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Naled May Be DDT and Zika May Be Polio All Over Again

Back in the mid-1940s, the U.S. government undertook a mass fumigation campaign using the highly toxic organochloride pesticide DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane). The aim was to wipe out mosquitoes believed to be spreading polio. In a Universal Newsreel (produced by Universal City Studios) from 1946 showing mass DDT spraying in San Antonio, TX,1 the narrator can be heard saying:

With a possibility of a grave infantile paralysis epidemic, San Antonio health authorities attack germ carriers on a citywide front. With war-discovered DDT and special sprayers, sections of the city are literally fogged with the insecticide in the fight to stop the spread of polio. Every suspected spot is sprayed. The drastic cleanup is ordered as polio and alive diseases show alarming increase. Even streams come in for disinfecting, and in the parks precautions are taken to prevent gatherings of youngsters. Literally tons of DDT are used on this dread disease that attacks our young. Again, war, destructive in parables, contributes one of its discoveries to save life.1

In another Universal Newsreel, narrated by Albert Grobe, you can see a North American B-25 Mitchell bomber aircraft loading up with DDT and then flying over Rockford, IL on August 27, 1945 releasing the toxic chemical.2 The narrator can be heard saying:

Today’s target for this B-25 is Rockford, Illinois—a peacetime mission to spread 500 gallons of DDT, the Army’s miracle insecticide over the city, stricken with an infantile paralysis epidemic. By spraying the city, authorities will test the theory that insects are carriers of the dread germ. Air Force pictures show the method devised by the Army’s branch of preventive medicine. Flying at an average altitude of 150 feet, the plane sprays a strip more than 150 yards wide at the rate of 215 gallons a minute. A bomber turns to the ways of peace, becomes an instrument of science, and may become the means of saving countless lives.2

Interestingly, the more DDT was sprayed on U.S. cities during the second half of the 1940s, the more polio spread throughout the country. The number of reported cases of polio in the United states in 1946 reached 25,191.3 This was nearly twice the number of cases reported in 1945.3 By 1948, the number of reported polio cases in the U.S. had hit 27,680.4

The number of reported cases of polio remained high from 1949 to 1951, with a total of 103,719, representing an annual average of 34,573.5 In 1952, the number of cases peaked at 52,879, and then started to decline to 35,592 in 1953, 38,476 in 1954, and 28,985 in 1955.6

The DDT spraying campaigns in the U.S. reached their peak in 1951. In 1952, the fumigations began to subside. The number of reported cases of polio began to decline by about the same rate the following year. By 1953, the number of polio cases had gone down by nearly 40 percent.7 After 1954, even though DDT was still produced in the U.S., its distribution shifted to developing countries.7 Large quantities of DDT were bought by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the United Nations (UN) and exported.8

During the 30 years before DDT was banned in the U.S. in 1972, some 1.35 billion pounds of the chemical was sprayed throughout the country.8 Amazingly, the origins of this disastrous public health policy was based on the false theory that mosquitoes carried an infectious microbe, a “ germ” that caused polio and paralyzed children. The policy was also undertaken under the false assumption that DDT was harmless to humans.

Tens of thousands of Americans were paralyzed by exposure to DDT due to gross incompetence by U.S.public health officials, who naively fell for one of industry’s most popular advertising slogans of the 1940s and 1950s: “DDT Is Good For Me-e-e!”

Enter Zika and Naled

Following a sharp increase in the number of microcephaly cases in Brazil during the second half of 2015, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention set about the task of identifying the cause of the apparent epidemic. On Apr. 13, 2016, after only a few months of research and investigations, the CDC concluded, “after careful review of existing evidence,” that “Zika virus is a cause of microcephaly and other severe fetal brain defects” in newborn infants.9

In response to the CDC’s confirmation of a causal connection between Zika and microcephaly, the U.S. government stepped up efforts to develop a vaccine for Zika10 11 and recommended pesticide spraying campaigns in areas of the country considered to be at risk for the spread of the virus by mosquitoes. In May, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene began aerial spraying of city neighborhoods with the pesticides Altosid and VectoBac.12

In June, the CDC recommended aerial spraying in Puerto Rico with the organophosphate pesticide Naled (also known as Dibrom), but the proposed  campaign was met with protests by Puerto Ricans fearful of the toxic effects of the chemical to both humans and the environment. The concerns were so serious that a lawsuit to block the use of Naled was filed on July 21 against the CDC and its director, Tom Frieden, by the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Carmen Yulin Cruz-Soto, and the San Juan Municipality.13 The CDC relented.

CDC respects the decision of the Governor of Puerto Rico to not pursue aerial spraying with the insecticide Naled. We moved too quickly in our urgency to do all that we could to be responsive and prepared in the event officials in Puerto Rico decided to use Naled. Under no circumstances would CDC undertake application of Naled unless the government of Puerto Rico decided to do so, authorized it, and requested CDC to do so.14 

The opposition to Naled in Puerto Rico, however, did not preclude plans to spray the pesticide in Miami, FL. On Aug. 4, 2016, the Miami-Dade County Public Works and Waste Management Department began aerial spraying of Naled over the city’s Wynwood area.14 

It’s worth noting that, although Naled is deemed to be “safe” by the CDC and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), it was banned in the European Union (EU) in 2005 because it was found to pose an “unacceptable risk.”15 16 17 This is not an uncommon occurrence when it comes to the regulation of chemicals, given that the U.S. government tends to set a much higher bar for “proof of harm” than do the Europeans, who are more willing to acknowledge the precautionary principle and err on the side of caution. If there is credible, although inconclusive, evidence of the danger of a chemical to humans and the environment, European governments are more likely to ban the product to protect the public.18 

Consequently, simply because the U.S. government and consensus “science” in the U.S. assert that a chemical is safe for humans and the environment doesn’t mean it is so. We learned this with DDT in 1972 when the EPA “issued a cancellation order for DDT based on its adverse environmental effects, such as those to wildlife, as well as its potential human health risks.”19 But it took decades and immeasurable harm to the American people and wildlife before the widespread spraying of DDT was halted.

Could it be that the U.S. is headed down the same path with Naled? In response to a theory that mosquitoes were spreading polio, the U.S. government initiated aerial spraying of DDT on an unsuspecting public, thereby fueling massive epidemics of paralysis in the U.S. and the scary images of children laying helplessly in those “iron lung” machines during the second half of the 1940s and first half of the 1950s.

Is it possible that Naled, which is intended to kill off the mosquitoes believed to be carrying a virus theorized to cause microcephaly, may itself end up causing microcephaly, as well as other birth defects? This is not such an unreasonable scenario. Scientific studies have provided evidence “linking neurodevelopmental disorders with gestational pesticide exposures”—particularly exposures to organophosphates.20

Studies have also shown that Trichlorfon (also known as Metrifonate)—a main ingredient in Naled—can cause cancer and birth defects in animals. In one study, scientists at the University of Oslo in Norway injected Trichlorfon into pregnant guinea pigs and found that the brain development of the fetuses was significantly affected.21

When the offsprings were examined at birth, there was a severe reduction in brain weight in the case of trichlorfon and dichlorvos, but not after treatment with the other organophosphates.21

In a recent article in The Huffington Post titled “The Feds Almost Used A Pesticide That’s Harmful To Pregnant Women To Combat Zika In Puerto Rico,” Laura Barron-Lopez cited Jennifer Sass, PhD, a senior scientist with environmental group Natural Resources Defense Council, who warned that Naled is a neurotoxin and “among the class of the most toxic pesticides.”22

According to Dr. Sass, pregnant women are the most at risk to the effects of Naled, meaning that the pesticide “would damage the neurological development of fetuses.”22

Can it be that our government (and specifically our public health officials) is again, as with DDT, ignorantly poisoning humans and the environment as part of a misguided mission to exterminate mosquitoes that may be carrying Zika—a virus that has just barely begun to be studied in earnest?


References:

1 Universal News Volume 19, Release 506, Story #2, May 27, 1946. Youtube.com May 5, 2014 (published date).
2 
DDT is sprayed over Rockford, Illinois to combat polio epidemic. August 27, 1945. Youtube.com Aug. 27, 2013 (published date).
3 
Dauer CC. Incidence of Poliomyelitis in 1946. Association of Schools of Public Health, Public Health Reports (1896-1970) June 20, 1947; 62(25): 901-909.
4 Dauer CC. Incidence of Poliomyelitis in 1948. Association of Schools of Public Health, Public Health Reports (1896-1970) June 10, 1949; 64(23): 733-740.
5 Incidence Rates of Poliomyelitis in US. Post-Polio Health International.
6 U.S. Polio Cases 1952-1962. The History of Vaccines.
7 West J. Pesticides and Polio: A Critique of Scientific Literature. The Weston A. Price Foundation Feb. 8, 2003.
8 DDT Regulatory History: A Brief Survey (to 1975). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
9 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC Concludes Zika Causes Microcephaly and Other Birth Defects. CDC.gov Apr. 13, 2016.
10 Cáceres M. So What Became of the $1.9 Billion for Zika? The Vaccine Reaction Aug. 17, 2016.
11 Blamont M, Hirschler B. France’s Sanofi partners U.S. Army to speed up Zika vaccine. Reuters July 6, 2016.
12 Cáceres M. New York Aerial Sprays Altosid and VectoBac Pesticides to Combat ZikaThe Vaccine Reaction May 23, 2016.
13 Cáceres M. Controversial Pesticide Naled Sprayed Over Miami to Combat ZikaThe Vaccine Reaction Aug. 22, 2016.
14 Silverman E. CDC backs down on proposal to use controversial insecticide to thwart Zika. STAT July 25, 2016.
15 Staletovich  J. Friday flight planned to spray for Zika mosquitoes. Miami Herald Aug. 11, 2016.
16 Iannelli J. Pesticide Sprayed Over Wynwood Is Banned in Europe, May Also Harm Fetuses. Miami New Times Aug. 10, 2016.
17 European Union. COMMISSION DECISION of 11 May 2012 concerning the non-inclusion of naled for product type 18 in Annex I, IA or IB to Directive 98/8/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of biocidal products on the market. EURO-Lex.
18 Banned in Europe, Safe in the U.S. IFLScience June 9, 2014.
19 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. DDT – A Brief History and Status. EPA.gov.
20 NCBI. Neurodevelopmental disorders and prenatal residential proximity to agricultural pesticides: the CHARGE study. Environ Health Perspect October 2014;122(10):1103-9.
21 Howell K. What the government is spraying to kill Zika mosquitos might be hurting you. Circa Aug. 12, 2016.
22 Barron-Lopez L. The Feds Almost Used A Pesticide That’s Harmful To Pregnant Women To Combat Zika In Puerto Rico. The Huffington Post July 23, 2016.

17 Responses

  1. The Zika hoax could be a set up to use Naled across the country-and in Puerto Rico where they are protesting it’s use, to lead the world into thinking that there is either a new strain of Polio that was caused by Zika because they have linked just about every disease know to man to Zika (some sarcasm) and therefore the CDC/pharma/WHO needs funding to fight the newest potential deadly disease brought on by the vampire Zika carrying mosquitoes. Naled does have some serious serious side effect:
    Naled the chemical being sprayed all over Florida has been banned in the European Union. Dr. Elvia Melendez-Ackerman-environmental biologist University of Puerto Rico’s Rio Piedras campus, “People don’t know all the risks. This degrades into a carcinogen. It’s in the EPA documents.” Pregnant women should avoid the area. Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides factsheet on Naled, studies have shown that exposure of pregnant animals for just three days during brain development resulted in 15% smaller brains in their babies. Naled also happens to be 20 times more toxic when exposure occurs due to inhalation of Naled-contaminated air versus ingestion. Symptoms can range from fatigue, headaches and nausea to diarrhea.

    I’m sure when the CDC set their eyes on Zika as the next medical psy-op they had a long term plan in mind. With Ebola they didn’t count on the people of Africa getting on their social media pages and cells phone taking picture of the fake clinic and crisis actors accepting money. Nor did they take into consideration the number of people who were posting counter information on the psy-op. Ebola fell through quick-especially when social media pages such as facebook pages began to “not function” from Africa. The Who mistakenly allowed one of their 2012 reports to surface which shows that Zika is not the case of birth defects and it’s was impossible to shut down research coming from Doctors in Brazil who have been studying the outbreak. One of the ways they are trying to make sure only their (CDC) message gets out to the public is putting dozens of daily articles on blogs that have no comment section.

    DDT and other environment variables I believe convinced the world that there was a Polio virus and everyone needed to get that vaccine even though where the vaccine was used Polio cases increased. Naled could be used t create a similar medical psy-op scenario unless the public worldwide is informed that the remedy is worse than the disease or so called disease.

    1. Just a note re refs.

      The toxicological polio paradigm was brought to the modern era by the independent research of Jim West at http://harvoa.org

      Jim’s research also enabled the finding of disconnected arcana from the early 1950s, e.g., Biskind, Mobbs, and Scobey.

      Jim is the first to posit a toxicological explanation for FDR’s polio, etc.

    2. Have you researched the genetically modified, or engineered Mosquitos they’ve began releasing in Fresno California, with plans to do the same in multiple other states too?
      I have been considering why the strong push for the use of these “all male” so they can’t bite, Mosquitos recently, and my newest assumption has to do with the need for a trial run by our government, to test the migration patterns, and how effective these Mosquitos are ar fulfilling their objective, because I suspect, GM Mosquitos may be used by our government as a population control mechanism, involving biological warfare or infecting our citizens, or our “enemies” with some deadly disease or infection that Mosquitos can be engineered to transmit.

      I’ve not read anything on this, and literally, this idea just popped in my head while reading the comments here, but it’s definitely a plausible theory, and would explain why there’s such a sudden push for justification to release these Mosquitos, in targeted areas, Florida, and California have already done this.
      I also believe that zika is another fear momgering attempt to sell a vaccine, and deflect from Monsanto and their use of a toxic larvacide in water supply.

      All I know is that our government, and affiliated agencies are extensions of corporate control, power, and influence. And exist solely to benefit big business.
      Every single law pAssed in the U.S. Is passed due to economic interests, and factors, even the seatbelt law…
      The CDC is amongst one of the most corrupt government entities, and is responsible for systemically killing off subsets of the population, while making others chronically ill and lifelong consumers.
      I cannot for the life of me understand how any American can trust our government, especially the CDC. And why people are so indoctrinated into their propaganda, that even alluding to some skepticism about vaccines,nor anything contrary to the official narrative, results in complete ostracism, attacks, and abuse. Blows my mind how so many are willing to believe whatever they’re told, and dismiss anything that doesn’t reinforce those beliefs.

      For this reason, I think Americans are amongst some of the most self righteous, entitled, ignorant, closed minded, hypocritical, ignoramuses of the developed world.

  2. Just a note re refs.

    The toxicological polio paradigm was brought to the modern era by the independent research of Jim West at http://harvoa.org

    Jim’s research also enabled the finding of disconnected arcana from the early 1950s, e.g., Biskind, Mobbs, and Scobey.

    Jim is the first to posit a toxicological explanation for FDR’s polio, etc.

  3. Is it possible that no one in the government or scientists at the CDC calling for aerial pesticide spraying has ever read about the history of polio? How “polio” cases were directly proportional to the tons of pesticides used? How polio cases phased out with the discontinued use of DDT? The decline was of course contributed to the use of the polio vaccine which was contaminated with mega cancer causing virus SV40 & given to 100 million Americans. Paralysis then was caused by many things like arsenic/Mercury shots doctors used to treat Syphillis, lead poisoning when lead was used in everything from clothes to paint, enteroviruses, DDT exposure, etc…Cases of paralysis lasting 24-48 hours or more were diagnosed as polio without any diagnostic tests done-until the polio vaccine was implemented. Then a diagnosis of polio could only be made with a positive diagnostic test-AND paralysis had to be present after 60 days! These diagnostic hanged alone could make the polio vaccine appear successful–add to that discontinued use of DDT.

    I don’t think it’s possible that everyone at the government and CDC is this ignorant. On the CDC’s own website, it lists exposure to toxic chemicals as a known cause of microcephaly. When I see the CDC rushing to aerial pesticide spraying, the only thing I can think is, “Are they TRYING to increase microcephaly cases here to gain support for a Zika vaccine???! We as a country have given way too much credit to the government & CDC to make intelligent, informed health decisions for us.

    Not to mention, If Zika was THE cause of microcephaly, we would be seeing the link in all of the 40 countries with active Zika cases, but we’re not. We only see it in one part of Brazil. Columbia followed 12,000 pregnant women infected with Zika virus–no increase in microcephaly cases. Wake up people. We need to stand up like Puerto Rico & protest the completely ludicrous aerial spraying of toxic pesticides that are endocrine disrupters, carcinogens, & cause impaired immune function that makes you more susceptible to ANY virus, bacteria or disease.

    1. I think you’re smart enough to know the answer to your questions. Of course there are scientists at the CDC who see through the fear momgering campaign and media induced hysteria of zika virus causing microchephaly. There hAve been zero credible or valid studies. With a sAmple size more than one case study, that have shown any possible causative relationship between zika and increased birth defects. This mythical zika theory is nothing more than a deflection from monsanto’s sister corporation, that recently began adding a toxic larvacide to the drinking water of certain regions in Brazil. The same regions where birth defects have been reported. I also believe thAt the global elite want to use fear of zika to gain public support and justification for releasing GM Mosquitos into south, central and North America. This process has already begun in Fresno California, with claims that these male only Mosquitos will help breed and kill off females. I suspect that maybe the oligarchical elite are genetically engineering Mosquitos, and conducting trial runs using zika as their excuse, in hopes of one day, releasing biological warfare, and infecting millions, if not billions of people on this planet through disease ridden Mosquitos. This may sound outlandish but when you consider the well known and discussed depopulation agendas, and annual meetings of the Rockefeller foundations, the bill and Melinda gates foundation, and the rothschilds interest in vaccines, and depopulation , it really isn’t all that crazy.
      Zika seems to I still fear in the Latino people, who are well known Catholics, many of which do not believe in birth control or abortions. I think maybe they’re using zika and risk of birth defects as a way to curb their rapid population growths, again contributing somewhat to depopulation objectives.
      The CDC is intrinsically tied and influenced by the global elite, and corporation owners, families like the rocker fellers and the rothschilds that have a vested financial interest In keeping the masses sick, lethargic, ignorant, dumbed down, apathetic. Overweight, and forever dependent on prescription medications. Vaccines are the easiest way to ensure that every single child born is predisposed to life long illnesses like diabetes, asthma, allergies, cognitive disorders, and autoimmune diseases, that are costly, and require expensive treatment interventions. It ensures lifelong customers and consumers. And many of these drugs hinder intellectual capacities, self awareness, consciousness, insight, and independent, critical thinking.
      Thereby securing the status quo, and allowing the 1% of the richest and most powerful people on this planet, to dictate, control, and manipulate the remaining 8 billion or so of us. We are all enslaved to the elite. Zombies that are distracted, dumbed down, drugged, and told what to think, believe, care about, worry about, and to obey.

      So even for the scientists At the CDC who may be cognizNt of what is really occurring. And why, they are likely too far indoctrinated into the machine to whistle blow or truly wake up and speak out. The media is completely regulated and censored by the elite, and we are only told small subsets of the truth, rarely, if ever. For the majority of the time e, we Are lied to, propagated, manipulated, and brainwashed into believing whatever they want us to. And most people are so disillusioned, and so far gone, when faced with the truth, reality, they fight it, dismiss it and slander anyone who believes it. It is far easier to fool a man, than k
      It is to convince him he has been fooled.

  4. It is hard for me to believe that our government and public health officials can be that ignorant–that is, to spray people with a toxic pesticide. There is no proof, as far as I know, that the zika virus is the cause of the cases of microcephaly.

    I would not be surprised if the next thing that happens is that there will be more cases of microcephaly, a vaccine will be developed, and the government will try to order everyone to be vaccinated (which will spread more disease).

  5. PLEASE CHECK OUT THE RULES CHANGE CONCERNING VACCINES IN THE SECOND HALF OF 2015 IN BRAZIL. THERE IS INFORMATION THAT THE MICROCEPHALY COULD BE A SIDE EFFECT OF A VACCINE. THE CDC ONLY DID A FEW MONTHS OF RESEARCH AND INVESTIGATION BEFORE DECLARING THE ZIKA VIRUS WAS CAUSING THE SEVERE FETAL BRAIN DEFECTS IN NEWBORNS.

  6. “The truth is, nobody knows how many vaccine victims there are in America, how many of the 1 in 6 learning disabled children; or the 1 in 9 with asthma; or the 1 in 100 who develop autism; or the 1 in 450 who become diabetic, can trace their chronic inflammation, disease and disability back to vaccine reactions that have been dismissed by public health officials and doctors for the past century as just “a coincidence.””

  7. In the Holy Bible, a section of verses come to mind. Look at Matthew 24:3-8. Deception is the first event mentioned. Seems to fit in our world.

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