So this one took some time to produce. It's been 3 weeks since our last episode, but this was a lot of effort. Candace gets a lot of things wrong about Polio and spends way too much time retreading an old and debunked claim about Polio and DDT.
Link Stack
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/poliomyelitis
World Health Organization on Polio
https://www.cdc.gov/polio/about/index.html
CDC on Polio
https://www.cdc.gov/pinkbook/hcp/table-of-contents/chapter-18-poliomyelitis.html
CDC Pink Book entry on Polio
https://www.cec.org/files/documents/publications/1620-history-ddt-in-north-america-1997-and-1996-presentation-mexican-ministry-en.pdf
CEC Link to DDT Article
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/209448?resultClick=1
Jama Network article with Chart on diseases mentioned, and below is the link to said chart,
https://cdn.jamanetwork.com/ama/content_public/journal/jama/5245/joc70121t1.png?Expires=1758294446&Signature=dvevRW6yX-34uI-YdkhIaJNkgkI3LK~~wiVnGCkQf4DB3~Fov9fSkeoXL7Q2igUDbmfUmy25bjRvDIXFU06~2HTQNDgtY3x4V3I7XHtu6T-s7OP2JGu-EVjNiE84VXybwCQc5eq4gKAz7Xs9Kr3iBmUnq1ol44JU2YKJUkdYE-J6N-5Xbt55vt3ZtI4pKqKf-nydZb7vbl41te5QVUh73zJpPch9ExdPjPFytUxM7UhmBKWpVrsJY2738PViiMIjhvrHdC3gaNnP1GLeKjy2d-rLQDtb0NUx~Onmcp-g6kmQ46qNHji4o1QyYchiU7OHnHGM4Vj3uXcMEYZxd2wvvw__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIE5G5CRDK6RD3PGA
https://www.who.int/news-room/spotlight/history-of-vaccination/history-of-polio-vaccination
WHO Page on Polio vaccination
https://ourworldindata.org/polio
Explanation on Polio and antibodies
https://www.epa.gov/ingredients-used-pesticide-products/ddt-brief-history-and-status
EPA article on DDT
https://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2014/05/19/this-week-in-universal-news-spraying-ddt-to-prevent-polio-1946
Video site with further information on DDT spraying in San Antonio
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5467597/Children-sprayed-dangerous-pesticide-DDT-shocking-clip.html
Daily Mail article that Candace mentions
https://wetlands.msuextension.org/ric/biosafety/psds/polio_virus.html
Montana State University fact sheet about Polio
https://www.realestate.com.au/news/killer-wallpaper-still-haunting-our-homes/
Australian Real Estate article about DDT wallpaper
https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/19422/cdc_19422_DS1.pdf
Special Occupational Hazard Review, DDT, from the CDC, September 1978
https://www.nvic.org/disease-vaccine/polio/vaccine-history-dd4713381b154c91281662b7ba176cff
National Vaccine Information Center on the History of Polio Vaccine in America
https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/science/092620/lessons-from-how-the-polio-vaccine-went-from-the-l
ASBMB on Polio vaccine and Covid
https://www.chop.edu/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-details/polio-vaccine
CHOP on Polio Vaccine differences
https://www.fda.gov/media/75695/download
Insert for IPOL, the only single-use Polio vaccine for anyone, made by Sanofi-Pasteur
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-polio-vaccine-ddt-pesticide-480376540979
AP News article Candace mentions that debunks her entire argument about DDT stoppage and Polio decline having a link.
https://www.nursingcenter.com/journalarticle?Article_ID=6375214&Journal_ID=54021&Issue_ID=6374920
Article about the rise of induced labor
https://www.statnews.com/2024/02/23/midwife-assisted-home-births-rise-high-risk-births
STAT News on Home Births, this article is free.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/03/11/700829719/home-birth-c
an-be-appealing-but-how-safe-is-it?
NPR article on Home Births
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