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20 THINGS YOU PROBABLY DON’T KNOW ABOUT POLIO

From Jason Christoff

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1. A pesticide common in the 1800’s was called Paris Green. A green liquid because it was a combination of copper and arsenic or lead and arsenic. Some of the most toxic substances known to humankind. This super toxin was also used as a dye, in many items, including wall paper and paint. It was the sole focus of murder mystery novels at the time, as arsenic was known to be a very efficient way to stage a murder “for unknown reasons”, as arsenic kills but is hard to detect after the victim succumbs to the poison (now we’ve had to add this link because the first link has been scrubbed – Scheele’s Green – Wikipedia. – An Everyday Poison | Science History Institute Science History Stories Magazine Every Day Poison Arsenic  

2. This pesticide worked by causing neurological damage in the bugs, causing organ failure.

3. Polio consists of symptoms synonymous with neurological damage, causing organ failure.

4. Heavy metal poisoning from lead, mercury and other similar heavy metals manifest lesions on neurological tissues, meaning the toxin destroys the nerve/communication pathways connecting the brain to the organs in the body. http://bit.ly/1OLcFgG (Mercury Poisoning – The Minamata Story)

5. Polio victims present lesions on neurological tissue, that cause the organs to malfunction all around the body. (lungs, heart, nerves that control walking etc)

6. Polio outbreaks hit throughout the summer, only during pesticide spraying times. (not the sunless and damp winter/spring seasons regarding other disease outbreaks)

7. Polio had and has NO ability to spread from infected victims to the uninfected. Polio infected clusters of people in the exact same areas, suddenly and swiftly. http://bit.ly/1P6zShV (the original link was https://reducetheburden.org/polio-a-shot-in-the-dark/ and now that is not working so I’ve linked the book where the exert was originally from – https://odysee.com/@OfficialVaxFactsLack:a/A-Shot-In-The-Dark—Barbara-Loe-Fisher—Harris-L.-Coulter-(1991)–Book-:6 and you can buy the book here – https://www.amazon.com/Shot-Dark-H-Coulter/dp/089529463X )

8. Parents reported finding their children paralyzed in and around apple orchards. One of the most heavily pesticide sprayed crops of the time (with lead arsenate or copper arsenate) were apple orchards. Paris green – Wikipedia Both lead and arsenate can cause paralysis but that paralysis is tied to visible poisons, not invisible viruses. Imagine a plot to continually poison the public for control based purposes and to have the public focus on invisible viruses and not the visible poisons? How far would such a plot get? Is such a plot still occurring to this very day, using the same strategies and blue prints?

9. President Roosevelt became paralyzed over night while at a summer retreat, which contained many crops, including apple orchards.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paralytic_illness_of_Franklin_D._Roosevelt  He also swam the day prior in a bay that was heavily polluted by industrial agricultural run off. Summer again is when these paralysis based outbreaks would occur, as spraying of crops with extremely toxic chemicals would intensify as the crops hit a fully mature state. The pesticides we’re talking about were DESIGNED to terminate nervous system function in the bugs, which is exactly what “polio presents as. Is polio connected to a very long history of complicit poisoning of the population by industry, government, science and medicine. Anyone who doesn’t understand the perpetual historical record of the ruling 1% poisoning and exterminating the “lesser halves” needs to investigate the documented science of eugenics, which can be started by clicking here to watch a very well made video on the subject.(video linked is titled Sir Francis Galton – Father of Eugenics)

10. Dr. Ralph Scobey and Dr. Mortind Biskind testified in front of the U.S Congress in 1951 that the paralysis around the country known as polio was being caused by industrial poisons and that a virus theory was purposely fabricated by the chemical industry and the government to deflect litigation away from both parties. http://bit.ly/1DKDb3v – link here is https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/environmental-toxins/pesticides-and-polio-a-critique-of-scientific-literature/#gsc.tab=0 Do we really need to spray poisons on the food we eat or is there something else going on……and is it still going on today?

11. At this added link (click herehttp://www.whale.to/a/scobey2.html titled The Poison Cause of Poliomyelitis and Obstructions To Its Investigation. we have the actual testimony of Dr. Ralph Scobey to Congress, explaining how the government, chemical companies and the media were trying to steer the public astray as to the causes and the treatment of the paralysis falsely blamed on a virus that didn’t cause paralysis. The chemical companies were poisoning the American people and some people from academia were making accusations that this was being done purposely to increase the power of a corrupt government, over the resulting dysfunctional and toxic masses. Create a problem, declare that something must be done, rally the government to start giving money to this organization or that to solve the problem (owned by friends in government) and then declare the problem has been fixed……..but what if the problem was purposely manufactured and the solving of the problem also manufactured? Do we have any evidence of the problem being created and also solved in manipulative ways?

12. In 1956 the AMA (The American Medical Association) instructed each licensed medical doctor that they could no longer classify polio as polio, or their license to practice would be terminated. Any paralysis was now to be diagnosed as AFP (acute flaccid paralysis) MS, MD, Bell’s Palsy, cerebral palsy, ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease), Guillian-Barre (GBS), meningitis,  provocation poliomyelitis, transverse myelitis, viral or “aseptic” meningitis, Chinese Paralytic syndrome, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, etc Included under the umbrella term “Acute Flaccid Paralysis” are Poliomyelitis, Transverse Myelitis, GBS, enteroviral encephalopathy, traumatic neuritis and Reye’s syndrome. http://bit.ly/1Ml3rpX (source here is a google book search of the book Immunization – The Reality Behind the Myth – page 36 with a search for the sentence ” In order to qualify for classification as paralytic poliomyelitis, the patient had to exhibit paralytic symptoms for at least 60 days)  This was orchestrated purposely to make the public believe polio was eradicated by the polio vaccine campaign but because the polio vaccine contained toxic ingredients directly linked to paralysis, polio cases (not identified as polio) were skyrocketing…but only in vaccinated areas. http://bit.ly/1WEHYzR (this link ishttps://vactruth.com/2015/07/05/cdc-made-polio-disappear/ titled – The CDC Made These Two Radical Changes and 30,000 Diagnosis of Polio Disappeared Instantly Disappeared)  Today most vaccine inserts declare paralysis as a potential side effect (https://www.immunize.org/fda/ ) but “reframe it” as Guillian Barre or simply “paralysis”. This is purposely designed to obfuscate the public’s understanding of what causes paralysis, which is heavy metal poisoning plus vaccine induced autoimmunity……that ends with the body attacking and destroying its’ own nervous system pathways, in an rabid attempt to clean itself of the injected toxins. Guillian Barre and paralysis, as listed vaccine side effects, are also a way to get the public running east looking for a sunset, keeping them as far away as possible from connecting the dots around this medical polio obfuscation. Aluminum and mercury are ingredients in most (if not all) vaccines today and both are proven to cause paralysis and motor neuron destruction………..known as many different names, depending on just how much the science/medical authority figure in the room wants to lead you astray that day. Polio Planned To Be Used To Coverup Vaccine Caused Guillain-Barré Syndrome (odysee.com) Here we see how mercury can cause paralysis (Japan’s Ominous Dancing Cats and the Disaster That Followed) and cause nerve damageHere and here we see that aluminum can also cause paralysis and obviously death as well.. (Effects of Aluminum in Vaccines and Doctor Speaks Out Dangers of Aluminum in Vaccine) There’s an entire documentary about the trace amounts of neurotoxins in vaccines called Trace Amounts and how these toxins (just like lead and arsenic of the polio era) completely devastated the body with many polio like symptoms.

13. The first polio vaccine was worked on by Dr. Jonas Salk and human experiments using this vaccine were conducted purposely on orphans in government/church run institutions because they were vulnerable and didn’t require any parental consent signatures, as they had no parents. The vaccine was “declared safe” by “medicine” (as they always are even though that vaccine was killing and paralyzing monkeys in test trials) and that vaccine gave 40,000 orphans polio, permanently paralyzed hundreds and killed at least 10 children. All injuries and deaths under reported of course by the same authorities who orchestrated the atrocity. This was called The Cutter Incident (The Cutter Incident – Vaccines Do Harm). A focused attack on defenseless children, by people charged with their care. A poisoning of innocent children and then the excuses and apologies, regarding how it won’t happen again. Is this pattern still occurring today? The answer is obvious. In this attached link regarding the Cutter Incident where vulnerable children were purposely targeted, the killing of the children is advertised as “a great help to science” in better understanding the disease. Today we also have kids dying from a vaccine and the similarities don’t stop there.  The Vaccine is Killing Kids (odysee.com) Salk was praised as a hero for not patenting the polio vaccine that carried his name but legally if you patent something, you’re also legally liable when it hurts someone. Salk wasn’t a hero. Is targeting the population with poison and then declaring the poison a disease an on going cycle in our modern world, which also ends with a toxic vaccine that only produces more disease? Such cycles of attacking the public over and over again is often referred to as “disaster capitalism“. Disaster capitalism drives profit for the attacking group into the stratosphere and also increases political control of the group receiving the perpetual shock doctrine.

14. The next “improved” polio vaccine, given to hundreds of millions, carried both the SV 40 cancer virus as well as the AIDS virus…..or so it was said to carry cancer causing and AIDS causing viruses………but it didn’t. What that vaccine carried was more poison, more heavy metals and more toxins……proven to kill and cripple. Every step of the way, we had medicine declaring  that they knew for sure, that this time, they had everything straightened out and that The Cutter Incident would not repeat itself. Same story then, same story now. The only thing larger than the pile of broken medical and government promises regarding polio, vaccines and disease eradication…..is the pile of broken and dead bodies that rockets skywards as medicine, science and government continually apply failed healing protocols to a heavily indoctrinated and bewildered public. Vaccines are Cancer. (odysee.com) Cancerous tumors, still being pulled out of people today, are riddled with SV40 cancer viruses from the government’s “safe and effective” and “approved” polio vaccine. http://bit.ly/1jGvysV Although all three links in this point refer to “viruses” being in the new polio vaccine and causing all the deaths and injuries associated with the second generation polio vaccine, it’s important to understand that all these deaths, injuries and cancers are caused by poison. In short, the people who are poisoning you want you to believe that invisible viruses are making you sick and killing you, instead of their very visible poisons. More on that point at the bottom of the article.

15. In the book Virus Mania, top scientists in the field declare that polio doesn’t and has never qualified as a viral disease because it fails to spread from person to person or animal to animal. If it’s not a viral disease, then what is it? The answer is heavy metal and other forms of toxic poisoning that causes partial or full paralysis. (destruction of the nervous system). Connect the dots. Learn more about virus mania here.  

16. The polio con job, ranked as 1 of the top 10 medical con jobs of all time, is clearly described in this selected chapter of the book “Dissolving Illusions” by leading medical doctor, Dr. Suzanne Humphries. The reason so much effort is placed into medical con jobs like this is to continually infuse the public with false fear regarding viruses that don’t exist, and also to provide false hope and blind faith belief in toxic vaccines and poisonous medications, which only worsen a population’s overall health status. Why would anyone do this? Again, this is when a confused citizen needs to investigate EUGENICS and the history (and families) behind that movement. The end result is the same, regardless of medical ambush. The elite groups who organize such fraud based operations increase tyrannical control over a diseased, die-empowered, depressed, dis-satisfied, dis-oriented and dumbed down population. Such a population is easier to control, steal from, manipulate and govern. It’s not really about polio or viruses, it’s about poisoning the population into a chemical lobotomized state that ends with increased elite domination and iron fist control. How did 80% of North Americans come to become extremely unhealthy in our most technologically advanced era? The answer is……because this has always been the design of the system. The ruling of 8 billion people by an extremely small group of 10,000 can only be achieved when that 8 billion operate in perpetual chaos…….physically, economically, mentally and spiritually.  http://bit.ly/2jeQpUa Bill Gates also moves today throughout the world pushing vaccines and paralyzing innocent victims, in a very similar trail of carnage, death and destruction. Same story in the 1950’s, same story now…..the vaccines are causing paralysis in their uninformed victims. Bill Gates (here and here) has been attacking the population with vaccines (on behalf of certain groups) for at least 25 years. What you see today with COVID and the COVID vaccines falls is a cycle similar to what we observe with polio and the polio vaccines.

17. On a related note, Jonas Salk, the inventor of the first polio vaccine……..eventually wrote a book. It contains his personal views on the general public and how the society is meant to advance, under the new scientific dictatorship. Some very interesting beliefs of Jonas Salk are exposed throughout the book. Click here to see the video (Jay Dyer – Survival of the Wisest Book Review – Father of Vaccines Jonas Salk – by Jay Dyer) and you best be sitting down when you do. Salk openly endorses the medical system and associated power groups kill at will to achieve this groups very dark goals. A perfect actor to develop the polio vaccine, which is simply another needle full of poison, which can easily manipulate the public to line up for……suing the right mind control and propaganda techniques.

18. Did the Polio Vaccine Really Eradicate Polio (odysee.com) even more data showing that sickness, mimicking polio symptoms ,are experienced more frequently by people with an unhealthy diet. People receiving the polio vaccine (and other vaccines) were much more likely to be ill in general and present polio like symptoms. Disease isn’t a poison deficiency. Disease is caused by a surplus of poisons and the documented toxins in all vaccines PACK A WALLOP!

19. At this added link an acclaimed author of 9 books exposes the true intent of all vaccines, including the polio vaccination. The truth is never complex, only the lies are.

20. CLICK HERE to see a story that exposes this on going cycle. The vaccines don’t do what they say they do. Those shots or oral applications only increase sickness, which is relabeled as the disease being fought, which in turn is propagandized to increase mass poisoning of the public. The truth is that toxins can paralyze the body and the polio vaccine in question (oral as well as injectable) is straight poison and has always been so.

When someone talks of any disease, in this day and age, they’re often just repeating what they were told by the government, media, science or medicine. If you’re willing to repeat without any confirming research or resistance, this pre qualifies you to rocket up the pyramid of control, gaining promotion after promotion along the way. When someone today repeats anything about polio and polio elimination based on vaccination, they’re repeating known the lies of known liars……..who are experts in disaster capitalism, shock doctrine, murder and psychological manipuation. Repeating what you’re told and intelligence aren’t the same thing. Repeating or intelligence? The choice is yours. Repeaters are FIRM IN THEIR BELIEFS yet have NEVER researched beyond what they were told to believe. Such firm belief, with ZERO RESEARCH, is illogical and irrational. Research the hidden history of polio, the disease that never was. http://bit.ly/1DKDb3v

Click here to see over 100 medical doctors and PhD scientists explaining with statistics and research that 1) vaccines aren’t safe 2) vaccines aren’t effective 3) vaccines don’t improve immunity or resistance to disease and 4) vaccines injure, permanently cripple or kill each and every person they’re injected into. The darkness and deceit around the polio vaccine doesn’t just stop there. The entire history of vaccination, from inception to this very day, is rampant with corruption, eugenics, stealth euthanasia and for lack of a better phrase……evil intent.

CLICK HERE and here for some more information on polio.

CLICK HERE for a secondary review of THE POLIO LIE(s) by Tim Chapman

Further research regarding the polio deception can be found in…
1. This book by Dr. Russell Blaylock – amzn.to/1PTIq73
2. This book by Dr. Suzanne Humphries – amzn.to/1TBIaR0
3. This book by Liam Scheff – amzn.to/1TBIpLN

4 This book on Janine Roberts – http://bit.ly/2gsC1s8

This portion has been added from Kate William………….

My ears practically perked up when I read that one Dr. HC Emerson, investigating a ‘polio’ outbreak in 1907, discovered that a) no polio cases in exclusively breastfed infants b) the eating of fresh fruits and vegetables preceded the onset of ‘poliomyelitis’ in many others.

Barber (1939) reported four cases of ‘polio’ that occurred the same day as strawberries were eaten, in a boarding school house.

Chenault (1941) noted the parallels between ‘polio’ outbreaks and the appearance of fresh fruit and vegetables.

Draper (1935) reported a case series of ‘polio’ which he theorized originated from a Greek fruiterer.

Naturally, I had to do some digging on this…and discovered…

Before DDT spraying, there was ARSENIC spraying!

In 1929, almost 30 million pounds of lead arsenate or calcium arsenate were sprayed in the fields and orchards of America. In fact, the government was so enthusiastic about the use of arsenic, that in 1935, an FDA-hosted radio program suggested the old nursery rhyme “A is for Apple” should be changed to: “A is for arsenate, Lead if you please, protector of apples against arch-enemies.”

In 1919, Boston Health Department was forced to destroy arsenic-coated apples because people were getting sick.

Scientists say the earth is still tainted with the residue, and believe lands once used to raise cotton, is now responsible for arsenic found in rice. Arsenate pesticides were officially banned in the US, in the 1980’s, but “modifed arsenates” are still used on cotton crops today. China, meanwhile, kept using arsenate sprays beyond 2000, and it is suspected they are still using them illegally.

Note the symptoms of acute arsenic poisoning = fever, vomiting and nausea, headache, sore throat etc. Chronic poisoning = polyneuritis and paralysis, especially in the extremities.

Sound familiar?

Also note that Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was crippled by ‘polio’ in 1921, at age 39 years, also owned an apple orchard where the family used to spend their summers, and he used to swim regularly in the pond nearby…At the time, mostly children were affected, and it was considered rare for adults to have ‘polio’.

POLIO is a man-made disease caused by heavy metals exposure, not a virus… the entire history of polio and vaccines was fabricated – https://www.newstarget.com/2021-11-28-polio-man-made-heavy-metals-not-virus.html

A Story About Polio, Pesticides and the Meaning of Science https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/polio-pesticides-ddt-science/ 

Same con all the time – developed by science, safe and effective, the disease caused by the government and media in the first place and then more sick and dead kids are the result. Same con structure, over and over and over again. (source….Unconditional Surrender 1956 – 1956 Film on Polio Vaccine – 1956 US Polio Vaccine Propaganda

SOURCE

CDC Admits 98 Million Americans Were Given an Hereditary Cancer Virus Via The Polio Shot During 1955–1963

This highly enlightening article is from marygreeley.com  It will shock you. And thanks to thecontrail.com, I’ve added further links to information pertaining to NZ and this issue.
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“The CDC has admitted that between 1955–1963 over 98 million Americans received one or more doses of a polio shot which was contaminated with a cancer-causing virus called Simian vacuolating virus 40 (SV40).”  Although quickly removed from their website, it has been cached and reproduced in the article.

Think on this. Over 98 million people received a cancer-causing virus via a vaccine. Joining dots anybody? Our cancer rate is currently 1 in 3. This is part of the reason why in your circle of friends and relations there are several stories of cancer cases and even deaths. I can think of four people in my extended family, plus two friends who’ve died from it. And several treated for it. There are many and varied sources whereby we are exposed to the elevated environmental risk of contracting cancer, and this is just one of them. Dr Samuel Epstein was writing about environmental risks back in the ’70s (see his book The Politics of Cancer). Instead we are lead to believe, or would get the impression going by the establishment, that it’s very mysterious and often just plain bad luck we’re cursed with the big C. Truth is, your finding out just makes a dent in corporate profits. Why else is there a war against organic food, stopping the use of chemical pesticides, natural medicine and anything else that’s healthy pretty much? So here we have cancer added to vaccines. You should be shocked and if you haven’t already you need to examine thoroughly the independent research on vaccines.  See our site for links. EnvirowatchRangitikei


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WetrKjUBkR0

Published on Mar 27, 2017

Another important consideration conveniently omitted on the CDC fact sheet about SV40 is that the virus is somehow being passed down from generation to generation.
The CDC has admitted that between 1955–1963 over 98 million Americans received one or more doses of a polio shot which was contaminated with a cancer-causing virus called Simian vacuolating virus 40 (SV40).
http://marygreeley.com/?p=50714


The article:

“To further confirm this unbelievable admission, Assistant Professor of Pathology at Loyola University in Chicago Dr. Michele Carbone has been able to independently verify the presence of the SV40 virus in tissue and bone samples from patients who died during that era.

He found that 33% of the samples with osteosarcoma bone cancers, 40% of other bone cancers, and 60% of the mesothelioma’s lung cancers all contained this obscure virus. This leaves the postulation that upwards of 10–30 million actually contracted and were adversely affected by this virus, to be deadly accurate.

READ MORE:

http://marygreeley.com/?p=50714


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NEW ZEALAND

https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/2292/3144/02w…

CHAPTER 8: ‘Crises of Confidence?’ Vaccine controversies and medical and public responses 1973-1990 . GO TO PAGE 234 .

A SMALL EXCERPT FROM THERE.

“The Health Department had had several months’ warning of the Baguley and Glasgow research when it provided details of the polio vaccine campaigns to the two doctors. Consequently the Department conducted its own inquiry ‘behind closed doors’ regarding the effects of SV40 which led it to conclude the vaccine was ‘safe’.10 Although press statements had been prepared in advance, the Department was taken aback by the intensity with which Truth attacked its subject over 22 weeks from December 1973 to July 1974. Headlines such as ‘2 million candidates for cancer?’11 and ‘Killer Slip? Health men & a dirty vaccine…’12 abounded for weeks with accusations by Truth that the Department was trying to cover up or give different versions of what happened.13

4 D. M. Baguley, G. L. Glasgow, ‘Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis and the Salk Vaccine’, The Lancet, 6 October 1973, pp.763-65. They also thought there might be a link to killed measles vaccine. 5 Editorial, The Lancet, 6 October 1973, p.772 and also N. McD. Davidson, ‘S.S.P.E. in New Zealand’, The Lancet, 8 December 1973, pp.1332-33. Usually SSPE takes about five to seven years to develop and hence it was argued that a measles epidemic in 1952-53 was more likely to be responsible for cases of SSPE than the SV40 in the Salk vaccine three to four years later. 6 D. M. Baguley and G. L. Glasgow, ‘Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis and the Salk Vaccine’, p.765. 7 Report to the Minister of Health of the Special Committee to Investigate the Safety of Poliomyelitis vaccines, 7 March 1983, Wellington, p.30. 8 C. J. Rutty, ‘Do something!… Do Anything! Poliomyelitis in Canada 1927-1962’, PhD thesis, University of Toronto, 1995, p.376. In the United States from August 1961 all lots of vaccine had to be tested for SV40 by the manufacturer. Any batches that contained SV40 were to be destroyed. See also EAC Minutes 14 March 1974, ABQU 632 W4452/913 144/17 Polio Vaccine 1973-92, ANZ, Wellington. 9 Connaught was granted a licence to manufacture the vaccine by the Canadian government on 2 March 1962 with the proviso that the vaccine was free of SV40.


Cancer risk associated with simian virus 40 contaminated polio vaccine.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10472327

Anticancer Res. 1999 May-Jun;19(3B):2173-80.

Cancer risk associated with simian virus 40 contaminated polio vaccine.

Abstract

BACKGROUND:

The presence of SV40 in monkey cell cultures used in the preparation of the polio vaccine from 1955 through 1961 is well documented. Investigations have consistently demonstrated the oncogenic behavior of SV40 in animal models. Early epidemiologic studies were inadequate in demonstrating an increase in cancer incidence associated with contaminated vaccine. Recently, investigators have provided persuasive evidence that SV40 is present in human ependymomas, choroid plexus tumors, bone tumors, and mesotheliomas, however, the etiologic role of the virus in tumorigenesis has not been established.

MATERIALS AND METHODS:

Using data from SEER, we analyzed the incidence of brain tumors, bone tumors, and mesotheliomas from 1973-1993 and the possible relationship of these tumors with the administration of the SV40 contaminated vaccine.

RESULTS:

Our analysis indicates increased rates of ependymomas (37%), osteogenic sarcomas (26%), other bone tumors (34%) and mesothelioma (90%) among those in the exposed as compared to the unexposed birth cohort.

CONCLUSIONS:

These data suggest that there may be an increased incidence of certain cancers among the 98 million persons exposed to contaminated polio vaccine in the U.S.; further investigations are clearly justified.

PMID:
 
10472327
[Indexed for MEDLINE]

HOW PLUMBING (NOT VACCINES) ERADICATED DISEASE

This article from is a very interesting read especially in light of vaccination information. And one would have to ask, are we returning to this state of affairs with our water pollution now? With only 40% of our rivers now safe enough to swim in, courtesy of pollution being so rampant in ‘clean, green’ NZ, reading this article is reminiscent of that. We featured an article recently of a young man contracting Trench Mouth from the Manawatu River. The Thames had sewage dumped in it for instance until somebody joined the dots with the connection to disease. Those days have gone now yet folks still have not learned. Once again sewage, industrial waste and more are being dumped into rivers and people are getting sick as we saw recently in the Hawke’s Bay incident. Nowadays the root cause is not ignorance but more likely corporate profiteering if you dig deep enough.
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Original map showing clusters of cholera cases in the London epidemic of 1854                  Photo Credit : Wikipedia



April 6, 2015 by

Vaccines get all the glory, but most plumbers will tell you that it was water infrastructure – sewage systems and clean water – that eradicated disease, and they’re right.

Disease Before Plumbing

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A mosaic bathing sign from Libya with slogan ‘Salvom Lavisse’ meaning, ‘bathing is good for you’ (Wikipedia)

After the fall of the Roman Empire, Europeans despised all things Roman, including bathing. There was a widespread belief that getting wet caused illness. This contempt and fear of bathing persisted through the Dark Ages.

Some Europeans defied local customs by bathing, but this was usually done over great protest. When Queen Elizabeth bathed, her servants panicked, fearing she would become ill and die.

This resistance to bathing was brought across the Atlantic to America, influencing habits all the way into the 1800s. In 1835, Philadelphia almost passed an ordinance forbidding wintertime bathing. Ten years later, Boston did outlaw bathing, except by medical directive. (Though this law was not widely enforced, it does illustrate the American resistance to bathing as late as the mid 1800s.)

How Plumbing Eradicated Disease

Before plumbing was widely used, indoor facilities consisted of a washstand and a washbowl, a pitcher, and a chamber pot or commode. Human waste was thrown into the street or anywhere convenient.

This total lack of sanitation in urban areas filled with rats and other vermin provided the perfect environment to spread disease. The Black Plague alone killed 75 million – 200 million people – including 1/3 of Europe’s population. Though this disease is not entirely eradicated, human infection has become a rare occurrence. The last plague epidemic in America was in the early 1900’s.

Polio and Plumbing

Polio thrives in fecal matter and is easily transmitted through human waste. Plumbing and water sanitation in India is way behind the rest of the industrialized world. In areas where sanitation and hygiene are good, polio is rare. In areas where sanitation and hygiene are poor, the disease can spread rapidly.

Immunization efforts have received a lot of publicity and have garnered most of the credit for India being declared “polio free” by the World Health Organization…

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http://www.organiclifestylemagazine.com/how-plumbing-not-vaccines-eradicated-disease/

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