Did DDT cause Polio symptoms?

Eventually, I did find one study, in a German publication, of the physiology of acute DDT poisoning.4 The study confirmed that DDT poisoning often causes polio-like physiology. “Conspicuous histological degeneration was, however, often found in the central nervous system. read more

A vaccine is developed, and vaccinated people did not acquire poliomyelitis. So definitely it must be DDT that causes polio. I do not say that DDT is harmless, but it is stupid to blame A when all signals direct to B. read more

These four chemicals were not selected arbitrarily. These are representative of the major pesticides in use during the last major polio epidemic. They persist in the environment as neurotoxins that cause polio-like symptoms, polio-like physiology, and were dumped onto and into human food at dosage levels far above that approved by the FDA. read more

Polio and DDT [back] Polio [back] Pesticides [The DDT connection to polio was resurrected by Jim West (where he matches polio incidence with pesticide usage) as was the work of Ralph R. Scobey, M.D. and Morton S. Biskind, M.D. read more