Pesticides and Polio:

...Dr. Biskind had the composure to argue what he thought was the most obvious explanation for the polio epidemic: Central nervous system diseases (CNS) such as polio are actually the physiological and symptomatic manifestations of the ongoing government- and industry-sponsored inundation of the world's populace with central nervous system poisons.

DDT, primarily. More here.

There are legitimate questions about the decision to go with the Salk live vaccine, but most of that article sure comes across as tinfoil hat stuff. If this doesn't set off alarm bells, what will?

Revisiting the work of numerous doctors, naturopaths and chiropractors whose natural therapies helped heal polio victims, James cites the tremendous work done by Dr. Frederick Klenner, MD, whose unequivocal success with vitamin C in healing polio and many other diseases, including recovery from pesticide poisoning, is best described as a true gift to humanity. (5) Another important discovery was forwarded by North Carolina physician, Dr. Benjamin Sandler, MD, who found that polio could be prevented by a diet that eliminated refined carbohydrates, sugar, candy, cookies, pop and ice cream, which were ingested in enormous quantities in the summer months when polio was rampant.

Perhaps claims for Vitamin C in the VRAN article are questionable, but this is another topic.

No similar claims are made in the initial Pesticides and Polio article, which discusses alternative causes of polio (pesticides instead of viruses). Cures, other than the Salk vaccine, are not mentioned.

It is this alleged correlation between pesticide use and polio -- something I have not heard of before -- that caught my attention. It brings to mind the history of Minamata Disease in Japan:

Minamata disease is an encephalopathy and peripheral neuropathy caused by daily intake of fish and shellfish contaminated by methylmercury. Through gills and gastrointestinal tracts, fishery products such as fish, shrimp, crabs, and shellfish, take in methylmercury discharged from chemical plants into rivers and seas. Flesh-eating fish that eat those contaminated fish also accumulate the toxicsubstance(food web). Thus accumulated methylmercury in sea food intoxicates people who have eaten a lot of such sea food daily.

Minamata disease broke out in the Yatsushiro Sea coastal area, particularly around Minamata Bay in Kumamoto Prefecture. At first the disease was regarded as a kind of disease of nervous system of unidentified causes.

From Japan's National Institute for Minamata Disease.

It also brings to the mind's eye the powerful photography of W. Eugene Smith in his book Minamata.

Polio caused by DDT?

Give us all a break.

Polio outbreaks only occur when people aren't vaccinated.

Consider me an expert.

The crazies who don't vaccinate might be lucky to get by due to herd immunity, but, they sometimes run out of luck. Moslems in Africa and India who think the vaccine is a plot by Christians to reduce fertility (I guess they see that as their only good weapon in their clash of civilizatons) suffer outbreaks of paralytic polio.

Africa countries, following the advice of Western environmentalists, who ban all use of DDT suffer hundreds, in fact thousands, of needless deaths due to malaria.

This sort of stupid nonsense kills and cripples children. Just stop it.