"Since the most famous case of polio may have been misdiagnosed, therefore all cases were misdiagnosed, there was no disease, and teh vaccine was unnecessary." Is this your thinking?
LOL. No, that is not my thinking. It's your baseless supposition.
I'm just showing how loose the definition of "polio" was for decades. FDR is no longer a polio statistic. Before the Salk vaccine was released every person that was diagnosed with polio was diagnosed just that loosely. Did some of them actually have polio? Yeah, a small minority because of so many other diseases being diagnosed wrongly. After the vaccine was released the entire scenario changed. The diagnosis criteria was made much more specific. That right there cut the number of polio diagnosis way down. That reduction in diagnoses of polio had nothing to do with any vaccine. It had everything to do with standards of diagnosis.
Here is a list of the things diagnosed as polio pre-vaccine:
Enteroviruses such as Coxsackie and ECHO
Undiagnosed congenital syphilis
Arsenic and DDT toxicity
Transverse myelitis
Guillain-Barré syndrome
Provocation of limb paralysis by intramuscular injections of
many types, including a variety of vaccines
Hand, foot, and mouth disease11
Lead poisoning 12
DDT toxicity was a huge factor. DDT was advertised by the manufacturers as "good for you". People were told to put it on their food. Dust their sheets with it. Sprinkle it on their window sills to keep the bugs out. People were directly sprayed with it when on the beaches. The side effects of that were really bad. Here's the problems DDT causes in human beings:
Exposure to
DDT can cause symptoms such as:
- Hypersensitive to stimulation, a sensation of prickling, tingling or creeping on skin.
- Headache, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, incoordination, tremor, mental confusion, hyperexcitable state.
- In severe cases: convulsions, seizures, coma and respiratory depression.
DDT is highly toxic, and it may be fatal if inhaled, swallowed, or absorbed through the skin. Avoid any skin contact with this pesticide. Effects of contact with DDT or inhalation may be delayed.
DDT, also known as dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane, belongs to a class of pesticides called organochlorides. It is a synthetic chemical compound that doesn’t occur ...
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Ever see pictures of kids in iron lungs? Respiratory depression. Unable to breathe.
Seizures were common. They were diagnosed as paralysis.
Here's a group of statements taken from the following source
H. Ratner et al., “The Present Status of Polio Vaccines,” Illinois Medical
Journal, vol. 118, nos. 2, 3, pp. 84–93,160–68. Edited from a transcript of a
panel discussion presented before the Section on Preventive Medicine and
Public Health at the 120th annual meeting of the Illinois State Medical Society
in Chicago, May 26, 1969.
Prior to 1954 any physician who reported paralytic
poliomyelitis was doing his patient a service by way of
subsidizing the cost of hospitalization and was being
community-minded in reporting a communicable disease. The
criterion of diagnosis at that time in most health departments
followed the World Health Organization definition: “Spinal
paralytic poliomyelitis: signs and symptoms of nonparalytic
poliomyelitis with the addition of partial or complete paralysis
of one or more muscle groups, detected on two examinations at
least 24 hours apart.” Note that “two examinations at least 24
hours apart” was all that was required. . . . Laboratory
confirmation and presence of residual [longer than 24 hours]
The change in 1955 meant that we were reporting a new
disease, namely, paralytic poliomyelitis with a longer-
lasting paralysis. Furthermore diagnostic procedures have
continued to be refined. Coxsackie virus and aseptic meningitis
have been distinguished from paralytic poliomyelitis. Prior to
1954 large numbers of these cases were mislabeled as
paralytic poliomyelitis. Thus, simply by changes in
diagnostic criteria, the number of paralytic cases was
predetermined to decrease in 1955-1957, whether or not
any vaccine was used.14
The source for the following quote is:
G. C. Brown, “Laboratory Data on the Detroit Poliomyelitis Epidemic 1958,”
Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 172, February 20, 1960,
pp. 807–812.
During an epidemic of poliomyelitis in Michigan in 1958,
virological and serologic studies were carried out with
specimens from 1,060 patients. Fecal specimens from 869
patients yielded no virus in 401 cases, poliovirus in 292, ECHO
(enteric cytopathogenic human orphan) virus in 100,
Coxsackie virus in 73, and unidentified virus in 3 cases. Serums
from 191 patients from whom no fecal specimens were
obtainable showed no antibody changes in 123 cases but did
show changes diagnostic for poliovirus in 48, ECHO viruses in
14, and Coxsackie virus in 6. In a large number of paralytic
as well as nonparalytic patients poliovirus was not the
cause. Frequency studies showed that there were no
obvious clinical differences among infections with
Coxsackie, ECHO, and poliomyelitis viruses. Coxsackie and
ECHO viruses were responsible for more cases of
“nonparalytic poliomyelitis” and “aseptic meningitis” than
was poliovirus itself. 15
The medical environment for a polio diagnosis had changed radically and vastly lowered the number of diagnoses.
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