Experts fear the return of devastating virus thought eradicated

Just a couple months back I exposed the truth about a devastating virus that swept through America last year.

It left thousands of otherwise healthy people — mostly children — fighting for their lives. More than 100 kids were crippled. Many are still on ventilators to help them breathe. And only two victims have fully recovered.

The mainstream and even the feds called it enterovirus D68 (EV-D68). But doctors and infectious disease specialists had another name for it.

Polio.

Now the CDC, doctors and state health departments around the country are holding their breath. Because it looks like this hushed-up polio outbreak isn’t finished with us yet.

The virus may be set to make a disastrous return in a matter of weeks — except this time, there could be many more victims.

The reason this devastating illness is coming back this summer may shock you. But it proves how a couple simple steps may be all it takes to keep our kids, grandkids, and ourselves safe.

A monster of our own making?

“I saw polio in India. This looks like polio.”

That’s what a prominent neurologist told Dr. Carol Glasser — who is a former medical officer with the California Department of Public Health — about the infection that left scores of children in the U.S. paralyzed last year.

As I told you in April, the whole idea that America is polio-free is one of the biggest health care lies we’ve ever been fed. Experts like Dr. Suzanne Humphries have shared how the definition of polio was changed in the 1950s to only include the viruses the polio vaccine was effective against.

It’s a deception that continues to this day. The mainstream continues to come up with other labels — like EV-D68 or “non-polio enterovirus” — for diseases that would have been called polio in the 1950s and earlier.

Now, as I said, experts are extremely worried that the virus that felled so many kids last year will reappear around late summer and into the fall. That’s when the EV-D68 outbreak took hold last year, and it follows a long-established pattern in historic polio outbreaks.

Dr. Glasser anticipates more cases than last year and warns that “to expect less would be foolish.”

That pattern of summer outbreaks is still being called a mystery by many, but many doctors and investigative journalists believe they know the answer. Dangerous pesticides are serving as a “toxic co-factor,” something Dr. Humphries says can create a “monster out of a normally benign gut virus.”

The timing of past polio outbreaks (including the outbreak last year) always coincided with heavy use of pesticides, especially arsenic-based ones and DDT. Dr. Humphries notes that DDT was phased out in the U.S. and Canada in the early 1960s, right around the time we saw a decline in polio cases. And in India, a country that still makes and uses the chemicals, polio outbreaks are still common.

Two journalists, Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill, have spent years documenting the pesticide connection in past polio outbreaks, as well as what’s going on now.

They’ve even discovered that a rise of polio cases in 1890 and the big outbreak of paralytic polio at the end of World War II happened at the same time that new agricultural chemicals were being introduced and used.

“What’s involved,” they write, “is not just a virus, nor an environmental hazard,” but a combination of the two. When someone with an active infection, something that might only give them a minor illness or even no symptoms at all, is exposed to a toxic pesticide, “the toxin could allow the virus to reach the spine.”

If history gives us any clues… and if the outbreaks of polio and polio-related illnesses are linked to pesticides… that means there may be a few simple steps we can take to protect ourselves and our loved ones before the summer outbreak season hits. Stop using pesticides in and around your home. If these experts are right, that exposure could be the tipping point for turning a minor viral infection into a nightmare.

Avoid foods that are at high risk for pesticide contamination, and buy organic instead. For a list of the “dirty dozen” foods having the highest pesticide residues, click here. li>

If a loved one is diagnosed with polio… or EV-D68… or whatever the mainstream wants to call it, talk to your doctor about intravenous vitamin C therapy. IVC has a long history of successfully treating dozens of viruses, including polio. And that was true even during the outbreaks in the 1940s and 1950s.

As Dan Olmsted says, we’d “be a lot further along on all this” if the experts paid more attention to the evidence on how the virus is spreading and what to do about it.

But, he adds, “there’s still time.”

I sure hope he’s right.