Avid Fan wrote:
Char wrote:
Avid Fan wrote:


What vaccine have you had that protects you for life? I am sure
that if you were exposed to say Polio you will fair better than
someone who never was vaccinated.

Why are you sure of that? No vaccine has ever had a double blind w
placebo study done on it so there is no proof that any of them work.



the Americas. In 1960, there were 2,525 cases of paralytic polio in the
United States. By 1965, there were 61. Safety.

In 1994, polio was declared eradicated in all of the Americas.

Do you really need more evidence?

The earliest known case of polio is 4,000 years old. Do you really
think that it just decided to disappear.

So you have no proof that vaccines work then. Polio was already
disappearing before the vaccine was given and the vaccine itself caused
many cases of polio.

According to conservative estimates, from 1955 to 1963 more than 98
million children and adults in the United States were exposed
inadvertently to live SV40 because of SV40-contaminated polio vaccines.
SV40 has been shown to be a potent oncogenic deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)
virus and in animal models, the neoplasias induced by SV40 included
primary brain cancers, malignant mesotheliomas, bone tumors, and
systemic lymphomas.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science...3acd8ef1f04399

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%; other states reported
increases as well.

The incidence in Wisconsin increased by a factor of five. Idaho and Utah
actually halted vaccination due to the increased incidence and death
rate. 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 -- a 50% increase
from 1957 to 1958, and an 80% increase from 1958 to 1959-but that the
statistics were deliberately manipulated by the Public Health Service to
give the opposite impression.

It is important to understand that the polio vaccine was not universally
accepted, at least initially. Despite this, polio declined both in
European countries that refused mass vaccination as well as in those
that employed it.

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, cases of viral and aseptic meningitis, which have symptoms
similar to polio, were routinely diagnosed and recorded as polio before
the vaccine, but were distinguished and removed from polio statistics
after the vaccine.

Also, 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 that lasted for 24 hours to symptoms lasting 60
days (many polio victims' paralysis was temporary).

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 US 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 vaccinated
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 US 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 10 to 100 times higher than that cited by the CDC.
For these reasons, the live polio virus is no longer in widespread use.

To be sure, polio as it was known in the first half of the 20th century
does not exist today. However, declines following polio peaks in the
late 1940's and early 1950's had been underway again for a period of
years by the time the vaccine was introduced.

Vaccination Truth #6:

"The polio vaccine temporarily reversed disease declines that were
underway before the vaccine was introduced; this fact was deliberately
covered up by health authorities. In Europe, polio declined in countries
that both embraced and rejected the vaccine."
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/ar...ne-myths2.aspx