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How about………you know how it’s fashionable these days to blame leaky gut for everything, well maybe something changed in the environment to increase leaky gut and so the virus became more likely to enter the body/blood stream and nervous system? So some elements of pesticide theory could go along with that. Or are we assuming the virus did a natural GOF experiment?

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This would be on the right track - looking at the host and how the host is changing biologically due to technology. Some type of microbiome change does seem to be required to explain why diphtheria suddenly became such a big problem, though this started in the 1860s

What I would add about leaky gut though is that it is at odds with the common observance that kids affected by polio were often hale and fit in every other manner. This is the same problem that goes for the toxin theory - if they are being poisoned by food / gut, then they should look like they are being poisoned.

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