Sixty percent of
Americans would opt for smallpox immunization if the vaccine were available,
according to a recent poll, and U.S. health officials have just negotiated
the purchase of enough vaccine for everyone in the United States. Those two
facts may be a prescription for bad medicine.
Medically and epidemiologically,
smallpox is the most feared and potentially devastating of all infectious
agents. It spreads from person to person, primarily via droplets coughed up
by infected persons, via direct contact, and from contaminated clothing and
bed linens. Smallpox is fatal in approximately a third of previously
unvaccinated persons who contract the disease.
For weeks, the media have raised
the specter of terrorists using smallpox virus as a weapon. The German
government has bought six million doses of vaccine, and pressure is mounting
in the United States for widespread, or even universal, vaccination.
(Routine smallpox vaccinations ceased in this country in 1972.) The U.S.
government has ordered 300 million doses of the vaccine, and at a recent
hearing, U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) said it is just "common sense" to
make it available to everyone who wants it.
But is it really? The live vaccine
consists of live vaccinia virus, which is closely related to smallpox virus.
Impure and crude by the modern standards of recombinant DNA-derived, or
gene-spliced, vaccines such as those that have been successfully deployed
against hepatitis B since the 1980s, the smallpox vaccine is not very
different from the one introduced by the English physician Edward Jenner in
the 18th century. It can provoke various serious side effects, including
rashes; spreading from the inoculation site to face, eyelid, mouth or
genitalia; and generalized infection. Approximately one in every 300,000
vaccinations causes encephalitis, which can lead to permanent neurological
damage; and between one and three in every million die. Thus, vaccinating
the entire population would be expected to kill as many as a thousand
Americans, and maim and disfigure many others. Moreover, that assumes that
the newer, ostensibly incrementally improved versions of the vaccinia
vaccine are no less safe: Federal regulators have been uncharacteristically
lax about requiring evidence of safety and efficacy in a drug intended for
healthy individuals.
If the re-emergence of smallpox
were likely, vaccination would be appropriate. However, smallpox virus no
longer occurs in nature but is limited to two known, legitimate
repositories, one in the United States, the other in Russia (and perhaps to
illegitimate ones in several other countries). It is, therefore, very
difficult to obtain, and also to cultivate and disseminate.
Also, smallpox is not immediately
contagious after infection. It can be transmitted from one person to another
only after a one- to two-week incubation period and the appearance of the
characteristic rash, by which time the victim is prostrate, bedridden, and
probably hospitalized. Therefore, the much-publicized scenario in which
suicide terrorists infect themselves and then spread the disease widely
through the population is not a realistic one. And although universal
smallpox vaccination was phased out throughout the world during the 1970s,
individuals who were vaccinated prior to that time retain significant
immunity from these immunizations, both against contracting the disease and
against a fatal outcome in case of infection. Scientists know a great deal
about the long-term retention of immunity from a landmark study of 1163
smallpox cases in Liverpool in 1902-1903. Among those infected, 7% of the
people 50 or older who had received the vaccine as children experienced
severe disease and death, while 26% of unvaccinated people in that age group
contracted serious cases of smallpox and all died.
Even if an outbreak were to occur,
public health authorities know how to respond. Control depends on early
detection, quarantine of infected individuals, surveillance of contacts, and
focused, aggressive vaccination of all possible contacts—an approach dubbed
"quarantine-ring vaccination." Approximately 15 million doses of smallpox
vaccine are available in the United States, and data suggest that these
would still be effective if diluted fivefold, to yield 75 million.
Moreover, the federal government
has taken steps to cope with the possibility of a terrorist attack involving
smallpox by educating doctors to recognize the disease and by vaccinating
small teams of experts who can rush to any part of the country to confirm
the diagnosis and contain and treat an outbreak. The city of New York has
begun to map out various locations where residents would go to be immunized
should mass vaccinations be necessary.
In summary, given the difficulty of
estimating the risks and benefits of vaccinating against a nonexistent
disease using a vaccine that carries known, serious, sometimes-lethal side
effects, one must agree with the conclusion of David Busch, head of
infectious diseases at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco.
"It's inappropriate" to vaccinate the entire country for a disease whose
threat is only theoretical, and immunization should only be given "as
needed, not as desired."
If federal officials act otherwise,
they will be more in the realm of public relations than public health. Even
the expenditure of upwards of a billion dollars to stockpile 300 million
doses of smallpox vaccine is arguably in the category of political cover.
Far better, surely, to use those resources to ensure that susceptible
Americans are immunized against common and life-threatening infectious
diseases such as influenza, hepatitis, and pneumococcal pneumonia. (Flu
alone kills 20,000 in an average year.)
Sherlock Holmes admonished in A
Scandal in Bohemia that "it is a capital mistake to theorize before one
has data." It is worse to make the wrong decision after one has data.
Henry I. Miller (miller@hoover.stanford.edu),
MD, is a fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author of
To America's Health: A Proposal to Reform the Food
and Drug Administration (Hoover Institution Press).
The Birth of the Vaccination Fraud
by Walter S. Hadwen M.D.
Dr Hadwen was a passionate opponent of Jennerian smallpox vaccination in
England around 1900.
It is clear that Jenner never possessed anything that would be recognized
today as a medical qualification. At the age of 16 he was apprenticed to a
country surgeon and apothecary, and at 21 he was sent for two years as a
pupil to Dr. John Hunter, of London, who undoubtedly was the most eminent
surgeon of his day, and, like Jenner himself, a keen naturalist.
At 23 Jenner returned to his native village and started to practice as
surgeon and apothecary. Here he remained for 17 years, just a plain
unqualified country surgeon and apothecary, unknown to the world at large,
but keeping up a correspondence with Hunter on a variety of natural history
subjects.
At the end of this period he made his first bid for fame.
In 1787 he sent a paper on "The Natural History of the Cuckoo" to the Royal
Society, and, as a result, with Hunter's influence, he was elected F.R.S.
The paper contained a number of commonplace facts and some others, which
Jenner stated to be from his own observation. The latter turned out to be
purely imaginary, Jenner having accepted the report of a youthful nephew on
the incidents he described.
The coveted fellowship, therefore, appears to have been obtained by
something very nearly approaching fraud.
Three years later he applied to St. Andrew's University for an M.D., and as
St. Andrew's in those days was no more squeamish about granting degrees than
some of the so-called American Universities are today, so long as the fees
are forthcoming, Jenner became Dr. Jenner for the modest outlay of £15.
Later on in life, after several applications, he was also granted an MD by
the University of Oxford, though this was not until after his discovery had
been generally adopted. As for the discovery itself, it appears to have
been founded upon what Dr. Hadwen calls a "superstition among the
dairymaids of Gloucestershire that a person who had suffered from cowpox
would never have smallpox."
Jenner appears to have bethought himself of testing the Dairymaid's
superstition, and with this object he inoculated a boy named James Phipps
with lymph from a vesicle on the hand of a dairymaid sufferingfrom cowpox in
May, 1796.
In July of the same year he inoculated the same boy with smallpox by what
Dr. Hadwen calls the "bogus Suttonian method," which "afforded no evidence
as to protection."
Yet it was upon the strength of this solitary experiment that Jenner had
launched his discovery upon the world, claiming that cowpox was a
prophylactic against smallpox, while to give some sort of scientific color
to the claim he labeled cowpox with the name "Variolae Vaccinae" (smallpox
of the cow).
On the later developments and time exploitation of vaccination there is no
need to dwell at any length. Jenner obtained both cash and credit. He
received £30,000 in grants from Parliament for his wonderful discovery, and
all classes, medical and lay, tumbled over themselves in their desire to do
him honor, though even then there existed a few skeptics who asked for
better proof of the claims made for time new prophylactic.
That those claims could not be fully substantiated was proved when he was
called upon to attend the son of Earl Grosvenor, who was suffering from
confluent smallpox, although vaccinated in infancy by Jenner himself.
He thereupon modified his claims for the protective powers of his cowpox
vaccine, and he was content to assert that vaccination had modified the
disease so that his patient's life was preserved. What strikes me as most
remarkable about the whole story is the ease with which Jenner got his
theory accepted.
It is true that medical research was a very different thing in the early
days of the nineteenth century from what it is today ; but even then the
picture of the whole of time Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons swallowing
the theory of an unqualified country apothecary, based on one totally
unreliable experiment, seems scarcely credible.
Jenner's personal bona fides is a different matter. It is unquestionable
that he obtained his Fellowship of the Royal Society by humbugging that
learned body with his yarn about a cuckoo; but that he deliberately set
himself to humbug the whole of the public as well as the medical profession
'with his "Variolae Vaccinae," I hesitate to believe.
I should imagine that he was one of those unscientific researchers who, like
the spiritualists, are on the look out for facts to fit their theories,
instead of first making sure of their facts. His methods were those of the
quack, but of the self-deluded quack. But how any real scientist can accept
his theories today seems astounding, except under the supposition that they
have been supported by later and more conclusive experiments.
From "Truth," January 10, 1923
http://www.mercola.com/2001/may/5/vaccination_jenner.htm
Reproduced by permission from Magda
Taylor - June 2001 issue The
Informed Parent
Extract taken from an anti-vaccination booklet published in 1924 entitled:
`Small-Pox - A Healing Crisis & The Truth About
Vaccination.' By H Valentine Knaggs.
YOU CAN'T FIGHT DISEASE WITH DISEASE
There can be no question that fighting disease with disease is a ghastly
failure in the experience of all nations that have tried it. The world has
dallied too long with such methods. Vaccination has been inflicted upon
humanity for over a century, yet Small-pox, which it was to banish, is the
only one of the great epidemic diseases still present in civilised
communities.
WHY DO SO MANY DOCTORS STILL ADVOCATE VACCINATION?
In the light of the colossal exposure of the failure of Vaccination in
the Philippines and in Japan, and in face of the staggering amount of
mortality, disease and suffering which follows in the wake of every big
Vaccination campaign, the reader may reasonably ask why so many doctors and
public health authorities are still enthusiastic about it?
Many laymen suspect that the loyalty of the medical profession to
Vaccination is inspired less by scientific considerations than by pecuniary
reasons, and it is difficult to say that the suspicion is unfounded. An
inoculation can be accomplised in less time than almost any other service
rendered by a doctor, and there is no doubt that a Small-pox scare is a gold
mine for the vaccinators, and that people suffering from the after effects
of Vaccination call for an increasing amount of medical attention. An
occasional clamour for Vaccination worked up by the Press is as profitable
to the doctors as an occasional bargain sale to the drapers. Those who know
that there are about 1,200 medical officers in the United Kingdom with
salaries ranging around 1000 pounds a year - mostly "soft jobs" available
only to Vaccinationist doctors, discover another business reason for the
medical profession's loyalty to the Jenner rite.
The fact that no doctor who disbelieves in Vaccination can be appointed
to a hospital with bed patients, and that Vaccination is still a condition
of employment in the Army, Navy, and in all State Departments, and also of
admission to educational and other institutions, increases the suspicion
that a belief in Vaccination is a profitable element in a doctor's
equipment! When no one could hold a Government post without belonging to the
Church of England all Government officials were devout members of the
Church, but when the conditions disappeared orthodoxy and uniformity of
belief disappeared with it. In the same way, if a medical officer's views on
Vaccination were left to his own professional conscience the public might be
surprised to find how vaccinating doctors became openly heretical. The
thoughtful citizen may ask: "Why don't the newspapers tell the truth about
this dirty business?" until someone in Fleet Street explains that the daily
and evening papers derive much of their information gratis from official
sources, and that any paper which criticises Vaccination might find its
supply of news from the Ministry of Health immediately curtailed! With
all these ugly facts staring him in the face, it is not surprising that the
layman puts a very sordid construction upon official efforts to prop up the
tottering case for Vaccination, to stifle crticisim-and to designate
anti-vaccinator as "cranks".
"HE WHO KNOWS ONLY HIS OWN SIDE OF THE CASE KNOWS LITTLE OF THAT." -J Stuart
Mill
My own view, however, is that the majority of medical men still cling to
the obsolete idea that Vaccination is good chiefly because they have paid
very little attention to the considered statements of those who think
otherwise. That most vaccinators mean well, I have no doubt, but all through
the ages well-meaning men have been responsible for some of the greatest
tragedies in history. They have perpetrated all manner of evils and
committed all kinds of follies under the impresssion that they were doing
good, until they learned better or were put under restraint. If, as
Disraeli says: "Assassination never changed the history of the world," it
has certainly changed the history of the assassinated. The sooner people who
object to having their bodily "history" changed by law and, in the name of
medical science, combine to abolish Vaccination, the sooner we shall be rid
of a grave public danger. It is not so many centuries ago since folk
believed that the earth was flat. It is only twenty-five years ago that the
petrol-propelled vehicle was a comic paper joke. Only twelve years ago
people laughed at the notion of flying in a heavier-than-air machine. Two
years ago few people believed it possible for us to receive by wireless
speech and music from America. Yet these and many other things have come
to pass because in every instance a few men dared to think for themselves
and break away from cast-iron tradition in the same way as a minority of
doctors are doing to-day. And when this minority becomes a majority
Vaccination will vanish overnight. The injection into the human body of
rotten fluid taken from a cow suffering from cow-pox to prevent Small-pox
was an unholy and disgusting superstition when performed by those who knew
no better. Its continuance to-day, with all the unassailable evidence
against it, is a crime against humanity. So much for vaccination!
SMALL-POX A HEALING CRISIS
According to the orthodox definition, Small-pox is an acute, specific,
infectious disease. It is characterised by well defined febrile (feverish)
symptoms and the formation of a distinctive skin eruption which passes
through three stages of vesicule, pustule and crust.
The main body of the Medical Profession, hand in glove with the Ministry
of Health, exercise their great influence and authority impress upon the
public the danger and horror of this disease. The disfigurement and
pock-marking liable to occur as after effects of Small-pox are the principal
bogeys with which, for reasons of their own, they try to frighten the
people. For over a century Small-pox has had more free advertising than
any other disease. But the same authorities say little about measles,
scarletina or diphtheria, all of which are infinitely less desirable than
Small-pox. The only explanation of the official enthusiasm for Small-pox, as
compared with the more dangerous diseases, is that the great and profitable
Vaccination industry has always flourished on
Small-pox.
Those medical men who have conducted independent research on Small-pox
and who prefer to form their own conclusions are, of course, unaffected by
the organised and officially inspired scares so adroitly arranged at
convenient intervals. One of the very first doctors to realise the truth
about Small-pox was the far sighted Dr Sydenham, who wrote:
"As it is palpable to all the world how fatal Small-pox proves to many
of all ages, so it is clear to me from all the observations that I can
possibly make, that if no mischief be done, either by physician or nurse, it
is the most safe and slight of all diseases."(From: The Works of Sydenham)
The most advanced doctors of the Continent, America and Great Britain
now agree with the pronouncement of Dr Sydenham, one of the pioneers of
medical progress. One of the first things we must do is to make the public
understand that the greatest danger with Small-pox is the risk of being
scared into a Vaccination centre!
A Healing Crisis
The sane view of Small-pox is that it is a beneficent disease, or rather
Nature's way of eliminating disease.
When one banishes from one's mind all the professional abuse that has
been hurled at Small-pox for over a hundred years, and when one studies it
calmly and without professional prejudice, it is perceived that Small-pox
is nothing more nor less than a healing crisis. Small-pox removes impurities
by bringing them to the surface and getting rid of them by pustular
eruption, and this mighty effort of Nature to free the body from undesirable
matter is familiar to all students of Nature cure as "A Healing Crisis."
Small-pox is not a disease contracted by the action of some mysterious
microbe. If the body is almost clogged with poison and Small-pox is
contracted, then the patient will have it thoroughly, because Nature will
make a correspondingly big effort to eliminate the poison from the system.
The temperature will be high and perspiration profuse to get rid of some of
it in that way. A great area of the skin surface will be in a state of
eruption to eradicate some of it by means of pustules, and unusual thirst
will cause the patient to take more liquid- Nature's means of elimination
via the kidneys. In fact, the more clearly we realise Nature's aims and
needs, the more we appreciate the prefection of this great healing crisis.
Patients who take it lightly are those who are less encumbered with
poison than those who take it severely.
The Beneficent Disease
Most people, through wrong living, lack of fresh air, exercise and right
diet, carry within themselves more or less organic poison. This poison tends
to accumulate unless it is kept in check by suitable baths, right breathing,
fasting etc. When it has increased to such an extent as to interfere
seriously with the normal functioning of the body, then nothing that medical
knowledge and skill can do will be so thoroughly beneficial as an attack of
Small- pox.
To those who have had neither the opportunity nor the time to study the
subject, and to those who have always accepted without question the claptrap
that has been written about Small-pox during the last forty years, this
considered statement of fact may sound like the irresponsible raving of a
lunatic.
The Electronic Test
Dr. Abram's instrument, which detects and identifies disease taints in a
few drops of blood or of saliva is increasingly used by doctors in
diagnosing cases. As the test tube is to the analytical chemist, so is this
new electrical machine to the up-to-date doctor. It shows that the taints
found in vaccine are identical with those in the virus extracted from
Small-pox pustules. A recent report states that: "lymph, when submitted to
the test, show the reactions of congenital syphilis (bovine type) and some
of them show streptococcus (pus type) and tuberculosis (bovine type)." Dr
Lindlahr further states that: "The pus-like mass exuding from the Small-pox
pustule contains the virus not only of Small-pox but also of scrofula, psora,
tuberculosis, syphilis, gonorrhoea, anthrax, lumpy jaw and poisons in the
animal or human being from which the virus was secured."
The infallible analysis of this new scientific aid to diagnosis shows
that all the taints contained in the lymph enter the body of the vaccinated
person and remain there, a source of danger until they are all brought to
the surface and forcibly ejected by the healing crisis. The patient who has
had the benefit of Small-pox-Nature' greatest cleansing process-rapidly
improves in health, enjoys renewed vitality and a freedom from all chronic
disease taints. Inherited or contracted taints of syphilis, gonorrhoea and
other septic diseases are all cleared away in the virus which is eliminated.
The Way to treat Small-pox
Once the official panic-propaganda is stopped and the public has learned
to cast out fear the rest will be easy, provided the great Vaccination
business is done away with. No one fears the advent of a boil or a
carbuncle, and, after all, Small-pox is but a type of carbuncle multiplied
and spread over a larger area instead of being concentrated at one spot. The
purpose of boils, carbuncles and Small-pox is the same-ie to rid the system
of impurity in the form of pus.
Of the orthodox treatment of Small-pox, the less said the better.
Suffice it to add that the diet, the roughly extemporised hospitals and the
treatment are all wrong, because of a general misunderstanding of the
fundamentals of the healing crisis.The aim should be to assist Nature to
perform her task, and to help
the patient back to health and keep free from scars or blemish.
Dr. Lindlahr's Way
Dr. Lindlahr has obtained some entirely successful results from partial
fastings, using only diluted fruit juices. No solid foods are given, thus
relieving the system of the burden of digestion and liberating more energy
for the great eliminative effort. An alternative method, which I have
personally found very effective in septic cases, is to limit the dietary to
potatoes, baked in their skins, casserole-cooked green vegetables, dry cold
toast and butter, with water as the only drink. My object in this dietary is
to give those foods which, while in the digestive system, absorb and
neutralize toxic poisons. The result is that much of the septic virus to be
eliminated finds its way into the digestive system and is neutralized, thus
lessening the strain of the surface excretion and incidentally the severity
of the skin eruption.
Preventing Disfigurement
In mild cases full Epsom salts baths should be used, as this salt,
applied to the surface, abstracts toxic poisons. Two pounds of the salts
should be used in each bath, the temperature of which should be maintained
at 104 degrees all the while the patient is in it, which should be for 30
minutes. In severe cases where baths are undesirable, the whole skin should
be amply lubricated. A weak carbolic oil or, - better still,olive oil
medicated with peppermint or hydrastis cannadensis, is effective for this
purpose. The use of these oils soothes the skin,allays irritation and
prevents pitting and disfigurement.
'Ware Lymph and Lancet
"Conscience makes cowards of us all," but the trouble with the Small-pox
scare-mongers is that they make cowards of other people! The truth will
prevail and in a little while Small-pox will be regarded as Nature's supreme
disease eradicator. Meanwhile, be not afraid, for there is nothing to fear
save panic and its allies -the lymph and the lancet.
THURSDAY, MARCH 28. The US government has been racing
to produce enough smallpox vaccine for every man, woman, and child in the
country, just in case smallpox is the next bio-terror attack. Sure. Yeah.
Of course. All of a sudden, out of nowhere, Aventis, a French pharmaceutical
house, at its Swiftwater, PA, facility, has discovered some vaccine. Not
just some--but 75 to 90 MILLION doses. When was the last time you managed to
forget you had 75 to 90 million of anything lying around? The Aventis
vaccine is in liquid form. It's been frozen for a long time. The company is
now in negotiation with the US Dept. of Health and Human Services to
finalize a $$ deal. Part of this deal, as the Washington Post reports,
involves determining "the extent to which the company may be relieved of
liability should problems with the vaccine arise." This makes everyone feel
safe and secure, knowing that Aventis is wheedling and snaking around right
from the beginning. No one has received a single shot, and already the
company is saying, "Hey, we didn't do anything. It's not our fault." The
Post goes on to mention that serious problems are on the near horizon,
because anyone with pre-existing immune system difficulties can be injured
or killed by the vaccine. How many people is that? A million? Five
million? Ten million? More? Otherwise, the vaccine is perfect. It's clear
that Aventis and the US government have just discovered the means for
launching a bio-attack. The vaccine itself.
From Morris Beale's book, The Drug Story
Bringing the subject down almost to date, the rawest publicity stunt pulled
by public relations firms for the biologicals manufacturing business was in
New York City in Feb. and March of 1947. On Feb. 25, Eugene LeBar, a Mexico
City importer took a bus to New York City. On March 10th he died in one of
the city hospitals. The diagnosis was "hemorrhagic bronchitis". Somewhere
between that date and April 10th, the Rockefeller public relations firm,
recently assigned to the American Medical Association because the upward
spiral of drug trust profits wasn't spiraling upward fast enough, had a
brilliant idea. Senor LeBar, they reasoned, during his long trip had been in
the same atmosphere with thousands of people from El Paso to New York. Why
not drum up a SMALLPOX SCARE all over the United States and make ten million
more dollars filling the nation's blood stream with cow pus and horse filth.
With New York's publicity-loving Mayer, Wm. O'Dwyer, as the spearhead, this
is exactly what they did. The bronchitis diagnosis was changed to one of
smallpox 30 days after Senor LeBar's demise. Mayor O'Dwyer ordered everyone
in New York vaccinated, although HE HAD NO MORE POWER TO DO THIS than
Mahatma Gandhi had. The associated Press put the story on its wires in a big
way, its "science" editor going all out to exploit this latest in "science".
Of course, that didn't make AP Director Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the
Rockefeller foundation mad with his editors. All the dopes and dupes in New
York formed long lines in front of every police station and every doctor's
office and had five years lopped off the other end of their lives.
Newspapers and health departments all over the country, following the
O'Dwyer publicity spread the serum HOAX and exhorted their own dupes to "get
vaccinated". Thousands upon thousands of them did. One public relations firm
for the drug trust planted a fake story that Pres. Truman had himself
vaccinated before coming to New York to address a newspaper convention.
Although this was denied by the White House, the denial, as usual, never
caught up with the lie. The police station vaccinations cost the taxpayers
of New York City $850,000 (remember this is 1947) and those who went to
private doctors, even more. The Drug Trust undoubtedly added ten to fifteen
million dollars to its 1947 profits. Source: The Drug Story, pp.138-139, by
Morris Bealle - 1949
From: The Hygienic System, Dr. Herbert M. Shelton, Orthopathy, Vol. VII,
1941
.....just as before the time of (Dr.) Sydenham, all cases of measles,
chickenpox and scarlet fever were diagnosed as smallpox. Today if a case of
chickenpox has no vaccination scar, it is smallpox; if a case of smallpox
has a vaccination scar, it is chickenpox. Few cases now reported as smallpox
are ever sick enough to go to bed. The mortality from VACCINATION is much
higher than that from smallpox. Smallpox, along with measles, scarlet fever,
etc., is commonly referred to in medical works as a "disease of unknown
origin." It is assumed to be due to germs, but the supposed causative germs
have never been found. Epidemics occur chiefly in winter when germs are less
active. Protein excess, foul air and inactivity seem to be its chief causes.
Sydenham, who saw more of the old virulent variola vera than all the now
living physicians in this country together have seen, says: "As it is
palpable to all the world how fatal smallpox proves to many of all ages, so
it is clear to me from all the observations that I can possibly make, THAT
IF NO MISCHIEF IS DONE, EITHER BY PHYSICIAN OR NURSE, IT IS THE MOST SAFE
AND SLIGHT OF ALL DISEASES." Under hygienic care recovery is rapid with
little or no pitting. The "disease" is as CONTAGIOUS AS INGROWING TOENAILS,
and every case must be quarantined. Fear of the disease MUST be kept up in
the public, for it is only thus that the present farce can go on.
Note: For more Shelton info: www.getwellstaywellamerica.com
More from The Drug Story - 1949, Morris Bealle --Smallpox stats
We have some later statistics on the Phillippine Smallpox Front. In the
years 1918, 1919 and 1920, after 20 years of compulsory vaccination, the
greatest smallpox epidemic in Phillippine history occurred, with 162,503
cases and 71,455 deaths. In the province of Rizal, which surrounds Manila
where the representatives of the vaccine companies had headquarters, they
had a death rate of 67.24 per 100. This was three and a half times the death
rate shown in any part of the archipelago before vaccination came to the
Phillippines. Broken down for 1918 the report shows that 3,285,376 Filipinos
were vaccinated, 47,369 came down with smallpox, 16,477 died. In191 9they
more than doubled each operation, which would seem to prove this point. The
number of vaccinations totaled 7,670,252, the number of cases of smallpox
65,180 and the number of deaths, 44,408. To quote Dr. Harry R. Bybee, of
Norfolk, Va., pres. of the National Chiropractic Asoc., he said: "My honest
opinion is that vaccination is the cause of more disease and suffering than
anything I could name. I believe that such diseases as cancer, syphilis,
cold sores and many other disease conditions are the direct results of
vaccination Yet, in the state of Virginia and many other states, parents are
compelled to submit their children to this procedure while the medical
profession not only receives its pay for this unwanted service, but makes
splendid and profitable patients for the future. Dr. Herbert Snow, the
senior surgeon of the Cancer Hospital in London said: "Of recent years many
men and women in the prime of life have dropped dead suddenly, often after
attending a wedding feast or banquet. I am convinced that some 80% of these
deaths are caused by the inoculations or vaccinations they have undergone.
These are well known to cause grave and permanent disease to the heart. The
coroner always hushes it up with "Natural Causes". Dr. W. B. Clarke of
Indianapolis: "Cancer was practically unknown until cowpox vaccination began
to be introduced. I have had to do with at least 200 cases of cancer, and I
NEVER SAW A CASE OF CANCER IN AN UNVACCINATED PERSON" Dr. J.M. Peebles of
San Diego , at the turn of the century, said in his book, "The vaccination
practice, pushed to the front on all occasions by the medical profession and
through political connivance made compulsory by the state, has not only
become the chief menace and greatest danger to the health of the rising
generation, but likewise the crowning outrage upon the personal liberty of
the American citizen. The fee-hunting doctors are incessantly hounding the
legislatures for more stringent compulsory enactments by which they will be
enable to inflict and repeat this degrading rite upon defenseless people for
the enhancement of their revenues. Compulsory vaccination, poisoning the
crimson currents of the human system with brute-extracted lymph under the
strange infatuation that it would prevent smallpox, was one of the darkest
blots that disfigured the last century. The majority of doctors are behind
the times. They may have diplomas, but they are laggards. They are not
students. Many of them prefer the golf course to the postgraduate course,
the clubroom to the medical laboratory, the cigar to the clinic.
More from The Drug Story 1949 -
Dr. Peebles, "It is admitted that prevention is preferable to cure, and
there is not an intelligent medical practitioner in the land who will
unqualifiedly risk his reputation upon the statement that vaccination is a
positive prevention of smallpox. Volumes of statistics, as well as the
highest medical science in the U.S., Canada, England the Continent would be
directly against. him. The most that any physician of good standing now
contends is that vaccination modifies the disease. This is stoutly denied.
On the contrary it aggravates the disease as there are two poisons now in
the system instead of one for nature to contend against. It is sanitation,
diet, pure air, calmness of mind, confidence and cleanliness that modify the
smallpox. Al of these modifiers are infinitely cheaper, safer and in every
way preferable to cowpox poison which, if it does not kill, often marks,
maims and sows the seeds of future eczema, tumors, ulcers, carbuncles,
cancer and leprosy. We have at our command testimonies, scores of
testimonies, proving beyond any possible doubt that men unvaccinated have
nursed smallpox patients in hospitals at different times, for years, and
never took the disease. On the other hand we have, with dates and figures,
the most positive proof that those who have been vaccinated, vaccinated two
and three times, took the disease when exposed and died there from. These
facts are undeniable." A.M. Ross, M.D., seems to have summed up briefly,
succinctly and unanswerably (by the vaccine manufacturers and vendors) the
cause of smallpox, which shows that adding fuel to flames will not put out
the fire. Dr. Ross Said: "Wherever the streets are narrow, the lanes and
courts filthy, where cesspits abound and filth is allowed to accumulate and
ferment, where the weak, intemperate and unclean congregate together, and
where the children are ill-fed and badly clothed, there smallpox makes its
home and riots in filth and death.
June 8, 2002
St. Louis, MO
CDC Public Information Meeting on Smallpox
My name is Dr. Sherri Tenpenny. I am a physician from Cleveland, Ohio and I
am board certified in two medical specialties, including Emergency Medicine.
I am speaking today on behalf of the National Vaccine Information Center, a
non-profit, educational organization founded in 1982 which represents more
than 40,000 Americans, including parents and grandparents of vaccine injured
children.
As a physician, I both personally and professionally support the position
set forth by the NVIC. The NVIC opposes giving the vaccine to the general
public. This is not "just another vaccine." There are defined risks and
known contraindications that can lead to fatal consequences if they are not
strictly adhered to. The general public will not have the background to
understand these ramifications. In addition, as with all vaccines, this
vaccination will not guarantee immunity.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) lists many other known
biological warfare agents; twenty six of these microbes are listed on the
CDC website. In addition, there are chemical warfare agents and an infinite
number of weapons that could be created through genetic engineering and used
in a terrorism attack.
Vaccinating the general public with the vaccinia vaccine will cover only a
small fraction of the potential risk that could come from terrorism.
However, the risk of medical complications from this vaccine is not
potential but real, and that risk exceeds any perceived benefit that may
come from the inoculation.
If first responders are offered the vaccine before an actual attack, it must
be done in a limited, highly controlled manner with strict isolation of the
individual and his body fluids by quarantine, until the scabs from the
vaccine lesions have fallen off. The individual will need to be isolated
from at-risk family members, as well as from the community at large
It is estimated that at least 10%, or more than 28 million people in the
United States, have eczema. There are 184,000 organ recipients, 850,000
individuals with diagnosed and undiagnosed HIV infection or AIDS, and 8.5
million people with cancer. An even more extensive list of people at risk
is the untold millions who are taking immunosuppressive drugs such as
corticosteroids. Prednisone® and Medrol®, given to both adults and children,
are prescribed for dozens of conditions including but not limited to:
asthma; emphysema; allergies; Crohn's disease; multiple sclerosis; herniated
spinal discs; acute muscular pain syndromes; and all types rheumatoid and
autoimmune diseases. All of these patients would be at risk for serious
complications from contact with a vaccinated individual.
Historically, this live virus vaccine has caused more injury and death among
those who were vaccinated than any other vaccine that has ever used. The
general population has no natural immunity to this virus and even with
controlled vaccination of first responders, the virus has the potential to
spread throughout the community and then across the globe. Tens of
thousands of casualties from the vaccine itself will result, and our already
over-burdened healthcare system will be crushed trying to care these
victims.
I have personally treated many patients, both children and adults, who have
suffered from catastrophic brain and immune system damage after vaccination.
The potential suffering that could be caused by this highly reactive vaccine
cannot be measured in either human or economic terms.
In the event of an attack, the PROPER MEDICAL USE of ring vaccination would
be supported by the NVIC but only with voluntary compliance and FULLY
INFORMED CONSENT. A strict definition of "close contacts" is necessary to
ensure that surveillance measures are focused only on those at greatest
risk. Complete informed consent is particularly important because: · the
old vaccine was never subjected to controlled clinical trials; · the new
vaccine will not have to be proven effective in humans; · standards for
safety will be lowered to fast-track production; and · vaccine
manufacturers, as well as healthcare providers-physicians-will be protected
from liability for any vaccine-induced injuries or deaths, which are likely
to occur.
The National Vaccine Information Center urges ACIP to stand behind its
current policy of employing ring vaccination in the event of a bioterrorism
attack. There is no reason why, in the absence of a confirmed smallpox
outbreak, and with only a theoretical risk that smallpox will be the agent
used in an attack, that Americas should be subjected to the very real and
very significant risks associated with the vaccinia virus vaccine.
Thank you.
US does smallpox experiments
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The Wall Street Journal MARILYN CHASE,
Wednesday, June 26, 2002 (06-26) 07:00 PDT (AP) --
US does smallpox experiments ATLANTA --
In an experiment unfolding under tight security, six rust and silver monkeys
this past week grew listless, refused to eat, and broke out in blisters.
Four have become sick, and two have died. The cause: smallpox. On June 18,
microbiologist Peter Jahrling and a team of spacesuited scientists passed
through steel doors with key cards, and entered an air-locked laboratory --
the "Hot Suite" -- at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Their
mission: to infect animals with an extinct disease that is now the world's
most feared bioterror pathogen. Historically, smallpox killed millions of
people and left millions more scarred or blind. But by 1980, the World
Health Organization had eradicated it. Now, just two sanctioned
repositories of frozen virus exist, the one here and one in Russia. But the
Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, and the anthrax
letters that followed, have raised fears of terrorists' procuring the virus
and unleashing it. The point of the experiment here is to create an animal
model of human smallpox. Never before achieved, it is critical to creating
21st-century drugs and vaccines in case of an epidemic. Animal models are
systems for testing treatments without endangering human volunteers.
Currently, no drugs exist to treat smallpox. And the vaccine to immunize
against it, while effective, causes side effects, including death in about
three out of every million people vaccinated.
Doctors stopped giving smallpox shots in 1972, so most people under 30
aren't vaccinated. Even among the vaccinated, immunity has eroded with
time, leaving most people vulnerable. Scientists hope the monkey model
might help them develop both safer vaccines and an effective treatment. Now
government health officials have made smallpox drugs a priority of
biodefense research, setting off a rancorous debate. Alfred Sommer,dean of
the public health school at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, calls the
animal work "an abhorrent experiment by government idiots." He warns that it
could spark a bioweapons arms race with countries such as Iraq and North
Korea. The way to fight smallpox isn't by injecting monkeys, he says, but
by destroying the stockpiles of virus. Dr. Sommer says 18 of the nation's
29 public-health school deans signed his petition calling for destruction of
the stockpiles. This past spring, the WHO and the Bush Administration agreed
to preserve the virus until new drugs were developed.
D. A. Henderson, the leader of the WHO's successful smallpox campaign, also
thinks the Jahrling project is misguided. He doubts doctors will ever find
a drug to treat the disease once its lesions appear, and thinks the
government should be spending its time and money finding a drug to treat
reactions to the vaccine. Dr. Henderson is currently senior scientific
adviser on public-health preparedness to Health and Human Services Secretary
Tommy Thompson.
"We're very proud of the research agenda that's under way," says James LeDuc,
the CDC's director of viral diseases and its point man on smallpox,
defending Dr. Jahrling's work. "There's been a lot of hysteria." But now,
he adds, "It's yielding positive results. We're happy to share the good
news."
After the Sept. 11 attacks occurred, Dr. Jahrling, a senior research
scientist at the U. S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious
Diseases at Fort Detrick, Md., was impatient to follow up work he began a
summer ago with an initial experiment on monkeys. For months the
56-year-old researcher waited his turn at the CDC's only smallpox lab.
Finally, he got the green light and hoped to infect monkeys on June 13. On
June 3, an advance team thawed vials of virus from the CDC's freezer.
Mixed into flasks containing a culture of monkey kidney cells, the virus
grew more slowly than expected, delaying the test five days. "An experiment
of this complexity is like a space launch," Dr. Jahrling says. "Everything
must be perfect."
At 10 a. m. on June 18, members of the team were dressed in green surgical
scrubs and zipped into biohazard suits with attached hoods, booties and
gloves. They taped on outer gloves and boots for extra security. Onto this
protective skin, they hooked coiled orange hoses of filtered air. The air
inflated their suits, making them look like the Michelin man. Then, the
bulky figures entered Biosafety Level 4 Laboratory, one of two top-level
containment facilities for deadly viruses here at the CDC. Its twin lab
houses hemorrhagic fever viruses, such as Ebola.
Dr. Jahrling has courted controversy by giving monkeys as many as one
million times the dose that is infectious to humans, and by exposing them in
a different way. People contracted smallpox by inhaling the virus. But
macaques, the monkeys used in this experiment, don't get smallpox in nature.
Previous aerosol exposures produced only a mild nonlethal rash.
To try to infect monkeys with lethal smallpox last year, Dr. Jahrling
double-dosed them with aerosol and intravenous virus, using a super-virulent
strain -- India I -- the strain of choice of former Soviet germ warriors.
If anything, it worked too well.
"By day four, they checked out," says Dr. Jahrling. Death came so swiftly
that the blisters barely budded, leading critics to charge that the monkeys
died, not from smallpox, but from blood poisoning. So this time, Dr.
Jahrling employed a less-hot virus called the Harper strain. Forgoing "that
hellacious fog," he used only an IV infusion. His aim: to slow the disease
down to something resembling the 10- to 14-day course of human smallpox.
To maintain virulence, he still set the dosage at between 100 million and
one billion infectious units of the virus, an amount almost certain to be
lethal. He grants that that exceeds the 30 percent human death rate that
would be expected from an actual outbreak of the disease. But, an experiment
designed to mimic the expected real-world mortality rate would require 60
monkeys, far more than the 12 animals he can handle at a time. At 100
percent lethality, he reasons, future drug and vaccine tests can show
statistically significant results using fewer animals.
The monkeys, weighing from six to 28 pounds, were anesthetized -- both for
their comfort and workers' safety. "You don't want a monkey who can bite,
scratch or get off the table and swing from the water pipes," he says, "when
you're holding one billion infectious virus particles." The sedated animals
didn't so much as twitch as five team members oversaw the infusion: Dr.
Jahrling, Army drug researcher John Huggins, a veterinary pathologist, an
animal technician and an animal caretaker. After securing the animals under
protective tents, the five underwent an eight-minute chemical
decontamination of their suits, then took soap and water showers.
Now the team is monitoring the disease's downward spiral. "We're not
interested in killing monkeys capriciously," Dr. Jahrling says. "Sometimes I
sit bolt upright in the middle of the night. Then I remember why I'm doing
this. I do have a conscience."
Medical Cartel Gears Up for
Mandatory Vaccinations
by SHERRI TENPENNY, D.O.
CDC, organized medicine and pharma cartels gearing up for mass and mandated
smallpox vaccination campaign CDC documents, field experience indicate cure
will be several times deadlier than the disease." We interrupt the current
programming to bring you this important news update. there has been a
reported case of smallpox in Washington, D.C.”
What will happen next? Pandemonium. The press has done its job over the last
few months reinforcing the belief that an epidemic is about to occur,
potentially causing millions of deaths. Americans thousands of miles from
the nation's capital will demand the smallpox vaccine -- a vaccine with the
highest risk of complications of any vaccine ever manufactured and with a
dubious track record for success.
However, because you are informed, you will have a different response. You
will not panic. You will turn off the TV. You won't listen to your
hysterical neighbors. And more importantly, you won't rush to be vaccinated.
Here's why:
On June 20, 2002, I attended the Center for Disease Control's (CDC) meeting
of the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP) and listened to
one and a half days of testimony prior to posting the recommendations for
smallpox vaccination that are currently being considered by the CDC and the
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
Many testimonies and comments were presented by public participants and by
various physicians and researchers associated with the CDC. Noting that two
weeks have passed since the June 20 meeting and the media has still not
reported on this historic event, I decided it was imperative to report the
content and outcome of this meeting to the general public. After reading
this report you will gain a new perspective on smallpox and, hopefully, in
the event of an outbreak, you will understand that you have nothing to fear.
Generally accepted facts
Nearly every article or news headline regarding smallpox is designed to
instill and continually reinforce fear in the minds of the general public.
Apparently the goal is to make everyone demand the vaccine as soon as it is
available and/or in the event of an outbreak. A very similar media campaign
was developed prior to the release of the Salk polio vaccine in 1955. The
polio vaccine had been in development for more than a year prior to its
release and was an untested “investigational new drug,” just as the smallpox
vaccine will be. The difference is that the potential side effects and
complications of the smallpox vaccine are already known, and they are
extensive.
Generally accepted facts about smallpox include:
1. Smallpox is highly contagious and could spread rapidly, killing millions.
2. Smallpox can be spread by casual contact with an infected person .
3. The death rate from smallpox is thought to be 30 percent.
4. There is no treatment for smallpox.
5. The smallpox vaccine will protect a person from getting the disease.
As it turns out, these “accepted facts” are not the real facts.
Myth 1: Smallpox is highly contagious
“Smallpox has a slow transmission and is not highly contagious,” stated Joel
uritsky, MD, director of the National Immunization Program and Early
Smallpox Response and Planning at the CDC.
This statement is a direct contradiction to nearly everything we have ever
heard or read about smallpox. However, keep in mind that this comes
“straight from the horse's mouth” and should be considered the “real story”
regarding how smallpox is spread.
Even if a person is exposed to a known bioterrorist attack with smallpox, it
doesn't mean that he will contract smallpox. The signs and symptoms of the
disease will not occur immediately, and there is time to plan. The infection
has an incubation period of 3 to 17 days,1 and the first symptom will be the
development of a high fever (101. F), accompanied by nausea, vomiting,
headache, severe abdominal cramping and low back pain. The person will be
ill and most likely bed-ridden; not out mixing with the general public.
Even with a fever, it is critically important to realize that at this point
the person is still not contagious. In fact, the fever may be caused by
something else, such as the flu.
However, if a smallpox infection is developing, the characteristic rash will
begin to develop within two to four days after the onset of the fever. The
person becomes contagious and has the ability to spread the infection only
after the development of the rash. “The characteristic rash of variola
major is difficult to misdiagnose,” stated Walter A. Orenstein, M.D.,
Director of the National Immunization Program (NIP) at the CDC.
The classic smallpox rash is a round, firm pustule that can spread and
become confluent. The lesions are all in the same stage of development over
the entire body and appear to be distributed more on the palms, soles and
face than on the trunk or extremities.
ACTION ITEM: In the event of an exposure, it is imperative that you do
everything you can to improve the functioning of your immune system so that
an “exposure” does not have to result in an “outbreak.” a. Stop eating all
foods that contain refined white sugar products, since sugar inhibits the
functioning of your white blood cells, your first line of defense.2
(There are many other health-conscious dietary considerations to
consider,but that is beyond the scope of this article.)
b. Start taking large doses of Vitamin C. Vitamin C has been proven in
hundreds of studies to be effective in protecting the body from viral
infections,3 including smallpox.4 For an extensive scientific review on the
use of this nutrient and a “dosing recipe,” read “Vitamin C, The Master
Nutrient,” by Sandra Goodman, Ph.D.
http://www.positivehealth.com/permit/Articles/Nutrition/vitcpre.htm
c. If you develop a fever, you still have time to plan. Purchase enough
fresh, organic produce and filtered water to last three weeks. Move the kids
to grandma's or the neighbor's house. Remember: YOU MAY NOT GET THE
INFECTION AND YOU ARE NOT CONTAGIOUS UNTIL YOU GET THE RASH!
Myth 2: Smallpox is easily spread by casual contact with an infected person
Smallpox will not rapidly disseminate throughout the community. Even after
the development of the rash, the infection is slow to spread. “The infection
is spread by droplet contamination and coughing or sneezing are not
generally part of the infection. Smallpox will not spread like wildfire,”
said Orenstein. He stated that the spread of smallpox to casual contacts is
the “exception to the rule.” Only 8 percent of cases in Africa were
contracted by accidental contact.
Transmission of smallpox occurs only after intense contact, defined as
“constant exposure of a person that is within 6-7 feet for a minimum of 6-7
days.”5
Dr. Orenstein reported that in Africa, 92 percent of all cases came from
close associations and in India, all cases came from prolonged personal
contact. Dr. Tom Mack from the University of Southern California stated that
in Pakistan, 27 percent of cases demonstrated no transmission to close
associates. Nearly 37 percent had a transmission of only one generation,
meaning that the second person to contract smallpox did not pass it onto the
third person. These statistics directly contradict models that predict an
exponential spread to millions.
Even without medical care, isolation was the best way to stop the spread of
smallpox in Third World, population dense areas. With a slow transmission
rate and an informed public, Mack estimated that the total number of
smallpox cases in America would be less than 10, a far cry from the millions
postulated by the press.
Dr. Kuritsky said at the CDC Public Forum on Smallpox on June 8 in St.Louis,
“Given the slow transmission rate and that people need to be in close
contact for nearly a week to spread the infection, the scenario in which a
terrorist could infect himself with smallpox and contaminate an entire city
by walking through the streets touching people is purely fiction.”
Point to ponder: Mass vaccination against smallpox was halted in Third World
countries because it didn't work. In India, villages with an 88 percent
vaccination rate still had outbreaks of the disease. After the World Health
Organization (WHO) began a surveillance and containment campaign, actively
seeking cases of smallpox, isolating them in their homes, and vaccinating
family members and close contacts, outbreaks were virtually eliminated
within two years. The CDC and the WHO attribute the eradication of smallpox
to the ring vaccination of close contacts. However, since the infection runs
its course in 3-6 weeks, perhaps ISOLATION ALONE would have effectively
accomplished the same thing.
Myth #3: The death rate from smallpox is 30 percent
Nearly every newspaper and journal article quotes this statistic. However,
as pointed out in the presentation by Dr. Tom Mack, it appears that the “30
percent fatality rate” has come from skewed data. Dr. Mack has worked with
smallpox extensively and saw more than 120 outbreaks in Pakistan throughout
the early 1970s. Villages would apparently have “an importation” every
5-10 years, regardless of vaccination status, and the outbreak could always
be predicated by living conditions and social arrangements. There were many
small outbreaks and individual cases that never came to the attention of the
local authorities.
Mack stated that even with poor medical care, the case fatality rate in
adults was “much lower than is generally advertised” and thought to be 10-15
percent. He said that the statistics were “loaded with children that had a
much higher fatality,” making the average death rate reported to be much
higher. Amazingly, he revealed his opinion that even without mass
vaccination, “smallpox would have died out anyway. It just would have taken
longer.”
Even so, people died. Why? After all, smallpox is a skin disease and “other
organs are seldom involved.”6 I posed this question to the committee on two
separate occasions. Kathi Williams of the National Vaccine Information
Center asked this question at the Institute of Medicine meeting June 15. On
June 20, an answer was finally forthcoming when a member of the ACIP
committee said, “That is a good question. Does anyone know the actual cause
of death from smallpox?”
At that point Dr. D.A. Henderson from the John Hopkins University Department
of Epidemiology volunteered a comment. Dr. Henderson directed the WHO's
global smallpox eradication campaign (1966-1977) and helped initiate WHO's
global program of immunization in 1974. He approached the microphone and
stated, “Well, it appears that the cause of death of smallpox is a
'mystery.'” He stated that a medical resident had been asked to do a
complete review of the literature and “not much information” was found. It
is postulated that people died from a “generalized toxemia” and that those
with the most severe forms of smallpox -- the hemorrhagic or confluent
malignant types -- died of complications of skin sloughing, similar to a
burn. However, he concluded by saying, “it's frustrating, because we don't
really know.”
COMMENT: I find this to be extremely frightening. If we knew why people died
when they contracted smallpox, perhaps current medical technology could
treat the complications, making the death rate much lower. Considering that
the last known case of smallpox in the U.S. was in Texas in 1949, continuing
to report that smallpox has a 30 percent death rate is similar to saying
that all heart attacks are fatal. Based on 1949 technology, that would be
accurate reporting. But in 2002, all heart attacks are NOT fatal. Neither
would smallpox have a mortality rate of 30 percent.
Myth #4: There is no treatment for smallpox
A more accurate statement is “there are no pharmaceutical drugs for the
treatment of smallpox.” But they are working on that too. There are 274
antiviral drug compounds and testing is underway to see if one can be useful
in the treatment of smallpox.7
One such drug is called hexadecylosypropyl-cidofovir (HDP-CDV). Not yet
available for human use, it has been found to be 100 times more potent than
its cousin, cidofovir, a drug used to treat retinal infections in HIV
patients. If studies pan out, HDP-CDV will be offered in a pill or capsule
form over 5-14 days for the prevention and treatment of people exposed to
smallpox.8 Unfortunately, this drug is being developed in Europe and will
likely be kept out of the U.S. market until long after the general public
has been subjected to mass vaccination.
It is important to note that there are several different presentations of a
smallpox infection. The most common is called “ordinary discrete” smallpox,
occurring in more than 40 percent of the cases. The outbreak is seen as a
small scattering of pustules distributed across the body. The person with
this type of smallpox needs minimal medical care and the reported death rate
is <10 percent.9
For mild cases of smallpox, adequate hydration and anti-fever products are
essential for comfort and maintaining a temperature below 102.F. Keeping the
skin clean to prevent secondary bacterial infections is also important. A
1927 Textbook of Medicine recommends applying gauze soaked in carbolic acid
to “decrease itching and prevent extensive scarring.”10 Carbolic acid is
used for burns that tend to ulcerate and other skin conditions that cause
burning or prickling pain. Homeopathic forms of carbolic acid are also
available.
For the severe complications of smallpox, modern day treatment options are
available. The hemorrhagic type of smallpox, occurring in approximately 3
percent of cases, presents as hypotensive shock and can be treated
accordingly. In another 3 percent of serious cases, the confluent-type has
extensive skin involvement. These patients can be treated the same as a burn
patient. All severe cases need to be treated for dehydration and watched for
signs of bacterial suprainfection.
Research done by Dr. Peter Havens, MS, MD, from the Medical College of
Wisconsin, postulated that death from smallpox was due to multisystem organ
failure, a complication of an untreated acute cytokine (inflammatory)
response. Massive oxidative stress occurs, leading to free-radical damage in
the kidneys and other internal organs. However, Dr. Havens estimates that
modern medical technology would indeed decrease the death rate, to possibly
as low as 2-3 percent.
COMMENT: The treatment of choice for severe free-radical stress is high dose
intravenous vitamin C. If conventional medicine would recognize the value of
this treatment, it would also be forced to realize mass vaccination is
simply not necessary.
Treating severely ill patients would require hospitalization and
unfortunately, smallpox spreads the most quickly in the hospital setting due
to poor isolation techniques. In addition, most patients in hospitals are
ill and immunosuppressed by disease or medication, making them more
susceptible to infection. Dr. Mike Lane, former director of the CDC's
smallpox eradication program in the 1970s, said severely ill smallpox
patients could be treated in a suburban motel or remote government building.
“You can bring care to the patient if you elect to use the Motel 6 on the
edge of town” rather than put smallpox victims in a hospital where the
disease could spread to patients with weakened immune systems.
Side bar with Dr. Mike Lane:
Dr. Lane and I had a private conversation during a coffee break. During his
presentation, he had been adamant that those within the “first ring” would
need to be mandatorily vaccinated with 100 percent compliance. The “first
ring” includes those who have had immediate, close contact with patients who
had confirmed cases of smallpox.
Lane stated that this was the only way that “ring vaccination would work.”
When I questioned his definition of 100 percent compliance, he said,
“Medical contraindications would not apply... there would be NO exceptions.
I would rather vaccinate them and take my chances treating the potential
complications. In India, we vaccinated everyone. The only medical
contraindication was leprosy, and we sometimes vaccinated them. I'm sure
that we killed a few people, but we did the best that we could.”
I pressed the issue further by saying, “if the death rate really is 30
percent (which I doubt), doesn't that mean the survival rate is 70 percent?
Shouldn't that person have the right to play the odds with his health if he
chose to?” His answer was the same: “If the person is exposed, there will be
NO exceptions, medical or otherwise. Those people in the first ring --
regardless of health status -- MUST be vaccinated.” That means that all
people with medical contraindictions -- organ
transplants, cancer, HIV, eczema and other skin conditions -- would be
vaccinated, even it was against their will and with the use of force, if
necessary. He was quite the zealot about it; hopefully, in the event of a
smallpox exposure, more reasonable minds will prevail.
Myth #5: The vaccine will keep me from getting the infection
Most people believe that all vaccines work to protect them, meaning that the
vaccine will be clinically effective. What most people do not know is that
vaccines have never been proven to protect them from getting the infection.
This little known fact is not only true for all vaccines, it is also true
for the smallpox vaccine. Here are a few examples:
Chickenpox vaccine:
“No data exists regarding post-exposure efficacy of the current varicella
vaccine.”
“Vaccinated persons have a less severe out break than unvaccinated” (300
vs.50 lesions).11
Pertussis vaccine:
“The findings of efficacy studies have not demonstrated a direct correlation
between antibody response and protection against pertussis disease.”12
Smallpox vaccine:
“Neutralizing antibodies are reported to reflect levels of protection,
although this has not been validated in the field.” 13
Dr. Harold Margolis, Senior Advisor to the Director for Smallpox Planning
and Response, stated in Atlanta that, “the vaccine decreased the death rate
among those vaccinated by 'modifying the disease', not by preventing
infection.”
Take home points
1. Smallpox is NOT highly contagious. You have time. Don't panic.
2. Smallpox is only spread by close contact of less than 6 feet for at least
6-7 days. You aren't that close to coworkers or commuters.
3. Treatment for smallpox should be surveillance and containment, without
vaccination.
4. Smallpox is not highly fatal. There are treatments for smallpox.
5. The vaccine will not protect you from getting the infection. The vaccine
has high complication rates, is an experimental drug and there are many
contraindications. (Please see article at
http://www.mercola.com/2002/jun/12/smallpox_update.htm)
Addendum:
As I was completing this report the morning of July 7, 2002, I read in the
New York Times that the CDC plans to increase the number of “first
responders” who receive the vaccination to 500,000 from the agreed-to
15,000.14 Preparations are also underway for rapid mass vaccination of the
general public. The more extensive vaccination plan is possible because
supplies are increasing. As I have stated before, the government spent more
than $780 million to develop its arsenal. Now that we have it, we will use
it.
In addition to medical first responders, a presentation at the June 20
meeting suggested that first responders should also include a class to be
defined as “economic first responders,” those who would be necessary in
keeping the economy moving in the event of a nationwide “lock down” caused
by an outbreak. This group would include pilots, truck drivers, food
handlers, etc. It is the “etc.” that is of concern. Where do you draw the
line? Obviously, the line will be drawn after Tommy Thompson's vision of a
“vaccine for every man, woman and child” has been fulfilled.
“We interrupt the current programming to bring you this important news
update.there has been a reported case of smallpox in Washington, D.C.”
What will happen next? Pandemonium. The press has done its job over the last
few months reinforcing the belief that an epidemic is about to occur,
potentially causing millions of deaths. Americans thousands of miles from
the nation's capital will demand the smallpox vaccine -- a vaccine with the
highest risk of complications of any vaccine ever manufactured and with a
dubious track record for success.
However, because you are informed, you will have a different response. You
will not panic. You will turn off the TV. You won't listen to your
hysterical neighbors. And more importantly, you won't rush to be vaccinated.
Here's why:
One of the major problems is the lack of vaccinia immune globulin (VIG), the
“antidote” that is needed for those who experience a severe reaction to the
vaccine. The Times article reports that there are only 700 doses currently
available. Dr. Tom Mack, among others at the CDC, warned that, “in the
absence of VIG, extensive vaccination would be extremely dangerous.”
With the continued rhetoric about the U.S. plans to go to war with Iraq, we
are essentially taunting Saddam into launching a biological weapons attack
on our own people. We are not given an exact knowledge as to Saddam's
capability but are given euphemisms such as “reasonably high” or “quite
high.” But we don't know for sure. And if the government knows, it is not
telling. And, if Saddam does have biological smallpox, what is the chance he
has other weapons of biological destruction, those for which we do not have
a vaccine?
We are developing “grounds” for a war with Iraq in spite of the rest of the
world telling us to stay out of there. I encourage all to spend some time on
this site: www.globalpolicy.org for some eye-opening information on policy
that you won't see in the popular press.
We are setting the stage for a health disaster unlike anything we have seen
before in America, and it will be our own doing. World health records
(England, Germany, Italy, the Philippines, British India, etc.) document
that devastating epidemics followed mass vaccination. The worst smallpox
disaster occurred in the Philippines after a 10 year compulsory U.S. program
administered 25 million vaccinations to its population of 10 million
resulting in 170,000 cases and more than 75,000 deaths from 'smallpox', in a
country having only scattered cases in rural villages prior to the onslaught
of vaccines.15
I received an excellent bulletin from Larken Rose (
www.Theft-By-Deception.com) who is an activist regarding taxes. So much of
what he said applies to the vaccine movement, that I got his permission to
include part of his letter here. It is time to STAND AGAINST forced
vaccination. Stop the hysteria! Information is power. However, after gaining
power, you must ACT.
Here is something to inspire you:
More than 200 years ago, the people of this country chose to tell King
George, not just that he was unreasonable, not just that they didn't like
him, not just that they had complaints about him, but that they were going
to RESIST BY FORCE his tyrannical ways. The Declaration was not a threat to
take King George to court; it was not a petition, or a request for fairness,
or even a demand. It was a STATEMENT -- a DECLARATION -- that the people of
America REFUSED TO TOLERATE the oppression, and were going to openly resist
it, and didn't give a damn what the King thought about it.
Though it may be politically incorrect to describe it this way, the
Declaration of Independence was a bunch of people openly stating that they
were going to IGNORE the law (not debate it or litigate it), and OVERTHROW
their present government (King George was not a foreign invader; he was “the
government”). Again, in the words of the Declaration, “when a long train of
abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a
design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is the people's right, it
is their duty, to throw off such government.”
Where are the Americans who still have that attitude?
There are a few (very few), and most people consider them to be “fringe
extremists.” Where do YOU draw the line? What injustice would government
agents have to commit, before YOU would openly resist? Is there a line for
you? Or would you complain and bicker all the way to absolute tyranny?
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.
Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact
amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these
will continue till they have resisted with either words or blows, or with
both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom
they suppress.” ~Frederick Douglas
It's a very different country today from what it was 226 years ago. We have
become a country of sheep. We occasionally “baaa” at government injustice,
but do not ACT. For the most part, our “rebelliousness” consists of pushing
buttons in voting booths to hopefully elect the less scummy of two lying
scumbags (after a debate about which one is scummier).
For most people that is the extent of their resistance to government-imposed
injustice. Each of us cowers in a corner for fear that we will be the next
one that government makes an “example” of. While self-preservation is no
sin, at some point a country of “self-preservers” will “preserve” itself
into total submission to tyrants.
We are one step away from that now.
Once upon a time, a group of individuals declared to the world that they
would fight and risk death, rather than tolerate the oppressions of an
abusive government.
Now, we are too comfortable for that. We are spoiled. We are cowards. For
today's battle, we need only the smallest fraction of the courage our
forefathers demonstrated.
We do not need to lie in the mud, squinting in the cold to see the rifle
sites, waiting for the glimpse of British troops that we know are headed our
way just over the next ridge. We do not need to run into the open field, in
heavy enemy fire, to retrieve our buddy who just had his leg blown off by a
cannonball.We do not need to leave our families and friends to fight, and
possibly to die. No, today the price for our freedom (at least a huge chunk
of it) is a pittance compared to what others have paid, but I have my doubts
about whether we are willing to pay even that. What is that price? What do
we need to do?
We need to just say NO by affirming the following:
I will not succumb to fear.
I will not become part of forced medical experimentation.
I will not allow my body to be injected with an experimental new drug based
on a “hunch” or based on something that happened hundreds or thousands of
miles from where I live.
I will not let this government take away my right to do what I believe is
best for my body.
I will take personal responsibility for my health and for the health of my
family.
Note: The CDC possesses epidemiological knowledge regarding smallpox. That
knowledge, properly applied, would stop plans for a national mass smallpox
vaccination campaign. Instead, the CDC supports a program that would inject
this dangerous and ineffective experimental vaccine into every man, woman
and child in America. Those who understand the politics of public health and
the disease prevention industry cynically refer to the CDC as the Centers
for Disease Creation and Propagation -- not the Control and Prevention. The
CDCs position on smallpox vaccination leans more toward creation and
propagation than control and prevention.
Dear Members and Friends -
Many of you have asked me for more evidence on the bedbug theory of
smallpox.
So far, we have not found any other sources besides Cash Asher's book,
Bacteria, Inc. The following was sent to me by Susan Pearce, director of the
Wyoming Vaccination Information Network after reading the Summer 2002 VacLib
Letter. Walene's short piece in the VacLib Letter is reprinted below.
Please remember that mattresses back then were "straw-tick" mattresses and
provided a breeding ground for "bedbugs".
From Susan:
This is an excerpt from a book I have been reading to Mom. About a week
before I read your latest VacLib Newsletter, with its article about smallpox
being caused by bedbugs, I read this to her:
“Somewhere around this time, we all sickened and
Mother knew what was wrong. She had been nursing the neighbors, the Webbers;
they were all down in bed and she was sure they had Smallpox. She had
carried it home to us, but luckily she had had it as a child and could care
for us. Doctors today deplore Folk Medicine, but she gave us Sweet Spirits
of Nitre for the fever and baking soda sponges for the itching, and it did
help.”
“Dr. Blake came down from Buffalo to see us. He was the Health Officer and
someone had reported we were all sick; we didn’t send for him. We were
afraid of him, particularly Lee and me. He talked to Lee gently and coaxed
him onto his lap. ‘Now show me your biggest smallpox sore,’ he said. Lee
opened his pajamas and, exposed himself, he sobbed, ‘See Doc, it’s right on
the end of my wetter.’ Mother was beet red, and started to apologize, but
the good doctor waved her away and talked on with Lee, telling him not to
scratch and it would be better tomorrow. More laughs.”
“Before we could take down the quarantine sign, we had to fumigate according
to directions. Dr. Blake left Formaldehyde, which was to be put in a boiler
of boiling water and left to boil as long as the fire held. This was some
process, but guess what it did to the bedbugs?! They either died or left,
for we never saw another one.” [Emphasis mine]
This was about 1914. Lee was about four
years old. The author, Helena (Betty) Thomas Rubottom, was about six. The
family lived near Kaycee, WY, which is near the place my mom was born and
raised, which is why I was reading it to her.
The excerpt is from Helena Rubottom’s book called Red Walls and
Homesteads, Edited and published by Margaret Brock Hanson, Mayoworth
Route, Kaycee, Wyoming, copyright 1987 Helena Thomas Rubottom. All Rights
Reserved. Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 86-91878. ISBN
0-9605834-3-2. Designed and Manufactured by Frontier Printing, Inc.,
Cheyenne, WY.
Susan Pearce
spearce@tctwest.net
307-737-2325
Who was Dr. Charles Campbell? Why has modern organized medicine forgotten
his work?
History has conveniently forgotten Bechamp who proved that dis-ease
causes germs while deifying Pasteur, the father of the pharmaceutical age,
for errantly convincing the world that germs cause disease. Similarly, we
have been taught since kindergarten to revere Thomas Edison for giving us
electricity and lightbulbs when the work of his contemporary and nemesis
Nicola Tesla could have given free energy to the world. If Dr. Campbell and
his work were common knowledge today, people would view the Bush
administration’s plan to vaccinate every man, woman and child in America
against smallpox as the most medically illogical public health policy since
blood letting.
Around 1900, the cause and control of two life threatening diseases was
discovered, each by two distinguished medical doctors. One is famous. His
name is in encyclopedias and textbooks. About 60 years ago, a movie
heralding his discovery was made and a hospital was named after him. The
other doctor is practically unknown. I know of only one book written about
his discovery and that, as far as I know, is out-of-print. In my opinion,
his contribution was the more remarkable because he discovered the cause and
cure of a disfiguring disease that has plagued mankind for thousands of
years.
Doctor #1:
Walter Reed
Walter Reed is the doctor first mentioned and the hospital named after
him is the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. In 1900, he
headed a commission to investigate the cause of yellow fever, which, along
with malaria, was the main obstacle to completing the work on the Panama
Canal. He and a medical staff carried on a series of experiments involving
several doctors as well as a number of soldiers who volunteered to be
infected by the yellow fever virus. Two died as a result, but the
experiments established that the Aedes aegypti mosquito transmits yellow
fever. Walter Reed and his team said that the best control was to kill the
mosquitoes.
However, isn’t it better to eliminate the conditions that create a disease,
rather than merely controlling it? In 1904, army surgeon William Crawford
Gorgas was sent to Panama where he instituted sanitary reforms, cut back the
brush and drained the swamps which were the breeding grounds of the
mosquito. In two years he succeeded in eliminating yellow fever from the
canal region. Outbreaks of malaria, a disease that was transmitted by the
anopheles mosquito, was also brought under control using Dr. Gorgas’
methods.
Doctor #2:
Charles A.R. Campbell
The second doctor, Charles A. R. Campbell, discovered the cause and cure
of smallpox. Through a series of carefully controlled experiments (even
using himself as a subject) Dr. Campbell, along with Dr. J. A. Watts,
discovered that smallpox, like yellow fever and malaria, was transmitted by
an insect, cimex lectularius (Latin for bedbug). They also discovered that
the disease was neither contagious nor infectious and that vaccinations did
not prevent it.
Even more importantly, Dr. Campbell discovered that the severity of the
disease was directly proportional to the general ill health and malnutrition
of the patient. He spoke of “scorbutic cachexia” and related it to scurvy,
the “disease caused by lack of green food.” He said, “the removal of this
perversion of nutrition will so mitigate the virulence of this malady as to
positively prevent the pitting or pocking of smallpox.” (Bacteria, Inc.,
Cash Asher, Bruce Humphries, Inc., Boston, MA, 1949).
Even though Drs. Campbell and Watts and possibly others tried to publish
their findings their work was ignored. However, it was Dr. Campbell who
first called attention to the bedbug as the carrier of smallpox. I might
mention that Dr. Campbell was recognized as an outstanding scientist of his
generation, even being nominated for the Nobel Prize for his work on the
value of bats as mosquito eradicators. Today he is all but forgotten. Few
have heard of him and now smallpox is considered highly contagious and
dangerous with no known cure.
Why is one doctor honored and the other ignored?
When cimex lectularius was exposed as the carrier of smallpox, the
manufacturing of serums had grown into a profitable industry and smallpox
vaccinations had become a lucrative part of medical practice. The
vaccination of every child had become an established practice. Many states
had laws making vaccinations compulsory for school entrance requirements.
When the cause and control of yellow fever was discovered, the vaccine for
it had not been developed (It was developed in 1937).
Perhaps even more economically threatening was Dr. Campbell’s assertion that
a change in diet, not drugs or vaccines, could prevent the pocking or
pitting of smallpox, even mitigating the severity of the disease.
For your consideration: Do economics ameliorate the conditions conducive to
human suffering? Is history written by those in power to reinforce their
position of power? Do you think this brief description of two different
outcomes for two discoveries made about the same time is an isolated
example? For further research: Could the nutritional principal discovered by
Dr. Campbell be applied to other insect-borne diseases, thus mitigating
their severity?
Walene James
deepethicsfound@msn.com
757-486-3129
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Ingri Cassel, President
Vaccination Liberation - Idaho Chapter
P.O. Box 1444
Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816
(208)255-2307/ 765-8421
vaclib@coldreams.com
www.vaclib.org
"The Right to Know, The Freedom to Abstain"
RISKY BUSINESS
Health Sciences Institute e-Alert
September 30, 2002
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Dear Reader,
Last week the Associated Press reported that the Bush administration is now
prepared to "offer" every American the opportunity to receive a smallpox
vaccination. This is a sharp departure from the recent plan to vaccinate
only those classified as "first responders" - medical service personnel,
police officers, and members of the armed forces who would need immunity to
the disease in order to remain healthy in the event of an outbreak.
The AP article describes the vaccine as "effective but risky." The word
"risky," however, hardly begins to describe the extremely troubling
consequences of vaccinating 280 million Americans.
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A Tom Clancy plot
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In 1979 the World Health Organization announced that smallpox had been
"eradicated from the earth." That sounds pretty final: smallpox is gone
forever. But not quite. Samples of smallpox were saved at two laboratories:
one at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia, and one at the
Research Institute of Viral Preparations in Moscow. Ten years later
communism collapsed, the government infrastructure of the U.S.S.R.
unraveled, and no one can be sure if the samples in Moscow were contained
and untampered with. The fear is that an enterprising scientist may have
made some of the smallpox sample available to the highest bidder.
In this scenario, the highest bidder might easily have been the Bush
administration's current public enemy number one: Saddam Hussein. So with a
war with Iraq at the top of the agenda, the new Bush plan calls for the
vaccination of hospital emergency room workers, followed quickly by a wide
range of other "first responders," totaling as many as half a million
people. Then, as soon as possible, the vaccine would be offered to the
general public.
The key word there is "offered." So, if offered, should you accept?
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An offer you might want to refuse
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In an e-Alert I sent you last June ("A Shot in the Arm; a Shot in the Dark"
6/10/02), I told you about some of the dangers with the smallpox vaccine. To
begin with, it's still classified as an investigational new drug (IND). As
the name implies, it has not been fully tested for both safety and efficacy.
So while no one can say exactly who will have adverse reactions, we do know
that certain people will be vulnerable to a number of very serious side
effects, including paralysis, brain damage, and death.
Anyone with an immune deficiency (such as people who are HIV-positive) and
many patients fighting cancer or chronic diseases will be most vulnerable to
side effects of the vaccine. Anyone who has eczema will be vulnerable. There
is a chance that the vaccine may harm the fetuses of pregnant women. And
some infant children may experience brain swelling resulting in permanent
retardation or death. Obviously this smallpox vaccine is not an "offer" to
be taken lightly.
Writing in the New York Times last month, Bill Frist, a Republican senator
from Tennessee and the author of "When Every Moment Counts," a book on
bioterrorism, stated, "Of every million people who receive the
vaccine, two to four people will die from its complications. Five times that
number will become seriously ill from the vaccine." And although those risks
are considerable, Senator Frist believes that the threat of a smallpox
attack outweighs the risks of providing smallpox vaccinations. He supports
the President's plan to make the vaccine available to everyone as soon as
possible.
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No easy answers
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At this time last year there were less than 16 million doses of smallpox
vaccine available, and another 40 million were on order. But researchers
recently determined that the existing 15.4 million doses could be diluted to
create 75 million. Then an unidentified drug company opened a forgotten
freezer and found another 86 million doses that were promptly donated to the
government. Add to that another 209 million doses that will be ready early
next year, and - presto! - the sudden bull market of smallpox vaccines has
created a fire-sale mentality that appears to be driving this policy change.
The revised plan has a gung-ho enthusiasm: we've got it, let's use it!
Meanwhile, I can't shake one nagging question. We fear that terrorists have
smallpox to use as a weapon. But even Bill Frist admits that we don't know
this for sure. And if a bioterrorist attack should come, there's a chance
that any number of diseases other than smallpox may be used as the weapon.
So should we take an action that we know will kill hundreds of Americans and
leave many others permanently debilitated, based only on speculation?
There is no easy answer to that question. As horrific a decision as it is,
if we knew for a fact that a smallpox attack was imminent, I would say that
we would have to sacrifice the lives of a few in order to save the lives of
millions. It's almost on the level of "Sophie's Choice" - the heartbreaking
reality that no matter what choice is made, the consequences are unbearable.
The thing is - I'm not convinced that we've come to that point yet where the
clear choice is to vaccinate one and all.
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Where to from here?
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There are many more issues to the smallpox vaccine dilemma that I haven't
brought up here. In the coming weeks and months we're going to be hearing
much more about this, and I'll be keeping a close watch on the situation so
that I can fill you in on the background information that the mainstream
media glosses over.
At this point it appears that the first smallpox vaccinations may begin
before the end of the year. So with the threat of a bioterrorist attack more
of a reality than ever, it's essential for each of us to take good care of
ourselves to maintain a healthy immune system. In tomorrow's e-Alert I'll
tell you about a new study that examines the importance of a diet rich in
flavonoids, the biologically active compounds with high antioxidant content
that can give the immune system
a boost.
If you exercise regularly, get around 7 hours of sleep every night, and eat
a balanced diet with plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, you'll be
providing the first line of defense against anyone or anything that tries to
compromise yourhealth.
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...and another thing
Two weeks ago I sent you a pair of e-Alerts (World Domination - Parts I &
II" 9/16 & 9/17/02) about the European Union Directive on Dietary
Supplements and the United Nations' Codex Alimentarius - two major threats
to our freedom to make our own health choices. Then last week I told you
about an e-mail that I received from an HSI member named Mykola asking me to
provide a form letter to use in preparing an e-mail to send messages to your
senators, representatives,
and the White House. Which I thought was a great idea, until this e-mail,
from a member named James, made me reconsider:
"In regard to making a form letter concerning the future of vitamins, I
would like to offer some advice from one who has worked with those in power.
Form letters are ignored. Let everyone say it their own way. They
[congressional members]do notice constituent letters when plentiful,
original, andones that tell the member that they vote."
That sounds like reasonable advice, so I've decided to combine Mykola's idea
with James'. Instead of creating a form letter, I'll suggest some important
points to highlight, then you can write your own e-mail in your own words.
First, we'll start with the basics. A web site called Congress.org provides
a complete listing of government e-mail addresses. And, as James suggested,
remember to mention that you're a registered voter.
Here are the primary points:
* Something is happening in Europe that I fear could happen here in
the U.S. if it is ignored.
* The European Union recently passed a directive that reclassifies vitamin
and herbal supplements as medical drugs (available only by prescription),
and outlaws many supplement ingredients that are currently widely available.
* Created to "protect" consumers, I believe this directive will do
exactly the opposite.
* When dietary supplements are available over-the-counter, consumers are
free to make their own choices.
* Many studies have proven that even potent dietary supplements are far
safer than pharmaceuticals.
* The U.S. is one of the 165 member countries of the Codex Alimentarius
Commission - an international food standards program created by the Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO)
of the United Nations.
* The Codex Alimentarius Commission has made it very clear
that it wants to limit over-the-counter sales of some
dietary supplements while reclassifying others as
pharmaceuticals, available only through a pharmacist.
* The U.S. has one vote on the Codex Commission. The European
Union represents 27 votes on the commission: the 15 votes
of its member countries and 12 votes of the 12 EU candidate
countries.
* Under World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, Codex decisions override
national and local decisions.
* Member countries (including the U.S.) that refuse to "harmonize" with
WTO directives may be subject to restrictive trade sanctions, designed to
persuade agreements by using severe economic pressure.
But no matter, how you state it, I urge you to tell the Bush administration
and your congressmen to be diligent in protecting U.S. laws that continue to
allow all citizens the freedom to make their own health choices.
To Your Good Health,
Jenny Thompson
Health Sciences Institute
Check out the CDC website about
smallpox vaccines in the immunocompromised
www.bt.cdc.gov/Agent/Smallpox/VaccineImages3.asp
Vaccine Safety Advocates Warn of
Risks of
Proposed Mass Smallpox Vaccination Policy
