Monsanto’s PR, Gates used

WHO #Downplays Oral #Polio #Vaccine Spreading Polio

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Polio is a disease that thrives in the unsanitary and unclean. And now it also thrives in, well, the vaccine itself. The oral polio vaccine contains a live polio virus. Sound ridiculous? Well, that’s because it is. And it is also dangerous. The vaccine, when given to children, gives them the live virus. Many children have gotten Polio in this way, suffering from the paralysis that the vaccine markets itself to prevent. The bacteria itself can live in the feces and infect the sanitation of a community and spread into the great beyond. 

Why wouldn’t the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation merely contribute billions of dollars to restoring the