A lot of the plebs think that polio was cured by vaccines. Polio was one of the greatest deflections in history. They blamed it on a virus but there was very interesting things happening. They used lead-arsenate on the crops. They prescribed mercury up until the 1950s. They used an agent called paris green for things like wall paper which contained lead arsenate. And they also sprayed DDT up until 1972. I'm 100% convinced that all sickness and disease in this world is based on terrain.
I hadn't really looked into polio until I was in college and I had to read Nemesis. Putting the guy who looked like a walking disease aside, the symptoms looked like they came from neurotoxins. Muscle spasms from neurotoxins sound more probable than a virus that only causes muscles to spasm uncontrollably but only in some people.
To know more about this, a great book is called Moth in the Iron Longue.
A lot of the plebs think that polio was cured by vaccines. Polio was one of the greatest deflections in history. They blamed it on a virus but there was very interesting things happening. They used lead-arsenate on the crops. They prescribed mercury up until the 1950s. They used an agent called paris green for things like wall paper which contained lead arsenate. And they also sprayed DDT up until 1972. I'm 100% convinced that all sickness and disease in this world is based on terrain.
I hadn't really looked into polio until I was in college and I had to read Nemesis. Putting the guy who looked like a walking disease aside, the symptoms looked like they came from neurotoxins. Muscle spasms from neurotoxins sound more probable than a virus that only causes muscles to spasm uncontrollably but only in some people.