Thread by @ADalassio

🧵The Contagion myth and the Germ Theory deceit.

Polio

1824. Metal workers had suffered for centuries from a paralysis similar to polio caused by the lead and arsenic in the metals they were working with. Scientist J Cooke wrote: "The fumes from these metals or the receptance

of them in solution into the stomach, often causes paralysis".
In 1890 Lead arsenate pesticide started to be sprayed in the US up to 12 times every summer to kill codling moth on apple crops.
In 1892 Polio outbreaks began to occur in Vermont, an apple growing region.

In his report the Government Inspector Dr C Caverly noted that children fell ill after eating fruit.
He stated that "infantile paralysis usually occurred in families with more than one child, and as no efforts were made at isolation it was very certain it was non-contagious"

1907 Calcium arsenate comes into use primarily on cotton crops.
1908 In a Massachusetts town with three cotton mills and apple orchards, 69 children suddenly fell ill with infantile paralysis.
1909 The UK bans apple imports from the States because of heavy lead arsenate residues.

In 1921 Franklin D Roosevelt develops polio after swimming in Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick. Toxicity of water may have been due to pollution run-off.
In 1943 DDT is introduced a neurotoxic pesticide. Over the next several years it comes into widespread use in American households.

For example, wall paper impregnated with DDT was placed in children's bedrooms.
1943 A polio epidemic in the UK town of Broadstairs, Kent is linked to a local dairy where cows were washed down with DDT
1944 Albert Sabin reports that a major cause of sickness and death of American

troops based in the Philippines was poliomyelitis. US military camps there were sprayed daily with DDT to kill mosquitoes. Neighboring Philippine settlements were not affected
1944 NIH reports that DDT damages the same anterior horn cells that are damaged in infantile paralysis

In 1946 Gebhaedt shows polio seasonality correlates with fruit harvest.
1949 Endocrinologist Dr Morton Biskind, a practitioner and medical researcher, found that DDT causes "lesions in the spinal cord similar to human polio."

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