MURDER BY INJECTION: CHAPTER 4: VACCINATION

By Eustace Mullins

One of the few doctors who has dared to speak out against the

Medical Monopoly, Dr. Robert S. Mendelsohn, dramatized his stand

against Modern Medicine by defining it as a Church which has Four

Holy Waters.

The first of these, he listed as Vaccination. Dr. Mendelsohn

termed vaccination "of questionable safety." However,

other doctors have been more explicit. It is notable that the

Rockefeller interests have fought throughout the nineteenth century

to make these Four Holy Waters compulsory throughout the United

States, ignoring all the protests and warnings of their dangers.

Of these four items, which might well be termed the Four

Horsemen of the Apocalypse, because they too are known to bring

death and destruction in their wake, the most pernicious in its

long term effects may well be the practice of immunization. This

practice goes directly against the discovery of modern holistic

medical experts that the body has a natural immune defense against

illness.

The Church of Modern Medicine claims that we can only be

absolved from the peril of infection by the Holy Water of

vaccination, injecting into the system a foreign body of infection,

which will then perform a Medical Miracle, and will confer life-long

immunity, hence the term, "immunization." The greatest heresy any

physician can commit is to voice publicly any doubt of any one of

the Four Holy Waters, but the most deeply entrenched in modern

medical practice is undoubtedly the numerous vaccination programs.

They are also the most consistently profitable operations

of the Medical Monopoly. Yet one physician, Dr. Henry R. Bybee,

of Norfolk, Virginia, has publicly stated, "My honest opinion is that

vaccine is the cause of more disease and suffering than anything I

could name. I believe that such diseases as cancer, syphilis, cold

sores and many other disease conditions are the direct results of

vaccination. Yet, in the state of Virginia, and in many other states,

parents are compelled to submit their children to this procedure

while the medical profession not only receives its pay for this

service, but also makes splendid and prospective patients for the

future."

The present writer well remembers the 1920s, as a child in

Virginia, going to school for some weeks without having submitted

to the compulsory vaccination ordered by the state authorities. Each

morning, the teacher would begin the day's classes by asking,

"Clarence, did you bring your vaccination certificate today?"

Obviously, this was the most urgent business of the educational

system, taking priority over such matters as lessons and studying.

Each morning, I would have to reply, "No, I didn't bring it today."

The other children would turn and stare at this dangerous classmate,

who might infect them all with some terrible disease. My mother

had been a registered nurse, and she never urged me to go ahead

with my vaccination. I suspect she knew more than the doctors

about its possible effects. After postponing the dreaded ordeal for

some weeks, I was finally led to the doctor like an animal being led

up the plank to be stunned, and I received my injection. Of course it

made me extremely ill, as my body fought the infection, but the

class was delivered from peril, and I was accepted as a duly branded

member of society.

In "The Curse of Canaan," I wrote of the deliverance of our children

 up for ritual sacrifice, a practice which seemingly ended with the

destruction of the Baal cult some five thousand years ago. Unfortunately,

the Cult of Baal seems to be firmly entrenched in the present Establishment,

which is often known by the sobriquet, the Brotherhood of Death.

It is disturbing to see how the educationists eagerly embrace each new offense

against children in our schools, railing against any mention of morality or

religion, while solemnly indoctrinating six year olds in the

advantages of "an alternative life style" in their sexual preferences.

The present goal of the National Education Association seems to be

that teachers should hand out condoms to the class before beginning

each day's activities.

The urgency of my vaccination was not that there was any

epidemic then raging in the city of Roanoke, nor has there been one

in the ensuing sixty years. The urgency was that no child shall be

spared the ministrations of the Cult of Baal, or forego sacrifice on

the altar of the child molesters. The Medical Monopoly cannot

afford to have a single pupil escape the monetary offering to be paid

for the compulsory vaccination, the tribute of the enslaved to their

masters.

From London comes an alarming observation from a practitioner of

excellent reputation and long experience. Dr. Herbert Snow,

senior surgeon at the Cancer Hospital of London, voiced his

concern, "In recent years many men and women in the prime of life

have dropped dead suddenly, often after attending a feast or a

banquet. I am convinced that some eighty per cent of these deaths

are caused by the inoculation or vaccination they have undergone.

They are well known to cause grave and permanent disease to the

heart. The coroner always hushes it up as 'natural causes.' "

You cannot find any such warning in any medical textbook or

popular book on health. In fact, this writer was able to locate it in a

small volume buried deep in the stacks of the Library of Congress.

Yet such an ominous observation from an established medical

practitioner should be as widely circulated as possible, if only to be

attached by those who can refute its premise. At least it cannot be

attacked by the Establishment as quackery, because Dr. Snow is not

attempting to sell some substitute for vaccination, but merely

warning of its dangers.

Another practitioner, Dr. W. B. Clarke of Indiana, finds that

"Cancer was practically unknown until compulsory vaccination with

cowpox vaccine began to be introduced. I have had to deal with a

least two hundred cases of cancer, and I never saw a case of cancer

in an unvaccinated person."

At last, we have the breakthrough for which the American

Cancer Society has been searching, at such great expense, and for so

many years. Dr. Clarke has never seen a case of cancer in an

unvaccinated person. Is not this a lead which should be explored?

With such an impetus, the ACS could once again get the telephone

banks ringing in the fund-raising drives, to initiate positive research

as to the possible connection between vaccination and the incidence

of cancer. Somehow, we suspect that ACS will not follow this lead.

It would also look well etched in stone above the imposing entrance

to the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, "I never saw a case

of cancer in an unvaccinated person." However, it is unlikely that

the High Priests of Modern Medicine will be able to give up one of

the Four Commandments. It will be necessary for an outraged public

to bring pressure to bear to abandon the modern ritual of sacrificing

our children to Baal in a five thousand year old ritual called, in its

modern version, "compulsory immunization."

In the land where freedom rings, or is supposed to ring, it is

even more surprising to find that every citizen is compelled to

submit to a compulsory vaccination ritual. Here again, we are

speaking of a civilization which is now being visited by two

plagues, the plague of cancer and the plague of AIDS, yet

compulsory vaccination offers no protection against the plagues

which threaten us. It is goodbye whooping cough, goodbye diptheria

and hello AIDS. The Medical Monopoly is searching desperately for

some type of "immunization" against these plagues, and no doubt

will eventually come up with some type of "vaccine" which will be

more dreadful than the disease. From the outset, our most

distinguished medical experts have proudly informed us that AIDS

is incurable, which is hardly the approach we expect from those who

demand that we accept their infallibility in all things to do with

medicine.

Another well known medical practitioner, Dr. J. M. Peebles of

San Francisco, has written a book on vaccine, in which he says,

"The vaccination practice, pushed to the front on all occasions by

the medical profession through political connivance made

compulsory by the state, has not only become the chief menace and

the greatest danger to the health of the rising generation, but

likewise the crowning outrage upon the personal liberties of the

American citizen; compulsory vaccination, poisoning the crimson

currents of the human system with brute-extracted lymph under the

strange infatuation that it would prevent smallpox, was one of the

darkest blots that disfigured the last century."

Dr. Peebles refers to the fact that cowpox vaccine was one of

the more peculiar "inventions or discoveries of the Age of

Enlightenment." However, as I have pointed out in "The Curse of

Canaan," the Age of Enlightenment was merely the latest program

of the Cult of Baal and its rituals of child sacrifice, which, in one

guise or another, has now been with us for some five thousand

years. Because of this goal, the Medical Monopoly is also known as

"The Society for Crippling Children."

Perhaps the most telling comment of Dr. Peebles' criticism is

his reference to "brute-extracted lymph." Could there be some

connection between the injection of this substance and the spread of

a hitherto unknown form of cancer, cancer of the lymph glands?

This type of cancer is not only one of the most commonly

encountered versions of this disease; it is also one of the most

difficult to treat, because it rapidly spreads throughout the entire

system. A diagnosis of cancer of the lymph glands now means a

virtual death sentence.

If we suppose that physicians such as Dr. Snow and Dr. Peebles

are trumpeting nonexistent dangers when they write of vaccination,

we have only to look at the court records of many cases around the

country. Wyeth Laboratories was the defendant in a case in which a

Wichita Kansas jury recently awarded $15 million in damages to an

eight year old girl. She incurred permanent brain damage after

receiving a diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus vaccine. Michelle Graham

received the immunization at the age of three months, and incurred

severe brain damage which left her permanently incapacitated. Her

lawyers proved that the damage was solely attributable to the

vaccine, although Wyeth's lawyers attempted to deny this.

Because of the financial prospects, physicians are demanding

earlier vaccination for children each year. The Vaccination

Committee of the American Academy of Pediatricians recently

demanded that the age for children to receive flu vaccine be lowered

from the previous twenty-four months to eighteen months. They are

promoting a new version of flu vaccine which was said to have been

tested on children in Finland.

In an article in Science, March 4, 1977, Jonas and Darrell Salk

warn that, "Live virus vaccines against influenza or poliomyelitis

may in each instance produce the disease it intended to prevent ...

the live virus against measles and mumps may produce such side

effects as encephalitis (brain damage)."

If vaccines present such a clear and present danger to children

who are forced to submit to them, we must examine the forces

which demand that they submit. In the United States, vaccines are

actively and incessantly promoted as the solution for all infectious

diseases by such government agencies as the Center for Disease

Control in Georgia, by HEW, USPHS, FDA, AMA and WHO. It is

of more than passing interest that the federal agencies should be

such passionate supporters of compulsory use of vaccines, and that

they also should go through the "revolving door" to the big drug

firms whose products they have so assiduously promoted,

throughout their years of service to the public. It is these federal

agents who have drafted the procedures which forced the states to

enact compulsory vaccination legislation which had been drafted by

the attorneys for the Medical Monopoly, to become "the law of the

land."

In the dim reaches of the past, when Americans were more

protective of their now-vanishing freedoms, there was sporadic

opposition to the threatened outrage which a dictatorial central

government sought to impose on every child in the United States. In

1909, the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts introduced

Bill No. 8; "An Act To Prohibit Compulsory Vaccine. Sec. 1. It

shall be unlawful for any board of education, board of health, or any

public board acting in this state, under political regulations or

otherwise, to compel by resolution, order or proceedings of any

kind, the vaccination of any child or person of any age, by making

vaccination a condition precedent to the attending of any public or

private school, either as pupil or teacher."

No doubt this legislation was drafted by a physician who was

well aware of the dangers of vaccination. Even in 1909, the Medical

Monopoly was strong enough to bury this bill. It was never

submitted for vote. However, the peril of even one state legislature

foiling their criminal conspiracy caused the Rockefeller Syndicate to

concentrate on perfecting an instrument for controlling each and

every state legislature in these United States. This was achieved by

setting up the Council of State Governments in Chicago. Its ukases

are routinely issued to every state legislator, and such is its

totalitarian control that not one legislature has ever failed to follow

its dictates.

Edward Jenner (1796-1839) "discovered" that cowpox vaccine

would supposedly inoculate persons against the eighteenth century

scourge of smallpox. In fact, smallpox was already on the wane, and

some authorities believe it would have vanished by the end of the

century, due to a number of contributing factors. After the use of

cowpox vaccine became widespread in England, a smallpox

epidemic broke out which killed 22,081 people. The smallpox

epidemics became worse each year that the vaccine was used. In

1872, 44,480 people were killed by it. England finally banned the

vaccine in 1948, despite the fact that it was one of the most widely

heralded "contributions" which that country had made to modern

medicine. This action came after many years of compulsory

vaccination, during which period those who refused to submit to its

dangers were hurried off to jail.

Japan initiated compulsory vaccine in 1872. In 1892, there were

165,774 cases of smallpox there, which resulted in 29,979 deaths.

Japan still enforces compulsory vaccination; however, since it is a

militarily occupied nation, its present government can hardly be

blamed for submitting to the Rockefeller Medical Monopoly.

Germany also instituted compulsory vaccination. In 1939 (this

during the Nazi regime), the diphtheria rate increased astronomically

to 150,000 cases. Norway, which never instituted compulsory

vaccination, had only fifty cases during the same period. Polio has

increased 700% in states which have compulsory vaccination. The

much quoted writer on medical problems, Morris Beale, who for

years edited his informative publication, Capsule News Digest, from

Capitol Hill, offered a standing reward during the years from 1954

to 1960 of $30,000, which he would pay to anyone who could prove

that the polio vaccine was not a killer and a fraud. There were no

takers.

Medical historians have finally come to the reluctant

conclusion that the great flu "epidemic" of 1918 was solely

attributable to the widespread use of vaccines. It was the first war in

which vaccination was compulsory for all servicemen. The Boston

Herald reported that forty-seven soldiers had been killed by

vaccination in one month. As a result, the military hospitals were

filled, not with wounded combat casualties, but with casualties of

the vaccine.

The epidemic was called "the Spanish Influenza," a deliberately

misleading appellation, which was intended to conceal

its origin. This flu epidemic claimed twenty million victims; those

who survived it were the ones who had refused the vaccine. In

recent years, annual recurring epidemics of flu are called "the

Russian Flu." For some reason, the Russians never protest, perhaps

because the Rockefellers make regular trips to Moscow to lay down

the party line.

The perils of vaccination were already known. Plain Talk

magazine notes that "during the Franco-Prussian War, every

German soldier was vaccinated. The result was that 53,288

otherwise healthy men developed smallpox. The death rate was

high."

In what is now known as "the Great Swine Flu Massacre," the

President of the United States, Gerald Ford, was enlisted to persuade

the public to undergo a national vaccination campaign. The moving

force behind the scheme was a $135 million windfall profit for the

major drug manufacturers. They had a "swine flu" vaccine which

suspicious pig raisers had refused to touch, fearful it might wipe out

their crop. The manufacturers had only tried to get $80 million from

the swine breeders; balked in this sale, they turned to the other

market, humans. The impetus for the national swine flu vaccine

came directly from the Disease Control Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

Perhaps coincidentally, Jimmy Carter, a member of the Trilateral

Commission, was then planning his presidential campaign in

Georgia.

The incumbent President, Gerald Ford, had all the

advantages of a massive bureaucracy to aid him in his election

campaign, while the ineffectual and little known Jimmy Carter

offered no serious threat in the election. Suddenly, out of Atlanta,

came the Center of Disease Control plan for a national

immunization campaign against "swine flu." The fact that there was

not a single known case of this flu in the United States did not deter

the Medical Monopoly from their scheme. The swine breeders had

been shocked by the demonstrations of the vaccine on a few pigs,

which had collapsed and died. One can imagine the anxious

conferences in the headquarters of the great drug firms, until one

bright young man remarked, "Well, if the swine breeders won't

inject it into their animals, our only other market is to inject it into

people."

The Ford sponsored swine flu campaign almost died an early

death, when a conscientious public servant, Dr. Anthony Morris,

formerly of HEW and then active as director of the Virus Bureau at

the Food and Drug Administration, declared that there could be no

authentic swine flu vaccine, because there had never been any cases

of swine flu on which they could test it.

Dr. Morris then went public with his statement that "at no point

were the swine flu vaccines effective." He was promptly fired, but

the damage had been done.

The damage control consisted of that great humanitarian, Walter

Cronkite, and the President of the United States, combining their

forces to come to the rescue of the Medical Monopoly. Walter

Cronkite had President Ford appear on his news program to urge the

American people to submit to the inoculation with the swine flu

vaccine. CBS then or later could never find any reason to air any

analysis or scientific critique of the swine flu vaccine, which was

identified as containing many toxic poisons, including alien viral

protein particles, formaldehyde, residues of chicken and egg embryo

substances, sucrose, theimorosal (a derivative of poisonous

mercury), polysorbate and some eighty other substances.

Meanwhile, back at the virus laboratories, after Dr. Anthony

Morris has been summarily fired, a special team of workers was

rushed in to clean out the four rooms in which he had conducted his

scientific tests. The laboratory was filled with animals whose

records verified his claims, representing some three years of

constant research. All of the animals were immediately destroyed,

and Morris' records were burned. They did not go so far as to sow

salt throughout the area, because they believed their job was done.

On April 15, 1976, Congress passed Public Law 94-266, which

provided $135 million of taxpayers' funds to pay for a national

swine flu inoculation campaign. HEW was to distribute the vaccine

to state and local health agencies on a national basis for inoculation,

at no charge. Insurance agencies then went public with their warning

that they would not insure drug firms against possible suits from the

results of swine flu inoculation, because no studies had been carried

out which could predict its effects. It was to foil the insurance

companies that CBS had Gerald Ford make his impassioned appeal

to 215,000,000 Americans to save themselves while there was still

time, and to rush down to the friendly local health department and

get the swine flu vaccination, at absolutely no charge. This may

have been CBS' finest hour in its distinguished career of "public

service."

Hardly had the swine flu campaign been completed than the

reports of the casualties began to pour in. Within a few months,

claims totaling $1.3 billion had been filed by victims who had

suffered paralysis from the swine flu vaccine. The medical

authorities proved equal to the challenge; they leaped to the defense

of the Medical Monopoly by labeling the new epidemic, "Guillain-

Barre Syndrome." There have since been increasing speculations

that the ensuing epidemic of AIDS which began shortly after Gerald

Ford's public assurances, was merely a viral variation of the swine

flu vaccine.

And what of the perpetrator of the Great Swine Flu Massacre,

President Gerald Ford? As the logical person to blame for

the catastrophe, Ford had to endure a torrent of public criticism,

which quite naturally resulted in his defeat for election (he had

previously been appointed when the agents of the international drug

operations had ushered Richard Nixon out of office). The unknown

Jimmy Carter, familiar only to the super secret fellow members in

the Trilateral Commission, was swept into office by the outpouring

of rage against Gerald Ford. Carter proved to be almost as serious a

national disaster as the swine flu epidemic, while Gerald Ford was

retired from politics to life. Not only did he lose the election; he was

also sentenced to spend his remaining years trudging wearily up and

down the hot sandy stretches of the Palm Springs Golf course.

At the annual ACS Science Writers Seminar, Dr. Robert W.

Simpson, of Rutgers University, warned that "immunization

programs against flu, measles, mumps and polio may actually be

seeding humans with RNA to form proviruses which will then

become latent cells throughout the body . . . they can then become

activated as a variety of diseases including lupus, cancer,

rheumatism and arthritis."

This was a remarkable verification of the earlier warning

delivered by Dr. Herbert Snow of London more than fifty years

earlier. He had observed that the long-term effects of the vaccine,

lodging in the heart or other parts of the body, would eventually

result in fatal damage to the heart. The vaccine becomes a time

bomb in the system, festering as what are known as "slow viruses,"

which may take ten to thirty years to become virulent. When that

time arrives, the victim is felled by a fatal onslaught, often with no

prior warning, whether it is a heart attack or some other disease.

Health Freedom News, in its July/August 1986 issue, noted that

"Vaccine is linked to brain damage. 150 lawsuits pending against

DPT vaccine manufacturers, seeking $1.5 billion damages."

When the present writer was a teenager in Virginia, each

summer became a nightmare for anxious parents, as epidemics of

poliomyelitis, generally called infantile paralysis, swept the nation.

Throughout the summer, we imbibed bottle after bottle of ice cold

soda pop to wash down our afternoon snacks of candy bars, with no

inkling that we were preparing our systems for the breeding of the

polio virus. The most famous victim of polio was the Governor of

New York, Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1931, during the annual polio

epidemic, Roosevelt officially endorsed a so-called "immune

serum,'' a precursor of the polio vaccines of the 1950s. It was

sponsored by Dr. Lindsly R. Williams, the son-in-law of the

managing partner of the investment bankers, Kidder Peabody. The

Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations had urged the building of a

new medical edifice to be called the New York Academy of

Medicine. As was often the case, they did not provide the funds, but

planned the staging campaign whereby the public was induced to

contribute millions of dollars for it. Dr. Williams was then

appointed director of this Academy, despite the fact that his medical

abilities were a joke in New York.

Williams used this post to become the apostle of socialized

medicine in the United States, a goal which the Rockefeller

Medical Monopoly ardently desired, and which was finally achieved

when the Medicare program was adopted many years later. In reality,

as Dr. Emanuel Josephson pointed out, Williams stood for the political

 and commercial domination of the medical profession under a socialized system.

Roosevelt then announced his candidacy for the Presidency of

the United States, a post for which he seemed physically

disqualified. Because of his handicap, he had been unable to stand

or walk for many years. He conducted his business from a

wheelchair. It seemed incredible that he would be able to wage a

national campaign for the office of president. To allay these doubts,

Dr. Williams wrote an article which was published in Collier's

magazine, the second largest magazine in the United States at that

time. In this article, Dr. Williams certified that Governor Franklin

D. Roosevelt was physically and mentally fit to be President of the

United States. It was then bruited about that a new Cabinet post,

Secretary of Health, was to be created especially for Dr. Williams in

an upcoming Roosevelt Administration.

The "immune serum" against polio was known to be dangerous

and worthless when Roosevelt endorsed it. The National Health

Institute of the U.S. Public Health Service had experimented with

monkeys for three years, using this identical serum. The Institute

stated that a study of the serum had been made on the

recommendation of Dr. Simon Flexner, the head of the Institute. The

serum was then used, and many children died from it. The New

York State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Thomas Parran (who was

later appointed Surgeon General of the United States), who owed his

appointment to Dr. Williams' recommendation to Governor

Roosevelt, refused to hold hearings to validate the serum, while

Roosevelt continued to reap the rewards of "charity" from his Warm

Springs Foundation and his annual birthday balls celebrating the

polio epidemic.

In 1948, a Dr. Sandier, who was then serving as nutritional

expert at the U.S. Veterans Administration Hospital in Oteen, North

Carolina, became alarmed at the enormous amounts of heavily

sugared drinks, candy and other sweets which were being consumed

by children during the hot summer months, at the same time that the

polio became epidemic each year. He conducted tests which led him

to the conclusion that the children's consumption of sugar had a

direct relation to the virulence of the polio outbreaks. He then issued

an urgent warning to parents to ban consumption of any refined

sugar product, particularly candy, soft drinks and ice cream during

the summer months. The result of Dr. Sandler's campaign was that

the number of polio cases dropped in North Carolina 90% in a

single year, from 2,498 in 1948 to only 229 in 1949.

Aroused by the effect that Dr. Sandler's warning campaign had had

on their summer sales in North Carolina, the soft drink distributors and

the candy manufacturers came in the following year with a statewide

promotional campaign, featuring free samples and other promotions.

By 1950, the polio toll had risen once more to its 1948 level. What

happened to Dr. Sandier? A study of North Carolina publications

shows no further mention of him or his program.

Herbert M. Shelton wrote in 1938 in his book, "Exploitation of

Human Suffering," that "Vaccine is pus ~ either septic or inert ~ if

inert it will not take ~ if septic it produces infection." This explains

why some children have to go back and receive a second

inoculation, because the first one did not "take"—it was not

sufficiently poisonous, and did not infect the body. Shelton says that

the inoculations cause sleeping sickness, infantile paralysis,

haemoplagia or tetanus.

The Surgeon General of the United States, Leonard Scheele,

pointed out to the annual AMA convention in 1955 that "No batch

of vaccine can be proven safe before it is given to children.'' James

R. Shannon of the National Institute of Health declared that "The

only safe vaccine is a vaccine that is never used."

With the advent of Dr. Jonas Salk's polio vaccine in the 1950s

American parents were assured that the problem had been solved,

and that their children were now safe. The ensuing suits against the

drug manufacturers received little publicity. "David v. Wyeth Labs,"

a suit involving Type 3 Sabin Polio Vaccine, was judged in favor of

the plaintiff, David. A suit against Lederle Lab involving Orimune

Vaccine was settled in 1962 for $10,000. In two cases involving

Parke-Davis' Quadrigen, the product was found to be defective. In

1962, Parke-Davis halted all production of Quadrigen. The medical

loner, Dr. William Koch, declared that "The injection of any serum,

vaccine, or even penicillin has shown a very marked increase in the

incidence of polio, at least by 400%."

The Center for Disease Control stayed out of sight for some

time after the Great Swine Flu Massacre, only to emerge more

stridently than ever with a new national scare program on the

dangers of another plague, which was named "Legionnaires'

Disease" after an outbreak at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel in

Philadelphia. Apparently this virus multiplied in the air conditioning

and heating systems of some older hotels in large cities, probably

because the vents were never cleaned. In a few isolated instances, it

caused death to those who were afflicted. For some reason, these

victims were usually elderly Legionnaires, who had attended a

gathering at one of these hotels. As the older hotels were gradually

replaced by new, more modern motels, Legionnaires Disease quietly

faded away, without the Disease Control Center being able to bring

off another $135 million coup for the Rockefeller Medical

Monopoly.

Polio vaccination has now been accepted as a fact of life by the

American public, which derives considerable comfort from the

gradual disappearance of the annual scare campaign at the beginning

of each summer. . . However, the Washington Post of January 26,

1988 featured a story which created some puzzling afterthoughts. It

was announced at a national conference held in Washington that all

cases of polio since 1979 had been caused by the polio vaccine. We

quote, "In fact, all the cases in America come from the vaccine. The

naturally occurring (or wild type) polio virus has not been shown to

cause a single case of polio in the United States since 1979." It was

to confront this unpleasant fact that the Institute of Medicine, under

contract to the U.S. Public Health Service, had convened a

committee in Washington to review the current use of polio vaccine.

You thought they would vote to discontinue it, perhaps? This would

be a logical conclusion. Unfortunately, logic plays no part in such

deliberations. The Post reported that "No radical change is expected.

'The status quo is very appealing,' “said conference chairman Dr.

Frederick Robbins, of Case Western Reserve University in

Cleveland.

This story raises more questions than it answers. It also reveals

the wide gap between the medical mind and that of the layman. A

layman would say, "If all cases of polio in the United States since

1979 have been caused by the polio vaccine, isn't this a good reason

for discontinuing?" Such reasoning is always called "simplistic" by

our overeducated professionals. After all, one has to think of the

national economy, and of drug manufacturers geared up to the

continuous production of a vaccine for an epidemic which has

disappeared. Think of the unemployment, and the diminution of

dividends to the holders of stock in the Drug Trust. After all, most

of their income is donated to "charity." If you cannot see the logic of

this reasoning, you will never get a job with the U.S. Public Health

Service.