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Re: Polio eradication: a complex end game

10 April 2012

Viera Scheibner (PhD), scientist/author retired

http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e2398/rr/578260

Polio eradication by vaccination?

Let me quote some original seminal medical research....

It comes as no surprise that the most recent mass polio vaccination

programs fuelled by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation resulted in

increased cases of VAPP. In India, two paediatricians, Dr Neetu Vashisht

and Dr Pulliel of the Department of Paediatrics of St s

Hospital in Delhi noted that another major ethical issue raised by the

campaign is the failure to thoroughly investigate the increase in

incidence " of non-polio acute flaccid paralysis (NPAFP) " in areas where

many doses of vaccine were used, while noting that these cases are

clinically indistinguishable from polio paralysis and twice as deadly.

They also noted that while India was declared polio-free in 2011, at the

same time there were 47500 cases of NPAFP, which increased in direct

proportion to the number of polio vaccine doses received. Independent

studies showed that children identified with NPAFP " were at more than

twice the risk of dying than those with wild polio infection " .

According to their report, nationally, the NPAFP rate is now twelve

times higher than expected. In the states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar --

which have pulse polio vaccination every month -- the NPAFP rate is 25

and 35 fold higher than the international norms (Ramesh Shankar, Mumbai

2012)....