Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and The Forgotten History

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Lastly, Dr Humphries launches into a long-winded discussion on vitamin A as a miracle cure for measles: So, Humphries displays a callous disregard for the significant number of cases with long-term paralysis and, based on her use of the Brown paper, her credibility is highly questionable! Paralytic polio is classified into three types, depending on the level of involvement. Spinal polio is most common, and during 1969–1979, accounted for 79% of paralytic cases. It is characterized by asymmetric paralysis that most often involves the legs. Bulbar polio leads to weakness of muscles innervated by cranial nerves and accounted for 2% of cases during this period. Bulbospinal polio, a combination of bulbar and spinal paralysis, accounted for 19% of cases. If you grew up and live in the US, then you have been indoctrinated to believe vaccination to be effective in the prevention of infectious disease, and to have minimal adverse side effects. Be prepared to have those illusions shattered by this unique book which is a monument of scholarly work on this topic, and deserves multiple re-readings. The care and detail of the documentation is intentional and overwhelming. My congratulations to the authors for a job well done. You might also find interesting, Confessions of a Medical Heretic by Robert S. Mendelsohn MD. He was an early pioneer in the anti-vaccination movement and also my medical school adviser.

Total reported cases From 1951, MMWR separated paralytic and nonparalytic cases. Before 1951, MMWR included both as Total Cases. Variola major prevailed throughout the USA until the summer of 1897 but by then had disappeared from the country except for about 100 cases, with 30 deaths, which occurred in 16 different states.The risk of disease can be reduced by preventing mosquito bites through the use of mosquito nets and insect repellents, or with mosquito control measures such as spraying insecticides and draining standing water. Several medications are available to prevent malaria in travellers to areas where the disease is common. Dr Humphries then offers these alternative theories for the dramatic decline in measles notifications in the 1960s: c) A paper on delayed reflexes in newborn primates who received the thimerosal-containing Hep B vaccine, a questionable study funded by anti-vaccine activists which too has been debunked Although some cases of variola major were reported every year from 1900 until 1927, there were only 2 major outbreaks during this period. The first, in 1902-1903, affected particularly Boston, New York, Philadelphia, New Jersey and Ohio; variola minor was then prevalent in the Mid-West. The last large epidemic of variola major in the USA occurred in 1924-1925, when some 7400 cases were reported, over one-third of them in 4 cities: Cleveland and Toledo (Ohio), Detroit (Michigan) and Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania). Vaccinate or don’t vaccinate. But please don’t base your decision on the writings of this extremist.

And finally, Bruno makes a compelling case that the total number of people infected with the virus, even some with mild paralysis, was actually underestimated. And as discussed below under the subheading, Post-polio syndrome, the polio virus did result in severe neuron damage in many of these cases. Bruno writes: Figure 1 from Humphries compares apples to oranges. Typhoid fever, caused by a bacterium, was basically eliminated by clean water and other public health measures. Malaria, a mosquito-borne protozoan, was ended in the US by mainly economic changes together with public health measures. Syphilis is still a problem because it depends on human behavior. Diphtheria began its decline, perhaps based on mutating to a more benign form, with, first, an anti-toxin and then a toxoid vaccine contributing to its further decline. Deaths from measles, a virus, were significantly reduced, reaching an asymptote of an average of 450 per year during the 1950s; but with a substantial amouMedical literature suggests that the lower risk of contracting clinical measles after being breastfed can last up to 10 years. Whereas chronic carriers constitute the reservoir of S. Typhi, the maintenance of a high incidence of typhoid fever requires conditions that permit amplified transmission of S. Typhi to susceptible persons. Usually this involves fecal contamination of water sources consumed by large numbers of persons. In the later 19 th and early 20 th centuries, it was demonstrated in Europe and the United States that treatment of municipal water supplied caused the incidence of typhoid fever to plummet, despite the continued existence in the population of large numbers of carriers. Over one to two decades this led to the near-elimination of typhoid fever from many area (Levine, 2018, p. 1142). Dorit Rubinstein Reiss Suzanne Humphries’ bad advice on the Polio vaccine September 1, 2013. Who is Dorit Rubinstein Reiss ? Some say she is a Lawyer and Professional Pro-Vaccine Blogger . More on this.

While vitamin A has proven clinical benefits in the treatment of measles, it is far from the wonder drug that Dr Humphries claims it to be. Unfortunately, deaths and complications still occur despite widespread protocols on vitamin A therapy. These data suggest that cellular responses to measles virus may be better sustained than antibody titers after vaccination and revaccination in some subjects. ( Source ) Talk about comparing apples to oranges. Almost all measles deaths are in children, the overwhelming majority with heart disease in middle aged and older adults. And motor vehicle accidents? I’m surprised Humphries didn’t just list the high death rate in those over 65, or murder victims. Maybe in a new edition of her book? As will be clear from my discussion below, the causes, and approaches to prevention, of Humphries hodgepodge of incidence and deaths differ significantly, that is, they are NOT comparable. Malaria has several serious complications. Among these is the development of respiratory distress, which occurs in up to 25% of adults and 40% of children with severe P. falciparum malaria. Although rare in young children with severe malaria, acute respiratory distress syndrome occurs in 5–25% of adults and up to 29% of pregnant women. In other words, what worked for typhoid, a bacteria, didn’t work for polio, a virus. Polio epidemics, incidence, morbidity (paralysis), and mortalityThe format of this book is somewhat unconventional, as it is filled with manydirect quotes from a wide variety of historical and medical sources. We decided on this format to give you unfiltered information that will help you gain better insight into the true history of disease and vaccination. Oftentimes each quote tells a unique, self-contained story that can draw the reality of the past into view much better than a distilled summary would. The book contains more than 50 graphs that are based on meticulously researched data. Each graph lists the references upon which the data is based. The graphs provide—in most cases—a never-before-seen view of the history of disease from the 1800s into the 1900s. They provide foundational evidence for the points presented in the text. The book also includes many photographs extracted from numerous historic sources. Most of the photographs are presented with the exact captions that appeared in the original work. Throughout the book, bold text indicates something that we think warrants special attention. For more information related to the book, please visit

It is an airborne disease which spreads easily through the coughs and sneezes of an infected person. People are infectious to others from the start of symptoms until about three weeks into the coughing fits. Those treated with antibiotics are no longer infectious after five days. Before vaccines, an average of 178,171 cases was reported in the U.S., with peaks reported every two to five years; more than 93% of reported cases occurred in children under 10 years of age. The actual incidence was likely much higher. After vaccinations were introduced in the 1940s, pertussis incidence fell dramatically to approximately 1,000 by 1976. ( Wikipedia. Whooping cough; see also: CDC. Pertussis; CDC. Pink Book. Pertussis; Edwards, 2018) urn:oclc:record:1348973016 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier dissolvingillusi0000hump Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2fgbkqdqxr Invoice 1652 Isbn 1480216895 Note that the Trevelyan article and especially the Smallman-Raynor book cover in detail the history and geography of polio epidemics in the United States] Swimming pools, chlorine, and polioMeasles can be controlled by large-scale vaccination, and where this is employed successfully the frequency of non-measles associated disease should be considerably reduced. And, as long as variola major remained in the world, anyone anywhere was at risk from the following: