SEGMENT 11 – POLIO

Does a virus really cause it? Did the vaccine work? Is polio still with us?

• What is polio
• Why only in modern countries? The “American disease.”
• DDT and pesticides.
• The great debate: virologists vs the toxicologists
• SV40 – polio vaccine and cancer
• AFP – acute flaccid paralysis

“Polio is a devastating disease. There is a mass of historical evidence to suggest it is not caused by a virus, but by industrial and agricultural pollution.”

         Janine Roberts: “Polio: the virus and the vaccine”. The Ecologist. May 1, 2004