Subject: CHRONIC FATIGUE OR POLIO >> Is Chronic Fatigue the New Face of Polio? >> Just as tuberculosis, once believed to have been eradicated by modern >> medicine, has now returned in more virulent, drug-resistant strains, so may >> polio be with us again in a disguised form. We may be mistakenly calling it >> chronic fatigue syndrome (U.S.) or myalgic encephalomyelitis (England). >> According to William Campbell Douglass, M.D., editor of the medical >> newsletter Second Opinion, polio is more common than ever and may actually >> be caused by the polio vaccination. This intriguing and potentially >> electrifying theory is based on information Dr. Douglass gleaned from >> several clinical studies > >> Dr. Douglass argues that the Salk and Sabin vaccines, widely administered to >> children in the 1950s for poliomyelitis, did not eliminate polio at all but >> forced it to change its form. While the vaccines suppressed the polio virus, >> the virus was replaced by genetically similar ones, such as Coxsackie virus >> which is often found in elevated levels in CFS patients. The Coxsackie >> family of viruses, first isolated in 1948, consists of 29 different strains >> and is linked to numerous illnesses. When physicians first began identifying >> these viruses in the blood of CFS patients, they failed to discern their >> connection with polio. > >> The sustained use of polio vaccines for over 40 years has resulted in "at >> least 72 viral strains that can cause polio-like diseases," says Dr. >> Douglass. Before the polio vaccines, there were only three polio viruses. He >> notes that he was not the first to point to evidence of "the changing of >> polio rather than the elimination of it." As early as 1934, cases of >> "atypical" polio were reported in Los Angeles; "abortive poliomyelitis" was >> reported in Switzerland in 1939. > >> Dr. Douglass suggests that the trend towards the emergence of a new >> polio---its predominant symptom changing from infantile paralysis to adult >> muscle weakness-has rapidly increased since the polio vaccines were >> introduced. "We now know that chronic fatigue syndrome is not a new disease, >> but simply an 'aborted form' of the more serious paralytic polio," he >> states. If Dr. Douglass' speculations prove correct, the credibility of >> conventional medicine's mass vaccination program will be seriously >> undermined. It is hardly a public health benefit if a vaccine simply >> modifies an existing disease, forcing it to take another form in the next >> generation of patients. The indiscriminate use of vaccines may prove to be >> as counterproductive as has the overprescription of antibiotics. > >*************************************************************** >Karin Schumacher >Vaccine Information & Awareness (VIA) >12799 La Tortola >San Diego, CA 92129 >619-484-3197 (phone/voicemail) >619-484-1187 (fax) >via@access1.net (email) >http://www.909shot.com (NVIC website) >http://www.access1.net/via (VIA website) >*************************************************************** >We Must Have The Freedom To Choose & Respect Everyone's Choice