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Continued from page 43 – Vaccine-Induced Polio
Mbarara during that month of 1977 more than 600
children had died following polio vaccination. 600
children! So even some of the timid medical
practitioners who were initially afraid to come out,
started coming out giving information and saying 'Oh,
we knew this oral polio vaccine was trouble because as
soon as the child receives it, they get a temper- ature
and their health goes downhill and there is nothing that
you could do.' So the mothers said they would not take
their children for oral polio vaccination. And this
information was going back to the government at the
capitol. So what the government decided to do was to
say let's send a team of experts to come and debate me
at the radio (station) on my program. I have to tell you
that on that day in the month of July - I think July 22nd
- some date like that - all the town sold out of radios
and mobile phones because they were ready to ring
inside the radio station and tell the doctors that really it
should be their choice to decide what is given to their
children, and it shouldn't be the choice of the doctors
(applause); and that whether they agreed with me or
not, that both sides should present their information to
the parents so that the parents can make a choice. Now
I thought that these doctors were going to come with
thousands of books and evidence and references, and I
spent two weeks preparing myself. I ordered books
from Australia and Britain, and Barbara sent me some
literature, and I didn't sleep for almost a week. I was
reading day and night trying to educate myself about
immunity - how the body's immunity works. I was
trying to educate myself about viruses jumping species
and immuno-suppressive treatments, and I learned
about - for example - the Marburg virus which
appeared in Germany in 1967 [unintelligible] from a
[unintelligible] laboratory that they were developing
oral polio vaccine, and actually the monkeys had come
from Uganda. So the monkey viruses had jumped from
- had been - some of the viruses that lie dormant in
some of these species for a long time - if you take these
viruses and put them in the human body, they could do
anything. And one of the things they did was to give
Marburg, which is a cousin to ebola. In fact, after
reading that information I predicted [what year ? N.S.]
that there would be ebola in Uganda because of these
vaccinations, and there WAS ebola in Uganda a year
after ! So they started saying I was a prophet !
So when they came, here am I in the studio thinking
'God ! These are the real experts. How am I going to
handle them ? I'm just a broadcaster - somebody who
has questions that any right-thinking member of the
society should ask.' And when they came they were
than I was, and they started saying 'You know, we
really apologize because... one of the leaders of the team
of the district medical officer said 'You know what ? I
have never read even a medical journal since I left
medical school. We have no internet. I cannot afford to
buy new books. How would I know what is safe or what
is not ? All I know is that the World Health Organization
says it's safe. UNICEF says it's safe, and all these other
agencies say it's safe. So if it is safe then we must use it.'
and then my first question was 'Well, why didn't the
World Health Organization say it was safe for America to
use ? Doesn't the jurisdiction of UNICEF extend to
America. If they stopped it in America why should we
use it here ?' And people were saying to them 'O.K. - you
are the physicians. You studied the same things as the
physicians who manufactured this vaccine.' And they said
'Yeah. You know, when you are a physician you don't
want to say No, I didn't study that. I'm sorry - I went to
school but I didn't study what you studied.' They said
'Yeah, we did. We studied exactly the same thing.' And I
said 'O.K. Why do we have to import the vaccine anyway
? Why can't we manufacture the vaccine here if you know
what goes in it ?' And they said 'Oh, that's a problem. We
don't have factories.' And then people were ringing in to
the studio asking - 'We had our own way of ensuring our
childrens' immunity. You know, when a child was born
there was an assortment of herbs that were collected from
the wild, and then they were boiled, and every day the
child would bathe in these herbs for six months, and a
little bit of the herbs would be given to the child to drink.'
And it was in this debate that most of the physicians
admitted that that method was as effective as the
immunization that was being carried out. So people were
saying 'Well, if we have this method that had proved very
good for us all this time, why are you giving us oral polio
? And why are you not fighting the diseases that affect us
? And most significantly : where are all these so-called
paralyzed people - all our people that are physically
challenged - that you said existed in villages ?'
And at that time we had marshalled the people that had
contracted polio after immunization, and they were in the
studio with us. In that debate most of the people that had
come to debate us ran out of the studio, and they could
not answer the questions from the people. And the
national newspapers splashed these headlines so that even
in other parts of the country where my radio station was
not reaching started picking up the story. The World
Health Organization got worried. UNICEF got worried.
UNICEF representatives came to the station to appeal to
me, saying 'Well, we know you have a case but you are
giving it to the wrong audience. I mean these people don't
understand what you are saying. If you are talking to
people in cities - you know, people in villages – they
cannot understand the argument. Polio is good. O.K. it
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