The History of Polio and Vaccines

I apologize to those who have read so many vaccine articles, but there is so much interesting and scary history in what has occurred since their release to the public, I think it should be looked at closely. So many different forms of evidence and what appears to be associations with vaccines and new problems plaguing society, it is easy to dismiss one as coincidence, but after a while we must begin to question the statistics of repeated coincidence as becoming more probable and less possible.

We all know the wonderful success of the Polio vaccine. Within a couple years of the release of the polio vaccine and widespread delivery of this new vaccine, the numbers dropped form tens of thousands of cases per year to a few hundred, and eventually to just a few, each caused by the vaccine itself, but the benefit obviously outweighed the risk. however, there is an interesting correlation between the history of polio and vaccines, specifically other vaccines. In the past I have heard many research doctors and statisticians speak of a correlation between polio outbreaks and new vaccines, but could never find the data to show it, so I did my own search to see for myself, and have posted the results here.

In the history of Polio and vaccines, Polio was in existence before vaccines but cases of polio were rare. however once vaccines came into the scene, things changed. Examine closely the correlation between the polio outbreaks and vaccine releases.

In 1890 the first Tetanus and Diphtheria vaccines were released, in 1896 the typhoid vaccine and 1897 the Bubonic Plague vaccine was introduced. In 1894 was the first ever outbreak of polio in the U.S., the numbers were small, but it was an outbreak. The subsequent years, the incidence of Polio continued to climb. by 1909 Massachusetts began counting reported cases of Polio, in 1916 we suffered a large outbreak with 9000 cases in New York City alone.

New vaccines: 1926 Pertussis, 1927 TB, 1932 Yellow Fever.

In 1932 another major outbreak of Polio with 2500 cases in Los Angeles alone.