I was wrong about this. Another mistake I made on the Rogan show. Let the trolls know. It wasn't 20,000 cats killed in 1916 due to paranoia about them spreading polio. It was 72,000 cats+ around 8000 dogs. https://t.co/oZVJh0Nt5G
— Dr Suzanne Humphries (@DrSuzanneH7) May 21, 2026
And that's the part that people don't understand. When they say, "What about polio?" because they, like you, just go "Well, there's no more iron lungs. There's no more crippling. There's no more poor little kids walking around with their cats." Well, that's not true, because the iron lung is now called a ventilator. So that's out the window. Transverse myelitis, which there are about 1300 cases a month diagnosed, in one particular . . . I put a quote in here on that, but transverse myelitis is actually something that would have absolutely . . . it follows the same pathology as polio. It would have been called polio back in the day. So we still have polio that we had in 1953, because in 1953 all you had to have to be diagnosed with polio, anyone could diagnose you, just one examination with one set of muscles being paralyzed. There was no time frame on it. There was no testing done on it, and then it was considered a public service to do it because then you were eligible for funding.
1:00. Polyomyelitis is the definition of the actual pathology. It basically means inflammation of the gray matter of your spinal cord. That's what polio in Greek, poliomyelitis. It means gray matter inflammation. Poliomyelitis is what happens in the body. If you want to talk about what causes it then okay maybe in some cases a polio virus causes it and all the other things we just mentioned arsenic, calcium arsenate, injections. Tonsillectomies were huge cause are some of the worst cases of poliomyelitis, and, in fact, injections, and tonsillectomies, and unnecessary surgeries were put on hold during the years where the epidemic were the worst. So that's just proof that even the surgeons knew that.
1:47. Why has it affected?
1:50. Okay so if you happened to have polio myelitis circulating in your body that's not just sitting in your intestines, and say it made its way into your body, we can, things can go from your intestines into your body, and you happen to have it close to a nerve that's say up around your throat and then you go and take your tonsils out, then what you've done is you've given that access to the blood compartment, the lymph compartment, and the brainstem, which is right there, local. So that is what people who would get Bulbar Polio which is the one that would put you on a ventilate it's highly lethal it's the worst kind of polio to get Bulbar polio and it was very well known to have been coincidence with tonsillectomies not only that but tonsillectomies change the structure the antibodies and the immunity that occurred in the throat and it changed it for the worse not for the better. Everybody's got their two vaccines they're two diseases that they are afraid of for the kid that makes them feel like they're at least doing something.
2:48. Well, the polio one always gets thrown in my face. They say it all the time.
What about polio?
I don't have the time to do this. Read the book. To explain to someone the whole DDT connection, and the fact that livestock was getting polio like this is a thing. Like polio, dogs don't get polio. They don't get human-derived polio. It doesn't cross species. But they were getting paralytic polio symptoms, because they were getting poisoned by DDT, right? That was a big part of the whole thing that was very confusing.
3:22. Well they started killing dogs in New York and that incident so told you about what the vaccine that gain a function strain skate people were throwing their cats out the window or something like 20,000 cats in New York City were killed during that time because there was a belief the cats bred the disease.
3:42. That's so crazy and it was a mutant man-made virus the man-made virus thing
It was a wound up made virus basically it was a natural virus that got wound up by . . .
3:58. So no I didn't have apprehension . . . I was like, this information, the US Polio Surveillance Unit Charts were supposed to be available in libraries. And lo and behold, every Library I went to to find them I was told they're not here. There's only one Library, the AMA Library you have to have special high security clearance to look at them well I won't say how but I got a hold of them and what those documents showed is that it wasn't just cutter Laboratories that had a problem with live polio it wasn't just all the vaccine companies we didn't talk about this but all the vaccine companies had a problem with live virus in their injectable vaccines during sulks years so 1954, 1955, up to 1959, they all were producing vaccines with live virus in it because Salk wouldn't listen to the scientist abroad who was saying his inactivation curve was . . . Where the sun doesn't shine.
So the beginning of that and just tracking all that down and asking the questions that you asked where did the polio go what was really causing the paralysis why don't we see it today and I had to answer all those questions and every question I answered it was so satisfying that I just wanted to go on to the next question and so there was never any hesitation because I just actually I was so single-minded that I didn't think about the threats that could happen as a result of that and it wasn't until after the book was out that the threats and I'm still here look I figured if anybody wants to do me in and now then the timing is really bad because this is pretty much out there now.
5:30. It's been out there for a while. The Jonah Salk thing was also wild. I thought Jonah Salk was this genius who created this incredible virus to save humanity.
Yeah so did I.
5:40. So many of our childhood fables turn out not to be true but that was a big one and it's still hard for a lot of people to believe . . .
Rising from the Dead, Suzanne Humphries, 2016.
