Prof F.D. Adu stirred the hornest nest when he painted Prof. Abdulkareem's presenation of the subject in a bad light.

ON page 16 of "ThisDay" newspaper of Thursday, January 15, 2004, Professor F.D. Adu, under the title: "Polio vaccine: The great deception", went to town to paint an unfortunate, ugly picture of my presentation to the public lecture organised by the Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria, Lagos State branch. In his article, Professor Adu promised, at the beginning "to throw some light" on the nature and type of vaccines, how they are made, tested and certified for use". Professor Adu failed woefully to "throw some light" on any of these areas.

Instead, he attempted to intimidate the public by his office of "Consultant Virologist" and Director of WHO Polio Laboratory Department of Virology, College of Medicine at the University of Ibadan. The problem at hand has gone beyond an individual Virologist, however brilliant he thinks he is or even beyond the World Health Organisation (WHO) because of the WHO's track records in this area. In my public lecture, I advised my listeners to ask doctors and others involved, for the benefits and the risks in polio vaccine immunisation before subjecting their children and wards to the administration of the vaccines. However, now that Professor Adu has forced words out of my mouth, I shall have to talk.

In this presentation, I shall refer to seven areas where our learned Professor of Virology has employed a huge Virological deception on our people so as to confuse issues and to claim to be the "apostle" of the people. The seven areas are:

*Commencement of Polio Vaccine Immunisation

*Nigeria as the Number One Polio Reservoir

*Oral Polio Vaccine and HIV-AIDS

*The two types of polio vaccines

*Vaccine-Associated Polio Paralysis

*Nigeria, Polio Vaccine and Infertility Hormones

*The Great Crime of Professor F.D. Adu

Commencement of polio vaccine immunisation

Our learned Professor of Virology stated: "In 1988, when the programme was first started, poliomyelitis was endemic in 125 countries in five continents with an estimated 350,000 cases annually. By the year 2002, this has been reduced to only seven countries". Professor Adu deliberately left out essential historical facts so as to mislead the nation.

It was in April of 1954 that polio immunisation campaigns, directed at school children, started in the U.S.A. By 1959, more than 100 countries of the world were already using Dr. Jonas Salk's Inactivated Polio Vaccine(IPV). Then, in early 1960s, Dr. Albert Sabin's Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) replaced Dr. Salk's IPV. This replacement became necessary because Dr. Salk's vaccine was found to be causing even more polio cases on those children vaccinated. Thus, Dr. Jonas Salk's vaccine actually caused more cases of Polio in several states of USA as the following table shows:

No State No. of Polio No. of Polio Percentage

Cases Before Cases one Year Increase

Vaccination After Vaccination

1 Vermont 15 55 266 per cent 2 Rhode Island 22 122 454 per cent 3 New Hamphshire 38 129 240 per cent

4 Connecticut 144 276 100 per cent

5 Massachusetts 273 2 027 642 per cent

In 1976, Dr. Jonas Salk testified that the OPV of Dr Albert Sabin was the principal cause of polio injuries and deaths since 1961. This testimony which will be found in the Washington Post of September 24, 1976 reads in part as follows: "That the live-virus vaccine (OPV of Dr. Sabin) used from 1960 was the principal, if not the sole cause of all reported adverse cases of Polio in the USA since 1961". Thus, both types of polio vaccines were very unsafe for humans, especially children.

Consequently in 1986, the United States Congress officially acknowledged the reality of polio vaccine-caused injuries and deaths by formulating and passing The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (Public Law 99-660)". Three relevant portions of this legal act are:

*Doctors should provide parents with information on the benefits and risks of childhood vaccines.

*Vaccine-induced injuries and deaths should be reported to USA Federal Health Officials. For this purpose, "Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)" was set up and was to be directed by Center For Disease Control (CDC) and by Food and Drug Administration(FDA).

*A Congressional Fund was set up to compensate parents of children who were hurt or killed by Polio Vaccines.

Therefore, it is wicked for a learned Professor of Virology such as Professor Adu to use "virological deception" to claim in a newspaper article that' "the oral polio vaccine is one of the safest vaccines ever produced", and that "both vaccines are very safe".

Nigeria as the number one polio reservoir

Our learned Professor of Virology claimed, without a scientific evidence that: Out of the 447 wild polio virus all over the world as of October 2003, Nigeira contributed 260, representing a percentage close to sixty".

Then, three days after that article was published in ThisDay Newspaper by Professor Adu, a corrected view titled: "Corrected: World Health Body confirms new polio cases" appeared in Sunday Punch of 18/1/2004 part of which is as follows: "Over 650 cases were reported in 2003, Nigeria topping the list with 300, followed by India with 214 and Pakistan with 96". That correction was possibly necessitated by the claim of Professor Adu that 260 wild polio virus strains and 300 polio cases occur in Nigeria. Thus, suggesting that almost every polio case is linked genetically to a wild virus strain! Haba! Professor of Virology, please take it easy!

According to Professor Adu, the world had 350,000 cases of polio in 1988, 1000 cases in the year 2002 and 650 cases in year 2003 while the wild polio strains show the reverse by increasing to the extent of 447 wild polio virus strains in the world. These are two independent issues which the Professor of Virology should be honest enough to explain to the public. In the first case, Professor Adu's claim that in the past 10 years, over 200 million children have received the OPV and are successfully protected against poliomyelitis is not supported by any scientific data relating the decrease in polio cases to the vaccines received. Rather, sound scientific research has shown that the polio disease has an in-built mechanism where the natural antibodies help in the reduction of the disease in the absence of a polio vaccine. Many scientists have stated that there is no credible scientific evidence that the polio vaccine caused polio to decrease or disappear.

Indeed, before Salk's IPV, the polio death rate in the United States and in England had already declined on its own by 47 per cent and by 55 per cent respectively. Statistics show a similar decline in other European countries before any polio vaccine was developed. Competent researchers in this field have concluded that the small percentage of people who develop paralytic polio may be anatomically susceptible to the disease while the vast remainder of the population may be naturally immune to the polio germ. Consequently, in the year 2002, Miller produced dependable data on polio cases in Great Britain and in the USA over the years, to show the complete ineffectiveness of the two types of polio vaccines on the disease profiles from these two countries as shown below:

The second issue is the increase in the new strains of the wild polio virus. Professor Adu should be informed that the new emerging strains derive from their own imported vaccines simply by genetic mutation because of the way the vaccines are handled. This was observed and reported by competent researchers since 1983 and a lot of work has been done in this area. Polio epidemics and outbreaks caused by vaccine-derived wild polio virus strains were already observed in Egypt, Dominican Republic, Haiti, etc and if our Professor of Virology shows ignorance of this area, let him refer to the following publications: Virology of 1993, vol.196; Lancet of Oct 28,2000 and even in Reuters Medical News of December 2000.

Therefore, Professor Adu and his collaborators should be held responsible for the wild polio virus strains occurring in Nigeria from the way they handle their own imported vaccines. They should also be held responsible for the spread of these wild virus strains to neighbouring West African countries of Benin Republic, Cameroun, Ghana, etc. Professor Adu and his team should also be held responsible for any epidemic or outbreak of poliomyelitis that may occur anywhere in Nigeria due to their accumulated vaccine-derived wild polio virus strains. Finally, the National Assembly Committee on Health must invite Professor Adu to state the origins and the dates of discovery of the 447 wild polio virus strains of the world.

In the case of the 260 wild polio virus strains which he claimed for Nigeria, Professor Adu must be invited to inform us of the dates, the places of occurrence, including the wards in the particular local government area as well as the possible genetic mutation that led to the development of each of these strains.

Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) and HIV-AIDS

Professor Adu stated: "OPV does not pose and has never posed a risk of transmitting the AIDS virus or any related human virus".

This statement from an African Professor of Virology indicates one of two things. It is either that the Professor is trying to protect his job with the World Health Organisation (WHO) as a Director and a Consultant Virologist and thus serve as "his Master's voice" or the Professor is not well informed about this area of study. Whatever the reason, let the Professor of Virology be informed that from 1959, when Bernice Eddy first discovered in the USA, a cancer-causing agent in polio vaccines being administered throughout the world, followed the following year by a confirmation of Eddy's findings by Drs. Ben Sweet and M.R. Hilleman of Germany and up till last year (2003)'s comprehensive review by Brian Martin titled: "Investigating the origin of AIDS: Some Ethical Dimensions", hundreds of well researched scientific publications have appeared on this issue. The two major contaminating viruses in polio vaccines were and still are the DNA virus known as SV4O and RNA virus known as HIV. The first causes cancer of the brain, bones, lungs etc,in humans, while the second is responsible for AIDS. Indeed, in 1996, Dr. Howard Umoritz of Berkely, California speaking at an AIDS conference, revealed that up to 26 different monkey viruses might have been contaminants in the original Dr. Jonas Salk's polio vaccine (IPV). Therefore, the matter can no longer be swept under the carpet by US Public Health Service, or by WHO or by other "leading medical authorities". Our Professor of Virology should please consult modern literature on this subject, at least for the sake of the Nigerian child, if not for the sake of humanity.

The two types of polio vaccines

In one of his derogatory remarks against my public address on polio vaccines, Professor Adu stated: "Quoting incidents of 1954 or 1960s in 2003 is a fact that one is not current or has not done enough literature review or has just decided to deliberately mislead people". Earlier in the same paragraph, Professor Adu wrote: "The polio vaccines are of two types. Both vaccines are very safe".

First type of polio vaccine: This is Salk's Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV) first developed in 1952 by Dr. Jonas Salk.

Second Type of polio vaccine: This is Sabin's live-virus (oral) polio vaccine (OPV) first developed in 1957 by Dr. Albert Sabin.

Why did Professor Adu approve and refer to the polio vaccines developed in 1950s? Why did he not refer to Prof. Adu's polio vaccine developed in 2003 or even 2004? The relevant point here is that any serious scientist will not neglect or overlook important historial events because he wants to show that he is current and brilliant!

When first developed, these polio vaccines contained several contaminating viruses for three reasons: The first reason is the method employed at that time for their preparation. The polio virus had to be passed through monkey kidneys, then weakened or killed with formaldehyde or even used as a live-virus and finally strengthened with adjuvants (antibody boosters) and chemical stabilizers of which there are about ten different chemical agents. The second reason is that monkey kidney contains more than 25 different viruses which could be injurious to man. The third reason is because virus detection techniques were crude and unreliable during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s when polio vaccines were 'initially produced, dispensed and administered to human beings, especially children.

Biochemically, no biological organism can enjoy an independent biological existence except both types of nucleic acids --DNA and RNA -- are present. A virus is either a DNA virus or an RNA virus. It is for this reason that earlier workers in this area, had to use ten different chemical compounds as stabilizers and adjuvants (antibody boasters). If Professor Adu has achieved the growth of "very pure RNA polio virus" without the use of any chemical stabilizers, adjuvants and cell line treatments such as monkey kidneys, chick embryos, human diploid cells, 'with 'this exciting, careful scientific manipulations," he should simply and honestly inform the public with the details.

"Third" type of polio vaccine.

Professor Adu failed to inform the public on why Dr. Hilary Koprowski's vaccine did not become the third type of vaccine. In March 1951, Dr. Hilary Koprowski announced, boastfully at a Medical Conference that he had become the first doctor in history to test a polio vaccine on human beings. For this programme, Dr Koprowski made use of thousands of mentally disturbed African children in early 1950s or even before. However, it was from 1957 to 1960 that Dr. Hilary Koprowski carried out a most wicked experiment in administering his polio vaccines on 350,000 unsuspecting Africans in Central Africa. This was wicked because in 1959, Dr. Albert Sabin reported in the British Medial Journal that Koprowski's polio vaccine used in the Central African trials contained an "unidentified cell-killing" virus. It was not until 1960 that Koprowski's vaccine was disapproved for human use after more than 350,000 Africans, mostly children, had been administered in Congo, Rwanda and Burundi.