The following information is from Children’s Health Defense.
A recent article from Fortune claimed the polio vaccine is “not only safe but also effective” and has prevented 20 million people from being paralyzed by polio since 1988. However, a closer analysis raises questions about the accuracy of these figures and omissions of critical facts about polio vaccines.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there were 350,000 reported polio cases globally in 1988, with 1 in 200 infections leading to irreversible paralysis. This figure suggests about 1,750 paralysis cases that year. Even accounting for population growth since 1988, the total number of paralysis cases estimated between 1988 and 2024 would be roughly 80,910—not 20 million, as Fortune claimed.
The polio vaccine used in the US today is the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), which, according to the CDC, prevents severe disease but does not stop transmission of the virus. Meanwhile, the oral polio vaccine (OPV) used in other countries can prevent transmission but carries a risk of causing vaccine-derived polio outbreaks. Such outbreaks were reported recently in Gaza, New York, and Africa, which have led the US to discontinue use of OPV.
Approximately 90-95% of polio infections are asymptomatic, according to the FDA package insert for IPOL, the only stand-alone IPV product used in the US. Among those infected, the overall risk of paralysis from natural infection is estimated at just 0.001. This contrasts sharply with the figures cited in Fortune’s article, which claimed the vaccine prevented 20 million cases of paralysis—a number far exceeding estimates based on available data.
Modern polio vaccines also rely on genetically modified components. raising additional concerns. For instance, the FDA’s approval of IPV was based on trials lasting just three days, leading to questions about long-term safety. Additionally, the IPOL vaccine, currently the sole stand-alone polio vaccine licensed in the US, uses monkey kidney cells modified to multiply indefinitely—technology some experts argue poses safety risks.
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IPOL IPV may not cause polio because after it’s introduction in 2000 because the diagnosis of paralytic polio changed into Acute Flaccid Paralysis – AFM. Salk polio vaccine caused thousands of cases of paralytic polio after introduction in 1955…but Salk and CDC ignored it. Boston Hospitals were filled with Salk polio vaccine victims in the summer of 1955 following the use of a Parks Davis Salk vaccine. If one observes the switch back to IPV vaccine in the summer of 2000 in the United States – Acute Flaccid Myelitis first appearances arose. In the Netherlands where kids do not have to be vaccinated before starting school, and immunization required parental consent, AFM arose there during the fall semester after children began getting vaccinated in school compared to the pre-school restrictions in the United States and summertime arising IPV.
The problem with AFM and Salk IPV paralysis arises from incompletely inactivated polio viruses coupled with Sanofi IPV being injected with M-199 which is synthetic trypsin that enables the residual live viruses in the IPV to infect epithelial cells and be excreted in the stool where it can spread to parents or siblings.
Salk polio vaccine historically paralyzed more people in contact with the vaccine recipient than the actual recipients injected.
Bottom line from having access to documentation as an attorney before the Vaccine Court (Compensation being an oxymoron there is intentionally omitted) – the Francis Field Trial of Salk IPV and The Cutter Incident ( in which both Salk vaccine recipients and their personal contacts acquired paralytic polio) had the same rate of reactions.
According to CDCs document entitled The Wyeth Problem, Salk did not believe that live injected polio viruses could cause paralysis. Thus, all paralyzed Recipients of IPV in the Francis Field Trial Salk categorized as having acquired wild polio….so the IPV injected get graded as ineffective but should have been graded causal.
The Cutter Incident proved Salk was wrong and his IPV vaccine not perfect as CDC insists it is by creating a new name for paralytic polio – Acute Flaccid Myelitis.
Polio as defined by WHO is paralytic disease, not infections. Therefore, it is incorrect to apply the 1 in 200 infections to paralysis ratio to the 350,000 reported cases of paralytic poliomyelitis.
I wonder what ever happened in that outbreak in the U.S. of a so called “polio type” disease and weakness in children a couple years ago. It dropped off the media radar screen. You don’t hear anything about it. What it was?