From the "realfarmacy.com" website:
"Many authorities now admit much, possibly most, of the worlds cancers came from the Salk and Sabin polio vaccines, and hepatitis B vaccines, produced in monkeys and chimps."
This is just one of the many ludicrous statements within this article. But I suppose anyone who gets their medical information from a site named "realfarmacy" deserves what they get. Oh, the joys of this "age of information" we are living in now!
Does the author of the article think there was no cancer prior to the polio and hepatitis B vaccines? What has gotten better over the years is recognition, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer.
Statements like "mesothelioma is on the rise" likely should read "the detection of mesothelioma is on the rise". Due to improved microscopes, basically.
My older sister, now in her mid-70's contracted polio when she was 4 years old. She was immediately paralyzed on her left side. According to my mother, she was hospitalized for 6 months and had what was then experimental treatment where the patient was periodically placed in a large tub of warm water and the limbs were exercised regularly. Today the benefits of "physical therapy" to exercise unused muscles is well known. In those days it was considered to be cutting edge treatment. My sister recovered completely.
I grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - the very place where Jonas Salk developed his vaccine at the University of Pittsburgh. Parents of today cannot imagine what terror the summer months brought in the times prior to the availability of the polio vaccine. Swimming pools were closed. And yes, crowds were avoided.
I received the Salk Vaccine by injection - while in elementary school around 1954-1955. I believe I would have been part of the original clinical trials when millions of grade school children were innoculated within the schools. I can vividly remember being lined up in the school cafeteria and being very afraid to receive "a shot". I know that I cried.
There were no vaccines in those days except for the smallpox vaccination, which you had to have before you could enter school. For whatever reason, the scar left by this vaccination was much larger on some children than on others. Mine was small.
In addition to polio, children got the "normal childhood diseases" of chicken pox, measles, and mumps. These were not without complications and even death for some children. Things like "whooping cough" (Pertussis - the "P" in a DPT shot) were still around. While parents of today have many other things to worry about in raising their children - like, say, the internet - at least they don't have these diseases to deal with any more.
Today's innoculations do NOT use live vaccines. So no longer is anyone going to contract the disease from taking the vaccine. Will some children feel sick after receiving an innoculation? They could, depending on how strongly their immune system reacts to the immunogen.
Also, think of this: Let's say that one million people will receive a "flu shot" this coming October. Now, statistically, out of a million people a certain percentage of them were about to become sick. For whatever reason. Upset stomach, diarrhea, achey joints. These are people who were going to get sick anyway, no matter if they got a flu shot or not.
BUT in the case of people who did get the flu shot and then came down sick the very next day, what do they think? Yep, they think that the flu shot made them sick. And neither you nor I are likely to convince them otherwise!
As you all can tell, I really, really dislike these fools who, to me at least, seem to want to deliberately mislead the public in matters medical. And I always wonder, why? Why would anyone want to denigrate something that has literally saved probably millions of children from paralysis over the past almost-60 years?
As an old(er) woman who was most probably among the first of the American school children who received the Salk vaccine, if I develop mesothelioma or any other cancer at this age and stage, I'll still be happy that I got that shot that day so long ago.