Polio-like illness 'caused' by vaccinations & antibiotic injections?

[Sheri Nakken]

Polio-like illness 'caused' by vaccinations & antibiotic injections?

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Provocation polio
Polio causes

"Provocation polio. That is the truth about those outbreaks of polio. And I
offer a well considered personal opinion that polio is a man made
disease."—Viera Scheibner.

1. Vaccine associated paralytic Poliomyelitis (VAPP):

"I made the comment to the doctors that poliomyelitis, as a clinical entity
was vary rare prior to the compulsory vaccination law around 1874. I said
that my gut said that there was a link, because up until that time polio
had floated around happily giving everyone natural immunity with just the
very odd, amazingly rare clinical presentation. After 1874, there was an
explosion in paralysis, and all the things so emotional shown in old news
reels. And more people got paralytic polio with the use of the toxin
anti-toxin diphtheria horse serum in the 1890’s."--Hilary Butler

"Poliomyelitis......When it occurs within two days of vaccination with any
alum-containing prophlactic, the term 'provocative paralytic p.' is
used."---Livingstone's Dictionary For Nurses 1973.

"The only cause of polio in the U.S. for the past 17 years has been the
oral version of the vaccine itself, and though the Food and Drug
Administration has finally recommended a reduction of the oral product's
use, there are no plans to take it off the market. The twice-as-costly
vaccine administered by injection does not cause polio."--Money Magazine
(1996)

The following information by the National Anti-Vivisection Society (UK)
gives some insight into the relationship between the diptheria and triple
antigen vaccines and paralytic polio:

"The early triple vaccine against diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus
had also been shown beyond doubt to cause paralytic polio in some children
to whom it was administered. The incidence of polio in children recently
vaccinated against diphtheria was statistically greater than in
unvaccinated children, symptoms showing in the vaccinated limb with 28 days
of the initial injection. This scandal broke in Britain during 1949, an
epidemic year for polio, other reports soon following from Australia.
Papers dealing with this topic are plentiful.

One, British, gives details of 17 cases of polio which followed 28 days or
less after various injections.

Another, Australian, gives details of 340 cases of polio, 211 of which had
been previously vaccinated against whooping cough and/or diphtheria. Of
these, 35 had been vaccinated within the preceding 3 months and a further
30 within the previous year ( B.P. McClosky, "The Relation of Prophylactic
Inoculation to the Onset of Poliomyelitis," Lancet, April 18, 659-663. 1950?).

Dr Geffen reported similar findings from the London borough of St Pancras,
where 30 children under the age of 5 developed polio within four weeks of
being immunised against diphtheria or whooping cough or both, the paralysis
affecting, in particular, the limb of injection. Two medical statisticians
at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine examined these
reports and concluded that:

"Geffen (1950) noted in the 1949 epidemic 30 out of 182 paralytic patients
under 5 had been immunised against diptheria, pertussis, or both within
weeks of contracting polio. In all of these cases the limb last injected
was paralysed; in another seven cases a different limb was affected. In 21
of the 30 cases combined diptheria and pertussis vaccine had been used, APT
in eight, and pertussis alone in one. Geffen calculated that the
proportion of children becoming paralysed after immunisation was of the
order of 1 in 1800. The interval between injection and the developement of
polio was usually between 5 and 16 days (Geffen, Paterson and Tracy
1953)."--Wilson, The Hazards of Immunisation

Dr Arthur Gale of the Ministry of Health reported 65 cases from the
Midlands, where paralysis followed about two weeks after an injection: in
49 of these, paralysis occurred in the injected limb. Then it was reported
that of 112 cases of paralysis admitted to the Park Hospital, London,
during 1947-1949, 14 were paralysed in the limb which had received one or
more of a course of immunising injections within the previous two months.
In the majority of cases, the interval between the last injection and the
onset of paralysis was between 9 and 14 days. Again, combined whooping
cough, diphtheria and tetanus injections were involved.

This outbreak of polio followed an intensive immunisation campaign during
that time, 1947-49. Following these findings, the Ministry of Health
recommended that diphtheria and triple vaccines should not be used in areas
where polio was naturally present. "From that time onwards, the incidence
of paralytic polio decreased rapidly in Britain, even prior to the advent
of Salk vaccination...."

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Vaccine (and antibiotic injections) associated paralytic Poliomyelitis (VAPP)
Provocation polio Nervous system disease & vaccines
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BACKGROUND. In Romania the rate of vaccine-associated paralytic
poliomyelitis is for unexplained reasons 5 to 17 times higher than in other
countries. Long ago it was noted that intramuscular injections administered
during the incubation period of wild-type poliovirus infection increased
the risk of paralytic disease (a phenomenon known as "provocation"
poliomyelitis). We conducted a case-control study to explore the
association between intramuscular injections and vaccine-associated
poliomyelitis in Romania. ...RESULTS. Of the 31 children with
vaccine-associated disease, 27 (87 percent) had received one or more
intramuscular injections within 30 days before the onset of paralysis, as
compared with 77 of the 151 controls (51 percent) (matched odds ratio,
31.2; 95 percent confidence interval, 4.0 to 244.2). Nearly all the
intramuscular injections were of antibiotics, and the association was
strongest for the patients who received 10 or more injections (matched odds
ratio for > or = 10 injections as compared with no injections, 182.1; 95
percent confidence interval, 15.2 to 2186.4). The risk of paralytic disease
was strongly associated with injections given after the oral polio virus
vaccine, but not with injections given before or at the same time as the
vaccine (matched odds ratio, 56.7; 95 percent confidence interval, 8.9 to
infinity). The attributable risk in the population for intramuscular
injections given in the 30 days before the onset of paralysis was 86
percent (95 percent confidence interval, 66 to 95 percent); that is, we
estimate that 86 percent of the cases of vaccine-associated paralytic
poliomyelitis in this population might have been prevented by the
elimination of intramuscular injections within 30 days after exposure to
oral poliovirus vaccine. CONCLUSIONS. Provocation paralysis, previously
described only for wild-type poliovirus infection, may rarely occur in a
child who receives multiple intramuscular injections shortly after exposure
to oral poliovirus vaccine, either as a vaccine recipient or through
contact with a recent recipient. This phenomenon may explain the high rate
of vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis in Romania, where the use of
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2. Antibiotic injections

"Paralytic poliomyelitis in a rural area of north India" (National Medical
Journal of India, vol. 10, no. 1, January-February 1997, pages 8-10): In a
house-to-house survey conducted between 1990 and 1991, several cases of
paralytic poliomyelitis were identified, 60 percent of which had had
intramuscular injections preceding paralysis, in treatment of minor fevers.

A recent Romanian study demonstrated that injections of antibiotics
following polio vaccination could cause polio. The researchers suggested
the rate of "vaccine-induced polio" in Romania could be reduced from 10.3
per year to 1.4 per year, if antibiotic injections were avoided for 30 days
following polio vaccination.
Correlations with the injections of antibiotics were found: a
single injection within one month of vaccination raised the risk of polio 8
times, 2 to 9 injections raised the risk 27-fold, and 10 injections or more
raised the risk 182 times (Washington Post, Feb 22, 1995). Study Associates
Polio Increase With (antibiotic) Injections

Wyatt HV. Provocation of poliomyelitis by multiple injections. Trans R
Soc Trop Med Hyg. 1985;79(3):355-8. PMID: 4035736; UI: 85301396.
A number of epidemics of poliomyelitis between 1914 and 1962 are related to
children with congenital syphilis or yaws under treatment with arsenicals
or penicillin

Injections of vaccines provoked paralytic poliomyelitis in children in the
UK and elsewhere. The effect of multiple injections has not been recognized
previously but could be important in the tropics where children receive
many injections. A number of epidemics of poliomyelitis between 1914 and
1962 are related to children with congenital syphilis or yaws under
treatment with arsenicals or penicillin. Rates of 25% of children with
paralysis occurred in epidemics while in non-epidemic periods the increase
in susceptibility was about 25 fold. Other possible cases of provocation
are discussed. Although in the tropics injections before paralysis may be
causal, it will be difficult to prove that they are not coincident. The
very high rate of paralysis following multiple injections is powerful
evidence that injections in the tropics are often causal.

A study in India suggested that ¾ of cases of paralytic polio in the past
decade were caused or made more severe by unnecessary injections (The
Lancet vol 341)).

Reznik M. Acute ascending poliomyelomalacia after treatment of acute
lymphocytic leukemia.Acta Neuropathol (Berl). 1979 Feb 15;45(2):153-7.PMID:
283679 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

This paper reports the case of a 16-year-old girl with acute lymphoblastic
leukemia who received chemotherapy including intrathecal injections of
methotrexate and preventive irradiation of the brain, but not of the spinal
cord. Several months later, she died from an acute ascending poliomyelitic
syndrome evolving during 10 days. Clinical, bacteriological, and viral
investigations failed to demonstrate any pathological agent. Autopsy
revealed an acute ischemic lesion involving both anterior horns of the
whole spinal cord and extending from the lower segment up to the
mesencephalic region, without significant alteration of the white matter.
Neither tumoral invasion, nor vascular obstruction was found. The
pathogenesis of this yet undescribed lesion remained unclear but a
metabolic disorder seemed the most plausible pathological factor.
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http://medind.nic.in/icb/t05/i3/icbt05i3p267.pdf
A small number of cases of provocation polio follow from 6 to 14. days
after injections of DPT. Certainly injections should not be given in the
gluteal. region, .

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VACCINES: POLIO PERSPECTIVES By Edda West

http://www.vran.org/vaccines/polio/vaccine_pol.htm

" Within VRAN, we know of several families whose children have suffered
acute long term paralytic illness following MMR vaccination which later was
reclassified as transverse myelitis. Yet the attending medical experts
vociferously deny a vaccine association. One can almost hear a collective
sigh of relief every time a paralysis is diagnosed as AFP --never mind what
caused it -- it's not polio!"

"Around the turn of the 20th century, people began reporting paralytic
illness after smallpox vaccination. (15) By the 1920s, infantile paralysis
(later renamed polio) began to emerge as an important new disease that
often afflicted the limb that had been vaccinated. And later, when typhoid
vaccine, then diphtheria, tetanus vaccines and pertussis vaccines gained
widespread use, illness and paralytic episodes following vaccination became
common knowledge. Provocation polio is a well known phenomenon precipitated
by "diverse factors that provoke or increase the severity of polio in its
victims, or localize it to a certain section in the nervous system." Some
of these factors included: vaccination, trauma, tonsillectomies, pertussis
vaccines, and the injection of numerous substances such as cortisone,
bismuth, guanine and penicillin. (9)"

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http://thinktwice.com/s_polio.htm
Numerous Studies Show That Vaccine Injections Cause Paralytic Polio:

# Houchaus. “Ueber Poliomyelitis acuta.” Munch Med Wochenschr 1909;
56:2353-55.
# Lambert, S.M. “A yaws campaign and an epidemic of poliomyelitis in
Western Samoa.” J Trop Med Hyg 1936; 39:41-46.
# McCloskey, B.P. “The relation of prophylactic inoculations to the onset
of poliomyletis.” Lancet (April 18, 1950), pp. 659-63.
# Geffen, D.H. “The incidence of paralysis occurring in London children
within four weeks after immunization.” Med Officer 1950; 83:137-40.
# Martin, J.K. “Local paralysis in children after injections.” Arch Dis
Child 1950; 25:1-14.
# Hill, A.B., et al. “Inoculation and poliomyelitis. A statistical
investigation in England and Wales in 1949.” British Medical Journal 1950;
ii:1-6.
# Medical Research Council Committee on Inoculation Procedures and
Neurological Lesions. “Poliomyelitis and prophylactic inoculation.” Lancet
1956; ii:1223-31.
# Sutter, Roland W., et al. “Attributable risk of DTP (Diphtheria and
Tetanus Toxoids and Pertussis Vaccine) injection in provoking paralytic
poliomyelitis during a large outbreak in Oman.” Journal of Infectious
Diseases 1992; 165:444-9.
# Strebel, Peter M., et al. “Intramuscular injections within 30 days of
immunization with oral poliovirus vaccine—a risk factor for
vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis.” New England J of Med (February
23, 1995), pp. 500+.
# Editorial. “Provocation paralysis.” Lancet 1992; 340:1005.
# Wyatt, H.V. “Provocation poliomyelitis: neglected clinical observations
from 1914-1950.” Bulletin of Historical Medicine 1981; 55:543-57.
# Townsend-Coles, W.F and Findlay, G.M. “Poliomyelitis in relation to
intramuscular injections of quinine and other drugs.” Trans R Soc Trop Med
Hyg 1953; 47:77-81.
# Guyer, B., et al. “Injections and paralytic poliomyelitis in tropical
Africa.” Bull WHO 1980; 58:285-91.
# Bodian, D. “Viremia in experimental poliomyelitis. II. Viremia and the
mechanism of the 'provoking' effect of injections of trauma.” Amer J Hyg
1954; 60:358-70.
# Wyatt, H.V. “Incubation of poliomyelitis as calculated from time of entry
into the central nervous system via the peripheral nerve pathways.” Rev
Infect Dis 1990; 12:547-56.
# Wyatt H.V., et al. “Unnecessary injections and paralytic poliomyelitis in
India.” Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 1992; 86:546-49.

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Provocation Polio. When children incubating wild-type
poliovirus infections receive injections, the likelihood of
residual paralytic diseases developing in the injected ex-tremity
is increased.22 The damage to small nerve endings
probably provides entrance to the nervous system for polio-viruses
circulating in the bloodstream, which subsequently
travel to the spinal cord and damage the motor neuron. A
study in Romania revealed that multiple injections were
associated with development of residual paralysis from oral
poliovirus vaccines (discussed subsequently).23

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http://www.thinktwice.com/Polio.pdf
The polio vaccine: a critical assessment of its arcane history, efficacy,
and long-term health-related consequences by Neil Z. Miller

excerpt
Injections: Several studies have shown that injections (for
antibiotics or other vaccines) increase susceptibility to polio. In fact,
researchers have known since the early 1900s that paralytic poliomyelitis
often started at the site of an injection [8,9]. When diphtheria and
pertussis vaccines were introduced in the 1940s, cases of paralytic
poliomyelitis skyrocketed (Figure 1) [10]. This was documented in Lancet
and other medical journals [11-13]. In 1949, the Medical Research Council
in Great Britain set up a committee to investigate the matter and
ultimately concluded that individuals are at increased risk of paralysis
for 30 days following injections; injections alter the distribution of
paralysis; and it did not matter whether the injections were subcutaneous
or intramuscular [14,15].

Figure 1. Polio cases skyrocketed after diphtheria and pertussis vaccines
were introduced (graph at webpage)

Diphtheria and Pertussis
Vaccines Introduced
Several studies show that injections increase susceptibility to polio. When
diphtheria and pertussis vaccines were introduced in the 1940s, cases of
paralytic poliomyelitis skyrocketed. This chart shows the average number of
polio cases per 100,000 people

during five year periods before and after the vaccines were introduced.
Source: National Morbidity Reports taken from U.S. Public Health
surveillance reports; Lancet (April 18, 1950), pp. 659-63.

A 1992 study, published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases,
validated earlier findings. Children who received DPT (diphtheria, tetanus,
and pertussis) injections were significantly more likely than controls to
suffer paralytic poliomyelitis within the next 30 days [16]. According to
the authors, "this study confirms that injections are an important cause of
provocative poliomyelitis [16:444]."

In 1995, the New England Journal of Medicine published a study showing
that children who received a single injection within one month after
receiving a polio vaccine were 8 times more likely to contract polio than
children who received no injections. The risk jumped 27-fold when children
received up to nine injections within one month after receiving the polio
vaccine. And with ten or more injections, the likelihood of developing
polio was 182 times greater than expected [17].

Why injections increase the risk of polio is unclear [18].
Nevertheless, these studies and others [19-24] indicate that "injections
must be avoided in countries with endemic poliomyelitis [18]." Health
authorities believe that all "unnecessary" injections should be avoided as
well [18:1006;24].