By Natasha Bita AS a baby, Jacob McCarthy swallowed a spoonful of vaccine given by his doctor to protect him from polio. That “live” vaccine, which contained small amounts of weakened polio virus and has since been replaced by a safer version, gave him the painful and paralytic symptoms of the devastating disease it was […]
Fatal Polio Reported 12 Years After Exposure to Vaccine
By Nancy Walsh, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Published: June 15, 2011 Reviewed by Dori F. Zaleznik, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston and Dorothy Caputo, MA, RN, BC-ADM, CDE, Nurse Planner In an unusual case of vaccine-derived polio, an immunodeficient woman receiving regular intravenous immune globulin treatment became paralyzed and died […]
The Polio Endgame
By Bruce Aylward, M.D, and TadaTaka Yamada, M.D., (New England Journal of Medicine) [Excerpts] Infection with poliovirus can have devastating consequences, including paralysis and death. In 1988, a year when an estimated 350,000 or more children were paralyzed by polio, the World Health Assembly initiated a global effort to eradicate the infection once and for […]
78 percent of Pakistani children with polio were given polio vaccine
By Daniel Erickson (NaturalNews) In the last year, as Pakistan has lost favor with the US and UNICEF, polio virus has paralyzed increasing numbers of Pakistani youth, casting doubt on the good intentions of those who fight polio. To make matters worse, most of the new cases have occurred in children already vaccinated. Is the […]
WHO hides the continuing polio epidemic
By Janine Roberts excerpt from a chapter of “Fear of the Invisible” How a Continuing Polio Epidemic is being Hidden I have been told again and again by health authorities that the polio vaccine is a marvellous lifesaver – and I had accepted this on trust. As no one I knew doubted this, I had […]
