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African Traditional Herbal Research Clinic
Volume 4, Issue 4 NEWSLETTER May 2009
FEATURED ARTICLES
CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME: THE HIDDEN POLIO
Dr. William Campbell Douglas
Second Opinion Newsletter
Periodically, we receive letters such as the following (but
surprisingly few, considering the controversial nature of
the subject):
"I like your publication and gain a lot of useful
information from it. But I question all of your ideas
because of your stand on vaccinations. It is perfectly
obvious that the major infections diseases caused by
viruses have been eliminated by vaccinations."
This letter is fairly typical. Most of them are not
vindictive or insulting. They are simply, like this
example, disbelieving that something as "obvious" and
effective as vaccinations can be challenged by a medical
doctor. As I explained to one of my medical colleagues
who supports vaccination almost to the degree of a
religion, it took a lot of serious pondering and soulsearching
to join Dr. Robert Mendelsohn in his crusade
against immunizations. It's not easy to take a stand that
you know will alienate 95 percent of your medical
colleagues and 99 percent of the scientific community.
Post hoc, ergo prompter hoc reasoning states that "A"
happened, then "B" happened, thus "A" caused "B." So if
we gave children polio shots and the polio epidemic
ceases, then it is "obvious" that the vaccine halted the
epidemic. But this faith in the polio vaccines will not
even stand up to this faulty reasoning because...
The Salk vaccine failed completely. And the Sabin
vaccine was a disaster. It caused many cases of polio and
showed no relationship to the disease except for an
increase in polio during the early '60s, caused by the
vaccine itself. And now we have the sensational findings
from the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences,
which strongly indicate that polio did not go away at all,
but now manifests itself as chronic fatigue syndrome. The
public press is strangely silent on this sensational report -
- I wonder why.
I remember 20 years ago hearing someone to whom I
paid little attention (although the seed was planted) say
that polio had not gone away. He said that since the
advent of the shots, polio had changed and was
called something else by the neurologists. I was
intrigued, but I quickly discarded the idea -- where
were the thousands of paralyzed kids, the iron
lungs, the shriveled limbs? I had not seen a case of
active polio (I thought) in my entire career. Then I
heard that the neurologists were calling chronic
fatigue syndrome (CFS) "Myalgic
Encephalomyelitis." That's funny I thought, why
are they calling it "myalgic," which means muscle;
"encephalo," which means brain; and "myelitis,"
which means inflammation of the covering of the
nerves?
Being slow, I just decided they gave it this fancy
moniker because it sounded more scientific than
chronic fatigue syndrome.
And then, almost like a divine revelation, I saw the
report in the New York Academy of Sciences and
said: "Of course, why didn't I think of that--chronic
fatigue syndrome is the modern form of
poliomyelitis. "Now don't hang up on me. I know it
sounds like a front-page piece from the National
Inquirer, but this is from legitimate research. As
you may recall, polio is contracted from ingesting
the polio virus, which then goes to the small
intestine and reproduces there. With the use of the
vaccines, especially the oral Sabin vaccine, the
traditional polio viruses were replaced by other
members of the same family called Coxsackie
viruses.
When the Coxsackie viruses were first isolated
from CFS patients, it wasn't realized that we were
simply dealing with a new form of polio. This new
polio was caused by the replacement of the polio
viruses with their brothers, the Coxsackie viruses.
When the Coxsackie viruses were first isolated
from CFS patients, it wasn't realized that we were
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