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By Byron J. Richards, CCN
April 4, 2008

On April 2, 2008 CNN spent the day bringing awareness to the problem of autism. Larry King’s segment, which included Jenny McCarthy along with a panel of guests, was particularly enlightening. My hat is off to Jenny, a celebrity mother who is making it quite uncomfortable for the Center for Disease Control (CDC) to ignore parents of Autistic children seeking answers. Why does a mom have to do the work of the CDC? The answer is rather simple: our government’s zeal to insist on too many vaccines while ignoring the actual risks is the driving force behind the autism tragedy. Sure there are many related factors – but the bottom line is that our government is causing disease at an alarming and devastating pace.

It is an interesting comment on our society that an outspoken and impassioned mother of an autistic child, along with her partner (actor Jim Carrey), are the catalysts that are likely to cause a warped empire to crumble. Many before them have tried; and typically been burned at the stake. Jenny and Jim are the government’s worst nightmare. They can’t shut down their medical practice because they don’t have one. They can’t financially damage them into silence. And as they lead their autism March on Washington D.C. this June 4th it is quite clear that they haven’t a prayer of shutting them up. A powder keg is about to blow.

Jenny, to her credit, takes a diplomatic view on vaccines. Here main point is that there are too many vaccines given too soon and that the vaccines contain too many toxic components. As both a leading defender of health freedom in this country and a top nutritionist who has helped numerous autistic children, I am more than happy to put the entire problem into perspective and give insights that will help many parents.

A Brief History of Vaccines, Profits, and Politics

Vaccines started the Big Pharma sickness industry over 100 years ago. While the public views vaccines in a preventive health context our government’s position is much more complex. Vaccines and germs are part of warfare, and the issue is deeply woven into national security interests. Military personnel are frequently subjected to experimental vaccines. Vaccines are a key component of herd mentality; i.e., the ability of those in power to get a population to behave. Public health is never in the best interest of any one person, which is why laws are concocted to enforce compliance. Unelected bureaucrats and scientists in our government agencies, tied financially to the profits of the drug industry and linked to the military, have been playing God for many decades. They know full well there will be deaths and injuries from vaccinations; collateral damage that is justified by prevented disease (a convenient and fear-driven argument).

Our government has no problem manipulating data so that the benefits appear to outweigh the risks. Imagine having a calculator that always has the same conclusion no matter what data is entered. How can the risk of injuring 1 in 150 children for life be acceptable to Big Pharma and the revolving door CDC and FDA management? Any business would love to have the opportunity to produce a product and have the government mandate its sale. Government officials find lucrative jobs in the industries they regulate – after doing “good work.” Autism is partly a side effect of the cancer within government agencies.

Our government will never pay the price to screen children at risk for autism – that would be too proactive and expensive on the front end. They won’t even prepare a reasonable patient history checklist that reflects obvious risk for vaccine injury – as too many parents would opt out. Rather, our government specializes in lazy medicine – fire a shotgun and if someone gets injured it is their fault for standing there. Costs are now the burden of families on the back end of the equation; more profits for the sickness industry. If autism didn’t have painful little faces connected with it this problem would simply be swept under the rug, as is the 100,000 Americans (mostly elderly) killed by Big Pharma drugs every year.

The problem for our government is that an admission of guilt on the autism-vaccine link causes the entire paradigm of the Big Pharma-driven Western-medicine sickness industry to collapse. Even worse in their eyes, it would send an earthquake through the brotherhood of Big Pharma, public health, the CDC, the FDA, the global elite, and the military. Other public health programs would be questioned – like polluting our water with a neurotoxin called fluoride that makes a population more docile and controllable.

Unfortunately for parents combating autism, the problems of their child is only a portion of the issue they now must try to solve. They are up against a government dead set on preventing the truth from ever coming out. Once cornered, our government will play the national security card before fessing up to their sins or making any real effort to correct the damage they have done.

A Major Crack in Our Government’s Armor

The case of Hannah Poling is raising quite a stir. She is now 9 years old. As a healthy and normally developing 18-month-old girl she showed up for her well baby visit and was pummeled with 9 vaccinations, two of them containing the mercury preservative known as thimerosal. Her health immediately deteriorated into full blown autism.

Her case was the first to be settled of 4,900 autism cases pending before federal Vaccine Court. She claimed that mercury-containing vaccines were the cause of her autism. In a shocking turn of events the federal government conceded this autism case saying that “compensation is appropriate.”

However, our government refused to admit vaccines caused her autism. Indeed, the government settled the case before there was even a hearing. The last thing the government wants is to put vaccines on public trial, and place pictures of injured children on the news every night, especially when the evidence of the case is so clear that vaccines will certainly lose.

Rather, the CDC is hinting that it was Hannah’s mitochondria that were to blame, not the vaccines. This argument opens another Pandora’s box (more on that later).

The defendant in all vaccine cases is the Department of Health and Human Services. The CDC is part of the Department of Health and Human Services. Talk about conflict of interest! A pack of foxes is in charge of the national chicken coop.

How Our Government Defends Itself When It Is Clearly Wrong

It is somewhat unfortunate that those who have helped to champion the cause of our government’s involvement in vaccine injury have placed so many eggs in the thimerosal basket. Of course mercury is a nerve toxin and its involvement in autism is likely as a percentage of the problem. However, neither thimerosal nor any single vaccine is an adequate overall explanation for autism. .

Our government is using various studies to deflect the vaccine-autism link. These studies relate to thimerosal and MMR vaccines, but not to the collective number of vaccines given at one time and the overall number of vaccines given so early in life (the real problem). This flimsy government defense (read their vaccine studies here) is being used to deflect attention away from vaccines as a causative link to autism.

This is a classic stalling tactic used by corrupt government and industry when they have been caught red-handed. This approach involves acknowledging certain aspects of the problem, making changes (they took thimerosal out of many vaccines), creating doubt (their “study” defense), and then continuing with the mass vaccination program even though they know it causes harm. This strategy will deflect most of the legal liability from vaccine-related injury, delaying it and then minimizing it over time. A legion of government-funded scientists can be paraded in a courtroom for decades with the sole purpose of creating doubt and delaying taking responsibility for the problem. An admission of guilt opens a floodgate of liability lawsuits.

They think their skimpy studies give them breathing room so that they can now direct attention elsewhere to mysterious possibilities like genetics or environmental toxins that will also take them decades to figure out. True enough, these issues are also a percentage of the problem – so much so that they can be used to confuse the vaccine link for a long time. The government’s defense is always that more research is needed. This is not research that proves what they are doing is safe before they continue to do it; it is research that proves what they are doing is harmful before they stop doing it. Unfortunately, behind closed doors they cherry pick their research results as well as what they choose to study.

In the mean time these unelected bureaucrats continue to unabashedly administer a vaccine program that injures and kills. Most societies would either call this murder or involuntary manslaughter. Why don’t we hear Bush, McCain, Clinton, or Obama weighing in on this issue? Why don’t they stand on stage with a group of autistic children and tell mothers everywhere how important vaccines are?

When the Hannah Polling case got on the radar map and blew up in the government’s face, a damage control press conference was held. Dr. Julie Gerberding, Director of the CDC, stated, “There's absolutely nothing changed in the adamant recommendations that we are making to get children vaccinated. This is proven to save lives and is an essential component of health protection for children across America and the world.” Dr. Gerberding should be the first to stand trial.

Why Vaccines are a Problem

It is quite clear that the rate of autism in this country is directly time-associated with the increased numbers of vaccines given to children. The explosion in autism between 1987 and 1992 coincides with the tripling in the numbers of vaccines given to our children. While such data is not proof of cause and effect, it is significant and cannot be ignored by any responsible parent (it is ignored by the government and medical profession).

Numerous parents report taking their healthy child to the doctor, getting a barrage of vaccinations, having their child run a high fever, and their child never again being the same. THAT IS THE REAL PROBLEM THAT PARENTS SEE WITH THEIR OWN TWO EYES.

The current government strategy is to keep arguing about thimerosal and MMR vaccines – as they know they can create enough doubt to win that argument in the majority of the scientific community. What the government does not want to discuss is the adjuvant in vaccines – which will clearly be shown to be the autism trigger.

Vaccines contain weakened “signatures” of a disease. By themselves they are not strong enough for the immune system to mount a response. This problem is solved by adding a “booster” compound called an adjuvant. An adjuvant does not contain any signature of the disease. Rather, the adjuvant initiates an inflammatory reaction (the first step in any immune response). The idea is to get the immune system revved up so that it can see the weakened disease and learn what it looks like so that if it ever sees it again it will be more prepared to fight it. This concept, in and of itself, has validity – but only given the right set of circumstances.

It is clear that those with autism have an excessively inflamed brain. If pressed, the CDC would likely argue that the brain inflammation is a result of the autism and that they need more studies to determine the cause. I will argue that they don’t need any more studies at all and that the cause is blatantly obvious based on an understanding of existing science. The multiple inflammatory insults from the adjuvant in vaccines, at a rate of 1 in 150 cases, sets the brain on fire and causes autism. As an aside, and to a lesser extent (but just as important to society), a minor brush fire causes ADHD and impaired intelligence.

How Your Brain Works

The crumbling paradigm of Western medicine likes to break down body function according to convenient classifications such as nerves, immunity, hormones, etc. In reality your brain is a central processor of all systems in your body and thus has connections that link nerves, immune function, and hormones into one symphony of function. In other words, it is not possible to study only neurotransmitters like serotonin or dopamine and actually understand what your brain is doing.

Ten percent of the cells in your brain are neurotransmitter related. The other 90% are glial cells, also called astrocytes. For decades scientists thought that 90% of your brain was nothing more than a structural framework, simply because scientific tools were not adequate to understand what glial cells were doing, but that has changed in the past 10 years. Glial cells run your brain and your neurotransmitters. They are the brokers of all information coming into your brain – with direct links to your immune system and endocrine system (hormones).

Glial cells are the inflammation brokers in your brain. When stress, a toxin pollutant, or a destructive food additive (like MSG, aspartame, or food coloring) enter your brain they induce excitotoxic reactions that inflame brain cells. This inflammation is buffered primarily by the hormone leptin and other antioxidants, a process that intimately involves the healthy function of glial cells.

When the buffering anti-inflammatory capacity of glial cells is overloaded, then inflammation becomes chronic. Minimally, this results in brain wear and tear. It is the mechanism behind all accelerated brain aging and, depending on a person’s genetic weaknesses and other health issues, leads to various states of early cognitive decline and nerve-related diseases of aging such as Alzheimer’s.

There is also a point at which low grade brain inflammation catches fire. In adults with an established nerve network this causes a “power outage” in the head, otherwise known as spreading depression. Such an event is typically triggered by emotional pain or physical pain of a prolonged nature or acute intensity (elevating substance P to abnormally high levels). Such trauma pushes struggling nerves over the edge.

The difference in a fetus or small child is that the nervous system is still rapidly evolving. If the brain catches fire at this age proper development of the nerves can be seriously disturbed (the autism spectrum of disorders) or functionally impaired (ADHD, lower IQ).

The adjuvant in vaccine is pro-inflammatory; i.e., neurologically excitotoxic. That is intentional so as to boost the effectiveness of the vaccine. The problem comes about when giving so many of them at once, which can injure even a perfectly healthy child. Giving multiple adjuvants is like playing Russian roulette with a child’s brain. Children with already inflamed nerves are at much higher risk for reacting to multiple vaccines, as their nerves have been conditioned to hyper-react. Don’t think for a moment that Dr. Gerberding and other scientists at the CDC aren’t fully aware of this issue.

Government Responsibility

Our government has the responsibility to prove the safety of any vaccination being recommended for broad public health, as part of an overall vaccine program. Our current knowledge of science, the immune system, and the brain would make it unlikely that broad vaccine programs could ever be approved for use today if they hadn’t being going on for so long.

Our government is not only grossly negligent on the vaccine issue itself, but on numerous other true public health issues that pose a significant risk for brain inflammation in fetuses and children. The CDC, the EPA, and the FDA all play large roles in creating huge autism risk for our population.

Space in this article only allows a few examples; there are many. Environmental pollution that is fat soluble can cross the placenta, exists in mother’s milk, or occurs in the general food supply fed to small children. Fat soluble toxins cross the blood-brain barrier and induce nerve inflammation.

Huge public health risks include widespread contamination of our food supply with fat soluble PCB toxins, a problem that would cost at least 50 billion dollars to clean up. Another example of broad exposure is the neurotoxic pesticides used on food (originally Nazi nerve gas agents). Another example is the military’s poisoning of our water supply with perchlorate, a contaminant now found in breast milk of mothers across the country. This interferes with thyroid function in the baby, resulting in a serious risk for faulty brain development.

Another example is iron fortification of baby formulas, which encourages the growth of hostile bacteria and Candida Albicans in the child’s digestive tract; organisms that produce neurotoxic waste products. Another example is the use of antibiotics before age 1, which also encourages the growth of the very same hostile bacteria and Candida. C-Section deliveries also increased the risk for a hostile digestive terrain in the baby. Candida itself directly communicates to and promotes inflammation in the human immune system causing it to malfunction.

Yet another example is the widespread use of antidepressants by pregnant and nursing mothers, which drastically disturbs the evolving function of nerves and overall health of the fetus or baby. And then there is the vaccine preservative thimerosal (different than an adjuvant), which is a neuro-inflammatory in and of itself. And this is the short list.

All of these issues play a role as a percentage of the problem that induces friction in the developing nervous system of a fetus, baby, or young child and primes the nerves to hyper-react to vaccines. Each of these problems is a true public health problem because they are caused by industry and are allowed to continue by various vested interests. Each one will take tens of billions of dollars to fix. However, that is actually the responsibility of government – to fix costly and broad public health problems – not to make them worse.

The Genetic Red-Herring

The case of Hannah Poling has forced our government to show its hand – and a very weak hand it is. They will continue to bluff and confuse the public with scientific gibberish in an effort to misdirect. Their defense in the Poling case, even though they conceded the case, is that the child had genetic mitochondrial dysfunction.

Mitochondria are the car engines in your cells that produce energy (ATP). ATP is the energy currency in your body, much like money in your wallet. You spend ATP, as needed, to do anything. Inflammation uses up ATP by causing your body to go into a hyper mode (like a 911 phone call). If ATP production is compromised then inflammation can run wild – contributing to the brain fire called autism.

True mitochondrial gene mutations are too rare to explain autism, so the government is trying to blame this mechanism in the Poling case to deflect the idea that vaccines are a risk for the majority.

What the government isn’t saying is that, independent of a true genetic issue, mitochondria can be taxed into a state of stress that predisposes any child to autism risk. You don’t need to have a gene mutation; that is simply a diversion and cover-up attempt.

Furthermore, the glial cells in your brain use ATP to communicate, a separate function than energy currency. This means that any time you run low in overall body energy, brain function is compromised and tilted into a pro-inflammatory mode. This is why stress makes you tired and causes you to feel physical wear and tear. It is also why any time you exercise, which conditions your body to make ATP more efficiently, your head feels better. When glial cells run low on ATP they enter a low grade chronic inflammatory mode – a condition that seriously predisposes to vaccine injury.

Reducing the Risk for Adverse Vaccine Reactions

The bottom line for any parent is to not expose their child to vaccines under circumstances that are likely to increase the odds of a brain fire that results in autism. Fewer vaccines in general, not giving so many at once, and giving them at older ages are all common sense.

Additionally, proper nutrition during pregnancy, during lactation, and the overall fitness and health habits of the mother have a profound effect on having a child with a stronger nervous system. It is quite clear that the obesity hormone leptin is elevated in the blood of autistic children. This is a risk factor linked to obesity in the mother with consequent abnormal fetal programming of the developing brain which is then handicapped to buffer inflammation from toxic exposure like vaccines.

High leptin in the blood means that leptin isn’t getting into the brain. Leptin is the primary buffer in the brain against inflammatory excitotoxic damage. This is why boys have four times the rate of autism compared to girls. Girls have naturally higher levels of protective leptin in their brains, mostly to help them get pregnant and nurse their children in later life. My books on leptin (Mastering Leptin and The Leptin Diet) explain how leptin works in much greater detail. A mother’s health and eating habits, prior to and during pregnancy, play a large role in the health of her baby’s nervous system.

Likewise, family stress during pregnancy and early childhood development are important to how a child processes stress and consequent nerve inflammation. Conflicts between husband and wife, in front of a child (including a child in the womb), primes nerves to be inflamed. Providing a stable environment for mother and child is a main reason for the family unit – and in my opinion the responsibility of men.

Thus we see that there are multiple factors, some under your control and many that are not, acting in one way or another to prime the nerves into a chronic low-grade inflammatory state which sets the stage for increased risk of vaccine injury.

One of the very worst times to vaccinate a child is directly after an illness or surgery – which are highly inflammatory events. Unfortunately, doctors don’t seem to understand health very well and it is often the case that the parent has brought the child to the doctor because of an illness or a follow up from some other medical procedure. At that time the doctor says “Oh, your vaccinations are not up to date.” And then gives them to a child who is already neurologically inflamed. Such medical malpractice is a disaster, and common in this country.

Parents who have children with digestive problems, recurring infections, asthma, allergies, or any other sign of immune weakness should not vaccinate until such problems are fully resolved. These problems also indicate a high level of existing brain inflammation.

It is pathetic that the CDC does not publish a list of guidelines for parents that would dramatically reduce the risk for vaccine injury (low cost and low tech). The “more research is needed” excuse is enough to make everyone vomit. Of course we could do far more by screening for inflammatory brain markers and immune system dysfunction ahead of any round of vaccines (high cost and high tech). The days of blindly vaccinating children according to a schedule, while ignoring the child’s state of existing nerve inflammation and immune system function are over. Parents should revolt. This is a national tragedy. The government’s vaccination program is indeed the cause of the autism epidemic.

Byron J. Richards, Founder/Director of Wellness Resources, is a Board-Certified Clinical Nutritionist and nationally-renowned health expert, radio personality, and educator. He is the author of Mastering Leptin, The Leptin Diet, and Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America.

Richards encourages individuals to take charge of their health, stand up for their health rights, and not blindly succumb to propaganda from the vested-interests who profit from keeping Americans sick. As founder of Wellness Resources, Inc. of Minneapolis, MN, an independently-owned fine-quality dietary supplement company since 1985, he has personally developed 75 unique nutraceutical-grade nutritional formulas. www.wellnessresources.com

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Autism - Cut The Crap
by Evelyn Pringle

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In their public statements, officials within the FDA and CDC, are always claiming that researchers and scientists who conduct studies, not funded by drug companies or the government, are making unfounded claims about a link between thimerosal-laced vaccines and autism, and other neurological disorders, which they claim could lead to reduced vaccine coverage, resulting in preventable outbreaks of disease affecting the entire planet.

I say cut the crap.

Think about it. Why would so many highly respected scientists, researchers and physicians go to such great lengths to concoct bogus studies and issue false reports, in essence putting their professional reputations on the line, if their was no connection? I want these officials to do two things. First I want them to give me one good reason why these professionals would make this up, and two, I want them to give me one logical alternative theory for the current epidemic of disorders.

Lets look at a few of these experts.

Dr Jeffrey Bradstreet, is a practicing physician who treats children with autism and other brain-damage disorders. While in the Air Force, he was trained in toxicology and environmental health. His duties as an Officer included the responsibility for military personnel who had exposure to a wide variety of toxins, including mercury.

Dr Bradstreet has evaluated well over 2000 children with neurological disorders. He also directs a school for children with neurodevelopmental disorders where his responsibilities include supervising occupational therapists, speech and language pathologists, and applied behavioral analysts.

Dr Bradstreet is a Harvard Certified Medical Education Instructor in autism and has written three peer reviewed papers regarding the relationship between thimerosal, developmental disorders and biological markers for Mercury-Susceptibility.

In addition, he has conducted research regarding these disorders and has worked with some of the most highly respected professionals in the country, including Dr Jane El-Dahr of the Tulane University Medical Center; Dr V.K. Singh of the Utah State University Biotechnology Center; the University of Michigan Department of Pharmacology; Dr Vas Aposhian of the University of Arizona; Dr Anne Connolly of the Washington University Hospital; Dr Walter Spitzer of McGill University; the Department of Pediatrics at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Dr Jim Adams of the University of Arizona; and Dr Jill James, a former FDA researcher, now with the University of Arkansas, Department of Pediatrics.

Apparently the FDA, CDC, and vaccine makers expect us to believe that this long line of highly respected professionals from Universities all over the country somehow got together and conspired to conduct fraudulent research for decades and then authored 1000s of false reports and other publications.

I do not buy it. What would be the payoff?

Dr Mark Geier is a medical doctor who holds a PhD in genetics and is board-certified in medical genetics and forensic medicine. He was a researcher at the National Institutes of Health for 10 years and was previously a professor at Johns Hopkins University. He has studied vaccines for more than 30 years and has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers on vaccine safety, efficacy, contamination and policy.

He was instrumental in convincing officials to switch from the whole-cell Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis (DTP) vaccine to the safer version (DTaP). In fact, he wrote the article, “The True Story of Pertussis Vaccination:
A Sordid Legacy?” which in 2002, won the first annual Stanley W. Jackson award for the best paper published in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences during the period of 2000 to 2002.

Dr Geier has made several presentations to the Institute of Medicine on the adverse effects of vaccines including one on thimerosal in 2004. He and his son, David Geier, are the only independent researchers who have ever been permitted to study the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) database of the CDC.

Dr Geier has testified before the US House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform Investigating Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic to critique the Hviid study, conducted in Denmark on autism and thimerosal exposure and he has also addressed the FDA Advisory Committee regarding vaccine safety.

Finally, Dr Geier has testified as an expert witness in about 100 cases before the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program in the US Court of Federal Claims.

In one such case, on November 25, 2003, the Special Master French issued an opinion in which he praised Geier’s credentials and vast experience and said in
part:

Dr Geier “ranks high among those who have studied vaccine issues through the medical literature on vaccines, databases, studies, articles and information on vaccine safety and efficacy in vaccine policy.” ...“The tenor of his testimony in this case addressed the importance of statistical databases in providing statistical reliability and validity in interpreting the epidemiology and issues relating to autism and various vaccines. . . . Dr Geier has recently proposed a data-sharing process that would improve the reliability of present statistical data that would include the present VAERS statistical database. It would be helpful in interpreting the epidemiology and issues relating to the autism controversy.”

Give me one good reason why this world renowned scientist would put his professional career on the line by lying under oath, not only in court 100 times, but also before a congressional committee?

The drug makers and government officials have waged an all out attack on this particular expert in attempt to discount his opinions because Dr Geier speaks in term most people understand. He has reported on the staggering statistical numbers showing the rise in brain-damaged kids who were vaccinated with thimerosal compared to the children who received very little mercury, or mercury-free vaccines, and were not injured. When he speaks, people “get it,” and the powers that be know it.

Then there is expert, Dr George Lucier, who in the year 2000, retired from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences where he was Director of the Environmental Toxicology Program and Associate Director of the National Toxicology Program. In that capacity, he was responsible for coordinating toxicological research and testing across federal agencies as well as conducting risk assessments for exposure to toxic substances including mercury. He has authored well over 200 scientific publications involving toxicology, pharmacology and risk assessment, including ten articles on mercury.

In 1998, Dr Lucier was appointed the Chair of the Organizing Committee for the White House Workshop on Scientific Issues Relevant to Assessment of Health Effects from Exposure to Methylmercury. He has presented his opinions on numerous occasions in various forums and for 28 years, he was the co-editor in chief of the prestigious scientific journal, Environmental Health Perspectives.

Why would this guy lie under oath?

Another renowned scientist expressing the same view on thimerosal, is Dr Boyd Haley, who is currently a Professor and Chairman of the Department of Chemistry with a joint appointment in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Kentucky.

He teaches a class on mercury toxicology and has published more than 110 articles in the peer-reviewed literature including the toxic effects of elemental mercury. Since 1989, his laboratory has been conducting research on the relationship between mercury and neurological diseases, and has performed experiments with thimerosal. In 2001, Dr Haley made a presentation on “In Vitro Studies of Thimerosal Toxicity,” to the IOM.

So why would this guy spend 25 year of his life conducting bogus studies, rendering fraudulent results and authoring a 100 dishonest articles?

An expert I consulted during my initial investigation of this issue was Dr David Ayoub, MD, who when asked how certain he was of the link between autism and thimerosal, told me, “I can state that the certainty of the science supporting mercury as a major cause of autism is probably more overpowering than the science behind any other disease process that I studied dating back to medical school.”

Dr Ayoub is the Director of the Prairie Collaborative for Immunization, an organization that is self-funded, which aids organizations, journalists, and legislators obtain accurate information to assist their work. He is also the author of the report, “Pregnancy and the Myth of Influenza Vaccination-Is it safe, is it effective, is it necessary? What the CDC documents reveal.”

When asked why so many scientist were now conducting research Dr Ayoud said, “I think a disease that effects more individuals than AIDS or cancer, in previously normal infants and children, has created a sense of urgency amongst researchers.”

Flu shots with a toxic dose of mercury are still being given to pregnant women and Rh negative shots with thimerosal are still being given to pregnant women. Even though recent studies have shown that lower IQ levels linked to mercury exposure in the womb costs the US $8.7 billion a year in lost earnings potential, according to a study released in February 2005, by researchers at the Mount Sinai Center for Children's Health and the Environment, who combined a number of previous studies to determine hundreds of thousands of babies are born every year with lower IQ associated with mercury exposure.

Lead researcher and pediatician, Leonard Trasande, said annually, between 316,588 and 637,233 infants are born with umbilical cord blood mecury levels linked to IQ loss and about 4% of babies are born with mercury levels between 7.13 and 15 micrograms per liter which at that level, causes an IQ loss of 1.6 points.

The drug makers have been marching their own experts into court so lets look at the credentials of some of their experts to see how they match up with those listed above.

In the case of Vera Easter verses Aventis Pasteur, although Harvard-educated and the author of some 80 peer-reviewed articles, according to his deposition, Dr Philip Wang’s specialty was epidemiology related to antidepressants. Prior to being retained as an expert for the vaccine makers, Dr Wang had not done any evaluations associated with vaccines, had no specific training whatsoever regarding mercury, and had written no articles on the effects of heavy metal exposure.

Dr Wang has never investigated any illness claimed to be associated with heavy metal exposure and has never been asked to do a formal epidemiologic evaluation of the hypothesis that the thimerosal could cause neurological disorders or autism.

He claimed that he did know that the VAERS database existed prior to being retained as an expert, but had never conducted any analysis on the Vaccine Safety Datalink. Dr Wang’s knowledge of vaccines and thimerosal was limited to what he learned in 30 to 35 hours of meetings with defense attorneys and reading the relevant medical literature, most of which was provided by the defense attorneys.

Finally, Dr Wang only offered an opinion on the link between thimerosal and autism and not on the issues relevant to the case relating to other neurological disorders. For some reason, I don’t think Dr Wang would fare too well if called upon to take the stand to disprove the opinions of the many established experts on the plaintiff’s team with their combined decades of research experience in this area of expertise. Another drug maker expert in the case was Dr Chris P Johnson, who in her deposition agreed that, prior to the case, her experience with mercury poisoning cases was zero. She has had no experience related to mercury or its neurotoxic effects and conceded that she was not an expert on mercury or the effects of mercury exposure on the human body.

I hardly think Dr Johnson is a match for the experts above. In fact I think it would be grossly unfair to even throw this gal in the ring with the other heavyweights. I guess it just goes to show how much humiliation some people are willing to endure to make a buck.

Partnerships Between Industry and Regulatory Officials

In reaching decisions, officials within regulatory bodies seem more concerned about the impact of their decision on global vaccination policies than making an unbiased appraisal of the scientific evidence. In reviewing statements by these agencies, people need to consider the inherent conflicts of interest between the CDC, charged with investigating medical issues; the FDA, charged with regulating vaccines; the Institute of Medicine (IOM), which examines policy issues; and the vaccine manufacturers. After an on-going investigation of several years, the Mercury in Medicine Report was published on May 21, 2003 by the Subcommittee on Human Rights and Wellness of the Committee on Government Reform, and included testimony from numerous experts. The report rendered a number of specific findings.

Most significant was its statement that, “The CDC in general and the National Immunization Program are particularly conflicted in their duty to monitor the safety of vaccines, while also charged with the responsibility of purchasing vaccines for resale as well as promoting increased immunization rates.”

The report went on to say that the CDC due to its “biases against theories regarding vaccine-induced autism,” had chosen to fund researchers “who also worked for vaccine manufacturers to conduct population-based immunologic studies. . .” But most importantly, it identified Thimerosal as the culprit in plain language and in no uncertain terms:

“Thimerosal used as a preservative in vaccines is directly related to the autism epidemic. This epidemic in all probability may have been prevented or curtailed had the FDA not been asleep at the switch regarding a lack of safety data regarding injected thimerosal and the sharper eyes of infant exposure to this known neurotoxin. The public health agencies’ failure to act is indicative of institutional malfeasance for self protection and misplaced protectionism of the pharmaceutical industry.”

The CDC’s decision to promote the publication of research supportive of the vaccine industry to refute this report by a congressional committee, demonstrates just how far it will go to support its partners in crime.

Blatant evidence of this partnership can be found in a CDC plan to promote flu vaccine sales which detailed a “7 step recipe for generating interest in, and demand for, flu (or any other) vaccination.” The document discusses the “best recipe” that would foster interest and demand, including use of terms like “very severe,”“more severe,” and “deadly” to “motivate behavior” and increase sales. For any doubters, this evidence should confirm that the interests of the CDC and the industry are one and the same.

In addition, numerous articles published in medical journals between 2001 to 2004, were quoted as key studies relied upon by the Institute of Medicine, which as it turns out, were written by authors and researchers with direct conflicts of interest and real biases in favor of claiming that thimerosal did not cause injuries or autism. Many of the conflicts were not revealed by the authors at the time the articles were written in direct violation of policy rules pertaining to medical journals.

For instance, one article relied upon by the IOM, although not a population study, was Pichichero et al. Mercury concentrations and metabolism in infants receiving vaccines containing Thimerosal: a descriptive study, published in Lancet in 2002.

Pichichero did not declare any conflicts, despite the Lancet’s strict policy requiring that conflicts be disclosed. However, in a subsequent New York Times article, Pichichero admitted that he had done work for Lilly and other drug companies. But a fact that must have slipped his mind was that in an earlier article in American Family Physician, Pichichero had declarated:

The author has received research grants and/or honoraria from the following pharmaceutical companies:
Abbott Laboratories, Inc.; Bristol Myers Squibb Company; Eli Lilly & Company; Merck and Co.; Pasteur Merieux Connaught; Pfizer Labs; Roach Laboratories; Roussel-Uclaf; Schering Corporation; SmithKlineBeecham Pharmaceuticals; Upjohn Company; Wyeth-Lederle.

In defending thimerosal, officials will often refer to the World Health Organization as a body that has found it safe. Well in a June, 2001 WHO report, the agency itself refers to vaccine manufacturers as a full and equal “partner.” When the WHO was worried that regulations had affected drug maker’s costs, it stressed the need to get them to stay in the market, and even proposed a “communication strategy that would take account of public concern about adverse effects of vaccines.”

So, in a subsequent WHO meeting on April 15-16, 2002, a decision was made to “lobby Ministry of Health and senior regulators” on the thimerosal issue and to “develop a strong advocacy campaign to support the ongoing use of thiomersal.“ It can readily be seen that the WHO has similar reasons to those of the CDC to support the industry’s position.

As thimerosal containing vaccines continue to be shipped to countries all over the world, its becoming more and more apparent that these cozy “partnerships” wield a considerable amount of power when it comes to making decisions related to vaccine safety.

Who Knew What And When

The well-documented sordid history of thimerosal, including the continuing misrepresentations by its inventor, Eli Lilly, confirms that the product should never have been used in childhood vaccines, and should have definitely been removed prior to the doubling of the content that resulted from the addition of the HIB and Hepatitis B vaccines in the late 1980’s to mid-90’s.

Mercury in vaccines was tested and shown to be lethal many times over the past 40 years. In May of 1967, an article was published in Applied Microbiology, titled “Enhanced Toxicity for Mice of Pertussis Vaccine When Preserved with Merthiolate.” The abstract states:
Pertussis vaccines preserved with 0.01% merthiolate (thimerosal) are more toxic for mice than unpreserved vaccines prepared from the same parent concentrate containing the same number of organisms.

In this study, twenty mice were injected with a vaccine with no thimerosal and none died. 30 others were injected with the same vaccines, plus thimerosal, and 5 died. The article stated that “it would not be surprising if injection of this vaccine influenced the susceptibility of the mouse towards a mercurial preservative.“ The authors also noted that “other laboratories” had observed toxicity of final lots of preserved vaccine when the vaccines themselves were “atoxic or only slightly toxic.”

In 1972, Lilly received an article that confirmed that thimerosal had caused 6 deaths when too much of it had been used, which said: “The symptoms and clinical course of the 6 patients suggests subacute mercury poisoning.”

In 1975, autopsies on squirrel monkeys treated with thimerosal-containing nose spray, determined that mercury accumulated in the brain “which may represent a potential hazard in the chronic use of thimerosal as a preservative in products intended for human use.”

By the late 1970’s, vaccine companies realized the need to remove thimerosal because of its poisonous effects. In an October 12, 1979 memo, Merck scientists discussed the “potential problem” of having mercury in its flu and meningococcal vaccines, as well as the Hepatitis B vaccine that was under development and asked: “Should a program of replacement be initiated now to guard against any spontaneous rally to avoid its (thimerosal) use in injectables?”

This memo proves that the industry knew about the dangers long before the mercury-loaded Hib and Hep B vaccines were added to the schedule in the 1980’s and 1990’s.

In 1986, an article titled, “Organic Mercury Compounds and Their Toxicity,” noted that thimerosal had caused problems and stated that it was “now accepted that multidose injection preparations are undesirable, and preservatives should not present in unidose preparations.“

In the early 1990’s, the level of thimerosal in vaccines increased drastically, and in many cases doubled. The drug companies knew that adding 3 or four HIB vaccines and as many as 3 Hep B shots would substantially increase the level of mercury injected into infants at a critical period of brain development.

We now know that by 1991, Merck absolutely knew that the increase was harmful. A 1991 internal memo, recently revealed by the LA Times, concluded that exposure in infants within the first six month of life could be 87 times the level determined safe. The memo‘s damning revelations said:

For babies: the 25 ug of mercury in a single 0.5 ml dose and extrapolated to a 6 pound baby would be 25 times the adjusted Swedish daily allowance of 1.0 micrograms for a baby of that size. The total mercury burden in a baby is unknown, but it has been stated that the blood level of a newborn may exceed that of the mother. If eight doses of thimerosal-containing vaccine was given in the first six months of life (3 DTP, 2 HIB, and 3 Hepatitis B) the 200 micrograms of mercury given, say to an average size of 12 pounds, would be about 87 times the Swedish daily allowance of
2.3 micrograms for a baby of that size.

In the memo even acknowledged that “the best way to go is to switch to dispensing the actual vaccines without adding preservatives.” However, it went on to say that while this was the best solution, there was “a cost consideration the head of Health Services has to consider. Several large ampoules or bottles are more expensive than a smaller number of larger packages.”

So in essence, this Merck memo proves that by 1991, vaccine makers knew that they were injecting poison into infants and decided that profits were more important than the country’s most precious asset, an entire generation of children.

The vaccine makers are fighting hard against the removal of thimerosal for two reasons. The first is the usual suspect, greed. But the second reason is now higher on their list. The industry knows that if thimerosal were to be completely removed from all vaccines tomorrow, the public would not be able to ignore the corresponding decline, not only in cases of autism, but in the epidemic of all the strange disorders that have engulfed the public school system in all 50 states over the past 15 years. The decline is already happening in California, one of the first states to ban thimerosal.

In attempt to confuse the issue, officials have tried to avoid any discussion of the evidence establishing an association between mercury and a host of other neurological disorders.

In addition to autism, the epidemic includes attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD) and speech or language delay and each has its own spectrum of symptoms. For example, autism is characterized by impairments of social interaction, communication, and behavior. ADD/ADHD is typified by persistent patterns of inattention and/or hyperactivity. Speech and language delay are characterized by sensory and auditory processing disorders impacting on communication. See Immunization Safety Review, Thimerosal-Containing Vaccines and Neurodevelopmental Disorder, IOM 2001.

Officials should quit using scare tactics to infer a threat to the vaccine program as a whole. The issue is not the vaccines, its the preservative that has to go. And its not just contained in childhood vaccines. Thimerosal is in other products given to unsuspecting victims.

The flu vaccine is probably the most commonly used product that still contains the preservative, but there are other shots that have it as well. For instance, I just found out that a shot given to stop contractions in pregnant women who go into labor too early contains thimerosal.

I traveled to Wisconsin to be sure that I would be in the hospital at the time of delivery to protect my first grandson from any nurse with a needle looking to stick him with a Hep B vaccine. A few days ago, my daughter began to have early contractions. The doctor told her not to worry, to just come in for a check up. She came home with the great news that a shot stopped the contractions, only to find out a few hours later that the miracle shot may have contained thimerosal.

That was three days ago and I am still in shock!

While adverse effects of vaccines to a small number of susceptible individuals might seem justified in the interest of the greater good to mankind, the brain-injuring effects arising as a result of the government forcing parents to inject a known poison into their precious children should not be tolerated.

Evelyn Pringle epringle05@yahoo.com The author is a columnist for Independent Media TV and an investigative journalist focused on exposing corruption in government



American Academy of Pediatrics Unleashes Hysterical Attack on Fictional Television Show about Vaccine / Autism Link
by Mike Adams

(NaturalNews) The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has gone ballistic over a fictional television program airing on ABC that shows a family successfully suing a vaccine manufacturer for their child's autism. Not satisfied to push dangerous vaccines onto children in the real world, the AAP now feels it must also control the thoughts and ideas of people living in fictional worlds by pressuring television networks to censor their programming. Only television shows that conform to the pro-chemical, pro-pharmaceutical, pro-vaccine point of view will be tolerated by the AAP, it seems.

A letter signed by AAP President Renee Jenkins warns ABC that it will "will bear responsibility for the needless suffering and potential deaths of children from parents' decisions not to immunize based on the content of the episode." This is tantamount to saying that ABC's television program will kill children! The AAP letter goes on to state the usual conventional medicine propaganda line that there is "no evidence" of any link between vaccines and autism.

Of course, that's only true if you limit your "evidence" to whatever dogmatic beliefs are currently being circulated in the minds of the promoters of western medicine. To these doctors, there's no such thing as a dangerous injection, drug or synthetic chemical! It's all safe for children: Mercury fillings, chemical fluoridation of water supplies, 37 different vaccine injections, antibacterial soap in children's toothpaste... need I go on? The American Academy of Pediatrics seemingly hasn't met a corporate-sponsored chemical it didn't like.

Why the AAP has no credibility
This is the same association, you have to remember, that pushes ADHD drugs like Ritalin onto children. Children who show "symptoms" of ADHD (a fictitious disease invented by the drug companies) should not be treated with nutrition, according to the AAP. They should be treated with amphetamines that used to be sold on the street as "speed." (ADHD drugs are amphetamines.) Is this a children's health organization that parents should really trust?

Consider this: The 2002 cover of the American Academy of Pediatrics breastfeeding guide featured the name and logo of Ross Products, the company that makes Similac, the top-selling brand of infant formula. I recently picked up a bottle of Similac "Go & Grow" formula. The front of the product claims, "Balanced nutrition for older babies. Improved formula!" I checked the back of the product and was shocked to see the ingredients, which listed the following as the first five ingredients:
42.6% corn syrup solids, 14.7% soy protein isolate, 11.5% high oleic safflower oil, 10.1% sugar (sucrose) and 8.4% soy oil
That's over 50% sugar! Don't believe these ingredients? I took a picture to prove it: http://www.naturalnews.com/gallery/articles/similacingredients.jpg

Let me go on the record right here, right now, and say that any doctor or medical organization that recommends a diet of corn syrup, soy protein, sugar and cheap oils to an infant should be arrested for malpractice. To think that the American Academy of Pediatrics actually promoted this company tells you everything you need to know about the AAP. The organization, in my opinion, is a disgrace to medicine. Its remarkable lack of nutritional knowledge demonstrates the organization's complete lack of credibility when it comes to talking about children's health. In my opinion, the AAP is nothing more than a Big Business front group that pushes junk infant formula products and dangerous medicines onto unsuspecting parents and children.

But intelligent parents know better. Reasonably-minded persons are increasingly questioning the sanity of injecting children with vaccines containing mercury preservatives, and they're tired of being lied to by drug companies, the FDA and medical "front groups" that are really nothing more than propaganda organizations for Big Pharma. Did you know that the entire medical community calls vaccines "mercury free" even when they still contain trace amounts of mercury? It's just one of many lies told to the public about vaccines.

The links between vaccines and autism is real
As anyone who has been paying attention already knows, autism rates have skyrocketed in direct correlation with the rise in vaccines. Take any nation in the world, and you'll find that autism rates are near-perfectly correlated with vaccine rates. The conventional medical community acknowledges that autism rates are extremely high in the United States among those children who are vaccinated, but they insist there's "no proof" of any causal link between the two.

Sure there isn't. They're not looking for any. It's like asking Big Tobacco to find proof that cigarette smoke causes lung cancer and heart disease. The idea that vaccines might be unsafe goes against their whole distorted belief system of pushing more and more injections onto infants and children -- all while enriching the profits of powerful drug companies. You, the consumer, are not supposed to pay attention to the inconvenient truths that children are being killed by vaccine shots. Two more young girls just died last week after receiving the Gardasil HPV Vaccine shots, and the body count will continue to rise as long as children are subjected to these radically unsafe substances.

The reason the AAP has so viciously attacked ABC for airing a fictional television show on this topic is because the AAP recognizes the danger in inviting parents to wake up and start asking commonsense questions about the safety of vaccines. If there's one thing conventional medicine absolutely does not want to see, it's a mass revolt against the synthetic chemicals that pay their salaries and keep them in power. Just like any dynasty that exercises control over its population, the AAP doesn't want the commoners questioning the King. In fact, the peasants cannot even be allowed to read, view or think thoughts that might question the declarations of the King.

But the truth, of course, is that the Emperor has no clothes. The pro-vaccine push is more about pseudoscientific marketing than scientific medicine. It's about corralling people into a belief system, not about actually saving their lives. Any intelligent review of the literature on the safety of vaccines and the history of modern civilization will reveal, for example, that the sharp drop in infant mortality over the last one hundred years was due almost entirely to public health measures (better hygiene, better sewer systems, cleaner water, etc.). The vaccine-pushing industry would love to take credit for these improvements, but they really just stem from basic improvements in the hygiene practices of the nation.

How vaccines harm children -- even when they work!
The vaccine-pushing doctors in this country would also like to take credit for "saving the lives of children" by protecting them from diseases like the measles, mumps and chicken pox. And yet, even here their logic is flawed: Vaccinating children against these non-fatal diseases actually weakens the immune system, denying it the ability to expand its function via an adaptive response to the chicken pox, for example. Vaccines actually impair future immune function, causing that child to be increasingly susceptible to future infectious diseases. A truly healthy child is one whose health is supported through wise nutritional therapies and is exposed to the live chicken pox virus. After a few days of uncomfortable symptoms, the immune system "learns" to overcome the infection, and by doing so, it expands its ability to more strongly protect the body from future infections.

Vaccines deny the child this experience, handing them a dead chicken pox virus combined with a stew of toxic chemicals. The result? An immune system that learns very little. It's like giving a child the answers to a math test before he takes the test, and then declaring him to be a brilliant math student when he gets an "A".

Pharmaceutical-trained physicians don't understand (or even acknowledge) the important role of the immune system in experiencing and overcoming infectious disease, and they think that all health must be accomplished through intervention. Essentially, modern doctors don't trust Mother Nature, and they have no faith in the ability of the body to keep itself healthy. They do trust, however, in Big Pharma's chemicals, and they believe that virtually no chemical is too dangerous to inject or implant into the bodies of children.

Notice, for example, that most pediatricians don't even speak out against the toxic mercury used in dental fillings? To them, mercury is perfectly safe to put into the mouths of children. So why on Earth would we expect these people to be alarmed over mercury being injected into the bodies of those same children?

Vaccine-pushing pediatricians are a threat to the health of children
Conventionally-trained pediatricians, it's sad to say, are the real threat to the health and safety of our children. While they're the ones blaming ABC for airing a television show, the truth is that they are the ones directly responsible for the deaths and suffering of countless children and families. The brand of scientifically-retarded medicine practiced by modern pediatricians today is solely based on financial motivations and power struggles (as in, who controls the health of the population). For every vaccine shot given to an innocent child, there's a profit. And the reason the industry is attacking ABC over this television program is because every shot that's avoided is a loss of that profit. This is about money, not public health. Want proof? Consider this:

What do you think would be happening today if an herb (instead of a vaccine) taken by millions of children was correlated with a huge rise in autism? The "scientific" community would be all over that herb, airing accusations of toxicity, calling for its ban, and the FDA would no doubt immediately ban the herb and criminalize anyone importing it or selling it. But what happens when it's a vaccine instead? The medical community defends it, insists there's no evidence of harm, and attempts to censor television shows while pushing its propaganda to the hilt.

Do you see the double standard at work in conventional medicine today? It stems from the unstated assumptions of our "drugs and surgery" system of medicine today: That all natural medicines are dangerous unless proven safe, and all drugs are safe unless proven dangerous.

Vaccines, then, are safe until someone proves them dangerous (at least according to those docs who keep pushing them). And nobody from the conventional world of medicine is really looking for hard for evidence of their danger. Furthermore, if someone from outside the realm of conventional medicine finds evidence of the harm of vaccines, their evidence will be rejected on the grounds that those people aren't part of the "recognized medical community." This is how these medical types circle the intellectual wagons and protect the status quo while rejecting any new evidence that goes against whatever "scientific" positions they've already announced are true.

The safety of vaccines cannot be questioned -- EVER! -- because the system of medicine practiced today depends on those vaccines as its primary myth-carrier. What myth is that? The myth that human health requires chemical intervention, and only specially trained doctors are smart enough to know what the body really needs. Mother Nature is an idiot, these doctors think, and they're determined to inject every child in the world with dangerous substances just to prove themselves right.
The arrogance is nothing short of astonishing.

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Vaccines : Untested, Unsafe and Unnecessary.

(c) Dr Leo Rebello & Jagannath Chatterjee ,

(Published in Medical Journal "Homoeo a' fair", December 2006)

Presented personally to Swami Ramdevji on 01.01.2007

 

Since the time they were introduced around 200 years ago vaccines have been credited to be a medical marvel, having stopped killer acute diseases on their tracks and providing hopes of similarly tackling other diseases like AIDS, and also chronic autoimmune disorders like cancer, diabetes, even ending obesity and the nicotine habit.

Emergence of autism fuels discontent.

But below all this hope, hype and activity opposition and discontent is brewing. The process of vaccine manufacture, and the nature of vaccine ingredients have always been a closely guarded secret. However an outbreak of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in American children, up from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 166 today, an increase that coincides with the increase in number of childhood vaccinations since 1978, focused attention on vaccines with the parents claiming that they watched their children regress after they got the shots.

Children with ASD, a condition yet to be fully understood, usually demonstrate deficits in social interaction, verbal and nonverbal communication, and display repetitive behaviors or interests. They may suffer from delayed development and be afflicted by severe bowel disorders. Clinically it is attributed to a neuron disorder and blamed on the genes, the gut problems being generally ignored. Critics say it is the largest iatrogenic (medicine induced) epidemic in human history.

Mercury poisoning via vaccines.

The cries against vaccines became more vocal as autism was found to be very similar to symptoms of mercury poisoning. Vaccine whistle blowers have revealed that Thimerosal, a vaccine decontaminant used in multi dose vials to prevent fungal and bacterial growth, is 49.56% mercury by weight and it is being used since 1930. The first autism cases were detected in 1931. Earlier too a syndrome called "Pink Disease" was seen in children treated with Calomel, a mercury based compound. Calomel was banned when the link was known.

It takes simple mathematics to find out that by the time the children take all the shots, which have increased considerably over the last three decades, the mercury in their body is much above the EPA approved limit in food of 0.1mcg per kg of body weight in adults, ingested, not injected. A mercury laced vaccine contains 15 to 50mcg of mercury per shot.

The mercury content in children's bodies has gone up to 250 times the EPA limit as a result of the vaccines and that too injected directly into their blood stream bypassing the body's natural defences. If we consider the FDA limit of mercury in water the children are being subjected to 50,000 times the limit. Mercury is a dangerous neurotoxin, second only to Uranium, and accumulates in fat cells of the brain, organs and tissues destroying the nerves therein. It has been found to be toxic even in ppm doses.

Vaccines also contain aluminum, used to excite the immune system of the body, and which considerably boosts the toxicity of mercury. When injected into children the mixture readily overpowers their nervous system to cause severe brain, neurological and allied damage.

Vaccines have caused a trail of autism and other damage wherever they have been implemented. China has reported an autistic population of 18 lakhs after vaccines were allowed into the country in 1990. The parents of vaccine damaged children have staged protests in the infamous Tiannemann Square in Beijing after which they were forcibly dragged away and imprisoned.

How vaccines affect children.

Some children are more susceptible to mercury as their body does not produce enough glutathione, an agent that helps in disposing off the mercury and other neurotoxins in the body. These children develop full scale autism while the other children are affected with various other disorders. It is observed that sick, underweight, malnourished and immunocompromised children do not have the ability to produce enough glutathione.

Autism affects male children more than females because the female hormone acts similarly as glutathione thus eliminating mercury, other heavy metals and toxins from the body.

The number of children with memory problems, neurological problems, behavioral, developmental problems and attention deficit disorders is said to be 1 in 6 today, certainly a huge figure. The live viruses used in vaccines also contribute to serious and chronic intestinal disorders like Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), Crohn's Disease etc.

Doctors aware of vaccine risks.

What is very disturbing in the vaccination controversy is that the medical profession has been aware all along about the lethal aspects of vaccines. Dr Antoine Beauchamp was the first to blow the whistle even as Louis Pasteur came out with his virus theory. Dr J Crompton Burnett studied the concept of injecting diseased pus into the body in 1840 and declared it was creating a deep seated disease condition with symptoms akin to suppressed veneral diseases. He termed it Vaccinosis.

The spurt in small pox cases, vaccine induced deaths and the emergence of the cancer epidemic after the small pox vaccine was made mandatory sparked off protests all over the world spawning anti vaccine groups comprising mainly of mainstream doctors and the vaccine was banned.

Deaths from vaccines prompted many doctors to raise their voices which reached a peak in 1909. Concern over the use of mercury in vaccines was voiced in 1938. By 1990 scientific studies had linked vaccines to a wide range of illnesses. In the year 2000 a secret meeting was held by doctors, vaccine manufacturers and vaccine policy makers where doctors voiced their apprehensions but strangely a decision was taken to play down the concerns and continue with mercury in vaccines.

Not only that, it was decided to cut off research funds from projects which sought to study the way vaccines affected the population. This despite the presence of a wide range of studies having proven beyond doubt that vaccines affect the immune system adversely and are behind many cases of sickness in children and adults.

It can be said with certainity that vaccine induced diseases drive the medical industry and help it draw funds from governments and private sources while attempting to research into and manage these iatrogenic illnesses. The industry similarly fleeces the unsuspecting patients and also feeds the health insurance business.

Today vaccines continue to be the mainstay of the medical industry and they hope to swamp the population with 250 vaccines which are currently in various stages of development, in the very near future. Currently plant based genetic vaccines are being covertly tested (with devastating results) and scientists are busy devising genetically modified crop which will automatically vaccinate us against disease. Truly we are entering a very frightening stage of human development, if we can call it that.

Vaccine manufacturers in the US are today immune to law suits. They are allowed to charge a fee of up to 60% on vaccines which goes to a national vaccine damage compensation fund. It is the government that pays damages to affected children prompted by courts. Needless to say it is very difficult to prove that vaccines have damaged the child as the medical community has framed the rules which makes it almost impossible to do so.

Doctors declare vaccines unnecessary.

As conscientious doctors watched perfectly normal children turn into grotesque zombies after receiving the vaccines, the beneficial nature of childhood illnesses began to be discussed.

It became clear to doctors that disease was something beyond the symptoms and that the outward manifestations of disease called aetiology was but the body's efforts to throw out disease matter. It thus became obvious that acute illnesses served a purpose and that the body purposely chose an illness to rectify an internal defect.

Under the circumstances, doctors like Philip Incao raised serious doubts over the supposed benefits of vaccines and instead declared them unnecessary, an insult to the growing child.

Others doctors too have revolted against vaccines as the short term and long term consequences are visible everywhere. There is consensus that vaccines have changed us permanently, introduced hereditory chronic disorders and caused genetic changes in the human population which will have far reaching consequences.

No long term tests on vaccines.

No long term tests have ever been conducted on the after effects of vaccines, singly and in combination. Vaccines are tested for a short period against another vaccine, not a placebo. Short term reactions are rationalised as resulting from other causes and not the vaccines.

There are instances where vaccines have been sanctioned despite adverse reactions being reported as in case of the Rotavirus vaccine. It is common for vaccines to be withdrawn for their dangerous after effects and then released after modifications claiming to be "new and improved". Even in the new avatar they cause havoc as in DTP which has been modified into DTaP.

Vaccine activists are now asking for vaccinated populations to be tested against an unvaccinated population. A community called Amish in the UK claim religious exemption from vaccines. It has been observed that they do not suffer from any autoimmune disorders. There are only 3 autistic children in the Amish community, against an expected 130. It was found upon enquiry that even these 3 have been vaccinated under various circumstances.

Short term studies conducted by unbiased researchers have revealed that vaccinated children suffer more than their vaccinated counterparts. In many trials deaths, brain damage, neurological problems, infantile diabetes, Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS), a paralytic disease, severe allergies and intestinal disorders have been reported.

 

But how do vaccines suppress diseases?

The official version is that vaccines create antibodies to the various viral and bacterial matter injected into the body. However it has been proved that high antibody counts do not translate into immunity. Vaccinated population have regularly been hit by diseases that they have been vaccinated against. While the vaccine manufacturers see this as an oppurtunity to push in "booster doses", the fact is the vaccination concept is flawed.

Then how do vaccines suppress diseases? This is probably due to the observed phenomenon that if a person has a chronic disease, he is often spared acute ones. By introducing a chronic disease state and suppressing the vitality of the body, it cannot react to foreign intrusions by the way of external symptoms. This symptom less condition is touted to be a "disease free state" whereas in reality it is an obvious case of immune suppression.

Grim scenario in India.

The situation in India is even worse. As per a declaration by doctors at the recent inauguration of the National Autism Centre at New Delhi, the number of autistic children, as per a very conservative estimate, is more than 40 lakhs today. Last year the figure was 17.40 lakhs. An increase of 133% in a single year. This has been reported in the Times of India. The centre was inaugurated by Ms Sonia Gandhi.

Also a news in The Telegraph by its science correspondent Sri G S Mudur reported that up to 3,00,000 children in India have been affected by Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) over the last two decades, ostensibly due to the use of the live polio virus in the Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV). A grave error that has rattled the govt but all attempts are being made to deny the link.

The IMA has a more grim prognosis. While it reports a figure of 85,000 AFP cases it points out that this could be 5% of the total figure. Dr Jacob M Puliyel, Vice Chairman, IMA Committee on Immunisation has put the entire blame on WHO, UNICEF and the Indian Government in a scathing criticism published by The Hindu.

Vaccine flaws pointed out to GOI.

It is not that the vaccine - childhood disorders link has not been pointed out to the Health Ministry in India. Dr Ajay Gambhir, Secy, IMA, and a member of the vaccine committee, has sounded the warning in 2003. Dr Mythilli Chari, a doctor associated with autism treatment has blamed the vaccine MNCs for forcing India to use vaccines containing Thimerosal even as in USA and European countries there is a ban on mercury in vaccines.

Dr Bhaskar Rao, eminent Cardio-Thoracic Surgeon has questioned the unbridled rule of vaccines in his 2001 tirade against the illogical introduction of the Hep-B vaccine into India.  Dr P M Bhargava, Vice Chairman, Knowledge Commission has written to the Government on the OPV issue. Clearly the medical community is sharply divided on the issue of vaccines.

Doctors also argue that it is clean water and environment, better hygiene and nutrition, prolonged and proper breastfeeding besides building up natural immunity that helps curb epidemics like polio and not vaccines.

Vaccines compromise immune system.

Vaccines, say critics, compromise the immune system by exciting the humoral (blood and lymph based) immunity while leaving the cellular immunity untouched. This creates an inherent imbalance confusing the body's cognitive and recuperative abilities. It is this imbalance that leads to allergies and autoimmune disorders as the body looses its ability to distinguish between friend and foe.

Natural illnesses provide lifelong immunity as both humoral as well as cellular immunity gets involved. Exposure to illnesses like tuberculosis do not offer immunity as they are constitutional diseases and affect the body deeply to leave an imprint which has to be cured by well chosen holistic remedies and practices.

Vaccines as bio weapons.

To top it all vaccines are being introduced in India without proper trials raising fears that bio weapons designed as vaccines could easily invade India, as pointed out by Dr Ajay Gambhir of the IMA. Vaccines to forcibly control the population, as per an US, UN and WHO agenda, by creating antibodies to a birth hormone have already been covertly tested in India, Vietnam, Philippines and Nigeria. In India a PIL has been filed on the issue by Saheli, a women's organisation.

The haste with which developing and overpopulated countries are being flooded with vaccines, as a philanthropic gesture, have raised the fears that they are being used to make the population sterile. Mercury is known to effect the childbearing capacity of women and fertility in men.

The use of Squalene, an oil based adjuvant that is known to be a painful immunedestroyer being used in recent vaccines and in vaccines in the making is also a cause for concern. Used in the anthrax vaccine, it has caused havoc amongst US troops who are being forcibly vaccinated. Squalene is also an ingredient of the various AIDS vaccines under development.

Other vaccine ingredients.

Why are so many voices being raised against vaccines? Is it simply because of mercury? No. There are other ingredients in vaccines which raises the heckles of conscientious doctors.

Vaccines contain carcinogens like formaldehyde, phenol, glycol, glutamic acid etc. Human and animal serum and tissues used in vaccines have helped more than 60 recognised animal viruses cross over to humans of which two, SV 20 and SV 40, both simian viruses, have till now been identified as damaging.

Causal studies have revealed that SV 40 is behind many cases of Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma, a form of cancer. The SV 40 is now with us permanently and is found in cancerous tumours, the brain, lymphatic and cerebro spinal fluid and also in the sperms. The Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV), similarly transferred, is suspected to have morphed into the dreaded HIV in humans.

In these days where nano bacteria and nano viruses are being studied, virologists suspect that billions of foreign viruses and bacteria have crossed over by the use of animal and human serum in vaccines. How they could be affecting us is anybody's guess. Vaccines are clearly playing Russian Roulette with our lives.

Antibiotics like neomycin, penicillin, streptomycin form a part of vaccines. These antibiotics should not be injected without a skin test and are reportedly behind most cases of anaphylactic shocks, seizures and deaths immediately following the vaccines. 

The current trend to use genetically modified viruses in Hep B and the flu vaccines is being opposed by genetic scientists themselves who argue that the science is in its infancy and that commercial application is not advisable. The use of live viruses in the OPV and the MMR is also a raging debate as they are known to trigger the very diseases they seek to prevent.

Incidentally the measles virus strain used in the MMR vaccine is found in the guts of autistic children indicating that the vaccine could be triggering the autism epidemic aided by the other vaccines delivered prior to it. Autism, in most cases,  shows itself just after the MMR or the DPT shot. Dr Andrew Wakefield of the UK has suggested that mercury and other heavy metals, coupled with the use of multiple live viruses in vaccines are behind the spurt of autism cases all over the world.

No statistics to prove vaccine efficacy.

Many will be surprised to know that there is no statistics to prove that vaccines have eradicated epidemics. The emphatic declarations about the magic of vaccines is merely a perception moulded into the human psyche by repeating a lie ad infinitum.

The study of figures show that vaccines have been introduced at the fag end of epidemics and that they were declining anyway. In case of Small Pox, there was even a flare up after the vaccine was introduced forcing Mahatma Gandhi to come out strongly against the use of vaccines which he claimed was a "filthy process". The epidemic graphs show the typical bell shape with the vaccines being introduced at the declining stage when the diseases were already on the wane and on the verge of disappearance.

It is known that epidemics like the Plague and Spanish Influenza, even Scarlet Fever, have disappeared without the use of vaccines. The use of live viruses in vaccines is flaming doubts that it is vaccines that are prolonging epidemics. Polio in the US is now caused only by the strain used in the Salk injectible vaccine, a vaccine which may soon be introduced in India. Epidemics of acute diseases are today found even among vaccinated populations.

Vaccination debate yet to take off in India.

The vaccination debate is very old in the West dating back to the early 1980s but it has not been given the attention it deserves in India which treats vaccine camps akin to religious ceremonies and the government repeatedly urges the people to vaccinate their children. While courts in the US have awarded compensation of up to $43.10 million to individual vaccine victims, the Indian govt stoutly defends its stand that vaccines are absolutely safe.

American investigation finds flaws.

A recent US Govt led investigation has found both the US CDC and FDA, medical advisory bodies, guilty on many counts. The investigators have been shocked at the sloppy manner in which the conspiracy is being tackled and have found evidence that the vaccine manufacturers are colluding with politicians and doctors to hush up the issue. The investigators expressed surprise at how such a large dose of mercury, the second most dangerous toxin, was being allowed to be injected into infants.

Moreover a CDC led investigation has found mercury capable of causing neuro degenerative diseases in children. A Californian medical institute study on rats too indicates the same. All these studies are vehemently denied and suppressed by the medical community. Any admission of guilt would lead to an avalanche of court cases that would financially cripple the medical industry besides affecting its reputation and credibility.

A CDC document has declared in December '2006 that "no vaccine is fully safe or effective". What it does not say is why then should we continue with them? What is the rationale behind injecting new born babies with known and studied poisons? What purpose does this madness serve? The medical community will have a lot of answering to do when finally the bubble bursts and the whole sordid business of death and disease surfaces. Already angry parents all over US, UK and Europe are calling for Nuremburg style human rights trials for the accused.

Vaccines and adult chronic diseases.

Vaccines are today linked not only to childhood disorders but, considering the fact that they tinker with the immune system, are suspected to be behind the many autoimmune disorders like diabetes, cancers, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), intestinal disorders like IBS, IBD, paralytic symptoms like Guillaine Barre Syndrome, glandular disorders, increased stress, psychiatric disorders, personality disorders and rheumatic and arthritic ailments that have assumed epidemic proportions in adults.

They may also be behind brain diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, caused by the mercury and aluminum in vaccines, as more and more teenagers are falling a prey to these diseases all over the world. In children they are also notorious for causing meningitis, encephelopathy and epilepsy.

While the spurt in chronic cases are being attributed to defective genes, medical scientists know that genetic epidemics are an impossibility. Animal induced diseases are being explained by animal bites on humans in Asia and Africa. But how could such sporadic bites lead to huge epidemics that are fast engulfing the world? Clearly the role of animal serum used in vaccines and other medicines should be subject to more stringent probes.

Urgent proactive action required.

It is high time the Indian public becomes aware of vaccine dangers. Steps have to be taken fast to protect the population or else we will have billions of autistic children by 2007, tens of millions of diabetics and an yet unspecified number of cancer patients, figures that have prompted the WHO to dub India to be the disease capital of the world. 

Vaccine activists, including honest mainstream doctors, have written to the President, Prime Minister and the Health Minister demanding that there is an urgent need to conduct long term tests on vaccines by unbiased researchers. There is need for regulation including the issues of informed consent, transparency in terms of vaccine ingredients and their effects, involving the public on matters of vaccine selection, delivery and safety and also debating whether common childhood illnesses have a role in strengthening the immune system.

A physicians warranty of vaccine safety, to assure the parents that the vaccines being injected into their babies are tested and safe, has also been submitted to the Govt for study and implementation. This warranty will go a long way in making the doctors acknowledge vaccine after effects, make them responsible for the same, and also educate the parents about dangers involved.

 Vaccinating infants and those immunocompromised unscientific.

Whether infants should be vaccinated remains a contentious issue. At such a tender age their livers do not even secrete bile let alone tackle dangerous toxins. It takes twenty developing years for the human body to be fully equipped to tackle neurotoxins, before that the protective myelin sheath around the nervous system in the body and brain is not ready. There is also a question of childrens rights here as an unstudied disease state is introduced via vaccines before the child can take a logical decision about his health. 

The only logic behind vaccinating infants is that childbirth and its aftermath and also the concerns of the parents necessitates hospital visits which can be utilised to push the shots. Doctors are educated as to how routine visits can be converted into vaccine visits and also how to allure parents with a "promising" vaccine and to push in other vaccines into children when their parents visit the clinic lured by them. There is also a mad rush to deliver booster shots as vaccines fail to live up to the promise of "preventing" diseases.  

It is known that paediatricians earn a major portion of their income from vaccines. The persons involved in policy making and distribution benefit from them in various ways. 

There is no scientific logic behind vaccinating sick and malnourished children, underweight babies, pregnant mothers, people with immune disorders and children of people suffering chronic diseases thus subjecting them to a great risk. Mercury is known to cross both the blood brain barrier as well as the placenta barrier.

 The Govt is yet to respond to the demands. The Indian Association of Paediatricians will be discussing the issue in their conference being held in January 2007 at Mumbai. There are indications, a fond hope rather, that a committee will be formed by the Govt of India comprising mainstream doctors to review the vaccination process. However how far they will do justice to the subject, being the perpetrators of the crime themselves, remains to be seen.

 Helping vaccine damaged children.

In the meanwhile it is the duty of the holistic healers to rescue the vaccine damage victims from their plight and rally behind the anti-vaccine activists to put an end to the scourge called vaccines. Homeopathically it is time to look beyond Thuja and consider the role of Merc Sol, Hepar Sulph, Rhus Glabra, Alumina, Arsenic, Anacardium, Tuberculinum, Carcinocin, Nux Vomica and other indicated remedies as Vaccinosis is no longer restricted to mere injection of diseased pus. It is definitely a lot more dangerous than that.

List of Homeopathic Prophylactics (Preventives).

Here is a ready reckoner of Homeopathic Prophylactics (Preventives). These medicines are cheaper, without side effects and very effective. 

AIDS -- Cyclosporin, Medorrhinum, Syphilinum, Thuja or potentised blood of a confirmed AIDS patient.
Cancer -- Carcinocin.
Chicken Pox -- Malandrinum or Variolinum.
Diptheria -- Diphtherinum or Mercurius Cyanatus.
Infective Hepatitis -- Nux Vomica.
Influenza -- Arsenic Album or Influenzinum.
Measles (Rubella) -- Morbillinum or Pulsatilla.
Mumps -- Pilocarpus.
Polio -- Lathyrus or Polio Nosode.
Small Pox -- Variolinum.
Tuberculosis -- Bacillinum or Tuberculinum.
Typhoid -- Arsenic Album or Baptisia.
Whooping Cough (Pertussis) -- Drosera or Pertusin.

Tetanus -- Hypericum.

For after effects of Allopathic Vaccination or Vaccinosis give Thuja or Kali Mur.

Other measures to help the vaccine damaged children, under the care of qualified holistic healers, could include:

1.  Naturopathic or ayurvedic detoxification,

2.  Vit C, at least 1000mg per day, to detoxify and strengthen immunity. Vit A, E, K

     and B Complex can also be considered,

3.  Cina/Teucrium/Natrum Phos 6x etc. for worms in the guts of the child, if present,

4.  Brahmi, Sankhapushpi, Tagara, etc to boost memory and calm the child.

5.  Alfalfa, spirulina supplements to supply basic nutrients,

6.  Biochemic combination Five Phos 6x, two tablets thrice daily, for essential cell salts.

7.  Anti tubercular treatment if latent tuberculosis suspected. Homeopathic remedies

     like Tuberculinum, Natrum Mur, Bacillinum, Calcarea Phos, Iodinum, to be considered.

8.  Use of probiotics like curd to alleviate digestive and intestinal problems,

9.  Yoga and pranayama to boost health and mental alacrity,

10. Participating in bhajans/prayer, spiritual education, to calm down the mind,

11. Restricting TV access, to the extent possible, if it is distracting the child,

12. Counselling, therapy and discipline combined with loving attention for the child.

As the medical community refuses to acknowledge that autism is a result of toxic overdose, it is the concerned parents who are studying on their own and coming out with plausible solutions.
They have formed self help groups which discuss treatment modalities and how they are helping the children.

Some of the groups that cater to the parents questions are:

Yahoogroups:

Alt_health_india
AutismIndia
India_developmentaldisabilities
DAN-India
Autism-Mercury
Vaccinations
EOH

We wish the parents of autistic childrel and their well wishers all the success in their noble endeavour of attempting to help the unfortunate vaccine damage victims. If through this article we have been able to create an interest in parents to allow their children a natural and vaccine free life our efforts will be amply rewarded.

Dr Leo Rebello,

Director,

Natural Health Centre, Mumbai.
www.healthwisdom.org

email: leorebello@hathway.com

Jagannath Chatterjee

Health & Human Rights Activist,

Member: MANITHAM, Chennai,  Loksatta, Maharashtra/Hyderabad, email: jagchat01@yahoo.com

References:

Books :

1. The Vaccine Guide: Risks and Benefits for Children and Adults - Randall Neustaedter.

2. Vaccines: Are They Really Safe & Effective? - Neil Z. Miller.

3. Mercury: the winged messenger - Courtney L. Zietzke.

4. DPT, A Shot in the Dark - H Coulter.

5. Evidence of Harm, Mercury in Vaccines - David Kirby.

6. Vaccinations, Social Violence & Criminality - Harris L. Coulter.

7. AIDS and Alternative Medicine - Dr. Leo Rebello.

8. Nature Cure and Yoga Therapy - Dr. Leo Rebello.

9. Amrit Manthan - Dr. Leo Rebello.

Websites :

www.healthwisdom.org

http://whale.to/vaccines.html

www.nvic.org

http://www.vacinfo.org/

http://www.wnho.net/vaccination news.htm

http://nccn.net/~wwithin /vaccine.htm

www.vaccinationdebate.com

www.dangerousmedicine.com

www.wikipedia.org

You can also type "vaccine dangers" into google search and browse through the almost 10,00,000 sites that pop up.

Acknowledgement:

The authors are highly grateful to Sheri Nakken, homeopath, Dr Paul G King, the journals of NVIC, TAAP,  also autistic persons and parents of autistic children for their invaluable help and feedback. Thanks are also due to Barrett Bates, a friend of the authors for providing books which are not available in India. 

Copyrighted material. May be reproduced on the Internet or in Print Media in FULL for altruistic purposes only without any ommissions or corrections by taking prior permission of the authors at leorebello@hathway.com and jagchat01@yahoo.com   For commercial publishing terms should be discussed before hand. The authors would like to caution by saying that there is no vaccine against stupidity.  Jagannath Chatterjee 



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The link between autism and childhood vaccinations
Heather O'Brien's letter "Flu shots and autism" (Saturday) should be cause for national alarm when she writes that a 6-month-old baby receiving the recommended flu vaccine for this year will receive mercury levels that can be handled only by someone weighing 275 pounds according to the Environmental Protection Agency's standards.

 Six years after the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Food and Drug Administration all recommended that vaccine makers eliminate the mercury-based neurotoxin thimerosal because of the potential for neurological damage, it is still in 90 percent of the flu vaccine for this year.

 Dr. Kenneth Stoller, a Santa Fe pediatrician and assistant professor of åpediatrics at the University of New Mexico, addressed the State Pharmacy Board of New Mexico on Nov. 14 and told the board that "giving a three-year-old child the flu vaccine will raise their blood level of organic mercury beyond what the CDC has defined as a chemical poisoning."

During the past 20 years, the autism rate has gone from one in 10,000 to one in every 166 children. Furthermore, one in every six schoolchildren has a diagnosis of attention deficit disorder or some other learning disability. This increase has directly coincided with the increase in mercury-containing vaccines in the childhood schedule. The best our federal health agencies can tell us is that these numbers are all because of "better diagnosing." These agencies continue to deny that the neurological disorders are in any way connected to the increased use of mercury.

The vaccine program is truly the sacred cow of health care, and to challenge safety claims requires a great deal of courage. Too many of those who should have had the best interests of our children at the center of their professional work sought primarily to promote the interests of the drug companies. Our federal health agencies are rampant with hundreds of conflict-of-interest waivers for direct financial ties to the vaccine makers.

    ANNE MCELROY DACHEL
    Media relations coordinator
    National Autism Association
    Chippewa Falls, Wis.
 



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Autism, mercury, and politics
By Robert Kennedy Jr.
July 1, 2005
THE BOSTON GLOBE

MOUNTING EVIDENCE suggests that Thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative in children's vaccines, may be responsible for the exponential growth of autism, attention deficit disorder, speech delays, and other childhood neurological disorders now epidemic in the United States.

Prior to 1989, American infants generally received three vaccinations (polio, measles-mumps-rubella, and diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis). In the early 1990s, public health officials dramatically increased the number of Thimerosal-containing vaccinations without considering the cumulative impact of the mercury load on developing brains.

In a 1991 memo, Dr. Maurice Hilleman, one of the fathers of Merck's vaccination programs, warned his bosses that 6-month-old children administered the shots on schedule would suffer mercury exposures 87 times the government safety standards. He recommended that Thimerosal be discontinued and complained that the US Food and Drug Administration, which has a notoriously close relationship with the pharmaceutical industry, could not be counted on to take appropriate action as its European counterparts had. Merck ignored Hilleman's warning, and for eight years government officials added seven more shots for children containing Thimerosal.

Mercury is a known brain poison, and autism rates began rising dramatically in children who were administered the new vaccine regimens. A decade ago the American Academy of Pediatrics estimated the autism rate among American children to be 1 in 2,500. Today, the CDC places the rate at 1 in 166, or 1 in 80 boys. Additionally, one in six children is now diagnosed with a related neurological disorder.

In 2000, the CDC met with pharmaceutical companies and the FDA in secret to review its findings linking Thimerosal with the dramatic rise in neurological illnesses. According to transcripts, participants were alarmed about the undeniable links between the Thimerosal and widespread brain damage in children. Dr. Bill Weil told the group, ''You can play with [the results] all you want. They are statistically significant." Dr. Richard Johnston admitted he feared his grandchild getting a Thimerosal-containing vaccine. But the group was most concerned with keeping the findings secret. ''Consider this embargoed information," said Dr. Roger Bernier, a senior director at the National Immunization Program, at the meeting's close. The CDC now says it has ''lost" the data that supported the crucial study and has persistently defied congressional requests and federal law requiring it to open up the federal Vaccine Safety Database to scientists and the public.

Numerous animal, DNA, epidemiological, and other studies point to Thimerosal as a culprit in America's epidemic of neurological disorders. Autistic children have been shown to have higher mercury loads than nonautistics, and there have been reports of significant improvements in some brain-injured children by removing mercury from their brains. Most of the symptoms of autism are similar to the symptoms of mercury poisoning. Scientists have been able to induce autism-like symptoms in mice by exposing them to Thimerosal. A recent study by an FDA scientist, Dr. Jill James, found that many autistic children are genetically deficient in their capacity to produce glutathione, an antioxidant generated in the brain that helps remove mercury from the body.

Government health agencies who green-lighted Thimerosal have turned a blind eye to the hundreds of studies linking Thimerosal to a wide range of neurological disorders and joined the pharmaceutical industry to gin up a series of flawed European studies to exonerate Thimerosal. Those studies examined children exposed to a tiny fraction of the Thimerosal given to American kids and took advantage of the autism spike that resulted from deceptive data-gathering in Scandinavia to argue that autism rates are unrelated to Thimerosal use.

Drug makers wary of liability reduced Thimerosal in most children's vaccines in recent years, but the preservative remains in flu shots, tetanus boosters, and over-the-counter drugs. Mercury-laced vaccine stocks were given to American children until the end of 2003.

Government officials who continue to champion Thimerosal should recognize that this is not just a theoretical exercise in bureaucratic face-saving. Their wrong-headed defense of Thimerosal safety in the face of overwhelming science is discouraging testing of promising treatments which may be effective. They are depriving vulnerable populations from being identified to avoid Thimerosal. They also cannot escape responsibility for their failure to warn international health agencies and governments who, based upon American assurances, are now injecting the developing world's children with this brain-killing chemical.

Robert Kennedy Jr. is senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council.
 



Vaccinating For Profit - From Cradle to Coffin
February 2, 2006. By Evelyn Pringle


Due to the flooding of special education classrooms, along with the rising medical costs of treating injured children, local taxes will soon go through the roof, at which time the public will be forced to face the unthinkable truth about the poisoned generation.

And when that happens, government officials had better not even think about trying to feign ignorance because parents, scientists, and medical experts have been screaming about the epidemic in vaccine injuries, from one end of the country to the other, since the 1990s, and the fact is that lawmakers knowingly allowed it to happen.

Over the past twenty years, our government has facilitated a nationwide experiment on our country's youngest citizens via the Mandatory Childhood Vaccine Schedule, and the tragic results of the experiment can be equally credited to the joint efforts of compromised regulatory officials and politicians, and the pharmaceutical industry that stood to make billions.

In a perverse twist of fate, the vaccine program has evolved into a grand profiteering scheme, second only to the military industrial complex's war on terror fiasco. Instead of prevention, the program has resulted in an epidemic of serious health problems for an entire generation of children and at the same time, produced an infinite market expansion for the sale of other prescription drugs, for the scheme's developers.

The start of the epidemic can be traced to the late 1980s, when public health officials dramatically increased the number of vaccines, which contained the mercury-based preservative thimerosal, without taking into consideration the impact of the cumulative mercury load on developing brains of infants.

Once the mercury poisoning was discovered by the FDA in 1999, vaccine-makers claimed they were eliminating thimerosal from vaccines but they never recalled the vaccines already on the market and children continued to receive mercury in vaccines for several more years. Even today, the flu vaccine recommended for 6-month-old babies and pregnant women still contain a full dose of thimerosal.

Instead of ordering drug companies to get the preservative out of all vaccines, Congressional Republicans and President George W Bush spent much of the past 3 years working on strategies to give the pharmaceutical industry protection against lawsuits from vaccine injured children. A handful of shameless Congressional Republicans remained lurking around in the shadows for years, just waiting for the right moment to attach the protective provision to some "anti-terror" spending bill until they succeeded in December 2005.

Before the age of two in this country, children receive at least 20 injections involving twelve diseases. By the time they reach first grade, they have had at least 24 vaccinations, if they are in compliance with the CDC's 2005 Immunization Schedule.

For good reason, many parents do not want their children to receive 24 injections for diseases they have never heard of. However, government officials use every trick in the book to force them to inject these poisonous concoctions into their children, including economic sanctions for refusing to comply.

Refusing vaccination can result in citizens being denied enrollment in daycare, elementary school, and college; denial of health insurance; denial of employment; and denial of federal and state benefits for poor children including cutting off medical care under Medicaid, and food, under the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program.

Medical professionals have been trying to get lawmaker to take notice of the health problems caused by vaccines since the 1990s. On June 14, 1999, Jane Orient, MD, Executive Director of the Associating of American Physicians and Surgeons, testified before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources of the Committee on Government reform and said:

"Striking increases in chronic illnesses have occurred in temporal association with an increase in vaccination rates," she said. "Asthma and insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, causes of lifelong morbidity and frequent premature death, have nearly doubled in incidence since the introduction of many new, mandatory vaccines."

"There is no explanation for this increase," Orient added.

"Even more alarming," she told lawmakers, "is the huge increase in reports of autism and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, with devastating, life-long impacts."

"Measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis B, and the whole panoply of childhood diseases are a far less serious threat," Orient warned, "than having a large fraction (say 10%) of a generation afflicted with learning disability and/or uncontrollable aggressive behavior because of an impassioned crusade for universal vaccination."

About 3 years later, across the country on the West Coast, Barbara Loe Fisher, President of the National Vaccine Information Center, testified before the California Senate Committee on Childhood Immunization Mandates: Politics vs Public Health on January 23, 2002. Fisher acknowledged that the CDC, and American Academy of Pediatrics, vigorously deny that the vaccines could have anything to do with more children being chronically ill.

“Yet, the haunting question remains,” she said, “if we have wiped out polio and almost eliminated measles, mumps, rubella, whooping cough and other childhood diseases with vaccines - why are so many of our children stuck on sick?”

“Why are our special education classrooms so crowded that we can’t find enough money or train teachers fast enough to care for these learning disabled, hyperactive, autistic, asthmatic, diabetic, emotionally disturbed, sick children?” Fisher asked.

Since 1982, she charged, “the numbers of American children with learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder and asthma have doubled; diabetes has tripled; and the incidence of autism has reached epidemic proportions, increasing 200 to 600 percent in every state, marking a staggering 3400 percent increase in the prevalence of autism in our children.”

Scientist have also been warning lawmakers about the vaccine injuries. Dr Mark Geier, holds a PhD in genetics, and was a researcher at the National Institutes of Health for10 years. He has studied vaccines for over 30 years. Dr. Geier and his son, David Geier, are the only independent researchers who have gained access to the Vaccine Safety Datalink database controlled by the CDC, to conduct studies on the connection between vaccines and the epidemic in neurological problems.

In a March 22, 2003 letter to Senator Hillary Clinton, the Geiers reported: “we have concluded in our studies that a causal relationship exists between mercury from thimerosal in childhood vaccines and neurodevelopmental disorders.”


“Our best estimates are that the thimerosal contributed to about 75% of the cases of neurodevelpmental disorders while the MMR contributed to about 15%,” they said. “The remaining 10% of the cases were related to mercury in Rhogam, a shot given to Rh-negative women, and to other sources of neurotoxicity.”

On June 18, 2004, Representative Dave Weldon (R-FL), a doctor by calling, was on the floor of Congress waving red flags, and literally begging Congress to recognize the seriousness of the epidemic in children with neurological disorders all over the country.

“Mr. Speaker, something dreadful is happening to our youngest generation, and we must sound the alarm and figure out what is going on with our children,” he said.

He quoted the Department of Health and Human Services when explaining that one in every 167 children was being diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. “Furthermore," Weldon reported, "one in 7 children is being diagnosed with either a learning disability or a behavioral disability."

On June 19, 2002, James Bradstreet, MD, Clinical Director of The International Child Development Resource Center in Florida, testified in Washington before the Government Reform Committee, and warned lawmakers about the cost of the autism epidemic back then.

“ICDRC estimates the minimal cost in present value, to care for those 420,000 existing children with autism is $1,260,000,000,000 (based on $3million/lifetime and 420,000 children affected)."

"So a little over a $1 trillion in the next 50 years would be required if we stopped creating new cases today," Bradstreet said.

"Because autism is doubling every four years, this is likely an overly conservative estimatem" he added. "The societal cost could easily be $3-4 trillion.“

On June 20, 2005, Robert F Kennedy, Jr, a relatively new advocate calling for the removal of thimerosal from vaccines, appeared on the Don Imus Show on MSNBC, and warned the public that our government is allowing drug companies to ship thimerosal-containing vaccines for use on children in other countries.

"They're giving this now to kids all over the third world," Kennedy warned. "In China, autism was unknown five years ago," he said. "They started giving them American vaccines containing thimerosal and now they've got 1.8 million cases of autism," he added.

Autism is also exploding in Argentina, India, and Nigeria, Kennedy said.

"What's going to happen when our enemies around the world realize that the United State's most heralded foreign policy which is vaccinating the children of the world is poisoning the brains of developing third world children?" he warmed.

"This is just a disaster," Kennedy told Imus.

But it gets worse. Over the past 15 years, the vaccine scheme has resulted in a full-circle cycle of profits for the pharmaceutical industry. After poisoning an entire generation, drug companies are now making record profits from drugging their victims.

And the true irony of the situation is that due to their partnership with compromised officials and lawmakers, they were able to pull most of it off on the tax payer's dime. Federal and State government programs, are the largest buyers of vaccines, administered "free" beginning with pregnant women all the way up to seniors citizens in nursing homes.

The vaccine racket is raging on at full-throttle. In 2005, more vaccines were administered to infants under the age of 1 in the US than in any other country. The current immunization schedule calls for 3 doses of Hepatitis B, the first at birth, 3 doses each of DTAP, HIB, IPV, Prevnar, and one dose of flu vaccine before a child's first birthday.

The first year of childhood vaccines costs $620, and the second year costs $340, according to Pediatric Preventive Care Cost, Estimated US Average, 2005, by Patient Age, Recommendations for Preventive Pediatric Health Care (RE9939) and Recommended Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedule, US, 2005.

For the year 2004, the CDC reported the US birth rate to be 4,115,590. Without an industrial size calculator, it would be impossible to do the math to multiply the birth rate by the vaccine costs above. Suffice to say that the total amount represents major profits for vaccine makers especially when most of the bill is sent directly to the tax payers.

As for making money off the vaccine-injured children, between 2000 and 2003, the number of children treated for "severe behavioral conditions" related to conduct disorder and autism rose more than 60%, according to Behavior Drugs Lead in Sales for Children, New York Times, May 17, 2004.


Tax dollars are being directly funneled to the pharmaceutical industry through the damaged children. Public funds currently account for 63% of all mental health spending and Medicaid spending has risen more than 50% since 2000 to more than $300 billion per year, according to Parity-Plus: A Third Way Approach to Fix America's Mental Health System, Progressive Policy Institute, June 22, 2005; Medicaid Largest US Payer, Daily Health Policy Report, March 30, 20005.

Drug companies have also been raking in major profits from the sale of attention deficit drugs, with much of it coming from the public trough. The National Center for Health Statistics, reports that the number of children aged 3 to 17 with ADHD went from 3.3 million in 1997 to 4.4 million in 2002. Between 2000 and 2004, use of attention deficit stimulant drugs rose 56% among children, according to data compiled Medco Health Solutions, one of the largest prescription benefit managers in the nation.

According to testimony at the February 18, 2004, FDA hearing, by Dr Gianna Rigoni, of the FDA's Office of Drug Safety, a combined total of approximately 10.8 million prescriptions were dispensed for SSRI antidepressants and atypicals antipsychotics to the 1 to 17-year-old population in 2002, and children between 1 and 11-years-old, accounted for about 2.7 million of those prescriptions.

In 2004, SSRIs and antipsychotics became the third-and fourth-biggest classes of drugs in the country, with sales of $20.7 billion. And much of that cost was borne by government health-care plans, according to the July 27, 2005 Wall Street Journal.

As for the continued use of thimerosal-laced flu vaccines with infants, according to the ACIP report of July 29, 2005 / 54(RR08);1-40, actual deaths from influenza are uncommon among children with and without high-risk conditions. A study that modeled influenza-related deaths estimated that annually, an average of 92 deaths, or 0.4 deaths per 100,000, occurred among children under 5 during the 1990's.

So, are the risks associated with injecting a full dose of thimerosal into 4,115,590 six-month-old babies worth it when weighed against the benefits, if any, of flu vaccines? More and more parents think not.


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A Childhood Miracle Slips Into Controversy
Gannett News Service

At the end of the century, public health officials are gratified with their progress in the war against several diseases, mainly through the "silver bullets'' of immunization: vaccines developed against a wide variety of serious illnesses from polio to whooping cough. In the United States, the last case of naturally occurring polio was in 1979. Whooping cough, which once killed 12,000 a year, now claims only five or 10 people. But with that good news comes bad. In rare -- but dramatic -- instances some vaccines trigger dangerous reactions resulting in lifelong disability or even death.

Because vaccines are the only substance the government forces Americans to put into their bodies, Gannett News Service has undertaken a four-month investigation, using the Freedom of Information Act and government computer databases, to provide insight to these little-known effects of a public health policy of immunizations:

Part 1: Shaken baby syndrome, when a baby can be literally shaken to death, is a serious social problem. But its symptoms match the reaction of a controversial childhood vaccine. When is a death caused by abuse and when is it caused by a vaccine? Many parents, including some who face prison, may never find out.

Part 2: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome can be a source of fear or guilt for parents. For almost a decade, a federal claims court has been drawing a significant association between mysterious deaths attributed to SIDS and a controversial vaccine.

Part 3: World health officials hope for a polio-free planet by the year 2000. But lurking under that great success has been the rare, but real risk of contracting polio as a result of the oral vaccine.

Part 4: Pervasive government efforts to immunize every child are prompting some privacy advocates, vaccination critics and lawyers to warn: Parents Beware.

Part 5: The government's National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program was set up to compensate children injured by their childhood immunizations. But it is sliding into controversy, as critics label it unfair, ineffective and a corruption of congressional intent.
 



 Dear Ms. Strassel,

I am writing in response to The Politics of Autism piece, which I understand that you authored, in the December 29th edition of the WSJ.  I must admit I was surprised to find out that the author was an employee of the WSJ rather than a PR rep for one of the  pharmaceutical companies.

I am the parent of a child that has been diagnosed with Pervasive Development Disorder (PDD) or Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD).  First, I want to say that I respect your opinion and your right to publish it.  I hope you do the same and publish some of the better responses you have received on the topic.

I am in strong disagreement with the opinions expressed in the piece, in particular with the conclusion that civil rights should be compromised in order to protect the greater good.  One of the bigger problem is that the opinions are expressed as though they were fact, when in actuality they are simply opinion.  Secondly, with all the scandal in the financial industry recently regarding conflict of interest (analysts and investment banking), how can you completely ignore the multitude of conflicts in the studies you reference?  I have many other issues with the piece, I have enclosed my original response which details them all.  I would appreciate it if you would  take the time to read the original response.

This is not a threat but I want you to know that eventually you will be proven wrong and your article will be viewed as another in a long line of "pharmaceutically-sponsored" rhetoric.  I have never been so sure of anything in my life. 

My son has mercury in his urine.  I would be glad to show you the test results.  Where did it come from?  He has never eaten fish in his life and he has never had any other exposure to mercury.  My son developed so normally for the first 15 months of his life that my  wife had to beg our family doctor to discuss her concerns about autism. Our doctory continually refused because Jack had always met all his milestones and hadn't shown any of the "signs".  We have video tapes of him acting very normally and then running in circles and screaming 3 months later.  What are the differences between ethyl mercury and the other types of mercury that make it less harmful to humans, specifically babies? 

Yes, we have much passion regarding the issue because the issue is our kids.  I hope that you have the same passion for your side of the argument because your piece could have bearing on the lives of alot of young children. 

For the good of us all, your reputation and the reputation of the WSJ, I am imploring you to take another look at the information with a more open mind.  I would be very happy to open my home to you so that you could take a detailed look at our situation and decide for youself.   I am serious about the offer and would be very glad to meet you. 

Sincerely,

Edward Bowden Jr.

Tuesday, December 30, 2003 2:31 p.m.

REVIEW & OUTLOOK

The Politics of Autism
Lawsuits and emotion vs. science and childhood vaccines.

Response from Ed Bowden Jr. – Yardley, PA 19067

Believe me, as a parent of a child diagnosed with autism; I would rather that this not be a political issue.  I would rather "science and medicine" initiate impartial and meaningful research into the causes of autism and the undeniable increase in the incidence of autism that are truly free of any conflicts of interest.  Hopefully that would lead to breakthroughs in treatment that would help my son get better.  Unfortunately I have yet to see any research from "science and medicine" that meets these simple criteria.  In this case the definition of "science and medicine" seems to be anyone on the payroll of the pharmaceutical industry.  The only research I have seen from "science and medicine" are biased studies with a clear conflict of interest that set out to disprove what is considered by many to be an unpleasant theory. 

I have always enjoyed and appreciated the WSJ but allowing this piece of obvious pharmaceutical industry propaganda to be published without identification or context is irresponsible at best.  Please have the guts and commitment to print responses that you get on this piece in order to maintain the integrity of your publication.  I'd like to offer some points of rebuttal on the information contained in the piece.  Caution: I am not a scientist just a parent who is trying to stay on top of the subject matter in order to best help my son.  However I think my rebuttals are relevant and present points that should be addressed.

If autism's origin is solely genetic, why has the incidence rate skyrocketed over the last decade or so?  Could there be an environmental trigger that pushes genetically susceptible kids into autism?  The environmental trigger would have to be some toxic substance that kids have been almost universally exposed to over the last decade or so at an increasing rate for this theory to be plausible.  Any ideas?  Nonetheless this is great news; please list the studies that have isolated the genes. 

Could the sudden growth spurt of the head be related to inflammation of the brain due to mercury toxicity?  Even Courchesne, the lead author of this study was quoted in the LA Times as stating that this theory is not incompatible with an environmental trigger to autism. 

In the Rochester study, why was blood tested when we know that mercury toxicity cannot be accurately measured from blood samples. Mercury only stays in the blood stream for a relatively short amount of time before it seeks out and inhabits tissue (like the brain for example)?  Were these children tested directly after receiving mercury-containing vaccines?

Thimerosal has not been completely removed from vaccines, flu and tetanus vaccines both still contain it.  Why is this so hard to get straight?  It is listed as an ingredient on the package inserts for God's sake and included in the Physician's Desk Reference for 2003.  Also thimerosal-containing vaccines were not recalled, they were simply allowed to exist until they were used up.  So thanks to its preservative powers, thimerosal-containing vaccines were still administered to children long after it was considered to be removed from other vaccines.  Thereby clouding the removal date for many vaccines and potentially skewing future analysis.

The CDC and Denmark studies are so flawed and laced with missing information, presumably in an effort to protect a conflict of interest, that they are transparent and have really helped to raise the issue more than anything else.  For a very well constructed analysis of both studies please refer to the Safe Minds website. (http://www.safeminds.org)   

What deal are you referring to regarding Senators Snowe, Collins, are Chafee?  I am not aware of any deal that was made.  The proposal was removed from the legislation because it was politics at its worst and didn't represent the best interest of the people.  We all welcome an open and honest review of the issue, regardless of the outcome.  However we demand integrity in the analysis.

Regarding Senator Frist, he is a very large recipient of pharmaceutical industry funds, near the top in the Senate.  Think he may have some "passion" about why the vaccine makers are innocent?  Think he sees things clearly or is he seeing things through green-colored glasses?  And how is his motivation any better than the motivation of the trial lawyers?  At least the trial lawyers motives  are clear and upfront. 

The piece completely ignores the multitude of research that does support the theory that mercury causes developmental disorders, such as autism, in children.   The piece suggests that parents are overly emotional and ignoring science. Go to the medical search engine "Pubmed" and type in thimerosal. You will get over 900 references to peer reviewed medical papers. All of these papers deal with the toxicity of thimerosal. The only science that defends thimerosal are the studies you reference in the piece and all of these are fraught with questions, debate over the conclusions and
conflicts of interests. 

Autism is a condition that now affects about 1 in 150 kids by most estimates.  Shouldn't autism be at the top of everyone's list in terms of funding for research, awareness, and treatment?  Yet autism continues to be a "dirty" word, surrounded by uncertainty, denial and  a lack of focus.

I am not against vaccination.  I am against the use of thimerosal until is proven to be safe.  (Why are we so concerned with ingesting tuna, which may or may not contain trace amounts of mercury but we don't think injecting mercury directly into our children is a  problem?)  I would like to see more testing of vaccines in general to ensure safety.  However if vaccines are tested with the proper level unprejudiced thoroughness and deemed safe it is obviously a great scientific achievement and universal benefit to society.

Its funny, this is not the first time I have seen the suggestion that some parents of kids with autism are using their child's affliction as some sort of get-rich-quick scheme.  I can't think of another childhood affliction where the victims (children and parents) are so vilified.  My wife and I did not have our son or any of our children as part of some sort of get-rich-quick scheme; to the contrary children are expensive.  Children with autism are very expensive; they need therapy, special diets, dietary supplements, medicines, vitamins, and numerous medical tests (none of which are usually  covered by tradition health insurance).  Not only can't we get an answer on what has made our children sick we also can't get any guidance (other than from a select few healthcare practitioners and researchers) or financial assistance for treatment.  Maybe this has  something to do with our "passion". 

If mercury from vaccines, increases of which have paralleled the increase in the incidence of autism, is not the cause then what is?  What studies are being undertaken by "science and medicine" to find a cause?  Do you think OJ is still looking for Nicole's killer?

My son suffers from "regressive autism" or Pervasive Development Disorder (PDD) or Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).  Meaning he developed very normally for the first 15 – 18 months of his life and then began to regress.  Regressive autism is a relatively new  phenomenon within the era of autism.  However it now accounts for the vast majority of cases.

One of the treatments that he has undergone is called chelation.  Chelation is the removal of heavy metals from the body via the use of binding agents.  My son regularly undergoes urine tests to see what, if any, metals are being removed from his body.  Mercury regularly shows up, at very high levels, in the urine tests.  He has gotten much better since we started chelation.  His therapists have adjusted the goals in his ABA therapy program upward several times since we started chelation.  I am grateful for the progress and hopeful for his future but I am left with questions.  Why does my son have extremely elevated levels of mercury in his urine?  Why does he get better when it is removed?  Why is it not OK to eat tuna for fear of  trace amounts of mercury but it is OK to inject mercury directly into our children?  I have more questions but answers to these would be a great start. 

I am open to any explanation for my son's condition that can be scientifically proven through impartial research conducted with integrity and free on any conflicts of interest.  I would rather have my son back than a scapegoat. 

Sincerely,
Ed Bowden Jr.


Published on Wednesday, April 13, 2005 by Knight Ridder
Playing Politics at Kids' Expense
Bill would insulate pharmaceutical firms from liability
by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has buried a provision in the "Protecting America in the War on Terror Act" to insulate the pharmaceutical industry from liability for venal actions that may have poisoned an entire generation of Americans. Mounting evidence suggests that Thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative in children's vaccines, may be responsible for the exponential growth of autism, attention deficit disorder, speech delays and other childhood neurological disorders now epidemic in the United States.

Prior to 1989, American infants generally received three vaccinations. In the early 1990s, public-health officials dramatically increased the number of Thimerosal-containing vaccinations without considering the cumulative impact of the mercury load on developing brains. Thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative in children's vaccines, may be responsible for the exponential growth of autism.

Warning Issued

In a 1991 memo, Dr. Maurice Hilleman, one of the fathers of Merck's vaccination programs, warned the president of the company's vaccination division that 6-month-old children administered the shots on schedule would suffer mercury exposures 87 times the government safety standard (400 times the current U.S. government's safe level). He recommended that Thimerosal be discontinued, "especially when used on infants and children."

Merck ignored Hilleman's warning and, for eight years, government officials added seven additional shots for children containing Thimerosal.

Mercury is a known brain poison, and autism rates began rising dramatically in children who were administered the new vaccine regimens. A decade ago the American Academy of Pediatrics estimated the autism rate among American children to be 1 in 2,500. Today, the CDC places the autism rate at 1 in 166, or one in 80 boys. Additionally, one in every six children is now diagnosed with a related neurological disorder.

In 1998 the CDC's lead Thimerosal researcher, Dr. Thomas Verstraeten, complained to his colleagues in a secret memo that, despite rerunning and rethinking the research, the links between Thimerosal and autism "just won't go away."

Secret Meeting

In 2000, CDC, FDA and pharmaceutical companies called a secret meeting to review Verstraeten's findings. According to transcripts, participants were alarmed about the undeniable link between the mercury preservative and autism. Dr. Bill Weil told the group, "You can play with (the results) all you want. They are statistically significant."

Dr. Richard Johnston acknowledged he feared his grandchild getting vaccinated. But the group was most concerned with keeping the findings secret. Numerous animal, DNA, epidemiological and other studies point to Thimerosal as the culprit in America's epidemic of neurological disorders. Autistic children have been shown to have higher mercury loads than nonautistics, and there have been reports of significant improvements in some brain-injured children by removing mercury from their bodies.

Most of the symptoms of autism are similar to the symptoms of mercury poisoning. Recently, scientists have been able to induce autism in certain mice by exposing them to Thimerosal. In a recent study, former FDA scientist Dr. Jill James uncovered a scientific link that helps explain why Thimerosal injures some children and not others. That study found that many autistic children are genetically deficient in their capacity to produce glutathione, an antioxidant generated in the brain that helps remove mercury from the body, a harmless difference until the child is exposed to large quantities of mercury.

Porter Bridges' experience is typical. In 1993, this healthy 4-month-old slipped into a coma hours after receiving his vaccines. Today, 11-year-old Porter is autistic, hyperactive and severely brain damaged. He requires minute-to-minute supervision, is frequently afflicted with violent seizures and is not yet toilet-trained. After a seven-year legal fight, the U.S. government acknowledged that Porter was damaged by his vaccines. There are now 520,000 autistics in the United States with 40,000 new cases each year.

High Cost of Care

The cost of caring for autistic children is conservatively $40,000 annually. Families with children with autism and other neurological diseases have filed more than 4,200 claims in the special federal "Vaccine Court." Some plaintiffs have also filed in trial courts.

Some Drug Makers Act

Thimerosal defendants include Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, Aventis, Weyeth and Eli Lilly. Frist's newly proposed "anti-terror" legislation would create insurmountable burdens of proof for plaintiffs in these cases and forbid states from banning Thimerosal. Drug makers wary of liability have reduced Thimerosal in children's vaccines in recent years, with the exception of Chiron and Aventis' pediatric flu vaccine. Mercury-laced vaccine stocks were given to children until the end of 2003.

Thimerosal's inventor, Eli Lilly, donated $226,000 to Frist's national Republican Senate Campaign Committee in 2002 and bought 5,000 copies of Frist's book on bioterrorism. Congress will vote on Frist's bill in the near future. Instead of demanding the immediate removal of Thimerosal from all vaccines, and making the drug industry help defray the public and private costs of caring for injured children, Frist's bill would give the industry a free ride at public expense.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the chief prosecuting attorney for Riverkeeper and a senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

© 2005 Knight Ridder



In June 2000, a group of top government scientists and health officials gathered for a meeting at the isolated Simpsonwood conference center in Norcross, Ga. Convened by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the meeting was held at this Methodist retreat center, nestled in wooded farmland next to the Chattahoochee River, to ensure complete secrecy. The agency had issued no public announcement of the session - only private invitations to 52 attendees. There were high-level officials from the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration, the top vaccine specialist from the World Health Organization in  Geneva, and representatives of every major vaccine manufacturer, including GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Wyeth and Aventis Pasteur. All of the scientific  data under discussion, CDC officials repeatedly reminded the participants, was strictly "embargoed." There would be no making photocopies of documents, no taking papers with them when they left.

    The federal officials and industry representatives had assembled to discuss a disturbing new study that raised alarming questions about the safety of a host of common childhood vaccines administered to infants and young children. According to a CDC epidemiologist named Tom Verstraeten, who had analyzed the agency's massive database containing the medical records of 100,000 children, a mercury-based preservative in the vaccines - thimerosal - appeared to be responsible for a dramatic increase in autism and a host of other neurological disorders among children. "I was actually stunned by what I saw," Verstraeten told those assembled at Simpsonwood, citing the staggering number of earlier studies that indicate a link between thimerosal and speech delays, attention-deficit disorder, hyperactivity and autism. Since 1991, when the CDC and the FDA had recommended that three additional vaccines laced with the preservative be given to extremely young infants - in one case, within hours of birth - the estimated number of cases of autism had increased fifteenfold, from one in every 2,500 children to one in 166 children.

    Even for scientists and doctors accustomed to confronting issues of life and death, the findings were frightening. "You can play with this all you want," Dr. Bill Weil, a consultant for the American Academy of Pediatrics, told the group. The results "are statistically significant." Dr. Richard Johnston, an immunologist and pediatrician from the University of Colorado whose grandson had been born early on the morning of the meeting's first day, was even more alarmed. "My gut feeling?" he said. "Forgive this personal comment - I do not want my grandson to get a thimerosal-containing vaccine until we know better what is going on."

    But instead of taking immediate steps to alert the public and rid the vaccine supply of thimerosal, the officials and executives at Simpsonwood spent most of the next two days discussing how to cover up the damaging data. According to transcripts obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, many at the meeting were concerned about how the damaging revelations about thimerosal would affect the vaccine industry's bottom line.

    "We are in a bad position from the standpoint of defending any lawsuits," said Dr. Robert Brent, a pediatrician at the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Delaware. "This will be a resource to our very busy plaintiff attorneys in this country." Dr. Bob Chen, head of vaccine safety for the CDC, expressed relief that "given the sensitivity of the information, we have been able to keep it out of the hands of, let's say, less responsible hands." Dr. John Clements, vaccines advisor at the World Health Organization, declared flatly that the study "should not have been done at all" and warned that the results "will be taken by others and will be used in ways beyond the control of this group. The research results have to be handled."

    In fact, the government has proved to be far more adept at handling the damage than at protecting children's health. The CDC paid the Institute of Medicine to conduct a new study to whitewash the risks of thimerosal, ordering researchers to "rule out" the chemical's link to autism. It withheld Verstraeten's findings, even though they had been slated for immediate publication, and told other scientists that his original data had been "lost" and could not be replicated. And to thwart the Freedom of Information Act, it handed its giant database of vaccine records over to a private company, declaring it off-limits to researchers. By the time Verstraeten finally published his study in 2003, he had gone to work for GlaxoSmithKline and reworked his data to bury the link between thimerosal and autism.

    Vaccine manufacturers had already begun to phase thimerosal out of injections given to American infants - but they continued to sell off their mercury-based supplies of vaccines until last year. The CDC and FDA gave them a hand, buying up the tainted vaccines for export to developing countries and allowing drug companies to continue using the preservative in some American vaccines - including several pediatric flu shots as well as tetanus boosters routinely given to 11-year-olds.

    The drug companies are also getting help from powerful lawmakers in Washington. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who has received $873,000 in contributions from the pharmaceutical industry, has been working to immunize vaccine makers from liability in 4,200 lawsuits that have been filed by the parents of injured children. On five separate occasions, Frist has tried to seal all of the government's vaccine-related documents - including the Simpsonwood transcripts - and shield Eli Lilly, the developer of thimerosal, from subpoenas. In 2002, the day after Frist quietly slipped a rider known as the "Eli Lilly Protection Act" into a homeland security bill, the company contributed $10,000 to his campaign and bought 5,000 copies of his book on bioterrorism. Congress repealed the measure in 2003 - but earlier this year, Frist slipped another provision into an anti-terrorism bill that would deny compensation to children suffering from vaccine-related brain disorders. "The lawsuits are of such magnitude that they could put vaccine producers out of business and limit our capacity to deal with a biological attack by terrorists," says Andy Olsen, a legislative  assistant to Frist.

    Even many conservatives are shocked by the government's effort to cover up the dangers of thimerosal. Rep. Dan Burton, a Republican from Indiana, oversaw a three-year investigation of thimerosal after his grandson was diagnosed with autism. "Thimerosal used as a preservative in vaccines is directly related to the autism epidemic," his House Government Reform Committee concluded in its final report. "This epidemic in all probability may have been prevented or curtailed had the FDA not been asleep at the switch regarding a lack of safety data regarding injected thimerosal, a known neurotoxin." The FDA and other public-health agencies failed to act, the committee added, out of "institutional malfeasance for self protection" and "misplaced protectionism of the pharmaceutical industry."

    The story of how government health agencies colluded with Big Pharma to hide the risks of thimerosal from the public is a chilling case study of institutional arrogance, power and greed. I was drawn into the controversy only reluctantly. As an attorney and environmentalist who has spent years working on issues of mercury toxicity, I frequently met mothers of autistic children who were absolutely convinced that their kids had been injured by vaccines. Privately, I was skeptical. I doubted that autism could be blamed on a single source, and I certainly understood the government's need to reassure parents that vaccinations are safe; the eradication of deadly childhood diseases depends on it. I tended to agree with skeptics like Rep. Henry Waxman, a Democrat from California, who criticized his colleagues on the House Government Reform Committee for leaping to conclusions about autism and vaccinations. "Why should we scare people about immunization," Waxman pointed out at one hearing, "until we know the facts?"

    It was only after reading the Simpsonwood transcripts, studying the leading scientific research and talking with many of the nation's preeminent authorities on mercury that I became convinced that the link between thimerosal and the epidemic of childhood neurological disorders is real. Five of my own children are members of the Thimerosal Generation - those born between 1989 and 2003 - who received heavy doses of mercury from vaccines. "The elementary grades are overwhelmed with children who have symptoms of neurological or immune-system damage," Patti White, a school nurse, told the House Government Reform Committee in 1999. "Vaccines are supposed to be making us healthier; however, in 25 years of nursing I have never seen so many damaged, sick kids. Something very, very wrong is happening to our children." More than 500,000 kids currently suffer from autism, and pediatricians diagnose more than 40,000 new cases every year. The disease was unknown until
1943, when it was identified and diagnosed among 11 children born in the months after thimerosal was first added to baby vaccines in 1931.

    Some skeptics dispute that the rise in autism is caused by thimerosal-tainted vaccinations. They argue that the increase is a result of better diagnosis - a theory that seems questionable at best, given that most of the new cases of autism are clustered within a single generation of children. "If the epidemic is truly an artifact of poor diagnosis," scoffs Dr. Boyd Haley, one of the world's authorities on mercury toxicity, "then where are all the 20-year-old autistics?" Other researchers point out that Americans are exposed to a greater cumulative "load" of mercury than ever before, from contaminated fish to dental  fillings, and suggest that thimerosal in vaccines may be only part of a much larger problem. It's a concern that certainly deserves far more attention than it has received - but it overlooks the fact that the mercury concentrations in vaccines dwarf other sources of exposure to our children.

    What is most striking is the lengths to which many of the leading detectives have gone to ignore - and cover up - the evidence against thimerosal. From the very beginning, the scientific case against the mercury additive has been overwhelming. The preservative, which is used to stem fungi and bacterial growth in vaccines, contains ethylmercury, a  potent neurotoxin. Truckloads of studies have shown that mercury tends to accumulate in the brains of primates and other animals after they are injected with vaccines - and that the developing brains of infants are particularly susceptible. In 1977, a Russian study found that adults exposed to much lower concentrations of ethylmercury than those given to American children still suffered brain damage years later. Russia banned thimerosal from children's vaccines 20 years ago, and Denmark, Austria, Japan, Great Britain and all the Scandinavian countries have since followed suit.

    "You couldn't even construct a study that shows thimerosal is safe," says Haley, who heads the chemistry department at the University of Kentucky. "It's just too darn toxic. If you inject thimerosal into an animal, its brain will sicken. If you apply it to living tissue, the  cells die. If you put it in a petri dish, the culture dies. Knowing these things, it would be shocking if one could inject it into an infant without causing damage."

    Internal documents reveal that Eli Lilly, which first developed thimerosal, knew from the start that its product could cause damage -and even death - in both animals and humans. In 1930, the company tested thimerosal by administering it to 22 patients with terminal meningitis, all of whom died within weeks of being injected - a fact Lilly didn't bother to report in its study declaring thimerosal safe. In 1935, researchers at another vaccine manufacturer, Pittman-Moore, warned Lilly that its claims about thimerosal's safety "did not check with ours." Half the dogs Pittman injected with thimerosal-based vaccines became sick, leading researchers there to declare the preservative "unsatisfactory as a serum intended for use on dogs."

    In the decades that followed, the evidence against thimerosal continued to mount. During the Second World War, when the Department of Defense used the preservative in vaccines on soldiers, it required Lilly to label it "poison." In 1967, a study in Applied Microbiology found that thimerosal killed mice when added to injected vaccines. Four years later, Lilly's own studies discerned that thimerosal was "toxic to tissue cells" in concentrations as low as one part per million - 100 times weaker than the concentration in a typical vaccine. Even so, the company continued to promote thimerosal as "nontoxic" and also incorporated it into topical disinfectants. In 1977, 10 babies at a Toronto hospital died when an antiseptic preserved with thimerosal was dabbed onto their umbilical cords.

    In 1982, the FDA proposed a ban on over-the-counter products that contained thimerosal, and in 1991 the agency considered banning it from animal vaccines. But tragically, that same year, the CDC recommended that infants be injected with a series of mercury-laced vaccines. Newborns would be vaccinated for hepatitis B within 24 hours of birth, and 2-month-old infants would be immunized for haemophilus influenzae B and diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis.   The drug industry knew the additional vaccines posed a danger. The same year that the CDC approved the new vaccines, Dr. Maurice Hilleman, one of the fathers of Merck's vaccine programs, warned the company that 6-month-olds who were administered the shots would suffer dangerous exposure to mercury. He recommended that thimerosal be discontinued, "especially when used on infants and children," noting that the industry knew of nontoxic alternatives. "The best way to go," he added, "is to switch to dispensing the actual vaccines without adding preservatives."

    For Merck and other drug companies, however, the obstacle was money. Thimerosal enables the pharmaceutical industry to package vaccines in vials that contain multiple doses, which require additional protection because they are more easily contaminated by multiple needle entries. The larger vials cost half as much to produce as smaller, single-dose vials, making it cheaper for international agencies to distribute them to impoverished regions at risk of epidemics. Faced with this "cost consideration," Merck ignored Hilleman's warnings, and government officials continued to push more and more thimerosal-based vaccines for children. Before 1989, American preschoolers received only three vaccinations - for polio, diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis and measles-mumps-rubella. A decade later, thanks to federal recommendations, children were receiving a total of 22 immunizations by the time they reached first grade.

    As the number of vaccines increased, the rate of autism among children exploded. During the 1990s, 40 million children were injected with thimerosal-based vaccines, receiving unprecedented levels of mercury during a period critical for brain development. Despite the well-documented dangers of thimerosal, it appears that no one bothered to add up the cumulative dose of mercury that children would receive from the mandated vaccines. "What took the FDA so long to do the calculations?" Peter Patriarca, director of viral products for the agency, asked in an e-mail to the CDC in 1999. "Why didn't CDC and the advisory bodies do these calculations when they rapidly expanded the childhood immunization schedule?"

    But by that time, the damage was done. Infants who received all their vaccines, plus boosters, by the age of 6 months were being injected with levels of ethylmercury 187 times greater than the EPA's limit for daily exposure to methylmercury, a related neurotoxin. Although the vaccine industry insists that ethylmercury poses little danger because it breaks down rapidly and is removed by the body, several studies - including one published in April by the National Institutes of Health - suggest that ethylmercury is actually more toxic to developing brains and stays in the brain longer than methylmercury.

    Officials responsible for childhood immunizations insist that the additional vaccines were necessary to protect infants from disease and that thimerosal is still essential in developing nations, which, they often claim, cannot afford the single-dose vials that don't require a preservative. Dr. Paul Offit, one of CDC's top vaccine advisors, told me, "I think if we really have an influenza pandemic - and certainly we will in the next 20 years, because we always do - there's no way on God's earth that we immunize 280 million people with single-dose vials. There has to be multidose vials."

    But while public-health officials may have been well-intentioned, many of those on the CDC advisory committee who backed the additional vaccines had close ties to the industry. Dr. Sam Katz, the committee's chair, was a paid consultant for most of the major vaccine makers and shares a patent on a measles vaccine with Merck, which also manufactures the hepatitis B vaccine. Dr. Neal Halsey, another committee member, worked as a researcher for the vaccine companies and received honoraria from Abbott Labs for his research on the hepatitis B vaccine.     Indeed, in the tight circle of scientists who work on vaccines, such conflicts of interest are common. Rep. Burton says that the CDC "routinely allows scientists with blatant conflicts of interest to serve on intellectual advisory committees that make recommendations on new vaccines," even though they have "interests in the products and companies for which they are supposed to be providing unbiased oversight." The House Government Reform Committee discovered that four of the eight CDC advisors who approved guidelines for a rotavirus vaccine laced with thimerosal "had financial ties to the pharmaceutical companies that were developing different versions of the vaccine."

    Offit, who shares a patent on the vaccine, acknowledged to me that he "would make money" if his vote to approve it eventually leads to a marketable product. But he dismissed my suggestion that a scientist's direct financial stake in CDC approval might bias his judgment. "It provides no conflict for me," he insists. "I have simply been informed by the process, not corrupted by it. When I sat around that table, my sole intent was trying to make recommendations that best benefited the children in this country. It's offensive to say that physicians and public-health people are in the pocket of industry and thus are making decisions that they know are unsafe for children. It's just not the way it works."

    Other vaccine scientists and regulators gave me similar assurances. Like Offit, they view themselves as enlightened guardians of children's health, proud of their "partnerships" with pharmaceutical companies, immune to the seductions of personal profit, besieged by irrational activists whose anti-vaccine campaigns are endangering children's health. They are often resentful of questioning. "Science," says Offit, "is best left to scientists."

    Still, some government officials were alarmed by the apparent  conflicts of interest. In his e-mail to CDC administrators in 1999, Paul Patriarca of the FDA blasted federal regulators for failing to adequately scrutinize the danger posed by the added baby vaccines. "I'm not sure there will be an easy way out of the potential perception that the FDA, CDC and immunization-policy bodies may have been asleep at the switch re: thimerosal until now," Patriarca wrote. The close ties between regulatory officials and the pharmaceutical industry, he added, "will also raise questions about various advisory bodies regarding aggressive recommendations for use" of thimerosal in child vaccines.

    If federal regulators and government scientists failed to grasp the potential risks of thimerosal over the years, no one could claim ignorance after the secret meeting at Simpsonwood. But rather than conduct more studies to test the link to autism and other forms of brain damage, the CDC placed politics over science. The agency turned its database on childhood vaccines - which had been developed largely at taxpayer expense - over to a private agency, America's Health Insurance Plans, ensuring that it could not be used for additional research. It also instructed the Institute of Medicine, an advisory organization that is part of the National Academy of Sciences, to produce a study debunking the link between thimerosal and brain disorders. The CDC "wants us to declare, well, that these things are pretty safe," Dr. Marie McCormick, who chaired the IOM's Immunization Safety Review Committee, told her fellow researchers when they first met in January 2001. "We are not ever going to come down that [autism] is a true side effect" of thimerosal exposure. According to transcripts of the meeting, the committee's chief staffer, Kathleen Stratton, predicted that the IOM would conclude that the evidence was "inadequate to accept or reject a causal relation" between thimerosal and autism. That, she added, was the result "Walt wants" - a reference to Dr. Walter Orenstein, director of the National Immunization Program for the CDC.

    For those who had devoted their lives to promoting vaccination, the revelations about thimerosal threatened to undermine everything they had worked for. "We've got a dragon by the tail here," said Dr. Michael Kaback, another committee member. "The more negative that [our] presentation is, the less likely people are to use vaccination, immunization - and we know what the results of that will be. We are kind of caught in a trap. How we work our way out of the trap, I think is the charge."

    Even in public, federal officials made it clear that their primary goal in studying thimerosal was to dispel doubts about vaccines. "Four current studies are taking place to rule out the proposed link between autism and thimerosal," Dr. Gordon Douglas, then-director of strategic planning for vaccine research at the National Institutes of Health, assured a Princeton University gathering in May 2001. "In order to undo the harmful effects of research claiming to link the [measles] vaccine to an elevated risk of autism, we need to conduct and publicize additional studies to assure parents of safety." Douglas formerly served as president of vaccinations for Merck, where he ignored warnings about thimerosal's risks.

    In May of last year, the Institute of Medicine issued its final report. Its conclusion: There is no proven link between autism and thimerosal in vaccines. Rather than reviewing the large body of literature describing the toxicity of thimerosal, the report relied on four disastrously flawed epidemiological studies examining European countries, where children received much smaller doses of thimerosal than American kids. It also cited a new version of the Verstraeten study, published in the journal Pediatrics, that had been reworked to reduce the link between thimerosal and autism. The new study included children too young to have been diagnosed with autism and overlooked others who showed signs of the disease. The IOM declared the case closed and - in a startling position for a scientific body - recommended that no further research be conducted.

    The report may have satisfied the CDC, but it convinced no one. Rep. David Weldon, a Republican physician from Florida who serves on the House Government Reform Committee, attacked the Institute of Medicine, saying it relied on a handful of studies that were "fatally flawed" by "poor design" and failed to represent "all the available scientific and medical research." CDC officials are not interested in an honest search for the truth, Weldon told me, because "an association between vaccines and autism would force them to admit that their policies irreparably damaged thousands of children. Who would want to make that conclusion about themselves?"

    Under pressure from Congress, parents and a few of its own panel members, the Institute of Medicine reluctantly convened a second panel to review the findings of the first. In February, the new panel, composed of different scientists, criticized the earlier panel for its lack of transparency and urged the CDC to make its vaccine database available to the public.

    So far, though, only two scientists have managed to gain access. Dr. Mark Geier, president of the Genetics Center of America, and his son, David, spent a year battling to obtain the medical records from the CDC. Since August 2002, when members of Congress pressured the agency to turn over the data, the Geiers have completed six studies that demonstrate a powerful correlation between thimerosal and neurological damage in children. One study, which compares the cumulative dose of mercury received by children born between 1981 and 1985 with those born between 1990 and 1996, found a "very significant relationship" between autism and vaccines. Another study of educational performance found that kids who received higher doses of thimerosal in vaccines were nearly three times as likely to be diagnosed with autism and more than three times as likely to suffer from speech disorders and mental retardation. Another soon-to-be-published study shows that autism rates are in decline following the recent elimination of thimerosal from most vaccines.

    As the federal government worked to prevent scientists from studying vaccines, others have stepped in to study the link to autism. In April, reporter Dan Olmsted of UPI undertook one of the more interesting studies himself. Searching for children who had not been exposed to mercury in vaccines - the kind of population that scientists typically use as a "control" in experiments - Olmsted scoured the Amish of Lancaster County, Penn., who refuse to immunize their infants. Given the national rate of autism, Olmsted calculated that there should be 130 autistics among the Amish. He found only four. One had been exposed to high levels of mercury from a power plant. The other three - including one child adopted from outside the Amish community - had received their vaccines.

    At the state level, many officials have also conducted in-depth reviews of thimerosal. While the Institute of Medicine was busy whitewashing the risks, the Iowa Legislature was carefully combing through all of the available scientific and biological data. "After three years of review, I became convinced there was sufficient credible research to show a link between mercury and the increased incidences in autism," says state Sen. Ken Veenstra, a Republican who oversaw the investigation. "The fact that Iowa's 700 percent increase in autism began in the 1990s, right after more and more vaccines were added to the children's vaccine schedules, is solid evidence alone." Last year, Iowa became the first state to ban mercury in vaccines, followed by California. Similar bans are now under consideration in 32 other states.

    But instead of following suit, the FDA continues to allow manufacturers to include thimerosal in scores of over-the-counter medications as well as steroids and injected collagen. Even more alarming, the government continues to ship vaccines preserved with thimerosal to developing countries - some of which are now experiencing a sudden explosion in autism rates. In China, where the disease was virtually unknown prior to the introduction of thimerosal by U.S. drug manufacturers in 1999, news reports indicate that there are now more than 1.8 million autistics. Although reliable numbers are hard to come by, autistic disorders also appear to be soaring in India, Argentina, Nicaragua and other developing countries that are now using thimerosal-laced vaccines. The World Health Organization continues to insist thimerosal is safe, but it promises to keep the possibility that it is linked to neurological disorders "under review."

    I devoted time to study this issue because I believe that this is a moral crisis that must be addressed. If, as the evidence suggests, our public-health authorities knowingly allowed the pharmaceutical industry to poison an entire generation of American children, their actions arguably constitute one of the biggest scandals in the annals of American medicine. "The CDC is guilty of incompetence and gross negligence," says Mark Blaxill, vice president of Safe Minds, a nonprofit organization concerned about the role of mercury in medicines. "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. is senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, chief prosecuting attorney for Riverkeeper and president of Waterkeeper Alliance. He is the co-author of The Riverkeepers.



NO MATTER WHAT: A STORY OF UCLA
by Alan R. Yurko

We often hear Dr. Kupsinel tell us of UCLA -- Unconditional Love and Acceptance. Here is a tale of how UCLA has transformed me.

I had rushed my newborn son to the emergency room. He had stopped breathing. Seventy-five hours later he died. His brain was damaged severely. We had no idea what caused this. The doctors and police said that the only way this could happen was if someone abused him. Since I was the last person alone with him, I was arrested and thrown in jail without bond for First Degree Murder. So, there I was with a twenty-four hour “suicide watch” cell, my newborn son dead, and I was being accused of killing him. Other prisoners were throwing feces urine, spit and sour milk on me. I was taunted as a “baby-killer,” which somehow warped in “baby-raper.” I was in shock, grief, fear and a state of horror. I could not eat. I could not sleep. My body was shutting down, my spirit was dying and my mind was almost lost. I lost the ability to speak and eat as the stench of sour milk and the feces overpowered me. My wife was arrested as well. my four year old daughter was taken by the State and was sexually battered and molested in their care. I had developed a rash as I was forced to wash my body with toilet water because my “sink” was mysteriously broken. A prisoner across from me was gouging his nose to make it bleed and using his blood to paint pentagons and satanic symbols on his cell walls. He painted himself as well, sometimes using his own feces. I wasn’t allowed bedding and high powered fluorescent lights beamed on me twenty-four hours a day, non-stop. The media was busy painting my wife and I as devils and monsters. My wife Francine was released and charges were eventually dismissed, and our daughter was returned swiftly after her molestation. Eventually, I was convicted of murdering my baby boy and sentenced to life plus ten years in prison. However, my story here today focuses on those “dark” days at the onset while in that “suicide cell.”

It was during those times where I teetered on the edge of insanity. Literally. At times I wished I would die, and I know deep in my heart, I would in fact be dead were it not for UCLA.

As Dr. Roy Kupsinel has shown us in SYNAPSE, UCLA is the key to all healing. However, we often overlook how UCLA heals others as well as ourselves. Let me tell you someone else’s UCLA healed me! As I spent those early “dark’ days in fear and cried, I spiraled down a vortex of death. However, UCLA reached in and lifted me up. Alas, my wife, Francine, had called the jail for she was worried that I hadn’t called or written. (I was given no phone nor writing supplies,) Her assertiveness prompted jail officials to bring me a phone. I called. I needed to tell her that I loved her and that I was dying inside, but it was she who did all the talking. She told me she knew I didn’t hurt our baby. She said she never doubted me and never would. She told me she would stand by me, never resting, until we proved my innocence and that no power was greater than our love. She resounded to me that NO MATTER WHAT they say or do, that no matter what happened and came to pass that she would fight for me because she knew I was not a murderer. The phrase NO MATTER WHAT permeated the darkness that was enveloping me. I knew she knew that I never hurt our baby.
 
All through the phone call I wept in gratitude and sorrow and pain and joy. I was awash in serenity. She repeated the phrase that she would fight for the truth and stand by me NO MATTER WHAT and that NO MATTER WHAT she would love me. The words and UCLA she gave me stirred me and I grew strong. My appetite returned. I could speak better. My faith was restored! This was in 1997 and since then, the words NO MATTER WHAT have become our motto. NO MATTER WHAT is a manifestation of UCLA. It is love. Love is not selfish -- it heals you and the person you give it to. It's a living example.

Since 1997 we’ve been fighting, searching and gaining support. We found out through dozens of medical experts around the world who have received our son’s medical records that he died from vaccinations and that one of the vaccine lots was so “hot” it had been implicated in the deaths of five other children and harmed to date seventy others. We’ve rallied the support of 500 people of which over 200 are medical and health care professionals, doctors and experts. Over seventy organizations spanning twenty countries support our plight and my wife has spoken at medical conferences and we’ve put on seminars in New York and the United Kingdom. The wheels of justice turn slowly and we are gaining ground. We filed our appeal in the courts on March 22, 2002. We have a web site <www.freeyurko.bizland.com where you can see all the evidence and triumphs towards truth we’ve made. Our story and plight is featured in over fifty publications and is the subject of a beginning film documentary, but ... again, this tale is not about that, it is about UCLA and NO MATTER WHAT, It is about healing. It is about love.

Finally, the UCLA has grown. My wife and I and our close supporters, through UCLA/NO MATTER WHAT are not just working to resolve our own family’s injustice, we are helping others falsely accused and educating thousands of people about the dangers of vaccines as well as other health and legal issues. UCLA/NO MATTER WHAT is the key to our health, success and happiness. It affects the giver and the receiver. Practice it in all your affairs, no matter what!



There are two things you need to understand.

1) You need to understand that NO vaccine will ever be safe, because they all contain virtually nothing but poisons. In fact they need to include poisons as "adjuvants" in order to get the vaccine to do what it is "supposed" to do, because they think it is a good thing - "stimulate the immune system". In reality what they call "stimulation" is in fact irritation, but they do not understand the difference. The result of this irritation is that the person is not immunised, but the REVERSE, sensitised. This means susceptibility is INCREASED, not decreased. So the vaccine does not prevent the disease, quite the contrary. Many people even develop a disease from the vaccine itself that is supposed to be preventing it.

2) There is no need to worry about your child developing this illness. Meningococcus is a very common bacteria that under normal circumstances lives peacefully in our bodies without being pathogenic, i.e. it does not cause illness. Illness is provoked primarily as a result of medical intervention, which weakens and derails the immune system. The main intervention that does that is vaccination of any kind (including vaccination for meningococcus itself). Once the illness develops, the medical system only assaults the body further, with antipyretics and antibiotics, instead of supporting it, and then they die, and the poor old bacteria get all the blame. If you provide all the basics to your son - sufficient nutrition, clean water, sunshine, fresh air etc. and protect him from being fed or injected with poisons, including any vaccines, his immune system will work fine, as it has been designed, and the chances of his developing this illness are next to none. Your fear has been created by the pharmaceutical industry's very powerful and effective marketing machine. Do not let them exploit you. Learn the true causes of health and sickness, and then your knowledge and understanding can overcome the fear.

Regards,
Bronwyn
Vaccination Information Service
http://www.vaccination.inoz.com
 




Vexing Over Vaccines
Are Vaccines Causing More Disease Than They Are Curing?
1999 by Alan Cantwell, Jr., M.D.

Vaccines help keep us safe from infectious diseases. Smallpox and polio epidemics have been wiped out by mass vaccine programs. People rush to get flu shots every fall, and kids are bombarded with a barrage of 22 required vaccinations before the age of six. Even pets need their shots. The manufacture of vaccines is a giant industry and what you
pay for inoculations and doctor visits is big business for pediatricians, family practitioners and veterinarians. So why are more and more people worried about vaccines, especially the ones for kids?

Vaccine-induced Illness

Barbara Loe Fisher, president of the National Vaccine Information Center, a consumer’s group based in Vienna, Virginia, claims vaccines are responsible for the increasing numbers of children and adults who suffer from immune system and neurologic disorders, hyperactivity, learning disabilities, asthma, chronic fatigue syndrome, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and seizure disorders. She calls for studies to monitor the long-term effects of mass vaccination and Fisher wants physicians to be absolutely sure these vaccines are safe and not harming people. No one can deny the dangers of vaccines. The measles, mumps, rubella (German measles) and polio vaccines, all contain live but weakened viruses. Although health officials tell you that polio has been wiped out in the U.S. since 1979, they often fail to mention that all recorded cases of polio since that time are actually caused by the polio vaccine. Vaccine investigator Neil Z. Miller questions whether we still need need the polio vaccine when it causes every new case of polio in this country. Before mass vaccinations programs began fifty years ago, Miller insists we didn’t have cancer in epidemic numbers, that autoimmune ailments were barely known, and childhood autism did not exist.

Vaccine Contamination

There is also the problem of contamination that has always plagued vaccine makers. During World War II a yellow fever vaccine manufactured with human blood serum was unknowingly contaminated with hepatitis virus and given to the military. As a result, more than 50,000 cases of serum hepatitis broke out among American troops injected with the vaccine. In the 1960s it was discovered that polio vaccines manufactured in monkey kidney tissue between 1955 and 1963 were contaminated with a monkey virus (Simian Virus, number 40). Although this virus causes cancer in experimental animals, health authorities insist it does not cause problems in humans. But evidence of SV40 genetic material has been popping up in human cancers and normal tissue. Researchers are now connecting SV40-contaminated polio vaccines to an increasing number of rare cancers of the lung (mesothelioma) and bone marrow (multiple myeloma). In a 1999 report, SV40 DNA was detected in tissue samples from four children born after 1982. Three were kidney transplant patients, and a fourth had a kidney tumor. Could SV40 be passed on from parents to their children? No one knows for sure.

Covert Vaccine Experiments

Using kids as guinea pigs in potentially harmful vaccine experiments is every parents’ worst nightmare. This actually happened in 1989-1991 when Kaiser Permanente of Southern California and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) jointly conducted a measles vaccine experiment. Without proper parental disclosure, the Yugoslavian-made “high titre” Edmonston-Zagreb measles vaccine was tested on 1,500 poor, primarily black and Latino, inner city children in Los Angeles. Highly recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), the high-potency experimental vaccine was previously injected into infants in Mexico, Haiti, and Africa. It was discontinued in these countries when it was
discovered that the children were dying in large numbers. Unbelievably, the measles vaccine caused long-term suppression of the children’s immune system for six months up to three years. As a result, the immunodepressed children died from other diseases in greater numbers than children who had never received the vaccine. Tragically, African girl babies in the experiment were given twice the dose of boys, and therefore suffered a higher death rate. The WHO pulled the vaccine off the market in 1992. Ironically, the E-Z measles vaccine tested by Kaiser on minority babies was supposed to increase immunity in younger infants. Instead, the vaccine produced the opposite effect. A Los Angeles Times editorial (June 20, 1996) assured readers that “none of the 1,500 was injured by the unlicensed vaccine” and called upon the CDC to ensure that experiments like the E-Z measles vaccine could never occur again.

One wonders how many secret vaccine experiments are conducted by  health authorities that never come to the attention of the public. During the two-year measles experiment I was employed by Kaiser and I never knew anything about it until I read the report in The Times five years later, in 1996. In the poor inner cities across the country the number of asthma cases is exploding and health officials don’t know why. According to the CDC, 5000 asthma deaths occur annually; and it is estimated that 17.3 million people (4.8 are children) suffer from the disease, up from 6.7 million in 1980. Asthma usually begins before age 6, and blacks are two to three times more likely to die from asthma than whites. In the Bronx and Harlem sections of New York City, the hospitalization rate for asthma is 21 times higher than in the more affluent areas of the city. Could the sharp rise in asthma in poor children be connected with immunosuppression caused by by a barrage of vaccines, as well as a lack of quality medical care and insurance, poor diet, and environmental factors? The possible connection of immunosuppressive vaccines to diseases like asthma has never been raised by health officials .With vaccine experiments frequently performed in Africa and now on black Americans, no wonder one out of every four African-Americans believes AIDS was developed as a genocide program by the U.S. government to exterminate the black population. But vaccine experiments in the 1990s have not been limited to blacks. Millions of female Mexicans, Nicaraguans and Filipinos have been duped into taking tetanus vaccines, some of which contained a female hormone that could cause miscarriage and sterilization. In 1995, a Catholic  human rights organization called Human Life International accused the WHO of promoting a Canadian-made tetanus vaccine laced with a pregancy hormone called human choriogonadotropic hormone (HCG). Suspicions were aroused when the tetanus vaccine was prescribed in the unusual dose of five multiple injections over a three month period, and recommended only to women of reproductive age. When an unusual number of women experienced vaginal bleeding and miscarriages after the shots, a hormone additive was uncovered as the cause. Apparently the WHO has been developing and testing anti-fertility vaccines for over two decades. Women receiving the laced tetanus shot not only developed antibodies to tetanus, but they also developed dangerous antibodies to the pregnancy hormone as well. Without this HCG hormone the growth of the fetus is impaired. Consequently, the laced vaccine served as a covert contraceptive device. Commissioned to analyze the vaccine, the Philippines Medical Association found that 20 percent of the WHO tetanus vaccines were contaminated with the hormone. Not surprisingly, the WHO has denied all accusations as “completely false and without basis,” and the major media have never reported on the controversy. For futher details on this issue, consult the Human Life International website (www.hli.org).Newly approved vaccines may also pose serious risks. In October 1999 a vaccine against “rotavirus” infection (which causes most cases of childhood diarrhea) was pulled off the market. One year after the RotaShield vaccine was inoculated into over a million infants, it was found to increase the risk of bowel obstruction. Almost 100 cases of bowel obstruction were reported to the government, and twenty infants developed bowel obstructions within one or two weeks after receiving the vaccine.

Vaccine Manufacture and Associated Dangers

Although the public has heard about side effects of vaccines, most people are clueless about the manufacture of vaccines. Few people know that viruses used in vaccine production need to be grown on animal parts like monkey kidneys, or in chicken embryos, or in human and fetal “cell lines.” Harvesting viruses in human cell-lines can be perilous because some human cell lines are derived from cancer cells. In AIDS & The Doctors of Death I wrote about the development of the first human “HeLa” cell line — an “immortal” cell line used extensively in cancer and vaccine research for decades. Henrietta Lacks was a young black woman from Baltimore who died from a highly malignant cervical cancer in 1951. Small pieces of her tumor were donated to a laboratory specializing in tissue cell culture. In those days most attempts to grow human cells outside the body failed. But for some unknown reason Henrietta’s cancer cells grew vigorously and became known as the first successful human tissue cell line in history — the now famous HeLa cell line commemorating the legendary HEnrietta LAcks.

Henrietta’s cells were kept alive by feeding them a witches’ brew of beef embryo extract (the ground-up remains of a three-week-old, unborn cattle embryo); fresh chicken plasma obtained from the blood of a live chicken heart; and blood from human placentas (the placenta is the sac that nurtures the developing fetus and contains powerful hormones).It is now suspected that a sexually-transmitted papilloma virus is the cause of cervical cancer. And it is anybody’s guess how many other chicken, cattle, and human viruses are incorporated into the HeLa cell line, but none of this possible viral contamination seems to bother scientists who have extensively used the cells in cancer research. What laboratory scientists did eventually discover was that HeLa cells proved so hardy that they frequently contaminated other tissue celllines used in cancer and cancer virus research. In the late 1960s when widespread HeLa cell contamination problems were uncovered, scientists were shocked and embarrassed to learn that millions of dollars worth of published cancer experiments were ruined.

“Liver cells” and “monkey cells” that were used in cancer experiments turned out to be Henrietta’s cancer cells in disguise. Benign cells which supposedly “spontaneously transformed” into malignant cells were found to be cells contaminated with cancerous HeLa cells. The serious problem of HeLa cell contamination in cancer and vaccine research is revealed in Michael Gold’s A Conspiracy of Cells: One Woman’s Immortal Legacy and the Medical Scandal It Caused. Even Jonas Salk, who developed the legendary Salk polio vaccine, was fooled when HeLa cells contaminated his animal cell lines. He admitted this years later in 1978 before a stunned audience of cell biologists and vaccine makers. In experiments performed in the late 1950s on dying cancer patients, Salk tried injecting them with a cell line of monkey heart  tissue — the same cell line he used to harvest polio virus for his famous vaccine. He hoped the monkey cell injections would stimulate the immune system to fight cancer. However, when abcesses developed at the site of injections Salk began to suspect that he might be injecting HeLa cells rather than monkey cells, and he stopped the experiment. Mark Nelson-Rees, a HeLa cell expert and one of the 1978 conference attendees, offered to test Salk’s line if it was still available. Salk graciously agreed and the monkey cells indeed proved to be HeLa cells which had invaded and taken over the monkey cell line. According to author Gold, Salk thought there were adequate ways to separate viruses from the tissue cell lines they were harvested in, so that it really didn’t matter what kind of cells were used. Even if vaccines weren’t filtered, and even if whole cancer cells were injected directly into a human, Salk believed they would be rejected by the body and cause no harm. In those days doctors didn’t much believe in cancer-causing viruses. Nowadays, no researcher would dare try injecting cancer cells into a human being. But in the 1950s Salk had done it accidently. He had injected HeLa cells into a few dozen patients and it hadn’t  bothered him a bit.

Is There a Vaccine Contamination Connection to AIDS?

Most people assume vaccines are “sterile” and germ free. But sterilizing a vaccine can destroy the necessary immunizing protein that makes it work. Thus, contaminating viruses or viral “particles” can sometime survive the vaccine process. Animal viruses are also contained in fetal calf serum, a blood product commonly used as a laboratory nutrient to feed various tissue cell cultures. Vaccine contamination by fetal calf serum and its possible reationship to HIV was the subject of a letter by J. Grote, published in the Journal of the Royal (London) Society of Medicine in October 1988. Bovine visna virus (which looks similar to HIV) is a known contaminant of fetal calf serum used in vaccine production and virus-like particles have been detected in vaccines certified for clinical use. Grote warns that “It seems absolutely vital that all vaccines are screened for HIV prior to use, and that bovine visna virus is further investigated as to its relationship to HIV and its possible role in progression towards AIDS .”

Could virus-contaminated vaccines lie at the root of AIDS? A few researchers, including myself, who believe HIV was “introduced” into gays during the experimental hepatitis B vaccine trails when thousands of homosexuals were injected in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York, during the years 1978-1981. The AIDS epidemic first erupted in gays living in those cities in 1981. In 1980, one year before, already 20% of the gays inoculated in Manhattan with the experimental vaccine were already HIV-positive. This was several years before definite AIDS cases were diagnosed in Africa. In the early 1970s the hepatitis B vaccine was developed in chimpanzees, now wildly accepted as the animal from which HIV supposedly evolved. Hepatitis B vaccine was developed to protect people from the sexual spread of the hepatitis B virus. Now the government recommends that all newborn babies be given the vaccine. Such recommendations do not make sense to many parents. And people are still fearful of the hepatitis B vaccine because of its original connection to gay men and AIDS. The original experimental vaccine was made from the pooled blood serum of hepatitis-infected homosexuals and, as mentioned, serum-based vaccines cannot be sterilized.

Another theory of AIDS is that HIV originated from polio vaccines contaminated with chimp and monkey viruses, and administered to Africans in the late 1950s. In The River: A Journey to the Source of HIV and AIDS , published in 1999, Edward Hooper details how polio vaccine was made using monkey (and possibly chimp) kidneys and how the ancestor virus of HIV could have jumped species (via the vaccine) to produce the outbreak of AIDS in Africa. Hooper’s well-researched book greatly expands the polio vaccine theory of AIDS first reportedby Tom Curtis in Rolling Stone magazine in 1992, and The River is a must-read for anyone interested in the possible man-made origin of AIDS.

Other researchers think it more likely that the various WHO-sponsored vaccine programs (particularly the smallpox program) in Africa in the 1970s are responsible for unleashing AIDS in Africa in the 1980s. Hooper, who has worked as a United Nations official, has discounted the research pointing to AIDS as a man-made disease, as proposed by Dr. Leonard Horowitz in Emerging Viruses, and in my two books AIDS & The Doctors of Death: An Inquiry into the Origin of the AIDS Epidemic: and Queer Blood: The Secret AIDS Genocide Plot. Horowitz and I both suspect contaminated smallpox vaccines as the source of HIV In Africa. Certainly the smallpox (vaccinia-cowpox) virus is an excellent virus to use for the genetic engineering of new, multipurpose vaccines. By splicing into the DNA genes of the vaccinia virus, scientists can add on parts of disease-producing viruses like influenza, hepatitis, and other viruses. The safety of this technique has not been fully evaluated, prompting one vaccine maker at a Vaccinia Virus Workshop in 1984 to ask if this could lead to another form of AIDS.

The Vaccine Connection to Gulf War Illness and Huntsville Mystery Illness

The cause of Gulf War Illness (GWI) is unknown. For years this debilitating illness (which now affects one-half of the Gulf War vets) has been ignored by Pentagon officials who claim the disease does not exist and that vets are simply reacting to stress. GWI is also thought to be contagious. Vets insist their disease has been passed on to
spouses, other family members, and even pets. Some people suspect multiple vaccines, particularly the experimental anthrax vaccine, are implicated in the disease. Currently, soldiers who refuse to take the mandatory anthrax vaccine are being courtmartialed and dismissed from the service. Researchers Dr. Garth Nicolson and his wife Nancy have found a tiny bacterial microbe (a “mycoplasma”) in the blood of nearly half the ill vets with GWI.Amazingly, this infectious agent has a piece of HIV (the AIDS virus) attached to it. This microbe could never have occured naturally. On the contrary, the composition of the microbe suggests a man-made and genetically-engineered biological warfare agent. Garth Nicolson’s scientific credentials are impeccable. For 16 years he was a professor of medicine at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, as well as professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of Texas Medical School, also in Houston. Nancy Nicolson, a molecular biophysicist, was on the faculty at Baylor College of Medicine. Six months after returning home from the Gulf war, the Nicolson’s daughter contracted GWI. Her mother Nancy had contracted a similar illness in 1987 when she was working with Mycoplasma incognitus in infectious disease research. Finally suspecting that this research had biowarfare implications, Nancy Nicolson became a whistle-blower and angered officials. As a result, she believes she was deliberately infected with the mycoplasma. After partial paralysis and a long illness, she finally regained her health with the antibiotic Doxycycline. The Nicolson’s discovery of a similar mycoplasma (but without the attachment of HIV) in a mysterious illness that erupted in the Huntsville, Texas area among prison guards and their families has all the drama of a The Movie of the Week. Although the Huntsville disease broke out in the late 1980s (shortly before the Gulf War), it has many of the same signs and symptoms of GWI. Many locals are convinced the sometimes deadly disease originally spread from prisoners incarcerated in several large prisons around Huntsville. In experiments conducted during the 1970s and 80s, the prisoners were inoculated with flu vaccines containing genetically engineered viruses and mycoplasma . It is suspected that vaccines were being covertly developed and deployed as biological warfare weapons. Nobel prize winner James Watson, world famous for his discovery of the molecular structure of DNA and a leading researcher of the still ongoing Human Genome Project, was involved in these prison experiments. The guards are convinced the Huntsville mystery illness is intimately connected to these experiments, jointly conducted by the Medical School and the military. Like GWI, health officials deny the disease exists. The Nicolsons continue to developed antibiotic treatments, which have helped some vets. But they have paid a heavy price for their controversial research and unprecedented discoveries. Garth Nicolson was forced to resign from M.D. Anderson in 1996. His career and reputation destroyed, the Nicolsons have since moved to California and head The Institute for Molecular Medicine in Huntington Beach.

Dangerous Animal and Human Cell Lines in Vaccine Manufacture

In an effort to quell concerns about the safety of vaccines, scientists are finally taking another look at the “non-infectious” particles of bird-cancer viruses (avian leukosis virus) in the mumps/measles/rubella vaccines routinely given to kids. Could this be the reason the FDA held a meeting in September, 1999, to reconsider using human tumor cell lines (like HeLa) rather than monkey kidneys and chicken embryos which are no longer guaranteed 100% safe?Writing in Science, Gretchen Vogel admits public trust in vaccines is a bit shaky. In Wales anti-vaccine parents are holding “measles parties” to infect their children with the disease rather than vaccinate them. She cites the danger of using immortal cell lines for live vaccine production because cancer genes or other hazardous factors might be transferred to people receiving vaccines. But manufacturers also realize vaccine critics are becoming more wary of vaccines made in animal and bird tissue. And vaccine makers want to use immortal cell lines to grow their viruses because obviously viruses can’t grow on their own. The big question everyone seems to avoid is: Can vaccines cause cancer? There is certainly evidence connecting contaminated vaccines to AIDS. And HIV is a cancer-causing virus. Robert Gallo, the co-discoverer of HIV in 1984, has clearly stated AIDS is an epidemic of cancer. Animal and avian viruses can contaminate vaccines and have all been studied as cancer-causing agents. And cancer and vaccine research would be much more difficult without the use of cell lines, some of which are derived from cancer.

Vaccines and Public Paranoia

Is the fear of vaccines justified? It is clear that vaccines can be dangerous. The contamination of vaccines is a reality, and vaccine experiments can be hazardous to one’s health. AIDS, unknown two decades ago, is now an increasing worldwide epidemic with millions of death predicted for the next decade. Could vaccines contaminated with cancer-causing and immunosuppressive viruses unleash new plagues in the New Millennium? If so, the new plagues may be far worse than the diseases we eradicated by vaccine programs in the twentieth century.

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Vaccines//A interview with Jon Rappoport


This would apply to animal vaccines as well I presume?

Q: You were once certain that vaccines were the hallmark of good medicine. A: Yes I was. I helped develop a few vaccines. I won't say which ones.

Q: Why not?

A: I want to preserve my privacy.

Q: So you think you could have problems if you came out into the open?

A: I believe I could lose my pension.

Q: On what grounds?

A: The grounds don't matter. These people have ways of causing you problems, when you were once part of the Club. I know one or two people who were put under surveillance, who were harassed.

Q: Harassed by whom?

A: The FBI.

Q: Really?

A: Sure. The FBI used other pretexts. And the IRS can come calling too.

Q: So much for free speech.

A: I was "part of the inner circle." If now I began to name names and make specific accusations against researchers, I could be in a world of trouble.

Q: What is at the bottom of these efforts at harassment?

A: Vaccines are the last defense of modern medicine. Vaccines are the ultimate justification for the overall "brilliance" of modern medicine.

Q: Do you believe that people should be allowed to choose whether they should get vaccines?

A: On a political level, yes. On a scientific level, people need information, so that they can choose well. It's one thing to say choice is good. But if the atmosphere is full of lies, how can you choose? Also, if the FDA were run by honorable people, these vaccines would not be granted licenses. They would be investigated to within an inch of their lives.

Q: There are medical historians who state that the overall decline of illnesses was not due to vaccines.

A: I know. For a long time, I ignored their work.

Q: Why?

A: Because I was afraid of what I would find out. I was in the business of developing vaccines. My livelihood depended on continuing that work.

Q: And then?

A: I did my own investigation.

Q: What conclusions did you come to?

A: The decline of disease is due to improved living conditions.

Q: What conditions?

A: Cleaner water. Advanced sewage systems. Nutrition. Fresher food. A decrease in poverty. Germs may be everywhere, but when you are healthy, you don't contract the diseases as easily.

Q: What did you feel when you completed your own investigation?

A: Despair. I realized I was working a sector based on a collection of lies.

Q: Are some vaccines more dangerous than others?

A: Yes. The DPT shot, for example. The MMR. But some lots of a vaccine are more dangerous than other lots of the same vaccine. As far as I'm concerned, all vaccines are dangerous.

Q: Why?

A: Several reasons. They involve the human immune system in a process that tends to compromise immunity. They can actually cause the disease they are supposed to prevent. They can cause other diseases than the ones they are supposed to prevent.

Q: Why are we quoted statistics which seem to prove that vaccines have been tremendously successful at wiping out diseases?

A: Why? To give the illusion that these vaccines are useful. If a vaccine suppresses visible symptoms of a disease like measles, everyone assumes that the vaccine is a success. But, under the surface, the vaccine can harm the immune system itself. And if it causes other diseases-say, meningitis-that fact is masked, because no one believes that the vaccine can do that. The connection is overlooked.

Q: It is said that the smallpox vaccine wiped out smallpox in England.

A: Yes. But when you study the available statistics, you get another picture.

Q: Which is?

A: There were cities in England where people who were not vaccinated did not get smallpox. There were places where people who were vaccinated experienced smallpox epidemics. And smallpox was already on the decline before the vaccine was introduced.

Q: So you're saying that we have been treated to a false history.

A: Yes. That's exactly what I'm saying. This is a history that has been cooked up to convince people that vaccines are invariably safe and effective.

Q: Now, you worked in labs. Where purity was an issue.

A: The public believes that these labs, these manufacturing facilities are the cleanest places in the world. That is not true. Contamination occurs all the time. You get all sorts of debris introduced into vaccines.

Q: For example, the SV40 monkey virus slips into the polio vaccine.

A: Well yes, that happened. But that's not what I mean. The SV40 got into the polio vaccine because the vaccine was made by using monkey kidneys. But I'm talking about something else. The actual lab conditions. The mistakes. The careless errors. SV40, which was later found in cancer tumors--that was what I would call a structural problem. It was an accepted part of the manufacturing process. If you use monkey kidneys, you open the door to germs which you don't know are in those kidneys.

Q: Okay, but let's ignore that distinction between different types of contaminants for a moment. What contaminants did you find in your many years of work with vaccines?

A: All right. I'll give you some of what I came across, and I'll also give you what colleagues of mine found. Here's a partial list. In the Rimavex measles vaccine, we found various chicken viruses. In polio
vaccine, we found acanthamoeba, which is a so-called "brain-eating" amoeba. Simian cytomegalovirus in polio vaccine. Simian foamy virus in the rotavirus vaccine. Bird-cancer viruses in the MMR vaccine. Various micro-organisms in the anthrax vaccine. I've found potentially dangerous enzyme inhibitors in several vaccines. Duck, dog, and rabbit viruses in the rubella vaccine. Avian leucosis virus in the flu vaccine. Pestivirus in the MMR vaccine.

Q: Let me get this straight. These are all contaminants which don't belong in the vaccines.

A: That's right. And if you try to calculate what damage these contaminants can cause, well, we don't really know, because no testing has been done, or very little testing. It's a game of roulette. You take your
chances. Also, most people don't know that some polio vaccines, adenovirus vaccines, rubella and hep A and measles vaccines have been made with aborted human fetal tissue. I have found what I believed were bacterial fragments and poliovirus in these vaccines from time to time-which may have come from that fetal tissue. When you look for contaminants in vaccines, you can come up with material that IS puzzling. You know it shouldn't be there, but you don't know exactly what you've got. I have found what I believed was a very small "fragment" of human hair and also human mucus. I have found what can only be called "foreign protein," which could mean almost anything. It could mean protein from viruses.

Q: Alarm bells are ringing all over the place.

A: How do you think I felt? Remember, this material is going into the bloodstream without passing through some of the ordinary immune defenses.

Q: How were your findings received?

A: Basically, it was, don't worry, this can't be helped. In making vaccines, you use various animals' tissue, and that's where this kind of contamination enters in. Of course, I'm not even mentioning the standard chemicals like formaldehyde, mercury, and aluminum which are purposely put into vaccines.

Q: This information is pretty staggering.

A: Yes. And I'm just mentioning some of the biological contaminants. Who knows how many others there are? Others we don't find because we don't think to look for them. If tissue from, say, a bird is used to make a vaccine, how many possible germs can be in that tissue? We have no idea. We have no idea what they might be, or what effects they could have on humans.

Q: And beyond the purity issue?

A: You are dealing with the basic faulty premise about vaccines. That they intricately stimulate the immune system to create the conditions for immunity from disease. That is the bad premise. It doesn't work that way. A vaccine is supposed to "create" antibodies which, indirectly, offer protection against disease. However, the immune system is much larger and more involved than antibodies and their related "killer cells."

Q: The immune system is?

A: The entire body, really. Plus the mind. It's all immune system, you might say. That is why you can have, in the middle of an epidemic, those individuals who remain healthy.

Q: So the level of general health is important.

A: More than important. Vital.

Q: How are vaccine statistics falsely presented?

A: There are many ways. For example, suppose that 25 people who have received the hepatitis B vaccine come down with hepatitis. Well, hep B is a liver disease. But you can call liver disease many things. You can change the diagnosis. Then, you've concealed the root cause of the problem.

Q: And that happens?

A: All the time. It HAS to happen, if the doctors automatically assume that people who get vaccines DO NOT come down with the diseases they are now supposed to be protected from. And that is exactly what doctors assume. You see, it's circular reasoning. It's a closed system. It admits no fault. No possible fault. If a person who gets a vaccine against hepatitis gets hepatitis, or gets some other disease, the automatic assumption is, this had nothing to do with the disease.

Q: In your years working in the vaccine establishment, how many doctors did you encounter who admitted that vaccines were a problem?

A: None. There were a few who privately questioned what they were doing. But they would never go public, even within their companies.

Q: What was the turning point for you?

A: I had a friend whose baby died after a DPT shot.

Q: Did you investigate?

A: Yes, informally. I found that this baby was completely healthy before the vaccination. There was no reason for his death, except the vaccine. That started my doubts. Of course, I wanted to believe that the baby had gotten a bad shot from a bad lot. But as I looked into this further, I found that was not the case in this instance. I was being drawn into a spiral of doubt that increased over time. I continued to investigate. I found that, contrary to what I thought, vaccines are not tested in a scientific way.

Q: What do you mean?

A: For example, no long-term studies are done on any vaccines. Long-term follow-up is not done in any careful way. Why? Because, again, the assumption is made that vaccines do not cause problems. So why should anyone check? On top of that, a vaccine reaction is defined so that all bad reactions are said to occur very soon after the shot is given. But that does not make sense.

Q: Why doesn't it make sense?

A: Because the vaccine obviously acts in the body for a long period of time after it is given. A reaction can be gradual. Deterioration can be gradual. Neurological problems can develop over time. They do in various conditions, even according to a conventional analysis. So why couldn't that be the case with vaccines? If chemical poisoning can occur gradually, why couldn't that be the case with a vaccine which contains mercury?

Q: And that is what you found?

A: Yes. You are dealing with correlations, most of the time. Correlations are not perfect. But if you get 500 parents whose children have suffered neurological damage during a one-year period after having a vaccine, this should be sufficient to spark off an intense investigation.

Q: Has it been enough?

A: No. Never. This tells you something right away.

Q: Which is?

A: The people doing the investigation are not really interested in looking at the facts. They assume that the vaccines are safe. So, when they do investigate, they invariably come up with exonerations of the vaccines. They say, "This vaccine is safe." But what do they base those judgments on? They base them on definitions and ideas which automatically rule out a condemnation of the vaccine.

Q: There are numerous cases where a vaccine campaign has failed. Where people have come down with the disease against which they were vaccinated.

A: Yes, there are many such instances. And there the evidence is simply ignored. It's discounted. The experts say, if they say anything at all, that this is just an isolated situation, but overall the vaccine has been shown to be safe. But if you add up all the vaccine campaigns where damage and disease have occurred, you realize that these are NOT isolated situations.

Q: Did you ever discuss what we are talking about here with colleagues, when you were still working in the vaccine establishment?

A: Yes I did.

Q: What happened?

A: Several times I was told to keep quiet. It was made clear that I should go back to work and forget my misgivings. On a few occasions, I encountered fear. Colleagues tried to avoid me. They felt they could be labeled with "guilt by association." All in all, though, I behaved myself. I made sure I didn't create problems for myself.

Q: If vaccines actually do harm, why are they given?

A: First of all, there is no "if." They do harm. It becomes a more difficult question to decide whether they do harm in those people who seem to show no harm. Then you are dealing with the kind of research which should be done, but isn't. Researchers should be probing to discover a kind of map, or flow chart, which shows exactly what vaccines do in the body from the moment they enter. This research has not been done. As to why they are given, we could sit here for two days and discuss all the reasons. As you've said many times, at different layers of the system people have their motives. Money, fear of losing a job, the desire to win brownie points, prestige, awards, promotion, misguided idealism, unthinking habit, and so on. But, at the highest levels of the medical cartel, vaccines are a top priority because they cause a weakening of the immune system. I know that may be hard to accept, but it's true. The medical cartel, at the highest level, is not out to help people, it is out to harm them, to weaken them. To kill them. At one point in my career, I had a long conversation with a man who occupied a high government position in an African nation. He told me that he was well aware of this. He told me that WHO is a front for these depopulation interests. There is an underground, shall we say, in Africa, made up of various officials who are earnestly trying to change the lot of the poor. This network of people knows what is going on. They know that vaccines have been used, and are being used, to destroy their countries, to make them ripe for takeover by globalist powers. I have had the opportunity to speak with several of these people from this network.

Q: Is Thabo Mbeki, the president of South Africa, aware of the situation?

A: I would say he is partially aware. Perhaps he is not utterly convinced, but he is on the way to realizing the whole truth. He already knows that HIV is a hoax. He knows that the AIDS drugs are poisons which destroy the immune system. He also knows that if he speaks out, in any way, about the vaccine issue, he will be branded a lunatic. He has enough trouble after his stand on the AIDS issue.

Q: This network you speak of.

A: It has accumulated a huge amount of information about vaccines. The question is, how is a successful strategy going to be mounted? For these people, that is a difficult issue.

Q: And in the industrialized nations?

A: The medical cartel has a stranglehold, but it is diminishing. Mainly because people have the freedom to question medicines. However, if the choice issue [the right to take or reject any medicine]does not gather steam, these coming mandates about vaccines against biowarefare germs are going to win out. This is an important time.

Q: The furor over the hepatits B vaccine seems one good avenue.

A: I think so, yes. To say that babies must have the vaccine-and then in the next breath, admitting that a person gets hep B from sexual contacts and shared needles-is a ridiculous juxtaposition. Medical authorities try to cover themselves by saying that 20,000 or so children in the US get hep B every year from "unknown causes," and that's why every baby must have the vaccine. I dispute that 20,00 figure and the so-called studies that back it up.

Q: Andrew Wakefield, the British MD who uncovered the link between the MMR vaccine and autism, has just been fired from his job in a London hospital.

A: Yes. Wakefield performed a great service. His correlations between the vaccine and autism are stunning. Perhaps you know that Tony Blair's wife is involved with alternative health. There is the possibility that their child has not been given the MMR. Blair recently side-stepped the question in press interviews, and made it seem that he was simply objecting to invasive questioning of his "personal and family life." In any event, I believe his wife has been muzzled. I think, if given the chance, she would at least say she is sympathetic to all the families who have come forward and stated that their children were severely damaged by the MMR.

Q: British reporters should try to get through to her.

A: They have been trying. But I think she has made a deal with her husband to keep quiet, no matter what. She could do a great deal of good if she breaks her promise. I have been told she is under pressure, and not just from her husband. At the level she occupies, MI6 and British health authorities get into the act. It is thought of as a matter of national security.

Q: Well, it is national security, once you understand the medical cartel.

A: It is global security. The cartel operates in every nation. It zealously guards the sanctity of vaccines. Questioning these vaccines is on the same level as a Vatican bishop questioning the sanctity of the sacrament of the Eucharist in the Catholic Church.

Q: I know that a Hollywood celebrity stating publicly that he will not take a vaccine is committing career suicide.

A: Hollywood is linked very powerfully to the medical cartel. There are several reasons, but one of them is simply that an actor who is famous can draw a huge amount of publicity if he says ANYTHING. In 1992, I was present at your demonstration against the FDA in downtown Los Angeles. One or two actors spoke against the FDA. Since that time, you would be hard pressed to find an actor who has spoken out in any way against the medical cartel.

Q: Within the National Institutes of Health, what is the mood, what is the basic frame of mind?

A: People are competing for research monies. The last thing they think about is challenging the status quo. They are already in an intramural war for that money. They don't need more trouble. This is a very insulated system. It depends on the idea that, by and large, modern medicine is very successful on every frontier. To admit systemic problems in any area is to cast doubt on the whole enterprise. You might therefore think that NIH is the last place one should think about holding demonstrations. But just the reverse is true. If five thousand people showed up there demanding an accounting of the actual benefits of that research system, demanding to know what real health benefits have been conferred on the public from the billions of wasted dollars funneled to that facility, something might start. A spark might go off. You might get, with further demonstrations, all sorts of fall-out. Researchers-a few-might start leaking information.

Q: A good idea.

A: People in suits standing as close to the buildings as the police will allow. People in business suits, in jogging suits, mothers and babies. Well-off people. Poor people. All sorts of people.

Q: What about the combined destructive power of a number of vaccines given to babies these days?

A: It is a travesty and a crime. There are no real studies of any depth which have been done on that. Again, the assumption is made that vaccines are safe, and therefore any number of vaccines given together are safe as well. But the truth is, vaccines are not safe. Therefore the potential damage increases when you give many of them in a short time period.

Q: Then we have the fall flu season.

A: Yes. As if only in the autumn do these germs float in to the US from Asia. The public swallows that premise. If it happens in April, it is a bad cold. If it happens in October, it is the flu.

Q: Do you regret having worked all those years in the vaccine field?

A: Yes. But after this interview, I'll regret it a little less. And I work in other ways. I give out information to certain people, when I think they will use it well.

Q: What is one thing you want the public to understand?

A: That the burden of proof in establishing the safety and efficacy of vaccines is on the people who manufacture and license them for public use. Just that. The burden of proof is not on you or me. And for proof you need well-designed long-term studies. You need extensive follow-up. You need to interview mothers and pay attention to what mothers say about their babies and what happens to them after vaccination. You need all these things. The things that are not there.

Q: The things that are not there.

A: Yes.

Q: To avoid any confusion, I'd like you to review, once more, the disease problems that vaccines can cause. Which diseases, how that happens.

A: We are basically talking about two potential harmful outcomes. One, the person gets the disease from the vaccine. He gets the disease which the vaccine is supposed to protect him from. Because, some version of the disease is in the vaccine to begin with. Or two, he doesn't get THAT disease, but at some later time, maybe right away, maybe not, he develops another condition which is caused by the vaccine. That condition could be autism, what's called autism, or it could be some other disease like meningitis. He could become mentally disabled.

Q: Is there any way to compare the relative frequency of these different outcomes?

A: No. Because the follow-up is poor. We can only guess. If you ask, out of a population of a hundred thousand children who get a measles vaccine, how many get the measles, and how many develop other problems from the vaccine, there is a no reliable answer. That is what I'm saying. Vaccines are superstitions. And with superstitions, you don't get facts you can use. You only get stories, most of which are designed to enforce the superstition. But, from many vaccine campaigns, we can piece together a narrative that does reveal some very disturbing things. People have been harmed. The harm is real, and it can be deep and it can mean death. The harm is NOT limited to a few cases, as we have been led to believe. In the US, there are groups of mothers who are testifying about autism and childhood vaccines. They are coming forward and standing up at meetings. They are essentially trying to fill in the gap that has been created by the researchers and doctors who turn their backs on the whole thing.

Q: Let me ask you this. If you took a child in, say, Boston and you raised that child with good nutritious food and he exercised every day and he was loved by his parents, and he didn't get the measles vaccine, what would be his health status compared with the average child in Boston who eats poorly and watches five hours of TV a day and gets the measles vaccine?

A: Of course there are many factors involved, but I would bet on the better health status for the first child. If he gets measles, if he gets it when he is nine, the chances are it will be much lighter than the measles the second child might get. I would bet on the first child every time.

Q: How long did you work with vaccines?

A: A long time. Longer than ten years.

Q: Looking back now, can you recall any good reason to say that vaccines are successful?

A: No, I can't. If I had a child now, the last thing I would allow is vaccination. I would move out of the state if I had to. I would change the family name. I would disappear. With my family. I'm not saying it would come to that. There are ways to sidestep the system with grace, if you know how to act. There are exemptions you can declare, in every state, based on religious and/or philosophic views. But if push came to shove, I would go on the move.

Q: And yet there are children everywhere who do get vaccines and appear to be healthy.

A: The operative word is "appear." What about all the children who can't focus on their studies? What about the children who have tantrums from time to time? What about the children who are not quite in possession of all their mental faculties? I know there are many causes for these things, but vaccines are one cause. I would not take the chance. I see no reason to take the chance. And frankly, I see no reason to allow the government to have the last word. Government medicine is, from my experience, often a
contradiction in terms. You get one or the other, but not both.

Q: So we come to the level playing field.

A: Yes. Allow those who want the vaccines to take them. Allow the dissidents to decline to take them. But, as I said earlier, there is no level playing field if the field is strewn with lies. And when babies are involved, you have parents making all the decisions. Those parents need a heavy dose of truth. What about the child I spoke of who died from the DPT shot? What information did his parents act on? I can tell you it was heavily weighted. It was not real information

Q: Medical PR people, in concert with the press, scare the hell out of parents with dire scenarios about what will happen if their kids don't get shots.

A: They make it seem a crime to refuse the vaccine. They equate it with bad parenting. You fight that with better information. It is always a challenge to buck the authorities. And only you can decide whether to do it. It is every person's responsibility to make up his mind. The medical cartel likes that bet. It is betting that the fear will win.

JON RAPPOPORT

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A pox on vaccines

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

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

Anne Karpf
Guardian

Wednesday January 16, 2002


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Meryl W. Dorey,

President

The Australian Vaccination Network, Inc.


June 27, 2002

MEDICAL QUACKERY:

THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, A LYNCH MOB, AND VACCINES

By Nicholas Regush
http://www.redflagsweekly.com/regush/2002_june27.html

My plan for today's column was to write about how some medical students are beginning to resist free lunches provided by the drug industry. Yes, free lunches to the presumably naive, silly little girls and boys that will one day become big, devoted drug pushers.

But I'll keep that one for another day because this week, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a study that will rank with the "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes." Ever see that movie? You should because it was so bad that it became a legend. Now, we have a hummer in medicine that we can all go back to, time and again, for quiet reference, or zip out of the closet for angry demonstration. It will work for us either way.

The study (dare I call it that?) is really about how some grown-ups (maybe some naive, silly little boys who got free lunches at some point in their lives) are now big grownups, are doctors and are into what I call lynching. No, I didn't say surgery, I said lynching.

Here is what the team did. They hovered around the internet and did a "content analysis" of what 22 vaccine-related sites were offering their visitors. I guess the whole idea was to do some bad sociology, throw science down the tubes for a while and have a grand time. Wow, look at this site, they are using little girls and boys and tearful mothers to create high drama for their gullible visitors. The visitors may actually even listen to some of what is being said by the people in the high drama, such as notions about children being hurt by vaccines.

Do children not get hurt from vaccines? Probably a ton of children, only there is a crappy surveillance system run by the government that gets a slow voluntary stream of reports.

The team also called the sites "anti-vaccination." Why? Because some people are opposed to the unbelievably bad research that passes for science. Quick, dirty studies that do not last long enough to determine much at all about the vaccine. Oh sure, the surveillance system will pick up the rest of the problems.

Most people I know are not opposed to vaccines per se - and I'm certainly not - but they are opposed to conflicts of interest, big money grabs by industry, forceful vaccination, and helter-skelter use of poorly-tested vaccines.

And there is a movement growing in America that will not be held back on any of these issues now.

At this time, when there are hundreds of vaccines in the pipeline and drug companies are looking to inject just about anything into a young child, here we have the "team" consisting of Robert Wolfe, Lisa Sharp, and Martin Lipsky conducting the dumbest research that I have ever personally come across in 30 years of medical reporting. It says a lot for the Journal of the American Medical Association for publishing such bilge.

Their conclusion in the study? Are you ready for this? "Anti-vaccination Web sites express a range of concerns related to vaccine safety and varying levels of distrust in medicine. The sites rely heavily on emotional appeal to convey their message.

Well here's a message to Wolfe, Sharp and Lipsky from me:
Here's my conclusion: You've created a true classic. My guess is that it will hang in there for a while.


Hi, I've just done some reasons why I don't vaccinate
john http://www.whale.to/vaccines.html
ps he may change personality if you tell him you don't want to vaccinate.

1. Believe it or not, there isn't any convincing evidence that vaccination reduced the death rate for any disease such as measles, smallpox, polio, etc. So, where is the benefit? If vaccination suppresses one disease another one increases.

Now 1 in 86 children have autism, 1 in 5 asthma, 1 in 10 dyslexia....... and the number one suspect is vaccination. The Government/Vaccine Industry is going to carry on vaccinating, and claiming vaccines are safe, until every other child has a vaccine induced disease, so only parent awareness is going to stop that.

2. The vaccines aren't safe unless you stretch the definition of "safe" to include the risk of death, numerous diseases, and serious brain damage. Some vaccines are less dangerous than others. Safe is breastfeeding. The safety tests were two weeks in the case of the MMR, and conducted by the makers.

3. Governments (and the mainstream media) are run by the Corporations, for the Corporations, so don't expect much light from that direction. The two main government spokesman for MMR receive funding from the makers.

4. Vaccination, from top to bottom is run by the drug Corporation/Industry, so it's self-policing, and its hard not to conclude that parent groups like the NVIC are the only independent watchdogs on vaccine safety, and because of them that any vaccine injury payments exist at all. The medical doctors are not in the inner "knowledge loop".

5. Knowledge of vaccine ingredients and their toxicity, eg mercury. Mercury poisoning symptoms almost mimic autism symptoms.

6. Knowledge of vaccine contaminants like cancer causing SV40 virus. No real effort is being made to screen vaccines for all contaminants and its left to the makers. Now we have stealth viruses.

"FDA virologist Peter Reeve........ acknowledged that the FDA suspended its own independent tests of vaccine purity 15 years ago, leaving it entirely up to the manufacturers to ensure the vaccine is contaminant free."--'The Virus and the Vaccine': Atlantic Monthly

7. Knowledge of medical politics. Vaccines are the medicine of one group of medical doctors--the allopaths (drug using medical doctors). Many medical doctors (usually ones knowledgeable in non-drug/alternative medicine) advise against using vaccines. The allopaths have a medical monopoly-----this explains many, many "mysteries" such as the "unknown" cause of numerous diseases such as Alzheimer's, SIDS, & autism, and the "uncurable" nature of all diseases with drugs (apart from bacterial infections), such as alzheimer's, AIDS, cancer, arthritis, heart disease etc, and why you can only get drug medicine "free" on the NHS.

"Society today is paying a heavy price in disease and death for the monopoly granted the medical profession in the 1920's. In fact, the situation peculiarly resembles that of the 1830s when physicians relied on bloodletting, mercurial medicines, and quinine, even though knowing them to be intrinsically harmful. And precisely the same arguments were made in defense of these medicines as are employed today, namely, that the benefits outweigh the risks. In truth, the benefits accrue to the physician, while the patient runs the risks."-Harris Coulter

"We know the cause of SIDS. We can and have prevented them. It's all done with a compound called ascorbate. Not to use it means deaths will continue. There is no other answer. There never will be. For our findings are based on scientific facts. Not medical opinion."---Dr Kalokerinos MD.

8. Even if you run the risk of vaccinating your child can still get the disease.

9. The Bechamp disease model makes more sense than the Pasteurian disease model of vaccinators which appears tailor made for a Corporation selling vaccines and drugs. Pasteur's real character didn't do much for that model either--fraud, plagarism etc. That means the naturopathic disease model makes more sense than the allopathic one, and if you study the results of natural healing (naturopathy, homeopathy, metabolic, nutritional) over allopathy you can see the results are far more successful, and more capable of dealing with disease. And look at allopathic iatrogenic disease, now officially the third cause of death, costing about £4 Billion in compensation every year (UK).

10. No research is being conducted into the long term effects of vaccines (for obvious reasons) so vaccination is still an experiment, and no research has ever been done using non-vaccinated children (apart from a few done by parents, and Dr Odent using Steiner children).

11. Vaccine income world wide costs taxpayers around $8 billion, plus the income for treating vaccine induced disease. This could be 10 times as much, all paid for by the taxpayer. Much of this money comes back down the money chain to the allopaths, who, in reality, market the products of the drug industry, eg vaccines.

"At least half of all U.S children have had otitis media by their first birthday. By age 6 90% have had them. This condition accounts for 26 million visits to physicians every year. In addition, about 1 million children have tubes inserted in their ears every year, at a cost of $1000/operation. Thus $1 billion is spent each year on this operation. Just imagine what it means if this is all, or mostly all, caused by the pertussis vaccine. This particular "glue ear" type of otitis was not known in American medical practice before the late 1940's or early 1950's -- in other words, the time when the pertussis vaccine was being introduced."--Harris Coulter Ph.D.

THERE'S MORE TO VACCINATION THAN THE SHOT

by Sharon Kimmelman

Most people give more time and consideration to buying a car than to the vaccines their children are given. Although volumes of books, medical journals, U.S. Congressional Record testimonies, and international health statistics spanning more than a hundred years question, challenge, discredit and condemn the practice of vaccination as an unproven pseudo-scientific theory, it remains in widespread use. The cry for a hearing of the facts is rising once again, as the highly financed massive campaign is stepping up its mandatory drugging; it is misleading the public with unsubstantiated claims of safety, efficacy and necessity of vaccination. One need not be a licensed "expert" to approach and comprehend this subject. An open mind, a focused commitment to good health, and common sense will do.

As Ethly Douglas Hume explains in her classic book Bechamp or Pasteur(1923),
"The whole theory [of vaccination] is rooted in a belief in the immunity conferred by a non-fatal attack of a disease. The idea arises from the habit of regarding disease as an entity, a definite thing, instead of a disordered condition due to complex causes; the germ theory of disease, in particular, being the unconscious offspring of the ancient Eastern faith in specific demons, each possessed of his own special weapon of malignity. Thus the smallpox inoculation introduced into England from Turkey by Lady Mary Wortley Montague in the eighteenth century [1717] and its substitute of cowpox inoculation were based on the ancient Indian rite of subjecting people to an artificially induced attack of smallpox to propitiate Sheetula-Mata, the goddess of that torment."

The modern version substitutes "germs" for "demons." An organized destruction of natural health care escalated around 1850, when chemist Louis Pasteur grossly misinterpreted the brilliant and revolutionary work of Prof. Antoine Bechamp (chemist, physician, naturalist, and biologist) on the essential role of "germs" in life processes. We literally have been suffering under that delusion ever since.

Vaccines Are Not Harmless

Vaccines are immunosuppressive. They are produced from and contain cells from sickened animals (calf lymph, monkey kidney, chick embryo, etc.), human fetus tissue, viruses, heavy metals (mercury, aluminum), antibiotics and a host of chemical propellants and solutions (formaldehyde, exc.). These substances are acknowledged poisons. Injecting foreign matter into the blood stream results in a wide range of diseases of the blood, brain, nerves and skin (cancer, leukemia, MS, arthritis, immune deficiency) and death. Does putting these toxic substances into a pure and healthy newborn and continuing to administer booster shots throughout childhood (and now adulthood) prevent disease? The immune system is simply doing its job when it expels material from the body (rash, diarrhea, nausea, fever, etc.). What are we really preventing when we quell the cough, break the fever, drug or suppress the symptoms? Are we promoting perhaps the sharp rise in degenerative disease (leukemia, arthritis, and cancer) among children three to twelve years old?

 A Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (July 1985) table shows a long list of adverse reactions to DPT vaccination occurring within 48 hours. One in two doses resulted in pain, one in three redness, two in five swelling. Although some symptoms of vaccine damage appear as mild, local reactions (up to 50%), this does nor deny internal system damage. High-pitched screaming and inconsolable crying (encephalitis or brain inflammation) occurs in one percent of doses. Since every child gets five doses, this occurs to one in twenty babies. The DPT vaccination is given to 67,000 U.S.children each week. Does this relate to the steady rise in children with hyperactivity and brain dysfunction? Some babies fall into a coma for the two-day observation period. So, it, other damage and death which follow are not acknowledged as "vaccine related," noted on the child's medical record, nor reported to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), which compiles and reports statistics like incidence of adverse reaction to vaccines.

The patient vaccine information insert for the DPT (Diphtheria/Pertussis/Tetanus) triple vaccine reads: "Sudden infant death syndrome has been reported following administration of DPT. The significance is unclear...85% of SIDS cases occur in the period 1 through 6 months of age, with the peak incidence at age 2 to 4 months."The vaccine is given at 2, 4 and 6 months. It is clear that death in infants from vaccination is being called many things including SIDS to obscure the actual cause(s). We've spoken with hundreds of parents: Not one was ever shown this patient insert by a doctor. What happened to the threat of swine flu? As of 1978, more than 3000 lawsuits for deaths and paralysis resulting from the swine flu vaccine injections were filed against the U.S. government totaling 51.5 billion in compensation. The vaccine was withdrawn. How did the disease disappear? Perhaps it never existed?

Vaccines Are Not Effective

"Immunity" is a grand medical delusion. Immune function, though, like all other body processes, responds to and is the direct result of changing beneficial and detrimental health practices and factors. There is no magic pill or potion which will lock us into a state of "protection" in spite of our actions. We are biologically accountable for our behavior. Technology cannot trick nature without serious repercussions. In 1950, the British Medical Society conducted exhaustive studies on the relation of the incidence of diphtheria to the presence of antibodies. Their conclusion: there is absolutely no relation between the two. More recently, Dr. Wendell Belfield of San Jose, California has stated that when primary immune defense (leukocytes, interferon, etc.) is intact, antibodies are not needed or produced. If vaccine toxicity destroys the first line of defense of immune function to create antibodies, what do we gain in their pursuit?

Polio and paralysis are not synonymous. Dr. Ralph Scoby, president of the Polio Research Institute, published (Archives of Pediatrics, 1950) a list of 170 diseases with 'polio-like symptoms and effects but with different names." Paralysis is the result of the diphtheria (and other) vaccination, tonsillectomies and malnutrition (sugar ingestion). Yet the public was rallied to accept the Salk anti-polio vaccine for a disease diagnosed without viral confirmation, the medical standard. The result: paralysis increased up to 600% and 17 states banned its use. Also, government agencies knew that 350 million vaccine doses contained cancer-causing SV 40 virus, yet refused to recall them to keep public confidence in vaccines high. If the Salk vaccine wiped out polio, why did the Sabin oral vaccine replace it? It was called "superior." It is not. Taken by mouth, it is only less
lethal.

A State Communicable Disease Report for California (1971) shows that between 1955 and 1966 the reported number of polio cases dropped from 273 to 50 while viral meningitis rose from 5 to 256 cases. Another California report lists "0" polio cases. An asterisk leads the reader to this statement:
"All such cases now reported as meningitis." The media is playing Meningitis (Hib), a "polio twin," exactly as it played polio in the 50s. Coincidentally, it has its own vaccine. What's the best way to wipe out a disease? Rename it!

Date Viral or Aseptic Meningitis Polio

July 1955 50 273

July 1961 161 65

July 1963 151 31

Sept.1966 256 5


Vaccines Are Not Responsible for the Eradication of Disease

The Presidential Address of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1971) and Scientitic American (1973) presented records which document that 90% of all "contagious" disease was eliminated as the result of vastly improved sanitation, water systems, nutrition and living/working conditions. Mass vaccination (and antibiotics) was introduced about a century after that period of enormous decline (1850-1940) and yet is given full credit for it. The U.S. Congress' Office of Technology Assessment's report entitled "Assessing the Efficacy and Safety of Medical Technologies" states: "It has been estimated that only 10 to 20% of all procedures currently used in medical practice have been shown to be efficacious by controlled trial." Of all drugs, devices and surgeries in daily use, 80-90% are unproven. It adds that almost every surgery which was subjected to controlled medical study has been abandoned. Vaccination (technically surgery) remains unproven because authorities consider it unethical to not do it. Vaccinating the entire population would destroy the evidence for proving or disproving the theory. Dr. Leon Chaitow has reported that in testimony given under oath, British army medical personnel were instructed by their authorities to re-diagnose any disease which occurred (and was not supposed to) as a result of the mandatory vaccinations. Statistics are used to manipulate the public trust.


Vaccination Does Not Prevent Disease

World health records (England, Germany, Italy, Mexico, the Philippines,British India, etc.) document the devastating epidemics which followed mass vaccination. The worst smallpox disaster occurred in the Philippines, after 10 years (1911-1920) of a compulsory U.S. program which administered 25 million vaccinations to its population of 10 million. The result: 170,000 cases and more than 75,000 deaths from smallpox. History past and present is replete with similar tragedies. "Public education" by vaccine producers and their supporters always omits self-incriminating facts.

The Times of London began three weeks of coverage with a front-page article entitled "Smallpox Vaccine triggered AIDS viruses" (5/11/87). Newsworthy enough, but the U.S. media reported nothing. In Africa, the greatest amount of people with immune deficiency are located in areas where the WHO vaccination programs are most intense. It is nor at all surprising that the combination of poor living conditions and immune suppression via vaccination has resulted in mass illness, call it what you will.

Good health is the result of managing multiple stress factors well: nutrition, personal hygiene, environment, nurturing social relationships, etc. As we build up and break down, the body builds up waste materials (through lungs, skin pores, bowels, kidneys, tonsils, etc.). The less well people are, or the more waste products produced (from overtaxing the body's systems), the more discomfort they may feel from these processes. When needed, bacteria are "called" out of their natural balance to where waste materials have accumulated, to decompose and recycle them and sanitize the area. Wastes are there BEFORE the bacteria arrive. Bacteria are present in great numbers in the second and third stages of disease. Bacteria do not cause disease. Dis-ease creates an environment favorable to the proliferation of bacteria; it demands that they multiply. Dis-ease is not something to be cured; it is the cure.

It is "normal" for vaccinated children to live their lives plagued with earaches and sore throats. Even with lowered vitality their bodies seek the quickest route out (skin, ears, tonsils) to expel toxic vaccine material and resulting waste from the vaccines' damage. Antibiotics suppress symptoms and drive the toxins deeper into the body, complicating elimination. Vaccines lower immune response but the absence of medically acknowledged symptoms is not a sign of better health. Conversely, lowered vitality, the norm in vaccinated children, is never called a symptom. Children injured "by dis-ease" are malnourished, force-fed, medicated, vaccinated and already have degenerative disease. It is not the dis-ease which is dangerous, it is the prior and continued mis-treatment which weakens the child to such degree that a simple detoxification can threaten his life. The view that elimination of wastes kills is what we call "The Last Straw" Theory of Disease. It negates the essential factors which influence health. With all the new iatrogenic (doctor-caused) diseases, we've decided to name one, too: PFLS-Patient for Life Syndrome begins when a healthy 8-week-old is given the first vaccination which sickens him and initiates the cycle of vaccination, earache, antibiotic, vaccination, sore throat, antibiotic, vaccination ...ad mortem. Each additional vaccine further weakens the child, setting up the condition for a lifetime of medical intervention. Is it any wonder so many of us are suffering with allergies, asthma, skin, immune, nerve (vision), and brain disorders?

Dr. Rosenow (Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1914) published his experiments with bacteria in which he took strains from different disease sources and put them in a uniform medium. Soon, there was no difference between them. He concluded that bacteria are not different species but that they have the capacity to transmute, to adapt to their environment. Fifty years earlier, in "Notes on Nursing", Florence Nightengale wrote this enlightened statement: "There are no specific diseases. There are specific disease conditions."

The rubella vaccine is particularly crippling in adult women, causing rheumatoid arthritis, chronic rubella, immune deficiency, etc. Yet the New York state legislature just passed a law to require revaccination with measles, mumps and rubella of all college students born after 1956. We are
now told that those vaccines which eliminated disease were "relatively ineffective" ... Well, which is it?

Medical schools are funded by drug companies which are profit-making businesses. Why do we expect to get unbiased information from their students and promoters? Would you go to a butcher to find out about vegetarianism? Even caring doctors, if they have not thought out this issue for themselves, continue to mislead people to believe that medical theories are facts. The medical mainstream influences with FEAR which can overshadow our logic, intelligence and protective instinct. Vaccine proponents insinuate that without them and their "miracles" we will perish. It takes emotional support to withstand the indoctrination. But more parents are making an informed choice, even with the tremendous pressure from authorities and well-meaning friends and family. It is sad that most parents are bullied, sweet-talked or intimidated into giving uninformed consent and getting it done in a hurry.

Vaccination is non-emergency care. Responsible informed choice requires taking time to find out the facts, acknowledging our feelings and getting moral support through meeting unvaccinated children, adults and their families. This can offer parents a fuller picture of humanity's natural
abilities to use dis-ease in attaining better health.

Editor's Note: Sharon Kimmelman is director of
Vaccination Alternatives
PO Box 346
New York, NY 10023

She is also editor of the Well Beings newsletter of
the Natural Immunity Information Network.
You can send email to her at va-sk@juno.com.


Welcome! You sound so much like I did when I first started researching vaccinations. I read about the dangers of vaccinations from so many sources (some that I trusted very much - like Mothering Magazine), but just couldn't believe that something that was so accepted and recommended by society at large could really be that bad. The more research I did, the more disillusioned I became. It's a hard thing to find out that the medical system that is supposed to take care of us could go so wrong.

Congratulations on finding this group! This, plus research on your own will help you come to your own decision. It's a big and scary step to take charge of your own and your family's well being and health - but it's something that we as parents must do. I'm glad you thought to do some research on the subject of vaccinations. I wish I could say it will be an easy road for you, but it probably won't be. There isn't much support for a self-educated parent in the world of vaccines. My Dr. and I have parted company over this issue.

If I had to offer you one piece of advice as you start out on the path of taking charge of your family's health, it would be to consider this, do your research and be sure of your decision before you take your son in for his second set of shots. The shots can always be given, but they can never be reversed. Go on to to the Center for Disease Control's website to get the statistics on your son's chances of contracting the diseases that vaccines address for his age and your area. When I did this for my son, I felt much better about waiting until I was better informed.

In all the research I've done, I've always hoped that I will find credible evidence that vaccines are safe and really are effective. I'm sad to say that in all the books I've read and research I've done, all I've found is more evidence to the contrary. Our children are so precious and so dependent on us to make the right decision. At the end of the day, it's our families that have to live with the decisions our Dr's make on our behalf. The crucial thing to realize is that the Dr. doesn't have the same vested interest. Take some time and look around you. Learn what a vaccine damaged child looks like, then look at your family and friends' children... you may notice some things that you hadn't noticed before.

Good luck in your journey!

Also, to say at this point that the shots didn't have any effect is like planting a seed in the ground and then coming back the next day and saying, after you couldn't find any growth above ground, "I guess the seed was no good." It doesn't work like that. That kind of judgment is very superficial. Actions have consequences. They may be minor. They may not. Lots of things go on that you can't see. Poison was sowed into the child's tissues. I wouldn't take it for granted they have all been eliminated.

Good diet (not the kind recommended by the medical establishment) and good hygiene is the way to grow a healthy child. Put a little poison on your new garden and see how it does. The point is, it doesn't (or if it does, it does it with less than it would have). You grow healthy plants, animals, and human beings with good nutrition and cleanliness, not poison.

Disease (and germs) is/are nothing to be afraid of when you are healthy (unless you do something stupid [I'm not calling you stupid] like unnaturally inject them directly into the blood stream).
 
God bless, your friend,


Don't get scared XXXXX, just get educated. You have to find the information yourself cause you'll get sweet FA from a doctor. We all know that most doctors (GPs)are nobs and are nothing more than the middle man in what is a legalised drug ring. Most just go to med school, agree with everything, get a degree, an impressive office, speak down to everyone so as to appear superior and BINGO!!!!!! an expert.

When I go to the medical library I am amazed at how young and unhealthy looking many of the med students are. I had a conversation with a sixth year med student on vaccines the other day, he knew zip.

Same as these 'caring people' on these new mother sites and baby sites, I am amazed at the dippy information they hand out to unsuspecting, trusting first time mums. The site I visited once with endorsements from J & J, and all these cute pics of smiling babies, with these 'caring people' telling young pregnant scared women to 'go vaccinate', may as well tell them to go play Russian Roulette with their baby...........

And the reason you are scared is that vaccination is a superstition and superstition is ruled by fear. You vaccinated your child because you thought it was the right thing to do, and that's all very commendable, but the truth is you did it cause you were scared.

And now you have had second thoughts (which is great) and opened a door and peeked inside, and guess what, it's scary too.....the truth often is, but now that you have had the courage to come so far, keep going........

Good Luck

Suzanne O'Mullan

I will share a speech with you that I gave in front of the Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia...needless to say.... I have a lot of enemies now:

My name is Suzanne O'Mullan. I wanted my words for you to be so profound, but instead I only have questions.

Why is there such a CODE OF SILENCE when a parent speaks of "the autism-vaccine connection" in the medical and pharmaceutical communities?

Only 5 short years ago, Autism was told to be "very rare, 1 in every 10,000". Today, the statistics are now 1 in every 150 with some studies showing 1 in every 63... The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has now admitted that the increase is an epidemic and so far impossible to explain. Why do other authorities continue to deny increases in autism when every school department is going bankrupt trying to educate "our" children? There were 6 new cases of autism a day 7 days a week in 1999 in just one state? The past 90 days, there were 556 new cases of DSM IV autism alone. The statistics read as follows: The past 25 years between 1969-1994 there were approx 5,100 cases of autism. The past 5 years between 1994-1998 there were approx 5,100 new cases of autism. The past 2 1/4 years between January 1999 and March 2001 there are over 5,100 new cases of autism. The cost of autism over a lifetime per child is $2 million. To give you a recent figure for the new 556 children in the last 90 days that totals $1.132 billion. In line with the increase of autism, the vaccine numbers also rose. Vaccinations given to children from birth to age 2, rose from 8 in 1980, to 21 in 2001 (some as you know containing combined antigens or 3 live viruses). Before 1980: there was mostly infantile autism (symptoms in infancy and often at birth); after 1980: there is now what is called a "New Autism" with symptoms occurring after 18 months. Why does autism now start in the 2nd or 3rd year of life when it was described as Infantile Autism for years by Kanner? Why?

Why isn't anyone told that there is a vaccine compensation fund for those whose children have experienced an adverse vaccine reaction? How many adverse reactions could there be to warrant a fund to pay for damages by our government? Why are vaccines mandated without proper safety studies? Why are a few weeks of follow-up considered adequate? Why do the vaccine manufacturer's finance safety studies when they are the very companies, which profit from sales? Safety trials not looking beyond 3 weeks post-vaccination doesn't convince me as a parent. Why do parents have to prove that a vaccine causes a problem when the manufacturer - has no studies to prove that it does not? If all of the testing is supposedly done for exploring every angle of safety and concern, why do vaccine schedules change? Why are things taken out and why are some vaccines reformulated?

Why won't the medical community listen to findings such as when Dr. Wakefield found the measles virus in the gut wall of children with autism (which was also independently confirmed by Dr. O'Leary and then again by Kawashima) instead of attacking Dr. Wakefield?

Why is every other drug administered to a person calibrated by weight when vaccines are "One size fits all?" Why do we give a 6 lb at-no-risk newborn half of the same dose of the same Hep B vaccine that we give to a 400lb at risk Sumau wrestler?

Why does it take less time to approve a vaccine than a shampoo for lice? It took the FDA 5 months to approve the Recombinant Hep B vaccine and 13 months to approve NIX lice Shampoo.

What Safety and Efficacy studies have been before recommending the administration of vaccines together?

Why do we have to give so many vaccines together when we know that they work better singly? If you are going to say that: parents aren't likely to return for a visit if a shot is needed, or if you want to spare the children the pain of repeated injections... just ask a mom of a child with autism who wouldn't have gladly returned to get one vaccine at a time.

When the combination of three vaccines Measles Mumps and Rubella (previously given singly) occurred into one triple vaccine, the MMR, the prevalence of autism also increased. The MMR was introduced in the US in 1972-1973 but its wide use really started in around 1978 and was clearly followed by an increase in autism. A parallel increase was noted in the UK starting in 1988 when the MMR was introduced over there. Was that just some coincidence?

Why does Japan have so little autism now after stopping the MMR. "Of the 3,969 medical compensation claims relating to vaccines in the last 30 years, a quarter had been made by those badly affected by measles, mumps and rubella." Dr. Hiroki Nakatani, director of the Infectious Disease Division at Japan's Ministry of Health and Welfare said that giving individual vaccines cost twice as much as MMR, "but we believe it is worth it".

During the Congressional hearings on the autism-vaccine connection in April of 2000, why were there responses such as: Congressman Dan Burton asking the same question to Dr. Wakefield, Prof O'Leary, Dr. Singh, Dr. Taylor: "Would you be willing to release your methodology and data to an independent panel of researchers?" Dr Andrew Wakefield "Yes of course" Prof. O'Leary "Without hesitation" Dr. Vijendra Singh "Absolutely" Dr. Brent Taylor "Uhhhh, I'd have to check with my superiors." By the way, he is the first author in the history of the Lancet to refuse to let anyone see his raw data.

How confident would parents and pediatricians be if they learned that: Members, including the Chair of the FDA and CDC advisory committees who make decisions to approve a vaccine own stock in drug companies that make the vaccines; -Individuals on both advisory committees own patents for vaccines under consideration or affected by the decisions of the committee; -Three out of five of the FDA's advisory committee who voted for the rotavirus vaccine had their "conflicts of interest" waived; -Seven of the 15 member FDA advisory committee were not present at the meeting, two others were excluded from the vote, and the remaining five were joined by five temporary voting members who all voted to license the product; -CDC grants "conflict of interest" waivers to every member of their advisory committee a year at a time, and allows full participation in the discussions leading up to a vote by every member, whether they have financial state in the decision or not; -CDC's advisory committee has no public members-no parents have a vote in whether or not a vaccine belongs on the childhood immunization schedule. The FDA's committee has only one public member.

Why don't you have independent researchers on your approval and development panel concerning vaccines? Why not invite Dr. Singh, Dr. Wakefield, Dr. O'Leary?

Where was the information on the vaccine information sheet that lists the levels of Mercury (the 2nd most deadly substance on this earth) that my child is being exposed to, among other questionable ingredients? There are ingredients on every bit of food that goes into our bodies, why not on the vaccine information sheet? If I had known that my child was being exposed to a level of Mercury that exceeded the EPA guidelines, I would have questioned the vaccine. Some infants have received in one day as much as 100 times the amount of mercury the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says is the maximum allowable daily exposure for an adult. Mercury damages the immune system so the child becomes unable to protect itself against the damage from the viruses in the vaccines.

HEPB: Where was it listed on the vaccine information sheet that my child would only be exposed to Hepatitis sexually or by IV drug use (dirty need les)? And if my child wasn't exposed, the vaccination would be unnecessary at just 4 hours of life? So that I might have had the chance to say, "no, I don't think this is necessary at this time". How can you justify the mandatory Hep. B vaccine to infants and children when there has been no risk/benefit analysis? Why isn't the Hep. B vaccine mandatory for teachers, other school workers, day care staff employees when it is mandatory for school kids? If HepB Vaccine is safe then why has it been investigated by the US House? (Rep Mica; May'99)? Why is HepB vaccine given to an infant or child when we know that it is ineffective after 10-11 years and the average age of diagnosis of hepatitis B is 30-35 years? Why was the HepB vaccine tested on only 37 Merck employees before recommending it for all no risk children? How come the vaccines in later studies were only observed for 5 days? Are their any peer reviewed studies on the safety of the Recombinant HepB vaccine?

POLIO: Why is the reason that polio vaccines manufactured between 1955-1964 may be linked with certain kinds of cancer? What is SV40 and does it belong in vaccines?

PREVNAR: The only testing for Prevnar is by an HMO group financed by the manufacturer who compared the Prevnar group to another group receiving another vaccine (which is very unusual)? The Prevnar group had four times more seizures, four times more gastritis than the control group, significantly more developed asthma, and one death. The big push for Prevnar came from its supposed prevention of otitis media, even though it had not been approved for this use. Otitis media is viral in 60% of the cases and bacterial in less than 40% In only 20-25% it is due to pneumococcus (there are 90+ serotypes of pneumococcus and Prevnar has only 7; even in theory, it would not affect more than 2-3% of cases); In two days, 90% of the otitis cases resolve by itself without treatment.

MMR: Why did my child have another MMR vaccination 18 months after the first MMR? Why aren't a titres offered first? Why would a simple titre not be performed to check the status of my child's immunity? Titre testing only costs about $3.00. Testing titre levels after a first vaccination may show an additional vaccine is NOT needed - so why give a repeat triple vaccine when 95% of the recipients are already immune?

If there is scientific evidence showing that:1. Measles virus can cause brain inflammation, encephalitis. 2. The vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) is known to have caused encephalitis. And Then, couldn't it be quite true that #3. Infantile autism might be the chronic continuation of the acute inflammation and damage of the brain?

Is it true that a Japanese author reported culturing rotavirus in children with intussusception in 1978? Why was the first rotavirus vaccine released when it was known that there were several cases of intussusception during the clinical trials? Why did you abstain from voting on its withdrawal?

Where are the statistics of exactly how many children in the last decade have died from Measles Mumps or Rubella or anything else we are so aggressively vaccinating against? If I had the chance of knowing that this answer would be less than 1:1000, I would have taken the chance of my child being that 1:1000 risk rather than developing Autism (a disease worse than death) which is now 1 in every 150.

By the time children are ready for school we have given them nearly 22 vaccinations with multiple viruses. As the number of vaccinations grows, so do the profits for the pharmaceutical companies who manufacture them. A new vaccine that is added to the universal use list has an assured stable market of 3 ½ to 4 million babies born in this country every year. The manufacturer (as of 1986) has virtually no liability for adverse events that may occur, as do the doctors who administer them. No liability. A stockholders dream. Prevnar is approx $60 per injection. What is the motivation to test safety issues short and long term if you are immune from being held accountable?

If you are sure that your product is safe, that all short and long term testing was done, administration guidelines are appropriate, ingredients aren't harmful, multiple vaccines at once don't knock out a child's immune system for some of them to develop autism, if all the research that needs to be done has been done, and if the government decided to take away the shield that protects you from lawsuits, would you still state that "There is no scientific evidence today that links vaccinations to autism?" THERE IS NO LONG-TERM SAFETY RESEARCH PROVING THAT MMR DOES NOT CAUSE AUTISM, IS THERE? And please do not mention the Finnish studies, which were terminated in 1996 before Wakefield even published his paper on MMR and Autism in 1998. Whose job is it to protect our Nations children? Why doesn't anyone listen to parents and just consider the possibility that vaccines may cause autism?

Why do we give "mad cow disease " our immediate attention when 67,000 new cases of autism (in 1999 alone) aren't comprehensive enough to merit an independent investigation? Is it because you are afraid of what you may find? Is it because vaccines represent a $2 billion industry annually? Is it because vaccines are big business?

I have learned that being left out and ignored your whole life is worse than dead. I have learned that being sick and in pain your whole life while doctors dismiss you is worse than dead. I have learned that a lifetime disability is harder than dying. As bad as death is, and it is often hideous, it is temporary and then there is peace. I do not know how long my autistic child will suffer. No one knows.
 
BTW: If you are going to vaccinate:
Factors to be considered: Family history (immune disease, convulsive disorders, vaccine reactions, maternal vaccination and revaccination,exposures); Child history (prematurity, health status, exposures, prior reactions, seizures); Vaccine history (known risks and reactions, risk-benefit, safety studies); Vaccine timing (bad timing: routine HepB in the newborn period when baby is not at risk, MMR, Chicken pox vaccine and HIB all together at age 1).

This would be a hot lot? I thought they don't exist, Dr Offit tells me.

"The Food and Drug Administration can withdraw a vaccine batch if there is any question about that particular lot's safety or effectiveness. It has not recalled a vaccine lot because of safety concerns since 1955."--Paul Offit MD
"With the exception of an early lot of polio vaccine in 1955, which was not fully inactivated, there has never been a "hot lot." www.immunizationinfo.org

Common Sense on Vaccines !
 Logic One...............

 LOGIC dictates that you research a subject before you  comment on it.

 LOGIC dictates that you do not base arguments on unfounded assumptions (such as the training, knowledge and intelligence of 22 year old public servants).

 LOGIC dictates that you don't assume a claim is true when it is supporting one of the biggest and most powerful industries in the world.

 LOGIC dictates that no matter how often a claim is repeated, it does not make it true, though as Hitler knew, if you repeat it  often enough, the masses will believe it (and ardently so).

 When you do some research and discover that vaccines contain some of the most poisonous compounds and elements known to man (and foreign organic material that is also toxic when injected into anything), i.e. formaldehyde, mercury and aluminium compounds, phenol (carbolic acid), borax (ant killer), methanol, dye, acetone (solvent, polish remover), disinfectant, glycerine, antifreeze, MSG and several other poisons, plus also toxic when injected, animal organ tissue and blood (e.g. monkey, cow, chicken, pig, sheep, dog, etc), contaminant animal viruses (e.g. SV40, which causes cancer in humans), aborted human foetus cells, large foreign proteins, mutated (more virulent) human viruses in high doses, bacterial endotoxins, antibiotics, bacteria, genetically modified yeast, latex, and animal, bacterial and viral DNA, which, when injected, can be incorporated into the recipient's DNA, then LOGIC dictates that you question whether violent poisons, which by definition are very harmful, are really going to be good for any living creature's immune system(?), let alone your tiny infant with its very immature immune and neurological systems.

 LOGIC also dictates that man was not created with an immune system designed not to be able to work until the twentieth century when it only could do so by man's intervention (particularly when the intervention was to poison it!).

 Some people will have enough LOGIC to stop there, but if you want to go further (or have missed discovering the above) and delve into medical research, then LOGIC dictates that you study the pro-vaccination articles properly and not rely on unsupported conclusions of authors paid by vaccine manufacturers.

 LOGIC dictates that if a vaccine was introduced AFTER a decline in the disease, then it was not responsible for that decline.

 LOGIC dictates that because outbreaks occur amongst fully vaccinated populations (often with those not vaccinated not even contracting the disease), vaccines are not protecting people against disease.

 LOGIC dictates that if you have "no previous vaccination" as a guideline in disease diagnosis, supported with teaching doctors that vaccinated people just don't get the disease, then you are likely to get low reported figures of disease cases in vaccinated people, no matter how ineffective, or rather counterproductive, vaccination actually is.

 LOGIC dictates that since the documented effect of vaccines is to "SENSITISE" the immune system, and "sensitise" means "anaphylaxis", which is the opposite of "prophylaxis", which means prevention, then vaccines do the opposite of prevention.

 LOGIC dictates that since sensitisation is such a big problem in highly vaccinated populations (and the problem is confined to these, by the way), asthma alone killing 800 people in this country every year, then without doing any more research, one would already be able to guess that vaccines are quite likely killing a large number of people.

 LOGIC dictates that since only the vaccinated can get the new, more dangerous, atypical forms of diseases (e.g. atypical measles), then vaccination is not terribly protective!

 LOGIC (and indeed medical policy) dictates that if you administer any vaccine or other procedure to a healthy person and a serious event immediately occurs, you have to consider that procedure as the cause of the event, particularly when it is biologically extremely plausible, based on the contents of what is administered (not to mention the invasive mechanism of injection, which, unlike normal skin grazes and cuts, bypasses important defence levels in the body).

 LOGIC dictates that since doctors are refusing to report cases of adverse events, then we cannot rely on government figures telling us how "rare" these events are supposed to be.

 LOGIC dictates that if senior pharmaceutical executives themselves candidly tell us that "natural enthusiasm" in the marketing department causes the companies to exaggerate (i.e. lie) when informing (doctors and others) about threat and occurrence of diseases (BMJ Apr 13, 2002), then it is probably true.

 LOGIC dictates that since whenever doctors go on strike the death rate drops, you can't really rely on anything they do or tell you about how to save lives!
Bronwyn Hancock.
 



Dear Governor Pataki 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You can't stop it by silencing one doctor ! 

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

Yours sincerely 

Aly Dodson-Cook
Parent
New Zealand




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


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


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

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

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



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

A pox on vaccines

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

Anne Karpf
Guardian

Wednesday January 16, 2002


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

akarpf9@hotmail.com



 

September 9, 2002

THE INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE PANELS

Reviews Of Controversial Topics Are A Shoddy Replacement For Solid Science.

By Nicholas Regush

This will be brief, but to the point: The Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies is essentially an organization shilling for bad science - or on behalf of those who prevent good science from getting done.

The IOM has really become the refuge of government policy makers who hide behind the fact that adequate research has not been done on key issues of public interest. Vaccines are an excellent example.

This week, I was wading through a number of reports issued by the IOM on vaccines and it should be clear to a total dolt that that there is one incredible scam being pulled off after another. Here’s what is happening: When the government wishes its policies on a controversial issue "reviewed," it will turn to the Institute with its band of "experts" and have them pretend that there is real science on the issue to wade through. The fact is, there is rarely any real science to review and the IOM usually issues a statement to the effect that there is no link between X and Y, instead of saying what it ought to say, which is: No one bothered to do any real studies on this issue and so we can’t possibly provide any review comment on anything to do with it.

I’ll give you three examples: The IOM reported that there was no link found between the Hepatitis B vaccine and Certain Neurological Disorders.

The IOM reported that there was no link between Mercury-containing vaccines and Autism.

The IOM reported that there was no link between the anthrax vaccine and the numerous Gulf War Illnesses that so many thousands of Gulf vets experienced.

The IOM does this all the time: in each of the above cases, for example, there was no research of any calibre worth mentioning to reach any conclusion. Yet, the IOM issues press releases stating there is no link between X and Y and then the mighty media hordes grab the releases and run with them.

This makes the U.S. government very happy indeed. No link, therefore bug off. There is no danger. The vaccines are therefore safe.

How long is this sham going to go on?

This week’s SCREAM OF THE WEEK is the IOM.



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

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

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

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

 



Hello David.

Just a few comments on your post.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LTR:  Ranting as usual.

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



Hi Reg.

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

Good luck
Reg

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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



Why I did not vaccinate my daughter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

last revised: Sept. 7, 1998

Send comments to me at rogerschlafly@mindspring.com.

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



To Whom It May Concern:

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

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

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

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



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

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

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

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

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

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



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

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

In the meantime, think about the following:

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

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

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

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

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

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

In friendship, Dewey

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



Testimony of Barbara Loe Fisher to California legislature

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

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

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

Something is wrong with this public health report card.

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

 



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

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

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

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

Meryl Dorey

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



The Belief in Vaccines

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

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

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

  Why the double standard?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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



Dear Mr. President

      I am sending you my Christmas wish list. . .

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

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

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

 



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

2)measles virus in his intestines;

 3) abnormal EEG and seizures;

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

5) inflammatory bowel disease. 

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

Sincerely, Elizabeth Birt
 




http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_email.asp?/news/857762.asp

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

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


Claire M. Bothwell
Waters & Kraus, LLP
200 Oceangate, Suite 520
Long Beach, California 90802
Tel: (562) 436-8833
Fax: (562) 590-7296

**The opinions expressed in this email are my own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Law Firm of Waters & Kraus, LLP"

 



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There are three possible reasons:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Houston Chronicle
Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle

Friday, January 3, 2003

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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




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

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

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

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

Side Effects of Vaccinations

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

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

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

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

Development of Vaccines

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

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

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

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

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

Reaction of the Immune System

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

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

These statements are very important:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Patho-Mechanism

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Purity of Vaccines

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vaccinations and Their Side Effects: Part III

Development of Allergies

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

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

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

The Meaning of Childhood Diseases

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Level of Protection

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Conclusion

In conclusion we may say the following:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Addresses for some of the authors

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

http://www.informedparent.co.uk

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

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

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

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


See you all in Copenhagen!

Alan Rees


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

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

Donna,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thank you !

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

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

Dear Senator,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sincerely yours,


Leslie H. Weed and Bobby Weed

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

(904) 285-6968
 



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

Shots in the Dark

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

by Beth Hawkins

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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



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

Costs to the State of Adding Vaccine Requirements

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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



Dear Mr. Weiss,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Julie Griffiths

 




Parents,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Raymond Gallup, Founder
Autism Autoimmunity Project
 



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

 What's all the fuss about?

 An introduction to the vaccination controversy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 Vaccination Book List

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Immunisation Awareness Society, PO Box 56-048, Auckland

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



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

~Ingri


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



Dear Senators:

A generation swept aside

Vaccines committed genocide

They’ve taken everything from me

I’ll never know American liberty.

My health, my childhood, my future gone

I live in a world all alone

When I’m older, I’ll be sick and poor

My body will always be at war.

My government didn’t protect my health

My government protected corporate wealth

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

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

All children my age and old and young

Must be given the right for redress for this wrong

Through VICA and through civil trial,

Since our bodies with poison have been defiled.

And if more is discovered of what damaged us grievously

Then that must be added to the table of injuries

With a lookback provision given far and wide

So that truly there will be NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND.

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

Let American justice be…With JUSTICE FOR ALL !!

Yours truly,
Ian M. Small
 




Welcome to Amerika, the Fascist Nation


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yours very truly,
Dr. Wil Trebing

Chiropractic Physician

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



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

--K.S.

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Vaccination Statistics
Quotes :: Statistics :: References

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2) Vaccine Production, Allergies and Harmful Ingredients-

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vaccines Have Been Linked to Leukemias and Lymphomas:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Vaccines and Brain Swelling:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vaccinations and Unexplained Diseases:

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Liver:

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

Eyes:

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

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

Vaccinations Don’t Work:

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

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

Vaccination and Allergy Citations:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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dNotes:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ibid.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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JAMA, July 3, 1926, p 45.

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



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Here's To Your Health May/June

COMPULSORY SHOTS IN 'LAND OF THE FREE'

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

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

By The SPOTLIGHT Staff


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 The SPOTLIGHT

Here's To Your Health May/June

WHAT YOU HAVEN'T BEEN TOLD ABOUT VACCINATIONS

By Tom Valentine

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

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

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

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

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

Following his investigation, Belkin wrote:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Belkin summed up his personal investigation as follows:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The story continues:

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

Let pause for a reality check.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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



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

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

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

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



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Very CAUTIOUS, aren't they?

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

Yes, you could honestly say they were CAUTIOUS.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Failing to do anything is also an experiment."

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

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

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

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

Tom Stone

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

Why did my son suffer?

The Scotsman
Tue 9 Dec 2003

Bonnie Estridge

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The MMR story

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

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

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

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


This article:

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

Autism:

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

MMR vaccine:

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

Websites:

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

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

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

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

  autismlawyer
  http://www.autismlawyer.net

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

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

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

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

  Dept of Health MMR pages
  http://www.doh.gov.uk/mmr.htm

  Health Education Board for Scotland MMR pages
  http://www.hebs.scot.nhs.uk/services/mmr/index.htm

  JABS - MMR support group
  http://www.jabs.org.uk/

 



Statement By Safe Minds On The Wall Street Journal Editorial OF 12/29/03
"The Politics Of Autism"
Lyn Redwood RN, MSN President, Safe Minds

      The December 29th editorial from the Wall Street Journal "The Politics of Autism: Lawsuits and emotion vs. science and childhood vaccines" is a  misrepresentation of the actual facts surrounding the debate concerning autism and exposure to thimerosal, a mercury preservative used in some but not all infant vaccines. Instead of this being a "story of politics and lawyers trumping science and medicine" as alleged, it would be more accurately described as a story of how the pharmaceutical industry uses the media and politics to accomplish its goals.

      One must ask, "Why does the Wall Street Journal feel it necessary to pick on families of children with autism and a small research advocacy group, Safe Minds?" The answer is simple, money.

      When an FDA official reported that ethyl mercury from thimerosal was able to cross the blood brain barrier resulting in appreciable mercury content in the brain and other well respected doctors opined that exposure to mercury containing vaccines, in addition to already high levels of exposure to environmental mercury, may result in adverse neurological outcomes, they began to worry. This, coupled with the uncovering of internal documents obtained during the process of discovery from Eli Lilly, who held the patent on thimerosal, that the product was not safe to administer to dogs, but nonetheless was promoted for use in childhood vaccines, was enough for them to rush to their allies in Washington, or should I say largest campaign contribution recipients, for help. The result, a rider added at the 11th hour to last year's popular Homeland Security Bill giving Eli Lilly immunity from any product liability related to thimerosal.

      Fortunately, many in Congress recognized that the rider had nothing to do with homeland security and demanded that it be removed until the issue could be reviewed. The claim that these Senators failed to honor their side of the agreement to address the issue in the next session of Congress is wrong. In fact, on April 9, 2003, the Senate Health, Education Labor and Pensions Committee, chaired by Gregg (R-NH), was scheduled to meet to work on a compromise bill agreed to by Senate Majority Leader Frist (R-TN). But before the start of that meeting, lobbyists from the vaccine manufacturers met with and convinced Senator Gregg to postpone the meeting indefinitely. Senator Gregg went on the record admitting that he aborted the committee meeting because of the concerns of the vaccine manufacturers. To suggest that Senators Snowe, Collins and Chafee were at fault is a misrepresentation of actual events and warrants retraction.

      Additionally, the editorial wrongly claims that thimerosal has never been linked to any health problems. A quick literature search finds hundreds of studies that document numerous incidences of injury from thimerosal exposure. The few suggested in the editorial as being evidence disproving such an association have been highly criticized and when reviewed were actually found to support a link. One such study published in the November, 2003 issue of Pediatrics contains faulty methodology and manipulation of data. In fact an earlier version of the study found statistically significant and dose  dependant associations between exposures to mercury containing vaccines and several adverse outcomes including neurodevelopmental delays in general, speech and language delays and ADD/ADHD. Investigators kept the results secret and changed the data and methodology in order to achieve the results desired by vaccine manufacturers. This was only revealed when Safe Minds obtained minutes of a secret meeting on the initial results through the Freedom of Information Act. One participant even claimed that based on the results, he would not allow his own baby grandson to receive the vaccines containing thimerosal. The lead author of the study, an employee of vaccine manufacturer Glaxo Smith Kline, has refused press inquiries about these charges.

      In addition, independent researchers, at the behest of the U.S.Congress, have analyzed the same database for the relationship between mercury from thimerosal-containing childhood vaccines and adverse neurodevelopmental disorders, and found an overwhelming epidemiological confirmation of a direct link related to increasing exposure to mercury from thimerosal-containing childhood vaccines.

      The Rochester study as well was highly criticized by three independent physicians and researchers in the following issue of Lancet. The sample size of 33 children was too small to establish safety claims and the mercury  levels in the blood were not obtained 3 hours after the exposure to the vaccine when the levels would be at their highest, but instead days and weeks later when the levels had now dropped below EPA's level of concern. One reviewer using pharmacokinetic modeling was able to extrapolate the data back to peak levels and found that mercury levels had in fact breeched safety guidelines.

      This coupled with the fact that the lead author, in previous publications but not this one, acknowledged financial ties to a number of vaccine manufacturers including Eli Lilly, casts further doubt on their research findings.

      And lastly the highly touted Denmark study cited in the editorial as being the best evidence to date that there is no connection between thimerosal and autism is also highly suspect. The Danish autism registry allows 10 to 25% of the autism cases to be lost from its records each year with the net effect being that the older cases which occurred when thimerosal vaccines were administered in Denmark are lost. Controlling for this loss of records results in a higher number of autism cases during the time frame when thimerosal containing vaccines were used, supporting the thimerosal-autism link. Again, the author of this investigation failed to acknowledge his employment with the manufacturer and promoter of vaccines in Denmark.

      While the ramifications of damage to a generation of children from the needless exposure to mercury from infant vaccines and the accompanying liability is a big pill for the pharmaceutical industry to swallow, sweeping the facts under the rug and running to Congress for protection after the fact will only exacerbate the problem. Public confidence in vaccine safety will only prevail when the pharmaceutical companies, the media and Congress deal openly and truthfully with American parents. Congress must address this in a manner that brings justice to injured children, and ensures that all vaccines, both voluntary as well as those required by law are safe and effective. Extending further liability protections to industry takes away the necessary incentives to accomplish that goal.\\

(this is the article referred to
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110004487

 

British Medical Journal
July 18, 1998

Vaccination and its adverse effects: real or perceived.(Editorial)

Author/s: Tom Jefferson

Society should think about means of linking exposure to potential long-term effect

Vaccines have been spuriously linked to sudden infant death syndrome,[1] paediatric asthma,[2] autism,[3] inflammatory bowel disease,[4] and permanent brain damage.[5] Recently US researchers have suggested that vaccination after 28 days after birth may induce type 1 (autoimmune) diabetes mellitus in susceptible individuals.[5] This theory, pounced on earlier this year by the US media, may have led to a lowering of confidence in childhood routine immunisation. In May several institutions (including the National Institute of Allergy and infectious Diseases, Centres for Disease Control, the World Health Organisation, and the UK's Department of Health) sponsored a workshop at the US National Institutes for Health to assess the evidence of a possible causal link.

Immunologists, diabetologists, epidemiologists, policymakers, and observers debated the available evidence for two days and concluded that it does not support a causal link between vaccination and the onset of type 1 diabetes. Some short and longer term observational studies to test the hypothesis are currently underway. However, the results of a large randomised controlled trial of vaccine against Haemophilus influenzae type b carried out in Finland in 1985-7[6] were reanalysed by Tuomilehto et al and showed no association between the incidence of diabetes mellitus and the addition of another antigen to the schedule, irrespective of timing (unpublished data). Data reanalysis was made possible by prospective linking of individual information on exposure (in this case infant vaccination or placebo administration) with the Finnish diabetes register.

Neil Halsey, head of the Institute for Vaccine Safety at Johns Hopkins University, summed up features common to recent vaccine scares:

* A casual link is usually claimed with a disease or condition of unknown or unclear aetiology.

* The association is claimed by one investigator or a group of investigators.

* The association is not confirmed by peers or by subsequent research.

* The claims are made with no apparent concern for potential harm from public loss of confidence and refusal to vaccinate children.

Additionally, findings of subsequent studies that fail to confirm the original claim never get the publicity given to the "original" finding; thus the public never gets a balanced view.

It is time to think hard about how society can deal with the difficult issue of possible long term and rare adverse effects of vaccination. Attention to the issue is unlikely to fade, as new and better vaccines are produced and as public expectations of effective and safe interventions increase. The first obvious source of data on rare and long term effects is the original clinical trials of the vaccine, with direct observation of the incidence of events in one of the double blind randomised arms. But, early trials, usually conducted for registration, are too small and too short.[7] Additionally, assessment of adverse effects is probably best done by comparing events in one or more intervention arms with those in a placebo arm, thus restricting observation to trials of new or partially tested vaccines for which a placebo arm is ethically admissible.

One possible solution could be to increase the duration and power of trials to detect rare and long term adverse effects. Apart from cost, however, there are major ethical problems in continuing a trial with a non-immunised cohort in an effort to detect possible rare and long term effects once the short term safety and effectiveness of the vaccine have been shown.

The use of case-control studies and case series is helpful in defining the likelihood of an association but, given the possible presence of multiple unknown biases, such studies do not allow estimation of the attributable risk, essential for safety assessment. An additional problem with any prospective approach is that some adverse effects become known only years after the development, marketing, and registration of the vaccine, making "data dredging" the only way in which they might be observed and later recognised. Data dredging is likely to be inefficient and unable to assess unexpected associations, which are likely to take place periodically.

One way out of the dilemma could be the linking of individual exposure to vaccination to possible adverse events in later life in a similar fashion to the reanalysis by Tuomilehto et al of the original Haemophilus influenzae type b trial data. This would allow the creation of retrospective exposure cohorts linked to historical controls for testing any of the hypotheses generated. This approach would require access to individual immunisation data and the ability to identify and locate individuals in later life. As most immunisation schedules vary from country to country the international extension of such a scheme would allow comparisons based on exposure to different schedules, thus enhancing the power of the system. An enhancement of this method could be its use within the context of a systematic review of the known effects of vaccines in question made available within the Cochrane Library.

Whatever methods are used, governments and manufacturers will be increasingly involved in assessing long term adverse effects of vaccines and will need to reassure the public of the overwhelming safety record of vaccines, when the seriousness of the target disease is forgotten. This at present is the only certainty.

[1] Griffin MR, Ray WA, Livengood JR, Schaffner W. Risk of sudden infant death syndrome after immunisation with diphteria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine. N Engl J Med 1988;319:618-23.

[2] Kemp T, Pearce N, Fitzharris P, Crane J, Fergusson D, St George I, et al. Is infant immunisation a risk factor for childhood asthma or allergy? Epidemiology 1997;8:678-80.

[3] Wakefield AJ, Murch SH, Anthony A, Linnell J, Casson DM, Malik M, et al. Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis and pervasive developmental disorder in children. Lancet 1998;351:637-41.

[4] Peltola H, Patja A, Leinikki P, Valle M, Davidkin I, Paunio M. No evidence for measles, mumps and rubella vaccine-associated inflammatory bowel disease or autism in a 14-year prospective study. Lancet 1998;351:1327-8.

 [5] Griffith AH. Permanent brain damage and pertussis vaccination: is the end of the saga in sight? Vaccine 1989;7:199-210.

[6] Classen DC, Classen JB. The timing of pediatric immunisation and the risk of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. Infect Dis Clin Pract 1997;6:449-54.

[7] Eskola J, Kayhty H, Takala A, Peltola H, Ronnberg P, Kela H, et al. A randomised, prospective field trial of a conjugate vaccine in the protection of infants and young children against invasive Haemophilus Influenzae type b disease. N Engl J Med 1990;323:1381-7.

[8] Jefferson TO, Jefferson VM. The quest for trials on the efficacy of human vaccines. Results of the handsearch of Vaccine. Vaccine 1996;14:461-4.

BMJ 1998;317:159-60

Tom Jefferson Coordinator

Cochrane Vaccines Field, Ministry of Defence, Ash Vale, Hants GU12 5RR (zorria@epinet.co.uk)

I thank Drs Neal Halsey, David Salisbury, Dirk Teuwen, and Jaakko Tuomilehto for their help. 
 
 

Published April 21, 2004

Children got adult mercury dose
Pediatrician's assertions don't match family's experiences or research into thimerosal.

 

 

I'm sure the pharmaceutical industry will be relieved by Dr. Frederic Hamburg's comments on the mysterious nature of autism ("True cause of autism unknown, likely not thimerosal," April 18 Commentary).

Vaccine makers have a vested interest in perpetuating the myth that autism is a vague, mysterious disorder.

As the parent of two children who were born completely normal but later regressed after being injected with amounts of mercury greatly in excess of federal guidelines for adult mercury exposure, I find it absurd and insulting to be asked to accept that overexposure to mercury, followed by symptoms of mercury toxicity, followed by lab tests confirming elevated levels of mercury in my children is "coincidence."

As an example of the gross overexposure that became routine among children born in the early 1990s when the amount of mercury injected into infants tripled, my son received two mercury-containing vaccines, the Hib and the DTP, at the age of 2 months. The total amount of mercury received that day was 50 mcgs, or what the EPA would consider safe for a 1,107-pound adult. My son weighed 11.5 pounds.

Dr. Hamburg asserts that ethyl mercury found in thimerosal is somehow safer than methyl mercury, but emerging scientific data indicates otherwise. A recent Japanese study (Ueha-Ishibashi, et al. Effect of thimerosal, a preservative in vaccines, on intracellular Ca2+ concentration of rat cerebellar neurons. Toxicology. 2004 Jan 15; 195(1): 77-84.) concluded that ethyl mercury is at least as damaging to brain cells as methyl mercury. Because the amount of ethyl mercury used in the study was half that of the methyl, it may possibly be twice as toxic.

I wonder if Dr. Hamburg and other pediatricians in the area who continue to claim no relationship between overexposure to mercury though vaccines and rising numbers of children with neurological disorders would be willing to expose themselves to similar amounts of mercury that the children of the '90s received through vaccines.

To duplicate my son's office visit described above, just one of many during which mercury vaccines were given, we need to adjust for weight. An average sized male pediatrician weighing 180 pounds would need to be injected with 788.8 mcgs ethyl mercury in just one sitting to achieve the same level of exposure. Of course, similar exposures would need to follow at regular intervals to re-create the routine pediatric vaccine schedule.

Any takers?

In an age of increasing government-issued warnings regarding neurological damage from eating fish, the American public has, incredibly, been conned into accepting the direct injection of mercury as safe. A growing number of parents and scientists around the country are reclaiming their common sense in recognizing that infants and toddlers should not be injected with a known neurotoxin.

Rita Shreffler, Nixa, is an advocate for the removal of mercury-based preservatives from children's vaccinations.


Vaccines Prevent Health!!
By: Courtney Spitzner

Remember when you were a child and your parents brought you to the doctor to get your vaccines? You, like many other children, probably screamed and told your parents you didn't want any shots. Of course, they told you the shots were good for you and you had to take them. This is what many children go through every day. The fear of the vaccines, the pain of the vaccines, and sometimes, the side effects of the vaccines. "Side effects," I am sure you are telling yourself right now, "are just another way for naturopaths to scare me away from modern-day medicine. Side effects to vaccines are one in a million. They might happen to a friend of a friend of a friend, but never to someone I actually know." Well, I am here to tell you that vaccine side effects are real. Most people do not hear much about them. The pro-vaccine literature from the doctor's office and public health service does not inform you of adverse effects of vaccines, just the favorable side of the argument. Children die at a rate 8 times faster than normal within 3 days after receiving a DPT shot (a vaccination administered to infants for protection against diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus). According to www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com, a child's chances of an adverse reaction to the DPT vaccine are one in 1,750, while the chances of dying from pertussis (a disease the DPT vaccine "prevents") is one in several million. What if that one child was yours? Would you feel better knowing that 1,749 children were still alive? NO!! You would feel 100% of the pain of the death of your child. DPT is just one of the many required childhood vaccines. Right now, there is a growing international movement away from mass mandatory immunization but, at the moment, the only way to avoid vaccinations is to get a medical exemption or prove that vaccines are against your religion. Let me tell you more before you make up your mind about this issue.

Have you ever wondered what ingredients were put into vaccines, how they were made, or what made them work? The whole process of vaccination is a delicate balance between getting the disease and fighting off the disease. People are told that what a vaccine is, is just the disease, injected in small doses, to boost your immunity against it, but there is more to a vaccine than that. According to Ted Spence (www.QuackWatch.net), vaccines are actually grown on different animal organs (monkey kidneys, mice brains, and chicken embryos) and contain DNA/ RNA of those animals. Injecting foreign animal tissues (which vaccines contain) has dire consciences (like all the auto-immune reactions they can induce). This is the  process that vaccines are created by. First, a healthy version of the virus must be found and gathered. You can't just find this on the sidewalk outside your bedroom window. It also can not be found on a  person who has overcome the disease already. The disease must be taken from a person with a healthy form of the virus. Samples are then taken in a variety of ways: urine, blood, feces, pus, sometimes even cadaver organs and the blood of a person who has died from the disease (sometimes samples are even taken from aborted human fetus). Once the virus is gathered, it must be grown on a toxic medium (pathogens will not grow on healthy tissue). The media used are generally animal organs and tissues combined with the proper culture medium and "nutrients" (BHK (baby hamster kidney) cells, monkey kidneys, HeLa cells (cancer cells from Henrietta Lack), aborted fetal tissues (used in the rubella vaccine called RA 27/3) and other different animal organs are often used). Once the virus is grown, it is inactivated with formaldehyde (a potent carcinogen) or other agent. Other substances are may be added: mercury (thimerosal), phenol, aluminum, antibiotics, and other ingredients to promote the vaccine's effectiveness. All these substances are unnatural, synthetic, immunesuppressing, and some  are even carcinogenic. Most parents would rather starve their children than feed them some of the ingredients contained in many childhood immunizations. Just think what these kinds of ingredients could do when injected into a young child's body!


Now that I have gotten your attention by telling you what is put into vaccines, I will fill you in more about the damage they cause. Sometimes, the vaccines you get cause the very diseases they are given to prevent. Of course, when you actually contract the very disease that you have had a vaccination for, the name of the disease is changed to protect the vaccine. Examples of this are the diseases known as "measles-like," mumps-like," "secondary-measles," "atypical measles." or "atypical mumps". Sometimes the name is changed altogether: i.e. infantile paralysis to aseptic meningitis (the symptoms are all the same). Just getting the disease you were trying to avoid is bad enough, but vaccines can do much more damage than just the inconvenience of its ineffectiveness. According to Bart Classen, a Maryland physician, diabetes rates rose significantly in New Zealand following a massive hepatitis B vaccine campaign in young children. The increase in diabetes included Juvenile onset diabetes, which we are told is a profoundly "genetic" disease, but any vaccine can cause increases in Juvenile onset diabetes. Also, much evidence link AIDS to vaccines (www.guackwatch.net). Immediately after receiving vaccines, our blood looks like the blood of an AIDS victim. Countries where AIDS is rampant the most are the  same countries which received the most vaccinations. The first hepatitis vaccines were notorious for causing aids, the hepatitis disease being taken from gay people who also had AIDS. Vaccines have links to many other diseases than just diabetes and aids. The 98 million Americans who took polio shots in the 1950s and 1960s may get a deadly brain cancer because of it. According to Dr. Joseph Mercola (www.mercola.com), the Sabin oral polio vaccine (OPV) is the only known cause of polio in the US today. And according to Dr. William Hitchman, syphilis, phthisis, scrofula, cancer, erysipelas, and almost all diseases of the skin may have been conveyed, occasioned, or intensified by vaccines. Also, remember how vaccines contained foreign animal tissue? Well, that tissue being injected into your system creates the foundations for auto-immune disease. It alters our genes and creates havoc in our lymphatic system. In fact, auto immune diseases are more common today than before massive vaccination programs began. Vaccinations are also very neurotoxic and have been associated with many neurological disorders such as encephalopaties, epilepsy, convulsions, ADD, LD, autism, mental retardation, depression, anxiety, CNS disorders, paralysis, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, nerve deafness, blindness and SIDS. They have also been know to lower IQ as well as contribute to the overt mental disorders and neurological diseases listed here: Encephalitis, Ataxia/Apraxia, Retardation, Meningitis, Paralysis, polio, MS, Gullain Barre Syndrome, Lupus, Hyperactivity, ADD, LD, Demyelinization diseases, Auto-immune  Diseases, Epilepsy, Convulsions, Seizures, Blindness, Deafness, SIDS, Epilepsy, Mental Confusion, Lowered IQ, Brain Tumors (SV-40). Hearing about these different vaccine side effects does not have an effect on you. They do not seem real, or you do not know what half of them mean. But one disease caused by vaccines that is sure to hit home with you is cancer. There are many citations in the medical literature where vaccines cause cancers. Sometimes cancer would show up at the site of the injection, or sometimes a lymphatic type of cancer would occur many years later. Not everyone gets cancer, but their bodies have been seeded with the ingredients for cancer to grow. Dr W.B, Clarke, circa 1909 said "I never saw cancer in an unvaccinated person".

I bet you are asking yourself right now, "If I do not get vaccines to keep me from catching deadly diseases, what can I do to protect myself?" The answer to your question is nutrition.  Nutrition boosts our immune system like nothing else can. Nutrition is a critical determinant of immune responses, and malnutrition is the most common cause of immunodeficiency worldwide. The lowly herb can cure more than an equal share of allopathic man-made drugs, which, although they originally came from many herbs, are now toxic according to their dose, and must be tightly regulated. Herbalists and naturopaths have for centuries cured devastating diseases with nature's remedies and proper diet. But why then, do people not tell you to eat your veggies and fruits instead of getting toxic substances put into your blood system? It is because there is no profit in broccoli and carrots. The profit from the sale of vaccines goes to the physicians, the vaccine makers, and the government. Why would they give up all this income by telling people that carrots and broccoli have the same effect? When asked the question "If you took a child in, say, Boston and you raised that child with good nutritious food and he exercised every day and he was loved by his parents, and he didn't get the measles vaccine, what would be his health status compared with the average child in Boston who eats poorly and watches five hours of TV a day and gets the measles vaccine?", Dr. Mark Randall, a vaccine researcher who once worked for years in labs and major pharmaceutical houses creating vaccines had this to say: "Of course there are many factors involved, but I would bet on the better health status for the first child. If he gets measles, if he gets it when he is nine, the chances are it will be much lighter than the measles the second child might get. I would bet on the first child every time."

After reading all about the dreadful side effects to vaccines, I am sure you will think twice about sending your children off for their mandatory vaccinations. They could have serious side effects, causing much sickness or death. But how can someone get out of taking mandatory vaccinations? They ARE mandatory after all. Well, there is always a way out of them. What would happen if it was required for all children to receive a DTP before entering Elementary School and a child receiving the vaccination was killed by it? The parents could then sue the school for requiring a deadly substance to be put in their child's body. As you can see, there are loopholes in the system. You have the choice to refuse vaccinations under the pretense of medical problems or religious beliefs. Not many people know about the different ways out, but they are there. Just remember that the next time you pediatrician tells you that your child must have a mandatory vaccine. They are not REALLY mandatory. I just want to leave you with a short quote from Dr. Mark Randall about the flu shots. "If it happens in April it is bad cold. If it happens in October, it is the flu".

 

 

http://www.vaclib.org/basic/manu.htm

“Former Pharma employee Speaks out about Vaccines 

http://www.loosechange.tv/mdlies/not_vaccinate.htm

Vaccines Prevent Health: Why Vaccines are Bad for Us!

 http://www.mercola.com/fcgi/pf/article/vaccines/kidney_damage.htm

Vaccinations and Kidney Damage 

http://www.mercola.com/fcgi/pf/article/vaccines/causing_illness.htm

Vaccines Causing he Very Diseases they are Given to Prevent 

http://www.mercola.com/fcgi/pf/article/vaccines/death.htm

Vaccination and Death 

http://www.shirleys-wellness-café.com/vaccines.htm

Shirley’s Wellness Cafe 

http://www.medhelp.org/glossary2/new/GLS_1714.HTM

DPT Vaccine 



Be truthful about vaccines or keep away from my children

CARMEN REID

OK, I thought I would be able to write something calm and balanced, drawing on both sides of the arguments for and against childhood vaccinations. But I’m so furious at being LIED to time after time by the government that nothing very calm comes to mind. I made sure my children’s vaccinations did not include the mercury- based preservative thiomersal, despite assurance from the Glasgow public health doctor himself, on the phone, that it was "perfectly safe".

Now, lo and behold, a new five-in-one injection is being spun as "good news, it’s mercury-free" - so that we don’t ask any questions about what else is in it or whether our babies should be injected with five diseases in one day. According to the Department of Health, this is not because thiomersal isn’t safe, it’s about "reducing mercury in the environment". What total horse manure! What about banning mercury fillings for children then, as they do in Canada and other enlightened countries - wouldn’t that help reduce mercury "in the environment" as well as in our children’s brains and bloodstreams?

Instead of mercury, the new vaccination contains aluminum and formaldehyde, both known neurological toxins, held by some experts as equally responsible for autism. Just thought you’d like to know. Formaldehyde - banned from cot mattresses because of a link to cot death - is going to be injected directly into our babies’ bloodstreams at two, three and four months of age. I can’t be the only parent who thinks this might be risky.  Inventing new vaccine cocktails is mega business, of course. Anyone heard of the patenting system? New vaccines are patented for 10 or 15 years, during which time maximum money is made from them. After that, the profits fall off. Unless, of course, you can come up with a new version to patent.

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/health.cfm?id=941292004
 



You have to check out this link!! 

http://www.wnho.net/vaccine_coverup.htm 



From Jonathan Eisen

Freelance journalist / editor

NZ



Hope this finds you well. The following is my reply to Dr Nikki Turner's article in today's Herald defending the MeNZB vaccine.  Please circulate.
 10.11.04

To the editor of the NZ Herald

Nikki Turner's article ("Enough of this 'debate' on vaccine" NZ Herald, 10 November) demonstrates the mindset of people who for one reason or another simply can't understand that "the other side" may have a point when they question the safety and efficacy of the MeNZB Meningococcal vaccine ­ no matter how clearly and cogently the facts are spelled out to them.

Perhaps that's because Dr Turner does not wish to face the fact that there are serious concerns among serious investigators, including NZ physicians, and at least one former expert consultant to the Ministry of Health (Ron Law) that the whole vaccine campaign could well be a $200,000,000 mistake.

These concerns involve whether or not there was indeed adequate testing of the vaccine, whether the "adverse events" followup period (only "up to seven days") was long enough to catch serious adverse (long term) events, and indeed whether the Ministry even has a legal right in the first place to release the vaccine to more than 1.1 million New Zealand children, as it was only "provisionally" licensed for a "limited" number of recipients.

Turner likewise fails to deal with the fact that according to the manufacturer of the vaccine no "efficacy studies" were ever done to determine if the vaccine even works, or not.

She likewise neglects to mention that the Norwegian "parent vaccine" on which the MeNZB vaccine is supposedly based, was never even generally released in Norway, as it did not achieve an acceptable efficacy rate for the Norwegian health authorities to go ahead with a national campaign. (In addition the Norwegian meningococcal meningitis epidemic was abating anyway, rather like the NZ one has been ­ which has showed a 75% reduction in deaths in the three years prior to the release of the vaccine.)

As for Dr Turner's assurances that "adverse events" with this vaccine are systematically reported by GPs and other vaccinators, that remains to be seen, given the historical reluctance on their part to honestly report these events. (It has been reliably reported that less than 10% of adverse reactions to vaccines are reported to monitoring authorities.)

As for the traditional scientific gold standard of "double blind, placebo" study, such a study was never done on the MeNZB vaccine. The so-called "placebo" in the NZ case was the Norwegian vaccine itself, not a vial of saline solution or similar. Giving another vaccine to a so-called "control group" completely distorts the term "placebo" and makes us wonder if we are indeed participating in something which, some months or years down the line, may be seen as another unfortunate experiment in which our children were the unwitting guinea pigs.

If Dr Turner wishes the NZ public to put our faith in "science", she will have to tell us exactly which scientists we should believe ­ the ones who assure us that vaccines are safe and reliable, or the ones who are publishing their studies in reputable scientific journals showing that many vaccines and vaccine ingredients are indeed harmful.

The aluminium hydroxide used in the MeNZB vaccine, for example, is a known neurotoxin and a "suspected carcinogen". Dr Turner does not mention this at all.

Our collective memory is not that short that we have forgotten the reassurances parents got from the authorities over the years that mercury ("thimerosal") was safe to inject into our babies. (It is now being "phased out".) In fact we remember many, many other instances where "science" got it horribly wrong, and wonder if this might well be another instance.

Indeed, more than $4 billion has been paid in the US alone to parents of vaccine-damaged children over the past ten years, something that tells you that everything is not all that wonderful in vaccine science. Perhaps Dr Turner would like to comment on that substantial payout, which to many investigators represents only the tip of the "adverse events" iceberg.

The commercialisation of science and medicine has reached the point where increasing numbers of well informed people are questioning whether or not many scientists and doctors are being completely factual in their reassurances in the safety of many drugs and vaccines.

Indeed, this commercialisation has become so widespread that the editor of The Lancet actually quit his job a few years ago because of his frustration at not being able to find articles to publish which were not compromised by their authors' having financial attachments to the manufacturers of the various drugs they were writing about.

Dr Turner will have to face the fact that name-calling, diatribes, fear mongering public relations or claims that simply do not stand up under objective scrutiny are no substitute for honest, objective, uncontaminated science. It is our right as citizens and taxpayers, who have directly paid this $200,000,000, to demand accountability ­ something Dr Turner has thus far not provided.

Sincerely yours,
 
  Jonathan Eisen

BIO: Jonathan Eisen is a free-lance journalist and editor of the newsletter WHAT YOUR DOCTOR WILL NEVER TELL YOU.



Letter to the Editor —
Re: Tuesday, April 29, 2004,

Reader's View: Do your part to ensure all kids get their vaccinations, by Kathy Holley

It is clear from Kathy Holley's guest opinion piece in your April 29th paper that she is simply doing her job as spokesman for the CDC. Their pro-vaccination stance is due to the revolving door between those on the CDC's Immunization Advisory Committee and pharmaceutical industry representatives. Parents need to ask pertinent questions regarding this push for herd immunity. Afterall, if vaccines actually produce true immunity, the vaccinated should be protected from the diseases they are purported to prevent. The truth is that there has never been a field study conducted proving that vaccinated children have stronger immune systems and are healthier than their unvaccinated counterparts. The lack of studies proving both vaccine safety and efficacy should concern every parent — especially in light of the release of Autism A.L.A.R.M. by the CDC, AAP, and IAC. This shocking flyer states that 1 in 166 children suffer from an autism spectrum disorder while an astounding 1 in 6 children now suffer from some developmental disorder amd/or a behavioral problem. What the flyer neglects to mention is the likely cause of this epidemic. The April 2004 edition of Mother Jones magazine contains a revealing article, Toxic Tipping Point, which points to a likely cause of this epidemic — mercury-containing vaccines. It appears that in the CDC's zeal to continually add more and more vaccines each year to their recommended vaccine schedule, the Immunization Advisory Committee had neglected to take into account the cumulative amount of thimerosal (50% ethyl mercury and the preservative of choice) used in these vaccines. Does Holley realize that the symptoms of mercury poisoning and the symptoms of autism spectrum disorders are nearly identical?

Furthermore, the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program has paid out over $1 billion to families of vaccine injured children who are either dead or permanently injured as a result of an adverse vaccine reaction. Parents need to know that less than 10% of all claims are compensated. Parents also need to know that there are batches of vaccines that are cited over and over again in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System database as causing death or permanent injury and yet there is no system in place for removing these toxic vaccines from the marketplace. In our current draconian system, these same vaccines are still being injected into our children causing untold suffering and misery.

So how do we protect our children's health? By avoiding injections of formaldehyde, thimerosal, aluminum hydroxide, pathogenic viruses cultured in diseased tissue of both human and animal origin and other known carcinogens — all ingredients in today's modern vaccines. We teach parents to immunize their children using organic foods, purified water, basic naturopathic healthcare, and providing a loving home environment. It is clear from our experience that toxic vaccines actually damage the normal functioning of our immune system. The proof is in the vital health of the unvaccinated versus their vaccinated counterparts. For more information, parents are encouraged to go to Vaccination Liberation's website, www.vaclib.org .

Ingri Cassel, director

Vaccination Liberation

P.O. Box 457

Spirit Lake, Idaho 83869

208-255-2307

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Comments about getting kids vaccinated draw hurrahs, hostility

By Anne Michaud
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Tuesday, April 19, 2005

This week has left me feeling as though I stuck my hat up over the fence during an old Western gun fight and had it shot out of my hands. There are some heated opinions on vaccines, to say the least. Four people wrote to tell me about their loved ones who have been harmed by vaccinations. Two doctors called me a quack. One lady says her puppies' vaccinations are too expensive. Another MD likened mandatory immunization to genocide. As I say, it's been quite a week.

I'm not among the puppy advocates or genocide theorists. In fact, I thought the point of last week's column was quite tame. While fears exist about the consequences of vaccination, I said, parents ought to have a choice about whether to have their children vaccinated. With something like the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) shot, which some groups believe can cause autism, parents ought to be able to decline until medical science catches up and convinces us it's safe. The Hepatitis B vaccine, for which the chances of contracting it are about the same as the risk of harm from the shot, should also be suspect until scientists can make the case better.

The response to last week's column that gave me the most pause was from the NNii, the National Network for Immunization Information. This is a reputable organization, and it says that microbes that cause the diseases we think of as ancient - polio and smallpox - still exist and can recur if we fail to maintain high levels of immunization. Fair enough.

Dr. Martin Myers, executive director of the NNii, also chided me for saying his organization is naive. I was maybe a little sloppy in my language. What I meant to say is that it is naive for medical professionals to keep patting parents on the head and telling us it will all be OK, science is in the house.

I say that transparency builds trust. If the federal government were to publish the vaccine risk assessment database known as the Vaccine Safety Datalink, that would go a long way toward giving parents the information we believe we need to make informed decisions. Instead, government officials are hiding behind privacy concerns.

We are an informed citizenry, thanks largely to the Internet, and groups like NNii should come to grips with that reality. That's what I mean by naive, naive in the sense of poorly understanding public relations. Another response I received, and of a kind I cannot abide, is the personal attack. This is pure defensiveness, designed to intimidate and belittle. The authors, in two cases, in no way want to argue the facts or to enlighten. They just want to shut me up.

This from a Cranberry Township pediatrician: "You do not 'write on family and parenting issues,' you simply disseminate inflammatory rhetoric. You are irresponsable (SIC). Familyville would be better served if you quit your present job and, instead, stick to fiction writing."

Um, Doc, I'm really bad at fiction. Please don't make me go there! My family would starve.

Medical professionals who cannot defend their treatments in rational, non-insulting ways to the average parent should not be practicing pediatrics. Another doctor says he sees that I cannot grasp the scientific method and that he feels sorry for me. Is this arrogant, or what? Doc, please see the above.

Here's what some other people had to say: "Thank you, Anne, for speaking up about vaccinations." "Wow! As the husband of an immunization nurse that was permanently injured by a 'safe and effective' Hepatitis B vaccine, I applaud your article." "I do not wish for my family, or myself, to be fully immunized ... through my personal research, I find the benefits do not outweigh the risks. I was very excited to read what you had to say."

Healthychild.com requested permission to reprint last week's column on its Web site. There's more positive comment, but the point is that regular folks have serious questions about vaccinations, and medical science would do well to reassure us in a fundamental, not a patronizing, way.

Until then, yes, I think parents ought to be able to opt out.

Anne Michaud can be reached at Ammich@aol.com or .

 



Rich Tucker: Taking a shot              TownHall.com

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/richtucker/rt20050430.shtml

Where some see a crisis, others see an opportunity.
 
Recently, the government announced it soon might face shortages of many common childhood vaccines. The federal stockpile, supposed to contain 41 million doses, now holds only about 13 million doses.

Some launched into crisis mode. “I’d start the meeting at 1 o’clock, lock the door, and wouldn’t let anyone leave until they had found a solution,” Dr. Jerome Klein, a member of the National Vaccine Advisory Committee, told The Washington Post. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., intoned, “Research shows that a vaccine delayed is a vaccine denied, and when kids are young we should never take that gamble.”

But this also can be an opportunity to discuss whether we need to be giving children all the shots they’re getting. After all, the greatest gamble may not be in skipping some shots, but in giving children shot after shot at a remarkably young age.

During a child’s first 18 months, the government recommends he receive up to 20 doses of vaccine to protect against 11 diseases. The amount of dangerous material we’re pumping into our children’s bodies, at an age when they’re especially vulnerable, is frightening.

“In humans, the most rapid period of brain development begins in the third trimester and continues over the first two years of extra uterine life. By then brain development is 80 percent complete,” notes Dr. Donald Miller, a professor of surgery at the University of Washington. He recommends delaying childhood vaccinations.

Under his schedule, children wouldn’t get any shots until age two (except the hepatitis B vaccine if their mothers tested positive). Even then, instead of the combined shots children get, Dr. Miller recommends shots be given one at a time, with at least six months between shots. That will “allow the immune system sufficient time to recover and stabilize between shots,” he writes.

This schedule seems reasonable. Vaccinations are traumatic, and every parent worries about the effects of all those shots. Fifty years ago, children were vaccinated only against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and smallpox. These days, we inoculate against nearly a dozen diseases, even relatively harmless ones such as chicken pox.

One reason there are so many shots is because the government is gung-ho about immunizations. Sen. Schumer recently declared, “For every day the government stands idle on this issue, we risk losing not inches or feet, but miles of the ground we have gained in recent years.”

But if immunizations were good for patients, they wouldn’t need to be mandated by government. After all, doctors don’t need the government to insist they treat patients for cancer or high blood pressure. But doctors seem to need the government to insist they give vaccinations. And because the government insists, it becomes responsible. So far, Washington has shelled out $1.5 billion to compensate children injured or killed by vaccinations.

Some pediatricians probably will dislike Dr. Miller’s schedule. After all, the Centers for Disease Control insists that children “can safely receive all vaccines recommended for a particular age during one visit.” But the government’s definition of “safe” differs from most parents’ definition.

“Health officials consider a vaccine to be safe if no bad reactions -- like seizures, intestinal obstruction, or anaphylaxis -- occur acutely,” Dr. Miller writes. In other words, if a child doesn’t get sick within a few weeks, the vaccine is considered safe.

But there’s been no long-term study of the possible effects of vaccinations. Meanwhile, as the number of shots administered over the years has increased, so has the occurrence of serious developmental disorders, including autism and ADHD.

That anecdotal evidence doesn’t bother everyone. A few months ago, my child’s psychiatrist told me, “I’m 100 percent certain that autism isn’t caused by vaccinations.” In fact, he added, about three quarters of psychiatrists aren’t even convinced there’s been a spike in autism; they say we’re just getting better at diagnosing it.

Parents of autistic children know better. Today, one in every 68 American families has an autistic child. It’s an epidemic, and something caused it. We must find out what.

A 2001 study from the Institute of Medicine Immunization’s Safety Review Committee claimed that vaccines are generally safe. But even that report admitted, “Further research on the possible occurrence of Autism Spectrum Disorder in a small number of children subsequent to MMR vaccination is warranted.”

That’s medical-ese for “further study is needed.”

We ought to use the vaccine shortage to create a control group and finally do that research. Because if all these shots are contributing to life-long conditions like autism, then they’re more dangerous than the diseases they purport to protect us against.

Rich Tucker is a staff editor at The Heritage Foundation, a Townhall.com member group, and the host of richtucker.net.

©2005 The Heritage Foundation



Jaquelyn McCandless, M.D.
Certified by American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology
21800 Marylee St. #48, Woodland Hills, CA


Date: May 19, 2005

Harvey V. Fineberg, MD, PhD
President, Institute of Medicine
500 Fifth Street NW
Washington DC 20001

Dear Doctor Fineberg:

I am writing you as a fellow physician to ask you to withdraw the conclusion you and your committee made in February 2004 that there is no connection between autism and childhood vaccines and all further research efforts should go in other directions. Eight years ago I would have agreed with you; now I believe wholeheartedly that you are holding a position that is no longer tenable by any scientific or humanitarian or truthful standards. This kind of faulty judgment stands to make the American people begin to lose faith in our governing health agencies. You, as the currently residing president, have the power to correct a terrible wrong and help reinstate this faith by looking at the present scientific evidence that cannot be denied and encourage even more research in this area. I beg you to have the courage and honesty to retract that conclusion which was not based on science but on epidemiological studies that were proven to be manipulated and diluted by those actually employed by the vaccine makers. These “researchers” finally managed to change and dilute their own original findings that there was indeed an obvious connection between vaccines and the autism epidemic that is now upon us.

We are living in an age where information is available to the masses. Hundreds of thousands of parents of stricken children have shared how certain they are that they had normal children until vaccines changed them. For those with immunologically genetic predispositions to be unable to excrete toxins as neurotypical children do (and this is a sizeable number of children, especially boys), receiving the mercury laden Hepatitis B vaccination at birth was a “neurofatal” blow. The mandate requiring this toxin-laden vaccine for every newborn rather than just the relatively rare infant who had a mother with active hepatitis B, (which could have been easily checked), was obviously a huge and blatant error in judgment. An error is one thing; the ensuing decade where literally hundreds of thousands of children became autistic while our governing health agencies led by IOM’s denial and avoidance of the truth is already a dark stain in the history of American medicine and will show its devastation for many decades.

These injured children’s families have films and testimonies from many observers that their child became lost to them following vaccines. The destruction inflicted by the newborn vaccines rendered many children unable to withstand the insult of triple live viruses in the form of the MMR, and many toddlers clearly succumbed to autism following the MMR. Repeatedly, laboratory examination of these stricken children reveals damage to their immune and gastrointestinal systems consonant with the damage known to be inflicted by exposure to toxic metals, including the thimerosal in vaccines. As a physician, I have evaluated many hundreds of autistic children with thorough laboratory examinations of their blood, urine, stool and hair. Most such children improve when toxic metals are removed. I can assure you that the disorders shown by these children compared to neurotypical children are caused by toxins.

It is difficult to believe that you have spent any time with the families and clinicians out there in the fields caring for these children and hearing their histories and seeing the incredible clinical and laboratory pictures they present. I must presume that you are accepting reports written and manipulated by persons hired by the very pharmaceutical companies who made millions off these neurotoxic vaccines which they created. You and they are in a position to admit the truth, and the literally billions of dollars pharmaceutical companies will spend to defend themselves or pay injured families could be used to set up badly needed clinics throughout the country where these stricken children could be treated. Your and their denial of thimerosal’s adverse effects is delaying this help. With proper biomedical evaluation and treatment, most of these children can be helped to lead better lives. It is criminal to be a force denying thimerosal’s increasingly documented effects and thus - by the IOM’s anti-science thimerosal decree (2004) the IOM’s stance is helping delay biomedical help for these metal-injured children.

The care of an autistic child’s medical and educational needs costs from 2-3 million dollars for their lifetime; the consequences of this upcoming burden on our families, communities, and nation are incomprehensible. The IOM’s untenable position supports individuals, including many physicians, who do choose to remain under the comfortable sway of the enormous power of the pharmaceutical companies who have gained so much from these mandated vaccine programs.

I am asking you, Doctor Harvey Feinberg, to look into your soul, your heart, your compassion, and your honor as a physician to be truthful and “not harm.” TRUTH WILL OUT; it is just a question of time. Will you be that rare person - like the FDA’s David Graham, M.D., who has the courage to bring it out sooner? I beg you to do so for the injured children, the heartbroken families, your own conscience, and our country.

Sincerely Yours,

Jaquelyn McCandless, M.D.

Jaquelyn McCandless, M.D.
Autism Evaluation and Treatment Specialist
Author, “Children with Starving Brains, a Medical Treatment Guide for Autism Spectrum Disorder”
Originator, Autism Research Institute’s Physician Autism Evaluation and Treatment Training Course
Grandmother, Autistic Child
 



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June-August 2005 Issue

Should I Vaccinate My Child?
By Jini Patel Thompson

· An unpublished study by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on a "measles susceptible" (malnourished) group of children showed that the group who hadn't been vaccinated contracted measles at the normal contract rate of 2.4%. Of the group who had received the measles vaccine (MMR), 33.5% contracted measles.

· In 1975 Japan raised the minimum age for infant vaccinations to 2 years. As a result, SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or, crib death) and infant convulsions virtually disappeared. In the 80's, Japan lowered the minimum age back down to 3 months and the rate of SIDS returned to previous levels. · In an Australian study, a group of recruits were immunized for Rubella, and all produced the expected antibodies. When later exposed to the disease, 80% of the recruits contracted it.

· According to the U.S. National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (est.1986): To qualify for compensation, the adverse effects of vaccination must occur within four hours of receiving the vaccine. Despite this extremely severe limitation, as of February 28, 1998 compensatory payments have totaled $871,800,000.00. This figure is even more alarming when it is revealed that only one in four claimants were awarded compensation.

· Some researchers postulate that the use of live viral vaccines introduce foreign genetic material into the human system, which has contributed to the unprecedented escalation of auto-immune disorders (like multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, cancer, Crohn's disease, asthma, etc.) in recent decades.

The above facts each highlight a different facet of the vaccination question;  effectiveness, adverse effects,  and long-term consequences. The unspoken thread running through each of these is a pressing question: Why haven't more people been informed of this evidence, and indeed, why is vaccination presented carte blanche as a positive, imperative requisite for our children's health? As the mother of a newborn, it became important to find out what is really going on with infant and childhood vaccination and whether it is conclusively a beneficial or necessary procedure. Thus I embarked on four months of research into immunization - squeezed in between the demands of caring for and breastfeeding our new baby Oscar!

Do Vaccines Actually Work?

As I researched the issue, I was amazed to discover that there is a large and growing body of clinical studies, fieldwork (in developing nations) and historical data refuting the safety and efficacy of vaccination. Unfortunately, the propaganda campaign for vaccination has been so successful that most of us automatically believe that vaccines are so effective they are responsible for the virtual eradication of serious childhood illnesses. In reality, this is not so, and if you examine the actual rates of incidence for each disease (from mainstream sources such as the Lancet, WHO and UNICEF), the graphs show a clearly different picture. From the 1800's to the present, in every case, each disease had been virtually eliminated decades before the introduction of the relevant vaccine; through improved hygiene, better nutrition, clean drinking water and improved sanitation. Basically, as people's overall health and immune systems improved, they didn't get sick. As the physician W.J. McCormick summarized in 1950 (before vaccines for measles, mumps, scarlet fever and rheumatic fever were introduced):

INDENT '.the decline in diptheria, whooping cough and typhoid fever began fully fifty years prior to the inception of artificial immunization and followed an almost even grade before and after the adoption of these control measures. In the case of scarlet fever, mumps, measles and rheumatic fever there has been no specific innovation in control measures, yet these also have followed the same general pattern in incidence decline.'  END INDENT

Furthermore, research reveals dozens of cases around the world where there was an outbreak of infectious disease (e.g. measles, polio, tetanus, smallpox, etc.) and contract rates were either similar among vaccinated and unvaccinated populations, or higher and more severe among the vaccinated. For example:

· Massachusetts in 1961 experienced a 'type II' polio outbreak and "there were more paralytic cases in the triple vaccinates than in the unvaccinated"
.
· In 1976, Dr. G.T. Stewart reported in the British Medical Journal that, "of 8,092 cases of whooping cough, 2,940 (36%) were fully immunized, while only 2,424 (30%) were definitely not immunized." · Professor George Dick, speaking at an environmental conference in Brussels in 1973, admitted that in recent decades, 75% of British people who contracted smallpox had been vaccinated. This, combined with the fact that only 40% of children (and a maximum of 10% of adults) had been vaccinated, clearly shows that vaccinated people have a much higher tendency to contract the disease.

· If vaccination is not responsible for the eradication of childhood illnesses, and vaccinated children are actually at a greater risk of contracting a disease than unvaccinated children, why is vaccination routinely presented as an effective safeguard for our children's health?
When the historical data is referred to by pro-vaccine parties, it is often skewed and presented out of context. For example, in reference to a mass immunization campaign carried out in Thailand:

".the immunization coverage for measles has increased from 6% in 1984 to 63% in 1988, leading to a reduction in measles prevalence from 93.7/100,000 in 1984 to 37.1/100,000 in 1986"

However, what the report doesn't indicate is that in 1987, the infection rate of measles was 87.1/100,000. And in 1988 it was 59.1/100,000 which is actually higher than the rate of infection in 1982 (57.1/100,000) when no one had been vaccinated. These statistics however, are conveniently not included as they don't support the pro-vaccination stance of the report. Aside from establishing that vaccines are not the reason infectious childhood illnesses have virtually disappeared, and that vaccinated children are actually at a greater risk of contracting disease, there are also the adverse effects and long-term consequences of vaccination to be considered.

Effects of Vaccination - short term

Immediate or short-term effects of vaccination can include the following: encephalopathy (irreversible brain damage), ataxia (incoordination of voluntary muscle movements), mental retardation, aseptic meningitis (inflammation of the membranes of spinal cord or brain), seizure disorders, hemiparesis (half-body paralysis), retinopathy and blindness, hyperactivity, anaphylaxis, high pitched (encephalitic) screaming/prolonged crying, autism,
ADHD, learning disorders, hay fever, asthma, sudden infant death (SIDS), brachial plexus neuropathy (disease affecting nerves which serve the arm, forearm and hand), and abdominal pain. Secondary complications can include juvenile-onset diabetes, Reye's syndrome and multiple sclerosis. Unfortunately, it's virtually impossible to determine the real incidence of damaging adverse reactions. For example, a British government report claims the rate of permanent neurologic damage from the DPT vaccine to be 1 in 300,000.  However, other researchers indicate the permanent damage level to be anywhere from 1 in 62,000 to 1 in 300. Research by Coulter and Fisher on the 3.3 million children vaccinated yearly in the U.S. found there to be a total of 33,006 cases of acute neurological reactions (encephalitic screaming, convulsions, collapse) within 48 hours of receiving the DPT shot. When the problems with vaccination are addressed in a serious manner by the pro-vaccination side, it usually involves a member of the bio-medical field qualifying that the dangers of vaccination, although real, are very rare, for example:

"Parents must be informed of the rare possibility of serious adverse effects, including seizure and allergic reaction. Every physician who administers vaccines therefore needs to become familiar with the reactions that may occur with each immunologic agent used. The best safeguard against litigation, when and if a serious reaction follows vaccination, is the indication that these considerations were discussed and that an informed choice was made."

However, there is no scientific evidence as to the actual frequency or incidence of vaccine-induced injury, so in fact we have no idea whether reactions are indeed rare, or, statistically significant. In articles such as the one above, no verifiable statistical evidence, reflecting reliable reporting or monitored studies for this 'rarity' is ever presented. As  shown in the official minutes of the 15th session of the US Panel of Review of Bacterial Vaccines and Toxoids with Standards and Potency:

"Many physicians are not cognisant of the importance of reporting untoward reactions, or may be unaware of their clinical features. Further, both physicians and manufacturers have been held liable for damage suits by patients who may suffer adverse effects from established vaccines. All of these factors undoubtedly discourage reporting; without some other form of surveillance, definition of the rates and significance of untoward reactions
to current and future vaccines cannot be ascertained."

For this reason, it is suspected that the number of adverse reactions and vaccine-damaged children is actually much, much higher than is currently presented by the medical/pharmaceutical community. Instead, there is a growing number of mothers and lay people, whose children have been irrevocably damaged, forming vaccine risk awareness groups. There continue to be incidents like the one in West Germany in 1967,  where smallpox vaccination damaged the hearing of 3,296 children, and of these 71 were rendered completely deaf.  At the extreme end of the spectrum, we have occurrences like the one in Australia's Northern Territory where malnourished aboriginal children were vaccinated and in some areas 50% of them died.  According to Dr. B. Bloom at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, there's even an emerging reluctance to further develop vaccines because financial losses due to the liability of established vaccines actually exceed the profits derived from them. Whether these adverse reactions are caused by the vaccines themselves or the number of highly toxic additives contained in vaccines (e.g. formaldehyde, mercury, acetone, etc.), or a combination of the two, remains to be determined. As yet, no research has been carried out to resolve this question.

Effects of Vaccination - long term

While these short-term consequences are alarming (especially if it happens to your child) the possible long-term consequences of vaccination are, in my opinion, even more of a worry. When you contract a disease naturally, the virus or bacteria normally enters via the body's natural filtration system; by being inhaled or swallowed, passing through the liver. With measles, for example, the airborne virus is carried first to the tonsils, then the lymph nodes and then into the spleen, blood and other organs. This succession produces a variety of reactions; sneezing, coughing or the secretion of a local antibody within the respiratory tract, all designed to expel or weaken the virus at its port of entry. With vaccines, foreign antigens are usually injected directly into the body's tissues and carried throughout the circulatory system, giving them direct access to all of the body's vital organs and systems. To bypass the body's natural defence system, and at such a young age, is simply asking for trouble. In addition, because the vaccine contains an attenuated (or weakened) form of the virus, the body doesn't activate its major inflammatory response, nor its non-specific immune defences.

Another long-term complication of vaccination involves the 'one cell-one antibody' rule. This means that once a B cell is committed to an antigen (disease-causing virus or bacteria), it becomes inert and incapable of responding to other antigens or attacks on the immune system. If a child contracts childhood diseases naturally, it is estimated that up to a total of 7% of their immune system is taken up with responding to these diseases. However, a child who undergoes the routine course of vaccinations, risks having up to 70% of his/her immune system committed to these antigens and no longer available for other immune challenges. Current research suggests this reduced immune-response capacity is responsible for increased susceptibility to other infections, allergies, and auto-immune diseases. Other researchers argue that these attenuated forms of the viruses remain in the body causing continual antigenic stimulation of the immune system  - meaning the immune system is always in 'attack' mode - which also weakens it and leads  to auto-immune diseases.

A placebo-controlled trial of acellular pertussis vaccines in Sweden, compared vaccinated children with un-vaccinated children of the same birth grouping. During the trial, an invasive bacterial infection occurred among the vaccinated group resulting in numerous deaths. A review of the trial data led researchers to conclude that "The hypothesis of an immunosuppressive effect of the vaccines, which would explain the deaths.could not be refuted by the data." As further evidence, one of the few double-blind trials that have ever been conducted on a vaccine shows the same immunosuppressive effect. In the trial, of the group who were vaccinated with the Salk polio vaccine, over 200 people went on to contract polio. Among the control group (unvaccinated), not one of them developed polio. Citing references from numerous valid sources, including four recognized textbooks on paediatrics and immunology, Harold Buttram, MD and John Hoffman, PhD, conclude that childhood vaccination "cannot help but have adverse effects on the immunologic system of the child, possibly leaving this system crippled in its ability to protect the child throughout life.opening the way for other diseases as a result of immunologic dysfunction."  The other worrying aspect of live viral vaccines is they introduce foreign genetic material into the human body. Dr. R. Moskowitz, MD and Harvard graduate, explains how this can lead to auto-immune disease susceptibility:

"Vaccinal attenuated viruses attach their own genetic 'episome' to the genome (half set of chromosomes and their genes) of the host cell, and are thus capable of surviving or remaining latent within the host cells for years. The presence of foreign antigenic material within the host cell sets the stage for their unpredictable provocation of various auto-immune phenomena such as herpes, shingles, warts, tumors - both benign and malignant - and diseases of the central nervous system, such as varied forms of paralysis and inflammation of the brain."

Dr. Markowitz states that in addition, vaccines do not just produce mild versions of the original disease, but all of them commonly produce a variety of their own symptoms. In some cases, "these illnesses may be considerably more serious than the original disease, involving deeper structures, more vital organs, and less of a tendency to resolve spontaneously. Even more worrisome is the fact that they are almost always more difficult to recognize." In addressing scientists at a conference sponsored by the American Cancer Society, Rutgers University professor R. Simpson warned:

"Immunization Programs against flu, measles, mumps, polio and so forth may actually be seeding humans with RNA to form latent proviruses in cells throughout the body. These latent proviruses could be molecules in search of diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, systemic lupus erythematosus, Parkinson's disease and perhaps cancer."

The bulk of the evidence gathered from numerous countries points out that not only is vaccination ineffective at preventing the spread of infectious disease, but vaccinated children are actually at a higher risk of contracting these illnesses. In addition, the adverse reactions to vaccination are much higher than presently documented in the medico-pharmaceutical literature and the long-term damaging effect of suppressing the immune system is rarely addressed. In light of all the evidence to the contrary, why have vaccines been pressed upon the public as a necessary, beneficial way of preventing our children from getting sick? In the words of Dr. Raymond Obomsawin (who's held senior positions in UNICEF and CUSO), referring to mass vaccination, "It is reprehensible that such actions continue to be enforced by authorities, while parents and local health workers are not accorded any practical knowledge of the known dangers involved, and the extent to which there prevails a general ignorance of the longer term consequences." Combine this ignorance with the millions of dollars in profit generated by vaccination that goes straight into the pockets of manufacturing companies, governments and medical doctors, and it becomes clear that vaccination is more of a political and economic issue, than a health issue. Barbara Loe Fisher, who served for ten years on the U.S. National Vaccine Advisory Committee states:

"We have bad science and bad medicine translated into law to ensure that vaccine manufacturers make big profits, that career bureaucrats at the Public Health Service meet the mass vaccination goals promised to politicians funding their budgets, and pediatricians have a steady flow of patients.As the drug companies have often stated in meetings I have attended, if a vaccine they produce is not mandated to be used on a mass basis, they do not recoup their R&D costs and do not make the profit they want. In the medical literature official studies of vaccine risk are published purportedly proving there is no cause and effect. What the reader does not know is that often the studies have been designed and conducted by physicians who sit on vaccine policy-making committees at the Centers for Disease Control.some of whom receive money from vaccine manufacturers for their universities and for testifying as expert witnesses in vaccine-injury cases. And others are federal employees with an eye on career advancement within HHS and a future job with a vaccine manufacturer after retirement from public service. Many of these same physicians sit on the peer review boards of the major medical journals such as Pediatrics and JAMA, where they refuse space for studies or letters from the few brave physicians who dare to challenge their assertions that there is no cause and effect"

When you take into account the billions of dollars at stake in vaccination campaigns, it is not surprising that vaccination propaganda is foisted upon the public with almost religious fervour. The intense psychological pressure and fear that parents feel about vaccinating their children is no accident, but the result of well-planned, well-funded marketing campaigns. Needless to say, having completed my research, Oscar remains completely un-vaccinated. As to whether you should vaccinate your child or not, only you can and should make that decision. It is very difficult to stand strong and resolute against the ubiquitous pressure to vaccinate. It's like having to keep insisting the earth is round when authorities, your community, intellectuals, and the majority of scientists etc. all insist it's flat. As with all matters of health, each of us has to go with what our gut tells us is right, or the best possible option for us at that time. There are very effective alternatives to vaccination, but it's beyond the scope of this article to address that here (see www.alternativemedicine.com and do a keyword search on vaccination for more info). Also, any good naturopathic physician will be able to advise you of the alternatives and prescribe immune support measures for your child.

Other options

For those of you who are wary of the dangers of vaccination but not quite strong enough - or convinced enough - to decline immunization, there are a few options you might wish to explore: Only give your child the vaccines you feel are most necessary and omit the most dangerous ones, or the ones that have been banned in other countries. For example, opt for diphtheria and tetanus but omit the pertussis component of the DPT shot, skip the hepatitis B vaccine - especially in infants (200 doctors in France have banded together to try to get their government to ban it). The MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) shot has also been banned in several countries.

If you do vaccinate, assist your child/baby's immune system before, during and after vaccination to reduce the risk of adverse effects. Dr. Lendon Smith (an Oregon pediatrician) administers the following to his patients: 1000 mg. Vitamin C, 500 mg. Calcium, 50 mg. Vitamin B6 the day before, the day of, and the day after vaccination.  Consult with your doctor (medical or naturopathic) as to the best amounts and delivery method of these immune support substances for your child. Continue to supplement with a full range of vitamins and minerals daily thereafter (use 100% natural preparations specially formulated for infants or children). Continue to educate yourself by reading other sources and conduct your own research on vaccination. See some of the publications and websites listed at the end of this article for further reading.

A former journalist, Jini Patel Thompson's health articles have been published in numerous magazines and newspapers throughout Canada, the United States and Europe. She is the author of two books on natural healing methods for Crohn's, Colitis and IBS, and a DVD titled: BABY FART AEROBICS: And Other Natural Treatments for Colicky Babies. Jini has appeared on both TV and radio programs in U.S., speaking about natural methods for healing digestive diseases. Her books, CDs, DVD and free articles are available at: www.caramal.com

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4. Universal Immunization: Medical Miracle or Masterful Mirage? by Dr.Raymond Obomsawin
5. Buttram, H., 'Live Virus Vaccines and Genetic Mutation', Health Consciousness, April 1990, pp.44-45
6. McCormick, W.J., Vitamin C in the Prophylaxis and Therapy of Infectious Diseases, Archives of Pediatrics, Vol.68, No.1, January 1951
7. US House of Representative, Hearings on HR 10541, p.113
8. Stewart, G.T., British Medical Journal, January 31, 1976
9. Dettman, G. and Kalokerinos, A., "Viral Vaccines Vital or Vulnerable", Australasian Nurses Journal, August 1980, p.29
10. "Universal Immunization: Medical Miracle or Masterful Mirage?" by Dr. Raymond Obomsawin p.l2
11. Alderslade, R., et al, "The National Childhood Encephalopathy Study", in Whooping Cough: Reports from the Committee on Safety of Medicines and the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization, Department of Health and Social Security, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London 1981, pp.79-154
2. Editor of Postgraduate Medicine, summarizing the following article: Zimmerman B. and Stone A. "Allergic Reactions Associated with Viral Vaccines", Progress in Medical Virology, Vol.82, No.5, October 1987, pp.225-232
3. Mendelsohn, R., "The Truth About Immunization" p.7
4. James, W. "Immunization" p.18
5. Dettman, G. and Kalokerinos, A., "Viral Vaccines Vital or Vulnerable", Australasian Nurses Journal, August 1980, p.27
6. Storsaeter, J., et al, "Mortality and Morbidity from Invasive Bacterial Infections During a Clinical Trial of Acellular Pertussis Vaccines in Sweden", Pediatrics Infectious Disease Journal, Vol.78, 1988 pp.637-645
7. Mendelsohn, R., "The Medical Time Bomb of Immunization Against Disease" p.52
8. Buttram. H.E., and Hoffman, J.C., "Bringing Vaccines Into Perspective", Mothering, Vol.34, 1985, p.42
9. James, W. "Immunization" p.15
20. Markowitz, R., "The Case Against Immunizations", Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy, Washington DC, 1983
21. James, W., "Immunization" p.15
22. "Universal Immunization: Medical Miracle or Masterful Mirage?" by Dr.Raymond Obomsawin p.56
23. Barbara Fisher in a talk before the International Chiropractic Pediatricians Association, Boston, MA, March 19, 1993
24. The Burton Goldberg Group, "Alternative Medicine: The Definitive Guide", p.600
 



New program takes on autism challenge

http://www.nj.com/news/gloucester/local/index.ssf?/base/news-1/112469851780130.xml&coll=8

Majewski is the first person in the state to become certified in the Relationship Development Intervention (RDI) program, a new approach to treating autism.

Dear Ms. Jolis:

Your article on the use of Relationship Development Intervention or RDI, for helping autistic children understand how others perceive situations, is encouraging.  Autistic children often are typical in terms of intelligence, but seriously limited in social understanding and communication skills.  There is an overwhelming lack of adequate programs to help these kids.  Often they're just mainstreamed in classes and left on their own. 

 Our schools are being overwhelmed with these disabled children who weren't there a generation ago.  The article points to the beginning of this teaching program.  In 20 years the autism rate has gone from one in 10,000 to one in every 166 children.  Other neurological disorders like speech and language delay and attention deficit disorder now affect one in every six schoolchildren.  Schools are now flooded with these children and many are lacking essential services. 

Eighty percent of autistic individuals are under the age of 17 and in a few years the state welfare systems will have to assume the burden of supporting these disabled individuals for life.  If we don't provide training and assistance to these children now, we will be left with their total care in the future.

Anne McElroy Dachel
Chippewa Falls, WI
715-723-0913
 

Media Relations Coordinator

National Autism Association



New program takes on autism challenge

http://www.nj.com/news/gloucester/local/index.ssf?/base/news-1/112469851780130.xml&coll=8

 Majewski is the first person in the state to become certified in the Relationship Development Intervention (RDI) program, a new approach to treating autism.

 Dear Ms. Jolis:

 Your article on the use of Relationship Development Intervention or RDI, for helping autistic children understand how others perceive situations, is encouraging.  Autistic children often are typical in terms of intelligence, but seriously limited in social understanding and communication skills.  There is an overwhelming lack of adequate programs to help these kids.  Often they're just mainstreamed in classes and left on their own. 

Our schools are being overwhelmed with these disabled children who weren't there a generation ago.  The article points to the beginning of this teaching program.  In 20 years the autism rate has gone from one in 10,000 to one in every 166 children.  Other neurological disorders like speech and language delay and attention deficit disorder now affect one in every six schoolchildren.  Schools are now flooded with these children and many are lacking essential services. 

 Eighty percent of autistic individuals are under the age of 17 and in a few years the state welfare systems will have to assume the burden of supporting these disabled individuals for life.  If we don't provide training and assistance to these children now, we will be left with their total care in the future. 

Anne McElroy Dachel
Chippewa Falls, WI
715-723-0913
 

Media Relations Coordinator

National Autism Association



Illinois General Assembly

KidCare, Human Services Subcommittee 94th General Assembly

Testimony of Elizabeth Birt

Thank you for convening this hearing today regarding the issues facing Illinois families with autistic children. Because of the need for full disclosure and transparency regarding all issues before the Illinois General Assembly and the grave importance of this matter and its implications for public policy I would like to start off my stating that I have no financial conflicts of issue regarding autism, other than as the parent of a severely affected child, and that I receive no benefit directly or indirectly from pharmaceutical companies. I strongly urge that you require all individuals providing testimony to your subcommittee including those present today and those who have testified in the past to fully disclose all conflicts of interest.

I am the parent of an 11 year old child who was developmentally normal until he received two vaccinations, a thimerosal containing Hib and an MMR at approximately 15 months of age. Prior to his receipt of these vaccinations, my son could count to ten and said many words such as "mamma", "daddy", "ball", "go", Sasaa for his sister's name; he pointed at objects of interests and played games like peek a boo and hide and seek. He loved to be held and had excellent eye contact. He had a history of ear infections but no serious medical problems. After the receipt of these immunizations, he ran a high fever. I gave him Tylenol as directed by his pediatrician. After the vaccination, he developed a rash on the trunk of his body. I didn't think that anything was seriously wrong and believed that all was normal with my adorable little boy. Within a few weeks of these immunizations my son developed chronic diarrhea; at first I believed it was the babysitter's fault for giving him too much juice. As the weeks and months went by his gastrointestinal problems worsened. He also stopped acquiring language and insidiously he slipped away from me. We initially thought that he had hearing problems and had tubes inserted into his ears. We waited and watched and hoped. My son's condition only worsened. He started screaming uncontrollably and rubbing his stomach. It was like watching a fire die out ember by ember and there was no professional who could tell me how my child who had been so full of life and interactive was now in a world of his own.

Eventually my son received a diagnosis of PDD/NOS from a physician at Rush. The physician assured me that because my son still had skills left like stacking blocks that he would be "fine" and recommended speech therapy. This therapy was not covered by his father's insurance company so we picked up the cost personally. My son then stopped sleeping through the night. He would awaken every night at around 3:00 A.M. screaming, smearing feces over himself, the carpet and walls. It was in one simple word "hell".

My husband and I took him to see a physician, Dr. Bennett Leventhal at University of Chicago who diagnosed him as autistic. I will never forget that day. I had my son's medical records with me from Dr. Michael Chez a neurologist, and asked him why his IGA was so low. IGA is the first line of defense in a person's gastrointestinal and mucosal tract. I was told point blank that it wasn't important. I asked him about my son's behavioral issues such as rubbing his stomach, lying on the floor with his hands pressed against his stomach, and night time screaming. He didn't say anything except it was perhaps a part of his autism-in other words his behavior was a psychotic result of his autism. I left the appointment feeling a sense of doom and that there was nothing that could be done for my son except to put him into an institution. It was one of the worst days of my life.

My son's condition began to deteriorate further; he developed shingles, was chronically sick, had "shiners" under his eyes. Exasperated by the lack of medical care I set out on a journey to find out what exactly was wrong with my child. This journey led Matthew to the only treatment available for his chronic diarrhea. The care and compassion of a physician at the Royal Free Hospital in London, England by the name of Dr. Andrew Wakefield. His group had identified in a small study published in The Lancet in 1998 a group of 12 children who had been referred to the Royal Free Hospital by their local pediatricians. Much has been made of this study and of Dr. Wakefield's work. You should know that Leo Kanner, the individual who first identified autism relied only on 11 case reports. I have included Dr. Wakefield's CV with your handouts; he has published 133 peer reviewed studies. This is not the work of a "mad scientist"; this is the work of a dedicated researcher who trusted parents when they told him the story of their child's illness.

To my astonishment, the children in Dr. Wakefield's original study had a history of normal development and then lost language, social skills and had chronic intestinal problems following the receipt of an MMR vaccination. For me, it was the only path I could follow to find relief for my child. I took him to London and there he was actually worked up clinically for his gastrointestinal disease. He was seen by seven doctors including Dr. John Walker-Smith who is regarded as the foremost pediatric gastroenterologist at that time in the world. Using a simple xray which could have been ordered at any hospital in this country, the doctors found that my son was completely constipated. The mass in his colon was the size of a small cantaloupe. He was scoped and found to have inflammatory bowel disease and put on appropriate medication for his physical condition. Immediately he started sleeping through the night. His non stop diarrhea abated and he was a much happier child.

Unfortunately, for Matthew his gastrointestinal disease has worsened and he is now on immunosuppressive treatment because he developed lesions in his esophagus. He has had several grand mal seizures. He has documented measles virus infection in his intestine and cerebral spinal fluid that matches the vaccine strain. In addition, his body is unable to detoxify. He has antibodies to myelin basic protein which acts as a conductor for nerves in his brain. His immune system is dysregulated; he has high levels of inflammatory cytokines. He is currently being evaluated for kidney stones. In short, his body is a train wreck.

Matthew, given all of these physical problems is a sweet little boy; he is affectionate and likes to be with other children. He is mischevious; he knows the rules in the house likes to push them. He is not mentally retarded; he understands everything t hat is said to him; he can not however, communicate verbally and relies on his caregivers, sign language and guttural sounds to get by. He has learned how to snow ski through a program offered by Challenge Aspen and has participated in a camp for autistic children founded by myself and another parent in Colorado called Extreme Sports Camp. At this camp Matthew has learned to rock climb, ice skate, and loves white water rafting. To see his smile at camp is worth a million
dollars.

What children and parents of autistic children need is enormous. There is no respite care; no medical care; and the insurance companies pay nothing for services unless you are clever in coding the claims. Our children have behavioral issues that must be managed but they are also chronically ill. We don't even know how many children and their families desperately need services not just for today but for the future. The cost of lifetime care for an autistic child in unknown but some estimates peg the national cost to be 7 TRILLION DOLLARS. There are no group homes to put these children in  when their parents can not care for them at home. My fear as parents age they will take the life of their child and their own. This has already
happened in England.

I am here today not just for my son but for every family in Illinois who has been affected by the devastating disorder. I worked for over two years investigating the relationship between autism and neurodevelopmental disorders as an attorney for the House Committee on Government Reform. My job was to review thousands of pages of subpoenaed documents from our federal health agencies and pharmaceutical companies. The sad story is laid out in a book called "Evidence of Harm" by David Kirby; I urge everyone to read this book.

In 2004 the Institute of Medicine issued a report stating that there was no credible evidence of a link between neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism, and vaccines AND THAT NO FURTHER RESEARCH SHOULD BE CONDUCTED. This study has been highly criticized because it relied solely upon epidemiological studies that were questionable. The committee did not include the studies of researchers including Dr. Mady Hornig at Columbia University whose work on mice with autoimmune problems found that these mice exhibited obsessive compulsive disorders and had brain abnormalities similar to autistic individuals after the administration of thimerosal containing vaccines. It did not examine the presence of measles virus in the cerebral spinal fluid and not in healthy controls by Dr. Wakefield. It did not consider the work of Dr. Richard Deth of Northeastern University and Dr. Jill James of University of Arkansas demonstrating the ability of thimerosal at low levels to disrupt important metabolic pathways in cells nor the observation of these abnormalities in autistic children. In fact, none of these researchers were invited to present their findings.

One study in Denmark the IOM relied on reported an increase in the number of individuals diagnosed with autism following the removal of thimerosal containing vaccines from the vaccination schedule. What was not stated in the press and report is that the reason for the increase is that the Danish switched methods of counting autistic individuals to include both outpatient and inpatient cases. The famous CDC study authored by Thomas Verstraeten went through at least 5 "generations" of data manipulation. The author himself wrote in Pediatrics in April of 2004 that his study "does not state that we found evidence of an association, as a negative study would. It does state, on the contrary, that additional study is recommended, which the conclusion to which a neutral study must come." The raw data from this study has apparently been destroyed and the CDC has denied access to the VSD database to independent researchers. I have personally as counsel to SAFEMINDS and for the Committee on Government Reform sought access with appropriate patient confidentiality safeguards to the database since 2001. The debate recently reached the floor of the United States Senate where Senators Lieberman and Harkin called for access to the data. In addition, this year an independent panel convened by the Institute of Medicine issued a report entitled "Vaccine Safety Research Data Access and Public Trust". This report criticizes the CDC's handling of this data which was bought by the taxpayers and questions why the data was moved to an independent non governmental entity in 2001 which would not only coincide with the removal of thimerosal containing vaccines from routine immunization schedules but remove it from FOIA. Many in Congress as well as respected scientists from all parts of this nation are urging that further research in this area continue; those scientists include two former heads of the National Institute of Enviornmental Health.

The "good" news is that despite this pronouncement by the IOM research is ongoing. Dr. Thomas Burbacker's research demonstrating that thimerosal in the brains of primates converted to inorganic mercury at a much greater rate than methylmercury (fish mercury) is in Phase II of funding despite the efforts of the federal government to stop this research. Phase I of this study concluded that "Knowledge of the toxicokinetics and developmental toxicity of thimerosal is needed to afford a meaningful assessment of the developmental effects of thimerosal-containing vaccines." This study was published in Enviornmental Health Perspectives, an NIH peer reviewed publication in August of 2005. The IOM had full access to Dr. Burbaker's research during the time they wrote their report. They never asked him to present his research.

Studies have been recently published demonstrating a breakdown of myelin in children with developmental disorders and just how toxic thimerosal is at minute quantities. I have included them in your handouts. As these studies are released the CDC is recommending that every pregnant woman and every child at 6 and 23 months receive a flu vaccine knowing that there is not enough manufacturing capacity to provide this vulnerable population with a thimerosal free vaccine. This action is at best negligent; to me it is
immoral.

So how does my statement impact your committee? You have a lot of work to do to understand the scope of this problem and be assured that if vaccines are implicated that no one will help you pay for it. Today, there are ten bills before the Congress which would give blanket immunity to drug companies for vaccine injuries if the Secretary of HHS declares that the drug is necessary for a pandemic or epidemic. Further, if a citizen is injured they may not be able to access the Vaccine Compensation Act, as broken as it is, unless the Secretary of HHS allows them to do so. All meetings on vaccine matters will not be subject to FACA or FOIA; in other words all of this will be in complete secrecy.

One of the reasons that this legislation is being urged is the spin that liability issues have forced the manufacturers out of business. This is simply not the case and has been refuted in published reports. In fact, last year during the presidential election, Dr. Tony Faucci of the NIAID was quoted by the AP as stating "But that is only a very small part of the problem (liability for manufacturers).More significant, are the low-profit margin vaccines provide, unpredictable demand and the complexity of the manufacturing process. The fragility of the vaccine enterprise is an issue that has been present for decades". So now why is it all of a sudden a problem for the manufacturers? The answer is money and the more that the manufacturers can close off the liability exposure for products then the better. The only remaining hope for families of children who were lucky enough to know of the Vaccine Compensation Act's three year statute of limitations from date of first symptoms limitation is to opt out. There are thousands of cases pending in Vaccine Court that will probably not be heard in my lifetime. The only chance they have is our trial system and a state court.

I believe in the concept of herd immunity; I support a vaccine program that is grounded in credible science; I believed in that system when I vaccinated my children; after 8 years I do not believe that this is the case. There are too many unanswered questions and so many injured children.

I urge this subcommittee to recommend that autism is a public health  emergency in Illinois and to ask the Governor to declare it so. I urge Attorney General Lisa Madigan to utilize the talents of her staff to gain full access to the VSD. I urge this subcommittee to develop a comprehensive plan to identify affected children, provide meaningful support to their families; and to sit down with parents at the table and strategize on the best possible living arrangements for the children who are severely affected.

There is hope; I have included in your handouts an article recently published in the San Francisco Chronicle about a child who received appropriate medical and educational intervention for his "autism"; he has recovered and no longer has this diagnosis. Researchers at UC Davis Mind Institute, Mass General and other prestigious institutions are taking note and starting clinical studies to determine whether these treatments are effective. It may be that we have a constellation of "autisms" caused by not one gene but complex gene and environmental influences, including but not limited to vaccines.

We as a civilized society have an obligation to care for these children. If a portion of them were injured due to negligence on the part of federal health officials and pharmaceutical companies then so be it; what I have personally witnessed over the past eight years has been horrifying. I believe in our country and in the strength of its determination to overcome adversity. We must work together to solve this problem; I stand ready to help in any manner with the work of this committee.

Respectfully,
Elizabeth Birt

Founder, Medical Interventions for Autism

Founder, SAFEMINDS
 



My name is Wendy Fournier. I'm the mother of a child with vaccine-induced autism who is undergoing treatment for mercury poisoning, and I am currently serving as President of the National Autism Association, a national advocacy organization providing assistance to families affected by autism and related disorders and funding research to develop effective treatments.

I am here today to ask you to support H 5729 which if passed will ban the use of thimerosal containing vaccines for pregnant women and children. Similar legislation has already been passed in California and Iowa and is pending in 11 other states. 

Thimerosal is a vaccine preservative made of almost 50% mercury. Mercury is the 2nd most toxic substance known to man. It is unimaginably dangerous. A single drop on a human hand can be fatal. A single drop in a large lake can make all the fish in it unsafe to eat. The extreme neurotoxicity of mercury in general - and thimerosal in particular - has been documented for decades.

Our organization hears daily from parents who are convinced their children's diagnoses such as autism, ADD and ADHD are directly attributable to mercury exposure from vaccines.  From 1988 to 1992, the FDA and the CDC allowed mercury exposure from childhood vaccines to almost triple by adding Hib and Hepatitis B vaccines to the pediatric immunization schedule. At 2 months old, babies were given 3 vaccines containing over 125 times the safe limit of mercury for an adult. To put that into perspective, that would be the equivalent of injecting a 180 pound man with 45 vaccines in the same day.

The rise in pediatric neurological disorders in the United States is in direct proportion to the increase in the amount of mercury our children received through Thimerosal in vaccines. 15 years ago the rate of autism was 1 in 10,000 births. Today autism is an epidemic affecting 1 in 166 children. Over a 10 year span, the rate of autism in RI has increased almost 3000%. And these numbers represent only autism diagnoses; it does not include other neurological disorders such as ADD, ADHD, speech and developmental delays. We are in the midst of a public health crisis surpassing all others in our nation's history in scope and severity. An estimated one in six children now has a learning or behavior disorder requiring special education services in our public schools. In Rhode Island, 21% of our kids have an IEP. 21%. We have poisoned an entire generation of children.

In 1999, agencies including the FDA and the American Academy of Pediatrics realized that the current vaccine schedule mandated by the CDC was exposing children to hundreds of times the safe level of mercury exposure by EPA standards and recommended the elimination of thimerosal from pediatric vaccines. Today, 6 years later, we are still injecting our infants with this neurotoxin.

Let me ask you a question. If you knew that some vaccines contained extremely high doses of lead, how many of you would allow your children to receive them? None of you, of course - because you know that lead is incredibly dangerous. Mercury is 100 times more toxic than lead.

Some public health officials would like us to believe that the risks of infectious disease outweigh the risks of thimerosal. I would like to address that by reading part of a report entitled Mercury in Medicine - Taking Unnecessary Risks. This report is the result of a 3 year investigation by the staff of the subcommittee on Human Rights and Wellness and the Committee on Government Reform. The committee was chaired by Congressman Dan Burton of Indiana. It states:

The argument - that the known risks of infectious diseases outweigh a potential risk of neurological damage from exposure to thimerosal in vaccines - is one that has continuously been presented to the Committee by government officials. FDA officials have stressed that any possible risk from thimerosal was theoretical, that no proof of harm existed. However, the Committee, upon a thorough review of the scientific literature and internal documents from government and industry, did find evidence that thimerosal does pose a risk.

Thimerosal used as a preservative in vaccines is likely related to the autism epidemic. This epidemic in all probability may have been prevented or curtailed had the FDA not been asleep at the switch regarding the lack of safety data regarding injected thimerosal and the sharp rise of infant exposure to this known neurotoxin. Our public health agencies' failure to act is indicative of institutional malfeasance for self-protection and misplaced protectionism of the pharmaceutical industry.
 



CDC Report Ignores Autism-Mercury Link Despite New Data

Written by: J.T. Thorn

Date: May 5, 2006


A new report reveals startling data that show a link between the mercury used in vaccines to the rising Autism rate in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia authored the new study, which show that 1 in 175 school aged children have some form of autism.

Despite the numbers, the CDC refuses take responsibility for the connection.

"The study, while valuable in showing that autism rates are high, also substantiated that the rate of autism has increased during the 1990s, and that the rate of autism among children born after 1992 are at epidemic proportions of 6.8-7.6 cases per thousand," said SafeMinds Executive Director Sallie Bernard. Among children in the study born between 1986 to 1992 the autism were much lower, 4.1-4.6 cases per thousand, about 3/5 the rate of the children born after 1992.

"The rise in autism rates for children born after 1992 as compared to those born between 1986 and 1992 corresponds to increased exposures from mercury in infant vaccines. Two new mercury-containing vaccines were added to the infant schedule in 1990-1991, and it is after this time period that the rate in autism increased dramatically," said Bernard. The agency attempted to justify the numbers during a recent press conference which didn't fair well with anti-mercury and anti-vaccine groups across the board.

"It wouldn't be in the CDC's best interest to admit fault here. What we know - as parents, is being denied and ignored by the very individuals who control our children's health," said Human Rights journalist and
anti-vaccine advocate, Anai Rhoads Ford. Mercury, known as Thimerosal, was first put in vaccines in the 1930's. It was initially used as a preservative, and remained a center ingredient to most vaccines. It was around this time that Autism made its appearance. "Symptoms of Mercury poisoning mirror what we see in children with Autism. More children are going to suffer as long as we allow the CDC to continue their experiments," said Rhoads Ford. As time went on, the vaccine schedule for infants was increased from 10 to 24 shots. Not only were there more recommended immunizations, the CDC increased the Thimerosal in each one.

Rhoads Ford went on to say, "Children have been used as guinea pigs for the last 70 years. We are no longer living in a society where scientific advances are out of our reach.  We have researchers that can find a better preservative than Thimerosal. The CDC needs to stop thinking of the bottomline and start considering safer alternatives. Period." To this day, the CDC and other pro-vaccine groups have not effectively offered data that prove that Thimerosal is safe.

C2006 J.T. Thorn

 



Devastation Via Inoculation

 By <http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0609/S00108.htm#a#a> Sinead Dumigan

The hands expected to protect and serve have poisoned the weakest, most vulnerable portion of the population, the children. The American government and drug manufacturers have created anarchy among innocence, transformed children into mere investments, and turned a blind eye to the destruction of the world's future.  The vaccine controversy was first recognized in the late 1980's when autism cases began escalating at a terrifying rate. Further investigation of the matter revealed the common denominator as thimerosal, a preservative (49.6% mercury by weight) used as an antibacterial agent in multi-dose vials of vaccines. Recommending a schedule of over 30 vaccine doses before the age of two, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) play a dangerous game of Russian roulette with the world's children. Common vaccines such as diphtheria-tetanus-whole-cell-pertussis (DTP), hepatitis b (Hep b), and diphtheria-tetanus-acellular- pertussis (DTaP) all contained thimerosal until at least 1999 and were repeatedly administered, exposing children to dangerous levels of mercury.

 Comprised of liars, thieves, and most of all, cowards, the American government has failed its people in every sense of the word by maliciously dismissing scientific evidence of thimerosal's toxicity and allowing the youngest, most defenseless portion of society to fall victim to political warfare.  Developed in 1929 by Eli Lilly & Co. thimerosal, or ethylmercury, was used to kill bacteria and fungus that breed when vaccine vials are penetrated more than once, hence multi-dose vials.

The autism epidemic could have been stopped in 1931 when Lilly's initial safety test was documented. The study was conducted by injecting 22 terminal meningitis patients with the serum and concluded thimerosal was "non-toxic" since no adverse side effects were reported. What the final report did not say is the subjects were specifically chosen by Lilly because they knew not one person would live long enough to confirm the true nature of the beast.
 
Another major drug manufacturer, Pittman-Moore, tested the preservative in 1935 on dogs and declared thimerosal as "unsatisfactory as a serum intended for use on dogs" (Kennedy, 2005, The Story).  Although one would think such findings warranted further investigation, it would take decades before the FDA even began to question thimerosal's risks. When evidence of toxicity did begin to surface, officials ignored the facts and became even more vigilant, as admitting guilt would leave members open to paralyzing repercussions- both legal and financial.
 
 Though thimerosal continued to be studied and found hazardous, government officials did little to protect the public and actually aided in society's demise by supplying developing countries with thimerosal-containing vaccines (TCV's) after they had been banned from American vaccines, an action that would soon prove perilous, as the autism epidemic would no longer be confined to the United States.

Once thought of as an "American disease", autism was considered rare and affected approximately 1 in every 10,000 children, as compared to 1 in every 166 children today (The Autism Autoimmunity Project, 2005). The disorder was first diagnosed in 1943 amid 11 children born in the months following thimerosal's debut and is best described as a brain disorder that affects the development of social and communication skills, leaving those affected with little chance for a normal life.

 Specific characteristics of autism include the inability to make eye contact, unexplained changes in mood, delayed speech, repetitive behavior, and incapability to tolerate changes in light, sound, and overall environment; which, Bernard et al. recently studied and concluded they ". have shown that every major characteristic of autism has been exhibited in at least several cases of documented mercury poisoning" (Generation Rescue, 2005, Discussion).
 
 The exact cause of autism has yet to be found, but after watching history unfold, some believe they know why autism rates have shown such drastic increases.
 
 One could argue the current epidemic is nothing more than a case of better diagnosing on doctors' parts and better recognition by the public. At first glance, such possibilities seem reasonable. Nevertheless, as said by one of the world's authorities on mercury poisoning, Dr. Boyd Haley, "If the epidemic is truly an artifact of poor diagnosis, then where are all the twenty-one-year-old autistics (Kennedy, 2005, The Story)?"

 The statistics show the explosion is restricted to a single generation of children, so to say poor diagnosis in the past is to blame could not justify such an occurrence.
 
 Another proposed theory is autism is caused by mercury, but since Americans have been exposed to mercury from contaminated fish, coal-burning power plants, and dental fillings, the TCV's may not be solely responsible for the amplified autism rates. This theory is more rational, but mercury poisoning from these sources has been documented as far back as the 1800's, while "autism" was only recognized in the 1940's. This alone should have raised some concern about its safety, but regrettably, it was overlooked and dismissed as yet another coincidence.
 
 What cannot be ignored, on the other hand, are the actual instances where American drug companies like Merck and Glaxo-Smith-Kline began marketing TCV's to developing countries and resulted in a sudden boom of autism reports, such as those reported in Indonesia, India, and Argentina.  Author Evelyn Pringle describes one shocking example of such an occurrence: . A good example is China, . On August 11, 2004, the official Chinese news agency, Xinhua, reported that children suffering with autism in that country had suddenly skyrocketed. In a few short years, the number of reported cases jumped from nearly nothing to some 1.8 million children in 2004. (Generation Rescue, 2005, Fact # 16)
 
 In an innovative study, Dan Olmstead traveled to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and surveyed the Amish community who do not believe in vaccinating their young. With the national rate of autism taken into consideration there should have been 130 autistics; Olmstead found only 3 cases, two of them had received their vaccinations (Schulman, 2005).

 The backlash of thimerosal has been seen across the globe, but American statistics show the severity of ethylmercury's impact and how the future of the country has been critically jeopardized.  The FDA and CDC carelessly added dose after dose to the vaccine schedule without calculating the levels of mercury each child was being exposed to. In 1991, three additional TCV's were added to the schedule, tripling the  exposure concentrations and injecting children with extremely dangerous amounts of thimerosal. By 1999, children were receiving twenty-two doses of ethylmercury before they entered the first grade. 

 The Department of Education conducted a study from 1992/1993 to 2004/2005  showing the percentage increases of children aged 6-21 with autism. Illinois
 entered the analysis with 5 cases, but increased 139,000% to 6,995 by the  time the study was complete. Maryland started off with 28 cases and ended  with 4,077, Nevada went from 5 cases to 1,118, while Oregon escalated 11,632% from having 37 autistics to 4,341 (The Autism Autoimmunity Project, 2005).  Even government members had to admit, "We don't see that kind of genetic change in 30 years" (Scientific Review of Vaccine Safety Datalink Information, 2000).  "The epidemic in all probability may have been prevented or curtailed had the FDA not been asleep at the switch regarding a lack of safety data regarding injected thimerosal, a known neurotoxin," told by Rep. Dan Burton, of the House Government Reform Committee, as he added that public-health  agencies failed to operate out of "institutional malfeasance for self protection. misplaced protectionism of the pharmaceutical industry" (Pringle, 2006). The studies supporting a link between thimerosal and developmental disorders are endless and were available at any given time, the government made a conscious decision to abandon integrity and focus more on saving reputations rather than lives.
 
 Thimerosal's toxicity can be seen as far back as WWII when the Department of Defense required Lilly to label the vaccines as "poison" when shipping overseas for soldiers and a 1967 study in Applied Microbiology found the chemical to be deadly when incorporated into mice's vaccines.  What's more is that in 1971, the developer who originally claimed ethylmercury to be safe, and ultimately began thimerosal's reign of terror, conducted another study that found the preservative to be "'toxic to tissue  cells' in concentrations as low as one part per million- 100 times weaker than the concentration in a typical vaccine" (Kennedy, 2005, The Story).  A 1977 Russian study exposed adults to weaker concentrations than normally used in American childhood vaccines and found the subjects continued to show signs of brain damage years after being exposed. Russia, along with Japan, Austria, Denmark and Great Britain, is one of the countries smart enough to ban the drug, over 20 years ago, before it had a chance to cause serious damage.  Also in 1977, a hospital in Toronto sadly became the final resting place of ten newborn babies when their umbilical cords were cleaned with an antiseptic containing thimerosal, which Lilly had established as toxic six years before the company even began manufacturing such disinfectants leaving one to question, yet again, how this product passed FDA standards of safety. More recently, a study was conducted by the father and son research team, Mark and David Geier, showing a constant increase in both reported autism and speech disorder cases until 2002, which coincides with years thimerosal openly thrived, and began a steady decrease thereafter (Geier & Geier, 2006). The signs are everywhere, but the government simply will not stand defeated, leaving innocent babies to carry the cross created by spineless officials.
 
Although officials are adamant when professing thimerosal's safety, in the early 1980's the FDA proposed a ban on thimerosal being used in over the counter ointments as officials suspected it to be toxic and generally useless, but officials waited 16 years after recognizing the products were unsafe to actually enforce the ban.  What is even more enraging is that the in the same year, 1991, that the FDA proposed a ban on using thimerosal in animal vaccines due to possible toxicity, the same group recommended an additional three TCV's be added to the childhood vaccine schedule.  The government knew what was going on and a warning from one of Merck's founding members, Dr. Maurice Hilleman, confirmed this when he said that administering the shots to six-month-olds would expose infants to dangerous levels of mercury. He suggested terminating thimerosal ".especially when used on infants and children" (Kennedy, 2005, The Story).
 
 This is a recommendation straight from a major player in the drug industry and the government still expects the public to believe they were not aware of the impairment caused by the chemical.  The American government has been able to evade taking responsibility for far too long by producing reports claiming thimerosal's safety, or more commonly, that "further investigation" was needed to reach a conclusion.
 
Dr. Marie McCormick chaired the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) Immunization Safety Review Committee in 2001 and was overheard commenting on how the CDC ".wants us to declare that these things are, well, pretty safe."(Schulman, 2006). Almost convincing, but not quite. Perhaps a turning point in the government's scheme was the notorious CDC study in 2000. Tom Verstraeten, the groups top epidemiologist at the time, and two of his collegues conducted a study that displayed a significant link between TCV's and the onset of neurodevelopmental disorders. Among the horrendous testimony, the panel concluded they: ". have found statistically significant relationships between the exposures and outcomes. Exposure at six months of age, an attention deficit disorder. Exposure at one, three, and six months of age, language and speech delays. Exposures at one, three, and six months of age, the entire category of neurodevelopmental delays, which includes all of these plus a number of other disorders." (Verstraeten et al., 2000)

 In light of the adverse report, a secret meeting was held to discuss, and more so, conceal what the group had revealed. This meeting consisted of members of the CDC, FDA, representatives from major drug companies, scientists, and other persons of interest and would soon come to be known as the infamous Simpsonwood meeting.
 
Dr. Rhodes, a statistician in the National Immunization Program, shed light on the way research is conducted within the government when he said, ". I think some times we make choices too soon in our analyses. We conceptualize the problem very quickly and then everything else kind of depends on those initial choices and we don't always go down other pathways" (Scientific Review of Vaccine Safety Datalink Information, 2000). This validates fears of bias research and explains why thimerosal was accepted for so long. This meeting is direct proof that something is horribly wrong and the government is more than conscious of the problem, but officials' concerns are not for the millions of stolen lives or shattered dreams. Dr. Brent summed it up when he said, "The medical/legal findings in this study, causal or not, are horrendous. we are in a bad position from the standpoint of defending any lawsuits if they were initiated and I am concerned" (Scientific Review of Vaccine Safety Datalink Information, 2000).

Concealment attempts even went as far as Verstraeten's original study winding up "lost" and the CDC paying the IOM to conduct a second study to exclude thimerosal as the cause of the disorders. A sinister disregard for human life was displayed as American officials unleashed a government controlled autism pandemic ashed upon the weakest souls in society.  Officials could be simply negligent, as some claim, but a USA Today analyses shows the reasoning behind the government's methodical procrastination when it came to banning thimerosal from children's vaccines.
 
Between 1998 and 2000, the FDA held 159 advisory committee meetings and found "At 92% of the meetings, at least one member had a financial conflict of interest. At least one committee member had a financial stake in the topic under review at 146 of 159 . meetings. At the 102 meetings dealing with the fate of a specific drug, 33% of the experts had a financial conflict" (Pringle, 2006).  The problem lies not in a lack of knowledge, but a surplus of opportunity. As long as there are infectious diseases to be fought, government officials and drug manufacturers will stand united and profit from fears and misfortunes. The world needs to realize the government does not always, or even half the time, have the public's best interests in mind.

Let us not forget the tragedy known as "Pinks Disease" where millions of infants were scarred or killed before the previously FDA accepted mercury based teething powder, calomel (84.98% mercury Hg), was undeniably proven toxic. The concept of such betrayal is almost impossible to comprehend, but alas, in order for the assailants to be held responsible and to ensure history will not repeat itself again, the public must not feed into the deceptive claims made by officials. The world is not as it should be and this becomes painstakingly obvious when the government is waging war on the only people who remain untainted, the children.

Sinead Dumigan    s_locky12 @ sbcglobal.net
 



Not long ago I watched the first two hours of a four hour special on public television about the history of HIV/AIDS. It covers the world but is primarily about how poorly the U.S. did and still is dealing with the virus. During this show I learned something I never knew before, and the implications of it were devastating to me and to our cause of holding those accountable that knowingly were causing Autism and other developmental disorders in our children.

The show talked about when the very first child with hemophilia was diagnosed with AIDS and reported to the CDC. One scientist there knew immediately and understood the full ramifications of this. Four companies in the U.S. supplied Factor VIII and Factor IX, therapy drugs, made from plasma, to all the hemophiliacs in the U.S. and the entire world. This scientist knew that it took literally 100s of donors for each bottle of Factor VIII, and that if even one was infected with HIV it infected the entire bottle. He also realized that if one case had been reported, history told him there were already 100s of hemophiliacs infected that were yet to be diagnosed. At this time there was still not a test to detect HIV or AIDS, but they did know that in the U.S. almost everyone infected were homosexuals, IV Drug users, and a significant population of Haitians. The CDC scientist called a large meeting, including representatives from the four pharmaceuticals that produced Factor VIII, clotting medication. He made his announcement and the four reps immediately started back peddling, defending, and fighting against any recall or pulling their products or even warnings that the blood products could be tainted. They stated there was absolutely "NO PROOF" that Factor VIII or IX had been tainted. They argued about the political correctness of banning plasma donation from high risk groups such as homosexuals or drug users, a high percentage of donors in some cities where they pay for plasma collection. In a familiar theme, the bottom line took precedence over protecting innocent children. The CDC scientist actually pounded the table and was screaming at them all, "How many dead people do you need to see before you accept this fact that the supplies are tainted, 4, 40, 400 Dead People". The place went up for grabs, they said that was uncalled for, over the line, etc. etc. There was also fear of widespread panic throughout the U.S. regarding all blood products. No matter how well founded that fear might be, they just couldn't have that.

Well, you may have guessed it, the pharmaceutical companies won and no products were pulled. Many years later when it was finally admitted that the products had been tainted for years and still were, tens thousands, actually nearly every hemophiliac in the entire United States had been infected with HIV, eventually to develop and die from AIDS. Huge numbers of those infected were young children. Every hemophiliac outside the U.S. that was receiving any type of blood product therapy was also infected. In fact it was revealed that years later the four companies had started a new line of uninfected Factor VIII, but continued sending the old, known to be tainted product overseas to other countries. (Is anyone else here seeing all the similarities)

I sat in my chair stunned. If pharmaceutical companies knowingly killed over 50,000 people and everyone knows they ignored warnings and the obvious to protect their bottom line, why do we think we are ever going to get them to pay up for causing our children's Autism. I looked all this up on the Internet, and found there are still court cases pending from the 1980s. But the other big surprise was that only infected individuals from overseas are somehow able to sue for being given AIDS. In the U.S. only those infected in the 1980s with Hepatitis can sue the companies involved. My best guess is that the government got involved and blocked law suits to protect the pharmaceutical companies. It was argued that since there was no test at the time for AIDS or HIV they could not have tested for that. But there were tests for Hepatitis and they were not testing for that either, which could have singled out the same groups of donors. Plus why didn't the CDC or FDA step in and order the recall at the time. Once again, probably not wanting to cut the ties with their buddies in the pharmaceutical companies.

How many Americans know or seem to care that thousands of children died unnecessarily because of pharmaceutical greed. Our children seem to be just another huge group of damaged children in a pattern of reckless experimentation and big money and cronyism. It wasn't our kids in the 80s did we care or act at the time? Is there any way to get through to people that it is only a matter of time before
it will be their child or grandchildren.

While I was being devastated and depressed it occurred to me that even if we do win and prove our children were damaged, is it so huge that none of us will ever see any form of compensation. I see a 'big tobacco' settlement where the best case scenario will be the vaccine manufacturers paying each state millions of dollars to care for our children. I can hear the reasoning already that our children will be a burden to every state and they will be the ones that need the money to care for all these soon to be adult autistic children. Those of us that have sold our homes, spent our retirement incomes, mortgaged our entire lives to care for our children will never receive a dime of compensation. I feel lucky that my child will probably be independent and self-sufficient because of the sacrifices, but many are not so lucky. Plus, we all know there will be no guarantees how the states will spend that money, and many may compensate the schools for their abysmal no-help-at-all-programs that we have all experienced.

I can only hope and pray that this is not lost on the American public as was this horrible injustice to innocent children and families who were killed by the very substance that was meant to keep them alive. They had to trust the pharmaceutical companies or die, and trusting them spelled their death anyway. I hope that 30 years from now someone isn't watching some obscure documentary on PBS and hears the story of how millions of children around the world were given Autism through vaccines, by pharmaceutical giants more concerned with the bottom line than the safety and lives of children. And after hearing that sits shocked and amazed, asking themselves, '"how come I never heard that before". What will it take to wake people up? I hear the new 5 in 1 shot in the UK is causing Serious reactions in 60% of recipients, yet no call to stop it. I am withdrawing my membership from the so-called "civilized world".
Kendra Pettengill
Roseburg, Oregon
 



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December 5, 2006

Flu Vaccines - Open Season

By none

For all the frantic, unvaccinated citizens fearing the "upcoming" peak of flu season-rest assured, coming down with a flu infection is the least of your worries.

Despite the governments statements urging individuals to vaccinate their children, the threat of an infantile influenza fatality is just about as serious as the dreaded hangnail.

Nonetheless, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently declared November 27 to December 3 as National Influenza Vaccination Week. The order stems from the governments "concern" that infection rates will soon come to a season high and, as having the flu is such a dire condition within the general population, the well-being of society rests on mass inoculation.

In fact, government agents are so adamant about protecting the nation that new recommendations have been made concerning vaccine administration, which, by the way, only protects against three specific strains of the countless, ever-evolving strains of the virus.

According to a November CDC publication, children less than two years of age are at high risk for infections and therefore, advocate ALL children aged 6 months to 18 years, in addition to pregnant women, be inoculated at least once a year.

Furthermore, if children under 9 years of age are getting injections for the first time, they are advised to receive two shots a month apart. CDC members say vaccinations should be administered in October or November, but since infections can occur as late as April "getting the vaccine in December or later still offers protection in most [I repeat, most] years."

That being said, one has to question why the Health Industry Distributors Association's (HIDA) April publishing states that demands for flu vaccines are highest in September and October "despite the public campaign to stretch flu shot 'season' into January."

Weird...there must be a mistake somewhere; surely these decisions result from valid scientific studies, as well as endless hours of analyses and discussion regarding the best interests of the public.

Comforting maybe, but accurate-not so much.

Despite lack of publicity, programs have been in place for almost 20 years now that acknowledge vaccine injuries; the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) was launched in 1988 as a means of "reimbursing" patients' adversely affected by inoculations, as if any amount of money can make up for a lifetime of suffering or more so, the death of a child. In addition, two years subsequent, the CDC and FDA created the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) so affected individuals or their representatives can report negative reactions occurring post-vaccination, which currently contains hundreds of thousands of documented tragedies.

Currently circulating flu vaccines contain the mercury-based preservative thimerosal. As if further explanation is needed, mercury is a horrible neurotoxin with a toxicity level 1000x higher than that of lead. Previously banned from over-the-counter products, animal vaccines, and ironically, in some states every other vaccine given to children, thimerosal remains in full concentration in flu vaccines.

Knowing that mercury levels in drinking water cannot exceed 2 parts per billion (ppb) without being toxic, or more appropriately, since any liquid containing more than 200 ppb of mercury is considered hazardous waste-it's sickening that circulating vials of flu vaccine has 50,000 ppb of mercury, the only exceptions being Sanofi-Pasteur's preservative free vaccines.

With four out of five manufacturers producing thimerosal-containing flu vaccines, over 90% of the 115 million doses distributed in America will contain 25 micrograms (mg) of mercury. This means that once the remaining 10% of mercury-free doses are used up, pregnant women and children will only have access to vials containing toxins measuring 250x the EPA's safety limit.

For a person to safely receive the amount of mercury in one vaccine, he or she would have to weigh over 550 lbs, making the recommendation for pregnant women and children nothing less than an act of brutality.

As told in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons (Summer 2006), pregnant women who get inoculated with thimerosal-containing vaccines will be exposed to 3.5x the organic mercury limit set by EPA officials, but since mercury accumulates in fetal tissue, especially those of the central nervous system, concentrations found in the developing fetus can exceed maternal levels by a factor of 4.3.

The results of such an attack are devastating. "...Brain damage, mental retardation, incoordination, blindness, seizures, and inability to speak" are just a few of the fetal reactions found by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR).

In addition, the team clearly identified mercury, of any form, as posing a threat to the nervous system. Children exposed to mercury experience brain functioning difficulties such as "...irritability, shyness, tremors, changes in vision or hearing, and memory problems", which further explains why American children are riddled with neurodevelopmental disorders ranging from autism and ADHD, to Guillain-Barre syndrome and speech disorders.

Americans will soon see for themselves what the selfish, money-driven vaccine industry has done for society. Not even officials will be able to deny the ever excelling autism epidemic when it stares them square in the eye; human flesh and blood, just as themselves, rather than numbers on a page in their office.

When the country's social security trust depletes due to the cost of special education and assisted living facilities for these disabled children, and there are neither enough patients nor finances remaining to support the vicious "damage-treat" circle created by manufacturers and their loyal elected lapdogs-who will be blamed then? Where will the fingers point when greed isn't paralyzing their conscience? Time will soon provide the answer; unfortunately.

For those who still cannot seem to grasp the severity of thimerosal-containing vaccines, perhaps this will put things into perspective: if someone spilled a bottle of thimerosal indoors, the entire building would have to be evacuated immediately and remain so until a time when hazard crews thoroughly cleaned and secured the area.

It makes no sense to jeopardize a human life for a theoretical risk, especially not for a condition where, according to the November 30th publishing American's Concern for Skin Infection, Flu, Spreads Across the County, "Proper handwashing is the simplest and most effective way to prevent these infections."

As far as numbers go, the rate of influenza infections leaves something to be desired of the government's national quest for total inoculation. According to the CDC's Weekly Report: Influenza Summary Update (week ending November 18, 2006), World Health Organization (WHO) and National Respiratory and Enteric Virus Surveillance System (NREVSS) laboratories have tested 15,707 samples of suspected influenza viruses, with only 477 testing positive. Of the positive results, 308 were reported from Florida alone.

Now, call it audacity, but that sounds more reassuring than anything. Not only does it show incidence rates to be low throughout the country, it further establishes grounds for the useless vaccine debate. Highly counterproductive on their part, the preceding data shows just how easily misdiagnoses occurs and therefore, shows how ambiguous the reported 36,000 annual flu infections are.

Though that's not all officials have up their sleeves, on top of being uncalled for and dangerous-the vaccines haven't even been proven effective in providing immunity!

Dating back to 1935, a study conducted on thimerosal's antibacterial and antifungal efficiency concluded the dangerous preservative, so to speak, was "35.3 times more toxic for embryonic chick heart tissue than for Staphylococcus aureus", making it, as said by the FDA, "no better than water" in killing bacteria.

Confirming suspicions was the 1948, Journal of the American Medical Association's publishing where authors concluded thimerosal was ineffective as a "disinfectant, germicide, and antiseptic," in addition to stating thimerosal "may not completely kill cultures of...streptococci...in mice receiving an intraperitoneal injection of the culture-germicide mixture, after ten minutes' [sic] exposure of the organisms to the drugs... usually die [all but one of the 17 mice injected], and hemolytic streptococci can be isolated from the heart's blood after death of the mice."

Subsequently, an American Academy of Pediatrics (1985) study revealed thimerosal to be "...only weakly bactericidal...not an ideal preservative", which explains the FDA's 1980 proposal to ban thimerosal from topical ointments, skin creams, and other over-the-counter products, along with the 1999 decision to exclude the chemical from future vaccine production due to "safety and efficiency" concerns.

Though, perhaps 2004 brought the most irrefutable of evidence when the British-based Chiron factory was found to have serious contamination problems. The company's flu vaccine, Fluvirin, was pulled from distribution due to an unspecified number of lots containing an extremely dangerous microorganism, serratia, which is precisely the kind of threat thimerosal is supposed to eliminate.

Officials see the American public naively accepting whatever is put in front of them (i.e.- Hepatitis B vaccines for 12 hour old babies, recent HPV vaccinations, unnecessary flu shots), and with the demolished state of check-and-balance within government bodies, officials are free to do whatever they choose without the fear of consequence.

As long as each scratches the others back, "scientific evidence" favoring the use of flu vaccines, and anything else they can think of, will continue regardless of necessity or safety. Manufacturers' charge between $9.00 to $12.50 for every 10-pack of flu vaccines, so with over 100 million ready for distribution this year its not surprising that every government agency is practically celebrating vaccination.

Though perhaps the true motivation for mass vaccination lies in the Medicare reimbursement rate for flu vaccine administration, which, from 2002 to 2005, increased more that four times from an average of $3.98 to $18.57; or maybe in the five-year, $274 million contract awarded to GlaxoSmithKline in May 2006 to develop cell-based production models for future flu vaccines, but then again, it could be related to the "measly" $429 million reported in Chiron's 2004 fourth quarter Fluvirin revenue, as opposed to the preceding years $555 million.

Whatever the situation, rather than simply accepting what is being pushed on us, its time to use some common sense and question why history is showing us one side of the story, while the government portrays a very different other.

Influenza infections, for the majority of citizens, are not life threatening, and even if they were-the occurrence rates do not justify injecting what both science and history has proven to be POISON into the desperately fragile bodies of infants and children.

Sinead Dumigan
s_locky12@sbcglobal.net

(Sinead Dumigan is a freelance investigative journalist who has published a series of articles on vaccination policies in the US)



Voices: Vaccinations
Joplin Globe, MO

In Judith Wynhausen's commentary, Voices: Vaccinations, she says, "I would think that the medical community would be turning over every stone in an effort to find out why autism is so rampant these days. But most of the medical community refuses to consider the connection between childhood vaccination and autism."

Judith is absolutely right about both the prevalence of autism and the link with childhood vaccines.

One in every 166 children is autistic. In the 1950s, polio affected approximately one in every 3,000 Americans and that was an epidemic. Everywhere national attention was focused on this disease and how to stop it. Autism is a devastating condition and the rate is far worse, yet our Centers for Disease Control has failed to sound an alarm over the numbers and for years has chalked up all the autism to "better diagnosing and greater awareness" on the part of doctors. This mantra is faithfully repeated in the press.

Another point to consider regarding autism and polio is that while some victims of polio did die, most recovered went on to lead productive lives. The same won't be said about the victims of the autism epidemic. They will require care for life.

All this "better diagnosing" means that eighty percent of autistic Americans are under the age of eighteen. There isn't a single study that has found the one in 166 thirty year olds, fifty year olds, or seventy year olds with autism. They simply aren't there and that ought to be scaring everyone.

Within the next five to ten years, this generation of autistic children will begin to age out and become adults. The day is fast approaching when one in every 166 eighteen year olds won't be going to work, but will be on Social Security disability for life with autism. These disabled young adults will be living off the taxpayers at the same time the bulk of the baby boom generation is retiring
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Questions will have to be answered. Where will they live? Who will care for them? And the biggest question
of all: How will we pay for them?

Judith's second point about vaccines brings up an undeniable fact: As federal health officials added more and more mercury-containing vaccines to the childhood schedule starting in the late 1980s, they didn't add up the total mercury amount children were getting. Autism coincidentally exploded. Twenty years ago, the autism rate was one or two per 10,000. Today one in every 166 children is autistic, specifically one in every 104 boys.

Mercury is the second deadliest element on Earth and a known neurotoxin. Our health agencies can only point to easily flawed and manipulated population studies when they try to show that all the mercury isn't connected to the autism epidemic. In truth, they don't have a single toxicological study showing that any amount of mercury is safe to inject into babies.

We are on the verge of a health care crisis in the U.S. We seriously need to sound the alarm about all the autistic children everywhere and focus on how to help them.
Anne McElroy Dachel
 



Her Question: Hillary Clinton asks…
"What do you think we should do to improve health care in America?"

I answered:

We are the wealthiest nation in the world with the sickest population. From our families experience this is due to one-size- fits-all health policies from top-heavy bureaucracies and pharmaceutical companies with far too much political influence.

1 in 6 American children now have neurological deficits, 1 in every 150 are autistic, yet this is not considered a fatal national crisis, they can't even agree it is an epidemic. Parents are marginalized and the increasing mandates of vaccines continue to grow unchecked and without the science to back them up, especially when it comes to safety.

My daughter reacted to her vaccines at 15 months, collapsing in the doctors office and was rushed to the emergency room. From that point on she was never the same. She has since been diagnosed with severe Autism, and I was told to institutionalize her, she would never be  able to speak or function and would be a danger to herself and others.

Instead I turned to the Autism Research Institute and Dr. Rimland and began an intensive biomedical intervention program to return to my daughter her physical and mental health. 3 months later my sister's 15 month-old daughter reacted the same to her vaccines, except in her case she did not develop Autism, she died, the day she
received over 9 vaccines in one visit. Apparently our family has a problem, either immune system or reactions to the ingredients of vaccines.

My daughter is now in a typical third grade classroom with no special ed - no supports - 100% independent and making straight A's. Mainstream medicine tells us there is no treatment and no cure, but supplements, special diets, and removing the mercury from Thimerisol laced vaccines has "CURED" my daughter. Why wouldn't our federal
agencies be beating down my door and the doors of others with similar stories to find out how we did it? That is a very interesting question and one which I cannot fathom the answer.

If you want to FIX healthcare in America, remove the corporate greed and influence, use only independent science and research, demand accountability, treat every patient as an individual with unique chemistries and needs, and question everything. There can be no sacred cows when it comes to the health of our children, especially
vaccines. If the truth is painful, then so be it, ignoring this is even more painful. How so?

In the next 10 to 15 years, 1 in every 150 young adults is going to be applying for Social Security Disability at the height of the baby boomer retirement. The nation is ill prepared for this. The cost will be devastating, not to mention the lost wages, productivity, quality of life, family devastation, and aging parents who have spent their life-savings, retirement accounts, and home equity to try to save their own children. We will be caring for them all because we have ignored them for too long.

Healthcare has to involve informed consent, personal choice, and respect for patients, parents, and families. I think this is gone in America and I have lost all faith in the medical profession in general, but even more so in the federal agencies that are supposedly there to protect our well-being. Instead I believe they  are no better than, and in fact lying in bed with, the agencies they are tasked to oversee. They have proven over and over they cannot be trusted for oversight when they are simultaneously lining their own pockets.

They attack parents' attempts at curing their Autistic children, ingnoring the promising results, citing we are "experimenting on our children", while out of the other side of their mouths they are dictating off-label prescriptions for these same children for anti-psychotic drugs with life-altering side affects that have never ever been tested on children, let alone autistic ones. Drugging the symptoms of Autism is not "treatment", fixing the underlying biological processes is. So which side is doing the experimentation and which side has the child's best interests and long term outlook at heart. That answer is easy isn't it?

If Autism does not take center stage on the national agenda we are ripe for a crisis beyond comprehension. 1 in 5000 children with Polio is seen as one of the greatest catastrophes in our nations history, but 1 in 150 (1 in 98 in my state) is not even worthy of an accurate count. Autism is fast becoming the most shameful legacy of
our nation. Something has to change. This will become an even bigger issue in the next decade. If you are elected President how you handle this will become a huge part of
your legacy for good or bad. The problem and us parents are not going away, the real science and facts are quickly being revealed.

Many of us life-long and dedicated Democrats are terrified of the stance you may take on this, due to your attitudes and previous actions on Universal and Free Vaccinations. I've heard your comments on this issue in that past and it scares me. We fear you will turn a blind eye to the science that is unfolding and pointing to a
reckless increase in the vaccination schedule that now looks like it may have poisoned an entire generation of American Children, some only subtly and some much more dramatically. We fear your inability to separate the real science from the pseudo science being thrown out by those that have every reason to protect themselves and cover
their collective behinds. I have no reassurances at this time that you are the "one" to come to the best decisions about this devastating issue and our situations across this nation.

Our children have been ignored and written off as expendable. Perhaps they are considered in closed circles at the FDA and CDC as "collateral damage" or necessary sacrifices for the good of the herd. I want to know how you are going to handle this differently, how you are going to give these children their day in a court of law, or the services they need to succeed in life, and the support of research into promising treatments that actually help these kids have healthier bodies and brains not just drug them into a stupor of submission and obesity.

As a Mom who watched her child crash into the world of Autism following a violent reaction to her vaccines, and an Aunt who watched her niece die and my sister suffer the inconsolable grief only a mother can understand, it has understandably become my personal litmus test for any Presidential candidate. I would vote for a Republican by-God if they got this issue right. You were considered a 'friend' by my Grandmother, but even that doesn't matter.

I care about the war, I care about global warming, I care about terrorism, but we all care so that we can protect our children and our grandchildren and their children too. The unspeakable has already happened to us though, so what are we fighting to protect...the right to damage ourselves from within all in the name of Corporate Greed disguised as the "Greater Good". The gig is up and who the entire "Autism Affected Nation" will vote for will be based on who is going to do something about it. What's your plan?

Kendra Pettengill
Roseburg, Oregon