Hi Kim,
Re likely causes of polio. In the 1950s during the big polio
scare the Brits plotted disease outbreaks on a map of the UK. They that
polio cases clustered along the exact route of the main trunk railway lines.
Further investigation showed that long-distance trains of those days dumped
sewage directly onto the lines. Once this had been addressed polio outbreaks
decreased and were geographically more randomly distributed.
Regards,
Bob.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Garth & Kim Travis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <Biofuel@sustainablelists.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 11:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Biofuel] The Age of Autism: Hot potato on the Hill
> Greetings,
>
> About polio, I do believe there is some research that has tied polio to
> organophosphate fertilizers. My father and grandfather both had polio, my
> grandfather was 49 when he go it. They had a farm although they lived in
> the city by then and had used the chemicals about 10 years before they
were
> both struck. The problem with the trace back was the time between
exposure
> and the outbreak of the disease. There were 3 or 4 different strains of
> polio and there is some question about the causes of each strain, some may
> have been a virus but some were cause by exposure to toxic chemicals. In
> the early years of chemical fertilizers, there were no warning about
> exposure so the chemicals were handled with bare hands and no masks. It
> was cases like my grandfather, adults getting what was suppose to be a
> child's disease that originally sparked the research. I do not have the
> references for this, I lost the information about 3 computer crashes ago,
> so I am writing from memory.
>
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