It's now been over 70 years since the 1950s Polio epidemic in the U.S. Polio is a "zoonotic" disease which means it originally came from the animal world and leaped over the species barrier to infect humans. And although it's been over 70 years since this pandemic that killed and crippled thousands of victims in the U.S., doctors still have not figured out the correct identity of the original host animal for Polio. If our doctors had been able to identify the host animal for this deadly disease, they would have known how this disease was being spread, and would have been able to advise American mothers on how to avoid exposing their children to this deadly virus that was once known as "Infantile Paralysis". I am not a doctor, but I know the identity of the original host animal for the Polio virus, and have known it for decades. So, how did I learn the identity of the host animal for Polio? Easy, I used something called "common sense" which unfortunately is not very common anymore. Our medical professionals could easily have stopped the spread of the Polio virus and saved thousands of lives if they had only taken the time to examine what was going on in the animal world around them.
Polio was the scariest disease of the second half of the 1950s and was also the greatest fear of every mother in America. Polio was a summer disease, that could strike children without warning and kill or cripple them. It could also result in their confinement within the dreaded Iron Lung machine. But why did this disease always strike during the summer months, and why did it mysteriously appear after each of our world wars? Since doctors were not able to identify the original animal host for this disease, they were not able to advise parents on how to avoid their children contracting Polio.
We suddenly found ourselves in the same position as our European ancestors in the 1300s, who didn't realize that a lack of sanitation in European cities had resulted in an overpopulation of rats, forcing nature to activate the natural mechanism of disease to reduce rat populations. Unfortunately, the fleas that were spreading the plague through the rat population also spread the plague to humans. The Bubonic (rat) plague killed millions of people in Europe, and the medical community today still reflects upon the human ignorance that resulted in so many deaths in the late Middle Ages. Unfortunately however, it seems that not much has changed, because doctors in the 1950s did not notice the obvious take notice of the subtle changes taking place in the natural world around them. If doctors had identified the original host animal for Polio they would have known how the virus was being spread, and could easily have prevented the deaths and crippling of thousands of children and adults in the U.S.
If you'd like to learn the identity of the original host animal for Polio, and learn why Polio epidemics followed each of our world wars, click on one of the secure book links on this webpage to order one of Edward Oliver's books, and also learn the correct identities of the host animals for some other "zoonotic" diseases, like Lyme Disease and West Nile Virus. In that way you may be able to help prevent the ignorance of the 1300s from hampering the expansion of our understanding of the root causes of diseases today.
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