Raspberries, Pesticides and Polio
Dan Olmsted wrote this piece in July of 2017. Polio is back in the news as vaccine apologists and polioticians cry wolf about Robert Kennedy, Jr.'s appointment to HHS. (Waving at Senator Warren.) Raspberries for them as well, the wet, Bronx cheer version. We miss Dan every day. It's quite lovely to have him featured and as relevant as ever. It’s not that raspberries cause paralysis or that these two facts prove causation. But it makes me want to keep looking. That small round buckyball sphere is just perfect for conveying more than its share of toxic agricultural chemical per mouthful. If you were to pick an advance warning system that our food might be awash in manmade impurities creating a terrifying new disease, a humble little raspberry might be an ideal contrivance. It has more surface area than Norway has shoreline and it is damnably hard to keep sterile.
By Dan Olmsted:
NOTE: Many years ago, I planted raspberries next to our house. The birds ate every single berry, so we abandoned the effort. Now I have a wild patch that is bursting forth with juicy red berries and zero effort on my part. That's life! As I was picking a few for breakfast, I remembered this Weekly Wrap from our own Dan Olmsted. Dan and Mark Blaxill's book is coming out later this summer. I hope you'll reserve a copy today as a thank you to Dan for his brilliant work on behalf of our kids and the truth. DENIAL: How Refusing to Face the Facts about Our Autism Epidemic Hurts Children, Families, and Our Future.
By Dan Olmsted
The alarm bells are ringing louder over the increasing number of cases of sudden paralysis among children in the United States. But the predictable focus on germs by “disease hunters” is obscuring what surely must be a strong environmental component.
Last Sunday’s Los Angeles Times’ piece put the issue on the mainstream media map,and another cluster of nine in Washington State this week – focusing on a six-year-old boy from Whatcom County – made the national news. (That child died.)
Here at AOA, which focuses on autism and other environmental, man-made threats to children’s health, we first called out this issue as urgent in early 2014 because it lined up eerily with work Mark Blaxill and I had done about the original paralysis-inducing epidemics of poliomyelitis. In 2011, we first proposed a new theory for those outbreaks – suggesting the poliovirus combined with novel manmade toxins, most notably the pesticide lead arsenate, to kick off the Age of Polio. The ideas is simple: Toxin plus microbe = polio outbreaks. Without the toxin, polio is a minor, often unnoticed infection. With it, the virus can gain access to the nervous system and cause polio's dreaded effects.
So when this new outbreak of polio-like paralysis among children arose in California, we looked into it. We interviewed the mother of a child, Sofia Jarvis, who developed a paralyzed arm, and we came up with a possible pesticide connection. Here’s a screen grab from a story Mark and I wrote in April 2014.
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Now it pays to be humble in the face of a new illness. There was a lot going on in this cluster of early cases, which spread from California and Colorado to Illinois and across the country before seeming to fade out last year (it’s back now on a scary cycle that also recalls the periodicity of polio). Some of those patients two years ago tested positive for EV-68, a virus in the same enterovirus family as polio, but others didn’t, and a conclusive link between the infection and the neurological damage couldn't be made in any case.
Sofia had been hospitalized and gotten an IV antibiotic in the same arm that became paralyzed, which is similar to the “provocation polio” caused by needle sticks that allowed the virus to travel, through a process called “reversal axonal transport,” to the anterior horn cells at the top of the spinal column that control movement. (It was upon hearing about this phenomenon while we worked on our 2010 book “The Age of Autism” that Mark and I looked deeper at polio. It seemed to mimic a process we were investigating involving the combination of syphilis and mercury treatment triggering the worst form of that disease, general paralysis of the insane. Note paralysis.)
We were the first to report last month that the CDC was informing state health departments of a new wave of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) cases starting this summer, and we again put forward our idea that the environment, probably in the form of pesticides but whatever the case something besides a microbe, was involved. (Some of our readers will suspect vaccines, which is also certainly plausible.) AFM is basically medical code for WTF?, since it does not describe an infection but a condition. It's like calling poliomyelitis infantile paralysis, the term it went by before anyone figure out what was going on.
It's the same old story: The mainstream – in medicine, in big media, in the government – seems resistant to the point of oblivion to the idea that the environment, especially manmade chemicals and medical interventions, especially ones they create and promote, could have anything to do with human health. It is after all the Centers for Disease Control that takes the lead and tracks the numbers in these things, and we know from close experience – autism – that they can’t (or won’t) get their mind around the idea of environmentally induced epidemics, especially not when they get money from epidemic-deniers and make their living studying the creepy-crawly end of the disease-causing spectrum. The idea that some dumb manmade chemical like a pesticide (or thimerosal) could tip the body's exquisite but delicate balance into a new epidemic of illness just does not compute. They seem to forget that something is new here; new means novel, and novel implies either some mutating or new virus, or a toxin that wasn't there before in the way it is now.
So when EV-68 starts to look dubious as “the cause,” they widen their aperture just enough to fit in every other germ known to mankind (but not manmade chemicals like lead arsenate or DDT or the new generation that appears to be killing bees wholesale, and maybe bats, and maybe now children). That reliable CDC downspout The Huffington Post (which after years of being friendly to the vaccine-autism concept got bought up and out by AOL and now Verizon and promptly shut up) reported this week under the headline “A Mysterious Neurological Condition Is Paralyzing Children”:
“One alarming complication is that AFM appears to be triggered by common viruses.” Oh, so now it’s viruses, plural. “Experts aren’t sure what causes AFM, as scientists haven’t been able to consistently isolate a germ in a patient’s spinal fluid that could explain what triggered the condition.”
A germ – it must be a germ. That is the box outside of which we will not get as long as those inside the germ paradigm are running the show. And since they can’t find a germ it must be any number of germs, none of which, as far as I know, has been implicated in any way but hey, let’s toss ‘em out there: “They have found that it appears to be triggered by a variety of diseases, including viral infections like West Nile virus, Japanese encephalitis virus, the virus that causes polio and those that can cause the common cold, pneumonia, bladder infection or gastroenteritis.”
Well there’s a greasy nothingburger of causation gibberish if I’ve ever tasted one. First of all why weren't these things triggering mayhem five years ago? We have a truly scary and rising epidemic of childhood paralysis under way and the CDC has no idea what’s happening. Hey, it could be EV-68, or any other viral infection like West Nile, or Japanese encephalitis, or polio, or the common cold, or a bladder infection, or a stomach bug. Anything the CDC is in charge of figuring it out, and nothing it’s not.
The HuffPo story is written by someone passingly familiar with medical issues, someone obviously not suited to push this story forward rather than stenographically repeat the CDC, containing half-somnambulant statements like this:
“It’s important to note that despite the spike in case reports, the condition is still exceedingly rare; less than one in one million people in America will experience it.” And how in the heck do they know that less than one million people are going to experience this thing? The rate right now might be one in one million, but it is increasing, you dodoheads! That’s what dangerous diseases can do! And it is paralyzing kids. Quit worrying about the flu and start worrying about some new polio-like thing that is leaving children paralyzed for life from the nose down, and killing others outright.
There's always a chipper quality to these things. The LA Times made it into a mother's quest for answers, which is wonderful but needs a lot of help and not just cheerleading; HuffPo offered this: "Complicating matters is that doctors aren’t sure how to treat a child once acute flaccid myelitis is present." How do you sit at your laptop and write soulless dreck like that? The reality that a paralytic and sometimes fatal disease cannot be treated at all is not a complication, people! It's a nightmare.
I’m sticking with the pesticide idea, in part because it certainly hasn’t been looked at but most of all because of of our work on polio and our reporting on raspberries. Raspberries? In the recent Washington State outbreak, two children were from Whatcom County. Look it up – the place is an agricultural heartland stretching clear accord the northern tier of that state. According to Bellingham.org:
“With 140 miles of marine shoreline and 100,000 acres of highly productive farmland, Bellingham and Whatcom County, Washington are a fresh food haven stretching deliciously between the Salish Sea and snow-capped Mount Baker, near the U.S. – Canada border.
“Farm production in Whatcom County ranks in the top three percent of all counties in the United States. Whatcom County is also the nation’s largest producer of red raspberries, growing 60 percent of the U.S. crop, first in the nation for milk production per cow, and first out of 39 Washington state counties in overall dairy production.”
Being the “nation’s largest producer of red raspberries” gives me a hill because it reminds me of the story we ran more than two years ago now – see the raspberry photo above. Little Sofia ate raspberries the morning she started getting sick. Her mother told the doctors about it. But since Sofia didn’t have botulism, they discounted any connection. End of story, until this new one: The outbreak is at least partly in raspberry country, and the child who died lived a dozen miles or so from Lynden, Washington, home of the Northwest Raspberry Festival every July.
It’s not that raspberries cause paralysis or that these two facts prove causation. But it makes me want to keep looking. That small round buckyball sphere is just perfect for conveying more than its share of toxic agricultural chemical per mouthful. If you were to pick an advance warning system that our food might be awash in manmade impurities creating a terrifying new disease, a humble little raspberry might be an ideal contrivance. It has more surface area than Norway has shoreline and it is damnably hard to keep sterile. We wrote in 2014:
“Pesticide residue seems to us like a prime suspect. ‘Fruit is notoriously difficult to grow organically and without pesticides,' Jeff Moyer, farm director at the Rodale Institute, an organic research institution, is quoted as saying on the institute’s Web site. According to the institute, ‘Because most fruits have soft skins, the pesticides that are used to kill those bugs (and the molds and fungi that also love fruit) get into the flesh and into your mouth, and no amount of peeling or washing can remove them.’”
And you can’t peel a raspberry.
Dan Olmsted was the founder of Age of Autism. He was a Yale Journalism School trained investigative reporter whose career spanned decades including launching USA Today and writing 113 columns called The Age of Autism for UPI about negligent autism rates in the Amish.
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Dan Olmsted is Editor of Age of Autism.
Greyone, in Dissolving Illusions, Dr. Suzanne Humphries wrote that surgical tonsil removal raised the risk of bulbar polio, as revealed in numerous studies and reports. John Anderson's 1943 large group study in Utah showed that poliomyelitis was more than 2.5 times more prevalent in tonsillectomized children than age-matched non-tonsillectomized children and bulbar poliomyelitis was 16 times higher in tonsillectomized children than in the general child population. "Forty-six percent of the bulbar polio cases had been preceded by recent tonsillectomy."
Posted by: lorim | December 27, 2024 at 08:01 PM
And when we speak of equine encephalitis that gets us in to West Nile as well. Twenty years ago in Michigan they were warning people of West Nile virus outbreak in wild birds. People were bringing in dead birds they found to be tested. Out in our yard we had all of our geese. Yeah we raised geese and like a bunch of hill billies too them to Michigan with us. Anything to help the kids transition from 20 years of home area full of grand parents, close life long school friends and then cold Michigan.
Several of our Kill deer birds in that Michigan yard died. As the TV news blared out more West Nile findings from dead birds.
But then the yard turned out to be of dioxins, and we had several goslings hatch out with a cross bill from digging in the dirt and finding some. Dioxins usually break up in the presents of light.
So with Fauci, if he did have a thousand boosters and still caught covid (which is to be taken with skepticism ) he did say he also came down with West Nile Virus as well.
Something there.
Posted by: Benedetta | December 22, 2024 at 08:11 PM
If Koprowskis worked with it, then it was a guarantee that he did it as unsafe and reckless as possible.
Working with polio, workers in Africa said he had a chimp compound as well. Then in the same area he was working in Africa was also the first areas that AIDS or HIV or what ever showed up.
So that said and which we all know,
There has been some mystery around Eastern equine encephalitis for a long while. Rare disease, that seems to happen a lot. If Koprowski was working with Venezuela equine encephalitis then I suspect the worse out come from him.
Posted by: Benedetta | December 22, 2024 at 08:01 PM
Greyone I findalso that the internet has been scrubbed of any bad pharma news.Salk books become rare as in his books Salk talks about population,genetic manipulation control etc.
The Hileman video is hard to find also, so much so, I have a copy of it on my phone boasting about how the Russian athletes legs will be so full of tumours it will slow their running at the Olympics...cant make it up.
We have Dan and Pharma have Maurice Hilleman "vaccines ....the bargain basement technology for the Twentieth Century"
https://libre.video/videos/watch/440b6264-ffd1-45e6-a802-88e6ab77a288
Pharma For Prison
MMR RIP
Posted by: Angus Files | December 22, 2024 at 06:42 AM
First it was the YMCA anthem.
Then it was Trump's MAGA anthem.
Now it's RFK Jr.'s MAHA/HHS anthem....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID6KY1QBR5s
Dedicated to Kary Mullis:
American biochemist, Nobel Prize winner, AIDS denialist, climate change denialist and first to call out Fauci. Unfortunately Kary didn't live long enough to call him out for fraudulently using his PCR testing during Covid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5yPkxCLads
Is the current bird flu epidemic another PCR fraud? An excuse for culling our cheap protein source?
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/eggflation-dozen-pack-supermarket-hit-record-highs-bird-flu-ravages-farms
Posted by: Emmaphiladelphia | December 22, 2024 at 01:47 AM
From my earlier post below:
"...Dr Koprowski and Irena left Warsaw in December 1939, a few months after the Nazis invaded Poland.
During World War II, Dr Koprowski worked with Ed Lennette, an outstanding virologist at the Rockefeller Foundation in Rio de Janeiro. Together they published classic papers on the pathogenesis of Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus."
According to this paper on Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus:
"AN OUTBREAK of equine encephalitis occurred in Venezuela in 1936, and a virus-later designated as Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE) virus-was isolated from the brain of an infected horse (1,2). Since that time, VEE virus has been implicated in many outbreaks of equine and human disease in South and Central America (3,4).
In late winter and spring of 1969, an outbreak of VEE that affected human beings and equines occurred in Ecuador. "
Posted by: Emmaphiladelphia | December 22, 2024 at 12:36 AM
Monkey kidney cells-
I remember many years ago seeing a chart that showed an association with brachial neuritis, unfortunately dont remember the source
Posted by: greyone | December 21, 2024 at 07:03 PM
Monkey kidney cells-
I remember many years ago seeing a chart that showed an association with brachial neuritis, unfortunately dont remember the source
Posted by: greyone | December 21, 2024 at 07:03 PM
Monkeys, viruses, and vaccines
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67360416746-9/fulltext
On any list of medical triumphs of the 20th century, polio vaccination is sure to rate a mention. In the 1950s and early 1960s, the shot and sugar-cube vaccines of Jonas Salk, and later Albert Sabin, offered people the first opportunities to protect themselves from a scourge as feared in its day as AIDS is in our own.
Few back then grasped that these vaccines might also be a huge, inadvertent, uncontrolled experiment in interspecies viral transmission. But from 1955 to 1963, according to a 1976 US National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded study, 98 million Americans alone probably were exposed to polio vaccines contaminated with SV40—a monkey virus that can cause cancers in animals. Now, a July 7 report in New Scientist has raised fears that hundreds of millions of eastern Europeans, Asians, and Africans also may have been exposed to SV40 in Soviet-made polio vaccines. Michele Carbone of Loyola University Medical Center, Chicago, USA, announced at the 2004 Vaccine Cell Substrates meeting (Rockville, MD) that the Soviet vaccine could have been contaminated until the 1980s. This is worrying since, despite 44 years of medical debate, epidemiological studies have yet to establish conclusively whether SV40 has or hasn't caused cancers in people.
When Salk developed his vaccine, instead of using human tissues, as did the scientists who won a Nobel Prize for first growing poliovirus in tissue culture, he used minced-up rhesus macaque monkey kidneys, which were remarkably efficient poliovirus factories. Those who sought to supplant Salk's formaldehyde-inactivated vaccine with live, attenuated oral vaccine also used monkey kidney cultures. Despite a manufacturing problem that, at best, left six children who received the vaccine paralysed in the arm, and despite concerns about wild simian viruses, Salk's shots were declared safe and effective after 1954 field trials. The next year, after grudging approval by sceptical government regulators, free Salk shots were made available throughout the USA.
By 1960, scientists and vaccine manufacturers knew that monkey kidneys were sewers of simian viruses. Such contamination often spoiled cultures, including those of an NIH researcher named Bernice Eddy, who worked on vaccine safety. In 1959, fresh from co-reporting that the mouse polyoma virus could cause cancer in other animals, Eddy tested the rhesus monkey kidney substrate used to make polio vaccine. She injected 154 newborn hamsters with extracts of the cell cultures: 109 developed tumours. Next, she ground up three of the tumours and injected the residue into other hamsters. The animals receiving injections from two of the three tumours developed cancers. But when Eddy put the substance back into the monkey cell culture, nothing happened, and she couldn't isolate the suspected virus.
In The Virus and the Vaccine: The True Story of a Cancer-Causing Monkey Virus, Contaminated Polio Vaccine, and the Millions of Americans Exposed, Debbie Bookchin and Jim Schumacher report that in 1960, when Eddy presented her results to her boss, a polio vaccine champion named Joe Smadel, he was livid and disbelieving: “Its implications—that something in the polio vaccine could cause cancer—was an affront to his career.” Her discovery also threatened one of the USA's most important public-health programmes. “By 1960, tens of millions of Americans had been vaccinated against polio, and it was federal health policy that everyone should be vaccinated and continue to receive Salk booster shots.”
Pharma For Prison
MMR RIP
Posted by: Angus Files | December 21, 2024 at 07:00 PM
When did they develop aborted fetus cell lines when it was still illegal.
I have been around so long, that I think I can answer that question.
It was either Sweden, or Denmark that made it legal way back in the 60s to get an abortion. We were having rich American women flying there to get the procedure done. It was also the first cell lines (at least that was what we were told) that they had from two aborted fetuses.
But then listening to Siri esquire that just one research paper had as high as 17 aborted fetuses used. In which Plotkin could not even remember and said he thought is was just one or two.
Posted by: Benedetta | December 21, 2024 at 01:56 PM
For years, I have tried to find time to read "The River" Hooper is a good writer and it is not a hard read at all, just never found the time.
Emma in the book "Polio, an American Story" after Sabin won the polio vaccine race, Koprowski stood up and said he would for now on work toward making all things around vaccines more ethical, safer, or what ever. Even at that time, way back as well as in the book; that was the biggest joke of all time because Kapowski was so crooked, unethical and cut corners in all research; dangerously so.
Salk fits into this book; The America Story" as he first because he was the first to make a media of chopped up monkey kidneys which polio viruses were able to survive and thus be studied.
So was there an epidemic of rubella causing birth defects in those years 62 through 65? Where there more than usual?
My Spidey senses are now very sensitive. I don't mind asking a question that in the past would make me look deranged. Did they breed up a special kind of Rubella virus? I now think of my friend at church whose little brother died from complications of the heart from having rubella in the womb. Did they kill him too and I did not know it How deep does the rabbit hole go?
I know that Wakefield sure had a horrible tell about one type of mumps vaccine that caused meningitis in Canada, sold cheap to Britian which again same problem and was yet again sold to Brazil, in which again soaring rates of meningitis made them also have to withdraw it from use. So we have been dealing with some real evil for a very long time.
Posted by: Benedetta | December 21, 2024 at 01:36 PM
We have Dan and Pharma have Maurice Hilliman "vaccines ....the bargain basement technology for the Twentieth Century"
https://libre.video/videos/watch/440b6264-ffd1-45e6-a802-88e6ab77a288
Pharma For Prison
MMR RIP
Posted by: Angus Files | December 21, 2024 at 06:22 AM
The Polio mystery goes deep...
Who was actually the first to develop a "successful" polio vaccine?
Hilary Koprowski, MD, 5 December 1916–11 April 2013
"Dr Koprowski was recognized for many achievements, most notably the development of the first oral polio vaccine, but also for the generation of the oral rabies vaccine currently used worldwide and for his pioneering work in developing monoclonal antibodies to detect and treat cancer.
A native of Poland, Dr Koprowski received his doctor of medicine degree from Warsaw University....Although not raised religiously, Dr Koprowski was of Jewish heritage. Knowing his likely fate had he stayed in Poland, Dr Koprowski and Irena left Warsaw in December 1939, a few months after the Nazis invaded Poland.
During World War II, Dr Koprowski worked with Ed Lennette, an outstanding virologist at the Rockefeller Foundation in Rio de Janeiro. Together they published classic papers on the pathogenesis of Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus. After the war, the Koprowski's moved to the United States. Dr Koprowski was hired by Lederle Laboratories in Pearl River, New York, where he began the most important studies of his scientific career.
During the 1940s, Dr Koprowski was the first scientist to produce attenuated poliovirus by repeated intracerebral passage of poliovirus in cotton rats. His attenuated virus produced immunity in monkeys. He was so convinced that the virus was sufficiently attenuated that he fed it to himself. Afterward, he gave the first live, attenuated poliovirus vaccine to 1 child, in February 1950, and then to 19 more children. Remarkably, none showed any side effects after vaccination, and all of them developed antibodies to the poliovirus."
https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/212/suppl_1/S2/1052181?login=false
Please read the above article. It is full of important details. In 1957 Koprowski became director of the Wistar Institute for the next 35 years. Dr. Stanley Plotkin worked under him and developed a vaccine grown on the Wi-38 cell line (based on lung tissue from a 4 mo. aborted baby) also developed there.
"Each discovery or breakthrough in the chain of events that led to vaccines becoming a public health success story may have occurred eventually. However, timing is important, and there is no question that when the WI-38 cell strain became available in 1962, it was fortuitously discovered at the same time that the primary monkey kidney cells used to manufacture the poliomyelitis vaccines were found to have been contaminated. Thus, the use of WI-38 represented a catalyst for subsequent vaccine development. In fact, the success of the research that resulted in the development of WI-38 in 1962 occurred when federal research funds were not prohibited for use in studying the biology of
tissue derived from aborted human fetuses."
https://www.sivb.org/InVitroReport/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/WI-38-AIMS-Public-Health..pdf
It appears that without that aborted baby, the future of the polio vaccines and the modern vaccine industry would have been history.
Here is the story of the development of Wi-38:
The untold story of the aborted fetus that helped create the rubella vaccine.
https://slate.com/technology/2017/03/the-woman-whose-aborted-fetus-helped-create-the-rubella-vaccine.html
"In 1962, Leonard Hayflick created
a cell strain from an aborted fetus.
More than 50 years later, WI-38
remains a crucial, but controversial,
source of cells."
https://www.nature.com/news/polopoly_fs/1.13273!/menu/main/topColumns/topLeftColumn/pdf/498422a.pdf
According to this bio, Plotkin wanted to work at Wistar with Koprowski on the polio vaccine. He also worked in the CDC's EIS program instead of going to Viet Nam:
"In 1957, Plotkin planned to volunteer for the US Air Force rather than be drafted for military service in the Vietnam War. According to Plotkin, he wanted to join the Air Force to learn to fly planes. But because of his medical training, Plotkin instead served for three years in the Epidemic Intelligence Service of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia. As an officer of the Epidemic Intelligence Service, Plotkin studied anthrax at the Wistar Institute. Plotkin later revealed that he requested that specific appointment because he hoped to work with the new director of the Wistar Institute, Hilary Koprowski, who had developed a preliminary oral polio vaccine. Polio was a common childhood disease that caused flu-like symptoms and sometimes affected the central nervous system, paralyzing some children. In addition to studying anthrax, Plotkin also studied the poliovirus in Koprowski's lab. He researched alternative, experimental polio vaccines and tested the new polio vaccines in the Belgian Congo, later called the Democratic Republic of the Congo."
Plotkin later worked on a rubella vaccine at Wistar using Wi-38 cell line.
https://keep-qa.lib.asu.edu/system/files/embryo/pdfs/PePlotkinSACHR.xhtml.pdf
QUESTION: How was Wi-38 developed in America at a time when abortion was illegal?
QUESTION: How do you motivate the American population to approve/legalize abortion?
Enter the 1962-1965 rubella epidemic. What caused it?
"Due to the mild symptoms of Rubella, the disease was able to exist in many countries without much notice or attention. However, in 1942 an Australian ophthalmologist, Norman Gregg, realized that the virus caused birth defects.[10] This led to many scientists and doctors putting more effort into understanding the disease and finding ways to prevent it. Twenty years after this discovery, an outbreak of Rubella took place in Europe and eventually made it way over to the United States.
With new information out about the effects of the Rubella virus on a fetus, some expectant women and physicians wanted the termination of the pregnancy to be an option. Abortion was illegal in the United States at the height of this epidemic, however, physicians were allowed to perform therapeutic abortions if the believed the mother would be in danger or the fetus would be non-viable or suffer severe damage."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962%E2%80%931965_rubella_epidemic
Posted by: Emmaphiladelphia | December 20, 2024 at 11:27 PM
Check out this week's The Highwire:
Episode 403: THE POLITICS OF POLIO
https://thehighwire.com/watch/
Atty Aaron Siri gives a backgrounder on the "polio" media attack on RFK Jr.
If you donate, you get access to Jeffrey Jackson's 2-part series, ‘Polio: The Founding Myth of Modern Medicine.’
https://thehighwire.com/ark-videos/free-preview-jefferey-jaxen-investigates-season-premiere/
Looks like Jackson took a cue from Dan and moved it forward.
Posted by: Emmaphiladelphia | December 20, 2024 at 11:12 AM
Mr Olmsted had such poise in his prose, a delightful provocation.
I do wonder sometimes about a possible connection to the surgical fashion of tonsilectomies during the polio years, very common, even in families of limited means such as mine, with compensatory icecream reward.
Posted by: greyone | December 19, 2024 at 08:49 PM