In the graph below, I provide confirmation of Biskind’s observations for 1945-1953, in terms of polio incidence and pesticide production. I have utilized pesticide data from Hayes and Laws which they had derived from US Tariff Commission data. Polio incidence data was gathered fromUS Vital Sta...
Health officials scheduled vaccination clinics in New York for Friday and Monday, and encouraged anyone who has not been vaccinated to get the shots. “We want shots in the arms of those who need it,” Rockland County Health Commissioner Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert said at a Thursday news c...
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Usually polio treatment for children results in the IPV polio vaccine. After two does the child has a 92% rate of protection, with three doses provides 99% protection. Most children are done with these booster shots by age 6. By oasis11 — On Oct 03, 2010 Apple58tree- I am so so...
They had already seen children dying or permanently disabled by the ravages of the virus. Pediatrician Paul Offit, in hisstudy of the Cutter incident, reminds us that before the vaccine arrived, in all its bumpy and imperfect beginnings, tens of thousands of children were maimed or killed by...
While polio may seem like old news, it’s not. Efforts to eradicate it have made a lot of progress but are still struggling in Africa and South Asia. Mark and I were the first to report recently that a strange new “polio-like illness,” identified in 2014, is back; the Washington ...
That's more than $76 million in today's dollars. There was enormous pressure to get the trial done as quickly as possible, ahead of the next polio season. Between April 26 and July 10, 1954, volunteers distributed Salk's series of three polio shots. In all, more than 443,000 children...
offered evidence of those inventions in the family backgrounds of the first autism cases identified in the medical literature, in 1943. Similarly, we proposed that the sharp rise in autism cases beginning around 1990 tracks with the federal government recommending several more ...
In those hopeful first few weeks of the poliovaccine distribution, those of us lining up for shots had little to fear beyond the sting of an injection. That changed quickly. Once some children had in fact been harmed by the shot, obfuscation by government officials, clumsy explanations and de...