The Polio Vaccine, like all others, came about because of public
demand for it. Public demand comes down to one word: Fear. Rightfully so,
because people who don’t understand the nature of viruses want to rush “science”
to find a “cure”. The same is true for cancer. Rushing a vaccine is never a
good idea; the long-term consequences can never be determined in short-term
trials. The same mistakes hold true today.
After years of watching loved ones slowly succumb to the
terrifying struggle to walk and breathe, followed by destruction of the brain-the
word polio struck fear into the heart of every American. At the height of the
“epidemic” in the early 1950s, over 58,000 Americans became crippled or
died—most were children. Stadium sized hospital wards were full of “iron lung”
machines for those who became too weak to breathe on their own. (historyofvaccines.org resource below)
President Franklin Roosevelt (himself crippled with polio before
entering the White House), as well as the most powerful political forces at the
time, supported a national scientific effort to create a vaccine. One of
Roosevelt’s friends organized The March
of Dimes—an organization that collected millions of dollars of dimes from
grade school children to help finance the research effort.
Jonas Salk postulated that if you grew the poliovirus in the lab,
killed it, and then injected it into healthy children—the dead viruses would
not be able to reproduce, so no harm would come to the children. Their immune
systems would detect the presence of the virus, mount a strong defense and would
produce a supply of antibodies in the process. Then –the child’s fully primed
immune system would be ready to repel any live poliovirus that attacked them in
the future. His trials in 1953 and ’54 were successful. Newspaper headlines
excitedly proclaimed, “SALK’S VACCINE WORKS!”— “POLIO VACCINE IS SAFE,
EFFECTIVE AND POTENT”.
Five laboratories began producing the vaccine with a process
designed by Salk. The excitement was palpable.
“The results of years of research, millions of dollars of
investment, and the fate of thousands of crippled children were ready for the
most publicized and anticipated event in in the history of medicine.” Dr. Mary’s
Monkey
“On April 12, 1955, the tenth
anniversary of Roosevelt’s death, Francis announced that Salk’s vaccine was
effective and potent in preventing polio. Within just two hours, the US Public
Health Service issued a production license and the foundation prepared for a
national immunization program. The conference had been live-broadcasted to
physicians all over the country who had gathered in movie theaters to watch the
announcement, millions of Americans received the news over the radio,
spontaneously putting down their work in celebration of the news.”
(ourworldindata.org resource below)
What didn’t make the news was
what happened right before the “most anticipated event in the history of
medicine”.
At the last minute, a brilliant government scientist working in
bacteriology at the National Institutes of Health was given the order to
safety-test the vaccine. When Bernice
Eddy, M.D., PhD. injected the polio vaccine into her monkeys, they fell paralyzed
in their cages. Eddy knew immediately that the virus in the vaccine was not
dead as Salk had proclaimed, but was alive and ready to replicate. This had to
be reported.
Eddy sent pictures of the paralyzed monkeys to her bosses at NIH
and warned them of the upcoming tragedy if the vaccine proceeded as planned.
Several prominent doctors from around the country joined those in NIH management
to use their reputations to proceed forward with the vaccine. One of these was Dr. Alton
Ochsner. Ochsner was very influential and had friends in high places. He
was also a stockholder in one of the laboratories that produced the polio
vaccine. To show the country his trust in the vaccine, he inoculated his own
grandchildren with it. The mass inoculation proceeded on schedule, despite Dr.
Bernice Eddy’s warning.
Within days, 40,000 children developed polio—some were crippled
and some died. Dr. Ochsner’s grandson died. His granddaughter contracted polio
but survived. A huge lawsuit followed. The Secretary of Health, Education, and
Welfare stepped down. The Director of the National Institutes of Health, (Dr.
Eddy’s boss) resigned. It was the biggest scandal in medical history.
40,000 children developed polio within days of getting the first
polio vaccine. But you never read about this in history books. And of course,
the whistle blower was punished for doing the right thing. But Bernice Eddy was
far from finished.
Bernice Eddy was removed from polio research and demoted to the
influenza section. Eventually, a second vaccine was released that was created
by Albert Sabin that used a weakened live virus instead of a dead one. It
appeared to work.
In 1957, Bernice Eddy and her lunch partner Sarah Stewart, both
working at NIH, discovered the “polyoma virus”, which produced several types of
cancer in a variety of small animals. Polyoma proved that viruses caused some
cancers. By 1959, Eddy, who was still officially assigned to the flu vaccine
project, worried that something much worse than polio was going on with the
vaccines. The vaccine manufacturers had been growing their polioviruses on
monkey kidneys. When they removed the poliovirus from monkey kidneys, they also
removed an unknown number of other monkey viruses. As time went on, more and
more viruses were found. Confronted with mounting evidence that some
monkey viruses caused cancer, Eddy began to wonder if they had inoculated an
entire generation of Americans with cancer causing monkey viruses. This time,
she kept her research secret, until the proof was undeniable.
In October of 1960, Bernice Eddy gave a talk to the New York
Cancer Society and without any warning to her NIH superiors, announced that she
had examined the monkey kidney cells in which the poliovirus was grown, and
found that they were indeed infected with cancer-causing viruses. This was
essentially a forewarning of a cancer epidemic in America, considering how many
people had been inoculated.
Needless to say, her bosses at NIH were not happy. The last thing
they needed the public to hear was that a cancer epidemic caused by monkey
viruses were in the polio vaccine. This time, they destroyed Bernice Eddy
professionally. They removed her from the lab, destroyed her animals, served a
gag order on her, prohibiting her from attending professional conferences, and
delaying the publication of her scientific papers. That still did not stop her.
And she wasn’t the only one who knew the truth.
Funny how some things never change. I bet the America’s Frontline Doctors can
relate to Dr. Eddy. And instead of transparency and truth—the top government
scientists feared there might be a problem involving contamination of the polio
vaccine long before they acted upon it. But they had already inoculated
millions of children. So they instead classified it as National Security and
kept it secret. Dr. Ochsner was asked to look into the matter.
Drs. Ben Sweet and M.R. Hilleman, pharmaceutical researchers for
the Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research, were credited in 1960 for
discovering SV-40, a monkey virus that infected almost all rhesus monkeys,
whose kidneys were used to grow the poliovirus. Hilleman and Sweet found SV-40
in all three types of Albert Sabin’s live oral polio vaccine. They also noted the possibility that it might
cause cancer especially when administered to human babies. The contaminated
vaccines with SV-40 were injected into unsuspecting, trusting children until
1963. (thinktwice.com in resources)
Research continued to uncover terrifying information. The SV-40 cancer-causing
virus was not only found in the oral polio vaccine, but also in the injectable
form as well. SV-40 apparently survived the formaldehyde that Salk used to kill
the virus. This means that between 1954 and 1963, 30 million to 100 million
Americans and possibly another 100 million more throughout the world were
injected with cancer causing SV-40 through
mass vaccination.
Forty-one years later, investigative journalists Debbie
Bookchin and Jim Schumacher documented this public health disaster:
“Between 1997 and
early 2003, say Bookchin and Schumacher, more than 25 published studies found
SV40 in human mesotheliomas; 16 others found the virus in brain and bone
cancers, lymphomas, and other cancers and in kidneys and peripheral blood. As
of 2003, SV40 had been found in human tumours in 18 developed countries.
Bookchin and Schumacher claim that the rates of SV40-positive tumours seem
highest in countries that used the greatest amount of contaminated Salk polio
vaccine, including the UK, USA, and Italy.” (The Lancet resource below)
NIH first refused to stop the initial rollout of the polio
virus that gave 40,000 children polio; then kept secret the contamination of
millions of polio vaccines with SV-40 causing cancer, to show up many years
later when no one would connect it to a vaccine. Destroyed the careers of respected
scientists who knew the truth and dared to speak it. Sounds like a page out of
2020, doesn’t it?
What secrets lie ahead for those who participated in the
“experimental covid injection’?
Time will tell, but the government will not.
Resources
https://www.historyofvaccines.org/timeline#EVT_100871
https://ourworldindata.org/polio
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67360416746-9/fulltext