Today I saw this Washington Post article:

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A mysterious polio-like illness that paralyzes people may be surging this year
By Dan Hurley September 21
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/09/21/a-mysterious-polio-like-illness-that-paralyzes-people-may-be-surging-this-year/
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In reading the above article, I noticed that they never once discuss the possibility that it might actually be polio, except to say that a couple of doctors recently wanted tests for polio done on their patients. They don't mention whether those tests were actually done. Then I remembered the following article from a couple of months ago:

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How The CDC Made 30,000 Diagnoses Of Polio Instantly Disappear
Posted on July 5, 2015 - Natural Health News

The graph [see article] is from the Ratner report (1), the transcript of a 1960 panel sponsored by the Illinois Medical Society, on which sat three PhD statisticians and an MD, met to discuss the problems with the ongoing polio vaccination campaign.

The polio vaccine was licensed in the U.S. in 1954. From 1950 thru 1955, the striped and clear portions of the bars represent about 85% of the reported cases, or 30,000 per year, on average. Those cases were automatically eliminated by two radical changes the CDC made to the diagnostic parameters and labeling protocol of the disease as soon as the vaccine was licensed – 30,000 cases a year we were subsequently told were eliminated by the vaccine.

That success, held aloft as a banner of the industry, is an illusion. The CDC has an awesome power of control over public perception, sculpting it from behind closed doors in Atlanta, with the point of a pen.

Over the last sixty years in the U.S., more than a million cases of what would have been diagnosed as polio pre-vaccine – same symptoms – were given different labels.[emphasis mine -MrF]

The change didn’t stop there, however. As addressed in the Ratner report, they also changed the definition of a polio epidemic, greatly reducing the likelihood that any subsequent outbreaks would be so labeled – as though the severity, or noteworthiness, of paralytic polio had halved, overnight.

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http://www.naturalblaze.com/2015/07/the-cdc-made-these-two-radical-changes.html#sthash.lT6XiX1V.dpuf