Doctors and scientists on the staff of the National Institutes of Health during the 1950s were well aware that the Salk vaccine was causing polio. Some frankly stated that it was â??worthless as a preventive and dangerous to take [26:142].â?? They refused to vaccinate their own children [26:142]. Health departments banned the inoculations [26:140]. The Idaho State Health Director angrily declared: â??I hold the Salk vaccine and its manufacturers responsibleâ?? for a polio outbreak that killed several Idahoans and hospitalized dozens more [26:140].
Even Salk himself was quoted as saying: â??When you inoculate children with a polio vaccine you donâ??t sleep well for two or three weeks [26:144;43].â?? But the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, and drug companies with large investments in the vaccine coerced the U.S. Public Health Service into falsely proclaiming the vaccine was safe and effective [26:142-5].
In 1976, Dr. Jonas Salk, creator of the killed-virus vaccine used in the 1950s, testified that the live-virus vaccine (used almost exclusively in the U.S. from the early 1960s to 2000) was the â??principal if not sole causeâ?? of all reported polio cases in the U.S. since 1961 [44].
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