It was DDT. DDT is a neurotoxin designed to kill insects by destroying their ability to send signals and causing tremors and convulsions. These happen to be the same symptoms as Polio, and we used to spray DDT on kids and all over crops. Doctors couldn't distinguish the symptoms. Basically, DDT was causing neurological damage that was getting mislabeled as Polio.

They significantly tapered down DDT a year or two before the polio vaccine, which is why you can see the rates of cases drop like a stone before the vaccine saw a wide scale rollout.

It was DDT. DDT is a neurotoxin designed to kill insects by destroying their ability to send signals and causing tremors and convulsions. These happen to be the same symptoms as Polio, and we used to spray DDT on kids and all over crops. Doctors couldn't distinguish the symptoms, and "polio" in the US mostly presented near water sources near farms where kids were swimming. Basically, DDT was causing neurological damage that was getting mislabeled as Polio.

They significantly tapered down DDT a year or two before the polio vaccine, which is why you can see the rates of cases drop like a stone before the vaccine saw a wide scale rollout.

It was DDT. The neurotoxin they used to spray on kids and all over crops was causing neurological damage that present the same as Polio.

They stopped DDT a year or two before the polio vaccine, which is why you can see the rates of cases drop like a stone before the vaccine saw a wide scale rollout.