Manhattan's population in 1916 was ~ 5 million.
WHAT?
— Liz Churchill (@liz_churchill10) March 26, 2025
“In 1916 there was a Rockefeller Lab that had a specific stated goal to CREATE the most neuropathological strain of Polio possible…which was released to the public by ‘accident’ and the World experienced the WORST polio epidemic ever…” pic.twitter.com/yvHtoZ9iZP
00:00. I would have to say that the polio bunny trail was the darkest one of all. I'm not making this up either. In 1916, in Upper East Side Manhattan, there was a Rockefeller Lab [whose] specific stated goal was to try to create the most pathological, neuro-pathological strain of polio possible. And they did that by taking monkey brains and human spinal serum and injecting it into monkeys and there was a big problem with that . . . which was released into the public "by accident," and the world experienced the worst polio epidemic on record. 25% mortality, that's unheard of.
Wikipedia corroborates this,
The overall mortality rate throughout the city was estimated to be about 25%, and the disease left many more paralyzed.
Really freaked the public out, but as it, and as you can see the epicenter as it fanned out, and as it fanned out and as time went on, never heard of it again. It attenuates as it moves through the body because it's a normal human commensal that goes back to its normal state when it's in a human, and that's generally what happens. As far as polio goes, no, polio is only made more lethal by the stupid things that humans did around it to make it more invasive into the body. Just like you can go do stupid things and end up with herpes outbreaks and, you know, staff outbreaks. Polio virus is a normal commensal. It used to be until we obliterated it with oral vaccines and replaced it with vaccine strains, but the wild strains are normal human commensals.
01:20. So there's a vaccine strain of polio that just comes from a vaccine and is transmissible?
01:26. Absolutely.
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