1. Polio…..What Really Caused the Epidemic???
One of the most common arguments people often use to defend vaccinations alleges that
vaccines are responsible for eradicating epidemic diseases of the past such as polio and
smallpox. But a recent investigative review put together by Jeffry John Aufderheide over at
VacTruth.com explains not only why this claim is untrue, but also why pesticides may have been
responsible for spurring these disease outbreaks in the first place.
As part of a trivia series on polio, Aufderheide cites several studies showing that the widespread
use of chemical pesticides such as dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, or DDT, and heptachlor
following World War II, actual exacerbated viral disease outbreaks across the United States.
On a visual graph, it is clearly seen that the production and use of pesticides throughout the mid-
20th century is directly correlated to polio outbreaks, including the worst polio epidemic in
known history, which occurred in 1952.
You can view the graph here:
http://vactruth.com/2012/06/03/7-trivia-facts-about-polio/
According to a report compiled by the Secretary of the Interior that was presented before the
85th Congress back in 1958, polio really only became a problem after the 1940s, when chemical
companies began to produce large amounts of DDT, heptachlor, dieldrin, tetraethyl
pyrophosphate (TEPP), malathion, benzene hexachloride (BHC) and other pesticide chemicals
for use on agricultural crops. Prior to that time, polio was not nearly as virulent or problematic as
many people believe it was.
As DDT and other pesticides were eventually phased out, cases of polio also began to decline,
which suggests that vaccines may not have been primarily responsible for eradicating polio.
Improvements in sanitation, which are hardly ever mentioned by mainstream health authorities,
also played a major role in eradicating polio.
Pesticide-contaminated milk also responsible
for polio outbreaks
Many people during the 1950s became ill as a result of pesticide-contaminated milk, much of
which ended up having to be quietly pulled from store shelves in subsequent years. This
contaminated milk was also known to be a primary carrier of polio, and was directly responsible
for spreading the disease until the contaminating pesticides were eventually phased out, and the
milk supply effectively remediated.
Interestingly, milk-induced disease outbreaks were responsible for the later creation of milk
pasteurization mandates. But it was the pesticides and their tolerance of polio virus, not the fact
that milk was raw, that was responsible for spreading disease. And yet the belief that raw milk is
inherently dangerous is still prevalent today, while few have any real understanding of the role
pesticide-tainted milk played in spreading disease, and particularly polio.

2. Right around the time that dangerous pesticides were being retired and sanitation was being
improved, authorities released a polio vaccine that they claimed would eradicate the disease. The
precise timing of this strategic release would later be used to claim that the vaccine, and not
agricultural and sanitation improvements, was responsible for ending polio.
Revisionist history continues to fuel myth
that vaccines are responsible for eradicating
disease
Because of the way drug companies and vaccine manufacturers have influenced governmental
and health authorities over the years, the myth that vaccines are responsible for eradicating
disease has prevailed. Truth be told, the polio vaccine has been shown to actually cause many of
the paralysis symptoms associated with polio, including in India where there has been a 1,200
percent increase vaccine-associated polio paralysis (VAPP) since the introduction of massive
polio vaccine campaigns throughout the country
(http://www.naturalnews.com/035588_polio_vaccine_India_paralysis
Learn more:
http://www.naturalnews.com/036290_polio_DDT_pesticide_exposure.html#ixzz2NXg2WnU3