As Henderson predicted, vaccine-derived poliovirus—a mutation of the virus contained in the oral vaccine—came back to bite Gates, and the unfortunate populations of the nations that submitted to his prescriptions. Indian doctors blame the Gates campaign for a devastating vaccine-strain epidemic of acute flaccid myelitis—a disease formerly classified as “polio”—that paralyzed 491,000 children in these provinces between 2000 and 2017, in direct proportion to the number of polio vaccines that Dr. Gates’s minions administered in each area.143
Non-Polio Acute Flaccid Paralysis (NPAFP) is “clinically indistinguishable from polio but twice as deadly,”144 according to Keith Van Haren, child neurologist at the Stanford School of Medicine. Van Haren explains that Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM) is a polite term for polio: “It actually looks just like polio, but that term really freaks out the publichealth people.”145
In 2012, the British Medical Journal wryly noted that polio eradication in India “has been achieved by renaming the disease.”146
That year, the disillusioned Indian government dialed back Gates’s vaccine regimen and evicted Gates’s cronies and PIs from the NAB. Polio paralysis rates dropped precipitously.147 After squandering half of its total budget on the polio epidemic—at Gates’s direction—the WHO reluctantly admitted that the global polio explosion is predominantly vaccine strain, meaning it is happening because of Gates’s vaccine program. The most frightening epidemics in Congo, the Philippines, and Afghanistan are all linked to the vaccines he promoted. Polio had disappeared altogether from each of those nations until Gates reintroduced the dreaded disease with his vaccine.
In Syria, the Gates-backed GAVI committed $25 million for polio immunization in 2016.148 The following year, the WHO reported that fifty-eight Syrian children had been paralyzed by the vaccine-derived form of the virus.149
Other vaccine-strain polio outbreaks occurred in China, Egypt, Haiti, and Malaysia. A study by Oxford’s Clinical Infectious Diseases Periodical found that Gates’s oral polio vaccine is not only giving kids polio, but also “seems to be ineffective in stopping polio transmission.” By 2018, the WHO conceded, 70 percent of global polio cases came from Gates’s vaccines.150
As the British Medical Journal reported in 2012, “the most recent mass polio vaccination programs [in India], fueled by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, resulted in increased cases [of polio].”151
In an interview with NPR, professor of microbiology Raul Andino said, “It’s actually an interesting conundrum. The very tool you are using for polio eradication is causing the problem.”152
Dr. Henderson argued that Gates’s futile campaign would strip money from other areas of need, forcing nations to prioritize polio immunization at the expense of other public health investments. Arthur Caplan, an eminent bioethicist and a polio vaccine fanatic who himself suffered from polio as a child, also criticized Gates’s obsession with polio eradication, pointing out that “government budgets and resources in poor nations are diverted from other far more pressing local problems to try and capture the last marginal cases.”153
Donald Henderson observes that only Western nations (and billionaires like Gates) consider eliminating the disease as a priority. Polio kills far fewer people in developing regions than scourges such as malaria, TB, malnutrition, and the greatest killer: dysentery from deficient water supplies. When Gates first floated his dream of eradicating polio, developing nations feared a diversion of resources towards an area where the money was least warranted. 154
“When you’re doing polio, you’re not doing other things,” Henderson says. “At least through 2011, in several countries—Nigeria, India, and Pakistan—they were giving polio vaccines.”155 “In 2012, there were only 223 reported cases of polio worldwide. . . . By any measure, polio is not one of the world’s greatest killers. Road accidents, for example, kill about 1.25 million people each year. Measles kills about 150,000 children each year.”156 “A number of villagers say, ‘What is polio? We’ve never seen it—why are we worried about it?’”157
Rather than provoking reevaluation, Henderson’s concern seems to infuriate Gates. “I’ve got to get my D. A. Henderson response down better,”158 Gates mumbled to one of his aides in 2011 after the New York Times editorial board interviewed him during his transglobal trek soliciting rich and poor governments to ratchet up their commitment to his polio enterprise. A reporter overheard and reported Gates’s whispered comment. That response suggests that he is aware of the criticism by the man most knowledgeable about eradicating diseases. Instead of integrating Henderson’s critique into his strategy or executing a mid-course correction, Gates treated Henderson’s caveats as a marketing challenge and lumbered onward. His imperviousness to self-assessment allows him to treat the hundreds of thousands of casualties of his policies as acceptable collateral damage in his self-serving schemes for humanity.
Gates’s strategic investments have made him immune to criticism by the media and the scientific community, and so, despite these atrocities, the Gates Foundation steers WHO like a rogue destroyer floundering forward full speed ahead through the mayhem, and the carnage of dead and paralyzed children whose ruined lives bob in their wake. In 2020, the BMGF boasted that the WHO is now providing “unprecedented levels of technical assistance” for polio vaccination campaigns in Nigeria, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.159
HPV Vaccine
In 2009 and 2012, the Gates Foundation funded tests of experimental HPV vaccines, developed by Gates’s partners GSK and Merck, on 23,000 girls 11–14 years old in remote provinces of India. These experiments were part of Gates’s effort to bolster those companies’ sketchy claims that HPV vaccines protect women against cervical cancer that might develop in old age.160 Gates and his foundation have large investments in both companies.161 162 Since deaths from cervical cancer occur on average at age 58 in the United States and affect only 1/40,000 women, and since virtually all these deaths are preventable with early detection by Pap smears, any vaccine given to young girls to prevent the low risk of preventable death half a century from now ought to be 100 percent safe—and this vaccine isn’t even close.