ITA with Gitta on this one.
The first and most serious example of ignorance re' polio is the nature of the virus itself, which is most often harmless. Even IF your baby/young child DID contract it, they stand a 98 to 99% chance of experiencing NO illness or an uncomplicated cold-like illness followed by lifelong immunity.
There are many theories as to why polio appeared to assume a more often paralytic nature in the US and European epidemics just prior to the vaccine, including pesticide poisoning or other infections misdiagnosed as polio, the advent of formula feeding, refined sugars/grains, widespread routine removal of toncils, the advent of injedctions (vaccines. antibiotics, all injections being associated with paralytic polio), and, imo, most strongly implicated, the introduction of sanitized water systems which prevented a generation of infants/children from contracting polio and gaining natural immunity for life, and resulted in them contracting it at older ages, when the risk of severe forms is highest.
Polio:
(Mortality rate of between 2 one-hundredth’s of 1% and 3 quarters of 1%)
(Complication rate of less than 1% to 2%)
http://sprojects.mmi.mcgill.ca/tropm...o/symptoms.htm
“..Up to 95% of all polio infections are inapparent or subclinical without symptoms. Estimates of the ratio of inapparent to paralytic illness vary from 50:1 to 1,000:1 (usually 200:1). …Approximately 4%-8% of polio infections consist of a minor, nonspecific illness without clinical or laboratory evidence of central nervous system invasion. This syndrome is known as abortive poliomyelitis, and is characterized by complete recovery in less than a week. Three syndromes, which are indistinguishable from other viral illnesses, are observed with this form of poliovirus infection……Nonparalytic aseptic meningitis (symptoms of stiffness of the neck, back, and/or legs), usually following several days after a prodrome similar to that of minor illness, occurs in 1%-2% of polio infections. …Less than 2% of all polio infections result in flaccid paralysis…”
http://www.mamashealth.com/polio.asp
“In about 95 percent of polio cases, infection from the polio virus causes no symptoms or serious effects. In about 5 percent of cases, the polio virus manifests in a mild form (abortive polio) with flu-like symptoms, in a nonparalytic form (aseptic meningitis) or in a severe form called paralytic polio. People who have minor or nonparalytic forms recover completely. …”
http://www.vaccineprotection.com/pro...ases/polio.cfm
“Paralytic polio, which occurs in less than 1% of all cases, is classified into three types according to level of involvement.1 In spinal polio, the most common type of paralytic polio, asymmetric paralysis, most often involving the legs, is typical. Bulbar polio is characterized by weakness of muscles controlled by cranial nerves. Bulbospinal polio is a combination of spinal and bulbar paralysis..
Many patients with paralytic polio experience complete recovery and most regain some degree of muscle function, but for others, the disease can result in serious permanent disability or death…Post-polio syndrome, affecting 25% to 40% of survivors of paralytic polio, occurs 20 to 40 years after the original disease. It presents as weakness, fatigue, fasciculations, and pain with additional atrophy of the muscle group affected in the primary episode. Progression of post-polio syndrome is generally slow, and the prognosis is good.
Paralytic polio carries a 2% to 5% mortality rate for children *(My note; between 2 one-hundredth’s of 1% and 5 one-hundredth’s of 1% mortality rate) and up to 15% to 30% mortality rate for adults.*(My note; between 15 one-hundredth’s of 1% and 30 one-hundredth’s of 1% ) In the case of bulbar involvement, mortality increases to 25% to 75%.” *(My note; between one quarter of 1% and 3 quarters of 1%)
*(My note; considering that less than 2% of all polio cases are paralytic in nature, and between 2 and 75% of paralytic cases are fatal, this makes for a mortality rate of between 2 one-hundredth’s of 1% and 3 quarters of 1%)
http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/disease/polio/
““Ironically, the advanced state of public hygiene in most industrialized countries contributed to the century's epidemics. Infants or very young children became infected when open sewers were rampant, but their disease was so mild that many parents did not realize their children had polio. This "silent" infection provided lasting immunity. With the advent of indoor plumbing and other modern sanitary conditions, children were not exposed to the poliovirus in infancy and did not develop immunity. As a result, they were vulnerable to disease in late childhood and adulthood, when it posed a much more serious threat…”
http://www.vaccinetruth.org/polio_vaccines.htm
““Polio was already declining in the U.S. and Europe during the 40's and 50's, as well as in England, where polio mortalities was at its height in 1950, but had declined 82 percent by 1956, before the Salk vaccinations began there. There was also no polio epidemic in the Third-World, where only 10 per cent of the population had been vaccinated. …Paralysis started to rise only after the Salk vaccine had begun in April 1955. It proved to be so hazardous that by November 1955, all European countries, with the exception of Denmark, had cancelled or discontinued their Salk vaccine programs. Canada postponed its Salk vaccine program July 29th of that year. In the U.S., Newark, N.J. stopped inoculations in June, 1955, while Idaho and Utah took similar action in July, followed shortly by Massachusetts [Morris Beale's American Capsule News, Oct. 15th, 1955]. By January 1, 1957, 17 states had rejected their supplies of Salk polio vaccine. During that year, the NY Times reported that very nearly half the paralytic cases, and three-quarters of the non-paralytic cases in children between the ages of 5 and 14 years occurred in vaccinated children. After two years of Salk vaccinations, paralytic polio increased nationally about 50% from 1957 to 1958, and about 80% from 1958 to 1959.”
