Child in Pakistan being given the oral polio vaccine at the border. Photo courtesy of Dawn.com.
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Opposition to mass vaccination programs in Muslim countries like Pakistan, as well as several nations in Africa, is well known. Many among the local populations fear that such programs are a part of covert Western government operations.
Medical authorities who promote the supposed benefits of vaccination programs call such ideas “wild conspiracy theories,” and usually find local leaders to dispel such “myths“.
However, with the recent announcement by the Obama Administration that the CIA “will not seek to obtain or exploit DNA or other genetic material acquired through such programs,” the White House has now admitted that these fears were not “myths” or conspiracy theories after all. A fake vaccination program was launched in Pakistan by Dr. Shakeel Afridi, for example, to capture Bin Laden, as part of CIA policy to collect DNA samples.
So why did the White House come out and make such a public statement?
We reported earlier this month (May 2014) that the World Health Organization had declared polio a world-wide epidemic, with calls to increase polio vaccination rates. This “news” was picked up by every major mainstream media outlet, in spite of the fact that there have only been 74 reported cases of polio so far this year world wide, and only 416 cases in all of 2013.
This may give us a clue as to the timing of the White House announcement that they would no longer use fake vaccination programs as part of covert CIA operations to collect people’s DNA. Of the 74 cases of polio reported so far this year, 59 of those have been in Pakistan where opposition to western vaccine programs are strongest. A complaint was reportedly made to the White House by “the deans of 12 public health schools.”
One has to wonder if jobs and government funding are not at stake due to opposition to the polio vaccine program in Muslim countries and falling vaccination rates, leading Big Pharma to exercise some influence over the White House to come out and make such a statement? I wonder if it will work? Will foreign countries now take a big sigh of relief that the U.S. has promised not to do this anymore?
When you read mainstream media reports about how ignorant these “uneducated” people are in poorer countries for opposing vaccines, and blame them for this “new” worldwide polio “epidemic,” just keep in mind a few facts that are easily verifiable through a simple Internet search, but which assuredly no mainstream media will report:
1. The polio vaccine given in these poor countries is the outdated oral polio vaccine, which is no longer used in developed countries due to the terrible side effects of the vaccine. Both “vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis” and “non-polio acute flaccid paralysis” are known side effects of the live oral polio vaccine. It sheds the virus from the vaccine through feces and into sewers and sanitation systems. India recently achieved its “polio-free” status, but at the cost of tens of thousands of non-polio acute flaccid paralysis cases each year (See: The Vaccine Myth of “Polio-free” Status – Polio Vaccine Caused 53,000 Paralysis Victims in India Last Year.)
2. Pakistan has the highest rate of polio cases NOT because of the unvaccinated population, but because of poor practices in administering the oral polio vaccine, which requires constant refrigeration, so that most of the cases of polio are from the vaccine itself. (See: Pakistan’s polio cases linked to poor ‘cold chain’ facilities)
A report in Clinical Infectious Diseases of Oxford Journals called for a worldwide ban on the oral polio vaccine (OPV) back in 2009, and stated: “In 2008, many cases of polio were reported in all provinces of Pakistan, where OPV is used for repeated mass-immunization campaigns…OPV has lost its effectiveness in providing herd immunity. It seems that children are getting polio from OPV, and it also seems that OPV is proving to be ineffective in stopping polio transmission from another source. Therefore, the whole world—and especially developing countries—should shift from OPV to IPV.” Source.
White House vows CIA will not use vaccine programs for covert ops
Excerpts:
The White House promised on Monday that the CIA will not use immunization programs for its operations following a complaint that the spy agency used such a campaign in its hunt for Osama bin Laden.
The deans of 12 public health schools had complained about a reported vaccination program conducted by a Pakistani doctor, who used a hepatitis immunization survey in the Pakistani city where bin Laden was later killed in a secret U.S. mission.
Caitlin Hayden, spokeswoman for the White House National Security Council, said Obama homeland security adviser Lisa Monaco had assured the deans in a letter that CIA policy as of August 2013 makes clear “the CIA will make no operational use of vaccination programs, which includes vaccination workers.”
“Similarly, the agency will not seek to obtain or exploit DNA or other genetic material acquired through such programs. This policy applies worldwide, and to U.S. persons and non-U.S. persons alike,” she said.
Read the Full Press Release here.
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