Polio didn’t disappear the way you think it did.
— Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) February 11, 2026
Google why we no longer see crippled kids from polio. You’ll get one answer: vaccines.
But Dr. Suzanne Humphries says that’s not what the facts show—and when you dig into the history, the real story is jaw-dropping.
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00:00. Because you said polio, once you breach that . . . because that's the big one, all right, this is the one that everybody points to that we don't have crippled kids. When you look at the historical timeline of polio, what do you think caused it to go to essentially not being a problem anymore? You don't think vaccinations had anything to do with that?
00:24. Well, I also, it's not what I think, because that's the thing because when I got into this I didn't say, "Oh, I want to argue that vaccines are great." I said, "Look, I don't care, I didn't even have skin in the game. I didn't have vaccine injured kids. I couldn't have cared less about it essentially except that it was in front of me and it didn't make sense. So I thought wherever the truth falls, that's what I'm going to talk about. So what I say is that what the facts line up to show you is that polio is still here. Polio is still alive and well. Polio is called different things today, whereas back in the 1940s, 1950s the criteria for diagnosing polio we're completely different to the year that the vaccine was introduced. The playing field, the goal posts, everything was changed. So that despite the fact that there was more paralytic polio in the years after that vaccine was introduced, they were able to show complete cascading drop of paralytic polio simply because of the way they changed the definitions of what polio is and what could cause it. And they started testing for the virus, where before they were never tested for the virus. And when they started testing for the virus later what they would find that people had Guillain-Barre syndrome, they didn't have virus or they had a Coxsackie virus or echovirus or they were lead poisoned or Mercury poisoned, which was the . . . Mercury and Lead were the leading treatments of the day, including bloodletting. They were telling people to put . . . to take your cigarette and put a little arsenic in there. It's good for your lungs. Yes. They were literally blowing smoke up people's butts. That's where the term comes from. If you want to Google that now, you'll see that there's an instrument that does it.
2:00. Yeah the polio story where to even begin and so there is about 70 pages and so that became my obsession so when people say well what about polio and I started digging this up I went deep into it.
2:12. Did you dive into pesticides?
2:14. Yes yes you have to dive into pesticides because the tonnage of production of DDT absolutely mirrored the diagnosis for polio in the days and the countries that still make DDT today is where we're still seeing this paralytic polio situation happen.
2:29. And also weren't the first cases didn't they break out in a rural community?
2:33. The first cases of polio yes it was out in the countryside well that was probably more because of the Sheep and cow dipping so arsenic you have to look at arsenic you have to look at the mercurials you have to look at the calcium arsenate let arsenate spray that's put on trees but what you're talking about in particular was called the "cow disease." They would go out and the family when they would go to the house all the kids have the cow disease, what the cows had before. Well, what were they doing? They would have these trenches. You talk to farmers, even today, oh, yeah, we had trenches. We just walked them straight through, and I'd be soaked with the stuff by the end of the day. So they're basically soaking, bathing in Arsenic, which is great for killing fleas and ticks but it's not really great for keeping your nervous system happy. Because the fact of the matter is and again I've got medical references, everything . . . I can't get away with making stuff up, okay. I have to put a reference for everything. Ba t arsenic causes the exact same spinal pathology and fevers and everything that literally mimics what they were calling polio and a polio virus back in the day.
3:34. I read this crazy statistic and I still can't believe it's real that 95 to 99% of all polio is asymptomatic.
3:43. That's exactly right so poliovirus is what we call a commensal it's like you have staff on your skin and strep on your skin it actually serves a purpose it keeps other microbes in check as long as you don't get a cut and have not a good immune system to deal from the inside out the reason I can say that that polio is a commensal is because again there are medical studies that showed that people who dared to get on the edge of some of these wild native tribes down in South America or elsewhere but in particular I'm talking about the South American tribe called the Xavante Indian [from Brazil]. So the Indian Health Services got to the end of it in bargain that they would get some stool and some blood from the tribes. So that they could test it for polio, and what they found was 98% to 99% of every person they tested, and it was hundreds of people, had evidence of immunity to all three strains of polio and they said to them, "Well, where are all your crippled children? Where's the short legs? Where are the people that died of respiratory failure?" And they were like, "We don't have any of those problems," so it was well known . . .
4:45. Could it possibly be that whatever you're calling polio evolved and became less powerful over time and more contagious that does happen with some viruses right?
4:57. Most viruses in nature don't become more problematic as they go through the human system they become less problematic remember the whole covid thing like in the beginning people were getting super super sick it wasn't as contagious but it was more virulent and as it attenuated in human bodies it kind of fizzled out of it and then we got the Omicron which was it was more spreadable but it was much less pathological and that's the natural process that happens so when you're going to have real problems microbes they're going to be reverse attenuated meaning made more lethal in a lab and then they are introduced to the population and look I'm not making this stuff either in 1916 Upper East Side Manhattan there was a Rockefeller lab that their specific stated goal was to try to create the most pathological neuropathological 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 really freaked the public out and you can see the epicenter as it found out and as it found out and time went on never heard of it again it attenuates as it moved 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 if you have a highly lethal virus and it kills a lot of people those people are dead they can't spread anything so that's kind of a different story if you want to talk about hantavirus or something like that but 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 staff outbreaks poliovirus is the normal commensal it used to be until we obliterated it with oral vaccine and replace it with vaccines strain but the wild strains are normal human commensals.
7:04. So there are vaccine strain polio that just comes from a vaccine and is transmissible?
7:09. Absolutely.
