Vaccine Truth

My Story

Since the beginning of time, a mother’s primary role has been to protect her young. It’s a role that most mothers take very seriously. When the medical community introduced vaccines to protect children from the ravages of disease, it was only natural for mothers to want their children protected. It wasn’t until my son started having seizures seven days after his MMR, DTaP, HiB, and Pneumococcal vaccination at fifteen months, that I started researching the wisdom of this practice. Like most of us I thought vaccines were harmless, tested for safety, and a necessity. Since he had just been vaccinated, I had my "What you need to know" fact sheet that had been given to me by my pediatrician. I read, "A vaccine, like any medicine, is capable of causing serious problems, such as severe allergic reactions or anaphylaxis." I also read, seizures can in fact be a "side effect" of vaccines. It also stated in the fact sheet that of every 10,000 doses given, six will cause seizures, but like so many of us, I never thought it meant my child. A doctor explained to me, "If Chase’s seizures were related to vaccines, the seizures would take place within two days of the shot, not seven." He went on to explain vaccines are for the good of the nation, however, "there will be a few 'sacrificial soldiers' in the war on disease." He was sure my child was not one of the six who have seizures from vaccines.

What I didn’t realize is that my son was having reactions from every shot and I just hadn’t put it all together. Following his two-month vaccinations he screamed and would arch his back to such a degree I could barely hold on to him. I didn’t know the French call this the "encephalitic cry", brain damage in progress. Two weeks after his nine-month vaccination he was admitted into the hospital with uncontrollable diarrhea to which no cause was ever found. I didn’t know diarrhea was one of the ways the body rids itself of poisons. Next, he developed a rash on the back of his legs and his shoulders. The nurse diagnosed dermatitis caused by bubble bath. At this time I didn’t know the phenoxyethanol, a preservative that protects against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria in vaccines, could cause dermatitis and eczema. I now know that all these things were attributes of vaccine damage.

At first my pediatrician diagnosed Chase with syncope. Our next course of action was to visit the Pediatric Neurologist. An all day video EEG was performed on an out patient basis. The doctor on duty informed me, on a scale from one to ten, ten being the highest seizure activity, Chase was a seven to eight. At this time he was having six to eight complex partial seizures a day.

The doctor explained to me that if Chase were his patient, he would start anticonvulsive drugs that day. In retrospect I can only say how fortunate for Chase, he was not his patient.

The next day I received a call from the Pediatric Neurologist the one referred by Chase’s pediatrician. When I mentioned my fear of vaccine damage he stated, the seizures are definitely not vaccine related but I can see no other reason for them (such as a brain tumor). When I reminded him of the ‘fact sheet’ he became very defensive and I was told, "If children are going to have seizures, they just happen to start around the time of vaccinations and this is just a coincidence." When I pointed out I thought coincidences such as this should be addressed in a study, he became very aggressive and suggested I come to his office immediately so he could "educate me" on how wrong my vaccine damage theory was. Needless to say, I did not keep his 'immediate appointment'. I requested a second opinion. The next doctor said, "Your son’s seizures are idiopathic (without reason) in nature and this should comfort you. It is best we can’t find a reason". His official diagnosis code was 345.41. For those of you not familiar with coding, this number stands for partial epilepsy with impairment of consciousness. The 1 at the end of the code stands for intractable or not easily managed seizures.

The Pediatric Neurologist proceeded to explain to me that my son needed the drug Tegretol. Tegretol is one of fifteen anticonvulsants medically prescribed for seizure disorders. This drug would be prescribed for a period of two years. The most common side effects of this drug are: nausea, dizziness, blurred double vision and continuous back and forth movements of the eyes. An allergic reaction, i.e. difficulty breathing and constriction of the throat muscles, had to be watched for. Liver damage was also a possibility, however, I was assured his blood would be monitored for this every six months. My job was to watch for yellowing of the eyes.

If his ankles swelled while on the drug congestive heart failure might be the problem. Ulcers in the mouth and or easy bruising were to be immediately reported to his doctor, and the list continues. If you have a reaction or side affect to this drug you cannot just stop taking it, you must be weaned off. Stopping a seizure medicine all at once can cause status epilepticus, a serious problem.

At this point I decided I must look for another option, as this was unacceptable. Our neighbor’s daughter had seizures and is using a treatment called the Ketogenic diet.

Her daughter has been seizure and medicine free for almost five years. Prior to the diet, she had been on eleven different anticonvulsants none of which stopped her seizures. She was also diagnosed with intractable epilepsy. When I asked for this diet option, I was told it was not allowed until Tegretol had failed to stop his seizures.

I had hoped his seizures were not from vaccines mainly because I did not want to be wrong about something I had allowed and participated in. I found it odd the doctors didn’t want to know the cause behind his seizures but wanted to just treat the symptom. How could they be so sure it wasn’t vaccine damage? Are any unvaccinated children being studied for seizures? Why are doctors so defensive when it comes to vaccines? Why couldn’t I start a diet before medication? I had to know and I had to find out quickly. My first clue that something was amiss was that children with their DPT shots, get four tetanus shots before the age of 18months. That didn't seem right so I looked further starting with the ingredients.

At the time of this turmoil with my son, I was enrolled at the local Junior college getting my Medical Coding Certificate. I was required to write a paper on a disease for my "Principles of Disease" class. I asked my teacher if I could do the research on vaccines instead and she agreed. It was only supposed to be five pages long. I turned it in at twenty two. I never expected to even find any information on vaccine damage on the internet much less 98,000 websites devoted to it. Now that I have graduated, she has invited me back to her class to give my PowerPoint presentation on vaccine damage. She has been one of my biggest supporters. Hopefully, "my homework" will help its readers recognize the effects of vaccine damage and ways to avoid problems that arise from vaccinations.

Toxic Ingredients

One of the more troubling things I have found is that vaccines contain Aluminum Hydroxide, thimerosal, and Formalin just to name a few. Aluminum Hydroxide is a form of Aluminum. Aluminum is harmful to all life forms. It damages all types of tissue. Aluminum is a protoplasmic poison and a deadly, persistent neurotoxin. No living systems use aluminum as part of a biochemical process. Ironically, the American Academy of Pediatrics admits that Aluminum is now being implicated as interfering with a variety of cellular and metabolic processes in the nervous system and in other tissues. As of today, it is still in vaccines. Aluminum is a known toxin that can cause encephalitis, bone disease and anemia in susceptible people. The kidneys eliminate Aluminum from the body and so people with renal problems are at risk of Aluminum toxicity. All infants have reduced renal function and may not be able to effectively excrete excessive Aluminum. Kidney function is low at birth and reaches adult level by 1-2 years of age. The presence of Aluminum in a vaccine can cause small nodules to develop under the skin of some babies. These nodules are usually transient in nature and disappear spontaneously after a few weeks. In rare cases extreme hypersensitivity to Aluminum results in persistent nodules. Early studies also suggested a relationship between Aluminum compounds and an increased incidence of allergic diseases.  Aluminum is less toxic than mercury, arsenic, lead or cadmium, but it appears to be more persistent than most of them. The danger is one that only manifests itself over long periods of time.

"Aluminum hydroxide is used in vaccines to increase the body's production of antibodies, though no one knows how it works," says Purdue researcher Stanley Hem, professor of industrial and physical pharmacy. "The most popular theory was that it remained in the muscle for months while the body produced antibodies in response to the antigens carried on its surface." During the 1930s, researchers discovered that using aluminum hydroxide to carry antigens into the body resulted in a greater production of antibodies than could be produced by the antigen alone. Antibodies are proteins made by the immune system to fight off foreign substances. Antigens, the proteins or molecules that stimulate the immune system to create antibodies, are condensed and collected on the surface of aluminum hydroxide particles.

Since 1934, aluminum hydroxide has been used as an adjuvant to boost the immune response from vaccines. Currently, it is the only adjuvant approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in human vaccines. The FDA limits the dosage to 0.85 milligrams per vaccine to minimize exposure to aluminum. "There's been some interest in other materials, but no one has proven them safe enough," Hem says. Children can often receive up to 3.75 mg of parenteral aluminum during the first six months of life. In a study done by Redhead K, Quinlan GJ, Das RG, Gutteridge JM, and the Division of Bacteriology, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, Herts., UK, they found the injection of aluminum adsorbed vaccines into mice causes a transient rise in brain tissue aluminum levels peaking around the second and third day after injection. Here is the web address for the whole study.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_
uids=1608913&dopt=Abstract   Or here

One reason Formalin is used is these substances is to initiate antibody formation. In the body, the Formalin coating around the injected material dissolves, releasing all bacterial and viral particles from animal culture sources. Substances such as these adjuvant chemicals irritate body tissues and increase the action of accompanying bacteria and viruses, as well as the reaction of the immune system to the foreign protein antigens. However it potentially damages neurological membranes where the myelin sheath has only partially protected the nervous system. This can result in mild to severe neurological damage, leading to learning disabilities and other nervous system disorders, or death, especially upon subsequent injections, since body has already been sensitized, promoting allergic reactions of increasingly severe nature.

Formalin is a derivative of formaldehyde. Formalin is a mixture of 37-40 percent formaldehyde, water, and usually 10 percent methanol. It is often used as a working solution for tissue fixation, or as a preservative holding solution for fixed tissues or organ specimens in pathological laboratories.   It is also used to inactivate bacterial products for toxoid vaccines. It will also kill unwanted viruses that might be found in the culture as well as serve as an embalming agent. Formaldehyde is a neurotoxin and carcinogen It effects the nervous system and known to cause cancer. It may cause insomnia, coughing, headaches, nausea, nosebleeds, and skin rashes. It is commonly known to embalm corpses. It has been said that there is no safe level of formaldehyde to be ingested into the body.

At:http://aspartamekills.com/blalockpilot.htm we read "Finally, a recent scientific study demonstrated that aspartame exposure significantly increases the level of formaldehyde in all tissue. Including brain and retina, and that this breakdown product of aspartame is very toxic to proteins and DNA, leading to permanent injury to these vital cellular components. Even more important, was the finding that this highly toxic substance accumulates in these with chronic exposure to aspartame. This could lead to significant injury to the brain, retina and other organs long after the exposure. Also, the effects appear to be dose related. That is, the more aspartame you consume, the greater the damage. It should be appreciated that formaldehyde is a powerful carcinogenic agent." Now this in today:

U.S. adds formaldehyde (a vaccine ingredient) to list of carcinogens
Posted on June 11, 2011 by The Refusers
Formaldehyde
CAS No. 50-00-0
Known to be a human carcinogen
First listed in the Second Annual Report on Carcinogens (1981)
H2C=O
Carcinogenicity
Formaldehyde is known to be a human carcinogen based on sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity from studies in humans and supporting data on mechanisms of carcinogenesis. Formaldehyde was first listed in the Second Annual Report on Carcinogens in 1981 as reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen based on sufficient evidence from studies in experimental animals. Since that time, additional cancer studies in humans have been published, and the listing status was changed to known to be a human carcinogen in the Twelfth Report on Carcinogens (2011).

MB Comment: Formaldehyde is an ingredient in these vaccines from the childhood immunization schedule: Flu shot, polio vaccine and DTaP vaccine. Here is Paul Offit’s comment on formaldehyde: ‘Fortunately, formaldehyde does not seem to be a cause of cancer in humans’ – I’m sure he can revise that now to something like ‘formaldehyde only causes a little bit of cancer, or the cancers are really small, or they hardly ever happen …’

Casein is another ingredient. Although is is made from milk, in the body it is considered a foreign protein. Casein is a tenacious glue and your body reacts to its presence by creating an antibody. That antibody-antigen reaction creates histamines. Anti-histamines (like Benadryl) are used to counter the effects of histamines. This is the same glue that is used to hold a label to a bottle of beer. Try to scrape off one of those labels, then consider the effects of casein in your babies body.

Some of the live vaccines do contain gelatin as a stabilizing agent. Gelatin is an animal protein substance made from collagen obtained by boiling animal skins, hides, bones, and other tissues after pretreatment with alkali or acid. Gelatin is an ingredient in MMR, Varicella, and yellow fever vaccines. People with severe allergies to gelatin should consider skin testing prior to receiving a gelatin-containing vaccine. The problem is that most gelatins in foods come from boiled cows, while the gelatin used in vaccines is from boiled pigs.

MSG

Another ingredient is MSG. According to lead researcher Hiroshi Ohguro, his is the first study to show that eye damage can be caused by eating food that contains MSG. A report in the New Scientist this week explains that in the study, rats were fed three different diets for six months, containing either high or moderate amounts of MSG, or none. In rats on the high-MSG diet, some retinal nerve layers thinned by as much as 75 percent, and tests that measured retinal response to light showed they could not see as well. Rats on the moderate MSG diet also had damage, to a lesser extent. The researchers found high concentrations of MSG in the vitreous fluid, which bathes the retina. MSG binds to receptors on retinal cells, destroying them and causing secondary reactions that reduce the ability of the remaining cells to relay electrical signals. This study is of course from eating MSG. I have not found a study done injecting MSG into rats or otherwise.

Today scientists know that MSG kills brain cells and causes neuroendocrine disorders in laboratory animals; and that it causes adverse reactions in humans. Scientists know that the blood brain barrier, once thought to prevent glutamate that comes from exogenous sources (eating included) from entering the brain, is not fully developed until puberty; is easily damaged by such conditions as high fever, a blow to the head, and the normal course of aging; and, in the area of the circumventricular organs, is leaky at best at any stage of life. Scientists know that a diverse number of disease conditions such as ALS, Alzheimer's disease, seizures, and stroke are associated with the glutamate cascade (Blaylock, 1994).

Scientists also understand that MSG is simply processed free glutamic acid, or processed free glutamic acid combined with sodium and that glutamic acid is a neurotransmitter that causes nerves to fire; and when present in excess quantities, causes nerves to fire until they die. For example instead of having a signal for some function to "go", we get a signal that says "go, go, go, go" indefinitely. This can cause seizures, spasms, or shut down of an organ, muscle or function.

At: http://www.life-enthusiast.com/index/Articles/Blaylock we read "In 1957 two ophthalmologists, Lucas and Newhouse decided to test MSG on infant mice in an effort to study an eye disease known as hereditary retinal dystrophy. When they examined the eye tissue of the sacrificed animals they made a startling discovery. MSG had destroyed all the nerve cells in the inner layers of the animals retina which are the visual receptor cells of the eye."

Many parents of children with ADHD have found that elimination of MSG from their children's diets has resolved ADHD. In 1991, CBS's television program, "60 Minutes," did a segment on MSG. One of the children featured in the segment suffered from ADHD. His condition was resolved through elimination of MSG from his diet.

This website has done a wonderful job explaining the dangers of MSG.

http://www.truthinlabeling.com

I was beginning to wonder why so many kids are allergic to peanuts when I started researching vaccines. I think I found the answer. Peanut oil is also used as an adjuvant in vaccines. You are welcome to read some of the research I found on the web that lead me to this conclusion. Click here Its an article on peanut oils used in vaccines. See what you think.

If you want to see the entire list of ingredients listed in vaccines straight from the CDC, Click here Media and excipient list

Here is a great article on what toxins can do in the next generation.

Thimerosal

Thimerosal is a Mercury compound. Thimerosal is also known as E thyl Mercury. Mercury is a known neuro-toxin. It can cross the placenta and blood brain barrier then, concentrate in the blood and brain. This alone would have made me think twice, had I known. I also found out, the dose given to a forty pound five year old is the same as given to an eight pound two month old. These are known carcinogens and there are no “safe amounts” allowed in the human body. The U.S. Public Health Service and the American Academy of Pediatrics found that some children could be exposed to cumulative levels of Mercury over the first six months of life that exceed federal guidelines. By age two, American children have received 237 micrograms of Mercury though vaccines. This far exceeds the EPA’s current safe level of 1/10th of 1 microgram per kilogram a day. Thirty-five micrograms will kill a rabbit. This amount would be equivalent to injecting a 100lb adult with 40 vaccines in one day.

Hepatitis B has 12 MCG of Mercury = 30x safe level

DTaP and HiB 50 MCG of Mercury =60x safe level

Hepatitis B and Polio 62.5 MCG = 78x safe level

Thimerosal is fifty times more toxic than plain Mercury. Watch this video to see the effects of mercury on a brain cell. The neurons just dissolve when exposed to mercury. If you are interested in Downs syndrome, read this article. It could be connected with mercury exposure. How Mercury Causes Brain Neuron

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU8nSn5Ezd8

This study shows cell damage in nanograms.

Thimerosal induces neuronal cell apoptosis by causing cytochrome c and apoptosis-inducing factor release from mitochondria. Yel L, Brown LE, Su K, Gollapudi S, Gupta S.

Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA. lyel@uci.edu

There is a worldwide increasing concern over the neurological risks of thimerosal (ethylmercury thiosalicylate) which is an organic mercury compound that is commonly used as an antimicrobial preservative. In this study, we show that thimerosal, at nanomolar concentrations, induces neuronal cell death through the mitochondrial pathway.
Thimerosal, in a concentration- and time-dependent manner, decreased cell viability as assessed by calcein-ethidium staining and caused apoptosis detected by Hoechst 33258 dye. Thimerosal-induced apoptosis was associated with depolarization of mitochondrial membrane, generation of reactive oxygen species, and release of cytochrome c and apoptosis-inducing factor (AIF) from mitochondria to cytosol. Although thimerosal did not affect cellular expression of Bax at the protein level, we observed translocation of Bax from cytosol to mitochondria. Finally, caspase-9 and caspase-3 were activated in the absence of caspase-8 activation. Our data suggest that thimerosal causes apoptosis in neuroblastoma cells by changing the mitochondrial microenvironment.

PMID: 16273274 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Here is a written transcript of an excellent video on mercury.

Sensitivity to Mercury varies widely from person to person, as does the body's natural ability to detoxify. Some children can get rid of the Mercury quickly, while in others, the toxin remains in the body longer, allowing it time to bind tightly in the brain and other organs. Before six months of age, infants do not produce bile, which is necessary to excrete Mercury. Mercury is one of the most toxic elements on earth, second only to Plutonium. The amount of Mercury found in one Mercury thermometer is enough to pollute a small 20 acre lake. This metal is available in three basic forms, organic, ionic, heavy metal, and is known to form very tight bonds within the bodies sulfur-hydro groups. The enzymes, which our immune system relies on for chemical reactions to occur, become disrupted as a result of the mercury binding to these sulfur-hydro groups. Sulfur is used as a binding compound within these groups and without them, or if any are absent, the body cannot make connective tissue or anti-bodies for the Immune System.

Contact lens solution manufacturers are very proud that their product does not contain thimerosal. So much so, it’s printed in big letters on the side of the bottle. How can this be injected into our babies but unsafe to you wash your contacts in? FDA required its removal in 1992 along with animal vaccines . For a list of other over the counter products with mercury click here for the FDA list.

The Center for disease control has a web site devoted to questions on Mercury. http://www.cdc.gov/nip/vacsafe/concerns/thimerosal/faqs-mercury.htm Here is what they state:

In case you cant find this link Click here

Two groups are most vulnerable to methyl Mercury: The fetus and pregnant women. A premature baby is more vulnerable because the baby tends to be very small and the baby’s brain is not as developed as a full term baby. Children may be at higher risk of Mercury exposure than adults because they eat more per pound of body weight and because they may be inherently more sensitive than adults since their nervous systems are still developing. The guidelines for Mercury exposure are based on the amount of Mercury per weight. This helps estimate reference level of exposure according to the person's weight. The nervous system is very sensitive to all forms of Mercury. Methyl Mercury, (although not exactly the same, is what we have studies for, how sad is that), and metal vapors are more harmful than other forms, because more Mercury in these forms reaches the brain. Exposure to high levels of metallic, inorganic, or organic Mercury can permanently damage the brain, kidneys, and developing fetus. Effects on brain functioning may result in irritability, shyness, tremors, changes in vision or hearing, tics and memory problems. Short-term exposure to high levels of metallic mercury vapors may cause effects including lung damage, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, increases in blood pressure or heart rate, skin rashes, and eye irritation. Thimerosal can never really be completely removed from vaccines because its needed in the manufacturing process. According to John Moore, a leading Mercury/Dental health researcher, “vaccines are so toxic and so un-sterile that this is a way of sterilizing them so they can be injected and not have the person die on the spot.” See the entire John Moore article in the

Here is another article that confirms thimerosal will always have a place in vaccines.

http://independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1374

One mistake was the FDA’s sudden decision in 1999 to ban all use of thimerosal in child vaccines. Thimerosal is necessary for preserving vaccines and has been used in the United States (and around the world) for decades. Although no study has ever found any ill effects associated with thimerosal, the FDA decided to ban the substance because it contains trace elements of ethyl mercury. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) hesitantly supported the ban, provided it didn’t reduce the number of child vaccinations—a danger the AAP found far outweighed any unknown potential risk of thimerosal.

J Appl Toxicol. 2006 Nov-Dec;26(6):536-9.
Comparison of organic and inorganic mercury distribution in suckling rat.
Orct T, Blanusa M, Lazarus M, Varnai VM, Kostial K.
SourceMineral Metabolism Unit, Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Zagreb, Croatia. torct@imi.hr

Abstract
Thiomersal is used as a preservative in vaccines given to small children. The metabolic product of thiomersal is ethylmercury and its distribution and kinetics are still not known, especially at this early age. (CAN YOU IMAGINE?) The purpose of this study was to compare the body distribution of two forms of mercury: organic (thiomersal) and inorganic (mercury(2+) chloride) in very young, suckling rats. Mercury was applied subcutaneously three times during the suckling period on days 7, 9 and 11 of pups age, imitating the vaccination of infants. A single dose of mercury was equimolar in both exposed groups, i.e. 0.81 micromol Hg kg(-1). At 14 days of age the animals were killed and the total mercury analysed in blood and organs (kidney, liver and brain). The analytical method applied was total decomposition, amalgamation, atomic absorption spectrometry. The results showed that the level of mercury was higher in the liver and kidney of the inorganic mercury group than in the thiomersal exposed group. However, the brain and blood concentrations of mercury were higher in the thiomersal exposed group. These results need to be clarified by additional data on the kinetic pathways of ethylmercury compared with inorganic mercury.

Copyright (c) 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

PMID:17080402[PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Take a minute and read this article on mercury by Dr. Wm. Deagle MD . Here is an excerpt.

Mercury is Not Vitamin "M"

The vaccine form of mercury is ethyl mercury salicylate, and is even more toxic and removed slower from the body than methyl mercury. With the number of vaccinations now eighteen to twenty plus, children before school entry have had a total load of mercury that by itself exceeds the total accepted by all major bodies, including the World Health Organization and the American Academy of Pediatrics. An astute pediatrician in the mid-90s did some calculations on the amount of ethyl mercury in the multiplying vaccinations and was alarmed by the totals she arrived at exceeding toxic limits.

Pregnant woman are advised to stay away from seafood due to the high Mercury content in fish. A six-ounce can of tuna fish contains on average 17 micrograms of Mercury. Mercury in the mother's body passes to the fetus and can pass to a nursing infant through breast milk. However, the benefits of breast-feeding may be greater than the possible adverse effects of Mercury in breast milk. If a pregnant woman ingests Mercury at high levels, harmful effects that may be passed from the mother to the developing fetus include brain damage, mental retardation, lack of coordination, blindness, seizures, and an inability to speak. Children poisoned by Mercury may develop problems of their nervous and digestive systems and kidney damage. Pediatrics November 1999 Here is an article on environmental mercury causing developmental delays in children.

Environmental mercury release, special education rates, and autism disorder: an ecological study of Texas

Raymond F. Palmera, , , Steven Blanchardb, Zachary Steina, David Mandellc and Claudia Millera
aUniversity of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio Department of Family and Community Medicine, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78229-3900, USA bDepartment of Sociology, Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, Texas, USA cUniversity of Pennsylvania Center for Mental Health Policy and Services Research, USA

Accepted 1 November 2004. Available online 17 February 2005.
Abstract

The association between environmentally released mercury, special education and autism rates in Texas was investigated using data from the Texas Education Department and the United States Environmental Protection Agency. A Poisson regression analysis adjusted for school district population size, economic and demographic factors was used. There was a significant increase in the rates of special education students and autism rates associated with increases in environmentally released mercury. On average, for each 1000 lb of environmentally released mercury, there was a 43% increase in the rate of special education services and a 61% increase in the rate of autism. The association between environmentally released mercury and special education rates were fully mediated by increased autism rates. This ecological study suggests the need for further research regarding the association between environmentally released mercury and developmental disorders such as autism. These results have implications for policy planning and cost analysis.

Ecological Corresponding author. Tel.: +210 358 3883.

If there is an increase in autism due to environmental mercury, imagine what directly injected mercury most be doing to our children. Look at what happened in Virginia

Here is a few excerpts from the study on the differences in ethyl vs. methyl mercury.

Generally speaking, the ethyl mercury fungicides were used effectively and safely. However, a number of outbreaks of poisoning occurred in some developing countries (8). For example, two outbreaks occurred in rural Iraq in 1956 and 1960 from the misuse use of the fungicide ethyl mercury toluene sulfonilamide (51). The farmers' families prepared homemade bread directly from the treated grain instead of planting it. Hundreds of cases of severe poisoning occurred, many of which had a fatal outcome. Cases of ethyl mercury poisoning have occurred in China as recently as the 1970s. The exposure pathway was the same as in Iraq: The farmers consumed rice treated with ethyl mercury chloride (53).

Ethyl mercury in the form of thimerosal has found wide application in medicine as a disinfectant. Axton (54) reported case histories of four children and two adults severely poisoned by accidental exposure. Five of the six cases died. Rohyans et al. (55) reported a case of severe poisoning from treatment of an infected ear. Pfab et al. (56) reported on an attempted suicide from drinking a solution of thimerosal, resulting in severe poisoning. Treatment of infants with omphaloceles resulted in high levels of mercury in autopsy tissues (57). Cases of human poisoning have also occurred from infusion of large volumes of plasma containing thimerosal as a preservative (58,59).

If, after injection of the vaccine, the thimerosal molecules were to remain intact for a period sufficient to allow diffusion to the bloodstream and thence to the kidneys, rapid excretion might take place. The carboxyl group of thiosalicylic acid might allow thimerosal to be a substrate for the system responsible for the tubular secretion of weak acids. Rapid urinary excretion of thimerosal would then be possible.

This possibility seems unlikely. Thimerosal contains the ethyl mercury radical attached to the sulfur atom of the thiol group of salicylic acid. Generally, mercuric ions bind tightly but reversibly to thiol ligands (60). It is likely, therefore, that the ethyl mercury cation will dissociate from the thiosalicylic acid moiety immediately after injection to bind to the surrounding thiol ligands present in great excess in tissue proteins

Thimerosal is used as a thiol titration reagent in numerous experimental studies [e.g., Elferink (61)]. This application would be possible only if rapid dissociation of ethyl mercury took place in the presence of endogenous thiol groups in the cells and tissues under study. In vitro, the thiosalicylate moiety is degraded by oxidation to dithiosalicylic acid followed by further oxidation to 2-sulfinobenzoic acid (62).

Ulfvarson (63) demonstrated that the type of anion attached to the alkyl mercury radical made little difference to the ultimate disposition in the body. These include such anions as hydroxyl, cyanide, and even the thiol-containing propane diolmercaptide. These findings suggest that the mercury radical rapidly dissociates from the anion in the parent compound to attach to ligands in tissues.

Therefore, it is assumed that administration of thimerosal results in the immediate release of the ethyl mercury to the surrounding tissues. Toxicologically, ethyl mercury in thimerosal is assumed to follow the same pathways of disposition as ethyl mercury absorbed into the body from other ethyl mercury compounds.

Blood levels from thimerosal in vaccines. Stajich et al. (65) are the first and only investigators to measure disposition of mercury before and after administration of vaccines containing thimerosal. They reported on blood levels of mercury before and 48-72 hr after administration of a single dose of hepatitis vaccine in the first week after birth. Seven were preterm infants (average birth weight, 748 g) and five were term infants (average birth weight, 3,588 g). Prevaccination blood levels were 0.04-0.5 µg Hg/L. The preterm infant levels rose to an average value of 7.4 µg Hg/L, whereas the levels in term infants were 2.2 µg Hg/L.

These levels are similar to those expected from methyl mercury. The dose was the same for all infants, 12.5 µg Hg. Five percent, or 0.625 µg Hg, should be deposited in the blood compartment, which is assumed to be 8% of the infant's body weight. Thus, for the preterm infants, 0.625 µg Hg would be deposited in a blood volume of 0.08 748 = 60 mL to give a predicted concentration of 0.625 1,000/60 = 10.4 µg Hg/L. This compares to an observed increase of 6.8 µg Hg/L. The predicted increase for the term infants based on methyl mercury is 0.625 1,000/287 = 2.2. The observed increase was identical, 2.2 µg Hg/L.

These estimates also suggest that the disposition of mercury after a dose of thimerosal is similar to that expected from methyl mercury. However, these estimates can be regarded as approximate at best. Individual values for each infant were not reported. The blood levels in samples collected between 48 and 72 hr may not have been the true maximum levels after distribution of the injected dose.

Read this by David Kirby author of the book Evidence of Harm:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/doctors-against-
research_b_17726.html?view=print Doctors Against Research?

03.22.2006 Here's the bad news: If you are a pregnant woman reading this, there is a 1-in-166 chance that your child will develop autism, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. If it's a boy, the odds are about 1-in-80; twin boys, half that. Now here's the worse news: Apparently, your pediatrician's professional academy doesn't want Congress to do anything about it. Consider this: There is a bill making its way through Congress, The Combating Autism Act, which would authorize $860 million in federal funds over five years for autism screening, intervention, education and research -- including a doubling of autism funding at NIH. It is a landmark piece of bipartisan legislation, crafted with great care by co-sponsors Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) and Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT). The bill has been endorsed by every major autism organization in America (no mean feat in itself) and is being championed -- in person and on The Hill -- by such influential citizens as NBC President Bob Wright and his wife Suzanne, founders of Autism Speaks, and Deirdre Imus, a leading fighter for the environmental health of all children and wife of the sharp-tongued host of the morning airwaves. With backing from such mainstream quarters, you'd think that this law would be sailing through Congress. And, you'd think that the American Academy of Pediatrics -- whose members deal daily with autism -- would be scrambling to get the thing passed. But you would be wrong. In January, lobbyists for the AAP told a small group, gathered in Washington for a private meeting about the bill, that the academy could not, and would not support it. Why not? Because it directs millions of dollars towards "research on a broad array of environmental factors that have a possible role in autism, including but not limited to vaccines, other biological and pharmaceutical products, and their components (including preservatives)." In other words, Congress wants to study thimerosal -- the mercury containing vaccine preservative and possible contributor to some autism cases --and that makes the powerful AAP very, very unhappy. "Any bill that contains any questions about vaccines, we are not going to endorse," one lobbyist informed the group. "There is absolutely no link between thimerosal and autism. Period.

To endorse the bill implies that this is an open question, and it is not." "The bottom line," the lobbyist continued, to stunned silence, "is that we don't want to look into this. It is inappropriate to waste precious research dollars on something that we know will be disproved." Apparently, the pediatricians haven't gotten the memo from the CDC. The folks in Atlanta are still very much looking into thimerosal and autism, as are officials at the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), which just funded and published two very significant studies. One showed that mercury from thimerosal accumulates rapidly in the brains of infant primates (after converting to inorganic mercury); and the other showed that a few minutes of exposure with even miniscule amounts of thimerosal can damage dendritic cells, causing immune dysfunction and cytokine- induced inflammation, both of which are found in autism. Other research continues at places like Harvard, Columbia, Northeastern and Arizona State University, where the first-ever trial of chelation therapy (removal of heavy metals) for autism is about to wrap up. So while numerous experts are still seeking answers, the AAP is whispering "Stop." A spokeswoman for the academy would say only that, "the AAP has not taken a position on the bill," nor would she say when, or even if such a decision would be made. To be fair, there is a long and complicated process involved when the academy does decide to act on legislation, and the private remarks of a few staffers do not equal AAP policy. But the pediatricians' official silence to date on a bill that is so critical to their own constituency is a bit, well, baffling.

Their lack of support for the measure -- thimerosal research or not -- is equally hard to fathom. If, as the AAP asserts, thimerosal is perfectly safe to inject into infants and pregnant women -- even in miniscule amounts -- then clearly this federal research will bear that out. Maybe the AAP will eventually endorse the bill. But I don't have my money on it. Capitol Hill staffers told me that Senator Dodd had to browbeat the academy into neutrality on the measure. They wanted to oppose it flat out. It's an ironic, turned-around world when children's doctors don't support federal research into a terrible disorder that affects children. But then again, irony and the AAP have crossed paths before. Even as the good doctors joined a federal lawsuit to limit mercury emissions from coal-fired plants -- complaining that the toxic heavy metal is hazardous to fetuses and infant children -- they worked with local chapters to fight state laws banning mercury in vaccines. Last year, an AAP chapter in New York urged Governor Pataki to veto that state's bill, warning it could lead to flu shot shortages. He signed anyway. (Flu vaccine makers, incidentally, stand ready to supply as much mercury-free formula as needed, if only the CDC would ask for it --which it inexplicably has not). The AAP recently sent a letter to its chapters offering help, "If your state is considering thimerosal ban legislation." It even listed the phone number and email address of an AAP executive, Ian Van Dinther, who can supply chapters with "additional legislative resources on this issue." In other words, folks, your family doctor has a message for you: "Shut up and take your medicine."

Doctor from the CDC:

Simpsonwood meeting, June 7-8, 2000:

"Forgive this personal comment, but I got called out a eight o'clock for an emergency call and my daughter-in-law delivered a son by C-Section. Our first male in the line of the next generation, and I do not want that grandson to get a Thimerosal containing vaccine until we know better what is going on. It will probably take a long time. In the meantime, and I know there are probably implications for this internationally, but in the meantime I think I want that grandson to only be given Thimerosal-free vaccines."
Dr. Johnson, member of the ACIP vaccine policy committee

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/rr/rr5004.pdf
This vaccine contains 25 micrograms of ethyl Mercury in one dose. The CDC has studied 2000 pregnant women and no adverse fetal effects were found. They state additional studies are ongoing as data is limited with regard to the effects of low dose or intermittent exposures. They also explain federal guidelines were not designed for intermittent or bolus exposures. The CDC believes that the average 110-pound woman is allowed to have 5 micrograms per day without adverse reactions. If she were to get a flu shot and have a tuna fish sandwich for lunch she would have just received 42 micrograms of Mercury, eight times the safe level. The package inserts published by the flu vaccine manufacturers state that "Animal reproduction studies have not been conducted with influenza virus vaccine.” It is also not known whether influenza virus vaccine can cause fetal harm when administered to a pregnant woman. If you look at the MSDS for Thimerosal, it says, "Exposure to mercury in utero and in children can cause mild to severe mental retardation and mild to severe motor coordination impairment." Eli Lilly MSDS June 13, 1991.

Eli Lilly is the manufacturer of thimerosal. There have been no safety studies done on thimerosal since 1929 and that study was done by K.C.Smithburn on patients dying from meningitis! Rhogam shots are another way the fetus is subjected to mercury. In 2002 this shot was"encouraged" for 6--23 month old children and continues to be encouraged. Vaccination of children aged 6 months and older who have certain medical conditions also continues to be strongly recommended. Maybe this isn't such a good idea.. Read here for some articles that might make you think twice before doing so. Flu shots and children. Children with chronic conditions such as cystic fibrosis are often given the flu shot in hopes they will not come down with the flu. In a recent Cochrane study, the reviewers' conclusions were as follows: There is currently no evidence from randomized studies that influenza vaccine given to patients with CF is of benefit to them.

This is the web address for the complete article.
http://www.ewg.org/research/body-burden-pollution-newborns

Don't miss it!

In a decades-long mercury poisoning disaster in Minamata, Japan that began in the 1950s, some babies born to women who ate mercury-polluted seafood died within days of birth, while their mothers were free of symptoms. Autopsies revealed that in adults, mercury induced lesions that were concentrated in a few areas of the brain. In the fetus, however, mercury spawned lesions over nearly the entire brain cortex. In the decades following Minamata, scientists have developed a much fuller understanding of children's vulnerability to chemicals, discovering links between a host of health problems — including asthma, childhood cancer, and brain damage — and such common contaminants as solvents, pesticides, PCBs, and lead (Trasande and Landrigan, 2004). A recent National Academy of Sciences study suggests that environmental factors contribute to at least 28 percent of childhood developmental disabilities (NAS 2000a).

The latest research investigates not only relationships between disease and exposures, but the root causes of chemically-induced disease with in utero origins. This research pinpoints traits of a fetus that contribute to vulnerability: low levels of some chemical-binding proteins in the blood, immature excretion pathways, and an immature blood brain barrier, for instance, which combine to increase the transfer of chemicals from the blood to the aptly named "target organs" that may ultimately bear the harm. In the article I found some really good reasons not to get a flu shot while pregnant:

An immature, porous blood-brain barrier allows greater chemical exposures to the developing brain.

A baby's organs and systems are rapidly developing, and thus are often more
vulnerable to damage from chemical exposure.

In the third trimester the mother's body dissolves stored, maternal fat, shunting it to the baby through the blood, but with this fat the child also receives the persistent pollutants clinging to it, like PCB's, flame retardants, and dioxins.

Some chemicals are directly toxic to an exposed child — lead and mercury, for example, which harm a developing brain — while other chemicals induce a chain of events that may culminate in a diagnosed health problem later in life.

Methylmercury exposure in the womb causes measurable declines in brain function in children exposed to levels corresponding to 58 parts per billion in maternal blood (NAS 2000b). Researchers in the Netherlands found a doubling in the risk of heart attacks and death from coronary heart disease at methylmercury hair levels of 2 mg/kg, which corresponds to about one fifth the assumed safe maternal blood level (Salonen, et al. 1995). Increased diastolic and systolic blood pressure and decreased heart rate variability in developmentally exposed children have also been observed at doses below what the EPA considers a safe maternal blood level (NAS 2000b, Sorensen et al. 1999).

Methylmercury is toxic to the developing fetal brain, and exposure in the womb can cause learning deficiencies and can delay mental development in children. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recently reported data showing that one of every six American women of childbearing age already has mercury in her blood at levels that the National Academy of Sciences considers potentially unsafe for the developing fetus. Most women are exposed to methylmercury through seafood, which accumulates the metal, much of which is released to the environment from the burning of coal at coal fired power plants. High dose methylmercury poisoning during development causes severe neurotoxicity, including mental retardation in humans (NAS 2000b). Methylmercury also causes developmental malformations and altered immune, reproductive, cardiovascular and kidney function (NAS 2000b).

(Remember a flu shot has 25 micrograms of mercury)Here is an excerpt from an email on how thimerosal is disposed of....."A large portion of these vaccines contain a chemical called "Thymerasol," a mercury based preservative, as an ingredient. Because of this mercury content, the returned material must be disposed of as hazardous waste. The current method of disposal consists of throwing the individual vials of  vaccine, container and all, into 55-gallon drums which are in turn taken off-site by a haz. waste disposal firm (this waste stream totaled 9,600 gallons in 1996, at a cost of $600/55-gallon drum)." The rest of the letter is here....disposal.

It is interesting how the CDC personnel attempt to predict which viruses will infect people in the United States. They decide based on a large amount of guesswork, which influenza viruses are distributed to vaccine manufacturers early in the year for influenza vaccine production for administration that autumn. Flu shot history is replete with examples of poor matches between influenza viruses in the vaccine and those actually infecting people. Results for the 1989-1990 season were described as, "mixed at best" with "Medicare payments significantly higher for those who had been vaccinated," according to Kidder and Schmitz in the 1993 report Options for the Control of Influenza II. Read this article for next years shot info.

Flu Vaccine 2006-2007 Strains To Be Determined By Advisory Cmte. Feb. 17 (Today is Jan 26, 2006)

Influenza virus strains to be included in the vaccine for the 2006-2007 flu season will be discussed by FDA’s Vaccines & Related Biological Products Advisory Committee Feb. 17. During last February’s deliberations for the 2005-2006 flu season, the committee recommended retaining the previous flu season’s A/New Caledonia/20/99 (H1N1)-like strain and switching to an A/California/7/2004 (H3N2)-like strain from the previous A/Fujian/411/2002-like strain.

The committee also recommended keeping the same influenza B strain, the Yamagata lineage B/Shanghai/361/2002-like strain. The committee also suggested the development of a bivalent B strain vaccine for pediatric patients, who do not get cross protection from a single B strain. Since last year’s advisory committee meeting, two companies have entered the U.S. influenza vaccine market.

GlaxoSmithKline could launch two vaccines for the 2006-2007 season. FDA approved GSK’s flu vaccine Fluarix in August. A month later, the firm announced plans to buy Fluviral maker ID Biomedical; the company has said it hopes to have the vaccine approved by the 2007 flu season.

Novartis also entered the flu vaccine market with its acquisition of U.K.-based Chiron, which manufactures the flu vaccine Fluvirin. Fluvirin manufacturing was halted in 2004 due to good manufacturing practice deviations at its Liverpool facility. (Some nice words for sloppy manufacturing) Chiron was cleared to recommence manufacture of the vaccine in September. Other flu vaccines include Sanofi Pasteur’s Fluzone and Medimmune’s intranasal FluMist.

To give you an idea of how the flu virus is decided I will give you a little background information. Virologists believe the whole thing starts with birds. Waterfowl to be exact. They are what virologists call the "reservoir" for influenza. They carry nearly all known types of influenza, with no ill effects, and willingly share them with the rest of the animal kingdom through their feces. All animals that get the flu, horses, ferrets, seals, pigs, and human beings probably get it originally from birds. Viruses can only infect and take over a cell if the proper "receptor" is present, and as far as we know human beings do not have a receptor for avian or bird flu. What's needed for human infection is another species that has both human and avian flu receptors. In other words, the pig. Having both human and avian receptors sets the pig up for all sorts of wonderful influenza possibilities. The process can be as simple as a flu-contaminated duck dropping feces into the dirt a pig is rolling around in, thus infecting the pig who, in turn, passes the virus on to a farmer. It is possible for a pig to be infected with one kind of flu, say a human flu, only to contract another avian flu. Now the poor pig has two different types of flues simultaneously. When it proceeds to re-infect a human being, it passes on a pig-bird-human influenza.

Since the flu virus is always mutating, necessitating a new vaccine each year, the World Health Organization (WHO) has set up a vast international flu surveillance network. Around the world, Technicians affiliated with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) collect influenza viruses from pigs and people in foreign lands, e.g., China and take nose and throat cultures from patients suffering from the flu. These samples are sent off to laboratories to be tested. Suspect and interesting cases are forwarded to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) or to the closest National Influenza Center for full analysis. There are many such centers throughout the world. CDC personnel then attempt to predict which viruses will infect people in the United States the following year. Predicting which influenza viruses from China, (oh and speaking of China) for instance, will infect people in Dayton, Ohio, a year later involves a great deal of guesswork.

Analysis has shown that there are three main families of the influenza virus; A, B, and C. Within each of these families there are many viral strains. Both the A and B families contain strains that cause illness, although the influenza A family has more virulent strains than the B family. These families are further categorized by the two types of proteins that make up the outer protective coating of the virus. These proteins are known as hemagglutinin (h), and neuraminidase (n). Viruses are named according to the type of proteins they carry. Since there are at least fifteen varieties of h, and nine varieties of n that can combine with each other in any way to create a different strain, it is practically impossible for anyone to predict what might happen with any kind of accuracy. Unless of course you are the CDC using your crystal ball. Good explanation here by Jocelyn Kaiser in her article A One-Size-Fits-All Flu Vaccine?

This is this years pick: 2002-2003

A/Moscow/10/99(H3N2)-like virus

A/New Caledonia/20/99(H1N1)-like virus

B/Hongkong/330/01

Reading across starting with the A. A stands for the virus in the A family Strain, the most virulent. Moscow is the city or the name of the place where they were first isolated. The 10 stands for the sample number of flu isolated from the people infected. And the 99 stands for the year the virus was isolated. The H3N2 is the No. 3 hemagglutinin, No. 2 neuraminidase. The types of proteins that make up the outer protective coating of the virus. So, to sum this up quickly, the mucus from the throat of ten Moscow citizens in 1999 will make up the vaccine that will save you in whatever city you might live in 2002 from the flu. I guess they had a lot left over from last year because only the Hong Kong portion is new. Flu package insert

From the FDA's Website:

Influenza Virus Vaccine 2003-2004

The trivalent influenza vaccine prepared for the 2003-2004 season will include A/New Caledonia/20/99 (H1N1); A/Panama/2007/99 (H3N2), which is an A/Moscow/10/99-like virus; and B/Hong Kong/330/2001-like virus. (The actual influenza B virus being used in vaccines is either B/Hong Kong/330/2001 or B/Hong Kong/1434/02.) These viruses are the same as the viruses used for production of vaccine for the 2002-2003 season. Vaccine produced for the 2002-2003 season is now past its expiration date. It is recommended that vaccine not be used beyond its labeled expiration date.

More than 95 million vaccine doses were available although more than 15 million were never used.

This just in from the CDC:

Experts are also concerned about antigenic drift. According to a notice sent out on the CDC's Health Alert Network, about a third of influenza A viruses isolated worldwide have changed genetically from the current strain in the vaccine, although it is unclear whether this will have a clinical impact. (Uh oh wrong strain) Fujian Strain

It gets worse. I will explain how the vaccine is made . It is grown in chicken eggs. (New: some manufacturers have started using caterpillar cells ) This is done by injecting a microscopic droplet of the flu virus scraped from the throats of infected pigs, birds or humans, into the air sack above the embryo and the yolk. In two to three days time the original droplet has become a tablespoon full. The tops of the eggs are lopped off and the virus is suctioned out. The largest vaccine makers may use up to one hundred fifty thousand eggs at once from which they extract two hundred and fifty gallons of pure virus. This is added to a huge vat that then must be kept free of bacteria. Mercury as well as the other toxic ingredients I have already mentioned are added to keep this witch's brew stable. To produce adequate supplies of the vaccine, the drug companies growing the virus must repeat this process dozens of times, using millions of eggs. All of this takes at least 6 months.

"Richard Compans, a virologist and chairman of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Emory University School of Medicine, said the current egg-based vaccine technology has been used at least since the 1950s.

"It involves inoculating large numbers of fertilized chicken eggs with a virus preparation, and harvesting the fluid from these infected eggs and putting the vaccine through a purification procedure," he said. "There is potential for introducing contaminants, particularly at the stage of inoculating eggs and harvesting material from the eggs."

Contents of the Flu Vaccine 2004-2005

Both the inactivated and live, attenuated vaccines prepared for the 2004–05 season will include A/Fujian/411/2002 (H3N2)-like, A/New Caledonia/20/99 (H1N1)-like, and B/Shanghai/361/2002-like antigens. For the A/Fujian/411/2002 (H3N2)-like antigen, manufacturers may use the antigenically equivalent A/Wyoming/3/2003 (H3N2) virus, and for the B/Shanghai/361/2002-like antigen, manufacturers may use the antigenically equivalent B/Jilin/20/2003 virus or B/Jiangsu/10/2003 virus. Influenza viruses for both the inactivated and live attenuated influenza vaccines are initially grown in embryonated hens' eggs. Thus, both vaccines might contain limited amounts of residual egg protein.

On October 5, 2004, CDC was notified by Chiron Corporation that none of its influenza vaccine (Fluvirin®) would be available for distribution in the United States for the 2004-05 influenza season. The company indicated that the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in the United Kingdom, where Chiron's Fluvirin vaccine is produced, has suspended the company's license to manufacture Fluvirin vaccine in its Liverpool facility for 3 months. Guess why? The vaccine supply was contaminated with a bacteria serratia marcescens. Guess what else? It is not the first time. Why would our FDA contract with this company? Read about this same company with a different name at the time here: Medeva. Take a look at this article. Seattle's Virginia Mason Medical Center is insisting their doctors and nurses be injected with the flu shot or else! They have until Jan. 1 to get the shot, or get fired! Forced vaccinations

UH OH! Wrong strain again!

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/10/24/FLU.TMP
San Francisco Chronicle

Scarce flu vaccine not designed for new strain
New Zealand variety worries officials

Sabin Russell, Chronicle Medical Writer
Sunday, October 24, 2004

To read the CDC's "Recipe" For Fostering Public Interest and High Vaccine Demand", go to:
http://www.iom.edu/Object.File/Master/21/674/0.pdf commentary on the "Recipe" here

According to Hugh Fudenberg, MD., the worlds leading immunogeneticist and 13th most quoted biologist of our times (nearly 850 papers in peer review journals), if an individual has had five consecutive flu shots between 1970 and 1980 (the years studied), his/her chances of getting Alzheimer's Disease is ten times higher than if they had one, two or no shots. (1) Dr. Fudenberg said that it was due to the mercury that is in every flu shot (and many childhood shots). The gradual mercury buildup in the brain causes cognitive dysfunction. Is that why Alzheimer's is expected to quadruple? (2)

(1) Dr. Fudenberg at the NVIC International Vaccine Conference, Arlngton, VA September 1997.

(2) John's Hopkins Newsletter Nov. 1998.

On December 6, 2000 at the Fourth National Immunization Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Dr. Eleni Galanis of Health Canada reported that almost 1000 Canadians have suffered adverse reactions to the flu vaccine since October, 2000. That's nearly 80 times as many as for the same period last year. The side effects for the flu vaccine include soreness, redness, or swelling where the shot was given fever (low grade) aches. You should not get the flu vaccine if you have ever had a severe allergic reaction to eggs or to a previous flu shot or have a history of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS).

You should not get the flu vaccine if you have ever had a severe allergic reaction to eggs or to a previous flu shot or have a history of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS).

GBS may be triggered by an infection. The infection that most commonly precedes GBS is caused by a bacterium called Campylobacter jejuni. Other respiratory or intestinal illnesses and other triggers may also precede an episode of GBS. In 1976, vaccination with the swine flu vaccine was associated with getting GBS. One possible cause is that flu vaccine contains Campylobacter, said Dr. Chen CDC's immunisation safety branch. He said that the vaccine is made in chicken eggs and that 40-50% of chickens are infected with Campylobacter, which is difficult to eradicate.

Instead of being an effective prevention, evidence indicates that flu shots are useless and can be dangerous. Although endorsed and funded by federal and state governments the shots seem only to benefit the companies that make them, public health bureaucrats who promote them, and medical personnel who administer them. The CDC feels the benefit of the influenza vaccine outweighs the potential risks for Mercury exposure. How would you like to be forced to have a flu shot? Click on 'forced' and take a look at this hospital requirement for employment.

Since July of 1999, the FDA has "encouraged" manufacturers to remove thimerosal from vaccines. Some have done it, others have not. Today, most vaccines that are being manufactured do not contain thimerosal, or they only contain a "trace amount" 0.5 micrograms. Unfortunately we do not know how many of the old thimerosal products are still on the shelf.

Take a look at this chart from the CDC. Does it look like the flu or pneumonia vaccine is helping?

The CDC says flu kills about 36,000 people every year in the United States. But is this statement true? Read here for the facts. The Flu Scare Game

http://www.vaccinesafety.edu/thi-table.htm. Here is what will be taking thimerosal's place.

2-Phenoxyethanol

Are preservatives like thimerosal necessary in vaccines? The FDA regulations require preservatives in multi-dose vials of most vaccines (with the exception of certain live viral vaccines) to protect against inadvertent contamination from repeated puncture of the seal. thimerosal does not prevent all bacterial contamination, as evidenced by clusters of disease from group A Streptococcus infections traced to multi-dose Diphtheria toxoid, Tetanus toxoid, and Pertussis (DTP) vaccine vials that were contaminated after opening.

"Straining to Find a Cure"
Financial Times (www.ft.com) (05/02/03) P. 14; Firn, David

Following analysis of the influenza virus in London, Melbourne, Tokyo, Atlanta, Congo, and Madagascar, experts sent the most active and dangerous strains to vaccine manufacturers in order to prepare for the next influenza season. Fertilized hens eggs are used to create vaccines, which means creating new mutations of the virus is a slow process. Researchers at Solvay Healthcare in the United Kingdom are attempting to speed up the process by using canine kidney cells grown in tissue culture to produce the flu virus, which could cut production from six months to just six weeks.

Scientists are launching a research study to check the effectiveness of a new type of flu vaccine that is made differently than the conventional vaccine, which is grown in eggs. The experimental vaccine instead relies on a cell line drawn from insects known as silk moths, which are better known for their role as pests attacking crops such as corn, cotton, barley and alfalfa. Producing biological products in insect cell lines is common; the hepatitis B vaccine, for instance, is produced by human cell lines, and scientists from Rochester have developed an experimental vaccine against human papilloma virus using an insect cell line. To read the whole article click on the Moth. I wonder what kinds of problems will be associated with moth RNA and DNA injected into the human body. Flu shots are also contraindicated when you are taking certain other drugs. Check out this article to see the drugs. Interactions with flu shot

Here is another vaccine made with insects.
Army worms Used to Make Flublok Influenza Vaccine by Rishma Parpia
Published October 1, 2017

There are three types of approved technologies used to produce flu vaccines in the U.S.
The recombinant DNA technology is the most recent type of technology used to produce the quadrivalent influenza vaccine known as Flublok.
Flublok is considered by researchers to be “highly pure” because it is manufactured without preservatives, antibiotics, etc.; however, its purity is questionable given that it is produced using insect and armyworm cell proteins.

There are three different influenza vaccine production technologies approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in the United States: the egg-based flu vaccine, the cell-based flu vaccine and the most recent recombinant flu vaccine.1 In January 2013, the FDA approved the first influenza vaccine produced with the help of an insect virus and recombinant DNA technology.2

Recombinant DNA technology involves artificially constructing DNA by combining gene sequences from two or more different organisms.3 The FDA claims that this approach assists in speeding up the production of the flu vaccine in the event of a flu pandemic because it does not rely on a chicken egg supply.1

Currently, there is one influenza vaccine produced using recombinant technology that is approved by the FDA, Flublok. In 2013, Flublok, a trivalent (three component) vaccine developed by Protein Sciences Corporation of Meriden, CT, was approved for use in adults between the ages of 18 to 49 years old.4 In 2016, the FDA further approved the quadrivalent (four component) vaccine for use in anyone over the age of 18.4

Flublok: How Is It Made?Unlike other flu vaccines, Flublok does not use the influenza virus or eggs in its production. The vaccine is produced using hemagglutinin (HA), which is the part of the influenza virus that is essential for entry of the virus into cells in the human body.5

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):

This production method does not require an egg-grown vaccine virus and does not use chicken eggs at all in the production process. Instead, manufacturers isolate a certain protein from a naturally occurring (“wild type”) recommended vaccine virus (the HA protein, which induces an immune response in people). These proteins are then combined with portions of another virus that grows well in insect cells. This “recombinant” vaccine virus is then mixed with insect cells and allowed to replicate. The flu HA protein is then harvested from these cells and purified. The purified protein is packaged while waiting for FDA testing and approval to release lots.4

One of the advantages of Flublok, as stated on the vaccine’s website, is that “it is manufactured using the genetic information derived from the wild-type influenza virus and is not subject to the mutations sometimes introduced into vaccines during the process of egg adaptation. This reduces the possibility of decreased effectiveness due to a mismatch between the wild-type virus and an egg-adapted vaccine.”

Furthermore, the website states that Flublok is “highly pure” because it is manufactured without eggs, preservatives like thimerosal, latex, formaldehyde, gelatin, antibiotics and a live or inactivated virus.4

Is Flublok Really “Pure”?On the package insert for the Flublok’s quadrivalent vaccine, it states:
A single 0.5 mL dose of Flublok Quadrivalent contains sodium chloride (4.4 mg), monobasic sodium phosphate (0.195 mcg), dibasic sodium phosphate (1.3 mg), and polysorbate 20 (Tween®20) (27.5 mcg). Each 0.5 mL dose of Flublok Quadrivalent may also contain residual amounts of baculovirus and Spodoptera frugiperda cell proteins (≤ 19 mcg), baculovirus and cellular DNA (≤ 10 ng), and Triton X-100 (≤ 100 mcg)6
What are baculovirus and Spodoptera frugiperda cell proteins?

Baculoviruses are a large group of DNA viruses (pathogens) that infect insects7 and Spodoptera frugiperda are commonly known as armyworms, also regarded as pests.8 So while the vaccine manufacturer and public health agencies boast that Flublok does not contain thimerosal, formaldehyde, antibiotics or other reactive substances, can this vaccine be considered pure given that insect viruses and armyworm cell proteins are used as ingredients?
In 2009, NVIC President Barbara Loe Fisher offered public comment at the FDA Vaccines and Biological Products Advisory Committee meeting, where the development of influenza vaccines using armyworms was discussed.

She said:
In the current effort to fast track the use of a new technology which clones hemagglutinin genes from three influenza viruses—which may be of human as well as mammal and bird origin—and splice them into baculoviruses, which are then used to infect caterpillar cells to produce the hemagglutinin contained in the new recombinant protein based influenza vaccine, there is always the possibility that adventitious agents contaminating insect cells could end up in the vaccines. In fact, a 2005 World Health Organization document on regulation of candidate human vaccines states that “Most insectcells may have viruses in them and infection can be hard to detect and difficult to eliminate…steps should be taken to eliminate them.

Fisher also pointed out that the small clinical trials of insect cell based influenza vaccines were too small to detect the ability of the insect-based recombinant protein influenza vaccines to cause immune mediated brain and immune system problems. She said:

FluBlok contains three times as much protein as other influenza vaccines. There is always the potential for increased cross-reactive autoimmune responses in individuals who are genetically predisposed to autoimmunity and immune mediated neurological dysfunction. I am thinking of the Bell’s Palsy case in these trials that may or may not have been triggered or exacerbated by FluBlok vaccination. The relatively small numbers of individuals in these clinical trials may not reveal the rarer but very serious complications involving demyelination of the brain and autoimmune disorders that have been reported following receipt of recombinant protein vaccines such as hepatitis B and HPV vaccines, including GBS, CNS vasculitis, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and multiple sclerosis.9

The fact that the Flublok manufacturer package insert acknowledges insect virus and DNA adventitious agent contamination is revealing. Substituting toxic vaccine ingredients with other potentially toxic ingredients does not vaccines safer. Flublok is not a “pure” vaccine and only time will tell what the real risks are to human health from its widespread use.

http://www.thevaccinereaction.org/2017/10/armyworms-used-to-make-flublok-influenza-vaccine/

The 2005-06 trivalent vaccine virus strains are

A/California/7/2004 (H3N2)-like,
A/New Caledonia/20/99 (H1N1)-like, and
B/Shanghai/361/2002-like antigens.

For the A/California/7/2004 (H3N2)-like antigen, manufacturers may use the antigenically equivalent A/New York/55/2004 virus, and for the B/Shanghai/361/2002-like antigen, manufacturers may use the antigenically equivalent B/Jilin/20/2003 virus or B/Jiangsu/10/2003 virus.

Guess they called the physic hotline to get the strains!

Here is what Dr Tom Jefferson had to say about the vaccine: "The vaccine doesn't work very well at all," said study author Dr. Tom Jefferson, an epidemiologist with the Cochrane Vaccines Field in Rome. "Vaccines are being used as an ideological weapon. What you see every year as the flu is caused by 200 or 300 different agents with a vaccine against two of them. That is simply nonsense." The Cochrane Review Group also found that the vaccine is only 28% effective when given to people over 65.

http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0905/262242.html
.."The findings are similar to those of a study done by U.S. National Institutes of Health that found flu shots for the elderly in the United States had not saved lives.

However, the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the findings, published Thursday on the Web site of the Lancet medical journal, do not change their recommendation that elderly people get the shots."

HUH?

On this website the ingredients are listed:

http://medguides.medicines.org.uk/displaypage.aspx?t=medicine&i=53

Ingredients: If you are not able to take something that is listed below for your form of Fluarix, or you have reacted badly to Fluarix before, do not take Fluarix. Talk to your prescriber, pharmacist or nurse at once and check that they still want you to have Fluarix.

Disodium phosphate dodecahydrate
Magnesium chloride hexahydrate
Octoxynol (a spermicide)
Polysorbate 80 (Polysorbate 80 is an emulsifying agent, often used in ice cream to prevent milk proteins from completely coating the fat droplets. This allows them to join together in chains and nets, to hold air in the mixture, and provide a firmer texture, holding its shape as the ice cream melts.)
Potassium chloride
Potassium dihydrogen phosphate
Sodium chloride
Split influenza virus, inactivated (see below for more detail)
Water for injections
α-Tocopheryl hydrogen succinate (Vitamin E)

Split influenza virus, inactivated, each 0.5ml dose containing antigens* equivalent to

A/Fujian/411/2002 (H3 N2) - like strain:
A/Wyoming/3/2003 X -147. 15 micrograms**
A/New Caledonia/20/99 (H1N1) - like strain:
A/New Caledonia/20/99 IVR-116. 15 micrograms**
B/Shanghai/361/2002 - like strain:
B/Jiangsu/10/2003. 15 micrograms**

*propagated in eggs
**haemagglutinin

Manufacturing Materials The following may be residues of the manufacturing process and so may be present in tiny amounts:

Chicken protein
Eggs
Formaldehyde
Gentamicin sulphate
Sodium deoxycholate
Thimerosal

If you are allergic to anything on this list, you must not have Fluarix unless you and your prescriber agree that you should. Talk to your prescriber, pharmacist or nurse at once.

Good news about the flu

Read this article for a good understanding of the live virus vaccines. This is an experiment with the avian flu going on right now at John Hopkins.

Why the Flumist is not a good idea.

If you are still thinking you want a flu shot watch this video!

The name to click on is "Eye on the flu"

http://youtu.be/I88fDGPA7wM

The panel recommended that vaccines to be used in the 2006-2007 season in the U.S. contain the following:

an A/New Caledonia/20/99 (H1N1)-like virus;an A/Wisconsin/67/2005 (H3N2)-like virus ( A/Hiroshima/52/2005strains);a B/Malaysia/2506/2004-like virus (B/Ohio/1/2005 strains)®
®
Same ingredients as last year.

Look at what the AMA is telling doctors.....

Flu shots for everyone, all year, any time just use them up! Think outside the box when referring to flu season, don't let the calendar dictate the push to vaccinate.

http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2007/05/14/hlsb0514.htm

Abundance of flu shots may mean longer vaccine season With 132 million doses of influenza vaccine possible next season -- the most ever -- the challenge will be to use it all.
By Susan J. Landers, AMNews staff. May 14, 2007.

Washington -- Broaden the flu vaccination season -- starting in September if possible -- and keep giving the shots beyond Christmas, advised public health officials and medical society representatives at a recent meeting. With an abundant vaccine supply expected for the upcoming flu season and additional manufacturers to help stabilize the supply, physicians should incorporate some new tactics to battle seasonal flu. The calendar shouldn't run this show, concluded participants at the 2007 National Influenza Vaccine Summit held last month in Atlanta. The event, sponsored by the American Medical Association and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, occurs at least annually.

This year's flu vaccine 2007 contains the following 3-strains: A/Solomon Islands/3/2006 (H1N1)-like (new for this season), A/Wisconsin/67/2005 (H3N2)-like, and B/Malaysia/2506/2004-like viruses.

The flu vaccine offers a 6 to 8 month window of protection. Initial immunity is approximately 50% upon receiving the vaccination, with full immunity within 2 weeks.

50%? Approximately? You have got to be kidding!

Here we go for next year. The date is March 4, 2008. The predictions begins.

http://newsminer.com/news/2008/mar/04/feds-set-recipe-next-years-vaccine

CDC and international authorities expect Brisbane/10, a version of the H3N2 flu, to still be around next year. They predict a second new Type A strain, known as H1N1/Brisbane/59, also will hit, along with a newer Type B/Florida strain, prompting Thursday’s decision to put all three in next year’s vaccine.

The panel recommended that vaccines to be used in the 2008-2009
influenza season in the U.S. contain the following:

* An A/Brisbane/59/2007 (H1N1)-like virus
* An A/Brisbane/10/2007 (H3N2)-like virus
* A B/Florida/4/2006-like virus

Are people waking up? Check this out...No flu shot?

The panel recommended that vaccines to be used in the 2006-2007 season in the U.S. contain the following:

A/New Caledonia/20/99 (H1N1)-like virus;
A/Wisconsin/67/2005 (H3N2)-like virus
(A/Hiroshima/52/2005strains);
B/Malaysia/2506/2004-like virus (B/Ohio/1/2005 strains)®

Same ingredients as last year.

Look at what the AMA is telling doctors.....

Flu shots for everyone, all year, any time just use them up! Think outside the box when referring to flu season, don't let the calendar dictate the push to vaccinate.

http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2007/05/14/hlsb0514.htm

Abundance of flu shots may mean longer vaccine season With 132 million doses of influenza vaccine possible next season -- the most ever -- the challenge will be to use it all.

By Susan J. Landers, AMNews staff. May 14, 2007.

Washington -- Broaden the flu vaccination season -- starting in September if possible -- and keep giving the shots beyond Christmas, advised public health officials and medical society representatives at a recent meeting. With an abundant vaccine supply expected for the upcoming flu season and additional manufacturers to help stabilize the supply, physicians should incorporate some new tactics to battle seasonal flu. The calendar shouldn't run this show, concluded participants at the 2007 National Influenza Vaccine Summit held last month in Atlanta. The event, sponsored by the American Medical Association and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, occurs at least annually.

This year's flu vaccine 2007 contains the following 3-strains:

A/Solomon Islands/3/2006 (H1N1)-like (new for this season)
A/Wisconsin/67/2005 (H3N2)-like, and
B/Malaysia/2506/2004-like viruses.

The flu vaccine offers a 6 to 8 month window of protection. Initial immunity is approximately 50% upon receiving the vaccination, with full immunity within 2 weeks.

50%? Approximately? You have got to be kidding!

Here we go for next year. The date is March 4, 2008. The predictions begins.

CDC and international authorities expect Brisbane/10, a version of the H3N2 flu, to still be around next year. They predict a second new Type A strain, known as H1N1/Brisbane/59, also will hit, along with a newer Type B/Florida strain, prompting Thursday’s decision to put all three in next year’s vaccine.

The panel recommended that vaccines to be used in the 2008-2009
influenza season in the U.S. contain the following:

* An A/Brisbane/59/2007 (H1N1)-like virus
* An A/Brisbane/10/2007 (H3N2)-like virus
* A B/Florida/4/2006-like virus

Health officials worry as fewer people get flu vaccines
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/011709dnmetflu.d591c66.html
10:25 PM CST on Friday, January 16, 2009
By FRANK TREJO / The Dallas Morning News
ftrejo@dallasnews.com

With the flu season starting to gear up, North Texas public health officials are concerned that fewer people have been vaccinated against the virus.

The Garland Health Department has even slashed its vaccine price to $5 — down from $20 — in an effort to get more people to protect themselves before the season peaks in February.

“We’re concerned that we may not have enough people immunized to prevent the spread of the flu once it really hits here,” said Richard Briley, Garland’s managing director of health.

Dallas County health officials say their vaccination numbers are down about 50 percent compared with last year, while Garland, which has its own health department, says its numbers are down by 35 percent. Collin and Tarrant counties also reported drops.

Officials said there may be a variety of factors for the drop, including the fact that the flu season so far has been relatively mild nationwide. There are also reports that last year’s vaccine did not target the strains that appeared, meaning lots of people who were vaccinated still got sick. Plus there may be possible confusion over news that the leading flu treatment appears to be ineffective against one of this year’s most common strains.

Briley and others said early reports indicate that the most prevalent flu strain appears to be resistant to Tamiflu, a leading flu treatment. But this year’s flu vaccine, unlike other years, appears to be very effective against the strains that are in circulation, he said.

Peggy Wittie, chief epidemiologist in Collin County, said it was a “sad possibility” that people may be confused about the difference between the flu vaccine and Tamiflu.

Jacqueline Bell, a spokeswoman for Dallas County Health and Human Services, said the department still has about 2,900 adult and 440 children vaccines available — a high number at this point in the flu season.

“It’s very concerning to us since it appears there is resistance to Tamiflu… that means people who contract the flu may have a more difficult course,” Bell said. Officials note that other medications can treat the flu, but Tamiflu has been the leading drug. It must be prescribed by a doctor within 48 hours of the flu’s onset. “People can get protection with the vaccine, and there is an ample supply this year, but people are just not taking advantage of that,” Bell said. Bell noted that in addition to public health facilities such as Dallas County’s, vaccines also are available at a variety of places such as smaller clinics, private doctors offices and even pharmacies.

Vanassa Joseph, a spokeswoman for Tarrant County Public Health, said her agency also has seen a drop in the number of people getting the vaccine, but the reasons are uncertain. “Each season is different,” Joseph said. “We don’t know what to factor into it. Maybe some people just have not gotten around to it this year. There’s a myriad of reasons for why they may not have gotten the flu shot. “But what we do know is that the flu vaccine is the best prevention measure,” she said.

Wittie, from Collin County, said statistics indicate the flu cases are only now showing an upswing in North Texas. About 6 percent of samples in Dallas County are being confirmed as flu, while in Collin County it has been about 10 percent. Wittie noted that flu spreads especially quickly among school-age children. “We have vaccines for children 3 and up and for adults,” Wittie said. “We really encourage people to take advantage of that.”

One other way Mercury enters our bodies is from amalgams or dental fillings. Charles Williamson, M.D., co-director of the Toxic Studies Institute in Boca Raton, Florida and colleague, Jordan Davis, M.D., sat down with Life Extension magazine for an in-depth interview on the problem of Mercury toxicity caused by dental fillings. They explain that putting Mercury amalgam in your teeth equates to putting poison in your mouths. “Mercury vapor is toxic, period,” Dr. Williamson explains. Dr. Michael Ziff, a retired dentist who fought a four-year legal battle over mercury with the dental board in Florida, is now executive director of the Orlando-based International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology, a leading anti-mercury group that has about 400 dentist members. The average American has seven mercury fillings, Ziff said. "It's kind of like holding seven leaking mercury thermometers in your mouth 365 days a year, 24 hours a day." The science is blatantly overwhelming that Mercury amalgams leak toxic vapors.

The irony is that dentists who place the compound in people’s mouths do not treat it like a toxic substance. In fact, leftover amalgam must be disposed of according to strict EPA guidelines. His biggest concern was for mothers, he says “Once mothers realize the fillings in their teeth damage the development of their babies’ brains while they’re in the womb, and once these women understand this damage can result in low IQ, learning and behavioral problems after birth, then we’ll see a public outcry against the use of Mercury amalgam. And once they realize that in no uncertain terms, they’re going to be angry.” Dr Williamson says that the fetus is especially vulnerable to that toxicity, which can cause brain damage. Specifically, Mercury vapor can cause learning disabilities, autism and attention deficit disorder in unborn children. How will parents feel when they grasp that?” Mercury toxicity could provide a significant explanation for the explosion in learning and behavioral problems, autism and a whole host of other conditions since World War II.

That fifty-five year period corresponds to the introduction and widespread use of Mercury amalgam. Dr. Williamson says that the toxicity results in disorders primarily of the central nervous system, the head, neck and oral cavity. The gastrointestinal tract and the cardiovascular, renal and immune systems are also affected adversely. Mercury fillings result in a chronic toxicity, not acute poisoning, he noted as an aside.He has found there is organized resistance on the part of dentists who use Mercury amalgams and there has been for a very long time mainly because they have a lot to lose. Dentists have pride, reputation, money and liability on the line. To admit that they have mistakenly been using a harmful substance to treat tooth decay for many years is a very difficult confession to make and it’s fraught with extremely serious consequences. The World Health Organization (WHO) states that there is no safe level of Mercury in humans that does not kills cells and harm body processes. Florida’s environmental regulatory agency notes that one Mercury filling from one tooth thrown into a lake is enough to contaminate that lake for fishing and swimming. Dentists have consistently denied that Mercury amalgam is dangerous, but says Dr. Williamson, “That position is simply wrong and we won’t spend a lot of time analyzing why dentists have maintained this mistaken position, but mistaken it is.

Take a look at Lisa Marie Presley's story

If the amalgam is toxic before it goes into the mouth and toxic after it comes out of the mouth, what magically happens while its in the mouth to make it safe? The tooth fairy? The real point is this: Mercury is toxic. And that statement is now beyond debate." The Norwegian Directorate of Health and Social Welfare has announced that it will be sending its new guidelines for use of dental materials out for hearing in a couple of weeks, and expects them to take effect from 1 January 2003. The director for the Norwegian Directorate of Health and Social Welfare was interviewed, and said that the health authorities now recommend that dentists no longer use amalgam on their patients. He said that the new guidelines are based on newer research that has revealed how mercury leaks from amalgam in the mouth of patients. The announcement was called a "turn-about" by the Norwegian radio. The current president of the Norwegian Dental Association was also interviewed, and said that the Norwegian Dental Association was satisfied that the guidelines stop short of a full ban on amalgam, and that freedom of choice is still possible. He also said that there has been controversy around the use of amalgam for 100 years, and that the Dental Association would not defend amalgam "at any price". The current president of the Norwegian Dental Association works in an amalgam-free dental practice, and has not used amalgam for many years. Latest report on filling s. Another danger in your mouth is fluoride. Here are some articles for you to read about the dangers associated with this.

The Heart

Now researchers have confirmed that mercury exposure is also associated with heart attacks (New England Journal of Medicine, November 28, 2002*). When men with heart attacks (a first myocardial infarction) were compared to a control group with no history of heart disease, the researchers found that the mercury levels were 15 percent higher in patients than in the controls. Mercury, presumably acquired from eating fish, increased the risk of heart attacks, but DHA tended to decrease the risk of heart attacks. This study confirmed the findings published in 1995 that a higher mercury level in hair samples was also associated with an increased risk of heart attacks. An accompanying study in the New England Journal confirmed that higher levels of mercury in the body were associated with the amount of fish consumed, but no association with heart attacks could be found.

Mercury has also been known to collect up to 22,000 times more in the heart over other peripheral muscles in the body. (Journal of the American College of Cardiology Vol. 33, No 6, 1999 pp. 1578-1583). Also take a look at this study: Biol Trace Elem Res. 2000 Winter;78(1-3):131-47.

Trace element distribution in heart tissue sections studied by nuclear microscopy is changed in Coxsackie virus B3 myocarditis in methyl mercury-exposed mice. * Ilback NG, * Lindh U, * Wesslen L, *Fohlman J, * Friman G. Toxicology Division, National Food Administration, Uppsala, Sweden.

Seafood and Cataracts
Methylmercury in seafood may cause lens clouding, contributing to cataract development. Optometrist Ben Lane noted that his cataract patients liked seafood, while those who didn't like fish were clear-eyed. A study of 17 patients revealed that the cataract patients had eaten salt water fish or shellfish at least once a week on the average, but those cataract-free reported using these foods an average of once every five weeks. The cataract patients showed far higher concentrations of mercury in their hair. Dr. Lane's study showed that the presence of 2.3 ppm or more of mercury in hair samples was related to a 23-fold increase in the risk of cataracts. Dr. Lane encourages his patients to eat such foods as garlic and pectin-rich foods such as apples to help remove the mercury, and to receive adequate, while avoiding excessive, amounts of vitamins A, C, and E. ( Methylmercury in seafood can contribute to cataract development, Medical World News, December 20, 1982)
More info on mercury and the eyes.

Vitamin C also helps to pull out the toxic mercury that results from the consumption of large fish, such as tuna, swordfish and shark. Dr. Lane said that his 1982 study found that mercury, which would accumulate in the crystalline lens, resulted in the depression of enzymes such as superoxide dismutase and glutathione peroxidase. The latter is the primary enzyme that helps prevent mercury cataracts from forming. 'Organic mercury is the worst offender because it's able to penetrate membranes and get into organic tissues,' he said.

Keep in mind glutathione is depleted when kids are given Tylenol after their vaccines. Glutathione helps bind mercury for removal from the body.

Mercury and the Brain

The brain is defenseless against mercury
http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2005/apr/science/pt_mercurytoxicity.html

Researchers have long known that mercury increases mortality and decreases fertility in fish, but the underlying metabolic processes are still unknown. New research posted on the ES&T Research ASAP website (es0483490) helps uncover some of the mystery by examining which genes respond when fish are fed methylmercury (MeHg). Although multiple genes turn on in the muscle and liver to help store and detoxify the metal, the brain appears unresponsive and accumulates high levels of mercury. This leads researchers to believe that neural tissue might be unable to defend itself against this toxic compound. "It was a big surprise when we found that genes in the neural system were not responding," says study author Jean-Paul Bourdineaud, a professor of biochemistry at the University of Bordeaux (France). Previous research has shown that mercury can cause lesions in the brain, and a recent study found that MeHg can decrease the density of neurotransmitters in otters that consume diets heavy in fish contaminated with MeHg. (Environ. Sci. Technol. 2005, 39, 218A)

The zebra fish in the study were fed diets that contain MeHg at concentrations similar to those found in wild fish (Environ. Sci. Technol. 2002, 36, 877–883). Thirteen different genes were then tested in liver, muscle, and brain tissue. These genes encode for proteins known to be involved in different functions such as antioxidant defense, metal chelation, DNA repair, and cell death. "Testing this range of genes gives us a toxicological survey of mercury's effects," says Bourdineaud. For instance, the gene that codes for the protein superoxide dismutase produced more of this antioxidant in muscle, indicating that MeHg caused oxidative stress. Bourdineaud says that unpublished studies from his lab have also observed that MeHg can shrink the mitochondria in a cell and decrease muscle respiration by about 50%. In the liver, MeHg accumulated rapidly during the first week, but concentrations later began to fall. "The demethylation in liver was not surprising," says Mark Sandheinrich, a professor of biology at the University of Wisconsin. "This suggests that mercury is being converted back to inorganic form and being secreted." However, the brain showed levels sometimes twice as high as the other tissue but no gene activity. "I think this tells us that the neurological effect of mercury may be because the brain has no inherent ability to demethylate mercury and deal with metal toxicity," says Sandheinrich.

Exposure To Low Doses Of Mercury Changes The Way The Arteries Work

Liquid mercury. (Credit: Diego A. Marino (Creative Commons))ScienceDaily (Oct. 27, 2008) — An international team of researchers has shown that mercury is another important factor in cardiovascular disease as it changes the way arteries work. One of the possible sources of exposure of humans to mercury is by eating contaminated fish.

The main effects of mercury affect the central nervous system and renal function. Over recent years the scientific community has reported an increase in cardiovascular risk following exposure to mercury, “although the mechanisms responsible for this increase are not completely known”, state the authors of the new study that has been published recently in the American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology explain.

Ana María Briones is a researcher at the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid (UAM) and is one of the authors of the study. Briones explains the aim of the investigation to SINC: “Because the relationship between mercury and cardiovascular risk has been explained recently, and that cardiovascular risk is known to be related to changes in vascular function, we intended to see whether a relationship existed between mercury and changes in vascular responses”.

The aim of the study was to evaluate whether really low concentrations of mercury, administered over a prolonged period of time, “could have a prejudicial effect on vascular response”, that is to say, on the way the arteries behave.

Data confirm that low doses of mercury have a harmful effect on vascular function. Mercedes Salaices, one of the other authors of the study, emphasises that the impact of mercury “could be compared to the impact produced by other more traditional cardiovascular risk factors such as hypertension, diabetes or hypercholesterolaemia”.

The researchers analysed whether chronic exposure to mercury causes an endothelial dysfunction in resistance and conductance arteries. Treatment with mercury induces an increase in oxidative stress, which is responsible – at least in part – for the deterioration in vascular responses. “Arteries contract more and relax less because there is less nitric oxide”, the vasodilator factor that is attacked by oxidative stress, underlines Briones.

The risk of exposure to mercury today

Humans have been exposed to different metal pollutants such as mercury, although the possible consequences to health are not known in depth. At the present time, exposure to mercury is due, mainly, to the consumption of polluted fish, to the administration of anti-fungal agents and Thimerosal antiseptics in vaccines and to the inhalation of mercury vapour from some dental re-constructions

The European Environment Agency (EEA) recommended a reference blood mercury concentration of 5.8 nanograms per milliliter (ng/ml). It is considered that there are no adverse effects below this level. Data reveal that the concentration of mercury in the general population is less than 1 ng/ml, whereas in workers who suffer exposure in polluted zones, the levels are between 7 and 10. The percentage reaches up to 5.6 ng/ml amongst people who eat fish on a regular basis.

Web address:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080610092720.htm

Mercury Contamination Found In Stranded Victorian Dolphins
ScienceDaily (June 11, 2008) — Monash University research into heavy metal contaminant levels in dolphins from Port Phillip Bay and the Gippsland Lakes has revealed high mercury levels may be a contributing factor to dolphin deaths.

Researchers from the School of Biological Sciences have confirmed levels of mercury found in the dolphins were within a range considered to cause negative health and mental effects and were higher than mercury levels found in populations around the world. (Alzheimer's for dolphins?)

Supervisory researcher Dr Ross Thompson said the mercury concentrations in 20 live and eight dolphins which died after becoming stranded, collected over the last two years, were measured by Honours student Alissa Monk. Levels in the dead dolphins averaged 3.45 milligrams of mercury per kilogram of tissue compared to 1.32 mg/kg in living dolphins.

"Mercury levels detected are sufficient to cause significant health impacts and were comparable to those found in areas of the world that are considered highly polluted, including the Mediterranean Sea," Dr Thompson said.

Mercury has been shown in previous national studies to bioaccumulate in dolphins, but this is the first study to find particularly high levels in stranded animals in coastal Victoria. Bioaccumulation is the food chain process whereby smaller fish containing mercury are eaten by larger mercury contaminated fish, which are then consumed by dolphins, who can consume up to ten kilograms of fish a day. Mercury levels found in fish were considered low (<0.5 mg/kg) and were fine for human consumption.

"Dolphins may be becoming stranded as a direct consequence of mercury contamination which damages their neurological system. They become potentially confused and disorientated, and strand themselves. Even the apparently healthy dolphins had high levels of mercury which put them at risk of future health complications," Dr Thompson said.

Dr Thompson said mercury is likely to have come from the sediments of the Bay and researchers are concerned that dredging activities may increase the dolphins' exposure.

"Sediment contains mercury, which is likely to have originated from historical gold mining sites where mercury was used in gold processing, as well as from other industrial sources. Over time, the mercury has been washed down through waterways, including the Yarra River, and come to rest on the bottom of the Bay," Dr Thompson said.

Dr Thompson said it was critical that further studies were done throughout the bay dredging process to ensure any further decline in dolphin health could be identified and managed.

The School of Biological Sciences research was supported by Coastcare, West Gippsland CMA, the Gippsland Lakes Board and the Dolphin Research Institute.

What is the bottom line here? Avoid eating fish, especially large ocean fish that accumulate mercury (tuna, swordfish, shark, halibut, and grouper). Instead take DHA and EPA from algae or supplements that are free of mercury, do not get a flu shot, and have your amalgams removed. Other sources of mercury

And if you want to get mercury into the air.....

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_5745081

Thousands of doses of aging flu vaccine to be incinerated
Distribution glitch created vast leftovers in Utah
By Heather May
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 04/25/2007 11:08:26 AM MDT
County health departments and private medical clinics throughout Utah must destroy thousands of doses of flu vaccine worth thousands of dollars. Nationally, 18 million doses are expected to be incinerated because they expire in June and won't match next year's flu strains. "It's a dramatic loss, a financial loss," said John O'Donnell, chief operating officer of the West Valley City Granger Medical Clinic, which had 1,500 doses left over that he said will cost the clinic $17,000.

'Just no interest:' Of the four health departments along the Wasatch Front, Utah County ordered the most doses at 20,000, and has the most to destroy - 5,000 - which are worth $51,250.Up to 20 percent of the U.S. population gets the flu, with 200,000 people hospitalized and 36,000 people dying every year. In the end, Utah's flu season was considered average. There were no pediatric deaths, and 265 hospitalizations by mid-April, compared with 476 last year. (36,000 dying?)

Vitamin K

Before we get started on the vaccines lets look at the first injection babies get right after birth. Here is the package insert for Vitamin K. Keep in mind you can ask for an oral version of this vitamin. Vitamin K package insert...
DESCRIPTION
Phytonadione is a vitamin, which is a clear, yellow to amber, viscous, odorless or nearly odorless liquid. It is insoluble in water, soluble in chloroform and slightly soluble in ethanol. It has a molecular weight of 450.70.

Phytonadione is 2-methyl-3-phytyl-1, 4-naphthoquinone. Its empirical formula is C31H46O2

AquaMEPHYTON injection is a yellow, sterile, aqueous colloidal solution of vitamin K1, with a pH of 5.0 to 7.0, available for injection by the intravenous, intramuscular, and subcutaneous routes. Each milliliter contains:

Phytonadione ................................................................................................ 2 mg or 10 mg

Inactive ingredients:
Polyoxyethylated fatty acid derivative ...................................................................... 70 mg
Dextrose .................................................................................................................. 37.5 mg
Water for Injection, q.s................................................................................................. 1 mL
Added as preservative:
Benzylalcohol ............................................................................................................ 0.9%
* Registered trademark of MERCK & CO., Inc.

Read the warning from Merck's pHARMa package insert below...

Warnings

Benzyl alcohol as a preservative in Bacteriostatic Sodium Chloride Injection has been associated with toxicity in newborns. Data are unavailable on the toxicity of other preservatives in this age group. There is no evidence to suggest that the small amount of benzyl alcohol contained in AquaMEPHYTON, when used as recommended, is associated with toxicity.

INJECTION AquaMEPHYTON® (PHYTONADIONE) Aqueous Colloidal Solution of Vitamin K1

WARNING - INTRAVENOUS USE Severe reactions, including fatalities, have occurred during and immediately after the parenteral administration of AquaMEPHYTON* (Phytonadione). Typically these severe reactions have resembled hypersensitivity or anaphylaxis, including shock and cardiac and/or respiratory arrest. Some patients have exhibited these severe reactions on receiving AquaMEPHYTON for the first time. The majority of these reported events occurred following intravenous administration, even when precautions have been taken to dilute the AquaMEPHYTON and to avoid rapid infusion. Therefore, the INTRAVENOUS route should be restricted to those situations where another route is not feasible and the increased risk involved is considered justified.

According to this website http://www.anyvitamins.com/vitamin-k-info.htm if you are injected with too high of a dose, jaundice is the result. I wonder if this is why so many babies must be put under special lamps? How could anyone really know the dose needed for a newborn? Here is the excerpt:

Toxicity and symptoms of high intake
Toxicity does not easily occur with normal dietary intake of this vitamin, but can happen if synthetic compound vitamin K 3 is taken. High to toxic uptake in the synthetic form can cause flushing and sweating. Jaundice and anemia may also develop.

Vitamin K: controversy? what controversy?
By Karin Rothville DipCBEd.

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From "How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of your Doctor" by Dr. Robert
Mendelsohn MD:

p. 46
"Many doctors routinely give vitamin K to newborn babies because they have been taught that infants are born with a deficiency of this vitamin, which influences how rapidly the baby's blood will clot. That's nonsense, unless the mother is severely malnourished; but most doctors do it anyway. Administration of vitamin K to the newborn may produce jaundice, which prompts the pediatrician to treat it with bilirubin lights (phototherapy). These lights expose the baby to a dozen documented hazards that may require still further treatment and possibly affect him for the rest of his life."

p. 265 (in Author's References)
"The value of routine administration of vitamin K to newborn infants was discounted by Drs. J.M. Van Doorm, A.D. Muller, and H.C. Hemker in The Lancet, April 17, 1977: "We Conclude that healthy babies, contrary to current beliefs, are not likely to have vitamin K deficiency... the administration of vitamin K to the newborn is not supported by our findings..." "If it helps, vitamin K administration started when bottle feeding became commonplace. So, if you are breastfeeding, and don't have a family history of any type of blood clotting disease, I would say that it's safe to forego. This is a good book to have; it also has some info on vaccines, the other "routine" things done to newborns, and many other common health concerns.

http://www.gentlebirth.org/archives/vitktop.html
Administration of Vitamin K to Newborns
TONS of info here

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The push for the Vitamin K once baby comes into the world National standard mandates newborn vitamin K injection Ignorance becomes tacit consent for the questionable neonatal procedure by Don Harkins

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http://www.gentlebirth.org/archives/vitktop.html
Administration of Vitamin K to Newborns

The Vaccines

These ingredients, along with the viruses, are injected into our babies as soon as twelve hours after birth. At two months more of these vaccines are given eight at a time, as was the case with my son. That is eight different diseases, given to a baby, at one time. How could there not be side effects from this? Why are we bombarding these infants with these diseases so early? From what I can tell, money, and unsubstantiated fears play an important role. I will describe each disease and evaluate the need for vaccination based on fact instead of propaganda. We will also follow the money trail. Let’s start with this fact: Your grandmother had one vaccine when she was a child, Smallpox. The Smallpox vaccine is often quoted as having eradicated Smallpox. In fact, scientists stopped using it when they finally admitted that it was causing too many side effects. Diseases die out after 67% of a population has been exposed to it. Research shows that vaccines are generally introduced after the disease has died out. See charts at the end of this website. By the time our babies are two years old, they have had a total of ten diseases introduced into their underdeveloped immune systems, in twenty separate doses and the numbers are increasing. For example in 1980, only eight vaccines were given before the age of two.

DTaP

Epidemics of disease such as Diphtheria, Bubonic plague and Smallpox cost the lives of thousands and created panic in homes across America and the rest of the world. Medical science worked feverishly to stamp out their control over the population and lessen the fear that gripped the nation each time a new threat was unveiled. Vaccines were the result of their efforts and were given credit for the eradication of a number of childhood and adult diseases. But were they really the reason many of these disease were eradicated? In conditions of filth and malnutrition, many diseases including smallpox, plague and in severe enough conditions, the common cold may seem highly contagious and accompany high mortality rates. In conditions of sanitation and adequate nutrition, most contagious diseases, including smallpox, become less in incidence numbers, and also become milder in severity.

Diseases were rampant in the 1920’s. And the epidemics were over by the 1940’s without assistance from vaccines. A similar epidemic occurred in Europe where there was no mass vaccination program. Studies show better health conditions, better nutrition and an abatement of overcrowded conditions contributed to the demise of this disease. It wasn’t until the 19th century that Doctors began washing their hands between patients. Had they understood the reasons for transmission of these diseases they might have been eliminated much sooner.

The History of Hand Hygiene 1843

Oliver Wendell Holmes investigated the circumstances around puerperal (or childbed) fever and concluded that puerperal fever was transmitted from patient to patient by doctors and nurses on their hands and clothing (Holmes, 1843) 1847 Ignaz Semmelweis was the first clinician to reduce mortality by introducing a handwashing policy (Semmelweis, 1847) 2000 Didier Pittet and colleagues conducted one of the more recent major studies to show how a sustained improvement in compliance with hand hygiene can coincide with a reduction in hospital-acquired infection (Pittet et al, 2000) In 1847 Dr Ignaz Semmelweis was an assistant in the maternity wards of a Vienna Hospital. He observed that puerperal fever in the delivery room staffed by medical students was up to three times higher than in a second delivery room staffed by midwives. He recognized that the students might be transferring the disease from their dissections to their hands and ordered that students must wash their hands after dissection and before patient examination. The mortality rate dropped from over 20% to 3%. (Semmelweis, 1847)

Despite these results, Semmelweis's colleagues treated his findings with hostility and he eventually resigned his position. (I found this to be an underlying theme with new ideas in medicine as you will see throughout this website.) It was not until after his death that others such as Louis Pasteur and Oliver Wendell Holmes recognized the importance of his work.

Bubonic plague and Scarlet fever are examples of diseases eliminated without vaccinations. American Researchers J & S Mckinlay of Boston University were forced to conclude that only 3.5 % of the decline could be contributed to medical measures. I wonder if we returned to the days of unwashed bodies crammed into little houses, open sewage, malnutrition, and contaminated water, and of course continued to vaccinate, we could see just how effective our vaccines would be.

Diphtheria Lets take a look at the facts. The DPaT consists of three diseases that I will describe to you in detail. The D in this vaccine stands for Diphtheria. Diphtheria is a severe infection of the throat that can block the airway and cause breathing difficulty. This vaccine is made by injecting a horse with putrefied beef broth, containing the diphtheria bacillus, until it has the symptoms of blood poisoning. The injections are continued until the animal (if it does not die) ceases to react. It is then said to be immune. The bleeding process then begins, usually on the third day after the last injection. Two or three gallons of blood are drawn off over six to seven weeks until the animal is exhausted or dies. The blood coagulates, and the clear fluid that rises to the surface called serum. This put into tubes and sold under the name of diphtheria antitoxin. There have been no real safety tests done. The only safety test that has ever been done on the Pertussis vaccine is the "Mouse Weight Gain Test". The vaccine to be tested is injected into the stomachs of baby mice. If these baby mice continue to gain weight and don't die right away, the vaccine is declared safe. And here is something else scary about the initial safety testing of Pertussis vaccine in the United States - it was done in England on infants 14 months and older. We never did our own studies of adverse reactions and yet we give the vaccine to infants who are only two months old. Look at this excerpt from British Medical Journal "Safety and efficacy of combination vaccinations" May 10, 2003;

"Good post-marketing surveillance will become important (you mean its not already?) in monitoring both the clinical efficacy of combination vaccines and adverse effects. With respect to clinical efficacy this may be a particular problem with combination conjugate vaccines.

Using combination vaccines in the routine childhood programme in the United Kingdom amounts to giving 11 injections (24 in the United States), whereas, if given separately, 27 (almost 70 in the United States) would be needed."

Excerpt from: http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7397/995

There has been a moratorium in this country on animal organ transplants because of concerns of people contracting latent animal virus. However, this doesn’t seem to apply to vaccines. The vaccine is then stabilized in Formalin, a known carcinogen. This vaccine is given at two, four, and six months, then again between fifteen and eighteen months. SmithKline Beecham has just announced they have created a five in one vaccine,Infanrix DTPa - HepB - IPV. Barbara Loe Fisher of NVIC was able to ask questions at the FDA Meeting. Click here to read the transcript. Read here for an article written on the vaccine Pediacel by the SUNDAY EXPRESS MAY 14 2006 about the new vaccine.

Here is an excerpt:
Evidence from the vaccine's manufacturers, Sanofi Pasteur, shows that in clinical trials 64 per cent of 451 babies given the Pediacel jab experienced bad reactions. Ten per cent of these were "moderate to severe". These included convulsions, loss of consciousness and high-pitched or persistent inconsolable crying. Other studies showed that components of the vaccine can cause breathing difficulties, blue discoloration of the skin due to lack of oxygen, swelling of the brain, low blood pressure and extreme allergic shock.

Package insert for the new 5 in one click here.

Also check out this great blog about the vaccine ingredients.

eviquackenboss.wordpress.com/2016/02/17/whats-really-in-the-dtap/

Pertussis

The next disease included in this shot is Pertussis. The disease can last as long as six weeks. It still occurs as a common childhood disease although the severity seems to have diminished somewhat over time. Pertussis is a bacterium not a virus. Since wild Pertussis is a bacterium, it can be treated with antibiotics. Why we risk children’s lives with this vaccine is unconscionable to me. The CDC statistics for Pertussis during 1992-1994 indicated a 98.8% recovery rate. Before 1940, most children suffered some form of the disease. By 1935, the death rate had already declined by 82% before vaccines were introduced. Studies indicate that the effectiveness of the vaccine may be as low as 45%. Trials conducted in the U.S. in 1931 by the American Medical Association indicated the vaccine did not make a significant difference and recommended withdrawal of the Pertussis vaccine. Further studies indicated immunity is not sustained. Several thousand cases a year still manifest themselves. In 1989 in Ohio, a Pertussis outbreak occurred with 82% of the children fully vaccinated. The cases involving vaccinated children were just as severe as if they had not been vaccinated at all.

In 1987, during 28 months of surveillance on the persistence of Pertussis in Novia Scotia, 526 cases were identified. Of the patients that came down with Pertussis, 91% had received at least three doses of the vaccine. Pertussis toxin is one of the most lethal toxins in nature since it can cross the blood brain barrier when conditions are right. It can easily be fatal or cause permanent brain damage. The Pertussis toxin is sometimes referred to as an islet-activating protein. Signifying this substance, acts specifically and directly on the ’Islets of Langerhans’ which are the insulin secreting parts of the pancreas. The consequence of this destruction is diabetes or hypoglycemia depending on the time of the damage. This could explain the explosion of diabetes, especially in children. Take a look at this study done on the vaccine. The full article can be read here.

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol6no5/pdf/srugo.pdf or here

"Vaccinated children may be asymptomatic reservoirs for infection."

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Pertussis Infection in Fully Vaccinated Children in Day-Care Centers, Israel Isaac Srugo,* Daniel Benilevi,* Ralph Madeb,* Sara Shapiro,† Tamy Shohat,‡ Eli Somekh,§ Yossi Rimmar,* Vladimir Gershtein,† Rosa Gershtein,* Esther Marva,¶ and Nitza Lahat† *Department of Clinical Microbiology, Bnai Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel; †Serology Laboratory, Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel;
‡Israel Center for Disease Control, Tel Aviv, Israel; §Wolfson Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel; ¶Public Health Laboratories, Jerusalem, Israel Address for correspondence: Isaac Srugo, Department of
Clinical Microbiology, Bnai Zion Medical Center, POB 4940, Haifa, Israel 31048; Fax: 972-4-835-9614; e-mail: srugoi@ tx.technion.ac.il.

We tested 46 fully vaccinated children in two day-care centers in Israel who were exposed to a fatal case of pertussis infection. Only two of five children who tested positive for Bordetella pertussis met the World Health Organization’s case definition for pertussis. Vaccinated children may be asymptomatic reservoirs for infection.

According to Drs. Cherry, Brunell et al., “Report of the Task Force on Pertussis and Pertussis Immunization” in the Pediatrics June 1988 edition, the Pertussis toxin has another use. It is also used to produce anaphylactic shock and to cause an acute autoimmune encephalomyelitis in mice so they can be studied. Vaccine developers continue to have a problem making a Pertussis vaccine inactivated enough to be safe but active enough to work. This is why the purified DTaP is still associated with the same complications of the old DPT. In 1979 Sweden stopped vaccinating against Pertussis because their studies found it not only ineffective in preventing the disease, but also because the adverse effects far outweighed any proposed benefit.

Take a look at a letter from a homeopath on alternative treatments for Pertussis here.

Click on the horse for as excellent article on tetanus in animals.

In Polk County, Florida there is a whooping cough "outbreak". The AP story on this was here -

"Whooping Cough Cases Rise Dramatically in Polk County"
http://www.theledger.com/article/20080729/NEWS/807280506

There was an online "chat" with the director of pulbic health for Polk County that Wendy Callahan, Patrick Gaudin and I participated in last week and we finally got him to state the stats regarding vaccination status among cases reported. The following are the very revealing stats we received from him through the chat forum.

Dr. Daniel Haight:

Of the now 26 confirmed and probable cases:

16 cases completed their vaccinations with either 4 or 5 vaccinations.

4 cases had one or two vaccinations due to under age or parent did not keep up with vaccine schedule.

1 case was not vaccinated at all, due to age.

1 case was unvaccinated due to claming religious exemption

2 cases - info was not obtained due to case greater or equal to 15 years old

2 cases info was unknown either from inability to contact or parent did not know or have info.

As you can see, there is clearly no "science" behind administering the DTaP vaccine as a "preventative" measure.

A new push doctors are recommending is a TDaP for pregnant women. Please do your research and decline this untested and extremely dangerous idea.

What's the Difference Between DTaP and Tdap?
Both vaccines contain inactivated forms of the toxin produced by the bacteria that cause the three diseases. Inactivated means the substance no longer produces disease, but does trigger the body to create antibodies that give it immunity against the toxins. DTaP is approved for children under age 7. Tdap, which has a reduced dose of the diphtheria and pertussis vaccines, is approved for adolescents starting at age 11 and adults ages 19 to 64. It is often called a booster dose because it boosts the immunity that wanes from vaccines given at ages 4 to 6.

Tetanus

The next vaccine in this group is Tetanus. Tetanus occurs when a wound is not properly cleaned and the germ is trapped in the wound and cut off from oxygen. Typically this would be a puncture wound where the skin would close up quickly leaving infection underneath as with a rusty nail. Wounds that bleed will never result in tetanus because the tetanus bacillus is anaerobic. Information taken from the insert from the pharmaceutical company who manufactures the drug states, “This is primarily a disease of older adults.” Newborns typically are not in danger of being punctured by a rusty nail. Neonatal Tetanus occurs among babies born under unhygienic conditions. The following information is written by Dr Sherri Tennpenny:

Tetanus is a disease caused by the Gram -- positive bacterium Clostridium tetani that exists in soil as a spore. High concentrations can be present if the soil has been contaminated with animal or human feces. In the presence of anaerobic (low oxygen) conditions, the spores can germinate and release a potent neurotoxin, called tetanospasmin, into the bloodstream. Dirty, deep puncture wounds that are contaminated with soil are at greatest risk for infection. Wounds that are gangrenous, or injuries caused by frostbite, crush injuries, and burns are also at increased risk.

The incubation period prior to the onset of tetanus symptoms can take several days to several months, depending on the location of the inoculation. Once the spores germinate, the toxin is released into the bloodstream and travels to peripheral nerves, eventually attaching to receptor sites at the nerve endplates. The result is unrelenting, painful muscle spasm.

The four clinical types of tetanus are generalized, local, cephalic, and neonatal, with generalized tetanus being the most common. This form manifests as the classic spasms which can last from seconds to minutes. Death from tetanus is due to spasm of the vocal cords and spasm of the respiratory muscles, leading to respiratory failure.

The highest mortality rate for tetanus is seen in the very old and the very young, but on average, it is generally reported in most literature that the mortality rate is approximately 30%. Recovery can take months but is usually complete, unless unforeseen complications occur. Yes, you read it right, complete recovery.

It is an article of faith, widely accepted by doctors and patients alike, that tetanus is almost invariably fatal, especially if the person is not vaccinated. This fear is so deeply entrenched that I have personally seen patients dutifully wait in a busy emergency department for hours to get a tetanus shot because they had sustained a superficial cut while washing dishes.

Before I knew better, and because the "standard of care" dictates that every cut gets a tetanus shot, I handed these shots out like candy, believing it was better to "over protect" than to risk the development of a "fatal" case of tetanus.

Discovering that most people recover from an acute bout of tetanus was unexpected, but it was disconcerting to find that many of the reported cases of tetanus were in "fully vaccinated" people. A review of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) from the CDC called "Tetanus Surveillance -- United States, 1995 -- 1997] revealed unexpected information and facts. However, because this report is bogged down with complicated statistics that must be methodically disentangled, it is no wonder that few are aware of its contents.

The document discusses 124 cases of tetanus reported between 1995 and 1997. Here is what was reported:

Nearly twenty -- five percent (24.8%) of those who contracted acute tetanus had at least one dose of the vaccine and more than twelve percent (12.4%) of the patients were fully vaccinated, with three or more doses of tetanus. Of the 66 (53.7%) people who had an "unknown vaccination status," it could reasonably be assumed that a portion of those had had one or more tetanus shots at some point in their lives. Therefore, statement made by the CDC that "the disease continues to occur almost exclusively among persons who are unvaccinated, inadequately vaccinated or whose vaccination histories are unknown or uncertain" is simply not true. The "rationale" for getting a tetanus shot is that milder cases will result among the vaccinated. This is an argument used with all the mandated the vaccines Yet, given that the fatality rate (11.2%) is lower than reported and the apparently low incidence overall, the following questions should be asked:

1) What is the real risk of getting a severe case of tetanus if you are unvaccinated?

2) How many cases of serious tetanus would occur were all wounds cared for properly?

3) What antibody level actually confers protection from a serious case of tetanus?

The truth is, the antibody level required to be universally protective is unknown. The "generally accepted" protective level for tetanus antibody > 0.15 IU/mL. This level was proposed by Snead in1937, and has been the accepted "standard" since that time. However, the number is arbitrary and not guaranteed to protect from infection. Therefore, routinely vaccinating every 10 years, as the journal article suggests, simply to maintain "adequate antibody levels" is uncalled for and may not only provide the person with a false sense of security, it may actually cause harm. Tetanus vaccines haven't gotten the "bad press" many of the other vaccines have recently received. In the zeal to protect from this "deadly disease," it is imagined that the risk of infection far exceeds the potential risk of the vaccine. What harm could it do? I thought the vaccine only contained inactivated tetanus toxin and sterile water. I am convinced that is the perception of nearly all physicians. It was disturbing to learn of the other ingredients that are in the tetanus toxoid vaccine: formaldehyde; sodium phosphate monobasic; sodium phophate dibasic, [an eye and skin irritant that may be harmful if ingested]; glycine, aluminum, and 25 ug. of thimerosal (mercury). There is obviously more to the tetanus vaccine than inactivated toxoid! In the Emergency Department, if the tetanus status of a patient is "unknown," an additional shot is routinely given, because it is thought to be harmless. However, this is simply bad medicine. If the person doesn't need the tetanus booster, the vaccine can cause a severe allergic reaction referred to as an Arthus type, Type III hypersensitivity reaction. This side effect is defined as "an acute inflammatory reaction caused by deposition of antigen -- antibody complexes into the tissues."

The "Arthus type" variation classically causes a reaction only at the injection site, but the result is an acute necrotizing vasculitis and localized necrosis (death) of the tissues. The reaction starts 2 -- 8 hours after a tetanus toxiod injection and occurs if the person has very high serum antitoxin antibodies due to overly frequent injections. In addition to the local reaction, severe systemic reactions can occur. A partial list of adverse events includes headache; nausea; vomiting; arthralgias; tachycardia; syncope (fainting); cranial nerve paralysis; and a variety of neurological complications including EEG disturbances, seizures and encephalopathy; anaphylaxis and Gullian-Barre' syndrome. Recommending "routine" tetanus boosters based on mathematical models of antibody degradation can result in severe complications and is risky business, indeed.

But what about diphtheria? Do we need to keep our guard up about this infection?

Diphtheria is an infection caused by the gram -- positive bacteria, Corynebacterium diphtheriae, its name derived from a Greek work meaning "leather hide." Early symptoms include sore throat, malaise, and a low -- grade fever. Although cutaneous diphtheria infections occur, the most common form of the infection occurs in the tonsils and pharynx. If not treated early, a grayish -- green membrane develops in the back of the throat which may lead to respiratory obstruction. Similar to tetanus, the complications from diphtheria are caused by a toxin released from the infecting bacteria. The severity of the disease is related to the amount of toxin that is absorbed systemically from the infection site. The most frequent complications caused by the toxin include cardiac arrhythmias and nerve paralysis involving the palate, eyes, limbs and diaphragm. Even with these extensive complications, complete recovery usually occurs within five weeks of onset. Death occurs without medical support for the complications. Complete recovery? Here we go again…

There are many different species of Corynebacterium commonly found in soil, dust and contaminated water and most do not result in serious infection. In fact, most strains of C. diphthereae do not produce the disease -- causing toxin! Only when the bacteria has been infected by a specific virus, called a B phage, will the toxin be produced. The B phage contains the specific genetic information to code for the toxin, therefore, only strains infected with the virus cause severe disease. The important question, then, is, how often such an event occurs.

The article refers to a "recent outbreak" of diphtheria in the former Soviet Union as the primary reason to revaccinate. It is assumed that a decrease in vaccination rate was the most significant cause for the 1990 -- 1995 diphtheria outbreak in the Newly Independent States (NIS). This epidemic is often cited as the reason to maintain high vaccination rates. Let's take a closer look at what was happening in the Soviet Union at that time. In 1991, fifteen new countries had just become independent with the dissolution of the USSR and shortly thereafter, the infrastructure of the region completely collapsed. Garbage piled up in the streets of Moscow and other cities. Large refugee and migrant camps descended upon the major urban areas. Health care services, including disposable syringes and needles, were virtually non -- existent.

By 1995, Russia's annual health care budget was slightly less than 1 percent, about the same as the poorest African nations. Half of the country's 21,000 hospitals had no hot water, a quarter had no sewage systems, and several thousand had no water at all. In the operating rooms, truly sterile instruments were rare and blood was being washed off the hospital floor with a garden hose. More than 150,000 acute infections and nearly 5,000 deaths from diphtheria were estimated to have occurred between 1990 and 1998. However, even with the initiation of widespread immunization campaigns by the World Health Organization in 1994, more than 2,700 cases were still reported in 1998. Comparing what happened in the NIS to what might happen if antibody levels fall in the US, without taking into account the living conditions in each country, is an invalid comparison.

What about the vaccines?

There are several available vaccine choices: tetanus toxoid (TT); adult diphtheria toxoid plus tetanus toxoid (dT); pediatric diphtheria toxiod plus tetanus toxoid (DT) and tetanus immune globulin (TIG). The diphtheria vaccine is not obtainable separately Like the tetanus vaccine, the diphtheria vaccine is made from the toxin of C. diphtheriae. The bacteria is grown in a casein medium and the final product contains ammonium sulfate, residual formaldehyde, sodium bicarbonate, 0.3 mg aluminum phosphate and 25ug thimerosal. The tetanus toxoid vaccine (TT) was discussed previously and is the vaccine most commonly given. There are two forms of diphtheria vaccine, pediatric (D) and adult (d) and this vaccine is always given in combination with tetanus toxoid. Therefore, the pediatric vaccine is DT and the adult vaccine is dT. The distinction is made because the DT form contains 8 times more diphtheria toxoid than the dT form. It is contraindicated to give the pediatric vaccine, DT, to adults or to children over the age of 7 years because of the increased the likelihood of side effects. Infants are given 4 doses of the DT form (as DTP or DTaP) during the first 12 months of life. The result is that infants receive 32 times the dose of diphtheria toxin from the DT form than they would receive if the dT form was used. The reason the higher concentration is "safe" for smaller, younger children is unclear. Tetanus Immune Globulin (TIG) is a vaccine that contains tetanus toxin antibodies derived from the plasma of donors previously vaccinated with tetanus toxoid. This vaccine is considered to give "passive immunization," meaning that the antibodies are supplied at the time of immediate need. Peak antibody blood levels from this vaccine are obtained approximately 2 days after the injection and remain in circulation for approximately 23 days. TIG can be used following an acute injury in patients whose immunization status is unknown or incomplete.

What are the other treatment choices?

Although proper wound hygiene has been known since the 1940's to be the best way to prevent infection, it tends to be overlooked as the best way to prevent tetanus. Regardless of immunization status, dirty wounds should be properly cleaned and crushed tissue should be surgically removed.

Diphtheria infections can be prevented by thorough hand washing and good nutrition.

Antibiotic regimens are available for the treatment of both tetanus and diphtheria infections. The Red Book™, published by the American

Academy of Pediatrics makes a suggestion for an alternative treatment for tetanus. The antibiotic, metronidazole (30 mg/kg/day) given at 6 -- hour intervals is effective in reducing the bacterial count in a wound. Metronidazole is the antibiotic of choice for dirty wounds. Another choice is injectable penicillin G (100 000 U/kg/day), given at 4 -- to 6 -- hour intervals. These therapies should be continued for 10 to 14 days.[14] It appears that a prophylactic course of antibiotics would be prudent for dirty wounds to prevent the possibility of C. tetani germination and toxin production. Additionally, there is an antibiotic treatment available for diphtheria infections. Erythromycin orally or by injection (40 mg/kg/day; maximum, 2 gm/day) or procaine penicillin G daily, intramuscularly (300,000 U/day for those weighing 10 kg or less and 600,000 U/day for those weighing more than 10 kg) can be given for 14 days. The disease is usually not contagious 48 hours after antibiotics are instituted. Elimination of the organism should be documented by two consecutive negative throat cultures after therapy is completed.[15] Indeed, since nearly every sore throat is treated by conventional medicine with an antibiotic, perhaps this is the reason for the decreased the incidence of diphtheria, and not the vaccine. A third option is to use the TIG vaccine at the time of acute injury. It appears that treatment with TIG is an adequate form of treatment. The package insert states the following:

"If a contraindication to using tetanus toxoid preparations exists for a person who has not completed a primary series of tetanus toxoid immunization and that person has a wound that is neither clean nor minor, only passive immunization should be given using tetanus immune globulin."

With all of these options available, routinely vaccinating adults to maintain an arbitrary antibody level should be considered inappropriate healthcare. In addition, knowing the real facts about these infections and being aware of the available treatment options should be a comfort to parents who choose not to vaccine.

In 1948 two Harvard Medical School scientists, Randolph Byers and Frederick Moll carried out tests on the DPT at Children’s Hospital in Boston and concluded that severe neurological problems followed administration of the vaccine. The results were published in Pediatrics, a respectable medical journal. The results were completely ignored by the medical and pharmaceutical community. In 1976, Charles Manclark, an FDA scientist, remarked, “The DPT had one of the worst failure rates of any product submitted to the Division of Biologics for testing.”

Also, take a look at what Dr. Mendelsohn says about Tetanus;

(The People's Doctor Newsletter 1976-1988)

You have every right to closely question me on the tetanus vaccine, since that was the last vaccine I abandoned. It wasn't hard for me to give up vaccines for whooping cough, measles, and rubella because of their disabling and sometimes deadly side effects. The mumps vaccine, a high-risk, low-benefit product, struck me and plenty of other doctors as silly from the moment it was introduced. Arguments for the diphtheria vaccine were vitiated by epidemics during the past 15 years which showed the same death rate and the same severity of illness in those who were vaccinated vs. those who were not vaccinated. As for smallpox, even the government finally gave up that vaccine in 1970, and I gave up on the polio vaccine when Jonas Salk showed that the best way to catch polio in the United States was to be near a child who recently had taken the Sabin vaccine. But the tetanus vaccine exercised a hold on me for a much longer time. As you point out, I gave up belief in this vaccine in stages. For a while, I still held onto the notion that farm families and people who work around stables should continue to take tetanus shots. But in spite of my early indoctrination with fear of "rusty nails," in recent years, I have developed a greater fear of the hypodermic needle. My reasons are:

1) Scientific evidence shows that too-frequent tetanus boosters actually may interfere with the immune reaction.

2) There has been a gradual retreat of even the most conservative authorities from giving tetanus boosters every one year to every two years to every five years to every 10 years (as now recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics), and according to some, every 20 years. All these numbers are based on guesses
rather than on hard scientific evidence.

3) There has been a growing recognition that no controlled scientific study (in which half the patients were given the vaccine and the other half were given injections of sterile water) has ever been carried out to prove the safety and effectiveness of the tetanus vaccine. Evidence for the vaccine comes from epidemiologic studies
which are by nature controversial and which do not satisfy the criteria for scientific proof.

4) The tetanus vaccine over the decades has been progressively weakened in order to reduce the considerable reaction (fever and swelling) it used to cause. Accompanying this reduction in reactivity has been a concomitant reduction in antigenicity (the ability to confer protection). Therefore, there is a good chance that today's tetanus vaccine is about as effective as tap water.

5) Until the last few years, government statistics admitted that 40 percent of the child population of the U.S. was not immunized. For all those decades, where were the tetanus cases from all those rusty nails?

6) There now exists a growing theoretical concern which links immunizations to the huge increase in recent decades of auto-immune diseases, e.g., rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, lupus erythematosus, lymphoma, and leukemia. In one case, Guillain-Barre paralysis from swine flu vaccine, the relationship turned out to be more than just theoretical.

In preparing my courtroom testimony on behalf of a child who allegedly was brain-damaged as a result of the DPT (diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus) vaccine, I reviewed the prescribing information (package insert) for the Connaught Laboratories product which was administered to this child. The 1975 and.1977 package insert information which measured seven-and-a-half inches long listed three scientific references in support of the indications, contraindications, warnings, cautions, and adverse reactions to this vaccine. By 1978, the length of the insert had grown to 13 1/2 inches, and the number of scientific references had increased to 11. By 1980, the package insert was 18 inches long, and the references numbered 14. Of those newly-added references, seven (three from U.S. medical journals and four from foreign medical journals) dealt specifically with reactions to the tetanus DPT portion of the (toxoid) vaccine.

An article in the Archives of Neurology (1972) described brachial plexus neuropathy (which can lead to paralysis of the arm) prom tetanus toxoid Four patients who received only tetanus toxoid noticed the onset of limb weak ness from six to 21 days after the inoculation. A 1966 article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association reports the first case of "Peripheral Neuropathy .following Tetanus Toxoid Administration." A 23-year- old white medical student received an injection of tetanus toxoid into his right upper arm after an abrasion of the right knee while playing tennis. Several hours later, he developed a wrist drop of his right hand. He later suffered from complete motor and sensory paralysis over the distribution of the right radial nerve (one of the major nerves innervating the arm and hand) One month later, no residual motor or sensory deficit could be found.

Reference is made to an article in the Journal of Neurology, 1977, entitled "Unusual Neurological Complication following Tetanus Toxoid Administration." The author reports a 36-year-old female who received tetanus toxoid in her left upper arm following a wound to her finger. Five days later, she noticed a weakness first of the right, and then of the left and later of both legs. She complained of dizziness, instability, lethargy, chest discomfort, difficulty in swallowing, and inarticulate speech. S staggered when she walked, and she could take only a few steps. Her EEG showed some abnormalities. After a month, she was discharged without neurologic disturbance, but she continued to feel weak and anxious. Examinations during the next 11 months showed continued emotional instability and some paresthesias (numbness and tingling) in the extremities. The medical diagnosis was "a rapidly progressing neuropathy with involvement of cranial nerves, myelopathy, and encephalopathy."

The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 1973, carried an article entitled "Hypersensitivity to Tetanus Toxoid," and in a volume entitled "Proceedings of the II International Conference on Tetanus" (published by Hans Huber, Bern, Switzerland, 1967), an article appeared entitled "Clinical Reactions to Tetanus Toxoid."

A 44-year-old article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (1940) was entitled "Allergy Induced by Immunization with Tetanus Toxoid." That same year, an article in the British Medical Journal reported on "Anaphylaxis (a form of shock) following Administration of Tetanus Toxoid." In 1969, a German medical journal reported a case of paralysis of the recurrent laryngeal nerve (the nerve to the voicebox) after a booster injection of tetanus toxoid. The patient developed hoarseness and was unable to speak loudly, but the nerve paralysis subsided completely after approximately two months.

Should your doctor reassure you that tetanus vaccine is completely safe, or that "the benefits outweigh the risks," or that you should have a shot "just in case," why not share these citations with him?

Or maybe show him this...

J Pediatr Neurol 2014; 12(03): 167-170
DOI: 10.3233/JPN-140659
Case Report
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart – New York
Atypical vanishing white matter disease with microcephaly and hepatosplenomegaly provoked after diphtheria pertussis tetanus vaccination
Vykuntaraju K. Gowdaa, Sukanya Vigneshb, Bhaskar V. Madivalac, Dr. Mamathab, Prahalad Kumarb, Premalatha Ramaswamyb, Sarala H. Gowdad

aDepartment of Pediatric Neurology, Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
bDepartment of Pediatrics, Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
cDepartment of Neuroradiology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
dDepartment of Anatomy, Kempegowda Institute of Medical Science, Bangalore, India

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AbstractVanishing white matter (VWM) disease is a rare leukoencephalopathy. Normal development in early childhood with regression of milestones after trauma or infection is typical clinical presentation. We are reporting a child with atypical VWM disease. A 1.5-year-old female child presented with fever followed by altered sensorium and convulsions following first booster dose of diphtheria pertussis tetanus vaccination. Her development was normal till 1 yr of age. Her weight and head size were below 3 standard deviations. She had hepatosplenomegaly. Her routine investigations including cerebrospinal fluid examination were normal. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of brain shows diffuse white matter signals changes (hyperintensity on T2-weighted and hypointensity on T1-weighted images) involving the subcortical “U” fibers sparing basal ganglia. MRI shows diffuse white matter hyperintensity on T2-weighted images with areas of low signal on fluid-attenuated inversion recovery, close to the signal of cerebrospinal fluid. Based on MRI findings we diagnosed as VWM disease.

KeywordsVanishing white matter disease - whole cell DPT vaccine - hepatosplenomegaly - microcephaly

Or maybe this vaccine given to pregnant women causes microcephaly in their infants....

SIDS

According to Harris Coulter PhD, “Crib death” was so infrequent in the pre-vaccination era that it was not even mentioned in statistics. It started to climb in the 1950s with the spread of mass vaccinations. So much so it even acquired a new name-“SIDS,” Sudden Infant Death Syndrome of unknown origin. The medical establishment assures us that SIDS is unrelated to vaccines which begs the question; How do you know its not vaccines if it is of unknown origin? The three primary doses of DPT are given at two, four and six months of age. Eighty-five per cent of SIDS deaths occur from one to six months of age, with the peak incidence from two to four months. Another coincidence?

In a recent study of SIDS, breathing was monitored before and after vaccination. The data clearly showed that vaccination caused an extraordinary increase in episodes where breathing either nearly ceased or stopped completely. This is why it is so important to have our babies sleep on their backs, if you plan on vaccinating. It is easier for them to breath. Another problem associated with breathing is Asthma. Vaccinated children are shown to be five times more likely to become afflicted with this serious respiratory ailment.

Dr. William Torch of the University of Nevada School of Medicine did a study of 103 children who died of SIDS. He found that more than two-thirds had been vaccinated with DPT prior to death. Of these, 6.5% died within 12 hours; 13 % died within 24 hours; 26% died within 3 days; and 37, 61 and 70 % within 1,2,3 weeks respectively. Anything that happens to a baby after four weeks is considered God-given. The average time it takes for a vaccine to dissipate in the body is 10-12 days. Click here for Dr Buttram's explanation. Even if a baby dies immediately after a vaccination the cause of death will be labeled SIDS. Here is one example in the vaccine adverse reporting system.

The package insert on the DTP vaccine states the following adverse events have occurred:

Persistent, inconsolable crying ……1/100 doses.
Transient shock-like episodes……. 1/1750 doses
Convulsions………………………... 1/1750 doses.

“The occurrence of SIDS has been reported following administration of DPT. The significance of these reports is unclear.”

This was very clear to the Japanese. They did not administer the DPT until their babies were two years old. They had the lowest infant mortality rate in the world, until about 1981. This is when the Acellular Pertussis Vaccine, a “less toxic” vaccine was made available to them. In the U.S, the FDA fail to properly regulate the drug industry after the less reactive DTaP vaccine was licensed for babies in 1996 . They refused to recall the more toxic DPT vaccine and so it was injected into American babies for six more years, just like mercury has been injected into babies for six more years after the FDA told the drug companies to get it out of vaccines.

Delay of DPT immunization until 2 years of age in Japan had resulted in a dramatic decline in adverse side effects. In the period of 1970-1974, when DPT vaccination was begun at 3 to 5 months of age, the Japanese national compensation system paid out claims for 57 permanent severe damage vaccine cases, and 37 deaths. During the ensuing six year period 1975-1980, when DPT injections were delayed to 24 months of age, severe reactions from the vaccine were reduced to a total of eight with three deaths. This represents an 85 to 90 percent reduction in severe cases of damage and death." Raymond Obomsawin, M.D.

The DPaT cut adverse reactions in half. It was 14 years before the U.S. finally licensed the less reactive Acellular Pertussis Vaccine and this only in response to continued pressure placed on the system by parents whose children were injured or died after being injected with whole cell Pertussis vaccine DPT. IOM Immunization Safety Review Session

Take a look at this study and be sure to read the last sentence. Study on DPT

Dr. Robert Reisinger

Dr. Robert Reisinger a Veterinary Scientist, has worked more than forty-five years studying this mechanism of death, and SIDS, in various mammalian species including calves, foals, Rhesus Monkeys and human infants. He has found in fact, that death is not sudden at all. He has proven breastfeeding plays a major part in whether or not the baby will thrive. He implicates E.Coli as the main culprit. This bacterium is a protein-loving organism. The protein content of human breast milk is lower than in any other mammal, and breast milk provides a hostile environment for E. Coli. It also contains neutralizing factors as well. The protein content of formula or any other milk supplement has a direct influence on the numbers of E. Coli in the gut of the child or calf. Example: One bottle of formula is enough to change a baby's gut micro flora dramatically, and it takes two weeks of exclusive breast-feeding to return the gut to normal.

According to La Leche League, breastfeeding is nature’s vaccine. The resistance to disease that human milk affords cannot be duplicated by any number of vaccines. Breastfed babies are less likely to experience Haemophilus Influence Type B, pneumonia and Meningitis. Large studies have shown that infants who were not breastfed had two to three times greater risk to die from SIDS than breastfed infants.

Because the natural antibodies are passed on to the baby through the ‘white blood’ or breast milk, the formula or soy formula fed baby has little or no maternal antibodies, no protection of gastrointestinal land respiratory mucosa. The half-life of this maternally acquired antibody through the placenta is twenty days, so at two months old the baby has only 1/8th of the antibodies he was born with, and at three months, has less than 1/16th. The baby is unable to produce his own protective antibodies for several more months. At this exceedingly vulnerable time it is imperative that he not be subjected to undue stress. His Reticulo Endothelial System, (which plays a major role in detoxification of harmful substances) is at its limit with E.Coli. He may be literally "up to the nose" in endotoxin (endotoxin is an integral part of the cell wall of E.Coli and other gram-negative bacteria) but still "holding his own.” When the ill-timed and ill-advised vaccination procedures are inflicted upon the baby, it can be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.

The impact on the Reticulo-Endothelial System is monstrous. Over just hours of time, small amounts of bacterial endotoxin, not detoxified by a temporarily dysfunctional Reticulo-Endothelial System, results in removal of blood platelets and fibrinogen from the circulating blood. This pushes the Reticulo-Endothelial System past the point of endurance, endotoxin slips through and out of the liver into the blood stream, injuring platelets. The result is the release of relatively large amounts of Serotonin from platelets into the blood plasma. Serotonin is one of the brain's major neurotransmitters. It is the biochemicals used by nerve cells to communicate with each other. Serotonin affects the entire body. In the central nervous system, it plays a role in sleep, appetite, memory, learning, temperature regulation, mood, sexual behavior, cardiovascular function, muscle contraction, endocrine regulation, and depression. Some experiments demonstrated the increase of plasma Serotonin almost one hundred fold after vaccination. Serotonin is associated with deep sleep. It stimulates the Vagus Nerve to slow and even stop the heart. If death occurs early in the course of this syndrome, it is due primarily to Serotonin effect. Thimerosal in the vaccine may also play a role. Take a look at this study: Serotonin

Endotoxin has a direct effect on cellular respiration. It interferes with metabolism of mitochondria, which are tiny structures found in every cell, which uses a molecular assembly line to convert food into the energy required for cellular functions. Cells derive approximately 70 percent of their daily energy needs from the mitochondria and approximately 20 percent from another process called glycolysis. High-energy tissues such as the nervous system, skeletal muscle and the heart are often compromised when there is a crisis within these cells. Between three and six hours, vascular capillary permeability has become more substantial, and varying amounts of edema and hemorrhage by the passage of blood cells through the unruptured vessel walls into the tissues may be apparent. After six to eight hours or more, fibrin-platelet clots have formed, and Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC) is present in lungs, kidneys, and other organs and tissues. Depending on where the clot settles decides the fate of the cells involved. For instance if it appears in the eye, blindness may result. If it settles in the ear, deafness is the outcome. When major organs are involved, Dr. Reisinger describes this whole effect as being SIDS. The parents of these children are sometimes charged with child abuse. Small hemorrhages in are found in the brain along with clots that might form as the result of a blow to the head. These parents are not only devastated at the loss of their baby but wrongly accused of hurting the child as well. The symptoms of “shaken baby syndrome” are the same as what Dr Reisinger describes as endotoxemia. FYI....vaccines contain endotoxin which is used as an adjuvant.

Shaken baby Syndrome

Dr Reisinger introduced me to work done by Dr Archie Kalokerinos. In his book the Medical Pioneer of the 20th Century, he makes an observation that turns out to be a life changing as well as life saving event. He was assigned a medical post in an aboriginal village where the SIDS rate was 50% of babies dying before a year old. He noticed their diet was deficient in many vitamins mainly Vitamin C. He noticed that a simple vitamin C shot given along with any cold or fever helped the babies tremendously. Another added benefit was the SIDS rate dropping to zero. Could something so simple really save lives? I decided to research vitamin C and the effects of not having an adequate supply. This is what I found on a simple Internet search.

A minor cold in an infant can cause vitamin C levels to be reduced by 50%. Tylenol reduces vitamin C levels. Doctors typically prescribe Tylenol before or after vaccination. We know from the work of Aleo and Padh in 1985, that endotoxin inhibits the uptake of Vitamin C in mice. Remember endotoxin is an adjuvant in vaccines. If the child is sick with a cold and is vaccinated, his level of vitamin C may be dangerously low. Without proper vitamin C levels, the child may be unable to handle the toxic load of the vaccines and a host of horrific events my take place. To quote Dr. Emanuel Cheraskin, Dr. Ringsdorf and Dr. Sisley from THE VITAMIN C CONNECTION: Ascorbic acid concentration of a healthy person is 8-14 mg/L, while adrenal glands, pituitary, thymus, corpus luteum, and retina have concentrations more than 100 times higher. The brain, spleen, lung, testicle, lymph glands, liver, thyroid, small intestinal mucosa, leukocytes, pancreas, kidney, and salivary glands have concentrations 10-50 times that of plasma. The skeletal, smooth and cardiac muscle, and erythrocytes have concentrations about 10 times that of plasma." Vitamin C supplementation would probably have a very positive affect on these organs particularly.

These are some of the effects of an inadequate amount of C. An affected person becomes weak and has joint pain. Internal hemorrhages cause black-and-blue marks to appear on the skin. At the first visible signs of scurvy, raised red spots appear on the skin around the hair follicles of the legs, buttocks, arms and back. When the tiny capillaries of the hair follicles hemorrhage, the hair-producing cells do not receive the nourishment needed for the hairs to grow normally.

Purple swellings and bleeding of the gums may occur if teething is in progress, because the lack of vitamin C makes the capillaries fragile and their rupture is common. The disease is more common in artificially fed infants. Cow’s milk contains less than half the vitamin C found in breast milk. Breast milk contains four times the amount of vitamin C that the mother has circulating in her bloodstream.

People with low Vitamin C levels have a tendency toward bone fractures. These symptoms are a result of the requirement for Vitamin C in the development of the ground substance between our cells, collagen. Collagen is a rigid, fibrous protein that is the principal constituent of connective tissue in animals, including bones, teeth, cartilage, tendons, skin, and blood vessels. Collagen's high tensile strength is due to the unique structure of its basic structural unit, tropocollagen, which consists of three left-handed helical polypeptide chains intertwined around each other in a right-handed triple helix. This is the cement that gives our tissues form and substance Collagens are principal components of tendons, ligaments, skin, bone, teeth, cartilage, heart valves, intervertebral discs, cornea, eye lens, in addition to the ground substance between cells. Some collagen forms in the absence of ascorbic acid, but the fibers are abnormal, resulting in skin lesions and blood vessel fragility, characteristics of scurvy.

Any tissue-related malady will have some basis in Vitamin C. A Japanese study concluded that most disc herniations are the result of Vitamin C deficiency. This makes sense. The discs in our spinal column are like donuts, with a tough, gristle-like exterior and a soft interior to provide cushioning. Lack of proper amounts of Vitamin C will produce a disc with compromised integrity. The tough exterior won't be so tough. Over time and much wear and tear, this compromised exterior will wear down and a pinhole will result. Moving just the right way (or should I say wrong way) will push some of the soft interior material out this pinhole. That is a disc herniation. If this squished-out material touches a nerve in your spinal column, it causes pain and usually a lot of it. Adequate Vitamin C will toughen up the outside portion of the disc and a herniation is much less likely. Similar to the example above concerning disc integrity, our blood vessels are quite susceptible to lack of Vitamin C.

According to Kumaravel Rajakurmar, MD, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, bone involvement is typical for infantile scurvy. The bony changes occur at the junction between the end of the diaphysis (shaft of the long bone) and growth cartilage. Osteoblasts (cells that form bone) fail to form osteoid (bone matrix), resulting in cessation of endochondral (within the cartilage) bone formation. Calcification of the growth cartilage at the end of the long bones continues, leading to the thickening of the growth plate. The typical invasion of the growth cartilage by the capillaries does not occur. Preexisting bone becomes brittle and undergoes resorption at a normal rate, resulting in microscopic fractures of the spicules (spike shaped bone or bone fragment) between the shaft and calcified cartilage. With these fractures, the periosteum becomes loosened resulting in the classic subperiosteal hemorrhage at the ends of the long bones. Intra-articular hemorrhage is rare, because the periosteal attachment to the growth plate is very firm. Proptosis (falling forward) of the eyeball secondary to orbital hemorrhage is a sign of scurvy.

This is what so many parents are convicted of shaken baby syndrome with. Number one being bruises near or around the eyes. Broken rib bones where the cartilage meets the bone. The small fractures of the ribs making it look like recurrent abuse. Hospitals do not generally measure vitamin C levels. How many mothers and fathers are in jail, wrongly convicted of shaken baby syndrome? How many childcare providers? Here is the latest casualty of this junk science Timothy. Who thinks to look for scurvy in an infant? It is so easy to see how a sick baby depleted of vitamin C could easily succumb to the toxic straw that breaks the camels back....vaccines. There is not one body process and not one disease or syndrome, from the common cold to leprosy, that is not influenced directly or indirectly by Vitamin C. Vitamin D deficiencies can also result in fractures. To read more about Rickets click on the word. Here is an excellent article by Susan Pearce an EMT explaining SBS. It's called: 'Is it child abuse or something else entirely?'

There are many other medical problems that resemble shaken baby syndrome. Click on the links to see a few.

Incontinentia Pigmenti

Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis

Metabolic Diseases

Hemophilia

Birth

Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura

Glutaric aciduria

Alagille's syndrome

Coagulation Disorders

Short falls

Protect yourself against false accusations. Click here Advice for parents for more info on how to do this.

Finally I see a glimmer of hope on the horizon. Read the following article:

http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2006/10/09/ddn101006babydeath.html Coroner: 2-month-old died of meningitis, not shaking baby Hospital defends its accusatory stance toward parents when child was brought in. By Anthony Gottschlich Staff Writer Tuesday, October 10, 2006 SUGARCREEK TWP., Montgomery County — As she cradled her infant son in the Intensive Care Unit at Children's Medical Center of Dayton, Amber Shawen sat mystified at the 2-month-old's sudden death.

Then hospital staff members approached her and her husband, Preston, with the unthinkable.

Amber and Preston Shawen of Sugarcreek Twp. are the parents of Ethan Alan Sawnen, who died at 2 months of meningitis. Doctors had attributed the death to Shaken Baby Syndrome. Staff photo by Bill ReinkeClick to enlarge "They told us it was Shaken Baby Syndrome," Amber Shawen recalled Monday from her home. "They pried my son out of my arms and told me I was under investigation." But Ethan Alan Shawen did not die from Shaken Baby Syndrome on Aug. 20. He died from meningitis, according to the autopsy report released by the Montgomery County Coroner's Office last week. An unknown organism caused the blood clots and swelling in Ethan's brain, the report states. No child abuse was found.

The report closes the Kettering Police Department's investigation of the case (the Shawens lived in Kettering when Ethan died) but brings little solace to the newlywed couple. "If someone would have caught (the meningitis diagnosis) sooner, Ethan would still be alive," Amber said.

Thomas Murphy, Children's vice president for medical affairs, said he couldn't talk about the Shawen case specifically because of privacy laws. He said that each patient death is reviewed at multiple levels, including after an autopsy, and that the Shawen family could meet with hospital staff members to discuss the case if desired. The treatable but sometimes fatal meningitis, or swelling of the outer layers of the brain and spinal cord, can be caused by a bacterium or virus. It shares several symptoms with Shaken Baby Syndrome, including vomiting, lethargy and seizures. The similarities raise questions about parents imprisoned for child abuse based on a Shaken Baby Syndrome diagnosis. Some medical experts and watchdog groups say the babies may be victims of undiagnosed vaccine damage.

If it weren't for the coroner's office, Amber said, "My husband would probably be sitting in jail, and so would I." Contact this reporter at (937) 225-7408 or agottschlich@DaytonDailyNews.com.

Hepatitis B

This disease can cause cirrhosis of the liver as well as liver cancer. However, this virus is sexually transmitted. People at high risk for getting hepatitis B disease (which is transmitted by coming into direct contact with an infected person's body fluids) are IV drug users, prostitutes, prisoners, and sexually promiscuous persons. This vaccine is produced from cultures commonly found in baker’s yeast. The vaccine is treated with formaldehyde and contains 95 percent hepatitis B virus surface antigen, 4 percent yeast protein, and aluminum hydroxide. The only babies at risk for this disease are babies born to Hepatitis B positive mothers and it is just that, a risk, not a given. In 1996, fifty-four cases were reported to the Center for Disease Control in the birth-to-1 age group. There were 3.9 million babies born that year so the incidence of hepatitis B is 0.001%. Does that sound like enough cases to warrant a vaccine? 90 to 95% of all hepatitis B cases recover completely after 3 to 4 weeks of nausea, fatigue, headache, arthritis, jaundice and tender liver. Approximately 50% of patients who contract Hepatitis B develop no symptoms after exposure. However, the exposure ensures that they will have life-time immunity. An additional 30% develop only flu-like symptoms, and again, this group will acquire life-time immunity. Of the remaining 20% exposed to Hepatitis B will develop the symptoms of the disease. 95% of this 20% will fully recover, with life-time immunity. Therefore, less than 5% of people who contract Hepatitis B will become chronic carriers of the infection.

Up to 17 percent of all hepatitis B vaccinations are followed by reports of fatigue and weakness, headache, arthritis and fever of more than 100 F. The vaccine can cause death, according to a 1994 Institute of Medicine report.

Australian scientist injured by the Hepatitis B vaccine (HBV).

Read about vaccine mode of action, immune reaction types (models), the Innate and Adaptive immune faculties, cytokines and immune dysregulation, cytotoxicity and auto immune shifts, vaccine-mediated chronic fatigue and neurological injury states, and immunologist’s dirty little secrets. Also, read about genetic sensitivity and how normal health can be lost by a simple inoculation, permitted by faith in the product and trust in the system.

Written over five years, the author’s 84 page Report represents a personal pursuit of the biological evidence, with a description of the body systems that were affected during the course of his injury. In short, a workshop manual of a vaccine injury.

The Report is written in the format of a scientific report, using cumulative empirical evidence to reveal a pattern of reaction and injury. Graphs and tables consolidate the evidence into a package that could only be described as compelling and unsettling.

Also included is a progressive glossary of definitions, and an investigation of the literature on HBV toxicity. Basic immunology of immune reactions, symptoms and syndromes; provides a background of comparative information.

Learn about immunology so you can make your own informed decisions. Find out for yourself what doctors and health agencies would never admit publicly, about vaccine toxicology. This First Edition, is the first public release by the author of this Report. Feel free to download or print out this Report.
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The Hepatitis B vaccine is the first one a baby is subjected to at twelve hours old. This is in hopes it will protect them when they are older. Developed in 1987, little is known whether immunity will last until one might fall into a high-risk category. It was originally targeted for promiscuous, needle injecting drug users, but when they wouldn’t come in for the shots the CDC decided to get these kids before they started “using.” Paradoxically, the CDC's own Fact Sheet on the hepatitis B disease does not include newborn babies as a risk group for that disease. So in the CDC’s own words, almost every newborn US baby is now greeted on its entry into the world by a vaccine injection against a sexually transmitted disease for which the baby is not at risk. All this because they couldn't get the junkies, prostitutes, promiscuous heterosexuals and homosexuals they believe to be at risk, to take the vaccine. This is the essence of the hepatitis B universal vaccination program.

The Physician's Desk Reference cites lethal adverse reactions to the hepatitis B in less than 1 percent. However, if more than 70 million American children receive the vaccine that means more than 700,000 children are likely to die. An ongoing holocaust, to which we hear nothing about. This is just one of twenty different doses of vaccines. Once you assume that a certain number of children are expendable, where do you draw the line?

The central fact, and the one that helps to explain these insane recommendations, is that the maker of hepatitis B vaccine, Merck makes one billion dollars a year from this vaccine. A billion dollars a year goes a long way toward influencing public policy. Merck doesn't have the best manufacturing record.

The group that is pushing this through is called The Hepatitis B coalition. Part of the Immunization Action Coalition, this group was started by a $750,000 grant from the CDC. The World Health Organization, World Bank, Rockefeller Foundation and ongoing funding from Smith-Kline, Merck, Aventis and Johnson & Johnson support it.

In the single dose hepatitis B vials, the drug companies have replaced the mercury with aluminum, which is another potent neurotoxin that has been associated with Alzheimer's. But who knows what damage it will do to the immature central nervous system of a one-day old infant.

A manufacturer's representative was asked in a 1997 Illinois Board of Health hearing to show evidence that the hepatitis B vaccine is safe for a 1-day old infant. The representative stated:

"We have none. Our studies were done on 5- and 10-year-olds."

--The Congressional Quarterly, August 25, 2000, pg. 647

Merck’s package insert states the following adverse effects have been documented; Rheumatoid Arthritis, Influenza, Vertigo, Myalgia, earache, dysuria, hypotension, Guillain-Barré syndrome, Multiple Sclerosis, myelitis, peripheral neuropathy such as Bell’s Palsy, radiculopathy and visual disturbances. Nothing is known about the long-term effects of this vaccine as no long-term large-scale controlled studies have been done. Children under the age of fourteen are three times more likely to suffer adverse effects including death following the Hepatitis B vaccine than to catch the disease itself. For more adverse effects click here

The only recombinant vaccine currently in use in humans is the Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) Recombinant vaccines are those in which genes for desired antigens are inserted into a vector, usually a virus, that has a very low virulence.

The vector expressing the antigen may be used as the vaccine, or the antigen may be purified and injected as a subunit vaccine. Advantages of recombinant vaccines are that the vector can be chosen to be not only safe but also easy to grow and store, reducing production cost. Antigens which do not elicit protective immunity or which elicit damaging responses can be eliminated from the vaccine, and proteins expressed on a virus, even if it is not the usual pathogen, are more likely to have their native conformation. Disadvantages of recombinant vaccines are their cost to develop, since the genes for the desired antigens must be located, cloned, and expressed efficiently in the new vector. The only recombinant vaccine currently in use in humans is the Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) vaccine, which is a recombinant subunit vaccine. Hepatitis B surface antigen is produced from a gene transfected into yeast cells and purified for injection as a subunit vaccine. This is much safer than using attenuated HBV, which could cause lethal hepatitis or liver cancer if it reverted to its virulent phenotype.

In 1997, U.S. federal health officials acknowledged that one of their own studies showed that particularly in older children, the vaccine may increase insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, but more studies are needed. France has already discontinued the Hepatitis B vaccine. Here is one study from there.

Autoimmun Rev. 2005 Feb;4(2):96-100. Related Articles, Links
Autoimmune hazards of hepatitis B vaccine.
Girard M. 1 bd de la Republique 78000-Versailles, France.

According to Hippocratic tradition, the safety level of a preventive medicine must be very high, as it is aimed at protecting people against diseases that they may not contract. This paper points out that information on the safety of hepatitis B vaccine (HBV) is biased as compared to classical requirements of evidence-based medicine (EBM), as exemplified by a documented selectivity in the presentation or even publication of available clinical or epidemiological data. Then, a review is made of data suggesting that HBV is remarkable by the frequency, the severity and the variety of its complications, some of them probably related to a mechanism of molecular mimicry leading to demyelinating diseases, and the others reproducing the spectrum of non-hepatic manifestations of natural hepatitis B. To be explained, this unusual spectrum of toxicity requires additional investigations based upon complete release of available data.

PMID: 15722255 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

If you would like to see the package insert on how this vaccine is made click on the healthy liver.

Here is an excerpt:

The antigen is harvested and purified from fermentation cultures of a recombinant strain of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae containing the gene for the adw subtype of HBsAg. The fermentation process involves growth of Saccharomyces cerevisiae on a complex fermentation medium which consists of an extract of yeast, soy peptone, dextrose, amino acids and mineral salts. The HBsAg protein is released from the yeast cells by cell disruption and purified by a series of physical and chemical methods. The purified protein is treated in phosphate buffer with formaldehyde and then coprecipitated with alum (potassium aluminum sulfate) to form bulk vaccine adjuvanted with amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate. The vaccine contains no detectable yeast DNA but may contain not more than 1% yeast protein. The vaccine produced by the Merck method has been shown to be comparable to the plasma-derived vaccine in terms of animal potency (mouse, monkey, and chimpanzee) and protective efficacy (chimpanzee and human).

Look at the words in bold and read these studies.

http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2036.2005.02417.x/abs/

Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Volume 21 Issue 7 Page 881 - April 2005
doi:10.1111/j.1365-2036.2005.02417.x

Anti-Saccharomyces cerevisiae and perinuclear anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies in coeliac disease before and after gluten-free diet
A. Granito*, D. Zauli*, P. Muratori*, L. Muratori*, A. Grassi*, R. Bortolotti*, N. Petrolini*, L. Veronesi*, P. Gionchetti, F. B. Bianchi* & U. Volta*
Summary

Background: Anti-Saccharomyces cerevisiae and perinuclear anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibodies are markers of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis respectively.

Aim: To determine the prevalence of anti-S. cerevisiae and perinuclear anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibodies in a large series of coeliac disease patients before and after gluten free diet, and to correlate anti-S. cerevisiae-positivity with intestinal mucosal damage.

Methods: One hundred and five consecutive coeliac disease patients and 141 controls (22 ulcerative colitis, 24 Crohn's disease, 30 primary sclerosing cholangitis, 15 postenteritis syndrome, 50 blood donors) were tested for anti-S. cerevisiae by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and for perinuclear anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibodies by indirect immunofluorescence.

Results: In coeliac disease anti-S. cerevisiae (immunoglobulin G and/or immunoglobulin A) were slightly less frequent (59%) than in Crohn's disease (75%, P = 0.16) and significantly more frequent than in ulcerative colitis (27%), primary sclerosing cholangitis (30%), postenteritis syndrome (26%) and blood donors (4%) (P = 0.009, P = 0.0002, P = 0.025, P < 0.0001). No correlation was found between anti-S. cerevisiae and degree of mucosal damage. Perinuclear anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibodies were detected only in one coeliac. After gluten free diet the disappearance of anti-S. cerevisiae-immunoglobulin A (93%) was more frequent than that of immunoglobulin G (17%, P = 0.0001); perinuclear anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibodies disappeared in the only coeliac positive at diagnosis.

Conclusion: More than half of untreated coeliacs are anti-S. cerevisiae-positive irrespective of the severity of mucosal damage. Differently from immunoglobulin A, anti-S. cerevisiae-immunoglobulin G persisted in more than 80% after gluten free diet. The high prevalence of anti-S. cerevisiae in coeliac disease suggests that they may be the effect of a non-specific immune response in course of chronic small bowel disease.

I wonder if there is some connection?

Here is another study.

http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2249.2005.02759.x/abs/

Clinical & Experimental Immunology
Volume 140 Issue 2 Page 354 - May 2005
doi:10.1111/j.1365-2249.2005.02759.x ORIGINAL ARTICLE CARD15 polymorphisms are associated with anti-Saccharomyces cerevisiae antibodies in caucasian Crohn's disease patients B. Vander Cruyssen*,1, H. Peeters,1, I. E. A. Hoffman*, D. Laukens, P. Coucke§, D. Marichal, C. Cuvelier¶, E. Remaut, E. M. Veys*, H. Mielants*, M. De Vos and F. De Keyser*
Summary Carriage of CARD15 gene polymorphisms and the serological marker anti-Saccharomyces cerevisiae antibodies (ASCA) are two markers for Crohn's disease (CD). Similar phenotypes have been associated with both markers. In the present study we analysed whether both markers were associated with each other and, if so, whether this association could be explained by a direct link or by an indirect association with those phenotypes. Therefore, we included 156 consecutive Caucasian CD patients and assessed the prevalence of the three common single nucleotide polymorphisms in the CARD15 gene. Serum samples were analysed for IgA and IgG ASCA by ELISA. CD patients with CARD15 polymorphisms were more frequently ASCA positive (OR 2·7 (1.45.2); P = 0·002) and had higher titres for ASCA IgA (P = 0·005) and ASCA IgG (P < 0·001) compared to patients carrying the wild type polymorphisms. Multivariate analysis demonstrated that this association was independent from ileal disease, penetrating disease and stricturing disease, the need for resective bowel surgery, familial cases, smoking habits and early age at onset. Homozygotes or compound heterozygotes for CARD15 polymorphisms had significantly more frequent ASCA positivity compared to single heterozygotes (OR 9·1 (1.174.2), Pc (corrected P-value) = 0·030). These data indicate that there is a significant association between the carriage of CARD15 polymorphisms and ASCA, independent of the described phenotypes. Moreover, ASCA positivity is more frequent in CD patients carrying 2 CARD15 polymorphisms compared to single heterozygotes

And another......

Gluten for punishment: Better eating puts celiac symptoms on the shelf
By Heather V. Eng
Sunday, August 7, 2005
http://theedge.bostonherald.com/healthNews/view.bg?articleid=96916
Do you know the Muffin Man?

Unless he's bearing gluten-free baked goods, more than 2 million Americans living with celiac disease avoid him like the plague. The autoimmune disease causes inflammation in the small intestine when gluten proteins from wheat, rye, barley and related grains are ingested. Celiac disease once was thought rare, but now is believed to affect 1 in 133 Americans. ``I'm seeing a lot more kids with celiac disease, but it's because of increased awareness of patients and pediatricians,'' said Dr. Gary Russell, a pediatric gastroenterologist at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Increased awareness? Or more kids getting Hep B vaccine at birth? If this isn't enough to help you make a decision not to inject your baby with Hep B vaccine, let me tell you about a company making a new Hep B vaccine for use first in England. Why England is not learning from the first lesson is beyond me.

The company is named Corixa and the new vaccine is called Fendrix. Here is the web

address:http://www.corixa.com/default.asp?pid=release_detail&id=262&year=2005

In case it disappears, I have saved it here Corixa

Corixa announces European approval for Fendrix®,
GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals' hepatitis B vaccine containing Corixa's MPL® adjuvant
02/08/2005

SEATTLE, February 8, 2005
Corixa Corporation (Nasdaq: CRXA), a developer of immunotherapeutics, today announced that GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals (GSK Bio) has received European approval for its hepatitis B vaccine, Fendrix®, containing Corixa’s MPL® adjuvant.

One of the first vaccines made with an extremely dangerous oil based adjuvant was 'Vaccine A' or Anthrax vaccine. In his book lauded Author Gary Matsumoto has ruthlessly documented the account of the cover-up of the true cause of Gulf War syndrome. He began his research while an embedded reporter for the New York Times during the first Gulf War. In his book Gary Matsumoto chronicles the use of this adjuvant from its early beginnings as Freund's complex through all of its incarnations. Other names for the adjuvant have been squalene, Tri-mix, DeTox, MF-59, MF59-100 and now the latest MPL. Experiments started in the 30’s, and by the 50’s scientists knew this adjuvant caused autoimmune diseases. Some of the side effects of the earlier versions are allergic spermatogenesis (stoppage of sperm production), MS, neuritis, blindness, lupus.

The problem is the adjuvant is an oil closely resembling the body's own lipids. It is designed to stimulant a heightened immune response which it does with a vengeance. Unfortunately after a period of time the body can become confused and attack it's own very similar oil or lipids. This process is called autoimmune. Russian researchers have referred to this adjuvant as a 'time bomb.' This book chronicles the experiments done on our service men and the carnage that has resulted. The latest of the experiments is about to begin on Europe's smallest, twelve hour old babies in England. Since this vaccine is given so soon after birth, the resulting problems may not initially be attributed to the vaccine. We will have to watch England's babies closely to see if we lose another generation of kids to autoimmune diseases and sterility. Take a look at what doctors at the University of Florida discovered about the adjuvant here:

Biomed Pharmacother. 2004 Jun;58(5):325-37. Autoimmunity induced by adjuvant hydrocarbon oil components of vaccine. Kuroda Y, Nacionales DC, Akaogi J, Reeves WH, Satoh M.

Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, ARB-R2-156, 1600 SW Archer Road, P.O. Box 100221 Gainesville, FL 32610-0221, USA.

Adjuvant oils such as Bayol F (Incomplete Freund's adjuvant: IFA) and squalene (MF59) have been used in human and veterinary vaccines despite poor understanding of their mechanisms of action. Several reports suggest an association of vaccination and various autoimmune diseases, however, few were confirmed epidemiologically and the risk of vaccination for autoimmune diseases has been considered minimal. Microbial components, not the adjuvant components, are considered to be of primary importance for adverse effects of vaccines. We have reported that a single intraperitoneal injection of the adjuvant oils pristane, IFA or squalene induces lupus-related autoantibodies to nRNP/Sm and -Su in non-autoimmune BALB/c mice. Induction of these autoantibodies appeared to be associated with the hydrocarbon's ability to induce IL-12, IL-6, and TNF-alpha, suggesting a relationship with hydrocarbon's adjuvanticity. Whether this is relevant in human vaccination is a difficult issue due to the complex effects of vaccines and the fact that immunotoxicological effects vary depending on species, route, dose, and duration of administration. Nevertheless, the potential of adjuvant hydrocarbon oils to induce autoimmunity has implications in the use of oil adjuvants in human and veterinary vaccines as well as basic research. Copyright 2004 Elsevier SAS

PMID: 15194169 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE

How much money is made on this vaccine? Here is except from this article found here...

http://www.in-pharmatechnologist.com/news/printNewsBis.asp?id=73554

SciGen aims for a share of the multibillion hep B vaccine market

By Susan Gotensparre

22/01/2007- Biopharmaceutical firm SciGen has invested $30m (€23.2m) in a hepatitis B vaccine manufacturing plant in Israel, expecting to capture up to 15 per cent of the global market during a three year period.

SciGen has announced the official opening of its $20m (€15.5m) vaccine manufacturing facility in Israel, supplying three million doses of the company’s third generation hepatitis B vaccine, Sci-B-Vac. The company is boosting their vaccine manufacturing to be able to ensure supply to their European and Asian commercial partners. In addition, a further $10m (€7.7m) has been invested to expand the Israeli facilities.

The world market for hepatitis B is $1.2bn (€0.93bn) - Europe and the Asia Pacific region represent 40 per cent - but is expected to increase due to rising awareness of hepatitis B and increased public health expenditure, according to SciGen. The firm has high expectations of explosive annual sales figures from the third quarter of 2007, followed by an anticipated triple digit growth in 2008.

Take a look at this:

VACCINES are listed as a cause more than once:

http://www.emedicine.com/ped/topic2555.htm

Background: Gianotti-Crosti syndrome (GCS) is a distinct infectious exanthem with associated lymphadenopathy and acute anicteric hepatitis. Gianotti and Crosti initially described GCS as associated with a hepatitis B virus exanthem, which they termed papular acrodermatitis of childhood. A similar constellation of characteristics was later found to be associated with several infectious agents and immunizations that were called papulovesicular acrolocated syndromes. Subsequent retrospective studies have shown that these 2 entities are indistinguishable from one another, and they are now consolidated under the unifying title of GCS.

Pathophysiology: The most likely explanation for the exanthem is a local type IV hypersensitivity reaction to the offending viral or bacterial antigen within the dermis. This is based on the immunohistochemical characterization of the cutaneous inflammatory infiltrate. Findings on direct immunofluorescence examination of the skin are always negative. Electron microscopy has never revealed virus particles that suggested a reactive process other than an autoimmune phenomenon or direct infection of the skin. Inciting factors include various viral and bacterial infections, as well as recent immunizations. The rarity of GCS in adults suggests lifelong immunity to a common viral triggering agent. GCS is more common among children with atopic dermatitis, suggesting an immune mechanism. However, more information is needed in order to define the precise mechanism involved.

Frequency:

* In the US: Because of the benign self-limited nature of GCS, most cases are not reported, and the overall incidence is unknown. Frequency probably parallels the incidence of a precipitating infection in a specific geographic region.

* Internationally: The underlying infection correlates with the endemic pathogens of a specific geographic region. For example, in Japan and Mediterranean countries, GCS is more commonly associated with hepatitis B virus infection. With the advent of more universal hepatitis B immunization, Epstein-Barr virus is now the most common etiologic factor worldwide.

Mortality/Morbidity:

* The mere presence of a rash elicits some degree of social morbidity, depending on the age of the affected child.

* Although typically nonpruritic, some reports document pruritus in the later stages of the rash.

* The only significant morbidity involves the underlying infectious process, particularly the hepatitis B virus.

Race: No racial predilection has been noted; however, the underlying infection correlates with the endemic pathogens of a specific geographic region.

Sex: In the pediatric population, GCS affects males and females with equal frequency. However, affected adults have been exclusively female.

Age: GCS primarily occurs in children aged 3 months to 15 years, with a peak in children aged 1-6 years. More than 90% of patients are younger than 4 years.

HiB

HiB or H.influenza is the next vaccine given along with DTaP at two, four and six months. HiB is not a vaccine against Meningitis in general; its only target is one subtype of one of the many bacteria, not to mention the many viruses that cause Meningitis. Haemophilus Influenza, the bacterium targeted by this vaccine, is commonly present in the mucosa of the throat without doing any harm at all. Granoff et al completed one key study in 1986 in which it was found that vaccinated children that contracted HiB Meningitis actually had lower serum antibody levels against this disease than non-vaccinated children from the same age groups. The study went further and looked at fifty-five children who had contracted invasive HiB at least three weeks after they had been vaccinated. Thirty-nine of these children developed Meningitis, of whom three died. A Finnish study of 114,000 children, found that those who received four doses of the vaccine had a higher incidence of Type 1 Diabetes than those who received only one dose. In a more disturbing study Hib may be changing and becoming more virulent do to vaccination. Viruses want to stay alive just like anything else in nature and to do this they must adapt. Take a look at this study and see what you think.

Emerging Diseases

http://www.infectiousdiseasenews.com/200111/frameset.asp?article=Influenzae= .asp

New Haemophilus influenzae pathogen may be emerging

Non-b serotypes of Haemophilus influenzae may be replacing Hib as a serious pathogen.
November 2001

SALT LAKE CITY While Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) has been nearly eliminated as a major cause of serious disease in children, other serotypes, especially H. influenzae type a, may have acquired virulence traits and may be emerging as disease-causing pathogens.

A recent report in Pediatrics described 5 cases of H. influenzae type a, 2 of which were strikingly reminiscent of disease caused by Hib, said the report. In 2 other cases, infections were similar to Hib infections, but different enough to suggest that 2 distinct clones of H. influenzae type a may be circulating concurrently.

Case reports In December 1998, a previously healthy 6-month-old girl presented to her doctor with lethargy, irritability and poor oral intake for 1 day, following episodes of altered consciousness and peripheral cyanosis. Upon admission to the hospital, her blood pressure was 40/20 mm Hg, pulse was 210 beats/min and her tympanic temperature was 39.4° C; there was purpura present on the nose, ear and legs, and petechiae on her face and trunk. Medical history revealed that she had received 3 doses of Hib conjugate vaccine.

The infant required intubation and mechanical ventilation with fluid support and was given intravenous cefotaxime (Claforan, Aventis), vancomycin and gentamicin. Laboratory testing revealed a white blood count (WBC) of 4,900/mm3, hematocrit 27.5% and a platelet count of 35,000/mm3. Cultures of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and blood grew H. influenzae type a.

Treatment was further complicated by renal failure, purpura fulminans and subdural empyema; soft-tissue necrosis ultimately required the amputation of 2 toes, said the report. The second patient, a 1-year-old girl, was admitted to the hospital in June 1999 with a 3-day history of vomiting, fever, irritability, diarrhea and seizures. The infant also had received 3 doses of Hib conjugate vaccine.

An initial exam of the 1-year-old showed that she was toxic appearing and minimally responsive. CSF was cloudy; the WBC was 1,660/mm3, red blood count 70/mm3, glucose 34 mg/dl and protein levels were 300 mg/ml. Cultures of the CSF and blood grew H. influenzae serotype a. The second patient's hospitalization was complicated by aseptic necrosis of the right femoral head and prolonged fever. Following 4 weeks of treatment with cefotaxime, she was discharged with evidence of reduced hearing and regression of fine and gross motor skills.

Epidemiology and infectivity

There had been no reported cases of invasive disease caused by H. influenzae type a in Utah between 1991 and 1998. However, between November 1998 and October 1999, there were 4 reported cases in children ranging from 6-13 months of age. All cases displayed bacteremia and meningitis, and 3 had prolonged fever, subdural empyema and aseptic necrosis of the hip common markers for Hib. A review of laboratory records for the same period revealed a fifth patient who grew H. influenzae type a on pure culture.

Previously reported cases of H. influenzae type a occurred exclusively in patients older than 5 years. Serotype a strains isolated from 3 of the patients demonstrated the IS1016-bexA deletion that has been described in invasive type a and type b strains. DNA sequencing, assisted by primers specific to IS1016 and bexA, amplified a 362 base-pair sequence that confirmed the finding.

Three H. influenzae type a strains with the IS1016-bexA deletion may have recombined with a circulating Hib strain because Haemophilus strains are transformable. Most virulent Hib strains contain a 1,198 base-pair sequence that removes a portion of IS1016 and bexA, promoting gene amplification, resulting in an increase in the production of capsules and increasing the virulence of Hib. The areas where IS1016 and bexA are usually found are surrounded by transposable elements, further suggesting the possibility of a recombinant H. influenzae type a strain.

The 2 other patients lacked the IS1016-bexA deletion, but nevertheless suffered invasive disease due to H. influenzae type a, the report stated.

For more information:
Adderson E, Byington C, Spencer L, et al. Invasive serotype a Haemophilus influenzae infections with a virulence genotype resembling Haemophilus influenzae type b: emerging pathogen in the vaccine era Pediatrics. 2001;108(1):e18.

HiB infection is only a threat to a compromised immune system. If your baby is born healthy you might want to forgo this one. However if you decide to vaccinate against this do so with only one dose. Here is the Package insert for you to read. If your baby is premature, this is a good article to read

Also, the incidence of invasive Haemophilus b disease peaks between 6 months and 1 year of age, and approximately 55% of disease occurs between 6 and 18 months of age. Interpersonal transmission of Haemophilus b occurs and risk of invasive disease is increased in children younger than 4 years of age who are exposed in the household to a primary case of disease. Clusters of cases in children in day care have been reported and recent studies suggest that the rate of secondary cases may also be increased among children exposed to a primary case in the daycare setting.

Here is the latest incarnations of the vaccine.

Acthib

Haemophilus b Conjugate Vaccine (Tetanus Toxoid Conjugate) - ActHIB® is identical to Haemophilus b Conjugate Vaccine (Tetanus Toxoid Conjugate) - OmniHIB® (distributed by SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals); and is manufactured by Pasteur Mérieux Sérums Vaccins S.A.ActHIB®, Haemophilus b Conjugate Vaccine (Tetanus Toxoid Conjugate), produced by Aventis Pasteur SA, is a sterile, lyophilized powder which is reconstituted at the time of use with either saline diluent (0.4% Sodium Chloride) or Aventis Pasteur Inc. (AvP) Diphtheria and Tetanus Toxoids and Pertussis Vaccine Adsorbed (whole-cell pertussis vaccine D.P. or Tripedia®, AvP Diphtheria and Tetanus Toxoids and Acellular Pertussis Vaccine Adsorbed (DTaP) (when reconstituted known as TriHIBitTM) for intramuscular use only. The vaccine consists of the Haemophilus b capsular polysaccharide (polyribosyl- ribitol- phosphate, PRP), a high molecular weight polymer prepared from the Haemophilus influenzae type b strain 1482 grown in a semi-synthetic medium, covalently bound to tetanus toxoid.1 The lyophilized ActHIB® powder and saline diluent contain no preservative. The tetanus toxoid is prepared by extraction, ammonium sulfate purification, and formalin inactivation of the toxin from cultures of Clostridium tetani (Harvard strain) grown in a modified Mueller and Miller medium.2 The toxoid is filter sterilized prior to the conjugation process. Potency of ActHIB® is specified on each lot by limits on the content of PRP polysaccharide and protein in each dose and the proportion of polysaccharide and protein in the vaccine which is characterized as high molecular weight conjugate.

When ActHIB® is reconstituted with saline diluent, each single dose of 0.5 mL is formulated to contain 10 µg of purified capsular polysaccharide conjugated to 24 µg of inactivated tetanus toxoid, and 8.5% of sucrose.

When ActHIB® is combined with AvP DTP vaccine by reconstitution, each single dose (0.5 mL) is formulated to contain 10 µg of purified capsular polysaccharide conjugated to 24 µg of inactivated tetanus toxoid 8.5% of sucrose 6.7 Lf of diphtheria toxoid, 5 Lf of tetanus toxoid, and an estimate of 4 protective units of pertussis vaccine. Thimerosal (mercury derivative) 1:10,000 is added as a preservative to AvP DTP vaccine. (Refer to product insert for AvP whole-cell DTP.)

When ActHIB® is combined with Tripedia® (TriHIBitTM) by reconstitution for booster dose, each single dose (0.5 mL) is formulated to contain 10 µg of purified capsular polysaccharide conjugated to 24 µg of inactivated tetanus toxoid, 8.5% of sucrose, 6.7 Lf of diphtheria toxoid, 5 Lf of tetanus toxoid and 46.8 µg of pertussis antigens. Thimerosal (mercury derivative) 1:10,000 is added as a preservative to Tripedia®. (Refer to product insert for Tripedia®.)

The reconstituted vaccine, using saline diluent, appears clear and colorless. The reconstituted vaccine, using AvP DTP vaccine, appears whitish in color. TriHIBitTM, the reconstituted vaccine, using Tripedia® is a homogenous white suspension.

Manufacturer: Wyeth-Ayerst

And then there is the plant contamination issue...

Common Children's Vaccine Recalled By MIKE STOBBE and LINDA A. JOHNSON – 2 hours ago

ATLANTA (AP) — More than a million doses of a common vaccine given to babies as young as 2 months were being recalled Wednesday because of contamination risks, but the top U.S. health official said it was not a health threat. The recall is for 1.2 million doses of the vaccine for Hib, which protects against meningitis, pneumonia and other serious infections, and a combination vaccine for Hib and hepatitis B. The vaccine is recommended for all children under 5 and is usually given in a three-shot series, starting at 2 months old.

Drug maker Merck & Co., which announced the recall after testing this week showed a sterility problem in a Pennsylvania factory, said concerned parents should contact their child's doctor. "The potential for contamination of any individual vaccine is low," said Merck spokeswoman Kelley Dougherty. Dr. Julie Gerberding, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, echoed that in a news conference. "This is not a health threat in the short run, but it is an inconvenience," she said. Merck produces about half of the nation's annual supply of 14 million doses of Hib vaccine.

Barbara Kuter, executive director of pediatric medical affairs for Merck, told The Associated Press that because of the contamination, the company's production line has been shut down for at least nine months.

"Manufacture of vaccines is pretty complicated, and we have to basically make some changes in the process," then get approval from the Food and Drug Administration before resuming production and shipments, Kuter said. Merck hopes to restart production in the fourth quarter of 2008, she said. "It's likely that there's going to be a shortage of this product," Kuter said, adding that the impact on the public is unclear because the other company making the vaccine in the U.S., Sanofi Pasteur, may be able to produce more. Health officials said they already are talking about prioritizing shots for American Indian and Alaska Native children, who are considered at higher risk for Hib-caused illnesses, said Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.

Health officials said they did not know how many of the 1.2 million doses were administered to children.

The recalled doses are considered potent, so children who got vaccine from the recalled lots will not have to be revaccinated, Schuchat said.

Parents will probably be concerned, CDC officials acknowledged. Should the vaccine later prove contaminated, health officials believe most children will experience, at worst, a skin irritation around the vaccination site. Problems could be worse for children with compromised immune systems.

Such problems would have appeared within one week of the vaccination, Schuchat said, adding that there have been no reports suggesting vaccine contamination so far.

The contamination involved unspecified equipment used in making the vaccine, which involves taking concentrated Hib virus, diluting it and combining it with other agents. Kuter said that during a routine evaluation of Merck's West Point, Pa., vaccine plant, a sterility test determined that the equipment was contaminated with a bacteria called Bacillus cereus, or B. cereus.

It is a spore-making microorganism commonly associated with food poisoning and has caused diarrhea and vomiting in people who eat contaminated foods. It's one of the most common organisms" around, Kuter said. The recall is likely to heighten a debate over childhood vaccines and their safety and whether too many are required. Some parents are distrustful and suspect some vaccines of being linked to autism, although scientific studies have not shown such a connection. This week, New Jersey took a controversial step toward becoming the first state to require flu shots for preschoolers after a health advisory board backed new vaccine requirements over opposition from parents.

Merck, based in Whitehouse Station, N.J., is one of the few drug makers that produces a significant number of vaccines.

While the company took a black eye with its September 2004 withdrawal of the painkiller Vioxx due to increased risk of heart attacks and strokes, the company has been performing well recently. On Tuesday, it gave an upbeat assessment in its annual briefing for analysts.

Five weeks ago, Merck reached a deal to settle up to 50,000 Vioxx lawsuits for $4.85 billion, an amount expected to save the company millions in trial costs.

Its stock price has more than recovered from its post-Vioxx slump, a two-year-old restructuring plan is going well and profits are up. For example, Merck posted a 62 percent increase in its third-quarter profit as revenues jumped by double digits.

The company also has had an impressive seven new products approved for U.S. sale in the last two years, including three vaccines: RotaTeq, to prevent an intestinal virus that is the top cause of early childhood diarrhea; Zostavax to prevent shingles, and Gardasil, to block the virus that causes cervical cancer.

Merck shares fell 68 cents Wednesday to close at $59.72 before the recall announcement. The shares fell 12 cents in after-hours trading.

AP Medical Writer Mike Stobbe reported from Atlanta and AP Business Writer Linda A. Johnson reported from Trenton, N.J.

It looks like the vaccine isn't working anyway. Take a look here....

Even with vaccine shortage, Hib rates not rising Pediatricians and public health officials need to be sure that complete serotype data on patients infected with Haemophilus influenzae are available and reported in this era of deferred booster vaccinations, according to a speaker at the 43rd National Immunization Conference, held in Dallas this week. Lt. Michael L. Jackson, PhD, MPH, of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases Department at CDC, reported on the H. influenzae type b rates since the CDC recommended deferral of the booster dose in December of 2007. The CDC took this action when officials at Merck recalled the company’s vaccine due to manufacturing complications. A few months later, Merck officials noted a change in the company’s production processes, which also extended the vaccine shortages in the vaccine supply.

There has not been a resurgence in the rate of invasive Hib since the shortage, according to data compiled by Jackson and colleagues from the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System and the Active Bacterial Core surveillance system.

Jackson and colleagues noted 763 cases of H. influenzae among children younger than age 5. Of those, 6.4% were serotype B. However, Jackson said that 19 of 49 jurisdictions reporting H. influenzae cases were missing serotype data on more than half of their cases, and seven were missing serotype data for all cases.

He said this data is key in light of the vaccine shortage, as CDC officials plan to continue monitoring trends in HIB cases as the shortages are resolved. – by Colleen Zacharyczuk

For more information:

Jackson ML. #71. Presented at: National Immunization Conference. March 30-April 2, 2009; Dallas.

Polio

A mystery with enormous implications has stumped some of the smartest minds in cancer research. How, might a cancer-causing monkey virus, wind up in human tumors? The mystery began in 1988 with Dr. Michael Carbone. He found the SV40 virus in 60% of the human lung tumors he was studying, (SV40 stands for Simian Virus the 40th virus found). Eventually, sixty different labs confirmed the results.

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2000/02/002bookchin.htm

In the same year in Boston, two researchers stumbled onto something disturbing. Dr. Robert Garcea and his assistant, Dr. John Bergsagel, were using a powerful new tool called polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, to look for a pair of common human viruses in children's brain tumors. But a different DNA footprint kept popping up in more than half the tumors. They finally realized they were seeing SV40. For more than a decade, scientists had reported sporadic findings of SV40-like proteins in human tumors. But the earlier tests were primitive and the results suspect. PCR, however, is capable of amplifying infinitesimal fragments of DNA, which makes detections far more credible. The findings were troubling. The researchers noted in their published report that the children were too young to have received the contaminated vaccine. But somehow the virus had infected them and embedded itself in their tumors.

PCR unleashed a wave of SV40 discoveries. By the end of 1996, dozens of scientists reported finding SV40 in a variety of bone cancers and a wide range of brain cancers, which had risen 30 percent over the previous 20 years. Then, Italian researchers reported finding SV40 in 45 percent of the seminal fluid samples and 23 percent of the blood samples they had taken from healthy donors. That meant SV40 could have been spreading through sexual activity, from mother to child, or by other means, which could explain how those never inoculated with the contaminated vaccine, such as the Boston children, were being infected.

The Oral Sabin Polio vaccine is cultured in monkey kidney tissue. Vaccine makers insist every batch of Polio vaccine is screened for contaminants such as SV40. But a lawyer involved in a recent Polio case just published a report claiming the contamination continues. "Many here voice a silent view that the Salk and Sabin Polio vaccine, being made of monkey kidney tissue has been directly responsible for the major increase in Leukemia in this country,” states Dr. Frederick Klenner Polio Researcher, USA. This disease hardly occurs in the West anymore. However, it seems the days of Polio are still with us. Not in the form of acute viral outbreaks of fever and paralysis, but in the unexplored statistics on the long-term effects from the viral contaminated Polio vaccines given to countless children and adults three decades ago. What other undetectable monkey viruses have been transmitted in the vaccine batches lately? These unanswered questions continue to resurface in today's research and still riddle retired scientist Ben Sweet. As a senior research scientist for a major pharmaceutical company from 1959 to 1964, Dr. Sweet was one of those responsible for the research, development and field-testing of the killed Polio virus vaccine. As many as twenty six of the Simian contaminants were readily detected but still other viruses, like SV40 slipped past rigorous quality control testing procedures available at that time.

Four years after the development of the Salk vaccine, Bernice Eddy of the National Institutes of Health discovered the contamination of the vaccine with SV40. she noticed something strange while looking through her microscope. Monkey kidney cells, the same kind used to make the vaccine. were dying without apparent cause. So she tried an experiment. She prepared kidney extracts from eight to ten rhesus monkeys and injected tiny amounts under the skin of twenty-three new born hamsters. Within nine months, ‘large, malignant, subcutaneous tumors’ appeared on twenty of the animals. On July 6, 1960, concerned that a monkey virus might be contaminating the polio vaccine, Eddy took her findings to Dr. Joseph Smadel, chief of the NIH’s biologics division. Smadel dismissed the tumors as harmless ‘lumps.’ The same year, however, at a Merck laboratory in Pennsylvania, Dr. Maurice Hilleman (don't miss this video above) and Dr. Ben Sweet isolated the virus. They called it simian virus 40, or SV40, because it was the 40th virus found in rhesus kidney tissue.

In the aftermath of the debacle, Bernice Eddy was taken off of polio research and transferred to the influenza section by the thankless NIH management. She shared her frustrations with a small group of women scientists who ate brown-bag lunches on the steps of one of the laboratories. There, Eddy met a tenacious woman scientist named Sarah Stewart, who was waging her own battle against the official paradigms of bureaucratic medicine. Bernice Eddy and Sarah Stewart became close friends. Sarah Stewart’s name remains virtually unknown today despite her huge contribution to modern medicine. Not only did she prove that some cancers were caused by viruses, but subsequent research on the virus she discovered led o the discovery of DNA recombination, which is the most powerful tool in medical research today. From the beginning, Sarah Stewart promoted the idea that cancer was caused by viruses. Due to this, she was not well accepted by the NIH or NCI staffs who described her as ‘an eccentric lady’ determined to prove her theory was right. ‘No one believed her .’ Finally, she was given access to an NCI laboratory in Bethesda where she could try to prove her theories. In 1953, she almost succeeded, but her work was not accepted by the ruling crowd at NIH. They found her methods sloppy and objected to the fact that she did not culture her viruses. So in 1956, her lunch partner Bernice Eddy showed Sarah Stewart how to grow her viruses in a culture of mouse cells. She now had all the ingredients she needed and began a series of experiments which are called ‘classic’ by modern day NIH researchers. In 1957, Stewart and Eddy discovered the polyoma virus which produced several types of cancer in a variety of small mammals. Polyoma proved that some cancers were indeed caused by viruses. Her discovery officially threw open the doors of cancer virology. As Rabson phrased it, ‘Suddenly, the whole place just exploded after Sarah found polyoma.’ It was the beginning of a new era of hope. But it raised some dark questions about earlier deeds. Before long Yale’s laboratory discovered that the polyoma virus that had produced the cancer in Stewart’s mice and hamsters turned out to be virtually identical to Simian Virus #40 (SV-40). In October 1960, Eddy gave a talk to the Cancer Society in New York and, without warning NIH in advance, announced that she had examined cells from the monkeys kidneys in which the polio virus was grown and had found they were infected with cancer causing viruses. Her inference was clear: There were cancer-causing monkey viruses in the polio vaccine. She warned an epidemic of cancer in America was in the making. When the word got back to her NIH bosses, they exploded in anger. When the cussing stopped, they crushed Bernice Eddy professionally. Any mention of cancer-causing monkey viruses in the polio vaccine was not welcomed by NIH. They took away her lab, destroyed her animals, put her under a gag order, prevented her from attending professional meetings, and delayed publication of her scientific paper. In the words of Edward Shorter, author of The Health Century, ‘Her treatment became a scandal within the scientific community.’ Later, it became the subject of a congressional inquiry. In the words of Dr. Lawrence Kilham, a fellow NIH researcher who wrote a latter of protest to the Surgeon General’s office, ‘the presence of a cancer virus in the polio virus vaccine is the matter demanding full investigation.

Dr. Adi Gazdar of the University of Texas, who led the second study, said it had to be more than coincidence that the four types of tumors found in hamsters after injection with SV40, brain, bone, mesothelioma and lymphomas, are now exactly the same tumor types in humans found with detectable levels of SV40.

Dr. Sweet said, “It was a frightening discovery because, back then, it was not possible to detect the virus with the testing procedures we had. The Simian Viruses were inadvertently introduced into the vaccine pool because the Polio virus was grown in monkey (Rhesus, Patas, or Cynomolgus) kidney cells.” In his 1960 paper, The Vacuolating Virus: SV40, Sweet and co-author M.R. Hilleman wrote, "This new virus represents the detection for the first time of a hitherto non-detectable Simian Virus of monkey renal cultures and raises the important question of the existence of other such viruses.” Sweet says there were two things that the research team had determined: "First, we knew that SV40 had cancer-causing properties in hamsters which was bad news. Secondly, we found out that it hybridized with certain DNA viruses, like Adeno virus.” When you introduce unstable animal viruses into man, there is a risk of recombinant (the formation of new combinations of linked genes) events occurring which can produce new kinds of diseases.

For example the Adeno virus would then have SV40 genes attached to it. All three types of Sabin's live Poliovirus vaccine were contaminated. There were specific laboratory difficulties associated with Adeno virus, now carrying an attached form of SV40. Sweet describes, "When we started growing the vaccines, we just couldn't get rid of the SV40-contaminated virus. We tried to neutralize it, but couldn't. Either Adeno or SV40 would come out down the line. It was too late to switch gears and start using raccoon or chicken systems, because then you could be dealing with another whole set of viruses.”

To some, the term "contaminated" carries with it intent of malice, but Dr. Sweet says this is clearly not the case. Sweet noted that persons fed live SV40 contaminated Poliovirus vaccine orally, or inactivated Salk-type vaccine intramuscularly, showed strong evidence of antibody production to Polioviruses. In addition, the vaccine recipients were not showing significant harmful effects or antibody production, in the short term, to SV40, which was encouraging. By 1968, all sorts of viruses, Adenovirus, Papovaviruses (there are 120 types of human papillomavirus (HPV) identified. HPV causes essentially all cervical cancer and anogenital warts. HPV is a DNA tumor virus similar to SV40 and polyomavirus), Herpes viruses, Poxviruses, Picornaviruses, Enteroviruses, Myxoviruses and Reoviruses had been discovered. Additional overlooked viral contaminants included Epstein Barr commonly called mononucleosis and Simian Cytomegalovirus. Infection with c ytomegalovirus (CMV) is the leading cause of congenital deafness, blindness, mental retardation, and seizures secondary to maternal infection and accounts for disease in 40,000 infants per year in the United States. Simian foamy retroviruses were also found and that included the unique AIDS-linked enzyme "reverse transcriptase." The virus numbers were up to SV59.

Hilleman would later explain that government officials were worried that any potentially negative information could ignite a panic and jeopardize the vaccination campaign. With the exception of viral vaccines, no pharmaceutical product intended for human use requires the use of simian cultures. The cross-species cultivation of vaccines is clearly laden with risks, risks that may be irreversible, carrying consequences too great to endure. The fact that the original vaccines were contaminated and current Polio vaccines are still grown on African Green Monkey tissues is just one more indication that government vaccine officials have created dangerous public health policies.

SV-40 has other uses as well. If you want to test a new cancer drug and you need transgenic mice, SV-40 does a wonderful job of causing cancer in mice. Click the green SV-40 to read the study.

Read this excellent article below by Walter Kyle, an attorney who has represented the vaccine injured.

Take a look at the story or Henrietta Lacks and tell me if you think using her immortal cancer cells to grow polio vaccine is a good idea. On one hand at least they were our same DNA but on the other, do you think its a good idea to inject cancer cells inside you?

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For other uses, see Hela (disambiguation).
HeLa (cells)
Scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic HeLa cell. Zeiss Merlin HR-SEM.

Multiphoton fluorescence image of cultured HeLa cells with a fluorescent protein targeted to the Golgi apparatus (orange), microtubules (green) and counterstained for DNA (cyan). Nikon RTS2000MP custom laser scanning microscope.

Anatomical terminologyA HeLa cell /ˈhiːlɑː/, also Hela or hela cell, is a cell type in an immortal cell line used in scientific research. It is the oldest and most commonly used human cell line.[1] The line was derived from cervical cancer cells taken on February 8, 1951,[2] from Henrietta Lacks, a patient who eventually died of her cancer on October 4, 1951. The cell line was found to be remarkably durable and prolific — which has led to its contamination of many other cell lines used in research.[3][4]

The cells from Henrietta's tumor were taken (without her knowledge or consent) by researcher George Gey, who "discovered that [Henrietta's] cells did something they'd never seen before: They could be kept alive and grow."[5]Before this, cells cultured from other cells would only survive for a few days. Scientists spent more time trying to keep the cells alive than performing actual research on the cells, but some cells from Lacks's tumor sample behaved differently from others. George Gey was able to isolate one specific cell, multiply it, and start a cell line. Gey named the sample HeLa, after the initial letters of Henrietta Lacks' name. As the first human cells grown in a lab that were "immortal" (they do not die after a few cell divisions), they could be used for conducting many experiments. This represented an enormous boon to medical and biological research.[4]

The stable growth of HeLa enabled a researcher at the University of Minnesota hospital to successfully grow polio virus, enabling the development of a vaccine.[6] By 1954 Jonas Salk developed a vaccine for polio using these cells.[4][7] To test Salk's new vaccine, the cells were quickly put into mass production in the first-ever cell production factory.[8]

In 1955 HeLa cells were the first human cells successfully cloned.[9]

Demand for the HeLa cells quickly grew. Since they were put into mass production, Henrietta's cells have been used by scientists around the globe for "research into cancer, AIDS, the effects of radiation and toxic substances, gene mapping, and countless other scientific pursuits".[7] HeLa cells have been used to test human sensitivity to tape, glue, cosmetics, and many other products.[4] Scientists have grown some 20 tons of her cells,[4][10] and there are almost 11,000 patents involving HeLa cells.[4]

Some doctors are of the belief that Polio has not been eradicated by vaccination, that it is lurking behind a redefinition and new diagnostic names like Viral or Aseptic Meningitis. As the recorded cases of "Polio" continued to decline, there was a significant increase in "Cerebral palsy" or "Aseptic (Viral) Meningitis" and "Guillain-Barré Syndrome.

For example, in Los Angeles County in 1955, reported cases of Polio numbered 273. Reported cases of Aseptic Meningitis, which has a clinical course similar to Polio, were 50. The Polio vaccine was introduced in 1956. In 1966, reported cases of Polio had dropped to 50, however, cases of aseptic Meningitis had risen to 256. It is possible that now that vaccines are widely available, only infections with classical symptoms are diagnosed and counted in compiling disease rates, artificially lowering reported incidence. (Miller, 1994).

Take a look at the definitions from Encarta for Polio then compare them to Meningitis.

Polio as defined by Encarta:

Early symptoms include fatigue, headache, fever, vomiting, constipation, stiffness of the neck, or less commonly, diarrhea and pain in the extremities.

Meningitis as defined by Encarta:

Lethargy, severe headache, high fever vomiting, stiff neck, back pain, muscle aches, sensitivity of the eyes to light, drowsiness, confusion, and even loss of consciousness. Some children have convulsions. In infants, the symptoms of Meningitis are often more difficult to detect and may include irritability and loss of appetite.

Since 1979 the vaccine caused the only known cases of Polio. On June 17, 1999 government officials voted for exclusive use of the inactivated Poliovirus vaccine. There is hope this vaccination can be abandoned world wide soon. Check out the new hope.....

Read an excerpt from a talk by Kihura Nkuba a radio show host in Africa. He found out about how dangerous this vaccine is. Click Here

Don't miss this FDA sponsored workshop and the discussions on rogue virus in the vaccines.

Here is an excellent article I just found on yet another monkey virus. This one causes Kaposi's sarcoma other wise known as the gay cancer. Its by Dr Alan Cantwell, M.D and appears on Rense.com. Kaposi's sarcoma to read it.

Don't miss Neil Z. Miller's article on polio, its excellent.

http://www.thinktwice.com/Polio.pdf

Pneumococcal Conjugate

The Pneumococcal Conjugate is also given at two, four, six, and twelve-month intervals. The benefit to this vaccine seems to be very limited. It boasts a 7% decrease in ear infections (It was not licensed for this use) and 0.1% fewer instances of Pneumococcal disease. There are over 80 types of Pneumococcus and this vaccine covers only seven and here they are. Pneumococcal 7-valent Conjugate Vaccine (Diphtheria CRM197 Protein), Prevnar, is a sterile solution of saccharides of the capsular antigens of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes 4, 6B, 9V, 14, 18C, 19F, and 23F individually conjugated to diphtheria CRM197 protein. The best way to determine the risk-benefit profile of any vaccination is to take a group of vaccinated children and compare them with unvaccinated children. If the groups are well matched, large enough and the length of time the children are observed is sufficient, this is considered the gold standard of clinical trials. Prevnar's clinical trials were conducted on another experimental vaccine used as a control, as a replacement for unvaccinated children. Prevnar is one of the most expensive vaccines in history. What scares me about this vaccine is the insert. It repeatedly warns the clinician to keep the injection away from a child’s blood vessels. This is not easily accomplished on very small babies.

The package insert also warns pediatricians to be ready for anaphylactic shock on administration of the vaccine just in case they hit a blood vessel. It also states there has been no carcinogenic, mutagenic or fertility studies done on this vaccine.

According to studies done by the manufacturer if your child is over two he has about a 1 in 5,000 chance of being diagnosed with Pneumococcal disease. Last year, there were only 1,500 cases of pneumococcal Meningitis in infants in this country.

How dangerous is this disease? Pneumococcal Meningitis has been associated with a mortality rate of approximately 1 in 178,571 children. According to the 1994 Red Book Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases Published by the American Academy of Pediatrics, children who are at risk of Pneumococcal infections are those with specific predisposing factors. Factors like Immunoglobulin Deficiency, Hodgkin’s disease, congenital or acquired immunodeficiency (including HIV), Nephritic Syndrome, some viral upper respiratory infections, splenic dysfunction, splenectomy and organ transplantation. Most children do not have these risk factors.

The insert continues to say that there are no controlled clinical trials done with concurrent administration of MMR and Chicken Pox vaccine but it has been shown to lower the effectiveness of the Polio vaccine. This Vaccine is a bio-engineered product. It is created by combining the protein-polysaccharides from seven strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae with Diphtheria toxin grown in casamino acids and yeast extract then purified with ammonium sulfate. Such a creation has never before existed on this earth. Erdem Cantekin, Ph.D., a professor of otolaryngology at the University of Pittsburgh, is an internationally recognized authority on otitis media and an early outspoken critic of the overuse of antibiotics to treat ear infections. "The big push for Prevnar came from it's supposed prevention of otitis media, even though it had not been approved for this use," Cantekin said. "The promise of saving children from this common, self-limiting disease, now turned into a persistent childhood pest, is an excellent strategy for marketing. Every parent knows and abhors otitis media. However, in two days, 90% of otitis cases resolve themselves without treatment. Regardless of these facts, our experts for two decades have been recommending aggressive interventions, such as long duration antibiotic therapy, designer drugs, antibiotic prophylaxis, and aggressive surgery. This clinical practice, not supported by existing scientific-based evidence, fuels our $5 billion-a-year otitis media medical economics."

Cantekin discussed the new Prevnar vaccine for pneumococcal/pneumonia, which is endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics and was approved by the FDA in February 2000 for use with infants and toddlers. "The alleged benefit for this new vaccine are greatly exaggerated, and the risks are significant," he said. The bacteria pneumococcus , with more than 90 serotypes, is a common pathogen with many unknowns. The vaccination of newborns with seven pneumococcal serotypes is an uninformed experiment at best." Read the newest developments at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals' Prevnar vaccine plant and prepare to get really angry. Mark Livingston, Wyeth whistleblower, has asked that his December 20, 2004 speech be forwarded to as many people as possible. Her is an excerpt from the latest article by Mark Livingston; Livington says he was also concerned about the dangerous working conditions for employees. "I had many manufacturing technicians from 2000-2002 tell me," he said, "they did not want to work in the Prevnar manufacturing area for fear of the chemicals used in the production process, including cyanide." "Sodium cyanide is a dangerous chemical," he says, "mix it with water and you get hydrogen cyanide, the gas of choice used in the Holocaust." Sodium cyanide is used in the Prevnar manufacturing process, but trace amounts remain in the vaccine itself, according to Livingston.

http://jamesrmccue.com

Art by James McCue

Take a look at this article by eCanada.

Boston (eCanadaNow) - Strains of pneumonia which are resistant to the current vaccine for children is currently on the rise and pose a serious threat to the health of millions. An investigation done by the U.S. government has come to the revelation that the rate of serious infections via the vaccine resistant strains of pneumonia is up by 140 percent. They looked at Alaskan Native children in the study to find that the protected children were still getting sick despite the vaccine. The vaccine has and is effective, just not against these new strains as it has mutated into a form which is far more vaccine resistant than in the past. With the “significant increase in emerging non-vaccine serotypes,” according to Dr. Rosalyn Singleton of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it is likely a new vaccine may have to be introduced to try and curb this problem.

New Strain

Of course the viruses mutate. Every living thing wants to live and will do what it must to stay alive. Vaccines are causing more harm than good.

There is even a more frightening development at Wyeth-Ayerst, the next disease cocktail.

Rotavirus

RotaSheild was produced and marketed by Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories. It was approved for use by the FDA in August of 1998 and was recommended for universal use by the FDA in March of 1999. The oral Rotavirus vaccine is the first Rhesus-human re-assortment vaccine and was created by co-cultivating rhesus monkey Rotavirus with human rotavirus strains to create a genetic human-monkey hybrid strain of Rotavirus. It was recommended that three doses be given to all infants before six months of age. Six months later it was pulled from the market after some 1.5 million babies had received it. Monitoring studies found that vaccinated babies had a 21-times higher chance of Intussusception, a serious bowel obstruction, which in most cases required surgery to correct. How did this happen? Was this not tested?

The disturbing issue here is that clinical trials showed that the risk of this condition was 1 in 2010 but the approval committee determined that this rate was not statistically significant. The manufacturer's package insert stated that the incidence was statistically significant. It is often claimed on pro-vaccine information that the withdrawal of the rotavirus vaccine is an excellent example of the effectiveness of vaccine surveillance. However it appears that there was sufficient evidence to show that this vaccine should never have been licensed. Given this fact, the prompt removal of its license is irrelevant.

New update....It's back! click here:Rotavirus.

Latest news on the Rotavirus vaccine: Its happening again....

FDA Public Health Notification Information on RotaTeq and Intussusception February 13, 2007

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is notifying health care providers and consumers about 28 post-marketing reports of intussusception following administration of Rotavirus, Live, Oral, Pentavalent vaccine (trade name RotaTeq), manufactured by Merck and Co., Inc. Intussusception is a serious and potentially life-threatening condition that occurs when the intestine gets blocked or twisted. One portion of the intestine telescopes into a nearby portion, causing the intestinal obstruction. The most common site is where the small intestine joins the large intestine.

Intussusception can occur spontaneously in the absence of vaccination. Of the reported 28 cases of intussusception, the number that may have been caused by the vaccine, or occurred by coincidence, is unknown.

FDA is issuing this notification both to encourage the reporting of any additional cases of intussusception that may have occurred or occur in the future after administration of RotaTeq, and to remind people that intussusception is a potential complication of RotaTeq,.

Current Status

Approximately 3.5 million doses of RotaTeq have been distributed in the United States through February 1, 2007. Not all of these doses have been administered. Since its licensure on February 3, 2006 until January 31, 2007, 28 cases of intussusception have been reported in the U.S. in infants who received RotaTeq. These cases have been reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). The reported 28 cases occurred after dose 1, dose 2 and dose 3. Approximately half of the cases occurred 1 to 21 days after vaccination, with a range of 0 to 73 days. Sixteen of the 28 infants with intussusception required hospitalization and surgery on their intestine. The remaining 12 infants had reduction of the intussusception by contrast or air enema. No deaths due to intussusception were reported.

The number of intussusception cases reported to date after RotaTeq administration does not exceed the number expected based on background rates of 18-43 per 100,000 per year for an unvaccinated population of children ages 6 to 35 weeks (CDC, unpublished data).

History

RotaTeq is indicated for the prevention of rotavirus gastroenteritis and was studied pre-licensure in a clinical trial population of approximately 70,000 infants (35,000 infants received RotaTeq and 35,000 received placebo), and no significant increased risk of intussusception was found (e.g., six cases were seen in RotaTeq recipients vs. five in placebo recipients). However, a different rotavirus vaccine, which is no longer marketed, may have increased the incidence of intussusception following its use. Therefore, to further evaluate whether, in the general population, RotaTeq could be associated with increased rates of intussusception or other serious adverse events, not only is VAERS data being evaluated continually, but Merck is conducting a post-marketing study of approximately 44,000 infants, and the CDC Vaccine Safety Data Link is conducting a post-marketing study of approximately 90,000 infants.

Recommendations

Because vaccine adverse events are not always reported to FDA, there may be additional cases of intussusception following vaccination of which we are unaware of at this time. This information is important in helping FDA and CDC assess whether RotaTeq may be associated with an increased risk of intussusception and, if so, to what degree. Therefore, we are encouraging all health care professionals, and any other individuals, to report any cases of intussusception or other serious events that may be associated with the use of RotaTeq to VAERS, which is maintained by FDA and CDC. For a copy of the vaccine reporting form, call 1-800-822-7967 or report on line to www.vaers.hhs.gov

Parents should contact their child’s doctor immediately if the child has stomach pain, vomiting, diarrhea, blood in their stool or change in their bowel movements, as these may be signs of intussusception. It is important to contact the child’s doctor if there are any questions or if the child has any of these symptoms at any time after vaccination, even if it has been several weeks since the last vaccine dose.

FDA and the CDC will continue close monitoring of intussusception and other adverse events associated with RotaTeq. The RotaTeq label and Patient Product Information have been updated to include post-marketing reports of intussusception. The dosage and administration schedule remains unchanged in the label.

RotaTeq Label (PDF - 161 KB)
Patient Product Information (PDF - 69 KB)

RotaTeq Safety Labeling Updated to Include Cases of Kawasaki Disease

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/558530?src=mp
Yael Waknine Medscape Medical News 2007. © 2007 Medscape

It looks here as if the vaccine is causing another illness.....Prediction: Kawasaki vaccine coming coming soon to a health provider near you......

June 19, 2007 — Changes have been made to the adverse reactions and postmarketing sections of the safety labeling for a live, oral, pentavalent rotavirus vaccine (RotaTeq, Merck and Company, Inc); it now includes cases of Kawasaki disease, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) told healthcare professionals on Friday. The poorly understood disease is uncommon in children, is characterized by high fever and blood vessel inflammation, and affects the lymph nodes, skin, mouth, and heart. During a phase 3 clinical trial, 5 cases of Kawasaki disease were reported among 36,150 infants who received the vaccine, compared with only 1 case among 35,536 who were given placebo, according to an alert sent from MedWatch, the FDA's safety information and adverse event reporting program.

Three other cases have been reported through the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) since the vaccine was approved on February 3, 2006. There is no known cause-and-effect relationship between the use of this or any other vaccine and Kawasaki disease, the FDA said, noting that the cases reported to date are not more frequent than what would be expected to occur by coincidence. Rotavirus vaccine is indicated for the prevention of rotavirus gastroenteritis in infants and children, which is caused by the serotypes G1, G2, G3, and G4, when administered orally as a 3-dose series to infants between the ages of 6 and 32 weeks. Healthcare professionals are encouraged to report cases of Kawasaki disease and other adverse events potentially associated with the vaccine to VAERS by going online at www.vaers.hhs.gov or calling 1-800-822-7967 for a report form.

Additional information about the use of the vaccine can be obtained by contacting the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research at 1-800-835-4709 or by e-mail at octma@cber.fda.gov.

RSV Virus

I am adding this information on the new RSV treatment since lately I have seen so many babies receiving this protocol. First I will give you this question and answer that I found on an information website followed by the package insert. When you read the insert, keep in mind that "murine" means mouse. Basically they developed a murine or mouse antibody, overlaid it onto a human frame, and developed what they call a humanized chimeric monoclonal antibody (antibody produced artificially by a genetic engineering technique), which is 95% human and about 4 to 5% murine. This vaccine is given to premature babies once a month for six months and is extremely expensive. Read this article to see why using mouse molecules or other animal material is dangerous.

Q: What is Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) and how does it affect babies?
Respiratory Syncytial Virus is the most common respiratory virus in infants and young children. It infects virtually all infants by the age of two years. In most infants, the virus causes symptoms resembling those of the common cold. In infants born prematurely and/or with chronic lung disease, RSV can cause a severe or even life-threatening disease. Each year, RSV disease results in over 125,000 hospitalizations, and about 2% of these infants die.

Q: How is RSV transmitted?

RSV is highly contagious. Each year, up to 50% of infants are infected. Transmission occurs by touching an infected person, and then rubbing your own eyes, nose, or mouth. The infection can also be spread through the air, by coughing and sneezing. RSV can survive for 4-7 hours on surfaces such as cribs and countertops. Transmission may be prevented by standard infection control practices, such as hand washing.

Q: How often do ou.comreaks occur?

RSV outbreaks occur each year on a fairly predictable schedule that varies from one region to another. In the United States, the “RSV season” usually begins in the Fall, and lasts through Spring.

Q: How is RSV infection treated?

Treatment of severe RSV infection is mostly supportive. It is important to help ensure that the infant is able to breathe, drink, eat and sleep comfortably. Your child's doctor may use a blood test to help determine the severity of the infection and the need for hospitalization. If your infant gets a severe case of RSV disease, the antiviral medication virazole (brand name Ribavirin®, a registered trademark of ICN) may be useful. Your child's doctor is the best source of information about the treatment of serious RSV disease.

Q: Is there an RSV vaccine available?

At this date, there is no RSV vaccine available. However, there is an effective prevention product available. During the RSV season (Fall through Spring), simple monthly injections of Synagis® (palivizumab) provide protection against serious lower respiratory tract infections caused by RSV in infants and children at high risk for RSV disease. Your child's doctor can provide complete information about RSV prevention and Synagis®.

Ask your pediatrician for more information about RSV disease and Synagis® (palivizumab).

Now for the package insert:

SYNAGIS® (PALIVIZUMAB)

for Intramuscular Administration

DESCRIPTION: Synagis® (palivizumab) is a humanized monoclonal antibody (IgG1) produced by recombinant DNA technology, directed to an epitope in the A antigenic site of the F protein of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Palivizumab is a composite of human (95%) and murine (5%) (mouse) antibody sequences. The human heavy chain sequence was derived from the constant domains of human IgG1 and the variable framework regions of the VH genes Cor (1) and Cess (2). The human light chain sequence was derived from the constant domain of C and the variable framework regions of the VL gene K104 with J-4 (3). The murine sequences were derived from a murine monoclonal antibody, Mab 1129 (4), in a process which involved the grafting of the murine complementarity determining regions into the human antibody frameworks. Synagis® (palivizumab) is composed of two heavy chains and two light chains and has a molecular weight of approximately 148,000 Daltons. Synagis® (palivizumab) is supplied as a sterile lyophilized product for reconstitution with sterile water for injection. Reconstituted Synagis® (palivizumab) is to be administered by intramuscular injection only. Upon reconstitution, Synagis® (palivizumab) contains the following excipients: 47 mM histidine, 3.0 mM glycine and 5.6% mannitol and the active ingredient, palivizumab, at a concentration of 100 milligrams per mL solution. The reconstituted solution should appear clear or slightly opalescent.

CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY: Mechanism of Action: Synagis® (palivizumab) exhibits neutralizing and fusion-inhibitory activity against RSV. These activities inhibit RSV replication in laboratory experiments. Although resistant RSV strains may be isolated in laboratory studies, a panel of 57 clinical RSV isolates were all neutralized by Synagis® (palivizumab) (5). Synagis® (palivizumab) serum concentrations of 40 µg/mL have been shown to reduce pulmonary RSV replication in the cotton rat model of RSV infection by 100-fold (5). The in vivo neutralizing activity of the active ingredient in Synagis® (palivizumab) was assessed in a randomized, placebo controlled study of 35 pediatric patients tracheally intubated because of RSV disease. In these patients, palivizumab significantly reduced the quantity of RSV in the lower respiratory tract compared to control patients (6).

Pharmacokinetics: In studies in adult volunteers Synagis® (palivizumab) had a pharmacokinetic profile similar to a human IgG1 antibody in regard to the volume of distribution and the half-life (mean 18 days). In pediatric patients less than 24 months of age, the mean half-life of Synagis® (palivizumab) was 20 days and monthly intramuscular doses of 15 mg/kg achieved mean ±SD 30 day trough serum drug concentrations of 37 ±21 µg/mL after the first injection, 57 ±41 µg/mL after the second injection, 68 ±51 µg/mL after the third injection and 72 ±50 µg/mL after the fourth injection (7). In pediatric patients given Synagis® (palivizumab) for a second season, the mean ±SD serum concentrations following the first and fourth injections were 61 ±17 µg/mL and 86 ±31µg/mL, respectively.

CLINICAL STUDIES: The safety and efficacy of Synagis® (palivizumab) were assessed in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial (IMpact-RSV Trial) of RSV disease prophylaxis among high-risk pediatric patients (7). This trial, conducted at 139 centers in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, studied patients 24 months of age with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) and patients with premature birth ( 35 weeks gestation) who were 6 months of age at study entry. Patients with uncorrected congenital heart disease were excluded from enrollment. In this trial, 500 patients were randomized to receive five monthly placebo injections and 1,002 patients were randomized to receive five monthly injections of 15 mg/kg of Synagis® (palivizumab). Subjects were randomized into the study from November 15 to December 13, 1996, and were followed for safety and efficacy for 150 days. Ninety-nine percent of all subjects completed the study and 93% received all five injections. The primary endpoint was the incidence of RSV hospitalization. RSV hospitalizations occurred among 53 of 500 (10.6%) patients in the placebo group and 48 of 1,002 (4.8%) patients in the Synagis® (palivizumab) group, a 55% reduction (p<0.001). The reduction of RSV hospitalization was observed both in patients enrolled with a diagnosis of BPD (34/266 [12.8%] placebo vs. 39/496 [7.9%] Synagis®[palivizumab]) and patients enrolled with a diagnosis of prematurity without BPD (19/234 [8.1%] placebo vs. 9/506 [1.8%] Synagis® [palivizumab]). The reduction of RSV hospitalization was observed throughout the course of the RSV season. Among secondary endpoints, the incidence of ICU admission during hospitalization for RSV infection was lower among subjects receiving Synagis® (palivizumab) (1.3%) than among those receiving placebo (3.0%), but there was no difference in the mean duration of ICU care between the two groups for patients requiring ICU care. Overall, the data do not suggest that RSV illness was less severe among patients who received Synagis® (palivizumab) and who required hospitalization due to RSV infection than among placebo patients who required hospitalization due to RSV infection. Synagis® (palivizumab) did not alter the incidence and mean duration of hospitalization for non-RSV respiratory illness or the incidence of otitis media.

INDICATIONS AND USAGE: Synagis® (palivizumab) is indicated for the prevention of serious lower respiratory tract disease caused by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in pediatric patients at high risk of RSV disease. Safety and efficacy were established in infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) and infants with a history of prematurity ( 35 weeks gestational age). (See Clinical Studies section)

CONTRAINDICATIONS: Synagis® (palivizumab) should not be used in pediatric patients with a history of a severe prior reaction to Synagis® (palivizumab) or other components of this product.

WARNINGS: Very rare cases of anaphylaxis (<1 case per 100,000 patients) have been reported following re-exposure to Synagis® (palivizumab) [see Adverse Reactions, Post-Marketing Experience]. Rare severe acute hypersensitivity reactions have also been reported on initial exposure or re-exposure to palivizumab. If a severe hypersensitivity reaction occurs, therapy with palivizumab should be permanently discontinued. If milder hypersensitivity reactions occur, caution should be used on readministration of palivizumab. If anaphylaxis or severe allergic reactions occur, administer appropriate medications (e.g., epinephrine) and provide supportive care as required.

PRECAUTIONS: General: Synagis® (palivizumab) is for intramuscular use only. As with any intramuscular injection, Synagis® (palivizumab) should be given with caution to patients with thrombocytopenia or any coagulation disorder. The safety and efficacy of Synagis® (palivizumab) have not been demonstrated for treatment of established RSV disease.

The single-use vial of Synagis® (palivizumab) does not contain a preservative. Injections should be given within 6 hours after reconstitution. Drug Interactions: No formal drug-drug interaction studies were conducted. In the IMpact-RSV trial, the proportions of patients in the placebo and Synagis® (palivizumab) groups who received routine childhood vaccines, influenza vaccine, bronchodilators or corticosteroids were similar and no incremental increase in adverse reactions was observed among patients receiving these agents.

Carcinogenesis, Mutagenesis, Impairment of Fertility: Carcinogenesis, mutagenesis and reproductive toxicity studies have not been performed. Pregnancy: Pregnancy Category C: Synagis® (palivizumab) is not indicated for adult usage and animal reproduction studies have not been conducted. It is also not known whether Synagis® (palivizumab) can cause fetal harm when administered to a pregnant woman or could affect reproductive capacity.

ADVERSE REACTIONS: In the combined pediatric prophylaxis studies of pediatric patients with BPD or prematurity involving 520 subjects receiving placebo and 1,168 subjects receiving 5 monthly doses of Synagis® (palivizumab), the proportions of subjects in the placebo and Synagis® (palivizumab) groups who experienced any adverse event or any serious adverse event were similar. Most of the safety information was derived from the IMpact-RSV trial. In this study, Synagis® (palivizumab) was discontinued in five patients: two because of vomiting and diarrhea, one because of erythema and moderate induration at the site of the fourth injection, and two because of pre-existing medical conditions which required management (one with congenital anemia and one with pulmonary venous stenosis requiring cardiac surgery). Seizures were reported in 0.6% of the placebo group and 0.4% of the Synagis® (palivizumab) group. Deaths in study patients occurred in five of 500 placebo recipients and four of 1,002 Synagis® (palivizumab) recipients. Sudden infant death syndrome was responsible for two of these deaths in the placebo group and one death in the Synagis® (palivizumab) group. Adverse events which occurred in more than 1% of patients receiving Synagis® (palivizumab) in the IMpact-RSV study for which the incidence in the Synagis® (palivizumab) group was 1% greater than in the placebo group are shown in Table 1.

Table 1. Adverse Events Occurring in IMpact-RSV Study at Greater Frequency in the Synagis® (palivizumab) Group % of patients with: Placebo Synagis® (palivizumab)

n = 500 n = 1,002

upper respiratory infection 49.0% 52.6%

otitis media 40.0% 41.9%

rhinitis 23.4% 28.7%

rash 22.4% 25.6%

pain 6.8% 8.5%

hernia 5.0% 6.3%

SGOT increased 3.8% 4.9%

pharyngitis 1.4% 2.6%

Other adverse events reported in more than 1% of the Synagis® (palivizumab) group included: fever, cough, wheeze, bronchiolitis, pneumonia, bronchitis, asthma, croup, dyspnea, sinusitis, apnea, failure to thrive, nervousness, diarrhea, vomiting, and gastroenteritis, SGPT increase, liver function abnormality, study drug injections site reaction, conjunctivitis, viral infection, oral monilia, fungal dermatitis, eczema, seborrhea, anemia and flu syndrome. The incidence of these adverse events was similar between the Synagis® (palivizumab) and placebo groups.

IMMUNOGENICITY: In the IMpact-RSV trial, the incidence of anti-palivizumab antibody following the fourth injection was 1.1% in the placebo group and 0.7% in the Synagis® (palivizumab) group. In pediatric patients receiving Synagis® (palivizumab) for a second season, one of the fifty-six patients had transient, low titer reactivity. This reactivity was not associated with adverse events or alteration in Synagis® (palivizumab) serum concentrations. These data reflect the percentage of patients whose test results were considered positive for antibodies to Synagis® (palivizumab) in an ELISA assay, and are highly dependent on the sensitivity and specificity of the assay. Additionally, the observed incidence of antibody positivity in an assay may be influenced by several factors including sample handling, concomitant medications, and underlying disease. For these reasons, comparison of the incidence of antibodies to Synagis® (palivizumab) with the incidence of antibodies to other products may be misleading.

POST-MARKETING EXPERIENCE: The following adverse reactions have been identified and reported during post-approval use of Synagis® (palivizumab). Because the reports of these reactions are voluntary and the population is of uncertain size, it is not always possible to reliably estimate the frequency of the reaction or establish a causal relationship to drug exposure. Based on experience in over 400,000 patients who have received Synagis® (palivizumab) (>2 million doses), rare severe acute hypersensitivity reactions have been reported on initial or subsequent exposure. Very rare cases of anaphylaxis (<1 case per 100,000 patients) have also been reported following re-exposure. None of the reported hypersensitivity reactions were fatal. Hypersensitivity reactions may include dyspnea, cyanosis, respiratory failure, urticaria, pruritis, angioedema, hypotonia and unresponsiveness. The relationship between these reactions and the development of antibodies to Synagis® (palivizumab) is unknown. Limited information from post- marketing reports suggests that, within a single RSV season, adverse events after a sixth or greater dose of Synagis® (palivizumab) are similar in character and frequency to those after the initial five doses.

OVERDOSAGE: No data from clinical studies are available on overdosage. No toxicity was observed in rabbits administered a single intramuscular or subcutaneous injection of Synagis® (palivizumab) at a dose of 50 mg/kg.

DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION: The recommended dose of Synagis® (palivizumab) is 15 mg/kg of body weight. Patients, including those who develop an RSV infection, should receive monthly doses throughout the RSV season. The first dose should be administered prior to commencement of the RSV season. In the northern hemisphere, the RSV season typically commences in November and lasts through April, but it may begin earlier or persist later in certain communities. Synagis® (palivizumab) should be administered in a dose of 15 mg/kg intramuscularly using aseptic technique, preferably in the anterolateral aspect of the thigh. The gluteal muscle should not be used routinely as an injection site because of the risk of damage to the sciatic nerve. The dose per month = [patient weight (kg) x 15 mg/kg ÷100 mg/mL of Synagis®(palivizumab)]. Injection volumes over 1 mL should be given as a divided dose.

Preparation for Administration:

•· To reconstitute, remove the tab portion of the vial cap and clean the rubber stopper with 70% ethanol or equivalent.

•· Both the 50 mg and 100 mg vials contain an overfill to allow the withdrawal of 50 milligrams or 100 milligrams respectively when reconstituted following the directions described below.

• Slowly add 0.6 mL of sterile water for injection to the 50 mg vial or add 1.0 mL of sterile water for injection to the 100 mg vial. The vial should be gently swirled for 30 seconds to avoid foaming. DO NOT SHAKE VIAL.

• Reconstituted Synagis® (palivizumab) should stand at room temperature for a minimum of 20 minutes until the solution clarifies.

•· Reconstituted Synagis® (palivizumab) does not contain a preservative and should be administered within 6 hours of reconstitution.

To prevent the transmission of hepatitis viruses or other infectious agents from one person to another, sterile disposable syringes and needles should be used. Do not reuse syringes and needles.

HOW SUPPLIED: Synagis® (palivizumab) is supplied in single use vials as lyophilized powder to deliver either 50 milligrams or 100 milligrams when reconstituted with sterile water for injection. 50 mg vial NDC 60574 -4112-1 Upon reconstitution the 50 mg vial contains 50 milligrams Synagis® (palivizumab) in 0.5 mL. 100 mg vial NDC 60574 -4111-1 Upon reconstitution the 100 mg vial contains 100 milligrams Synagis® (palivizumab) in 1.0 mL. Upon receipt and until reconstitution for use, Synagis® (palivizumab) should be stored between 2 and 8ºC (35.6º and 46.4ºF) in its original container. Do not freeze. Do not use beyond the expiration date.

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n = 500 n = 1,002
upper respiratory infection 49.0% 52.6% otitis media 40.0% 41.9% rhinitis 23.4% 28.7% rash 22.4% 25.6% pain 6.8% 8.5% hernia 5.0% 6.3% SGOT increased 3.8% 4.9% pharyngitis 1.4% 2.6%

SheddingI found this article written before the vaccine was released to the general public. Some very interesting things are discovered I have highlighted them in bold.

Dr. Jim Crowe assistant professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology at Vanderbilt conducted the trails of the RSV vaccine. This is excerpts from the article on him. It’s known that the immune systems of very young children don’t respond vigorously to vaccination. The B- and T-lymphocytes in the bloodstream that typically fight any type of foreign invading organism - which vaccines mimic - aren’t very effective in the first few months of a baby’s life. It’s not entirely clear, Crowe said, why infants differ from older children and adults in this regard. His lab is looking at the molecular level in individual infants to determine what genes are being used at the time of immunization to make an immune response.

“Over the last two years,” Crowe said, “we’ve been able to get the first glimpses of why children are different from adults.” As a study model, Crowe is evaluating the immune response of infants in vaccine trials against respiratory syncycial virus, or RSV, at the Vanderbilt Vaccine Clinic. This particularly infectious virus affects most of us in our lifetimes, and can require hospitalization for some children. Being involved in the RSV vaccine trials has allowed Crowe and his co-workers to probe these questions about newborn immunity. In the trials, babies are intentionally infected with weakened virus at 4 weeks of age. (What! why would parents allow this?) The researchers monitor the genetic changes underlying whether a baby responds well to the vaccine or not.

The vaccine trials will accept any age enrollee - from a very young child to an adult - to help define the immune system transition, but ultimately researchers need to understand the 2-4 week old babies, since they are most vulnerable to infection.

Without the vaccine trials, Crowe said, they couldn’t do the research.

“A unique opportunity presents itself by being able to intentionally infect a child on a known day with a known amount of virus,” he said. “We can measure titer (infection levels) of the virus, and also shedding of the virus. We know the full RNA sequence of the virus, which helps us in our genetic studies. It’s an extremely controlled situation.”

Future plans include studying how premature infants differ from full-term babies in their immune response. The more pieces to the puzzle of immune system development that researchers discover, the better able they will be to come up with effective and safe vaccines not only to RSV, but to a host of other pathogens as well.

Also take a look at this excerpt from N.Z. Millers' article entitled: The polio vaccine a critical assessment of its arcane history, efficacy and long term health related consequences found here http://www.thinktwice.com/Polio.pdf.

Read the whole thing if you get a chance.

Thousands of viruses and other potentially infectious micro-organisms thrive in monkeys and cows, the preferred animals for making polio vaccines [83:159]. SV-40, SIV, and BSE associated transmissible agents are just three of the disease-causing agents researchers have isolated. For example, scientists have known since 1955 that monkeys host the “B” virus, foamy agent virus, haemadsorption viruses, the LCM virus, arboviruses, and more [157]. Bovine immunodeficiency virus (BIV), similar in genetic structure to HIV, was recently found in some cows [103:100]. In 1956, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) was discovered in chimpanzees [158]. According to Dr. Viera Scheibner, who studied more than 30,000 pages of medical papers dealing with vacci-nation, RSV viruses “formed prominent contaminants in polio vaccines, and were soon detected in children [159].” They caused serious cold-like symptoms in small infants and babies who received the polio vaccine [159].

In 1961, the Journal of the American Medical Association published two studies confirming a causal relationship between RSV and “relatively severe lower respiratory tract illness [160].” The virus was found in 57 percent of infants with bronchiolitis or pneumonia, and in 12 percent of babies with a milder febrile respiratory disease [161]. Infected babies remained ill for three to five months [161]. RSV was also found to be contagious, and soon spread to adults where it has been linked to the common cold [162]. Today, RSV infects virtually all infants by the age of two years, and is the most common cause of bronchiolitis and pneumonia among infants and children under one year of age [163]. It also causes severe respiratory disease in the elderly [164]. RSV re-mains highly contagious and results in thousands of hospitalizations every year; many people die from it [165]. Ironically, scientists are developing a vaccine to combat RSV [166]Cthe infectious agent that very likely entered the human population by way of a vaccine [159].

Dr. John Martin, a professor of pathology at the University of Southern California, has been warning authorities since 1978 that other dangerous monkey viruses could be contaminating polio vaccines. In particular, Martin sought to investigate simian cytomegalovirus (SCMV), a “stealth virus” capable of causing neuro-logical disorders in the human brain. The virus was found in monkeys used for making polio vaccines. The government rebuffed his efforts to study the risks [83:159–61]. However, in 1995, Martin published his findings implicating the African green monkey as the probable source of SCMV isolated from a patient with chronic fatigue syndrome [167]. In 1996, Dr. Howard B. Urnovitz, a microbiologist, founder and chief science officer of Calypte Biomedical in Berkeley, Cali-fornia spoke at a national AIDS conference where he revealed that up to 26 monkey viruses may have been in the original Salk vaccines. These included the simian equivalents of human echo virus, coxsackie, herpes (HHV-6, HHV-7, and HHV-8), adenoviruses, Epstein-Barr, and cytomegalovirus [168-170]. Urnovitz believes that contaminated Salk vaccines given to U.S. children between 1955 and 1961 may have set this generation up for immune system damage and neurological disorders. He sees correlations between early polio vaccine campaigns and the sudden emergence of human T-cell leukemia, epidemic Kaposi’s sarcoma, Burkitt’s lym-phoma, herpes, Epstein-Barr and chronic fatigue syndrome[168:1].

Urnovitz also discussed “jumping genes”—normal genes that may recombine with viral fragments to form new hybrid viruses called chimeras. He believes that this is exactly what happened when monkey viruses and human genes were brought together during early polio vaccine campaigns. And because the chimera “has the envelope of a normal human gene,” typical cures won’t work. How do you develop a vaccine or other antidote against the body’s own DNA [168:1-4;171]?16. Mutated polio strains Several years ago, the World Health Organization launched the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, with 2000 as its target date for eliminating the disease. However, by 2000 it became clear that not only was polio still around, but new strains of the disease—derived from the vaccine itself—were emerging [172]. Researchers first noticed something unusual in 1983. Outbreaks of polio in Egypt were being caused by a “vaccine-derived” polio virus [173]. In 1993, Dr. Radu Crainic of the Pasteur Institute, discovered that strains of the polio virus have the ability to spontaneously recom-bine with themselves and create new strains. Crainic showed that if you vaccinate a child with polio strains 1, 2, and 3, you can pro-duce a new strain, strain 4, out of the child’s stool. Crainic con-cluded that the polio vaccine creates favorable conditions contrib-uting to the evolution of viral “recombinations” [174]

The next vaccine is the MMR, Measles, Mumps and Rubella. Prior to 1975 these were delivered as separate vaccines but to save time and money they were combined. There have been no long term studies done on the cumulative effect on the child’s developing immune system of combining all these vaccines together longer than six weeks. It is made from embryonated chicken eggs. This is done by injecting a microscopic droplet of the virus into the air sack above the embryo and the yolk. In two to three days time the original droplet has become a tablespoon full. The virus is now ready. The tops of the eggs are lopped off and the virus is suctioned out. Before it is ready to be used, the vaccine must also be purified, tested, O.K.'d by the FDA, packaged, labeled, and distributed. People with egg allergies are advised not to get this vaccine.

Independent researchers have started to express concern that using animals for production of human vaccines, especially live vaccines such as MMR and Polio, could be facilitating the inter-species transfer of viral infection from animals into man, causing as yet undetected and unevaluated negative health effects on humans. Of particular concern is the fact that transfer of the whole animal virus into man does not have to take place in order for latent viral infection and genetic change to occur. If portions (genes) of animal viruses are introduced into humans, they have the potentials to interact differently with each individual's immune system and DNA, and cause disease. The presence of an avian leukosis virus (AVL), a retrovirus that infects birds, could be the reason approximately 1 in 1000 children will be diagnosed with leukemia by the age of 19. Please read the FDA's

Guidance for Industry Q5A Viral Safety Evaluation of Biotechnology Products Derived From Cell Lines of Human or Animal Origin. This will explain how this is possible.

This vaccine contains live viruses and can sometimes infect those in close contact with the recipient. This can put a very young baby, pregnant mother, or older adults at risk. This is the vaccine that has been implicated in causing autism. Bernard Rimland , PhD in his landmark book Infantile Autism, used a questionnaire given to parents with autistic children to find out at what age they first noticed problems in their children. He found out the “onset-at-eighteen” months children out number the “onset-at-birth” children two to one.

The MMR is given between fifteen and eighteen months. Could this be just another coincidence? In Japan, this vaccine was withdrawn when their surveillance systems showed an unacceptably high level of side effects. They have returned to the single dose vaccines, that is, each of these viruses are given separately. And from this wonderful website......http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/v-kaiser.htm

This is also the vaccine that has caused such a stir in England. Dr. A. J. Wakefield a young gastroenterologist published, along with 13 colleagues at Royal Free Hospital in London, an article in the Lancet showing evidence that the MMR may be linked with autism. He also found a possible link to Crohn’s disease. While studying inflammatory bowel disease in children, one mother asked him to look for the biological mechanism for simultaneous development of inflammatory bowel disease and autistic behavior in previously normal children. One characteristic of Autistic behavior is disturbed sleep patterns. Some children only sleep 2 to 3 hours a night. Many autistic subjects exhibit a range of gut disorders. These can include diarrhea, constipation, gas retention and abnormal feces. Wakefield and his associates remarked that Asperger in 1961 had observed that there was a high rate of gastrointestinal (celiac) disease in those suffering with autism. He has been accused of conflict of interest in his research. Here is the truth about Dr. Wakefield and the conflict of interest. Here is another example of what happens when you go against Merck the manufacturer of the vaccine.
Dr Topol

The Leaky Gut is one of the most devastating health conditions in the child with Autism. Individuals with Down's Syndrome, Schizophrenia, Diabetes, AIDS, Asthma, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Crohn’s Disease, Fibromyalgia, Rheumatoid Arthritis, just to name a few, almost always suffer from Leaky Gut Syndrome. It results when the lining of the intestine, which is the thickness of an eyelid, becomes permeable. The size of a tennis court when spread flat, the digestive system, remarkably, repairs and replaces itself approximately every three to five days. What was once supposed to perform like a hose, a 35-foot long hose, that is, running from mouth to anus now looks and behaves like a colander, so to speak. What was supposed to be kept “in” now "leaks" out into the bloodstream where it does not belong, sparking a variety of undesirable immune responses. Leaky Gut Syndrome can leads to mal-absorption problems as the body cannot obtain the nutrients it needs from particles of food, which were not properly broken down in the digestive tract. Our intestines were designed to allow only the tiniest food particles through to nourish us through the nutrients present in the food. Not large, undigested particles of food or other substances meant to stay within the confines of the intestine. Substances are permitted entry through the barrier in several ways. One way is between or through the cells of the gut lining. Another through crypts, tiny cracks in the gut lining which are located at the base of each villi. Villi are the thousands of small, loop-shaped projections in the wall of the intestine (imagine sea anemone). Millions of micro-villi, (smaller still) hair-like projections, cover the Villi. Both are covered with a protective layer of mucus and friendly bacteria. This Villi-duo is responsible for absorbing nutrients, for the production of digestive enzymes and for guarding the bloodstream by keeping unwanted intruders in the intestine.

Dr. Wakefield has discovered the Measles Virus in the gut of the majority of autistic children he has tested. The gut is found to be inflamed where the virus has taken up shop and this condition is called Ileal-Lymphoid-Nodular Hyperplasia. Wakefield calls this never-before-seen bowel condition Autistic Enterocolitis.

Once the measles virus has breached the intestinal barrier, undigested food particles, pathogens, yeast and heavy metals cause an imbalance of intestinal flora. In other words the good bacteria are outnumbered. Antibiotics are another one of the most common causes of this problem. Now toxins can pass freely into the bloodstream, not unlike dumping trash into the ocean. A leaky gut is an invitation to disease and the malfunction of bodily processes. Pathogens are known to produce toxins, which have been termed endotoxin, just as yeast (now termed Fungal metabolites), are known to also provide a source of toxins. Supplementing with live acidophilus, etc. has proven to be immensely effective at reversing Intestinal dysbiosis (abnormal overgrowth of the wrong bacteria) and re-supplying the digestive tract with "friendly" flora. The result of dysbiosis is an insidious, chronic saturation of the body with toxins produced by this "out of balance" environment. The restorative capability is eventually lost and permanent damage to the intestine results. This precious inner layer of our intestines is our immune system's first defense weapon, in fact, 70% of the immune system is found around or in the digestive system. The importance of the gastrointestinal tract in maintaining our health should not be underestimated. As the largest immune organ in our body it could be considered the most important organ in the body. Each time we eat something we are allergic to or intolerant of or sensitive to our mucus membranes become irritated. Toxic by-products and large food particles, which have leaked into the bloodstream, eventually wind up at the liver. This organ is responsible for detoxification.

The liver must then attempt to metabolize and "cleanse" this bio-mess in order to keep the body functioning properly. If it cannot keep up with the "load" presented to it, it quickly becomes overwhelmed. If the liver cannot perform it's basic duties, let alone cope with the added work, the body will falter. The toxic by-products produced from this on-going and chronic process can cause gallstones and gallbladder surgery is very, very common in those with gluten intolerance. Gluten is in wheat, oat, or barley products. Lactase, the enzyme needed to break down and digest lactose is produced by the micro-villi. If the micro-villi are destroyed for example by gluten intolerance it means the person's ability to digest dairy products is automatically impaired or altered.

Gluten intolerance almost always equals dairy intolerance. The food particles most well known for destroying the intestinal villi lining is gluten. Those with severe gluten intolerance are diagnosed with Celiac Disease. With Celiac Disease, because damage is so severe, the villi become flattened and then are eventually destroyed if gluten is not permanently removed. This fact demonstrates why it is imperative that the gut be in tiptop shape in order to properly protect us. If it isn't, disease will find us. The majority of autistic children have long histories of gluten and casein allergies or intolerances or sensitivities, which may have predisposed them to vaccine injury. Allergic reactions to a whole host of foods ensues and the early signs of a poorly functioning immune system manifest as eczema, ear infections, respiratory infections and such. In children with Autism, the Central nervous system can sustain tremendous (neurological) damage as a result of Leaky Gut Syndrome and children with Celiac Disease are known to suffer psychological distress as well. Toxins, which pass through the gates of the intestine and into the bloodstream, impact us hormonally, psychologically and immunologically. Their favorite food is glucose and the B Vitamins. Children with autism are notoriously deficient in the B vitamins and they crave simple and complex carbohydrates, which convert to glucose.

(In 1944, Asperger had identified a subgroup of high functioning "borderline" autistics.) The authors hypothesized that persistent viral infection, either from natural disease or live virus vaccines, can cause chronic inflammation of the bowel and damage to the central nervous system development in some children. Dr Wakefield was quoted as saying, "You do not combine three live viruses into one vaccine and assume that it is a benign process. These are viruses that are live, they are capable of establishing long term infection and they are capable of producing long-term adverse events."

Several autism studies have hypothesized that the behavioral symptoms in autism occur due to opiate-like activity. Opiates are sleep-inducing drugs, and opioids are natural occurring peptides with similar effects. An example would be that warm milk could induce sleep through a natural release of peptides into the system. In autism there are characteristic symptoms of sleeping disorders. The children were found to have increased urinary peptides. (Whiteley and Shattock 2002) These specific peptides were derived from dietary sources, in particular, foods that contain gluten and casein and are known to produce opiate-like affects. (Whiteley and Shattock 2002)

As these gut-derived peptides get into the blood and cross the blood brain barrier, where they are not supposed to be, they negatively affect the ability of the body to maintain appropriate endorphin, Serotonin and dopamine levels in the brain.

University of Florida researchers reported in the March 1999 issue of the journal Autism findings from two novel animal studies indicating autism and schizophrenia may be linked to an individual's inability to properly break down a protein found in milk. When these children were put on a milk-free diet, at least eight out of 10 no longer had symptoms of autism or schizophrenia, says Cade, a professor of medicine and physiology at UF's College of Medicine and inventor of the Gatorade sports drink. Read the rest of the article here.

Another component of the MMR is Neomycin. This is an antibacterial drug that is used to suppress gastrointestinal bacteria or microflora before surgery to avoid infection. Human gut microflora is an extremely complex mixed culture comprising mainly of bacteria living in a state of dynamic equilibrium. It is estimated that as many as 500 different species reside in the colon at any one time. This antibiotic interferes with the absorption of Vitamin B6. An error in the uptake of Vitamin B6 can cause a rare form of epilepsy and children become mentally retarded. Vitamin B6 is the major vitamin for processing amino acids, which are the building blocks of all proteins and a few hormones. Any disruption to the gut microflora might therefore affect the development of the child. Here is an interesting article explaining gut flora and the behaviour problems associated with disruption of it.

One article I found in a 1996 Ladies Home Journal seems to support the theory of how autism is tied to irritable bowel syndrome with no intent to do so. Read and see if you agree.

Ladies Home Journal

How come you get butterflies in your stomach before job interviews? Because scientists now believe there is a brain in your gut. Jackie D Wood PHD chairman of the physiology department at Ohio state university college of medicine in Columbus calls this structure “the little brain” to distinguish it from the one in your head. But the truth is its not so small. The brain in the gut or enteric nervous system as scientist call it contains over one hundred million neurons as many as the spinal cord. And this complex network of nerves lines the walls of the digestive tract form the esophagus all the way down to the colon. This little brain is connected to the big brain by the vagus nerves, a bundle of nerve fibers running from the GI tract to the head. And, to the fascination of researchers, virtually all the classes of neurotransmitters found in the brain are also present in the gut.

The more we learn about the enteric nervous system the more similar it seems to the brain.” says Michael Gershon, M.D. chairman of anatomy and cell biology at Columbia University College of Physicians and surgeons, In New York city. Not surprisingly one nervous system may mirror the response of the other. Stress can cause your brain to release chemicals that fool your gut into believing you are physically ill. That’s why when you’re anxious, you feel butterflies in your stomach or when stress is greater, you get diarrhea or cramping. Doctors have long wondered why people afflicted with gastrointestinal problems, especially problems with no known organic causes, like irritable bowel syndrome are prone to disturbed sleep.” Now we have a better idea of what may be going on, Say Kevin Olden, M.D., a gastroenterologist and psychiatrist at the University of California, in San Francisco. “Your stomach can be upset without your even knowing it and a dysfunctional gut can have an impact on natural sleep patterns” Like the big brain; the little brain is rich in receptors sites for mood-regulating chemicals such as endorphins and Serotonin. It is also rich in receptor sites for drugs like opiates. So when we take a psychoactive drug the gut is a frequent target of side effects. Some antidepressants and opiate-based painkillers for example are notorious for causing constipation. Now, seeking to turn a disadvantage into strength, researchers hope to develop psychoactive agents into new therapies for gastrointestinal disturbances. “The theory is,” explains Olden, if a drug does something to the brain, it does something to the gut and might be used to the patients favor.” Could the enteric nervous system explain gut feelings”? Absolutely, say experts. As Wood observes, the primitive parts of the brain that respond to fear communicate closely with the gut. That mean we may get a visceral reaction to a threat before the higher cortex can fully puzzle out what’s going on. So, “pay attention to your gut,” Wood advises. “It may know something before you do.”

This article ties the irregular sleep patterns and the fact that the gut is rich in receptor sites for endorphins and Serotonin and for drugs like opiates (remember the opioid excess theory?) and since the measles vaccine live virus is found in the bowel and brain of children with autism, it stands to reason that by interrupting the body’s ability to maintain the correct level of Serotonin and endorphins this virus through the thoroughfare, the vagus nerve, can cause the central nervous system damage otherwise known as autism.

If the virus does something to the brain it does the same to the gut. Scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Found that elevated Serotonin levels have been consistently found in 30% to 50% of autistic patients. John O’Leary, Ph.D. a world class researcher and molecular biologist from Ireland, using state of the art sequencing technology, showed how he had found measles virus in the gut of 96% of autistic children, compared to 6.6% of normal children. It has also been found in the brain.

This virus did not come from the natural disease; it came from the measles vaccine. In addition, Dr. O’Leary found measles virus present in 75% of children with Crohn’s Disease. I also found this:

The Meridian Institute has shown that epileptic seizures can be due to adhesions in the lymphatic ducts surrounding the intestine. Deborah Taylor reports, "When absorbed food encounters these strictures, caused by adhesions, they irritate these strictures causing spasmodic reactions. These are then referred by neurological pathways to the cerebral cortex, initiating a seizure."

Crohn’s has traditionally been an intestinal disease of adults, following years of dietary abuse. Its appearance in children is a new event, and Dr. O’Leary’s work points to measles virus from vaccines as the likely cause. A paper published by Bitnun et al, in the Clinical Infectious Diseases Journal, October 1999, confirmed the presence of measles virus in the brain tissue of a previously healthy twenty-one month-old boy, eight and a half months after he received MMR. The child had no history of exposure to measles or immunodeficiency. The brain tissue differed from the known wild-type viruses but was identical to that of the Moraten and Schwartz, makers of the vaccine strains. The safety of MMR has been brought into question, both in the United Kingdom and in the U.S. It is not possible to rule out the possibility that excessive rates of autism occur among children immunized with MMR. Take a look at this chart from Finland. It shows the rise of Crohn's and other stomach maladies.

Patients with IBD Entitled to Special Refunds

The early epidemiological findings are worrisome. The clinical and laboratory data strongly suggest the biological plausibility of a link between MMR and autistic disorders .

The fact that one child in 39 has autism is making the evidence hard to hide so, the CDC along with the National Institute of Health have asked the Institute of Medicine to study and analyze emerging vaccine safety issues. How is it, after repeatedly informing us there is no evidence linking MMR to Autism, we are finding out they are conducting a study on whether or not there is a casual relationship between MMR and autism, this being the first study of its kind?

The following is the overview of the vaccine-autism debate:

      There has not been a single credible study that can refute the claims of the parents that their children’s autism has been caused by MMR or related vaccines.

      There are absolutely no other credible explanations for these children’s conditions.

      Is there a failure to properly monitor adverse reactions governing MMR.

      In this new-variant autism, children develop normally, passing all their developmental milestones, and then regress into an autistic-like state. This late onset of autism typically occurs at an age of between fifteen months and two years, which is the period following receipt of MMR vaccination. They lose their previously demonstrated speech, learned behavior and social skills. In effect, they dissolve into a state of mental impairment of varying severity. This is described by the UK department of Health as just a coincidence. However, very significantly, older children, aged four, five or six, have also degenerated into autism after MMR, implying that the link is not coincidental.

      There are no cases known of any children who have become autistic just before MMR. This disease presents itself at birth.

      Despite research pointing to original failure to properly conduct safety tests on MMR, UK Department of Health and other medical institutions continue to claim that MMR is safe.

Here is an excellent article on the cause of autism that will help you make more sense out of the situation.

Here is a study that sheds light on a possible cause of autism.

J Biomed Sci. 2002 Jul-Aug;9(4):359-64.
Abnormal measles-mumps-rubella antibodies and CNS autoimmunity in children with autism.Singh VK1, Lin SX, Newell E, Nelson C.
Author information
AbstractAutoimmunity to the central nervous system (CNS), especially to myelin basic protein (MBP), may play a causal role in autism, a neurodevelopmental disorder. Because many autistic children harbor elevated levels of measles antibodies, we conducted a serological study of measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) and MBP autoantibodies. Using serum samples of 125 autistic children and 92 control children, antibodies were assayed by ELISA or immunoblotting methods. ELISA analysis showed a significant increase in the level of MMR antibodies in autistic children. Immunoblotting analysis revealed the presence of an unusual MMR antibody in 75 of 125 (60%) autistic sera but not in control sera. This antibody specifically detected a protein of 73-75 kD of MMR. This protein band, as analyzed with monoclonal antibodies, was immunopositive for measles hemagglutinin (HA) protein but not for measles nucleoprotein and rubella or mumps viral proteins. Thus the MMR antibody in autistic sera detected measles HA protein, which is unique to the measles subunit of the vaccine. Furthermore, over 90% of MMR antibody-positive autistic sera were also positive for MBP autoantibodies, suggesting a strong association between MMR and CNS autoimmunity in autism. Stemming from this evidence, we suggest that an inappropriate antibody response to MMR, specifically the measles component thereof, might be related to pathogenesis of autism.

Copyright 2002 National Science Council, ROC and S. Karger AG, Basel

PMID: 12145534 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Figures released from the California Department of Development documented a 273% increase in autism  from 1987 to 1998 that is a rate of six new children a day seven days a week. Since 1988, autism is up a staggering 571% in Florida. In Scotland, on average three children a week, every week for the past 11 years, have been diagnosed as autistic. A once rare condition is now common. Another recent news item stated that ADHD has increased from 900,000 in 1991 to five million today. These statistics are mirrored in England.

Researchers are calling for a radical new definition of autism in the wake of evidence presented here that autism is in fact an autoimmune disease, rather than a mental handicap. This was the consensus among doctors at the forefront of research into the physiological complications that affect many children with autism and autism spectrum problems. They presented their findings at the second International Medical Conference on Autism held in Quebec City in April. No longer can the condition just be considered a psychiatric or neurological disorder, they argued. Autism had to be seen as a systemic illness that has gastrointestinal, immunological, endocrinological, psychological and neurological complications.

Dr. Jeff Bradstreet, a pediatrician and medical director of the International Autism Research Center in Palm Bay, Fla., said virtually all children diagnosed with autism also have some other significant abnormal function.

He believes that is why the term "autism" is misleading and should be replaced with a phrase that better describes the child's physical condition. "Autism is a psychiatric term," he said. "I consider 'toxic encephalopathy' a better description because it implies that there is something we can do if we detoxify the individuals.” Dr. Bradstreet's research center specializes in treating children with Autism Spectrum Disorders by investigating their underlying or coexisting physiological condition and treating that with a combination of conventional drug therapy and nutritional supplementation. The aim is to treat the underlying condition, and also to detoxify and strengthen the immune system. In cases where the immunological vulnerability or toxicity can be identified, and then responds to treatment, children show a marked improvement in their ability to relate to others, as well as in their academic performance, he said.

Evidence presented at the conference by physicians researching the physical symptoms of autism should change the way doctors understand and treat children suffering from the disorder. They now believe that autism is triggered by an environmental insult or toxicity that damages the immature and fragile immune system of a fetus, infant or very young child. This causes the immune system to react against body organs. The result is a condition that has a multi system effect, not just on a patient's neurological system. Most frequently, it is the gastro intestinal system or "second brain" that shows symptoms. Many of the children also have a long history of susceptibility to infections and    experience hormonal imbalance, such as Hyperthyroidism and early puberty. Some children even display coagulation and circulatory disorders.

In this interview this father JB Handley understands the problem and helps explain it in a way that is extremely clear. Please take a minute and  watch it.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 24 /U.S. Newswire/ -- More than 150 parents of autistic children launched a new nonprofit organization, Generation Rescue, today with a full-page advertisement in USA Today bearing a stunning message: autism is preventable and reversible. Generation Rescue parents are successfully treating their children biomedically and removing mercury from their bodies through a safe and proven detoxification treatment known as chelation therapy.

The organization's Web site, http://www.GenerationRescue.org provides treatment information and connects parents with more than 150 "Rescue Angels," parents who are successfully treating their own autistic children using a variety of biomedical interventions individualized for each child. Also announced was the availability of 1,000 parents around the country to talk to media about the reversal of autism in their children.

"Our message for parents is very simple: autism is reversible," said J.B. Handley, one of the organization's founding parents and father of a son diagnosed with autism. "I see every day with my own eyes how my son Jamie is recovering from what was previously perceived as an untreatable disorder. With the removal of mercury, Jamie's autistic symptoms go away. He got a second chance at life, and we want to let other parents who are struggling out there know it's possible to get their children back." Charlie Hoover's 7-year-old son Lenny of Royal Palm, Florida, suffered the classic symptoms of autism - spinning in circles, repetitive behaviors and tantrums. "After Lenny's diagnosis, the more I read, the more the knot in my stomach tightened," said Hoover. "It was as if our son had died."

But after chelation therapy rid Lenny's body of mercury, his symptoms disappeared. Lenny, who loves to play T-ball, is now enrolled in regular kindergarten. "If your child got lead poisoning from eating paint chips, you would certainly do something about that," Hoover said. "What's the difference between mercury and lead?" The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that more than 1 in 166 children are diagnosed with autism, up from 1 in 2,500 since the 1970s. According to the CDC, autism is a life-long disorder that is not treatable.

Here is an email that I found really tells the truth.

OK, folks, here's a quiz for all you autism eggheads out there:

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics website, what is the incidence rate for autism in the United States? (Never mind that the American Psychiatric Association, the outfit defines "autism," says the number is 1 in 2000)

A) 1 in 500
B) 1 in 333
C) 1 in 166
D) All the above

And the answer is....

If you said "A", you're correct, the AAP says on their website that the autism incidence rate (including other ASDs) is 1 in 500.

See: http://www.aap.org/policy/autism.html

If you said "B" good for you! This is a correct answer too! One in a thousand for full-blown autism and 2 in a thousand for the lower-octane derivatives.

See:

http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/pediatrics;107/5/1221

If you said "C" well. that's right too! There is a dead link, however, to a document that came out a few months ago called Autism A.L.A.R.M., remember that one? It said the autism rate was 1 in 166. But you can't find this one on the AAP website anymore. It has also disappeared as far as I can tell from the websites of the other entities that sponsored the document: our good buddies at CDC, USDHHS, Medical Home Initiatives and First Signs.Hmmm. I wonder why.

Copies of Autism A.L.A.R.M. are still floating around the net. The text is below. I particularly like the "L" for listen to parents, there's a novel thought. No wonder they pulled it.

http://www.helpautismnow.com/PDFS/AutismAlarm.pdf

SO the real correct answer is "D"!

Just another example of the crackerjack job those dedicated and hardworking MDs at the AAP are doing to assure you that you should trust them with blind, unquestioning confidence. After twenty years of skyrocketing gains they still can't figure out what's going on. But they know better than us, so who are you to question them?

This has got to stop. And only we can stop it.

Power of Parents
Washington, DC
Stop the Mercury. Stop the Lies.

AUtism A.L.A.R.M text below:

Autism is prevalent
• 1 out of 6 children are diagnosed with a developmental disorder and/or behavioral problem
• 1 in 166 children are diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder
• Developmental disorders have subtle signs and may be easily missed
Listen to parents
• Early signs of autism are often present before 18 months
• Parents usually DO have concerns that something is wrong
• Parents generally DO give accurate and quality information
• When parents do not spontaneously raise concerns, ask if they have any
Act early
• Make screening and surveillance an important part of your practice (as endorsed by the AAP)
• Know the subtle differences between typical and atypical development
• Learn to recognize red flags
• Use validated screening tools and identify problems early
• Improve the quality of life for children and their families through early and appropriate intervention
Refer
• To Early Intervention or a local school program (do not wait for a diagnosis)
• To an autism specialist, or team of specialists, immediately for a definitive diagnosis
• To audiology and rule out a hearing impairment
• To local community resources for help and family support
Monitor
• Schedule a follow-up appointment to discuss concerns more thoroughly
• Look for other features known to be associated with autism
• Educate parents and provide them with up-to-date information
• Advocate for families with local early intervention programs, schools, respite care agencies, and insurance companies
• Continue surveillance and watch for additional or late signs of autism and/or other developmental disorders
For More Information: www.medicalhomeinfo.org

"For years we have heard the experts say that autism is a lifelong disability. This simply is not true anymore, thanks to effective biomedical treatments that can restore many, if not a majority, of autistic children to full recovery," said Bernard Rimland, Ph.D., Director of the Autism Research Institute and co- founder of Defeat Autism Now! (DAN!), a network of doctors throughout the country who treat autistic patients. "Thousands of formerly autistic patients have shed their autistic symptoms. They now relate normally to their families and to other children. The hand-flapping is gone. The tantrums are gone. Most of these children who used to be lost in their own worlds are now indistinguishable from other children."

The Autism Research Institute has nearly 1,000 parents nationwide who are available for media interviews about their successful biomedical treatment of their autistic children with DAN! doctors
(contact <mailto:media@AutismResearchInstitute.com>
media@AutismResearchInstitute.com).

"Our DAN! doctors determine what each individual child needs, then use safe biomedical interventions to heal that child. Many DAN! Doctors report excellent results from using chelation to rid the body of mercury and other toxic metals," said Dr. Rimland.

Recent studies and investigations have indicated that mercury may be behind the autism epidemic. Mercury, the second most toxic element after plutonium, is estimated to be 500 to 1,000 times more toxic than lead. The heavy metal burrows deep into the cells of the brain and other organs and can lead to serious central nervous system damage and crippling neurological disorders. Scientific evidence pointing to mercury poisoning as the cause behind rising autism rates has led many medical doctors to remove the toxin from the bodies of autistic children through chelation.

"The symptoms of early infant mercury poisoning and autism are virtually identical," said Dr. Boyd Haley, chairman of the chemistry department at the University of Kentucky. "Furthermore, research indicates that autistic children genetically have a harder time excreting mercury from their bodies. This is why chelation has become such a powerful key for unlocking and undoing the disorders associated with autism."

Chelation has been used for decades to detoxify people of dangerous levels of heavy metals, due to industrial accidents or other causes. According to the CDC, 60,000 Americans underwent some form of chelation last year, and the therapy is currently under clinical trial with heart disease patients. In autism treatments, chelating "agents" may be administered orally or transdermally (through the skin). Once in the bloodstream, the chelating agent binds to heavy metals and helps remove them from the body.

"Chelation is one of the most effective ways to rid autistic children of the mercury poisoning which is at the root of their disorder," said Lynne Mielke, M.D., a Pleasanton, California physician, who is part of the DAN! network. "The medical establishment already endorses chelation for acute metal toxicity disorders, and the number of doctors who realize chelation's benefits for the chronic metal toxicity found in autism is rapidly growing."

Parents are also eager to help fellow parents navigate the road to treatment for their autistic children. The Generation Rescue Web site, <http://www.GenerationRescue.org

Contacts for more than 150 volunteer "Rescue Angels," who Handley calls the "heart and soul" of Generation Rescue. "We're parents who want to help other parents caught in the nightmare of autism find hope and recovery for their kids," said Handley, who added that the organization is completely founded, funded and run by parents. "Too often parents believe the outdated myth that autism is not treatable or reversible. We're here to tell them otherwise."

Biomedical treatments for autism require the support of a specialized healthcare provider who can tailor treatment to the individual needs of a child. While chelation therapy shows great promise, there are many biomedical treatments being used to heal autistic children.

About Generation Rescue

Generation Rescue is a nonprofit organization formed by parents of children diagnosed with autism and other development disorders. Through thorough research, medical consultation and the use of pioneering new medical treatments, the founding parents of Generation Rescue have seen tremendous improvements in their autistic children-including complete recoveries. Generation Rescue's mission is to provide parents the information and support to understand the cause of autism and treatment options. The Web site,

http://www.GenerationRescue.org, gives parents the background to make informed decisions about treatment and connects them with "Rescue Angels," parents of autistic children who voluntarily provide support and guidance on treatment options and providers. Generation Rescue is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit founded in 2005.

About the Autism Research Institute (ARI)

Established in 1967 by Dr. Bernard Rimland, the San Diego- based nonprofit is world headquarters for research and information on autism and related disorders, and the center of a rapidly growing movement that holds that autism can be treated effectively through intensive behavior modification and a variety of individualized biomedical treatments. ARI maintains the world's largest databank of autistic individuals with over 37,000 detailed case histories of autistic children from 60 countries, and is a major source of information on the epidemic and its causes. ARI also helped develop the Defeat Autism Now! (DAN!) project to train physicians and healthcare professionals on successful treatment of autism. ARI is a 501 (c) (3). For more information, contact 619-281-7165 or visit
<http://www.AutismResearchInstitute.com>http://www.AutismResearchInstitute.com.

Next this video is priceless. Please watch this.
http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyBYeJwW2f0

Boyd Haley gives us an idea what is going on when you chelate in this synopsis.

I will try to explain my research regarding heavy metal toxicity and EDTA.   First, all heavy metals at some concentration are toxic to tubulin polymerization. However, mercury is the one that is toxic at the very lowest levels and the one that has easy access to the central nervous system. So now lets state some experimental facts.

  1. EDTA in excess will totally prevent the heavy metal toxicity of Cd2+, Pb2+, Cu2+ and likely all other heavy metals humans are likely exposed to with the EXCEPTION of Hg2+. Prechelation of Hg2+ with excess EDTA makes it more toxic to tubulin polymerization in vitro, that is it takes less   Hg2+-EDTA complex to inhibit 50% of the tubulin than Hg2+ alone.   Therefore, the statement that Hg2+-EDTA complex is more toxic than Hg2+ alone.

2. The toxicity of Hg2+ is synergistically increased by the presence of other heavy metals such as Pb2+, Cu2+, Ag2+, Zn2+, etc. It has been published by several others besides myself that this occurs. For example, an LD-1 of Pb2+ added to an LD-1 of Hg2+ gave a solution with an LD-100. If it were additive, it would have been and LD-2 solution. Now consider what would happen if you added EDTA to this mixture of Pb2+ and Hg2+. The EDTA would chelate the Pb2+ removing its synergistic toxicity which is major. Also, the EDTA could make the Hg2+ more toxic. However, the increase in Hg2+ toxicity caused by EDTA would be much less than the decrease in toxicity caused by removal of the Pb2+ by EDTA. Therefore, even though I know that EDTA cannot be expected to pull Hg2+ off of protein thiol groups (a covalent bond) it could reduce the "effective toxicity" of Hg2+ by removing Pb2+, Cd2+ etc. freeing up reduced glutathione to bind and remove Hg2+. Note, in 'chelation therapy" the situation is this. The Hg2+ that has been in the body for some time is likely already bound covalently to protein and will not be made more toxic by EDTA----neither will it be removed by EDTA. The other heavy metals do not form covalent bonds and can be more easily bound and removed by EDTA. This removal of other toxic metals would make it easier for the body to detox Hg2+ if help is given to remove other toxic heavy metals. The danger comes with circulating Hg2+ that is being newly introduced to the body from amalgams or other sources, or the Hg2+ that is in foods also containing EDTA (a common additive).

Sincerely, Boyd Haley
Boyd E. Haley 859-257-7082
Professor and Chair
Dept. of Chemistry
University of Kentucky

There are other ways to recover children besides chelation. Every child is different and not all children respond the same.

Take a look at this explanation how thimerosal has contributed to the autism epidemic by Dr Deth a Professor of Pharmacology at Northeastern University

1. Thiol (sulfur) metabolism is widely recognized as the primary target of mercury (i.e. Thimerosal)              neurotoxicity.

2. Autistic children exhibit profound abnormalities in thiol metabolites.

3. Concentrations of thimerosal produced by vaccination inhibit methylation activity of the enzyme         methionine synthase.

4. Autistic children exhibit impaired methylation activity.

5. Thiol metabolism plays a key role in inflammation and oxidative stress (e.g. maintaining glutathione levels).

6. Autistic children exhibit neuroinflammation and oxidative stress (Vargas et al. Ann Neurol. 2005 Jan;57(1):67-81)

7. Mercury and other heavy metals cause neuroinflammation (e.g. activation of microglia).

8. Thimerosal causes significantly greater accumulation of inorganic mercury in the brain than does methylmercury. (Burbacher et al. Environ Health Perspect. 2005 Aug;113(8):1015-21)

Ergo, there is indeed substantial scientific evidence of a link between Thimerosal and autism.

Furthermore, and more importantly:

Treatment of autistic children with regimens that:

1. Remove heavy metals (e.g. chelation)

2. Augment levels of glutathione (e.g. GSH or N-acetylcysteine) 3. Support methylation activity (e.g. methyl B12 (not just B12), folinic acid)

4. Reduce neuroinflammation (PPAR-acting agents)

....bring about clinical improvement in a large proportion of children with autism. If you or anyone else would like to understand the link between autism and Thimerosal, I suggest that you study autistic children. However, when the debate about thimerosal’s role is put aside, it is the ability to provide improvement in the lives of autistic children that really matters.

Chelation: Autism severity has been found corresponding to body burden of toxic metals (6), and chelation has been found safe and somewhat effective (7-8).
1. Evaluation, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Gastrointestinal Disorders in Individuals With ASDs: A Consensus Report
Buie T et al.

Pediatrics 2010;125:S1–S18.
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/125/Supplement_1/S1

2. Recommendations for Evaluation and Treatment of Common Gastrointestinal Problems in Children With ASDs
Buie T et al.
Pediatrics 2010;125:S19–S29
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/125/Supplement_1/S19

3. A randomised, controlled study of dietary intervention in autistic syndromes
Knivsberg AM, Reichelt KL, Høien T, Nødland M.
Nutr Neurosci. 2002 Sep;5(4):251-61.

4. ARI Parent Ratings: For several decades, the Autism Research Institute has been creating a database comprised of parental reports of what treatments worked (for a specific child), what treatments didn't work; which set the child back, which didn't seem to have any effect. The data include pharmaceuticals, supplements, and diets. In each line-item within the data presentation, consider the ratio (per treatment) of got-better/got-worse.
Parent Ratings of Behavorial Effects of Biomedical Interventions
http://www.autism.com/treatable/form34qr.htm

5. Gastrointestinal pathologies in autism: Did Mayo's Ibrahim and colleagues err?
http://www.generationrescue.org/binstock/100131-autism-gastrointestinal-...

6. The severity of autism is associated with toxic metal body burden and red blood cell glutathione levels
J Toxicol. 2009;2009:532640. Epub 2009 Aug 26.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2809421/pdf/JT2009-532640.pdf

7. Safety and efficacy of oral DMSA therapy for children with autism spectrum disorders: part A--medical results
BMC Clin Pharmacol. 2009 Oct 23;9:16.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6904/9/16

8. Safety and efficacy of oral DMSA therapy for children with autism spectrum disorders: part B - behavioral results
Adams JB et al.
BMC Clin Pharmacol. 2009 Oct 23;9:17.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6904/9/17

Wonderful comment from a dedicated Mom:

Our son was dx'd with severe to moderate Autism in 11/04. Today he is in 'regular camp'. I didn't even tell the teachers. I did tell them several weeks into camp and they said 'no way'. 'He's just a normal kid to us'. We first did the diet GF/CF/SF, then supplements - pro-biotics/colostrum/CLO, etc. We also did Secretin monthly, as well as Rectal DMPS and IV DMPS with Vit C, Glutathione for just about a year weekly, as well as nebulized glutathione and glutathione lotion and MB12 shots. We also did ABA/Speech and OT. That is it. You can talk to me offline if you like lbfl1971@yahoo.com. Don't give up, they are worth the work!!

Another fantastic Mom!

Today I received an invitation from Dr. Steve Edelson and Dr. Rimland to participate in the Recovered Kids parent panel they are setting up for the DAN conference in Seattle in October. They are doing a parent panel on Saturday night, but they are also doing individual interviews on film throughout the conference and are putting together a documentary video. I do not yet know if they are still doing the line-up of kids as they have in the past, but I am excited either way. It has caused me to reflect on how very far we have come in the 5+ years since our devastating diagnosis. We received the diagnosis in the Spring of 2001, a few months prior to the disaster of 9/11 which is my mother's birthday. I remember distinctly my feelings after 9/11, it was profound anger. Not at the act of the day but at the irony of the situation. All the attention on the victims, the monetary compensation for them being in the wrong place at the wrong time. I wondered where the attention for our kids was. They weren't all struck at once by an airplane, but they were devastated by this train wreck called Autism. What I was going through felt like terrorism. I remember the fear that was discussed by everyone afterward and I scoffed at the fear. Why, I thought would I fear a terrorism attack? Well, because they might injure someone I loved. Oh yah, that has already happened. My daughter had reacted to her vaccines and was never the same, three months later my niece reacted to the same round of vaccines but she didn't become autistic because she died. I had lost my husband, a niece, and nearly my daughter and no one batted an eye. I remember telling my parents, the terrorists are not MY enemy, as the historic statement goes, "I have seen the enemy and it is us". I feared my own government and still do, far more than any potential terrorist. I fear their mandated poisons, I fear them taking my child while accusing me of being the one that is experimenting on my daughter's health, taking no responsibility themselves. I remember five years ago finding no help from any quarter besides fellow parents trying to catch up to that same speeding train of typical peers that we wanted to catch.

The sad part is I haven't seen that change much at all in five years. Many relatives just didn't get it. My community had nothing to offer except for an Early Intervention program offering 20 minutes of speech a week and tying children in chairs because they didn't understand the basics of behavior modification that would have allowed them to 'teach' an autistic child how to 'sit at circle time'. Local non-profits claimed I made too much money or simply that my child was not quite 'disabled enough'. Our pediatricians group turned us away as they knew they had done the damage and I had gone outside their circle to get a diagnosis. It didn't matter anyway because my insurance company dropped us the day after the diagnosis. There seemed to be nowhere to turn other than the internet, which was our savior, our library, our companion, our support, our information, but more than anything it was HOPE. That which we could find nowhere else, we found from other families willing to share what had helped their children and help us to do the same. By joining my state FEAT organization, Unlocking Autism, GFCF Kids, Autism-Mercury group, I found that people were healing their children and we embarked on this very long and difficult journey. I remember looking up phone numbers of book authors on Yahoo people search and simply picking up the phone and calling them. I would have never done that before the diagnosis, now I was an unstoppable force, and one to be reckoned with. They all talked to me by the way.

I remember 1,000s of tears, shouts of joy and celebration. I remember first words, first sentences, first realizations, first time she realized we don't all share the same thoughts and experiences, first time she anticipated someone else's emotional reaction to an event yet to occur. I remember crying when she did typical things that other parents wouldn't give a 2nd thought, but they are things I once thought she would never do. I remember our first discussion of the cutest boy in school and we giggled together and I kept my emotion and joy in check. I remember formal programs to teach her what Who, What, When, Where, and Why meant. I remember that first box of 350 picture cards and just teaching what those few items were, then later features, functions, and classes. I remember my life turning upside down and our house stripped of all Gluten and Casein and knowing it was worth it when the light in her eyes came back to us. I remember getting up every four hours to administer DMSA and ALA, and then countering that with trying to slip supplements into every drink and food I could sneak it into. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year our entire life revolved around treatments, around saving the only child I would ever have. I remember my brother deciding to treat his own cancer after learning what had been done to our children and he outlived their '6 months to live' scenario by over 5 years and he got to see his niece declared 90% recovered from Autism and on her way to 100%. I remember mentoring new families though I am not always the best match for some families. I'm often too blunt, too in your face, too kick you in the butt and get moving because you don't have time to grieve, or feel sorry for yourself. I also remember the first time I felt 'lucky' despite having a child with Autism. My daughter had started out with a severe diagnosis, she spent her time rocking, flapping, banging her head on the floor, coffee table, concrete sidewalks, anything near by.

She pulled tufts of her own hair out in anger or would bite herself until she drew blood. She would have literally 100s of meltdowns every day. But with the diet, chelation, and ABA therapy we at one point made up 1 1/2 years in 6 months. That is why I was lucky. Somehow my daughter was not damaged to the point of no-return. I didn't have any medical support, no professional help for the diet or chelation I was on my own, and I didn't have the best ABA program, it was all family and volunteers. Yet my child was the miracle in the works. I felt so lucky that my child was on this path to recovery. I might have helped her along, but I didn't do as much as other parents I know were doing, but it was my child making huge advances. It was her abilities coming out, her personality, her sense of humor, breaking free from the binds that held them. I remember wondering what recovery really looks like. I met some families who had recovered children and most were 100% indistinguishable from their peers but there were some that still had their quirks and oddities. The one thing they all had in common is no memory prior to recovery. One teenage girl still goes in her room sometimes to talk to herself. One boy his mother said he still flapped his hands off and on for the next couple years but it slowly faded away. I often think my daughter's biggest issue is going to be naiveté'. I worry that she will go along with anything. We will see and I may have to take extra care. But I will take it any day compared to the gloom and doom of our original predicament and prognosis. But I will also never leave the fight to save all our children and I will never stop trying to prevent the damage to future generations. I will also never stop 'paying it forward' to help new families as others did for me. Dr. Yazbak, Judi Converse, Dr. McCandless, members of the groups I mentioned above all played a part in helping me to recover my child, and emotional support when times were good or bad. We cannot stop the fight until every single family gets to experience what we have. We have to know why kids like my daughter recover and other kids with $100,000.00 a year programs do not. We have to know why there are a few kids out there with autism who never received a vaccine in their life and what is their connection to the epidemic. Because this epidemic will in the long run be 10x more devastating than 9/11 though I hate to compare one misery to another. My dream beyond my daughter's success and happiness in life is that our government admits that they were the plane in our own 9/11, and they drove that plane into our children with as much knowledge, forethought, malice, and callousness as the terrorist pilots on 9/11/2001. I don't hold out much hope for that portion of my dream. But despite our differences it is our huge Autism family that will help make that dream come true. We can never stop demanding the truth. And whether we are Democrats or Republicans, Christians or Jews, ABA proponents or Biomedical, we all deserve to see what the true potential of our children was before the damage was done. That is our true goal no matter what else drives us. Memory Lane is a sad and happy place to be, all at the same time. But I wouldn't change the path I took one iota, I only wish I could have done it without the fear, the fear of the government and medical complex terrorists than not only did the damage but then tried to stop us from fixing it.
Kendra Pettengill

Take a look at this study it seems to validate the conclusion autism is heavy metal toxicity.

Mercury, Lead, and Zinc in Baby Teeth of Children with Autism Versus Controls
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a778482653~db=all~order=page
Authors: James B. Adams ; Jane Romdalvik ; V. M. Sadagopa Ramanujam ; Marvin S. Legator
Affiliations: a Chemical and Materials Engineering, Arizona State University. Tempe, Arizona. USA b Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, University of Texas Medical
Branch. Galveston, Texas. USA
DOI: 10.1080/15287390601172080
Publication Frequency: 24 issues per year
Published in: Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A, Volume 70, Issue 12
January 2007 , pages 1046 - 1051
Subjects: Environmental & Ecological Toxicology; Environmental Health; Formats available: HTML (English) : PDF (English)

Abstract
This study determined the level of mercury, lead, and zinc in baby teeth of children with autism spectrum disorder (n = 15, age 6.1 ± 2.2 yr) and typically developing children (n = 11, age = 7 ± 1.7 yr). Children with autism had significantly (2.1-fold) higher levels of mercury but similar levels of lead and similar levels of zinc. Children with autism also had significantly higher usage of oral antibiotics during their first 12 mo of life, and possibly higher usage of oral antibiotics during their first 36 mo of life. Baby teeth are a good measure of cumulative exposure to toxic metals during fetal development and early infancy, so this study suggests that children with autism had a higher body burden of mercury during fetal/infant development. Antibiotic use is known to almost completely inhibit excretion of mercury in rats due to alteration of gut flora. Thus, higher use of oral antiobiotics in the children with autism may have reduced their ability to excrete mercury, and hence may partially explain the higher level in baby teeth. Higher usage of oral antibiotics in infancy may also partially explain the high incidence of chronic
gastrointestinal problems in individuals with autism.

Here is another study that shows the connection between autism and vaccines.

SICK MONKEYS: RESEARCH LINKS VACCINE LOAD, AUTISM SIGNS

BY DAN OLMSTED
05/16/2008
http://www.ageofautism.com/2008/05/sick-monkeys-st.html

The first research project to examine effects of the total vaccine load received by children in the 1990s has found autism-like signs and symptoms in infant monkeys vaccinated the same way. The study's principal investigator, Laura Hewitson from the University of Pittsburgh, reports developmental delays, behavior problems and brain changes in macaque monkeys that mimic "certain neurological abnormalities of autism."

The findings are being reported Friday and Saturday at a major international autism conference in London.

Although couched in scientific language, Hewitson's findings are explosive. They suggest, for the first time, that our closest animal cousins develop characteristics of autism when subjected to the same immunizations – such as the MMR shot -- and vaccine formulations – such as the mercury preservative thimerosal -- that American children received when autism diagnoses exploded in the 1990s.

The first publicly reported results of this research project come in both oral and poster presentations on Friday and Saturday at the International Meeting For Autism Research in London. Poster presentations must go through a form of peer review before they are presented at the conference; the papers have not yet appeared in a scientific journal.

In addition to Hewitson's oral presentation today, on Saturday in one of two related poster presentations, the researchers also are reporting in their abstract that "vaccinated animals exhibited progressively severe chronic active inflammation [in gastrointestinal tissue] whereas unexposed animals did not. We have found many significant differences in the GI tissue gene expression profiles between vaccinated and unvaccinated animals." Numerous scientific studies, as well as many parents, report severe GI ailments in children with regressive autism.

The results are sure to be controversial, in part because they lend credence to studies first published in 1998 by British pediatric gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield, one of Hewitson's co-authors on these findings. He described an unusual inflammatory bowel condition in children who had regressed into autism after they received the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccination. Wakefield is currently fighting charges of medical misconduct in Britain over allegations of conflict-of-interest and improper procedures related to that paper. He denies the charges.

In the program for the conference, the 7th Annual International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR), there are three separate presentations listed that report results from the overall research program. The first, an oral presentation entitled "Pediatric Vaccines Influence Primate Behavior, and Amygdala Growth and Opioid Ligand Binding" (the "amygdala abstract") was led by Dr. Hewitson and lists 12 co-authors, including five of her colleagues from the University of Pittsburgh and Dr. Wakefield. Other authors are chemists, pathologists and psychologists from the universities of Kentucky, California-Irvine, and Washington.

Hewitson's introductory presentation will be followed by two poster presentations on Saturday; one of the two, "Pediatric Vaccines Influence Primate Behavior, and Brain Stem Volume and Opioid Ligand Binding", was led by Wakefield and includes six additional co-authors.

It focuses on the developmental effect of vaccine exposures on brain growth during infancy. The second, "Microarray Analysis of GI Tissue in a Macaque Model of the Effects of Infant Vaccination," was led by Steven Walker of Wake Forest University and performed gene array analysis on the intestinal tissues of the vaccinated and unvaccinated monkeys.

The studies address – albeit in animals, not children -- one of the major criticisms by parents and scientists concerned about a possible link between the greatly stepped-up immunization schedule in the 1990s, including higher exposure to the mercury preservative, and autism. While the Food and Drug Administration approves individual vaccines as safe and effective, and an advisory committee to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends the childhood immunization schedule adopted by the states, the overall health outcomes from the total vaccine load, versus no vaccinations at all, have never been compared, the authors said.

A bill requiring the government to conduct a study of autism rates in unvaccinated American children is pending in the U.S. House of Representatives, co-sponsored by Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and Tom Osborne (R.-Neb.). Just this week, former National Institutes of Health Director Bernadine Healy called for more research into a possible vaccine link to autism and said the question had not been settled, despite repeated assertions to that effect by the CDC, the Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Pediatrics.

In the abstract for today's oral presentation, the authors noted that macaques, the type of monkey used in the study, "are commonly used in pre-clinical vaccine safety testing, but the combined childhood vaccine regimen, rather than individual vaccines, has not been studied. Childhood vaccines are a possible causal factor in autism, and abnormal behaviors and anomalous amygdala growth are potentially inter-related features of this condition."

The study found evidence of both behavioral and biological changes after the 13 macaque monkey infants were administered proportional doses, adjusted for age, of the vaccines recommended between 1994 and 1999. Three monkeys were not given any vaccines.

"Primate development, cognition and social behavior were assessed for both vaccinated and unvaccinated infants using standardized tests developed at the Washington National Primate Research Center." MRI and PET scans looked    for brain changes after administration of the MMR.

"Compared with unexposed animals, significant neurodevelopmental deficits were evident for exposed animals in survival reflexes, tests of color discrimination and reversal, and learning sets," the authors reported. "Differences in behaviors were observed between exposed and unexposed animals and within the exposed group before and after MMR vaccination. Compared with unexposed animals, exposed animals showed attenuation of amygdala growth and differences in the amygdala binding of [11C]diprenorphine. Interaction models identified significant associations    between specific aberrant social and non-social behaviors, isotope binding, and vaccine exposure."

One of the Saturday abstracts makes the further point that the research "revealed significant differences between exposed and unexposed animals" in the kinds of developmental behaviors a mother might be able to observe, "with delayed acquisition of root, suck, clasp hand, and clasp foot reflexes." They conclude by noting that "This animal model examines the neurological consequences of the childhood vaccine regimen, Functional and … brainstem anomalies were evident in vaccinated animals that may be relevant to some aspects of autism. The findings raise important safety issues while providing a potential animal model for examining aspects of causation and disease pathogenesis in acquired neurodevelopmental disorders."

Dan Olmsted is Editor of Age of Autism.

Take a look at what Bernadine Healy M.D. had to say about vaccines

Fighting the Autism-Vaccine War
http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/brain-and-behavior/2008/04/10/fighting-the-autism-vaccine-war.html
By Bernadine Healy M.D.
Posted April 10, 2008
http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/brain-and-behavior/2008/04/10/fighting-the-autism-vaccine-war.html

One of the most vitriolic debates in medical history is just beginning to have its day in court—vaccine court, that is. Without laying blame, the independent Office of Special Masters of the Court of Federal Claims—with a 20-year record of handling vaccine matters—recently conceded that the brain damage and autistic behavior of Hannah Poling stemmed from her exposure as a toddler to five vaccinations on one day in July 2000. Two days later, she was overtaken by a high fever and an encephalopathy that deteriorated into autistic behavior. Even though autism has a strong genetic basis, and she has a coexisting rare mitochondrial disorder, I would not be too quick to dismiss Hannah as an anomaly.

At some level, the decision was a vindication for families who have been battling with the vaccine community, arguing that some poorly understood reaction to components of vaccines or their mercury-based preservative, thimerosal, could cause brain injury. Yes, vaccines are extraordinarily safe and bring huge public health benefit. (Remember the 1950s polio epidemics?) But vaccine experts tend to look at the population as a whole, not at individual patients. And population studies are not granular enough to detect individual metabolic, genetic, or immunological variation that might make some children under certain circumstances susceptible to neurological complications after vaccination.

A trigger? Families are not alone in searching for a trigger that might explain why autism and autism spectrum disorders have skyrocketed; now they reportedly affect about 1 in 150 kids. No doubt some of the increase is soft, due to broader diagnostic criteria, greater awareness, and—now that the notion of a detached "refrigerator" mom as a cause has blessedly fallen by the wayside—greater openness. But the rise of this disorder, which shows up before age 3, happens to coincide with the increased number and type of vaccine shots in the first few years of life. So as a trigger, vaccines carry a ring of both historical and biological plausibility.

Go back 40 or 50 years. The medical literature is replete with reports of neurological reactions to vaccines, such as mood changes, seizures, brain inflammation, and swelling. Several hundred cases of the paralytic illness Guillain-Barré after the swine flu vaccine were blamed on the government and gave Gerald Ford heartburn—but eventually led to the vaccine court.

Pediatricians were concerned enough about mercury, which is known to cause neurological damage in developing infant and fetal brains, that they mobilized to have thimerosal removed from childhood vaccines by 2002. Their concern was not autism but the lunacy of injecting mercury into little kids through mandated vaccines that together exceeded mercury safety guidelines designed for adults. But as in all things vaccine, this move too was contentious. Both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization remain unconvinced that thimerosal puts young children at risk.

There is no evidence that removal of thimerosal from vaccines has lowered autism rates. But autism numbers are not precise, so I would say that considerably more research is still needed on some provocative findings. After all, thimerosal crosses the placenta, and pregnant women are advised to get flu shots, which often contain it. Studies in mice suggest that genetic variation influences brain sensitivity to the toxic effects of mercury. And a primate study designed to mimic vaccination in infants reported in 2005 that thimerosal may clear from the blood in a matter of days but leaves inorganic mercury behind in the brain.

The debate roils on—even about research. The Institute of Medicine in its last report on vaccines and autism in 2004 said that more research on the vaccine question is counterproductive: Finding a susceptibility to this risk in some infants would call into question the universal vaccination strategy that is a bedrock of immunization programs and could lead to widespread rejection of vaccines. The IOM concluded that efforts to find a link between vaccines and autism "must be balanced against the broader benefit of the current vaccine program for all children."

Wow. Medicine has moved ahead only because doctors, researchers, and yes, families, have openly challenged even the most sacred medical dogma. At the risk of incurring the wrath of some of my dearest colleagues, I say thank goodness for the vaccine court.

One thing I have noticed about autistic kids is some of them have a ghostly white appearance. I came across a few websites I will share with you.
http://www.ultimate-cosmetics.com/beauty/articles/white-asian-skin-against-tanning.htm

Pale skin has had an exciting evolution. Greek and Roman women used to do anything possible to whiten their face skin; the whiter their face skin was, the more beautiful they were considered. Sun tanning was out of the question. By using lead paints and chalks women put themselves in great danger because that ancient beauty treatment could cause death by slow poisoning. It was only too late when this was discovered.

According to Asian dermatologists, the danger comes from mercury. If safety allowance limits are exceeded, mercury (the best known whitening agent) may cause death. Unfortunately, some products include high doses of mercury, which are damaging to the central nervous system and the kidneys, and especially to the development of the brain in a fetus or a child.

Here is another website:http://www.abcdlady.com/2005-07/art6.php

In early January, a woman in New York used a skin lightening cream that caused mercury poisoning. The product, purchased from the Dominican Republic, contained large amounts of mercury. “While the FDA limit for mercury is 1 part per million (ppm), the tested sample contained more than 6,000 ppm of mercury,” stated a press release from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs.

The product is called Recetas de la Farmacia - Crema Blanqueadora (Recipes of the Pharmacy - Whitening Cream). Many imported creams do not list mercury as an ingredient, if they list any ingredients at all. Mercury exposure can cause a host of problems such as damage to the brain, kidneys and nervous system, as well as skin rashes and irritation when found in a topical cream. Mercury can also cause birth defects, such as brain damage and malformations in the fetus due to poisoning, the release stated. The release also cited the following products as containing mercury: Recetas de la Farmacia Normal - Crema Blanqueadora, Miss Key Crema Blanqueadora, Santa Cream, Dermaline Skin Cream and Jabon Germicida.

And another:http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/east/05/13/asia.whitening/

In what may be the biggest toxic cream outbreak ever, 1,262 people flocked to a hotline set up by Hong Kong's health department last week, after warnings that two whitener creams -- Rosedew and La Rose Blanche -- had mercury levels between 9,000 and 65,000 times the recommended dose. In December 2000, Lam and Prince of Wales Hospital doctor Michael Chan tested 36 creams made by cosmetic makers across the world. They found eight creams exceeded the U.S. Food and Drug Administration safety limits for mercury. All eight brands came from China or Taiwan, prompting Lam to predict this could be "the tip of the iceberg" because the creams have been available for several years and widely used. When Lam phoned one Chinese supplier, he was told: "What is wrong with a little mercury in the cream, as long as it can make ladies beautiful."

While mercury was considered a strong and effective whitening agent ten to twenty years ago, in high doses it is lethal. It is so toxic and dangerous that when workers used mercury to make felt hats in the 1800s, the psychiatric changes it triggered, led observers to call them as "mad-as-a-hatter." "Mercury is very harmful to the central nervous system and kidney, particularly the developing brain of a fetus and young child " says Lam.

"It can lead to convulsions, coma and death." Used as a skin bleacher for years, it was only when a smattering of toxic cream cases broke out during the 1990s in Australia, America and Saudi Arabia that mercury was put under the spotlight, sparking calls to boost labeling and purity requirements. "The more effective it is, the less safe it is, and with a strong product the reaction will be expected to be more," says Dr. Wendy Wong Hok-wai, a Hong Kong dermatologist.

And another:http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/east/05/14/asia.mercury/index.html

(CNN) -- Creams with mercury are unsafe. Heavy metals such as mercury can enter the body and stay on as a poison, affecting the bones, nervous tissue, and blood-forming system.

Along with sight or hearing loss and hand tremors, high doses of mercury can trigger personality changes, anxiety, irritability, insomnia, general fatigue, memory loss progressing to cerebral palsy, and potentially fatal kidney failure. Mercury, particularly organic mercury, can infiltrate the placenta and harm an unborn child. Because mercury is eliminated from the body through urine and faeces, persons who have not used the cream for six months or more are unlikely to have higher-than-normal mercury levels. The acceptable dosage of mercury, as specified by China's "Hygienic Standards for Cosmetics", is one part per million (1 ppm).

One more:http://www.addistribune.com/Archives/2005/07/08-07-05/Medical%20Trut1.htm

Dr. Hans-Martin Hirt, a pharmacist, has been working in the Congo for several years. He mainly disapproves of the application of 'lightening' soaps and creams in this West African country...

Therefore Hirt demands urgently that at least all soaps containing mercury should be prohibited in Africa. In the following you will find a few of the most important side-effects caused by mercury in soaps:

1. Mercury penetrates the skin and chronically poisons the whole body: A woman who regularly uses such a soap (which unfortunately happens very often in the Congo) will have 400 times as much mercury in her body than a woman not using it.

2. What is even worse: mercury penetrates into the brain and can therefore damage the intelligence.

3. Mercury penetrates as well into the placenta, oxidizes and will then be deposited into the brain of the embryo. 3 months after birth, one child still had a concentration of mercury in his urine which was 140 times higher than normal - and this child had never been washed with soap containing mercury, only his mother had used it!

4. The World Health Organization (WHO) has now published a report which is entitled: "Inorganic mercury in the environment and its effects on mankind" It describes that "the chronical supply of mercury can provoke psychotic reactions such as delirium, hallucinations and a deposition for suicide".

5. Further more trembling of the limbs, kindly syndromes and contact derma tides can occur.

Since 1977, the WHO has been appealing to Governments all over the world not to allow the use of mercury soaps. In Germany, such products have been banned from the market since 1975. Even in England it is not possible to buy them, not even in a pharmacy - but the British cosmetics industry produce exactly this kind of soap and export them to Western Africa or sell licenses for fabrication e.g. to Kinshasa.

If mercury is used a skin whitener, maybe this is why mercury poisoned (autistic) kids are so pale.

Here are a few studies that address the mercury/autism connection.

Comparison of Blood and Brain Mercury Levels in Infant Monkeys Exposed to Methylmercury or Vaccines Containing Thimerosal. Environmental Health Perspectives, Aug 2005 Thomas Burbacher, PhD [University of Washington] - showed that ethyl mercury, the kind of mercury found in thimerosal, not only ends up in the brain, but leaves double the amount of inorganic mercury as methyl mercury, the kind of mercury found in fish.

Thimerosal Neurotoxicity is Associated with Glutathione Depletion: Protection with Glutathione Precursors. Neurotoxicology, Jan 2005. S. Jill James, PhD [University of Arkansas] -demonstrated that Thimerosal lowers or inhibits the body's ability to produce Glutathione, an antioxidant and the body's primary cellular-level defense against mercury.

Large Brains in Autism: The Challenge of Pervasive Abnormality.
The Neuroscientist, Volume 11, Number 5, 2005. Martha Herbert, MD, PhD [Harvard University] - discussed neuroinflammation and how it appears to be present in autistic brain tissue, suggesting that chronic disease or an external environmental source (like heavy metals) may be causing the inflammation.

National Autism Prevalence Trends From United States Special Education Data.
Pediatrics, March 2005. Craig J. Newschaffer, PhD [Johns Hopkins University] - demonstrated that the rise in the incidence of autism is real and that the greatest increase took place between 1987 and 1992, which matches the timing of the near-tripling of Thimerosal in pediatric vaccines.

Evidence Of Harm, Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy, 2005 David Kirby, St. Martin's Press - "“A riveting new book that examines this controversial but biologically plausible link, Evidence of Harm lines up the known evidence while telling the stories of a handful of determined parents forced to become their own detectives. You'll get eye-opening glimpses into the trenches where once normally developing kids slip into the shuttered world of autism and where their parents refuse to be bounced off the walls of seemingly impenetrable bureaucracies. Highly recommended."- Knight Ridder Newspapers.

And now for some comic relief....

Raining Pianos: A Short Course on Anecdotal Evidence
By Lenny Schafer, 2003

Patient: Doctor, my son has this terrible headache. He's dizzy and he's been fainting a lot. He says his arm is numb.

Dr. Steinway: What happened?

Patient: We were walking down the street and a piano fell on his head.

Dr. Steinway: I see. Mmmm. Anything else happen at the time that might have caused this?

Patient: What do you mean, "anything else?" A PIANO FELL ON HIS HEAD!

Dr. Steinway: Perhaps, but that's only a temporal coincidence. Several epidemiological studies done by eminent scientists have failed to find a connection between pianos and concussions. The cause could be any number of environmental factors. Kids get bumped by stuff all the time. Not all get concussions. Maybe your child has a genetically predisposed soft skull. Any family history of concussions? Munchausen by Proxy? Hypochondria?

Patient: But I was there! I saw it falling from the second story of a piano factory! I couldn't get him out of the way fast enough and he caught a piece of the candelabra. If it's not the piano, what else could it possibly be?

Dr. Steinway: Hysteria, guilt. What you're telling me is called "anecdotal evidence". Such evidence can be either evaluated for further research, or completely dismissed as useless without even looking at it, depending on the interests or bias of the researchers. The important thing is that it isn't pianos . . .hey wait, where are you going, we're not through. . .

Patient: I'm going to look for care somewhere else, and to see a lawyer to sue the piano company. . . and maybe even you.

Dr. Steinway: [to himself] Uh huh, lawyers. I thought someone might have put her up to this. Lawyers. . .taking advantage of ignorant hysterics looking for something to blame for their woes. . . The problem's not pianos, the problem is lack of tort reform. . .she wouldn't even let her kid have one of our complimentary "We're Silly for Eli Lilly" clinic balloons.

Legal document on vaccine injury

(reproduced courtesy of http://www.alternative-medicine-newsletter.info) and this website
http://www.silentbetrayal.com/articles/mercury.htm

AUTISM - " NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND"

Autism has hit epidemic levels with no end in sight. The President has failed to address this National Tragedy. WHY?

There are 25 facts that will leave the American people asking questions. New Book Titled, Mercury: The Winged Messenger presents these 25 facts and others...

Fact # 1 Mercury is one of the most poisonous substances known to medical science.

Fact # 2 Thimerosal, is a chemical that was used as a preservative in children's vaccines that was intentionally added to the vaccines to increase profits by way of multi dose bottles that were given to millions of our children.

Fact # 3 Thimerosal is 49.6% MERCURY, a proven and deadly neuro-toxin that causes permanent brain damage. The Material Safety Data Sheet (M.S.D.S.) confirms toxicity fears.

Fact # 4 Hundreds of Thousands of children received as much as 40 times the safe level for mercury exposure as established by the Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) from the thimerosal that was used in the vaccines.

Fact # 5 The pharmaceutical industry stocks exploded in value from 1986 to 1999. This was the direct result of federal mandates requiring vaccines for all school children.

Fact # 6 There has been over 700 waivers of the conflict of interest rule by the F.D.A., C.D.C., and the N.I.H regarding paid consultancy from the drug industry. Congressman Dan Burton of Indiana has called this a "VIOLATION OF THE PUBLICS TRUST".

Fact # 7 Former President Bush (41) was appointed to the Eli Lilly board of directors and lobbied for additional tax breaks until the Supreme Court itself told him to stop.

Fact # 8 Former Vice President Quayle's family controlled Eli Lilly during that time frame. As a result of Bush's appointment to the Eli Lilly Board of Directors, it is suspected that Dan Quayle was selected as the Vice Presidential Candidate.

Fact # 9 Present and former Eli Lilly executives are now employed with the current Bush Administration.

Fact # 10 The Current Administration has tried to insert an eleventh hour Eli Lilly Rider provision in the Homeland Security Bill, that illegally protected the drug industry at the expense of thousands of mercury poisoned children.

Fact # 11 The current administration tried to "SEAL" CDC documents that proved the danger to children from the thimerosal additive used in the vaccines.

Fact # 12 The CDC tried to bury documented reports on thimerosal. They deliberately marked public documents with the phrase "DO NOT COPY OR RELEASE" This violated most consumer protection laws.

Fact # 13 The drug industry has paid consultants that tried to disprove the relationship between autism and mercury poisoning from the multi doses of thimerosal that was given to our children.

Fact # 14 The symptoms of mercury poisoning and that of autism are IDENTICAL.

Fact # 15 The onset of "Autism" has exploded in the last 15 years to epidemic levels.

Fact # 16 This onset occurred when the multi dose vaccines containing the thimerosal was given to our children on multiple occasions during the first two years of a child's life.

Fact # 17 The U.S. Government and state governments require ALL children to have 21 mandated vaccines before being admitted to schools. Most of these vaccines contained the Thimerosal / Mercury up to the year 2001. The current flu vaccine still contains thimerosal.

Fact # 18 The pet vaccine industry took thimerosal out of pet vaccines over ten years ago because of known risks to animals.

Fact # 19 Eli Lilly Company distorted information on the dangers of thimerosal as early as 1930. This has been proven by internal Eli Lilly documents and Congressional investigations by Congressman Burton's committee on Government Reform.

Fact # 20 The U.S. Government has a three year statute of limitation vaccine court of law, that has illegally protected the drug industry by way of violating the U.S. Constitution. This court has and will dismiss law suits because of this illegal three year statute...This in essence is obstruction of justice and violates the Constitutional rights of these vaccine injured children.

Fact # 21 Eli Lilly and other drug giants have contributed large sums of money to the Republican political process.

Fact # 22 The drug industry never disclosed that their baby vaccine products contained this dangerous mercury additive. Parents were never warned or notified.

Fact # 23 Congressman Burton of Indiana has proposed bringing criminal charges against those who are responsible for this national tragedy.

Fact # 24 There have been over 120,000 documented cases of "AUTISM" - Mercury poisoning to our children. Another 250,000 cases are suspected.

These children will require care and support for the rest of their lives. The costs to the parents will exceed $ 2 million dollars per injured child. These are crimes against humanity. Children's lives have been destroyed.

Fact # 25 Majority leader Bill Frist has proposed a new law that again illegally protects The pharmaceutical industry by way of violating the Constitutional Rights of over 120,000 vaccine injured children. Title ll of this proposed law is an atrocity. The rights of these children and that of their parents MUST BE PROTECTED AT ALL COSTS.

Research presented at the conference showed that tests on blood and tissue samples from autistic children have detected auto-antibodies to proteins in the brain, gastrointestinal system and other organs. As Dr.Bradstreet puts it: "The child becomes the victim of his immune system.” The speakers also agreed that autism happens more often in families suffering autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, inflammatory bowel disease and even asthma and eczema. The incidence of all such diseases has markedly increased in recent decades, they note. According to research by Dr. Anne Comiand colleagues at Johns Hopkins Hospital division of pediatric neurology in Baltimore that was cited at the conference, there is a nine-fold increase in the incidence of autism in children born to mothers with immune illnesses.

Andrew Wakefield has since been asked to resign because of his work. "I have been asked to go because my research results are unpopular," said Dr. Wakefield, an academic at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School in London." I did not wish to leave but I have agreed to stand down in the hope that my going will take the political pressure off my colleagues and allow them to get on with the job of looking after the many sick children we have seen. "They have not sacked me. They cannot; I have not done anything wrong. I have no intention of stopping my investigations." He left his £50,000 job after 14 years having been told that his ideas were "unwelcome" at University College London, which controls the Royal Free. Dr Wakefield's research has made him a pariah of the medical establishment". I realize now that everything that has happened to me was inevitable from the beginning. If you offend the system, then the system will take its revenge." This is really scary as well:

So far a few doctors have come forward with similar study results. Dr Arthur Krigsman, a pediatric gastroenterologist from the New York University School of Medicine, told a US congressional committee on autism that he had found an identical pattern of inflammatory bowel disease in 90 per cent of his 43 young autistic patients, to that reported by Dr Andrew Wakefield four years ago when he first raised questions over MMR.

Dr. Timothy Buie, a pediatric gastroenterologist from Harvard Mass General Hospital has performed over 400 gastrointestinal endoscopies with biopsies, as well as evaluation of digestive enzyme function in children diagnosed with autism and finding a connection. Dr. Buie announced his findings last Saturday at the Oasis 2001 Conference for Autism in Portland, Oregon, the day before the announcement of Wakefield's forced departure from Royal Free in the UK. The biopsy results indicated the presence of chronic inflammation of the digestive tract including esophagitis, gastritis and enterocolitis along with the presence of Iymphoid nodular hyperplasia in 15 of 89 children.

Additionally the results of the enzyme testing of Dr. Buie’s patients paralleled that of Dr. Karoly Horvath and colleagues at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. Buie found that the autistic children he examined showed disaccbaride/glucoamylase enzyme levels below normal. Some 55% of these children had lactase deficiencies (which breaks down lactose in milk) as well as deficiencies of the enzyme sucrase (responsible for digestion of table sugar). The findings also lend support to anecdotal reports of improvement of some autistic children on wheat and dairy (gluten, casein) free diets. Buie says that Harvard wants to do research into the use of protein enzyme supplements, which aid in the digestion of wheat and milk products for treatment.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/05/28/wmmr28.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/05/28/ixnews.html

US scientists back autism link to MMR
By Beezy Marsh and Sally Beck
(Filed: 28/05/2006)

The measles virus has been found in the guts of children with a form of autism, renewing fears over the safety of the MMR jab. American researchers have revealed that 85 per cent of samples taken from autistic children with bowel disorders contain the virus. The strain is the same as the one used in the measles, mumps and rubella triple vaccine. The findings will spark fresh concern about MMR, because they back theories of a causal link between the jab, autism and painful gut disorders suffered by a number of autistic children.

The study replicates findings made by the gastroenterologist Dr Andrew Wakefield in 1998 and Prof John O'Leary, a pathologist, in 2002. Parents say their children were developing normally until they had the MMR jab, given when a child is between 12- and 18-months-old. The children now suffer from regressive autism. One theory is that the virus passes through the gut, causing damage, and into the bloodstream, from where it is able to attack the brain.

More than 2,000 families claim that their children have suffered damage but the Department of Health reiterated last night that MMR is safe, a stance supported by the British Medical Association and all the Royal Colleges. Last year Government scientists failed to reproduce research results by Dr Wakefield.

Research to be presented this week in Montreal, Canada, provides fresh evidence that the measles virus is present in the guts of autistic children. Dr Stephen Walker, of the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, North Carolina, studied children with regressive autism and bowel disease. "Of the handful of results we have in so far, all are vaccine strain," he said.

The child psychologist Lisa Blakemore-Brown believes that her outspokenness has made her enemies in the pharmaceutical business and in the Government. Ms Blakemore-Brown, 57, has expounded the theory that diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis inoculations routinely given to babies at two months could be linked to autism and a range of allergies. She is facing disciplinary charges after being officially accused by the British Psychological Society of being potentially unfit to practice and of being paranoid.

Whenever ignorance, envy, greed and suppression dominate the business of a state (or a profession), there will always be heroes who step forward to challenge the status quo. They are usually individuals who lead ordinary lives until, one day, they are faced with an extraordinary situation and make a conscious decision to do the right thing no matter what price they have to pay.
Here is a letter from a doctor that sums up this controversy in a most articulate way please read her entire article it is excellent.

'These are Medically Sick Children'

To the LA Times

I am a physician in Southern California, certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. I am currently specializing in bio-medicine of autism from both personal interest and sheer demand by ever-increasing numbers of parents seeking help for their children with this diagnosis. I was disturbed by the report released Monday and published in the LA Times April 23 by IOM. Though I agree that long-term peer reviewed studies do not yet prove the relationship between the MMR and autism, I believe the report was misleading to the general public and especially to parents or parents-to-be. There is overwhelming clinical evidence by those of us out in the fields dealing with rapidly increasing numbers of autistic children that vaccine safety needs a great deal more investigation. As a clinician, my current belief which guides my practice with these children is that any child given the HepB vaccination at birth and subsequent boosters along with DPT has received unacceptable levels of neurotoxin in the form of the ethyl mercury in the thimerosal preservative used in the vaccine. In any child with a genetic immune susceptibility (probably about one in six) this sets off a series of events that injure the brain-gut-immune system. By the time they are ready to receive the MMR vaccination, their immune system is so impaired in a great number of these children that the triple vaccine cannot be handled by the now dysfunctional immune system and they begin their obvious descent into the autistic spectrum disorder. The histories are very similar in the majority of these children. Dutiful parents get their child all mandated vaccinations, then come the multiple ear infections, multiple courses of antibiotics, development of food sensitivities (especially wheat and milk products) and allergies, chronic diarrhea/and or constipation, gradual marked restriction of food intake, and evidence of cognitive deficits in the form of gaze avoidance, intolerance of changes in routines, lack of interest in socialization and interacting with others, and lack of language development. This latter is finally what gets most parents to seek help for their child if they are not familiar with the autistic spectrum syndrome, which most parents are not.

The next thing that frequently happens is that the pediatrician tells the parents that "it's just toddler diarrhea" (the child hasn't had formed stools in months) or "he/she looks fine, some children just talk later than others" (no words at 18-24 months), etc. and the diagnosis is further delayed. THESE ARE MEDICALLY SICK CHILDREN!! Their gastrointestinal system is so injured first by the injected toxins, then by the ensuing invasion of pathogens, especially yeast infections, and then by the ingestion of foods they cannot process, like milk and wheat, and the end-point is a malnourished brain that cannot develop and process the world the way a normal child does. They desperately need special early educational intervention to help their brains be receptive, and fortunately this is already well known and happening to some extent. Concomitantly, these children need early bio-medical intervention to help the gastrointestinal, immune, and neurological systems heal and begin to function appropriately. They need dietary intervention and removal of toxic foods and substances, including gut and brain pathogens, so their starving brains can develop properly.

They need special vitamins and minerals to offset the chemical aberrations produced by the toxins and subsequent neurological malnutrition. In the last few years thousands of children have been treated with oral chelation methods to reduce their toxic load of heavy metals such as lead, mercury, arsenic, and aluminum in their bodies, and the results by the clinicians who are willing to step out of the "medical box" to use this form of treatment are having good and sometimes amazing results with a therapy that is very safe. As in all treatment, the earlier the children are treated, the more likely they respond. The protocols are still changing for this new kind of treatment, but children are followed very closely with blood and urinary tests to make sure they remain in good health throughout the process. It is a prolonged process; heavy metals that have become a part of their cellular make-up do not leave easily. The children need to be monitored carefully and strict attention must be paid to their nutritional/vitamin/mineral intake throughout this therapy. In my practice, I have been amazed by the improvement in many children who are started on a good vitamin/mineral/ nutrient program even before they receive any chelation medications. Each child is a complex, unique biochemical/psychological system, and must be evaluated and tested and treated individually. Therefore this kind of therapy is much more prolonged and complicated and demanding both on the parents, the child, and the practitioner than usual forms of medicine dictated by pharmaceuticals, and is not cost-effective for busy practitioners particularly dictated by bottom-line-money-saving health plans. There is a desperate need for doctor education in this arena, as well as need for insurance carriers to recognize new treatments that in the long run stand to save them a great deal by helping early in the course of these disorders.

There is a desperate need for screening clinics where interested physicians and health workers can evaluate these children and counsel parents on the best way to prevent life-long disability. At a meeting I recently attended at the annual NIH conference on children's health in Bethesda MD, one of the directors at that meeting said that the estimated life-long cost of educating and treating a child with autism is $2,000,000! 700 new cases have been added to the California school system in less than the last 3 months. Our educational and medical systems are woefully inadequate to this incredible challenge. Spending most of the millions allocated to autism on obscure genetic rodent studies in universities by persons who may have never encountered a child with autism is tantamount to neglect of many thousands of children who need medical evaluation and treatment as well as proper educational intervention RIGHT NOW!! In my opinion, to take the MMR vaccine out of context of the entire vaccine program and state that it is safe stands to create complacency in parents and researchers, and will continue to endanger many more children before the full truth of this very complicated picture is understood.

Jaquelyn McCandless, M.D

Measles

In 1900 before the measles vaccine came out, there were 13.3 measles deaths per 100,000. By 1955 the death rate was 0.03 per 100,000 a decline of 97.7% eight years before the 1st vaccination. The course of this disease is usually between three to seven days in which the patient should stay home. During measles, the body literally burns up the cells containing the invading virus. This incineration takes place at the site of the spots or rash. If this is stopped, as by vaccination, then the virus lives on only to cause problems later. It is vital to note that MMR vaccine, and the chronic measles infection so often following, depletes the body of Vitamin A. In Africa, the death toll was reduced to virtually zero by administering 250,000 units of vitamin A with the MMR vaccine. Vitamin A beforehand will prevent damage from the MMR vaccine that has now been shown to infect the gut of at least 1/3 of the children with autism.

Dr. Sam Katz, one of the developers of the measles vaccine, in a chapter from his book “Vaccines”, he writes with two others; “The risk of serious complications and death is increased in infants and adults.” And later, “The highest risk of death was in children younger than one year and adults. Neither vaccination nor revaccination is a guarantee that one will be protected from the measles and could well be a significant problem in the future. Boosting of antibody titers appears to be transient, with several investigators finding antibody levels to the pre-revaccination level within months to years.”

It is attested to by the outbreaks among 100% vaccinated populations, presenting as full-blown, mild or sub clinical measles cases. When we dig a little further into medical statistics surrounding this disease we find out that as of 1984, 58% of measles contracted in the US were by individuals already vaccinated for the disease. If children were allowed to get the measles, he or she would not be at risk for measles as an adult where the danger is much higher. The most feared complication is Meningitis. However, this occurs with the same frequency after the disease as after vaccination. This fact alone questions the need for vaccinating against this. Measles is harmless in healthy well fed kids. It confers lifelong immunity, and benefits the immune process. I wonder how many measles deaths are due to immune suppressing drugs such as steroids? Post not to miss At the Oklahoma State University's Center for Health Sciences in Tulsa, clinical trials of a new measles vaccine are being conducted. Doctor Stanley Grogg says the trials are in the third phase of a four-phase national study to find a new measles vaccine. He says the pharmaceutical company that makes the vaccine used a 1967 measles virus to make the original vaccine and that vaccine will be used up in two to three years, so a new vaccination must be found. Hmmm....patent running out? I will do more research on this. I thought you could use a cell line indefinitely. More on this later.....Here is the original article. OSU-Tulsa Selected To Hold Trials For New Measles Vaccine

Here is an article about Atopic dermatitis and the measles vaccine.

Mumps

Mumps is a very benign childhood disease. Generally it is not treated at all. Inflammation of the testicles is rare and generally one sided. So infertility is extremely rare and does not justify the use of a vaccine. The Lancet reported that in West Germany, authorities had listed twenty-seven neurological reactions to the mumps vaccine including Meningitis, febrile convulsions, and epilepsy. There are 30,000 new cases of epilepsy; 10,000 of which are children, in the UK alone.

Take a look at this article. Is the mumps vaccine really working?

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/358/15/1580>http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/358/15/1580

“Recent Resurgence of Mumps in the United States”, New England Journal of Medicine, April 10, 2008, Vol 358:1580-1589, No.15.Key line: “Despite a high coverage rate with two doses of mumps-containing vaccine, a large mumps outbreak occurred…”

Recent Resurgence of Mumps in the United States

Gustavo H. Dayan, M.D., M. Patricia Quinlisk, M.D., M.P.H., Amy A. Parker, M.S.N., M.P.H., Albert E. Barskey, M.P.H., Meghan L. Harris, M.P.H., Jennifer M. Hill Schwartz, M.P.H., Kae Hunt, B.A., Carol G. Finley, B.S., Dennis P. Leschinsky, B.S., Anne L. O'Keefe, M.D., M.P.H., Joshua Clayton, B.S., Lon K. Kightlinger, Ph.D.,
M.S.P.H., Eden G. Dietle, B.S., Jeffrey Berg, Cynthia L. Kenyon, M.P.H., Susan T. Goldstein, M.D., Shannon K. Stokley, M.P.H., Susan B. Redd, Paul A. Rota, Ph.D., Jennifer Rota, M.P.H., Daoling Bi, M.S., Sandra W. Roush, M.T., M.P.H., Carolyn B. Bridges, M.D., Tammy A. Santibanez, Ph.D., Umesh Parashar, M.B., B.S., M.P.H.,William J. Bellini, Ph.D., and Jane F. Seward, M.B., B.S., M.P.H.

ABSTRACT

Background The widespread use of a second dose of mumps vaccine among U.S. schoolchildren beginning in 1990 was followed by historically low reports of mumps cases. A 2010 elimination goal was established, but in 2006 the largest mumps outbreak in two decades occurred in the United States. Methods We examined national data on mumps cases reported during 2006, detailed case data from the most highly affected states, and vaccination-coverage data from three nationwide surveys. Results A total of 6584 cases of mumps were reported in 2006, with 76% occurring between March and May. There were 85 hospitalizations, but no deaths were reported; 85% of patients lived in eight contiguous midwestern states. The national incidence of mumps was 2.2 per 100,000, with the highest incidence among persons 18 to 24 years of age (an incidence 3.7 times that of all other age groups combined). In a subgroup analysis, 83% of these patients reported current college attendance. Among patients in eight highly affected states with known vaccination status, 63% overall and 84% between the ages of 18 and 24 years had received two doses of mumps vaccine. For the 12 years preceding the outbreak, national coverage of one-dose mumps vaccination among preschoolers was 89% or more nationwide and 86% or more in highly affected states. In 2006, the national two-dose coverage among adolescents was 87%, the highest in U.S. history.

Conclusions Despite a high coverage rate with two doses of mumps-containing vaccine, a large mumps outbreak occurred, characterized by two-dose vaccine failure, particularly among midwestern college-age adults who probably received the second dose as schoolchildren. A more effective mumps vaccine or changes in vaccine policy may be needed to avert future outbreaks and achieve the elimination of mumps.

Source Information

From the Division of Viral Diseases (G.H.D.,A.A.P., A.E.B., S.T.G., S.B.R., P.A.R., J.R., D.B., U.P., W.J.B., J.F.S.), the Immunization Services Division (S.K.S., T.A.S.), the Bacterial Diseases Division (S.W.R.), and the Influenza Division (C.B.B.), National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta; the Iowa Department of Public Health, Des Moines (M.P.Q., M.L.H.); the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Topeka (J.M.H.S.); the Illinois Department of Public Health, Springfield (K.H., C.G.F.); the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, Lincoln (D.P.L., A.L.O.); the South Dakota Department of Health, Pierre (J.C., L.K.K.); the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Jefferson City (E.G.D.); the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services, Madison (J.B.); and the Minnesota Department of Health, St. Paul (C.L.K.).

Could having these childhood diseases be helpful?

Atherosclerosis. 2015 Aug;241(2):682-6. doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2015.06.026. Epub 2015 Jun 18.
Association of measles and mumps with cardiovascular disease: The Japan Collaborative Cohort (JACC) study.Kubota Y1, Iso H2, Tamakoshi A3; JACC Study Group.
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AbstractOBJECTIVE:Although it has been suggested that exposure to infections during childhood could decrease risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD), the evidence is scarce. We investigated the association of measles and mumps with CVD.

METHODS:43,689 men and 60,147 women aged 40-79 years at baseline (1988-1990) completed a lifestyle questionnaire, including their history of measles and mumps, and were followed until 2009. Histories of infections were categorized as having no infection (reference), measles only, mumps only, or both infections. Hazard ratios (HR) for mortality from CVD across histories of infections were calculated.

RESULTS:Men with measles only had multivariable HR (95% confidence interval) of 0.92 (0.85-0.99) for total CVD, those with mumps only had 0.52 (0.28-0.94) for total stroke and 0.21 (0.05-0.86) for hemorrhagic stroke, and those with both infections had 0.80 (0.71-0.90) for total CVD, 0.71 (0.53-0.93) for myocardial infarction, and 0.83 (0.69-0.98) for total stroke. Women with both infections had 0.83 (0.74-0.92) for total CVD and 0.84 (0.71-0.99) for total stroke. We also compared subjects with measles only or mumps only (reference) and those with both infections. Men with both infections had 0.88 (0.78-0.99) for total CVD. Women with both infections had 0.85 (0.76-0.94) for total CVD, 0.79 (0.67-0.93) for total stroke, 0.78 (0.62-0.98) for ischemic stroke and 0.78 (0.62-0.98) for hemorrhagic stroke.

CONCLUSIONS:Measles and mumps, especially in case of both infections, were associated with lower risks of mortality from atherosclerotic CVD.

Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

KEYWORDS:Atherosclerosis; Immune system; Measles; Mortality; Mumps; Myocardial infarction; Stroke

rubella

This again, is a benign childhood disease. The only danger is infection in the fetus of a pregnant woman in the first trimester. The best way to prevent this is lifelong immunity. The only way to obtain life long immunity is to have Rubella as a child. This is what I found on the CDC's website:

Rubella virus was first isolated in 1962 by Parkman and Weller. Rubella virus is classified as a togavirus, genus Rubivirus. It is most closely related to group A arboviruses, such as Eastern and Western Equine Encephalitis viruses. It is an enveloped RNA virus, with a single antigenic type that does not cross-react with other members of the togavirus group. Rubella virus is relatively unstable and is inactivated by lipid solvents, trypsin, formalin, ultraviolet light, extremes of pH and heat, and amantadine.

The incubation period of rubella is 14 days with a range of 12 to 23 days. Symptoms are often mild, and 20%-50% of cases may be subclinical or unapparent. In children, rash is usually the first manifestation and a precursor of symptoms is rare. In older children and adults, there is often a 1-5 day precursor of low-grade fever, malaise, abnormal enlargement of the lymph nodes and upper respiratory symptoms preceding the rash. The rash of rubella usually occurs initially on the face and then progresses from head to foot. It lasts about 3 days and is occasionally marked by itching. The rash is fainter than measles rash and does not coalesce. Arthralgia and arthritis occur so frequently in adults that they are considered by many to be an integral part of the illness rather than a complication. Other symptoms of rubella include conjunctivitis, testalgia, or orchitis. Forschheimer spots may be noted on the soft palate, but are not diagnostic for rubella. Rubella is a human disease. There is no known animal reservoir. A true carrier state has not been described. However Infants with Congenital rubella syndrome shed large quantities of virus from body secretions for up to one year and can therefore transmit rubella to persons caring for them who are susceptible to the disease.

Three rubella vaccines were licensed in the U.S. in 1969: HPV- 77:DE-5 (duck embryo), HPV-77:DK-12 (dog kidney), and Cendehill (rabbit kidney) strains. The HPV-77:DK-12 was later removed from the market because there was a higher rate of joint complaints following vaccination with this strain. In January 1979, the RA 27/3 (human diploid fibroblast) strain (Meruvax-II) was licensed and all other strains were discontinued. The RA 27/3 rubella vaccine is a live attenuated virus. It was first isolated in 1965 at the Wistar Institute from a rubella-infected aborted fetus. The virus was attenuated by 25-30 passages in tissue culture, using human diploid fibroblasts. It does not contain duck, chicken or egg protein. Vaccine virus is not communicable, except in the setting of breastfeeding even though virus may be cultured from the nasopharynx of vaccinees.

Just recently a Dr. named Peter Hotez wrote an article defending MMR vaccine and he made a statement which jumped of the page at me. He stated: Ironically, the only known cause of autism is rubella, which the MMR vaccine prevents. Which really got me thinking. If autism is caused by rubella virus in utero, is it such a stretch to think it could happen in an 18 month old? First I wanted to see if anyone else had made the same statement and I found that a doctor Sir Liam Donaldson, Chief Medical Officer Department of Health Richmond House, said basically the same thing: "In fact, the rubella component of MMR is really our first "anti-autism" vaccine. Intra-uterine exposure to rubella (congenital rubella syndrome) is one of the few proven causes of autism. "

I decided to write the doctor and ask some questions. I will now continue to research Rubella as a cause for autism. Here is our correspondence. See what you think.

Also, take a look at the this study done in 1976 by a C. Eggers. You remember Kanner first described autistic behavior in the 40's.

1: Klin Padiatr. 1976 Mar;188(2):172-80.

[Autistic syndrome (Kanner) and vaccination against smallpox (author's transl)]

[Article in German]

Eggers C.

3-4 weeks following an otherwise uncomplicated first vaccination against smallpox a boy, then aged 15 months and last seen at the age of 5 1/2 years, gradually developed a complete Kanner syndrome. The question whether vaccination and early infantile autism might be connected is being discussed. A causal relationship is considered extremely unlikely. But vaccination is recognized as having a starter function for the onset of autism.

Publication Types:
Case Reports
PMID: 944354 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Look at these two studies and see if you think injecting kids with virus is a good idea.

" Children may also have an increased risk if they are exposed in the womb to certain drugs — such as thalidomide, valproic acid or cocaine — or to infectious diseases such as rubella, Toth says."

Prenatal viral infection has been associated with the development of autism.... please read the following research regarding the role of cerebellar genes in the pathology of autism

The role of cerebellar genes in pathology of autism and schizophrenia

Fatemi SH, Reutiman TJ, Folsom TD, Sidwell RW.
Department of Psychiatry, Division of Neuroscience Research, University of Minnesota, Medical School, MMC 392, 420 Delaware Street S.E., Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA, fatem002@umn.edu.

Schizophrenia and autism are neurodevelopmental diseases that have genetic as well as environmental etiologies. Both disorders have been associated with prenatal viral infection. Brain imaging and postmortem studies have found alterations in the structure of the cerebellum as well as changes in gene expression. Our laboratory has developed an animal model using prenatal infection of mice with human influenza virus that has demonstrated changes in behavior, pharmacology, structure, and gene expression in the brains of exposed offspring. In the current communication we describe altered expression of cerebellar genes associated with development of brain disorder in a mouse model for schizophrenia and autism and correlate these changes with those involved in the pathology of these two disorders.

PMID: 18418686 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Maternal infection leads to abnormal gene regulation and brain atrophy in mouse offspring: implications for genesis of neurodevelopmental disorders.

Fatemi SH, Reutiman TJ, Folsom TD, Huang H, Oishi K, Mori S, Smee DF, Pearce DA, Winter C, Sohr R, Juckel G.
Department of Psychiatry, Division of Neuroscience Research, University of Minnesota Medical School, 420 Delaware St. SE, MMC 392, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. fatem002@umn.edu

Prenatal viral infection has been associated with development of schizophrenia and autism. Our laboratory has previously shown that viral infection causes deleterious effects on brain structure and function in mouse offspring following late first trimester (E9) administration of influenza virus. We hypothesized that late second trimester infection (E18) in mice may lead to a different pattern of brain gene expression and structural defects in the developing offspring. C57BL6J mice were infected on E18 with a sublethal dose of human influenza virus or sham-infected using vehicle solution. Male offsping of the infected mice were collected at P0, P14, P35 and P56, their brains removed and prefrontal cortex, hippocampus and cerebellum dissected and flash frozen. Microarray, qRT-PCR, DTI and MRI scanning, western blotting and neurochemical analysis were performed to detect differences in gene expression and brain atrophy. Expression of several genes associated with schizophrenia or autism including Sema3a, Trfr2 and Vldlr were found to be altered as were protein levels of Foxp2. E18 infection of C57BL6J mice with a sublethal dose of human influenza virus led to significant gene alterations in frontal, hippocampal and cerebellar cortices of developing mouse progeny. Brain imaging revealed significant atrophy in several brain areas and white matter thinning in corpus callosum. Finally, neurochemical analysis revealed significantly altered levels of serotonin (P14, P35), 5-Hydroxyindoleacetic acid (P14) and taurine (P35). We propose that maternal infection in mouse provides an heuristic animal model for studying the environmental contributions to genesis of schizophrenia and autism, two important examples of neurodevelopmental disorders.

PMID: 18248790 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

US Science Magazine reports 26% of children Rubella–vaccinated developed arthralgia or arthritis. Dr. Glen Dettman found that one third of Rheumatoid arthritis sufferers had live Rubella viruses in their joints. This vaccine is made with human diploid cells in other words aborted fetal tissue. In 1994 Father Chamberlain of Ampleforth College in York, England, and Moslems throughout the country protested that they didn’t want their children injected with a vaccine made from aborted fetal tissue. Vaccine makers were caught in a dilemma, because while they believed that ‘human diploid tissue’ was the medium of choice for culturing viral vaccines. They couldn’t tell the public why aborted fetal tissue was preferable without discussing what was wrong with animal cultures. To do that would not only reveal some very unpleasant information, but would also show the public that important information has always been kept out of their sight. Rather than openly discussing the issues, the vaccine makers denied that the Rubella vaccine was made from aborted fetal tissue. When confronted with the medical evidence, they quieted the dissenters by saying that if their children didn’t have the vaccine, the parents would be responsible for epidemics, disabilities and deaths. Good news! Read this latest article on

CATHOLIC WORLD NEWS:
Vatican, Jul. 19 (CWNews.com) - The Vatican has condemned the use of vaccines derived from fetal tissue, and exhorted Catholics to lobby for the development of alternative vaccines. The new instructions from the Vatican provide strong support for parents and doctors who resist the use of vaccines that are based on fetal remains. Such vaccines are commonly used today in the US to inoculate patients-- usually children-- against diseases such as measles, mumps, chicken pox, rubella, smallpox, rabies, polio, and hepatitis A. In some cases the vaccines developed from fetal tissues are the only products available to patients seeking protection from the disease.

In a careful analysis of the moral issues involved in the use of vaccines developed from fetal tissues, the Pontifical Academy for Life concludes that pharmaceutical companies have a grave moral obligation to provide vaccines that do not use fetal remains.

Although parents and doctors may be morally justified in using such vaccines, when no alternative is available, the Vatican document says that they "have a duty to take recourse to alternatives, putting pressure on political authorities and health systems" to produce morally acceptable alternative treatments. The document continues:

They should use conscientious objection and oppose by all means-- in writing, through various associations, mass media, etc,-- the vaccines which do not yet have morally acceptable alternatives, creating pressure so that alternative vaccines are prepared, which are not connected with the abortion of a human fetus. The Vatican document was produced in response to a query from an American group, Children of God for Life, which had asked for guidance from the Holy See on the use of vaccines derived from aborted babies. The reply came from Bishop Elio Sgreccia, the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life. The bishop noted that this reply had been approved by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Bishop Sgreccia's response included an 8-page essay on the subject, which will soon be published in an Italian bioethics journal. The full text of that article is now available on the Children of God for Life web site. Vaccines developed from the tissues of aborted babies involve the manufacturers in an unacceptable moral compromise, the Pontifical Academy for Life observes. The document goes on to explain classic Catholic teachings regarding cooperation in evil actions, and outlining the degrees of cooperation involved in the production and use of such vaccines. This cooperation, the Vatican instruction says, is "more intense on the part of the authorities and national health systems that accept the use of the vaccines."

In the absence of effective alternatives, individuals may use the morally tainted vaccines, the Pontifical Academy argues, since their cooperation with the original immoral acts involved would be remote and passive. Nevertheless, even ordinary citizens have an obligation to fight for change, the Vatican insists: "It is up to the faithful and citizens of upright conscience (fathers of families, doctors, etc.) to oppose, even by making an objection of conscience, the ever more widespread attacks against life and the 'culture of death' which underlies them." The Pontifical Academy observes that energetic demands from the public could encourage manufacturers to develop alternative products, and prompt public authorities to curb the sale of vaccines that use morally unacceptable means of production. "In any case, there remains a moral duty to continue to fight and to employ every lawful means in order to make life difficult for the pharmaceutical industries which act unscrupulously and unethically."

When no acceptable vaccines are available, the document points out, parents put into "a context of moral coercion," when they are forced to accept a morally tainted treatment or endanger the health of their children. "This is an unjust alternative choice, which must be eliminated as soon as possible," the Vatican states.

The Pontifical Academy urges parents and doctors to consider conscientious objection to the use of any vaccines that involve morally unacceptable means of production. The document states that "it is right to abstain from using these vaccines if it can be done without causing children, and indirectly the population as a whole, to undergo significant risks to their health." Even when patients make the decision to use the vaccines, the Vatican stressed that their decision should not be taken as approval for the process by which the vaccines were developed. The document argues:

lawfulness of the use of these vaccines should not be misinterpreted as a declaration of the lawfulness of their production, marketing and use, but is to be understood as being a passive material cooperation and, in its mildest and remotest sense, also active, morally justified as an extrema ratio due to the necessity to provide for the good of one's children and of the people who come in contact with the children (pregnant women) Debra Vinnedge, the executive director of Children of God for Life, noted that the Vatican instructions support efforts to require pharmaceutical companies to disclose when their products use fetal tissues. The Fair Labeling and Informed Consent Act, a bill recently introduced in the US Congress, would have that effect.

Dr. Steven White, the president of the Catholic Medical Association, made the same observation. "We must demand that the pharmaceutical industry provide accurate information on the origin of all vaccines so that we are able to make informed decisions in accord with our moral conscience," he said; "and we must mobilize to support development of ethical alternatives." Vaccines developed from fetal tissues

In its analysis, the Pontifical Academy for Life listed the vaccines developed from fetal tissues:

A) Live vaccines against rubella:

the monovalent vaccines against rubella MeruvaxR!! (Merck) (U.S.), RudivaxR (Sanofi Pasteur, Fr.), and ErvevaxR (RA 27/3) (GlaxoSmithKline, Belgium); the combined vaccine MR against rubella and measles, commercialized with the name of M-R-VAXR (Merck, US) and Rudi-RouvaxR (AVP, France); the combined vaccine against rubella and mumps marketed under the name of BiavaxR!! (Merck, U.S.); the combined vaccine MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) against rubella, mumps and measles, marketed under the name of M-M-RR II (Merck, US), R.O.R.R, TrimovaxR (Sanofi Pasteur, Fr.), and PriorixR (GlaxoSmithKline UK).

B) Other vaccines, also prepared using human cell lines from aborted fetuses: two vaccines against hepatitis A, one produced by Merck (VAQTA), the other one produced by GlaxoSmithKline (HAVRIX), both of them being prepared using MRC-5; one vaccine against chicken pox, VarivaxR, produced by Merck using WI-38 and MRC-5; one vaccine against poliomyelitis, the inactivated polio virus vaccine PoliovaxR (Aventis-Pasteur, Fr.) using MRC-5; one vaccine against rabies, ImovaxR, produced by Aventis Pasteur, harvested from infected human diploid cells, MRC-5 strain; one vaccine against smallpox, AC AM 1000, prepared by Acambis using MRC-5, still on trial.

Although I think this is a step forward in addressing the real issues, there is a great deal more that needs to be investigated. As we believe in the true Creator, and the perfect wisdom of that Creator, it is He who created the perfect combination of mind/body/spirit along with our immune system. In a properly nourished body using the Creators instructions the body has a natural ability is to protect itself. When tampered with through injections of vaccinations, animal or fetal cells and chemicals, repercussions are inevitable.

Click here: Catholic World News : Alberta province approves ethical vaccine alternative

AllAlberta province approves ethical vaccine alternative

Jan. 15, 2007 (CWNews.com) - Responding to lobbying from pro-life groups, the health ministry of Alberta, Canada, has approved an alternative to a popular vaccine developed from fetal tissues.

Health minister Paddy Meade has announced that Pediacel will be made available in Alberta beginning in March of 2007, as a substitute for PENTACEL, a vaccine that is developed from cell lines derived from aborted fetal tissues. Pediacel, which is used against the same diseases (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, and Haemophilus B), is not derived from the fetal tissues.

“This is a great victory for Canadian physicians and families,” said Debi Vinnedge, the executive director of Children of God for Life, a group that is devoted to the development of vaccines derived from ethical sources. She expressed the hope that other Canadian provinces, and the US, would follow Alberta’s lead in providing alternatives for families who object to the use of fetal tissue in vaccines.

Here is a new vaccine for human papillomavirus or HPV. Take a look at one place you find this virus. It's a monkey virus. Coincidentally the same monkeys that were used to make the polio vaccine.

Med Citation
Articles by Wood, C. E.
Articles by Cline, J. M.

Vet Pathol 41:108-115 (2004)
© 2004 American College of Veterinary Pathologists

Cervical and Vaginal Epithelial Neoplasms in Cynomolgus Monkeys C. E. Wood, H. Borgerink, T. C. Register, L. Scott and J. M. Cline Comparative Medicine Clinical Research Center, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC

Papillomavirus-associated cervical cancer is the second most common neoplasm in women but has rarely been reported in animals. This report describes cervical and vaginal intraepithelial neoplasms identified in routine histologic specimens obtained from 20 (5.2%) of 385 female cynomolgus macaques (Macaca fascicularis) being used in long-term studies. Lesion incidence was similar in both control and hormonally treated animals (4.7% and 5.5%, respectively). Neoplasms included benign vaginal papillomas, mild to severe intraepithelial dysplasias, and two invasive cervical carcinomas. Common morphologic features included koilocytosis, nuclear atypia, and expansion of the basal epithelium. Selective staining of lesions with at least one of three papillomavirus antibodies was observed in all cases (20 of 20). In contrast, immunostaining of lesions was negative for Epstein-Barr–related virus proteins (0 of 20). The unique similarities between the observed lesions and those seen in women suggest that macaques may provide a suitable animal model for study of papillomavirus oncogenesis.

Key words: Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia; immunohistochemistry; Macaca fascicularis; nonhuman primates; papillomavirus.

Request reprints from Dr. C. E. Wood, Comparative Medicine Clinical Research Center, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1040 (USA). E-mail: chwood@wfubmc.edu.

The cynomolgus monkey is best known as the first clinical test animal for the development of the polio vaccine. They are involved in WNPRC studies of infectious disease, reproduction and other areas.

For more info on Gardasil click here: Gardasil

Another ingredient in some MMR vaccines is porcine gelatin which is a pig derivative. This gelatin from pork is totally illegal under Islamic law." Mohammed Sarwar, Labour MP for Glasgow Govan, said: "I am sure if it is the case that MMR contains pork gelatin then that would be a concern for the Muslim community." Unlike Muslims, Jews are only forbidden to eat pork, and have no concerns about its use in medicines, according to Judith Tankel, who sits on the committee of the Glasgow Council of Christians and Jews. She said: "There is no problem with us wearing shoes or clothes made using pigs and certainly injections or medicine containing derivatives of pig are no problem. "Dr Syed Ahmed, immunisation co-ordinator for Greater Glasgow NHS, said he had been alerted to the problem by a Muslim GP and had contacted all GPs in Glasgow asking them to warn Muslim parents and offer the option of using the alternative MMR vaccine made by Priorix. For more go to Muslims and Vaccines

Adverse Effects from package insert for MMR:

Otitis Media (ear infections), Arthritis, Urticaria (skin rash), Leukocyte destruction, Diabetes Mellitus, aseptic meningitis, encephalitis, nerve deafness, Guillain-Barré and death .

Varicella

The Varicella vaccine is given at twelve months. In today’s modern world childhood infections have very few consequences. Actually having the diseases can impart lifetime immunity whereas vaccine immunity is only temporary. For example this vaccine has an effective rate estimated at six to ten years. If effective it will postpone chicken pox until adulthood when death from the disease is twenty times more likely. Merck’s own literature states “Further duration of protection is unknown at present and the need for booster is not defined.” This vaccine was licensed in 1995 so no long-term studies have been done. Some healthcare professionals are concerned that the ‘herpes viruses’ could reactivate later in life in the form of shingles or Epstein Barr.

The Illinois State Board of health voted against the Chickenpox vaccine mandate due to nine thousand adverse reactions reported in 1995. As of August 2000, Illinois had 231 compensation claims had been filed for 45 deaths and 186 injuries. This vaccine is made from fetal bovine serum, aborted fetal tissue cells and Monosodium Glutamate.

The truth is no one knows the risks of injecting mutated DNA into children, but what has been reported is Bell’s Palsy, encephalitis and seizures just to name a few. This vaccine is now licensed and recommended by health authorities.

According to a new report, during an outbreak of chickenpox in Minnesota in the fall of 2002, more than half the children who became infected had been immunized with the varicella vaccine. What this says to me is this vaccine is not working. What this says to the FDA is we need another dose.

Here is an article by Dan Olmstead about Chicken pox.

The Age of Autism: Anna's Last Days -- 1

By Dan Olmsted for UPI. http://tinyurl.com/gp3ch

On April 26 a Scottish child named Anna Duncan attended a party where two children had chickenpox. Nine days later she got her routine measles-mumps-rubella vaccination. Four days after that she developed classic chickenpox symptoms -- spots and fever. One week later, on May 14, Anna was dead from an apparent seizure. She was 17 months old. Now her father, John, is struggling with the sudden loss of a bright, lively child -- and increasingly suspicious that the MMR shot during an apparent chickenpox infection triggered her death. Those suspicions deepened after he came across Age of Autism's recent investigative series, Pox, which found that giving MMR and chickenpox vaccines at the same time might raise the risk of autism in a susceptible subset of children. By happenstance, the series began the week before Anna's exposure to chickenpox and ended the week after her death.

In Anna's case, Duncan believes the chickenpox she caught at the party suppressed her immune system to the point that the measles virus from the MMR triggered a fatal seizure. "I feel now that I have an answer to our daughter's death," said Duncan, of Cardrona, Scotland. "What I'm going to try to do with this is force a fatal accident inquiry, because there is a potential scenario here where it could happen again, and if (they) realize that this is a developing story, it can only get bigger." The Pox series centered on several autistic children in Olympia, Wash., whose families had problematic histories with chickenpox and related herpesviruses. All of the children got the MMR and chickenpox vaccines, in most cases at their 12-month checkups; two of the children were in Merck &Co. clinical trials of investigational chickenpox vaccines in combinationwith the MMR.

John Duncan said that like the Olympia families, he also had unusual reactions to viral infections and experienced a monthlong outbreak of pox-like spots just after Anna was born. He took photographs at the time to document the spots, which spread diffusely from his abdomen. "I believe her response to the MMR while infected with chickenpox was due to her genetic makeup from myself," Duncan wrote in a posting on the British Web site jabs.org.uk. "Anna's normal response to a benign childhood illness, for which recovery was a formality, was interrupted by the MMR vaccine, which due to her understandable immunosuppression resulted in the replication of the measles virus -- 'virus replication,' an accepted and understood medical event in relation to vaccines."

It will be weeks before laboratory tests confirm whether Anna had chickenpox and health authorities rule on cause of death. But authorities in both Britain and the United States assert there is no association between the vaccines and serious health problems. They say the real risk is foregoing vaccinations based on unfounded fears. The Daily Mail reported in June that "Britain is now in the grip of the biggest measles outbreak since the vaccine's introduction in 1988. Doctors have reported hundreds of cases of measles since January in just three areas of the country, including the death of a 13-year-old boy." Last week "a group of Britain's leading pediatricians and childhood vaccination experts ... warned that more children will die unless a line is drawn under the autism and MMR vaccine controversy," according to Britain's Guardian newspaper. "In an open letter, 30 scientists, including some of the country's most eminent child health experts, say that an overwhelming body of evidence shows the vaccine is safe. They add that urgent immunizations are necessary to prevent potentially devastating outbreaks among schoolchildren." The MMR vaccine Anna received was Priorix, manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline. Chickenpox vaccine is not routinely administered in Britain; in the United States it is recommended by health authorities for all children beginning at age 12 months.

John Duncan provided this sequence of events leading up to Anna's death.
Wednesday, April 26 -- Anna attended the party with her mother, Veronica, where one child was getting over chickenpox and that child's younger sister had all the symptoms of chickenpox.

Friday, May 5 -- Anna got her MMR shot at Haylodge Health Centre, Peebles, Scottish Borders; her mother questioned whether Anna's runny nose and exposure to chickenpox was a cause for concern. The healthcare worker said it was not.

Tuesday, May 9 -- Anna developed signs of chickenpox with spots appearing and a slight fever. This developed into what appeared to be classic chickenpox.

Sunday, May 14 -- Anna died around 9 a.m. with what appeared to be a seizure, with evidence of blood on her lips and on sheets in close proximity to her mouth. "When Anna had chickenpox we gave her (a fever reducer) to bring her temperature down when it spiked," John Duncan said. "Her temperature according to her mother, who is a nurse, seemed to stabilize on the Saturday night through to Sunday morning, but Anna became restless early on Sunday morning and had two very smelly nappy (diaper) changes. A tired mother put Anna in her cot at around 6 p.m. as she seemed to be more contented on her own. "Anna's death came as a major shock to us all because at no time did we think that she was going to die. The seizure would have been undetectable in the circumstances. I was with (son) Cameron that morning downstairs because I thought Anna had turned the corner." Duncan said a doctor who came to the house to confirm the death told his wife it appeared "Anna had chickenpox." She may also have started developing new spots characteristic of measles, he said.

"I would say at time of death there were more measles-like spots appearing around her neck. But I cannot be too sure." Duncan asked on the Jabs site: "Could this scenario cause autism? Is there a genetic susceptibility in some children to deal with the herpesvirus in a different way to the normal response, making these children more at risk to a bad reaction from MMR at the time of herpes infection? ... "Had Anna survived her bout of seizure 10 days after her MMR, her brain very possibly could have been damaged and a diagnosis of autism eventually given."
-- Next: Chickenpox and measles -- a troubling combination.

So, is it really a good idea to inject virus into humans? Take a look at this study.

PMID: 15603537 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Brain Pathol. 2006 Jan;16(1):1-14.

Metallothioneins and zinc dysregulation contribute to neurodevelopmental
damage in a model of perinatal viral infection.

* Williams BL. et al Greene Infectious Disease Laboratory, Mailman
School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA.

Neonatal Borna disease (NBD) virus infection in the Lewis rat results in life-long viral persistence and causes behavioral and neurodevelopmental abnormalities. A hallmark of the disorder is progressive loss of cerebellar Purkinje and dentate gyrus granule cells. Findings of increased brain metallothionein-I and -II (MT-I/-II) mRNA expression in cDNA microarray experiments led us to investigate MT isoforms and their relationship to brain zinc metabolism, cellular toxicity, and neurodevelopmental abnormalities in this model. Real-time PCR confirmed marked induction of MT-I/-II mRNA expression in the brains of NBD rats (40.5-fold increase in cerebellum, p<0.0001; 6.8-fold increase in hippocampus, p=0.003; and 9.5-fold increase in striatum, p=0.0012), whereas a trend toward decreased MT-III mRNA was found in hippocampus (1.25-fold decrease, p=0.0841). Double label immunofluorescence revealed prominent MT-I/-II expression in astrocytes throughout the brain; MT-III protein was decreased in granule cell neurons and increased in astrocytes, with differential subcellular distribution from cytoplasmic to nuclear compartments in NBD rat hippocampus. Modified Timm staining of hippocampus revealed reduced zinc in mossy fiber projections to the hilus and CA3, accumulation of zinc in glial cells and degenerating granule cell somata, and robust mossy fiber sprouting into the inner molecular layer of the dentate gyrus. Zinc Transporter 3 (ZnT-3) mRNA expression was decreased in hippocampus (2.3-fold decrease, p= 0.0065); staining for its correlate protein was reduced in hippocampal mossy fibers. Furthermore, 2 molecules implicated in axonal pathfinding and mossy fiber sprouting, the extracellular matrix glycoprotein, tenascin-R (TN-R), and the hyaluronan receptor CD44, were increased in NBD hippocampal neuropil. Abnormal zinc metabolism and mechanisms of neuroplasticity may contribute to the pathogenesis of disease in this model, raising more general implications for neurodevelopmental damage following viral infections in early life.

PMID: 16612977 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Typhoid fever

This vaccine is a travel vaccine and not on the standard schedule. This is an interesting study to take a look at.Clin Infect Dis. 2004 Mar 15;38(6):771-9. Epub 2004 Feb 26. Related Articles,
Links

Postmarketing safety surveillance for typhoid fever vaccines from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, July 1990 through June 2002. Begier EM, Burwen DR, Haber P, Ball R; Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System .

Vaccine Safety Branch, Division of Epidemiology, Office of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, Maryland 20852-1448, USA.

Vaccines against Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi are used for prophylaxis of international travelers and have potential use as counterbioterrorism agents. The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) cannot usually establish causal relationships between vaccines and reported adverse events without further research but has successfully detected unrecognized side effects of vaccine. We reviewed reports to VAERS for US-licensed typhoid fever vaccines for the period of July 1990 through June 2002. We received 321 reports for parenteral Vi capsular polysaccharide vaccine and 345 reports for live, oral, attenuated Ty21a vaccine, with 7.5% and 5.5%, respectively, describing death, hospitalization, permanent disability, or life-threatening illness. Unexpected frequently reported symptoms included dizziness and pruritus for Vi vaccine and fatigue and myalgia for Ty21a vaccine. Gastroenteritis-like illness after receipt of Ty21a vaccine and abdominal pain after receipt of Vi vaccine, which are previously recognized events, occasionally required hospitalization. Nonfatal anaphylaxis was reported after both vaccines. VAERS reports do not indicate any unexpected serious side effects that compromise these vaccines' use for travelers' prophylaxis.

PMID: 14999618 [PubMed - in process

Yellow fever Vaccine

This vaccine is not on the recommended schedule however, if traveling to some continents it is recommended. I recently acquired an empty vial of yellow fever vaccine and was startled at what was written on the label. "Avian leukosis free". Is this an admission that it one time the vaccine did contain avian leukosis? How can we be sure its out now? Here is a picture of the vial. Hopefully you can see it.

This is from the CDC: Yellow fever is a mosquito-borne viral disease. Illness ranges in severity from an influenza-like syndrome to severe hepatitis and hemorrhagic fever. Yellow fever is caused by a zoonotic virus that is maintained in nature by transmission between nonhuman primates and mosquito vectors. In some situations, humans may serve as the primary host in the transmission cycle (“urban yellow fever”). (Hmmm shedding vaccine?)

Here is one study done on the vaccine.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&
dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15149765

Vaccine. 2004 Jun 2;22(17-18):2103-5. Related Articles,Links

Viscerotropic and neurotropic disease following vaccination with the 17D yellow fever vaccine, ARILVAX((R)).

Kitchener S.

C/- Peterhouse Technology Park, 100 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CBI 9PT, UK.

Yellow fever vaccine associated viscerotropic (YFV-AVD) and neurotropic (YFV-AND) diseases have been recently identified in various countries. Previously post-vaccination multiple organ system failure was recognised as a rare serious adverse event of yellow fever vaccination and 21 cases of post-vaccinal (YFV) encephalitis had been recorded. Incidence data is not available. On investigation of vaccine surveillance reports from Europe following distribution of more than 3 million doses of ARILVAX trade mark, four cases each of YFV-AVD and YFV-AND were found (each 1.3 cases per million doses distributed) for the period 1991 to 2003. The incidence for each is higher after 1996 (2.5 cases per million doses distributed). The incidence of these adverse events appears to be very low with ARILVAX trade mark. Similar incidence data is required from other countries for comparison.

Publication Types:
Letter
PMID: 15149765 [PubMed - in process]

Here is more:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-06/nymc-ric061704.php

Contact: Donna E. Moriarty
donna_moriarty@nymc.edu
914-594-4536
New York Medical College

Researcher issues caution on live virus vaccines
Vaccine flaviviruses can recombine, resulting in a new microbe with potentially undesirable properties
VALHALLA, N.Y., June 18, 2004--A New York Medical College microbiologist warns that live virus vaccines to prevent infectious diseases like West Nile virus and yellow fever could have dire consequences. Should one of the vaccine flaviviruses (Flaviviruses virions are spherical, enveloped, and 40-50 nm in diameter. Flavi contains a linear, plus sense, single-stranded RNA genome. There are about 70 recognized diseases in the Flavi family. 13 cause disease in humans, such as Yellow Fever, Dengue, and Japanese Encephalitis. Common manifestations are febrile illnesses, encephalitis, hemorrhaging, and hepatitis. Most of theses viruses are transmitted by mosquitoes. Hepatitis C, discovered in 1989, is transmitted by blood contact like other Hepatitis viruses, and it is as important as Hepatitis A and B.) recombine with a wild-type virus, a new microbe with potentially undesirable properties could result, according to Stephen J. Seligman, M.D., research professor of microbiology and immunology. His paper, "Live flavivirus vaccines: reasons for caution" appears as a rapid review article in the June 19, 2004, issue of the journal Lancet. Co-author is Ernest A. Gould, Ph.D., of CEH-Oxford in the UK.

Flaviviruses, which can recombine within species and may recombine between species, also include dengue, Japanese encephalitis and tick-borne encephalitis. They cause substantial sickness and death each year. Although live-virus vaccines offer great promise in terms of cost and efficacy, their use should be approved by an international authority due to safety concerns, the authors write.

The article lists five main lessons learned from other live virus vaccines:

Reversion of vaccine strains to increased virulence; Development of disease in individuals with compromised immune systems; Birth defects, particularly if the vaccine is given in the first trimester; Spread of vaccine strains to unvaccinated persons and; The discovery of new, previously undetermined complications.

Bats, Mosquitoes and Dollars
by Dr. Charles A. R. Campbell

San Antonio Texas in 1920 faced a yellow fever epidemic and so many mosquitoes that one could barely open one's mouth on a summer's night without getting a mouthful of mosquitoes in it. Dr. Campbell persuaded the city fathers to build a couple of municipal bat roosts, and in just a few months, the mosquito problem was gone. Apparently, a single bat can capture and eat many thousands of mosquitoes in one night. They confirmed this by measuring the blood iron content of the bat guano left in the roosts. Why can't we use this method today, instead of spraying dangerous pesticides?
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Click here for the package insert to yellow fever vaccine

Read this from the National Library of medicine.

http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/LW/Views/Exhibit/narrative/disease.html

"After the U.S. entered the war in late 1941, the army started vaccinating all troops, not just those headed to tropical areas. By early April 1942, the IHD had furnished seven million doses to the U.S. Army and Navy, British forces in Africa, and others. In March, however, many cases of hepatitis--mostly mild--were being reported in American troops especially in California. Sawyer and Bauer went out to investigate, and within a month the evidence pointed to infection from nine specific lots of vaccine. These, in turn were traced to 2 percent of the blood donors, who had histories of hepatitis but no symptoms at the time they gave the blood. The level of production had required a much larger pool of blood donors for the serum, and no one had checked on their medical histories.

"At Sawyer's direction, the IHD converted to serum-free vaccine production by June of 1942, but in the end there were still over 49,000 cases of vaccine-related hepatitis that year, 84 of them fatal."

MTU lowers flags to honor dead grad student

http://www.wlns.com/Global/story.asp?S=4109127

HOUGHTON, Mich. Flags at Michigan Tech in Houghton are flying at half-staff to honor a 22-year-old grad student who died from a reaction to yellow fever vaccine. Danielle Ladwig died two weeks ago at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. Ladwig got the inoculation in preparation for a trip to Bolivia to help build a septic system for a new school. Ladwig was a member of the group Engineers Without Borders. Her funeral is scheduled tomorrow in her Wisconsin hometown.

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be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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Another yellow fever vaccine study

Malaria Info

Yellow Fever vaccine death

Here are some articles on the new meningitis vaccine; and here---Meningitis Vaccine

http://www.nursingtimes.net/nav?page=nt.news.story&resource=2246191

Meningitis vaccination may increase risk in under-2s
NT Online News
posted on 21 04 2005

Vaccination against meningitis in children under two may make them more susceptible to the disease rather than conferring protection, according to a new study. The authors of research published in Clinical Infectious Diseases say that serogroup C meningococcal polysaccharide vaccine confers a high level of protection among school-age children, but that children under two remain susceptible to infection following vaccination.

They found that, during the first 2 years after immunization, vaccine effectiveness was 95.0% among those age 6 years or older; efficacy was 77.3% during the following 3 years. For those age 2 to 5 years, the vaccine was 62% effective during the first 2 years, but the estimate of effectiveness was negative during the next 3 years. For those younger than 2 years, the estimate of effectiveness was -7.9% during the first period and highly negative (-390.5%) during the second period.

‘The possibility of increased susceptibility to serogroup C meningococcal disease resulting from administration of a polysaccharide vaccine at a young age cannot be excluded,’ say the authors, suggesting that ‘once the protective antibodies have disappeared, the inhibition of the serological response could result in greater susceptibility to invasive disease’.

Reference: De Wals P et al (2005) Effectiveness of Serogroup C Meningococcal Polysaccharide Vaccine: Results from a Case-Control Study in Quebec Clin Infect Dis 40 (8) 1116-1122

The great Gardasil vaccine cover-up

Cynthia A. Janak Cynthia A. Janak
February 27, 2007

The World Health Organization (WHO) is promoting this drug that has serious side effects. Here are some of the reasons why.

Did you know that 80% of cases of cervical cancer occur in low-income countries? That means that only 20% happen in the more developed countries like the US. Worldwide there are 500,000 new cases each year and 250,000 deaths. What this means is that 50,000 deaths occur in the developed countries of the world.

http://www.who.int/reproductive-health/publications/hpvvaccines/text.pdf

The average age of a woman with cervical cancer is 48. The effectiveness or dangers of this vaccine will not be known for at least a decade. Let's put things into perspective. Cervical cancer results in just 3,700 deaths nationally every year compared to heart disease, which kills over 300,000 women annually.

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54219

So this means that cervical cancer deaths in the United States are 1.5%. I believe that our percentage is so low because we have women go to their doctors yearly and get checked for this awful disease and catch it early. If we are at such a low percentage then why is Merck pushing so hard for this vaccine? Why has the FDA put this vaccine on the fast track to approval when all the testing is not finished?

In my last article about Merck I told you about the law suits because of Vioxx. This drug was also put on the fast track and look at the damage and deaths that it has caused.

This is what the WHO had to say about corruption in the pharmaceutical market.

http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/84/2/news.pdf

Dr. Jerome Kassirer, a former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), contributed an article to the report documenting his own experiences with the long financial tentacles of the pharmaceutical industry.

In the United States, 90,000 pharmaceutical representatives ply doctors with gifts and junkets. The US $2 billion spent annually just on free meals and other hospitality events would dwarf many health budgets in African countries.

"Yet the doctors receiving all these gifts are unanimous in insisting it has no effect on their practice," said Kassirer, a professor at Tufts University School of Medicine in the United States.

Kassirer also points to a famous decision by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to keep the drugs Vioxx and Bextra on the market after concerns were raised over cardiovascular risks. Most of the panelists on the FDA committee, it later emerged, had financial ties to the manufacturers. If these panelists had declared a conflict of interest and refrained from voting, the decisions would have gone the other way.

The web of payments can entrap whole governments, Kassirer said, for example by enlisting them to fight in support of the industry's corner against generic manufacturers.

In country after country, however, the evidence suggests that losses of public funds are significant. In the United States, both Medicaid and Medicare — government-run health insurance organizations — estimate that 4-10% of their budget is lost to overpayment.

Here is a little known fact about the Gardasil trials. Gardasil contains 225mcg of aluminum. In the clinical trials aluminum was placed in the placebo instead of a saline.

Merck made a major goof up in their Gardasil report (9682302), in that it did have one chart with a saline placebo group. All the other charts there are only columns for Gardasil and placebo. I am going to assume that they placed the saline group and the aluminum group together for the other charts. Do we have another Vioxx cover-up here, maybe?

Table 6
Vaccine-related injection-site and Systemic Adverse Experiences*

As you can see, Merck skewed the numbers by adding the Saline group with the Aluminum group. As you also notice by the differences in the three groups, Aluminum plays a major part in the side effects. It looks to me, the lay person, that Merck purposely skewed the numbers to reflect that the side-effects were minimal. My personal opinion is I don't think so!!!!!

Gardasil has 225 mcg of aluminum (as amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate adjuvant) I took this right from the Merck report that is 10 pages long that I now have in my Merck file.

Here is what Dr. Mercola has to say about aluminum hydroxide.

The aluminum hydroxide used in many vaccines has been linked to symptoms associated with Parkinson's, ALS and Alzheimer's.

Aluminum hydroxide, which stimulates immune response, has been used for 80 years in vaccines such as those for hepatitis A and B, and the Pentacel cocktail for diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, polio and meningitis.

Scientists discovered the link after injecting mice with an anthrax vaccine developed for the first Gulf War. After 20 weeks, a fifth of the mice developed a skin allergy, and memory problems increased by 41 times compared to a placebo group. Also, inside the brains of mice, 35 percent of the cells that control movement were destroyed.

U.S. drugmakers are currently testing aluminum hydroxide as an additive in flu shots, even though a recent study of the efficacy of avian flu vaccine found that it only worked roughtly 50 percent of the time, and then only at a dose roughly 12 times what is typically given for a seasonal flu vaccine.

http://www.mercola.com/2006/apr/11/there_are_more_toxins_in_vaccines _than_mercury.htm

Now, I do not want you to think that aluminum and the toxicity is something that is new. It is not. They have known about aluminum in the scientific circles for years. I have some publications that are over 25 years old.

It is very disturbing to me to know that the pharmaceutical community knew about this toxin and still administered it to my children and grandchildren when they were vaccinated. My parents used to get a yearly flu shot and they both had Alzheimer's disease for years before they passed. How irresponsible can a company be to put this in the vaccines? This is worse than anything that the cigarette companies have done.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/gp1m552418336v04/

Histochemical localization of aluminum in the rabbit CNS

G. Y. Wen1 and H. M. Wisniewski1

(1) New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1050 Forest Hill Road, 10314 Staten Island, NY, USA

Received: 7 May 1985 Accepted: 9 July 1985

"Summary: Aluminum was observed in the nucleolus, interchromatin granules, rough endoplasmic reticulum, free ribosomes, euchromatin, and the heterochromatin of the neuron. The association of aluminum with the first four r-RNA-containing cellular components and with the last two DNA-containing chromatins suggests the association of aluminum with the nucleic acids. The aluminum may interfere with the normal mechanism of the protein synthesis of r-RNA and of the transcription or gene modulation of DNA. Aluminum was also observed in the astrocytic process and in the nuclei of endothelial cells, pericytes, and the muscle cells of the blood vessels. The detection of aluminum in the pyrimidal cells of the cerebral cortex and hippocampus and in the spinal cord neurons, was observed 1 h after i. v. injection, indicating a rapid entry of aluminum from the injection site through the blood-brain barrier (BBB) to the neurons. Using Morin stain, pyramidal neurons of the cerebral cortex and hippocampus, motoneurons of spinal cord, ganglion cells, and bipolar cells of retina and Purkinje cells of cerebellum, exhibited yellow fluoroscence, with peak intensitiy at 560 nm. Tangles were observed in these six types of neurons. The granule cells of hippocampus and cerebellum and the photoreceptors of the retina exhibited green fluorescence with the peak intensity at 490–500 nm. Tangles were not observed in these three types of neurons."

The Evidence That Aluminum Causes AD Is Compelling25

Aluminum was found to be toxic to the nervous system of animals over 100 years ago. Injecting aluminum into the brains of sheep was reported in 1965 to result in changes in the brain that showed a "striking resemblance" to AD in people. In 1973, brains of AD patients were found to contain more aluminum than people dying without this disease. About the same time, kidney patients on dialysis were found to suffer, sometimes fatal, brain damage (encephalopathy) from aluminum in their antacids (these antacids are used to bind phosphates in their intestines). More than 100 toxic actions of aluminum have been identified and many are damaging to the human brain.

Savory J, Garruto RM. Aluminum, tau protein, and Alzheimer's disease: an important link? Nutrition. 1998 Mar;14(3):313-4.

http://www.nealhendrickson.com/mcdougall/2004nl/040600pualzheimer.htm

Just a few more little items that I feel you will find interesting about all of this.

This is taken from http://www.informyourself.com.au/Gardasil.html

According to the Merck product manufacturer insert, there was 1 case of juvenile arthritis, 2 cases of rheumatoid arthritis, 5 cases of arthritis, and 1 case of reactive arthritis in 11,813 Gardasil recipients plus 1 case of lupus and 2 cases of arthritis out of 9,701 participants primarily receiving an aluminum containing placebo. Clinical trial investigators dismissed most of the 102 Gardasil and placebo associated serious adverse events, including 17deaths that occurred in the clinical trials as unrelated.

The national Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), Sums the situation up correctly: "With cervical cancer causing about one percent of all cancer deaths in American women due to routine pap screening, it was inappropriate for the FDA to fast track Gardasil. It is way too early to direct all young girls to get three doses of a vaccine that has not been proven safe or effective in their age group."

And Micholas Regush wrote in Vaccine Madness back in 1992, states that "rare spontaneous or chemically induced chromosome abnormalities which are consistently observed in HPV DNA-negative and positive cervical cancers induce cervical cancer."

"[C]arcinogens may be primary inducers of abnormal cell proliferation rather than HPV [Human papillomavirus]." "Since proliferating cells [cancer cells dividing wildly] would be more susceptible to infection than resting cells, the viruses would just be indicators rather than causes of abnormal proliferation."2

I also have a four page document from The Institute on Money in State Politics. According to this document Merck spent $2,460,352 to state-level candidates and party committees. New Jersey, Florida, California and Pennsylvania received more than $1 million or 44%.

To date, Gov. Rick Perry as received $21,000 from the pharmaceutical giant's political action committee. Perry was second only to former California Gov. Gray David, who received $28,000.

According to this report the state of Texas received $158,143 in campaign contributions.

I have about 100 pages about Merck and Gardasil and it made interesting reading.

Merck stands to make billions on the United States citizen by having legislation passed forcing this toxic vaccine on our innocent youth. It is my opinion that they are using this as a way to pay for all the lawsuits that have been filed in the Vioxx cases. I personally do not want to pay for that out of my hard earned dollars. I would rather spend that money on more fruits and vegetables rich in anti-oxidants for my family. Foods that are rich in anti-oxidants help build a better immune system that helps ward off disease. I believe that all families would rather do that than spend $360 for a vaccine that might work for 4–5 years and then have to pay for boosters after that.

Oh, on the way to looking up other things, I found what the Brits are going to have to pay for this travesty. They are going to pay 450 pounds which in US dollars is $880. Can anyone say rip off, I sure can.

Merck is exploiting the gay community with this vaccine in the UK. They are going to play on the fears of gay men and have them get a vaccine that has not even finished its clinical trials for safety. Here are some excerpts from that article.

LONDON (Reuters) — Homosexual men in Britain are requesting treatment with Merck & Co Inc's new HPV vaccine Gardasil, with dozens immunized in recent weeks, a London clinic said on Friday.

"We started offering vaccination to gay men in January and recently we've been giving about 10 a week," said Dr Sean Cummings of the Freedomhealth clinic in London's Harley Street.

Since many sexually active people are already contaminated with HPV, patients are swabbed before vaccination to determine which, if any, sub-types of HPV they may be carrying.

"If you've got a full house (of HPV sub-types) then there is no point in immunizing," Cummings said.

However, some experts said the benefits of vaccinating men were not yet clear.

The Terrence Higgins Trust, Britain's leading HIV and AIDS charity, said the case for mass vaccination in men would depend on the outcome of further clinical trials.

Gardasil costs 450 pounds ($880) for a three-dose course at the Freedomhealth clinic, which has a reputation as a specialist in gay men's health.

http://www.reuters.com/article/health-SP/idUSL2323302420070223

At least in the UK they are going to wait for further clinical trials before they start any mass vaccination of gay men.

What is wrong with this country? Why are we mandating mass vaccinations of our young girls? Can anyone say it could be for the money? I guess we are getting off cheap with paying only $360.

BREAKING NEWS:
Neurological disorders affect 1 billion people: WHO
Tue Feb 27, 2007 1:22PM EST

GENEVA (Reuters) — Neurological disorders ranging from migraines to epilepsy and dementia affect up to one billion people worldwide and the toll will rise as populations' age, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Tuesday.

The number of people suffering from Alzheimer and other debilitating dementias, currently some 24.3 million people, is expected to double every 20 years, with prevalence levels rising in developing countries, it said.

In a report entitled "Neurological Disorders: Public Health Challenges," the United Nations agency urged that neurological care become part of basic health care so that underdetected disabilities are diagnosed and treated, especially in Africa.

At this point I want to repeat what Dr. Mecola had to say about aluminum. "The aluminum hydroxide used in many vaccines has been linked to symptoms associated with Parkinson's, ALS and Alzheimer's."

Maybe the WHO and the UN should ban the use of aluminum in the vaccines that people are getting through their health initiatives. What a concept to preventative medicine.

Gardasil is the biggest and the best scam since the rising gasoline prices.

We as citizens of the United States of America need to demand that Merck take Gardasil off the market and insist that our Government investigate the "illegal" practices of the pharmaceutical giants and our elected officials in taking campaign contributions as legal bribes to pass legislation. These sanctioned practices by our government officials needs to stop and so do they. These people are harming the United States citizens in more ways than one.

They ALL need to be removed from office before they can do any more damage to our democratic way of life. I say we remove the Hillarys and the Obamas and the Kennedys and the Shumans and all of them. They have consorted with the enemy within, opened our boarders to terrorists and illegals that suck our economy and health care system dry.

Wake up America! It is time for us become strong again with honest and trustworthy leadership that will not make up lies for a dollar.

Call your legislators today and demand the removal of Gardasil legislation forever. Don't let Merck or any drug company run our country and hurt our youth for money.

Call Merck today and tell them to stop using aluminum in any and all vaccines because it is dangerous to the health of the people.

What started this debate? Read my first article about Gardasil, "The King of Texas."
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/janak/070206

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Lawrence A. Bossidy, Retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Honeywell International Inc. Director, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and Berkshire Hills Bancorp, Inc. Merck Director since 1992.

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Richard T. Clark, CEO and president, Merck & Co., Inc., 2005; president, Merck Manufacturing Division, 2003-2005; chairman, Medco Health Solutions, Inc., 2002-2003; chairman, president and CEO, Medco Health Solutions, Inc. (formerly Merck-Medco Managed Care, L.L.C.), 2000-2002; executive vice president and COO, Merck-Medco, 1997-2000; senior vice president, Quality Commercial Affairs, MMD, 1997. Joined Merck in 1972.

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Cynthia Janak is a freelance journalist, mother of three, foster mother of one, grandmother of five, Pharmanex executive, Chamber of Commerce member. Her expertise is as an administrative professional. Her specialties are adoptee and genealogy research and research journalism. Hobbies: Writing prose, crocheting, Conservative Studies, and rehabbing houses. She is a freelance journalist for the Empire Journal. You can contact Cynthia Janak at cj1951@ameritech.net

© Copyright 2007 by Cynthia A. Janak
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The new king of Texas

Cynthia A. Janak Cynthia A. Janak
February 6, 2007

On July 4th, 1776, we declared our independence from England. We wanted to be a nation that was governed by the people for the people.

It has been over 200 years since we had a king rule this country and it has been great. We have freedom and a government that is composed of legislative, executive and judicial branches. This form of government is "supposed" to protect us from any individual becoming so powerful that he rules by decree instead of going through the process that we hold dear.

But what is happening today? We have politicians that are circumventing the system that our forefathers so carefully put in place to prevent a monarchy in this country. How are they doing that? What our elected officials are doing is enacting executive orders and writing statements that change laws or bypass the legislative process. This is happening more and more in all the executive branches of our government in this country.

The most recent abuse of this power is the governor of Texas. Governor Perry, through an executive order, has mandated that female children receive a vaccine that could be harmful. He bypassed the opinion of the people and of the legislature which was in opposition to this mandate. They did not want to put into law forced vaccinations of Gardasil, a Merck & Co. product.

Before we get into this any further, let's look at who Governor Rick Perry really is. First and foremost he is a west Texas rancher who became governor because President Bush resigned the governorship to run for president. He has since this time in 2000 been re-elected to the governorship.

Let's go back to May of 1995. There was an incident that involved the abuse and death of a hog at the Tyler County Fair. I know it doesn't sound like much but this will help show you the mind set of this man.

This is what happened. A young man put a water hose down the throat of a hog that he entered in the fair to add more weight to the animal. This is a far cry from encouraging the animal to eat or drink. Needless to say, the hog died.

Then Governor Bush sent then Commissioner of Agriculture Rick Perry to investigate the abuse. Perry sent two staffers to do the investigation into the alleged abuse. These staffers came back to report that the incident was "accidental." Here is an excerpt from the letter to then Governor Bush. "The underlying issue which has created a whirlwind of attention is whether or not an animal has the same rights as a human being."

What has this to do with shoving a hose down an animal's throat? Nothing!!! To me this is the opposite of the removal of a feeding tube and staving a person to death. Perry, with his comment, basically, condoned this action by the youth. To me this shows that he has little regard for a living creature.

Guilt by association, on Sunday, June 25th, 2000 there was an article in the Easton, Maryland, The Sunday Star, titled "Bush scandals, bad policy." I would like to know why this article or something similar did not run in other newspapers. I was glad that I was sitting down when I read the article. It showed me that Bush caters to the big business and not so much to the people.

One example is Metabolife's Washington lobbyist gave $141,000 to Bush's gubernatorial campaigns and $100,000 for his presidential campaign. At the time, Metabolife's Ephedrine products were linked to 8 deaths but for some reason stricter limits on the drug were dropped.

In the same article it states that $1.5 million was given to Perry in contributions and loans to give him the edge over John Sharp. This money was provided by James Leininger. Leininger was a supporter of "tort deform" which made it impossible for anyone to sue big business. Can you say we have a big business connection here?

Don't worry. I am going to tie all of this together in the end.

Now we come to pharmaceutical giant Merck who put a product on the market call Vioxx. On August 22nd, 2005, CNNMoney reported that Merck lost its first lawsuit in regards to Vioxx. One of the arguments by Lanier the attorney for widow Carol Ernst was that Merck concealed information about the health risks associated with the drug to protect sales.

What did Merck say about this, they said that Vioxx did not cause Ernst's death. They asserted that arrhythmia had not been linked in the Vioxx studies.

Can you say that the drug came on the market too soon? I can.

This article also states that Merck has 4,200 product liability lawsuits that represent about 7,500 plaintiff groups had been filed. In May of 2005, Judge Eldon Fallon told reporters that lawsuits could reach 100,000.

A tiny bit about the company Merck. Merck (MRK) Reuters article dated January 30, 2007's headline is "Merck profit falls, hurt by charges, generic Zocor." A summary of the article is that generic drugs are hurting their profit. The other item that is hurting Merck are the "tens of thousands of lawsuits" that are filed because of Vioxx adverse side effects.

One other thing about Merck, they pay Richard T. Clark, CEO and President $4,160,106 for the year of 2005, Judy C. Lewent, CFO, Exec. VP., $1,946,700 for the year of 2005. There are more officers that receive over a million a year but I did not feel the need to list all of them here. Now remember this does not include the gift stock options that they receive.

Now, I am going to take you down the path of the vaccine, Gardasil by Merck.

At the http://www.medalerts.org site, there is a link to "National Vaccine Information Center." This site provides the public with the resource to research different vaccines. I found that there were 82 reports of adverse reactions reported in regards to this vaccine.

There are several articles and papers to read about this drug that Texas, Governor Perry wants to inflict on the female youth of his state. My focus is going to be on the side effects that have been reported. All the reports I am going to reference the patient had no preexisting conditions.

Days since Vaccination — 0–1 hr. after vaccination — pt reported to feel dizzy, weak, vision went black for a few seconds, got pale with purple lips.

Days since Vaccination — 0 — Vasovagal syncope(drop in blood pressure) shortly after receiving hep A and Gardasil vaccine, fell, hit nose on a drawer, loss of consciousness, sent to ER in transport broke nose.

Days since Vaccination — 0 — ...complained of pains, numbness. Started walking down hall fainted and had tonic/clonic movement (grand mal seizures) for 15 sec.

Days since Vaccination — 0 — immediately after the injection...the patient experienced pain and stinging at the injection site that lasted about 2 minutes and radiated the arm. The patient also reported feeling faint following the injection and experienced swelling.

Days since Vaccination — 0 — At the time of the vaccination the patient experienced extreme pain at the injection site and fainted.

Days since Vaccination — 0 — Vaccine given after physical. Patient fainted, vasovagal (drop in blood pressure), hit head on carpeted cement floor. Loss of consciousness 1 min, had tonic (stiffening of the limbs) posturing of right hand only some shaking.

Days since Vaccination — 0 — Patient said right deltoid area, became red, swollen, quarter size hard knot, achy, painful to raise arm.

Days since Vaccination — 0 — Immediately after vaccine administration patient had syncopal episode with tonic posturing fell from table. Responded with gentle stimulation versus normal 5 minutes post regaining full consciousness.

Explanation of terms:

Vasovagal Syncope — Vasovagal syncope is not a serious or life threatening condition, but in effect an abnormal reflex. This results in a drop in blood pressure leading to decreased blood flow to the brain resulting in dizziness or fainting.

The symptoms in vasovagal syncope are slightly different for each person, but often include many of the following characteristics:

Most episodes occur while standing, occasionally sitting and almost never lying down

Patients often describe feeling very warm and sweaty before blacking out

Nausea and rarely vomiting can precede episodes

Observers often describe the patients as pale ("white as a sheet")

Patients are usually unresponsive ("out") for less than a minute

Patients may have some twitching while unresponsive, but seldom shake violently, bite their tongue or lose control of bowel and bladder function. The latter are more suggestive of a primary seizure.

After regaining consciousness, patients are usually immediately aware of their surroundings, who and where they are

After an episode, patients often feel somewhat dizzy and report feeling tired for as much as 24 hours

Patients that learn to recognize the warning signs can avert losing consciousness by sitting or lying down promptly.

http://www.londoncardiac.ca/pages/vvs.htm

tonic/clonic movement — Generalized tonic clonic seizures (grand mal seizures) are the most common and best known type of generalized seizure. They begin with stiffening of the limbs (the tonic phase), followed by jerking of the limbs and face (the clonic phase).

During the tonic phase, breathing may decrease or cease altogether, producing cyanosis (blueing) of the lips, nail beds, and face. Breathing typically returns during the clonic (jerking) phase, but it may be irregular. This clonic phase usually lasts less than a minute.

Some people experience only the tonic, or stiffening phase of the seizure; others exhibit only the clonic or jerking movements; still others may have a tonic-clonic-tonic pattern.

Incontinence may occur as a result of the seizure. The tongue or inside of the mouth may be bitten during the episode; breathing afterwards may be noisy and appear to be labored. Contrary to popular belief, nothing should be placed in the mouth during the seizure; turning the patient on one side will help prevent choking and keep the airway clear.

Following the seizure, the patient will be lethargic, possibly confused, and want to sleep. Headache sometimes occurs. Full recovery takes minutes to hours, depending on the individual.

http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/answerplace/Medical/seizures/types/genConvulsive/seizuretonic.cfm

After this I went to find out about the drug Gardasil from one of my favorite sites, WebMD. (My suggestion to everyone reading this is to request your doctor to check in the PDR (Prescription Drug Reference) for the specifics and side effects of any drug that is going to be prescribed. Doctors are good healers but they cannot know everything about every drug or vaccine that is out there today.)

First the uses for Gardasil.

"This medication is a vaccine used to prevent cervical cancer, genital warts and abnormal tissue growth in the vagina/cervix that can lead to cancer in women. These conditions are commonly caused by certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV).

This medication does not protect against all types of HPV, only the types in the vaccine. (2 HPV 16 & HPV 18) It is used to prevent the diseases and will not treat active cervical cancer, genital warts or other diseases caused by the types of HPV in the vaccine.

Side Effects of Gardasil.

Redness, itching, swelling, bruising, and pain at the injection site may occur. Fever may also occur. If any of these effects persist or worsen, tell your doctor or pharmacist promptly.

Remember that your doctor has prescribed this medication because he or she has judged that the benefit to you is greater than the risk of side effects. Many people using this medication do not have serious side effects.

Tell you doctor immediately if any of these rare but very serious side effects occur, joint pain/swelling.

A very serious allergic reaction to this drug is rare. However, seek immediate medical attention if you notice any symptoms of a serious allergic reaction, including: rash, itching, swelling, severe dizziness, trouble breathing.

Precautions of Gardasil.

Before receiving this medication, tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are allergic to it: or to other vaccines; or if you have any other allergies.

Before receiving this vaccination, tell your doctor or pharmacist your medical history, especially of: immune system problems,. (e.g. HIV infection), bleeding disorders (e.g. hemophilia, thrombocytopenia), current fever/illness.

Interactions of Gardasil.

Before receiving this vaccination, tell your doctor or pharmacist of all prescription and nonprescription/herbal products you may use, especially of: "blood thinners" (e.g. warfarin), cancer chemotherapy, coricosteroids (e.g. prednisone, dexamethasone), drugs that weaken the immune system (e.g. cyclosporine, tacrolimus).

Notes for Gardasil.

As with any vaccine, this vaccine may not fully protect everyone who receives it.

Getting this vaccine does not replace cervical cancer screening. Continue to have regular obstetrician/gynecologist checkups.

Now I want to make a comparison between what Merck and Medical News Today says about the vaccine.

Merck:

There were no discontinuations due to serious vaccine-related adverse events. Adverse events were higher among those who received GARDASIL compared with placebo recipients. The most common vaccine-related adverse event reported was local discomfort at the injection site.

Medical News Today:

The most common injection site and systemic adverse events were pain and headache, respectively.

This is interesting considering what the "National Vaccine Information Center" had to say about the side effects. Can anyone say cover-up for profit?

The ingredients of Gardasil.

Each 0.5-mL dose of the vaccine contains approximately 225 mcg of aluminum (as amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate adjuvant), 9.56 mg of sodium chloride, 0.78 mg of L-histidine, 50 mcg of polysorbate 80, 35 mcg of sodium borate, and water for injection. The product does not contain a preservative or antibiotics.

I want to bring your attention here to the aluminum that is used in this vaccine. From what I have read this type of aluminum is used to help with absorption of the vaccine. My question to you is where does the aluminum go after it has done its job? I am not a scientist and I would like the answer. This is what I found on this.

This was taken from an article about "Aluminum and the Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease by Dr. Joseph Mercola.

http://www.mercola.com/1998/archive/aluminum_and_alzheimer_prevention.htm

The cause of AD is unknown. However, environmental influences appear to be important. Aluminum is a widely recognized nerve toxin. It has been found in increased concentrations in all AD affected tissue. Recent scientific studies provide four independent lines of compelling evidence that implicate aluminum's role in the cause of AD.

The last bit of information about this wonderful vaccine is that the price tag is high. This is what Merck had to say about that.

Manufacturer Merck & Co. has set the price at $360 for a series of three injections, and it is often covered by insurance.

I am going to tie this all together for you. This governor Perry has no clue how harmful this vaccine could be to the female youth of his state. If he had done his research into the vaccine as I have done today we would not have an executive order mandating this abuse of young women.

Here is a company that has a history of lawsuits because of its drugs but yet this governor ignores this well known fact. For some reason he is looking the other way and is going to turn over your children and hard earned money to this Pharmaceutical Giant. Maybe it could be because the normal person would never expose their children to such a harmful vaccine knowingly.

Governor Perry should have listened to what the people and the legislature had to say about making this mandatory. But he did not. The King wanted his way and had little intention of listening to the legislature of his state.

What does that say to me, volumes! This act by this King of Texas is in violation of the rules that govern this wonderful country. From what I have seen today, in my opinion, it looks as if the contributions of the big business lobby are guiding his actions. It is my opinion that he wanted to keep the money rolling in for his re-election campaign.

How many of our young people are going to have to die from anaphylactic shock or be confined to a nursing home for brain damage because of lack of blood to the brain before this drug is taken off the market? How many more Terry Schiavo's do we have to have out there?

My reason for writing this article is to let the people of this wonderful country, the United States of America, know that the King has returned to rule this country and we were all sleeping when it happened.

You need to take action now because we no longer have any time left to save the United States of America. Look at who you have in your government. Check out what bills they have passed and what is in them. Look at what your governors are doing with their executive order privilege which is to be used only in cases of emergency. And lastly, and it pains me to say this but, look at the executive orders and the statements that our President has put in motion. It makes me weep and pains my heart.

We hired all of these individuals to protect our rights under the Constitution as United States Citizens. We pay these people their salaries to do the work that we hired them to do. It has come the time to fire all of them and start anew so we can bring back the greatness that this country once was again.

Don't let a King run this country by decree. Stop the trend now.

Cynthia Janak is a freelance journalist, mother of three, foster mother of one, grandmother of five, Pharmanex executive, Chamber of Commerce member. Her expertise is as an administrative professional. Her specialties are adoptee and genealogy research and research journalism. Hobbies: Writing prose, crocheting, Conservative Studies, and rehabbing houses. She is a freelance journalist for the Empire Journal. You can contact Cynthia Janak at cj1951@ameritech.net

© Copyright 2007 by Cynthia A. Janak
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/janak/070206

Ten reasons why HPV vaccine is 'murky' issue
Sunday, February 4, 2007

The word "cancer" triggers emotions ranging from fear to empathy to panic. But we cannot let our emotions cause us to spend money or create mandates without careful research. We need to evaluate claims of drugmakers, lobbyists and lawmakers when they seek money for cancer prevention efforts.

Here are 10 reasons why we are skeptical about efforts to mandate for school girls the HPV vaccine against the sexually transmitted cervical-cancer virus.

10. Merck and Co. (the manufacturer of the vaccine) has funneled money through Women in Government, an advocacy group made up of female state
legislators around the country.

9. Sen. Connie Lawson, the General Assembly's No. 1 advocate for the vaccine, is a member of Women in Government.

8. A top official from Merck's vaccine division sits on Women in Government's business council.

7. Women in Government President Susan Crosby, a former Indiana state legislator, said the vaccine could "eliminate a cancer." Yet Gardasil, is NOT a cancer vaccine. It is a vaccine for a virus; specifically for four of the more than 100 types of HPV, two of which cause 70 percent of cervical cancer in women, and two that cause 90 percent of genital warts.

6. Merck could generate billions in sales if Gardasil - at $360 for the three-shot regimen - were made mandatory across the country. Depending on how many girls are Medicaid-eligible in each state, much of that money could come from Medicaid dollars - even if the vaccine is recommended, not mandated.

5. The top 10 leading killers of women in the U.S. are heart disease, stroke, lung cancer (more than 70,000 deaths of women per year), respiratory diseases, Alzheimer's, breast cancer, diabetes, accidents, flu/pneumonia and colon cancer. About 3,700 U.S. women die of cervical cancer each year; that is about 1/8th of the number of women who die from colon cancer, the No. 10 killer of U.S. women.

4. Because the vaccine was only studied for 3 1/2 years, the long-term effectiveness and safety of this vaccine has yet to be determined. It took years for thalidomide and Vioxx (also a Merck product) to demonstrate their most negative side effects.

3. Pap smears have dramatically reduced cervical cancer deaths in the U.S. But Gardasil does not protect against all cancers of the cervix. If the number of Pap smears go down because of women's false sense of security, the number of cervical cancer deaths could go UP!

2. Scarce health care dollars should be spent in the most effective way possible. We believe an investment of billions could be better spent in efforts to battle the top 10 killers of women. (See No. 6 and No. 5.)

1. With an issue as "murky" as this, our little girls should not be guinea pigs.

OUR VIEW is written on a rotating basis by Grace Housholder, Dave Kurtz, Matt Getts and Michael Marturello. Publisher Terry Housholder is also a member of the editorial board. We welcome readers' comments.

Experimenting On Teen Girls
March 7, 2007 by Phyllis Schlafly
It all looked so easy. Just hire lobbyists who have access to the right public officials, make strategic campaign contributions, and finance a front for women to carry your message. This wasn't a typical advertising campaign to sell the new vaccine for HPV (human papillomavirus), called Gardasil, by repetitive commercials on the television network evening newscasts. The real money to be made from this drug depends on government mandating and funding it for all girls.

Marketing costs of inducing state governments to require all teenage girls to be given this vaccine would be just pennies compared to the billions of dollars that would flow to Merck. The profits could even be enough to bail out Merck from its potential billion-dollar liabilities on Vioxx (which is why some say that HPV stands for Help Pay for Vioxx).

So Merck hired Texas Governor Rick Perry's former chief-of-staff to carry the ball. On the slowest news day of the year in Texas, the Friday before the Super Bowl, Governor Perry issued an Executive Order requiring young girls to receive Merck's HPV vaccine in order to enter the sixth grade.

The Associated Press reported, based on documents, that Perry's current chief-of-staff Deidre Delisi discussed Merck's HPV vaccine with aides on Oct. 16. On the very same day, Merck's political action committee donated $5,000 to Perry's reelection campaign plus an additional total of $5,000 to eight Texas lawmakers.

Meanwhile, Merck financed a new "Women in Government" organization, composed of women state legislators, to push for the vaccine. Does it evade regulations against lobbying if women legislators are merely "educating" each other?

Recently released staff emails reveal that Governor Perry's aides were themselves shocked by his mandate. Commenting on the first draft of his Executive Order, one aide said, "that first line sounds almost like a Merck commercial."

Perhaps Perry's rush to put a mandate in place was to preempt the Texas legislature from holding hearings that would expose how senseless this mandatory vaccination of 11-year-old girls would be. Hearings would reveal that this vaccine has not been shown to prevent a single case of cancer.

"I believe that their timing was a little bit premature so soon after [the vaccine's] release, before we have a picture of whether there are going to be any untoward side effects," says Dr. Anne Francis. She chairs the usually pro-vaccination American Academy of Pediatrics committee.

Merck's HPV vaccine was approved by the FDA only eight months ago, based on minimal testing (including few tests with young girls), and it has largely unknown risks and benefits. Even in the best case scenario, it would protect against only some strains of HPV, leaving girls vulnerable to many other sexually transmitted diseases.

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, the Texas Medical Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics do not support this vaccine mandate. State legislatures in Michigan, Indiana and Maryland have declined to make this vaccine mandatory.

Governor Perry is so far unapologetic. He wrapped himself in a new version of Hillary Clinton's "for the children" excuse, arguing that his mandate is "for young ladies who are dying of cancer."

But the average age of diagnosis of cervical cancer is 48. Not even Merck claims that inoculating an 11-year-old girl will protect her against sexually transmitted diseases five, ten, twenty and thirty years later.

"I got hammered in church this morning on the Merck thing, and it was just Saturday," Perry's Chief Clerk Greg Davidson emailed the day after the Executive Order was issued. "Do we have any talking points or stats or anything that can help me fight through Sunday. This is brutal."

No list of talking points can justify forcing this vaccine on schoolchildren for a disease that is not contagious in the classroom environment. Follow the money.

The HPV vaccine requires three shots priced at $360, not counting the costs of separate doctor visits and administrative expenses. Sexual abstinence costs zero dollars and, unlike the vaccine, is 100 percent protective against sexually transmitted diseases.

The U.S. government spends billions of dollars to promote teenage abstinence from illegal drugs, and forces the tobacco companies to spend billions to promote teenage abstinence from smoking. Why not put a fraction of the government's proposed vaccine costs into promoting teenage abstinence from sex?

Instead, the Perry mandate would force the vaccine on good girls who don't engage in premarital sex and don't need the vaccine. At the same time, girls who receive the vaccine will be given a false sense of security that will be even more costly to them than the high-priced vaccine is to the public.

The backlash against the mandate caused Merck to announce that it is suspending its lobbying campaign to make this vaccine compulsory, and the Texas Legislature is trying to cancel Perry's Executive Order. Stay tuned; Merck's lobbying campaign has to shift gears, but it isn't going away because too much money is involved.

Texas governor backs down on HPV vaccine bill
Won't veto legislation to block required cancer shots for sixth-grade girls

Thank God for men like Dennis Bonnen

I'm posting a quote from him from this article...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18575675

Republican Rep. Dennis Bonnen bristled at the governor’s criticism of his bill.

“We should not and are now not going to offer the 165,000 11-year-olds in Texas up to be the study group for Merck to find out what the implications of this vaccine would be for these girls,” he said.

And Gov. Rick Perry said on Tuesday he won’t veto a bill that would block state officials from following his order that all sixth-grade girls be vaccinated against a virus that causes cervical cancer.

A win for the little girls of Texas.....

Judicial Watch Uncovers Three Deaths Relating to HPV Vaccine
Event Reports Obtained from FDA Detail 1,637 Adverse Reactions to Gardasil
Read this on Judicial Watch's Web Site:
http://judicialwatch.org/6299.shtml

(Washington, DC) -- Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released documents obtained from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, detailing 1,637 reports of adverse reactions to the vaccination for human papillomavirus (HPV), Gardasil. Three deaths were related to the vaccine. One physician’s assistant reported that a female patient “died of a blood clot three hours after getting the Gardasil vaccine.” Two other reports, on girls 12 and 19, reported deaths relating to heart problems and/or blood clotting.

As of May 11, 2007, the 1,637 adverse vaccination reactions reported to the FDA via the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) included 371 serious reactions. Of the 42 women who received the vaccine while pregnant, 18 experienced side effects ranging from spontaneous abortion to fetal abnormities.

Side effects published by Merck & Co. warn the public about potential pain, fever, nausea, dizziness and itching after receiving the vaccine. Indeed, 77% of the adverse reactions reported are typical side effects to vaccinations. But other more serious side effects reported include paralysis, Bells Palsy, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, and seizures.

“The FDA adverse event reports on the HPV vaccine read like a catalog of horrors,” stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Any state or local government now beset by Merck’s lobbying campaigns to mandate this HPV vaccine for young girls ought to take a look at these adverse health reports. It looks as if an unproven vaccine with dangerous side effects is being pushed as a miracle drug.”

Judicial Watch filed its request on May 9, 2007, and received the adverse event reports from the FDA on May 15, 2007. Judicial Watch has posted the adverse event reports below.

(A recent study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, also questioned the general effectiveness of Gardasil.)

SEX VIRUS VACCINE LINKED TO THREE DEATHS Sunday June 24,2007

Lucy Johnston THREE deaths have been linked to the controversial sex virus jab health officials want to give to all 12-year-old girls.

Doctors suspect the jab, which protects against a sexually transmitted human papilloma virus that causes cervical cancer, may also be linked to 1,700 “adverse reactions”.

Reports from the US, where the Gardasil vaccine has been used for nearly a year in some states, reveal that three
victims died soon after receiving the injection. They were aged 12, 19 and 20.

They seem to have suffered blood clots or heart attacks. Hundreds of others suffered what could be adverse side effects, including paralysis, seizures and miscarriages.

The news comes just days after the Department of Health announced the drug would be added to the childhood immunisation programme from autumn 2008.

The findings have alarmed UK health experts. Jackie Fletcher from the vaccine damage support group Jabs, said: “Trials of this jab have mostly been on adults, so we don’t have any idea of the long-term effect on children.”
Dr Peter Mansfield, a former GP who runs the Good HealthKeeping clinic in Lincolnshire, said: “It’s absolutely wrong that girls of 12 should be given this jab.”

Dr John Oakley, a west Midlands GP said the trials for Gardasil had been so limited that the children taking it would be like “guinea pigs”.

The manufacturers, Sanofi Pasteur MSD, had not planned to release the data, but it was obtained under freedom of information laws by lobbyists Judicial Watch. The findings read like “a catalogue of horrors”, said its president, Tom Fitton.

Other serious possible side effects include paralysis, seizures and neurological conditions such as Bell’s palsy and Guillain-Barré Syndrome, which leaves patients paralysed for months and can kill.

Gardasil has stirred up a huge controversy. There is excitement because it is the first vaccine to be approved to fight cancer – but moral campaigners say it will encourage teenagers to have sex early.

Others have argued that boys, who also carry the virus, should be vaccinated as well.

A spokesman for the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), meanwhile, said no “proven, serious new risks have been identified” by the findings, but said the effects would be monitored when Gardasil is used in the UK.

Nicholas Kitchin, medical director of Sanofi Pasteur MSD, said the fact that symptoms were reported after a vaccination did not necessarily mean they were caused by the vaccine.

http://www.express.co.uk/printer/view/11110

Gardasil administered in conjunction with the meningococcal vaccine, Menactra, increases risk.

ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP)
Promoting Openness, Full Disclosure, and Accountability
http://www.ahrp.org and http://ahrp.blogspot.com

FYI
Judicial Watch and the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) have separately issued updates involving serious adverse event reports about Merck's HPV (Gardasil) vaccine.

Most serious are a statistically significant risk linking Gardasil when co-administered with other vaccines, in particular, meningococcal vaccine (Menactral).

NVIC reports: "as of May 31, there have been 2,227 Gardasil adverse events filed with VAERS, including 13 suspected or confirmed cases of GBS (two more GBS reports were made in June for a total of 15) and 239 cases of syncope (fainting with temporary loss of consciousness), many of which resulted in head injuries and fractures. Seven deaths have been reported after receipt of Gardasil."

A total of 1,930 reported Gardasil adverse events involved administration of Gardasil alone, and 135 adverse events involved co-administration of Gardasil with Menactra.

ABC News reports that Earlier this year, the CDC did say there wasn't enough evidence to prove Gardasil could be used safely with other vaccines. http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=health&id=5572168

What justification do officials of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention offer for their encouragement to physicians to co- administer Menactra and other vaccines with Gardasil when severe adverse event reports should raise alarms about safety ?

CDC officials' record of massive waste and inappropriate perks---as documented in a report by Sen. Tom Coburn, a practicing physician and ranking member of the Senate Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management Gov't Information and International Security--give one little trust in CDC policies.

Contact: Vera Hassner Sharav
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Now they want to experiment on babies...

http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Cervical-vaccine-trial-on-babies-report/2007/08/27/1188066978713.html#

Cervical vaccine trial on babies: report
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A doctor who played a key role in trials of a cervical cancer vaccine is proposing testing it on babies.

Suzanne Garland, the director of microbiology and infectious diseases at the Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne, is flying to the US to meet with drug companies and will discuss trialling the vaccine on babies up to a few months old, Fairfax newspapers report.

Professor Garland said there were benefits to immunising babies instead of schoolgirls, but one of the questions that would need to be answered was how long the vaccine would last, and whether a booster shot would be necessary years later.

The vaccine has been tested in children only over the age of 10.

© 2007 AAP

--8 more deaths connected to HPV vaccine
Adverse reactions from Gardasil number in thousands
Posted: October 6, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com Another eight deaths in just the past few months are being connected to Gardasil, Merck & Co.'s vaccine that targets the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus and is being considered by many states as mandatory for all schoolgirls, according to documents released by Judicial Watch. There also have been another 1,824 adverse reactions to the drug, bringing the "known total" of such problems to 3,461, according to the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption. "In light of this information, it is disturbing that state and local governments might mandate in any way this vaccine for young girls," said Tom Fitton, the group's president. "These adverse reactions reports suggest the vaccine not only causes serious side effects, but might even be fatal." WND previously has reported how Merck was lobbying state lawmakers to require the vaccination, but gave that up after its activities were unveiled. WND also reported when a key researcher into human papillomavirus, which is targeted by Gardasil, reported it needed more testing, and how even the Centers for Disease Control suggested the vaccine should not be mandatory. The dispute primarily has been over proposed state and other governmental requirements that schoolgirls be vaccinated against an infection transmitted only by sexual contact. The target of the vaccine is cervical cancer, since studies show that those who have HPV have a higher chance of later developing cervical cancer. However, opponents note that such cancers develop most often in older women, while the plan is to require girls as young as 11 or 12 years old to be inoculated. They cite the lack of evidence that the vaccine would have an impact later in life. Judicial Watch said it obtained documents from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration under the Freedom of Information Act detailing the new 1,824 cases. Those cases include as many as eight deaths related to the vaccine, on top of the three deaths reported earlier among 1,637 earlier reports of adverse effects. Among the new information Judicial Watch found: "Information has been received … concerning a 17 year old female who in June 2007 … was vaccinated with a first dose of Gardasil … During the evening of the same day, the patient was found unconscious (lifeless) by the mother. Resuscitation was performed by the emergency physician but was unsuccessful. The patient subsequently died."

"Information has been received … concerning a 12 year old female with a history of aortic and mitral valve insufficiency … who on 01-MAR-2007 was vaccinated IM into the left arm with a first does of Gardasil … On 01-MAR-2007 the patient presented to the ED with ventricular tachycardia and died." "Initial and follow-up information has been received from a physician concerning an 'otherwise healthy' 13 year old female who was vaccinated with her first and second doses of Gardasil. Subsequently, the patient experienced … paralysis from the chest down, lesions of the optic nerve…At the time of the report, the patient had not recovered."

The flood of adverse reactions during 2007 reported to the FDA through the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, included 347 serious reactions. "Of the 77 women who received the vaccine while pregnant, 33 experienced side effects ranging from spontaneous abortion to fetal abnormities. Other serious side effects continue to be reported including, paralysis, Bells Palsy, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, and seizures," Judicial Watch said. And these numbers may not even include all the cases, Judicial Watch said. It filed a lawsuit this week against the FDA for failing to fully respond to its requests for information involving the vaccine. Specifically Judicial Watch wanted access to correspondence between Merck and the FDA regarding the vaccine, communications between the FDA and GlaxoSmithKline, which is working on a similar vaccine, called Cervarix, and reports by consumers, health professionals and others regarding problems with the HPV vaccine. When the organization's investigation into the HPV vaccine issue arose, and the first reports starting coming in, Fitton described it as "a catalog of horrors." One earlier report, No. 275438-1, describes the reaction as coronary artery thrombosis, sudden cardiac death. "Given Gardasil vaccine dose #1 3/12/07. Collapsed and died on 3/26/07… Echocardiogram revealed very enlarged right ventricle, small left ventricle as well as large blood clots within both the right atrium & right ventricle." Another report noted that the woman was vaccinated and "died of a blood clot 8 hours after getting the Gardasil vaccine." Officials with the Abstinence Clearinghouse noted in a position paper that groups including the Texas Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, and the American Academy of Environmental Medicine have come out publicly against mandatory vaccination. "The reasoning of these medical associations is clear. They are not opposed to medical progress, and certainly support all efforts to combat life-threatening diseases. The problem, as these organizations see it, lies in the fact that the drug only went through three and a half years of testing, leaving the medical community somewhat in the dark as to what serious adverse effects might result in the long term," the group said. "Along with the potential of serious adverse effects is the question of efficacy. There is evidence that after approximately four years, the vaccine's potency significantly declines. The long-term value of the vaccine has yet to be determined; if it wears off within six years, will girls and women need to repeat the battery of injections they originally received?" the organization wondered. Michigan was the first state to introduce a plan to require the vaccine to be given to young girls, but the proposal failed. Ohio also considered a failed plan in 2006. Then in 2007, after Merck's aggressive lobbying campaign and contributions to Women in Government, lawmakers in at least 39 states and the District of Columbia worked on sponsoring such plans.

Human Papilloma Virus Immunization in Adolescent and Young Adults: A Cohort Study to Illustrate What Events Might be Mistaken for Adverse Reactions Claire-Anne Siegrist, MD;* Edwin M. Lewis, MPH;† Juhani Eskola, MD;‡ Stephen J. W. Evans, MSc;§ Steven B. Black, MD|| Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2008;26(11):979-984. ©2008 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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Abstract and Introduction Abstract Background: The large-scale implementation of human papilloma virus (HPV) immunization will be followed by cases of autoimmune diseases occurring in temporal association with immunizations. To anticipate events that might be mistakenly assumed to be caused by immunization, their prevalence was monitored before vaccine introduction.

Method: Cohort study carried out within a database of female adolescents (n = 214,896) and young adults (n = 221,472) followed in the pre-HPV vaccine era (2005), computing rates of emergency consultations, hospitalizations and outpatient consultations, and estimation of risks of coincident associations.

Results: Immune-mediated conditions were a frequent cause (10.3%) of emergency room consultation by adolescent girls. Nonallergic immune-mediated conditions affected 86 per 100,000, diabetes ranking first. In 2005, 53 per 100,000 adolescents and 389 per 100,000 women were hospitalized for diseases of presumed autoimmune origin, thyroiditis being the most frequent diagnosis. If HPV immunization had been used with 80% coverage, 3 per 100,000 adolescents would have required emergency care for asthma/allergy within 24 hours and 2 per 100,000 for diabetes within 1 week of an injection. The risks of hospitalization in temporal association with immunization are 4 times higher for thyroiditis than for multiple sclerosis or Guillain-Barré's syndrome, and more than 20 times higher in young women than in adolescents.

Conclusion: The distinction between HPV vaccine-caused adverse reactions and events only observed by chance in temporal association is difficult. The prior use of population-based data allows for identification of issues of potential concern, for monitoring the impact of large-scale interventions and for addressing rapidly vaccine-safety issues that may compromise vaccine programs.

Introduction Concerns about supposed adverse effects of vaccines seem to occur regularly. Usually the evidence for the adverse effect leading to the scare derives from some case reports rather than from trials or carefully conducted comparative studies. Spontaneous reports of suspected adverse drug reactions, including those to vaccines, remain an important source of new information for monitoring the safety of medicines. However, suspicion about an event does not demonstrate causality. Many suspected adverse drug reactions are simply coincident in time with administration of the drug or vaccine.

During the next few years, there will be vaccines introduced to groups of people who have not traditionally been vaccinated. Pandemic flu vaccine may be given to age groups who have not been, in large scale, recipients of vaccines. The human papilloma virus (HPV) disease burden and the outstanding efficacy profile of the novel HPV vaccines are such that these vaccines are currently being implemented[1] or considered for implementation in many industrialized countries. Surveys predict that vaccine acceptance will be high, despite significant misunderstanding about HPV infection, cervical cancer screening, and the sequelae of HPV infection.[2-5] The interest of parents, young women, and health care providers in HPV vaccines will doubtless be strongly supported by large-scale promotional events led by 2 competing major pharmaceutical companies. This should result in rapid vaccine uptake by adolescents targeted by national immunization programs. In addition, catch-up immunizations will be implemented in some countries for young women, as prior exposure to HPV does not prevent vaccine-induced efficacy against other HPV genotypes.[6] Altogether, this is expected to lead to a rapid uptake of HPV vaccines by adolescent girls and young women in industrialized countries able to afford them.

The rapid large-scale implementation of a vaccine in the young adult population of industrialized countries is not without precedent. In the early 1990s, the recommendation to immunize adolescents with hepatitis B vaccines (HBV) was supported by such vigorous promotional efforts in France that it rapidly led to the immunization of 20 million individuals, mostly adolescents and young adults.[7] A few years later, reports of temporal association between HBV immunization and the onset of multiple sclerosis (MS)[8] were sufficient to fuel major vaccine-safety controversies associating HBV immunization to MS and other autoimmune diseases.[9] Public confidence was lost and national HBV vaccination efforts interrupted. A decade later, the existence of an increased risk of MS after HBV immunization in adults has still not been demonstrated.[10] However, as the best epidemiology studies may never exclude the existence of a risk, the debate continues, especially in France,[11] where HBV vaccine coverage remains below 25%.[12] This vaccine-safety issue spread internationally, including in developing countries, despite worldwide efforts for explanation and reassurance.[13] More recently, the large-scale implementation of a quadrivalent conjugate vaccine against meningococcal disease (Menactra) in adolescents led to 5 cases of Guillain-Barré's syndrome within 6 weeks of immunization. Although this did not exceed the expected baseline incidence, it was sufficient for the U.S. authorities to launch an alert.[14] A year later, an update indicated that because of the ongoing risk for meningococcal disease and the limitations of the data indicating a small risk for Guillain-Barre syndrome after a vaccination with quadrivalent conjugate vaccine against meningococcal disease, current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations remained unchanged. [15]

The novel HPV vaccines (Gardasil and Cervarix) share similarities with HBV vaccines. Both HPV and HBV vaccines are recommended as a 3-dose schedule given in at least 6 months, and include aluminum salts (Gardasil) or a new potent adjuvant (Cervarix) for which large-scale surveillance data is not yet available. Gardasil is produced by yeast, as was one of the HBV vaccines used in France in the 1990s. Both vaccines protect against sexually transmitted viral infections that may result in cancer (ie, will be implemented on a large scale not only in adolescents but also in the young adult population). Although the safety profile of the 2 HPV vaccines appears to be as excellent[16,17] as that of HBV vaccines,[13] they have formally been tested on less than 50,000 women. Thus, their safety databases are limited and rare (<1 per 10,000), severe adverse events may not yet have been identified. Consequently, reports of immune-mediated diseases issued from the postmarketing surveillance could be considered as possible adverse events, at least initially. These signals will be difficult to address given the limited availability of the incidence of most immune-mediated diseases in the adolescent and young adult population.

We are concerned that the large-scale implementation of HPV vaccines in industrialized countries could reactivate the vaccine-safety debates linking vaccination to autoimmune diseases. This could possibly represent a major issue for the sustainability of HPV immunization programs in industrialized countries, and consequently for their implementation in developing countries where they are most needed.[18] To anticipate the crisis and identify the potential danger signals, we have computed the utilization of health resources by the entire female adolescent and young adult population registered within the Northern California Kaiser Permanente (NCKP) Medical Care Program health maintenance organization (HMO) during 2005 The number of emergency consultations, hospitalizations, and outpatient consultations were used to identify the most frequent immune-mediated conditions, ie, those most likely to be temporally associated with a putative HPV vaccine administration.

Methods Databases NCKP maintains administrative databases to capture all inpatient and outpatient (including emergency department) utilization within the HMO. The utilization databases contain the date of admission or visit, International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-9 coded diagnoses, and a unique identification number.

Data Retrieval Rates of emergency department, inpatient, and outpatient utilization were collected for females 9-18 years of age, likely to be targeted by adolescent immunization programs, and 19-30 years of age, who will be considered for catch-up immunization. To compute rates of utilization, the denominator was estimated by membership at the midpoint of the evaluation year, on June 30, 2005 (9-18 years of age, n = 214,896, adolescent group; 19-30 years of age, n = 221,472, adult group). The frequencies were computed with the first instance of each diagnosis code for each individual.

Selection of Target Diseases For this report, we selected ICD-9 codes for immune-mediated diseases, considering that the biologic plausibility of a vaccine-induced trigger would markedly enhance the notification of temporal associations and thus the likelihood of signal generation.

Risks of Temporal Association Between Events and a Hypothetical HPV Immunization The risk of coincident temporal association between medical conditions and a hypothetical HPV immunization was estimated under various assumptions. The distribution of medical events during the year was assumed as random, without any influence of season or month. We assumed a 0-1-6 months vaccine schedule, as officially recommended, and defined several time windows (from 1 day to 6 weeks after each putative vaccine dose) during which a previous HPV immunization would likely be considered as a triggering or precipitating event. The proportion of subjects with expected temporal associations between a medical event and trigger administered at 0-1-6 months intervals was calculated by dividing the yearly rate of event by the number of corresponding at-risks periods, taking into consideration overlapping periods. It was corrected for vaccine coverage likely to be reached in the adolescent (80%) and the young adult (40%) population.

Statistical Analyses Rates of specific immune-mediated disease conditions were used to calculate the aggregate rates of immune-mediated events requiring medical attention in the adolescent or young adult population, respectively.

Results Rates of Emergency Consultations for Immune-Mediated Conditions in Female Adolescents and Young Women The demand for an emergency room (ER) consultation reflects either a recent onset or a recent exacerbation of a preexisting disease condition, 2 situations that inevitably lead to a search for putative precipitating events. Among 12,443 ER consultations required by 214,896 adolescent girls (aged 9-18) followed during 2005 in the NCKP Medical Care Program HMO, 35% resulted from infections and 30% from psychologic or psychiatric conditions (not shown). Immune-mediated conditions were the third most frequent cause (1277, 10.3%) of ER consultation by adolescent girls ( Table 1 ). Asthma conditions ranked first among atopic/allergic conditions, cumulating to a rate of 325 per 100,000 ER consultations. This included 183 per 100,000 ER consultations for acute IgE-mediated allergic reactions, including a few cases (3.7 per 100,000) of anaphylactic shock. Nonallergic immune-mediated conditions were frequent (86 per 100,000, Table 1 ). The first cause of ER consultation for nonallergic immune disease was juvenile- or adult-onset diabetes (51.3 per 100,000). In 2005, only 4 girls followed in the NCKP HMO required ER medical care for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and none for MS. Emergency consultations for immune-mediated diseases were also frequent (837 per 100,000) in young women likely to be targeted by HPV catch-up immunization strategies ( Table 1 ). Asthma or other IgE-mediated allergic reactions also ranked first (366 and 302 per 100,000, respectively). Among diseases presumably of an autoimmune nature, diabetes, Bell palsy, and SLE had the highest rate of ER consultation ( Table 1 ).

Rates of Hospitalizations for Autoimmune Diseases in Female Adolescent and Young Adults. The need for hospitalization also reflects either a recent disease onset or a recent exacerbation of a disease condition sufficiently severe to require inpatient medical care. In 2005, the hospitalization rate of adolescent girls for diseases of presumed autoimmune origin reached 53 per 100,000 ( Table 2 ). Thyroiditis, an autoimmune process in adolescents and young adults, was the most frequently encoded diagnosis. In contrast, episodes of MS or optic neuritis were relatively rare (3.7 per 100,000). The same ranking was obtained by the computation of outpatient consultations required by adolescent girls throughout 2005 ( Table 2 ), confirming the relative disease burden of these immune-mediated conditions. Of note, thyroiditis generated a 10-fold higher utilization of medical resources than any other condition in this category.

During the same period, the rate of hospitalization of young women for autoimmune conditions reached 389 per 100,000 ( Table 2 ). Thyroid disorders also ranked as the first cause of hospitalization for autoimmune-mediated diseases. SLE ranked next, whereas MS-like conditions required hospitalization rates of 12 per 100,000. Again, the computation of outpatient consultations provided a similar ranking ( Table 2 ), confirming the relative importance of the burden of these conditions on medical resources and their occurrence at a markedly higher rate in young women than in adolescents.

Temporal Associations Between Specific Disease Conditions and a Hypothetical HPV Immunization Regimen All the above-mentioned events occurred in the pre-HPV immunization era. Consequently, none may be considered as an HPV vaccine-induced adverse event. The likelihood of an external factor being considered as a potential triggering/precipitating factor essentially results from temporal associations.[19,20] We thus estimated the likelihood of temporal association that would occur in pure coincidences, in the absence of any causal relationship, with the putative administration of 3 doses of a saline placebo administered at 0, 1, and 6 months intervals. Rates of ER consultation or hospitalization were computed by specific time windows to estimate the likelihood that an event would occur within a given interval after an injection. For psychologic reasons, the likelihood for an association to be considered as causally related is inversely proportional to the time elapsed between exposure to the putative factor and the onset/exacerbation of the disease. Based on biologic plausibility, we considered time windows of 1 day, 1 week, and 6 weeks after any injection putatively administered according to a 0-1-6 months schedule to all adolescents and young women ( Table 3 ).

Correcting the rates obtained in Table 3 for likelihood of exposure to an injection trigger predicts that if 80% of NCKP adolescent girls had been injected with a saline placebo in 2005, 3 per 100,000 would have required ER medical care for asthma or allergy within 24 hours of an injection. Two per 100,000 adolescent girls seen in the ER department for diabetes would have been within 1 week of an injection, and hospitalizations for autoimmune diseases would have occurred within 6 weeks of an injection in 10 per 100,000 adolescents. Of even greater concern, if a catch-up program reaching only 40% of young adult women had been implemented, 28 per 100,000 patients requiring hospitalization for the recent onset or exacerbation of thyroiditis would have been within 6 weeks of an injection. That such figures would not trigger vaccine-safety signals thus appears as most unlikely.

Discussion Anticipating future vaccine-safety concerns at the time of the enthusiastic implementation of novel vaccines effective against cancer may seem odd. However, history has taught us that the life and death of immunization programs can occur rapidly. As a recent example, the Food and Drug Administration approved in 1998 a new recombinant Lyme vaccine that reduced new infections in vaccinated adults by nearly 80%. Just 3 years later, the manufacturer voluntarily withdrew its product from the market amid media coverage, fears of vaccine adverse events, and declining sales.[21] To date, there is no evidence that this Lyme vaccine would have caused the adverse events that led to its withdrawal. We are concerned that history may repeat itself with any large-scale vaccine introduction in an adult population, HPV vaccines being the closest to this important step.

Immunizations activate the immune system, which may be considered as sufficient to blame vaccines, should the onset or the exacerbation of immune-mediated diseases occur in temporal association with an immunization,[22] despite some evidence to the contrary.[23] The prevalence of autoimmune diseases in the young adult female population is not low. As an example, it is estimated that SLE occurs in 1 of 2000 Americans and in as many as 1 of 250 young African American women (NIAID, Understanding autoimmune diseases, http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/artic/understanding_autoimmune_disease_niaid.htm), whereas MS affects 1 in 700 persons in the United States and 1 in 1200 in Europe.[24] Unfortunately, baseline disease incidences are not established for most diseases, and country, ethnic, and age-group specific incidences are largely lacking. Consequently, it will be difficult to monitor globally the impact or to demonstrate the lack of impact-of a large-scale immunization program on the incidence of autoimmune conditions. This was unfortunately illustrated by the allegation of a causal relationship between hepatitis B immunization and MS, which a decade of negative or inconclusive studies[25,26] has not yet settled. As autoimmune conditions have already been included in the adverse events section of the Gardasil Summary of Product Characteristics, one can predict that conditions occurring in temporal associations will be reported as potentially associated with HPV immunization.

Temporal association is required for vaccine-safety signals/concerns to be raised. However, additional factors are at play. This is best illustrated here by the fact that diseases that have most frequently been reported in temporal association with immunization, such as MS, SLE, or Guillain-Barré's syndrome are not the most frequent autoimmune conditions in adolescents or young women. This is likely to reflect the influence of additional factors including the severity of the disease and the absence of an alternative cause to the disease conditions. The data presented here suggest that reporting is also largely influenced by a notification bias resulting from the perception by the medical community that certain conditions (such as Guillain-Barré's syndrome for example) are much more likely than others (such as diabetes or thyroiditis) do to be triggered by exposure to infection or immunization. This implies that many new temporal association signals could be generated by effective pharmacovigilance systems.

Certain national health authorities are aware of the fact that the upcoming implementation of large-scale adolescent and adult HPV immunization programs will inevitably lead to the observation of disease conditions occurring in close temporal association with injections (Swiss Federal Office of Public Health, www.cfv.ch). They expect at least some of these cases to be notified to their pharmacovigilance systems, and fear that their interpretation will be made difficult by the lack of data on age-specific baseline incidence of disease, limiting the capacity of performing observed versus expected cases analyses. Consequently, clusters of cases or reports, possibly resulting from biased perceptions and notification processes, are likely to result into danger signals requiring the initiation of complex epidemiologic studies. One may unfortunately predict that certain issues may remain without conclusive answers for many years and exert a profound influence on the sustainability of HPV immunization programs.

The simple approach described in this report offers many advantages compared with the collection of individual reports resulting from temporal associations. First, the computation of medical resource utilization provides population-based data, which is particularly powerful for the assessment of infrequent events, as it may be extended to large parts of the population. Second, it may readily be repeated at regular intervals-providing a rapid tool for the monitoring of any disease condition, by the comparison of pre- and postintervention rates. Third, it is not limited by working hypotheses or triggered by a few individual case reports. As an example, we would not have predicted immune-mediated thyroiditis to be as frequent in adolescents and young women as was observed. Should this concern arise because of adverse event notification, rapid answers could be provided by comparing the rate of ER consultation and hospitalizations before and after the implementation of HPV immunization. This approach is not limited to immune-mediated diseases. We observed that gynaecologic conditions resulting into abnormal uterine bleeding or pain are frequent in adolescent and much more so in young women (not shown). Should a first episode of abnormal uterine bleeding in adolescents or fertility issues in HPV-immunized young women be attributed at some point to the recent administration of a uterine-targeting vaccine, population-based data could provide rapid answers. Lastly, such population-based approaches allow an estimation of the likelihood of disease conditions in various age groups. For example, the much higher risks of coincidental associations with autoimmune diseases that is expected in the young women compared with the adolescent population is worth considering at time of implementation of catch-up strategies in young women.

Predicting the future is difficult, and this study has limitations. The autoimmune conditions that may generate concerns may not be in our list. They could, however, be readily included into similar analyses, now or in the future. The data are from one single year, which does not allow for fluctuations or temporal variations of medical disorders. The utilization of medical resources is notoriously influenced by a number of factors, and may not reflect true disease prevalence. Diseases resulting into more than 1 hospitalization/consultation could have affected the data-which may be corrected by using unique patient identification numbers. The use of identification number would also allow discriminating between new onset of diseases and relapses, defined by the occurrence of a given ICD code before the suspected triggering event. A related potential limitation of our study is that the reason for a patient to seek medical care may not necessarily imply a relapse or exacerbation of an underlying condition. Consequently, rates of outpatient consultations, in particular, are likely to be less reliable than demand for emergency care or hospitalization. Rates of medical resource utilization will also differ from one population to another. Thus, it is important that the rates indicated here be not taken as figures against which to compare a given safety signal. Indeed, the objective of this study is not to provide universally valid baseline incidence rates of diseases in adolescent or young women at a national or international level. Its objective is to issue an alert for similar analyses to be run in as many populations and country settings as possible, before and after the implementation of large-scale interventions.

The apparently unavoidable future vaccine-safety issues, allegations, and debates warrant taking specific actions for HPV immunization programs to be sustained for many years. This includes a better evaluation of adolescent health, and the estimation of population-based incidence/prevalence rates in the pre-HPV vaccine era, to allow a rapid distinction between real vaccine-induced adverse events and alleged concerns. It also includes educational efforts to increase understanding that coincidence is not causality, and thus improve handling of putative vaccine-associated adverse events by the medical community, including by gynecologists who have been less involved with immunization issues than have pediatricians or general practitioners.

Table 1. NCKP Emergency Room Utilization by Female Adolescent and Young Women

Table 2. 2005 NCKP Hospital Admissions and Outpatient Consultations for Autoimmune Conditions in Adolescent Girls and Young Women

Table 3. Coincident Temporal Associations With Putative Placebo Injections Administered at 0-1-6 Months to All Adolescent and Young Women

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Acknowledgements
The authors are grateful to Christine Brighouse for excellent secretarial support and contribution to the formatting of this manuscript.

Supported by existing institutional research grants to the Center for Vaccinology of the University of Geneva and by the Kaiser Foundation Research Institute at NCKP.

Funding Information
C.-A.S. received research grant support from Sanofi Pasteur MSD and GlaxoSmithKline for studies unrelated to HPV vaccines and has served on scientific advisory boards concerning issues unrelated to HPV vaccines. S.B.B. and E.M.L. both received research grant support from Merck and GlaxoSmithKline for studies unrelated to HPV vaccine. J.E. and S.J.W.E. have no conflicts of interest to declare.

Reprint Address
Address for correspondence: Claire-Anne Siegrist, MD, Center for Vaccinology and Neonatal Immunology, University of Geneva, 1 Rue Michel Servet, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland. E-mail: Claire-Anne.Siegrist@medecine.unige.ch .

Claire-Anne Siegrist, MD,* Edwin M. Lewis, MPH,† Juhani Eskola, MD,‡ Stephen J. W. Evans, MSc,§ and Steven B. Black, MD||

*Center for Vaccinology and Neonatal Immunology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland;
†Vaccine Study Center and Division of Research, The Permanente Medical Group, Oakland, CA;
‡National Public Health Institute KTL, Helsinki, Finland;
§Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London;
||Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Stanford University in Palo Alto California, Stanford, CA.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22860008-5007146,00.html

By Kate Sikora
December 03, 2007 09:35am

WITH almost 500 Australian teenage girls suffering serious reactions to the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil, parents should be worried about its safety.

(Agreed!)

Reports of women collapsing, convulsing in seizures, breaking out in severe rashes and even worse - death - are enough for any mother or father to prevent their young girl from being immunised. And it also proves a dilemma for women in their 20s who must weigh up whether to risk an adverse reaction or chance it, like millions of women who, until now, have never been offered the potentially life-saving drug.

But perhaps they need to consider another alarming statistic.

Every year more than 200 Australian women die from cervical cancer. At the same time another 800 women are diagnosed with the disease. Since Gardasil became available more than 2.2 million doses have been administered. Any severe reaction linked to a drug is cause for concern but when it can save a life, then perhaps the risk needs to be taken. When Gardasil hit the market in May this year, its inventor, former Australian of the Year Ian Frazer called on parents to consider vaccinating their daughters. Leaving their girls unvaccinated could expose them to the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus, he said.

"It is entirely their (parents') right to decide if they would like their child to be vaccinated. Hopefully they will be able to reconsider eventually as the vaccine is designed to protect against disease and the reality is it has to be given early in life - if they wait too long the benefit could be lost. "It would be a pity if that opportunity was lost because of fainting." Up until now women have had to rely solely on pap smears to detect cervical cancer. I have been one of those women. Like many of my friends who dread the news of an abnormal pap test, I envy the younger generation which can take part in such revolutionary prevention. The drug's manufacturer CSL claims the medical and scientific evidence suggests the benefits of Gardasil far outweigh the number of cases of girls fainting.

Five hundred women becoming ill from the vaccine is nothing to be taken lightly.

But nor is the 200 mothers, daughters and girlfriends who could still be alive today if they had the chance to be guarded for life.

Gardasil Adverse Event Reports Include 28 Miscarriages, yet FDA Nixes Further Safety Reviews http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/2161

Date Published: Friday, December 7th, 2007 The Gardasil cervical cancer vaccine has been linked to miscarriages in 28 women in the US, yet Merck, the vaccine’s manufacturer and the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) insist Gardasil is safe. Despite the miscarriage reports, the FDA says it has no intention of subjecting Gardasil to further safety reviews.

Gardasil was approved by the FDA in June 2006. At the time of its approval, Merck & Co., the maker of Gardasil, said that clinical trials had proven the vaccine to be between 90-100% effective in preventing the transmission of some strains of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) that cause cervical cancer. The approval of Gardasil was much hyped, with Merck claiming that it had the potential to eventually eliminate most cervical cancers.

Since its approval, Merck has claimed that Gardasil is practically side effect free, with pain at the injection site being the most common complaint about the vaccine. Yet since its approval, the FDA Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System has received 3,461 complaints of adverse reactions to the Gardasil vaccine, and there could have been as many as eight deaths attributable to Gardasil. In several instances, blood clots were reported to have occurred after the administration of Gardasil. Other side effects including paralysis, Bells Palsy, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, and seizures were also reported. Of the 77 women who received the Gardasil vaccine while pregnant, 33 experienced side effects ranging from spontaneous abortion to fetal abnormities.

Those reports included 28 women who miscarried after receiving Gardasil. In May, a 24-year-old woman suffered a miscarriage, which an investigator in a report issued to the federal government said, “may have been caused by Gardasil because the patient received the injection within 30 days of the pregnancy.” In July, a 17-year-old girl from Texas was unaware she was pregnant when she got her second dose of Gardasil. She miscarried, but the cause of the miscarriage hasn’t been determined, according to a report. The reasons for two other miscarriages this year in Florida - one by a 16-year-old and another by a 24-year-old both - are undetermined, according to reports. But it is known that both women had Gardasil vaccinations shortly before the miscarriages.

As of now, there is no way to know exactly how - or if - Gardasil played a role in these miscarriage, or in any of the other adverse events that have been reported to the FDA. A thorough safety review is the only way to determine if Gardasil is truly safe. But so far, the FDA is refusing to revisit the vaccine.

Following its approval, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommended that all young girls between the ages of 11 and 12 receive the Gardasil vaccine. Merck was more than happy to echo the CDC recommendations, and actually began an intensive lobbying effort to convince state health authorities to make Gardasil vaccinations mandatory for young girls. Merck’s heavy promotion of Gardasil has been effective, as some analysts estimate that Gardasil could net the company as much as $1.4 billion in its first full year on the market.

Both Merck and the FDA insist that the side effects reports on Gardasil are no different than other drugs, and that none of the adverse reactions have yet to be directly connected to the vaccine. Yet it seems hard to believe that all of the adverse reports linked to Gardasil could be coincidence. And taken in this light, it would seem that efforts to make the Gardasil vaccine mandatory are ill advised until more research can be done on Gardasil’s potential side effects.

HPV vaccine 'expensive and deadly drug'

01/18/2008

from the Kennebec Journal

Dr. Ronnie Marrache's Oct. 27 letter touted the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine as "a useful treatment for cancer." Food and Drug Administration (FDA) records show 3,461 adverse reactions and 11 reported deaths since the vaccine received FDA fast track approval in 2006. Pharmaceutical giant Merck's Gardasil (which can cost $140 to $275 for each of the required series of shots, plus office visit charges), is the most expensive vaccine ever marketed in the U.S. Merck also makes Vioxx, which was withdrawn from the market after causing an estimated 88,000-139,000 heart attacks, 30-40 percent of them fatal, according to the FDA's Dr. David Graham.

After researching the HPV vaccine for 20 years, Dr. Diane Harper rejected Merck's advertising campaign: "Merck has not said anything incorrect, but the way they are marketing it makes it so people can hear 'this is a vaccine that protects me from all cervical cancer,' and that's wrong."

Nationally, Merck donated $611,975 to state lawmakers or party political action committees in 2006.

In The Actuary magazine, insurance companies were advised to adjust their premiums in order to plan for a 50 percent increase in breast cancer, projected out to 2029 because of the abortion/breast cancer link. With 1.3 million abortions annually, Marrache should warn women against abortion rather than to tout an expensive and deadly drug.

Ron J. Stauble Sr.

http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/view/letters/4648048.html

The real reason the STD was done!!!

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/101831.php

CDC Report On STI Rates Among Teen Girls Should 'Reinvigorate' HPV Vaccine Mandate Debate, Editorial Says
Main Category: Women's Health / Gynecology
Also Included In: Sexual Health / STDs; Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine
Article Date: 27 Mar 2008 - 9:00 PDT

A recent CDC study that found that about 25% of female teenagers ages 14 to 19 have at least one common sexually transmitted infection should "reinvigorate" the debate over requiring human papillomavirus vaccines for school admission, a Washington Post editorial says.

Although more than 20 states and Washington, D.C., recently have considered HPV vaccine mandates for young girls, only the District and Virginia have passed such laws, according to the editorial. The two laws "struck exactly the right balance" in mandating vaccination for school admission while providing an opt-out clause for parents, as well as education on the HPV vaccine, the editorial says.

Efforts to require HPV vaccination in other states have "stalled" in part because of a "backlash" against the "notion of vaccinating girls as young as 11" against an STI, the editorial says. However, the CDC study, which found an 18% HPV prevalence among teen girls, should "serve as a wake-up call to those in denial about the sexual activity of today's young people, not to mention the dangers they face," according to the Post. "The case for the HPV vaccine is clear cut," the editorial says, adding that its effectiveness in preventing transmission of HPV strains that cause most cases of cervical cancer and genital warts is "undisputed" (Washington Post, 3/26).

Reprinted with kind permission from http://www.nationalpartnership.org. You can view the entire Daily Women's Health Policy Report, search the archives, or sign up for email delivery here. The Daily Women's Health Policy Report is a free service of the National Partnership for Women & Families, published by The Advisory Board Company.

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"racked up 1 billion in sales since June of 2006"...cha-ching baby!!!!

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/03/19/fda.gardasil.ap/index.html

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration will consider whether to expand use of a vaccine intended to prevent cervical cancer to women aged 27 to 45, the vaccine maker said Wednesday. The four types of HPV prevented by Gardasil account for more than 70 percent of cervical cancers. Gardasil, made by Merck & Co., currently is approved for use in girls and women aged 9 through 26 to block four types of human papilloma virus, which can cause cervical cancer and genital warts. A decision is expected this summer. There are dozens of different types of HPV, but those targeted by the vaccine -- types 6, 11, 16 and 18 -- account for more than 70 percent of all cases of cervical cancer.

In asking the FDA to expand the use of Gardasil, Merck noted that women remain at risk of becoming infected with HPV throughout their lives. The government estimates that more than 6 million Americans get a new infection of HPV each year. Gardasil is given in three shots over a six-month period. Experts emphasize that the vaccine is purely preventive. It does not cure an existing HPV infection, but can prevent future infections. That's one reason it is recommend that girls get the vaccine before they are sexually active. Merck spokeswoman Kelley Dougherty said that an advisory committee would consider whether to urge testing for HPV infection before getting the vaccine. However, she noted that commercially available tests do not differentiate between the types of HPV.

She said researchers found that few adult women were infected with all four HPV types, so getting the vaccine would protect them from any of the four they had not contracted. Currently Gardasil is the only cervical cancer vaccine on the market. It has racked up about $1 billion in sales since its June 2006 U.S. launch. GlaxoSmithKline PLC is awaiting approval of its own vaccine, Cervarix

Here is an interesting bit of trivia from Donna Voetee

How do you feel about the Gardasil vaccine, and what were your reactions when it came on the market?

Hang on, you won't read this anywhere else. I have always been fascinated by words and their origins. Ever wonder how drugs get their very odd names? Sometimes it is due to their chemical nature, but sometimes I believe there is more to the story. For instance, Gardasil. "Guard" a "Sil" ? What is a Sil? Sci Fi was never my favorite genre of literature until I came to understand that much truth is hidden and esoteric. The following is from Wikipedia about Sil, a fictional alien from the TV series Dr. Who (1985):

Sil was the representative of the Galatron Mining Corporation present on the planet Varos to extract concessions from the current Governor. Unbeknownst to the Varosians, the mineral Zeiton-7 which was abundant on their planet was not as they thought nearly valueless, but in fact rare, particularly to time travellers. The Varosians lived barely above the poverty line due to the exploitation of companies like the Galatron Mining Corporation and others. Sil was a particularly vile creature by any standard...Devoid of morality and dedicated to getting the cheapest price he could for Zeiton ore by any means, he also enjoyed the various tortures which passed for entertainment on Varos... The Doctor interfered with Sil's plan and informed the Varosians of the true value of their natural resources, forcing Sil to concede...

Any similarity of Sil, a hideous reptilian alien, to Gov. Perry ("Particularly vile creature, devoid of morality, enjoyed tortures"); of the Galatron Mining Corp to Big Pharma ("mined" the abundance [health] of the planet [people]); of the Varosians to the American people ("lived barely above poverty due to the exploitation" [of their drugs]); and of Zeiton-7 to the most precious natural resource of all, our daughters' fertility (our ability as a society to "time travel" via our posterity), is purely intentional.

HPV Vaccine Adverse Events Worrisome Says Key Investigator (Mescape)
publié en 26 juillet 2008

(26 07 2008)

HPV Vaccine Adverse Events Worrisome Says Key Investigator

Allison Gandey

Medscape Medical News 2008. © 2008 Medscape

July 26, 2008 — Serious neurologic, thromboembolic, and autoimmune complications have been reported in patients who received human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines. Although not the norm, experts suggest that the events are grave enough to encourage caution. "The side effects that have been reported are real and they cannot be brushed aside," Diane Harper, MD, from the Dartmouth Medical School, in Hanover, New Hampshire, told Medscape Oncology. Dr. Harper was a principal investigator of clinical HPV vaccine trials for both Merck and GlaxoSmithKline.

News reports of adverse events, teen paralysis, and death have fueled public concern. Back-to-school immunization clinics are stocking up on Merck's Gardasil and more than16 million doses have reportedly already been distributed in the United States alone. But many parents are questioning whether their children should be vaccinated. And many women are wondering whether they should be vaccinated too.

According to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as of June 30, 2008, more than 9700 adverse events have been reported since the vaccine was approved 2 years ago. Of these, 94% were classified as nonserious events and 6% as severe.

Serious Adverse Events

* Nervous system disorders, such as Guillain-Barré syndrome and headache * Thromboembolic events * Musculoskeletal and connective tissue problems * Lymphatic system disorders * Gastrointestinal problems * General disorders and administration site conditions * Immune system problems, including hypersensitivity reactions, bronchospasm, and urticaria

Most Commonly Reported Events * Fainting * Pain at the injection site * Headache * Nausea * Fever

To prevent fainting, which can sometimes cause serious harm and lead to head injuries, Dr. Harper recommends that patients receive vaccines on a full stomach and be seated when the shots are administered. The FDA recommends that patients remain seated for up to 15 minutes after vaccination.

Dr. Harper also suggests that physicians not vaccinate patients with personal or family histories of the more serious conditions outlined in recent adverse-event reports. "Physicians have a responsibility to communicate risks to patients and if patients and families are concerned, it is reasonable to hold off on vaccinating," Dr. Harper said.

It is a sentiment that is echoed by others, such as Abby Lippman, PhD, from McGill University, in Montreal, Quebec, who is chair of the policy committee at the Canadian Women's Health Network. In this month's issue of the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, she expresses concern about public policies that have seemingly rushed to embrace HPV vaccination. "Why the hurry," Dr. Lippman asks. Especially in developed countries where there is no epidemic of infection and mortality rates from cervical cancer have been in decline.

What is Causing Adverse Events ?

The cause of recent complications remains a mystery and it is difficult to know whether they are linked to vaccines. "Nobody knows why we are seeing adverse events," Dr. Harper said.

Members of the antivaccine movement point to a number of potential perils, including the presence of aluminum in injections. Like many vaccines, Gardasil contains aluminum salts. Each 0.5-mL dose contains approximately 225 μg of aluminum, 9.56 mg of sodium chloride, 0.78 mg of L-histidine, 50 μcg of polysorbate 80, 35 μg of sodium borate, and water.

"The scientific work to date seems to suggest that aluminum salts in vaccines are safe," Dr. Harper said. But she told Medscape Oncology that she heard that 1 lot of Gardasil might have had an accidentally high yeast concentration, and this might be why there are problems. "No one knows for sure," Dr. Harper said.

The manufacturer was not available to comment about product yeast concentrations, but directed Medscape Oncology to an online statement responding to questions about recent adverse effects. "Merck has analyzed the adverse events reported for Gardasil relating to the recent reports of death and paralysis, and based on the data available to Merck, believes that no safety issue related to the vaccine has been identified. These types of events are events that could also be seen in the general population."

Richard Haupt, MD, executive director of clinical research at Merck's research laboratories added : "We remain confident in the safety profile of Gardasil."

FDA and CDC Issue Joint Statement Reassuring Clinicians and Patients Responding to public concern, the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a joint statement on Tuesday reassuring clinicians and patients about the safety of Gardasil. A second vaccine, GlaxoSmithKline's Cervarix, is already available in some countries, but is still being assessed by the FDA.

Despite company and regulatory assurances, some clinicians, who are also parents, say they are less confident about the safety of the vaccines. After reviewing the information, Scott Ratner, MD, a cardiologist with a practice in Franklin Square, New York, and his wife, a rheumatologist, opted to have their 17-year-old daughter vaccinated. It is a decision they say they now regret. Following vaccination, their teenage daughter began showing signs and symptoms of autoimmune disease. "She went from being a healthy, active teen running, playing lacrosse, and participating on swim team to becoming a chronically ill patient," Dr. Ratner said.

"I worry about the kids who may be having problems, are perhaps struggling with immune damage, and are feeling generally achy and unwell, but are probably going unreported and undiagnosed," he said. Dr. Ratner has 2 younger daughters and he says he definitely won't be encouraging either of them to be vaccinated.

Gynecologist Christiane Northrup, MD, told Medscape Oncology that she won't be advocating that her daughters be vaccinated either. Dr. Northrup appeared on a recent episode of the Oprah Winfrey Show, which has an estimated 20 million viewers per week, most of them women. She told viewers that healthcare dollars would be better invested elsewhere. Questioning the Safety Dr. Northrup recommended that the money going toward vaccines and related programs be allocated to general health and wellness initiatives and proper nutrition. This harkens back to the age-old debate between Louis Pasteur and Antoine Beauchamp, Dr. Northrup suggests. For most of his career, Pasteur subscribed to germ theory, while Beauchamp backed the more unpopular theory of biological terrain. The question : Is it the germs themselves that make people sick or a weakened state of immunity that allows germs to take root ? "Pasteur was widely supported, but on his death bed conceded that Beauchamp was right," Dr. Northrup said during an interview. She suggests that this is what experts should be concentrating on now. Instead of focusing on germ theory by pouring efforts into HPV vaccines, she says more resources should be dedicated to fostering the overall health of the host. Dr. Lippman makes a similar argument and points to the capacity of healthy, immunocompetent women to spontaneously clear up to 90% of HPV infections — infections, she says, almost everyone will one day acquire — within 1 to 2 years. When Gardasil was approved in the United States in June 2006, it was hailed as an important day for public health and for women's health. Dr. Harper was quoted as saying that the vaccine is the biggest advance since the Pap smear. Dr. Harper told Medscape Oncology that she still thinks this is the case, but enthusiasm must be tempered with caution. Dr. Harper noted that we shouldn't be calling the new immunizations cervical cancer vaccines.

"Even if everyone was vaccinated, we would still have cervical cancer," she said. "I don't want people to be lulled into thinking this will prevent cancer. If Pap screening rates decline, cervical cancer rates will rise," she emphasized. If Pap Screening Rates Decline, Cervical Cancer Rates Will Rise The decline in cervical cancer in developed countries has been largely attributed to regular Pap screening — something Dr. Harper believes has done a superb job. Women who haven't received an HPV vaccine, and even those who have, are still encouraged to undergo regular screening. At the 2006 American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting, delegates were enthusiastic. One presenter showed a series of cervical cancer photos and told observers that "these types of pictures will soon disappear in clinical oncology." Unfortunately, that utopian prediction is unlikely. "Cervical cancer is not a vaccine-preventable disease," Dr. Lippman said during an interview. And in her recent editorial, she points out that surrogate end points — not cervical cancer — were used to measure the efficacy in the clinical trials. "No one would want to wait to see cervical cancer develop in participants," she writes. "But the general failure to mention that the precancerous lesions chosen for study are not only potentially removable, most (those that are CIN 2) would probably have resolved on their own without any intervention, is arguable." Many Questions Remain As previously reported by Medscape Oncology, Sharmila Makhija, MD, from the University of Alabama School of Medicine, in Birmingham, pointed to other limitations of HPV vaccines. Dr. Makhija is the principal investigator on Merck's FUTURE III trial, looking at the vaccine's efficacy in women 24 to 45 years old, and is a coinvestigator on GlaxoSmithKline's vaccine trials. Dr. Makhija noted that the bulk of the work to date has focused on just 2 types of HPV — 16 and 18. She added that, going forward, more virulent cancer-causing strains could emerge, making it difficult to eliminate disease. And other important questions remain : * How long does the vaccine last ? * Will it require a booster ? * Who should be vaccinated and at what age ? "While vaccine proponents emphasize the many thousands of women who participated in clinical trials of the product, they gloss over how few young girls in the 9 to 13 year age range, targeted specifically for school-based immunizations, were included," Dr. Lippman argues. She said that only the very short-term immunogenicity and safety, and not the efficacy, of Gardasil was studied. "It is a good vaccine," Dr. Harper said. "We are simply still in the early stages of investigation." The World Health Organization (WHO) has weighed in on the vaccines and is recommending that they be considered only 1 component of any successful strategy. Immunization will have to be added to the other aspects of cervical cancer control, Andreas Ullrich, MD, medical officer at WHO's department of chronic diseases and health promotion, said in a news release. "There is no question that early detection will continue to be a key element." Merck is encouraging healthcare providers and consumers to report any adverse events associated with Gardasil to the company and to the US _Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System_ (http://www.vaers.hhs.gov/) at 1-800-822-7967. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2008 ;62:570-571. _Abstract_ (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/e...0Community%20Health.[Jour]%20AND%20570[page]%20AND%202008[pdat])

HPV vaccine side effects sideline teen Written by Kim Gardner Sunday, 05 April 2009 17:41 Holly Runstrom was an active teenager. An outstanding runner for Pisgah High’s track and cross country teams, Runstrom was looking toward the future, with colleges and scholarships being discussed. That all ended last May when Runstrom received the first of a three-series vaccine, Gardasil, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2006. Gardasil was developed as a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer, precancerous genital lesions and genital warts due to human papillomavirus (HPV). It was tested and approved for females ages 9 through 26. There are a number of possible side effects with the vaccine, but not what Runstrom or her mother, Marian Greene, expected. Runstrom received the first Gardasil shot on May 22, which was a Thursday. Greene said by the weekend, her daughter was suffering. “By Saturday, she said it felt like she was having an allergy attack, her eyes were red and itchy and Holly said it felt like her allergies,” Greene said. “On Sunday, she woke up and could barely breathe.”

Runstrom has asthma, but has not had any problems with it for years. On that Sunday, Greene said they treated Runstrom for what was thought of as allergies and asthma. But the 17-year-old’s health problems only got worse. “The next morning, she was having chest pains and still having trouble breathing,” Greene said. “Holly said she felt as though she was breathing through a blanket.” Runstrom was rushed to Haywood Regional Medical Center, where she was treated for an asthma attack. Greene took her home soon after, but Runstrom was still not feeling like herself. “I started doing some research, and I found out the vaccine can cause asthma attacks,” Greene said. The following week, Runstrom was in and out of the hospital. “She kept getting worse and worse and worse,” Greene said. “They put her on antibiotics and steroids, but they couldn’t figure out what was wrong with her.” Nine days after the first shot, Runstrom was back in the hospital again. “Holly had no strength. She was weak, sensitive to light and she couldn’t eat,” Greene said. “She had chest pains that hurt so bad, so I took her back to the emergency room.”

Greene told doctors that Runstrom recently had the Gardasil vaccine and about her online research. In Runstrom’s paperwork at the hospital, doctors noted her problems could be connected to the vaccine. According to Gardasil’s informational Web site, common side effects with the drug are pain, swelling, bruising and redness at the injection site, headache, fever, nausea, dizziness, vomiting and fainting. The site urges those who receive the shot to report to their physician if they experience difficulty breathing, wheezing, hives, rash, swollen glands, joint pain, unusual tiredness or weakness, generally feeling unwell, leg pain, shortness of breath, chest pain, aching muscles, muscle weakness, seizure or a bad stomach ache.

These were all symptoms Runstrom was experiencing. She was eventually admitted into the intensive care unit at Haywood Regional for inflammation and fluid around the heart, where she stayed for several days. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to monitor Gardasil, as does the FDA. The organizations monitor the public for adverse reactions. The CDC reports that as of Dec. 31, more than 23 million doses of Gardasil have been administered in the United States. By Dec. 31, there were 11,916 adverse events following Gardasil, with 94 percent of those reports considered non-serious and 6 percent serious. According to the CDC, all of the serious reports have been analyzed by medical experts, who did not find a common medical pattern in the reports to suggest the problems were connected to Gardasil.

But Greene and Runstrom believe the vaccine caused the teen’s health problems. “She was a healthy kid,” Greene said. “She was fine but within days of getting the shot, she was in ICU, hardly breathing. I thought she was going to die.” The National Vaccine Information Center, a nonprofit vaccine watchdog group, has stories of young women like Runstrom who have gotten severely ill or have died following the Gardasil vaccine. One of Runstrom’s physicians did not return calls to comment on the case.

Merck, the company that developed and distributes Gardasil, released a statement last year regarding the safety of the vaccine. “Merck has analyzed the adverse events reported for Gardasil relating to the recent reports of death and paralysis, and based on the data available to Merck, believes that no safety issue related to the vaccine has been identified,” the report states. “These types of events are events that could also be seen in the general population, even in the absence of vaccination. An adverse experience report describes an event that occurred after vaccination and does not necessarily mean that the vaccine caused or contributed to the event. The vast majority of adverse events that have been reported to Merck are non-serious and the most common include dizziness and syncope (fainting). “Merck is proud of the public health benefit that Gardasil can provide in helping to prevent cervical cancer and other HPV diseases caused by HPV types 6, 11, 16 and 18 throughout the world and we remain confident in the safety profile of Gardasil,” Richard M. Haupt, executive director, Clinical Research, Merck Research Laboratories, said in the statement. “Merck encourages health care providers and consumers to report any adverse experience associated with Gardasil to the company and to the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System so that the company can continue to thoroughly monitor the safety of this important vaccine.” For Runstrom, the shot has changed her life. She can no longer attend Pisgah High School, where she was to be a senior, because she is too weak to even leave her house. She also goes to one of five doctors weekly.

“It’s stressful and it’s been really hard because I can’t run anymore,” Runstrom said. “I ran track and that was my life, going to track practice or a meet. Even when track was over, I’d run.” Now the once active, A-B student can only sit on the couch, watching exercise shows and wishing she could be active once more. “I feel tired, worn out and it is normal for me now to feel fatigued,” Runstrom said. “I was looking forward to getting accepted to colleges with scholarships, going to senior games and just my senior life.” Her mom said she would just like to see her daughter well enough again to walk long distances on her own. “I hope someone will see what’s going on with Holly and be able to help her,” Greene said. “It’s always something new. It’s a never-ending cycle. It’s always another symptom, another problem we have to deal with.” Last Updated on Monday, 06 April 2009 23:56

Here is someone who is having some success in treating Gardasil damage:

Philip Rafferty

I did a trial in Denmark, just one session each, results are on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu-pS67JCkM

I am currently doing a trial in Ireland, here is one testimonial:
GARDASIL VACCINE INJURY
I got the Gardasil vaccination in 2010 and since then I've been suffering from a variety of symptoms including fatigue and chronic pain. I had my first appointment with Philip on 15th of May and before that I had been suffering with severe headaches every single day from the time I woke up, till the time I went asleep for 19 months.

The pain has been reduced from an average 8/9 to an average 3/4 and for the first time in 19 months I've been getting periods of time without having a headache at all! I've also had more energy to go out and do small things like shopping and walking! This is the first time I've felt like I have hope for getting my life back in 6 years of being ill. Philip and Germaine made me feel very comfortable and gave me great advice to leave with. Sinead, May 24 2017.
July 28. After fifth session. No headache. No reaction to Gardasil – huge reaction to gold. Reaction so severe that anyone within one metre wearing gold would probably cause headaches!

Vaccines cause a fight/flight reaction, which creates a magnesium deficiency and dehydration. I can take someone out of fight/flight in ten minutes.

I also have over 100 YouTube testimonials on fibromyalgia, arthritis, MS, CFS, migraines etc., linked from my website. www.kinergetics-reset.com

There are video testimonials embedded in the website, one on mercury - another thing I specialise in is helping the body move mercury.

My biggest challenge is finding volunteers - they get damaged by doctors then go back to the doctors to fix it. There are no drugs that can do this!

I believe that homeopathy and Kinergetics together would be an amazing combination for vaccine injury.
http://kinergetics-reset.com/ also has over 300 Written Testimonials.
The embedded videos also cover:

Mercury Toxicity
Fibromyalgia
Migraines
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

which are all similar to Vaccine Injury symptoms.

https://www.youtube.com/user/Kinergetics/playlists has 53 videos on Chronic Pain, 24 Fibromyalgia and 11 CFS, so someone with specific symptoms can see what has helped others.

The last 41 video testimonials (Thurles demonstration and Ballinasloe demonstration), the corrections took 15 minutes each person. The videos were taken the same day, except Trine, the lady who used to be in a wheelchair, she is now running and swimming!

Autoimmunity

The most important part of this research: Dr. Len Horowitz, author of the best selling book Emerging Viruses, outlines the way vaccines can cause autoimmune diseases. As the ingredients in the vaccine are injected in your body, the foreign cells attached themselves to your own host cell proteins and form what is called and antigenic complex. This is your own protein combined with a foreign virus or bacterial protein that now your body recognizes as foreign. It mounts an immune response against the entire complex called autoimmune or self-destruct. Depending on where your body stores the antigenic complex is where the damage occurs. For example, if the antigenic complex attaches to the myelin sheath, neurological disorders such as Multiple Sclerosis, Guillan-Barré syndrome, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), will result. Myelin is designed to protect the outer coating of neurons, much like the plastic outer coating over an electrical wire. When this myelin is damaged, the nerves are short-circuited and do not function normally.

In a paper by Singh, Warren, Odell, Warren and Cole, published in Brain Behavior 1993 March 7(1) 97-103, they investigated the possible pathological relationship between autoimmunity and autism. They reported antibodies reactive with the myelin basic protein had been found in the sera of autistic children. Other studies have show autism is a result of a demyelination disorder.

If the antigenic complex attaches to the Islet of Langerhan, diabetes results. This could be the reason behind autoimmune diseases. After heart disease and cancer, autoimmune diseases have become the third leading cause of illness in the U.S. According to the AAAI (Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology). The autoimmune disease Asthma is the most common disorder in children. Take a look at this study

The occurrence, pathogenesis and significance of autoimmune manifestations after viral vaccines

Ami Schattner

Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, School of Clinical Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, UK

Received 2 August 2004; revised 2 February 2005; accepted 4 March 2005. Available online 7 April 2005.
Abstract

Background:

Viruses and virus-induced lymphokines may have an important role in the pathogenesis of autoimmunity (Schattner A. Clin Immunol Immunopathol; 1994). The occurrence and significance of autoimmune manifestations after the administration of viral vaccines remain controversial.Methods:

Medline search of all relevant publications from 1966 through June 2004 with special emphasis on search of each individual autoimmune manifestation and vaccination, as well as specifically searching each viral vaccine for all potential autoimmune syndromes reported. All relevant publications were retrieved and critically analyzed.Results:

The most frequently reported autoimmune manifestations for the various vaccinations, were: hepatitis A virus (HAV) — none; hepatitis B virus (HBV) — rheumatoid arthritis, reactive arthritis, vasculitis, encephalitis, neuropathy, thrombocytopenia; measles, mumps and rubella vaccine (MMR) — acute arthritis or arthralgia, chronic arthritis, thrombocytopenia; influenza — Guillain–Barre syndrome (GBS), vasculitis; polio — GBS; varicella — mainly neurological syndromes. Even these ‘frequent’ associations relate to a relatively small number of patients. Whenever controlled studies of autoimmunity following viral vaccines were undertaken, no evidence of an association was found. Conclusions:

Very few patients may develop some autoimmune diseases following viral vaccination (in particular — arthropathy, vasculitis, neurological dysfunction and thrombocytopenia). For the overwhelming majority of people, vaccines are safe and no evidence linking viral vaccines with type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis (MS) or inflammatory bowel disease can be found.

Keywords: Pathogenesis; Viral vaccines; Autoimmune manifestations

Wouldn't you hate it if your child was one of the few patients?

Take a look at this study and notice to part about granulomas. Then read the next article the causes of granulomas.

[Aluminum as an adjuvant in vaccines and post-vaccine reactions]

[Article in Polish]

Fiejka M, Aleksandrowicz J.

Zakladu Badania Surowic, Warszawie.

Aluminium compounds have been widely used as adjuvants in prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines. Adjuvants are able to stimulate the immune system in a nonspecific manner, i.e. high antibody level can be obtained with minimal dose of the antigen and with reduced number of inoculations. Adjuvants use has been mostly empirically determined by such factors as efficacy and safety. The mechanism of action of the aluminium adjuvants is not completely understood and is very complex. The basic factors of the mode of action: 1) the complex of antigen and aluminium gel is more immunogenic in structure than free antigen, 2) effect "depot"--The antigen stimulus last longer, 3) the production of local granulomas. Vaccines adsorbed onto aluminium salts are a more frequent cause of local post-vaccinal reactions than plain vaccines. 5-10% those vaccinated can develop a nodule lasting several weeks at the injection site. In some rare cases the nodules may become inflammatory and even turn into an aseptic abscess. The nodules persisting more than 6 weeks may indicate development of aluminium hypersensitivity. Finally aluminium adjuvant immunogens induce the production of IgE antibodies.

Publication Types:

Review

Review, Tutorial

PMID: 8235346 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

European Journal of Dermatology. Vol. 13, Issue 1, January - February
2003:
10-5, Review articles

Summary: Allergic and pseudo-allergic reactions to vaccines frequently involve the skin, and can be generalized systemic symptoms (urticaria/angioedema, serum sickness, flares of eczema) or localized at the sites of vaccination (persistent nodules, abcesses, granulomas). Diagnosis of Arthus-type reactions is based on clinical history and specific IgM/IgG anti-toxoid determination. For other local reactions, diagnostic value of non-immediate responses in skin tests varies with clinical symptoms and substances involved. Immediate responses in skin tests and specific IgE determination have good diagnostic and/or predictive value in anaphylaxis and immediate/accelerated urticaria/angioedema to toxoid-, pneumococcus-, and egg- and gelatin-containing vaccines. Diagnosis of reactions to dextran in BCG is based on specific IgM/IgG determination. Most non-immediate generalized reactions result from non-specific inflammation, except for gelatin-containing vaccines, but the diagnostic value of immuno-allergological tests with the vaccines and gelatin are controversial. Withholding booster injections is advised if specific IgM/IgG levels are high. If the levels are low, sequential injections of vaccines containing a single vaccinating agent are usually tolerated. However, injections of the vaccine should be performed using a " desensitization " procedure in patients reporting anaphylaxis and immediate/accelerated urticaria/angioedema.

Author(s): Claude PONVERT, Pierre SCHEINMANN Keywords: Allergy to vaccines, dextran, gelatin, ovalbumin, pneumococcal vaccine, toxoids, skin tests, specific IgE, specific IgG.
© John Libbey Eurotext

Now, take a look at some excerpts from this article on Sarcoidosis; The cause of sarcoidosis is unknown. The disease can appear suddenly and disappear. Or it can develop gradually and go on to produce symptoms that come and go, sometimes for a lifetime. (When a disease is unknown I always look to vaccines.)

As sarcoidosis progresses, microscopic lumps of a specific form of inflammation, called granulomas, appear in the affected tissues. In the majority of cases, these granulomas clear up, either with or without treatment. In the few cases where the granulomas do not heal and disappear, the tissues tend to remain inflamed and become scarred (fibrotic).

Maybe its just another coincidence...

Transverse myelitis and vaccines: a multi-analysis.

Agmon-Levin N, Kivity S, Szyper-Kravitz M, Shoenfeld Y.
Lupus. 2009 Nov;18(13):1198-204.

Transverse myelitis is a rare clinical syndrome in which an immune-mediated process causes neural injury to the spinal cord. The pathogenesis of transverse myelitis is mostly of an autoimmune nature, triggered by various environmental factors, including vaccination. Our aim here was to search for and analyze reported cases of transverse myelitis following vaccination. A systematic review of PubMed, EMBASE and DynaMed for all English-language journals published between 1970 and 2009 was preformed, utilizing the key words transverse myelitis, myelitis, vaccines, post-vaccination, vaccination and autoimmunity. We have disclosed 37 reported cases of transverse myelitis associated with different vaccines including those against hepatitis B virus, measles-mumps-rubella, diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis and others, given to infants, children and adults. In most of these reported cases the temporal association was between several days and 3 months, although a longer time frame of up to several years was also suggested. Although vaccines harbor a major contribution to public health in the modern era, in rare cases they may be associated with autoimmune phenomena such as transverse myelitis. The associations of different vaccines with a single autoimmune phenomenon allude to the idea that a common denominator of these vaccines, such as an adjuvant, might trigger this syndrome.

Look at the role heavy metal plays in autoimmune....

Jenny Stejskal 1 & Vera DM Stejskal 2

1. Health University of Linköping, Sweden
2. Dept. of Clinical Chemistry, Danderyd Hospital and Karolinska Institute,Stockholm, Sweden

Correspondence to:

Vera Stejskal, Ph.D., Associated Prof. of Immunology,
Dept. of Clinical Chemistry, Danderyd Hospital,
182 88 Danderyd, Sweden
TEL.: +46 8 7552315; FAX: +46 8 7550464
E-mail: vera.melisa@swipnet.se

Submitted:
Accepted:

October 28, 1999
November 2, 1999

Key words:

metals; mercury; autoimmunity; multiple sclerosis (MS); rheumatoid ar-thritis (RA); amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS); chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS); Memory Lymphocyte Immuno Stimulation Assay (MELISA ® ); lymphocyte stimulation; genetics; free radicals; allergy

Neuroendocrinology Letters 1999; 20:351�364 Copyright © Neuroendocrinology
Letters 1999

Abstract

Current available literature indicates a risk for metal-induced autoimmunity in man. Metal pathology may be due to toxic or allergic mechanisms where both may play a role. The main factors decisive for disease induced by metals are exposure and genetics which determine the individual�s detoxifying capacity and sensitivity to metals. This paper reviews the possible mechanisms which may play a role in metal-induced autoimmunity with the emphasis on multiple sclerosis (MS), rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). We also discuss the role of inflammation-induced changes in the hypothalamus-pituitary- adrenal (HPA) axis as a possible explanation of fatigue, depression and other psychosomatic symptoms observed in these diseases. The increased knowledge about individual sensitivity based on genotype and phenotype variability together with the use of biomarkers for the diagnosis of this individual susceptibility seems to be the key in elucidation of the operating mechanisms. Since metal-induced sensitization may be induced by chronic low-dose exposure, the conventional toxicological approach comparing concentrations of metals in brain autopsies, organ biopsies and body fluids in patients and controls may not provide answers regarding the metal-pathology connection. To address this issue, longitudinal studies of metal-sensitive patients are preferable to the traditional case-control
studies.

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The FDA Approves a New HPV Vaccine Containing Over Twice as Much Aluminum As its Predecessor
Christina England

February 1 2015

According to recent reports, the FDA has approved yet another HPV vaccine, despite documented safety issues and the new vaccine containing an exceptionally high level of aluminum, a known neurotoxin.

Until now, only two vaccines have been manufactured to protect men and women against human papillomavirus (HPV), a virus believed to be the leading cause of cervical cancer: Cervarix, which is believed to protect against strains 16 and 18 of the virus, and Gardasil, which is believed to protect against strains 6, 11, 16 and 18.

A Third HPV Vaccine Hits the MarketIn December 2014, Gardasil 9 vaccine, manufactured by Merck Sharp and Dohme, was approved by the FDA. This vaccine appears to be somewhat of a “super” vaccine in comparison to the previous versions, as the FDA has claimed it can protect men and women against no less than NINE strains of the HPV virus.

In a press release published on December 10, 2014, the FDA stated:

“Gardasil 9 is a vaccine approved for use in females ages 9 through 26 and males ages 9 through 15. It is approved for the prevention of cervical, vulvar, vaginal and anal cancers caused by HPV types 16, 18, 31, 33, 45, 52 and 58, and for the prevention of genital warts caused by HPV types 6 or 11. Gardasil 9 adds protection against five additional HPV types—31, 33, 45, 52 and 58— which cause approximately 20 percent of cervical cancers and are not covered by previously FDA-approved HPV vaccines.”

Despite the FDA’s impressive press release, however, can parents really believe that this HPV vaccine is any safer than its predecessors?

Many are skeptical and have begun to question whether or not this vaccine is yet another unsafe, fast-tracked vaccine.

Parents Question Whether or Not They Can Really Trust the FDA’s ClaimsIn a recent paper, titled HPV Vaccines, the American Cancer Society stated that:

“All of the HPV vaccines were tested in thousands of people around the world before they were approved. These studies showed no serious side effects and no deaths have been linked to either vaccine. Common, mild side effects include pain where the shot was given, fever, dizziness, and nausea.”

However, parents should question the validity of this statement, especially since it has been proven in court that the HPV vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix were licensed for use before safety trials had been completed.

In 2013, Leslie Carol Botha wrote an article titled India Women Activist’s Historic Writ of Petition over Unethical Trialing of HPV Vaccines, Gardasil® and Cervarix® Accepted by Supreme Court.

Ms. Botha’s article was based on a press release issued by Kalpana Mehta, Nalini Bhanot and V. Rukmini Rao, representing Gramya Resource Centre for Women from Andhra Pradesh. The press release, entitled India Supreme Court Accepts Writ of Petition on Gardasil® & Cervarix® Licensing & Trial Violations, implicated the drugs controller of India, PATH, ICMR and others, ordering the government of India to immediately respond.

Ms. Botha wrote:

“The Petition implicates the: Indian Drugs Controller for licensing the HPV vaccines without sufficient research on their safety and efficacy, and the Health Ministry for not carrying out an enquiry into licensing of these vaccines as ordered by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare in April 2010. The Parliamentary committee also neglected to take any action on the report of the enquiry committee (set up by its own organization) despite confirmation of the ‘gross violations’ found in the PATH project with “respect to procedures for taking informed consent, inadequate health facilities for dealing with adverse events and medical emergencies.”

The three petitioners won their landmark case, making vaccine history and their success was reported by Health Impact News in 2014. (See Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Vaccine Empire on Trial in India.)

HPV Vaccines Found to be Associated with Disability and DeathOver the years, the HPV vaccines have been seen to cause more cases of pain and suffering than any other vaccine, another worrying fact that parents need to consider before having their children vaccinated.

In 2013, Dr. Mercola wrote an article titled Oncology Dietician Exposes Fraud in CDC’s HPV Vaccine Effectiveness Study, that stated, according to Merck’s own research, if a patient has been exposed to HPV strains 16 or 18 prior to receipt of a Gardasil vaccine, the vaccine could increase their risk of developing precancerous lesions, or worse, by 44.6 percent.

This is extremely worrying, especially as Mercola also reported that not only had Gardasil been associated with many serious health problems, such as Guillain-Barre Syndrome and permanent disability, but the vaccine had also been associated with many women dying suddenly soon after receiving the vaccine.

This information has left parents wondering whether it is safer not to vaccinate their children against HPV and whether the new Gardasil 9 vaccine really is any safer than its two predecessors.

Possibly not, according to the Forbes website:

“Safety data on Gardasil 9 is based on adverse reactions tracked in more than 13,000 males and females. Headaches and swelling, redness and pain at the injection site were the ones most commonly reported. Among these participants, five individuals reported serious adverse events that were determined to be vaccine-related. These events included fever, allergy to the vaccine, asthmatic crisis, headache and tonsillitis.”

However, the facts get worse.

Adverse Reactions Including Death ReportedDuring my research, I came across the Gardasil 9 package insert, which, unsurprisingly, reported a wide range of adverse reactions, ranging from pain at the injection site to death.

Page six and seven of the insert stated:

“Serious Adverse Events in Clinical Studies

Serious adverse events were collected throughout the entire study period (range one month to 48 months post-last dose) for the six integrated clinical studies for GARDASIL 9. Out of the 13,236 individuals who were administered GARDASIL 9 and had safety follow-up, 305 reported a serious adverse event; representing 2.3% of the population. As a comparison, of the 7,378 individuals who were administered GARDASIL and had safety follow-up, 185 reported a serious adverse event; representing 2.5% of the population. Five GARDASIL 9 recipients each reported at least one serious adverse event that was determined to be vaccine-related. The vaccine-related serious adverse reactions were pyrexia, allergy to vaccine, asthmatic crisis, headache, and tonsillitis.

Deaths in the Entire Study Population

Across the clinical studies, ten deaths occurred (five each in the GARDASIL 9 and GARDASIL groups); none were assessed as vaccine-related. Causes of death in the GARDASIL 9 group included one automobile accident, one suicide, one case of acute lymphocytic leukemia, one case of hypovolemic septic shock, and one unexplained sudden death 678 days following the last dose of GARDASIL 9. Causes of death in the GARDASIL control group included one automobile accident, one airplane crash, one cerebral hemorrhage, one gunshot wound, and one stomach adenocarcinoma.”

As usual, the deaths were said not to be vaccine-related. However, without any definitive medical analysis, we only have Merck’s word for this.

So, how concerned should parents be?

Sane Vax Inc. Speaks Out about the FDA’s DecisionThis vaccine contains over twice as much aluminum as its predecessor, Gardasil, one fact that should be noted by all parents considering the new vaccine, as highlighted in a recent article written by Sane Vax Inc. They stated that:

“The proposed Gardasil 9 package insert and the current Gardasil package insert are a good place to start a critical examination. The table below lists the ingredients of both Gardasil and Gardasil 9. All differences from one HPV vaccine package insert to the next are highlighted.

Sane Vax continued:

“Take a look at the first line in the chart to the left. Aluminum is a known neurotoxin. A quick search of PubMed for ‘aluminum toxicity human’ returns no less than 1652 peer-reviewed and published scientific papers on the subject. Why did Merck more than double the amount of aluminum adjuvant in Gardasil 9?”

Taking all of this information into account, parents need to read the following research before they consider vaccinating their children against cervical cancer.

Scientists Find Evidence Linking Gardasil to Autoimmune DiseaseThe Children’s Medical Safety Research Institute, an organization that has provided grants for an investigation into the link between aluminum adjuvants, vaccination and autoimmune disease, is supporting independent research on HPV vaccine safety.

Several recent studies have been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals that have evaluated both biological and epidemiological evidence from reports of adverse reactions, autoimmune diseases and deaths after Gardasil.

In 2011, Dr. Lucija Tomljenovic and Professor Christopher Shaw published an assessment of the post-marketing surveillance data in The Annals of Medicine, which indicated that there was a 2.5 times greater rate of a serious adverse reactions from the vaccine than deaths from cervical cancer.

In their paper, titled Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine policy and evidence-based medicine: Are they at odds?, they wrote:

“Currently, governmental health agencies worldwide state that HPV vaccines are ‘safe and effective’ and that the benefits of HPV vaccination outweigh the risks (6,23,24). Moreover, the US CDC maintains that Gardasil is ‘an important cervical cancer prevention tool ’ and therefore ‘ recommends HPV vaccination for the prevention of most types of cervical cancer ’ (6,7). However, the rationale behind these statements is unclear given that the primary claim that HPV vaccination prevents cervical cancer remains unproven. Furthermore, in the US, the current age-standardized death rate from cervical cancer according to World Health Organization (WHO) data (1.7/100,000) (Table I), is 2.5 times lower than the rate of serious adverse reactions (ADRs) from Gardasil reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) (4.3/100,000 doses distributed) (Table II). In the Netherlands, the reported rate of serious ADRs from Cervarix per 100,000 doses administered (5.7) (Table II) is nearly 4-fold higher than the age-standardized death rate from cervical cancer (1.5/100,000) (Table I).”

The findings from their research are extremely worrisome and contain some outstanding research and facts.

Subsequently, Dr. Mark Geier, MD, and Dr. David Geier, PhD, published an analysis of the relationship between Gardasil and certain autoimmune diseases. In October 2014, they wrote a paper titled A case–control study of quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine-associated autoimmune adverse events. Using the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) website, they studied whether or not Gardasil was linked to the rise in the number of autoimmune diseases being reported. They wrote that:

“An epidemiological study was undertaken to evaluate concerns about the potential for HPV4 vaccination to induce serious autoimmune adverse events (SAAEs). The vaccine adverse event reporting system (VAERS) database was examined for adverse event reports associated with vaccines administered from January 2006 through December 2012 to recipients between 18 and 39 years old with a listed residence in the USA and a specified female gender.”

They continued:

“The question of a connection between vaccination and autoimmune illness has long been debated in the literature and is surrounded by controversy, but it was suggested that the same mechanisms that act in infectious invasion of the host apply equally to the host response to vaccination. As recently reviewed, the introduction of HPV vaccine was associated with several cases of onset or exacerbations of autoimmune diseases following immunization in the literature and pharmacovigilance databases, triggering concerns about its safety.”

The results of their study demonstrated that Gardasil is indeed linked to a variety of autoimmune diseases, including arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus. They stated that:

“It was observed that the SAAEs of gastroenteritis, arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, vasculitis, alopecia, and CNS conditions were associated with HPV4 vaccine administration, whereas the SAAEs of Guillain-Barre syndrome and thrombocytopenia were not associated with HPV4 vaccine administration. In addition, it was observed that the general health outcomes of infection, conjunctivitis, and diarrhea were not associated with HPV4 vaccine administration. The importance of these findings is that the present study provides epidemiological evidence to support an association between HPV4 vaccine administration and specific SAAEs.”

They concluded that:

“In conclusion, the present study provides epidemiological evidence supporting a significant relationship between HPV4 vaccine administration and SAAEs. The results are consistent with a number of previous case-series of SAAEs observed following HPV4 vaccine administration, and are also consistent with the known biological plausibility of vaccine administration to induce SAAEs in some vaccine recipients. In light of the findings of the present study, we recommend that additional studies be conducted to further evaluate the potential biological mechanisms involved in HPV4 vaccine-associated SAAEs in animal model systems, and to examine the potential epidemiological relationship between HPV4 vaccine-associated SAAEs in other databases and populations.”

If the Geiers’ study is correct and Gardasil really is linked to an increase in autoimmune disease, than can parents expect to see a further increase now that the amount of aluminum used in the new Gardasil 9 vaccine has more than doubled?

Is the FDA Fit for Its Purpose?Sane Vax believes that the FDA is no longer fit for its purpose and concluded their article by stating:

“The FDA needs to be removed from the responsibility of ‘assuring the safety, efficacy and security’ of vaccines. It is quite obvious they are not up to the task. They are most certainly not acting in the best interests of the public.”

Evidence suggests that a growing number of parents from around the world believe that they are absolutely correct.

ConclusionTaking all of this information into consideration, do we need to be worried that yet another HPV vaccine has been approved? Many professionals are concerned that this vaccine has once again been fast-tracked without sufficient research and testing.

If they are correct, then can we as parents expect even more of our children to be vaccine-injured, especially given the fact that this vaccine contains an exceptionally high content of aluminum?

Parents need to ask themselves whether or not a third vaccine for the HPV virus is one vaccine too many and why the governments and pharmaceutical industry deemed it necessary to manufacture another vaccine against cervical cancer in the first place.

https://vactruth.com/2015/02/01/vaccine-containing-aluminum/

Gardasil is destroying young girls' ovaries and reproductive systemsby J. D. Heyes

(NaturalNews) A new study has found that Merck & Co., the maker of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil, neglected to examine the drug's effect on the reproductive systems of women.

As a result of that neglect, as well as the inherent dangers behind the vaccine, an Australian girl has suffered debilitating consequences, with her ovaries completely destroyed, the website Elite Insight reported. The British Medical Journal, which publicized the case of the 16-year-old girl, said the damage occurred three years after she was vaccinated.

The BMJ summarized:

"Its occurrence raises important questions about causation, which may signal other systemic concerns. This patient presented with amenorrhoea after identifying a change from her regular cycle to irregular and scant periods following vaccinations against human papillomavirus. She declined the oral contraceptives initially prescribed for amenorrhoea. The diagnostic tasks were to determine the reason for her secondary amenorrhoea and then to investigate for possible causes of the premature ovarian failure identified. Although the cause is unknown in 90% of cases, the remaining chief identifiable causes of this condition were excluded. Premature ovarian failure was then notified as a possible adverse event following this vaccination. The young woman was counselled regarding preservation of bone density, reproductive implications and relevant follow-up. This event could hold potential implications for population health and prompts further inquiry."

No prior testing?"Parents should be warned by this example not to allow use of Garadsil in the case of their daughters," Elite Insight reported.

The recent study pointed out that the vaccine has the ability to severely damage the function of ovaries; in the case of the Australian 16-year-old, her destroyed ovaries led to very premature menopause.

As reported by Life Site News, Dr. Deirdre Little, the Australian physician who treated the girl and co-authored the BMJ report, provided researchers with solid evidence that Gardasil caused the destruction of the girl's fertility.

In addition, she pointed out that Merck has no supporting information regarding the effects of the vaccine on ovaries, which of course suggests that Merck either did no safety testing regarding the vaccine's effects on the female reproductive system, or has hidden the data.

What's more, the drug maker was able to get Gardasil approved via the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) despite incomplete fertility testing.

A report from Little said that before the Gardasil vaccine the girl in question had normal menstrual cycles, was thoroughly examined and tested, and did not have a family or personal medical history that would explain the premature menopause.

The girl was administered the vaccination in the fall of 2008, and by January 2009 her cycle had become irregular. Over the course of two years, her periods became increasingly light and irregular. By 2011, she had ceased having cycles altogether.

As Life Site News reported further:

"Dr. Little carried out numerous tests on the girl, including checking hormone levels and internal organ function, and diagnosed her as having 'premature ovarian failure.' She also found that the girl had no living egg cells.

"After investigating other possible causes of the girl's premature ovarian failure, Dr. Little was left with the Gardasil vaccination as the only remaining explanation."

'Denied a fundamental right'In the report, entitled, "Premature ovarian failure 3 years after menarche in a 16-year-old girl following human papillomavirus vaccination," Little wrote that Merck had only tested Gardasil's effects on the testes of rats.

In contacting the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) of Australia – which is the equivalent of the United States' FDA – for information about the safety testing of Gardasil on ovaries, Little found that the TGA only had records of the tests on rat testes, but none on the effects of the drug on rat ovaries.

"Gardasil has been controversial from the beginning," noted Steven Mosher of the Population Research Institute.

"Tens of millions of young girls have received the Gardasil vaccine since its approval by the FDA six years ago. If even a tiny fraction of them have experienced infertility as a result, then these girl children have been denied a very fundamental right, that is, the right to decide how many children they want to have," he told Life Site News.

Sources:

Elite-Insight.com

CaseReports.BMJ.com

LifeSiteNews.com

Science.NaturalNews.com

Asthma has increased 52% between the ages of five and thirty-four years old and sadly, Asthma deaths have increased 42%. Some physicians consider cancer an autoimmune disease. Estimations points to one in three people have some form of cancer. A German study found correlations between vaccinations and twenty-two neurological conditions including Attention Deficit Disorder and epilepsy. They found the viral elements, some from animals, might mutate with unknown consequences perhaps even changing our genetic code.

If parents elect to vaccinate their children, a portion of the money spent on the vaccinations goes into a congressional fund to compensate them if their child is hurt or killed by the shot. If
your child becomes sick and visits a doctor or hospital during the four weeks after immunization this is to be reported to the doctor, where the vaccine was given. Doctors are then required to report vaccine damage to VAERS. It is estimated that less than ten percent do. Remember, “It’s not vaccine damage,” it’s something else. Even so, with only ten percent reporting, 12,000 to 14,000 reports of adverse events are made annually. By August 31, 1997, more than 802 million dollars had already been paid. Awards for death cases are capped at $250,000 plus attorneys’ fees or costs. This does not include private settlements. With VAERS, the manufactures and doctors have virtually no liability for adverse events that may occur. Examples of lawsuits. I checked my son's vaccines lots to see if any other kids had had reactions and this is what I found. Vaccine record

If a serious vaccine adverse reaction occurs and you decide to sue the drug company, their lawyers will tell you in court that you were adequately warned in the package insert of adverse reactions. Historically when the jurors saw a child with vaccine damage, they always sided with the victim. The vaccine makers were losing every time. The vaccine manufacturers found the burden of liability so great that they sought and obtained relief from the U.S. government. In 1986 our government stepped in and decided to disallow direct lawsuits to the pharmaceutical company and created VAERS: Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System and the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. They in effect, assume the liability of the drug manufacturers.

The Soldiers

Dr. Dean Black, author of Immunizations: Compulsion or Choice, points out that government discussions of vaccine risks are recorded in the Congressional Record, in a text concerning compensation to families of children who have been harmed by the procedure. Black tells us that Congressman Henry Waxman, who chaired the hearing, is quoted as saying, “A properly manufactured vaccine that has been properly administered can cause a terrible adverse reaction, an admitted scientific fact. The children who will be victims rather than beneficiaries cannot be predicted.” The Congressional Record goes on to justify mass immunization practices by comparing children to soldiers at war who must at times sacrifice themselves for their country: As a nation we require that all children be immunized so that most children will be healthy. Today, the subcommittee will begin to consider what society owes to those who are hurt, to children injured in the line of public health.

The International Association of Biological Standards is the association which sets the expected risk vs. benefit ratio that should allow vaccines to be used. What is this standard? How beneficial must it be, relative to a risk, to be able to be used?

What the International Association of Biological Standards says about vaccines in its manual is this; “A relatively small number of damaged persons, due to inoculation, is first considered the lesser of two evils.” So, we have an admission of damaged persons, who Waxman says have been injured in the line of public health, and about who the International Association of Biological Standards says; “The subject affected by an inoculation has, without doubt, made a special sacrifice in the interest of the general public.”

As Dr. Black says, "If I am a parent whose child has been injured in the line of public health, my individual child may be dead. As far as the government is concerned, that’s just a risk I have to take. My child must be willing to die in the service of the general public." Thus Dr. Black brings up a troubling assumption behind vaccination programs, that it is right for a few children to be sacrificed for the good of many. The questions that of course arise are: What if a child’s parents don’t agree with that? What if a child doesn’t? We’re looking at a philosophical assumption that has never been dealt with in an open way in this country, and maybe it’s time for some public discussion of the issue."

Scientists who are concerned with vaccinations tend to leave out of consideration the people in the middle. Say 1 in 100,000 children is very seriously affected; they acquire Cerebral Palsy or mental retardation or maybe they die, what about the ones in the middle?

The Money Trail

The following is an excerpt from the Committee on Government reform given by Chairman Dan Burton. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Center for disease Control (CDC) are in charge of vaccine policies that affect every child. This committee is taking a hard look at whether or not the pharmaceutical industry has too much influence over these committees. Here is what they learned.

Members including the Chair of the FDA and the CDC have stock holdings in drug companies that make vaccines.

Individuals on both advisory committees own patents for vaccines.
The CDC grants conflict of interest waivers to every member in the advisory committee a year at a time.
The CDC has no public members - no parents have a vote whether or not a vaccine belongs in the childhood immunization schedule.

Members accept salaries and benefits, as employees of the drug companies and some members have been there as long as 16 years.

Trust?

How confident can we be when we learn the government is so intimate with pharmaceutical companies? Do they really watch out for our children’s best interest? No individual who stands to gain financially should be on this committee. When you wonder how the rotavirus made its way into our babies, refer to the prior pages statements. When you wonder how thimerosal and Aluminum containing vaccines are administered to our children, refer to the prior page's statements. If you wonder who is minding the public health as the FDA allows drug companies to produce vaccines grown on animal tissue cultures, when they are not sure if this practice is facilitating cross species transfer of animal viruses into man, please refer to the prior page's statements.

There are huge amounts of money being made by these people who no longer worry about the consequences of their inadequate clinical trials or substandard products. In fact, today the FDA cannot even tell health scientists the truth about vaccine contaminants and their likely effects. The agency is bound and gagged by proprietary laws and non-disclosure agreements forced upon them by the pharmaceutical industry.

"The drug industry is stealing from us twice," said Frank Clemente, director of Public citizens Congress Watch. "First it claims that it needs huge profits to develop new drugs, even while drug companies get hefty taxpayer subsidies. Second, the companies gouge taxpayers while spending millions from their profits to buy access to lawmakers and defeat pro-consumer prescription-drug legislation. Drug makers spent $262 million during the 1999-2000 election, which includes $177 million on lobbying, $65 million on issue ads and $20 million on campaign contributions.”

The federal affairs staff at PhRMA has quadrupled, to 20 employees today from 5 in 1999. The organization plans to spend $5 million for outside lobbyists at the federal level. In their campaign contributions, drug companies have favored Republican candidates. But PhRMA has retained a diverse group of lobbyists to ensure access to politicians of both parties.

Its Democratic lobbyists, listed in recent reports to Congress, include former Representative Vic Fazio of California; David W. Beier, who was chief domestic policy adviser to Vice President Al Gore; Joel P. Johnson, who was a top aide to President Bill Clinton and to Senator Tom Daschle, the minority leader; and Nick Littlefield, former chief counsel for Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts.

Republicans who reported lobbying for PhRMA include former Representatives Vin Weber of Minnesota and Bill Paxon of New York; Dave Larson, former health policy adviser to Bill Frist, now the Senate majority leader; Edwin A. Buckham, former chief of staff to Tom DeLay, now the House majority leader; and Scott Hatch, the son of Senator Hatch.

For a list of all the government/pharma ties go to http://www.opensecrets.org/

There are also news organizations with strong ties to pharmaceutical companies. Is it any wonder we never get the truth about the dangers of vaccines?
Reuters
Take a look at how Bill Gates makes money by supposedly helping fight disease through vaccination.

Profits

Four doses of Pneumococcal Conjugate for each child costs $242.00 approximately seven million children are targeted to receive this vaccine in the U.S. alone. It is also being advertised on television to insure more sales. This will also test public opinion for the upcoming American Academy of Pediatrics recommendation of the Prevnar vaccine, and the subsequent requirement by the CDC. According to the news agency Reuters, this is expected to deliver sales of $300 to $500 million a year for Wyeth-Lederle vaccines. One annual report I found was from Smithkline Beecham with annual sales of $278 million for Hepatitis Vaccines and Merck with annual sales of $860 million with vaccine biologics. The promotion of vaccines is a 30 Billion dollar industry. Just found this:GlaxoSmithKline Operating and financial review and prospects

And this....
Vaccines are profitable. And it doesn’t take a whole lot of critical thinking to determine how profitable once you see how one vaccine billionaire is now living in India. The above pictured seaside mansion was purchased by Cyrus Poonawalla for a cool $113 billion. The vaccine billionaire bought a former US consulate from the US, but he will use it to continue leading his luxurious lifestyle as a residential home. It is the most expensive residential home purchase in the history of India and it should come as no surprise that a vaccine pusher was able to make the purchase. The home had been on the market for four years prior to his purchase date on September 14th, 2015.

According to Reuters India, Poonawalla is literally loaded with riches.

Poonawalla, one of India’s richest men, told the Times of India newspaper that he secured the property after real estate groups were told there were limits on potential redevelopment plans for the heritage-listed house and seaside plot.

“We thought it was a good price given the location,” son Adar Poonawalla, who ran negotiations, told the Hindustan Times.

Scare Tactics

On a recent E.R. television show, an unvaccinated child was brought in to the hospital dying from measles. Believing that vaccines were dangerous, the parents did not vaccinate their children so they were portrayed in a bad light. Doctors were able to make comments like “There is no link to autism and vaccination,” “these fringe fanatics are going to start another epidemic of Smallpox” also “The mother took her unvaccinated children to Europe” and at the end when the child died, the doctor looks at the parents with a very disapproving look that said, “what did you expect to happen when you don’t vaccinate?”

At first I wondered what would cause a TV. show to use a benign childhood disease like measles for such a strong storyline. Then the very first commercial was for a new vaccine called Prevnar, the pieces of the puzzle were falling into place. The mentioning of Europe tied in Doctor Wakefield and his autism theory, he’s from England. It seems to me that if pharmaceutical companies have enough money to pay for advertising on top rated shows like E.R., then they could spend the time and money to develop safe vaccines without devastating side effects.

Miss America

Consider the case of Miss America. As described in a newsletter put out by The National Vaccine Information Center. Before the pageant that crowned her the new Miss America, Heather Whitestone gave an interview to the Birmingham News in her home state and candidly talked about how she became deaf after a serious reaction to a DPT shot at 18 months old. Heather’s Mom also talked to The Star and other broadcast and print media about how Heather reacted to her DPT shot with a high fever and then came down with an infection that brought her young daughter close to death.

Within hours after the Miss America pageant, a horrified medical establishment moved quickly to publicly dispute any connection between Heather’s deafness and the DPT vaccine and instead blamed her deafness on a bacterial infection for which there now is a vaccine, Haemophilus Influenzae B (HiB).

The American Academy of Pediatrics searched out and found a doctor who had been part of the Alabama medical group that treated Heather as a toddler. The doctor publicly insisted there was no connection between Heather’s deafness and the DPT shot and that Heather had suffered a severe case of HiB disease that coincidentally occurred around the time of her DPT shot." The newsletter goes on to discuss the phenomenon of recently vaccinated children getting HiB, "Analysis of individual reports made to the government’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System during the past two years reveals a significant number of four- to eight-year-old children coming down with HiB disease within one to four weeks of vaccination.”

These reports are reminiscent of the reports of invasive bacterial infection, specifically Haemophilus influenzae B infection, within one to four weeks of acellular Pertussis vaccination in the Swedish vaccine trials in the 1980s. There has long been speculation that vaccination may temporarily suppress the immune system and leave recently vaccinated individuals vulnerable to infections, from Otitis media to more severe infection such as HiB.

Whether or not Heather Whitestone’s deafness is connected to the DPT vaccine, there can be no doubt that the American medical establishment went to extraordinary lengths to publicly challenge Heather and her mother in order to avoid having to acknowledge DPT vaccine risks. At a National Vaccine Advisory Committee meeting held several weeks after she was crowned, one doctor suggested that the ‘public relations problem’ surrounding the new Miss America could be fixed by persuading Heather to become a ‘poster child’ to promote vaccination for the government. If you wish, take the time to view for yourself both web sites:

If you find the webpage broken I have saved a copy Here

Mechanics of Vaccination

Rather than space exposure to a relatively minuscule level of microorganisms in a gradual manner, massive quantities of antigens are introduced into the body through a series of vaccinations given in a row over a short period of time. All vaccines, once injected make their way into the blood stream, bypassing the mucosal immune system known as the secretory IgA. The secretory IgA serves as a buffer, filtering microbes so the impact of these invading organisms is greatly reduced once it reaches the bloodstream. The IgA allows the antigen to be removed in the same manner to which it arrived, through the mucosal barrier by sneezing coughing and sweating. This serves a positive purpose by challenging and strengthening the immune system.

A vaccine gives no warning, no generalized inflammatory response, and no chance to recognize, duplicate or defend itself against future challenges from typical antigens.

An injection is not the natural port of entry for a virus. In fact, the whole immune system in our body is geared to prevent that from happening. What we’re doing is giving the virus or the bacteria carte blanche entry into our bloodstream, which is the last place you want it to be. Further, viruses now have access to hide deep in the tissues with the potential for insidious damage and or a latent effect, for instance many years later they can be activated by stress and cause a serious problem, like an auto-immune disease or brain tumor. And who looks to a vaccine as the cause? Here is a study almost admitting that vaccines injected don't work. Have you notice the intranasal vaccines coming out now? At least this is more in line with the way your immune system works.

Here is an excellent article on how vaccine effect the body by Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.

As a direct result of vaccination, the mucosal immunity remains weak, complications of which may be the rapid increase in ear infections in children. Otitis Media or "glue ear," is a buildup of water in the ear, often requiring the installation of little tubes for drainage. Children can suffer with chronic earaches and or mild loss of hearing from this infection. This particular "glue ear" type of Otitis Media was not known in American medical practice before the late 1940's or early 1950's. At least half of all US children have had Otitis Media by their first birthday. This condition accounts for twenty six million visits to physicians every year. In addition, about one million children have tubes inserted in their ears every year, at a cost of one thousand dollars per operation. That amounts to one billion spent each year on this operation. There is no system of the human being, from mind to muscles to immune system, which gets stronger through avoiding challenges, but only through overcoming challenges.

These vaccinations are a disaster on the immune system as well as your wallet. The length of protection conferred by vaccines is variable, often requiring numerous booster doses. No vaccine has been demonstrated to confer serologic immunity for more than 10 years (Plotkin & Mortimer, 1994).

Herd Immunity

I wanted to understand herd immunity so I went to the CDC. Here is what they had to say:

Community immunity or "herd immunity" is an important part of protecting the community against disease. Because vaccinated people have antibodies that neutralize a germ, they are much less likely to transmit that germ to other people. Thus, even people who have not been vaccinated (and those whose vaccinations have become weakened or whose vaccines aren't fully effective) often can be shielded by the herd immunity because vaccinated people around them are not getting sick. Herd immunity is more effective as the percentage of people vaccinated increases. It is thought that approximately 95% of the people in the community must be protected by a vaccine to achieve herd immunity. People who are not immunized increase the chance that they and others will get the disease.

For some diseases, however, herd immunity offers no protection. For example, tetanus is not contagious. It is contracted when a wound comes in contact with soil contaminated with the tetanus bacterium. It is important to keep in mind that a few people may not be protected from the disease even though they have been vaccinated. About 1 or 2 of every 20 people immunized will not have an adequate immune response to a vaccine. But if 95% of the population is immunized, then the unprotected people are not as likely to be exposed to the germ at all, so they have a smaller chance of becoming infected.

The next question I had was, is the US population vaccinated to at least 95%? If not it would stand to reason using the CDC's logic that disease would be rampant. Here is an article that was send to me by my friend Alan:

78%? I live in Florida! Disease is not rampant! I checked the CDC's website and looked up the other states. Click here to see the rest. This is a quote from AOL's WEBmd, "Leatherman pointed to one federally funded study in 2002 showing that only 11 states met CDC goals of extending basic immunizations to 80% (not 95%) of children. Rates ran as low as 65% in Colorado."

I must question the theory of herd immunity.

Thoughts on Vaccination

Before my son’s seizures I was more concerned about a computer virus than any virus I had injected into my children. I began this paper from anger I felt towards myself for not researching before I allowed my babies to be vaccinated. I feel ridiculous when I remember my concern of putting the car seat in correctly, even going so far as to take a two-hour class in it at nine months pregnant! Why didn’t I research as diligently the need for all these vaccines? What started as consolation to my own guilt has developed into a passion for finding and sharing the truth. If one mother saves her child from the damage caused from an unnecessary vaccination, then I have served my purpose. Since I know that all things work together for good, then this has been brought into my life for a positive result. Helping others discover that they have a choice, and that choice should be an informed one, then again, I have served my purpose. The doctrine surrounding immunization far outweighs the evidence.

As a parent, before you allow a virus (plus other chemicals) directly into your child’s bloodstream (I am not referring to I.V. delivery of vaccines. These chemicals make their way to your child's bloodstream from being injected) it is your responsibility to demand convincing evidence beyond a reasonable doubt of its safety and effectiveness. One flaw in study of vaccines is that there are no true placebo groups. The vaccine is tested in one group of immunized children and is compared to another group of immunized children. Whatever disease it may be cultured from, all vaccines contain the putrid byproducts of disease. I want to show you the abstract of a study done on vaccinating fish. Read the side effects closely.

Dev Biol Stand. 1997;90:371-9.
Vaccinated fish welfare: protection versus side-effects.

Midtlyng PJ.

National Centre for Veterinary Contract Research and Commercial Services, Ltd. (VESO AS), Oslo, Norway.

Active immunisation of fish involves a number of potentially harmful procedures like handling, anaesthesia or injection of more or less toxic substances. Adjuvanted vaccines may cause inflammation, granuloma and pigmentation at the site of injection. Intraperitoneal administration of oil-adjuvanted vaccines to Atlantic salmon pre-smolts has occasionally resulted in impaired growth and reduced carcass quality. The consequences of such vaccination for fish welfare may therefore be questioned. With respect to furunculosis caused by Aeromonas salmonicida, scientific data suggest, however, that only oil-adjuvanted vaccines are protective throughout the production cycle of farmed salmon. Data are presented to show that salmonids are highly at risk to epizootics if left unprotected against this or other endemic diseases. A panel of parameters partly adopted from experimental animal medicine is proposed to assess the impact of vaccine side-effects in farmed fish. In intensive salmon aquaculture systems, reduced disease risks are thought to justify the observed level of side-effects following current vaccination practices. For future fish vaccines, reduction of side-effects without compromising long-term protective immunity constitutes a challenging goal.

Publication Types:

Review

Review, Tutorial

PMID: 9270866 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

It doesn't work for fish why would we think it would work for us?

Here is another vaccinated fish article.

Think about it, how could formaldehyde, Aluminum, Phenol, Mercury, or any number of other deadly chemical substances used in vaccines possibly prevent disease in children? Can deadly chemicals create immunity? Why would you want to inject a virus or piece of a virus into a living human? Aren't we trying to avoid virus? Why in the world would you inject them in? The fact that these chemicals are needed at all in the vaccine formula argues that the product is toxic, unstable and unreliable with or without their presence. This is what mothers are asked to inject into the delicate body of their infant? The blood is the life-giving stream on which all systems of the body depend. Maintain its purity and the body will be in health. Pollute it and the body will be diseased. My advice to you would be to research all vaccinations for yourself. Find out why so many “boosters” are needed. Do vaccines really work to begin with? Does anyone really know how the immune system works to begin with? No! Look up poisoning symptoms. Here are a few from the BBC website:

Poisoning

Symptoms are determined by the nature of the poison, and may include nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, drowsiness, convulsions and coma. In unexplained illness in small children, especially if they are drowsy or unconscious, poisoning should always be suspected. Does this sound familiar?

Severe Poisoning

Fever, intense thirst, increased rate of breathing, uncontrollable muscle twitches, pinpoint pupils, convulsions, inability to breathe, unconsciousness.

Have you been wondering why our nations children are suffering from learning disabilities? Did you know ONE in every THREE American families has had to cope with a child with a learning disability or a mental illness? Most people believe such problems are increasing, according to a poll by Scripps Howard News Service and Ohio University. When kids are injected with poison (vaccines) you get poisoned kids. Click here for the rest of the article. Have you noticed children are also physically sicker as well? Read this article for more information. More kids chronically ill Here is a study that proves a connection. Dr Geier

Good article

Take a look at what sugar can do to your body.

Think about this, every time you vaccinate:

1. You, change the health of a body forever.

2. You, change the health of the body of the next generation.

3. You, vaccinate for one thing only to have other acute or chronic diseases surface.

4. You, vaccinate for one thing only to pass on the chronic diseases to the next generation and succeeding generations.

5. True health will not be achieved in a human until 3 to 5 succeeding generations are unvaccinated.

Make an informed decision for your children. Investigate before you vaccinate. It’s easy, take any Internet search engine and put in ‘vaccine damage’ and a wealth of information presents itself. Here is an article about a safer vaccine schedule if you still feel vaccines have some value.

I know it is easier to just listen to your doctor the problem with this is if a physician advises against a mandated vaccine, he faces increased legal liability should the patient acquire the disease. He may risk his very livelihood if he is dependent upon income from "health plans" that use vaccine compliance as a measure of "quality."

Ninety percent of the information on vaccines received in his office is sent to him from pharmaceutical companies. By its very nature, the pharmaceutical industry has no interest in curing diseases. The eradication of any disease inevitably destroys a multi-billion dollar market of prescription drugs as a source of revenues. Pharmaceutical companies spend more than $11 billion each year to promote and market drugs an estimated $8,000-$13,000 per physician per year. This money is often spent in the form of meals and entertainment as physicians listen to discussions about a particular medication, or money for books or medical supplies. It is no wonder that a doctor, who will remain nameless, candidly said to a mother, "A vaccinated child is a patient for life,” reflecting the fact that the pharmaceutical industry benefits from the sale of not only vaccines, but also the enormous range of medications taken to treat the symptoms of the resulting health problems. Could this be why drug therapy was my only option? This is an excerpt from a New York Times article:

In its budget for the fiscal year that begins on July 1, the pharmaceutical lobby earmarks $72.7 million for advocacy at the federal level, directed mainly at Congress; $4.9 million to lobby the Food and Drug Administration; and $48.7 million for advocacy at the state level.

At least $2 million, and perhaps $2.5 million, in payments to research and policy organizations, "to build intellectual capital and generate a higher volume of messages from credible sources" sympathetic to the industry.

$9.4 million for public relations, including "$1 million for inside-the-Beltway advertising, $555,000 for placement of op-eds and articles by third parties," $600,000 for polling, $1.3 million for local publicity in 15 states and $680,000 for media relations consultants.

When I asked my pediatrician how he could have recommended these vaccines, he told me his hands were tied. He is required to give vaccines as the CDC and the FDA recommend. In all states vaccines are not mandatory however, the school district will lose a substantial amount of state funding if students do not comply with the vaccine mandate. A 1993 federal "Immunization Initiative" gives states more than $400 million in vaccine incentives and one hundred dollars for each vaccinated with the shots the federal goverment decided are must haves. Parents must ask for an exemption. They are availiable for religious, personal or medical reasons. A good medical reason would be diabetes or any other autoimmune disease in your family. Doctors that don't conform to poisoning children are ostracized. Take a look at this story on Prozac and the doctor that didn't want to drug his patients Loren Mosher

April Oakes, President of TAAP sums it up perfectly “God created us with a perfect immune system! He gave us fever to burn a virus, vomiting and diarrhea to eliminate a virus and we’ve allowed man to teach us to suppress the fever, suppress the vomiting, suppress the diarrhea. Then we allow man to convince us to bypass God’s defense mechanisms and inject biological toxins, animal viruses and aborted fetal tissue to create immunity. We wonder why the body is attacking itself? We’re literally allowing man to play the role of God!”

I'd like you to read Dr. Patricia Lin's story of her transformation from the allopathic model of medicine to a more holistic, natural approach.

I was born into a medical doctor's family in Taiwan. My father practiced pediatrics, internal medicine, and forensic medicine, and my mother was a nurse. They had their own private clinic with a pharmacy and our basement was full of prescription drugs. We had three nurses who worked for us, and a house keeper.

People may think that I must be one of the healthiest kids around but actually I wasn't. There was a lot of small "signs" of developmental problems growing up that I didn't recognize as such until recently.  But I remembered that when I was 9 or 10 years old, I found a scar in my armpit when showering one day. I asked my mother about it, and she told me that I got it when I was a baby. I pressed for more answers, and then she said I got vaccinated right after birth. Then a few days later, a tumor grew from my armpit, the size of a grapefruit. They had to surgically remove it...hence the scar. (The injection site is on the shoulder, deltoid muscle, meaning the needle went in so deep it almost penetrated the baby's arm. My body fought so hard to push it out of the body that it formed a tumor in the armpit. Medically, they call it a secondary infection of the lymph node, which became filled with pus. When drainage and antibiotics don't work, these had to be operated on.)

Another thing I heard about my infancy was that I was a very difficult baby and cried nonstop. Being too busy to juggle four young kids (all 1 year apart) and managing other nurses in the clinic, my mother sent me away under my grandmother's care, which was 2 hours away. (In that generation, nurses were taught that breastfeeding was not as good as formula.) Several months later, my grandmother brought the baby back, saying something was wrong, since the baby cried with a very high pitch and arched her back, with the bellybutton protruding. The umbilical cord hadn't healed yet. They couldn't figure out why the baby cried nonstop. She got scared, and didn't want to be responsible if the baby didn't make it. She thought the baby was possessed by the devil!

Hanging on to dear life, the baby survived. However, according to my mother, among her 4 children, I was always the "different" one. But life went on. There's other things to be busy with. A lot of what happened was left forgotten. They never even questioned the practice of vaccination. It's just that bad reactions occur sometimes. Then in 6th grade, there was a TB screening for all school children, and guess what? I got another jab!   GEE, didn't see that one coming, right? No one checked my health history for adverse reactions, not even my parents, a MD and a RN! An abscess later developed at the injection site, about the size of a peanut. This protruded from under my nicely pressed school uniform.   In my class of 55, there was another classmate that had an abscess.   Hers was the size of an almond. (2 in 55---not that rare actually. A recent article in The Sunday Times in Ireland reported similar cases, but it isn't just the new vaccines that do this. As proven by what I've experienced and seen, a lot just went unreported. http:// www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2091-2136412,00.html)

Once during P.E. class, a tennis ball hit me there on the shoulder, and the pain was so bad I knelt to the ground. Later, my dad had the abscess surgically removed, along with parts of my deltoid muscle. I got four stitches and a big scar on my shoulder and couldn't use my arm for six to eight weeks. The stitches would stretch and tear and it was very painful. I was only 13.

So, if you are a parent in the position to decide whether to have some strangers jab your child, think again; even the MD's don't know how to protect their own children from these toxins. That's their training---the medical brain-washing that the germ theory is the only absolute truth, not the body's own innate wisdom. Even when the evidence of the fallacy is right in their face, they still fail to see it. The story gets better though. My mother kept pushing me to go to medical school, so I could follow in my father's footsteps. I did the whole pre-med thing in college, and even volunteered in the ER in Sacramento. (I got a few more jabs there). One day I felt so depressed about the direction my life was heading. I didn't know what I wanted to do, just not medicine...

Fate has it that I went to a career fair, and it was there that I first heard of Chiropractic. I had no idea of its history or the AMA's conspiracy to ruin the Chiropractic profession's public image.   Since I didn't grow up in America, I was spared the twisted propaganda. I researched Chiropractic as it truly is. It was as if I found a gold mine. After my first chiropractic adjustment, I was sold that this is much better than any medicine. My parents didn't support my decision to become a chiropractor, so they cut off all financial support, thinking that would change my mind to pick the easier route to go to med school with all expenses paid. Well, that didn't happen. I moved out and took out a student loan to go to Chiropractic school.

The rest is history. Even when I graduated, they still didn't think that chiropractors are "real doctors," since we don't get the social recognition that MD's get. Over the years, my parents' health has gotten progressively worse, with major surgeries that did more harm than good. Even they themselves said so, but the remedy in their mind is yet another "better" surgery. I consider myself extremely lucky to have found Chiropractic. It has changed the course of my entire life, and as a Chiropractor I became an agent in facilitating that change for those I come into contact with. By working with the nervous system and using whole food nutrition, I see miracles on many of my patients. Will I allow anyone to vax my children? Of course not, not even on my cat! Once my husband even turned down a teaching job because of the vaccine requirement at the school district.

Some people may think we are too extreme, or paranoid of the "small" risk, but we plan on living long and healthy and enjoy happy healthy kids and grandkids with homebirths, naturally and drug free. We don't want to burden them with degenerative and autoimmune disorders, cancer and Alzheimer's like many of the mainstream, average people who get their regular doses of poison from medications, flu shots, booster shots and who-knows-what-else.

Dr. Patricia Lin
www.SpinalHealthHealingArts.com

"The damage caused by vaccine exposure is massive. It's bigger than asbestos, bigger than tobacco, bigger than anything you've ever seen." It's hard to calculate the damage to our country -- and to the international efforts to eradicate epidemic diseases -- if Third World nations come to believe that America's most heralded foreign-aid initiative is poisoning their children. It's not difficult to predict how this scenario will be interpreted by America's enemies abroad. The scientists and researchers -- many of them sincere, even idealistic -- who are participating in efforts to hide the science on thimerosal claim that they are trying to advance the lofty goal of protecting children in developing nations from disease pandemics. They are badly misguided. Their failure to come clean on thimerosal will come back horribly to haunt our country and the world's poorest populations.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 'Deadly Immunity', July 2005

"There was also concern," says the federal official, "that an immediate withdrawal might discredit the international vaccine programs for which CDC is an important partner." The World Health Organization has urged CDC against the banning of Thimerosal in U.S. vaccines since that prohibition might discredit WHO's third world inoculation programs. WHO, with U.S. funding, is now injecting children in developing countries with the same amounts of Thimerosal we were giving American kids at their highest exposures, but in a shorter time period. In May 2001, WHO committed to "develop a strong advocacy campaign to support the ongoing use of Thimerosal."

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 'Time for the CDC to Come Clean' , March 1, 2006

Here is an article on vaccination alternatives.

Seeking An Alternative - Part 1

As parents become aware of the dangers and inefficacy of childhood vaccines, they will, for obvious reasons, seek an alternative approach to safeguard their children's health.

Many parents choose a practice known as "Homeopathic Prophylaxis" sometimes referred to as homeopathic vaccination. Other parents employ vitamin and mineral supplements in the belief that they will strengthen their child's immune system, while others prefer their children to contract the childhood infections in the belief that it will give them natural life-long immunity. There are many parents who are just plain uncertain or confused as to what alternatives to embrace and therefore live in a constant state of fear and anxiety over their children's health.

So how do those parents, who reject vaccination yet remain uncertain of the alternatives, choose an approach that gives them the confidence and certainty of safeguarding their children's health?

In my opinion, such parents must do two things;

Firstly, they must gain a clear understanding of the root causes of childhood infection. This will not only reveal to them the reasons why vaccines are ineffective, but more importantly, it will reveal to them the true means of disease prevention. Secondly, they must gain a clear understanding of what childhood infection is. This will enable parents to overcome their fears of childhood infection and offer them an insight into a method of treatment that not only allows their children to recover from childhood infections quickly and without complications or suffering, but ensures that their children will be in better health afterwards.

The Root Causes of Childhood Infection

Common sense tells us that the prevention of childhood infections is only possible by removing it's root causes. Now the World Health Organisation acknowledges that malnourishment, polluted water supplies, poor sanitation, and poverty and despair, causes the deaths of tens of thousands of children each year in Third World countries from measles, whooping cough, tetanus, tuberculosis and many other infectious diseases. Significantly, these deaths occur despite widespread vaccination coverage in these countries.

The reasons why vaccination fails to prevent these tens of thousands of deaths should be obvious to any logical thinker. Vaccines do nothing to correct the nutritional status of a malnourished child. Vaccines do nothing to purify a child's body that has been poisoned from drinking polluted and contaminated water. Vaccines do nothing to raise the vitality of a child whose vitality has been depleted through poverty and despair. Vaccines do nothing to remove the root causes of childhood infection and other infectious diseases and it is for this reason that vaccines have failed to prevent the tens of thousands of deaths in Third World countries.

In the developed countries like USA, Australia, England etc, deaths from childhood infections are quite rare, however, there are still thousands of cases of measles, whooping cough, chicken pox etc reported annually. Although the root causes of childhood infections in these countries are less obvious, they are, I believe, most often related to faulty diet, overfeeding, and chemical and toxic pollutants. Once again, herein lies the reasons why vaccines provide no protection against these childhood infections. Vaccines do nothing to correct the nutritional imbalances caused by faulty diet. Vaccines do nothing to unclog the digestive and intestinal tracts of overfed children. And vaccines do nothing to detoxify a child's body which is encumbered with chemical and toxic wastes. Vaccines do nothing to remove these root causes of childhood infection and this is evidenced by the fact that in the US, England, Australia etc, up to 90% of reported cases of measles, whooping cough and other so-called vaccine preventable diseases occur in fully vaccinated children.

Now at this point of time, some readers may be wondering where "germs'' fit in to all of this. After all, aren't outbreaks of infectious disease caused by the spreading of germs from person to person? Isn't measles caused by the measles germ? Isn't chicken pox caused by the chicken pox germ? Isn't whooping cough caused by the whooping cough germ? Aren't childhood infections caused by all the different germs out there?

I do not deny the existence of germs within the body nor do I deny that they can be passed from person to person. However, I do not accept the medical belief that they represent the root cause of childhood infection or any of the other infectious diseases including AIDS. So that you may understand my reasons for rejecting the germ theory of disease, it will be necessary for me to take you inside the body and explain to you one of the most important metabolic functions in human physiology - the process of elimination.

The Process of Elimination

Elimination is the process whereby metabolic wastes, toxic chemicals and foreign substances are eliminated from the body via the normal channels of elimination, mainly the kidneys, lungs and bowel. The important thing to realise, is that the efficiency of this process, like all other metabolic processes, is primarily dependent upon the health and vitality of the body. Anything that weakens or compromises health, eg malnourishment, faulty diet, impure water, overwork, fatigue, stress, etc will impair elimination which results in a build up of internal waste matter, a condition commonly referred to as Toxemia. In the world of Natural Health, it is believed that many diseases including the childhood infections and other infectious diseases are a direct result of this condition.

Toxemia can also develop if the amount of chemicals and foreign matter that enters the body exceeds the body's normal eliminative capacity. For example, lets say a child's body can eliminate around 100 units of toxic waste a day. If the amount of toxic waste produced in that child is around 120 units a day, then this means there will be 20 units of toxic waste that the child's body has been unable to remove. If this continues day after day, then over a period of time, the result will be an accumulation of toxic waste within the child's body leading to this condition known as Toxemia.

This may come as a shock to some parents, but I don't believe there would be a child out there, who, raised under the conventional lifestyle, would be free of this condition. Poor parental health, drugs and vaccines, impoverished breastmilk, fluoridated water, overfeeding, chemicals in the diet, pesticides, negative emotional states, etc etc all contribute to the development of Toxemia in children. Little wonder that sickness in today's generation of children is so endemic.

By understanding the toxemia theory, one is in a perfect position to clearly understand where "germs" (bacteria and viruses) fit in to all of this. Bacteria are micro-organisms known as saprophytes whose biological role is to breakdown organic waste matter into simple molecules which can then be transformed back into living substances. The role of bacteria in the body is not to attack cells or tissues but to breakdown organic waste matter for disposal and recycling. As for viruses, Natural Health regards them as merely products of cellular decay which play no part in disease causation. It's worth noting that Louis Pasteur, the scientist credited with the germ theory of disease, ultimately admitted that it was not the seed (germ) but the soil (toxemia) which was the determining factor in disease. Rene Dubois, the most renowned microbiologist of the 20th century wrote "Viruses and bacteria are not the sole cause of infectious disease, there is something else." What is this something else? Toxemia.

So what it all comes down to is this. If a child develops measles, chicken pox, whooping cough or any of the other childhhod infections, it is not because of germs, it is because of the toxic conditions in the child's body. Whenever some type of infectious disease is diagnosed in a child or adult, regardless of what name is given to it, regardless of whether it is viral or bacterial, the underlying cause is always toxemia. This explains why vaccines fail to prevent disease for they do nothing to remove the toxic conditions of the body out of which the various bacterial and viral diseases arise.

I wrote in Part 1 that in order for parents to choose an alternative approach that gives them the confidence and certainty of safeguarding their children's health, they would need to gain a clear understanding of the root causes of childhood infection and what childhood infection is. By understanding the Toxemia theory, not only do parents gain a clear understanding of the root causes of childhood infection and the means by which it can be prevented, but they are in a position to clearly understand what childhood infection is.

What Childhood Infection Is

Let's go back to the example of a child whose body is capable of eliminating 100 units of toxic waste a day. If that child's body produces 120 units of toxic waste a day (as a result of the conventional diet, fluoridated water, chemical pollutants, vaccines etc), then this means that there will be 20 units of toxic waste that the child's body has been unable to eliminate. If this continues day after day then obviously, over a period of time, there will be a gradual build up of toxic waste within that child's body creating the condition known as toxemia. This condition is very harmful, for toxic waste is poisonous, and if left unchecked, then it's retention within the body will ultimately lead to cellular damage and destruction, or in other words, serious disease including cancer. Fortunately, there are safety mechanisms within our bodies that are switched on whenever our toxicity levels rise above the normal level. These safety mechanisms are designed to reduce excess toxicity. In infants and children, the most common safety mechanism that the body employs to reduce excess toxicity is fever. Fever is not a mistake, it is not something evil, it is not the body trying to fight off germs. Fever is an emergency reaction by the body which is designed to speed up the process of elimination. This dramatically reduces toxicity levels thereby restoring the health of the child. This safety mechanism, like all other safety mechanisms that the body employs, is governed and controlled by the innate intelligence of the body, and this intelligence knows exactly when to turn the fever on, and exactly when to turn the fever off.

Whenever fever is present, the body will activate a number of other safety mechanisms which are designed to facilitate and assist in the reduction of toxicity. During fever, the body will neither need or want any food and therefore it will shut down the digestive system resulting in a loss of appetite. If, during fever, any food is present within the digestive tract, then the body will eject it either through vomiting or diarrhea. During fever, the body directs all its energy towards this process of elimination, so the general energy level of the body will be greatly reduced resulting in tiredness, lethargy and fatigue.

During or after the cessation of the fever, there may be localised areas of inflammation which is another safety mechanism the body employs in order to reduce toxicity and promote healing and repair. There may be swollen glands whereby the swelling increases the glands capacity to filter toxic waste from the bloodstream. In many cases the body will eliminate toxic waste through the skin which will manifest as skin eruptions, blisters, red spots or rashes. Throughout this entire process the central nervous system will be on full alert and therefore extremely sensitive to the level of toxic waste in the circulation, and its subsequent elimination from the body. This can result in headaches, aches and pains, nausea and general discomfort.

Now if it hasn't yet twigged, then what I'm about to tell you is probably the most crucial point of this whole article. Whenever a child develops measles, chicken pox, whooping cough, mumps, rubella or any other so called childhood infection, the child will experience the exact same symptoms that I have underlined above. So what all this means is that measles, chicken pox, whooping cough, mumps, rubella or any of the other so called childhood infections, are not infections caused by germs, but are in reality, safety mechanisms which are designed to reduce inner toxicity to a safe level.

Whether you wish to refer to them as childhood infections, safety mechanisms, crises of elimination, acute illnesses, cleansing processes, healing crises or whatever - measles, chicken pox, rubella, whooping cough, mumps etc all arise from the same underlying cause - toxemia, and all of them serve the exact same purpose - the elimination of toxic waste from the body.

By clearly understanding what childhood infection is, parents are in a postion to understand a method of treatment that not only allows their children to recover from childhood infections quickly and without complications or suffering, but a method that ensures their children will be in better health afterwards.

Method of Treatment

If childhood infections are indeed the body's way of reducing inner toxicity, then it stands to reason that the method of treatment employed should do nothing to suppress or interfere with this process, and everything to assist and support it. In the world of Natural Health, whenever a child develops measles, chicken pox, whooping cough or any other childhood infection, the most common method of treatment is as follows;

The sick child is immediately put to bed in a well ventilated room. If weather permits the child is often placed outdoors in a shaded area where it has maximum exposure to fresh air. If the weather is cold the child is rugged up to preserve warmth. During the fever no food whatsoever is given to the child, not even fruit juice. Pure water is made available to the child should thirst be experienced. Two or three times a day, the child is sponged down with luke warm water to ensure cleanliness. No effort is made to suppress the fever.

The duration of the fever will in most cases last anywhere between 24 to 72 hours and throughout this period noise is kept to a minimum so that the child's rest and sleep remain undisturbed. Once the fever subsides and the child's desire for food returns, fresh fruit or fruit juices are given for the first one or two days then slowly other wholesome foods are reintroduced. If any skin rashes or eruptions appear, short periods of sunbathing to the child's naked body are applied. No oinments or creams are used. Some parents also resort to a technique known as hydrotherapy which utilises bathing, hot and cold compresses, and plain water enemas. The bathing and compresses serve to relieve discomfort, promote circulation, induce calm and sleep, whilst the enemas help clear congestion in the lower bowel, a causative factor in many childhood fevers.

This method of treatment, as taught by Natural Health, does nothing to suppress and everything to assist this inner cleansing process. Children treated in this manner not only recover quickly and without complications r long term suffering, they are in fact in better health afterwards because their body?s have been cleansed of the accumulated toxic wastes. It is not uncommon for these children to experience growth spurts or noticeable improvements in their physical, intellectual or creative abilities following these acute cleansing episodes. This occurs because their bodies, no longer burdened by toxic and chemical poisons, can operate at a much higher vitality level.

For those parents who are considering adopting this approach in treating childhood infection, it is my opinion that they should first thoroughly acquaint themselves with Natural Health or Natural Hygiene philosophy. This will give them the knowledge and the confidence they need to become totally self-reliant in the treatment of childhood infection and other acute childhood illnesses. It is also wise for parents to seek out those health practitioners who support this philosophy so if at any time uncertainty arises they can find professional guidance.

I will not say that it has never happened, but in the many years that I have studied and researched this philosophy, I have never come across a case of a child, who, diagnosed with a common childhood infection and treated in accordance with Natural Health principles, has suffered any complications or died. It is my firm belief that in the industrialised countries like USA, Australia, England, etc, if a child develops measles, whooping cough, chicken pox or any of the other childhood infections and subsequently goes through any long term suffering, or experiences any complications, or dies, then the causes can be directly attributed to wrong treatment which in most cases includes suppressive drug therapy. It is to this that we will turn our attention to in Part 6......

Wrong Treatment and Its Consequences
(Note: In this section I am referring to treatment of childhood infections in the industrialised countries. In third world countries, the high rate of morbidity and mortality from childhood infections is due entirely to malnourishment, starvation, polluted water, poor sanitation and the absence of holistic health care facilities.)

In the world of Natural Health, complications from childhood infections are virtually unheard of, yet, in the world of Orthodox Medicine, complications are numerous and well documented. They include encephalitis, otitis media, pneumonia, bronchitis, reye's syndrome, myocarditis, arthritis, convulsions, mental retardation, apnea, brain damage, cerebral haemorrhage, pulmonary edema, paralysis, urinary tract infections and high blood pressure. The question is - WHY? Let me repeat my earlier statement where I said "If childhood infections are indeed the body's way of reducing inner toxicity, then it stands to reason that the method of treatment employed should do nothing to suppress or interfere with this process, and everything to assist and support it." In the world of orthodox medicine, the method of treatment includes many measures that do nothing to assist and support, and everything to suppress and interfere with this process.

What must be kept foremost in mind is that the common symptoms of the childhood infections ie fever, vomiting, diarrhea, bacterial action, swollen glands, skin eruptions, inflammatory reactions, etc, are all curative in nature, their purpose being to reduce the inner toxicity of the body. As you would be aware, the medical approach towards disease, including the childhood infections, is to use drugs which are specifically aimed at suppressing the symptoms. So drugs are given to reduce the fever, drugs are given to reduce the inflammation, drugs (antibiotics) are given to kill beneficial bacteria, drugs/creams are given to suppress the skin eruptions. On top of all this the sick child continues to be fed when it neither wants nor needs food, and the drinking water offered will in most cases be fluoridated chlorinated tap water. If hospitalised, the child will be treated in air-conditioned wards without access to fresh air. This whole approach in the medical treatment of childhood infections can be likened to firing at your own soldiers whilst they are battling the enemy.

The consequences of this type of suppressive treatment will be obvious to any logical thinker. The child's body will be forced to retain the toxic poisons that it is attempting to eliminate, and to add insult to injury, the child's body will be further poisoned by the drugs that are being administered. How a child subsequently reacts to this treatment will vary from child to child. For many a child, the symptoms will subside and the child will appear to recover, yet within the child's body, lies this residue of uneliminated toxic waste and drug poisons. This may result in another crisis of elimination (childhood infection) several weeks or months later, or it may manifest as a less acute crisis of elimination such as eczema or asthma. Or the child's body may be forced to redeposit this waste matter into less vital areas of the body, thus laying the foundations for chronic disease in later life.

For other children, their bodies will continue the struggle to reduce toxicity, despite the imposition of suppressive drugs. However, instead of this cleansing process taking only a few days, it may actually take a few weeks and involve a great deal of distress and suffering on the part of the child (not to mention the parents). When you hear of these children who are hospitalised with whooping cough for example, and spend up to three months in hospital fighting for their lives, what you should realise, if you don't already, is that their hospitalisation and subsequent struggle to survive, are a direct result of suppressive drugs, incorrect feeding, fluoridated chlorinated water and lack of fresh air! Not to mention the negative impact that separation of a child from its parents has on its emotional and spiritual wellbeing.

Tragically, there will be a minority of children, who, for reasons of increased susceptibility or inherited weaknesses, will experience the type of complications listed above, and in rare cases, succumb to their condition. If you happen to know of any child, who, having been diagnosed with one of the common childhood infections, subsequently experienced any degree of suffering, or complications, or died, then just find out how the child was treated. I believe that in every case you will find a history of wrong treatment and suppressive drug therapy.

To be continued in Part 7 .......

Ian Sinclair
www.vaccinationdebate.com

All compulsory laws concerning vaccination (including the military) contain exceptions and waivers. It is these protections placed in the laws that you may legally use to exclude yourself and your children. Surprisingly, these exceptions were placed there, not for your sake, although you may take advantage of them, but for the protection of the establishment. How is this? Let us assume that these exceptions were not there and everyone was actually forced to be immunized. If a child should die or become mentally or physically disabled, the parent would have the perfect case to sue the doctor, the school, the health department, and even the state legislature for enormous damages. Since they allowed no exceptions, they must accept full responsibility for all the adverse consequences of the law. However, if exception waivers are placed in the law, the responsibility is then transferred back to the parent. If a child should be injured by immunization, the officials can say, "Well, the parent should have exempted him if they thought there was any danger." Therefore, there is in truth no such thing as a compulsory vaccination law in this country. They are all, in essence, voluntary. The problem is that practically no one in authority will let you know this fact. The schools will make you think that in order for your child to attend he or she must be vaccinated. The reason for this is the schools receive funding for each child vaccinated.

If you are interested in a religious exemption these are a few bible verses used for obtaining the exemption. You do not need to quote them. All that is required is for you to sign the form.

Corinthians 3:16-17 and Deuteronomy 14:3 and 24:21 warns us not to defile the temple of God, our bodies, with anything unclean. Lev 21:5 warns us to not make cuttings in your flesh (originally a small cut was made on the skin for vaccination). Too numerous to mention are the passages relating to the sanctity of blood. If we believe God is our creator and He created our immune system, why would we think we could do a better job by injecting it with poison? How could this be His plan? Here is an excellent article written on the subject by Kim Medlin.

There is no greater insult one can offer the poorly understood immune system of a young child, than to introduce directly into his or her body, the foreign proteins or diseased animal matter plus live viruses that compose modern vaccines.

If you are not convinced and still feel you must vaccinate, there are a few things you can do to help safeguard your child.

If you choose to vaccinate:

       Research each vaccine separately; decide if there really is a threat.

       Read the package insert.

       Wait until your child is at least six months old.

       Use ½ doses. Check for reaction.

       Delay the DTaP until two years of age as in Japan.

      Dose your child with therapeutic amounts of Vitamin A and C one week before and two weeks after.

       Save the vial your child’s vaccine came in.

       Ask your doctor to sign a legal document having him or her take full financial and medical responsibility if vaccines damage your child. Here is the form to sign



Here are some questions you should have answered by your pediatrician before you decide to vaccinate. Click here

Sometimes the doctor will ask you to sign a form. Please read this before doing so.

anairhoads.org/medical/saynotovaccines.shtml

Why Signing a Waiver to Avoid Vaccines Can Be Considered Abuse by Anai Rhoads Ford

15 November 2005

AnaiRhoads.org - Recently, the Washington post printed an article about vaccine waivers that could jeopardise your parental rights:

"The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that doctors ask parents who refuse to vaccinate their children to sign a waiver indicating they are aware of the risks of refusal."

Note: Despite that vaccines have been linked to asthma, autism, diabetes, and sudden infant death syndrome, the author implies that parents are being overly theatrical about the shots.

Know Your Rights

By endorsing this particular waiver, parents would essentially be signing an admittance of neglect and or "abuse" for refusing vaccines. The language contained in this waiver could put parents and caregivers in jeopardy down-the-line if they should ever find themselves in the courts due to their child's health problems, when confronted with child protective services, divorce, or just about any matter pertaining to that child that could be used against the parent(s).

Please read any waiver provided by your child's doctor carefully before signing. Instead, offer a formally written and signed letter that simply says that you do not wish to vaccinate your child. If you are unsure of the language in the waiver, buy some time by telling your doctor that you need to consult with a lawyer before signing it.

Know your rights - say no to vaccines. Your doctor will try to bully you - you have the right to refuse anything you feel is harmful to your child. If your doctor won't listen, go to another doctor who will.

Check your State's laws regarding exemption. Most States will allow you to avoid vaccinations if you have a religious or ethical reason. However - keep in mind that it is your right not to disclose your faith or your full reasons for not wanting to vaccinate your child.

Regarding School Admission

A signed document can and will be used as a legal document even in a public school. Unfortunately, private schools have a different set of rules not dictated by the government.

Do Vaccines Work?

Example One:

According to a report printed by The Lancet (21/9/1991), a polio outbreak began in Oman between the years of 1988 and 1989. This is significant because a polio outbreak occurred despite the children being vaccinated prior to the outbreak. Curiously, the region with the highest attack rate had the 'highest' vaccine coverage, while the region with the lowest attack rate had the 'lowest' vaccine coverage.

Example Two:

Sweden abandoned the whooping cough vaccine in 1979. Why? Out of 5,140 cases of whooping cough in 1978, it was found that 84 percent had been vaccinated at least three times. You may find this report in the BMJ 283:696-697, 1981.

Pay-outs

More than $1.1 billion in claims have been paid by the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program to parents of children affected by vaccines. On average, each family received nearly a million dollars each. Sadly, the claims by the parents had to fit in the programme's extremely narrow definitions in order to qualify for compensation.

Naughty CDC

The CDC Vaccine Advisory Committee and its members get money from vaccine manufacturers.

They own stock in vaccine companies and get paid to conduct research.

As of 2003, the CDC has had 28 licensing agreements with companies and at least one university for vaccines.

Vaccines once endorsed by the CDC were pulled off the market after infants (and even some adults) had serious reactions. People had to die for the CDC to admit wrongdoing.

Why Your Doctor May Not Care

Your doctor gets paid by the companies that supply the vaccines for each and every vaccine.

A 1993 federal "Immunization Initiative" gave States more than $400 million in vaccine incentives and a $100 bounty for each child vaccinated with the shots the federal government recommended.

You should know that according to the February 1981 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 90 percent of obstetricians and 66 percent of pediatricians refused to take the rubella vaccine, and in 1990 a British survey showed that over 50 percent of doctors in the UK rejected the Hepatitis B vaccine. (British Med Jnl, 27/1/90).

The article, entitled "Feuding Over Vaccines" by Boodman, Sandra G., was printed in the
Washington Post on 08 November 2005 on page F1.

©2005 Anai Rhoads Ford. Reproduction must be authorised in writing by author only. Altering, redistributing, or selling this material is strictly prohibited.

You might want to use this birth plan if you are going to be delivering in the hospital.

To my birth attendants:

As a mother, I understand and accept the fact that I am ultimately responsible for my own health and the health of my baby. I have made every effort to gain the knowledge and information that I need to make informed decisions. After a careful consideration of this knowledge as well as my own values and priorities, I have established some guidelines to help you care for me in a way which is not only the safest for me and my baby, but also honors my needs and beliefs about birth.

I have complete faith in my body's ability to give birth normally. I believe my body was designed to give birth, and that it can do so with very little assistance. I have prepared myself for what the birth experience will be like by taking classes and talking with mothers who have had a positive birth experience to find out what they did that was helpful. I do not expect to have a short labor or to have no discomfort. But I do expect to be allowed to labor in the way that is most helpful to me, even if that way is in conflict with routine procedures. With help from my labor support person, I will require very little of your time and attention.

I have chosen a labor support person to be my birth advocate, and I authorize this person to see that my preferences as stated in this birth plan are carried out as closely as possible. This person will also provide physical and emotional support throughout the whole process of labor and delivery. If at any time a physician feels that medical conditions warrant an intervention into the birth process, I am willing to discuss the proposed intervention as well as the possible alternatives.

After discussing the situation, I will expect my final decision to be respected and honored, even if it is in opposition to the opinions of others.

The following guidelines are designed to help my birth attendants know what kind of birth experience I desire for myself and my baby. No deviations should be made from this plan without my consent:

1. I will not be separated from my support persons for any reason unless I request it.

2. I will have no perineal shave-prep.

3. My amniotic membranes will be allowed to rupture spontaneously

4. Pelvic exams will be performed only at my request.

5. Because of my belief that ultrasound is an unproven and possible unsafe technology, no electronic monitors or dopplers will be used. Monitoring of fetal heart tones will be done through fetoscope only.

6. I will be upright and active throughout my labor, walking as much or as little as I feel necessary, and assuming whatever position is most comfortable for me and helps assist the progress of labor.

7. I will eat light, non-constipating foods during early labor and clear liquids during active labor, if desired.

8. No drugs of any kind will be administered during the labor and delivery process. I request that no offers for anesthesia be made to me by any doctor, nurse, or other hospital staff person. In the event that a cesarean section becomes necessary, I will decide at that time what kind of anesthesia will be used.

9. No episiotomy will be performed on me under any circumstances. Perineal massage with oil, hot compresses, and perineal support will be used instead to prepare the perineal tissues to stretch. In the event that tearing of these tissues seems likely, I would prefer to allow the tissues to tear rather than be cut.

10. In order to allow the perineal tissues time to fan out so that no tearing takes place, and in order to reduce the risk of damage to the muscles of the pelvic floor, I will allow the baby to descend through the birth canal slowly and without sustained pushing efforts from me. Only exhale pushing will be used, and only when I feel the urge to do so. As long as fetal heart tones are good, delivery will not be rushed, but allowed to occur slowly and naturally.

11. It is my choice to give birth in the squatting position because of the obvious advantages it offers. If squat bars are not available, I will have two labor support persons with me to physically support me in this position while I give birth. I will require very little help from doctors or nurses to give birth because the squatting position encourages proper rotation, as well as quick and painless expulsion of the baby.

12. During labor and delivery I will be using vocalization as one of my tools for coping with labor. I find that it helps me to cope with the intensity of contractions while remaining totally relaxed. Hospital staff need to be aware that these vocalizations are constructive and that I am not making them because I am in pain, am distress, or need assistance.

13. It is my desire to receive no assistance of any kind with my birth unless I specifically ask for that assistance. I am at the hospital only so that emergency help is available if necessary. I will require no routine care of any kind.

14. The delivery will take place in a quiet, respectful atmosphere with dimmed lights, soft music, and quiet, calm speaking if speaking is necessary.

15. As soon as the infant is delivered it is to be placed on my chest and observed for APGAR there. The infant will be allowed to nurse as desired so as to hasten the detachment and delivery of the placenta.

16. If the body temperature of the baby is of concern, the baby will be placed skin-to-skin with me and a warmed blanket will be spread over us both. At no time will the baby be separated from me and placed in a warmer.

17. At no time will my baby be separated from me. All newborn care will be done in the same room with me and preferably with the baby in my arms.

18. Since I have been tested for Gonorrhea, and my husband and I are in a monogamous relationship, I prefer that no eye drops or ointment be used in my baby's eyes.

19. My baby will be given no substance by mouth other than my breastmilk or colostrum. At no time will sterile water, glucose water, or formula of any kind be given. The baby will be allowed to nurse on demand, and no rubber nipples or pacifiers will be given. If the baby's blood sugar level is of concern, more frequent nursing will be encouraged, since maternal colostrum provides a healthier and more stable blood sugar level than processed glucose.

20. When one gives birth in the squatting position, suctioning of the baby is rarely necessary due to the natural drainage of fluids. If suction does prove to be necessary, deep suctioning of the infant will be done only if suction with a bulb syringe proves to be inadequate.

21. I request that a warm Leboyer bath be provided within one hour after birth to allow the baby to make a smooth and comfortable transition into the world. No soaps or disinfecting agents will be used to wash the baby, and vernix on his skin will be massaged into the skin rather than removed through washing.

22. Absolutely no procedure will be performed on my baby without my authorization and I will be present for any procedure that is performed.

23. The umbilical cord will not be cut until it has stopped pulsating, usually 3 to 4 minutes or longer.

24. Vitamin K shot will not be given under any circumstances. No hepatitis B shot. If the baby is a boy, there will be no circumcision.

25. No PKU test will be administered in the hospital because the baby must nurse for at least two days before this is done. It will be my responsibility to see that the test is performed by a pediatrician at a later time.

________________________Signature

________________________Date

And if I haven't given you enough reasons not to vaccinate, take a look at this study:

Waning of Maternal Antibodies Against Measles, Mumps, Rubella, and Varicella in Communities With Contrasting Vaccination Coverage

+ Author Affiliations

1Department of Epidemiology and Surveillance
2Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Perinatal Screening, Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven
3Julius Center for Health Research and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Correspondence: Sandra Waaijenborg, PhD, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Centre for Infectious Disease Control, Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit, PO Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, the Netherlands (sandra.waaijenborg@rivm.nl).

Abstract Background. The combined measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine has been successfully administered for >20 years. Because of this, protection by maternal antibodies in infants born to vaccinated mothers might be negatively affected.

Methods. A large cross-sectional serologic survey was conducted in the Netherlands during 2006–2007. We compared the kinetics of antibody concentrations in children and women of childbearing age in the highly vaccinated general population with those in orthodox Protestant communities that were exposed to outbreaks.

Results. The estimated duration of protection by maternal antibodies among infants in the general population, most of whom were born to vaccinated mothers, was short: 3.3 months for measles, 2.7 months for mumps, 3.9 months for rubella, and 3.4 months for varicella. The duration of protection against measles was 2 months longer for infants born in the orthodox communities, most of whom had unvaccinated mothers. For rubella, mothers in the orthodox communities had higher concentrations of antibodies as compared to the general population.

Conclusion. Children of mothers vaccinated against measles and, possibly, rubella have lower concentrations of maternal antibodies and lose protection by maternal antibodies at an earlier age than children of mothers in communities that oppose vaccination. This increases the risk of disease transmission in highly vaccinated populations.

My Conclusion

Research shows that there are a great number of adverse reactions associated with early childhood vaccination. In many, perhaps most cases, it appears that the danger of vaccinating infants and small children far outweighs any possible benefits. It also appears that the major pharmaceutical companies have a great deal to gain by marketing these drugs through doctors and the use of scare tactics. More alarming, the guiding and regulatory groups designed to protect the public in the United States, namely the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers of Disease Control (CDC), have at the very least a major conflict of interest.

Read what John B. Classen, M.D., M.B.A. says about the current state of vaccinations." My data proves that the studies used to support immunization are so flawed that it is impossible to say if immunization provides a net benefit to anyone or to society in general. This question can only be determined by proper studies which have never been performed. The flaw of previous studies is that there was no long term follow up and chronic toxicity was not looked at. The American Society of Microbiology has promoted my research...and thus acknowledges the need for proper studies."

Vaccine manufacturers are using 1940's technology with little or no updating to facilities due to the high cost of modernization. Hopefully one day this barbaric practice of injecting diseased animal material into children will be laid to rest along side the x-raying of children's feet for shoe fit. Here is a poem you might find interesting along with comment from the person that found it on the web:

My daughter is doing a presentation in school on alchemy. I was kind of curious about any mercury connections, and so I did a little bit of looking into it on the web, and I came across this poem. Thought it was kind of interesting and thought you might find it interesting too...

Calomel

Ye doctors all of every rank
With their long bills that break the bank,
Of wisdom's learning, art, and skill
Seems all composed of calomel.

Since calomel has been their toast,
How many patients have they lost,
How many hundreds have they killed,
Or poisoned with their calomel.

If any fatal wretch be sick
Go call the doctor, haste, be quick,
The doctor comes with drop and pill
But don't forget his calomel.

He enters, by the bed he stands,
He takes the patient by the hand,
Looks wise, sits down his pulse to feel
And then takes out his calomel.

Next, turning to the patient's wife,
He calls for paper end a knife.
" l think your husband would do well
To take a dose of calomel."

The man grows worse, grows bad indeed
" Go call the doctor, ride with speed."
The doctor comes, the wife to tell
To double the dose of calomel.

The man begins in death to groan,
The fatal job for him is done,
The soul must go to heaven or hell,
A sacrifice to calomel.

The doctors of the present day
Mind not what an old woman say,
Nor do they mind me when I tell
I am no friend to calomel.

Well, if I must resign my breath,
Pray let me die a natural death
And if I must bid all farewell,
Don't hurry me with calomel....

Ha. Guess what Calomel is? A compound of mercury. Used to be used as a medicine long ago. Sensitive to light, it becomes poisonous on exposure. Amazing how the more things change, the more they stay the same, eh? And how people just don't seem to want to learn from their past mistakes.
http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/pages/tiCALOMELL;ttREDFLAG.html

Chase’s treatment…

And for those of you interested I will outline the course I took in treating my son. Keep in mind all Western medicine had to offer was drugs. These drugs had side effects worse than seizures. His doctors refused to allow me to put my son on the ketogenic diet which was my first choice. I was dismissed from their practice because I "didn't follow directions". I was left with no other alternative but to try holistic medicine. I had never even heard of homeopathy or alternative medicine, but through a friend of my mother in law I heard about a neurologist who practiced integrative medicine. This is practical medicine with a holistic approach. His prescription was for five different brain-healing food supplements:

· Ribonucleic Acid

· Niacinamide

· For-Til B12

· Min Tran

· Vasculin

He recommended we get rid of anything that was not fresh. He recommended organic food.
He also recommended lots of fruits, vegetables or anything ‘live’ not coming from a box on a shelf.

We also went dairy free. At the same time, because I couldn't wait between doctor visits, I contacted a Holistic Pediatrician. Holistic Physicians follow the principle laid down by Samuel Hahnemann, the late 18th-century physician and founder of homeopathy. The basis of this theory of medicine is as follows, “That which makes you sick shall heal you.” Along with a treatment called Biosyntonic, which restores information to the body in a natural and non-invasive way, he prescribed a “remedy” against the vaccines. He explained the remedy is made from the vaccine itself and if I had the vial the vaccine came out of the remedy would have been ‘tailor made’. I didn’t, so he made do with medicine he had, and it worked! He also recommended I stop using my microwave due it its ability to change food in a negative way. Also cell phone use is not good for children or adults for that matter! I started seeing these new doctors on December 18, 2000. By January 1, 2001 my son had had his last seizure. My main purpose for sharing this story of healing is to give hope. You can recover your children from vaccine damage with the right kind of doctor that truly understands how the body really works. Another story of healing

Here is a poem my Mom wrote while making the transition from meat eater to vegan.....

Ode To Meat

I passed a tray of pork chops
And a loin all neatly tied
Next a shelf of rump roasts
And I pretty nearly cried.

I spotted next a chicken
And a ham all golden brown
Saliva coursed across my tongue
At all the treasures I had found

The dairy case then coyly called
"Come taste my wares" it said
There's nothing like a hunk of cheese
Upon a slice of bread

But no, I walked right by them all
With my taste buds sorely pleadin'
For I have made a life style change
And am now a fledgling Vegan!

By
Patricia Crutchfield

Also, take a look at this article:

Improving Health Through Nutrition: No Quick Fix!
By Michael Wagner, BA, LMT, CFT

   When recommending dietary supplements to persons with health deficiencies, one of the most common questions we'll hear is, "How fast will this stuff work?"

   If we can help steer people away from the "quick fix" mentality and, instead, adapt realistic expectations for realizing improved health through nutrition, I believe we've performed a great service. That's because the restoration of genuine optimal health takes time and patience the quick-fix mind set will never allow.

   True, there are exceptional cases, especially with exceptional supplements or unique circumstances. Some people begin a dietary supplement regime and realize amazing results. But they are exceptions. And although certain symptoms may have subsided, the body very often has a lot more healing to accomplish over the long term. To assist consumers of dietary supplements to "stay the course" and not quit their program prematurely because they "weren't seeing anything" we need to educate them, not only about the supplements in their regime, but about their own body and how nutrition supports the body to effect improvements in overall health.

   To this end, I've found seven principles worth remembering and passing on to those people we wish to see benefit from nutritional supplements and programs.

1. With nutrition, we are not suppressing or manipulating symptoms as with pharmaceuticals. We are not treating issue specific conditions as with herbology. We are simply giving the body what it needs to heal itself and rebuild itself anew and this takes time.

When correcting nutritional deficiencies, while we won't see instant improvements in most cases, we will be promoting true and lasting healing.  Pharmaceuticals may sometimes "work" instantly, yet never address underlying causes and possess unwanted side effects. Contrary to popular thinking, drugs don't heal anything: only the body can do that - when it gets what it needs.

   In Optimum Sports Nutrition, Dr. Michael Colgan explains why patience is the key:

"A principle of nutrition you need to know is physiological dynamics. Unlike drugs, nutrients do not have rapid effects. No quick fix. The business of nutrition is to build a better body. That has to wait on Nature to turn over body cells. A blood cell lasts 60-120 days. In 3- 4 months your whole blood supply is completely replaced. In 6 months almost all the proteins in your body die and are replaced, even the DNA of your genes. In a year all your bones and even the enamel of your teeth is replaced, constructed entirely out of the nutrients you eat."

This time course is well illustrated by the course of deficiency diseases.   If I remove all the vitamin C from your diet within 4 weeks blood vitamin C will drop to zero. But, you will see no symptoms of disease at 4 weeks. You will have to wait until enough of the healthy cells have been replaced with unhealthy cells. It is another 12 weeks before the symptoms of scurvy start to ravage your body.

"So when you implement an optimum nutrition program, don't expect to see rapid results. In one of our studies at the Colgan Institute, runners were supplemented to try to improve their hemoglobin, hematrocit, and red blood cell count. But after one month of supplementation, there was no improvement at all. After 6 months, however, all three indices were significantly increased."

"Think of it this way: If you take a neglected houseplant and start feeding and watering it, the leaves may perk up a bit from the improved nutrition. But you have to wait for the old leaves to die off and new leaves to grow before you get a really healthy plant. It is the same with a human body. When you start feeding it better, you have to wait on physiological dynamics of the body to grow new, improved cells in the improved medium. After 18 years in sports nutrition, the shortest program we will give any athlete is six months." With patience, nature can do its work and produce its miracles.

2. We are all unique. An individual's biochemistry is affected by diet, lifestyle, drug usage, stress, fitness level, genetics, toxins, etc. It's inevitable, therefore, that some people will respond more rapidly than others to improved nutrition. If you're not experiencing results as fast as you'd like, it could be a factor of any number of things. It might be that the body has priorities other than the one upon which you're focusing. For example, you may want to lose body fat while your body may want to lose a tumor you don't even know you have. Give your body permission to have its own priorities and timetable.

3. Positive health changes can be occurring without you "feeling something." Research studies utilizing blood tests, bone density and body fat measurements, etc. confirm this. Improved health begins on the molecular and cellular levels. On the cellular level, this may translate into the alleviation or disappearance of specific symptoms and conditions.

   (The already healthy or symptom-free person, especially persons with abundant energy, might take note: Your health benefits from optimal nutrition tend to come in the form of your body's correcting sub-clinical problems-depletions, imbalances and toxic build-ups that haven't yet become clinical conditions or "felt" diseases. In other words, in optimizing and maintaining health, remember "feeling healthy" really only means "feeling symptom free." Actor Michael Landon was "feeling great" on National TV's Johnny Carson Show ... three months later he died of cancer. Virtually everyone can benefit from improved nutrition since, simply by living, toxins accumulate within our bodies, the body wears out and chronic degeneration slowly settles in. Giving the body what it needs to stay healthy can minimize the ravages of modern living and optimize health.)

4. The greatest health benefits of improved nutrition may well come in the latter years of life. Regardless of the rate your current health challenge is improving, continued optimum nutrition just makes good sense, since the greatest benefits may be experienced in your senior years. While others are painfully shuffling around nursing homes and tending to medicine schedules, you might be enjoying your summers on the Colorado River and winters in Hawaii. Is this the benefit you want? Learn what your dietary supplements can do for you. Then make an educated choice.

5. If you experience a "correcting crisis" while on an optimal nutritional program, stay the course - it's working! When your body begins cleaning out toxins and metabolic wastes are eliminated, parasites and candida die-off and the like, you may experience uncomfortable symptoms. Because you may feel worse before you feel better, it's important to read the articles and books, which address this phenomenon so you can better understand this process. The correcting crisis, when understood, is a clear indication that your improved nutrition program is truly working and leading you to improved health.

6. Licensed health care practitioners still make educated guesses as to how long it might take to see a specific health improvement using nutrition. Admittedly an imprecise science, but as a starting point, a holistic medical doctor uses the following formula: For a specific health improvements, figure three months, then add one additional month for each year the chronic condition has existed. For example, a chronic condition of 5 years might be expected to see a good improvement within 8 months, provided the body, mind and spirit of the patient gets everything it needs. Experience with nutraceuticals largely indicated the longer the consumption, the greater the benefit.

7. As one very prestigious medical doctor has well stated, dietary supplements ought to carry the warning: "Not to be taken on an empty spirit." The human mind and spirit are powerful beyond measure. They can easily override any optimal health plan. They must therefore be in alignment with the healing process. Sometimes the individual dealing with it poorly understands the non-physical causes of ill health. If long-term attempts to achieve better health bring minimal or no results, there may be a deeper reasons that need exploration. Caroline Myss' works, including "Why People Don't Heal," or the works of Bernie Siegel, M.D., might be a good starting point. Tend to your thinking; nurture your spirit.

Staying mindful of these seven principles of nutrition and healing will hopefully keep all of us out of the trap of quick fix thinking and help allow us to create the time and patience to achieve true healing and enjoy lasting optimal health.

Also I highly recommend Dr Ruza Bogdonovich's book The cause is in the cure. click on the book to find out how to order it. Dr. Ruza healed her son from vaccine damage by using the techniques she teaches in her book. She will also treat children under 18 for free as part of her ministry.

The Germ Theory

For spiritual guidance,

Gail Rhoads.com

Everyday I look at this little face and wonder if out of my ignorance and blind faith in modern medicine, I may have damaged him for life. He continues to learn at a rapid pace, and I can see no lasting damage from the seizures. I can only thank God for leading me to the people who have given him back the wonderful quality of life every child has the right to experience. I only wish someone had alerted me to the very real possibility of my child having a serious reaction to vaccines. I would have gladly traded any of the childhood diseases for seizures. And today, I only wish I had it to do over again. My children would have never received one single vaccination.

If you have any questions or comments, please E-mail me at WendyCallahan@gmail.com. I do not have a medical background. All the information presented here is drawn from public sources. See the bibliography. Any information obtained here is not to be construed as medical or legal advice. The decision to vaccinate and how you implement that decision is yours and yours alone. Vaccination is a medical procedure which carries a risk of injury or death. As a parent, it is your responsibility to become educated about the benefits and risks of vaccines in order to make the most informed, responsible vaccination decisions.

One final note: It is obvious doctors are aware and have access to all this information and for reasons beyond my comprehension, have not stopped vaccinations. As always, it is in hands of the consumer. In this case, the consumers are mothers and their children. I am in total agreement with Dr. Reisinger’s belief, “It is mothers who will bring about the change, it is mothers that must become educated, it is mothers that are the best advocates for their children.” If one mother reads this and makes an informed decision then I have served my purpose. My dear friend Corrine sent me this poem that I would like to share with you. It explains best my intentions.

A small boy lived by the ocean. He loved the creatures of the sea, especially the starfish, and he spent much of his time exploring the seashore.

     One day the boy learned there would be a minus tide that would leave the starfish stranded on the sand. When the tide went out, he went down to the beach, began picking up the stranded starfish, and tossing them back into the ocean.

     An elderly man who lived next door came down to the beach to see what the boy was doing. Seeing the man's quizzical expression, the boy paused as he approached. "I'm saving the starfish!" the boy proudly declared.

     When the neighbor saw all of the stranded starfish he shook his head and said: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, young man, but if you look down the beach, there are stranded starfish as far as the eye can see. And if you look up the beach the other way, it's the same. One little boy like you isn't going to make much of a difference."

     The boy thought about this for a moment. Then he reached his small hand down to the sand, picked up another starfish, tossed it out into the ocean, and said: "Well, I sure made a difference for that one!"

Here are a few charts that show the decline in disease well before vaccines were implemented

Again notice the decline of 80% before the vaccine was introduced.

Here are some very helpful websites for people looking at vaccines.

www.whale.to/vaccines/incidence.html

WWW.HOME.MIRA.NET/~ANTIVIV/ISSUE696.HTM

WWW.ALANLAM.DEMON.CO.UK/VAC1F.HTM

WWW.PNC.COM.AU/~CAFMR/COULTER/SIDS.HTML

WWW.USERS.PANDORA.BE/VACCINE.DAMAGE.PREVENTION/GENERALINFO

WWW.EAGLEFORUM.ORG/COLUMN/1999/JULY99/99-07-28.HTML

WWW.UNC.EDU/~APHILLIP/WWW/VACCINE/DVM1.HTM

WWW.THINKTWICE.COM

WWW.PAGES.PRODIGY.COM/GVAL/SMALL.HTM

WWW.HOUSE.GOV/BURTON/PR613A.HTM

WWW.EMPORICALTHERAPIES.COM/BIOCHEMICAL_MARKERS.HTML

WWW.TRUFAX.ORG/VACCINE/V6.HTML

WWW.BCN.NET/~STOLL/ARCHIVES/VACCINE/V021998.HTML

WWW.FDA.GOV/CBER/FPRECALLS/ROTA101599.HTML

WWW.ONHEALTH.WEBMD.COM/FAMILY/COLUMNIST/ITEM%2C49554.ASP

WWW.ALTERNATIVEPARENTING.COM/HEALTH/WHENIMMUNIZING.ASP

WWW.CDC.GOV/NIP/VACSAFE/CONCERNS/THIMEROSAL/POLICYQ&A.HTM

WWW.VACCINESAFETY.EDU/ROTA-WITHDRAW-IVS.HTM

WWW.MOTHERING.COM

WWW.HOUSE.GOV/REFORM/PRESS/00.10.26.HTML

WWW.HOUSE.GOV.REFORM/HEARINGS/HEALTHCARE.00.07.18/INDEX

WWW.GARYNULL.COM/DOCUMENTS/STRAY_VIRUSES_

WWW.GVAL.COM/COMP.HTM

WWW.TRUFAX.ORG/VACCINE/HEPB.HTML

WWW.EUROSOLVE.COM/CHARITY/BAVA/VACCINATION.HTML

WWW.TRUFAX.ORG/VACCINE/SAFETY&PROFIT.HTML

WWW.MICRO.UNSW.EDU.AU/JASON/GABRI.HTM

WWW.MERCOLA.COM/2000/MAR/5/VACCINE_UPDATE.HTM

WWW.909SHOT.COM/NVICSPECIALREPORT.HTM

WWW.VACCINEINFO.NET/ISSUES/VACCINE_FACTS.HTM

WWW.ARGONET.CO.UK/USERS/JABS/MMRSUSPEND.HTML

WWW.GARYNULL.COM/DOCUMENTS/AUTISM_99.HTM

WWW.VACCINEINFO.NET/ISSUES/PNEUMOCOCCAL/PREVNAR.HTM

WWW.CHRONICILLNET.ORG/ONLINE/BENSWEET.HTML

WWW.TETRAHEDRON.ORG/ARTICLES

WWW.WFAA.COM/WFAA/ARTICLEDISPLAY/0,1002,20550,00.HTML

WWW.CBSNEWS.COM/NOW/STORY/0,1597,273307-412,00.SHTML

WWW.HACIENDAPUB.COM/ARTICLE36.HTML

WWW. USERS.EROLS.COM/DRROBERT.SIDS

WWW.CDC.GOV/MMWR/PDF/RR/RR5004.pdf

WWW.CDC.GOV/NIP/VACSAFE/CONCERNS/THIMEROSAL/THIMEROSAL.HTM

WWW.AUTISM-MERCURY.COM/JAMA EDITORIAL.HTM

WWW.VACCINEINFO.NET/ISSUES/FLU VACCINE FACTS.HTM

www.garynull.com/Documents/Vaccines/vaccines-2ndopinion_excerpt.htm

www.nccn.net/~wwithin/vaccine.htm

www.healthychild.com