The start of the hunt for the polio vaccine Virus

[Sheri Nakken]

http://www.fearoftheinvisible.com/findingvirus
The Germ Theory of Disease and The Hunt for the Poliovirus
extracted from 'Fear of the Invisible

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The start of the hunt for the polio vaccine Virus
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Flexner and Lewis recorded their experiment in the pages of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Their conclusion was: 'We failed utterly to discover bacteria, either in film preparations or in cultures, that could account for the disease,' They then went on to say the cause must then be the mysterious virus: 'The infecting agent of epidemic poliomyelitis belongs to the class of the minute and filterable viruses that have not thus far been demonstrated with certainty under the microscope.' Toxic causes were not even considered - let alone the multitude of other things that could well have been in this toxic stew injected directly into the monkeys' brains, thus completely bypassing their immune systems.

Such a soup cannot possibly be considered an 'isolate' of the tiny organism we now call a virus - despite this now being widely claimed. It also proved strangely non-infectious for a virus, for Flexner and Lewis found that the monkeys were not paralysed when made to drink it or when one of their limbs was injected with it, nor did they infect other monkeys. It had to be injected into their brains to have any effect.

The procedures of Flexner and Lewis were just as dubious as their conclusions. They took no account of the contaminants in their mashed-up soup and presumed what happened in monkeys would be replicated in humans. Their experiment thus shed no light on what element had paralysed the monkeys, and for that matter, what had paralysed the children with polio.

Yet these experiments are today celebrated in virology as of great historical importance, as being the first time a virus was proved to cause a major epidemic. But - how could these experiments be so celebrated? How could a scientist credibly claim that injecting cellular debris into the skull of a monkey proves a virus to cause polio?

The more I read of what are supposed to be the victories of polio research, the more I have been, quite frankly, appalled. During the 1920s and 1930s all kinds of biological materials-spinal cord, brain, faecal matter, even flies-were ground up and injected into monkey brains to induce paralysis, causing great harm to many animals - all in the hope that such experiments would explain why humans were getting summer polio.

The method they used to exclude bacteria from their injected sample of backbone was also quite extraordinary. They put some of the backbone suspension into a dish and watched to see what happened. They reported: 'If there was no [bacterial] growth after approximately 22 hours of incubation at 37 C., the specimen was considered suitable for inoculation into monkeys. This was not a sterility test, since growth would usually occur on longer incubation; it was rather an indication of the amount of bacterial contamination in the specimen.' Slow growing bacteria were thus deliberately not removed - and no toxin was looked for ­- yet they knew these might well be present.

From all I read, I was forced to conclude that these 'scientists' shared a doctrinal conviction that the cause of polio must be a particular virus and could be nothing else. They routinely described as 'isolated virus' what was nothing much more than fluid from a cell culture contaminated with many diverse particles and possibly toxins. What else but an irrational belief in a theory could so blind these scientists?
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Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath
http://homeopathycures.wordpress.com/ & http://vaccinationdangers.wordpress.com/
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