Dear Governor Pataki 

I write to you as a concerned parent in New Zealand in support of Dr Rebecca Carly. I have heard online that, your Office of Professional Medical Conduct is trying to misuse psychiatry to silence Dr.Rebecca Carley,MD who is expressing her medical judgment that vaccines can be dangerous.  

An enlightened government should not be trying to censor these statements or create an environment in which doctors are forced to self censor themselves out of fear of the medical regulatory authorities. 

I would like to point out that although medical authorities and pharmaceutical companies alike, would like it if parents didn't question they're products and just injected our children without question, that their are now huge communities globally online that are information sharing and becoming enlightened to see propaganda for what it is. 

For example the other day I read in a BBC report that the British health authorities stated that the MMR vaccine is mandatory in New Zealand. Well that is a lie.... Vaccination in New Zealand , thank God, is by choice. With the internet we find the lies in the propaganda. 

With the internet we the parents can find Dr Andrew Wakefields latest finding in his research. Dr Wakefield was pushed out of his job at London Royal Free, (another Dr Victim) because in studying children with Autism who had a bowel disease also, he discovered Measles Virus in the lesion tissue in their bowel... In the last few days it has been announced that the leading pathologist Dr O'Leary, who is working with Dr Wakefield has discovered that it is indeed the same strain of measles virus found in the MMR vaccine as in the children's bowel tissue and has also been now been found in their spinal fluid.

I can get that information quicker online than a Dr like Dr Carly to get it or give it, even if I did live in New York. 

Why persecute this woman for sharing information that any person anywhere in the world is now getting from the internet.

For every Dr Carley or Dr Andrew Wakefield who has the strength to tell the truth about their findings and research or present both the pros and cons of any medication...there are now hundreds of thousands of parents globally with vaccine damaged children and enlightened parents with unvaccinated children, who are all in contact with each other.. supporting them. 

You can't stop it by silencing one doctor ! 

I would be more worried in your mandated vaccine country, that the autism rates have escalated to as high as 1 in 250 in some states. Autism is probably a bigger epidemic than anything your vaccinating for. Perhaps the reason for that should be thought about, rather than how to silence Dr's for giving information that the public already has via the internet. 

Yours sincerely 

Aly Dodson-Cook
Parent
New Zealand

From www.trufax.org Vaccines are toxic.
Vaccines contain substances poisonous to humans (i.e. mercury,formaldehyde, aluminum, etc.). Vaccine package inserts contain this and other information required by law to be disclosed to the public.Although these inserts are produced for people, doctors do not give them to their pa-tients. Vaccines are grown on and contain foreign tissue and altered genetic material of human and animal origin. Vaccination (injecting vaccines) depresses and disables brain and immune function. Honest scientific investigation has linked vaccination as a cause of many illnesses including: Sudden Infant death Syndrome (aka crib or cot death) development disorders (autism, seizures, mental retarda-tion, hyperactivity, dyslexia, etc.) immune deficiency (i.e. "AIDS", Epstein-Barre Syndrome, etc.) degenerative disease (i.e.muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, arthritis, cancer, leukemia, etc.) The high rate of vaccine damage reactions is being ignored and denied by the conventional medicine. Prior to 1990, doctors were not legally obligated to report "adverse" reactions to the Center for Disease Control. Damage reactions are considered "normal", are ignored, or diagnosed as other diseases. Even with this poor "system" reported damage is substantial. Despite their current legal obligation, only 10% of doctors report the damage they see to the CDC. Throughout history, many prominent medical and non-medical health professionals around the world have voiced their vehement opposition to vaccination calling it scientific fraud.

Mass vaccination programs systematically and recklessly endanger the public while disregard-ing our rights. Vaccination breaks the skin and so is technically a surgery. All surgeries by law requires fully informed consent. Informed consent is almost never gotten before vaccination is done. Most doctors vaccinate the unwitting and uninformed. They do not even give the vaccine manufacturers' package inserts (patient info sheets) which contain biased industry claims and the bare minimum required by law to reveal. Double-talk and unethical enforcement like threat, duress and coercion are used to ensure vaccination compliance.

There is a lack of Safety & Efficacy studies on vaccine damage. There are no control group studies. Authorities consider that "to not vaccinate" is unethical and so have refused to study unvaccinated volunteers. If control studies were done according to honest science, vaccination would be outlawed. Studies which have been done are not designed to estimate or eliminate the examiners bias. Authorities who compile and report disease statistics work closely with and have a vested interest in companies which produce the vaccines. In other industries, this kind of bias is not tolerated. Injuries and deaths in these studies are attributed to anything but vaccination to skew the results and make it appear that vaccines have some merit or at least could have some merit.

Laws allow drug companies to violate the public trust. In private vaccine damage law suits information is revealed condemning vaccines as deadly. Vaccine manufacturers use "gag orders" as a leverage tool in vaccine damage legal settlements to restrict the plaintiff from disclosing to the public the truth about the dangerous nature of vaccines. The government has not yet seen fit to disallow tactics like this which are antiethical to public welfare.  The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1987 is a pacifier. This compensation program pretends to acknowledge the existence of vaccine damage and right the wrongs done. It attempts to compensate the wrong but does nothing to avert it. This act is the result of vaccine producers pres-suring the government to "immunize" them from private lawsuits, which can run an average of $4 million per case. The fund is made up of tax added into the cost to the consumer of each vaccine, thereby making vaccine consumers pay for one another's and perhaps their own injury; the vaccine companies have made themselves quite "immune" from accountability.

Private insurance companies, which do the best liability studies, have totally abandoned coverage for damage to life and property due to: acts of God nuclear war & nuclear power plant accidents vaccination. Vaccination is not emergency medicine. It is claimed that vaccines avert a future risk yet people are pressured to decide on the spot. A doctor's use of fear to force compliance is not ethical. Vaccines are serious drugs with serious damage reactions. Time and forethought should be given before a decision is made. There is no law enforcing vaccination for babies or anyone else. Vaccination is linked with school attendance and is not compulsory. Exemptions from vaccination, although restricted and monitored, are part of every state public health law and can be expanded by public pressure. Departments of Health, of Education, and the American Medical Association personal profit from the sale of vaccines. They keep the existence of and details about exemptions relatively unknown.
 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4336182,00.html

A pox on vaccines

Parents who refuse to have children immunised are regarded as dangerous
cranks - in defiance of the facts

Anne Karpf
Guardian

Wednesday January 16, 2002


We call it propaganda when governments peddle "facts" which are demonstrably untrue. And yet the claim that without vaccination measles is a stalking killer is disseminated by both the Department of Health and most medical journalists, despite strong counter-evidence. In 1976, Professor Thomas McKeown, investigating trends in mortality, compared declining death-rates from infectious diseases with medical interventions since the cause of death was first registered in 1838. He found that immunisation had no significant effect on the trend of the death-rate from measles, which had fallen to a low level before mass vaccination was introduced, because of major improvements in sanitation and nutrition. So too had morbidity, the incidence of the disease.

Those of us who haven't had our children vaccinated aren't cranky obsessives or zealous Jehovah's Witnesses. On the contrary, we're mostly pretty well-informed, as you have to be if you refuse the orthodoxy of vaccination. We do so for two main reasons, neither of them specifically to do with autism, which most people would agree is dreadful but only affects a small number of children.

The first, and most shocking one, is that vaccination simply can't sustain the claims made for it. In the US immunisation rates are as high as 98% is some areas, and yet there are still regular measles epidemics. The Centres for Disease Control in Atlanta found that 80% of measles cases in 1985 occurred in children who had been vaccinated, while a 1987 outbreak affected  a secondary school more than 99% of whose pupils had had live measles vaccine. In Italy there were just 10 deaths from measles between 1989-91, even though they had only 40% coverage from the vaccine. In the following two years coverage from the vaccine grew, as did deaths from measles (to 28). So much for "herd immunity".

Second, we believe that in the case of infectious diseases, Pasteur's germ theory has been oversold. Pasteur, Robert Koch and others focused on the bacteria that caused infections, which medicine then tried to zap. Most anti-vaccinators argue that the host, ie the body, is as important as the infecting germ. Starting from a quite different paradigm, they prefer to nourish the body's own immune system, which vaccination (they maintain) impairs.

Opponents of immunisation feel vindicated by epidemiology, for measles isn't a disease that strikes randomly unless routed by vaccination. On the contrary, it turns out to be depressingly class-conscious and poverty-aware. Those most debilitated by it are the least well fed - there's a tragic synergy between malnutrition and infectious diseases. According to a 1973 World Health Organisation report, "ordinary measles or diarrhea - harmless and short-lived diseases among well fed children - are usually serious and often fatal to the chronically malnourished.

"Before vaccines existed, practically every child in all countries caught measles, but 300 times more deaths occurred in the poorer countries than in the richer ones. The reason was not that the virus was more virulent, nor that there were fewer medical services; but that in poorly nourished communities the microbes attack a host which, because of chronic malnutrition, is less able to resist". Given that there's no vaccination against poverty, governments prefer the quicker fix of vaccination. Vaccine producers like it too: there's gold in them thar jabs.

This isn't a sphere where conscientious objections are tolerated, either among doctors or patients. Each GP gets a "target payment" (did someone say "bribe"?) of £2,730 for vaccinating 90% of two-year-olds on their list. Some practices are now considering dropping unvaccinated families from their lists. When my first child was newborn, my GP asked why I was risking her life by refusing to have her vaccinated. I changed practices soon after. Journalists, too, are expected to toe the public health line and are labelled irresponsible (as I will be) if they don't, even though accusations of "inaccuracy" often mask genuine disagreements.

Alternative health practitioners argue that measles and other infectious illnesses, far from damaging children, actually improve their overall health. But a child suffering from the disease needs proper, labour-intensive care. Nursing used to be an essential part of the job-description of motherhood: our mothers (for it was mostly them) knew how to nurse an infected child - drawn curtains, cold drinks, and wet flannels. We now think of nursing almost entirely in professionalised terms, as something we pay others to do.

Above all nursing is slow, but life is fast. What child, today, can afford to miss a week of the national curriculum, and what mother can take a week off work? I don't usually admit it in public lest a passing doctor burst a blood-vessel, but I want my children to contract measles. Yet whenever I hear of someone from whom they could catch it, it's never the right time - an exam or deadline is always looming.

One consequence of the mass vaccination of children is to turn measles into an adult (or adolescent) disease, when it's far more dangerous. And now the government is considering the introduction of a chickenpox vaccine - thus does the vaccination cocktail grow. We're familiar with the concept of informed consent. On vaccination, increasing numbers of people are turning towards the concept of informed refusal.

akarpf9@hotmail.com

I respect your choice to vaccinate your child because you believe it is in her best interest.  However, there are many parents, scientists, physicians, and other experts who do not believe vaccinations provide sufficient benefit to justify the risks.  Like it or not, there IS a legitimate and valid controversy surrounding the issue of vaccinations.  You can call all arguments you don't agree with garbage, emotional propaganda, and sensationalism if you wish, but it doesn't change the fact that those arguments are taken very seriously by highly educated and intelligent people who have researched this controversy in depth.

I maintain that all parents need to educate themselves thoroughly about both diseases vaccines are meant to prevent and the vaccines themselves.  The difference between propaganda and education is that propaganda tells you what to believe, and education allows you to decide for yourself what to believe.  A true education has got to include inconvenient facts you call "garbage."  Otherwise, all we got is mainstream propaganda that "vaccines save lives from terrible fates, and don't you ever question it."

Instead of categorically dismissing these arguments as "garbage," why don't you explain exactly what is "factually inaccurate," and "scientifically incorrect"?   Engage in a thoughtful debate that educates with facts and evidence, rather than simply call names.

For example, you said, "There same  substances are in many of the foods we eat and substances we are exposed to on a daily basis."  Back it up.  First, it is the toxic substances people object to, not things like sodium chloride (salt).  So let's limit our discussion to toxic compounds.  Which foods contains these toxic substances, for example?  I can't think of any food that has formaldehyde or sodium hydroxide, but I am willing to be educated on this.  Yes, some (not MANY) foods contain MSG, but a lot of people won't eat foods with MSG either.  Yes, you are right that we are exposed to some of these toxins in common household products, but it is questionable if we are exposed to them on a daily basis.  For example, do you use Drano everyday?  Then there is the BIG difference between being exposed to Drano, and injecting even a little bit of it directly into the bloodstream.  Perhaps you feel this is acceptable, but others may not.  We have a right to discuss these legitimate issues without being called "offensive to everyone."  What is "offensive" information to you, might be valuable thought-provoking points for others.  Don't they have a right to hear the information and decide for themselves if it holds water or not?

Hello David.

Just a few comments on your post.

Your personal experiences do not invalidate the experiences of others! That fact that you and your siblings survived smallpox vaccinations and "and am none the worse for it." can not be construed as evidence that the vaccine is safe.

I'm sure you had many other differences in life style from those whom you saw die from smallpox. It was proven well over a hundred years ago that smallpox is a disease resulting from poor sanitation, filth, and inadequate nutrition.

As with all diseases many things come into play which determine whether or not one is stricken by a this terrible disease.Smallpox has been eradicated from the developed world, not because of vaccination but because of greatly improved sanitation, nutrition, and living conditions.

We know have alternatives to this genuinely dangerous vaccine, I am convinced that colloidal silver is one of those alternatives. I would not, will not, allow myself or my loved ones to be vaccinated for this or any other disease.

You say you are, "none the worse for it.". Having had several strokes at quite an early age, can you say with complete certainty that your smallpox vaccination, or other vaccinations I'm sure you received, played no role in your current health status? Think about it and question it openly and honestly.

I feel reasonably certain they did. There is just too much evidence showing the longterm ill-effects of vaccination. Neither you nor I may be able to prove it one way or the other in your particular case or those of your siblings, but I am aware of far too many cases of chronic illness and health problems which have shown up much later in live in people who received "routine" vaccinations.

Many patterns are appearing relative to vaccination, increased cancer rates, breathing problems of many sorts, asthma primary among them, neurological problems of many kinds including seizure disorders, autism, the list goes on and on.

I am convinced that the very real dangers of vaccination are not worth the possible benefits.

More and more the mainstream medical community is turning away from vaccination as a means of preventing disease. It is far from a majority, but the movement is growing.

Part of the reason for this list is to explore alternatives to accepted medical practices in the hope of finding less destructive or dangerous yet efficacious treatments or simple dietary/lifestyle changes which will help us fight off diseases of all kinds.

I am totally opposed to all vaccination, and vigorously opposed to any government mandated vaccination. I am convinced that vaccination is the single biggest error/fraud of modern western medicine.

I am opposed to  the proposed national smallpox vaccination scheme. I consider it to be nothing but fear mongering and a manifestation of a need for power, a need to control our lives. I encourage everybody to refuse government mandated vaccination of any kind!

Look for alternatives, rather than simply accepting the "party line". Just because it is the way we did it in the past doesn't mean there is not a better alternative for the present. Again, I consider that basic attitude to be at the very core of lists like this one.

LTR:  Ranting as usual.

Langsley T Russell
Bulloved Bulldogs
bulloved@nitline.com
http://www.bullovedbulldogs.com/
 

Hi Reg.

Dont take this as critisim please.
When I was young I rember seeing lots of terribly deformed Polio victims around. Then they introduced immunisation and I had thought Polio had been eliminated. But it still exists in underdeveloped nations. I have talked to others oposed to vacinations and seen documentries of immunisation accidents. Do we have the right to impose a chaotic system of election on others of the population particularly those who will most certainly contract these diseases before they reach an age of making their own choices?  Disease will most definitely profiliterate without the vaccinations. Perhaps we should be demanding that tests be developed which will ensure the safety of children before a vaccination is administered.

Good luck
Reg

I do not take the above comments as criticism of any sort. It simply demonstrates that you and I apparently see vaccinations quite differently. You apparently see them as something good and a boon to mankind Whereas I see them as a terrible mistake, perhaps fraud would be a better word.

I too remember the polio epidemic of the fifties. I recall clearly seeing people in "Iron lungs" and people with many braces and others in wheel chairs. However I don't see the Salk vaccine as a savior. There had been numerous previous polio epidemics. Each had run its course and all but disappeared from the population. By the time the Salk vaccine was introduced that particular  polio epidemic had already peaked and was on the decline. Because of the nature of viruses and nature in general, given time it would have continued its decline and all but disappeared from the population.  That is not to say the the Salk vaccine and the Sabin vaccine which followed it never prevented any cases of polio I'm sure they did. However they were and are responsible for much chronic disease in the world today.

I, myself, am living evidence of this. I suffer a seizure disorder "of unknown origin" which developed shortly (within 90 days) after getting the polio vaccine when I was in my teens. No medically acceptable precipitating event can account for the sudden onset of epileptiform  grand mal seizures in my late teens. According to the medical profession they are of "unknown origin". By my reasoning they are a result of the vaccinations I received in my late teens.

This http://www.unc.edu/~aphillip/www/chf/index.htm is the home page for Citizens for Healthcare Freedom, the site has a great deal of information on vaccines and the chronic diseases they cause. This next URL is for their page in the polio vaccine.   http://www.unc.edu/~aphillip/www/chf/myths/dvm26.htm

Here is another on "The polio Vaccine Myth" http://members.tripod.com/DrSugi/polio.html This is yet another site devoted to the polio vaccine and the lies we've been led to believe.

There are so many other things to take into account when investigating the use of vaccines than just whether or not a particular vaccine may have prevented some people from contracting a specific illness.

There is mounting evidence for example that the MMR vaccine is responsible for the current epidemic of autism and other related disorders. The numbers are truly staggering. Here is just a snippet from an account of congressional hearings  on the subject.

Opening Statement
Chairman Dan Burton
Committee on Government Reform
The Status of Research into Vaccine Safety and Autism

In April the Committee conducted a hearing reviewing the epidemicof autism and the Department of Health and Human Service's (HHS)response. Ten years  ago, autism was thought to affect 1 in 10,000individuals in the United States. When the Committee began itsoversight investigation in 1999, autism was thought to affect 1 in 500children. Today, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) estimates thatautism affects 1 in 250 children.

Now our children aren't getting measles, mumps and rubella from which most would recover, as did I, with no lasting ill-effects. Instead their lives are being destroyed by Autism. To me that is not a reasonable exchange.

Auto immune diseases of many sorts are also rampant in the world today. Many of these are a direct result of vaccination.

I don't know whether you know it or not but my primary area of activity in the alternative health care world is in  the alternative pet health care community. As a result I have a copy of some papers produced as part of some ongoing research being done at Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine, By . Drs Harm Hogenesch, Juan Azcona-Olivera, Catherine Scott-Moncrieff, Paul W. Snyder, and Larry T. Glickman. The report thus far is hundreds of pages long and contains an overwhelming amount of information.

The one part of the study of which I have a hard copy is titled "Vaccine-Induced Autoimmunity In The Dog."  One of the most telling bits of information tin the paper is the fact that  in their two colonies of dogs maintained on campus at the veterinary school for the purpose of this study, only the group receiving vaccinations developed autoimmune cells. Not only that, ALL of the VACCINATED dogs developed the autoimmune cells while none of the unvaccinated dogs developed any of the autoimmune cells.

Once again I have to ask: Is the trade off worth it? In My understanding, the answer is definitely no! We have managed to prevent a disease for which there is treatment and a cure while inducing one, in fact many, for which there is no cure.

Every day I read accounts of this sort of scenario. We and our pets are victims of all sorts of chronic disease ranging from things like chronic yeast infection to cancer. A great deal of it directly traceable to vaccinations.

As for the under developed parts of the world, the primary thing which will improve their health is better living conditions and nutrition, not vaccines. For one thing the vaccines which they receive are in large part those which have been deemed unfit for use in this country. As a result the unsuspecting recipients of these vaccines end up suffering from mercury poisoning, autoimmune disease caused by unavoidable animal protein in the vaccine, and other viral infections carried in contaminated vaccines.

If our only hope against viral infection were vaccines, the human population would have died out long before the development of the vaccines. That is not the case obviously. Instead viruses and epidemics come and go and the species continues, stronger than before the epidemic. Granted some will become sick and some will even die but the species as a whole emerges stronger for the experience and a natural "herd immunity" eventually prevents the epidemic from recurring.

I could go, on but I'm sure you understand my position from what I've already said and that is the reason for this e-mail.

~~~~~~
Langsley T Russell
Bulloved Bulldogs
Grovertown IN
bulloved@nitline.com
http://www.bullovedbulldogs.com/
LTR

Why I did not vaccinate my daughter

I intended to vaccinate my daughter. I have a lot of confidence in modern medicine, and of course I want to take all the health precautions. I probably would have gotten all the scheduled vaccines, if I had not been confronted with the hepatitis B vaccine.

The day Millicent was born, the nurse announced that she wanted to give her a vaccine for a venereal disease. It didn't seem right. Why would they want to inject drugs into a healthy newborn? If the vaccine were safe, why did they ask my wife to sign a liability waiver? Why did they give my wife a hepatitis B test, if they were still going to vaccinate the baby after the test is negative? Why can't they wait a few months or years when the child will be stronger? How could a newborn baby get a disease which is transmitted by unsafe sex and dirty needles? I could not get answers to these questions, so I postponed the vaccine.

Soon I was faced with more vaccine decisions, so I did some library research on the subject. I found both pro-vaccine and anti-vaccine books. The pro-vaccine books and pamphlets were condescending and paternalistic, and gave very little information beyond the official vaccine schedule and some scare stories. The anti-vaccine books were packed with facts, anecdotal evidence, more scare stories, and sometimes conspiracy theories.

Figuring that there was really a solid case for vaccines, but that the patient information had been dumbed down, I looked at the medical literature. But the vaccine studies which I found were very weak from a scientific point of view. The studies are usually epidemiological rather than clinical; the long term effects are usually not studied at all; the risks are not modeled in a way that allows any direct comparison of risks and benefits; and obvious alternative vaccine strategies are usually not discussed.

Furthermore the national vaccine policy is terribly flawed. Vaccine recommendations are not made in an open process; the public is not allowed much input to the decisions or even access to all the information; vaccine researchers are used to set policies which have non-medical aspects; pediatricians and other physicians have eschewed their responsibilities; and patients are not accurately informed of the pros and cons of vaccines.

The more I read about vaccines, the angrier I got. Physicians have an ethical duty to do no harm and to give patients informed choice. Scientists have an ethical duty to document the biases and limitations of their experiments, and to find and publish the raw truth regardless of political implications. Government agencies have an ethical duty to openly evaluate alternative policies, and to involve the public in decision making. Drug companies have an ethical duty to provide their customers with appropriate data and analyses about their products. All have been corrupted.

I actually think some of the vaccines may be worthwhile. I intend to give my daughter a tetanus vaccine, and maybe one or two of the others.

When people ask me why I did not vaccinate my daughter, I explain that before analyzing the reasons against vaccinating, it is important to look at the reasons for vaccinating. The best that can be said is that some people with a vested interest in vaccines use dishonest tactics and biased information to promote the vaccines. Lacking a compelling argument one way or the other, the prudent action is to do nothing.

I put my findings on the subject in a Vaccine Policy FAQ, for the convenience of others.

last revised: Sept. 7, 1998

Send comments to me at rogerschlafly@mindspring.com.

 Footnote, Oct. 8, 2002. Since forgoing the vaccines, several of them have been taken off the market because of safety concerns. This includes the hepatitis B and rotavirus (diarrhea) vaccines. I have no regrets.

To Whom It May Concern:

Thank you for letting parents express their opinions in this serious matter.

I believe parents need to educate themselves on every vaccine. Get the vaccine package inserts, read them thoroughly. If you don't understand different ingredients listed, please do a Internet search or visit a medical library. Drs. are not obliged to give you the vaccine package inserts. What they are obliged to do is give vaccine fact statements, that the government, and pharmaceutical companies put together. Most important, find out the contraindication to each vaccine, you can also find this on the vaccine package insert.

Most vaccine studies done pre-licensing are paid for by the pharmaceutical company, the very one that will be making $$ off of said vaccine. Also, most of the studies only are followed through for days or a period of weeks. There are no long term studies done! There has been no test on any vaccine that I know of for risk of carcinogenic activity, which means cancer. Personally, I have two sons that have had vaccine reactions. It can happen to any child. Don't let it happen to yours. Educate yourself! Know you have the right to choose! Know that there are exemptions in each state! It is not against the law for an unvaccinated child to attend school!

Once you have done an exhaustive search on your own, only then the decision can be made.
 
Sincerely,
Cindy Stolten   
 

"Public Health Officials say we need immunizations tp prevent serious
diseases in childrenand the general population. What Do You Think?"

NO NO NO... they are wrong wrong wrong.  I am the mother of a son who has been minimally vaccinated (only 4 jabs, before I had done the research I need to... he will have NO more). What first scared me about vaccines was the HORROR stories of children maimed and killed by vaccines.  I went on to find out WHY this happens and what is so bad about a case of the measles or chicken pox? 

Through researching I have discovered that the only "problem" with childhood illnesses, and illness in general, is that it is inconvenient.  When we become susceptible to illness, we must slow down, rest and focus on healing.  Most people in the general population don't have "time" to do this.  Fast food and untested, silver bullet, allopathic drugs, riddled with side effects, are the godsends of the general population... and WHY do we get SO sick? Hmmmmm. If you are a generally healthy individual, with a diet rich in whole foods and minimal processed foods and plenty of rest and fresh air,  the risk of serious complication from any illness is about nil.  Breastfeed your babies, eat from the earth, use herbs, vitamins and homeopathy for healing, take care of yourself, get rest... these are what will make us healthier, NOT vaccines. 

Vaccines are an assault on the immune system, to say the least.  Vaccines contain components that I don't even want to touch, would never put in my mouth and therefore cannot imagine injecting directly into my blood stream (or that of my children). Why would anyone want to inject aluminum, mercury, formaldehyde, aborted fetal cell tissue, other animal DNA and RNA, anti-freeze and a slew of other things directly into their blood stream?  What are the ramifications of this? We don't know... we will never know because there has never been, and probably will never be, any double blind studies done to prove the safety and efficacy of vaccines.  All clinical trials pit one test vaccine against another test vaccine... where is the control?  And who is funding this research?  99% of the time, pharmaceutical companies that have a vested interested in the outcome of the study are directly or indirectly funding the research... who are you going to trust? 

Simply look at the increase in the number of "required" childhood vaccines?  Now look at the increase in the incidence of ADHD and general behavioral issues, autism spectrum disorders, severe childhood allergies, asthma, childhood cancers, etc... coincidence? I don't think so.  Stand up to the allopathic system, say no to unnecessary and dangerous "medicine".  The only reason a child legally "needs" vaccines is to go to school (even then, every state in this country has an exemption of some kind or another)... wait to decide, do your research, know your laws and know your body!

I will never allow my child another vaccine and will never allow myself to be vaccinated and will do all that I can to educate those that I love with the truth.
 

Also direct her to: WHY VACCINES DON'T WORK, found at:
http://www.vaccinationdebate.com/web4.html

Neil Z. Millers book, "Are Vaccines really Safe and Effective? is a
great gift.

In the meantime, think about the following:

1. THE CHILD IS TODAY IMMUNE TO ALL THE DISEASES ON YOUR LIST.

Evidence: the child does not have the clinical signs of any of the diseases. Antibodies are NOT the key to immunity. Even mainstream immune system theory recognizes that antibodies are a very small part of a large and complex 'total body health'. Only the 'sales force' sticks with antibody theory and measurements for selling vaccines. Forget antibody measurements. (Vaccines do not succeed because the body makes 'antibodies', vaccines do not fail because the body 'cleans out' the contamination (antigens) which is the vaccine ingredients. Vaccines FAIL because immunity has little or nothing to do with antibodies, and because immunity comes only from total body health not some extremely small part of the body.

2. THE CHILD IS EXPOSED EVERY DAY TO MANY 'GERMS OF DISEASE', NOT NECESSARILY TO ANY 'DISEASE CAUSING GERMS'.

Micro-organisms are not the cause of infectious diseases, at least not a primary cause, but rather the chemistry of the body must be unbalanced or polluted for  'unfriendly' virus to have an environment where they can grow. Keep the chemistry of the body in balance and internally clean (detoxified) and the body will not need to conduct an 'acute, beneficial healing episode' commonly known as disease symptoms. If the body does need to detoxify, this will be beneficial and safe if the child has adequate internal nutritional support.

3. HEALTHY CHILDREN DO NOT NEED ANYTHING BEYOND WHAT THEY  ALREADY HAVE. UNHEALTHY CHILDREN NEED SOMETHING TO BRING THE BODY INTO BALANCE OR ELIMINATE AN EXCESS.
That 'something needed' is frequently vitamin A or C, may be love or rest or recreation, may be challenge or acceptance, may be patience or courage, but no one has ever successfully proven that any child has ever benefited from an injection of rotting matter combined with nerve and brain destroying poisons, the actual ingredients of vaccines.

Hopefully, your sister will see that choosing not to vaccinate is the best approach. Remind her that vaccination is an 'elective procedure' and she would be wise to thoroughly study the subject before submitting to what is a superstition that lacks scientific proof. Ask her to get  information from those who have studied both sides, taken time to digest the information, and who are free of any Money, Power, or Prestige motives in a conflict of interest regarding the answer.

In friendship, Dewey

*Links to any of the above, including the book, may be found at:
http://www.vaclib.org/indexdoc.htm
 

Testimony of Barbara Loe Fisher to California legislature

Personally, I come here as a parent of a son who had a neurological reaction to his fourth DPT shot at age two and a half that caused brain dysfunction, including multiple learning disabilities and attention deficit disorder (ADD), but who was fortunate not to lose his life or be left with mental retardation, uncontrolled epilepsy, autism, or other severe disabilities like so many of the vaccine injured children I have come to know. When my son had his vaccine reaction in 1980, children in America were told to get 23 doses of 7 vaccines. Today, children are told to get 37 doses of 11 vaccines. In those 22 years since my son had his vaccine reaction, the numbers of American children with learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder and asthma have doubled; diabetes has tripled; and the incidence of autism has reached epidemic proportions, increasing 200 to 600 percent in every state, marking a staggering 3400 percent increase in the prevalence of autism in our children.

Nobody knows why this has happened. But everyone at the Centers for Disease Control and American Academy of Pediatrics, the two medical groups that make vaccine policy in this country, vigorously deny that the many vaccines they have urged be mandated in the past quarter century could have anything to do with why more and more of our so children are chronically ill. They say that vaccines only rarely cause chronic health problems.

Yet, the haunting question remains: if we have wiped out polio and almost eliminated measles, mumps, rubella, whooping cough and other childhood diseases with vaccines - why are so many of our children stuck on sick? Why are our special education classrooms so crowded that we can't find enough money or train teachers fast enough to care for these learning disabled, hyperactive, autistic, asthmatic, diabetic, emotionally disturbed, sick children?

Something is wrong with this public health report card.

And before we go any further and mandate one more vaccine for daycare or kindergarten entry - whether it is Prevnar or hepatitis A or some other vaccine - we had better find out if the repeated manipulation of the immune system with lab altered viruses and bacteria adulterated with mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde and other toxins, which are administered to our babies from birth through the first five years of life when the brain and immune system is developing at its most rapid rate, is contributing to these skyrocketing increases in chronic illness in our children. Without basic science research into the biological mechanisms of vaccine injury and death and without methodologically sound, long term studies which follow groups of highly vaccinated, lesser vaccinated and unvaccinated children over time to measure for all morbidity and mortality outcomes, it is illogical and scientifically irresponsible to assume that there is no connection between the ever increasing numbers of vaccines we mandate for children and the ever increasing rates of chronic disease in our children. Making this kind of scientific investigation a societal program and funding priority would, at the very least, give us a better understanding of the genetic and other biological factors which predispose certain children to vaccine-induced immune and brain dysfunction, including whether there is a complex interaction between genetic factors, a particular vaccine or combination of vaccines and simultaneous exposures to environmental contaminants such as pesticides, molds and other toxic insults.

 

How incredibly kind of those lovely pharmaceutical companies to donate all those millions of doses of oral polio vaccine (OPV)  to needy children in the third world. Especially considering the fact that no developed country with enough money to make the choice would use the stuff!

The US stopped using OPV in the late 1990's because it had become the sole source of polio infections in the country. Most other countries have done the same. So here is a drug company with lots of stock and nothing to do with it. What do they do?  They give it away to the third world and increase good will for their other products.

But what will the end result of this campaign be? As we have seen in previous oral vaccine campaigns in Africa, the outcome will be death and misery. The manufacturer's information on this vaccine says it should not be administered to anyone with immune suppression or AIDS or to anyone who lives with someone who is immune-suppressed or has AIDS. In Africa, where this vaccine is being delivered, some estimate that as many as 1/3 of the population has HIV/AIDS and another, larger percentage are immune-suppressed by virtue of poor nutrition and hygeine.

So, what is touted as a life-saving procedure will instead be one that will end up killing and permanently disabling many thousands and possibly millions of African children and their immune-suppressed contacts. It has happened before and now, unfortunately, it is happening again. When will we put a stop to this genocide in the name of drug company profits?

Meryl Dorey

Meryl W Dorey
National President
Australian Vaccination Network, Inc.
PO Box 177
Bangalow NSW 2479
Phone 02 6687 1699        FAX 02 6687 2032

The Belief in Vaccines

  I always find it interesting that a discussion over the topic of   vaccination can become "heated" and "volatile".  Why is that?....would the   same debate rage over an antibiotic or an antihypertensive medicine if   there was evidence that it was causing harm?

  Highly doubtful. It would be removed promptly from the market if deaths  resulted from its use. Even if deaths were suspected to be caused by a   medication, we stop using it until we prove it is safe. 

  Not so with a vaccine. We keep using it until we can "prove" it is causing   harm.

  Why the double standard?

  The doublespeak occurs because vaccination is built around a "belief"   system, and challenging the validity of vaccines challenges long-held  foundational beliefs. We BELIEVE that vaccines are safe; we BELIEVE that   vaccines are important for our health; we BELIEVE that vaccines will   protect us from infection; we BELIEVE that vaccines were the reason   infectious diseases decreased around the world. And we really want to   BELIEVE that our doctor has read all the available information on   vaccines--pro and con--and that s/he is telling us the complete truth about  vaccines......

  However, belief is based on faith; not necessarily on fact.

  With only a cursory review of the literature and CDC documents, one will   find the following facts:

  1. No vaccine has ever been proven to be completely safe. Safety studies   are small and only include "healthy" children. However, after a study is   completed, vaccines are given to ALL children, regardless of underlying   health conditions or genetic predispositions. We have a "one size fits all" national vaccination policy; one that does not allow for personal choice or individualized options; and one that has caused a myriad of health problems   for many.

  2. Observations for side effects continue for a maximum of 14 days during a "safety study". Complex problems involving the immune system can take weeks   or even months to appear. This arbitrary 14 day cut off set by the FDA and   the pharmaceutical industry stops the observation long before complications   are likely to appear. This is the basis for their "vaccines are safe"   mantra but the long term and relatively unknown complications from vaccines  reveal that no vaccine is safe.

  3. A vaccine "safety" study compares a new vaccine to a "placebo" to   determine the safety of the new vaccine. When we examine the study a little   more closely, we discover that the "placebo" is NOT a benign, inert   substance, such as saline or water. The "placebo" is another vaccine with a  "known safety profile." So if the new vaccine has the same side effects as  the "placebo", the new vaccine is called "safe."

  4. Vaccines are said to confer protection by causing the development of   antibodies. However, there are many references in CDC documents (the   Highest Authority in the land regarding vaccines) which reveal that   antibodies don't necessarily protect us from infection. Here are a few   examples from medical journals and CDC documents:

  Pertussis: "The findings of efficacy studies have not demonstrated a direct   correlation between antibody response and protection against pertussis  disease." MMWR March 28, 1997/Vol.46/No. RR-7, p.4

  H. Flu (HiB): "The antibody contribution to clinical protection is unknown."   ---HibTITER package insert   "The precise level of antibody required for protection against HiB invasive disease is not clearly established."   http://www.cdc.gov/nip/publications/pink/hib.pdf.

  Smallpox: "Neutralizing antibodies are reported to reflect levels of   protection, although this has not been validated in the field." JAMA June   9,1999, Vol. 281, No. 22, p.3132

  5. We want to "believe" that if we receive a vaccine, we will be protected   from the infection. Several medical journal articles document that this is  not necessarily so. Here are a few examples:

  Pertussis Infection in Fully Vaccinated Children in Day-Care Centers, Israel   (Emerging Infectious Diseases Vol. 6, No. 5; Sep-Oct 2000)

  Pertussis in the Highly Vaccinated Population, The Netherlands   (Emerging Infectious Diseases Vol. 6, No. 4 July-Aug 2000)

  Pertussis in North-West Western Australia in 1999; all vaccinated.  (Communicable Diseases Intelligence 2000 Vol 2  4 No 12)

  The debate surrounding the use of vaccines goes back and forth with "data"  and "studies" used to support both sides. But the bottom line is this:

  Vaccination has been "accepted" as safe, effective and protective for   nearly 200 years. It is a "sacred cow" and with all "sacred cows", people   react with a visceral response, when someone suggests that the "cow" should  be "sacrificed". There are many examples of this over the centuries:
  Copernicus who insisted that the Sun is the Center of the solar system and   Semmelweiss who showed that doctors performing hand washing saved women's   lives. Both men were ridiculed in their day. It is heresy to suggest that  the "status quo" is wrong. 


  Statistics have shown that when presented with a new, different,   challenging idea, 96% of people will spend their time and energy defending   their current beliefs and only 4% will embrace the idea as something to seriously consider.

  When you research vaccinations and the vaccine industry, you will find that   your  "foundational beliefs" regarding vaccines will be seriously   challenged. When you begin to study the negative effects--both actual and theoretical--that vaccines have on the immune system, you will likely   become part of the 4% who understand that "truth" about vaccines is not   really "The Truth" and that the mandatory vaccination policies currently   being enforced must be changed.    

  Dr. Sherri Tenpenny
  New Medical Awareness Seminars
  www.nmaseminars.com
   2002
 

Dear Mr. President

      I am sending you my Christmas wish list. . .

      No, this is not a little child writing who has you confused with Santa - this is the mom of a child with Autism, who knows you have more power than Santa, and the influence to make my Christmas wish list come true.

      You see, it has to be MY Christmas wish list - because my son who is 9 years old - cannot speak, write, read, or talk.  He is a child with Autism. For him - Christmas is just another sensory overload - he can't eat the Holiday goodies because of severe allergic reactions to some of the ingredients.  As part of his Autism, he lacks the gift of imagination and pretend, and so he doesn't understand Santa, Frosty, or the Reindeer. He doesn't even really play with toys - so there is no perfect gift to buy for him.  He would rather stim off of a piece of wrapping paper by flapping it by his face - than open a gift to see what's inside.  Sitting on Santa's lap at the mall? Been there, Tried that, Not pretty.

      We can't even travel to relatives for the Holidays - because our son must be in his own environment and have his own surroundings. And so - the only Christmas wish on my list is for you to make Autism - and the hearings Congressman Burton has called for - top priority. The only hope for us, meaning the 1 in 250 parents who have a child with autism, to have any chance of future Merry Christmas' - is for you to make that happen.  We need for you to make Autism, and all the research, educational, funding, and medical issues that go along with it -  a national priority.
      Be our "Miracle on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue"
      - Brandon's mom

 

Dr. Offit: I am going to take the high road on this one.  I think that you have completely missed the boat on this entire issue.  Firstly, children do  receive mercury exposures in utero; Rhogam is an excellent example as well as  dental amalgams from mothers; Secondly, the Canadians have just lowered their mercury exposure "guidelines"  to one fourth of what our EPA has determined to be a "safe" level.  If you take the time to review the history of lead exposure you will see that the "safe" levels came down dramatically over time; the same will be true for mercury.  Thirdly, mercury is not only toxic to a developing brain but can cause systemic autoimmunity problems.  If you would like to learn about this important issue you should read the testimony of Dr. Vera Stejskal from the June 2002 Government Reform Committee hearing.  The issue of systemic  autoimmunity caused by thimerosal in even small amounts was raised by the  European Medicinal Evaluation Agency in their 1998 white paper.  This paper  stated "Mercury has been implicated in the autoimmune process...The mechanism  by which it does this is unknown.  It may be by altering the antigenicity of cellular proteins rendering them "foreign" to the host, however mercury may  also interfere with immature regulatory T Cells resulting in the generation  of an anti-self response, with decrease of the suppressor T lymphocyte balance necessary for preventing the formation of anti-self antibodies. Such a reaction could have consequences on the ability of the host to withstand a viral attack".  Think about this without your preconceived "genetics only" hat. Could it be that we have unwittingly subjected an entire generation of children to developing autoimmune disorders and persistent viral infections from the vaccines that they were given as infants?  Only reputable, unbiased and non-pharmaceutical company research will give us the answers. Autism is not a genetics only disease- the recent California study by Byrd et al answered that question and all the wishful thinking by the medical establishment will not change that result.  It is not better diagnosis, it is not a shifting diagnosis,  it is an epidemic.  I appreciate the fact that as  a parent and a physician whose entire medical career has been based upon the  unproven notion that all vaccines are safe the mere thought of hundreds of thousands of children developing autism, ADHD and ADD as a result of vaccines is too terrible to bear- but think of this as you tuck your children into bed, what if you are wrong? Finally, as the parent of a child with "autism" I know full well how little the medical community has offered in terms of basic medical care for my child.  I have spent the last four years detailing my son's medical conditions which are associated with his "autism".  The "highlights" include:
1) high levels of measles virus RNA in his cerebral spinal fluid;

2)measles virus in his intestines;

 3) abnormal EEG and seizures;

 4) an immune system similar to an HIV patient; and

5) inflammatory bowel disease. 

Yesterday my son had a PET scan at a large teaching hospital here in Chicago; his neurologist ordered it to look for evidence of lesions in his brain brought about by a measles infection.  My child does not have "autism" he has a neurological, immune system and bowel disorder brought about by the thimerosal containing vaccines he received as an infant coupled with an MMR shot.  There is precedent for this in the medical literature- what was the  primary cause of childhood disintegrative disorder in the past?  A childhood measles infection plain and simple.  In short, the truth is autism may be caused by vaccines in an unknown number of children.   For you to state categorically that "autism is not caused by vaccines" flies in the face of peer review medical research. 

Sincerely, Elizabeth Birt
 

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I have kept pretty quiet on this issue recently because I have been so frustrated by all reports from both sides of the fence.  The thing that bothers me about all the recent press, whether pro or con parents' right to sue thimerosal manufacturers for their children's injuries, is that all reports cite that parents of autistic children are blaming their children's autism on the preservative thimerosal, even thought there is "no scientific evidence linking thimerosal and autism."  It is always about "thimerosal causes autism".  For more than 50 years scientists and researchers have been trying to find the "cause" of autism.  They're still looking.   As we've discussed many, many times on this list and others, "autism" is the diagnosis many of our children receive, but it is not based on medical tests, it is based on observations of a wide range of behaviors.  It is a word that encompasses a wide spectrum of behaviors.  Some children appear to be "autistic" from birth; some do not.

However, what science has proved, over and over again, is that exposure mercury causes mercury poisoning.   Thimerosal contains 49% mercury. Symptoms of mercury poisoning look like symptoms of autism.  It is that simple and the media keep missing that piece.   Children and adults all over the United States are suffering from mercury poisoning.    They developed mercury poisoning after receiving vaccinations containing thimerosal.  The manufacturers of thimerosal knew that it would cause mercury poisoning.  I don't know what else needs to be said.


Claire M. Bothwell
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The ABC of how a seemingly insignificant law being passed by the  European parliament to restrict the sale of supplements will lead to a global dictatorship" by Emma Holister

     To the average person it doesn’t really seem that important that the European parliament is giving into the pressures of the all-powerful pharmaceuticals industries as they make an aggressive take-over of the food supplements market and alternative medicine in general, claiming the need to implement regulatory safety measures.

     However, when we take a look at Ron Law’s study on the Safety of Dietary Supplements we discover the following facts:

   1."Properly researched, regulated, prescribed and properly used drugs are the fourth most common cause of death – but they are never reported. (Source, Journal of the American Medical Association - Range 90,000 to 160,000 deaths per year.) That’s a Boeing 747 crashing every day! 46 people die  every day from Aspirin alone in the USA.

  2.Avoidable medical misadventure is the sixth most common cause of death. (Source, CDC - range 40,000 to 90,000) In Australia 9,000 people die from avoidable medical misadventure every year. (Source, Australian Medical Journal). In Australia 50,000 people are maimed by medical      misadventure every year. (AMJ)"

  3."You are less likely to die from taking a supplement than dying from bee stings, sports injuries,
     lightening, animal bites, horse riding, radon gas, etc, etc. Dietary supplements have the potential to reduce deaths from cancers and heart disease by over 50%. (Optimists would go as high as 75%)

     Greater than 26,000 times more people die from preventable medical misadventure and properly regulated, properly prescribed and properly used drugs than from dietary supplements."

It is also worth noting that the huge rise in deaths in recent years from heart disease and cancer can also be linked to environmental poisoning from the food, agricultural and water supply industries who are responsible for devastating people’s health and endangering the survival of the planet. It doesn’t take a great deal of research to discover that the dangerous chemicals in our food and water supplies and the pharmaceuticals industries are not entirely unrelated.

We can see that illness is an extremely profitable business, the most profitable business in the world. An unhealthy population is more docile, easily manipulated and a great financial asset.

What greater threat to the long held monopoly of the pharmaceutical giants than food supplements and alternative therapies that are not only proved to be safe but are also extremely successful in combating and preventing disease, not to mention the fact that they are also cheaper most of the time?

When a person has been through the ‘medical mill’ of drugs, surgery, drugs, more surgery, more drugs and is finally given the death sentence by their doctor, there are two ways that this person may react:

   1.They accept their doctor’s prognosis and say farewell to their loved ones.
  2.They question the medical authorities and search for alternative therapies.

When searching for an alternative therapist the average person will come across one of the following:

   1.A well-intentioned therapist with insufficient knowledge who may fail to cure them.
  2.A fake (who benefits the pharmaceutical industries by destroying people’s faith in alternative medicine).
  3.A great therapist who’ll cure them.

When, to their astonishment, they discover that not only there are hundreds of effective therapies and cures with no side effects for even the most serious illnesses like AIDS, but that their disease was more than likely caused by the medical establishment in the first place who moreover do everything in their power to suppress knowledge of these effective therapies, they may have one of the following reactions, or all three:

   1.Joy
  2.Rage
  3.They join the Health Freedom Movement.

The question that naturally arises is ‘Why are so many associations and politicians who claim to be defending alternative medicine and our right to choose, who claim to be taking a stand against the pharmaceutical giants so silent, unapproachable and unresponsive with regards to this vitally important issue of protecting small businesses and our human rights against the EU’s restrictive legislation on the sale of supplements?’

There are three possible reasons:

   1.They are ignorant
  2.They are being paid to keep people ignorant
  3.Their livelihood, and even their lives may have been threatened.

When we hear that AIDS is not a sexually transmitted disease but most likely to be an illness caused by vaccines and environmental chemical poisoning it may surprise us, we may not believe it.

When we hear that Linus Pauling, twice winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for Medicine, said that most cancer research was a fraud we may have one of two reactions:

   1.We agree with the many people in the medical establishment, who claim that poor old Linus Pauling had lost his marbles.
  2.We believe him.

Perhaps, we may think to ourselves, much of the above information seems rather far-fetched and that surely the medical authorities, surely our family doctor, our friendly local chemist, surely these educated people could not all have been fooled, or worse still be fooling us. However, it is worth considering the following things:

   1.The medical universities and medical revues serve the interests of the profit oriented pharmaceutical  cartel.
  2.Most of the information and research in medical revues is funded by the pharmaceutical industries, not to mention the fact that around one third of the content of these revues is most often dedicated to drug ads.
  3.Educated people are also capable of believing lies, or of being liars.
  4.Can we trust the regulating bodies that demand vast sums of money in order to give out the stamp of approval for the sale of medical products to have the nation’s health as their primary concern? Or may it be a possibility that they are doing big business and have as much integrity as your average used car salesman?
  5.Would you entrust your health to a used car salesman?

More importantly, what are the things that might stop a person from believing the above information?

   1.Blind trust in the medical authorities.
  2.Over consumption of unhealthy contaminated food, water and dependency on pharmaceutical products.
  3.Too much television.

After having read the above you may have one of the following reactions:

   1.You don’t believe a word of it and chuck it in the bin.
  2.You decide there’s nothing you can do about it and sit back and say goodbye to humanity and the  planet.
  3.You become and active participant in the Global Health Freedom Movement and begin informing yourself, signing the relevant petitions and writing letters of protest to your government and politicians.

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Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle

Friday, January 3, 2003

Whose side are you on, Mr. President?
HELEN THOMAS

 THE Bush administration has it in for trial lawyers and is planning a big push for "tort reform." The public should be wary of this new attempt to curtail consumer protection. And I hope Congress will slam the brakes on this White House maneuver to trample on the rights of citizens who seek recourse from doctors for malpractice and from big corporations for defective products.  The administration has co-opted the word "reform" to roll back progress and promote its goals of weakening government restraints in a variety of areas.

    It's noteworthy that the administration has never pursued the corporate chieftains whose greed stunned the nation last year with the same energy that it goes after lawyers who are fighting for the consumer. "Reform" implies intent to make things better and to correct defects and abuses. But buyers, beware. This so-called reform is double speak - a euphemism to try to block private suits by trial lawyers in behalf of consumers.  Egged on by many congressional Republicans, the administration wants to put a $250,000 cap on malpractice awards for "pain and suffering."

    It follows a speech President Bush made last July 24 when he claimed that "the cause of the medical liability crisis is a badly broken system of litigation that serves the interest of specialized trial lawyers, not patients."  Medical doctors are especially happy over the elevation of Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., a surgeon, to Senate Republican leader. Frist has championed capping malpractice awards. After he was elected to lead his fellow GOP senators, Frist was praised by Donald Palmisano, president-elect of the American Medical Association.

"It's encouraging to us that many issues (Frist) has championed are our top priorities," said Palmisano. He said the AMA's top issue is the $250,000 liability cap.  Frist also is the author of a provision in the Homeland Security bill providing liability relief to the makers of Thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative that recently has been added to various childhood vaccines. The provision is applicable even to pending cases and is expected to result in the dismissal of numerous ongoing cases alleging that Thimerosal has caused autism in children. In Bush's eyes, the bogeymen, of course, are those trial lawyers. Trial lawyers are used to being demonized and they are a favorite political target of conservatives.

    When G.W. Bush was governor of Texas, he led a crusade to make the state's legal system less helpful to consumers. He pushed through legislation that capped punitive damages, limited class actions to federal courts and made it easier for judges to impose sanctions on plaintiffs who filed so-called "frivolous" lawsuits.  Let's have more of that "frivolity." That is actually a misnomer because some of those lawsuits led to dramatic safety improvements, forced on corporations through jury verdicts. Nothing gets their attention like writing a big check to an injured customer. The record is replete with tragic cases that produced verdicts and precedents that have saved lives and prevented others from suffering.

    Consider some of these lessons in recent years:  When women using super-absorbent tampons were dying from toxic shock syndrome, the manufacturer - Playtex - disregarded studies that showed tampons were at fault. It took a $10 million verdict to convince Playtex it would be smart to remove the tampons from the market.

    Eli Lilly was selling an arthritis pain-relief drug whose side effects included a fatal kidney-liver ailment. It took a $6 million jury verdict against the drug company to persuade it to stop selling the medicine.

    Another drug maker - Johnson & Johnson - knew that Tylenol turned poisonous when mixed with alcohol but the company did not put warnings on its bottles until a jury socked it with a $8.8 million
judgment.  There are two ways of enforcing consumer protections. One is through government intervention. That's the job of agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency, the Food and Drug Administration, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Labor Department, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Federal Trade Commission, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Federal  Aviation Administration and a host of others and their state and local counterparts.

    The second way to enforce consumer rights is the private lawsuit. Bush's war on the trial lawyers can only please those from the consumer-be-damned school of corporate wrongdoing. In President Bush's "compassionate conservatism," just whom does he feel  compassion for?
    I fear I know the answer.

The Vaccine Controversy: Why Full Informed Consent Must be Instituted for
All Vaccines (Relevant to CFS & FM)

By Dr. Garth L. Nicolson and Dr. Nancy L. Nicolson

Vaccines are big business. The research firm Frost & Sullivan predicts that the world human vaccine market will take in more than $7 billion in sales this year [2001]. Along with this large market, vaccine manufacturers tout the miracle of vaccines in reducing the incidence of polio, diphtheria, pertussis, measles, tetanus, mumps, rubella, hepatitis and other illnesses that often strike children.

There is no doubt that vaccines have dramatically reduced childhood illnesses; however, there is a dark side to the universal use of vaccines to control these illnesses. And the widespread use of vaccines has begun to be challenged by parent groups and physicians who recognize that although vaccines are important to public health, they can also injure. Children are especially at risk for injury from the multiple vaccines that are required for children to attend school in the United States, Canada and a number of other countries.

Yet according to Barbara Fisher of the National Vaccine Information Center (www.909shot.com), every state in the U.S. legally requires multiple vaccinations to attend public school, day care, college and even graduate school. Denial of health insurance, employment or government benefits for children can occur if vaccination laws are disregarded. In some cases, parents who don't comply with vaccination laws have been charged with child neglect and threatened with having their children taken from them.

34 Doses of 10 Vaccines Required by Law
Vaccines are considered the single most important tool in protecting public health. But in the United States, vaccines have the second highest rate of adverse reactions (19% of all adverse reactions reported) of prescribed medicines. The National Vaccine Information Center indicates that between 1964 and 1992 the U.S. added six new vaccines to the mandatory vaccination program which already includes multiple vaccines, such as the DPT (diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus) and MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccines.  Most states now require children to receive up to 34 doses of up to 10 different vaccines.

These vaccines are supposed to protect against a variety of important illnesses; however, the schedules for vaccination required for children have been criticized as contributing to immune suppression and leaving participants in these programs susceptible to opportunistic infections instead of resistant to infections.

Public health officials have been questioned for their championing of vaccines early in life to build immunity against infections that may be encountered later in life. Vaccines should be protecting against infectious diseases by establishing temporary immunity. To make this immunity more than a temporary effect multiple secondary or booster vaccines are required. When all of the primary and booster immunizations are added together or not spaced far enough apart, immune suppression can occur due to the assault on the body's immune system.

Instead of spacing out the immunizations to avoid this effect, there has been a concerted effort to compress immunization schedules, requiring more and more vaccines at earlier stages of life. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta warns that immunizations must begin at birth and most must be completed by age two. Yet at this young age, administering multiple vaccines may inadvertently result in illnesses that the vaccines were not designed to protect against.

42% Increase in Asthma Deaths Autoimmune illnesses, opportunistic infections different from the infections being immunized against, chronic allergies and other conditions are rising at alarming rates in children receiving multiple vaccines. More and more physicians and scientists are now pointing to the scheduling of multiple vaccines as possibly playing an important role in these emerging illnesses.

Chronic asthma is one of these illnesses. According to the CDC, asthma has increased 52% in persons between the ages of 5 and 34, and rates of death due to asthma have risen 42% in the period between 1982 and 1992. A more recent study by the CDC indicates that asthma has doubled during the last 20 years and is now the most common disorder in children and adolescents. Among the children receiving multiple vaccines chronic asthma affects one child in seven in Great Britain and one in eight in Canada. The greatest increase has been in children under four years old.

When researchers in New Zealand compared the rates of asthma in children that did not receive multiple vaccinations to rates in children receiving multiple vaccinations, those children who did not receive the vaccines did not present with asthma; whereas 23% of children receiving multiple vaccines had to have asthma consultations and 30% had consultations for other allergic illnesses.

The researchers concluded that some component of the multiple vaccines received in childhood may have increased the risk of developing asthma in childhood.
 
Autism and Vaccinations In addition to asthma, children that have received multiple vaccines are at risk for autism, attention deficit disorder (ADD) or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). It is now estimated that at least two million children in the United States have these disorders, and by 1995 there were over 1.5 million children taking Ritalin as a treatment for these disorders.

In California, an investigation by the California Department of Developmental Services (www.dds.ca.gov) found that there was a 273% increase in the incidence of autism between 1987 and 1998, an increase in incidence far in excess compared to other childhood disabilities, such as cerebral palsy, epilepsy and mental retardation. Other states have reported similar increases in autism. A Maryland state agency reported that between 1993 and 1998 there was a 513% increase in autism; whereas the increase in the population of Maryland was only 7%.

According to the Autism Autoimmunity Project (www.gti.net) similar explosive rates of increase in autism, ADD/ADHD have been found in at least 25 states that were surveyed under the American Disabilities Education Act. Are these increases linked to multiple childhood vaccinations? The Los Angeles foundation Cure Autism now reports that over one-half of the hundreds of calls each month to the foundation are from parents who report that their child became autistic after receiving vaccinations, usually following DPT
or MMR multiple vaccines.

Juvenile Diabetes Following Vaccinations Another chronic autoimmune disorder that is on the increase in multiple vaccine recipients is juvenile type 1 diabetes. In New Zealand, there was a 60% increase in juvenile diabetes following a massive hepatitis B vaccination program for newborns. In Finland the incidence of juvenile diabetes increased 147% in children under five after the introduction of three new vaccines for children in the late 1970s. Then, in the late 1980s, addition of a live MMR vaccine and an experimental vaccine (Hib) resulted in another 62% increase in the incidence of juvenile diabetes in children 3 months or older who received the new multiple vaccines.

Interestingly, a former NIH investigator, Dr. J. B. Classen, has proposed that the increase in type 1 juvenile diabetes associated with multiple childhood vaccines may be avoidable by changing the regimen by which multiple vaccines are given in childhood.

France Terminates HepB Vaccinations Autoimmune and fatiguing diseases can also occur in adults that receive vaccines. Alarmed over the world-wide rate of hepatitis B infections, the U.S. and Canada have pushed the hepatitis B (hepB) vaccine, even though hepatitis B infections in North America were reported to be less than 10,000 in 1997, with only about 300 occurring in children under the age of 14.

Almost all of these patients recover from their hepatitis B infections and have permanent immunity to the virus. In the U.S. and Canada, health many care and other workers are required to get a hepatitis B vaccination, and a new recombinant DNA hepB vaccine has been promoted as a safe, effective vaccine against hepatitis B. However, this new hepB vaccine may cause chronic illnesses, such as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases.

Professor Bonnie Dunbar of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston reports that the hepB vaccine may cause autoimmune disease by tricking the immune system to attack itself. The reason for this may reside in the amino acid sequences programmed by the recombinant DNA vaccine. Some of these polypeptide sequences appear to mimic some of the normal sequences on the cell surfaces of nerve cells present in the human brain. Thus, immunization with the hepB recombinant vaccine may increase the risk of autoimmunity.

Recently, France became the first country to terminate a hepB vaccine program. The French Ministry of Health acted when complaints of multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and other illnesses in patients who received the hepB vaccine were reported.

100,000 Gulf War Veterans with Illnesses Associated with Vaccines After the Persian Gulf War, more than 150,000 veterans came down with Gulf War illnesses (GWI), chronic fatiguing illnesses similar to CFS or myalgic encephomyelitis. Although most of the research attention on the causes of GWI have focused on chemical and radiological exposures, at the Institute for Molecular Medicine (www.immed.org) we found and published that over 40% of GWI patients had an unusual infection caused by Mycoplasma fermentans, a small bacteria without a rigid polysaccharide cell wall that has been implicated in a variety of chronic illnesses.

Although this result was hotly denied by the Department of Defense, a large study conducted by the Dept. of Veterans' Affairs found almost the exact same result in over 1,500 cases of GWI. Also, other research groups have now published similar findings on M. fermentans infections in GWI patients. In many cases, the veterans' immediate family members appear to have slowly developed similar signs and symptoms to GWI. One estimate derived from U.S. Senate inquiries of1,200 GWI families indicated that approximately 77% of spouses and 65% of children born after the war now have the signs and symptoms of GWI. Not every family member developed a GWI-like illness, but those that did had similar signs and symptoms and similar infections, such as the mycoplasmal infection described above.

Possible Sources of Infections Associated with Vaccines Where did these infections come from? The most likely sources for the immune disturbances and chronic bacterial infections found in GWI patients are the multiple vaccines that were used in a short period during deployment. Most deployed personnel received up to 30 vaccinations, some probably experimental and administered without proper informed consent, in a two to three day period during deployment.

In a British study funded by the Department of Defense and published in the British medical journal Lancet an association was found between GWI and the multiple vaccines that were administered to British veterans. In the U.S. there have been GWI signs and symptoms in personnel who have received the anthrax vaccine. In some cases this has resulted in chronic illnesses in as many as 7-10% of personnel receiving the vaccine. These chronic illnesses, including CFS/ME and other illnesses, are very similar to the diagnosis of GWI.

Contaminates Found in Commercial Vaccines How could multiple vaccines contribute to chronic illnesses? Receiving multiple vaccines in a short period of time can cause immune suppression, and such individuals may be at much higher risk for opportunistic infections than a similar unimmunized population. Also, undetectable microorganism contaminants in vaccines could have resulted in illness and may have been more likely to do so in chemically exposed individuals or in those who received multiple vaccines in a short period of time.  Microorganism contamination, such as with mycoplasmas, is a relatively common finding in many commercial vaccines, and in one study in the journal Vaccine in 1986 commercial vaccine contamination with mycoplasma species was found in ~6% of the commercial vaccine lots tested. Thus, the multiple vaccines used in the Gulf War should be considered as a possible source of the chronic infections found in GWI patients.

Could the civilian diseases described above that are related to multiple vaccinations also be caused by microorganism infections similar to those found in Gulf War veterans? This is certainly possible, and we think quite probable. At the Institute for Molecular Medicine we have been studying various chronic fatiguing illnesses like CFS/ME and fibromyalgia syndrome and also autoimmune diseases like MS, rheumatoid arthritis, autism, ADHD, among others.

These are illnesses that are often seen in children and adults after receiving multiple vaccines. Over one-half of these patients with these diagnoses have identifiable chronic infections, including mycoplasmal infections and other bacterial infections and viral infections. Most patients had multiple infections, which could be the distinguishing difference between people who become sick and those that do not.

Recommended Action Of course, not every one who comes down with a chronic illness will have the same type of infection, and there may be other causes of these fatiguing and autoimmune diseases, but we feel quite strongly that patients with chronic fatiguing and autoimmune illnesses should be tested, and if positive for pathogenic chronic infections, they should be treated. If you think that you or your children have a chronic illness that could be related to multiple vaccines or just exposure to others that may have illnesses, you can be tested at our certified reference diagnostic laboratory, International Molecular Diagnostics (www.imd-lab.com), tel: 714-799-7177). Finally, you have the right to know the risk of injury in any medical procedure, including vaccination, and your physician is required by law to provide you with vaccine and risk/benefit information before you or your children are vaccinated. If you or your child are injured after receiving vaccines, your physician is required by law to report injuries and deaths that occur within 30 days after vaccination to U.S. health authorities.

Children injured as a result of receiving vaccines may be entitled to benefits under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986. In many states, parents can withhold their children from government mandated vaccination programs if they can demonstrate that it is against their religious beliefs to have their children vaccinated against their will.

It is now time to seriously consider whether current state mandatory vaccination laws and federal vaccination policies are inconsistent with the rights of citizens to be subject to medical procedures that carry a risk of injury or death without proper informed consent. Informed consent is the cornerstone of our medical bioethics, and its blatant disregard by the vaccine promoters needs to be corrected so that every citizen has the freedom to make informed, voluntary health care decisions about procedures that could place them or their family members at risk.

For further information contact Prof. Garth Nicolson (gnicolson@immed.org) at the Institute for Molecular Medicine, 15162 Triton Lane, Huntington Beach, CA 92649, tel: 714-903-2900.

Published in Criminal Politics February 2001. Source: www.immed.org. (c) Institute for Molecular Medicine. All rights reserved.
 

Vaccinations and Their Side Effects
by Thomas Quak, translated by Christian Kurz

THERE CONTINUE TO BE many reports of complications following vaccinations. For example, the literature describes the following (rare) Vaccination-Induced Side Effects (VISE) of the Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) and polio vaccinations:

-Local erythemas
-Fever
-Irritability
-Tiredness
-General rashes (acute urticaria)
-Conjunctivitis
-Arthropathies
-Peripheral tremor
-Cough and/or coryza
-Post-vaccinal meningitis (aseptic meningitis)
-Guillain-Barre syndrome
-Brachial neuritis
-Anaphylactic shock
-Multiple sclerosis
-Chronic arthritis

Lasting damages, such as the consequences of a post-vaccinal meningitis, and life threatening diseases, such as anaphylactic shock, are most feared. The short-lasting, smaller side effects are usually interpreted as the normal reaction of the immune system to the attenuated disease (i.e., the vaccine) and are therefore regarded as harmless. According to available statistical data, the "side effects" of the real diseases are much more frequent than those of the vaccination. Therefore the following conclusion is commonly drawn: Vaccinations prevent more damage than they cause and are therefore of considerable benefit to society.

Side Effects of Vaccinations

Legally, only symptoms which appear within a well defined time (normally a few days or weeks) after the vaccination, and thereby suggest a causal link to it, are considered to be side effects of the vaccination (VISE). Symptoms that develop slowly or those that develop only after considerable time has passed are difficult to link to the vaccination, because the patient is exposed to many other environmental influences during this period. Because data on these delayed effects are difficult or impossible to treat in a statistically meaningful way, these side effects are not recognized as caused by the vaccination: Up to the year 1991 "only" 1870 patients in Germany filed claims based on VISE according to the BseuchG [federal law concerning epidemic diseases] [21]. According to Buchwald [31], through 1992, 3407 cases of VISE have been legally confirmed in Germany. This corresponds to a prevalence of 4.3 per 100,000 (persons with the disease at a certain time) at an incidence of 0.21 per 100,000 (new persons acquiring the disease each year). For the population of Germany this translates into about 170 confirmed VISE per year. The number of filed claims is, of course, many times higher.

Gathering data on long-term VISE requires very expensive and laborious observations over long time periods. Those would only be useful, however, if comparable groups of vaccinated and unvaccinated subjects were available for long-term study. Many ethical and forensic problems arise at this point. Furthermore, it is difficult to find a sufficient number of unvaccinated people. There are no comparative long-term studies on vaccinated and unvaccinated populations.

An important question in the assessment of how frequently VISE occur has to do with how much attention is given to the observation of VISE and how frequently the connection between VISE and vaccination is made. The editorial of the J. Med. Microbiol. [11] comments: "The rate of post-vaccinal meningitis varies between studies and may be dependent on how hard the investigators try to uncover such cases." This comment was made with respect to a study on the MMR vaccination in the United Kingdom. In this study the authors show that the risk of aseptic meningitis is not, as previously thought, between 0.4 and 10 per million, but rather between 1 and 11 per ten thousand [16]. During mass-vaccinations this leads to a shockingly high number of complications [32], since in this case everybody, without exception, comes into contact with the (attenuated) virus; not just a part of the population, as with the naturally occurring disease.

Several years elapsed between the 1988 introduction of the MMR vaccination in the UK with the so-called Urabe-mumps strain (sold under the brand names Pluserix and Rimparix in Germany before they were removed from the market in 1992) until the realization of the high risk involved, when strain was replaced by the Jeryl Lynn strain in 1992. It is generally assumed that this strain does not, or does less frequently, lead to aseptic meningitis, even though cases of meningitis have already been reported for this particular vaccine [26].

Development of Vaccines

The fact that there even exist different strains of the vaccine has to do with the way they are produced. All vaccines in use today contain live, attenuated viruses (as do measles, polio, rubella, influenza, yellow-fever, varicella).

The "transmutation" (attenuation) of a virulent wild strain into a vaccine is today still an empirical process. The virus is subjected to several passages in various cell cultures under non-optimal growth conditions. Through this process, the virus changes its specific properties, but remains a "live" virus. The mechanism involved in this attenuation is not known in any detail. Following attenuation, a few safety investigations are made and the reactivity and efficacy is tested on laboratory animals and volunteers.

This process has not changed in essence since the early experiments with vaccines during Pasteur's time. Pasteur, for example, developed a rabies vaccine [52] by cultivating the virus in rabbits and "attenuating" it through variable-length exposures to air. It was this method that made Pasteur famous as well as infamous, since many people died from rabies caused by the vaccination itself [57].

In the case of cowpox vaccination, which has been abandoned in our latitudes, the origin of the virus contained in the vaccine is not even known. The original vaccine from cowpox used to be transferred from child to child because there was no way of conserving it. Re-cultivation on cows was only successfully accomplished after several decades. In the meantime, attenuation of the vaccine had been achieved in thousands of human bodies -- a very dangerous process indeed, because not only the cowpox virus was transmitted, so also were all other infectious diseases of the person. "This vaccine is molecular-biologically different from the variola virus as well as the cowpox virus." [58]

Nowadays there are different vaccines, according to manufacturing processes, put on the market by various companies, all with differing properties. However, the molecular basis of the active principle is in most cases still unknown. The natural virus is indistinguishable from the attenuated virus by serological methods. The Urabe-mumps virus and the Jeryl-mumps virus are identical on that basis. Only through the modern technique of gene sequencing has it recently become possible to identify several differences between the vaccines. It is, however, still unknown why one strain is more reactive than the other. Also unknown is how these genetic differences come about during the process of attenuation. After all, the injection of a live, attenuated virus is a process involving many unknowns and immeasurables, which are taken on  faith due to the obvious success and favorable risk/benefit ratio in fighting the so-called mass epidemics.

Reaction of the Immune System

It is important to realize that the reaction of the immune system to the injected vaccine is only known partially:

It has been observed frequently that antibody levels do not go hand in hand with immunity to the disease ... The investigation of the second branch of immunity, the cell mitigated immune response, has been technically much more difficult and turned out to be very complex ... There exists now a large number of experimental data and insights into the different mechanisms of the cell mitigated immune response including their interactions among each other and with the humoral immune system. Despite that fact, we have only fragmentary knowledge about the concrete role of the cell mitigated immune response to an infection by isolated pathogens in the human body. [58, p270].

These statements are very important:

1. The potentially disease-provoking properties of a vaccine are unknown (the structure of the genome is not known).

2. The reaction of the immune system to the injected vaccine is not known in any detail.

3. The interaction of the altered state of the immune system (after the vaccination) with other variables is unknown.

We don't know which long-term consequences may arise from this, because studies focus predominantly on short-term reactions to the vaccination. There are, however, indications of long-term side effects of the immunization.

Vaccinations and Their Side Effects: Part II - Long-Term Consequences

The occurrence of arthralgia has been documented since the first studies about the rubella vaccination [1-10]. Based on these studies, the Institute of Medicine states: "The committee concludes that a causal connection exists between the RA 27/3 rubella vaccination strain and incidents of chronic arthritis in women." "Thompson et al. report in 1973 on eleven children with recurrent arthritis which lasted at least for 36 months after vaccination with HPV 77; other cases of potential arthritis have since then reported, some with the RA 27/3 strain." [12].

Arthralgia and arthritic affections occur frequently in connection with diseases for which auto-immune reactions are responsible. Examples are Lupus erythematosus, scleroderma, Sharp-syndrome, polymyositis [23], or rheumatoid arthritis.

It would be advisable to study the connection between activation of the immune system and auto-immune diseases, since the number of diseases in this class is large and grows steadily with our increase in knowledge of their pathophysiology: Thyroiditis Hashimoto, primary myxedema, pernicious anemia, auto-immune atrophic gastritis, Morbus Addison, premature menopause, Goodpasture syndrome, myasthenia gravis, sterility in men, Pemphigus vulgaris, sympathetic ophthalmia, multiple sclerosis, auto-immune hemolytic anemia, primary biliary cirrhosis, ulcerative colitis, Sjogren syndrome, and so forth.

We know that immunizations can lead to a deterioration in existing auto-immune diseases [23]. The symptoms which the body exhibits in these cases, because of its specific predisposition, are an indication of a weakness in the regulatory system and are usually overlooked in the "still" healthy person, yet probably present nonetheless (Harris Coulter refers to these cases as "cracked eggs"). "It is generally advisable to abstain from active immunization with live vaccines in the cases of patients with auto-immune diseases or chronic inflammatory processes and vaccinate only in special circumstances and in the presence of strong indications." [23] Further: "It is not aberrant to assume that immunizations, being a considerable interference with the regulation of the immunologic network, can influence the progression of vasculitic illnesses." [23]

Even direct side effects are known: "Ten of 1000,000 vaccinated  Americans developed auto-immune post-vaccinal encephalitis or peripheral neuritis (Guillain-Barre syndrome) one or two weeks after immunization with attenuated influenza vaccine." [64].

However, it has been difficult to prove that immunizations are actively involved in the emergence of auto-immune diseases, because these illnesses develop after a considerable latency period. Furthermore, studies, particularly predictive ones, are very involved and have not been carried out to date.

Patho-Mechanism

It is the right time to launch these important studies, since a patho-mechanism which might be involved in causing such auto-immune diseases has been known for a long time: the cross-reaction between foreign pathogenes (or vaccines), and body chemistry and tissues, so-called molecular mimicry [59]. One can imagine such a relationship between body tissues and foreign matter on three planes: [58]:

1. Between two types of cells, tissues, or micro organisms (e.g., bacteria or viruses), if they use a similar or identical kind of molecule in their structure.

2. Between two antigen molecules if, on their surface, they have not only different but also identical determinants (i.e., mutually recognizable sites).

3. Between two determinants, if they are sufficiently similar to react with the same antibody. In this case the group homologue to the antibody will react strongly while the differently configured determinant will yield a weaker reaction.

All these possibilities apply to vaccines or their constituents. If one introduces antigens into the body (e.g., through vaccination) which have similar structural groups as some body tissue, even if the similarity is only partial, the production of antibodies in the sense of an auto-immune reaction is possible. A well known medical example for this process is the cross reactivity between poly-saccharides of the cell membrane of beta-hemolytic streptococci and the human cortical valve during rheumatic fever. In this case, damage to the valve can occur by means of antibody production.

One may remark that the natural infections can trigger auto-immune reactions, too. However, the vaccination-induced infection differs from the natural one in three important ways, and therefore possesses a different antigen makeup from the latter:

1. The pathway of infection is different from the natural disease (i.e., direct confrontation with the antigen by intramuscular injection).

2. The time of infection is determined by the time of vaccination (e.g., all children in the third month), not by the susceptibility of the body or the "random" contact with the virus (readiness of the immune system).

3. The vaccine is an artificial product with additives which modify the action of the pathogen (modified antigen makeup).

For these reasons, vaccination and natural disease are difficult to compare with respect to their risk potential. Both harbor their own risks.

One other point should not be neglected: It is possible to develop tolerance to certain antigens, the exact opposite of what has been described so far [27]. This principle is exploited by desensitization techniques used therapeutically against hay fever and allergic asthma: the patient is injected with small doses of the allergen (pollen, dust mites, etc.) in order to make them adapt to it.

In a similar manner, the body may develop a tolerance for things which it would normally eliminate due to their harmful nature. Along these lines one could imagine a weakening of the immune response against certain pathogens, e.g., cancer cells:

"A derailment of the immune system may be responsible for the development of various tumors." [60] "Animal experiments have shown that the fetus, with its immature immune system, can develop a tolerance by exposing it to antigenes." [61] However, the exact time when the immune system has matured fully is unknown, and "other factors like age, genetic background, and nutritional status" [27] are also relevant to the induction of a tolerance. Furthermore, the exact mechanisms leading to a antigen tolerance are still mostly in the dark. Therefore, according to current understanding, there exists a possibility to develop a tolerance for surface antigens of tumor cells induced by vaccines exhibiting a cross-reaction with tumor antigens. As a consequence, tumor cells would not be effectively recognized by the immune system and hence also not fully eliminated.

Especially when one thinks about the diptheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) immunization, which is given in the third month, such reactions seem possible. We don't yet fully understand the highly sensitive interplay between fight and tolerance in our immune system. What consequences our interference from outside bears is impossible to predict. Further study is sorely needed in this area since we know of numerous other mechanisms involved in the development of auto-immune diseases (e.g., formation of immune complexes after infection following vaccination [64], etc.).

Purity of Vaccines

Another important issue is the purity of the vaccine. As described above, several vaccines (MMR, polio) are produced by attenuation in living organisms or cell cultures (kidney-cell cultures of monkeys). Despite the utmost cleanliness strived for, it is technologically impossible to exclude all possible risks of contamination entirely.

One such risk is, for example, the infestation of the sample by various viruses (slow virus, BSE, retro-viruses, onco-viruses, etc.) or mycoplasms, all of which are difficult or impossible to detect because of their specific properties. "Virus contaminated cell cultures are a significant problem of the bio-industry." [28] In addition, the latency period of diseases caused by these contaminants is sufficiently long so that a causal connection is almost impossible to detect.

Live vaccines possess a higher risk of contamination with micro-organisms than other vaccines. Ontogenetic viruses are, for example, present in mammalian cell strains used in vaccine production. [64]

Live vaccines attenuated by conventional procedures are commonly carriers of unknown genetic modifications. Particularly when these modifications are only minor, like localized mutations, the danger of back mutation into a pathogenetic virus is possible. The difference, for example, between the Sabin strain and one of the virulent poliomyelitis strains is only the addition of one nucleotide. The mutation into neuro-virulent strains occurred with rabies vaccines and Sabin-polio strains (oral vaccination) of types 2 and 3 [64]. Another drawback of live vaccines lies in their possibility of complementation or recombination with closely related wild strains or vaccine strains. The likelihood and possible consequences of this are wholly unknown.

The Kinman article (Reference 64) poses important thoughts to the issue of vaccination risks.

Because vaccines are applied million-fold on entire populations, overlooked viral contaminations, back mutations, new mutations of the attenuated vaccine, or insufficient attenuation of the pathogen may have dramatic consequences for a large number of people. [30] Big immunization accidents happen not infrequently. Here are a few examples taken from the history of medicine: 102 people contracted encephalitis and 17 died 1944 in Brazzaville due to a yellow fever vaccination. A yellow fever vaccination contaminated with hepatitis virus was conducted in the US in 1942. The consequence was 28,585 cases of hepatitis and 62 deaths. In 1955, the so-called Cutter incidence: 250 cases of polio and 10 deaths were reported, due to active pathogens in the vaccine. 1960 in Berlin, within four weeks there were 25 cases of paralytic poliomyelitis reported, after using an insufficiently attenuated vaccine. [56] Again in 1988-92 there was an increase in encephalitis cases after MMR vaccination.

Undesirable reactions to vaccinations are often the consequence of toxic substances in the vaccine, of contaminants which are not antigens and have been introduced in the preparation of the vaccine (like, e.g., substances used in cell cultures on which the vaccine virus grows, or insufficiently purified bacteriological antigens), or in-vivo replications of the viral or bacterial organisms. Hypersensitivity  reactions may conceivably be due to additives to the vaccine; like, for example, neomycin in the MMR-vaccine or the mercury contained in Thimerosal, a preservative used in the DTP-vaccine. [25].

Considering that there are more unknowns than knowns in this vast field, with all imaginable cross-reactions, gene transfers, etc., it is justifiable to liken the introduction of substances which have been cultivated on living organisms into the human body to a game of lottery. At no time do we know exactly what has been injected nor the consequences arising therefrom.

Vaccinations and Their Side Effects: Part III

Development of Allergies

In today's pediatric practice, we try hard to delay a possible allergen contact of the baby in order to avoid hyper-allergic reactions later on (e.g. neurodermatitis, hay fever, allergic asthma, recently also hyperkinetic syndrome). A study of more than 2000 children showed that feeding them with cow's milk during the first nine months resulted in seven times more frequent complaints of eczema afterwards [62]. For this reason there are a large number of hypoallergic nutritional products on the market, used by many parents, even though the study could not confirm a connection between ingestion of milk protein and occurrence of eczema.

On the other hand, the children are already at a very early age aggressively exposed to foreign proteins (allergens) in the form of immunizations: diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, poliomyelitis, hemophilus influenza, measles, mumps, rubella, and all the corresponding booster shots. In addition, the vaccines (with the exception of polio) come in direct contact with the blood circulation and hence are not subject to antigen modification by, e.g., the gastro-intestinal tract.

Seeking to avoid contact with allergens on one hand, while massively promoting it on the other hand by means of vaccinations seems inconsistent. At least there ought to be studies aimed at investigating the connection between immunizations and subsequent atopies. (Atopy is a congenital disease that produces an immediate allergic response to
certain environmental substances. Common atopies include hayfever, allergic asthma, and skin contact allergies.)

The Meaning of Childhood Diseases

What role the so-called childhood diseases play in the development of children has been the subject of many discussions. Reports of developmental leaps are frequent, yet usually very subjective. There are, however, some observations that childhood diseases do not just harbor risks but can be quite useful.

In Annals of Tropical Paediatrics, [53] the following case is reported:

1984 a 5 year-old girl presented with a bad case of psoriasis. She showed large affected areas on her body and extremities, also involving to a significant degree her scalp. During the following year she was treated by Pediatricians and Dermatologists with coal tar preparations, local steroids, UV light, and dithranol wraps. Despite these therapies and two hospitalizations, the psoriasis was refractory and remained essentially unchanged until she came down with measles. As the measles rash began to spread over her skin, the psoriasis disappeared. Since then she has been free of psoriasis.

Another startling effect is described in Am. J. Med. Hyg.: "The prevalence of parasites and average density of malaria parasites is significantly lower in children who have had measles or influenza before the age of 9 than in the asymptomatic control group." [54]

An article taken from the Lancet, 1985 [55], may be of decisive importance:

Persons who have never had any visible indication of measles, i.e., never developed the skin rash of measles, suffer more frequently from non measles associated diseases." "The data show a highly significant correlation between lack of measles exanthema and auto-immune diseases, seborrhoeic skin diseases, degenerative diseases of the bones and certain tumors . . . We think that the rash is caused by a cell mitigated immune reaction, which destroys the cells infected with the measles virus. If this is correct, the missing exanthema may indicate that intracellular virus components have escaped neutralization during the acute infection. This may later lead to the aforementioned diseases... The presence of specific antibodies at the time of infection interferes with the normal immune response against the measles virus, in particular with the development of the specific cell mitigated immunity (and/or cyto-toxic reactions). The intracellular measles virus can then survive the acute infection and cause diseases manifesting in the adult age.

If the infection with measles happens at a time when there are already antibodies against the measles virus present, i.e., within the first few months after birth, or after administration of measles immune serum because of contact with measles, or after antibody production following vaccination, the immune system cannot react fully to the infection, leaving the virus the chance to become persistent.

If vaccinated children contract measles from the wild strain, the possibility exists that the infection will be overlooked in them, since they do not exhibit the typical signs of measles anymore. It is impossible to say how common these latent measles infections are; finding the connection between latent measles and a disease at adult age is impossible. If this suspicion proves to be true, the merit of the measles vaccination has to be re-evaluated carefully.

Level of Protection

A last word to the level of protection: parents who have their children immunized assume that they will not contract the diseases covered by the vaccine. Unfortunately this is not true to the degree that most parents assume. Some examples:

A population in the Gaza strip which was vaccinated to a density of 90% suffered two outbreaks of poliomyelitis, 1974 and 1976. In these epidemics 34% and 50%, respectively, of all sick children had received 3 to 4 doses of the vaccine. The incidence of diseases was 18 per 100,000 [35].

Hungary had a vaccination program which reached a 93% vaccination density in the target population. A measles epidemic occurred in 1981. In contrast to earlier epidemics, the majority of the sick were vaccinated persons, i.e., about 60%.

During another epidemic between September 1988 and December 1989, there were 17,938 cases of measles recorded (attack rate of 169 per 100,000), with the majority of cases reported in the vaccinated population (attack rates for the populations vaccinated in 1971 and 1972 were 1332 and 1632 per 100,000, respectively). The status of immunization was known of 12,890 (76%) cases of measles. Of these, 8006 (62%) had been vaccinated. [29]

A measles epidemic broke out in an entirely vaccinated population of about 4200 students of three schools in the USA [38]. Further cases from the U.S. have been reported [46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51]

Despite a vaccination density of 96%, Fife, Scotland, was afflicted by a measles epidemic in 1991 and 1992. This was followed shortly thereafter by outbreaks of measles in other parts of the country, notwithstanding the high MMR vaccination density [45].

In Nashville, Tennessee (USA),a large-scale mumps outbreak occurred in the vaccinated population [43]. It has been shown that the immunization against mumps provides in many cases only a 75% protection [39, 40, 43]. Mumps is nowadays regarded to be a mild disease [41, 42].

Conclusion

In conclusion we may say the following:

1. Vaccinations modulate the immune system. What exactly happens lies beyond the capabilities of today's scientific analysis.

2. In particular, long-term consequences of vaccinations are unknown because their existence is difficult to prove statistically.

3. So-called minimal lesions [63] and their consequences are not included in statistical studies of vaccination-induced side effects.

4. Vaccinations do not give complete protection from the disease.

The decisive question one has to ask is whether the expected short-term benefit of vaccinations outweighs the potential long-term damage. We all tend to concern ourselves only with the problems at hand. Illnesses and diseases which threaten us now are more important in our eyes than possible complaints in the future. The fear of a post-measles
encephalitis is bigger than the fear of the rheumatic pain of the 30 or 40 year old adult. If, however, there is indeed a connection between vaccinations and auto-immune diseases or tumor growth, it is questionable whether the cost-benefit analysis of today is still applicable. Considering that homeopathic treatment and prophylaxis can reduce the number of sequelae in childhood diseases significantly, the practice of vaccination becomes even more doubtful.

Knowledge of the nature of chronic diseases as described by Hahnemann are prone to make the homeopathic physician very skeptical towards introducing pathogens into the human body. (S. Hahnemann, Chronic Diseases, Theoretical Part)

Confirming Hahnemann's insights, the collective experiences of seasoned homeopathic physicians show that vaccinations pose an obstacle to cure, and that diseases frequently take their course after a vaccination. Furthermore, childhood diseases are usually managed easily, and unvaccinated children undergo a less complicated development than their vaccinated counterparts.
                                          

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From: ALAN REES
GINSTGATAN 7
230 44 BUNKEFLOSTRAND
SWEDEN
Home tel +46 40 163930
Office tel/fax +46 40 158883
mailto:rees@pp.sbbs.se
17 February 2003

This is an open letter to the authors of the notorious ”Danish MMR Study” but it is also intended for vaccine victims and their families, journalists and the mass media. I would ask all recipients to use the power of the net and disseminate this as widely as possible.

To: Kreesten Meldgaard Madsen, M.D., Anders Hviid, M.Sc., Mogens Vestergaard, M.D., Diana Schendel, Ph.D., Jan Wohlfahrt, M.Sc., Poul Thorsen, M.D., Jørn Olsen, M.D., and
Mads Melbye, M.D. Copy to "Kåre Mølbak" KRM@ssi.dk and others.

Addresses for some of the authors

Kreesten Meldgaard Madsen Mailto:kmm@dadlnet.dk
Anders Hviid, M.Sc., mailto:aii@ssi.dk
Mads Melbye, M.D. mailto:serum@ssi.dk
Mads & Anders telephone: +45-32683163
Poul Thorsen mailto:pct9@cdc.gov
Diana Schendel,  telephone  770 488-7359
I trust that those recipients will inform the others.

I must refer, once again to the infamous “Danish MMR study” of which you are the wretched authors. The criticism of it, by Ulf Brånell and myself can be read at:
http://www.motgift.nu/Div/SIEM/MMRE2E.html
http://www.whale.to/a/branell.html

This criticism was sent to you in December. You were invited to comment on it and contact me. Not one of you has done so, despite e-mails and phone calls (don’t you listen to your answering machine, Diana?). I managed to phone Anders Hviid and a truly bizarre conversation ensued. He first claimed that he did not know who I was, then he remembered but said he had been unable to understand our criticism because he could not read Swedish! Apart from the fact that our criticism is available in both Swedish and English, Anders is the first Dane I have encountered who cannot read Swedish (I can read Danish so what is his problem?) Anders did not want to talk about the study (indeed, he seemed incapable of doing so) and said I should speak to the principal author, Anders Meldgaard.

Me: What is his phone number?
Anders: I don’t know. I don’t have it.
Me: Then how the hell do you communicate? Carrier pigeons?
Anders: He rings me when he wants something.
Me: Then I’ll talk to you.
Anders:  I can’t. You must talk to the principal author.
Me: But your name is on the report.
Anders: I can’t comment on that. You must talk to the principal author.

There was much more to this hilarious conversation. You can read the rest when I write my book. If this is the way you operate, no wonder your report is such a disaster. I also asked Anders if he had the courage of his convictions and was willing to let me vaccinate him. “I would have to ask my colleagues.” Apparently an employee of the Danish Serum Institute has to ask permission to be vaccinated. Extraordinary! He said he would consult with his colleagues and ring me “in a couple of days”. He never did.

I therefore arrived at the Serum Institute with my vaccine-injured son on Friday February 7 and asked to speak to Anders Hviid and Mads Melbye (who also works there). I was told that they would not speak to me and that they were calling the police to have me removed from the premises. I said that was fine by me, but did the Serum Institute really want the publicity that would ensue from chucking a vaccine victim, a helpless child, into the snow? Suddenly Kåre Möllbak was available to talk to me. Now there you have a true believer. Even though his own son suffered convulsions after vaccination, he still thinks vaccines are great and that the benefits outweigh the risks. He said it was a pleasure to talk to me and we agreed that a meeting should be arranged.

I would therefore like you all to meet me on Friday 7 March at 16.30 at:

Statens Serum Institut
Artillerivej 5 2300 Copenhagen S
Denmark
Telephone: +45-32683163
Fax: +45 3268 3868

and we shall have a seminar together. I suggest we conclude around 20.30. We shall go through your study and the criticism of it. We shall also go through a number of scientific studies on the injuries caused by vaccines and discuss the level of compensation victims should receive as well as treatment modalities and the legal aspects, including the possible liability of people such as yourselves and the various pending lawsuits. We need an appropriate room with an overhead projector, a copying machine and an on-line computer with a projector attachment. My vaccine-injured son will be with me and you can all take turns looking after him. This will be a salutary and educational experience for you all. You cheerfully admit that vaccines cause injuries, brain damage and deaths (it says so on the product insert – why is this never shown to us?) but do everything in your power to avoid meeting a victim (see above). This will be a great opportunity for you to see what vaccines do. For my son you should supply a mattress, pillow, blankets and suitable playthings, bottled spring water, gluten-free crispbread (made by the Vasa company), organically-grown fruit (bananas and apples) and hummous.

My fee for the seminar will be GBP 1000. This is to compensate me to some extent for the costs and loss of income I have incurred because of you. When your article was published I was contacted by outraged vaccine victims from around the world. They pointed out that  your study was financed by the CDC (ardent pro-vaccinators) and the NAAR (who receive funding from vaccine manufacturers). I was told that your study was blatant fraud and an attempt to write an alibi for yourselves and your colleagues now that autism has reached epidemic proportions. They begged me to write a rebuttal, which Ulf Brånell and I duly did. I had to take time of work to do so and to write letters such as this. Meanwhile you get paid for your trouble. The injustice and unfairness of this is appalling. You seem to think this is a game. You are given vast sums of money to conduct a study (some must have been set aside for follow-up, so my fee should be no problem) and you do a lousy job. You seem unable to answer your critics and appear to be trying to silence them, presumably hoping that your study will look good on your CVs and that nobody will notice. You should be ashamed of yourselves. You should publish a retraction in the medical journals and urge them to print our criticism, which they have so far refused to do.

To all other recipients of this message: other vaccine victims and their families may wish to attend the seminar. Please spread the word, especially to families in southern Sweden and the Copenhagen area. Please bring your vaccine-injured children if you are able to. The Serum Institute is a 10-minute cycle ride from the central station. It would be courteous if those attending the seminar were to inform the Serum Institute. You might also like to inform the media:

In southern Sweden: the newspaper Sydsvenska Dagbladet:
mailto:sydsvenskan@sydsvenskan.se
In Denmark the newspaper Politiken mailto:indland@pol.dk
then there is the television of course:
http://www.tv2.dk
http://www.dif.dk/

It is also possible that the authors will once again threaten to call the police and ask them to throw us out. It would save a lot of time if someone tells the police we are coming: http://www.politi.dk/ and asks them if the authors of the report are guilty of manslaughter and causing actual bodily harm. It is well documented that vaccines cause death and injury to perfectly healthy people, the authors are all vaccinators and promote vaccines, so do they not have a case to answer?

For those attending the seminar, please acquire, read and bring to the meeting the following publications in addition to the article by Brånell and myself:

Book: Vaccination, by Viera Scheibner. (ISBN 0 646 15124 X)
Book: Behavioural problems in childhood - the link to vaccination Viera Scheibner (ISBN 0-9578007-0-3)
Book: Vaccination, social violence and criminality, by Harris Coulter :(ISBN 1-55643-103-1).
Book: Vaccination, a parent's dilemma by Greg Beattie (ISBN1-876308-00-1)
And all the books by Neil Z. Miller
Print out, read and bring with you the following articles by Viera Scheibner.
http://www.nexusmagazine.com/shakenbaby.html
http://www.whale.to/vaccine/sch.html or
http://66.70.140.217/vaccine/sch.html

similarly this article:
Voices of Safety International (VOSI) is a Standards Development
Organization (SDO) which is recognized by the National Institute of
Standards & Technology. See http://www.voicesofsafety.com  home page "About VOSI".
Click on "Public Health".
Click on the V50.2 standard and read the associated Research Report that PROVES  that children are 12 times more likely to become autistic after being vaccinated compared to never having been vaccinated.

You should also familiarise yourselves with the following sites and material on the net:
The founder and president of the Autism Research Institute, Bernard Rimland, is of the opinion that vaccines cause autism. Here is an article he wrote on the subject:
http://www.autism.com/ari/editorials/explosion.html

http://www.whale.to/vaccines.html or  http://66.70.140.217/vaccines.html

http://www.informedparent.co.uk

We shall also discuss treatments that can be used to treat and detoxify those injured by vaccines:
International Child Development Resource Center – Dr Jeff Bradstreet
http://www.icdrc.org/

http://www.azavenue.com/kelly/organizations.htm
http://www.vaccinationnews.com/default.htm
For more information about monkey virus SV40 in vaccines:
http://www.rense.com/health/salk.htm
http://www.vaccine-info.com
http://www.vran.org
http://www.kessick.demon.co.uk/2commonspr.html
http://www.whale.to/vaccines/horwin.html
http://www.pnc.com.au/~cafmr/
This site is important. Conventional medicine is built on a foundation of fraud. 85% of medical and surgical procedures are scientifically unproven (British Medical Journal October 1991) Only one in 24,000 drug reactions is ever reported by the doctor (British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology 1997; 43:177-181). Drug reactions are now the world's fourth major killer. They cause more than 100,000 deaths in the USA every year. Only heart disease, cancer and stroke are more dangerous than drugs (JAMA 1998; 279 1200-05) Few people are aware of how endemic and widespread fraud is in medicine.

For an in-depth study, read the book The Betrayers of Truth by Broad & Wade, or order The Pharmaceutical Drug racket" from the Vaccination Information site below.
http://www.vaccinfo.karoo.net
http://www.ias.org.nz
http://www.avn.org.au
http://www.empiricaltherapies.com
http://www.new-atlantean.com/global/vaccine.html
Neil Z. Miller's site. Neil is the author of several books on vaccines.
http://www.cco.net/~trufax/vaccine/vacindex.html
http://www.unc.edu/~aphillip/www/chf/index.htm
http://www.909shot.com
http://unc.edu/~aphillip/www/vaccine/informed.htm
http://www.ias.org.nz/
http://www.jabs.org.uk
http://www.iahf.com/index1.html
http://home.san.rr.com/via
http://vaccines.net/risks.htm
http://www.doctorsaredangerous.com/
http://www.mercola.com/
Dr Mercola writes:  lot of people ask me where to find good articles on
the subject of vaccination. I recommend http://www.redflagsweekly.com
and http://www.vaccinationnews.com
http://www.whale.to/m/haley.html
"A single vaccine given to a six-pound newborn is the equivalent of giving a 180 lb. adult 30 vaccinations on the same day. Include in this the toxic effects of high levels of aluminum and formaldehyde contained in some vaccines, and the synergist toxicity could be increased to unknown levels. Further, it is very well known that infants do not produce significant levels of bile or have adult renal capacity for several months after birth. Bilary transport is the major biochemical route by which mercury is removed from the body, and infants cannot do this very well. They also do not possess the renal (kidney) capacity to remove aluminum. Additionally, mercury is a well-known inhibitor of
kidney function." - Boyd Haley Ph.D.

The following study shows that bcg vaccine increases the risk of tb:
http://www.birthworks.org/primalhealth/databank.phtml?study=122
http://www.vaclib.org/index.htm
http://www.VaccineInfo.net
http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/vaccine.htm
http://www.sickofdoctors.com


See you all in Copenhagen!

Alan Rees

Subj: thimerosal in Vaccines
Date: 1/27/03 8:47:04 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: weedlets@bellsouth.net (Leslie Weed)
To: Services4Health@aol.com

File: ThimerosalRevision1-9-03.doc (251392 bytes)

Donna,

The following is a letter I sent out to Congressmen, Senators and various news organizations. The contents of this letter are backed up by facts.

I cannot understand why no one has highlighted the fact many federal codes were broken the minute thimerosal was put into a vaccine. If the Code of Federal Regulations were followed we would not be having this discussion... No one is pointing this out and taking this angle, we cannot get caught in the "spin" of "prove it is unsafe." No! The drug companies have to prove to ME that thimerosal and vaccines are SAFE! (They cannot). This is quite frustrating to me and the drug companies need to address this before they get away with it!

I have a few questions for Our Government and Big Pharma:

* What are the penalities for failing to follow such specific Federal Codes and guidelines (Title 21 Sec 610.15)?

* Are the manufacturers liable when they add a preservative (known neuro toxin) that has scant toxological testing? Where is their 10 year double blind study?

*Didn't the FDA review the warnings on Merck's Safety Data Sheet for thimerosal that stated "Precaution: All contact with the human body must be avoided..." (This Safety data has now been removed from Merks web site, but I obtained copies before they took it off)! SEE ATTACHMENT

The "scientific" community says there is no proof of thimerosal causing autism and neurological disorders because the toxological studies and the science on thimerosal is so scant. MY POINT EXACTLY! How did this toxin, ethyl mercury get approved and in vaccines when no proper testing was
done and was continually added more and more each decade with no scientific back up!

I think Merck did a fine job of explaining this very clearly in their Safety Data Sheet (see attachment)

Thank you for your time, hopefully you may know someone who can do some investigating and have these questions posed to our dear friends at Eli Lilly.

Please feel free to forward this letter and attachment to anyone you may think might help~

Thank you !

Leslie Weed
Ponte Vedra Beach, Fl
weedlets@bellsouth.net

PS Many more Federal codes were broken, than the one above, I have them all!
Below is what the attachment says...
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January 8, 2003

Dear Senator,

Our four-year old daughter, Lanier, suffers from significant neurological disorders that are believed to stem from an excess of ethyl mercury injected into her blood stream via childhood vaccinations. The doctors treating her have performed extensive blood, urine and metabolic testing to confirm evidence of heavy metal toxicity. Thimerosal, the mercury based preservative, is the source of ethyl mercury. This preservative was used in infant, multi-dose vaccines and was banned in 2001 due to its toxic nature.

Our research has uncovered significant disparities between the known effects of thimerosal and the Federal Code regulating the use of vaccine preservatives. Consider the Safety Data Sheet that Merck uses for thimerosal

The stringent warnings of this label detail the extreme toxic nature of thimerosal. The Code of Federal Regulations, General Biological Products Standards, which regulates use of all vaccine preservatives, seems intended to specifically disqualify compounds like thimerosal:

All ingredients used in a licensed product, shall meet generally accepted standards of purity and quality. Any preservative used shall be sufficiently nontoxic so that the amount present will not be toxic to the recipient.

These guidelines were set to take reasonable precautions to avoid injuries to the vaccine recipient. Thimerosal, because of its extraordinarily toxic nature failed to meet the criteria of a vaccine preservative. Failing to follow the specific guidelines for a vaccine preservative, the drug companies
endangered infants injected with thimerosal. It is a fact that if the guidelines were followed as specified, thimerosal and its toxic properties would not be an issue and many children would have been spared permanent neurological damage.

In 1982, a scientific panel convened by the FDA concluded that thimerosal was significantly more toxic for living tissue than it was for the bacteria it was supposed to kill: The panel concludes that thimerosal is not safe for [over-the-counter] topical use because of its potential for cell damage if applied to broken skin and its allergy potential.

This study constitutes the only FDA formal research on the external effects of thimerosal. Based on the results of the study, the scientific panel recommended in 1982, that thimerosal be removed from over the counter products. Sixteen years later in 1998, thimerosal was finally banned and removed from over the counter products. Unfortunately, thimerosal remained in vaccines and children were receiving bolus doses that far exceeded EPA guidelines.

Despite this paucity of scientific data, use of the mercury-based preservative, thimerosal increased significantly over the past half century. In the 1950's, on the average, a child received 25 micrograms of ethyl mercury through vaccinations. By the time Lanier was born in 1998, a child typically received 237.5 micrograms of ethyl mercury via their vaccinations, some children receiving as much as 125 times over the safe limit set by the EPA. An increase of this significance without accompaniment by supporting data is scientifically irresponsible, especially in light of the 0.1  micrograms of mercury per 1 kilogram per day limit the EPA now deems is a safe ceiling for exposure to ethyl mercury.

Children who have suffered neurological disorders such as autism from exposure to thimerosal are now required to go through the Vaccine Compensation Act. This Act was implemented in 1986 to compensate children who experienced rare, unforeseen, and adverse reactions to a vaccine, not its
preservative. Children sustaining injuries from thimerosal were significantly exposed repeatedly to a proven hazardous toxin. This now places the burden unfairly on taxpayers and the government to compensate and care for these children. The Vaccine Compensation Act was not designed to protect the miscalculations of the pharmaceutical companies who failed to follow specific guidelines and federal regulations.

We question the motives of a Congress and Senate that so willingly insulates the pharmaceutical industry. Such recent legislative provisions eliminate the constitutional rights of an innocent child who cannot talk or ask why. However, her parents can and will.

The time has come for the drug companies and the government to reconcile the epidemic of neurological disorders that have occurred in the 90's and understand their source. The provisions in the Homeland Security Bill are premature, irresponsible and smack of the backroom dealings that have defined corporate America. These provisions in the Homeland Security Bill that  protect the drug manufacturers from thimerosal-related product liability must be removed.

Every child whose life has been altered by this neurotoxin deserves the  opportunity for a straight answer. The Homeland Security Bill in its present form eliminates that chance.

Thank you and we trust that you will give this matter the attention it deserves.

Sincerely yours,


Leslie H. Weed and Bobby Weed

412 Ponte Vedra Blvd.
Ponte Vedra Beach, Fl. 32082

(904) 285-6968
 

http://www.citypages.com/databank/24/1160/article11078.asp

Shots in the Dark

Questioning childhood vaccinations:
It's not just for paranoiacs anymore

by Beth Hawkins

At the end of most of my kids' checkups, their pediatrician sends in a physician's assistant with a tray bearing whatever vaccines might be due and a miniature Looney Toons bandage. The purpose of the Band-Aid is obvious, but until recently I never gave much thought to the role of the creepily chipper aides. I just assumed that they allowed the doctor to see enough patients to pay both her malpractice insurance and her mortgage.

Lately, though, I've been wondering if the doctor lets someone else deliver the jabs in an effort to remain friendly and trustworthy to her tiny patients. It's a cynical thought, I know. And yet I feel like Pollyanna when I try to fathom the cynicism that allowed Congress to agree to outlaw lawsuits against Eli Lilly & Co. for injuries allegedly caused by thimerosal, a vaccine preservative. And I'm not mollified one bit by the public health establishment, which by and large has responded by asking people to pay no attention to the hypothesis behind the curtain.

Vaccines work because of something called herd immunity. If enough of us get them, we can vanquish a particular disease. Conversely, if enough of us refuse vaccines--that is, shirk our responsibility to the collective good because of the slight individual risk--we'll witness  the return of some horrific diseases.

This is why it's so hard to decline a vaccine on behalf of one's child. Just try to register Junior in school or day care without proving he's had his shots. There is a process by which Minnesota  parents can declare themselves conscientious vaccine objectors, but using it without turning into a homeschooler is about as hard as avoiding the draft.

As a child, I got a handful of vaccinations. Ten years ago, Minnesota recommended eight. But my kids are slated to endure some 28 separate injections designed to protect against more than a dozen illnesses. Meanwhile, at the same time that the number of needles has gone up, there's been an alarming rise in the number of children with autism and related disorders--more than 700 percent in Minnesota in the past decade, according to educators' statistics.

A number of parents have suspected there's a cause-and-effect relationship between these two trends; most often they blamed the combined measles, mumps, and rubella shot for their children's autism. But for the most part science has debunked their theories, and the  public health establishment has dismissed them as the lunatic fringe.

Thimerosal, however, appears poised to change all of this. Eli Lilly is under siege by parents who are convinced that the preservative caused their children to develop autism and other developmental disabilities. And this time, the medical establishment has quickly conceded that research is needed.

Thimerosal contains mercury, a powerful neurotoxin long since proven to cause brain damage. It has been used in minute amounts to kill bacteria and fungi in multi-dose vials of vaccines since the '30s, but it wasn't until 1997 that scientists thought to add up the cumulative amount of mercury in childhood vaccines. Horrifyingly, the FDA found that the amount of mercury children received via vaccines had tripled in the '90s, and that perhaps 30 million American children had been  exposed to dangerous levels of the toxin.

Two years ago, the federal government recommended removing thimerosal from as many vaccines as possible. Today, only a couple of children's vaccines still contain the preservative. But the issue has only just become visible, thanks in part to the crush of product liability attorneys trolling the Internet in search of thimerosal plaintiffs.

Over Veterans Day weekend last November, congressional Republicans tucked a rider barring lawsuits against Eli Lilly over thimerosal's alleged ill effects into the Homeland Security Act. It was hard to see the move as anything other than the kind of thinly veiled gift to Corporate America that, if not attached to such a headline-grabbing piece of legislation, would certainly provoke some embarrassing debate. Indeed, no one on Capitol Hill even attempted to advance a  rationale, much less admit authoring the measure. And plenty of folks who spent the long weekend larding the anti-terrorism bill with pork had reason to: During the 2002 election cycle, Eli Lilly gave $1.6  million to political candidates. That's more than any other single pharmaceutical company offered up, and 79 percent of it went to Republicans.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist had previously authored a similar measure, which failed. Congressional aides told the New York Times that the thimerosal language appeared in a different typeface from the rest of the proposed legislation, making them suspect it had simply been transposed into Homeland Security. But Frist denied doing the cutting and pasting.

White House budget director Michael Daniels Jr. is a former Lilly exec, and last June, Bush appointed chairman and CEO Sidney Taurel to a presidential council on domestic security. Yet the White House denied pursuing the rider. (It's worth noting that Homeland Security also gave the feds the right to compel people to get the smallpox vaccine, while barring liability complaints against its makers.)

A week later Eli Lilly got another gift from the Bush administration: At the behest of Health and Human Services secretary Tommy Thompson, the Justice Department asked a federal claims court to seal its 1,000 thimerosal cases. The court in question administers claims against a government fund set up to compensate people injured by vaccines. Thompson's only ostensible rationale was that he was trying to preserve his right to control what information about the fund is made public. But critics asserted that the government was trying to keep them from gleaning any information that might later be used against Lilly.

In January, Congress did repeal the ban on thimerosal suits, but it's hard to imagine what it will take to restore the good faith necessary to sell the concept of herd immunity. A hearing held last month at the state capitol to consider expanding the number of vaccines required in Minnesota drew plenty of angry, active, and organized parents who appear to have won over several conservative legislators. Public health officials, meanwhile, just kept suggesting that a handful of conspiracy theorists were undermining public confidence in vaccines.

Steve Miles, a politically savvy physician who works for the University of Minnesota's Center for Bioethics, can wax eloquent on the pharmaceutical industry's stranglehold on Washington and on the government's abuse of the public's trust. But he still believes in the collective responsibility of the rest of us. "One of the questions people who don't get vaccinated have to ask themselves is what their responsibility is to the people who die from the breakdown in herd immunity," he says. "There's a sense that we don't belong in the public commons; in a sense, that we are all living in gated communities."

All things being equal, I believe in public responsibility, too. But it's precisely the perception of individual risk that created those gated communities in the first place. And when the needles are aimed at one of the chubby little thighs in my charge, it all boils down to one very simple reality: If Eli Lilly doesn't have to live with thimerosal's unforeseenconsequences, if the company can retreat into a government-sponsored enclave, then we aren't all sharing the risk.

Testimony by Jerri Johnson
Health and Human Services Policy Committee
January 27, 2003

Costs to the State of Adding Vaccine Requirements

Immunization requirements are enforced by child care providers, state licensers of child care providers, and the public schools. This enforcement costs money for staff to do record-keeping and follow-up. Much of this cost is borne by the state. A study in 1998 estimated that enforcing the immunization requirements cost the state at that time around $5 million per year.

Will adding new vaccines to the list increase costs to schools? It will, because many more follow-up contacts will be needed for these particular vaccines. Currently, 35% of parents are not vaccinating their children for chickenpox. Minneapolis Public Schools estimated that each parent follow-up contact cost $18 in staff time.

Minneapolis Public Schools wrote to the Department of Health asking that no immunization requirements be added until funding is in place to enforce them.  In addition to the state costs of enforcing vaccine requirements, these vaccines cost money in health care dollars.

I have included a handout in your package with medical cost analyses of pneumococcal and chickenpox vaccines. Chickenpox and pneumococcal vaccine programs actually cost more money than they save from preventing disease. The pneumococcal vaccine, for example costs around $60 per dose, or $240 per child for the four-dose series. The chickenpox vaccine also does not recover costs when looking at the cost of the vaccine compared to the cost of the disease. Only by factoring in indirect costs, such as lost wages for a parent to stay home with a child sick with chickenpox, is this vaccine deemed to be cost-effective.

But these assessments of indirect costs did not include the cost of caring for vaccine-injured children. Hospitalization and medical costs for these children are extremely high. During school years, they require special education services, costs borne by the state. These children may later be cared for in group homes the rest of their lives, incurring huge costs to the state. Twelve per cent of our children now have chronic disease of some sort, and many medical experts believe that the rapid increase in diseases such as autism, ADD, juvenile diabetes, and asthma is partially attributable to the increase in required vaccines.

A parent who stays home for 5 days when her child has chickenpox may use vacation days or may lose some income. But parents of children disabled by vaccines often must quit work permanently to stay home with their child, losing years of income, and the vaccine-injured child may never grow up to earn a productive income. 

But ultimately, the question before us is not about dollars and cents. When we are preventing communicable disease, and when we are preventing vaccine injuries, the real issue is the value in human life that can't be quantified. You can't put a price on the joy of having a healthy baby, and you can't quantify the grief of a parent who loses a baby, no matter what the cause.

And so the Minnesota Natural Health Coalition is calling for the following:

1. Safer vaccines. Pharmaceutical companies need to be held accountable to produce vaccines that have fewer serious side effects.

2. The State of Minnesota should not require new vaccines if we do not know whether they are safe for our children. In the case of the pneumococcal vaccine, during the pre-licensure study, where 17,000 healthy infants with no acute or underlying chronic disease were given Prevnar, 162 infants required emergency room care and 24 were hospitalized within 72 hours of receiving the vaccine, 8 infants who had never had seizures before had seizures within 72 hours. 40 infants who had never had asthma before required doctor's care for asthma, wheezing, shortness of breath or breath-holding within 72 hours of the vaccine. One previously healthy child developed congestive heart failure within 72 hours of the vaccine. Three children developed hypotonic/hyporesponsive episodes. Were these serious situations caused by the vaccine? There is no way to determine this without following the time-honored scientific process of comparing the test group with a control group that did not receive a vaccine. This was not done. One variable, the test vaccine, was compared with another variable, another experimental vaccine.

Yet the physicians who conducted the study concluded at the end, this test "did not reveal any severe adverse events related to vaccination that resulted in hospitalization, emergency room visits, or clinic visits." This is the Vaccine Information Sheet on Prevnar given to  parents at their clinics. It says, "So far, no serious reactions have been associated with this vaccine." Given the structure of the
clinical study, it is not scientifically possible to say that these  reactions were caused by the vaccine, nor is it possible to say that they were not.

3. If it is inherently impossible to produce a vaccine without a significant risk of serious adverse effects or death, then we need to be clear about that. If the pneumococcal vaccine effectively reduces pneumococcal disease, but at the price of death or disability to a few babies, we need to know those numbers. Our research needs to be science-based, with control groups, and parents need to know the risks so they can make an informed decision.

We are having a good debate in this country on the smallpox vaccine. This could be a great model for our infant vaccination programs. Public health officials are doing a good job of articulating the risks of smallpox and the risks of the vaccine. 1 or 2 deaths per million from the vaccine is being taken very seriously. Adults are weighing the risks and benefits. 

We should afford the same courtesy to infants and their parents in the routine vaccine program. 

4. Parents should be educated that if their child is ill, vaccination should be postponed. They should be told that if their child suffered a seizure or bad reaction to a previous vaccine, she is at risk for an even greater reaction to the next one. .If parents have a family history of a severe vaccine reaction, they should know that their child may be at risk. The CDC already has guidelines on this, and they are printed on the sheets given to parents when the child receives a vaccine. If parents knew this before making their appointments with the doctor, perhaps many vaccine injuries could be avoided. Again, the smallpox discussion is a good model on this - people are being informed that if you have eczema, you are at risk from the vaccine. . If you are on corticosteroids, you are at risk. Similarly, parents of infants could be advised on this at an early date.

5. If new vaccines being produced can not be safer, then perhaps we need to rethink the model which vaccinates the entire population for a disease. This model was developed in response to overwhelming epidemics like polio. However, in the case of invasive pneumococcal disease, which affects only 0.2% of Minnesota children, this may not be an appropriate model.

6. Finally, parents who believe that their child was harmed or killed by a vaccine need to be heard and taken seriously. They should not be brushed off by being told it was not related to the vaccine. Their experience should be studied for clues to how we can have safer vaccine programs.

Dear Mr. Weiss,

I am writing on behalf of thousand of Moms and Dads across America and around the world who believe their children with autism spectrum disorders including ADHD were damaged by the mercury in vaccines. Twenty years ago in the U.S. alone, there was 1 in 2000 children affected, now it is 1 in 250...to date almost half a million American childen. We call it the silent epidemic because these children to a large extent cannot communicate. Many of them are in severe pain as confirmed by gastro-intestinal procedures. Their immune systems are rock bottom. Their whole metabolism systems are severely off kilter.

These children are NOT psychiatric cases. They are like the canaries in a coalmine. They are telling us that something is foul in the environment. The government is going to extreme measures to cover this up, rolling out their expensive PR machines everytime a link between the vaccines and autism dares to make itself public. This disorder is costing mulit-millions of US dollars and it is rising every year with no end in sight. I can't even begin to describe to you the toll in human suffering both by the child and by the parents who stand by helplessly watching their child disintegrate before their eyes. Eight new cases are diagnosed alone in California every day.

An emergency rally is being held in Washington on Thursday, March 19 in the presence of many politicians who despite the considerable background pressure to let these children drift into obscurity, are most willing to step forward and speak out against this travesty perpetrated on our young and our most vulnerable...our children.

We are not prepared to watch this happen. What the present political administration is doing is political recklessness at it's worst. Children are our future. This mercury is poison. It is still being used in doctor's practices across America and around the world with impunity.

Can you please support us in our rally? Can you send please Ralph Nader to us?

We are so very desperate and the number of desperate parents are growing rapidly in ranks all across America and around the world everyday.

Please help us to wake America up! The world is watching us. I enclose the link to a website with fuller details regarding the rally.
I look forward to hearing from you.

Julie Griffiths

 

Parents,

Sunday, February 23, 2003, I was home in the early afternoon with my son, Eric. My wife, Helen and my 14 year-old daughter, Julie were off at a play performance a mile away from home. For those that do not know, Eric is 6 feet tall and weighs approximately 150-160 pounds and is 18 years old. He is very muscular. I'm 5'10", 220 pounds and 58 years old.

Eric was eating when he started to have a tantrum. I had to run in one of the rooms and lock the door until Eric calmed down. Usually it works but this day it didn't. Eric started to kick, head butt, scratch and bite. I couldn't get into the bathroom door to lock it so I ran to the front door. Eric followed me where he head butted me and pulled my hair.

I then ran outside across the street to get help from my neighbor. Eric followed me. When I got to the front door of my neighbor, Eric bit me left hand and had two of my fingers in his mouth clamping down with his teeth (the index finger next to my thumb and the finger next to that). I was in extreme pain and with my right hand worked Eric's teeth off of my left hand. If I hadn't done it sooner, I would have lost the two fingers because the one finger was bitten so severely that the nail was hanging off. I rang the doorbell and my neighbor came out and helped me with his wife and a young girlfriend of their son. Another neighbor came and helped with Eric. I was treated for my head scrape, my nose bleed and wounds on my hand (that I later found out were more severe). The police were called (two came) and my wife and daughter were called. The Emergency Squad came and took me to the Emergency Room at the local hospital.

At the hospital, there were X-rays taken and they found that my left index finger (one next to the thumb) had the tip of the bone amputated from the rest of my finger. Eric had actually bitten through the bone of
my hand. A hand surgeon was in the area and he came by and after my wounds were cleaned and my finger soaked in an antibiotic solution, it was stitched up with the finger nail put back in the correct position. It was bandaged up along with my other finger on the end that had been badly bitten. I received antibiotics and pain killers and are taking them now ....Augmentin and Oxycodone w/Apap respectively.

This isn't the first time Eric has attacked me, Helen and Julie and it was mentioned at the December 10, 2002 hearing in Washington DC conducted by Congressman Dan Burton. (see http://www.autismautoimmunityproject.org/120302_hearing.html) Congressman Burton mentioned that his grandson could eventually be 6'10" and ask the people at the hearing what would happen when all these children grow up and have these behaviors.

I have been fighting since 1995 regarding the MMR vaccine link to autism. In 1998, our organization, The Autism Autoimmunity Project was founded and to date we have raised a bit over $120,000.00 for research. In talking to Dr. Vijendra Singh of the Utah State University (who has been funded for his research into the autoimmune link to autism) he knows that we could be treating these children with various immunotherapies but unfortunately the money is not there. We could do a lot more for the children with autism but most of the millions of dollars of research funds are spent on genetic and drug studies.....and very little on the immune and gastrointestinal research unless it is by small organizations like ours.

It is a shame because in 5, 10 and 15 years, there will be more families that will have the same thing happen to them. Will the children attack a family member, someone at school or a stranger? These children will grow up to be large, healthy adults.....what will happen then? I'm facing the situation now where I'm racing against time to get my son better through homeopathic treatment. My son regressed into autism after the MMR vaccine in 1986 (at one year, three months old) and in 1993-1994, his behaviors got worse because of three hepatitis B shots he got with thimerosal in them. By looking at the pediatrician's notes that we recently got and a record of the vaccines Eric got, an MD could see the connection as could me and my wife.

What will happen over the next 5, 10 and 15 years? Will we get the treatments or will we face a bleak landscape of children growing into adults and not being helped? Our family has to face the prospect that if we can't help Eric, he will be sent to an institution where he will surely die.

Raymond Gallup, Founder
Autism Autoimmunity Project
 

http://www.ias.org.nz/whats_all_the_fuss_about.htm

 What's all the fuss about?

 An introduction to the vaccination controversy

 Many parents who have contacted us have requested that we "send them all  the information on vaccination" so that they can make an informed choice  for themselves. It would be great if it was that easy. Unfortunately, the  issue is complex and it is not a simple task to become informed. However,  knowing how to find the information along with a basic understanding of the  issues can help get you there more quickly . The aim of this leaflet is to  do just that.

 The key issues that members of the IAS and other similar organisations  worldwide believe and are concerned about can be listed as follows:-

 1. Vaccination has not been solely responsible for the major decline  in infectious diseases, despite what you may have heard from those  promoting vaccines. Improvements in living conditions including
 sanitation, water supplies and nutrition have been the main reasons  for this. One study concluded that vaccines had been responsible for  "less than 3%" of the decline. Scarlet fever, for example, declined  steadily throughout the last 100 years to the point of being totally  eradicated without a vaccine ever being widely used.

 2. Vaccines are not always very effective in preventing the disease  that they are supposed to protect against. There have been several  medical studies done where outbreaks of diseases have occurred in  highly vaccinated populations (up to 98% vaccinated). As is the case  with many outbreaks of diseases, the majority of reported cases of  measles during the 1997 New Zealand epidemic were vaccinated. A recent  whooping cough epidemic in the Netherlands occurred mainly in  vaccinated people.

 3. Vaccines work by producing antibodies, but the presence of  antibodies will not necessarily prevent disease. This can be shown in  the disease called agammaglobulinemia where the body does not produce  antibodies. People with this disease still don't catch every disease  going, and conversely studies of outbreaks of disease in highly  vaccinated populations found that many cases of the diseases occurred  in people with a supposed 'protective' level of antibodies to that  disease.

 4. The whole basis of modern infectious disease treatment including  vaccination is based on the 'germ theory' as attributed to Louis  Pasteur. Many scientists including Pasteur himself have admitted that  the theory is flawed and some of his findings were based on fraudulent  results of studies, and plagiarism of Bechamp's work, which Bechamp  maintained that Pasteur did not even understand.

 5. Vaccines contain very toxic substances that are poisonous to our  bodies. For example, some vaccines contain formaldehyde, which is a  very poisonous compound with no known 'safe level'. Many contain  thimerosal, which is a mercury compound that has recently been banned  by the US FDA for over-the-counter drug use. Neomycin, another common  ingredient, is contraindicated for injection. Other components include  aluminium salts which have been linked to alzheimer's disease, and  human albumin that has been linked to cancer. Traces of foreign  genetic material from the host animal tissue can also cause severe  adverse reactions.

 6. Vaccines have much higher rate of side effects than is officially  recognised. Preliminary vaccine safety studies usually have enough  numbers to gauge only the minor adverse effects. These studies are  done only on infants selected from strict criteria so give a poor  reprentation of the general public. Manufacturers rely on the  reporting of adverse events by medical staff administering the  vaccines once they are licensed to give the full picture on these  side-effects. These figures are grossly incorrect due to  underreporting and the fact that many vaccine side-effects are not  recognised. A study in the USA where the reporting of adverse affects  is mandatory found that less than 10% of events were ever reported. In  New Zealand reporting is voluntary, and most of the serious adverse  events that we are aware of would not have been reported if we had not  done so. Despite this, between 1 July, 1996 and 31 March 1998, there  were a total of over 1400 adverse vaccine reactions reported to CARM  (Centre for Adverse Reactions Monitoring) in Dunedin of which 4 were  deaths. We believe that this is the tip of the iceberg because many  adverse effects are considered to be coincidental by health  professionals who are not aware of what constitutes a vaccine reaction  and won't admit that they do occur.

 7. No proper long-term studies of vaccine side-effects or their  effects on the immune system have been done using unvaccinated  children as "normal" controls.

 8. Very few scientific, "double-blind, placebo based, controlled  trials" have ever been done on vaccines. These trials are what the  medical profession use as the benchmark to test the effectiveness of  other medical procedures. They involve comparing a group of people  given one treatment against another group of people given a placebo.  There is therefore very little sound scientific proof of vaccine  effectiveness. One large World Health Organisation trial that was done  on the BCG vaccine for tuberculosis found more cases of TB in the  vaccinated group than the unvaccinated.

 9. Because the majority of children in the world are vaccinated, it is  becoming increasingly difficult to compare the health of unvaccinated  versus vaccinated children. The incidence of side effects of  vaccination are often compared to what is called the 'background  incidence' of such a disease. This 'background incidence' is the usual  incidence of this occurring over the whole population. As the majority  of the population is vaccinated, such a comparison is unscientific.

 10. Most vaccine studies published in medical journals are funded by  the vaccine manufacturer yet are considered "independent and unbiased"  in spite of an obvious conflict of interest.

 11. Vaccines can contain foreign viruses or genetic material that was  present in foetal bovine serum or the host animal issue that was used  during production. Some of these viruses have been linked to diseases  such as cancer, as is the case with the SV40 [Simian (monkey) Virus  no.40] virus which contaminated the polio vaccine worldwide in the  1950s and early 60s. Another monkey virus, Simian Foamy Virus, is now  believed to be another contaminant of the polio vaccine.

 12. Some vaccines are grown from cells from aborted human foetuses.  The main reason these are now being used is to eliminate the problem  of viral contamination of animal tissue culture with latent viruses  such as the SV40. However, foetal bovine serum is used with aborted  foetal cells, and WHO certified batches of foetal bovine serum are  still known to cause problems.

 13. Vaccination has been proved in medical studies to make children  more susceptible to disease for a period afterwards due to its  'overload' effect on the immune system.

 14. Vaccination has been linked to serious chronic problems such as  asthma, eczema, autism, as well as serious brain damage. A number of  studies have found a much higher incidence of asthma and allergic  diseases amongst vaccinated children. Autism has been linked to  vaccination in a number of studies, especially relating to the MMR  (measles mumps rubella) vaccine. SIDS has been linked to vaccination  also, and death is a rare side effect of vaccination.

 15. Polio vaccination causes nearly all the cases of paralytic polio  in the USA today (and in other developed countries as well). This is  because of the use of a live virus in the vaccine, which can spread
 from a vaccinated person to others. The MMR (Measles Mumps Rubella  vaccine) manufacturers have confirmed that the measles virus can also  be shed by people for up to two weeks after vaccination.

 16. Some diseases that we vaccinate against, such as tetanus, are  extremely rare so that the risk of getting the disease is close to  zero, whereas the risk of side efects from the vaccine are much  higher.

 17. The vaccine industry earns billions of dollars annually. The  manufacturers all have to provide a return on their shareholders'  investment and to this end have been known to place profit before  safety, placing more risk on the people receiving the vaccine. Vaccine  manufacturers are also immune from being sued for any vaccine damage  by special government compensation schemes for their victims in many  countries. This absolves them from the legal responsibility to improve  vaccine safety. Even in today's volatile financial market, some of the  safest investments are companies involved in vaccines and AIDS  research and treatment.

 18. Doctors and health professionals worldwide who speak out against  vaccination have been known to lose funding for research, be  ostricised by their peers, and in New Zealand can risk losing their  RHA contracts or their jobs.

 19. There is growing pressure in many countries for vaccination to be  made compulsory for school entry as it is in some already. This is  contrary to the basic human right of being able to consent to any
 medical intervention.

 20. Organisations promoting vaccination sometimes use 'fear tactics'  and over-emphasise the risk of disease and its complications to  'scare' people into vaccinating.

 21. There is growing concern that vaccines are changing the immunological  integrity of humans thus affecting future generations.

 Note: A full list of references to the above points will be available on  request from the IAS.

 To find out more about any of the above issues, please consider the
 following options:-

 1. Visit our website on the Internet:-
 http://www.netlink.co.nz/~ias/ias.htm - it will inform you and guide  you to doing your own research.

 1. Find and read the following books in your library or bookseller:-

 Vaccination Book List

 The following titles represent a selection from books that are available.  Some of these are available in libraries, through bookstores, or by mail  order from VINE, PO Box 149, Kaeo, Northland. On the Internet a good book  list with information is at the following  URL:-http://www.new-atlantean.com/global.

 Neil Z Miller Vaccines: are they really safe and effective? 1996 ISBN  1-881217-10-8

 Immunisation: Theory vs Reality 1996 ISBN 1-881217-12-4

 Immunisation: The People Speak 1996 ISBN 1-881217-16-1

 Randall Neustaedter The Vaccine Guide, Making an Informed choice ISBN  1-55643-215-1

 Archie Kalokerinos Every Second Child - Keats Publishing -1991 ISBN  0-8793-250-9

 Harris L Coulter and Barbara Loe Fisher A Shot in the Dark - Avery  Publishing - 1991 ISBN 0-89529-463-X

 Harris L Coulter Vaccination, Social Violence & Criminality ISBN  1-55643-103-1

 Robert Mendelsohn, MD How to Raise a Heailty Child In Spite of Your Doctor  Ballantyne Books 1984 ISBN 0-345-34276-3

 Viera Scheiber, PhD Vaccination, 100 Years of Orthodox Research Shows that  Vaccines Represent a Medical Assault on the Immune System ISBN  0-646-15124-X

 Ian Sinclair Vaccination, The Hidden Facts ISBN 0-646-08812-2 (available  from the author - Ian Sinclair, 5 Ivy St, Ryde, NSW 2112, Australia)

 The Vaccination Bible Edited by Lynne McTaggart - A What Doctors Don't Tell  You Publication Wallace Press

 Lynne McTaggart What Doctors Don't Tell You 1996 ISBN 0-7225-3024-2

 Toni Jeffreys Your Health at Risk 1998 Howling at the Moon-pub

 Leslie Kenton Nature's Child 1993 ISBN 09-177836-0 Ebury Press, London

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 Immunisation Awareness Society, PO Box 56-048, Auckland

 Ph (09)303-0187 Fax (09)424-4144 - Email peter@netlink.co.nz

Incredible poem and very much worth sharing. Teri Small is the director of the Maryland chapter of the Autism Autoimmunity Project. She is also the mother of a precious boy, Ian, who is another autism statistic in our ongoing war against infectious diseases. Please share widely. Creating the new consensus -- no to vaccines and medical experimentation -- yes to health and the cooperative creation of both personal and planetary health -- is up to each and everyone of us. Our children, our future, depend on the actions we take today.

~Ingri


I’m NOT a LAWSUIT….
I’m a LIFE!!
Dear Laura Meckler,
a human, my friend,
my name is “No Evidence,”
take care whom you defend.
My brain riddled by mercury
beginning at 1-day old,
with regular installments,
so brain centers could not take hold.
Did you ever see what happens
when mercury contacts the brain?
The cells disintegrate themselves, my dear;
they are never the same.
My name, Laura, is “No Evidence.”
I am 5-years old.
I never had a chance.
My life to the drug companies was sold.
I’m severely autistic…disabled….
I’ll probably grow up and be abused
by uncaring, underpaid social servants;
my life for corporate profit has been used.
I have an elevated measles titer,
and an autoimmune reaction against brain.
They injected me with mercury and viruses.
I’ll never be the same.
Yes, Laura, my name is “No Evidence.”
Is that still what you contend?
If you can’t admit what happened to me,
do not the drug companies defend.
You’ll mislead more unknowing parents,
and you’ll destroy their babies.
Do not report misleading words,
based upon incorrect “Maybes.”

Dear Senators:

A generation swept aside

Vaccines committed genocide

They’ve taken everything from me

I’ll never know American liberty.

My health, my childhood, my future gone

I live in a world all alone

When I’m older, I’ll be sick and poor

My body will always be at war.

My government didn’t protect my health

My government protected corporate wealth

My life has been stolen, but don’t take my rights

All the parents won’t give up without a fight.

All children my age and old and young

Must be given the right for redress for this wrong

Through VICA and through civil trial,

Since our bodies with poison have been defiled.

And if more is discovered of what damaged us grievously

Then that must be added to the table of injuries

With a lookback provision given far and wide

So that truly there will be NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND.

Hear my plea, don’t let it on deaf hearts fall

Let American justice be…With JUSTICE FOR ALL !!

Yours truly,
Ian M. Small
 

Welcome to Amerika, the Fascist Nation


There will be no rhyme or reason; no questions to be asked. You will be monitored like a pet dog with a computerized vaccination card. Just like your dog or cat, if you haven't had all your shots, you will be denied travel and most assuredly imprisoned until you comply. Forget the mile high piles of research that prove vaccines are dangerous; forget any scientific studies about the effectiveness of a smallpox vaccine. Medical historians have shown that the smallpox epidemic of the early 20th century was a sham. Statistics were altered, and misdiagnosis ran rampant all to show a favorable result for smallpox vaccines. People were dying from the ill effects of many unsanitary conditions of that time, and it was all called smallpox. History shows that the smallpox vaccine campaigns of the early 20th century were met with very poor compliance; the chance of dying from smallpox was far greater if you received the vaccine than if you did nothing at all.

Doesn't common sense tell us that if vaccines really do work, than those who choose to receive vaccines will not be at any risk from those who choose not to be vaccinated? Why does the CDC need to install a state militia governed by a totalitarian FEMA to force people to be vaccinated? Especially when you consider that most people don't believe what I am saying here, think I am totally nuts, and will fight to be one of the first on line to receive their vaccine!

The answer is simple. Because the CDC is well aware that their vaccine is a total sham and toxic; a blunder that actually creates more smallpox than it prevents. You can't have a lot of totally healthy UNVACCINATED people walking around, telling others they never received their shot, when many people who have received the vaccine get sick and die. By forcing EVERYONE to be vaccinated, they can assuredly place credit to their vaccine for everyone who survives and say too bad for all those who die. Believe me folks;

They fully realize unvaccinated people will be far healthier than anyone who receives the vaccine, and they will never study this fact.

For to do this would open them up to tremendous scrutiny and liability. Can you just imagine what this would do to them?! They would cease to exist if everyone knew the truth, and that is precisely why they are expending a ton of energy RIGHT NOW to get these laws passed in every state.

God rest the souls of 9-11. The media and government spin the tragedy to the American public as something totally different from what it really is; from what it has always been, and the real reason it all happened in the first place;

A mega-tool for the elite to CASH in on. A grand opportunity to crush all competition in commerce, especially in the middle east and related specifically to oil and other valuable natural resources; to promote a ONE WORLD agenda, a ONE WORLD banking system with no outside competition, and a ONE WORLD police state; to place big corporations, governments and their leaders in a greater position to run your life, by stealing away the most basic of freedoms you were granted as a birthright by being born in America. If you don't have the freedom to decide what you are to do with your own body, it is difficult to decipher what freedoms you actually do have.

Has anyone read even a small portion of the new Patriot Bill? An elementary school student can see that this bill has absolutely NOTHING to do with protecting you from terrorists. The provisions of this bill give full police power to the Attorney General, to incarcerate YOU indefinitely if he deems you are a terrorist by any means! Even if a state judge releases you from jail, the Attorney General can rescind that release and keep you in the slammer as long as he wants! The bill takes away all DUE PROCESS of law for ANYONE that is even suspect of being associated with terrorism. You are totally guilty if the Attorney General says you are, and you must prove your innocence. You can be arrested for terrorism for merely participating in an anti-war demonstration ( of which you will be seeing many in the coming months, mark my word ). I can be arrested for terrorism by simply sending you this e-mail! I can be arrested for terrorism by simply guiding you to think for yourself, and fight back against being forcefully vaccinated. The Patriot Bill is a total sham, and is better labeled the Fascist Bill. Read it for yourself and find out. It is available on the internet at a few sites.

What to do? If you've actually read this far, I commend you. 80% of the American population will lay quietly to the propaganda and gleefully waltz to the FEMA vaccination stations. Another 10% will bitch and moan about it, and succumb out of fear. The remaining 10%, like myself, will fight with everything they have to protect their God given common law right to do as they please with their bodies, and to protect their children as they see fit from dangerous chemicals being injected directly into the bloodstream. So since you are still reading, here are some things I can suggest;


. Immediately if not sooner, call the National Vaccine Information Center ( NVIC ), @ 1-800-909-SHOT, or visit them on line @ www.909shot.com. Call them and join today. They need money to keep people and a few honest lawmakers informed.

. Read the attached files I have provided with this e-mail. They are excerpts which contain references from the NVIC report on this entire "Public Health Emergency" issue. You can obtain the full report from me or by contacting the NVIC directly.

. Call or write your federal and state legislators! Tell them you are outraged by the thought of such laws.

. Write Attorney General John Ashcroft, Health Secretary Tommy Thompson and President and Mrs. Bush. Send them a copy of the NVIC report.

. Talk to as many people as you can about this issue and it's ramifications.

For details on the many dangers of vaccines and mandatory vaccination policies, visit the website of the Anti Vaccination League aka the AVL, of which I am their public relations spokesperson. Buy the book, Good-Bye Germ Theory to become more informed about the truth related to these issues.
Go to www.vaccinealert.com you can also visit www.thedoctorwithin.com

I speak for all involved with the AVL when I tell you that any dose of smallpox vaccine you or your children may receive is FAR MORE DANGEROUS than the threat of smallpox infection through chemical warfare. Hard science shows that receiving these vaccines renders you and your children far more likely to become VERY ILL, most likely from the very thing the vaccine is supposedly created to prevent. Get all the facts!

I have been on the phone all morning with AVL members, lawyers and law maker's offices. We are preparing for the worst and are attempting to institute plans for such a scenario. Call or e-mail me for details on our progress.

Phone: 461-9744
e-mail:drswiljul@earthlink.net

May God bless and save America, this once great land of the free and home of the brave.

Yours very truly,
Dr. Wil Trebing

Chiropractic Physician

AVL spokesperson and co-chairman
Author or Good-Bye Germ Theory.
--- Dr. William P.Trebing
--- drswiljul@earthlink.net
--- vaccinealert.com
--- Creator of Spinal Resonance Chiropractic

FROM SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Vaccination Backlash
There's a small but stubborn faction of parents who don't vaccinate their
children. Are there risks?
Katherine Seligman
Sunday, May 25, 2003

URL:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/05/25
/CM171959.DTL

  The first thing Elijah Goode does when he gets to the playground one chill March day is look for the deepest puddles. Then, because he is 5, he jumps in and has to splash himself with muddy water everywhere not covered by his yellow rain boots and coat.

He is the kind of kid who can carry on his end of the conversation, even with someone he met just five minutes ago. He also can be curious, funny and thoughtful. In his young life, he has been protected from much of the outside world - fast food, excessive television watching and computer games. But something this robust, rosy-cheeked blur of yellow hair and rain gear has not been protected against is childhood diseases.

His parents, after much thought, decided not to get him standard childhood shots that immunize against once-common illnesses such as measles, polio and whooping cough. They're not part of any anti-vaccination movement or support group. It was just their personal belief that vaccines posed more risk than benefit. In this, they are part of a small minority of California parents who sign school waivers exempting their children from vaccinations. But in the Sierra foothills where they live, in rural Nevada County, they are closer to the mainstream.

Nevada County has the state's highest percentage of children in kindergarten who, for philosophical reasons, are not fully vaccinated - 11.39 percent in 2001 compared with about 1.2 percent statewide, which was a 20-year high. In some schools in Nevada County, particularly in a 30-mile swath of pine- and oak-covered hills known as The Ridge, the levels are even greater. At Yuba River Charter School, a public charter program Elijah attended last year, more than half of the kindergarten children this year don't have a complete set of vaccinations, according to the school.

Why would so many well-educated parents who can afford the vaccinations and live within a few hours of some of the nation's best-known medical research institutions decide against the shots? The reason lies partly in the mix of parents drawn to the Gold Country towns and foothills 60 miles northeast of Sacramento. Alongside the mining families who've lived there since the Gold Rush boom, the loggers and the retirees, there are now artists and writers, urban refugees and back-to-the-land folks who tend to seek holistic health and natural remedies. Driving around the foothills, one is just as likely to see signs for a yoga retreat or organic food co-op as markers for the local Rotary Club or an historic Gold Rush building.

"People who choose to be here are alternative people," says Yuba River Principal Terry Ann Paquette, who sometimes has to ask students to help her pronounce things like Ayurvedic medicine. "They are going to look into everything, particularly health care. Among the parents we have Reiki healers, massage therapists, homeopaths, naturopaths, people who use aromatherapy. They either are these [practitioners] or they go to them."

Kim Goode, Elijah's mother, does favor natural and homeopathic cures for common illnesses. But her reason not to vaccinate also lies in the paradox that has become a major public health debate. Vaccines have been so successful in eliminating once-common diseases that some parents now worry more about vaccine reactions than they do about those illnesses. The immunizations, in essence, are in jeopardy of being a victim of their own success. So worried is the medical community that the president of the American Academy of Pediatrics has posted an open letter to parents on the  group's Web site reminding them of the severity of diseases like measles and imploring them to "be diligent about vaccinating."

"A lot of the things we vaccinate against, there aren't a lot of those diseases around," Goode says. "The only way to get polio is to come into contact with someone who's just had the shot. The risk of vaccinations seemed like it was greater than the likelihood of getting the disease."

No one doubts the decline in disease. Measles, which used to kill 3,000 children a year mostly through encephalitis and pneumonia, is so rare that many parents have never seen a case of it. They might have forgotten about the epidemic that swept the nation 12 years ago and infected 16,500 in California, killing 75. Those same parents missed polio entirely. They are too young to have seen the signs hung in public places reading, "Closed due to polio epidemic." And whooping cough, though it cycles through the nation periodically, has declined dramatically. It struck 175,000 Americans a year  in the pre-vaccine early 1940s and killed scores. By 2000 there were only 5,396 reported cases, though the number is creeping upward for reasons researchers have yet to understand fully.

Although diseases may have waned, a backlash has grown. It is fueled by gripping stories about children whose parents say they developed autoimmune or developmental disorders such as autism after getting immunized. Those parents point to the alarming but unexplained autism statistics. For some reason, cases of the neurological disorder in California alone have more than tripled in the past 15 years. Medical studies, as yet, have found no link to childhood shots, but doctors can't make the guarantee some parents want to hear - that vaccines are 100 percent safe. A fraction of children who are vaccinated will have certain documented reactions, the vast majority of which cause no long- term damage, doctors say. So the duel rages. There are myriad Web sites on both sides of the issue, providing a daunting amount of information. Some post stories by parents detailing how their children were injured or advocate greater public education about immunization risks. They are countered by medical and public health sites describing why the shots are still needed to maintain group immunity, some of them complete with illustrations of kids suffering measles lesions or necks swollen from diphtheria.

There have been no epidemics in recent memory in Nevada County, health officials say. Whooping cough has appeared episodically, just as it has elsewhere around the state, but not in epidemic proportions. Yolo County, south of Sacramento, recorded more than 170 cases of whooping cough in late winter this year - almost all in vaccinated older children. Health officials in Nevada County were concerned that kids who visited or played sports teams there could bring the disease back home. Two children at Yuba River Charter School have had it in the nine years she's been there, Paquette says. She can't remember any cases of measles or mumps.

"They are just very blessed," says Christina Garner, the county health department's immunization coordinator, who has tried to set up appointments with parent groups at the school with no success. "They haven't wanted me to come up," she says. "Nobody invites us up there." The county health department offers free vaccinations, and its workers show up at "kindergarten round-ups," where parents come to get information about schools. Soon the department will operate a mobile vaccine van. But even that is not expected to make a difference to parents at Yuba River, Garner says.

"They are very educated and they have made up their minds," she says. "I have to respect that." Goode and her husband, a timber framer who works for a firm that builds traditional Japanese houses, made up their minds about vaccinations when she was pregnant with Elijah. It's not something she'd thought about  before, she says, running her fingers through the strawberry-colored ringlets that fall to her shoulders. Elijah continues his search for puddles at the park where we've arranged to meet, which belongs to a spiritual retreat called Ananda.

Goode is not a member, but she brings her children there once a week to hike the meadows and trails. Elijah likes the playground equipment, the natural foods deli and also the thrift store, because it has toys. After his romp in the puddles, he agrees to come inside the restaurant and  at lunch while waiting for a friend to arrive. He devours a plate of whole wheat pasta wheels and broccoli. Then he wheedles a dollar from his mother so he can buy a treat - a frozen juice bar made from crushed organic fruit. She carefully saves the paper plate from his lunch so she can use it for her own before dropping it in a recycling bin.

The vaccination decision was not made lightly, Goode says. Her midwife, whose own children didn't get immunizations, recommended some books and articles, both for and against vaccinations. She talked to friends who'd made the decision recently. Her husband weighed in also, but she did most of the research, she says. "I started reading stuff and looking into how vaccinations are made," she says. "By the time children are two months, they are supposed to have something like eight vaccinations. It seems like a lot of viruses for your body to take in two months. As an adult, if you were attacked by eight viruses in two months, you'd be trashed."

Her reasoning centered on a commonly held belief among many of those who don't vaccinate. She worried that the vaccinations would somehow weaken or damage her son's immature immune system. Medical researchers have been interested in that theory - which a quarter of all parents think might be true, according to one survey - but, so far, studies have not shown such damage from immunizations.

Goode also weighed the need for other common preventive medical treatments for newborns - ones that many new parents take for granted. She opted against vitamin K, given routinely to enhance a baby's blood-clotting ability, and eye drops used to combat possible neonatal exposure to venereal disease or bacterial infection during birth. In consultation with her midwife, she decided her baby was not at high risk for either complication. But she did opt for routine blood screening.

In the five-plus years since then, Elijah has been to the doctor once. Goode took him to a pediatrician in kindergarten when he kept coming home with one virus after another. It turns out that was perfectly normal, given that it was his first year in school, traditionally a time when young children are exposed to a petri dish of infections. She said she'd take him to the doctor again if he came down with something neither she nor alternative health practitioners could diagnose.

Elijah was exposed to whooping cough when he was 15 months and a neighbor's two children, also unvaccinated, came down with it. Goode had read enough to know about the characteristic gasping - the whoops - that can be followed by vomiting. In fact, she was the one who suggested that the children had whooping cough. She says she then quarantined Elijah for 10 days, giving him a homeopathic prevention tonic called Pertussin. He never got the illness.

She didn't even consider vaccinating Hazel, who now sits squirming in her lap, but she did give her vitamin K at birth because of some bruising on her head. So far, Hazel hasn't been to a doctor, although, as a second child, she has had her share of viruses. Goode treated her daughter's one suspected ear infection with homemade ear drops (garlic, mullein flowers, tea tree oil, lavender oil, grapefruit seed extract) and a warm compress made from a blanched onion covered in cheesecloth.

Goode knows about the "herd immunity" phenomenon. Her children may be safe from disease because so many others have been vaccinated. If her life were different, if she traveled overseas or lived somewhere else, she might make different decisions, she says. She might have gotten some shots for her children.

But she and her husband have chosen to live in Nevada County, where they can build the kind of house they want and if they choose, send their kids to a public school that serves organic grains for snacks. Goode laughs at the idea that she's a hippie. Sometimes her father teases her about that, but it just doesn't fit, she says. It's more that she's conscious of the details of her life. She wanted her children, if possible, born at home. (They were). She wanted them to eat organic food and not to watch television. Instead of plastic throwaway toys, she wanted wooden ones like the beautifully made rattle Hazel gnaws on with her quad of new teeth. "A lot of people don't want to know about things," she says. "If they do, it makes it harder for them to go on with what they're doing. I want to know that at least I made the choices."

She can't say where all this came from. It wasn't from some sudden revelation or from her own background, exactly. She grew up in the small Calaveras County town of West Point, where her father has a sawmill. Her parents believed in traditional medicine, she says, but were open to alternatives. She was vaccinated, for example, but went to an acupuncturist for migraines and then a persistent rash on her face when she was a teenager. She recalls that it worked for both. Later on she took some college classes, moved to Nevada County and trained as a massage therapist. She plans to go back to college when her children are older. Her husband grew up in a more conventional household in Ojai, she says. He  also was fully immunized.

Now they live with their children in a small cabin but have plans to build a house that will embody both their aesthetics and their environmental consciousness. The house, which her husband is building himself, will have earthen walls containing no fiberglass or other manmade insulation. It will have Japanese ceilings and sliding doors and solar panels.

It will, she says, be beautiful, not at all hippie-ish, and no larger than it has to be. "I want my footprints when I'm gone to be as small as possible," she says, watching Elijah, who is outside after lunch playing with his friend - also unvaccinated - who's just arrived. This year Goode is homeschooling him because the drive to Yuba River Charter School takes - like the commute almost everywhere on the ridge's winding roads - at least a half-hour. It is too much to negotiate twice a day, with Hazel along.

But last year she signed the waiver that allowed Elijah to start kindergarten without otherwise required shots that protect against nine diseases. California is one of 22 states that allow exemptions based on personal beliefs as well as religious beliefs and medical reasons. This  year, school Principal Paquette says, 25 of 42 kindergartners have full exemptions and nine have partial - meaning their parents chose to give them some vaccinations and not others. This unusual scenario exists in a very unusual, out-of-the way school. To get there takes a drive through semi-deserted Gold Rush towns, forested hills and bucolic fields, where even the horses look as if they're placed in the pasture just to be part of a perfect landscape.

The school is in what used to be a rural office park and looks like a mountain retreat, its low wooden buildings nestled among the trees. Yuba River Charter was the first public school in the state to use the Waldorf model, based on an approach to education pioneered at the end of the 19th century by the Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner. Paquette is tired of talking about the pending legal challenge to what are now several Waldorf-inspired public schools.

But she is not tired of showing off her school, where students are enrolled because their parents have made the choice to have them there. Although it might look crunchy to the outside world, the school, in the Waldorf tradition, emphasizes the handmade and homespun, arts such as sewing, knitting and harp- playing. In the lower school, the spacious classrooms are painted calm, warm hues. The kindergartens are soft shades of lavender and rose.

Inside, the children play with wooden or handmade toys. They listen to fables and make animal figures from beeswax. As Paquette leads a tour through the rooms, the kids rush to hug her. Her visit creates a commotion in the rooms, which are otherwise peaceful, especially for kindergarten. No one is jumping on chairs or kicking anyone else. The children have just finished their morning snack of organic oatmeal - on other days it's millet, rice or soup - that they helped cook. Then they line up to wash their dishes in a tub of soapy water.

County health officials worry that, as sweet as this scene is, the unvaccinated kindergarten children are at risk. In vaccinated populations, most cases of whooping cough that occur are in babies too young to be immunized fully or adults and older children whose immunity has worn off after ages 7 to 10. But here the youngest kids, who also tend to get the sickest, are vulnerable, they say.

But many parents say they have considered the pros and cons of vaccination and believe that their children are better off without the shots. The school has been touched by whooping cough before, but it did not spread beyond one child at a time. "In a lot of ways, I wish I'd never gotten my children any vaccines," says school secretary Krissa Connelly, whose three daughters caught whooping cough about four years ago. "But I had to weigh what I felt was right for them then."

Connelly says her first daughter, now 17, started off getting the full course of vaccinations but had a severe reaction to the one that protects against whooping cough, or pertussis, named after the germ that causes it.

The evening of the shot, she says, her daughter developed a high fever and was screaming inconsolably, then periodically became listless. The whooping cough vaccine her daughter received commonly caused some fever and redness or swelling at the site of the shot and far less commonly (as estimated one in 1, 750 doses) caused fever severe enough to induce seizures. It has been replaced by a newer form that has a lower incidence of side effects, according to federal public health statistics. Along with the pediatrician, Connelly decided not to continue the pertussis component of the diphtheria and tetanus shots, which are usually given together. Her two younger daughters never got any pertussis vaccinations because Connelly feared they would have the same reaction.

Her oldest daughter caught whooping cough while she was in middle school at Yuba River Charter School - at an age when her immunity would have waned anyway because of her age. At first Connelly didn't know what she had, but the coughing fits, followed by vomiting, were classic signs. Her daughter had a relatively mild case. It was her two younger girls who were sickest, Connelly recalls. All of them were out of school for four to six weeks. Connelly, at the time working as an office manager for a local business, had to take a leave of absence.

"I couldn't even count how many times they vomited each day," says Connelly. "It was terrible. I was just running back and forth between them, 24 hours a day." The girls recovered and are fine. Their smiling faces beam from pictures on the wall near Connelly's desk. For whatever reason, they didn't infect anyone else at the school.

Barbra Yorba, who is studying to become a naturopathic doctor, says her son also had an extreme reaction to pertussis, prompting her to stop his immunizations. Each time he got that particular one, beginning at two months, he developed a rash and fever, she says. "I knew in my heart it didn't feel right," she says, waiting to pick up her son in the kindergarten yard, which has a vegetable garden planted by the children, a climbing structure and some mini Adirondack chairs. "You're right there with your child saying it's OK, and the nurse is on the other side. They ask you to hold the child down. It's emotional. It doesn't feel right."

Her decision to stop the vaccinations was cemented by attending a conference where she heard how vaccines could cause behavior problems, says Yorba, who treats most of her children's routine ailments with nutrition and herbal remedies. For her, it all clicked. Her son had had trouble concentrating and "mild behavior problems" that she now believes are due to his early vaccinations. Her daughter, now 4, has had no shots - and no attention problems, she says.

But still, she and others are aware of how controversial this is just about anywhere else. "Don't turn me in!" one mother jokes, then is reluctant to give her name because she doesn't want to face the reaction from her extended family who live elsewhere and don't agree with her decision not to vaccinate. "For children who live in poverty, without good nutrition, yeah, they might need vaccinations because they are more vulnerable," Yorba says. "But not here. "

A MEDICAL PERSPECTIVE
Thirteen years ago, the childhood disease that medical science was supposed to have conquered began reappearing slowly across the country. Children were showing up in hospital emergency rooms with telltale lesions, high fevers and stomach ailments and doctors started recognizing an old enemy: measles. The measles epidemic of 1989-'91 sickened 43,000 Americans and killed more than 200. Many of those who got sick were inadequately vaccinated children or young adults who lived in inner cities, researchers say. But some also were children exempted from vaccinations because of religious reasons or personal beliefs.

"Measles creates a terrible pneumonia," said Dr. David Smith, president of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, who has researched immunization issues for the national Institute of Medicine. "Everyone forgot that about measles. They just thought about the red eyes, spots in the mouth, the fever and cough, but it can progress to very serious pneumonia."

Smith said as many as half the young children in some inner-city areas did not, and some still do not, have a complete set of vaccinations until they started school. Some parents took their children to clinics for one shot, but didn't realize they needed another for full protection, Smith said. Others didn't speak English and never got information about the importance of a complete series of shots. Or they thought they couldn't afford them, even though public health clinics administer them free.

But there were some locations where parents chose not to vaccinate because of personal beliefs or religious reasons. A study reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1999 showed exempt children ages 5 to 19 were 35 times more likely to get measles during the epidemic than their vaccinated counterparts. Researchers made their conclusions partly by examining figures available from California, which allows parents to exempt their kids for three reasons: personal, religious and medical. The state, unlike many others, tracks by county the number of those exemptions.

The largest proportion of exemptions historically have been in Northern California, particularly in the northern foothills of the Sierras and in some central and northern coastal areas. There also are pockets of high exemption areas in Marin and Santa Cruz counties. Another study in JAMA in 2000 showed that exempt children from age 3 to 18 in Colorado were about 6 times more likely than vaccinated children to get whooping cough. The likelihood of infection was smaller than with measles, but,

Smith said, it is still troubling. Whooping cough has killed eight people in America in the past year, he said. It remains endemic, popping up in several year cycles when it is passed around by adults or children over 10 whose immunity has worn off or by unvaccinated children. So far, there is no vaccination available for children over 7. Today, Smith said, the youngest children are still the most unprotected.Nationwide, about 80 percent of children from birth to age 2 are fully vaccinated, he said. That number grows to more than 99 percent in kindergarten- age children due to school vaccination requirements.

California parents may exempt their children by signing waiver forms, which can be obtained at schools or district offices. State health officials say the number of personal belief exemptions typically fluctuates between a half percent and 1 percent of kindergarten-age children, though it went to about 1. 2 percent in 2001. Loring Dales, immunization chief for the state Department of Health Services, said exemptions tend to go up whenever a new vaccination is introduced. In 2001, chicken pox vaccination was added to the list of requirements, he said. Last year, exemptions declined slightly to 1.1 percent, but Dales said it's too early to tell if that represents a continuing downward trend.

"Overall, our percentages still give herd immunity," said Dales, referring to the vast majority of fully vaccinated children who, in effect, end up blocking the spread of disease and protecting the unvaccinated. But Smith said any percentage of exemptions above 1 percent is worrisome. In Texas, a state law allowing exemptions officially expires if numbers grow higher than that. He said the concept of herd immunity is no longer enough of a guarantee in a society where people travel so much. Diseases can now easily jump not only across county lines, but also across the world, he said. "All it takes is a very mobile population," Smith said. "It's like having dry kindling. It's one match and you're going to have an outbreak."

He believes the backlash against vaccinations is partly due to medical professionals, whom he said have not done enough to articulate the need for mass immunization. They also haven't adequately explained the range of side effects from the shots, or the fact that infants are exposed to more antigens in a single week of breast- or bottle-feeding or in "one sloppy dog kiss" than in childhood immunizations, he said. Parents need to know, he said, that recent studies have not shown a connection between the shots and immune system damage.

"I think that we have an obligation to parents to explain that they cause side effects," he said. "Most are benign. They're hearing it's one in a million or a quarter million. When they believe the diseases are not there any longer, they are weighing the risks."

But many parents say they already understand the risks clearly and feel they are too high. They say they want more public education so that everyone can make informed choices instead of accepting the "one-size-fits-all" style of immunizing. Smith fears they will turn a tide of opinion not only against routine childhood shots, but also against the development of new vaccines that could one day prevent some cancers or new viruses like severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS.

"We can market hamburgers and tennis shoes in this country and we need to market prevention," he said. "It should be prime time instead of some public service announcement running at 3:30 on a Saturday morning."

--K.S.

 

Vaccinations: An Introduction To The Controversy, Reference Guide
Excerpts from the Mercola Vaccine Sub-Site

There is no more heated and vociferous debate today than the topic of vaccinations. Are they safe and effective? Are they dangerous to our health and immune depressing? Do vaccines cause cancer and mutations in our genetic cells? Are vaccines the way we should have health? Are vaccinations only a ploy to keep people sick and users of allopathic medications? Many of these questions will be covered here, but vaccinations are a hot topic and this paper will raise more questions than it answers. The very minimum, we should seek truth with an open mind and a glad heart. We want to do what is right for our children’s health and we want them to grow strong and hearty. Therefore, we should put our trust in the God who made us and seek His truth.

Muddied issues like vaccines only make one miss the point - that we are created by a kind and loving God. David in Psalms 139:14 says that we are "fearfully and wonderfully made" and can rejoice at that fact for He made us and He made the foods that we need for our health and well-being.

Let no one distract you from your search of the truth about vaccinations. Parents need to become educated before vaccinations are given to your love ones. Reading only pro-vaccine literature from our doctor’s office and the public health service does not inform one about the adverse effects of vaccinations and the complications that may arise. While the medical literature is full of references to vaccines causing many neurological diseases and depressing the immunity, these facts are often glossed over when vaccinations are discussed. However, one must become informed to theses risks so that an educated risk assessment may be made. Is the risks of the disease greater than the risk from the vaccinations? I hope that this publication helps you decide this very important and heated topic today. Seek out the books in the references and check out the web sites for more in depth information and educate yourself before first before deciding about vaccinations.

There is a wide gap of truth and honesty between the pro-vaccine groups (most doctors, all vaccine manufacturers, (CDC, FDA, AMA, AAP, PHS and other medical/ government complexes) and the anti-vaccine groups (NVIC/DPT, Vaccine Research, Vaccination Alternatives, Concerned Parents for Vaccine Safety (CPVS), Global Vaccine Awareness League (GVAL), Immunization Awareness Society (IAS), and many other interested groups of parents and concerned citizens. The pro-side of the fence is lined with the people who profit from the sale of vaccines - the physicians, the vaccine makers, and the government, while the anti-side is lined with parents and people who suffered damaged by vaccinations. Yes, both sides are biased.

Read both sides of the arguments for and against vaccinations, then decide with an open mind and without being coerced or forced into a hasty decision at the end of a needle. As you study the vaccine issue, you will see that there are widely differing opinions, and both sides are supported by facts, research and studies. We have the most difficult decision of all ahead of us, deciding who we shall believe. By using the references to the citations listed in these sections, one can begin to see that there is a lot of research on vaccine damage and that vaccines - in fact - do cause many problems. Remember this is from the -generally pro-vaccine - medical literature.

"The greatest threat of childhood diseases lies in the dangerous and ineffective efforts made to prevent them."
Robert Mendelsohn, MD

"Since the beginning of laboratory investigation of vaccines, researchers have known that immune system dysfunction can follow vaccination."
Harold E Buttram, MD and John Chriss Hoffman

"Vaccination, in subduing one disease, only increases others."
Herbert Spencer in "History of Epidemics in Great Britain"

"The best vaccine against common infectious diseases is an adequate diet."
The World Health Organization

"Man cannot infringe upon nature without paying the penalty, and human blood is incapable of accepting animal pus, serums, or other, and alchemically turning it into a healthy, vital fluid."
The Randolph Society

"So it seems that the more vaccine that is used the more the actual infection that comes about."
Wm F Koch, MD, PhD, The Survival Factor, 1961

Dr Eva Snead stated, "Vaccination is an illogical practice and may be the underlying cause of illnesses such as cancer, ..." And she continues, "Disorders of the immune system often occur as a consequence of the after-effects of receiving viral vaccines, presumably related to the cell associated immunity responses, where a graft rejection type phenomena may occur."
Dr Eva Snead, "Some Call it AIDS ... I Call It Murder", 1992

When our goal is nothing less than good health, depressing the immunity (with vaccinations or toxic chemicals) does not make any sense at all. There is probably not one organ, tissue, or cell which is not adversely affected by vaccinations; I have listed many and there are many more that I did not list. Do vaccines affect our pancreas, gallbladder, spleen, thymus, thyroid, ... somewhere there is research showing that it does. Do vaccines cause many diseases? Yes! We have listed many, and there are many more that were not listed (due to space). Do vaccines create health ... NO, as we have shown by their allopathic medical peer-reviewed literature!

Nutrition is the only way to boost our immunity and prevent disease, and Vaccines Prevent Health!


Vaccination Statistics
Quotes :: Statistics :: References

A 1992 study published in The American Journal of Epidemiology shows that children die at a rate 8 times greater than normal within three days after getting a DPT vaccination.

A preliminary study by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) found children who received the HiB vaccine ... were found to be 5 times more likely to contract the disease than children who had not received the vaccine.

In the New England Journal of Medicine July 1994 issue a study found that over 80% of children under 5 years of age who had contracted whooping cough had been fully vaccinated.

In 1977 Dr Jonas Salk (inventor of the Salk polio vaccine) testified with other scientists that 87% of the polio cases which occurred in the US since 1970 were the by-product of the polio vaccine.

The Sabin oral polio vaccine (OPV) is the only known cause of polio in the us today.

The February 1981 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association found that 90% of obstetricians and 66% of pediatricians refused to take the rubella vaccine.

The pro-vaccination side is all that is offered in the media, schools, doctor’s offices, PHS, and all government publications. This is a biased one-sided view of vaccinations based much on manufacturer’s studies and writings. The other side is rarely discussed and adverse events after vaccination are dismissed as a one-in-a-million chance which is a necessary risk we all have to take. The truth is that the risks are far greater than they are telling us, and there are no mandatory vaccines. Extreme pressures are placed on parents for not signing permission and accepting all responsibility for the toxic vaccines. Yet, doctors cannot guarantee the safety of vaccines or that they will even work. Many vaccinations fail to achieve their intended level of immunity and many cause horrible complications (including death) which one will have to suffer for the rest of their life. The trade-off is not wroth the risk. Mumps and measles are innocuous childhood diseases, but the vaccines have caused cancer, diabetes, brain damage, leukemia, autism, and even death (SIDS).

This information is to provide a balance against the pro-vaccination literature which is easily available. Anti-vaccination philosophies are sometimes difficult to find and anti-vaccinationists are called names in an attempt to discredit their reasoning. One must concede that both sides are biased in their views, however skewed. Truth is what is needed and that seems to be lacking in the pro-vaccination literature. If vaccines were good for us, there would be no reason for dishonesty and deceit. If vaccines were safe and effective there would be no issue here. Anti-vaccination literature only wants to support the truth and honestly tell the facts as they really are. Only by becoming educated in this very important issue can one make an informed decision. Yet, every day parents are asked to roll up Johnny’s sleeve with very little consideration as to what their permission is for. Few people realize that vaccines are grown on monkey kidneys, mice brains and chicken embryos. Few people realize the dire consequences of injecting foreign animal tissues (DNA/RNA) and the auto-immune reactions they can induce. Few people realize that vaccines are immune depressing and may cause cancers, leukemias and even have been linked to AIDS.

Only by keeping people in the dark (ignorant to the ill-effects of vaccinations) can vaccination profit-levels be kept high. Parents are purposefully not given the facts concerning vaccines, or they are given altered data and only the glossy side of the pro-vaccine issues. A one-sided view is delivered to parents who are not being educated or informed, but it favors vaccinations! Ignorance may be bliss, but not in vaccination issues, where death and severe damage may ensue. Many people do not even know (nor are they told) that vaccines are grown on animal organs and contain foreign DNA/RNA of those animals. Vaccinations are blood products and hazardous to our immune system. The medical literature is full of citations linking vaccines to many diseases, both causally (cause-associated) and temporally (time-associated). Yet, people erroneously assume that because vaccines are mandated by law that the government is verifying to their safety and effectiveness. Nothing can be further from the truth, since the government relies on the data from the manufacturers for the vaccine safety studies and coaxes to their research for vaccine effectiveness.

Few people realize that vaccines have been linked with brain damage, lowered IQ, ADD, learning disabilities, and autism. Yet, neurological disorders are among the most listed and studied vaccine complications in the medical literature. Unvaccinated children have a level of health that is unsurpassed by "normal" children, because they have not had their immune systems depressed or tampered with by vaccines. Unvaccinated children have higher IQs and less brain dysfunction than "normal" children. Unvaccinated children are truly healthy in every way possible. Few parents are told of the real consequences of vaccines, but only that they "prevent" disease. Yet, the truth is that vaccines cause more diseases than they "prevent". Vaccines are not safe and effective as we are led to believe. Their prevention of disease is more myth than reality as we will see how they manipulate the data and facts to make vaccines appear to "work". We will look at why vaccines are bad for our health and why .... Vaccines Prevent Health.

2) Vaccine Production, Allergies and Harmful Ingredients-

Everyday millions of children are lined up and injected with toxic putrid substances grown on animal organs, cancer cells, aborted fetuses and other toxic substances. Few people are questioning how those viruses were obtained and how they were grown in a laboratory. If one would ask these sensible questions, one would become very enlightened about vaccine production. I warn you now, discussing vaccine-production will turn your stomach. Vaccines are made from the most vilest and filthiest substances on the earth. Since the definition of abomination is "anything that is filthy", the term describes vaccinations adequately and truthfully. The vaccine "cauldron" is full of putrid junk from bodies exposed to disease and excreting morbid purulence. Science gathers this junk up in hopes of making vaccines for "preventing" disease; and we are being fooled while vaccinations cause increases in diseases.

First, pathogenic (disease-causing) viruses will not grow on healthy "soil" (the medium). If the environment is correct within our body, the virulent viruses and disease-causing germs will not grow. For example, hepatitis virus does not grow on a side-walk, nor in a healthy person. To make the vaccine, the manufacturers have to get the virus from somewhere, so they get them from persons with hepatitis. Makes sense. [The first hepatitis vaccines (of the 70s) were grown from the blood of the gay community, since they had high levels of hepatitis.] Today, they are much more "sophisticated", they just gather up bodily excrements from persons with hepatitis and culture the virus. Which excrements?

... Use your imagination: urine, blood, feces, pus and other excrements. In vaccine production anything goes. (How about cadaver organs and blood of persons who died of hepatitis?)

Once the virus is gathered, it must be grown on a toxic medium .... remember pathogens will not grow on healthy tissue. The medium used is generally animal organs and tissues combined with the proper culture medium and "nutrients". BHK (baby hamster kidney) cells, monkey kidneys, HeLa cells (cancer cells from Henrietta Lacks), aborted fetal tissues (used in the rubella vaccine called RA 27/3) and other animal organs are used in vaccine production. [Remember it is the foreign animal genetic materials which make vaccines so dangerous.] Once the virus has been grown, it is inactivated with formaldehyde (a potent carcinogen) or other agent. Other substances (adjuvants) may be added to the vaccines, like mercury (thiomersol), phenol, aluminum, antibiotics, and other ingredients which promote the vaccine’s effectiveness. All these substances are unnatural, synthetic, and immune suppressing, and some are even carcinogenic. The production of vaccine ‘lymph’ has been the main function of producing vaccines in the laboratory. Viruses don’t grow well in healthy individuals and toxic (un-healthy) cultures must be used. For example, mice bred to get cancer don’t get cancer unless they are fed a nutrient deficient diet. Now that means that we don’t have to get cancer either, as long as we eat a good nutritious diet. (See Psalms 139:14)

Therefore, first viruses are grown in toxic culture medium, which supports there activity and allows their grown and metabolism. Most pathogens live under anaerobic (toxic) conditions (absence of oxygen) and would die in the presence of oxygen. Therefore, as one builds health, develops good nutrition and exercise (breathing), more oxygen is delivered to the tissues and pathogens cannot grow there. This is what we mean when we say it is the "soil" which is important to our health. "The terrain is everything", Pasteur conceded on his death bed. Yet vaccine production includes many un-natural and toxic ingredients, which we would never knowingly put into our body. Naturopathic principles (and common sense) do not include the injection of viruses grown on toxic animal tissues.

Vaccinations are biological agents made from the filth of the earth, from diseased organs and sick animals and people. These toxins are injected in a person in order to increase their antibodies against that disease and produce immunity. Yet, scientist have very little understanding of what immunity is and what makes a strong immune system. Nutrition is key in any immune enhancing program, but they ignore nutrition (herbs/vitamins/foods) in favor of profitable injections. Vaccines do more to "sensitize" than to "immunize" for they contain many toxic ingredients which cause sensitizing reactions, like allergies and anaphylaxis. As you read these citations, think about the sensitizing effects of those toxic (foreign) substances present in vaccines. Mercury has been cited as causing auto-immune conditions and increases the ANA titre (used to diagnose Lupus). Allergy/anaphylaxis is merely severe sensitization to the materials present in vaccines. All vaccines depress the immune system and contain harmful and toxic ingredients which may cause allergic or sensitizing reactions. But how can depressing the immune system create immunity to disease? We are fooled if we think that it can. Vaccines Prevent Heath!

Allergies have been said to be related to the larger protein molecules circulating within our blood stream, and vaccinations place large (foreign) sized protein molecules with in the blood stream. During the process of digestion these protein molecules are broken down so that circulating immune complexes are not a problem. Leaky gut syndrome is linked to allergies because it allows the gut to pass large protein molecules into the blood stream. These are then filtered out by the lymph-nodes and may cause problems there such as lymphadenitis. Clogged lymphatics cannot support the cellular immune system composed of the white blood cells and lymph. Therefore, allergies compromise the immune system and reduce immunity. The lymph also carries nutrients to the tissues and is the transportation medium for fats in our body. Every cell needs high quality fats, which should come from unprocessed foods and natural sources.

Horowitz states, "Most parents who feed their children properly would not let them eat a food which contained any of the many ingredients of immunizations." Koren noted, "Some of the ingredients in childhood vaccines are: thimerosal (mercury disinfectant/preservative), aluminum (additive to promote antibody response), formaldehyde (disinfectant), ethylene glycol (antifreeze) phenol (disinfectant, dye) benzethonium chloride (antiseptic) and methylparaben (antifungal, preservative).

Vaccines Have Been Linked to Leukemias and Lymphomas:

Bichel, "Post-vaccinial Lymphadenitis Developing into Hodgkin’s Disease", Acta Med Scand, 1976, Vol 199, p523-525.
Stewart, AM, et al, "Aetiology of Childhood Leukaemia", Lancet, 16 Oct, 1965, 2:789-790. [Listed under Vaccine Adverse Reactions.]
Glathe, H et al, "Evidence of Tumorigenic Activity of Candidate Cell Substrate in Vaccine Production by the Use of Anti-Lymphocyte Serum", Development Biol Std, 1977, 34:145-148.
Bolognesi, DP, "Potential Leukemia Virus Subunit Vaccines: Discussion", Can Research, Feb 1976, 36(2 pt 2):655-656.
Colon, VF, et al, "Vaccinia Necrosum as a Clue to Lymphatic Lymphoma", Geriatrics, Dec 1968, 23:81-82.
Park-Dincsoy, H et al, "Lymphoid Depletion in a case of Vaccinia Gangrenosa", Laval Med, Jan 1968, 39:24-26.
Hugoson, G et al, "The Occurrence of Bovine Leukosis Following the Introduction of Babesiosis Vaccination", Bibl Haemat, 1968, 30:157-161.
Hartstock, , ""Post-vaccinial Lymphadenitis: Hyperplasia of Lymphoid Tissue That Simulates Malignant Lymphomas", Apr 1968, Cancer, 21(4):632-649.
Allerberger, F, "An Outbreak of Suppurative Lymphadenitis Connected with BCG Vaccination in Austria- 1990/1991," Am Rev Respir Disorder, Aug 1991, 144(2) 469.
Omokoku B, Castells S, "Post-DPT inoculation cervical lymphadenitis in children." N Y State J Med 1981 Oct;81(11):1667-1668.
Vaccines and Chromosome Changes Leading to Mutations:
Knuutila, S et al, "An Increased Frequency of Chromosomal Changes and SCE’s in Cultured Lymphocytes of 12 Subjects Vaccinated Against Smallpox," Hum Genet, 1978 Feb 23; 41(1):89-96.
Cherkeziia, SE, et al, "Disorders in the Murine Chromosome Apparatus Induced By Immunization with a Complex of Anti-viral Vaccines," Vopr Virusol, 1979 Sept Oct, (5):547-550.
[Note: SCE means sister chromatid exchange and is an indication that genetic mutations are occurring, which could possibly lead to cancer-causing mutations.
Vaccines and Auto-immunity Citations:
Romanov, V A, et al, "Role of Auto-immune Processes in the Pathogenesis of Post-Vaccinal Lesions of the Nervous System", Oct 1977, Zh Mikrobiol Epidemiol Immunobiol, 10:80-83.
Grachev, V P, et al, "Formation of Auto-antibodies in Laboratory Animals After Inoculation of Viruses With Different Virulence. I. Results of Studies ..., July 1973, Acta Virol (Praha), 17:319-326.
Movsesiants, AA, et al, "Experimental Study of the Ability of Different Strains of Vaccinia Virus to Induce Auto-Antibody Formation", Vopr Virusol, May-Jun 1975; (3):297-302.
Negina, IuP, "Comparative Study of Auto-antibody Formation Following Immunization With Different Types of Typhoid Vaccines", Zh Mikrobiol Epidemiol Immunobiol, May 1980; (5):69-72.
Vaccinations and Diabetes Citations:

Sinaniotis, et al, "Diabetes Mellitus after Mumps Vaccination", Arc Dis Child, 1975, 50:749.66
Polster, H, "Diabetes insipidus after Smallpox vaccination", Z Aerztl Fortbild (Jena), 1 Apr 1966, 60:429-432.
Patan, "Postvaccinal Severe Diabetes Mellitus", Ter Arkh, Jul 1968, 40:117-118.
Classen, JB, MD, "The Timing of Immunization Affects The Development of Diabetes in Rodents", Autoimmunity, 1996, 24:137-145.
Classen JB, "The diabetes epidemic and the hepatitis B vaccines," N Z Med J, 109(1030):366 1996 Sep 27. [letter]
Classen JB, "Childhood immunisation and diabetes mellitus," N Z Med J, 109(1022):195 1996 May 24 [letter]
Poutasi K, " Immunisation and diabetes," N Z Med J 1996 Jul 26;109(1026):283. [letter; comment]
Other Articles Linking Diabetes to Vaccines:

Dokheel, T M, "An Epidemic of Childhood Diabetes in the United States? Evidence from ....", Diabetes Care, 1993, 16:1606-1611.
Parent ME, et al, "Bacille Calmette-Guerin vaccination and incidence of IDDM in Montreal, Canada," Diabetes Care 1997 May; 20(5):767-772.
House DV, Winter WE, "Autoimmune diabetes. The role of auto-antibody markers in the prediction and prevention of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus," Clin Lab Med 1997 Sep; 17(3):499-545.
Zeigler, M et al , "[Autoantibodies in type 1 diabetes mellitus]" Z Arztl Fortbild (Jena). 1994 Aug; 88(7-8):561-5
Vaccines and Nervous System Changes:

Bondarev, VN et al, "The Changes of the Nervous System in Children After Vaccination", Pediatria, Jun 1969; 48:20-24.
Ehrengut W, "Central nervous sequelae of vaccinations," Lancet 1986 May 31;1(8492):1275-1276.
Provvidenza, G et al, [On a Case of Benign Acute Cerebellar Ataxia in Childhood], Arch Ital Sci Med Trop, 43:189-194, Apr 1962.
Katsilambros, L, "[The Phenomenom of Apathy in Man and Animals After the Injection of Viruses in Very High Doses. Clinical Data]", Rev Med Moyen Orient, 20:539-546, Nov - Dec 1963.
Vaccinations and Autism Citations:

Eggers, C, "Autistic Syndrome (Kanner) And Vaccinations against Smallpox", Klin Paediatr, Mar 1976, 188(2):172-180.
Kiln MR, "Autism, inflammatory bowel disease, and MMR vaccine." Lancet 1998 May 2;351(9112):1358.
Selway, "MMR vaccination and autism 1998. Medical practitioners need to give more than reassurance." BMJ 1998 Jun 13;316(7147):1824.
Nicoll A, Elliman D, Ross E, "MMR vaccination and autism 1998," MJ 1998 Mar 7;316(7133):715-716.
Lindley K J, Milla PJ, "Autism, inflammatory bowel disease, and MMR vaccine."Lancet 1998 Mar 21;351(9106):907-908.
Bedford H, et al, "Autism, inflammatory bowel disease, and MMR vaccine." Lancet 1998 Mar 21;351(9106):907.
Vijendra K. Singh, Sheren X. Lin, and Victor C. Yang, "Serological Association of Measles Virus and Human Herpesvirus-6 with Brain Autoantibodies in Autism," Clinical Immunology and Immunopathology, Oct 1998, Vol. 89, No. 1, p 105-108. ["None of the autistic children in the study had measles in the past, but all had the MMR" stated David Whalgren.
Vaccines and Demyelination Citations:

Herroelen, L et al, "Central-Nervous-System Demyelination After Immunization with Recombinant Hepatitis B Vaccine", Lancet, Nov 9, 1991, 338(8776):1174-1175.
Kaplanski G, Retornaz F, Durand J, Soubeyrand J, "Central nervous system demyelination after vaccination against hepatitis B and HLA haplotype." J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1995 Jun; 58(6):758-759.

Matyszak MK, Perry VH, "Demyelination in the central nervous system following a delayed-type hypersensitivity response to bacillus Calmette-Guerin." Neuroscience 1995 Feb;64(4):967-977.
Tornatore CS, Richert JR, "CNS demyelination associated with diploid cell rabies vaccine." Lancet 1990 Jun 2;335(8701):1346-1347.
Adams, JM et al, "Neuromyelitis Optica: Severe Demyelination Occurring Years After Primary Smallpox Vaccinations", Rev Roum Neurol, 1973, 10:227-231.
In 1988, Dietrich used MRI to show that developmentally delayed children had alterations in their myelin. Coulter described that central nervous system damage can be exhibited as abnormal behavior of the child. In 1935, Thomas Rivers, experimental allergic encephalitis (EAE) can be the result of a viral or bacterial infection of the nervous system. "The fact of the matter is that it is a matter of record that it was known that vaccination produced encephalitis since 1926." The authors stated, "In regions in which there is no organized vaccination of the population, general paralysis is rare. ... It is impossible to deny a connection between vaccinations and the encephalitis (brain damage) which follows it." Vaccines have been linked to seizures, convulsions and epilepsy.
Vaccinations and Seizures:

Hirtz DG, Nelson KB, Ellenberg J H, "Seizures following childhood immunizations", Pediatr 1983 Jan; 102(1):14-18.
Cherry JD, Holtzman AE, Shields WD, Buch D, Nielsen, "Pertussis immunization and characteristics related to first seizures in infants and children,"J Pediatr 1993 Jun;122(6):900-903.
Coplan J, "Seizures following immunizations," J Pediatr 1983 Sep;103(3):496.
Barkin RM, Jabhour JT, Samuelson J S, "Immunizations, seizures, and subsequent evaluation," JAMA 1987 Jul 10;258(2):201.
Griffin MR, et al, "Risk of seizures after measles-mumps-rubella immunization," Pediatrics 1991 Nov;88(5):881-885.
Griffin MR, et al, "Risk of seizures and encephalopathy after immunization with the diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine," JAMA 1990 Mar 23-30;263(12):1641-1645.
Cizewska S, Huber Z, Sluzewski W, "[Prophylactic inoculations and seizure activity in the EEG]," Neurol Neurochir Pol 1981 Sep-Dec;15(5-6):553-557. [Article in Polish]
Huttenlocher PR, Hapke RJ, "A follow-up study of intractable seizures in childhood." Ann Neurol 1990 Nov; 28(5):699-705.
Blumberg DA, "Severe reactions associated with diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine: detailed study of children with seizures, hypotonic-hypo-responsive episodes, high fevers, and persistent crying."Pediatrics 1993 Jun; 91(6):1158-1165.
Vaccinations and Convulsions Citations:

Prensky AL, et al, "History of convulsions and use of pertussis vaccine," J Pediatr 1985 Aug; 107(2):244-255.
Baraff LJ, "Infants and children with convulsions and hypotonic-hypo-responsive episodes following diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis immunization: follow-up evaluation," Pediatrics 1988 Jun; 81(6):789-794.
Jacobson V, "Relationship of pertussis immunization to the onset of epilepsy, febrile convulsions and central nervous system infections: a retrospective epidemiologic study," Tokai J Exp Clin Med 1988;13 Suppl: 137-142.
Cupic V,et al, "[Role of DTP vaccine in the convulsive syndromes in children]," Lijec Vjesn 1978 Jun; 100(6):345-348. [Article in Serbo-Croatian (Roman)]
Pokrovskaia NIa, "[Convulsive syndrome in DPT vaccination (a clinico-experimental study)]," Pediatriia 1983 May;(5):37-39. [Article in Russian]
Vaccinations and Epilepsy Citations:

Ballerini, Ricci, B, et al, "On Neurological Complications of Vaccination, With Special Reference to Epileptic Syndromes," Riv Neurol, Jul-Aug 1973, 43:254-258.
Wolf SM, Forsythe A, "Epilepsy and mental retardation following febrile seizures in childhood," Acta Paediatr Scand 1989 Mar;78(2):291-295.

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Vaccines and Brain Swelling:

Iwasa, S et al, "Swelling of the Brain in Mice Caused by Pertussis ... Quantitative Determination and the Responsibility of the Vaccine", Jpn J Med Sci Biol, 1985 , 38(2):53-65.

Mathur R, Kumari S, "Bulging fontanel following triple vaccine." Indian Pediatr 1981 Jun;18(6):417-418.

Barry W, Lenney W, Hatcher G, "Bulging fontanelles in infants without meningitis." Arch Dis Child 1989 Apr;64(4):635-636.

Shendurnikar N, "Bulging fontanel following DPT" Indian Pediatr 1986 Nov;23(11):960.

Gross TP, Milstien JB, Kuritsky JN, "Bulging fontanelle after immunization with diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine and diphtheria-tetanus vaccine." J Pediatr 1989 Mar;114(3):423-425.

Jacob J, Mannino F, "Increased intracranial pressure after diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis immunization." Am J Dis Child 1979 Feb;133(2):217-218.

Dugmore, WN, "Bilateral Oedema at the Posterior Pole. Hypersensitivity Reaction to Alavac P injection." Br J Ophthalmol, Dec 1972, 55:848-849.
Vaccines and Neurological Damage

Nedar P R, and Warren, R J, "Reported Neurological Disorders Following Live Measles Vaccine", 1968, Ped, 41:997-1001.

Paradiso, G et al, "Multifocal Demyelinating Neuropathy after Tetanus Vaccine", Medicina (B Aires), 1990, 50(1):52-54.

Landrigan, PJ, Whitte, J, "Neurologic Disorders Following Live Measles-virus Vaccination", JAMA, Mar 26, 1973, v223(13):1459-1462.

Turnbull, H M, "Encephalomyelitis Following Vaccination", Brit Jour Exper Path, 7:181, 1926.

Kulenkampff, M et al, "Neurological Complications of Pertussis Inoculation", Arch Dis Child, 1974, 49:46.

Strom, J, "Further Experience of Reactions, Especially of a Cerebral Nature in Conjunction with Triple Vaccination", Brit Med Jour, 1967, 4:320-323.

Berg, J M, "Neurological Complications of Pertussis Immunization," Brit Med Jour, July 5,1958; p 24.

Bondarev, VN et al, "The Changes of the Nervous System in Children After Vaccination", Pediatria, Jun 1969; 48:20-24.

Badalian, LO, "Vaccinal Lesions of the Nervous System in Children," Vop Okhr Materin Dets, Dec 1959, 13:54-59

Lorentz, IT, et al, "Post-Vaccinal Sensory Polyneuropathy with Myoclonus", Proc Aust Ass Neurol, 1969, 6:81-86.

Trump, R C, White, T R, "Cerebellar Ataxia Presumed Due To Live Attenuated Measles Virus Vaccine," JAMA, 1967, 199:165-166.

Allerdist, H, "Neurological Complications Following Measles Vaccination", Inter Symp, Brussels, 1978, Development Biol Std, Vol 43, 259-264.

Finley, K H, "Pathogenesis of Encephalitis Occurring With Vaccination, Variola and Measles, Arch Neur and Psychologist, 1938; 39:1047-1054.

Froissart, M et al, "Acute Meningoencephalitis Immediately after an Influenza Vaccination", Lille Med, Oct 1978, 23(8):548-551.

Pokrovskaia, Nia, et al, "Neurological Complications in Children From Smallpox Vaccination", Pediatriia, Dec 1978, (12):45-49.

Allerdist, H, "Neurological Complications Following Measles Virus Vaccination. Evaluation of the Cases seen Between 1971-1977", Monatsschr Kinderheilkd, Jan 1979, 127(1): 23-28.

Ehrengut, W et al, "On Convulsive Reactions Following Oral vaccination Against Polio", Klin Paediatr, May 1979, 191(3):261-270.

Naumova, R P, et al, "Encephalitis Developing After Vaccination without a Local Skin Reaction", Vrach Delo, Jul 1979, (7):114-115.

Goswamy, BM, "Neurological Complications After Smallpox Vaccination", J Ass Phys India, Jan 1969, 17:41-43.

Schchelkunov, SN et al, "The Role of Viruses in the Induction of Allergic Encephalomyelitis," Dokl Akad Nauk SSSR, 1990,315(1):252-255. [Vaccines contain viruses, too]

Walker AM, "Neurologic events following diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis immunization," Pediatrics 1988 Mar;81(3):345-349.

Shields WD, et al, "Relationship of pertussis immunization to the onset of neurologic disorders: a retrospective epidemiologic study," J Pediatr 1988 Nov; 113(5):801-805.

Wilson J, "Proceedings: Neurological complications of DPT inoculation in infancy," Arch Dis Child 1973 Oct; 48(10):829-830.

Iakunin IuA, "[Nervous system complications in children after preventive vaccinations]," Pediatriia 1968 Nov; 47(11):19-26. [Article in Russian]

Greco D, et al, "Case-control study on encephalopathy associated with diphtheria-tetanus immunization in Campania, Italy," Bull World Health Organ 1985;63(5):919-925.

Ehrengut W at Institute of Vaccinology and Virology, Hamburg, Germany states, "Bias in the evaluation of CNS complications following pertussis immunization are the following: 1) Notifications of post-immunization adverse events, 2) Publications by vaccine producers on the frequency of adverse reactions, 3) Comparison of permanent brain damage after DPT and DT immunization, 4) Pro-immunization, 5) Immunization associated viral encephalitis, 6) Accuracy of statistics, 7) Personal. A review of these points indicates an underestimation of CNS complications after pertussis immunization."

Reference: Ehrengut W, "Bias in evaluating CNS complications following pertussis immunization." Acta Paediatr Jpn, 1991 Aug; 33(4):421-427.

Vaccinations and Unexplained Diseases:

Hiner, E E, Frasch, C E, "Spectrum of Disease Due to Haemophilus Influenza Type B Occurring in Vaccinated Children", J Infect Disorder, 1988 Aug; 158(2): 343-348.
Olin P, Romanus, V, Storsaeter, J, "Invasive Bacterial Infections During an Efficiacy Trial of Acellular Pertussis Vaccines --Implications For Future Surveilance In Pertussis Vaccine Programmes", Tokai J Exp Clin Med, 1988; 13 Suppl: 143-144.
Storsaeter, J, et al, "Mortality and Morbidity From Invasive Bacterial Infections During a Clinical Trial of Acellular Pertussis Vaccines in Sweden", Pediatr Infect Disorder J, 1988 Sept; 7(9):637-645.
Vadheim, CM, et al, "Effectiveness and Safety of an Haemophilus Influenzae type b Conjugate Vaccine (PRP-T) in Young Infants. Kaiser-UCLA Vaccine Study Group," Pediartics, 1993 Aug; 92(2):272-279. [The vaccines caused fevers, irritability, crying, and seizures, but were declared to be "safe and ... effective ... ".]
Stickl, H, "Estimation of Vaccination Damage", Med Welt, Oct 14, 1972, 23:1495-1497.
Waters, VV, et al, "Risk Factors for Measles in a Vaccinated Population", JAMA, Mar 27, 1991, 265(12): 1527.
Stickl, H, "Iatrogenic Immuno-suppression as a Result of Vaccination", Fortschr Med, Mar 5, 1981, 99(9);289-292.


Vaccine Citations Linking the Vaccine to the "prevented" Disease:

Nkowane, et al, "Vaccine-Associated Paralytic Poliomyelitis, US 1973 through 1984, JAMA, 1987, Vol 257:1335-1340.
Quast, et al, "Vaccine Induced Mumps-like Diseases", nd, Int Symp on Immun, Development Bio Stand, Vol 43, p269-272.
Green, C et al, "A Case of Hepatitis Related to Etretinate Therapy and Hepatitis B Vaccine", Dermatologica, 1991, 182(2):119-120.
Shasby, DM, et al, "Epidemic Measles in Highly Vaccinated Population", NEJM, Mar 1977, 296(11): 585-589.
Tesovic, G et al, "Aseptic Meningitis after Measles, Mumps and Rubella Vaccine", Lancet, Jun 12, 1993, 341(8859):1541.
Johnson, RH, et al, "Nosocomial Vaccinia Infection", West J Med, Oct 1976, 125(4):266-270.
Malengreau, M, "Reappearance of Post-Vaccination Infection of Measles, Rubella, and Mumps. Should Adolescents be re-vaccinated?" Pedaitric, 1992;47(9):597-601 (25 ref)
Basa, SN, "Paralytic Poliomyelitis Following Inoculation With Combined DTP Prophylactic. A review of Sixteen cases with Special Reference to Immunization Schedules in Infancy", J Indian Med Assoc, Feb 1, 1973, 60:97-99.
Landrigan, PJ et al, "Measles in Previously Vaccinated Children in Illinois", Ill Med J, Arp 1974, 141:367-372.
NA, "Vaccine-Associated Poliomyelitis", Med J Aust, Oct 1973, 2:795-796.
Vaccine Failures Citations:

Hardy, GE, Jr, et al, "The Failure of a School Immunization Campaign to Terminate an Urban Epidemic of Measles," Amer J Epidem, Mar 1970; 91:286-293.
Cherry, JD, et al, "A Clinical and Serologic Study of 103 Children With Measles Vaccine Failure", J Pediatr, May 1973; 82:801-808.
Jilg, W, et al, "Inoculation Failure Following Hepatitis B Vaccination", Dtsch Med wochenschr, 1990 Oct 12; 115(41):1514-1548.
Plotkin, SA, "Failures of Protection by Measles Vaccine," J Pediatr, May 1973; 82:798-801.
Bolotovskii, V, et al, "Measles Incidence Among Children Properly Vaccinated Against This Infection", ZH Mikrobiol Epidemiol Immunobiol, 1974; 00(5):32-35.
Landrigan, PJ, et al, "Measles in Previously Vaccinated Children in Illinois", Ill Med J, Apr 1974; 141:367-372.
Strebel, P et al, "An Outbreak of Whooping Cough in a Highly Vaccinated Urban Community", J Trop Pediatr, Mar 1991, 37(2): 71-76.
Forrest, JM, et al, "Failure of Rubella Vaccination to Prevent Congenital Rubella,"Med J Aust, 1977 Jan 15; 1(3): 77.
Jilg, W, "Unsuccessful Vaccination against Hepatitis B", Dtsch Med Wochenschr, Nov 16, 1990, 115(46):1773.
Coles, FB, et al, "An Outbreak of Influenza A (H3N2) in a Well-Immunized Nursing home Population," J Am ger Sociologist, Jun 1992, 40(6):589-592.
Jilg, W, et al, "Inoculation Failure following Hepatitis B Vaccination," Dtsch Med Wochenschr, Oct 12, 1990, 115(41):1545-1548.
Hartmann, G et al, "Unsuccessful Inoculation against Hepatitis B," Dtsch Med Wochenschr, May 17, 1991, 116(20): 797.
Buddle, BM et al, "Contagious Ecthyma Virus-Vaccination Failures", Am J Vet Research, Feb 1984, 45(2):263-266.
Mathias, R G, "Whooping Cough In Spite of Immunization", Can J Pub Health, 1978 Mar/Apr; 69(2):130-132.
Osterholm, MT, et al, "Lack of Efficacy of Haemophilus b Polysacharide Vaccine in Minnesota", JAMA, 1988 Sept 9; 260(10:1423-1428.
Johnson, RH, et al, "Nosocomial Vaccinia Infection", West J Med, Oct 1976, 125(4):266-270.
Vaccines Causing Another Vaccinal Disease:

Basa, SN, "Paralytic Poliomyelitis Following Inoculation With Combined DTP Prophylactic. A review of Sixteen cases with Special Reference to Immunization Schedules in Infancy", J Indian Med Assoc, Feb 1, 1973, 60:97-99.
Pathel, JC, et al, "Tetanus Following Vaccination Against Small-pox", J Pediatr, Jul 1960; 27:251-263.
Favez, G, "Tuberculous Superinfection Following a Smallpox Re-Vaccination", Praxis, July 21, 1960; 49:698-699.
Quast, Ute, and Hennessen, "Vaccine-Induced Mumps-like Diseases", Intern Symp on Immunizations , Development Bio Stand, Vol 43, p 269-272.
Forrest, J M, et al, "Clinical Rubella Eleven months after Vaccination," Lancet, Aug 26, 1972, 2:399-400.
Dittman, S, "Atypical Measles after Vaccination", Beitr Hyg Epidemiol, 19891, 25:1-274 (939 ref)
Sen S, et al, "Poliomyelitis in Vaccinated Children", Indian Pediatr, May 1989, 26(5): 423-429.
Arya, SC, "Putative Failure of Recombinant DNA Hepatitis B Vaccines", Vaccine, Apr 1989, 7(2): 164-165.
Lawrence, R et al, "The Risk of Zoster after Varicella Vaccination in Children with Leukemia", NEJM, Mar 3, 1988, 318(9): 543-548.
Vaccination Citations and Death

Na, "DPT Vaccination and Sudden Infant Death - Tennessee, US Dept HEW, MMWR Report, Mar 23, 1979, vol 28(11): 132.
Arevalo, "Vaccinia Necrosum. Report on a Fatal Case", Bol Ofoc Sanit Panamer, Aug 1967, 63:106-110.
Connolly, J H, Dick, G W, Field, CM, "A Case of Fatal Progressive Vaccinia", Brit Med Jour, 12 May 1962; 5288:1315-1317.
Aragona, F, "Fatal Acute Adrenal Insufficiency Caused by Bilateral Apoplexy of the Adrenal Glands (WFS) following Anti-poliomyelitis Vaccination", Minerva Medicolegale, Aug 1960; 80:167-173.
Moblus, G et al, "Pathological-Anatomical Findings in Cases of Death Following Poliomyelitis and DPT Vaccination", Dtsch Gesundheitsw, Jul 20, 1972, 27:1382-1386.
NA, "Immunizations and Cot Deaths", Lancet, Sept 25, 1982, np.
Goetzeler, A, "Fatal Encephalitis after Poliomyelitis Vaccination", 22 Jun 1961, Muenchen Med Wschr, 102:1419-1422.
Fulginiti, V, "Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Diphtheria-Tetanus Toxoid-Pertussis Vaccination and Visits to the Doctor: Chance Association or Cause and Effect?", Pediatr Infect Disorder, Jan-Feb 1983, 2(1): 7-11.
Baraff, LJ, et al, "Possible Temporal Association Between Diphtheria-tetanus toxoid-Pertussis Vaccination and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome", Pediatr Infect Disorder, Jan-Feb 1983, 2(1): 5-6.
Reynolds, E, "Fatal Outcome of a Case of Eczema Vaccinatum", Lancet, 24 Sept 1960, 2:684-686.
Apostolov. et al, "Death of an Infant in Hyperthermia After Vaccination", J Clin Path, Mar 1961, 14:196-197.
Bouvier-Colle, MH, "Sex-Specific Differences in Mortality After High-Titre Measles Vaccination", Rev Epidemiol Sante Publique, 1995; 43(1): 97.
Stewart GT, "Deaths of infants after triple vaccine.", Lancet 1979 Aug 18;2(8138):354-355.
Flahault A, "Sudden infant death syndrome and diphtheria/tetanus toxoid/pertussis/poliomyelitis immunisation.", Lancet 1988 Mar 12;1(8585):582-583.
Larbre, F et al, "Fatal Acute Myocarditis After Smallpox Vaccination", Pediatrie, Apr-May 1966, 21:345-350.
Mortimer EA Jr, "DTP and SIDS: when data differ", Am J Public Health 1987 Aug; 77(8):925-926.
Vaccines and Metabolism Citations:

Deutsch J, " [Temperature changes after triple-immunization in infant age]," Padiatr Grenzgeb 1976;15(1):3-6. [Article in German]
NA, "[Temperature changes after triple immunization in childhood]," Padiatr Grenzgeb 1976;15(1):7-10. [Article in German]
[Considering that the thyroid controls our Basal Metabolism, it would appear that vaccines altered (depressed) thryoid activity.]
Vaccines Altering Resistance to Disease:

Burmistrova AL, "[Change in the non-specific resistance of the body to influenza and acute respiratory diseases following immunization diphtheria-tetanus vaccine]," Zh Mikrobiol Epidemiol Immunobiol 1976; (3):89-91. [Article in Russian]
Vaccinations and Deafness Citations:

So I did a background check to see if there was any scientific evidence linking vaccines to deafness and hearing loss. Here are some of the articles I found:

Kaga, "Unilateral Total Loss of Auditory and Vestibular Function as a Complication of Mumps Vaccination", Int J Ped Oto, Feb 1998, 43(1):73-73
Nabe-Nielsen, Walter, "Unilateral Total Deafness as a Complication of the Measles- Mumps- Rubella Vaccination", Scan Audio Suppl, 1988, 30:69-70
Hulbert, et al, "Bilateral Hearing Loss after Measles and Rubella Vaccination in an Adult", NEJM, 1991 July, 11;325(2):134
Healy, "Mumps Vaccine and Nerve Deafness", Am J Disorder Child, 1972 Jun; 123(6):612
Jayarajan, Sedler, "Hearing Loss Following Measles Vaccination", J Infect, 1995 Mar; 30(2):184-185
Pialoux, P et al, "Vaccinations and Deafness", Ann Otolaryng (Paris), Dec 1963, 80:1012-1013.
Angerstein, W, et al, "Solitary Hearing and Equilibrium Damage After Vaccinations", Gesundheitswesen, May 1995, 57(5): 264-268.
Brodsky, Stanievich, "Sensorineural Hearing Loss Following Live Measles Virus Vaccination", Int J Ped Oto, 1985 Nov; 10(2):159-163
Koga, et al, "Bilateral Acute Profound Deafness After MMR Vaccination- Report of a Case", Nippon Jibiin Gakkai Kai, 1991 Aug;94(8):1142-5
Seiferth, LB, "Deafness after Oral Poliomyelitis Vaccination - a Case Report and Review", HNO, 1977 Aug; 25(8): 297-300
Pantazopoulos, PE, "Perceptive Deafness Following Prophylactic use of Tetanus anittoxin", Laryngoscope, Dec 1965, 75:1832-1836.
Zimmerman, W, "Observation of a case of Acute Bilateral Hearing Impairment Following Preventive Poliomyelitis Vaccination (type 3)", Arch Ohr Nas Kehlkopfheilk, 1965, 185:723-725.
Vaccinations and Kidney Disorders Citations:

Jacquot, C et al, "Renal Risk in Vaccination", Nouv Presse Med, Nov 6, 1982, 11(44):3237-3238.
Giudicelli, et al, "Renal Risk in Vaccination", Presse Med, Jun 11, 1982, 12(25):1587-1590.
Tan, SY, et al, "Vaccine Related Glomerulonephritis", BMJ, Jan 23, 1993, 306(6872):248.
Pillai, JJ, et al, "Renal Involvement in Association with Post-vaccination Varicella", Clin Infect Disorder, Dec 1993, 17(6): 1079-1080.
Eisinger, AJ et al, "Acute Renal Failure after TAB and Cholera Vaccination", B Med J, Feb 10, 1979, 1(6160):381-382.
Silina, ZM, et al, "Causes of Postvaccinal Complications in the Kidneys in Young Infants", Pediatria, Dec 1978, (12):59-61.
Na, "Albuminurias", Concours Med, Mar 1964, 85:5095-5098. [vaccination adverse reactions]
Oyrl, A, et al, "Can Vaccinations Harm the Kidney?", Clin Nephrol, 1975, 3(5):204-205.
Mel'man Nia, "[Renal lesions after use of vaccines and sera]." Vrach Delo 1978 Oct;(10):67-9, [Article in Russian]
Silina ZM, Galaktionova TIa, Shabunina NR, "[Causes of postvaccinal complications in the kidneys in young infants]." Pediatriia 1978 Dec;(12):59-61, [Article in Russian]
Silina EM, et al, "[Some diseases of the kidneys in children during the 1st year of life, following primary smallpox vaccination and administration of pertusis-diphtheria-tetanus vaccine]." Vopr Okhr Materin Det 1968 Mar; 13(3):79-80, [Article in Russian]
Vaccines and Skin Disorders Citations:

Illingsworth R, "Skin rashes after triple vaccine," Arch Dis Child 1987 Sep; 62(9):979.
Lupton GP, "Discoid lupus erythematosus occurring in a smallpox vaccination scar," J Am Acad Dermatol, 1987 Oct; 17(4):688-690.
Kompier, A J, "Some Skin Diseases caused by Vaccinia Virus [Smallpox]," Ned Milt Geneesk T, 15:149-157, May 1962.
Weber, G et al, "Skin Lesions Following Vaccinations," Deutsch Med Wschr, 88:1878-1886, S7 Sept 1963.
Copeman, P W, "Skin Complications of Smallpox Vaccination," Practitioner, 197:793-800, Dec 1966.
Denning, DW, et al, "Skin Rashes After Triple Vaccine," Arch Disorder Child, May 1987, 62(5): 510-511.
Vaccinations and Abcesses:

Sterler, HC, et al, "Outbreaks of Group A Steptococcal Abcesses Following DTP Vaccination", Pediatrics, Feb 1985, 75(2):299-303.
DiPiramo, D, et al, "Abcess Formation at the Site of Inoculation of Calmette-Guerin Bacillus (BCG)," Riv Med Aeronaut Spaz, Jul-Dec 1981, 46(3-4):190-199.
Vaccinations and Shock:

Caileba, A et al, "Shock associated with Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation Syndrome following Injection of DT.TAB Vaccine, Prese Med, Sept 15, 1984, 13(3):1900.
Lungs:

Chudwin, DS, et al, "Lung Involvement in Progressive Vaccinia", West J Med, May 1981, 134(5):446-448. [Did I mention lungs?]

Liver:

Lilic, D, et al, "Liver Dysfunction and DNA Antibodies after Hepatitis B Vaccination", Lancet, Nov 5, 1994, 344(8932):1292-1293. [The hepatitis B vaccination is given to protect the liver from disease - hepatitis, right. DNA antibodies means very possible auto-immunity again from vaccinations.]

Eyes:

Goldman, A, "Occular Vaccinia: A Case Report and Review of Treatment," Med J Aust, Nov 30, 1968, 2:921-922.

Rennie, AG et al, "Occular Vaccinia," Lancet, Aug 3, 1974, 2:273-275.

Vaccinations Don’t Work:

Gilchrist, A, "To Vaccinate is Not Always to Immunize", Med J Aust, May 6, 1991, 154(9):638. [Vaccination does not always mean (or =) immunization.]

Daniel, J C, "The Polio Paradox, One of the Two Polio Vaccines Has Been Largely Abandoned in the US; The other is the Leading Cause of the Disease", Science, April 1986, p 37-39.

Vaccination and Allergy Citations:

Fries, J H, Coleman, M, "Anaphylactoid Allergic Reaction to Influenza and Poliomyelitis Vaccines", Ann Allerg, Oct 1960; 18:1130-1137.

Bernard, JG, et al, "Vaccination Complications and Cutaneous Allergic Reactions in Young Adults", Rey Corps Sante Armees, Feb 1962; 3:35-46.

Smith, RE, "Allergic Reactions to Immunization Materials In Children and Approach to Diagnosis", Ann Allerg, Dec 1965; 23:600-603.

Erdmann, G, "Vaccination Allergy", Muenchen Med Wachr, Jun 16, 1961; 103:1217-1219 & 103:1256-1259.

Kreinin, LS, et al, "On the Problem of the Allergizing Effect on the Respiratory Organs of Aerosol Vaccination and Revaccination against Typhoid and Tetanus", Zh Mikrobiol, Aug 1968, 45:130-132.

Fedotova, AM, "The Pathogenesis of Manifestations of Non-specific Allergy During Vaccination, Pediatria, Jan 1967; 46:56-60.

D’iakova, R M, "Allergic Reaction in Children", Pediat Akush Ginek, Jan-Feb 1966, 1:20-21. [Listed under Vaccines.]

Isacson, P et al, "Allergic Reactions Associated with Viral Vaccines", Prog Med Virol, 1971, 13:239-270.

Kantchourine, AK, et al, "Role of Delayed Allergic Reactions in the Pathogenesis of Post-Vaccinal Typhoid Complications", Rev Franc Allerg, Jan-Mar 1969, 9:19-24.

Bawa YS, Wahi PL, "Allergic Encephalomyelitis after Vaccination and Serum Therapy: Report of Ten Cases", Indian J Med Sci, Apr 1961;15:290-297.

Nazareth, B, et al, "Systemic Allergic Reactions to Japanese Encephalitis Vaccines", Vaccine, May 1994, 12(7):666.

Weisse, ME, et al, "Tetanus Toxoid Allergy", JAMA, Nov 14, 1990, 264 (18):2448.

Mazurin, A V, et al, "Severe Allergic Reaction with Hemorrhagic Syndrome Following the Administration of DPT Vaccine", Vop Okhr Materin Dets, Mar 1964, 9:87-89.

Ehrengut, W, "Vaccinal Allergy, Systemic Vaccinia and Ulcerous Vaccinia", Presse Med, July 4, 1964, 72:1957-1958.

Vaccination and Anaphylaxis Citations:

Koval’skala Sia, "Anaphylactogenic Properties of ADT, PDT, and APDT Vaccines...", Zh Mikrobiol, Jan 1969; 46:65-71.

Egorova, NB, "Anaphylactic Reaction And Anti-toxin Titre Following Aerosol and Subcutaneous Immunization Against Tetanus", Zh Mikrobiol, Apr 1968, 45:63-68.

Ovens, H, "Anaphylaxis Due to Vaccination in the Office", Can Med Assoc J, Feb 15, 1986, 134(4):369-370.

NA, "Anaphylaxis Due to Vaccination in the Office", Can Med Assoc J, May 15, 1986, 134(10): 1109.

James, LP, Jr, et al, "Fatal Systemic Anaphylaxis in man", NEJM, Mar 19, 1964; 270:597-603.

Wiseman, "Anaphylactoid Reaction to Tetanus Toxoid", Ann Allerg, Nov 1982, 49(5):308.

Proctor, JW, et al, "Anaphylactoid Reaction to Intralesional BCG", Lancet, Jul 15, 1978, 2(8081):162.

Kelleher, PC, et al, "Anaphylactoid Reaction After Typhoid Vaccination", Am J Med, Dec 1990, 89(6):822-824.

Lear, J T, et al, "Anaphylaxis After Hepatitis B Vaccination", Lancet, May 13, 1995, 345(8959): 1249.

Leung AK, "Anaphylaxis to DPT vaccine." J R Soc Med 1985 Feb; 78(2):175.

Vaccinations and CIC (Klinkers) Citations:
Wilkins J, "Circulating immune complexes after DTP vaccination.", J Pediatr 1987 Jul; 111(1):162.

Valovirta E, "Circulating immune complexes during immunotherapy in allergy to dog." Allergy 1989 Feb; 44(2):123-131.

Bunnag C, Dhorranintra B, "A preliminary study of circulating immune complexes during allergen immuno-therapy in Thai patients." Asian Pac J Allergy Immunol 1989 Jun; 7(1):15-21.
Spinozzi F, et al, "Circulating immune complexes and serum lysozyme levels in untreated Hodgkin's disease. Their relationship to immune function." J Clin Lab Immunol 1983 Oct; 12(2):87-92.
Vaccines and Immune Suppression citations:

Toraldo, R, et al, "Effect of Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccination on Polymorphonuclear Neutrophil Functions in Children", Acta Paediatr, 1992 Nov; 81(11):887-890.

Munyer, et al, "Depressed Lymphocyte Function after Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccination", Jour Infection Disorder, vol 132, No 1, July 1975, p 75-80.

Oski and Naiman, "Effect of Live Measles Vaccine on the Platelet Count", NEJM, Aug 18, 1966, p 352-356.

Reik, L Jr, "Disseminated Vasculomyelinopathy: An Immune Complex Disease", Ann Neurol, Apr 1980, 7(4):291-296.

Wilkins and Wehrle, "Additional Evidence Against Measles Vaccine Administration to Infants Less than 12 months of Age: Altered Immune Response Following Active-Passive Immunization, Jour Ped, 1979, Vol 94, p 865-869.

Futton, A et al, "Vaccines May Cause Immune Suppression", Vaccine, Jan 1999, 17(2):126-133.

Ehrland, W, "Susceptibility to Infection After Vaccination", Br Med J, Mar 11, 1972, 1:683.

Bastin, R et al, "Repeated Cholera Vaccination. Immunological "Depressive" effect," Ann Med Interne (Paris), Jun-July 1974, 125(6-7):513-518.

Kumar, L et al, "Cell-Mediated Immuno-deficiency with Normal Immunoglobulins (Nezelof’s Syndrome) with Progressive Vaccinia", Indian Pediatr, Jan 1977, 14(1):69-72.

Stickl, H, "Iatrogenic Immunosuppression as a Result of Vaccination", Fortschr Med, Mar 5, 1981, 99(9):289-292.

Daniliuk, O S et al, "Immunodepressive action Vaccinia Virus", Biull Eksp Biol Med, Jul 1982, 94(7):73-74.

Castan, P et al, "Coma Revealing an acute Leukosis in a child, 15 days after an Oral Anti-poliomyelitis Vaccination," Acta Neurol Bekg, May 1965, 65:349-367.

Pletsityl, DF, et al, "The Effect of the Vaccinal Process on the Non-specific Phagocytic Activity of Peripheral Blood Leukocytes", Biull Eksp Biol Med, Mar 1973, 75(3):76-79.

Green, MS, et al , "Depression of Immune Response to an Inactivated Hepatitis A Vaccine Administered Concomitantly with Immune Globulin", J Infect Dis, 1993 Sep; 168(3):740-743.

Beckenhauer, W H, et al, "Immunosuppression with Combined Vaccines", J AM Vet Med Assoc, Aug 15, 1983, 183(4):389-390.

Green, MS, et al , "Depression of Immune Response to an Inactivated Hepatitis A Vaccine Administered Concomitantly with Immune Globulin", J Infect Dis, 1993 Sep; 168(3):740-743.

Kotwal, G j et al, "Inhibition of the Complement Cascade by the Major Secretory Protein of Vaccinia Virus", Science, Nov 9, 1990, 250(4982):827-830.

Strauss, J et al, "Loss of Maternal Measles Antibodies Acquired By Vaccination Against Measles," Cesk epidemiol Mikrobiol Immunol, May 1991, 40(3):137-143.

Fattom, A, Cho, Y.H, Chu, C.Y, Fuller, S, Fries, L, Naso, R, "Vaccines May Cause Immune Suppression ....", Vaccine, Jan 1999;17(2):126-133.
Blumberg DA, "Leukocyte responses to diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis and diphtheria-tetanus immunization", Pediatr Infect Dis J 1991 Mar; 10(3):247-248.

Vaccinations and AIDS Citations:

Scheier, R, Hepatitis vaccine: the Danger of AIDS Transmission, Z Hautkr, 1984 Apr 15; 59(8):502-506.

Macek, C, "AIDS Transmission: What about the Hepatitis B Vaccine?", JAMA, 1983 Feb 11; 249(6):685-686.

NA, "The Risk of AIDS after Hepatitis Vaccination," JAMA, 1985 May 24-31; 253(20):2960-2961.

Taubman, L B, et al, "The Question of Possible Relationship Between Hepatitis B Vaccine and AIDS", AM J Med, 1984 Apr; 76(4): A 59.

Kato, S et al, "Hepatitis B Vaccination and AIDS," JAMA, 1985 Jul 5; 254(1):53.

Schwartz, AM, et al, "Hepatitis Vaccine and the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome", 1983, JAMA, Oct: 99(4):567-568.

Sacks, H S, et al, "Should the Risk of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome deter Hepatitis B Vaccination?" A Decision Analysis." JAMA, 1984 Dec 28; 252(24): 3375-3377.

Papaevangelou, G et al, "Risk of AIDS in Recipients of Hepatitis B Vaccine", NEJM, 1985 Feb 7; 312(6):376-377.

Francis, DP, et al, "The Safety of the Hepatitis B Vaccine. Inactivation of the AIDS virus During Routine Manufacture", JAMA, 1986 Aug 15; 256(7): 869-872.

Schultz, TF, "Origin of AIDS," Lancet, Mar 7, 1992, 339(8797):867

dNotes:

Eva Snead, MD, Some Call it AIDS ... I Call it Murder, 1992, Vol I/II, AUM Publications, San Antonio, TX

Notes adapted from Vaccine Flyer from NVIC, Vienna, VA.

Topa, P K, "Manufacture of Vaccine Lymph", The Ind Med Gaz, Mar 1951, vol 86,p 94-96.

Horowitz, C. "Immunizations and Informed Consent". Mothering, Winter/83, p.39.

T Koren, 1998, Remarks about Vaccinations in Brochure for Chiropractors.

"Effect of Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccination on Polymorphonuclear Neutrophil Functions in Children", Toraldo, R, et al, Acta Paediatr, 1992 Nov; 81(11):887-890.

Eva Snead, MD, Some Call it AIDS ... I Call it Murder, 1992, Vol I/II, AUM Publications, San Antonio, TX

Harold E Buttram, MD, and John C Hoffman, The Dangers of Immunization, 1985, Humanitarian Publishing Co, Quakertown, PA

Eva Snead, MD, Some Call it AIDS ... I Call it Murder, 1992, Vol I/II, AUM Publications, San Antonio, TX

Dr Edward E Shook, Advanced Treatise in Herbology, ENOS Publishing, 1978 (1992)

Ibid.

Harris L, Coulter, Vaccination, Social Violence and Criminality, North Atlantic Books: Berkeley, CA. 1990, P. xiii-xiv.

"Did Measles Shot Hurt Autistic Child? by David Wahlberg, Ann Arbor News Staff Reporter, Tuesday, November 10, 1998

Ibid.

Harris L Coulter, Vaccination Social Violence and Criminality, 1990, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA, p 154.

Spence, TH, "The Quite Epidemic: The Assault on the American Mind", ref: Health Freedom News, unpublished

Sharon Kimmelman, "There’s More to Vaccination than the Shot", NY, NJ and CT Naturally, 1990, reprint.

The Role of Vaccination in Immune Dysfunction, Cancer and AIDS, 1995, Ted Spence, DDS, ND, PhD/DSc, MH, Truth Seekers Press, Exmore, VA

Benjamin P Sandler, MD, Diet Prevents Polio, 1951, The Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research, Milwaukee, WS

. PF Colliers, "Elizabeth Kenny", 1986, P F Collier, Inc, NY

. Neil Miller, Vaccines: Are They Really Safe and Effective?, 1992, The New Atlantean Press, Sante Fe, NM

. Stockton, The Book Of Health, 1990, McLean Publishing, Tampa, FL

Ruth, Winter, MS, Cosmetic Ingredients, 4th ed, 1994, Three Rivers Press, NY

Ibid. p 43.

JAMA, July 3, 1926, p 45.

Vera Scheibner, PhD, Vaccinations: 100 Years Assault on the Immune System, 1993, Australian Print Group
 

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Here's To Your Health May/June

COMPULSORY SHOTS IN 'LAND OF THE FREE'

Crusading doctor warns of the dangers of vaccinations - and your diminished medical rights.

Does the medical establishment really know enough about vaccinations to guarantee they will not kill?

By The SPOTLIGHT Staff

The late Dr. Robert Mendelsohn, "the people's doctor," spent decades arguing against the practice of immunizations.

Related how he lectured in Little Rock, Ark., on Sept. 15, 1982. The same day, the local newspapers ran a story about six-year-old Justin Douglas Cook of Pine Bluff. He was excluded from the first grade because his mother, Mrs. Cook objected because of problems that had occurred following a set of DPT shots (diphtheria-pertussis or whooping cough and tetanus) given to Justin as a baby.

Because of Mrs. Cook's experience, the Health Department had granted a waiver on the rest of the DPT series, but the department insisted Justin be vaccinated against measles, rubella (German measles) and polio.

Mrs. Cook insisted that Health Department officials put in writing that her son would never "go into a coma or die after the shots." Of course the powers that be will not put it into writing because they can't be sure of the results - which answers the key question posed by this article: Does our present state of scientific knowledge know enough about vaccinations and side effects to justify the compulsory immunization policies now in force?

In Little Rock, Justin's mother was very brave and decided to challenge the authorities. She took her son to school and sat in the classroom with him, defying them to remove her and her son by force in front of television cameras. Mendelsohn advised The Phil Donahue Show of the issue. It could have become a nationwide rally against compulsory immunization, but the powers that be quietly pulled in their horns - clearly indicating that politics plays a role as well as "science."

Nevertheless, the immunization policy remains intact. Vaccinations remain compulsory. Although we call ourselves "the land of the free," the idea of individual choice does not play in this game.

Intelligent and informed parents who make the choice that one or more vaccines are not in the best interest of their children are unable to act freely on that decision. In every state, children are prevented from attending public schools and some private schools and day care centers without having "proof of vaccination" certificates. With the exception of a medical exemption from an approved doctor, a religious exemption on file with the state or a philosophical exemption on file in one of the 20 states that allow a person to object "philosophically," vaccinations are mandated by law.

Strange, isn't it? At least half the American population today is "prochoice." Women have the right to choose to abort an unwanted fetus, but they have no right to chose to avoid immunizations for their child. Go figure!*

 The SPOTLIGHT

Here's To Your Health May/June

WHAT YOU HAVEN'T BEEN TOLD ABOUT VACCINATIONS

By Tom Valentine

Forcing Americans to have their children or themselves vaccinated is one of the most flagrant examples of "agenda driven science" and the establishment's health-care monopoly.

Apparently most people have not grasped the essence of this issue. The general public has been sold a bill of goods by institutionalized thinking and entrenched pharmaceutical-medical-government alliance propaganda.

Last November a grieving father, whose infant daughter died shortly after receiving a Hepatitis B vaccine booster shot, wrote of the terrible experience. His daughter died at the age of five, weeks following a "booster shot" for the Hepatitis B vaccine.

At first the parents blamed themselves. Then the father, Michael Belkin, a New York businessman, began to investigate. He now questions the "scientific legitimacy of the vaccine industry, which provides $800 million of annual revenue to Merck - the company which makes the Hepatitis B vaccine distributed in the U.S."

Health and natural food advocates have long preached against what they call the "insanity" of compulsory vaccination programs. Belkin is one of the thousands who have the point driven home in tragic and dramatic fashion.

Following his investigation, Belkin wrote:

"In the United States the Hepatitis B disease mainly infects intravenous drug users, homosexuals, prostitutes and promiscuous heterosexuals. The disease is transmitted by blood, through sex or dirty needles. How could a newborn baby possibly get Hepatitis B if the mother was screened and tested negative, as my wife was? It is almost impossible?

"Unless a newborn child is having unprotected sex or sharing needles with an infected junkie, it is extremely unlikely to get the Hepatitis B disease. So then, why are most U.S. babies inoculated at birth by their hospital or pediatrician with the Hepatitis B vaccine? This is a question that every parent should ask before getting this vaccination. I've discovered the answer is - an unrestrained health bureaucracy decided it couldn't get junkies, gays, prostitutes and promiscuous heterosexuals to take the Hepatitis B vaccine, so the mandated that all babies must be vaccinated at birth.

"Drug companies such as Merck (reaching for new markets) were instrumental in pushing government scientists to adopt an at-birth Hepatitis B vaccination policy, although the vaccine was never tested in newborns and no vaccines had ever been mandated at birth before. It is widely recognized that new borns have underdeveloped immune systems, which can be overwhelmed or shocked.

"When Belkin determined that the vaccine had been the cause of his daughter's death he reported it to the Now York City Medical Examiner so that it would be part of the Vaccine Adverse Effects Reporting System (VAERS) established by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control. However, Belkin reported:

"When, the New York city Coroner called VAERS to report my daughter's Hepatitis B Vaccine-related infant death, no one ever returned the call. What kind of reporting system doesn't return the calls of the New York city Medical Examiner - and how many other reports were ignored? This is supposed to be like an emergency 911 number for disasters such as bad lots of vaccine that could poison thousands of other babies...VAERS doesn't return coroner's calls, leading to the suspicion that deaths and adverse effects from vaccination are woefully under reported. To conclude that the Hepatitis B vaccine is safe because VAERS only reports 19 deaths is scientific fraud. In fact, I obtained the raw data from the VAERS system and found 54 reported SIDS cases after Hepatitis B vaccination in just the 18 months from January 1996 to May 1997. That's almost 15 times as many deaths per year as their own flawed study reported.

"There are 17,000 reports of adverse reactions to Hepatitis B vaccine in the 1996-97 raw data. Clearly something is fishy about VAERS.

Belkin summed up his personal investigation as follows:

"Parents should be aware that the Hepatitis B vaccine is not administered for the well-being of their child. Rather it is delivered by the long arm of some incompetent and mindless bureaucracy in the name of stamping out a disease most babies can't possibly get. The drug company-CDC-FDA alliance has really polled the wool over the medical profession's eyes with this vaccine. The American Pediatric Society bought the alliance's sales pitch and now recommends that all infants get this vaccine at birth. So now the first thing most babies get in life is a shock to their immature immune system from a vaccine against a disease they have a nonexistent risk of contracting. Clearly, the interests of the newborn babies were not represented on the original panel that created this vaccination policy in 1991. This vaccine wears off and they will need booster shots later in life when they actually could get exposed to the disease.

"This is simply a case of ravenous corporate greed and mindless bureaucracy teaming up to overwhelm common sense. Merck in particular has gone way over the edge with this vaccination program. Ignoring and suppressing reports of adverse reactions to their profitable Hepatitis B vaccine verges on criminal conduct. A major media organization will soon present an investigative report on the issues discussed here. Nothing will ever bring my lovely daughter Lyla back, but other needles deaths and injuries can be prevented if this senseless Hepatitis B newborn vaccination program is halted. Please contact Belkin Limited in New York City if you are aware of other infant deaths that may be related to this vaccine.

Hepatitis B vaccine is merely the latest in a long list of bad immunization policies. Attorney Kirk McCarville of Phoenix, Ariz., handles one of the nation's largest caseloads of families with children who have reacted adversely to immunizations.

One of his tragic cases involved "Baby Christopher," a two-month-old infant who received his first DPT (diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus) and oral polio vaccinations in June 1990. Within two hours the baby began screaming high pitched, pain-and-rear-filled screams. Twenty on hours after the immunizations, Baby Christopher was free from all potential disease - he died.

Thanks to the failure to answer all phone calls as Belkin has pointed out, and other agenda-driven failings, most people believe that such tragedies as Baby Christopher or Baby Lyla are very rare. When we consider something the vaccine and drug promoters call the "risk benefit ratio," it is generally presumed that everyone must surely be convinced of the overall benefit of compulsory vaccination programs.

There may be a few thousand Baby Christopher or Baby Lyla incidents. But there are "millions" of immunized" children living allegedly healthy lives. The risk is, therefore, considered minor when it is weighed against the presumed benefits. It has always been thus in pharmaceutical circles, even when the benefits cannot be proved, but only presumed.

The "risk-benefit-ratio" is why doctors are allowed to prescribe drugs that are capable of killing the patient. If the drug solves the disease crisis without killing the patient 950 times out of a thousand, it is deemed worth the risk. Of course, the risk is not to the physicians, but to the patients, who are often unaware of the "risk-benefit-ratio" mentality.

There have been thousands of lawsuits over the years, indicating that the risks are very real indeed. In fact the risk factor caused a law to be passed: The "National Vaccine Injury compensation Act."

Think about this: In the land of the free and home of the free market system, the marketplace obviously cannot afford the liabilities of vaccinations, so the taxpayers have been coerced into paying the claims by well-lobbied legislators. There is indeed such a thing as the "National Vaccine Injury Compensation Act." The cigarette industry and the gun manufacturers could use such protection.

First, government guarantees immense sales revenues by establishing compulsory vaccine programs. Then, the same government bails out the pharmaceutical companies against costly liability claims. With taxpayer dollars guaranteeing everything, promoters are naturally going to hype vaccines out of proportion and refuse to answer phone calls from the coroner's office.

The cost of our compulsion for vaccinations has been staggering. Is it any wonder our so-called "health care system" is bankrupt and staggering after gobbling up about 14 percent of the gross national product each year?

The Feb. 5, 1996, Chicago Tribune published a feature about this "agency that pays damages and shields drug firms" with the folowing banner headline:

"When vaccine injures child, U.S. handling suits."

The story, written by Jan Crawford Greenburg of the Tribune's Washington bureau, opened by telling briefly about six-week-old Laura Meyer's tragic encounter with the compulsory immunization program. Laura is only one of thousands to be killed or injured by vaccinations. The article then states:

"She was also among the first to have her medical care paid for through the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, a little known system set up as an alternative to costly, time-consuming lawsuits against the drug companies that make the vaccines.

"So many people in the medical community feel like vaccines have saved so many children, and its such a wonderful thing, and we're going to lose a few kids along the way, but that's the way life goes," said Laura's mother, Carol Meyer, who lives in Wichita, Kansas. "I will say that's probably true, but if you're going to force me to have my children vaccinated, I think the compensation program is important."

Look back at the last paragraph. There are some curiously twisted concepts coming ut of that grieving mother's mouth. She puts a lot of stock in what the "medical community feels." Is that the way it is? We are embroiled in this health and sickness controversy because the medical community feels good about it?

Evidently, that is the most accurate way to say what she is saying. The evidence isn't clear enough for any so-called medical expert to say "we know" what we are doing, so a poor woman with a paralyzed daughter must stoop to such vague platitudes, probably in defense of her own sanity.

Her line on the risk-benefit ratio is a classic: "So, we're going to lose a few kids along the way - well, that's life! Isn't it?"

She's smart enough to know something is amiss. So she adds that "it's probably true' before she gets down to the real life issue. If government is going to force her to have her child take dangerous vaccinations, then the government will have to pay when things go wrong. It's not fair to make the family pay all those exorbitant medical bills.

The story continues:

"Of the more than 20 million children vaccinated every year, an estimated 500 suffer serious reactions and 75 die, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have determined.

Let pause for a reality check.

Not only do we refer you to Belkin's tale of the non-returned phone call, but we take you back to a conversation between Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) And Dr. Martin H. Smith, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics. This is from the record of the congressional hearings on the very vaccine injury compensation law written about by the Chicago Tribune earlier:

Mr. Waxman: "In your opinion, is there an accurate reporting of reactions to vaccines?
Dr. Smith: "Not at the present time." (1985)

Here's more from the hearing record. Waxman is addressing Dr. Edward N. Brandt, assistant secretary for Health in the Department of Health and Human Services:

Mr. Waxman: "I have been hearing that physicians don't even know a reaction when one occurs. That they assume that maybe it is from some other cause and are unaware of the fact that there can be a reaction, let us say to a pertussis vaccine. Is that a fair statement?
Dr. Brandt: "Well, certainly there have been a number of people who have pointed that out.

As we can see, a great gap remains in the medical community's ability to accurately diagnose and report reactions to vaccines. So, how did Congress, the spenders of public money, allow us taxpayers to be conned into covering all this liability so that drug companies can keep their revenue? If there's no accurate reporting of reactions to vaccines, and if doctors generally can't tell a reacion when one occurs, haw can Congress assume the risk of reaction is small?

Dr. Dean Black published a brochure "Immunizations; Compulsion or Choice" (Tapestry Press, Springville, Utah 84663, 1989; $1.50), where this issue was covered in some detail. Dr. Black wrote:

"Even when physicians report an immediate reaction, they may not report its long-term consequences. For example, the father of a vaccine-injured girl named Julie testified to the committee that the extent of Julie's vaccine injury was never reported. She got her third DPT shot when she was four months old. Within hours, she went into a grand mal seizure, which the doctor acknowledged and reported. In the following two years, however, she suffered approximately 50 grand mal seizures and many more petit mal or mini-seizures that were not reported. One month past her third birthday, she died.

"In his testimony, Julie's father commented: "Our doctor said she had a seizure and that was the end of it. They don't know Julie is dead, that she had continuing seizure disorders. Her long-term problems and death stemming from vaccine are not in the records. There are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of other children not in the statistics."

"Yet, those statistics are used to assure us that our children are safe from harm.

The Chicago Tribune article about how we taxpayers are covering the liability for the manufacturers of vaccines continues:

"Since it began in 1988, the program has awarded $605 million to 1,858 parents or their lawyers. The money comes from an excise tax on the vaccines...(which is a joke since tax dollars from government programs pay for the vast majority of vaccines).
"Through December 1995, 5,004 cases have been filed. Of those 884 families received funding and 2,337 were dismissed by a special attorney the court appoints to review the claims. The rest are still pending.

Why not let the vaccine makers handle their own liability? They are the ones who "feel like vaccines have saved so many children we simply can't allow the business to be hindered by liability problems."

The National vaccine Injury compensation Program was created because several pharmaceutical houses claimed they would stop making vaccines because liability lawsuits were too huge a problem.

Of course, it was also a big problem for the families of the victims. They had to find and hire lawyers, and then hope they could "prove" the vaccine was responsible. This turned out to be hard to do, especially since the experts don't really know what goes on when a child's body is inoculated.*

http://vacinfo.org/Viera.htm

MESSAGE TO THOSE ATTENDING THE CONFERENCE ON AUTISM
By Viera Scheibner (Principal Research Scientist-retired)
Kanner described autism for the first time in 1943.  At the time, the administered vaccines were diphtheria, tetanus and occasional whooping cough.  Nowadays, babies and small children are given a multitude of vaccines besides DPT and Polio:  Hib since late 1980's; in the US and Australia since early 1990's HepB at birth and more doses at 1 months or at two and 4 months later, and, recently in the UK, USA and Australia, also meningococcal C and pneumococcal vaccines.  I am surprised that any babies survive such an assault of toxic substances as vaccines are, containing not only a number of foreign proteins (antigens) which are bacteria or their protein envelopes and viruses, but also adjuvant and tissue fixatives and preservatives.  However, no babies survive without  some deleterious effect, even though most parents think that their babies were 'perfectly normal' until the last assault by MMR.  Their babies had previous reactions, but parents believed their doctors that it was normal and to be expected.  MMR was just the last straw that broke the camel's back!  When I attended the Conference on Autism at the Tulane Medical School in New Orleans, I told one of the mother-doctors who organized the seminar that her son experienced serious reactions to his first vaccines, not just MMR.  First she said "No" and then when I asked her to have a look at the photos of her child she was showing during her lecture (from birth to after MMR), put her hand over one eye and have a look where the other is aiming and then change hands, she would notice that the child was not focusing properly and the color of the eyes changed into pitch black (indicating toxicity).  Then she admitted that he screamed for 3 days after every DPT, Hib and Polio  vaccines.  I asked her "What do you think he screamed of?" and she said she did not know.  I told her that he screamed from excruciating pain due to brain inflammation.  She should have prudently stopped any vaccination after the first screaming event. Animal viruses (the most well-known are the monkey, simian, viruses and amoebas in the polio vaccines) contaminate the vaccines because most of them are cultured on animals tissue and one does not have to be a rocket scientist to realize that animal tissue contains animal microorganisms.  The amount of toxins, such as mercury exceeds manifold what is considered a safe level.  There is no safe level for formaldehyde.  Is it surprising that it was published already in 1990's that the US infant mortality rates rival those of the Third World?  As if this was not disconcerting enough, when babies die from vaccines, parents and other caregivers are accused of Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS)!  Vaccinators not only kill your babies, then they also throw you into prison.  No thanks for your unquestioning compliance. Many parents vaccinate because they are told and hence mistakenly believe that infectious diseases represent a surge that has to be prevented at ANY price;  quite the opposite is true.  Infectious diseases are beneficial for children by priming and maturing their immune system, provided they are properly managed.   Complications and death may arise if such diseases are mismanaged, by the inappropriate administration of antibiotics in a viral disease such as measles; this damages the gut flora and suppresses the immune system.  Antibiotics are useless in a viral disease anyway, even if they worked. Relentless suppression of fever (an important healing process) is another example of quackery in the orthodox medical system. The best treatment in any infectious diseases is sufficiently high doses of vitamin C.

There is also a substantial difference between acquiring measles by an unvaccinated healthy child (meaning no vaccines at all, not just MMR) and a vaccinated child:  vaccinated children often have difficulty developing natural immunity and may come down with measles several time.  Those vaccinated, and only those vaccinated, also may develop atypical measles, which is an especially vicious form of measles due to immunosuppression by vaccination. I observe that even many of those doctors trying to warn of the dangers of vaccines, say that they are not against vaccination and that they do not want to see those large epidemics of measles, mumps and rubella.  I urge these doctors to take the time to study what has already been documented in medical research about the dangers and ineffectiveness of individual vaccines.  The only safe vaccine is the one never administered. The Amish who claim religious exemption to vaccination, did not report a single case of measles between 1970 and 1987 (for 18 years!)  That was the time when the well-vaccinated communities experienced regular 2-3 year epidemics amongst those who were vaccinated.  Then, starting in December 1987, the Amish reported large outbreaks of measles already in 1982, just when the US health authorities were going to pronounce measles eradicated (by 1 October 1982).  Obviously, infectious diseases have their own dynamics which are not studied, because of the morbid preoccupation with vaccination. 

When the individual US states mandated DPT vaccination starting in 1978, the incidence of whooping cough increased in a sustained manner, with the majority of cases occurring between 6 weeks and 6 months and in the vaccinated!  In contrast to this, when the UK parents stopped vaccinating in 1975, it was followed by the longest interepidemic period with the lowest incidence of whooping cough on record.  When the normal 4-year epidemic arrived in 1978 the age distribution returned back to normal:  the majority of cases occurred in 4 year olds.  The same  happened in Sweden after 1979 when they discontinued the use of pertussis vaccine:  no incidence below the age of six months, with very low incidence below the age of 2 1/2 years and the majority of cases occurring between 2 1/2 and 10 years.  At that age, whooping cough is not a dangerous disease.  It is only potentially dangerous in smallbabies.

When you hear about outbreaks of any 'vaccine-preventable' infectious diseases, first ask how many of the 'victims' were vaccinated (you will usually hear that most, if not all).  In the last four years, Australia has been experiencing large outbreaks of whooping cough, after our  former health minister increased the vaccination compliance by unlawful means, by making certain social security payments depend on vaccination (even though this can be circumvented when 'conscientious objection' is lodged; this is an equally questionable practice since vaccination is not mandatory in Australia, so why would anybody have to claim conscientious objection to it). Large epidemics of polio followed mass vaccination drives in Taiwan, Oman, Namibia, Gambia, Jordan, Albania and many other countries, typically mostly after the first dose.  This is all published in the Lancet and other reputable medical journals. Many medical researchers now admit that a pandemic of such immunoreactive disorders as asthma and allergies is caused by too much hygiene and mass vaccination programs, but that does not mean that we should change these (harmful) health practices.  They just fall short of saying that infectious diseases are desirable, because having measles prevents asthma and other immunoreactive diseases, degenerative diseases of bone and cartilage, sebaceous skin diseases and certain cancers (as published in the Lancet in 1985).  That having mumps prevents ovarian cancer, was published already in 1966.  That rubella vaccination does not prevent congenital rubella syndrome and that immunity acquired by having the disease is superior to that acquired by vaccination, has been published in Australia and elsewhere. Babies and small children do not need any vaccines.  Individually administered, measles, rubella and mumps vaccines are just as harmful as given together.  Medical Observer published my letter to the editor in  which I wrote that the best way to know whether MMR causes autism or not is to stop using it.  Japan admitted the causal link between MMR and the OBSERVED side effects such as meningitis and simply discontinued MMR vaccination.  No epidemics of higher magnitude than normal of measles,mumps or rubella followed.  There is nothing wrong with that.  When people tell me that the UK Health Department published that so many children then died from measles, I always ask "And you believe it?"  Vaccinators are capable of publishing not only lies, "They publish total lies", as one TV cameraman said. Parents believe your own eyes.  Sadly, you can't trust doctors who can't even see the value of their own research results.  One or two cases of adverse events after vaccination may be coincidental, but not hundreds of thousands of cases all over the vaccine-crazy developed world.  Do vaccines cause autism?  Quite obviously, they do!  You have seen it with your own eyes and some even video-recorded it.  I am re-introducing the word OBVIOUS into science.  Besides this, there is plenty of published research documenting how and why vaccines cause autism (and many other deleterious effects):  by deranging all systems in the body, starting with the immune system.  There are many angles to approach this problem, but they all point in the same direction.  Stop vaccinating and you will have healthy and normal children, as non-vaccinating parents all over
the world will confirm.  The only people who should get vaccines are the vaccinators.  Medical Observer published another of my letters to the editor, in which I challenged an aggressive pro-vaccinator to go on TV and to show us how safe vaccines are, by allowing himself to be injected  with all baby vaccines and either put up put up or shout up.  He chose to shut up.  I told a few prosecutors in the US to take their flu injections every year.  Tell vaccinators to take their own medicine and then watch the horror in their eyes.       

OPEN LETTER TO PEDIATRICIANS ON FLU VACCINES by THOMAS STONE, MD.
Let us examine then the CAUTION displayed by the CDC in the Great Swine Flu Vaccination Disaster. When swine flu, or what was thought to be swine flu, broke out in a small epidemic at Fort Dix, New Jersey, public-health officials panicked and jumped to a lot of unwarranted conclusions. This panic set in motion the greatest public-health fiasco in the history of the United States thus far.

The Fort Dix epidemic comprised 12 cases of the "swine flu." And, although no new cases were discovered at Fort Dix after the initial outbreak, or anywhere else in the world for that matter, the Centers for Disease Control began a headlong rush into disaster.

MOST EXPERTS SAID that since immunization attempts against the flu epidemics of 1957 and 1968 had been completely unsuccessful, this would be a very expensive and DANGEROUS FOOL'S ERRAND by the CDC. Dr. E. Russell Alexander, Professor of Public health, University of Washington, said: "Our general view is that you should BE CONSERVATIVE about PUTTING FOREIGN MATERIAL into the human body." That's always true---especially when you are talking about TWO HUNDRED MILLION BODIES. The need should be estimated conservatively. "IF YOU
DON'T NEED TO GIVE IT, DON'T."[Emphasis added].

But CDC officials were assuring everyone that the vaccine was PERFECTLY SAFE--"just like water"--in the words of Dr. Walter Dowdle. IS THIS WHAT YOU CALL CAUTION? HAS ANYTHING CHANGED?

The CDC set up a staff of "experts," including those darlings of the medical-political complex, Salk and Sabin. You will probably not be surprised to learn that Dr. E. Russell Alexander, who urged caution, was not included on this August body of experts.

IS IT ANY DIFFERENT TODAY? YOU ARE NOT SURPRISED, ARE YOU? ANYONE WHO DARES TO TELL THE TRUTH WOULD NEVER BE ON ANOTHER PANEL NOR WOULD THEY EVER GET ANOTHER RESEARCH GRANT. Do you think these people are dumb?
 
What happened recently to Dr. Andrew Wakefield at the Royal Free Hospital in London when he discovered that the vaccine caused changes in the gut which, in turn, could trigger autism? How many scientists are going to sacrifice their entire career and any future research grants by reporting the truth about these increasingly dangerous vaccines?

Even the head of the CDC admitted later that the panel of experts was merely a rubber stamp, a bunch of medical stooges.

IS IT ANY DIFFERENT NOW? - YOU ARE OUR BABIES AND CHILDREN'S LAST AND ONLY DEFENSE! This vaccine is against a disease that even the CDC admits is less than one in a million chance. AND YOU ARE CONTINUING TO RELY ON PANELS OF "EXPERTS," in the CDC, the PHS, the FDA and your AAP who are RUBBER STAMPS, a bunch of MEDICAL STOOGES! Can any of you honestly say that these panels are any different today? And, like the little trusting children that you all want to serve in the best possible manner, you trust these "experts" just as the children trust their parents.

In one of the topics, a pediatrician mentioned that he often thought like the children that he treated. Perhaps that is one of the qualities that it takes to be a good pediatrician, to relate well with children, to be able to see and feel like a child, and to trust parental figures without question. BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, for the sake of your little patients, THINK CAREFULLY and CRITICALLY evaluate this SAME propaganda, from the SAME agencies, who are serving the SAME masters!

So President Gerald Ford, accepting what he assumed was the best advice available, and flanked by Salk and Sabin, signed the go-ahead bill in the White House press room with cameras rolling.

This vaccine was made from the yokes of eggs, and a certain number of people could be expected to have violent allergic reactions to the egg protein. But this would turn out to be the least of the problems. The American Medical Association, always in the forefront of any type of immunization drive, strongly supported the program but would soon, like the public health establishment, have egg on its face.

Although everyone was assured by the CDC that the vaccine was 90 percent effective and had little or no side effects, their own study in 1968-69 proved that "optimally constituted influenza vaccines at standard dosage levels have little, if any, effectiveness..." The Office of Management and Budget suggested that the CDC rethink its program: "The main reason for a possible change in approach is that there have not been any further cases of swine flu ANYWHERE in the world since the 12 Fort Dix cases..." The emphasis on "ANYWHERE" is in the original report, unusual in a government report. But the political juggernaut was on its way.

READ THAT LAST PARAGRAPH AGAIN, about how CAUTIOUS the CDC WAS AND IS.

Matters got rapidly worse. Incredibly, the planners forgot to allow in the trials for a two half-dose regimen for children, those considered most vulnerable and those most likely to spread the infection. "We just didn't think of it," one field worker later admitted.

Adding to the chaos, the Park-Davis Pharmaceutical Company had somehow managed to use the wrong virus. Millions of doses (and dollars) were discarded and the program was set back another six weeks. No one seemed to notice that the virus yield from the chicken eggs was only one vaccine dose per egg, which indicated that their Fort Dix swine flu, or whatever it was, grew slowly and was therefore non-virulent. It was unlikely to cause an epidemic. Or did they notice, and were afraid to say anything. There are powerful forces promoting these vaccines. Because, of course, they are so
concerned about our babies and children!

Although children were to be the main target of the program, they were excluded because it was discovered that it didn't work in children. To avoid the American people seeing their total incompetence, this information was withheld from the public. Did you read that in your AAP journal?
Pediatricians were saved by this then. This time there is little hope since the vaccines (20, 25 or 50?) involve children.

When it became clear there would be no epidemic, Sabin abandoned ship and urged the abandonment of the entire program. By mid-summer, CDC officials were admitting there was no need for the program. But then a strange thing happened, which illustrates how dangerous your congressman can be when mass emotion, rather than good scientific judgment and common sense, rules events.

The Congress passed the swine flu vaccination bill because of the outbreak of Legionnaire's disease. Jerry Ford, not known for his intelligence or grasp of logical concepts, told Congress that, although Legionnaire's Disease caused the deaths in Philadelphia and not swine flu, they could have been caused by swine flu! Following this peculiar logic, the bill passed overwhelmingly. Is this kind of peculiar logic limited to Congress?

Things got worse. It was discovered that a surface protein, the one that was supposed to make the vaccine effective, had been left out. This meant that the vaccine, even to those who believe in vaccines, was about as useful as chicken sweat. But the program went relentlessly forward--to disaster.

The CDC lied on the "registration from" saying that the vaccine was safe in pregnancy, even though it had not been tested on pregnant women. 

Very CAUTIOUS, aren't they?

The form was actually a disguised "informed consent" which protected the CDC from lawsuits.

Yes, you could honestly say they were CAUTIOUS.

The CDC was not told the vaccine was probably useless because of the omission of the surface protein and they struck out the warnings from the manufacturers that neurological damage was a possible side effect.

Very CAUTIOUS, maybe they didn't want anyone to worry.

When three people dropped dead shortly after receiving the swine-flu vaccine in Pittsburgh, the program was temporarily closed down and nine states quickly followed suit. The panic subsided when President Ford and his family got their flu shots (or was it really saline?) on national television, and the fiasco continued. As people were dropping dead or becoming permanently paralyzed from the shots, it was decided to drop the tag line on the promotion: "Swine flu shot. Get It Before It Gets You." It sounded like a bad joke.

You know the disaster that followed: After a thousand cases of paralysis had been reported, the CDC reluctantly admitted that they were caused by the vaccine. The program was suspended "temporarily--in the interest of good medicine"--and was never heard of again. The American people, being smarter than these public-health bureaucrats, stayed away from the shots by the millions. If they hadn't, the tragedy could have been much worse.

But our babies and children are NOT going to have that choice, are they? Their ONLY hope is to have a RARE pediatrician that uses his own capacity to critically evaluate and think thoughts like, "If I'm very busy and inoculate one and a half million infants, I might prevent one infant from contracting
and dying of Hepatitis-B. On the other hand if this vaccine is the straw that breaks the camel's back, I might cause a permanent injury or death of 900,000 infants!"

Why have I taken so much space to relate this incredible story?

These new vaccines have been RAMRODDED through these SAME kind of "EXPERT" panels, with the SAME "RUBBER STAMP" mentality, with the SAME total disregard for the safety, health and well-being of those innocents who were and are subjected to these SAME fraudulent assurances of effectiveness and safety. ONLY THIS TIME IT WILL BE INFANTS AND CHILDREN who, unlike those adults who chose to trust the CDC and their "experts," they WILL NOT have a CHOICE, or as it seems, even a CHANCE.

These are the SAME people who will manage the forced/coerced vaccination of our babies and children with 20 or more injections most of which are for mild or non-fatal illnesses, and NONE of which are to be studied for safety or effectiveness. With their tiny IMMUNOLOGIC functions OVERWHELMED and/or OVER-COMMITTED to these useless vaccines, their synthetic immune system will be unable to counter an organism of even low virulence.

And these are the SAME people who have gone into the medical business to solve the "health-care crisis"--which they created. Are you going to use this SAME degree of CAUTION with your tiny patients?

"Failing to do anything is also an experiment."

Yes, and, MAYBE you may be able to save that far less than one in a million infants (by the CDC's own account) from contracting and dying from Hepatitis-B, but what if your "experiment" becomes a disaster with the other millions of infants and children? What is the risk benefit ratio of your "experiment."

I would like to mention that Oath that we all took, "first do no ..." but apparently that has become irrelevant since most physicians are paid by the Federal government, the state, the HMO, the insurance company, etc. or no longer feel a responsibility to their patient, since their mission is now for the "good of the community" ....

But don't worry - I can see the headlines: "Babies dying from a horrible virus/bacteria that has suddenly become virulent. The CDC says we need a VACCINE to stop this lethal organism. The AAP says pediatricians want MORE vaccines to fight this drug resistant infection!"

No one will know. The entire newsmedia will dutifully report that the babies died from this "virulent" infection and that we need MORE vaccines.

Tom Stone

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Why did my son suffer?

The Scotsman
Tue 9 Dec 2003

Bonnie Estridge

Watching her son walk through the school gates, Kathleen Yazbak is haunted by a moment in her past. Some days the feeling catches her more than others, as children greet each other; hugging, chatting or racing around before the bell rings. This stab to the heart comes from the fleeting memory of a fateful decision that changed her life for ever when, six years ago, Kathleen let her four-year-old son have his MMR booster.

Theo, 10, whose aggressive behaviour used to cause havoc, is now a calm, sweet boy, thanks to endless therapy and a gluten-and dairy-free diet. But the fact is, he still has problems. He looks uncomfortable, hanging back from the crowd. He cannot be involved in group activities because he is unable to interact with his peers and would far rather be on his own, in front of a computer, than relating to other children. Theo looks disconnected from the world around him - as if he doesn’t belong.

To see her son so isolated is hard for Kathleen, but three years ago it was unbearable. Then, her eldest child was clearly in a far more painful world of his own, often screaming, clutching his head or lashing out at anything or anyone in his way. But what really hurts is knowing that Theo, like a surprising number of children his age, is autistic and will never be perfect again.

Kathleen, 37, was one of the first parents to raise concerns about their children’s sudden change in behaviour. She gave up her career in executive recruitment and spent all her waking hours trying to find out what had happened to him.

She was one of the first to make what appears to be the link between the MMR vaccine and late-onset autism - although many experts believe the high incidence of autism reported around the time of the jab is coincidental, and that this is the age at which the condition is normally diagnosed. Kathleen was at the forefront of the movement to encourage the medical world to give answers to the desperate parents of damaged children. Her story is about to be told in a moving TV drama, Hear The Silence, starring Juliet Stevenson.

"I have a friend who lived in a street in which three out of 15 families had an autistic child," says Kathleen. "All these children had been vaccinated with MMR. What does that say? My husband said that I was crazy, losing my mind, when I told him my theory. My father, who is a paediatrician, dismissed me out of hand.

"The latest study by the National Autistic Society has shown that one in 80 primary-school children in the UK has late-onset autism, meaning they have developed it in their second year - after taking the vaccine. Traditionally, it is more normal to be diagnosed before the age of one. Before MMR was introduced in 1988, that statistic was one in 2,500. Can I be crazy believing there is a link? The British government appears to think so."

Having appeared to regress from a normal development after his first vaccination at a year old, Theo appeared to be reasonably normal until the booster at four. Within days of this, says Kathleen, he was banging into everything and could no longer say words that he had previously learned easily. Six months later, he was screaming constantly and holding the side of his head as if in pain. Incidents as depicted in the film, showing him deliberately ramming a supermarket trolley into a shopper, had become all too common. His mother was bewildered and despairing.

Believed by his GP to have continual ear infections, Theo had taken 12 courses of antibiotics over a year when Kathleen, at the end of her tether, took him to every kind of doctor and expert in child development she could find. When she was eventually given the diagnosis of autism, she threw herself into research on the internet to see what might have caused this to happen. She agonised over whether anything "different" had happened in Theo’s life that might be linked to his illness.

"The timing of the dates of his MMR tied in completely. I put out an e-mail on an autism site asking if anyone else had noticed a correlation. I was overwhelmed when I had almost a hundred replies."

Then in November 1998 she heard Dr Andrew Wakefield talk about his research at the Royal Free Hospital in which he had found evidence of the measles virus in the gut wall of a number of autistic children who had been given MMR - that was when she knew Theo’s only exposure to measles had been the vaccine. "Dr Wakefield had given us parents a voice by telling the world that his research suggested a possible link." But in a very short time, the majority of the medical establishment proclaimed the link to be false, the government rubbished Wakefield’s claims and cut his funds, causing the closure of his research department. Kathleen says that she and many others immediately suspected a cover-up. "The attitude was, and still is, completely ostrich-like. There is no public money being put into researching this issue.

"We all understand that the government wants to get children vaccinated, but what price do we have to pay for herd immunity? Is it acceptable that people’s lives get torn apart without finding out why? My younger son Lucas was given the first vaccine, but I refused the booster. Even so, he suffers from attention deficit disorder, another neurological disorder.

"Unlike Christine in the film, my marriage did not break up - but I know many people to whom this has happened and, more importantly, there are all these poor children who are suffering. No-one is trying to say that we shouldn’t vaccinate - Dr Wakefield never suggested this - but originally we were led to believe that there would be a choice between the MMR and single vaccines at lengthy intervals. There is no choice on the NHS any more and people need to be able to make that choice."

A fleeting appearance in Hear The Silence is made by Tony Blair. A roomful of mothers berate him while watching the TV appearance in which he refused to divulge whether baby Leo had been vaccinated.

"He didn’t lie through his teeth," says Kathleen. "But because he chose to stay silent, we have to draw our own conclusions. This highlights the fact that the medical establishment have put up a wall, beyond which they do not want us to go. The way Andrew Wakefield has been treated is appalling; he was trying to help us to get to the bottom of why these children should become ill. But the consequences for everyone have been profoundly disturbing."

• Hear The Silence will be screened on Monday 15 December on Five.

The MMR story

THE first signs of controversy over the MMR vaccine emerged in February 1998 when Dr Andrew Wakefield of London’s Royal Free Hospital suggested that the MMR vaccine could be linked to an increased risk of autism and bowel disorders. The following month a review by 37 experts at the Medical Research Council concluded that there was "no evidence to indicate any link".

In April 2000, Wakefield and Professor John O’Leary of Coombe Women’s Hospital, Dublin, presented research to the US Congress. Their tests on 25 children showed that 24 had traces of the measles virus in their gut, which O’Leary described as "compelling evidence" of a link between autism and MMR. But by December, a new Medical Research Council review of research found no link between autism and the vaccine. The public did not seem convinced and statistics show that for the period May to December 2001, the average number of packs of single measles vaccines imported into the UK was 1,050 per month, compared with 115 in 2000.

February 2002 saw a paper published by Dr Wakefield and Professor O’Leary suggesting a possible link between the measles virus and bowel disease in children with developmental disorders. At the same time, a team from the Royal Free Hospital concludes that there is no link. Their study looked at 500 children with autism, born between 1979 and 1998. As the debate raged, the government described it as "media hysteria".

Last month, Simon Murch, a researcher on the original 1998 study, said in a letter to the Lancet that many major studies had proved the MMR vaccine to be safe. He also warned that with MMR uptake as low as 61 per cent in parts of London, a measles outbreak is increasingly likely. A Department of Health spokesman said: "This reinforces our advice to health professionals to continue to encourage parents that MMR is safe and the best way to avoid three potentially serious diseases."


This article:

  http://www.news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=1348422003

Autism:

  http://www.news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=702

MMR vaccine:

  http://www.news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=91

Websites:

  UKMI's list of mercury vaccines
  http://www.ukmi.nhs.uk/Med_info/faqs/archive/thiomersalhypersensitivity.asp

  UK government's position on Mercury in vaccines
  http://www.ncbugs.com/Office_Files/Thiomersal%20QA%20final%20NHS%20Direct_.doc

  US Institute of Medicine research
  http://www4.nationalacademies.org/news.nsf/isbn/0309076366?OpenDocument

  Autism UK
  http://www.autism-uk.ed.ac.uk/

  autismlawyer
  http://www.autismlawyer.net

  National Autistic Society
  http://www.nas.org.uk/

  Scottish Society for Autism
  http://www.autism-in-scotland.org.uk/

  thimerosal-litigation
  http://www.thimerosal-litigation.com

  Charity investigating link
  http://www.visceral.org.uk

  Dept of Health MMR pages
  http://www.doh.gov.uk/mmr.htm

  Health Education Board for Scotland MMR pages
  http://www.hebs.scot.nhs.uk/services/mmr/index.htm

  JABS - MMR support group
  http://www.jabs.org.uk/

 

Statement By Safe Minds On The Wall Street Journal Editorial OF 12/29/03
"The Politics Of Autism"
Lyn Redwood RN, MSN President, Safe Minds

      The December 29th editorial from the Wall Street Journal "The Politics of Autism: Lawsuits and emotion vs. science and childhood vaccines" is a  misrepresentation of the actual facts surrounding the debate concerning autism and exposure to thimerosal, a mercury preservative used in some but not all infant vaccines. Instead of this being a "story of politics and lawyers trumping science and medicine" as alleged, it would be more accurately described as a story of how the pharmaceutical industry uses the media and politics to accomplish its goals.

      One must ask, "Why does the Wall Street Journal feel it necessary to pick on families of children with autism and a small research advocacy group, Safe Minds?" The answer is simple, money.

      When an FDA official reported that ethyl mercury from thimerosal was able to cross the blood brain barrier resulting in appreciable mercury content in the brain and other well respected doctors opined that exposure to mercury containing vaccines, in addition to already high levels of exposure to environmental mercury, may result in adverse neurological outcomes, they began to worry. This, coupled with the uncovering of internal documents obtained during the process of discovery from Eli Lilly, who held the patent on thimerosal, that the product was not safe to administer to dogs, but nonetheless was promoted for use in childhood vaccines, was enough for them to rush to their allies in Washington, or should I say largest campaign contribution recipients, for help. The result, a rider added at the 11th hour to last year's popular Homeland Security Bill giving Eli Lilly immunity from any product liability related to thimerosal.

      Fortunately, many in Congress recognized that the rider had nothing to do with homeland security and demanded that it be removed until the issue could be reviewed. The claim that these Senators failed to honor their side of the agreement to address the issue in the next session of Congress is wrong. In fact, on April 9, 2003, the Senate Health, Education Labor and Pensions Committee, chaired by Gregg (R-NH), was scheduled to meet to work on a compromise bill agreed to by Senate Majority Leader Frist (R-TN). But before the start of that meeting, lobbyists from the vaccine manufacturers met with and convinced Senator Gregg to postpone the meeting indefinitely. Senator Gregg went on the record admitting that he aborted the committee meeting because of the concerns of the vaccine manufacturers. To suggest that Senators Snowe, Collins and Chafee were at fault is a misrepresentation of actual events and warrants retraction.

      Additionally, the editorial wrongly claims that thimerosal has never been linked to any health problems. A quick literature search finds hundreds of studies that document numerous incidences of injury from thimerosal exposure. The few suggested in the editorial as being evidence disproving such an association have been highly criticized and when reviewed were actually found to support a link. One such study published in the November, 2003 issue of Pediatrics contains faulty methodology and manipulation of data. In fact an earlier version of the study found statistically significant and dose  dependant associations between exposures to mercury containing vaccines and several adverse outcomes including neurodevelopmental delays in general, speech and language delays and ADD/ADHD. Investigators kept the results secret and changed the data and methodology in order to achieve the results desired by vaccine manufacturers. This was only revealed when Safe Minds obtained minutes of a secret meeting on the initial results through the Freedom of Information Act. One participant even claimed that based on the results, he would not allow his own baby grandson to receive the vaccines containing thimerosal. The lead author of the study, an employee of vaccine manufacturer Glaxo Smith Kline, has refused press inquiries about these charges.

      In addition, independent researchers, at the behest of the U.S.Congress, have analyzed the same database for the relationship between mercury from thimerosal-containing childhood vaccines and adverse neurodevelopmental disorders, and found an overwhelming epidemiological confirmation of a direct link related to increasing exposure to mercury from thimerosal-containing childhood vaccines.

      The Rochester study as well was highly criticized by three independent physicians and researchers in the following issue of Lancet. The sample size of 33 children was too small to establish safety claims and the mercury  levels in the blood were not obtained 3 hours after the exposure to the vaccine when the levels would be at their highest, but instead days and weeks later when the levels had now dropped below EPA's level of concern. One reviewer using pharmacokinetic modeling was able to extrapolate the data back to peak levels and found that mercury levels had in fact breeched safety guidelines.

      This coupled with the fact that the lead author, in previous publications but not this one, acknowledged financial ties to a number of vaccine manufacturers including Eli Lilly, casts further doubt on their research findings.

      And lastly the highly touted Denmark study cited in the editorial as being the best evidence to date that there is no connection between thimerosal and autism is also highly suspect. The Danish autism registry allows 10 to 25% of the autism cases to be lost from its records each year with the net effect being that the older cases which occurred when thimerosal vaccines were administered in Denmark are lost. Controlling for this loss of records results in a higher number of autism cases during the time frame when thimerosal containing vaccines were used, supporting the thimerosal-autism link. Again, the author of this investigation failed to acknowledge his employment with the manufacturer and promoter of vaccines in Denmark.

      While the ramifications of damage to a generation of children from the needless exposure to mercury from infant vaccines and the accompanying liability is a big pill for the pharmaceutical industry to swallow, sweeping the facts under the rug and running to Congress for protection after the fact will only exacerbate the problem. Public confidence in vaccine safety will only prevail when the pharmaceutical companies, the media and Congress deal openly and truthfully with American parents. Congress must address this in a manner that brings justice to injured children, and ensures that all vaccines, both voluntary as well as those required by law are safe and effective. Extending further liability protections to industry takes away the necessary incentives to accomplish that goal.\\

(this is the article referred to
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110004487

 

British Medical Journal
July 18, 1998

Vaccination and its adverse effects: real or perceived.(Editorial)

Author/s: Tom Jefferson

Society should think about means of linking exposure to potential long-term effect

Vaccines have been spuriously linked to sudden infant death syndrome,[1] paediatric asthma,[2] autism,[3] inflammatory bowel disease,[4] and permanent brain damage.[5] Recently US researchers have suggested that vaccination after 28 days after birth may induce type 1 (autoimmune) diabetes mellitus in susceptible individuals.[5] This theory, pounced on earlier this year by the US media, may have led to a lowering of confidence in childhood routine immunisation. In May several institutions (including the National Institute of Allergy and infectious Diseases, Centres for Disease Control, the World Health Organisation, and the UK's Department of Health) sponsored a workshop at the US National Institutes for Health to assess the evidence of a possible causal link.

Immunologists, diabetologists, epidemiologists, policymakers, and observers debated the available evidence for two days and concluded that it does not support a causal link between vaccination and the onset of type 1 diabetes. Some short and longer term observational studies to test the hypothesis are currently underway. However, the results of a large randomised controlled trial of vaccine against Haemophilus influenzae type b carried out in Finland in 1985-7[6] were reanalysed by Tuomilehto et al and showed no association between the incidence of diabetes mellitus and the addition of another antigen to the schedule, irrespective of timing (unpublished data). Data reanalysis was made possible by prospective linking of individual information on exposure (in this case infant vaccination or placebo administration) with the Finnish diabetes register.

Neil Halsey, head of the Institute for Vaccine Safety at Johns Hopkins University, summed up features common to recent vaccine scares:

* A casual link is usually claimed with a disease or condition of unknown or unclear aetiology.

* The association is claimed by one investigator or a group of investigators.

* The association is not confirmed by peers or by subsequent research.

* The claims are made with no apparent concern for potential harm from public loss of confidence and refusal to vaccinate children.

Additionally, findings of subsequent studies that fail to confirm the original claim never get the publicity given to the "original" finding; thus the public never gets a balanced view.

It is time to think hard about how society can deal with the difficult issue of possible long term and rare adverse effects of vaccination. Attention to the issue is unlikely to fade, as new and better vaccines are produced and as public expectations of effective and safe interventions increase. The first obvious source of data on rare and long term effects is the original clinical trials of the vaccine, with direct observation of the incidence of events in one of the double blind randomised arms. But, early trials, usually conducted for registration, are too small and too short.[7] Additionally, assessment of adverse effects is probably best done by comparing events in one or more intervention arms with those in a placebo arm, thus restricting observation to trials of new or partially tested vaccines for which a placebo arm is ethically admissible.

One possible solution could be to increase the duration and power of trials to detect rare and long term adverse effects. Apart from cost, however, there are major ethical problems in continuing a trial with a non-immunised cohort in an effort to detect possible rare and long term effects once the short term safety and effectiveness of the vaccine have been shown.

The use of case-control studies and case series is helpful in defining the likelihood of an association but, given the possible presence of multiple unknown biases, such studies do not allow estimation of the attributable risk, essential for safety assessment. An additional problem with any prospective approach is that some adverse effects become known only years after the development, marketing, and registration of the vaccine, making "data dredging" the only way in which they might be observed and later recognised. Data dredging is likely to be inefficient and unable to assess unexpected associations, which are likely to take place periodically.

One way out of the dilemma could be the linking of individual exposure to vaccination to possible adverse events in later life in a similar fashion to the reanalysis by Tuomilehto et al of the original Haemophilus influenzae type b trial data. This would allow the creation of retrospective exposure cohorts linked to historical controls for testing any of the hypotheses generated. This approach would require access to individual immunisation data and the ability to identify and locate individuals in later life. As most immunisation schedules vary from country to country the international extension of such a scheme would allow comparisons based on exposure to different schedules, thus enhancing the power of the system. An enhancement of this method could be its use within the context of a systematic review of the known effects of vaccines in question made available within the Cochrane Library.

Whatever methods are used, governments and manufacturers will be increasingly involved in assessing long term adverse effects of vaccines and will need to reassure the public of the overwhelming safety record of vaccines, when the seriousness of the target disease is forgotten. This at present is the only certainty.

[1] Griffin MR, Ray WA, Livengood JR, Schaffner W. Risk of sudden infant death syndrome after immunisation with diphteria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine. N Engl J Med 1988;319:618-23.

[2] Kemp T, Pearce N, Fitzharris P, Crane J, Fergusson D, St George I, et al. Is infant immunisation a risk factor for childhood asthma or allergy? Epidemiology 1997;8:678-80.

[3] Wakefield AJ, Murch SH, Anthony A, Linnell J, Casson DM, Malik M, et al. Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis and pervasive developmental disorder in children. Lancet 1998;351:637-41.

[4] Peltola H, Patja A, Leinikki P, Valle M, Davidkin I, Paunio M. No evidence for measles, mumps and rubella vaccine-associated inflammatory bowel disease or autism in a 14-year prospective study. Lancet 1998;351:1327-8.

 [5] Griffith AH. Permanent brain damage and pertussis vaccination: is the end of the saga in sight? Vaccine 1989;7:199-210.

[6] Classen DC, Classen JB. The timing of pediatric immunisation and the risk of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. Infect Dis Clin Pract 1997;6:449-54.

[7] Eskola J, Kayhty H, Takala A, Peltola H, Ronnberg P, Kela H, et al. A randomised, prospective field trial of a conjugate vaccine in the protection of infants and young children against invasive Haemophilus Influenzae type b disease. N Engl J Med 1990;323:1381-7.

[8] Jefferson TO, Jefferson VM. The quest for trials on the efficacy of human vaccines. Results of the handsearch of Vaccine. Vaccine 1996;14:461-4.

BMJ 1998;317:159-60

Tom Jefferson Coordinator

Cochrane Vaccines Field, Ministry of Defence, Ash Vale, Hants GU12 5RR (zorria@epinet.co.uk)

I thank Drs Neal Halsey, David Salisbury, Dirk Teuwen, and Jaakko Tuomilehto for their help. 
 
 

http://www.vaclib.org/basic/manu.htm

“Former Pharma employee Speaks out about Vaccines 

http://www.loosechange.tv/mdlies/not_vaccinate.htm

Vaccines Prevent Health: Why Vaccines are Bad for Us!

 http://www.mercola.com/fcgi/pf/article/vaccines/kidney_damage.htm

Vaccinations and Kidney Damage 

http://www.mercola.com/fcgi/pf/article/vaccines/causing_illness.htm

Vaccines Causing he Very Diseases they are Given to Prevent 

http://www.mercola.com/fcgi/pf/article/vaccines/death.htm

Vaccination and Death 

http://www.shirleys-wellness-café.com/vaccines.htm

Shirley’s Wellness Cafe 

http://www.medhelp.org/glossary2/new/GLS_1714.HTM

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