Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and The Forgotten History

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The disease reached its peak at the height of the cold war, when a national crisis often took the form of a crusade. And this particular crisis, an epidemic targeting defenseless children, grew to increasingly dramatic proportions in an increasingly suburban, family-oriented society preaching ever-higher standards of protection for the young. How ironic, how unfair, that polio seemed to target the world’s most advanced nation, where new wonder drugs like penicillin were readily available and consumers—mainly housewives—worked overtime to eliminate odors and germs. And approximately 4,531 new cases of muscular dystrophy are reported in the U.S. per year. Given the large number of neighborhoods in the US, the likelihood of one, let alone more of any of the above in a neighborhood is small. Yet, many Americans were and are aware of them and support efforts, both research and care. La Storia del Dott Zimmerman e del suo cambio di opinione da provax sui vaccini❗ – LaVeritaOccultata Rassegna di Articoli – Liberta'– No Green Pass – No Vaccini on Neurologist Andrew Zimmerman Fired by DOJ for Change of Opinion I think it obvious that Humphries presentation is defective in numerous ways and displays a callousness towards suffering: According to Humphries: “The March of Dimes campaigns . . . were . . . designed to impact human fear and emotion (Humphries, p.224).”

This is based on the mistaken belief (possibly drawing conclusions from the 1963 inactivated measles vaccine) that the measles virus elicits an antibody-only immune response. The reality, however, is that the live measles vaccine elicits both an antibody mediated and cell-mediated immune response. This is discussed in more detail below with citations.If you grew up and live in the US, then you have been indoctrinated to believe vaccination to be effective in the prevention of infectious disease, and to have minimal adverse side effects. Be prepared to have those illusions shattered by this unique book which is a monument of scholarly work on this topic, and deserves multiple re-readings. The care and detail of the documentation is intentional and overwhelming. My congratulations to the authors for a job well done. You might also find interesting, Confessions of a Medical Heretic by Robert S. Mendelsohn MD. He was an early pioneer in the anti-vaccination movement and also my medical school adviser. What’s more, Bruno makes a case that, besides post-polio syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome may have the same pathophysiology ( Bruno, 1997; Bruno, 1998). Recent studies make clear that [non-paralytic polio] survivors do have late onset symptoms. Therefore, “postpolio syndrome” should not be used as the generic descriptor for late onset problems in polio survivors, because its diagnostic criteria exclude those without a history of paralysis, electromyographic evidence of denervation, and new muscle weakness. ( Bruno, 2000; see also: Falconer, 2000, Nee, 1995). Medical qualifications: current American Board of Internal Medicine certifications in internal medicine and nephrology.

Whereas chronic carriers constitute the reservoir of S. Typhi, the maintenance of a high incidence of typhoid fever requires conditions that permit amplified transmission of S. Typhi to susceptible persons. Usually this involves fecal contamination of water sources consumed by large numbers of persons. In the later 19 th and early 20 th centuries, it was demonstrated in Europe and the United States that treatment of municipal water supplied caused the incidence of typhoid fever to plummet, despite the continued existence in the population of large numbers of carriers. Over one to two decades this led to the near-elimination of typhoid fever from many area (Levine, 2018, p. 1142). Complications of smallpox [variola major] include bacterial infections of the skin and other organs, pneumonia, generalized sepsis, destructive arthritis in young children and arthropathies, corneal ulceration resulting in blindness, keratitis, osteomyelitis, and encephalitis. The latter, present in approximately 1 in 500 cases (Kennedy, 2018, p.1003). b) The famous Lancet paper by Dr Wakefield which was retracted due to concerns about fraud and falsification Suzanne Humphries, MD and Roman Bystrianyk (2013). “Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines. and the Forgotten History.” CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. Although some cases of variola major were reported every year from 1900 until 1927, there were only 2 major outbreaks during this period. The first, in 1902-1903, affected particularly Boston, New York, Philadelphia, New Jersey and Ohio; variola minor was then prevalent in the Mid-West. The last large epidemic of variola major in the USA occurred in 1924-1925, when some 7400 cases were reported, over one-third of them in 4 cities: Cleveland and Toledo (Ohio), Detroit (Michigan) and Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania).In fact, cellular immunity from the measles vaccine may even outlast antibody mediated immunity leading to long term protection: And finally, Bruno makes a compelling case that the total number of people infected with the virus, even some with mild paralysis, was actually underestimated. ( Bruno, 2000). People without antibodies can be completely protected from clinical illness by cellular immunity. Therefore antibody is a mere surrogate that has questionable significance (p 389). Humphries misuses the Michigan data, which actually found “among the 242 patients originally diagnosed as paralytic, 187, or 77% were confirmed by laboratory tests to have poliomyelitis. The vast majority of these (84%) were found to have residual paralysis 60 days after onset of the illness”, thus, 65% had paralysis 60 days later; c) The incidence was already on a decline. Like smallpox, she claims, the disease was “slowly burning out”.

Wrong About Polio: A Review of Suzanne Humphries, MD and Roman Bystrianyk’s “Dissolving Illusions” Part 1 (the short version) Figure 3: Incidence of Typhoid Fever, by Year – United States, 1920-1960 (from CDC. Incidence of Typhoid Fever). Besides Table 1 from the Bureau of the Census above for disease incidence from 1912 to 1970, the graph below shows the rapid decline in incidence of Typhoid Fever from 1920-1960. Total reported cases From 1951, MMWR separated paralytic and nonparalytic cases. Before 1951, MMWR included both as Total Cases. Part 3 will focus on the Cutter Incident, vaccine-associated polio, the role of tonsillectomies and provocation from other medical injections, and claims by Humphries that DDT and arsenic played a significant role, SV40 vaccine contamination, and discuss the Central Dogma that polio resulted from improved sanitation, together with other variables that partially explain the ascendance of polio; andThough a long proponent of vaccines, only over the past five years have I focused on mainly writing articles supporting them ( Harrison, 2017, Harrison, 2018). I was driven to do so in response to what seems to be an ever-increasing noise and misinformation on vaccine safety and efficacy from anti-vaccinationist groups and web blogs. Since beginning of my writings on vaccines I have contemplated writing on polio. This is not only because polio seems to be one of the antivaccinationist favorite topics, which they often use to demonstrate to their uninformed readers the evils of vaccines and national vaccination programs (e.g., Adams. 2018; Child Health Safety, 2018; Olmsted, 2011, Olmsted, 2016; VacTruth, 2018; whale to, 2018); but also because polio has a special significance for me. As a child I remember my mother not allowing me to go to the local municipal swimming pool nor to the movies during polio season. In my elementary school was a little girl with a steel brace on one leg. During my life I have known several paraplegics, one, in particular, the older sister of one of my oldest andd dearest friends, met a man in the late 1980s who had been in an iron lung for almost 40 years, and several people who suffered from post-polio syndrome. And through my readings I discovered that my hometown, San Diego, had a major epidemic of polio in 1951 and being in the first cohort to receive the new Salk vaccine, I more than likely received a dose from a lot manufactured by Cutter Industries which because of poor production and quality control caused 204 cases of paralytic polio and 10 deaths (to be discussed in a later paper). So, fortunately, I dodged at least two bullets. This was a time before the U.S. Government became actively involved in funding a broad range of medical programs. And few people had medical insurance.