Government
health organisations and big pharmaceuticals are quick to tell the world it is
due to vaccinations that the numbers of disease in the population have fallen,
when in fact you are better off thanking a plumber.
Before
plumbing was commonplace, the average 'sanitation' station in a house consisted
of a basin and a jug to fill with water, human waste was disposed of wherever
possible. The rates of death and disease during these times were incredibly
high.
Life
expectancy was no better than middle age and outbreaks such as the The Black
Plague were commonplace, wiping out huge swathes of the population at once. The
Black Plague alone killed 75 million – 200 million people, around 1/3 of
Europe’s population.
Polio in India
Polio
is known to thrive in fecal matter, and is found in areas where sanitation is
poor. Immunization efforts have taken credit for making the country “polio
free” as deemed by the World Health Organization. However in 2009, India
reported 762 cases of polio, the highest in the world at that time. Since 2014,
there are no “official” documented cases of polio, but without proper
sanitation this is sure to change.
India
has a population of 1.2 billion, making it the second most populous country in
the world. Currently, 780 million Indians do not have a toilet; 96 million
Indians do not have access to clean drinking water.
The
efforts to improve sanitation in the area has been eclipsed by the effort to
vaccinate instead, trying to fix the problem rather than prevent it. Over 9
billion has been spent in a vaccination campaign, and in some parts of India
children have received as many as 30 doses of the oral polio vaccine before
they turn 5. Vaccines are being pushed on people who don't even have access to
safe drinking water by the Bill Gates Foundation, the World Health
Organization, and GAV.
The
current vaccine situation has been met with anger after 53,000 cases of NPAFP,
a non-polio acute flaccid paralysis, occurred in those who had been vaccinated.
NPAFP is a disease that is clinically indistinguishable from polio but has
double the death rate. As the rates of vaccines went up and down, the cases of
NPAFP matched it.It would be a much better solution to spend money on better
sanitation rather than trying to paper over the cracks by handing out these
dangerous vaccines.
“In the past 13 months,
India has reported 53,563 cases of NPAFP at a national rate of 12 per 100,000
children—way above the global benchmark set by WHO of 2 per 100,000.” – Jan, 13
2014 quote from LiveMint Newpaper, the second largest business newspaper in
India. ”
Cholera in Victorian London
Enlightenment
about sanitation came to England in 1854 when an area of London was subject to
an outbreak of cholera that claimed the lives of 500 in just 10 days. Dr. John
Snow, who lived near the effected area investigated the outbreak and quickly
found the reason behind it.
Five
years earlier he had written a paper in which he expressed his thoughts that
disease was able to travel through dirty water, although this was shot down by
his peers who at that time believed that bad vapors, or a “miasma in the
atmosphere” caused disease.But this time he had proof that he was right.
He
traced the outbreak back to single water pump on Broad Street which all of the
victims had used, and after he persuaded the local authorities to remove the
handle of the pump, the cases stopped immediately. Because of this discover,
Dr. John Snow is regarded as the father of epidemiology.
Prevention, not cure
The
evidence for clean water being a better way to eradicate diseases such as
cholera is overwhelming, yet in some of the poorest parts of the world vaccines
produced by big pharmaceuticals are taking the credit. The problem needs to be
stopped before it happens, rather than money being spent on 'cures'.
While
the medical professionals take comfort in thinking they are reducing disease
with their vaccines, we know the real hero is the plummer.
Source : organiclifestylemagazine.com