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banned its use. Similar increases occurred in other states: in Ibeen isolated from this tissue. They include virus B, known to Connecticut the number of reported polio cases went from 144 in cause encephalitis in man, and SV 40, which can produce can­ 1954 to 275 in 1955; New Hampshire-38 to 129; Rhode Island­ cer in hamsters, as well as changes in Ihuman cell tissue cul­ 22 to 122; New York State-469 to 764; Wisconsin-326 to 1,655. tures. "There has been no sign so f,}r that vaccines grown on primaryIn Idaho, public health experts found that (i) the disease struck in monkey kidney tissue prQduce alarming symptoms; but symp­areas where there had been no previous polio cases; (ii) only chil­toms may not appear for 20 years or more." .dren who had received the vaccine had become ill; and (iii) 'the rust Dr Eva Snead, in her article, "Immunization. Relatedsigns of paralysis occurred in the arm where the children were vac­Syndrome", which appeared in Health Freedom News, Julycinated. 1987, sl?eculates that the contaminated polio vaccines may be During an AMA convention that same year, the man who super­ responsIble for the current epidemics of leukemia, childhood vised the country's largest p-olio vaccine drive, Surge.on General cancer, birth defects and immune deficiency diseases. A sirnillll' Leonard Scheele, ~ned that: view is held by Frederick Klenner, M.D., of the USA, who has condemned both the Salk and Sabin vaccines as not only worth­"No batch of vaccine can be proved to be safe before it is less, but also dangerous. Dr KlenneJi has stated: given to children." "Many here voice a silent view that the Salk and Sabin vac= In 1958, mass vaccination campaigns triggered a disastrous cine, being made on monkey kidney tissue, has been directly increase in polio incidence in the USA and Canada. The highest responsible for the major increase in leukaemia in this rountry:' increase was 700 per cent in Ottawa, Canada. The highe~t incidence In 1961, the US Public Bealth Service reported that 1t personsin the USA occurred in those states which had been induced to who received the Sabin oral vaccine in a mass-immunising cam­adopt compulsory polio shots. Here are the figures as shown in paign in Syracuse, New York, had developed polio. In 1964" fol­ lowing many instances of vaccine-associated paralytic polio, the' US Public Health Service recommended that the Sabin vaccine be dis­ State 1958 1959 continued' for adults. l(before compulsory (after compulsory shots) shots) In 1977, Dr Jon~ Salk, the man who introduced the original polio vaccine in the 1950s, testified along with other scientists that mass inocullllion against polio was the cause of most polio cases through­North Carolina 78 cases 313 cases out the USA since 1961. Dr Salk also stated that most of the polio Connecticut 45 cases 123 cases cases that occurred in the USA since the early 1970s were the by­Tennessee 119 cases 386 cases product of the Hve polio vaccine used throughout the USA. Dr SalkOhio 17 cases 52 cases has stated in Science (4/4/1977, Abstracts): . '.. "Live virus vaccines against influenza and paralytic polio, for Hann@ ~en s boo~, Do~ t Get ~tuck.. . example, may in each instance cause the disease it is intended Followmg the natlOnwlde poho campatgns of 1954 and 1955, Dr to prevent; the live virus vaccines against measles and mumps Langmuir of the US Public Health Service and in charge of polio may produce such side-effects as encephal,itis... The live porio surveillance, staled: "I predict by 1957 there will be less than 100 virus vaccine is now the principal cause of polio in the US and cases of parafytic polio in the US." in other countri~ ... Contrary ~o p~vi. According to Hannah Allen, in 1957 in the '.. ously held ~ellefs about polio VirUS USA, "nearly half of the paralytic cases of ~?8'.·.i~. :~11#·.~i1~ .. ·:li,ri?:;;."': :;:'i<'i:i:""~. *::'t~"'.·'1ill~t'.,lf,~. ,-:acCl~es, evld,,:nce now eXists that. t~e polio jn children between 5 and 14 occurred \;~N;m@. {~.'¥nea..'vHa]f of,m.e}{:·~~ live VIrl~S vaCCl.ne ca~not ~ admlnls­ .' v . ted h'ldren It was admined that l.i'1!lij'·i"~;';if:;:~'" ..~~jJ:,::'ii;;:;:;<';;·;·;;::J;·;··';'·;i.,ii.~~~ tered WIthout risk of indUCing para1y­ m accl1~a CI'. ." ~liMharal tlctasesiof::n()llo'dtlil?~ s!s... The Iiv~ polio vir.us vac~ine c:ar­ ~~~,a~~~m\a~.=~~~t~~~er~~:~;~c. ~ ;;¥~{itildr~n b~~~.i~S:aha.'1\ir;~; ~:~a~~~~~'lli~~;~7itti~Si~ o:a~~~~;~a ~;~ ~a~~:tI~; r;h~~f~s ~~~~' t~g:,!~i]W(fc'cu;re(fl~ vict'ih;ale:d;~:;1;1: indIViduals or their rontacts." ~~~ in persons vaccinated three times or Jli~fl'lt~#£1111~f~rir,~l~t~~!~i.~il~lr;~; r~~~U~af~~~~r~~rl~~~e:~e ~en~~ It IS noteworthy that four of the five Salk ~F,t~W;';{;~-§f"'*' ·~L''';i·''~;f;:'',;;; (";;;";;. ·t-ll:.i!r~~f:4 years m which all reported cases of para­ vaccine companies ceased producing this vac-~'MJii~lt:was"adnuttedtllatJthew~~:i lytic polio were vaccine-associated .. The "•• ' ,··(:~:-·;·;9-;::,(;· ..7':';): .'.', .-, ,. ,~,:,'<'>h;","::: .:;~::::~;,J:~ ~~~sdb:'~~gl~if:~~'a:~t t::::e ~:~~: ~~)~i~9fff!~tl~~'b.ee~,:;f~o.~~~g~~ crrAW~t~~~~ 2{?~~~?~:~~~~:~a~;~e ~; Cyanaml.d (Lederle) was the only company I,:'!';~~'''ll:;.'lr.li .•:~:'l.;.'.:<'' ""·'»?'·'I·····:····· ··':It.· ;;;·..~.;..:;,.!t-;'...•{..,;:~: •..;M.•~~:f~ cases of paralyllc polIomyehtls of which .'. . :~f,:r~~";;:;t.;;:;';~~Fpara VSIS. :;.;;~~~;:,'\';1l:':':t:;'~~ 51 w "v.e-. t d"left producmg It and they would give no guar- "~:.,,,,•./.;,.%,,,~;,:,,, ••. , ,. '," /...... .". :d,:<·"'="";:, •.,,., : :.,~ ere accm asS(lCla e. .o ~, .~.';).' .. .J •• '''':'''."'', • '. '.. ,)" "L " :~,1'" '. ',:~ .:.;.} ':';'. _,~ ,....... '" antee as to its safety or effectiveness. (It was . .":*i!;i:"~;·.;':'::;:::;;'· ';'*l»*,X;i'·'·;~'';A ""~'.--' .'.':!l;;;:ii';;:;';;s:!fi:',;~;S Responding to the ongoing debate also reported that the staff of American among immunologist$ ~garding the ]ela- Cyanamid were not vaccinating their own children against polio!) tive risk of killed virus (Salk vaccine) vs live virus (Sabin vaccine), In 1960, a new polio vaccine, known as the Sabin vaccine, was Dr Robert Mendelsohn (~aIt-West Journal, November 1984), says: lice~sed fo~ manufa~t~re in the USA, and .this qu~ckly ~onsigned "...1 bel.ieve that both factions are right, and that use of either Salks.vaccme ~ oblIVIOn. In that same >,ear, a,frightenmg ~efect of the vaccines will increase, not diminish, the possibility fhat v.:as dlSCOvered m both the Salk and ~abm vaccmes. Two vlrol?- your child will contract the disease. In short, it appears that the gISts, Dr is. H. Sweet and Dr M. R. Hilleman, found that both polIo most effective way to protect your child from polio is to make vaccines were contaminated with a virus (known as SV 40) that sure that he doesn't get the vaccine." induced malignant tumours in newborn hamsters. By this time mil­ lions of children had received polio vac.cines contaminated with SV In her book, The Untold Dangers, Ida Honorof says: 40 virus. The Medical Journal ofAustralia (17f311973, p. 555) con­ tains the following information on such contamination: "'The damage to children taking the polio vaccine is well-doc­ umented ...deaths and paralysis from !both ttre Salk and Sabin "TtJis reasoning was rudely shaken in 1958 when the first vaccine," warning came that all was not well with monkey kidney cells nnost WIdely used as primary tissue, particul'arly for poliomyelitis Yet in spite of all the evidence which condemns both the Salk and vaccine.. To date, more than 40 separate simian viruses have Sabin vaccines, the standard medical text, Essentials of Infectious JUNE -JULY 1993 NEXUS·311