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Bill Gates and 47,500 Cases of Paralysis
By Joe SamuelFood Freedom News
In India, Monsanto hired Bollywood actors
to promote genetically engineered cotton seed to illiterate farmers.
Nana Petakar became a brand ambassador for Monsanto. The advertising has
been called “aggressive, unscrupulous and false.”
Bill Gates, heavily invested in Monsanto’s GMOs as well as in
vaccines, hired the most beloved of Indian actors, Amitabh Bachchan, to
promote the oral polio vaccine.
Here is one example of the ads Bachchan created. Here is Bachchan and use of Bollywood itself to promote the vaccines, and here is another ad, in which Bachchan employes his acting skills.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says:
“Worldwide efforts in the last two
decades have reduced the number of polio cases by 99 percent. Until we
reach eradication, however, we are working with governments and all
partners in the polio effort to ensure no child is at risk of either
contracting or transmitting this crippling disease.”
Monsanto used Bollywood actors and succeeded in selling India’s
farmers Bt cotton seeds. Profits for Monsanto rose. When yields were
less than promised, farmers incurred massive debt, leading many to
suicide, in what is considered “the worst-ever recorded wave of suicides of this kind in human history.” To date, the number of suicides has surpassed 250,000.
P. Sainath details this neoliberal terrorism:
“With giant seed companies displacing
cheap hybrids and far cheaper and hardier traditional varieties with
their own products, a cotton farmer in Monsanto’s net would be paying
far more for seed than he or she ever dreamed they would. Local
varieties and hybrids were squeezed out with enthusiastic state support.
In 1991, you could buy a kilogram of local seed for as little as Rs.7
or Rs.9 in today’s worst affected region of Vidarbha. By 2003, you would
pay Rs.350 — ($7) — for a bag with 450 grams of hybrid seed. By 2004,
Monsanto’s partners in India were marketing a bag of 450 grams of Bt
cotton seed for between Rs.1,650 and Rs.1,800 ($33 to $36).”
Long after it was apparent that Monsanto was having a lethal impact
on India, Bill Gates who says he wants to help the poor in India, made a
huge investment in Monsanto.
Does Gates care that he invested in a company that has left poor
children of India without their fathers and lost them their land they
had lived on?
How is Gates’ other investment – vaccines – faring? Mimicking
Monsanto’s PR, Gates used Bollywood actors to strongly promote his
vaccine campaign to ‘eradicate polio’ across India. Vaccines ware given
to Indian children. Have they brought health?
From “Polio programme: let us declare victory and move on” by Neetu Vashisht and Jacob Puliyel at Medical Ethics http://www.issuesinmedicalethics.org/202co114.html:
“In 2011 there were an extra 47500 new
cases of NPAFP [non-polio acute flaccid paralysis]. Clinically
indistinguishable from polio paralysis but twice as deadly, the
incidence of NPAFP was directly proportional to doses of oral polio
received. Through this data was collected within the polio surveillance
system, it was not investigated.”
The Oral Polio Vaccines were given to Indian children. The CDC dropped the OPV from its vaccine schedule in the US because it was causing polio.
“In 1976, Dr. Jonas Salk, creator of the
killed-virus vaccine used in the 1950s, testified that the live-virus
vaccine (used almost exclusively in the U.S. from the early 1960s to
2000) was the ‘principal if not sole cause’ of all reported polio cases
in the U.S. since 1961 [44]. (The virus remains in the throat for one to
two weeks and in the feces for up to two months. Thus, vaccine
recipients are at risk, and can potentially spread the disease, as long
as fecal excretion of the virus continues [45].) In 1992, the Federal
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published an admission
that the live-virus vaccine had become the dominant cause of polio in
the United States [36]. In fact, according to CDC figures, every case of
polio in the U.S. since 1979 was caused by the oral polio vaccine [36].
Authorities claim the vaccine was responsible for about eight cases of
polio every year [46]. However, an independent study that analyzed the
government’s own vaccine database during a recent period of less than
five years uncovered 13,641 reports of adverse events following use of
the oral polio vaccine. These reports included 6,364 emergency room
visits and 540 deaths (Figure 3) [47,48]. Public outrage at these
tragedies became the impetus for removing the oral polio vaccine from
immunization schedules [36:568;37;38].”
Did Gates not know the OPV had been dropped in the US as he suggested
he wanted to bring the same good health to third world countries as
Western countries enjoyed? If he did not know, is he pushing vaccines on
the world’s children without such basic and truly critical information?
Neetu Vashisht and Jacob Puliyel at St. Stephens Hospital in Delhi address the question of eradication:
“The charade about polio eradication and
the great savings it will bring has persisted to date. It is a paradox
that while the director general of WHO, Margret Chan, and Bill Gates are
trying to muster support for polio eradication (22) it has been known to the scientific community, for over 10 years, that eradication of polio is impossible.
This is because in 2002 scientists had synthesised a chemical called
poliovirus in a test-tube with the empirical formula
C332,652H492,388N98,245O131,196P7, 501S2,340. It has been demonstrated
that by positioning the atoms in sequence, a particle can emerge with
all the properties required for its proliferation and survival in nature
(23, 24).” [Emphasis added.]
“Wimmer writes that the test-tube
synthesis of poliovirus has wiped out any possibility of eradicating
poliovirus in the future. Poliovirus cannot be declared extinct because
the sequence of its genome is known and modern biotechnology allows it
to be resurrected at any time in vitro. Man can thus never let down his
guard against poliovirus. Indeed the 18-year-old global eradication
campaign for polioviruses will have to be continued in some format
forever. The long promised ‘infinite’ monetary benefits from ceasing to
vaccinate against poliovirus will never be achieved (24). The attraction
that ‘eradication’ has for policy makers will vanish once this truth is
widely known.”
The
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is apparently out of touch with what
the scientific community has known for 10 years, as its website’s page
on polio indicates”2011 Annual Letter from Bill Gates: Ending PolioAid for the poorest has already achieved a lot. For example, because of donors’ generosity, we are on the threshold of ending polio once and for all.
And then the Foundation continues about how terrible polio is and how many children it paralyzed and killed.
Polio is a terrible disease that kills many and paralyzes others.
Fifty years ago it was widespread around the world. When you talk to
people who remember polio in the United States, they’ll tell you about
the fear and panic during an outbreak and describe grim hospital wards
full of children in iron lungs that maintained their breathing. At its
peak in the United States in 1952, polio paralyzed or killed more than
24,000 people.
But in 2011 alone, the Bill and Melinda Gates’ polio vaccine campaign in India caused 47,500 cases of paralysis and death.
From Vashisht and Puliyel:
“It has been reported in the Lancet that
the incidence of AFP, especially non-polio AFP has increased
exponentially in India after a high potency polio vaccine was introduced
(25). Grassly and colleagues suggested, at that time, that the increase
in AFP was the result of a deliberate effort to intensify surveillance
and reporting in India (26). The National Polio Surveillance Programme
maintained that the increased numbers were due to reporting of mild
weakness, presumably weakness of little consequence (27).
“However in 2005, a fifth of the cases of
non-polio AFP in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) were followed
up after 60 days. 35.2% were found to have residual paralysis and 8.5%
had died (making the total of residual paralysis or death – 43.7%) (28).
Sathyamala examined data from the following year and showed that
children who were identified with non-polio AFP were at more than twice
the risk of dying than those with wild polio infection (27).
“Data from India on polio control over 10
years, available from the National Polio Surveillance Project, has now
been compiled and made available online for it to be scrutinised by
epidemiologists and statisticians (29). This shows that the non-polio
AFP rate increases in proportion to the number of polio vaccines doses
received in each area.
“Nationally, the non-polio AFP rate is
now 12 times higher than expected. In the states of Uttar Pradesh (UP)
and Bihar, which have pulse polio rounds nearly every month, the
non-polio AFP rate is 25- and 35-fold higher than the international
norms. The relationship of the non-polio AFP rate is curvilinear with a
more steep increase beyond six doses of OPV in one year. The non-polio
AFP rate during the year best correlates to the cumulative doses
received in the previous three years. Association (R2) of the non-polio
AFP rate with OPV doses received in 2009 was 41.9%.
“Adding up doses received from 2007
increased the association (R2 = 55.6% p < 0.001) (30). Population
density did not show any association with the non-polio AFP rate,
although others have suggested that it is related to polio AFP (31). The
international incidence of non-polio AFP is said to be 1 to 2/100,000
in the populations under 15 (32, 33). The benchmark of good surveillance
is the ability to detect one case of AFP per 100,000 children even in
the absence of polio (34).
“In 2011, an additional 47,500
children were newly paralysed in the year, over and above the standard
2/100,000 non-polio AFP that is generally accepted as the norm. (32-33). [Emphasis added.]
“It is sad that, even after meticulous surveillance, this
large excess in the incidence of paralysis was not investigated as a
possible signal, nor was any effort made to try and study the mechanism
for this spurt in non-polio AFP. [Emphasis added.]
“These findings point to the need for a
critical appraisal to find the factors contributing to the increase in
non-polio AFP with increase in OPV doses – perhaps looking at the
influence of strain shifts of entero-pathogens induced by the vaccine
given practically once every month.
“From India’s perspective the exercise
has been extremely costly both in terms of human suffering and in
monetary terms. It is tempting to speculate what could have been
achieved if the $2.5 billion spent on attempting to eradicate polio were
spent on water and sanitation and routine immunization.”
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is apparently out of touch with
what is known about the impossibility of eradicating polio, but it is
not out of touch with the money involved.
“…. the last 1 percent remains a true
danger. Eradication is not guaranteed. It requires campaigns to give
polio vaccine to all children under 5 in poor countries, at a cost of
almost $1 billion per year. We have to be aggressive about continuing
these campaigns until we succeed in eradicating that last 1 percent.
“Therefore, funding is critical to success. Organizations such as Rotary International http://www.rotary.org
and the governments of India, the United States, the United Kingdom,
and Japan are all major contributors to the polio campaign. Our
foundation gives about $200 million each year. But the campaign still
faces a 2011-12 funding gap of $720 million. If eradication fails
because of a lack of generosity on the part of donor countries it would
be tragic. We are so close, but we have to finish the last leg of the
journey. We need to bring the cases down to zero, maintain careful
surveillance to ensure the virus is truly gone, and keep defenses up
with polio vaccines until we’ve confirmed success.”
The Foundation’s page on polio begins with urging eradication which
is known to not be possible, but it ends with wanting money. Like
Monsanto’s Bt seeds which were an agricultural and financial disaster
for India’s farmers, Gate’s polio vaccine campaign has been the same – a
public health and financial disaster for India.
We have seen how polio, that was not a priority for public health in
India, was made the target for attempted eradication with a token
donation of $ 0.02 billion. The Government of India finally had to fund
this hugely expensive programme, which cost the country 100 times more
than the value of the initial grant.
Did Monsanto stop their sale of Bt cotton seeds after it became
apparent that farmers were being destroyed by overwhelming debt, the
poor yields of the seeds and their inability to save seeds?
Has anyone from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation rushed to India
to suspend their polio vaccines until crucial questions can be answered
about their causingNPAFP [non-polio acute flaccid paralysis] and
deaths?
Is the Foundation addressing the lack of vaccine safety? Vaccine
safety may be a sensitive subject as Mr. Gates is on record in saying
that “people who engage in anti-vaccine efforts [those questioning the
safety of vaccines] kill children.”
And yet Mr. Gates’ polio campaign has been documented to have
paralyzed 47,5000 children. Puliyel says that “children who were
identified with non-polio AFP were at more than twice the risk of dying
than those with wild polio infection (27).”
Bill Gates gives no figures or any details to back up his claim that
people skeptical of vaccines are killing children, but he referred to
parents didn’t give their children the pertussis vaccine and measles
vaccines and children dying. However, Mr. Gates may not be aware that
teens in Canada vaccinated for measles have come down with measles in greater numbers than the unvaccinated and vaccinated children who are developing pertussis (whooping cough).
· For pertussis cases in which
vaccination histories are known, between 44 and 83 percent were of
people who had been immunized, according to data from nine California
counties with high infection rates. In San Diego County, more than two
thirds of the people in this group were up to date on their
immunizations.
· Health officials in Ohio and Texas, two
states experiencing whooping cough outbreaks, report that of all cases,
75 and 67.5 percent respectively, reported having received a pertussis
vaccination.
· Today, the rate of disease in some California counties is as high as 139 per 100,000, rivaling rates before vaccines were developed.
· Today, the rate of disease in some California counties is as high as 139 per 100,000, rivaling rates before vaccines were developed.
· Public officials around the world rely
heavily on two groups of pertussis experts when setting vaccine policy
relating to the disease. Both groups, and many of their members, receive money from the two leading manufacturers of pertussis vaccine.
· Dr. Fritz Mooi, a well-known Dutch
scientist who has been studying mutations of the pertussis bacteria for
15 years, said a more virulent strain of bacteria is contributing to
outbreaks.
The polio vaccine uses a synthetic virus which has created a more
virulent strain. Does the pertussis vaccine also use a synthetic virus?
The WHO, which is working with Mr. Gates through GAVI, classifies the
paralysis occurring in India as non-polio acute flaccid paralysis
(NPAFP). Perhaps Bill Gates might consider that while Monsanto’s
Bollywood PR worked to sell Bt seeds and Gates’ Bollywood PR worked to
push his polio vaccines, no Monsanto PR changes the reality of the
farmers’ suicides. And ‘relabeling’ paralysis after the vaccines were
given does not change the facts. Paralysis is paralysis to the child who
can no longer walk. Death is death to the parents who have lost a
child.
Mr. Gates intends to vaccinate every child in the world. He has not
been slowed in that commitment despite the mass numbers of death and
paralysis of children in India. Not pausing from and not even
investigating the disaster he has already caused, how many more children
will Mr. Gates “help”?
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