This reply needs some untangling.
While it's true that tonsillectomy has been linked to "significant risk of respiratory paralysis due to bulbar polio", the link with DDT has previously been debunked. It was actually the other way around- areas with high incidence of polio where treated with DDT when, in the beginning, it was thought that the disease might be transmitted by mosquitoes.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)61251-4/fulltext?code=lancet-site

https://www.google.nl/amp/s/vaxopedia.org/2017/10/19/is-there-a-ddt-polio-connection/amp/