Tuesday, December 17, 2002
TOM MACK BLOWS THE JOINT APART
DECEMBER 17. The public does not realize that medical conferences are held almost every day of the year, somewhere in this world, and that at these conferences there are mainstream professionals who, now and then, spill a few important beans which are overlooked by the press.
Such a conference---on the smallpox situation--- was held in Atlanta on June 19 and 20 of 2002. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices heard a number of speakers, one of which was Dr. Tom Mack of USC, who said about himself: “My credentials include probably spending more time working up [analyses of] population-based outbreaks of smallpox than virtually anybody ever has.”
Mack had a few VERY interesting things to say.
“Most important determinant to the eventual number of [smallpox] cases is whether or not somebody gets put in the hospital. And everything should be done to prevent that.”
What? Well, Mack is simply making clear what everyone wants to deny: the best place to spread an infection is the hospital. And since that is so, why is there such a push to vaccinate hospital workers? The push should be to keep smallpox cases out of the place altogether. Doesn’t quite line up with the government picture of emergency measures for smallpox containment. “Unexposed [to the smallpox disease] community members have negligible risk. There is a substantial risk from a vaccine…It is the single most dangerous live vaccine.”
“That protection [from the vaccine] will not be maintained. It will gradually wane and we’ll have to do it [vaccination] again and again.” This from a mainstream doc who has some level of faith in the protective value of the vaccine. He is painting a very grim picture---people vaccinated again and again, thereby increasing many times over the health danger of the vaccine.
“The informed consent that you would have to prepare to vaccinate somebody in the public, if it’s honest, would have to say that dangers would exceed the benefits.” BOOM.
“If people are worried about endemic smallpox [long lingering or permanent presence of the disease in the population], it disappeared from this country not because of our mass herd immunity [derived from the vaccine]. It disappeared because of our economic development. And that’s why it disappeared from Europe and many other countries…[its disappearance is] not from universal vaccination.”
That’s a wow and a half. Mack is echoing several medical historians who have pointed out that better and less crowded housing, better nutrition, better sanitation are the real reasons for the disappearance of smallpox---and a host of other diseases. But Mack is not an historian. He’s a prominent USC doc who has worked inside smallpox in several areas of the world.
Mack favors, by and large, containment of smallpox by isolating people who have the disease.
But the US press has no stomach for protracted debates. I mean, why not do a show on NBC where Mack and some government “expert” sit down and square off and talk this out? Why not REALLY give both sides, instead of only pretending to?
Would the public be interested? You bet.
Would the government be interested? Would the vaccine manufacturers be interested? Ah, there is the rub.
No guts, no glory.
The TV networks have turned into complete mush, despite their “hard-hitting pieces.” They fold up and walk away with their tails between their legs. They rationalize their position by saying they don’t want to panic people, they want preserve and serve national security, homeland security.
When HBO made its recent movie, Live From Baghdad, about CNN coverage of the Gulf War, it failed to mention that CNN’s only real triumph was transmitting live feed of lights showering the night-time sky. The movie was about the valiant reporters who risked their lives to get that feed of white lights in a green sky to the world.
It’s called a soap opera. Whereas journalism is supposed to be about facts, and about where those facts lead. Dr. Tom Mack had some real facts when he spoke in Atlanta last June. Anybody out there have enough money to start a news channel? Want to rip the lid off the networks? It’s a hell of a lot better bet than the NASDAQ.
The interesting thing, however, is that the incidence of smallpox actually increased once vaccination programs were instituted. In Jenner's time, there were only a few hundred cases of smallpox in England. After more than fifteen years of mandatory vaccinations, in 1870 and 1871 alone more than 23,000 people died from the disease. Later, in Japan, nearly 29,000 people died in just seven years under a stringent compulsory vaccination and revaccination program.
This increase in smallpox deaths was associated with a noticeable lack of protection not the best combination of events. For example, in Germany, over 124,000 people died of smallpox during the same epidemic. All had been vaccinated. Additionally, (unaltered) hospital records consistently show that about 90 percent of all smallpox cases occurred after the individual was vaccinated.
This lack of efficacy and increase in disease incidence, while other communicable diseases were declining, led to the refusal of smallpox vaccination by some countries. This resulted in a drop of the incidence of the disease that is quite remarkable. In Australia, when two children died from their smallpox shots, the government terminated compulsory vaccinations. As a result, smallpox virtually disappeared in that country (three cases in fifteen years). When England began to reject vaccination, then the incidence of smallpox deaths decreased accordingly.
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REUTERS
Chimps may provide safer smallpox vaccine - study
Mon Jan 23, 2006 5:35 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chimpanzee blood may provide a safer vaccine against smallpox, U.S. researchers reported on Monday. A vaccine made by splicing chimp and human antibodies was both safer and more effective than the current vaccine, which uses a live virus and has a high rate of side effects, the researchers reported.
"This is an important finding in the race to develop effective measures against a potential bioterror attack involving the deadly smallpox virus," said Dr. Elias Zerhouni, director of the National Institutes of Health. "It is imperative that we have effective treatments available that everyone could use in the event of a bioterror attack," added Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, where the study was done.
"This study shows that there are potential alternatives to existing treatments and perhaps to existing vaccines that we can use to enhance our arsenal of medical countermeasures." Smallpox was eradicated as a naturally occurring infection in 1980, but experts fear that some samples of the virus were made into biological weapons which groups or governments could use in an attack. So the U.S. government has been vaccinating military personnel and some
police, health and emergency workers against smallpox, using Wyeth's old DryVax vaccine. This vaccine is based on decades-old technology and uses a live virus, called vaccinia, which is related to smallpox.
It can cause severe side effects and, rarely, death. The NIAID's Dr. Robert Purcell and colleagues made a synthetic antibody -- an immune system protein that recognizes and helps neutralize invaders such as viruses. They genetically engineered parts of an antibody from chimpanzees, which are immune to smallpox, and a human antibody. Tests in mice showed it worked to prevent infection with vaccinia. In the lab, it neutralized samples of the actual smallpox virus.
The vaccine might help prevent complications from the smallpox vaccine and might even work to protect people directly from smallpox, the researchers report in this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Two companies are working on a more advanced smallpox vaccine for the U.S. government -- Danish vaccine maker Bavarian Nordic and British vaccine maker Acambis.
The Scientist 16[2]:64, Jan. 21, 2002
OPINION A Smallpox Shot in the Dark
By Henry I. Miller
Sixty percent of Americans would opt for smallpox immunization if the vaccine were available, according to a recent poll, and U.S. health officials have just negotiated the purchase of enough vaccine for everyone in the United States. Those two facts may be a prescription for bad medicine.
Medically and epidemiologically, smallpox is the most feared and potentially devastating of all infectious agents. It spreads from person to person, primarily via droplets coughed up by infected persons, via direct contact, and from contaminated clothing and bed linens. Smallpox is fatal in approximately a third of previously unvaccinated persons who contract the disease.
For weeks, the media have raised the specter of terrorists using smallpox virus as a weapon. The German government has bought six million doses of vaccine, and pressure is mounting in the United States for widespread, or even universal, vaccination. (Routine smallpox vaccinations ceased in this country in 1972.) The U.S. government has ordered 300 million doses of the vaccine, and at a recent hearing, U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) said it is just "common sense" to make it available to everyone who wants it.
But is it really? The live vaccine consists of live vaccinia virus, which is closely related to smallpox virus. Impure and crude by the modern standards of recombinant DNA-derived, or gene-spliced, vaccines such as those that have been successfully deployed against hepatitis B since the 1980s, the smallpox vaccine is not very different from the one introduced by the English physician Edward Jenner in the 18th century. It can provoke various serious side effects, including rashes; spreading from the inoculation site to face, eyelid, mouth or genitalia; and generalized infection. Approximately one in every 300,000 vaccinations causes encephalitis, which can lead to permanent neurological damage; and between one and three in every million die. Thus, vaccinating the entire population would be expected to kill as many as a thousand Americans, and maim and disfigure many others. Moreover, that assumes that the newer, ostensibly incrementally improved versions of the vaccinia vaccine are no less safe: Federal regulators have been uncharacteristically lax about requiring evidence of safety and efficacy in a drug intended for healthy individuals.
If the re-emergence of smallpox were likely, vaccination would be appropriate. However, smallpox virus no longer occurs in nature but is limited to two known, legitimate repositories, one in the United States, the other in Russia (and perhaps to illegitimate ones in several other countries). It is, therefore, very difficult to obtain, and also to cultivate and disseminate.
Also, smallpox is not immediately contagious after infection. It can be transmitted from one person to another only after a one- to two-week incubation period and the appearance of the characteristic rash, by which time the victim is prostrate, bedridden, and probably hospitalized. Therefore, the much-publicized scenario in which suicide terrorists infect themselves and then spread the disease widely through the population is not a realistic one. And although universal smallpox vaccination was phased out throughout the world during the 1970s, individuals who were vaccinated prior to that time retain significant immunity from these immunizations, both against contracting the disease and against a fatal outcome in case of infection. Scientists know a great deal about the long-term retention of immunity from a landmark study of 1163 smallpox cases in Liverpool in 1902-1903. Among those infected, 7% of the people 50 or older who had received the vaccine as children experienced severe disease and death, while 26% of unvaccinated people in that age group contracted serious cases of smallpox and all died.
Even if an outbreak were to occur, public health authorities know how to respond. Control depends on early detection, quarantine of infected individuals, surveillance of contacts, and focused, aggressive vaccination of all possible contacts—an approach dubbed "quarantine-ring vaccination." Approximately 15 million doses of smallpox vaccine are available in the United States, and data suggest that these would still be effective if diluted fivefold, to yield 75 million.
Moreover, the federal government has taken steps to cope with the possibility of a terrorist attack involving smallpox by educating doctors to recognize the disease and by vaccinating small teams of experts who can rush to any part of the country to confirm the diagnosis and contain and treat an outbreak. The city of New York has begun to map out various locations where residents would go to be immunized should mass vaccinations be necessary.
In summary, given the difficulty of estimating the risks and benefits of vaccinating against a nonexistent disease using a vaccine that carries known, serious, sometimes-lethal side effects, one must agree with the conclusion of David Busch, head of infectious diseases at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. "It's inappropriate" to vaccinate the entire country for a disease whose threat is only theoretical, and immunization should only be given "as needed, not as desired."
If federal officials act otherwise, they will be more in the realm of public relations than public health. Even the expenditure of upwards of a billion dollars to stockpile 300 million doses of smallpox vaccine is arguably in the category of political cover. Far better, surely, to use those resources to ensure that susceptible Americans are immunized against common and life-threatening infectious diseases such as influenza, hepatitis, and pneumococcal pneumonia. (Flu alone kills 20,000 in an average year.)
Sherlock Holmes admonished in A Scandal in Bohemia that "it is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." It is worse to make the wrong decision after one has data.
Henry I. Miller (miller@hoover.stanford.edu), MD, is a fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author of To America's Health: A Proposal to Reform the Food and Drug Administration (Hoover Institution Press).
The Birth of the Vaccination Fraud
by Walter S. Hadwen M.D.
Dr Hadwen was a passionate opponent of Jennerian smallpox vaccination in
England around 1900.
It is clear that Jenner never possessed anything that would be recognized today as a medical qualification. At the age of 16 he was apprenticed to a country surgeon and apothecary, and at 21 he was sent for two years as a pupil to Dr. John Hunter, of London, who undoubtedly was the most eminent surgeon of his day, and, like Jenner himself, a keen naturalist.
At 23 Jenner returned to his native village and started to practice as surgeon and apothecary. Here he remained for 17 years, just a plain unqualified country surgeon and apothecary, unknown to the world at large, but keeping up a correspondence with Hunter on a variety of natural history subjects.
At the end of this period he made his first bid for fame.
In 1787 he sent a paper on "The Natural History of the Cuckoo" to the Royal Society, and, as a result, with Hunter's influence, he was elected F.R.S. The paper contained a number of commonplace facts and some others, which Jenner stated to be from his own observation. The latter turned out to be purely imaginary, Jenner having accepted the report of a youthful nephew on the incidents he described.
The coveted fellowship, therefore, appears to have been obtained by something very nearly approaching fraud.
Three years later he applied to St. Andrew's University for an M.D., and as St. Andrew's in those days was no more squeamish about granting degrees than some of the so-called American Universities are today, so long as the fees are forthcoming, Jenner became Dr. Jenner for the modest outlay of £15.
Later on in life, after several applications, he was also granted an MD by the University of Oxford, though this was not until after his discovery had been generally adopted. As for the discovery itself, it appears to have been founded upon what Dr. Hadwen calls a "superstition among the dairymaids of Gloucestershire that a person who had suffered from cowpox would never have smallpox."
Jenner appears to have bethought himself of testing the Dairymaid's superstition, and with this object he inoculated a boy named James Phipps with lymph from a vesicle on the hand of a dairymaid sufferingfrom cowpox in May, 1796.
In July of the same year he inoculated the same boy with smallpox by what Dr. Hadwen calls the "bogus Suttonian method," which "afforded no evidence as to protection."
Yet it was upon the strength of this solitary experiment that Jenner had launched his discovery upon the world, claiming that cowpox was a prophylactic against smallpox, while to give some sort of scientific color to the claim he labeled cowpox with the name "Variolae Vaccinae" (smallpox of the cow).
On the later developments and time exploitation of vaccination there is no need to dwell at any length. Jenner obtained both cash and credit. He received £30,000 in grants from Parliament for his wonderful discovery, and all classes, medical and lay, tumbled over themselves in their desire to do him honor, though even then there existed a few skeptics who asked for better proof of the claims made for time new prophylactic.
That those claims could not be fully substantiated was proved when he was called upon to attend the son of Earl Grosvenor, who was suffering from confluent smallpox, although vaccinated in infancy by Jenner himself.
He thereupon modified his claims for the protective powers of his cowpox vaccine, and he was content to assert that vaccination had modified the disease so that his patient's life was preserved. What strikes me as most remarkable about the whole story is the ease with which Jenner got his theory accepted.
It is true that medical research was a very different thing in the early days of the nineteenth century from what it is today ; but even then the picture of the whole of time Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons swallowing the theory of an unqualified country apothecary, based on one totally unreliable experiment, seems scarcely credible.
Jenner's personal bona fides is a different matter. It is unquestionable that he obtained his Fellowship of the Royal Society by humbugging that learned body with his yarn about a cuckoo; but that he deliberately set himself to humbug the whole of the public as well as the medical profession 'with his "Variolae Vaccinae," I hesitate to believe.
I should imagine that he was one of those unscientific researchers who, like the spiritualists, are on the look out for facts to fit their theories, instead of first making sure of their facts. His methods were those of the quack, but of the self-deluded quack. But how any real scientist can accept his theories today seems astounding, except under the supposition that they have been supported by later and more conclusive experiments.
From "Truth," January 10, 1923
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Reproduced by permission from Magda Taylor - June 2001 issue The
Informed Parent
Extract taken from an anti-vaccination booklet published in 1924 entitled: `Small-Pox - A Healing Crisis & The Truth About Vaccination.' By H Valentine Knaggs.
YOU CAN'T FIGHT DISEASE WITH DISEASE
There can be no question that fighting disease with disease is a ghastly failure in the experience of all nations that have tried it. The world has dallied too long with such methods. Vaccination has been inflicted upon humanity for over a century, yet Small-pox, which it was to banish, is the only one of the great epidemic diseases still present in civilised communities.
WHY DO SO MANY DOCTORS STILL ADVOCATE VACCINATION?
In the light of the colossal exposure of the failure of Vaccination in the Philippines and in Japan, and in face of the staggering amount of mortality, disease and suffering which follows in the wake of every big Vaccination campaign, the reader may reasonably ask why so many doctors and public health authorities are still enthusiastic about it?
Many laymen suspect that the loyalty of the medical profession to Vaccination is inspired less by scientific considerations than by pecuniary reasons, and it is difficult to say that the suspicion is unfounded. An inoculation can be accomplised in less time than almost any other service rendered by a doctor, and there is no doubt that a Small-pox scare is a gold mine for the vaccinators, and that people suffering from the after effects of Vaccination call for an increasing amount of medical attention. An occasional clamour for Vaccination worked up by the Press is as profitable to the doctors as an occasional bargain sale to the drapers. Those who know that there are about 1,200 medical officers in the United Kingdom with salaries ranging around 1000 pounds a year - mostly "soft jobs" available only to Vaccinationist doctors, discover another business reason for the medical profession's loyalty to the Jenner rite.
The fact that no doctor who disbelieves in Vaccination can be appointed to a hospital with bed patients, and that Vaccination is still a condition of employment in the Army, Navy, and in all State Departments, and also of admission to educational and other institutions, increases the suspicion that a belief in Vaccination is a profitable element in a doctor's equipment! When no one could hold a Government post without belonging to the Church of England all Government officials were devout members of the Church, but when the conditions disappeared orthodoxy and uniformity of belief disappeared with it. In the same way, if a medical officer's views on Vaccination were left to his own professional conscience the public might be surprised to find how vaccinating doctors became openly heretical. The thoughtful citizen may ask: "Why don't the newspapers tell the truth about this dirty business?" until someone in Fleet Street explains that the daily and evening papers derive much of their information gratis from official sources, and that any paper which criticises Vaccination might find its supply of news from the Ministry of Health immediately curtailed! With all these ugly facts staring him in the face, it is not surprising that the layman puts a very sordid construction upon official efforts to prop up the tottering case for Vaccination, to stifle crticisim-and to designate anti-vaccinator as "cranks".
"HE WHO KNOWS ONLY HIS OWN SIDE OF THE CASE KNOWS LITTLE OF THAT." -J Stuart Mill
My own view, however, is that the majority of medical men still cling to the obsolete idea that Vaccination is good chiefly because they have paid very little attention to the considered statements of those who think otherwise. That most vaccinators mean well, I have no doubt, but all through the ages well-meaning men have been responsible for some of the greatest tragedies in history. They have perpetrated all manner of evils and committed all kinds of follies under the impresssion that they were doing good, until they learned better or were put under restraint. If, as Disraeli says: "Assassination never changed the history of the world," it has certainly changed the history of the assassinated. The sooner people who object to having their bodily "history" changed by law and, in the name of medical science, combine to abolish Vaccination, the sooner we shall be rid of a grave public danger. It is not so many centuries ago since folk believed that the earth was flat. It is only twenty-five years ago that the petrol-propelled vehicle was a comic paper joke. Only twelve years ago people laughed at the notion of flying in a heavier-than-air machine. Two years ago few people believed it possible for us to receive by wireless speech and music from America. Yet these and many other things have come to pass because in every instance a few men dared to think for themselves and break away from cast-iron tradition in the same way as a minority of doctors are doing to-day. And when this minority becomes a majority Vaccination will vanish overnight. The injection into the human body of rotten fluid taken from a cow suffering from cow-pox to prevent Small-pox was an unholy and disgusting superstition when performed by those who knew no better. Its continuance to-day, with all the unassailable evidence against it, is a crime against humanity. So much for vaccination!
SMALL-POX A HEALING CRISIS
According to the orthodox definition, Small-pox is an acute, specific, infectious disease. It is characterised by well defined febrile (feverish) symptoms and the formation of a distinctive skin eruption which passes through three stages of vesicule, pustule and crust.
The main body of the Medical Profession, hand in glove with the Ministry of Health, exercise their great influence and authority impress upon the public the danger and horror of this disease. The disfigurement and pock-marking liable to occur as after effects of Small-pox are the principal bogeys with which, for reasons of their own, they try to frighten the people. For over a century Small-pox has had more free advertising than any other disease. But the same authorities say little about measles, scarletina or diphtheria, all of which are infinitely less desirable than Small-pox. The only explanation of the official enthusiasm for Small-pox, as compared with the more dangerous diseases, is that the great and profitable Vaccination industry has always flourished on
Small-pox.
Those medical men who have conducted independent research on Small-pox and who prefer to form their own conclusions are, of course, unaffected by the organised and officially inspired scares so adroitly arranged at convenient intervals. One of the very first doctors to realise the truth about Small-pox was the far sighted Dr Sydenham, who wrote:
"As it is palpable to all the world how fatal Small-pox proves to many of all ages, so it is clear to me from all the observations that I can possibly make, that if no mischief be done, either by physician or nurse, it is the most safe and slight of all diseases."(From: The Works of Sydenham)
The most advanced doctors of the Continent, America and Great Britain now agree with the pronouncement of Dr Sydenham, one of the pioneers of medical progress. One of the first things we must do is to make the public understand that the greatest danger with Small-pox is the risk of being scared into a Vaccination centre!
A Healing Crisis
The sane view of Small-pox is that it is a beneficent disease, or rather Nature's way of eliminating disease.
When one banishes from one's mind all the professional abuse that has been hurled at Small-pox for over a hundred years, and when one studies it calmly and without professional prejudice, it is perceived that Small-pox is nothing more nor less than a healing crisis. Small-pox removes impurities by bringing them to the surface and getting rid of them by pustular eruption, and this mighty effort of Nature to free the body from undesirable matter is familiar to all students of Nature cure as "A Healing Crisis."
Small-pox is not a disease contracted by the action of some mysterious microbe. If the body is almost clogged with poison and Small-pox is contracted, then the patient will have it thoroughly, because Nature will make a correspondingly big effort to eliminate the poison from the system. The temperature will be high and perspiration profuse to get rid of some of it in that way. A great area of the skin surface will be in a state of eruption to eradicate some of it by means of pustules, and unusual thirst will cause the patient to take more liquid- Nature's means of elimination via the kidneys. In fact, the more clearly we realise Nature's aims and needs, the more we appreciate the prefection of this great healing crisis.
Patients who take it lightly are those who are less encumbered with poison than those who take it severely.
The Beneficent Disease
Most people, through wrong living, lack of fresh air, exercise and right diet, carry within themselves more or less organic poison. This poison tends to accumulate unless it is kept in check by suitable baths, right breathing, fasting etc. When it has increased to such an extent as to interfere seriously with the normal functioning of the body, then nothing that medical knowledge and skill can do will be so thoroughly beneficial as an attack of Small- pox.
To those who have had neither the opportunity nor the time to study the subject, and to those who have always accepted without question the claptrap that has been written about Small-pox during the last forty years, this considered statement of fact may sound like the irresponsible raving of a lunatic.
The Electronic Test
Dr. Abram's instrument, which detects and identifies disease taints in a few drops of blood or of saliva is increasingly used by doctors in diagnosing cases. As the test tube is to the analytical chemist, so is this new electrical machine to the up-to-date doctor. It shows that the taints found in vaccine are identical with those in the virus extracted from Small-pox pustules. A recent report states that: "lymph, when submitted to the test, show the reactions of congenital syphilis (bovine type) and some of them show streptococcus (pus type) and tuberculosis (bovine type)." Dr Lindlahr further states that: "The pus-like mass exuding from the Small-pox pustule contains the virus not only of Small-pox but also of scrofula, psora, tuberculosis, syphilis, gonorrhoea, anthrax, lumpy jaw and poisons in the animal or human being from which the virus was secured."
The infallible analysis of this new scientific aid to diagnosis shows that all the taints contained in the lymph enter the body of the vaccinated person and remain there, a source of danger until they are all brought to the surface and forcibly ejected by the healing crisis. The patient who has had the benefit of Small-pox-Nature' greatest cleansing process-rapidly improves in health, enjoys renewed vitality and a freedom from all chronic disease taints. Inherited or contracted taints of syphilis, gonorrhoea and other septic diseases are all cleared away in the virus which is eliminated.
The Way to treat Small-pox
Once the official panic-propaganda is stopped and the public has learned to cast out fear the rest will be easy, provided the great Vaccination business is done away with. No one fears the advent of a boil or a carbuncle, and, after all, Small-pox is but a type of carbuncle multiplied and spread over a larger area instead of being concentrated at one spot. The purpose of boils, carbuncles and Small-pox is the same-ie to rid the system of impurity in the form of pus.
Of the orthodox treatment of Small-pox, the less said the better. Suffice it to add that the diet, the roughly extemporised hospitals and the treatment are all wrong, because of a general misunderstanding of the fundamentals of the healing crisis.The aim should be to assist Nature to perform her task, and to help the patient back to health and keep free from scars or blemish.
Dr. Lindlahr's Way
Dr. Lindlahr has obtained some entirely successful results from partial fastings, using only diluted fruit juices. No solid foods are given, thus relieving the system of the burden of digestion and liberating more energy for the great eliminative effort. An alternative method, which I have personally found very effective in septic cases, is to limit the dietary to potatoes, baked in their skins, casserole-cooked green vegetables, dry cold toast and butter, with water as the only drink. My object in this dietary is to give those foods which, while in the digestive system, absorb and neutralize toxic poisons. The result is that much of the septic virus to be eliminated finds its way into the digestive system and is neutralized, thus lessening the strain of the surface excretion and incidentally the severity of the skin eruption.
Preventing Disfigurement
In mild cases full Epsom salts baths should be used, as this salt, applied to the surface, abstracts toxic poisons. Two pounds of the salts should be used in each bath, the temperature of which should be maintained at 104 degrees all the while the patient is in it, which should be for 30 minutes. In severe cases where baths are undesirable, the whole skin should be amply lubricated. A weak carbolic oil or, - better still,olive oil medicated with peppermint or hydrastis cannadensis, is effective for this purpose. The use of these oils soothes the skin,allays irritation and prevents pitting and disfigurement.
'Ware Lymph and Lancet
"Conscience makes cowards of us all," but the trouble with the Small-pox scare-mongers is that they make cowards of other people! The truth will prevail and in a little while Small-pox will be regarded as Nature's supreme disease eradicator. Meanwhile, be not afraid, for there is nothing to fear save panic and its allies -the lymph and the lancet.
THURSDAY, MARCH 28. The US government has been racing to produce enough smallpox vaccine for every man, woman, and child in the country, just in case smallpox is the next bio-terror attack. Sure. Yeah. Of course. All of a sudden, out of nowhere, Aventis, a French pharmaceutical house, at its Swiftwater, PA, facility, has discovered some vaccine. Not just some--but 75 to 90 MILLION doses. When was the last time you managed to forget you had 75 to 90 million of anything lying around? The Aventis vaccine is in liquid form. It's been frozen for a long time. The company is now in negotiation with the US Dept. of Health and Human Services to finalize a $$ deal. Part of this deal, as the Washington Post reports, involves determining "the extent to which the company may be relieved of liability should problems with the vaccine arise." This makes everyone feel safe and secure, knowing that Aventis is wheedling and snaking around right from the beginning. No one has received a single shot, and already the company is saying, "Hey, we didn't do anything. It's not our fault." The Post goes on to mention that serious problems are on the near horizon, because anyone with pre-existing immune system difficulties can be injured or killed by the vaccine. How many people is that? A million? Five million? Ten million? More? Otherwise, the vaccine is perfect. It's clear that Aventis and the US government have just discovered the means for launching a bio-attack. The vaccine itself.
From Morris Beale's book, The Drug Story
Bringing the subject down almost to date, the rawest publicity stunt pulled by public relations firms for the biologicals manufacturing business was in New York City in Feb. and March of 1947. On Feb. 25, Eugene LeBar, a Mexico City importer took a bus to New York City. On March 10th he died in one of the city hospitals. The diagnosis was "hemorrhagic bronchitis". Somewhere between that date and April 10th, the Rockefeller public relations firm, recently assigned to the American Medical Association because the upward spiral of drug trust profits wasn't spiraling upward fast enough, had a brilliant idea. Senor LeBar, they reasoned, during his long trip had been in the same atmosphere with thousands of people from El Paso to New York. Why not drum up a SMALLPOX SCARE all over the United States and make ten million more dollars filling the nation's blood stream with cow pus and horse filth. With New York's publicity-loving Mayer, Wm. O'Dwyer, as the spearhead, this is exactly what they did. The bronchitis diagnosis was changed to one of smallpox 30 days after Senor LeBar's demise. Mayor O'Dwyer ordered everyone in New York vaccinated, although HE HAD NO MORE POWER TO DO THIS than Mahatma Gandhi had. The associated Press put the story on its wires in a big way, its "science" editor going all out to exploit this latest in "science". Of course, that didn't make AP Director Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the Rockefeller foundation mad with his editors. All the dopes and dupes in New York formed long lines in front of every police station and every doctor's office and had five years lopped off the other end of their lives. Newspapers and health departments all over the country, following the O'Dwyer publicity spread the serum HOAX and exhorted their own dupes to "get vaccinated". Thousands upon thousands of them did. One public relations firm for the drug trust planted a fake story that Pres. Truman had himself vaccinated before coming to New York to address a newspaper convention. Although this was denied by the White House, the denial, as usual, never caught up with the lie. The police station vaccinations cost the taxpayers of New York City $850,000 (remember this is 1947) and those who went to private doctors, even more. The Drug Trust undoubtedly added ten to fifteen million dollars to its 1947 profits. Source: The Drug Story, pp.138-139, by Morris Bealle - 1949
From: The Hygienic System, Dr. Herbert M. Shelton, Orthopathy, Vol. VII,
1941
.....just as before the time of (Dr.) Sydenham, all cases of measles, chickenpox and scarlet fever were diagnosed as smallpox. Today if a case of chickenpox has no vaccination scar, it is smallpox; if a case of smallpox has a vaccination scar, it is chickenpox. Few cases now reported as smallpox are ever sick enough to go to bed. The mortality from VACCINATION is much higher than that from smallpox. Smallpox, along with measles, scarlet fever, etc., is commonly referred to in medical works as a "disease of unknown origin." It is assumed to be due to germs, but the supposed causative germs have never been found. Epidemics occur chiefly in winter when germs are less active. Protein excess, foul air and inactivity seem to be its chief causes. Sydenham, who saw more of the old virulent variola vera than all the now living physicians in this country together have seen, says: "As it is palpable to all the world how fatal smallpox proves to many of all ages, so it is clear to me from all the observations that I can possibly make, THAT IF NO MISCHIEF IS DONE, EITHER BY PHYSICIAN OR NURSE, IT IS THE MOST SAFE AND SLIGHT OF ALL DISEASES." Under hygienic care recovery is rapid with little or no pitting. The "disease" is as CONTAGIOUS AS INGROWING TOENAILS, and every case must be quarantined. Fear of the disease MUST be kept up in the public, for it is only thus that the present farce can go on.
Note: For more Shelton info: www.getwellstaywellamerica.com
More from The Drug Story - 1949, Morris Bealle --Smallpox stats
We have some later statistics on the Phillippine Smallpox Front. In the years 1918, 1919 and 1920, after 20 years of compulsory vaccination, the greatest smallpox epidemic in Phillippine history occurred, with 162,503 cases and 71,455 deaths. In the province of Rizal, which surrounds Manila where the representatives of the vaccine companies had headquarters, they had a death rate of 67.24 per 100. This was three and a half times the death rate shown in any part of the archipelago before vaccination came to the Phillippines. Broken down for 1918 the report shows that 3,285,376 Filipinos were vaccinated, 47,369 came down with smallpox, 16,477 died. In191 9they more than doubled each operation, which would seem to prove this point. The number of vaccinations totaled 7,670,252, the number of cases of smallpox 65,180 and the number of deaths, 44,408. To quote Dr. Harry R. Bybee, of Norfolk, Va., pres. of the National Chiropractic Asoc., he said: "My honest opinion is that vaccination is the cause of more disease and suffering than anything I could name. I believe that such diseases as cancer, syphilis, cold sores and many other disease conditions are the direct results of vaccination Yet, in the state of Virginia and many other states, parents are compelled to submit their children to this procedure while the medical profession not only receives its pay for this unwanted service, but makes splendid and profitable patients for the future. Dr. Herbert Snow, the senior surgeon of the Cancer Hospital in London said: "Of recent years many men and women in the prime of life have dropped dead suddenly, often after attending a wedding feast or banquet. I am convinced that some 80% of these deaths are caused by the inoculations or vaccinations they have undergone. These are well known to cause grave and permanent disease to the heart. The coroner always hushes it up with "Natural Causes". Dr. W. B. Clarke of Indianapolis: "Cancer was practically unknown until cowpox vaccination began to be introduced. I have had to do with at least 200 cases of cancer, and I NEVER SAW A CASE OF CANCER IN AN UNVACCINATED PERSON" Dr. J.M. Peebles of San Diego , at the turn of the century, said in his book, "The vaccination practice, pushed to the front on all occasions by the medical profession and through political connivance made compulsory by the state, has not only become the chief menace and greatest danger to the health of the rising generation, but likewise the crowning outrage upon the personal liberty of the American citizen. The fee-hunting doctors are incessantly hounding the legislatures for more stringent compulsory enactments by which they will be enable to inflict and repeat this degrading rite upon defenseless people for the enhancement of their revenues. Compulsory vaccination, poisoning the crimson currents of the human system with brute-extracted lymph under the strange infatuation that it would prevent smallpox, was one of the darkest blots that disfigured the last century. The majority of doctors are behind the times. They may have diplomas, but they are laggards. They are not students. Many of them prefer the golf course to the postgraduate course, the clubroom to the medical laboratory, the cigar to the clinic.
More from The Drug Story 1949 -
Dr. Peebles, "It is admitted that prevention is preferable to cure, and there is not an intelligent medical practitioner in the land who will unqualifiedly risk his reputation upon the statement that vaccination is a positive prevention of smallpox. Volumes of statistics, as well as the highest medical science in the U.S., Canada, England the Continent would be directly against. him. The most that any physician of good standing now contends is that vaccination modifies the disease. This is stoutly denied. On the contrary it aggravates the disease as there are two poisons now in the system instead of one for nature to contend against. It is sanitation, diet, pure air, calmness of mind, confidence and cleanliness that modify the smallpox. Al of these modifiers are infinitely cheaper, safer and in every way preferable to cowpox poison which, if it does not kill, often marks, maims and sows the seeds of future eczema, tumors, ulcers, carbuncles, cancer and leprosy. We have at our command testimonies, scores of testimonies, proving beyond any possible doubt that men unvaccinated have nursed smallpox patients in hospitals at different times, for years, and never took the disease. On the other hand we have, with dates and figures, the most positive proof that those who have been vaccinated, vaccinated two and three times, took the disease when exposed and died there from. These facts are undeniable." A.M. Ross, M.D., seems to have summed up briefly, succinctly and unanswerably (by the vaccine manufacturers and vendors) the cause of smallpox, which shows that adding fuel to flames will not put out the fire. Dr. Ross Said: "Wherever the streets are narrow, the lanes and courts filthy, where cesspits abound and filth is allowed to accumulate and ferment, where the weak, intemperate and unclean congregate together, and where the children are ill-fed and badly clothed, there smallpox makes its home and riots in filth and death.
June 8, 2002
St. Louis, MO
CDC Public Information Meeting on Smallpox
My name is Dr. Sherri Tenpenny. I am a physician from Cleveland, Ohio and I am board certified in two medical specialties, including Emergency Medicine. I am speaking today on behalf of the National Vaccine Information Center, a non-profit, educational organization founded in 1982 which represents more than 40,000 Americans, including parents and grandparents of vaccine injured children.
As a physician, I both personally and professionally support the position set forth by the NVIC. The NVIC opposes giving the vaccine to the general public. This is not "just another vaccine." There are defined risks and known contraindications that can lead to fatal consequences if they are not strictly adhered to. The general public will not have the background to understand these ramifications. In addition, as with all vaccines, this vaccination will not guarantee immunity.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) lists many other known biological warfare agents; twenty six of these microbes are listed on the CDC website. In addition, there are chemical warfare agents and an infinite number of weapons that could be created through genetic engineering and used in a terrorism attack.
Vaccinating the general public with the vaccinia vaccine will cover only a small fraction of the potential risk that could come from terrorism. However, the risk of medical complications from this vaccine is not potential but real, and that risk exceeds any perceived benefit that may come from the inoculation.
If first responders are offered the vaccine before an actual attack, it must be done in a limited, highly controlled manner with strict isolation of the individual and his body fluids by quarantine, until the scabs from the vaccine lesions have fallen off. The individual will need to be isolated from at-risk family members, as well as from the community at large
It is estimated that at least 10%, or more than 28 million people in the United States, have eczema. There are 184,000 organ recipients, 850,000 individuals with diagnosed and undiagnosed HIV infection or AIDS, and 8.5 million people with cancer. An even more extensive list of people at risk is the untold millions who are taking immunosuppressive drugs such as corticosteroids. Prednisone® and Medrol®, given to both adults and children, are prescribed for dozens of conditions including but not limited to: asthma; emphysema; allergies; Crohn's disease; multiple sclerosis; herniated spinal discs; acute muscular pain syndromes; and all types rheumatoid and autoimmune diseases. All of these patients would be at risk for serious complications from contact with a vaccinated individual.
Historically, this live virus vaccine has caused more injury and death among those who were vaccinated than any other vaccine that has ever used. The general population has no natural immunity to this virus and even with controlled vaccination of first responders, the virus has the potential to spread throughout the community and then across the globe. Tens of thousands of casualties from the vaccine itself will result, and our already over-burdened healthcare system will be crushed trying to care these victims.
I have personally treated many patients, both children and adults, who have suffered from catastrophic brain and immune system damage after vaccination. The potential suffering that could be caused by this highly reactive vaccine cannot be measured in either human or economic terms.
In the event of an attack, the PROPER MEDICAL USE of ring vaccination would be supported by the NVIC but only with voluntary compliance and FULLY INFORMED CONSENT. A strict definition of "close contacts" is necessary to ensure that surveillance measures are focused only on those at greatest risk. Complete informed consent is particularly important because: · the old vaccine was never subjected to controlled clinical trials; · the new vaccine will not have to be proven effective in humans; · standards for safety will be lowered to fast-track production; and · vaccine manufacturers, as well as healthcare providers-physicians-will be protected from liability for any vaccine-induced injuries or deaths, which are likely to occur.
The National Vaccine Information Center urges ACIP to stand behind its current policy of employing ring vaccination in the event of a bioterrorism attack. There is no reason why, in the absence of a confirmed smallpox outbreak, and with only a theoretical risk that smallpox will be the agent used in an attack, that Americas should be subjected to the very real and very significant risks associated with the vaccinia virus vaccine.
Thank you.
US does smallpox experiments
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2002/06/26/financial1000EDT0060.DTL
The Wall Street Journal MARILYN CHASE,
Wednesday, June 26, 2002 (06-26) 07:00 PDT (AP) --
US does smallpox experiments ATLANTA --
In an experiment unfolding under tight security, six rust and silver monkeys this past week grew listless, refused to eat, and broke out in blisters. Four have become sick, and two have died. The cause: smallpox. On June 18, microbiologist Peter Jahrling and a team of spacesuited scientists passed through steel doors with key cards, and entered an air-locked laboratory -- the "Hot Suite" -- at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Their mission: to infect animals with an extinct disease that is now the world's most feared bioterror pathogen. Historically, smallpox killed millions of people and left millions more scarred or blind. But by 1980, the World Health Organization had eradicated it. Now, just two sanctioned repositories of frozen virus exist, the one here and one in Russia. But the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, and the anthrax letters that followed, have raised fears of terrorists' procuring the virus and unleashing it. The point of the experiment here is to create an animal model of human smallpox. Never before achieved, it is critical to creating 21st-century drugs and vaccines in case of an epidemic. Animal models are systems for testing treatments without endangering human volunteers.
Currently, no drugs exist to treat smallpox. And the vaccine to immunize against it, while effective, causes side effects, including death in about three out of every million people vaccinated.
Doctors stopped giving smallpox shots in 1972, so most people under 30 aren't vaccinated. Even among the vaccinated, immunity has eroded with time, leaving most people vulnerable. Scientists hope the monkey model might help them develop both safer vaccines and an effective treatment. Now government health officials have made smallpox drugs a priority of biodefense research, setting off a rancorous debate. Alfred Sommer,dean of the public health school at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, calls the animal work "an abhorrent experiment by government idiots." He warns that it could spark a bioweapons arms race with countries such as Iraq and North Korea. The way to fight smallpox isn't by injecting monkeys, he says, but by destroying the stockpiles of virus. Dr. Sommer says 18 of the nation's 29 public-health school deans signed his petition calling for destruction of the stockpiles. This past spring, the WHO and the Bush Administration agreed to preserve the virus until new drugs were developed.
D. A. Henderson, the leader of the WHO's successful smallpox campaign, also thinks the Jahrling project is misguided. He doubts doctors will ever find a drug to treat the disease once its lesions appear, and thinks the government should be spending its time and money finding a drug to treat reactions to the vaccine. Dr. Henderson is currently senior scientific adviser on public-health preparedness to Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson.
"We're very proud of the research agenda that's under way," says James LeDuc, the CDC's director of viral diseases and its point man on smallpox, defending Dr. Jahrling's work. "There's been a lot of hysteria." But now, he adds, "It's yielding positive results. We're happy to share the good news."
After the Sept. 11 attacks occurred, Dr. Jahrling, a senior research scientist at the U. S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Md., was impatient to follow up work he began a summer ago with an initial experiment on monkeys. For months the 56-year-old researcher waited his turn at the CDC's only smallpox lab. Finally, he got the green light and hoped to infect monkeys on June 13. On June 3, an advance team thawed vials of virus from the CDC's freezer.
Mixed into flasks containing a culture of monkey kidney cells, the virus grew more slowly than expected, delaying the test five days. "An experiment of this complexity is like a space launch," Dr. Jahrling says. "Everything must be perfect."
At 10 a. m. on June 18, members of the team were dressed in green surgical scrubs and zipped into biohazard suits with attached hoods, booties and gloves. They taped on outer gloves and boots for extra security. Onto this protective skin, they hooked coiled orange hoses of filtered air. The air inflated their suits, making them look like the Michelin man. Then, the bulky figures entered Biosafety Level 4 Laboratory, one of two top-level containment facilities for deadly viruses here at the CDC. Its twin lab houses hemorrhagic fever viruses, such as Ebola.
Dr. Jahrling has courted controversy by giving monkeys as many as one million times the dose that is infectious to humans, and by exposing them in a different way. People contracted smallpox by inhaling the virus. But macaques, the monkeys used in this experiment, don't get smallpox in nature. Previous aerosol exposures produced only a mild nonlethal rash.
To try to infect monkeys with lethal smallpox last year, Dr. Jahrling double-dosed them with aerosol and intravenous virus, using a super-virulent strain -- India I -- the strain of choice of former Soviet germ warriors. If anything, it worked too well.
"By day four, they checked out," says Dr. Jahrling. Death came so swiftly that the blisters barely budded, leading critics to charge that the monkeys died, not from smallpox, but from blood poisoning. So this time, Dr. Jahrling employed a less-hot virus called the Harper strain. Forgoing "that hellacious fog," he used only an IV infusion. His aim: to slow the disease down to something resembling the 10- to 14-day course of human smallpox.
To maintain virulence, he still set the dosage at between 100 million and one billion infectious units of the virus, an amount almost certain to be lethal. He grants that that exceeds the 30 percent human death rate that would be expected from an actual outbreak of the disease. But, an experiment designed to mimic the expected real-world mortality rate would require 60 monkeys, far more than the 12 animals he can handle at a time. At 100 percent lethality, he reasons, future drug and vaccine tests can show statistically significant results using fewer animals.
The monkeys, weighing from six to 28 pounds, were anesthetized -- both for their comfort and workers' safety. "You don't want a monkey who can bite, scratch or get off the table and swing from the water pipes," he says, "when you're holding one billion infectious virus particles." The sedated animals didn't so much as twitch as five team members oversaw the infusion: Dr. Jahrling, Army drug researcher John Huggins, a veterinary pathologist, an animal technician and an animal caretaker. After securing the animals under protective tents, the five underwent an eight-minute chemical decontamination of their suits, then took soap and water showers.
Now the team is monitoring the disease's downward spiral. "We're not interested in killing monkeys capriciously," Dr. Jahrling says. "Sometimes I sit bolt upright in the middle of the night. Then I remember why I'm doing this. I do have a conscience."
Medical Cartel Gears Up for Mandatory Vaccinations
by SHERRI TENPENNY, D.O.
CDC, organized medicine and pharma cartels gearing up for mass and mandated smallpox vaccination campaign CDC documents, field experience indicate cure will be several times deadlier than the disease." We interrupt the current programming to bring you this important news update. there has been a reported case of smallpox in Washington, D.C.”
What will happen next? Pandemonium. The press has done its job over the last few months reinforcing the belief that an epidemic is about to occur, potentially causing millions of deaths. Americans thousands of miles from the nation's capital will demand the smallpox vaccine -- a vaccine with the highest risk of complications of any vaccine ever manufactured and with a dubious track record for success.
However, because you are informed, you will have a different response. You will not panic. You will turn off the TV. You won't listen to your hysterical neighbors. And more importantly, you won't rush to be vaccinated.
Here's why:
On June 20, 2002, I attended the Center for Disease Control's (CDC) meeting of the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP) and listened to one and a half days of testimony prior to posting the recommendations for smallpox vaccination that are currently being considered by the CDC and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
Many testimonies and comments were presented by public participants and by various physicians and researchers associated with the CDC. Noting that two weeks have passed since the June 20 meeting and the media has still not reported on this historic event, I decided it was imperative to report the content and outcome of this meeting to the general public. After reading this report you will gain a new perspective on smallpox and, hopefully, in the event of an outbreak, you will understand that you have nothing to fear.
Generally accepted facts
Nearly every article or news headline regarding smallpox is designed to instill and continually reinforce fear in the minds of the general public. Apparently the goal is to make everyone demand the vaccine as soon as it is available and/or in the event of an outbreak. A very similar media campaign was developed prior to the release of the Salk polio vaccine in 1955. The polio vaccine had been in development for more than a year prior to its release and was an untested “investigational new drug,” just as the smallpox vaccine will be. The difference is that the potential side effects and complications of the smallpox vaccine are already known, and they are extensive.
Generally accepted facts about smallpox include:
1. Smallpox is highly contagious and could spread rapidly, killing millions.
2. Smallpox can be spread by casual contact with an infected person .
3. The death rate from smallpox is thought to be 30 percent.
4. There is no treatment for smallpox.
5. The smallpox vaccine will protect a person from getting the disease.
As it turns out, these “accepted facts” are not the real facts.
Myth 1: Smallpox is highly contagious
“Smallpox has a slow transmission and is not highly contagious,” stated Joel uritsky, MD, director of the National Immunization Program and Early Smallpox Response and Planning at the CDC.
This statement is a direct contradiction to nearly everything we have ever heard or read about smallpox. However, keep in mind that this comes “straight from the horse's mouth” and should be considered the “real story” regarding how smallpox is spread.
Even if a person is exposed to a known bioterrorist attack with smallpox, it doesn't mean that he will contract smallpox. The signs and symptoms of the disease will not occur immediately, and there is time to plan. The infection has an incubation period of 3 to 17 days,1 and the first symptom will be the development of a high fever (101. F), accompanied by nausea, vomiting, headache, severe abdominal cramping and low back pain. The person will be ill and most likely bed-ridden; not out mixing with the general public.
Even with a fever, it is critically important to realize that at this point the person is still not contagious. In fact, the fever may be caused by something else, such as the flu.
However, if a smallpox infection is developing, the characteristic rash will begin to develop within two to four days after the onset of the fever. The person becomes contagious and has the ability to spread the infection only after the development of the rash. “The characteristic rash of variola major is difficult to misdiagnose,” stated Walter A. Orenstein, M.D., Director of the National Immunization Program (NIP) at the CDC.
The classic smallpox rash is a round, firm pustule that can spread and become confluent. The lesions are all in the same stage of development over the entire body and appear to be distributed more on the palms, soles and face than on the trunk or extremities.
ACTION ITEM: In the event of an exposure, it is imperative that you do everything you can to improve the functioning of your immune system so that an “exposure” does not have to result in an “outbreak.” a. Stop eating all foods that contain refined white sugar products, since sugar inhibits the functioning of your white blood cells, your first line of defense.2
(There are many other health-conscious dietary considerations to consider,but that is beyond the scope of this article.)
b. Start taking large doses of Vitamin C. Vitamin C has been proven in hundreds of studies to be effective in protecting the body from viral infections,3 including smallpox.4 For an extensive scientific review on the use of this nutrient and a “dosing recipe,” read “Vitamin C, The Master
Nutrient,” by Sandra Goodman, Ph.D.
http://www.positivehealth.com/permit/Articles/Nutrition/vitcpre.htm
c. If you develop a fever, you still have time to plan. Purchase enough fresh, organic produce and filtered water to last three weeks. Move the kids to grandma's or the neighbor's house. Remember: YOU MAY NOT GET THE INFECTION AND YOU ARE NOT CONTAGIOUS UNTIL YOU GET THE RASH!
Myth 2: Smallpox is easily spread by casual contact with an infected person
Smallpox will not rapidly disseminate throughout the community. Even after the development of the rash, the infection is slow to spread. “The infection is spread by droplet contamination and coughing or sneezing are not generally part of the infection. Smallpox will not spread like wildfire,”
said Orenstein. He stated that the spread of smallpox to casual contacts is the “exception to the rule.” Only 8 percent of cases in Africa were contracted by accidental contact.
Transmission of smallpox occurs only after intense contact, defined as “constant exposure of a person that is within 6-7 feet for a minimum of 6-7 days.”5
Dr. Orenstein reported that in Africa, 92 percent of all cases came from close associations and in India, all cases came from prolonged personal contact. Dr. Tom Mack from the University of Southern California stated that in Pakistan, 27 percent of cases demonstrated no transmission to close associates. Nearly 37 percent had a transmission of only one generation, meaning that the second person to contract smallpox did not pass it onto the third person. These statistics directly contradict models that predict an exponential spread to millions.
Even without medical care, isolation was the best way to stop the spread of smallpox in Third World, population dense areas. With a slow transmission rate and an informed public, Mack estimated that the total number of smallpox cases in America would be less than 10, a far cry from the millions postulated by the press.
Dr. Kuritsky said at the CDC Public Forum on Smallpox on June 8 in St.Louis, “Given the slow transmission rate and that people need to be in close contact for nearly a week to spread the infection, the scenario in which a terrorist could infect himself with smallpox and contaminate an entire city by walking through the streets touching people is purely fiction.”
Point to ponder: Mass vaccination against smallpox was halted in Third World countries because it didn't work. In India, villages with an 88 percent vaccination rate still had outbreaks of the disease. After the World Health Organization (WHO) began a surveillance and containment campaign, actively seeking cases of smallpox, isolating them in their homes, and vaccinating family members and close contacts, outbreaks were virtually eliminated within two years. The CDC and the WHO attribute the eradication of smallpox to the ring vaccination of close contacts. However, since the infection runs its course in 3-6 weeks, perhaps ISOLATION ALONE would have effectively accomplished the same thing.
Myth #3: The death rate from smallpox is 30 percent
Nearly every newspaper and journal article quotes this statistic. However, as pointed out in the presentation by Dr. Tom Mack, it appears that the “30 percent fatality rate” has come from skewed data. Dr. Mack has worked with smallpox extensively and saw more than 120 outbreaks in Pakistan throughout the early 1970s. Villages would apparently have “an importation” every 5-10 years, regardless of vaccination status, and the outbreak could always be predicated by living conditions and social arrangements. There were many small outbreaks and individual cases that never came to the attention of the local authorities.
Mack stated that even with poor medical care, the case fatality rate in adults was “much lower than is generally advertised” and thought to be 10-15 percent. He said that the statistics were “loaded with children that had a much higher fatality,” making the average death rate reported to be much higher. Amazingly, he revealed his opinion that even without mass vaccination, “smallpox would have died out anyway. It just would have taken longer.”
Even so, people died. Why? After all, smallpox is a skin disease and “other organs are seldom involved.”6 I posed this question to the committee on two separate occasions. Kathi Williams of the National Vaccine Information Center asked this question at the Institute of Medicine meeting June 15. On June 20, an answer was finally forthcoming when a member of the ACIP committee said, “That is a good question. Does anyone know the actual cause of death from smallpox?”
At that point Dr. D.A. Henderson from the John Hopkins University Department of Epidemiology volunteered a comment. Dr. Henderson directed the WHO's global smallpox eradication campaign (1966-1977) and helped initiate WHO's global program of immunization in 1974. He approached the microphone and stated, “Well, it appears that the cause of death of smallpox is a
'mystery.'” He stated that a medical resident had been asked to do a complete review of the literature and “not much information” was found. It is postulated that people died from a “generalized toxemia” and that those with the most severe forms of smallpox -- the hemorrhagic or confluent malignant types -- died of complications of skin sloughing, similar to a burn. However, he concluded by saying, “it's frustrating, because we don't really know.”
COMMENT: I find this to be extremely frightening. If we knew why people died when they contracted smallpox, perhaps current medical technology could treat the complications, making the death rate much lower. Considering that the last known case of smallpox in the U.S. was in Texas in 1949, continuing to report that smallpox has a 30 percent death rate is similar to saying that all heart attacks are fatal. Based on 1949 technology, that would be accurate reporting. But in 2002, all heart attacks are NOT fatal. Neither would smallpox have a mortality rate of 30 percent.
Myth #4: There is no treatment for smallpox
A more accurate statement is “there are no pharmaceutical drugs for the treatment of smallpox.” But they are working on that too. There are 274 antiviral drug compounds and testing is underway to see if one can be useful in the treatment of smallpox.7
One such drug is called hexadecylosypropyl-cidofovir (HDP-CDV). Not yet available for human use, it has been found to be 100 times more potent than its cousin, cidofovir, a drug used to treat retinal infections in HIV patients. If studies pan out, HDP-CDV will be offered in a pill or capsule form over 5-14 days for the prevention and treatment of people exposed to smallpox.8 Unfortunately, this drug is being developed in Europe and will likely be kept out of the U.S. market until long after the general public has been subjected to mass vaccination.
It is important to note that there are several different presentations of a smallpox infection. The most common is called “ordinary discrete” smallpox, occurring in more than 40 percent of the cases. The outbreak is seen as a small scattering of pustules distributed across the body. The person with this type of smallpox needs minimal medical care and the reported death rate is <10 percent.9
For mild cases of smallpox, adequate hydration and anti-fever products are essential for comfort and maintaining a temperature below 102.F. Keeping the skin clean to prevent secondary bacterial infections is also important. A 1927 Textbook of Medicine recommends applying gauze soaked in carbolic acid to “decrease itching and prevent extensive scarring.”10 Carbolic acid is used for burns that tend to ulcerate and other skin conditions that cause burning or prickling pain. Homeopathic forms of carbolic acid are also available.
For the severe complications of smallpox, modern day treatment options are available. The hemorrhagic type of smallpox, occurring in approximately 3 percent of cases, presents as hypotensive shock and can be treated accordingly. In another 3 percent of serious cases, the confluent-type has extensive skin involvement. These patients can be treated the same as a burn patient. All severe cases need to be treated for dehydration and watched for signs of bacterial suprainfection.
Research done by Dr. Peter Havens, MS, MD, from the Medical College of Wisconsin, postulated that death from smallpox was due to multisystem organ failure, a complication of an untreated acute cytokine (inflammatory) response. Massive oxidative stress occurs, leading to free-radical damage in the kidneys and other internal organs. However, Dr. Havens estimates that modern medical technology would indeed decrease the death rate, to possibly as low as 2-3 percent.
COMMENT: The treatment of choice for severe free-radical stress is high dose intravenous vitamin C. If conventional medicine would recognize the value of this treatment, it would also be forced to realize mass vaccination is simply not necessary.
Treating severely ill patients would require hospitalization and unfortunately, smallpox spreads the most quickly in the hospital setting due to poor isolation techniques. In addition, most patients in hospitals are ill and immunosuppressed by disease or medication, making them more susceptible to infection. Dr. Mike Lane, former director of the CDC's smallpox eradication program in the 1970s, said severely ill smallpox patients could be treated in a suburban motel or remote government building. “You can bring care to the patient if you elect to use the Motel 6 on the edge of town” rather than put smallpox victims in a hospital where the disease could spread to patients with weakened immune systems.
Side bar with Dr. Mike Lane:
Dr. Lane and I had a private conversation during a coffee break. During his presentation, he had been adamant that those within the “first ring” would need to be mandatorily vaccinated with 100 percent compliance. The “first ring” includes those who have had immediate, close contact with patients who had confirmed cases of smallpox.
Lane stated that this was the only way that “ring vaccination would work.” When I questioned his definition of 100 percent compliance, he said, “Medical contraindications would not apply... there would be NO exceptions. I would rather vaccinate them and take my chances treating the potential complications. In India, we vaccinated everyone. The only medical contraindication was leprosy, and we sometimes vaccinated them. I'm sure that we killed a few people, but we did the best that we could.”
I pressed the issue further by saying, “if the death rate really is 30 percent (which I doubt), doesn't that mean the survival rate is 70 percent? Shouldn't that person have the right to play the odds with his health if he chose to?” His answer was the same: “If the person is exposed, there will be NO exceptions, medical or otherwise. Those people in the first ring -- regardless of health status -- MUST be vaccinated.” That means that all people with medical contraindictions -- organ
transplants, cancer, HIV, eczema and other skin conditions -- would be vaccinated, even it was against their will and with the use of force, if necessary. He was quite the zealot about it; hopefully, in the event of a smallpox exposure, more reasonable minds will prevail.
Myth #5: The vaccine will keep me from getting the infection
Most people believe that all vaccines work to protect them, meaning that the vaccine will be clinically effective. What most people do not know is that vaccines have never been proven to protect them from getting the infection.
This little known fact is not only true for all vaccines, it is also true for the smallpox vaccine. Here are a few examples:
Chickenpox vaccine:
“No data exists regarding post-exposure efficacy of the current varicella vaccine.”
“Vaccinated persons have a less severe out break than unvaccinated” (300 vs.50 lesions).11
Pertussis vaccine:
“The findings of efficacy studies have not demonstrated a direct correlation between antibody response and protection against pertussis disease.”12
Smallpox vaccine:
“Neutralizing antibodies are reported to reflect levels of protection, although this has not been validated in the field.” 13
Dr. Harold Margolis, Senior Advisor to the Director for Smallpox Planning and Response, stated in Atlanta that, “the vaccine decreased the death rate among those vaccinated by 'modifying the disease', not by preventing infection.”
Take home points
1. Smallpox is NOT highly contagious. You have time. Don't panic.
2. Smallpox is only spread by close contact of less than 6 feet for at least 6-7 days. You aren't that close to coworkers or commuters.
3. Treatment for smallpox should be surveillance and containment, without vaccination.
4. Smallpox is not highly fatal. There are treatments for smallpox.
5. The vaccine will not protect you from getting the infection. The vaccine has high complication rates, is an experimental drug and there are many contraindications. (Please see article at
http://www.mercola.com/2002/jun/12/smallpox_update.htm)
Addendum:
As I was completing this report the morning of July 7, 2002, I read in the New York Times that the CDC plans to increase the number of “first responders” who receive the vaccination to 500,000 from the agreed-to 15,000.14 Preparations are also underway for rapid mass vaccination of the general public. The more extensive vaccination plan is possible because supplies are increasing. As I have stated before, the government spent more than $780 million to develop its arsenal. Now that we have it, we will use it.
In addition to medical first responders, a presentation at the June 20 meeting suggested that first responders should also include a class to be defined as “economic first responders,” those who would be necessary in keeping the economy moving in the event of a nationwide “lock down” caused by an outbreak. This group would include pilots, truck drivers, food handlers, etc. It is the “etc.” that is of concern. Where do you draw the line? Obviously, the line will be drawn after Tommy Thompson's vision of a “vaccine for every man, woman and child” has been fulfilled.
“We interrupt the current programming to bring you this important news update.there has been a reported case of smallpox in Washington, D.C.”
What will happen next? Pandemonium. The press has done its job over the last few months reinforcing the belief that an epidemic is about to occur, potentially causing millions of deaths. Americans thousands of miles from the nation's capital will demand the smallpox vaccine -- a vaccine with the highest risk of complications of any vaccine ever manufactured and with a dubious track record for success.
However, because you are informed, you will have a different response. You will not panic. You will turn off the TV. You won't listen to your hysterical neighbors. And more importantly, you won't rush to be vaccinated. Here's why:
One of the major problems is the lack of vaccinia immune globulin (VIG), the “antidote” that is needed for those who experience a severe reaction to the vaccine. The Times article reports that there are only 700 doses currently available. Dr. Tom Mack, among others at the CDC, warned that, “in the absence of VIG, extensive vaccination would be extremely dangerous.”
With the continued rhetoric about the U.S. plans to go to war with Iraq, we are essentially taunting Saddam into launching a biological weapons attack on our own people. We are not given an exact knowledge as to Saddam's capability but are given euphemisms such as “reasonably high” or “quite high.” But we don't know for sure. And if the government knows, it is not telling. And, if Saddam does have biological smallpox, what is the chance he has other weapons of biological destruction, those for which we do not have a vaccine?
We are developing “grounds” for a war with Iraq in spite of the rest of the world telling us to stay out of there. I encourage all to spend some time on this site: www.globalpolicy.org for some eye-opening information on policy that you won't see in the popular press.
We are setting the stage for a health disaster unlike anything we have seen before in America, and it will be our own doing. World health records (England, Germany, Italy, the Philippines, British India, etc.) document that devastating epidemics followed mass vaccination. The worst smallpox disaster occurred in the Philippines after a 10 year compulsory U.S. program administered 25 million vaccinations to its population of 10 million resulting in 170,000 cases and more than 75,000 deaths from 'smallpox', in a country having only scattered cases in rural villages prior to the onslaught of vaccines.15
I received an excellent bulletin from Larken Rose ( www.Theft-By-Deception.com) who is an activist regarding taxes. So much of what he said applies to the vaccine movement, that I got his permission to include part of his letter here. It is time to STAND AGAINST forced vaccination. Stop the hysteria! Information is power. However, after gaining power, you must ACT.
Here is something to inspire you:
More than 200 years ago, the people of this country chose to tell King George, not just that he was unreasonable, not just that they didn't like him, not just that they had complaints about him, but that they were going to RESIST BY FORCE his tyrannical ways. The Declaration was not a threat to take King George to court; it was not a petition, or a request for fairness, or even a demand. It was a STATEMENT -- a DECLARATION -- that the people of America REFUSED TO TOLERATE the oppression, and were going to openly resist it, and didn't give a damn what the King thought about it.
Though it may be politically incorrect to describe it this way, the Declaration of Independence was a bunch of people openly stating that they were going to IGNORE the law (not debate it or litigate it), and OVERTHROW their present government (King George was not a foreign invader; he was “the government”). Again, in the words of the Declaration, “when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is the people's right, it is their duty, to throw off such government.”
Where are the Americans who still have that attitude?
There are a few (very few), and most people consider them to be “fringe extremists.” Where do YOU draw the line? What injustice would government agents have to commit, before YOU would openly resist? Is there a line for you? Or would you complain and bicker all the way to absolute tyranny?
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they have resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress.” ~Frederick Douglas
It's a very different country today from what it was 226 years ago. We have become a country of sheep. We occasionally “baaa” at government injustice, but do not ACT. For the most part, our “rebelliousness” consists of pushing buttons in voting booths to hopefully elect the less scummy of two lying scumbags (after a debate about which one is scummier).
For most people that is the extent of their resistance to government-imposed injustice. Each of us cowers in a corner for fear that we will be the next one that government makes an “example” of. While self-preservation is no sin, at some point a country of “self-preservers” will “preserve” itself into total submission to tyrants.
We are one step away from that now.
Once upon a time, a group of individuals declared to the world that they would fight and risk death, rather than tolerate the oppressions of an abusive government.
Now, we are too comfortable for that. We are spoiled. We are cowards. For today's battle, we need only the smallest fraction of the courage our forefathers demonstrated.
We do not need to lie in the mud, squinting in the cold to see the rifle sites, waiting for the glimpse of British troops that we know are headed our way just over the next ridge. We do not need to run into the open field, in heavy enemy fire, to retrieve our buddy who just had his leg blown off by a cannonball.We do not need to leave our families and friends to fight, and possibly to die. No, today the price for our freedom (at least a huge chunk of it) is a pittance compared to what others have paid, but I have my doubts about whether we are willing to pay even that. What is that price? What do we need to do?
We need to just say NO by affirming the following:
I will not succumb to fear.
I will not become part of forced medical experimentation.
I will not allow my body to be injected with an experimental new drug based on a “hunch” or based on something that happened hundreds or thousands of miles from where I live.
I will not let this government take away my right to do what I believe is best for my body.
I will take personal responsibility for my health and for the health of my family.
Note: The CDC possesses epidemiological knowledge regarding smallpox. That knowledge, properly applied, would stop plans for a national mass smallpox vaccination campaign. Instead, the CDC supports a program that would inject this dangerous and ineffective experimental vaccine into every man, woman and child in America. Those who understand the politics of public health and the disease prevention industry cynically refer to the CDC as the Centers for Disease Creation and Propagation -- not the Control and Prevention. The CDCs position on smallpox vaccination leans more toward creation and propagation than control and prevention.
Dear Members and Friends -
Many of you have asked me for more evidence on the bedbug theory of smallpox.
So far, we have not found any other sources besides Cash Asher's book, Bacteria, Inc. The following was sent to me by Susan Pearce, director of the Wyoming Vaccination Information Network after reading the Summer 2002 VacLib Letter. Walene's short piece in the VacLib Letter is reprinted below. Please remember that mattresses back then were "straw-tick" mattresses and provided a breeding ground for "bedbugs".
From Susan:
This is an excerpt from a book I have been reading to Mom. About a week before I read your latest VacLib Newsletter, with its article about smallpox being caused by bedbugs, I read this to her:
“Somewhere around this time, we all sickened and Mother knew what was wrong. She had been nursing the neighbors, the Webbers; they were all down in bed and she was sure they had Smallpox. She had carried it home to us, but luckily she had had it as a child and could care for us. Doctors today deplore Folk Medicine, but she gave us Sweet Spirits of Nitre for the fever and baking soda sponges for the itching, and it did help.” “Dr. Blake came down from Buffalo to see us. He was the Health Officer and someone had reported we were all sick; we didn’t send for him. We were afraid of him, particularly Lee and me. He talked to Lee gently and coaxed him onto his lap. ‘Now show me your biggest smallpox sore,’ he said. Lee opened his pajamas and, exposed himself, he sobbed, ‘See Doc, it’s right on the end of my wetter.’ Mother was beet red, and started to apologize, but the good doctor waved her away and talked on with Lee, telling him not to scratch and it would be better tomorrow. More laughs.” “Before we could take down the quarantine sign, we had to fumigate according to directions. Dr. Blake left Formaldehyde, which was to be put in a boiler of boiling water and left to boil as long as the fire held. This was some process, but guess what it did to the bedbugs?! They either died or left, for we never saw another one.” [Emphasis mine]
This was about 1914. Lee was about four years old. The author, Helena (Betty) Thomas Rubottom, was about six. The family lived near Kaycee, WY, which is near the place my mom was born and raised, which is why I was reading it to her.
The excerpt is from Helena Rubottom’s book called Red Walls and Homesteads, Edited and published by Margaret Brock Hanson, Mayoworth Route, Kaycee, Wyoming, copyright 1987 Helena Thomas Rubottom. All Rights Reserved. Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 86-91878. ISBN 0-9605834-3-2. Designed and Manufactured by Frontier Printing, Inc., Cheyenne, WY.
Susan Pearce
spearce@tctwest.net
307-737-2325
Who was Dr. Charles Campbell? Why has modern organized medicine forgotten his work?
History has conveniently forgotten Bechamp who proved that dis-ease causes germs while deifying Pasteur, the father of the pharmaceutical age, for errantly convincing the world that germs cause disease. Similarly, we have been taught since kindergarten to revere Thomas Edison for giving us electricity and lightbulbs when the work of his contemporary and nemesis Nicola Tesla could have given free energy to the world. If Dr. Campbell and his work were common knowledge today, people would view the Bush administration’s plan to vaccinate every man, woman and child in America against smallpox as the most medically illogical public health policy since blood letting.
Around 1900, the cause and control of two life threatening diseases was discovered, each by two distinguished medical doctors. One is famous. His name is in encyclopedias and textbooks. About 60 years ago, a movie heralding his discovery was made and a hospital was named after him. The other doctor is practically unknown. I know of only one book written about his discovery and that, as far as I know, is out-of-print. In my opinion, his contribution was the more remarkable because he discovered the cause and cure of a disfiguring disease that has plagued mankind for thousands of years.
Doctor #1:
Walter Reed
Walter Reed is the doctor first mentioned and the hospital named after him is the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. In 1900, he headed a commission to investigate the cause of yellow fever, which, along with malaria, was the main obstacle to completing the work on the Panama Canal. He and a medical staff carried on a series of experiments involving several doctors as well as a number of soldiers who volunteered to be infected by the yellow fever virus. Two died as a result, but the experiments established that the Aedes aegypti mosquito transmits yellow fever. Walter Reed and his team said that the best control was to kill the mosquitoes.
However, isn’t it better to eliminate the conditions that create a disease, rather than merely controlling it? In 1904, army surgeon William Crawford Gorgas was sent to Panama where he instituted sanitary reforms, cut back the brush and drained the swamps which were the breeding grounds of the mosquito. In two years he succeeded in eliminating yellow fever from the canal region. Outbreaks of malaria, a disease that was transmitted by the anopheles mosquito, was also brought under control using Dr. Gorgas’ methods.
Doctor #2:
Charles A.R. Campbell
The second doctor, Charles A. R. Campbell, discovered the cause and cure of smallpox. Through a series of carefully controlled experiments (even using himself as a subject) Dr. Campbell, along with Dr. J. A. Watts, discovered that smallpox, like yellow fever and malaria, was transmitted by an insect, cimex lectularius (Latin for bedbug). They also discovered that the disease was neither contagious nor infectious and that vaccinations did not prevent it.
Even more importantly, Dr. Campbell discovered that the severity of the disease was directly proportional to the general ill health and malnutrition of the patient. He spoke of “scorbutic cachexia” and related it to scurvy, the “disease caused by lack of green food.” He said, “the removal of this perversion of nutrition will so mitigate the virulence of this malady as to positively prevent the pitting or pocking of smallpox.” (Bacteria, Inc., Cash Asher, Bruce Humphries, Inc., Boston, MA, 1949).
Even though Drs. Campbell and Watts and possibly others tried to publish their findings their work was ignored. However, it was Dr. Campbell who first called attention to the bedbug as the carrier of smallpox. I might mention that Dr. Campbell was recognized as an outstanding scientist of his generation, even being nominated for the Nobel Prize for his work on the value of bats as mosquito eradicators. Today he is all but forgotten. Few have heard of him and now smallpox is considered highly contagious and dangerous with no known cure.
Why is one doctor honored and the other ignored?
When cimex lectularius was exposed as the carrier of smallpox, the manufacturing of serums had grown into a profitable industry and smallpox vaccinations had become a lucrative part of medical practice. The vaccination of every child had become an established practice. Many states had laws making vaccinations compulsory for school entrance requirements. When the cause and control of yellow fever was discovered, the vaccine for it had not been developed (It was developed in 1937).
Perhaps even more economically threatening was Dr. Campbell’s assertion that a change in diet, not drugs or vaccines, could prevent the pocking or pitting of smallpox, even mitigating the severity of the disease.
For your consideration: Do economics ameliorate the conditions conducive to human suffering? Is history written by those in power to reinforce their position of power? Do you think this brief description of two different outcomes for two discoveries made about the same time is an isolated example? For further research: Could the nutritional principal discovered by Dr. Campbell be applied to other insect-borne diseases, thus mitigating their severity?
Walene James
deepethicsfound@msn.com
757-486-3129
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Ingri Cassel, President
Vaccination Liberation - Idaho Chapter
P.O. Box 1444
Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816
(208)255-2307/ 765-8421
vaclib@coldreams.com
www.vaclib.org
"The Right to Know, The Freedom to Abstain"
RISKY BUSINESS
Health Sciences Institute e-Alert
September 30, 2002
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Dear Reader,
Last week the Associated Press reported that the Bush administration is now prepared to "offer" every American the opportunity to receive a smallpox vaccination. This is a sharp departure from the recent plan to vaccinate only those classified as "first responders" - medical service personnel, police officers, and members of the armed forces who would need immunity to the disease in order to remain healthy in the event of an outbreak.
The AP article describes the vaccine as "effective but risky." The word "risky," however, hardly begins to describe the extremely troubling consequences of vaccinating 280 million Americans.
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A Tom Clancy plot
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In 1979 the World Health Organization announced that smallpox had been "eradicated from the earth." That sounds pretty final: smallpox is gone forever. But not quite. Samples of smallpox were saved at two laboratories: one at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia, and one at the Research Institute of Viral Preparations in Moscow. Ten years later communism collapsed, the government infrastructure of the U.S.S.R. unraveled, and no one can be sure if the samples in Moscow were contained and untampered with. The fear is that an enterprising scientist may have made some of the smallpox sample available to the highest bidder.
In this scenario, the highest bidder might easily have been the Bush administration's current public enemy number one: Saddam Hussein. So with a war with Iraq at the top of the agenda, the new Bush plan calls for the vaccination of hospital emergency room workers, followed quickly by a wide range of other "first responders," totaling as many as half a million people. Then, as soon as possible, the vaccine would be offered to the general public.
The key word there is "offered." So, if offered, should you accept?
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An offer you might want to refuse
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In an e-Alert I sent you last June ("A Shot in the Arm; a Shot in the Dark" 6/10/02), I told you about some of the dangers with the smallpox vaccine. To begin with, it's still classified as an investigational new drug (IND). As the name implies, it has not been fully tested for both safety and efficacy. So while no one can say exactly who will have adverse reactions, we do know that certain people will be vulnerable to a number of very serious side effects, including paralysis, brain damage, and death.
Anyone with an immune deficiency (such as people who are HIV-positive) and many patients fighting cancer or chronic diseases will be most vulnerable to side effects of the vaccine. Anyone who has eczema will be vulnerable. There is a chance that the vaccine may harm the fetuses of pregnant women. And some infant children may experience brain swelling resulting in permanent retardation or death. Obviously this smallpox vaccine is not an "offer" to be taken lightly.
Writing in the New York Times last month, Bill Frist, a Republican senator from Tennessee and the author of "When Every Moment Counts," a book on bioterrorism, stated, "Of every million people who receive the vaccine, two to four people will die from its complications. Five times that
number will become seriously ill from the vaccine." And although those risks are considerable, Senator Frist believes that the threat of a smallpox attack outweighs the risks of providing smallpox vaccinations. He supports the President's plan to make the vaccine available to everyone as soon as possible.
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No easy answers
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At this time last year there were less than 16 million doses of smallpox vaccine available, and another 40 million were on order. But researchers recently determined that the existing 15.4 million doses could be diluted to create 75 million. Then an unidentified drug company opened a forgotten freezer and found another 86 million doses that were promptly donated to the government. Add to that another 209 million doses that will be ready early next year, and - presto! - the sudden bull market of smallpox vaccines has created a fire-sale mentality that appears to be driving this policy change. The revised plan has a gung-ho enthusiasm: we've got it, let's use it!
Meanwhile, I can't shake one nagging question. We fear that terrorists have smallpox to use as a weapon. But even Bill Frist admits that we don't know this for sure. And if a bioterrorist attack should come, there's a chance that any number of diseases other than smallpox may be used as the weapon. So should we take an action that we know will kill hundreds of Americans and leave many others permanently debilitated, based only on speculation?
There is no easy answer to that question. As horrific a decision as it is, if we knew for a fact that a smallpox attack was imminent, I would say that we would have to sacrifice the lives of a few in order to save the lives of millions. It's almost on the level of "Sophie's Choice" - the heartbreaking reality that no matter what choice is made, the consequences are unbearable. The thing is - I'm not convinced that we've come to that point yet where the clear choice is to vaccinate one and all.
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Where to from here?
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There are many more issues to the smallpox vaccine dilemma that I haven't brought up here. In the coming weeks and months we're going to be hearing much more about this, and I'll be keeping a close watch on the situation so that I can fill you in on the background information that the mainstream media glosses over.
At this point it appears that the first smallpox vaccinations may begin before the end of the year. So with the threat of a bioterrorist attack more of a reality than ever, it's essential for each of us to take good care of ourselves to maintain a healthy immune system. In tomorrow's e-Alert I'll
tell you about a new study that examines the importance of a diet rich in flavonoids, the biologically active compounds with high antioxidant content that can give the immune system
a boost.
If you exercise regularly, get around 7 hours of sleep every night, and eat a balanced diet with plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, you'll be providing the first line of defense against anyone or anything that tries to compromise yourhealth.
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...and another thing
Two weeks ago I sent you a pair of e-Alerts (World Domination - Parts I & II" 9/16 & 9/17/02) about the European Union Directive on Dietary Supplements and the United Nations' Codex Alimentarius - two major threats to our freedom to make our own health choices. Then last week I told you about an e-mail that I received from an HSI member named Mykola asking me to provide a form letter to use in preparing an e-mail to send messages to your senators, representatives, and the White House. Which I thought was a great idea, until this e-mail, from a member named James, made me reconsider:
"In regard to making a form letter concerning the future of vitamins, I would like to offer some advice from one who has worked with those in power. Form letters are ignored. Let everyone say it their own way. They [congressional members]do notice constituent letters when plentiful, original, andones that tell the member that they vote."
That sounds like reasonable advice, so I've decided to combine Mykola's idea with James'. Instead of creating a form letter, I'll suggest some important points to highlight, then you can write your own e-mail in your own words. First, we'll start with the basics. A web site called Congress.org provides a complete listing of government e-mail addresses. And, as James suggested, remember to mention that you're a registered voter.
Here are the primary points:
* Something is happening in Europe that I fear could happen here in the U.S. if it is ignored.
* The European Union recently passed a directive that reclassifies vitamin and herbal supplements as medical drugs (available only by prescription), and outlaws many supplement ingredients that are currently widely available.
* Created to "protect" consumers, I believe this directive will do exactly the opposite.
* When dietary supplements are available over-the-counter, consumers are free to make their own choices.
* Many studies have proven that even potent dietary supplements are far safer than pharmaceuticals.
* The U.S. is one of the 165 member countries of the Codex Alimentarius Commission - an international food standards program created by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) of the United Nations.
* The Codex Alimentarius Commission has made it very clear
that it wants to limit over-the-counter sales of some
dietary supplements while reclassifying others as
pharmaceuticals, available only through a pharmacist.
* The U.S. has one vote on the Codex Commission. The European
Union represents 27 votes on the commission: the 15 votes
of its member countries and 12 votes of the 12 EU candidate
countries.
* Under World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, Codex decisions override national and local decisions.
* Member countries (including the U.S.) that refuse to "harmonize" with WTO directives may be subject to restrictive trade sanctions, designed to persuade agreements by using severe economic pressure.
But no matter, how you state it, I urge you to tell the Bush administration and your congressmen to be diligent in protecting U.S. laws that continue to allow all citizens the freedom to make their own health choices.
To Your Good Health,
Jenny Thompson
Health Sciences Institute
Check out the CDC website about smallpox vaccines in the immunocompromised
www.bt.cdc.gov/Agent/Smallpox/VaccineImages3.asp
Vaccine Safety Advocates Warn of Risks of
Proposed Mass Smallpox Vaccination Policy
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Responding to the Bush administration's clear signal on Oct. 5 that they will release the smallpox vaccine for mass use because of fear terrorists will successfully use the smallpox virus as a weapon against Americans, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is warning that widespread use of the highly reactive live virus vaccine in the absence of real disease has the potential to compromise public trust in the integrity of government led mass vaccination programs. NVIC endorses the June recommendation of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) which recommended confining pre-attack smallpox vaccination to 20,000 or fewer emergency health care "first responders" investigating and responding to a suspected case of smallpox.
"We believe the administration should re-examine its strategy for dealing with fears that the smallpox virus may be used by terrorists in a widespread and successful attack on the U.S. population. Reintroduction of the live vaccinia virus into the human population in the absence of the eradicated smallpox disease is a very serious decision that has ramifications for not just the U.S. but for populations around the world," said Barbara Loe Fisher, NVIC co-founder and president.
NVIC points to the following risk factors associated with the government's mass release of the live vaccinia virus into the human population before there is a confirmed smallpox virus release by terrorists:
* The live vaccinia virus vaccine for smallpox is estimated to cause very serious complications requiring the administration of vaccinia immune globulin (VIG) in 1 in 4,000 persons who get vaccinated according to the Working Group on Civilian Biodefense. If 280 million Americans were vaccinated pre-attack, there could be a minimum of 70,000 persons risking injury or death with the vaccine and requiring emergency VIG therapy;
* The live vaccinia virus vaccine for smallpox can be spread to a family member or friend who comes into close contact with a recently vaccinated person;
* Being exposed to the live vaccinia virus is especially dangerous for children and adults who have a history of immune system problems such as eczema, cancer, HIV and other health conditions. The number of children and adults in America suffering from immune system dysfunction is far larger than it was when the smallpox vaccine was being used on a mass basis 40 years ago. Perhaps as many as 50 million Americans would be at risk for injury or death if they are exposed to the live vaccinia virus either directly by getting vaccinated or by coming into contact with someone who has been recently vaccinated;
* Recently vaccinated Americans who travel to other countries can
transmit the live vaccinia virus in those countries;
* In addition to the more serious vaccinia virus vaccine
complications
such as encephalitis (brain inflammation), progressive vaccinia (also known as vaccinia gangrenosa) leading to death after the internal organs, tissue and bones disintegrate; eczema vaccinatum which resembles third degree burns; and generalized vaccinia which can result in smallpox-like lesions that cover the body, almost all who get vaccinated will suffer some kind of reaction including high fever, fatigue, irritability, and swollen lymph glands.
Approximately half of all smallpox vaccine complications are for "autoinoculation" where the recently vaccinated person touches or scratches the lesion at the vaccination site and spreads the live vaccinia virus to the eye, nose, mouth, and genitalia where more lesions form. The CDC reports that autoinoculation occurs in 1 in 1,890 first time vaccinations.
* There have been case reports of progressive or generalized vaccinia infection in persons with genital herpes and active acne. There are many more millions of Americans suffering from genital herpes today than three or four decades ago;
* Among those at highest risk for serious complications after exposure to the live vaccinia virus are children under the age of one year. The CDC reports that about 1 in 2,500 infant vaccinations result in generalized vaccinia infection and about 1 in 24,000 result in brain inflammation;
* Children today receive two to three times as many doses of multiple vaccines in early childhood as did children who received smallpox vaccine in past generations. The smallpox vaccine was never tested for safety or efficacy in controlled human clinical trials prior to mass use in the 19th and 20th centuries and there is no information on how the vaccine will interact with the many other vaccines routinely given to American children today or impact on their long
term health. Those genetically or otherwise biologically vulnerable to vaccine-induced neuroimmune dysfunction will be at special risk;
* Vaccinia virus has been reported to cause fetal infection after primary vaccination of the mother and usually results in stillbirth or death of the infant soon after delivery;
* Vaccinia virus infection can be mistaken for smallpox disease. In the past, doctors sometimes confused chicken pox with smallpox and there are other diseases which can mimic smallpox infection such as eczema vaccinatum or disseminated vaccinia virus infection (from the vaccine); contact dermatitis, drug reactions and human monkeypox infection;
* The 30-year old vaccinia virus vaccine stocks, which have been diluted to prepare enough smallpox vaccine for all Americans, were originally created using calf vesicle fluid containing "some microbial contaminants," according to the Working Group on Civilian Biodefense. The vaccine also contains the antibiotics polymyxcin B sulfate; streptomycin sulfate; chlortetracycline hydrochloride and neomycin sulfate; glycerin; and phenol (.25 percent), a compound
obtained by distillation of coal tar;
* If terrorists have the technology and means to culture, maintain, transport and deliver the smallpox virus to large numbers of Americans after evading American security and defense systems, there is no guarantee they would not use a weaponized, genetically engineered smallpox virus. In this case, the old smallpox vaccine that will be used in pre-attack mass vaccination campaigns may not work or may have limited effectiveness. In addition, there is no guarantee that once the US population has been subjected to the side effects of the smallpox vaccine, that terrorists will not use an entirely different weaponized microorganism such as anthrax, encephalitis virus or ebola.
"It is appropriate for the CDC to be calling for informed consent and a voluntary vaccination program, rather than forced vaccination, in the event the administration does release the smallpox vaccine for use by the general public before an actual bioterrorism attack occurs. But the fact remains that the child or adult who dies, is permanently disfigured or brain injured because he or she came into contact with a recently vaccinated person will not have had the opportunity to give their informed consent. This kind of pre- event mass vaccination policy has the potential side effect of causing fear and distrust of government-promoted vaccination programs in general. The terrorists will have caused the injuries and deaths of Americans and not
even had to open fire," said Fisher.
The National Vaccine Information Center is a non-profit, educational organization founded in 1982 by parents of vaccine injured children and is dedicated to preventing vaccine injuries and deaths through public education. NVIC worked with Congress to create the National Childhood
Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 and has been the leading national advocate of increased research into vaccination side effects and identification of genetic and other high risk factors for vaccine reactions.
A special, fully referenced report on smallpox and smallpox vaccine is available on NVIC's website at http://www.909shot.com along with information about The Third International Public Conference on Vaccination being sponsored by NVIC on Nov. 7-9, 2002 in Arlington, Virginia. The conference will feature presentations by physicians and bioethicists on smallpox as well as the threat to civil liberties posed by new state public health laws responding to fears of potential bioterrorism attacks on Americans.
This is so clever really. You get a few hundred thousand people to vaccinate - virtually assuring yourself that there will be cases of smallpox related to the vaccine - either in a vaccinee or in one of their contacts. You have already spent a year passing legislation stating that in cases of bioterrorism, martial law comes into play and the government can forcibly vaccinate and medicate citizens. Then, you have stated publicly that even ONE case of smallpox would be assumed to
be terrorism - end result - all those billions that you have spent on the vaccine won't go to waste - it will be used and mass smallpox cases and deaths will ensue. You will have an excuse to go out and fight whoever you claim is responsible and you will have the support of the population to do it because they are already hurting. Sound crazy? Probably - but just watch and wait....
20 Reasons Not To Take The Smallpox Vaccination
By Amy Worthington
1-8-2
1. George W. Bush has said of smallpox vaccination: "One of my concerns if we were to have universal vaccination, some might lose their life." ~The Times (in London), November 09, 2001.
2. For each million people vaccinated with the smallpox vaccine, as many as 250 could die, according to the American Medical Association. Multiply 250 times 285 (millions of Americans) and the possible deaths from universal smallpox vaccination could equal 71,250. ~ Journal of the
American Medical Association, June 9, 1999, Vol. 281, No. 22, p. 2132.
3. "The American Medical Association said on Tuesday it was not in favor of an immediate mass U.S.smallpox vaccination program, saying the potential threat of a bioterror attack did not warrant inoculating every American against the disease." ~Reuters, December 12, 2001.
4. "Right now the risk of getting the vaccine is higher than the benefit. You could get a secondary infection, a full-blown systemic infection." ~Marie Rau, Panhandle Health District nurse, quoted by The Spokesman-Review, November 20, 2001.
5. CDC director Jeffrey Koplan has admitted that universal smallpox vaccination could unleash a significant number of side-effects. He said that because many parts of ourpopulation do not have a"robust immune system," a fair number of people could have serious reactions. ~Koplan speaking on the PBS special "Bioterror Propaganda" aired by WETA, November 14, 2001.
6. If the entire nation were to receive a smallpox vaccine, several thousand people would likely develop encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain. ~Washington Post, Dec. 26, 2001.
7. Roger J. Pomerantz, chief of the infectious disease department at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, said that doctors have no idea what the smallpox vaccine might do to people at the extremes of life--less than 2 and older than 65. He said that an even greater concern would be its effect on people with weakened immune systems from HIV infection, chemotherapy or transplants. ~Washington Post, Dec. 26, 2001.
8. "Researchers have been reluctant to recommend a new vaccination program which would use the smallpox vaccine for the local population because the vaccine can cause disease and death in persons with inadequate immune systems." ~Science, Vol. 277, July 18, 1997, pp.312-13.
9. Routine smallpox vaccination in the United States ended in 1972. Officials are hesitant to resume the immunizations because the vaccine is the most reactive of all and has been linked to serious side effects, including death. ~ Reuters, November 29, 2001.
10. Eight printed pages of medical studies documenting the many serious side effects of smallpox vaccination can be obtained at "http://www.whale.to/vaccines/smallpox.html". See "smallpox vaccine adverse reactions 66-76." [Note: go to the home page above and put "smallpox vaccine adverse reaction" in the search engine.] Repercussions include serious brain and heart diseases, autism, abnormal chromosomal changes, diabetes, various cancers and leukemias, plus demyelination of nerve tissue years after
vaccination.
11. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that vaccination must not be forced on persons whose physical condition would make such vaccination "cruel and inhuman." In other words, the state has no right to command that an individual sacrifice his life in the name of public health. ~Jacobsen V. Massachusettes, 197 U.S. 11 (1905).
12. By the 1920s, several British medical researchers documented that smallpox was not only more common among the VACCINATED, but that the DEATH RATE from smallpox was actually higher among those who had been vaccinated. This indicates that the vaccine was ineffective and predisposed vaccinated persons to more lethal disease. ~Vaccination, Dr. Viera Scheibner, Australia, 1993, pp. 205-220.
13. Getting a vaccination does not guarantee immunity. ~CDC, January 28, 1994.
14. By 1987, scientific evidence indicated that the World Health Organization's 13-year global smallpox vaccination campaign may have awakened dormant HIV infection in many vaccinees. ~Times (in London) May 11, 1987.
15. Vaccines made from animal substrate contain animal viruses that are impossible to filter out. By 1961, scientists discovered that animal viruses in vaccines, including smallpox, could act as a carcinogen when given to mice in combination with cancer-causing chemicals, even in amounts too small to induce tumors alone. They concluded that vaccine viruses function as a catalyst for tumor production. ~Science, December 15, 1961.
16. Some of the new smallpox vaccine doses will be created with animal substrate. Because the vaccine will incorporate vaccinia, the cowpox virus, many wonder about possible mad-cow contamination. Fifty-five million doses of the new vaccine will be created using a cell line dating
back to 1966 and cultured from the lung tissues of an aborted humanfetus. ~World Net Daily, December 4, 2001.
17. The new smallpox vaccine will be genetically engineered. Many scientists believe that genetically engineered vaccines may be responsible for the global epidemic of auto-immune disease and neurological dysfunction. ~American College of Rheumatology, annual meeting, Nov. 8-12, 1998. Merck's genetically engineered hepatitis B vaccine, Recombivax HB, is a classic example. According to Dr. Bonnie Dunbar of Baylor College of Medicine, many thousands of reported adverse reactions to the hepatitis B vaccine include: chronic fatigue, neurological disorders, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and MS-like disease. ~Testimony of Dr. Dunbar to Texas Dept. of Health, March 12, 1999. Over 15,000 French citizens sued the French government to stop mandatory hepatitis B injections for school children because of resulting auto-immune diseases. ~Science, July 31, 1998. Dr. John Classen has published voluminous data showing that the hepatitis B and other vaccines are closely linked to the development of insulin dependent diabetes. ~Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice, October 22, 1997.
18. The British vaccine manufacturer Medeva has a horrendous record of contamination and blunders. In 2000, the FDA found that Medeva was making vaccines in conditions of filth, resulting in contaminated products. Medeva had been illegally using bovine medium to culture its polio vaccines, then lied about it. Medeva also used the blood of a Creutzfeldt-Jakob victim (mad cow) to manufacture 83,000 doses of polio vaccine used for (against?) Irish children. Nevertheless, the FDA allowed the USA to accept Medeva's flu vaccine (Fluvirin) for the year 2000. ~London Observer series: October 20-26, 2000.
19. In 2001, the British socialized health care system was reported to be in a state of collapse, with many hospitals and labs operating in abysmal filth. Five thousand people die each year from infections contracted in British hospitals; 10,000 become deathly ill from such infections. Sterilization procedures are barely adequate and said to be risking the spread of mad cow disease. Government ministers are reportedly trying to hush up the scandal. ~www.itn.co.uk/ Jan 06, 2001; The Sunday Times of London, November 12, 2001.
20. The U.S. government apparently intends to conduct NO double blind studies on the safety and efficacy of the new smallpox vaccine. It has ordered 286 million doses, one for every man, woman and child in America at a cost of $428 million. At least half of this vaccine will be delivered by Acambis PLC of great Britain.
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Comment From kh6 1-9-2
I wouldn't take the vaccine either but consider this: Point #2 extrapolates the number of deaths following vaccination at 71,250. For perspective, this number is less than the number of deaths in 1996 from heat disease (733,361), cancer (539,533) and stroke (159,942). The number of
deaths from smallpox vaccination would be less than the number of deaths from chronic respiratory diseases (106,027) and accidents (94,948), but more than the number of deaths from diabetes mellitus (61,767) and HIV (31,130) (CDC, for the year 1996).
Vaccination would kill a lot more people than firearms (1,400) (National Safety Council, for the year 1996), though
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20021016_618.html
Oct. 16
— By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than half a million doctors, nurses and other health care workers should be vaccinated against smallpox just in case of an attack, a committee of vaccination experts said on Tuesday.
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which advises the federal government on vaccination policy, broadened its recommendations for vaccinating those who may have to treat smallpox cases if there were a biological attack against the United States.
The plan, submitted for consideration by the Department of Health and Human Services and President Bush, calls for about 100 doctors, nurses and other essential staff at major hospitals to get smallpox vaccinations.
"There are roughly 5,000 hospitals (in the plan), so it adds up to about 510,000 people," said a spokesman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which sponsors the committee. "They include doctors and nurses in intensive care units, emergency room workers ... and subspecialists including infectious diseases doctors," he added. Bush and the HHS are trying to come up with a plan that will protect the country in case smallpox is used in an attack, without endangering too many people. The idea is to make sure key people are protected against the virus so they can help any victims without endangering themselves.
Smallpox was eradicated from the population in 1978 and vaccination stopped in the United States in 1972. But officials believe the virus, which kills about a third of patients and causes oozing pustules that leave scars, may be developed into weapon form by extremist groups and some governments.
It is not considered to be the most likely threat against the country, but the disease is frightening and infectious and so it must be defended against. The trouble is, the vaccine is based on 100-year-old technology and is crude and dangerous. It kills one to two people out of every million who receive it and causes severe, life-threatening disease such as encephalitis in 15 per million. And people who do not get the vaccine can catch a virus from those who have just been immunized. The vaccine uses a live virus related to smallpox, which is usually harmless to people, but not always.
On Tuesday experts reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association that between two to six unvaccinated people would contract the virus used in the vaccine for every 100,000 immunized. In infants, people with eczema and those with suppressed immune systems, such as cancer patients and those with the AIDS virus, this can have serious effects. Blisters and a red, raw rash can cover all or parts of their bodies and it can cause blindness if it gets into
the eyes. Nonetheless, the committee did not recommend that health care workers who get the vaccine be put on leave. It let stand the existing advice for protecting the vaccination site on the arm, which stays blistered for up to two weeks.
The CDC and HHS are preparing recommendations for Bush that include vaccinating up to 10 million health care workers, police, ambulance crews and other "first responders" in case of an attack. They are considering offering the vaccine to the general public in case of an attack. The immunization committee, meeting in Atlanta, is scheduled to make more decisions on smallpox and other vaccines on Thursday.
1) Dr. Russell T. Trall, the eminent Natural Hygienist, considered smallpox "as essentially . . . not a dangerous disease." He cared for large numbers of patients afflicted with smallpox and never lost a case. Under conventional medical treatment, patients were drugged, bled profusely, smothered in blankets, wallowed in dirty linen, were allowed no water or fresh air, were stuffed with brandy or wine and were medicated with antimony and mercury in large doses.
2) Physicians kept their patients bundled up warm in bed, with the room heated and doors and windows carefully closed, so that not a breath of fresh air could get in, and freely gave large doses of drugs to induce sweating. Many must have died of Heat Stroke!" - - Dr. Shelton, D.C.
3) "For years Dr. Matthew J. Rodermund, M.D. of Wisconsin, offered $10,000 to anyone who could prove scientifically that smallpox is contagious. Nobody ever claimed the money. Charles A.A. Campbell, M.D. of San Antonio, who was for years in charge of an isolation hospital made exhaustive experiments in order to demonstrate that smallpox is contagious, but found that this is not the case." Keki Sidhaw, ND
4) "Both Press and Radio continue to preach that smallpox is a terribly infectious and deadly scourge. They never tell us that" - - provided no mischief be done either by physician or nurse, it is the most safe and slight of all disease. (Dr. Thomas Sydenham) Lionel Dole
5) "As a matter of fact, perhaps it is safe to say that not more than 10 per cent of the people ever would take smallpox if sleeping in the same bed with an infected smallpox victim." Dr. Hay
6) "Smallpox is considered one of the most virulent of contagious diseases, and it is generally believed that persons exposed are almost invariably attacked, unless protected by vaccination. This is one of the most stupendous exaggerations to be found in medical literature. My experience has been that a very few people take it when exposed to it." John Tilden, M.D.
7) Dr. Bridges in his Report, observes that "of 796 visitors who paid 1118 visits, only 3 were afterwards admitted into the hospital with smallpox" . . . Dr. Bernard, of the Stockwell Hospital, writes "1056 visits were paid into the wards of the hospital. It is interesting to be able to say that, as far as I have hard, no one caught small-pox thereby."
8) An Obstinate Baby - - - At a public meeting held in the Town Hall, Derby, March 2, 1871, a working man caused much amusement by asking Dr. Greaves how it was that when four out of five of his children were down with smallpox, the fifth, unvaccinated, would not take the disease, although placed between two of the others in bed. - - - The Table of the Smallpox Nurses and Revaccination.
9) Since only 10% of the world was ever vaccinated against smallpox, it is ludicrous for the medical doctors to claim credit with vaccination, as scientist Glen Dettman points out.
10) Wallace and Tebb proved with government statistics that the first 100 years of smallpox vaccination was a complete failure. Epidemics of smallpox followed vaccination which was why they repealed the compulsory vaccination law. And even if they had eliminated smallpox, the deaths from other causes rose to compensate, in all likelihood caused by vaccination:
11) The prevailing medical opinion is that smallpox is highly infectious and serious, but looking at 19th century books on smallpox vaccination it doesn't look infectious at all, and it looks like Dr. Campbell was right when he said it was transmitted by the bite of a bedbug, as overcrowding was THE MAIN FACTOR (most affected city families live in one room) in outbreak and spread of smallpox, along with the main cause of smallpox - - poverty and poor hygiene.
Are Smallpox Vaccines SAFE? Are they EFFECTIVE?
Smallpox Vaccine is being promoted as a "must" for the entire population, since "there is no treatment for smallpox." However, many experts believe the smallpox vaccine has severe health risks.
"The smallpox vaccine is the most reactive (disease causing) vaccine that we have ever used," said Barbara Loe Fisher, spokeswoman for the National Vaccine Information Center. "I do know that brain complications occurred within one to six weeks of the original smallpox vaccination, most frequently after the first dose, and that the reaction rate was between 1 in 159 and 1 in every 6,500 vaccinated persons."
According to Fisher, vaccination-related brain complications were most common in children under 2 years of age, and 50 percent of those children who developed the complications died from them. She also said 35 percent of adults who developed brain complications from the smallpox vaccine also died. For more information on Vaccinations.
Is There An Effective Drug For Smallpox?
USA Today has recently announced "Drug May Be First Effective Treatment for Smallpox." Cidofovir, sold under the brand name Vistide, won Food and Drug Administration approval in June 1996 for the treatment of cytomegalovirus retinitis, a sight-threatening viral infection in AIDS patients. This drugs has been tested on pox disease, but ONLY in animals, never in humans with smallpox.
When Vistide has been used in humans, such as AIDS patients, the side effects have been numerous and often life-threatening. According to the Physicians' Desk Reference (PDR), the drug "Bible" for physicians, published by the pharmaceutical companies, the side effects of Vistide include the following:
Toxicity to the kidneys resulting in kidney failure leading to dialysis and death, abdominal pain, sarcoma (cancer), sepsis (generalized total body infection), death, congestive heart failure, hypertension, shock, fainting, rapid heart rate, migraine, colitis, dysphagia (difficulty swallowing) fecal incontinence, enlarged liver and spleen, jaundice, liver damage, pancreatitis, gastrointestinal bleeding, a blood cell panel indistinguishable from some types of leukemia, amnesia, convulsions, delirium, dementia, depression, hallucinations, hemiplegia (paralysis on one side of the body) asthma, hemoptysis (coughing up blood), pneumothorax (collapsed lung) and many more.
Cidofovir (Vistide) is VERY carcinogenic (causes cancer). Normal two-year studies in rats and mice could not be carried out. They had to be terminated at 19 weeks because so many female rats developed breast cancer (mammary adenocarcinomas), many of which were detected after only six doses.
What is the Answer?
The following was written in 1944.
Amazing!
They were smarter then, than we are now!
"Perhaps the greatest evil of immunization lies in its diversion of public attention from true methods of disease prevention. It encourages public authorities to permit all kinds of sanitary defects and social problems to remain unaddressed, particularly in schools. It ignores the part played by food and sunlight and many other factors in the maintenance of health. The more vaccinations are supported by public authorities, the more will their dangers and disadvantages be concealed or denied." M. Meadow Bayly, M.R.C.S., 1944
A person with a properly functioning immune system will NOT contract Smallpox. Remember, in EVERY epidemic, there are a lot of people who don't get the disease. Why do some people get sick and others don't? The problem is NOT with the germ (the bacteria or virus), but with the immune system.
Germs don't cause disease anymore than flies cause garbage. Flies don't cause garbage. Garbage attracts flies! This is explained on my videos "Drugs Never Cure Disease" and "Sorting Through the Maze of Alternative Medicine: what works, what doesn't and why!"
The immune system is kept healthy by following the Ten Step Natural Heath Plan as I discuss on my videos "You Can't Improve on God" and "Diseases Don't Just Happen."
Don't Accept the Deceptions of the Mass Media!
Subject: One Single Case of Smallpox to Trigger Mass Inoculation "The DEATH RATE from smallpox was actually higher among those who had been
vaccinated." - Dr. Viera Scheibner, Australia "A total world population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal." -Ted Turner, in an interview with Audubon magazine "If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels." -Prince Philip of Great Britain, leader of World Wildlife Fund "If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched." - George HW Bush, cited in the June, 1992 Sarah McClendon Newsletter. CAN YOU SAY 'EUGENICS'? I KNEW THAT YOU COULD... BUT YOU HAVE THE INALIENABLE RIGHT TO REFUSE TO KNUCKLE UNDER TO THIS UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND TRULY EVIL PLAN TO KILL OFF 80% OF THE POPULATION THROUGH TRICKERY AND DECEIT. If you want to kill off large numbers of people in a way that will not arouse suspicions, you can use vaccinations to do it. So, the New World Order population-control engineers are looking for any excuse to stick you and your family with this toxic immune-system-destroying vaccine that they admit will kill large numbers of people right off the bat, at least 70,000 by the most conservative estimates. That's 70,000 too many, more than died in Viet Nam! Or in any terrorist attack...so who are the real terrorists?? I ask you. Who? And I think this number will multiply exponentially over a matter of just a year or two through immune deficiency in fighting infections, pnemonia, etc. This is nothing more than another stage in a long-term UN plan to reduce the population of the US. Horrible, but its a fact that can only go unacknowledged at your peril. My advice is to tell them its against your religion and if they don't like it, to go to hell. Christian Scientists are automatically exempt I have heard, but the point is to refuse on any and all grounds. If you are serious about saving your children, you can print out this proclamation and sign it and hand it to
whoever tries to force this on you:
A Proclamation on Vaccinations
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: BE IT KNOWN, BASED UPON THE TEACHINGS OF THE BIBLE, IT IS OUR RELIGIOUS CONVICTION NOT TO HAVE OUR CHILDREN VACCINATED.
http://www.tetrahedron.org/articles/vaccine_awareness/Vaccination_Waiver.htm
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For those who would prefer to go the legal and constitutional route, there are other options, for example: Nobody, anywhere or any time and under any circumstances has the right or power in this country to immunize you or your children against your will and conviction. If they attempt to do so, you can legally charge them with "assault with a deadly weapon" and have the full resources of our laws behind you.
http://www.mercola.com/article/vaccines/legally_avoid_shots.htm YOU HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO DEFEND YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY, SO NEVER GIVE UP YOUR RIGHTS! WE MUST RESIST THIS IN GREAT MASSES, SO PLEASE INFORM YOUR EXTENDED FAMILY, COWORKERS AND FRIENDS. NOW, HERE IT IS IN BLACK AND WHITE: ONE SINGLE CASE OF SMALLPOX WILL BE TREATED AS A TERRORIST ATTACK. ONE SINGLE CASE! AND THAT WILL SET THE STATE'S EMERGENCY HEALTH POWERS NAZIS INTO ACTION TO HOLD YOU DOWN AND INNOCULATE YOU LIKE CATTLE IN A ROUNDUP WITHIN ONE WEEK. IF YOU LET THEM!
"Even a single patient could trigger vaccinations across the entire country", they said. Smallpox plans sent to states Federal officials sent states detailed guidelines yesterday for rapidly vaccinating their entire populations against smallpox should the deadly disease return through an act of terrorism.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020924-98631764.htm
HERE IT IS AGAIN:
"Officials said they would treat even a single case of smallpox as a terrorist incident and move quickly, with the helps of states, to nationwide vaccinations." Volunteers Key to Smallpox Vaccine Plan 1.3 Million Might Be Needed for Emergency Federal Program A federal emergency response plan for vaccinating the entire U.S. population against a smallpox attack envisions recruiting at least 1.3 million volunteers to staff health clinics 16 hours a day for a full week.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56372-2002Sep23.html
MORE ON THE SMALLPOX VACCINES Small Pox Vaccine: What You May Not Know -
Breaking News
http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cat=web&cs=iso-8859-1&l=any&q=SMALL+POX
20 Reasons Not To Take The Smallpox Vaccination
http://www.healthresearchbooks.com/articles/smallpox.htm Warning! The smallpox vaccine may be more harmful than beneficial the American public is being prepared to accept and want the smallpox vaccine. The Center for Disease Control has been telling us that it is "when" not "if" a smallpox outbreak will occur. There are many unanswered questions that the government health agencies refuse to address. This is written to assist you in knowing more about the vaccine and its dangers, the smallpox disease and some of the misinformation. If you are a thinking person, we challenge you to do more research and check out this information, your very life and your family's life may be in the balance. We are only asking you to consider the following information before deciding to take the smallpox vaccine. http://www.thepowerhour.com/smallpoxhandout.htm Is immunization really necessary? I am not a medical practitioner, so perhaps I am not qualified to give an opinion on this matter. But since one cannot expect doctors to come out openly against a practice that benefits them, it is left to us non-medicos to expose how the medical profession is taking billions of people by ride by insisting on compulsory immunizations. http://www.mouthshut.com/readreview/21756-1.html Death in the Air: Globalism, Terrorism & Toxic Warfare Silently killing us, our family and
friends, the global plagues are here, yet where are we? Distracted by pastimes, passions, pleasures and psycho-sensory overload. The "Technotronic Era" is here. With it comes a New World of "non-lethal" biological and chemical weapons, and warfare applications, that are being waged against defenseless civilians. Regardless of what you now think, you are being manipulated and lethally affected, and this intelligence may be crucial to you and your family's survival. Death in the Air: Globalism, Terrorism and Toxic Warfare http://www.gcnlive.com/len1.htm NEW SMALL POX VACCINE MAY USE ABORTED FETAL CELL LINE Monday November 5, 2001 Printer friendly version Email to a friend NEW SMALL POX VACCINE MAY USE ABORTED FETAL CELL LINE WASHINGTON, November 5, 2001 (LSN.ca ... http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2001/nov/01110503.html (10.6 kB) Dr. A.R. Campbell, M.D. -- Discoverer of the Cause of Smallpox. Dr. A.R. Campbell (another Great Scot) was a Texas doctor who discovered that smallpox was only spread by the bite of the bloodsucking insect called the BEDBUG or Cimex Lectularius. Cimex is the Latin for "bug" and Lectularius is Latin for "couch" or "bed." Dr. Campbell proved that smallpox is not contagious and is not an airborne disease.
The following excerpts are from the article, "Smallpox: Bringing a Dead
Disease Back to Life," by Tim O'Shea.
(http://thedoctorwithin.com/index_fr.html?content=/articles/index.html ,
excerpted from the forthcoming 6th edition of Tim’s book, The Sanctity of Human Blood)
"A compulsory "immunization" program was set up in England in 1853 using Jenner's methods. (McBean p.13) [8] Before that time, the highest number of
deaths in a 2 year period in England from smallpox was about 2000. Results of this "immunization":
"Year Deaths
1857-9 14,244
1863-5 20,059
"In response, in 1867 Parliament enacted a stricter vaccination law, and 97% of the people were inoculated. Result:
"Year Deaths
1868 44,840
"Great vaccine, huh?
"Alfred Russell Wallace offers abundant proof how vaccine statistics were manipulated in England during the 1800s -- the who and the why of it. After a
thorough presentation charting actual deaths throughout the UK and the Continent from smallpox and from the vaccine, Wallace concludes that smallpox
vaccine "...has actually increased susceptibility to the disease. ... the conclusion is in every case the same: that vaccination is a gigantic delusion; that it
has never saved a single life; but that it has been the cause of so much disease, so many deaths, such a vast amount of utterly needless and altogether undeserved suffering, that it will be classed by the coming generation among the greatest errors of an ignorant and prejudiced age, and its penal enforcement the foulest blot on the generally beneficent course of legislation during our century." [Alfred R. Wallace, Vaccination: A Delusion: Its Penal Enforcement a Crime, Chapter VI 1898,www.whale.to/vaccine/wallace/book.html]"
Slide show
on the smallpox vaccine trials or this http://www.bt.cdc.gov/Agent/Smallpox/vaccineimages2.asp
THE NEW VERSION also live.
"In recent tests, Acambis scientists injected the old and new vaccine into the brains of mice. Three of the six mice injected with the old Dryvax died, but none of the six injected with the new ACAM 1000 died, Monath said." - AMAZING - such extensive testing - I am IMPRESSED.
Sheri
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_1547011,0
0.html
Smallpox vaccine better, tests indicate
Improved version appears not to carry risk of encephalitis
By Bill Scanlon, Rocky Mountain News
November 15, 2002
The smallpox vaccine being readied for the American population in case of a bioterrorism attack is less likely to cause encephalitis and other major complications than earlier vaccines, animal tests indicate. "Our vaccine should be safer," said Thomas Monath, chief science officer at Cambridge, Mass.-based Acambis, which won a government contract to produce 195 million doses. Acambis officials described the vaccine, ACAM 1000, to the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene in Denver on Thursday. Acambis bases its vaccine on the old, reliable New York Health Department smallpox vaccine, Dryvax - which many baby boomers received as children - except the new vaccine is produced in a cell culture, not in calfskin.
ACAM 1000 will be a seventh-generation clone of Dryvax, purified, filtered and tested against the presence of numerous other accidental viruses. The goal is to create a vaccine similar to Dryvax, with its reliability, but with much fewer complications. One side effect of Dryvax was that it caused encephalitis, a serious swelling in the brain, in about three of every 1 million Americans vaccinated. In recent tests, Acambis scientists injected the old and new vaccine into the brains of mice. Three of the six mice injected with the old Dryvax died, but none of the six injected with the new ACAM 1000 died, Monath said.
"There's no way to tell for sure until you've tested a lot of human subjects," Monath said. "But with previous smallpox vaccines, complications in humans closely mimicked complications in animals." Animals also were less likely to develop edema or meningitis with the new vaccine, he said. The vaccine is from a live virus, so it still poses a small risk. Vaccines could be made safer - such as using just the DNA of the virus - but their effectiveness has been disappointing.
The world's scientists thought they had rid the globe of smallpox in the 1970s when the last of the outbreaks were squelched by vaccines.
But Americans were shocked in 1998 when a Russian defector said his country had weaponized smallpox. Now, the world's leaders worry that ruble-starved Russian scientists may have sold some of that weaponized smallpox to regimes such as Iraq or to terrorists.
Symptoms of smallpox, one of history's deadliest diseases, include fever, headache, diarrhea, a rash that turns to lesions, excessive bleeding and delirium.
The Bush administration is considering whether to call on all Americans to be vaccinated before a smallpox bioterrorism attack or to stockpile the vaccine and deliver it on hours notice to the site of an outbreak. If they choose the latter, there are about a dozen sites around the country that will store "push packages" of vaccine ready to arrive anywhere in the United States within 12 hours. Within 24 or 36 hours, the National Pharmacy Stockpile would deliver more of the specific vaccine to the outbreak site.
The vaccine triggers antibodies that take a few days to develop and protect the body against smallpox. The virus itself takes a couple of weeks to be symptomatic, so public health officials think that inoculating people even four days after an outbreak would offer some protection.
In Colorado and elsewhere, local health departments would administer the vaccines.
The federal government this year awarded slightly more than $1 billion to health departments and hospitals to boost bioterrorism preparedness.The United States was uninterested in the bioterrorism risk until the late 1990s, when President Clinton read a novel about bioterrorism, said Jim Hughes, director of the National Center of Infectious Diseases.
Clinton pushed for a smallpox vaccine, but only small companies, such as Acambis, bid on the project because money was lacking. It wasn't until after Sept. 11 that bioterrorism became a national security issue, and with that came the money that spurred the large pharmaceutical companies to get involved. Acambis joined with pharmaceutical giant Baxter when the federal government asked for another 155 million doses. Acambis' vaccine should be ready to use sometime next year, Monath said. Total cost: about $650 million.
Listen to Bill Scanlon at 8 a.m. today on "The State of Colorado" on KNRC-AM (1510).
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NOVEMBER 1, 2002 HEALTH NEWS ANALYZER #127
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CHILDREN AND THE SMALLPOX VACCINE
This issue is all about ethics and politics - and frankly, the worst type of government intrusion in the lives of citizens. It is also about panic-mongering and White House obsession with smallpox. And it is about the exploitation of children. And, last but not least,it is about the Pentagon, its war machine, its former generals and a cash cow called vaccines. Well, that is what it all adds up to when you take a deep look at the involvement of the U.S. war machine
in vaccine production.
The anthrax scare goosed the biowarfare-related vaccine economy into high gear. It is no great secret that the military has a considerable interest (even a former joint chief) in vaccines. I invite you to try to follow the money related to the smallpox vaccine. When my investigative book on vaccines is published next fall, you can follow the money then if you choose not to try to do it yourself now. At this point, given the nature of the book contract, I am only able to point you in an appropriate direction. But it is not all that difficult to pick up the pace. Just determine who the biowarfare vaccine-makers are and check out their advisory boards, investors and scientists. Start easy with BioPort, the Pentagon-financed maker of the anthrax vaccine and see who actually bought the company from the state of Michigan. And you are off to the races.
Well, yes, I know that is more or less a tease and a challenge and that you will probably hate me for it, but I am sure some of you will take the bait and do some digging. Anyway, digging is fun as long as you do not ditch yourself. However, here is one big problem that comes down from this huge military-related enterprise: children are now going to be used as guinea pigs to test a dangerous smallpox vaccine. They are going to be tested without receiving any known benefit since a smallpox epidemic is a matter of theory, not fact. Why don't we simply refer to the test kids as "canaries?" That would be quite appropriate.
What bugs me is that the media are sleeping on this one. There has been relatively little interest shown in the politics behind the making and testing of the vaccines. I guess most health reporters are not too keen to follow the money and disturb the military. How nice to live in the Land of the Free and in fear.
Today's story distributed widely on the wire is about ethics, smallpox vaccination and children. And, yes, there should be an ethical discussion about all this. But that would only cover a small part of the picture. The related issue is: why are we going to allow children to be used as fodder for White House paranoia and military politics? Well, I think we know the answer to that one. Don't we?
Here is the story:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/10/24/health/printable526871.shtml
Have a grand weekend - and think of the kids who are going to get tested and risk damage to their health.
NICHOLAS REGUSH
Thanks to Sheri Nakken for forwarding this very revealing story from another list. Worth passing onto others. Makes you wonder if the cause of most severe acute diseases is the vaccines given to weaken immune systems and introduce sickness.... ~Ingri
I have recently commenced corresponding with a man in Ireland. Perhaps he is the oldest known person to suffer a severe reaction to a vaccine and later become a most diligent vaccine researcher and letter writer about vaccination to local newspapers in Ireland. The following is an extract from his latest letter to me:
"'When I was four years of age in 1920 there had been newspaper reports that the soldiers were returning from WWI battlefields infected with dangerous diseases and everyone, men, women and children should go and get the protection of vaccination immediately. Worldwide hysteria ensued and I was taken with the rest of the family to receive the life-saving jab.
"I had previously been a very healthy child but 2 weeks after the jab I contracted a high fever that nearly killed me. I can recall my mother carrying me from the bed over to the fireplace when I got the shakes from the fever. I remember the awful head noises that had me screaming for hours and shortly after I remember the nauseous pus discharging from both my ears that was to signify the destruction of my hearing.
"Because of the loss of my hearing I could not get an education and was forced to teach myself to read and write. In my early 20's I contacted a Ms. Lily Loat, Secretary of the UK anti-vaccination society in London and requested details of how the vaccine given in 1920 was produced. I was appalled when she informed me that calves were stretched on their backs on tables in a lab. All the hair on their bellies was shaven off and multiple cuts excised over the shaven area drawing blood. Then the excrement from a smallpox patient in hospital the excrement would contain the smallpox virus and bacteria was collected and rubbed into the cuts. The calves were brought back to their pens, their heads secured to prevent the calves licking the cuts.
"After about two weeks all the cuts had turned septic, were running with pus and covered with scabs. The calves were then brought back to the lab, again strapped on their backs on tables and all the scabs, pus, and blood was scraped off the calves bellies into a bowl. The scabs were crushed and mixed with the pus and blood. That was the substance that provided the virus and bacteria for the smallpox vaccine used in 1918-20. This and the typhoid and other vaccines was what killed up to 50 million people world-wide in 1918-20 but is now covered up.
"I believe vaccination is an instrument of population control and was deliberately contrived for that purpose as the 1918-20 episode shows
Smallpox
By Dr. Vivian Virginia Vetrano vvvetrano@rionet.cc
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A dead disease is being resurrected. Now the media will have something exciting to talk about everyday and to frighten the benighted American public with. For whatever reason, the revivification of smallpox is certainly on the current agenda.
Not too long ago Fox News showed us a picture of a man who was covered with smallpox pustules on his arms, face, legs and abdomen. The pustules were big, black, ugly, scaby and closely compacted. He looked like he was a monster from some other world. It was enough to scare me, were it not for the fact that I know that it was drug treatment that caused that ugly picture and not the disease at all. The cause of those ugly marks was carbolic acid that had been used to kill the supposed germ that caused the eruptive rash.
Who are the terrorists? The pharmaceutical companies or the Taliban? Because of what the terrorists may or may not do, the pharmaceutical industry (the largest industry in the world), is gearing us up for mandatory vaccinations, especially for certain people in areas that may be targeted by the terrorists. The authorities claim that we will be safe from terrorists attacks using the pox virus because there are adequate stockpiles of cultivated smallpox viruses in Russia and in the USA to make most all the vaccines "needed."
It is claimed by medical historians that the vaccination process wiped out smallpox throughout the world. However, the truth is that compulsory vaccination was abandoned because more deaths were caused by the vaccinations than there were cases of smallpox. A slight of the hand trick was used to foster the claim that smallpox was eradicated by the vaccination practice. Everyone who had been vaccinated and who developed smallpox was diagnosed as having chicken pox!
The doctors who were interviewed on recent television shows admit that the vaccine may cause many serious side-effects and that a certain number of persons will develop painful and sometimes lethal sequelae. Yet, they advise that it is better to take the chance and be vaccinated in spite of these dangers.
Edward Jenner, a notorious fake and quack, is credited with having "discovered" vaccination. However, it was a practice of many ancient peoples long before his time. Savage and barbaric tribes in various parts of the world practiced inoculation even before Jenner's time. It is conjectured to have begun in India and then spread to Africa and Europe. Lady Mary Wortley Montague, wife of the British Ambassador to the Ottoman Court in l7l7 introduced the practice to Europe. But, due to its proven evils, one of which was an increase in smallpox in England, the practice was abolished in l840.
It is pertinent that James Phipps, the eight year old boy vaccinated by Jenner in l896, died at the age of 20. He had been re-vaccinated twenty times. Jenner's own son who had also been vaccinated more than once died at the young age of twenty-one. Both succumbed to tuberculosis, a condition that some researchers have linked to the smallpox vaccine. (Eleanor Mc Bean, The Poisoned Needle, 28,29,66 ).
According to the medical profession, smallpox or variola is an acute highly infectious and contagious disease characterized by a specific rash. According to past and present Natural Hygienic practitioners smallpox is primarily a disease brought about by gastrointestinal putrescence. Fermenting and rotting food in the intestinal tract enervates, and causes increased digestive impairment accompanied by increased systemic toxemia. The toxins are from the absorption of the fermentation products formed in the intestinal tract. Since those who overeat, especially on animal products, are enervated, meaning they lack normal nerve function, all the organs of elimination are functioning on a lower physiological level and greater toxicity ensues. Toxins from decomposing animal foods are highly irritating, so the body has to get rid of them quickly and must use extraordinary means since the organs of elimination are not functioning well. Therefore, the poisons are carried by the blood to the skin and the body eliminates them in various forms of skin eruptions.
Smallpox is about as contagious as stumbling over a rock. Dr. Herbert M. Shelton slept in the same bed with his brother while the latter was in the so-called infectious stage with vesicles all over. Yet Dr. Shelton did not develop smallpox.
Smallpox begins with the same symptoms that many acute diseases do; such as chills, fever, backache, and vomiting. This is indicative of a common cause and a common way to deal with the cause. The body is a magnificent ecosystem and when it finds abnormal and extraneous substances anywhere within its domain, it creates a higher temperature, purposely, to overcome the foreign proteins, toxic substances, viruses, bacteria or other microorganisms. Whatever is upsetting the ecosystem must be corrected by the organism itself. It needs no alien "cures." The symptoms should not be "cured." To suppress these symptoms assures that some other worse problem will develop.
Some substances, such as an excess of protein putrefactive products, are so toxic that it is urgent to eliminate them immediately. The papular eruption of smallpox is purposely created and chosen as the correct channel at the time for the elimination of these types of noxious substances. Furthermore, the body may not have the specific enzymes to biodegrade whatever it is. Instead of being taken care of by the liver or the kidneys the body chooses to eject them through the skin. Vicarious eliminations such as this are often natural emergency measures.
Smallpox begins with chills, fever, backache, headache and vomiting. A fever of l03 to l04 degrees F is customary. The high fever increases the healing activities of the cells, and it is a most efficient way to accomplish the needed detoxification. This means that the toxins are now out of the functioning cells and in the blood near the skin. The body no longer needs to speed up cellular metabolism in order to cast out the extraneous substances and the fever subsides. In about two days the fever, and other symptoms subside. This is when the inflammatory rash appears. It turns into an elevation of the skin called a papule. The blister becomes dimpled or umbilicated. The rash and the development of the papules indicate that the irritants or toxic substances have been removed by the hyperactive, feverish cells and carried to the skin to be cast out.
Next the little papules become vesicles, like a blister, except that each papule has a little dimple in it. This is the so-called stage that is supposed to be infective or contagious, should anyone touch the person having smallpox. After the vesicles are formed, they may become pustules filled with white blood cells if the individual is extra toxic. The white blood cells are there to destroy the toxins in the vesicles. But, this stage would never be reached if cared for Hygienically. The papules dry up and form scabs that eventually fall off. When treated improperly they will leave a scar.
It is pertinent to recognize that when the eruption begins, the fever subsides. The patient would normally be on the road to recovery were it not for the medications given by the doctor. Medical treatment however, consists in using something that kills the microbes which they assume cause the rash, so it has to be something such as a disinfectant that destroys cell life. This is consistent with their medical dogma. Therefore, in the past, the profession applied gauze that had been soaked in antiseptic solutions such as phenol (carbolic acid) or bichloride of mercury ( aka mercuric chloride and corrosive sublimate). Both these agents, carbolic acid and mercuric chloride are corrosive.
After applying the gauze, soaked in either carbolic acid or mercuric chloride, to the lesions, they were covered with more gauze. Being tightly wrapped with gauze, the exudate from the vesicle or papule was retained in the lesion and not allowed to drain away when it ruptured. Naturally, bacteria are going to invade this lesion to clean up the excreted matter. This corrosive treatment also destroyed living tissues including the protective phagocytic white blood cells and the surrounding skin and subcutaneous tissues. A high second fever was urgently needed to once again begin warfare on the extraneous poisons and the invading bacteria.
Either of the two corrosive drugs used can now ooze its way into the vital domain and impede normal function of all the cells in the body; while completely annihilating many. Ugly black confluent pustules mar the skin. The rash gets worse. Vesicles turn into pustules. The pustules become swollen and more inflamed. The inflammation around them spreads and the lesions fuse together. These pathological effects were caused by the drugs.
It is clear that the condition worsens because of the treatment. The primary symptoms, i.e. the fever, chills, headache, and backache were suppressed by pharmaceuticals. The stifling of symptoms with medication prevented the body from completing its job of cleansing, and increased the internal toxemia. As a result, the umbilicated blisters with clear fluid in them became pustules filled with dead and dying tissues and white blood cells. The change to a pustule is the direct result of the damaging effects of medications whether taken internally or applied to the skin. It is incredible that the physicians did not recognize the lethality of their practice. But, then, they do not recognize it today either. They are blinded by bygone theories.
These substances may have killed microorganisms but they also killed human tissues and in reality caused the pustules and all the terrible complications and symptoms thought to be caused by the germ. Let me emphasize, the symptoms thought to be smallpox are symptoms caused by the treatment. They were so yesterday just as they are today and always will be in the future as long as we insist on clinging to the idea that disease is something "caught" and that symptoms must be gotten rid of by unnatural means. As long as we try to eradicate disease with anything, and especially man-made chemicals, we will suffer more than if we merely put up with the symptoms.
All the various treatments to kill microbes which are "causing" the disease, are killing the patient. They are not permitting the body to eliminate toxins or restore the blood and tissues to their normal healthy condition. All treatments, no matter how benign they are claimed to be, impede the recovery process itself. By using treatments of any kind and getting rid of a rash by rash means, or to doctor it in any way, is the disastrous blunder that causes horrible side-effects, more disease and even death.
Hemorrhagic or what is known as "black smallpox" is an even more serious type of smallpox and the patient often died. Again, this serious type of smallpox was directly caused by the cell-killing drugs. Pustules often developed in the throat and mouth. When an acidic drug is placed on living tissues, it kills them. The skin and mucous membranes are already inflamed and are less protective than normal skin. Therefore, the destructive acids can be absorbed and cause greater internal toxemia. Carbolic acid or mercuric chloride caused the hemorrhaging of the skin and also hemorrhaging into the pustule. Either of the corrosive drugs also destroyed the kidney cells and caused bloody urine noted in many hapless smallpox patients.
There were also many serious complications of this type of treatment in addition to the common ordinary ones that were erroneously thought to be symptoms of smallpox, but we won't go into them now.
From time immemorial people have been frightened of disease. It was a curse, an evil spirit, or evil demon that caused the problem. Also from time immemorial people have thought it necessary to exorcize the disease, to placate and appease the evil spirit or demon, to give sacrifices to some god in order to get the demon or evil spirit out of them. In modern times we do the same. We have not grown in knowledge. We just put the evil spirits in the magician's top hat and pulled out the evil germs and evil viruses. We still exorcize, placate, appease, and eradicate the evil microbe or evil virus. Whatever symptoms we have, they are felt to be extraneous, foreign and not from us, so they must be eradicated or extirpated. We still fear death from the simplest of diseases. Whatever it is, it must be extirpated or eradicated. We do it not with incantations but with substances much more evil than anything used in the past.
Hygienic Care If Hygienic care had been resorted to in the beginning of smallpox no complications would have occurred and there would rarely be a genuine pustule. With Hygienic management the disease would not have to progress to the second stage with pustules or a second fever. It would only become pustular if the individual prevented drainage of the vesicle and continued eating a heavy diet. The vesicles containing the unwanted debris that was in the organs and tissues would burst. The clear fluid containing the toxic substances would flow out onto the skin. Frequent warm sponge baths would wash away all the poisonous debris. The inflammation of the skin would heal and that would be the end of the disease. There would be no horrendous pustules, or other complications brought about by the medications. If individuals kept themselves clean, but did not take off the scabs until they fell off naturally, there would be no unsightly pock-marks. People are always too anxious to pull scabs away. To do so is to expose the lesion to the atmosphere before the skin has completely healed below it. The skin then has to quickly heal over before it has completed restoring the underlying tissues. This, naturally leaves a pit or scar. The extensive boils and gangrene that regularly occurred would not have taken place had no corrosive drugs been used.
If you think those symptoms are bad, and that we do not use any medicine so lethal as corrosive sublimate and carbolic acid today, you'd better rethink the problem. Today's drugs are even more lethal because they are designed to be easily absorbed, and to spread to every tissue and cell in the body and kill cells all over the body. Do not put your hope in medical "care". The only care you need is a healthy body and to let it do its thing.
You do not have to fear smallpox, even if you should develop it, as long as you immediately quit eating and go to bed and rest, drinking pure water only when thirsty.
Smallpox is a disease of the bon-vivant, epicurean, who overeats on a daily basis, especially on animal foods. The condition of enervation is built by anyone who does not secure sufficient rest and sleep to permit the elimination of endogenic and exogenic toxins, and for the restoration of the nervous system. Once the stage of enervation is established digestion is further impaired and the body is flooded with fermentation and decomposition products from the intestines. This is what is called Toxemia, and Toxicosis. Toxicosis makes it exigent and imperative that these toxins be eliminated immediately by extraordinary means, such as through the skin.
Every single cell in your body is capable of eliminating and destroying various microorganisms and their waste products, as well as man-made organic products, but most man-made products are more toxic than those made by bacteria and they cause more damage than bacterial waste products. It can be disastrous when the body is overwhelmed by substances that do not belong inside it, and which the body cannot use under any circumstance of life. And this is what happens when diseases are "treated." Your body is inundated with toxic substances and it may drown.
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Dr. Vivian Virginia Vetrano graduated in l965 from the Texas Chiropractic College, summa cum laude. After working at Dr. Shelton's Health School for several years she went on to study Naturopathy, Homeopathy, and Medicine. In addtion to her Chiropractic degree she holds degrees in Homeopathy and Medicine. When she was an undergraduate she studied Radiation Biology at Trinity University, San Antonio and was the first person to make the public aware of the dangers of ionizing radiation through the many articles she authored on this subject. Dr. Vetrano gives personal consultations by telephone. For information you may write Dr. Vetrano at P.O. Box l90, Barksdale, Texas 78828; or call 830-234-3499; or fax 830-234-3599.
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20 Reasons Not To Take The Smallpox Vaccination By Amy Worthington
1. George W. Bush has said of smallpox vaccination: "One of my concerns if we were to have universal vaccination, some might lose their life." ~The Times (in London), November 09, 2001.
2. For each million people vaccinated with the smallpox vaccine, as many as 250 could die, according to the American Medical Association. Multiply 250 times 285 (millions of Americans) and the possible deaths from universal smallpox vaccination could equal
71,250. ~ Journal of the American Medical Association, June 9, 1999, Vol. 281, No.
22, p. 2132.
3. "The American Medical Association said on Tuesday it was not in favor of an immediate mass U.S.smallpox vaccination program, saying the potential threat of a bioterror attack did not warrant inoculating every American against the disease."
~Reuters, December 12, 2001.
4. "Right now the risk of getting the vaccine is higher than the benefit. You could get a secondary infection, a full-blown systemic infection." ~Marie Rau, Panhandle Health District nurse, quoted by The Spokesman-Review, November 20, 2001.
5. CDC director Jeffrey Koplan has admitted that universal smallpox vaccination could unleash a significant number of side-effects. He said that because many parts of ourpopulation do not have a "robust immune system," a fair number of people could have serious reactions. ~Koplan speaking on the PBS special "Bioterror Propaganda"
aired by WETA, November 14, 2001.
6. If the entire nation were to receive a smallpox vaccine, several thousand people would likely develop encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain. ~Washington Post, Dec. 26, 2001.
7. Roger J. Pomerantz, chief of the infectious disease department at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, said that doctors have no idea what the smallpox vaccine might do to people at the extremes of life--less than 2 and older than 65. He said that an even greater concern would be its effect on people with weakened immune systems from HIV infection, chemotherapy or transplants. ~Washington Post, Dec. 26,
2001.
8. "Researchers have been reluctant to recommend a new vaccination program which would use the smallpox vaccine for the local population because the vaccine can cause disease and death in persons with inadequate immune systems." ~Science, Vol. 277, July 18, 1997, pp. 312-13.
9. Routine smallpox vaccination in the United States ended in 1972. Officials are hesitant to resume the immunizations because the vaccine is the most reactive of all and has been linked to serious side effects, including death. ~ Reuters, November 29,
2001.
10. Eight printed pages of medical studies documenting the many serious side effects of smallpox vaccination can be obtained at <http://www.whale.to/vaccines/smallpox.html.>www.whale.to/vaccines/smallpox.html.
See "smallpox vaccine adverse reactions 66-76." [Note: go to the home page above and put "smallpox vaccine adverse reaction" in the search engine.] Repercussions include serious brain and heart diseases, autism, abnormal chromosomal changes, diabetes, various cancers and leukemias, plus demyelination of nerve tissue years after vaccination.
11. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that vaccination must not be forced on persons whose physical condition would make such vaccination "cruel and inhuman." In other words, the state has no right to command that an individual sacrifice his life in the name of public health. ~Jacobsen V. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905).
12. By the 1920s, several British medical researchers documented that smallpox was not only more common among the VACCINATED, but that the DEATH RATE from smallpox was actually higher among those who had been vaccinated. This indicates that the vaccine was ineffective and predisposed vaccinated persons to more lethal disease. ~Vaccination, Dr. Viera Scheibner, Australia, 1993, pp. 205-220. 13. Getting a vaccination does not guarantee immunity. ~CDC, January 28, 1994.
14. By 1987, scientific evidence indicated that the World Health Organization's 13-year global smallpox vaccination campaign may have awakened dormant HIV infection in many vaccinees. ~Times (in London) May 11, 1987.
15. Vaccines made from animal substrate contain animal viruses that are impossible to filter out. By 1961, scientists discovered that animal viruses in vaccines, including smallpox, could act as a carcinogen when given to mice in combination with cancer-causing chemicals, even in amounts too small to induce tumors alone. They concluded that vaccine viruses function as a catalyst for tumor production. ~Science, December 15, 1961.
16. Some of the new smallpox vaccine doses will be created with animal substrate.
Because the vaccine will incorporate vaccinia, the cowpox virus, many wonder about possible mad-cow contamination. Fifty-five million doses of the new vaccine will be created using a cell line dating back to 1966 and cultured from the lung tissues of an aborted human fetus. ~World Net Daily, December 4, 2001.
17. The new smallpox vaccine will be genetically engineered. Many scientists believe that genetically engineered vaccines may be responsible for the global epidemic of auto-immune disease and neurological dysfunction. ~American College of Rheumatology, annual meeting, Nov. 8-12, 1998. Merck's genetically engineered hepatitis B vaccine, Recombivax HB, is a classic example. According to Dr. Bonnie Dunbar of Baylor College of Medicine, many thousands of reported adverse reactions to the hepatitis B vaccine include: chronic fatigue, neurological disorders, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and MS-like disease. ~Testimony of Dr. Dunbar to Texas Dept. of Health, March 12, 1999. Over 15,000 French citizens sued the French government to stop mandatory hepatitis B injections for school children because of resulting auto-immune diseases. ~Science, July 31, 1998. Dr. John Classen has published voluminous data showing that the hepatitis B and other vaccines are closely linked to the development of insulin dependent diabetes. ~Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice, October 22, 1997. 18. The British vaccine manufacturer Medeva has a horrendous record of contamination and blunders. In 2000, the FDA found that Medeva was making vaccines in conditions of filth, resulting in contaminated products. Medeva had been illegally using bovine medium to culture its polio vaccines, then lied about it. Medeva also used the blood of a Creutzfeldt-Jakob victim (mad cow) to manufacture 83,000 doses of polio vaccine used for (against?) Irish children. Nevertheless, the FDA allowed the USA to accept Medeva's flu vaccine Fluvirin for the year 2000. ~London Observer series: October 20-26, 2000.
19. In 2001, the British socialized health care system was reported to be in a state of collapse, with many hospitals and labs operating in abysmal filth. Five thousand people die each year from infections contracted in British hospitals; 10,000 become deathly ill from such infections. Sterilization procedures are barely adequate and said to be risking the spread of mad cow disease. Government ministers are reportedly trying to hush up the scandal. ~<http://www.itn.co.uk/>www.itn.co.uk/ Jan 06,2001; The Sunday Times of London, November 12, 2001.
20. The U.S. government apparently intends to conduct NO double blind studies on the safety and efficacy of the new smallpox vaccine. It has ordered 286 million doses, one for every man, woman and child in America at a cost of $428 million. At least half of this vaccine will be delivered by Acambis PLC of great Britain.
Tip of the Week: Keep all vaccine needles away from your body!
Subject: [Health_and_Healing] REMEMBER THE SWINE FLU DISASTER? NO?
REMEMBER THE SWINE FLU DISASTER? NO?
NOVEMBER 27. In the 1970s, there was a mass vaccination campaign that can be used as a general standard to measure public health service performance. It was the infamous swine flu fiasco.
In February of 1976, a soldier at Fort Dix died of a respiratory infection. A test revealed that this soldier and perhaps eight others on the base were infected with a swine virus. Who knows how the tests were done, or whether the virus was ever actually isolated, or whether only antibodies to the virus were found.
(See my mention of antibody tests in yesterday's post.) One problem with antibody tests: They can react to non-germ substances in the body which have nothing to do with the germ being checked for. Another problem: These tests can read positive for a germ when, in fact, the test is cross-reacting to some other germ. A case in point is malaria. Antibody tests for HIV in the Third World have registered positive for HIV when, in fact, it is the malaria organism which is causing the positive test reading. In 1976, the CDC decided that the germ which supposedly killed the soldier was one to which the general population of the US had no immunity. A panel of "experts" predicted that 56 million cases of swine flu could occur in the US. Resulting in about 50,000 deaths.
Only weeks after the Fort Dix death, the CDC came up with a recommendation: 200 million Americans should be vaccinated against swine flu.
On the 24th of March, President Ford agreed. He said that every American should get this vaccine.
Congress went along.
You have to realize that, for people in the US Public Health Service, an opportunity like this comes along only once in a blue moon. Potential epidemic of devastating consequences. Presidential support. A vaccine. Vaccinations from Alaska to Florida. Logistics to organize. Medicos to the rescue. Heroic measures. This is why the health service was created in the first place. Like an army which has trained for decades---with no real war to be fought---the green ATTACK LIGHT was a wet dream. It took months for the swine flu vaccine to be delivered. It was September before the pieces were in place. During the interim, no one else in America had died of swine flu. No one had come down with a case of swine flu.
Volunteers had been injected with the virus. At worst, they had gotten a mild case of the flu. But the CDC kept hammering home its message. The vaccine campaign had to be carried out. And so it began, on October 1 of 1976. Three weeks later, 41 deaths had been linked to the vaccine. Oh well, this was explained by the "miniscule risk" factor. When you give lots and lots of people a vaccine, a few will die.
By the middle of December of 1976, there were 54 cases of neurological injury from the vaccine. Still, no one was getting an actual case of the swine flu. Only the vaccine was killing and maiming people. On December 16, the CDC shut down the vaccine campaign. By then 45 million people had received shots.
The CDC said they had to investigate the unfortunate side effects, but wanted to start the whole campaign again as soon as they figured out what had gone wrong. But there was no political will left. The whole sordid affair was buried. 52 deaths. 500-600 put in the hospital and/or damaged. Law suits flying. In the aftermath, a few juicy facts emerged. Turned out that the first shipment of vaccine sent to the government (2 million doses) was a dud. It did not produce antibodies. Furthermore, the CDC had given the manufacturers THE WRONG VIRUS TO WORK WITH. IT WAS NOT SWINE FLU. So those 2 million doses
were thrown away.
Insurance companies were VERY restless throughout the whole vaccine fiasco. They knew that correct dose levels were a problem. Low dose resulted in no
antibodies. Higher dose inevitably meant adverse effects in many people who were given the shot. So these insurers opted out of covering the vaccine. This fact was not widely known by the public. Evidence emerged that the virus at Fort Dix had no real contagion properties. People there who were in contact with soldiers who came down with the flu did not get the flu themselves. The sergeant who gave the one dying soldier at Dix mouth-to-mouth resuscitation did not get sick.
Of course, the CDC had been very sure that swine flu would create 56 million cases in the US. A closer examination of this one dead soldier at Fort Dix showed that the man had fallen unconscious and died while he was on a training mission, a tough exercise. His medical chart showed that he had been told to forego the exercise, but he went out on it anyway. As always, when a patient is told he has a germ, or when a post-mortem shows this, there is the question of titer. Titer is the measure of density or concentration of germs. How many are present? Are they rapidly multiplying? A high titer alerts people to a possible problem. A low titer---well, the body is full of germs all the time, and nothing untoward happens. In the Fort Dix case, it's all a mystery. Assuming that a swine flu virus was even isolated in the first place, what was the actual titer? What successive changes in titer were recorded?
More. It turned out that many doctors had advised their patients against taking the vaccine. And many other patients were never warned of risks at the time of their vaccination. In the latter situation, there was no informed consent by the patient. The respected forensic physician, Cyril Wecht, did an investigation of the CDC's role in the swine flu tragedy. He concluded that the hidden truth revealed "just how unprincipled the [CDC's] actions apparently were. Half-truths and omissions seemed to come in a steady stream throughout the immunization program."
Of course, in the wake of this 1976 debacle, ultimately presided over by the president who had sat on the Warren Commission and helped whitewash the Kennedy assassination, nothing was done to re-organize the US Public Health Service. There were no wholesale firings. No one bothered to look at the whole basis and rationale for vaccination. A ripple had passed across the surface of the nation, and now there were other stories to cover, other things to do. It was simply an unfortunate moment.
We are on the brink of just such another unfortunate moment. The smallpox vaccine is being manufactured and delivered to the US government. We are being told that a bio-attack could come at any time. We are assured that, overwhelmingly, the vaccine is safe---and any deaths that will occur from its use are a minor factor in the overall effort to secure the safety of the population. We do not know what manufacturing problems the participating companies are having. We are told that just one case of smallpox in the US might trigger the order to give the whole nation the vaccine.
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it? No one seems to be paying much attention to that old wise remark.
The US Congress is paying no attention to the smallpox-vaccine wave.
It's all hands on deck for the protection of America. The media pump is primed to supply its support for the "patriotic effort." However, as I've written in previous articles, people from the CDC have been issuing cloaked warnings about what could happen if the smallpox vaccine is given to 200-plus Americans: deaths, maimings. These public health folks remember the swine flu campaign. They want to be able to cover their gold-plated asses later on. "Don't you recall I said.?"
As we speak, many US health and emergency workers are voluntarily taking the smallpox vaccine. The press is reporting NOTHING about an overall strong
follow-up by the US Public Health Service. It is unlikely there is any nationally coordinated tracking program to see what happens to these guinea pigs. And of course, it's very easy to say, "Yes, he did get very sick, but it had nothing to do with the vaccine."
The smallpox vaccine is immune-suppressive. Therefore, one should not always expect to see full-blown cases of smallpox as the "unfortunate side effect."
When the immune system is compromised, all sorts of bizarre and life-threatening infections can ensue. These can then be laid at the door of "routine illness."
Keep in mind, as well, that neurological damage was one effect of the swine flu vaccine. Such damage has nothing to do with the action of the swine flu germ itself. It is a consequence of the vaccine acting in strange ways in the body. For example, mercury or other chemicals in vaccines can severely and permanently impair the nervous system.
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20021130_687.html
Emergency Room Workers Ready to Be Inoculated Against Smallpox
Despite Risks of Vaccine
The Associated Press
L A S V E G A S, Nov. 30 — In a town known for high-stakes
gambling, Suzanne Lau is ready to risk a small chance of injury and
even death to be vaccinated against smallpox. A nurse at one of the
city's busiest emergency rooms, she probably will be among the first
Americans in three decades to be offered the vaccine.
She does not betray any of the angst that has consumed federal
officials now completing vaccination plans for the nation.
"It's what you do. It's part of the risk of the job," said Lau, whose
hospital ID hangs on a red, white and blue cord, stamped USA, around
her neck. "We're here to take care of the patients. That's the bottom
line."
The government is preparing for the possibility of a bioterror attack
that would use smallpox, a deadly and incurable virus, but President
Bush has yet to say who will be offered the vaccine.
The plan being considered would offer the inoculation first to those
most likely to come in contact with a contagious smallpox patient;
that would be people assigned to special smallpox response teams in
each state, and those who work in hospital emergency rooms. In total,
they expect about a half-million vaccinations during this first stage.
It will put emergency rooms such as University Medical Center's at
the forefront of that readiness effort. If there were to be an
attack, doctors at the Las Vegas facility also would be responsible
for spotting smallpox, a particular challenge given that the disease
has not been seen in this country for half a century.
For now, the issue is vaccination.
The government soon will undertake an education campaign to ensure
that people understand the risks of the vaccine, which is more
dangerous than any other.
In the 1960s, 15 out of every million people being vaccinated for the
first time faced life-threatening complications, and one or two died.
Side effects included horrible rashes and brain-destroying diseases.
Some people who came into close contact with those vaccinated also
got sick when the live virus used in the shot escaped and touched
them.
But most workers at the University Medical Center emergency room
voice little concern and say smallpox is much more to be feared than
the vaccine.
"The odds are with you," nurse Tom Erichsen said. Added nurse Beth
Leoni: "I've seen pictures of smallpox, and it scared the hell out of
me."
Lau says she would send her 6-year-old son to live with his
grandparents during the days after her inoculation, just to be sure
he is not exposed.
Hearing the statistics about side effects, Dr. Tom Higgins is
nonchalant. "That's probably safer than most drugs we use on a daily
basis," he said.
This instinctive willingness to be vaccinated has some worried.
Health care workers need to understand the vaccine's dangers, said
Cheryl Peterson, senior policy analyst for the American Nurses
Association.
"Most of us got the vaccine when we were a child, and we never heard
about any problems. We just went and got it," she said.
But that was a time when the disease was still prevalent. The last
smallpox case was in 1977, and it was declared eradicated in 1980.
Experts now worry it could be unleashed again in an attack.
There is some nervousness about the vaccine in the Las Vegas
emergency room.
Secretary Patti McGill said she does not trust the government enough
to get an annual flu shot, much less be vaccinated for smallpox. "I'm
not a big believer in vaccines, especially this one," McGill said.
Dr. Wes Kaplan wants more information about the risk of an attack and
about the vaccine before making up his mind. He is not particularly
worried that smallpox would hit his hospital.
"It's like saying, `Am I worried about a bomb going off in the
hospital?'" Kaplan said.
Kaplan, a resident in internal medicine who helps cover the emergency
room, said he doubts he could spot a case of smallpox, which easily
is confused with chickenpox.
"I don't know the first thing about smallpox," he said.
To help doctors such as Kaplan, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention has created a poster that explains the differences between
chickenpox and smallpox. No one at University Medical Center can
recall seeing the poster.
Dr. Dale Carrison, director of the emergency department, said he is
confident he would catch "a classic case" of smallpox, though a more
subtle one might get by.
He said the biggest difference between smallpox and chickenpox is
that smallpox lesions are all in the same stage of development, which
is true. But when asked about another classic difference chickenpox
usually occurs on the body's trunk, whereas smallpox is usually on
the face and hands he said he knew nothing about that.
Dr. Mario Pineiro and others say they are not thinking much about
smallpox, either how to spot it or how to protect against it.
"I'm worried about 10 GI (gastrointestinal) consults I have today. I
worry about night float (shift coming up). And my mom is having back
pain, and I'm worried it's some kind of cancer, and I have to move by
Saturday," said Pineiro. "Those are my worries."
All articles written by Jon Rappoport
Smallpox vaccine side effects catch doctors by surprise
By Ceci Connolly / The Washington Post
http://www.detnews.com/2002/health/0212/05/health-28078.htm
As physical specimens, the Baylor University students were fit and healthy, the "creme de la creme," in the words of researcher Kathy Edwards. Yet when she inoculated them with smallpox vaccine, arms swelled, temperatures spiked and panic spread.
It was the same at clinics in Iowa, Tennessee and California. Of 200 young adults who received the vaccine as part of a recent government study, one-third missed at least one day of work or school, 75 people had high fevers and several were put on antibiotics because physicians worried that their blisters signaled a serious bacterial infection.
Even for experts such as Edwards, the Vanderbilt University physician overseeing the study, the side effects were startling. "I can read all day about it, but seeing it is quite impressive," she said. "The reactions we saw were really quite remarkable."
President Bush is poised to announce plans, perhaps as early as this week, to resume vaccinating Americans against smallpox as part of a massive push to protect the nation from a biological assault. As he weighs the decision, researchers are becoming reacquainted with the unpleasant -- often severe -- complications of the vaccine itself. The experiences in a half dozen clinical trials offer an early look at what military personnel, hospital workers and other emergency workers will likely encounter if Bush adopts the recommendations of his top health advisers to vaccinate up to 11 million people in the coming months. What is disconcerting, say the people participating in the clinical trials, is that when it comes to smallpox vaccination, what had once been considered ordinary is rather extraordinary by today's standards.
"I just wanted to go to bed for a day or two there," said Alison Francis, a New York University graduate student who received the vaccine. Francis, 24, said she felt tired and achy after getting her shot. Her arm was heavy, warm to the touch and terribly itchy. "I thought, ãCan you just chop off my arm?"' Participating in the study was part patriotism and part selfishness, she said. "Now I'm protected." Once among the deadliest scourges on earth, smallpox was declared eradicated worldwide in 1981. But growing hostilities with Iraq, Osama bin Laden and other terrorists have renewed fears that the virus could be used as a potent, stealthy weapon. Vaccination is surefire protection against the disease, but it is risky. For every 1 million vaccinated, between 15 and 52 people will suffer life-threatening consequences such as brain inflammation and one or two will die, according to historical data. Pregnant women, babies, people with excema or weakened immune systems should not receive the vaccine.
Federal health officials have proposed resuming vaccination in stages, beginning with up to 500,000 hospital workers most likely to see an initial case. Later, as many as 10 million police, fire and medical personnel would be offered vaccine. The Pentagon hopes to vaccinate 500,000 soldiers. Over the past year, federal researchers have been testing the 40-year-old vaccine for its safety and potency. None of the 1,500 volunteers have died or been seriously injured by the vaccine. But even the most mundane cases can be disturbing to doctors and patients unaccustomed to the live virus used in the vaccine and its side effects.
Unlike most modern vaccines, the smallpox vaccine is administered by 15 quick pricks that literally "establish an infection in your skin," said Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. "There is the immediate discomfort of getting poked in the arm and a range of annoying reactions." Within three to four days, a red itchy bump develops, followed by a larger blister filled with pus. In the second week, the blister dries and turns into a scab that usually falls off in the third week. During the three weeks, many people experience flu-like symptoms -- aches, fever, lethargy -- and terrible itchiness.
"You can't scratch it, it's all bandaged up; all I could do was smack it," said Meg Gifford, a University of Maryland junior who participated in one study. For one weekend, she was "pretty miserable," suffering from a slight fever, an arm that was hot to the touch and swollen lymph nodes in her armpit. At the University of Rochester Medical Center, researcher John Treanor saw a wide range of reactions, from a small rash to swelling the size of a grapefruit. About 5 percent of the 170 participants had rashes that spread to other parts of the body. It took time and experience, he said, for the team to get comfortable with the natural course of the vaccine.
"The reactions we are seeing are totally out of line with today's vaccine experience and absolutely in line with historical experience," said Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. "In the 30 years since we had routine vaccination, the public's tolerance level has gone way down." Maryland researchers have begun a second trial revaccinating older adults to see how much immunity stays in the system. Early indications are that people who have been previously inoculated do not suffer as many severe side effects. "I had a small red mark and that was about it," said Edward Dudley, 33.
Very few of today's practicing physicians have administered the vaccine or treated its side effects. Even at the CDC, where health experts work daily with an array of germs, smallpox vaccinations were briefly halted when 10 people had serious enough reactions to begin antibiotics, said Walter Orenstein, director of CDC's National Immunization Program. "The clinic physician couldn't decide if this was a normal primary exuberant take or a bacterial infection," he said, explaining that, in fact, the swollen, itchy, red arms were routine. As a first year medical student 33 years ago, Orenstein was so alarmed by the fever, swollen glands and red streak up his arm after he was vaccinated that he went to the emergency room for antibiotics. "I respect this vaccine," he said.
If Bush moves forward with vaccination, as expected, Edwards warns doctors to expect the array of unsightly, unfamiliar complications that will come. "You are going to have to be prepared to see these individuals and to see really bad takes," she told state health officers. "You'll wonder if they are bacterial infections; in some cases the rash will move up the arm and onto the chest. The vaccinee requires a lot of TLC."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/a/2002/12/14/MN136659.DTL
Washington -- People injured by the smallpox vaccine will be able to sue only one defendant, the federal government, and experts who have studied the relevant laws say it will be difficult for anyone to win compensation for injuries or deaths caused by the vaccine. In the Homeland Security Act, signed by President Bush on Nov. 25, Congress shielded doctors and vaccine manufacturers from liability for injuries suffered by people who take the vaccine. If the federal government authorizes use of the vaccine, the law says, anyone giving or producing it will be "deemed to be an employee of the Public Health Service," and the government will become the only defendant. An injured person can pursue compensation under the Federal Tort Claims Act, but lawyers said it would be difficult to win money under that 1946 law. "The government can probably escape liability for almost all injuries," says an analysis by Professor Edward Richards and Dr. Katharine Rathbun of Louisiana State University. Under the tort claims act, they said, plaintiffs would have to show that the government or people acting on its behalf were negligent in administering the vaccine. Military personnel would have no legal recourse in the event of
vaccine-related injuries. "It would be very hard to recover from the government for risks that the government knew it was exposing people to," said Richards, who is director of the program in law, medicine and public health at Louisiana State. "The government is not liable if it makes a policy choice to expose citizens to risks. It might be a bad policy choice, but it's not negligence." Rathbun added, "If everything is done perfectly, without any negligence, some percentage of people given the vaccine will be injured by it -- it's a dangerous vaccine -- and they will not be compensated under the law." Health officials estimate that 15 people of every million vaccinated may face life-threatening injuries, and that one or two will die. But, they say, the risk of serious injuries is much higher among people whose immunity has been suppressed by AIDS, cancer chemotherapy or other illnesses and treatments
Smallpox vaccination plan won't include children
By LAURA MECKLER, ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON (AP) - For decades, the vast majority of smallpox inoculations were delivered to children, but in the new vaccination program now under way,
children won't qualify absent a bioterror attack, federal officials said. Ethical and safety concerns bar children from clinical trials being conducted now, meaning the vaccine cannot be licensed for them, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, who oversees vaccine development and bioterrorism programs at the National Institutes of Health.
"If Mom comes up to one of the local and state health officials and says, 'I want vaccine for my 5-year-old,' currently there doesn't appear to be a mechanism for them to get it," Fauci said Saturday. Adults will soon have access to the vaccine, although it is not being recommended for the general public. Smallpox was eradicated in the 1970s and, while experts fear that terrorists or hostile nations could unleash it in an act of bioterrorism, President Bush said Friday there is no imminent threat. The government is recommending inoculations for about 10.5 million people on smallpox response teams, hospital emergency rooms, other health care jobs, police, fire and other emergency personnel. Those shots are likely to begin in late January.
Bush also ordered vaccinations for some half-million military personnel in high-risk parts of the world. In the civilian world, vaccinations are voluntary, and health officials worry that people may not fully understand the risks. In the coming week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans a one-hour program for people being offered the vaccine, with detailed information about benefits, risks and details about how to reduce the chances of side effects.
Polls suggest most people would want the vaccine. But in CDC-sponsored focus groups now under way, interest dropped considerably after people were told of the risks, said Dr. Julie Gerberding, CDC director. Based on studies from the 1960s, about 15 people out of every million being vaccinated for the first time will face life-threatening side effects, and one or two will die. The vaccine is made of a live virus called vaccinia that can cause its own infections until the injection site scabs over. It poses a particular risk for children, who could tear off their bandages and put relatives, playmates or others at risk.
A vaccinated person can spread the vaccine's virus by touching the injection site, then touching the eyes, mouth or someone else. If the virus spread to the eye, for instance, it could cause blindness. Someone with a weak immune system, such as an AIDS patient, could die. Because of these risks, the vaccine is only being recommended for workers in special fields. Still, Bush concluded he couldn't keep the vaccine from those who insist on it.
Those people can enroll in clinical trials now under way, and by spring or summer, the government plans to create an alternate program that would reach
people without access to a trial.By 2004, when enough licensed vaccine becomes available, it will be relatively straightforward for adults to get inoculated, although it still would not be recommended. If there is a smallpox attack, however, officials are likely to order mass vaccination for adults and children and immediate shots for anyone exposed to the disease. Absent that, it's not likely to be available to children anytime soon. Researchers had hoped to enroll a few dozen toddlers in a clinical trial aimed at testing whether diluted vaccine is as effective as its full-strength dose. But research oversight boards at universities where the research was to take place had concerns about ethics and safety and asked the Food and Drug Administration for advice.
The FDA in turn took the unusual move of seeking public comment on the issue. Those comments are back and the "vast majority" said kids should be barred from the research, Fauci said."They really didn't think the risk was worth it for the children," he said. Federal regulations require special oversight for research that poses more than a minimal risk to a child who won't get a significant benefit. That's the case here, experts believe, because there's such as small risk that any child would actually be exposed to smallpox.
Given the reaction to date, Fauci said, it's unlikely children will be let into any of the smallpox studies. That includes a major clinical study vaccine purchased to cover the entire country should it be necessary. Without clinical trials, the vaccine cannot be licensed for kids. He added that it's doubtful that the government would let doctors give the vaccine to children if it's not licensed for them, even though that routinely occurs with other medications.
It's ironic given that, before routine vaccinations were halted in 1972, the vast majority of people given the vaccine were under age 5, Fauci said. "The current restrictions on clinical trials don't necessarily reflect the restrictions that one had decades and decades ago," he said. "It's much more stringent."
Thanks to Barbara Flynn of C.H.E.R.U.B.S. in New Jersey for transcribing the following eye-opening historical account. She has been accessing many historical documents at a library in New York. The following story was printed in The Searchlight -- a popular turn of the century expose publication.
There was a huge anti-vaccination movement in both England and America during a time when governments were making smallpox inoculations compulsory,
causing much death and suffering. Is history repeating itself?
DR. RODERMUND’S EXPERIMENT
On Monday January 21, 1901 about 11:30 AM I entered the residence of Mr.---, where Miss Stark was confined with the smallpox. As I enter the house Mr.--- jumped from his chair and said: “We are not allowed to let anyone enter this house.” “Never mind,” I said, “I am not anybody, so perhaps you made no mistake.” I then stated that I came to see the smallpox patient. “There she is,” he said, pointing towards a young woman in a far corner of the room. Mrs.---sat by the window sewing, while a child about two years old ran about the room.
“Are you afraid of taking smallpox from the girl?” I asked.
“No,” replied the mother, “we are not afraid.”
“But the doctors say this disease is very contagious: are they not very careless and negligent in not keeping this patient away from the rest of the family? This is a genuine case of smallpox, just see the large pustules full of pus. Of course I know you can’t take the disease from another.”
Then to show them that this was true, I broke open several of the large pustules on her face and arms and took the pus out of them and smeared it all over my face, hands, beard and clothes and at the same time remarked that I would go home to dinner. I mentioned nothing of the affair to my family during the meal and went directly to my office without telling anyone. The first person who came in the office was an old friend, Rev. T, who has a parish at North Milwaukee. We shook hands heartily, in fact, I had entirely forgotten that I was covered with smallpox poison. I presented him with one of my books and, according to our scientific and willful deceivers of the public, I must have covered the book and gentleman with smallpox germs, and he in return must have exposed many people in Appleton, those he met on the train, and finally his whole congregation. The germs on the book, I suppose are still enjoying themselves in the spiritual home of the reverend gentleman.
During the same afternoon I touched the faces of several persons in my office while treating their eyes and fitting glasses. From 4 to 6 and from 5 to 10 o’clock the same afternoon I was at the Business Men’s Club, where I mingled and played cards with the members. In the evening the conversation drifted to the smallpox case I had visited in the morning. After discussing the subject for a while, one of them asked me if I would visit a smallpox patient and then go home to my family. I quietly remarked that I would just as soon do it as visit a patient with a common cold.
Finally, Mr. Dickinson, cashier in one of our banks, remarked rather sarcastically: “Now, doctor, what’s the use of talking such nonsense, you would no more think of visiting a smallpox patient and then go home and sleep with your family than you would go home and shoot one of your children. You are too sensible for that.”
The reader can imagine the state of my mind at that time as none of them had an inkling that I was at that very time covered with smallpox pus, and that the cards we were playing with were being loaded with this poison. Still, I never once mentioned my visit to them. Further, I would never have gone to the club rooms if I had had the least idea that my actions would ever be known, as I know the sentiment of these gentlemen and I also had too much respect for them and myself, to impose upon their feelings, even if I did know that their belief was a foolish superstition. I have done similar acts dozens of times during the past fifteen years and have in each instance watched the results and not the slightest harm has ever been done to anyone.
To return to our subject, after leaving the club-rooms that evening, I went home, slept with my family, and the next morning took the train to Green Bay, without washing any ands or face, and wearing the same clothes. I took breakfast at Green Bay and then went to the store of Mr. M---, who had engaged me to fit glasses for his customers on that day. I handled the faces of twenty-seven persons during the day, besides those I exposed on the streets and in the train when on my way home.
The next morning (Wednesday) I washed my hands and face, the first time since they had been smeared with pus 46.5 hours before. When I arrived at
my office, I found several reporters waiting to ascertain if the report were true that I had visited the smallpox patient and had smeared myself with pus. In the beginning I neither affirmed nor denied the accusation, because I did not want it known, but upon inquiry I learned that one of the neighbors had seen me come out of the house and asked the health officer if the family had changed doctors, as she had seen Dr. Rodermund come out of the house on Monday.
Consequently there was nothing for me to do save tell the exact truth, which I did. The newspapers, however, mixed untruth with the truth in such a way as to mislead the public. Among other things they stated that I had personally bragged of what I had done, when they knew I never intended it to become known to the world until the people were ready to consider such revolutionary truths for their own benefit.
I was allowed my freedom about the city all day Wednesday but on Thursday the fourth day, I was quarantined and a guard of policemen stationed around
the house. The people had been so scared by the health officers, doctors, city officials and the newspapers that some of the policemen said that it was a good thing I was protected by a strong guard, otherwise my life was in danger.
Saturday I broke quarantine in spite of five policemen drove forty miles to Waupaca took the train for Chicago from there went to Terre Haute, Ind. And on my way back was arrested in Milwaukee and held for four days in the pest house. This is a brief outline of the whole episode which created quite a sensation.
The sanctimonious frauds and deceivers of the public (doctors) tried in every way, shape and manner to trace a case of smallpox to my actions, but with no avail. Even after I had exposed 30,000 people and rubbed my pus-covered hands over thirty-seven faces, they could find nothing against me. In the near future I will publish a few similar incidents which have happened to me in the past years, and which are far more interesting than this one.
Why is not one out of the thousands of these medical scoundrels, murderers and deceivers ever turned up to win the prize which reads as follows: On thousand dollars will be given to anyone that can prove that the disease is contagious; also ten dollars for every day it takes him to prove it. The doctors know that by superstition, the people can best be held. Then I want to ask you, are not the people more to blame than the doctors? More than half the public do not believe in contagion, but they lack the courage to say so. Discussion and argument will never change the present conditions. They never settle a question where a powerful body of men have law and money on their side. A powerful public sentiment, combined with true knowledge is the only remedy. As long as you drowse in your old superstitions these murderers will continue to ruin you constitutions for the money there is in it. Does any sane man believe that God created such laws which, if disobeyed at any time by one person, would spread a loathsome disease over a whole nation? This superstition is a blasphemy upon Almighty justice.
Dr. Rodermund in The Searchlight, 1901
FREDRICK DOUGLASS, US
“I am with you in your opposition to Compulsory Vaccination. My logical faculty was offended at it long ago. At best it was simply boring one hole to stop another, and now it seems not even to do that, if men die of small pox after vaccination. You do me justice when you count me on the side of liberty, and opposed to every species of arbitrary power. I am for the largest liberty of thought and conduct this side of crime. I am no more in favor of such power when
wielded by a majority than when by an individual.”
Letter to Professor J. Dossons, MD, Washington DC, Dec. 28, 1989
http://www.medscape.com/pages/editorial/public/toc-smallpox
Medscape Medical News
Alternative Smallpox Strategies: A Newsmaker Interview With Thomas
Mack, MD, MPH
Laurie Barclay, MD
Dec. 19, 2002 — Editor's Note: In the wake of U.S. President Bush's newly released vaccination plan, the New England Journal of Medicine offered an accelerated online release of articles "to inform the current national debate about smallpox vaccination." Included in these articles, which will be published in the Jan. 30, 2003, issue, is a Sounding Board by Thomas Mack, MD, MPH, a professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine, University of
Southern California at Los Angeles.
President Bush's plan calls for vaccination of 500,000 healthcare providers initially followed by up to 10 million others, but Dr. Mack suggests alternatives to this plan and their likely ramifications. Although Dr. Mack is now a cancer epidemiologist, he was involved in observing and investigating the dynamics of smallpox transmission in Pakistan 30 years ago. Medscape's Laurie Barclay interviewed Dr. Mack to learn more about his recommendations for smallpox vaccination and containment strategies.
Medscape: What is your opinion of the current smallpox vaccination plan?
Dr. Mack: I agree that we should not have mass vaccination of the public, but I disagree that we should vaccinate half a million healthcare workers. The introduction of smallpox could occur anywhere within the U.S. — the likelihood that hospital workers would be the first to come in contact with the index case is not that great, so what is the rationale behind vaccinating large numbers of hospital workers?
Vaccinating large numbers of staff identified by the hospitals as well as the general public is a mistake, because the deaths from vaccine complications will outweigh any limited increase in protection. Mass vaccination will guarantee a few deaths. If you vaccinate a million people, you will have three deaths from vaccine complications if those you vaccinate are healthy, more if they are immunosuppressed or chronically ill. And the liability for complications from vaccination is not clear.
Medscape: Wouldn't barrier dressings help cut down on complications due to secondary infection from the vaccination site? Dr. Mack: Barrier dressings are extremely uncomfortable and have to be worn for 10 days. When you're talking about half a million people, that is just not going to happen. Doctors and nurses will have to remove those dressings just to do their daily grind, and in the process, they'll come in close contact with lots of very vulnerable immunosuppressed patients. Those patients with skin lesions from AIDS r dermatological conditions will be at greatest risk of secondary infection from the caregiver's vaccination site.
Medscape: Could vaccinia immunoglobulin (VIg) help reduce vaccine-related complications?
Dr. Mack: Patients who develop serious complications from vaccination, like eczema vaccinatum, will die if they're not treated with VIg. It has never been widely used as adjunct prophylaxis, but in a small randomized trial in Madras, VIg increased the effectiveness of vaccination by 70%. So it may have a role in
prophylaxis, and it's important to have enough on hand. Right now we have very little, but the CDC is working on trying to increase the available supply.
Medscape: Do you recommend any alternatives to widespread vaccination of healthcare workers?
Dr. Mack: A better plan is to vaccinate a team of specified field investigators, paramedics, caregivers, diagnostic lab technicians and some law enforcement officers, and to mobilize them to wherever they are needed in the event of an outbreak. About 15,000 individuals would be needed. These teams should be prepared and supervised by public health agencies because they have the expertise and the experience to do it.
Medscape: Would this plan protect us if a suicidal bioterrorist deliberately tries to infect as many people as possible? Dr. Mack: In the early stages of the disease, a terrorist won't be infectious. Before the rash appears, individuals with smallpox are not really infectious, even though virus can be cultured from the pharynx. The most infectious individuals are very sick and have a very obvious rash that is virtually impossible to miss. The most infectious period is during the second half of the first week of rash, when symptoms are so severe that the infected person is bedridden. So the likelihood of a bioterrorist wandering around and infecting others without being recognized as having smallpox is remote.
Smallpox is not aerosolized easily, so saliva droplets containing the virus fall on the floor or on the clothes and basically stay there. However, there was one outbreak in a hospital thought to be due to airborne spread through a faulty ventilation system that recycled air from an infected patient's room to other rooms, and another case of hospital transmission thought to be related to infected linens.
Medscape: Isn't it commonly believed that the pilgrims infected Native Americans with smallpox by giving them infected blankets? Dr. Mack: That is absolutely untrue. However, it is true that there was a very rapid spread of smallpox through the Native American community. The reason for that is that the Native Americans had no concept of infectiousness. They were not frightened by someone covered in a rash and did not shun them the way we would today. Every doctor should recognize the characteristic appearance of smallpox, and once the first case appears, everyone will recognize it from the media coverage. No one's going to rush up and hug a highly infectious person covered in rash — they'll run the other way.
Medscape: If we do have an outbreak, what is your recommendation for containment?
Dr. Mack: The first wave of infection will probably be people who are admitted to the hospital before they are diagnosed, while they have the fever but before they get the rash. The first case of smallpox will probably end up in a hospital. But the rest should not be admitted to a general hospital, assuming they are diagnosed before they enter the hospital. They should go to a dedicated facility or stay at home until [a dedicated facility] is available. There really is not much you can do for a smallpox patient other than symptomatic care.
Medscape: Please elaborate on your suggestion for dedicated facilities.
Dr. Mack: Every public health agency should think about selecting a
small facility in advance, which, when needed, could be dedicated to
isolation and treatment of individuals infected with smallpox. This
could be a hospice, a nursing home, or even a National Guard field
hospital. During the outbreak, the facility would be manned by a
previously selected, previously vaccinated team.
Medscape: Do you see any practical problems with this arrangement, such as refusal of the chosen facility to convert to a smallpox ward, financial collapse of the facility before the outbreak because of
loss of patients and staff once it was so designated, and lack of
resources to convert the facility sufficiently quickly?
Dr. Mack: A public health officer has the authority to take over a
hospital, so the facility couldn't really refuse to take part in this
plan. Arrangements could be made in advance with the owner to offer
remuneration to move the patients and staff out of the facility
during an outbreak, and perhaps to continue paying the staff while
they were off the premises. Before the outbreak, which facility had
been designated could be kept quiet, and after the outbreak was over,
the facility could resume its usual operations. Smallpox isn't like
anthrax — it's easy to clean up.
Medscape: What about contacts of the index case?
Dr. Mack: For the first case, the Public Health Department would send
out investigators to find all of the contacts of the index case from
the time of fever through the time of the rash. In Pakistan, we saw
first-hand that it's the social contacts of the infected individuals
who are at risk, not necessarily those who live in the same
geographic area. If we have an outbreak in the U.S., each of the
potentially exposed persons would be contacted every day for 20 to 30
days to see if they develop any symptoms, so that they could be
properly isolated and treated if necessary. If they chose not to
cooperate, they should be forced to cooperate to avoid further
transmission. This is one of the few situations that should be
mandatory rather than voluntary. But in all likelihood, these
individuals would be frightened and would willingly cooperate if
treatment is made available to them. This treatment should include
VIg after vaccination.
Medscape: How effective do you think this plan would be?
Dr. Mack: Smallpox is contagious but it doesn't spread like wildfire.
We have one to three weeks to isolate exposed individuals before they
become contagious. If we follow this plan, the second wave of
smallpox will develop under surveillance. Of course, the system
wouldn't be completely efficient, but any case missed would be like a
new importation, and surveillance of the contacts of that case would
help prevent additional spread. Smallpox is a disease that lends
itself to containment. Based on what we learned in Europe, an initial
smallpox introduction will probably result in fewer than 20 cases and
10 deaths. Hopefully, with increased experience, each subsequent
introduction would have less of an effect.
The authorities and the media have done a terrible job of preparing
the public because now they're scared to death, when in fact the
disease is controllable and shouldn't create mass panic. In the
European outbreak of smallpox after World War II, for every one case
admitted to the hospital, there were about six hospital patients and
visitors who became infected, about four hospital workers, about
three household contacts, and only one individual where the route of
transmission was unclear. Hospitals are where the danger is, not
being out in public.
Of about 1,000 individuals infected in the postwar European outbreak,
not one was infected on a plane, train, or bus. So the notion that
we're at risk from infected individuals traveling around is a
mythical fright.
N Engl J Med. 2002;348(5):000-000
Reviewed by Gary D. Vogin, MD
The article may be found at http://www.know-vaccines.org/smallpox.html
Regards Danny Chaplin
Sanitation Vs. Vaccination - The Origin of Smallpox
By Walter S. Hadwen M.D.
Since Edward Jenner demonstrated the use of cowpox vaccine against smallpox in 1796, vaccinations against smallpox were started. Despite this, a smallpox epidemic swept England in 1839 and killed 22,081 people.
In 1853 the Government made smallpox vaccinations compulsory, but the incidence of the disease kept increasing, and in 1872 another epidemic killed 44,840 people, most of whom were vaccinated.
The compulsory vaccination law was abolished in 1948. Similar disasters occurred in Germany and Japan, but possibly the worst was in the Philippines in 1918 when the US Government forced over three million natives to be vaccinated. Of these, 47,369 came down with smallpox and 16,477 died. In 1919 the program was doubled, and over seven million were vaccinated, of whom 65,180 came down with the disease and 44,408 died. The epidemic was a direct result of the vaccination program. These facts are described by Dr William F. Koch in his book The Survival Factor in Neoplastic and Viral Disease (1961).
By following the superstitious impulses of Edward Jenner and the ancient tradition of time Gloucestershire dairymaids, the medical profession has lost sight of the vital question, what is the origin of smallpox?
The faculty of reasoning upon time subject appears to have become almost extinct; in its place there has arisen a demand for obedience to authority. Fashion has usurped the place of scientific thought, and arbitrary Acts of Parliament and the policeman's truncheon have supplanted logical consistency.
When the question is asked, "Why does smallpox break out at all?" the twentieth century scientist answers, "Because time populace have not been 'protected' against it by vaccination."
This reply only begs the question. It presupposes that smallpox is a natural visitation of Providence which may strike anybody at any moment, and that the only way by which this presumed inevitable evil can be met, is to compel every human being in this world to undergo a process of "protection," which is to render the system "immune" to attack. This is a negative form of reasoning. It leaves unanswered the crucial question, what is the origin of smallpox?
Why are we to suppose, as was believed in the eighteenth century, that a smallpox attack is the probable lot of every member of the race? Why must everybody be diseased to protect him against disease, especially if that disease is one from which, owing to altered conditions, he is never likely to suffer? Surely, if a disease breaks out there must be a cause for it.
The Source Of All "Outbreaks"
Now one fact stands out pre-eminently in every part of time world where smallpox has appeared--namely, it has been invariably associated with unsanitary and unhygienic conditions. From time immemorial it has been called in Austria "The Beggar's Disease." It has followed in the wake of filth, poverty, wars, pestilences, famines, and general insanitation, in all ages.
It accompanied the clash of arms of the American armies in their struggle for independence, and in their Civil and Spanish wars; it claimed more victims than the battlefield in the ravages of the Crimea; it formed the dark background to the triumphant marches of the German army in 1870; it increased tenfold the horrors of the siege of Paris; and plagued our warriors at Tel-el-Kebir.
Even during the late Great War no inconsiderable amount of smallpox occurred amongst all the armies involved wherever conditions of insanitation triumphed over the scrupulous efforts made to circumvent them.
Smallpox outbreaks and epidemics have invariably been the call of Nature to responsible authorities at home: "Put your house in order"; personal municipal, and civic cleanliness has been her unvarying demand, a demand which was couched in one striking injunction by the prophet of old: "Wash and be clean."
Redruth
I remember 26 years ago there was an outbreak of smallpox at Redruth, in Cornwall. The Press in all parts of the United Kingdom was immediately supplied with exaggerated reports, and scares were created by public vaccinators hundreds of miles away. I went down to investigate the affair on my own account. There were altogether 44 cases; 84 per cent occurred in vaccinated persons.
One-fourth of the cases was located in "Trestrails Row," consisting of seven houses, each containing only two small low-roofed rooms, and with no water connections. One midden privy, in the most disgusting condition, accommodated the seven houses. One of these hovels was occupied by no fewer than seven persons, all of whom contracted smallpox, and out of the total of seven deaths three occurred in this house.
Nearly another fourth of the cases was confined to Adelaide Road and Raymond Road, where smallpox first appeared, the houses of which were supplied with uncovered cesspits. Three cases occurred in Falmouth Road, with one death which took place in a house closely hedged in by foul middens, a manure heap, and a piggery.
Three more cases and one death occurred in the midst of similar unsanitary conditions at Hockin's Court. Midden privies were the order of the day, and the ultimate disposal of the sewage was primitive to a degree. The smallpox rapidly played itself out, and then the municipality corrected the conditions that had been the cause of time outbreak.
Gloucester
I remember, too, the epidemic in Gloucester in 1895-6. I was in and out of the smallpox houses throughout that visitation of nearly 2,000 cases. The echo of it is still heard among time ranks of Jennerian followers, and always with time tragic whisper, "Gloucester was an unvaccinated city!"
Never in all time history of professional scaremongering was such a determined effort made to boost vaccination, and never a word was uttered as to the shocking insanitary conditions which produced the tragedy. In fact, those conditions were persistently denied by time officials who were responsible for them.
The smallpox was practically confined to the southern half of the city, where there was no fall for the sewage. The pipes had been hurriedly laid in this new district without concrete base or cemented joints. There was a drought that lasted months; time water supply ran short; flushing of the sewers had to be discontinued, and time sewerage pipes became choked. When, after time epidemic was over, investigation was made, the pipes were found to be broken in all directions; in fact, the whole district of--for the most part--crowded houses, many of them back-to-back with no through ventilation, lay over what was nothing more nor less than a huge cesspit. The outlets for the sewer-gas consisted of street manholes, which belched their poison into time atmosphere.
I traced the first case of smallpox in every street to the house nearest to a manhole. Wooden stoppers were made to close them down, but they had to be used sparingly lest the sewer-gas should be driven into the houses. Hundreds of the houses were drawing their water supply from shallow wells, liable to contamination by constant leakage into them from house drains; and the sewage-pipes in numerous instances ran under the floors of the houses from the closets at the back to the street in front.
Some of the houses had their toilets in the back kitchen. In one street of 114 houses the latter were supplied with water declared by the city surveyor to be contaminated with sewage from its source to its delivery, and as it had not force enough to fill the flushing tanks, the toilets were never flushed and always choked, the contents being emptied periodically on to the small garden ground attached. In some of these tiny houses there were seven, nine, and even twelve cases of smallpox.
A sixth part of the whole epidemic occurred in three streets. In one street the sewage entered the cellars of the houses, and the choked-up street sewer had to be opened up in the midst of the epidemic. Nearly half the houses in this street had smallpox cases.
Then the epidemic caught on in two disgracefully unsanitary and overcrowded, ill-ventilated elementary schools. Forty-five children were struck down suddenly in one of them and 31 in the other. The patients were removed to what was called an isolation hospital. It was congregation, not isolation. A woman employed in the early part of the epidemic as solitary night nurse told me that time sight and screaming of these poor children at night as they ran about the wards in delirium so completely unnerved her that she was obliged to leave.
They were allowed no water for their fevered skins, time baths were choked with dirty linen, and never used. The little ones were packed three, four, and even five in a bed; vermin was crawling everywhere; no oil was used for the faces, and the poor children scratched themselves till they bled.
Of every two taken in to the Stroud Road Hospital one was carried out a corpse; when the mortuary became choked with dead bodies, the bathroom was utilized for this purpose.
One child lay for two weeks and two days with her eyes scabbed and not a single drop of water was given to relieve her. When one hospital became full, another one was opened which had been used as a cholera hospital many years before.
It was built on stakes in a rough, boggy field; it had no sewerage connections, nor any drainage whatever, and water had to be carried in water-carts over a quarter of a mile of bog to reach it.
The panic became fearful, and a wild, despairing cry went up from the plague-stricken city as the destroying angel sped from house to house in these awful slums.
And what was the answer the terror-stricken inhabitants received from the Guardians of Public Health? Still the same mad reply: "These be thy gods, O Israel!" as they pointed to the vaccine lancets, dripping with their filthy venom; in helplessness and fear they implored the people, in a unanimously signed medical manifesto, to bow down and worship at the shrine.
At last the rain came. It washed the atmosphere, it flushed the sewers and drains; it filled the vacuoles of sewer gas in the sandy soil, and the epidemic died down.
The councilors who put up at the next municipal contest were one and all indignantly swept away at the polls by the enraged voters, and anti-vaccinationists took their place; a new sewerage system was laid throughout the whole smallpox district at a cost of some £30,000; 20,000 sanitary defects in the houses were rectified, and no smallpox has occurred since, although nearly 90 per cent, of the population is unvaccinated. But even in that awful epidemic, smallpox picked out the vaccinated for attack; two-thirds of the sufferers had been "protected" by time filthy superstitious rite.
Sheffield And Other Cases
I remember Sheffield and its epidemic in 1887-8. No less than 98 per cent of the population had been vaccinated; it was the best vaccinated town in the kingdom the public vaccinators had reaped a richer harvest of bonuses for "successful vaccination" than those of any other town, and yet they had 7,000 cases of smallpox.
It originated and clung to an unsanitary area of 175 acres covered with cesspits--which was called The Croft. The medical profession helplessly cried "vaccinate" and "re-vaccinate"--as if the pubic had not already had enough of it. At last the floodgates of heaven were mercifully opened, and the bountiful rains suddenly accomplished what 56,000 vaccinations had failed to effect.
I went to Middlesbrough in the great epidemic of 1898. I visited every smallpox hospital ward, and investigated the conditions of the houses, and their environment, from whence the smallpox came. As everybody knows, the houses at that time had been run up at an enormous rate, much too fast for the sanitary officials to keep pace with them.
The part where the smallpox raged was situated chiefly over a swamp where it was difficult to find foundations for the houses; many of them were raised on piles driven through the soil.
The only method of house sanitation in all that district was that of pails in the backyards. But whatever else had been neglected, vaccination had been sedulously attended to--the inhabitants were vaccinated up to 98.4 per cent, of the population.
Nevertheless the vaccinated and re-vaccinated hospital officials fell before the disease side by side with the vaccinated and re-vaccinated inhabitants. Nine hospital ward-maids, one trained nurse, one medical man and three policemen fell victims to the disease.
Outraged Nature laughed outright at the Jennerian fetish and declared in plain and unmistaken language that if smallpox was to be prevented the conditions which caused it must be remedied. Poisoning human bodies with the products of a foul eruption on a cow's udder could only add fuel to the fire by reducing the vital resisting powers of the sufferers.
I call to mind the case of one adult male I interviewed in one of the smallpox hospital wards at that time. He was vaccinated in infancy, had smallpox when eight years old, and was subsequently re-vaccinated three times. That man died of smallpox. I took a particular interest in that case, and was staggered to find when the official report was published that, owing to his having had the eruption so badly as to cover his vaccination marks, he was actually declared to be "unvaccinated"!
I have visited Glasgow in two of its smallpox epidemics. The slums in which they occurred; the overcrowded and unsanitary condition of the tenements told, the same tale as elsewhere. Nothing but sweeping away, the rookeries, where smallpox invariably, takes hold, can ever save those parts of the city from periodical visitations. Space forbids further reminiscences but it is the same story everywhere. Go back to the records of Old London and we find insanitation and smallpox keeping company throughout.
The Lesson Of The Public Health Act
Before the passing of the Public Health Act of l875 in this country, every succeeding epidemic of smallpox was worse than its predecessor in spite of more and more compulsory vaccination; but with less and less vaccination and more and more sanitation smallpox has become a comparative curiosity. It is only in unsanitary quarters it can gain a hold.
Sir Edwin-Chadwick, the veteran sanitarian, has well said: Smallpox, typhus, and other fevers occur in common conditions of foul air, stagnant putrefaction, bad house drainage, sewers of deposit, excrement sodden sites, filthy street surfaces, impure water, and overcrowding, and the entire removal of such conditions is the effectual preventive of diseases of those species, whether in ordinary or extraordinary visitations.
When will the medical profession arouse itself to ask the question: "What is the origin of smallpox?"
When will a Ministry of Health cease to bring discredit upon itself by the advocacy of a disgusting fetish that has proved, itself a failure as a preventive of the disease in every part of the world in which it has been adopted for the last century and a quarter? When will a British Government that boasts of its progress and civilisation cease to ally itself with a filthy, uncivilised, unscientific practice that has done nothing but spread disease and death amongst the populace for generation and which is opposed to the common-sense views of the majority of thinking men and women in the realm?
From "Truth," January 17, 1923
Article written after Dr. Sherri Tenpenny attended the CDC meeting outline
below..........
Reposting for those who did not see and those who have forgotten.
I would add see my webpages for smallpox info
http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/smallpox.htm
http://www.vaclib.org/news/cdcforum.htm
Public Forum on Smallpox
By Dr. Sherri Tenpenny
June 8, 2002
St. Louis, Missouri
The CDC held the third of a series of meetings called the "Public Forum on Smallpox" on June 8, 2002 in St. Louis, Missouri. In front of a small group of approximately 60 people, I had the opportunity to deliver a five minute speech http://www.mercola.com/2002/jun/8/smallpox_vaccine.htm and then had the opportunity to ask several very pointed questions directed toward the CDC representatives. This is my report of the meeting.
Everyone should be aware that the CDC will review the answers collected on its website. The deadline for submission is JUNE 12, but keep sending your comments even after the deadline. All of the questions and comments made at the forums are being taped and will be reviewed by the members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) prior to their final recommendations June 20, 2002. My understanding as after participating in this meeting is that the CDC not only wants to solicit comments, but to see how "willingly" we will accept the vaccine.
The CDC was very forthright in presenting truthful and accurate information about smallpox and about the anticipated problems associated with the vaccine. Surprisingly, it seemed the CDC was advising GREAT CAUTION regarding the use of the vaccine. Even in the
event of an outbreak, the greatest emphasis would be placed on
isolation, not just on containment (vaccination). This certainly was
not what I was expecting to hear.
And unless you were an informed listener, you would have missed the
most amazing things that the CDC said about a smallpox infection.
The morning opened with Dr. Robert Belshe, M.D, Director of the
Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology from St. Louis
University. He has been directly involved with clinical trials
involving the Dryvax® vaccine. He presented an overview of the
questions the CDC put forth to the community and placed on their
website. This was a very important clarification, as the formatting
of these questions is very unclear.
The program continued with Dr. Joel Kuritsky, the CDC's director of
the Preparedness and Early Smallpox Response Activity for the
National Immunization Program. He stated that one of the reasons that
the forums were being held was to clear up some misconceptions about
smallpox. "For one thing," he said, "smallpox is not explosively
contagious." On two separate occasions, Kuritsky said, "smallpox is
NOT like measles; it is NOT a highly contagious disease." This has
been one of the cornerstone arguments for mass vaccination propagated
by both medical journals and the popular press! I could hardly
believe what I was hearing. Was anyone else in the room picking up on
this??
Kuritsky expounded on other smallpox misconceptions:
1.Smallpox is spread through "droplet contamination." The likelihood
of spreading the infection from person-to-person throughout a room is
minimal because "coughing and sneezing are not part of the disease."
2.Transmission through bed clothing contamination is extremely rare.
3.The virus is NOT spread in food or water.
4.Contagiousness can be "interrupted' by the use of "a properly
fitted filtered respirator mask with an NIOSH rating of N95 or
better." The key here is personalized fitting: a fitted mask will
provide a very high level of protection against biological agents.
An extremely important revelation that Kuritsky delineated was that
smallpox will not spread rapidly through the population. The disease
is "transmitted slowly and only after prolonged, direct, face-to-face
contact." He further clarified close contact to mean "more than 7
days" and face-to-face to mean "contact that is within 6-7 feet."
Scientific studies were presented to accentuate this point.
Therefore, it is the intensity and duration of contact that spreads
smallpox. Dr. Kuritsky said casual contact will not spread
smallpox. "The scenario in which a terrorist infects himself and
walks through a city spreading the disease just wouldn't happen, even
in population-dense areas. In the 1970s, we were able to control the
spread of the infection even in highly dense settings such as India
and Bangladesh," he explained.
Kuritsky's information comes in part from a recent paper published by
Meltzer. After analyzing data obtained from an outbreak that occurred
in 1898, Meltzer's group concluded that "smallpox was not readily
spread among the general population by brief, casual encounters, such
as walking down the street beside an ill person or briefly bein in
the same shop or business. Rather, smallpox was primarily spread
among persons living in the same house as a smallpox patient.
Meltzer's paper goes on to state that, "most outbreaks have an
average transmission rate of less than 1 person infected per
infectious person." This means that less than one person contracted
smallpox from a primarily infected person! The oft-repeated story
that "millions could die from the rapid spread of smallpox after an
exposure" appears to be nothing more than theoretical hype. (I
strongly encourage everyone to read this paper.—SEE FOOTNOTE FOR
REFERENCE)
It is critically important to understand that people are only
contagious after the smallpox pustules have erupted on the skin.
There is no "carrier state" for this disease, as seen with
chickenpox, in which the person is contagious for several days before
the vesicular rash occurs. The incubation period after an acute
exposure to smallpox can range from 2-17 days. The onset of a fever
is a warning sign, indicating that the person may have contracted the
infection. This is referred to as the "prodromal stage." At that
point, the person feels very ill and will most likely go to bed. "The
person is sick and will not be walking around," said Kuritsky.
The value of surveillance post-exposure lies in the fact that a
person's temperature can be monitored daily and he can be quarantined
AT THE ONSET OF FEVER, preferably in his own home. However it is
critically important to understand that, even at this stage, the
person is not contagious!! It is only after the appearance of the
smallpox rash, generally 2 to 4 days after the onset of the fever,
that the person becomes infectious. Keep in mind that there are other
causes for fever: the person may just have the flu!!
The smallpox rash has a distinctive appearance and feel. The
distribution is primarily on the face, palms and soles, with very
little seen on the trunk. In addition, unlike chickenpox, all of the
pustules have a consistent appearance throughout the body. When
palpated, the rash feels "shoddy," or like buckshot under the surface
of the skin.
However, there are other rashes that can potentially be "confused"
with smallpox. Dr. Kuritsky gave a list of infectious diseases that
present with rashes that can potentially be misinterpreted as
smallpox:
1.Chickenpox
2.Disseminated herpes simplex
3.Disseminated herpes zoster (shingles)
4.Hand-foot-mouth disease
5.Secondary syphilis
6.Molluscum contagiousum (a viral infection)
7.Erythema multiforme
In addition to viruses, reactions to medications can occasionally
precipitate a rash that could be mistaken for smallpox. The CDC has
established a "rash algorithm" to assist healthcare professionals in
differentiating smallpox from other skin conditions. This can be
viewed by going to http://www.cdc.gov/nip/smallpox/poster-
protocol.pdf"> .
In addition, the CDC has set up a 24 hour "Rash Hotline" at 770-488-
7100. With all these helpful aides to assist practitioners in making
the correct diagnosis, it is doubtful that one of these rashes could
be confused with smallpox, precipitating the mass havoc as seen on
the recent "ER" episode.
Prior to 1967, the World Health Organization stated that a global
vaccination rate of greater than 80% was needed to eradicate
smallpox. However, even when this rate was attained, outbreaks still
occurred in Asia and India. Therefore, a new strategy was introduced
in 1973. Smallpox cases were actively searched for and isolated.
Vaccination of only the person's immediate close contacts created a
barrier "ring" to decrease the spread of the infection. Within two
years after the implementation of surveillance and containment
approach, the number of smallpox outbreaks had dramatically declined.
This is the basis for the current CDC recommendations of
"surveillance and containment" in the event of an attack.
It is crucial to realize that even in the event of a confirmed case
of smallpox, there is no need to panic. The CDC's position paper on
smallpox, "Vaccinia (Smallpox) Vaccine Recommendations" published
June, 2001 states that vaccination of close personal contacts within
4 days of the onset of the rash will be protective. However, Dr.
Kuritsky stated that "vaccination 12-13 days out will still be
protective." Based on this information, it appears that any rush to
vaccinate first responders and medical personnel is not based on
current understanding of the disease and appears to be inappropriate.
Dr. Harold Margolis, CDC senior advisor for smallpox preparedness,
was the next to speak. The majority of his presentation focused on
the potential side effects and complications of the vaccinia vaccine.
As a former pediatrician who was still in practice when the smallpox
vaccine was still given routinely, he had seen many of these
reactions first-hand. Dozens of impressive pictures were shown
demonstrating the types of reactions that could occur. In fact, many
more dreadful pictures were shown of smallpox vaccine reactions than
of smallpox itself!
It is an unfortunate fact that a large percentage of the population
is in much poorer health today than when smallpox vaccine
was "routinely" given prior to 1971 and this exponentially increases
the risk of vaccination complications. Now more than 25% of our
population is immunosuppressed by diseases or drugs. This includes
more than 28 million people with eczema and millions more with a past
history of eczema; 184,000 organ recipients, 850,000 individuals with
diagnosed and undiagnosed HIV infection or AIDS, and 8.5 million
people with cancer. Dr. Margolis presented a slide that contained
these facts. What he failed to discuss, however, were risks involving
the untold millions who are taking immunosuppressive drugs such as
the corticosteroids Prednisone® and Medrol®. These medications are
given to both adults and children, and are prescribed for dozens of
conditions including but not limited to: asthma; emphysema;
allergies; Crohn's disease; multiple sclerosis; herniated spinal
discs; acute muscular pain syndromes; and all types rheumatoid and
autoimmune diseases. All of these patients would be at risk for
serious complications—including death—not only from the vaccine, but
also from coming in contact with a vaccinated individual.
Dr. Margolis provided the following information regarding the current
and projected supply of the vaccine stock:
Name of vaccine
Manufacturer
Made from
Number of doses
Dryvax (1982) Wyeth Calf lymph 15-75 million
Accum 1000 (new) Acambis MRC-5 cells (human fetal tissue) 54 million
Accum 2000 (new) Acambis Vero cells (monkey tissue) 155 million
"frozen vaccine" (1980s) Aventis (Unsure) 70-90 million
He reaffirmed that vaccinia is NOT cowpox; it is a completely
separate virus. In addition, he remarked in passing that the vaccinia
vaccine is considered an IND, or investigational new drug. This
designation should not be taken lightly. The old versions of the
vaccine—the Aventis vaccine and Dryvax®--will be re-released. These
vaccines were never subjected to controlled clinical trials. The new
Acambis vaccines will not have to be subjected to rigorous safety
standards in human trials. The new FDA rulings on the development of
drugs and vaccines related to bioterrorism will lower safety
production standards to fast- track production. And as always, vaccine
manufacturers as well as physicians will be protected from liability
for any vaccine-induced injuries or deaths that will undoubtedly
occur. These facts must be taken into consideration before deciding
to receive the vaccine.
There was a "wrap up" of the morning, and then the floor was opened
to questions from the audience. I asked the following questions:
Q: If a person was vaccinated with the smallpox vaccine, can they be
tested to see if they still have protective antibody levels?
A: There is no commercially available test available to the general
public.
Editorial Comment: Some studies suggest that antibody levels from
previous vaccination may last as long as 50 years. Since this is a
test that can be performed at research laboratories, the CDC should
make this type of testing available before the vaccinia vaccine is
used.
Q: (asked by another person): Is it essential for a scar to form to
know that a person has developed immunity?
A. (Belshe) There is a high relationship between the development of
an antibody response and the development of the scar. "The scar is a
simple indication that the vaccine is working."
Q: The CDC has published a 260 page document called "Interim Smallpox
Response Plan & Guidelines." Is this plan intended to be a"prototype"
in the event that other types of biological weapons are released on
the general public?
A: (Kurtisky): Parts of it could be used for that purpose.
Q: In the event of a confirmed outbreak, would those people
considered to be "close contacts" and in the "immediate ring" be
required to be vaccinated, even if they had a medical
contraindication?
A: We would have to do the best that we could to not vaccinate them,
but they are also the ones at greatest risk for the most serious
complications from smallpox.
Editorial Comment: There was no direct answer to this, even when
several others in the audience asked this question in various
formats, including "what is the CDC's definition of voluntary?" The
question was diverted and vaguely addressed.
Q: We read in every medical and general publication that the case
fatality rate of smallpox is 30%. What was the actual cause of death
from smallpox?
A: (by Dr. Margolis): Most people died from electrolyte imbalances
and possibly renal (kidney) disease. In addition, the skin sometimes
exfoliated (sloughed off) and it acted like a burn. In addition, most
cases that died were in Bangladesh and Central Africa.
Q: So, what you are saying by your answer is that those conditions
are treatable and that most cases that died took place in countries
where they did not have advanced medical care…and since the last case
of known smallpox in the U.S. was in Texas in 1949, we have the
medical capability to treat complications of smallpox today…
A: Some "imported cases" people died in Europe too.
Editorial Comment: Both doctors demonstrated an interesting "body
language" response when I asked this question. They both shifted
abruptly back into their chairs, looked at each other. I read
Margolis lips, as he asked Kuritsky, "do you want to answer this?"
Kuritsky shook his head "no." I have never seen either of these
complications listed in association with smallpox, let alone the
cause of death of smallpox! In addition, this means that people die
from potentially treatable COMPLICATIONS of this infection, not from
the infection itself! This is a critical distinction. The reason that
most people say that they would accept the smallpox vaccine is
because of its reported 30% death rate.
In addition, this reported 30% death rate is a statistic based on old
data. It is doubtful that the death rate would be any where near that
high today. However, the severe complication and death rate from the
vaccine might well be at least that high due to the vast number of
immunosuppressed people in our country as I mentioned earlier.
In light of all this information, it was disheartening and alarming
to hear the prepared answers read by the organizations in attendance.
Each person that commented was required to state their name and the
organization that they represented when they read their prepared 5
minute statement. The overwhelming response by the organizations,
with the exception of my comments, can be summarized as follows:
1.Do not start vaccinating the general public at this time.
2.Begin vaccination of first responders now, but on a limited basis
only.
3.In the case of an outbreak, all bets are off but vaccination should
be used with responders and quite possibly with large sectors of the
general public.
Was anyone listening? It appears that the "public" is willing to
ignore the facts that the CDC presented and go further than was
really warranted.
What is the "real agenda" of the CDC? Why were these meetings held,
given the fact that the CDC has never been interested in what the
public has to say about their policies? Over the next few weeks and
months, the rest of the story will undoubtedly unfold.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
I want to personally thank all of you who called and who emailed me
with letters of support and concern after reading my press releases
on http://www.Mercola.com and http://www.Rense.com or hearing me on
the radio with Joyce Riley or with Bill Boshears. Your kind words and
thoughts were very much appreciated and I will continue to do my very
best to keep you updated and informed as the possibility of mandatory
smallpox vaccination draws near.
While the possibility of mandatory vaccination is the "bad news", the
good news is that most of the letters I received asked, "What can I
do to help?" In fact this is not just good news, it is great news, as
time is short and we need America to wake up and do it fast! To
protect ourselves from those who would "protect" us by denying
us our most basic rights, we will need to be aware and willing to
act. Everyone one of us—and everyone one of our friends and family
members MUST become aware of the critical juncture at which we now
stand and get involved.
In spite of the fact that, by the CDC's own admission, mass
vaccination is not necessarily the answer, the Patriot Act and The
Model State Emergency Health Powers Act have laid the groundwork for
it. (To view the full text of these documents, go to
http://www.libertyandfreedom.com .)
Thinking "this could never happen here!" will not protect you. The
only chance that we have to protect our disappearing rights is to GET
INVOLVED.
Here are my recommendations:
A. Go to the CDC website and answer the questions. Time is of the
essence, as they are only accepting comments until JUNE 12, 2002. To
answer the questions, a clarification is necessary. The questions are
wordy and can be confusing. In simple terms, this is what the CDC is
asking:
Question #1: The CDC's current policy for smallpox vaccination is to
only vaccinate laboratory workers. Should this be changed? Should the
vaccine be available to the general public?
Answers:
1. No change in policy; Not recommended for the general public
2. CDC does not recommend the vaccine but it would be available on
request to the general public
3. CDC is neutral on recommendation, but vaccine would be available
on request
4. The vaccine would be available to the general public
Question #2: Should specific groups of first responders (ex:
EMT/paramedics; police; fireman; ER doctors a nurses; etc.) be
vaccinated now?
1. No. Vaccine should be only for laboratory personnel
2. Yes, but limited only to smallpox response teams created by the
CDC or the States.
3. Yes. Widespread vaccination of all medical and non-medical first
responders and their support staff.
Question #3: In the even of a confirmed outbreak, how should the
vaccine be used?
Surveillance and containment: Use ring vaccination only on limited
basis of direct personal contacts
1. Surveillance and containment PLUS selected medical and 1st
responders
2. Surveillance and containment PLUS the general public in the
affected communities
3. Surveillance and containment PLUS mass vaccination of the general
public.
Now that you can understand the questions that they are asking, you
can give a response that most represents your understanding of the
situation and how you feel best meets your needs and those of your
family. This is how I responded:
Question #1….Answer #1
Question #2….Answer #1
Question #3….Answer #1 PLUS the following comments:
a. The CDC data shows that this is NOT a highly contagious virus
b. The CDC data shows that the virus has a slow transmission rate
c. Even those at highest risk will only contract smallpox if they
have had intense contact for more than 7 days
d. The general public must be advised to NOT go to the hospital as
the transmission rate to others is highest within the confines of a
building.
e. It is the job of the CDC and the Public Health Officials to ensure
that the general public fully understands this information and DOES
NOT PANIC. Smallpox is not only slow to spread, it is slow to cause
severe illness.
B. Focus on education. The real war has become an information war; it
is being fought now! Inform your state and federal (congressional)
leaders of your position. Let them know the level to which you will
resist, if that is what you are planning to do. Inform and educate
political leaders, City Counsel members, school board members, local
charities and your police and fire departments. Have a family and
neighborhood meeting. Know in advance what your response is going to
be. Most importantly, share this information with everyone that you
know.
C. Increase your stores of food and bottled water in case a
quarantine situation arises. Purchase a filtered mask for each person
in your family that is NIOSH approved with an N95+ rating. Most
importantly, have the mask appropriately fitted for each person and
keep it in an accessible place.
D. Grow and/or purchase organic produce for your family. Seek
alternative types of healthcare to improve your immune system and
maintain or restore your health. Create your own stock of vitamins,
herbs, homeopathics.
Avoid prescription medications as much as possible.
E. Keep your immune system healthy! Avoid white (refined) sugar,
white flour and white rice. Now is the time to determine your "bowel
tolerance" for Vitamin C. The best way to do this is with powdered
Vitamin C. Start with 10,000mg and increase by 5,000 mg/day until you
reach a level that causes diarrhea. That level is your bowel
tolerance. If you have an acute infection, START AT THIS LEVEL and
continue to increase to your next level of bowel tolerance. It is a
well-known and established medical fact that Vitamin C is a potent
anti-viral vitamin. Keep large stocks of this on hand in the event of
any type of bioterrorism attack.
F. Become familiar with the use of Essential Oils, homeopathy, and
other herbal remedies that have been shown to be effective against
viral infections.
Nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both
instances, there is a twilight where everything remains seemingly
unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of
change in the air…however slight…lest we become unwitting victims of
the darkness."
--Justice William O. Douglas
Endnotes:
i Frey, Sharon E. et al. Dose Related Effects of Smallpox Vaccine.
NEJM Vol. 346; No. 17. 1275-1280. April 25, 2002.
ii Am. Journal Epidemiology. 1971; 91:316-326.
iii Meltzer, Martin I. et.al. Modeling Potential Responses to
Smallpox as a Bioterrorist Weapon Appendix I: A Mathematical
Review of the Transmission of Smallpox. Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Vol.7, No.6. November-December, 2001.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol7no6/pdf/meltzer_appendix1.pdf
ivMeltzer. Ibid. November-December, 2001.
v Rao AR. Smallpox. Bombay: The Kothari Book Depot, 1972.
vi WHO Bulletin 1975 52:209-222.
vii ACIP recommendations on Smallpox:
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr//preview/mmwrhtml/rr5010a1.htm
viii Diepgen TL. Is the prevalence of atopic dermatitis increasing?
In: Williams HC, ed. Atopic Dermatitis: The Epidemiology,
Causes and Prevention of Atopic Eczema. New York: Cambridge Univ Pr;
2000:96-112.
ix United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS). All Recipients: Age at
Time of Transplant. www.unos.org x Joint United
Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. Epidemiological Fact Sheets on HIV and
Sexually Transmitted Infections: United States.
http://www.unaids.org/fact_sheets /index.html
xi National Cancer Institute. CanQues.
http://srab.cancer.gov/Prevalence/canques.html
xii J. Infectious Diseases. 1972: 125:161-169.
Frey, Sharon E. et al. Dose Related Effects of Smallpox Vaccine. NEJM
Vol. 346; No. 17. 1275-1280. April 25, 2002.
Am. Journal Epidemiology. 1971; 91:316-326.
Meltzer, Martin I. et.al. Modeling Potential Responses to Smallpox as
a Bioterrorist Weapon Appendix I: A Mathematical
Review of the Transmission of Smallpox. Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Vol.7, No.6. November-December, 2001.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol7no6/pdf/meltzer_appendix1.pdf
Meltzer. Ibid. November-December, 2001.
Rao AR. Smallpox. Bombay: The Kothari Book Depot, 1972.
WHO Bulletin 1975 52:209-222.
ACIP recommendations on Smallpox:
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr//preview/mmwrhtml/rr5010a1.htm
Diepgen TL. Is the prevalence of atopic dermatitis increasing? In:
Williams HC, ed. Atopic Dermatitis: The Epidemiology,
Causes and Prevention of Atopic Eczema. New York: Cambridge Univ Pr;
2000:96- 112.
United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS). All Recipients: Age at Time
of Transplant. www.unos.org
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. Epidemiological Fact
Sheets on HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infections:
United States.
http://www.unaids.org/fact_sheets /index.html
National Cancer Institute. CanQues.
http://srab.cancer.gov/Prevalence/canques.html
J. Infectious Diseases. 1972: 125:161-169.
From John Rappaport's StratiaWire's Newsletter:
Monday, December 23, 2002
UPDATE---SMALLPOX VACCINE OP
DECEMBER 23. I have had time to consult with several very good sources, and this is what is happening with the smallpox vaccine.
There is a full-court press on the major media to keep them from saying, THE GOVERNMENT HAS REVERSED ITS POSITION ON THE VACCINE. THE GOVERNMENT SCREWED UP BIG-TIME.
How long this pressure will succeed we don’t know. But so far the media campaign of OMISSION is working. The dumbed-down public is buying the moment-by-moment coverage without connecting the dots.
Too busy shopping and making plans for the holidays. In point of fact, the government could have begun leaking its reversal-of-position info a lot earlier, but now is perfect. Xmas rules all.
The amazing “confession” data re the vaccine FROM THE MAINSTREAM PRESS is a series of planned leaks. This is all orchestrated, for reasons I’ve been mentioning in recent articles.
It’s being made to look like responsible medical bureaucrats have the public interest at heart. Some of them do. But overall, this is a story about heavy protection of the vaccine industry from exposure, since the smallpox vaccine is so dangerous and toxic.
The CDC is now scrambling to do two things: one, tell those thousands of community vaccine centers they have been setting up, all across America, to back off on the smallpox shot; and two, retain the STRUCTURE of those centers, a new infrastructure for all sorts of medical OPS (covert operations), including, of course, vaccines to be given in the event of a PURPOSELY STAGED “biowar attack.”
However, because the prior propaganda about the importance of getting the smallpox shot was so successful, there will be people who insist on getting the vaccine. Some of them will get very sick, and some will die.
The government is not willing to simply say, “Well, we warned you.” That is not enough. That is not going to carry the day. So as many of these deaths as possible will be attributed to other causes. But it is likely there will be problems. As I write this, legal experts are working to figure out how the government should deal with the liability, and PR firms are weighing in, too, to concoct spin trips to minimize bad press. Odds are, the vaccine manufacturers will stay out of the spotlight.
Whatever heat there is to take, the government will take it. This, in fact, was the whole point of the VAERS system of liability payouts that was put into effect in 1986. Get the drug companies off the hook and involve claimants in a maze of government pros who could stall God from making it rain.
Okay? So now we have to ask, if the government has been making an amazing reversal of opinion and policy in the last week on the smallpox vaccine, why did they ever support mass vaccinations in the first place? Why say yes and then say no later on, when the liability exposure is so fraught with danger?
This part of the story is definitely DEVELOPING, as they say in the news business.
Was Bush told to launch the mass vaccination program by people who were stupid, who didn’t understand what could happen? Did Tommy Thompson, Bush’s secretary of health and human services, tell him to do this? Thompson knows nothing about these matters, as far as the science is concerned. If the urging for a green light came from Thompson, then HE had been briefed by others first.
Was Bush urged to give the green light by George Tenet, the CIA director? Did Tenet think he had good information that a smallpox bio-attack might be imminent?
If it was Thompson or Tenet, who had briefed these men first?
We know that Bush is impulsive, and that he gets advice from his people and tends to jump into action without reflection.
There is another possibility. Somebody ran an OP on Bush. Somebody wanted him to do exactly the wrong thing. Somebody wanted to him to be the dupe for an eventual vaccine disaster of enormous proportions. A Gerald Ford with his absurd swine flu vaccine fiasco. Only much worse.
Can you imagine the damage Bush would have suffered (and could still suffer) if he had given the final okay for a mandate to vaccinate the whole nation? People dying like flies, photos, the whole war on terrorism cast as a medical screw-up of the first order?
Bush’s Waterloo.
Judging from the rising tide of negative opinion about the vaccine coming from the CDC and NIH over the last few months, it’s unlikely that the original instigator for this mass vaccination program came from official channels at these two giant federal agencies.
And you see, as long as the major media refuse to pursue the story of the government 180-degree turnaround on the smallpox-vaccine issue, reporters are not going to ask Bush, “Who convinced you this was a good idea in the first place?”
I have spoken with my prime source on propaganda matters, Ellis Medavoy. He said, “You have to look for layers of people here. You have to build a chain of people to see where the idea for this mass vaccination came from. It’s quite possible that someone within the intelligence cartel was the real source. Someone who WANTED a disaster. Because disasters are what create the kind of chaos certain people want. (I have referred to these elements in past articles as the Plan B people). They are not satisfied with the slow-drip method of gaining more control over the global population. They want to burn down everything to the ground and build a steel-trap society on the ruins.”
Bush is still up against it. The Army is vaccinating lots of soldiers. How successful will the cover-up of deaths be? Well, it’s a lot easier to manage that behind the military walls than out in the public.
Bush is still on the hook as the dupe. How do you make a dupe? You feed him information which merges with his general outlook, you give him a detailed suggestion as to action, and you stand back and let him go to work.
In the case of instituting that VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) in 1986 that took vaccine manufactures off the liability-payout hook, the federal government allowed anti-vaccine activists to propose VAERS, activists who thought that GOVERNMENT was a better protector of the people than DRUG COMPANIES.
Hello? The medical monopoly IS a joint venture of government and drug companies.
More coming…
Although I haven’t been able to obtain the medical records of those Marines in San Diego who are falling ill and dying, I believe that at least some of them are the victims of the smallpox and/or anthrax vaccine. I’m still looking for better confirmation. This ranks as a maybe right now.
Meanwhile, CNN reports that hundreds of sailors aboard the USS Roosevelt have come down with the flu. Of course, no details on exactly how the blood of these people was tested to make that diagnosis---and we don't know whether the sailors have recently been vaccinated. The ship is in the Atlantic Ocean on exercises, and is third in line to go to the Middle East---so it's possible the crew has received smallpox shots. If this outbreak is really a vaccine reaction, it's being covered up. Maybe we're seeing a reaction to a flu vaccine.
MSNBC is reporting on a new survey done to see what Americans know and don't know about smallpox and the vaccine. The conclusion? Americans are confused about the most elementary facts. There is a clue here for us: The complete government turnaround on ITS position vis-a-vis the vaccine is now being laid off on the public---"The government is not talking out of both sides of its mouth, it's the public that has all the wrong ideas." And this MSNBC piece also tells us how the press is going to worm its way out of confronting the White House about that 180-degree turnaround---again, the "confusion" is going to be laid at the door of the public. Repulsive.
US soldiers are caught in the crossfire of the government's 180 re the vaccine. As far as we know, the smallpox vaccinations are proceeding in the military. This is happening with NO announced evidence that any nation is preparing to use, or can use, smallpox as a bio-weapon. If Bush publicly calls off the vaccine program for the military, then he exposes the whole hoax. The Pentagon brass tend to view "their boys" as the healthiest specimens in the world, and so they convince themselves that the vaccine will do little harm.
UPDATE: A few hours after I wrote that last paragraph, MSNBC posted a report on the first round of military smallpox shots---ONE THIRD OF THE SOLDIERS IN THE INITIAL SMALL GROUP WHO WERE CALLED IN FOR THEIR SHOTS WERE EXEMPTED FROM GETTING THEM, BECAUSE OF PRIOR EXISTING CONDITIONS, OR BECAUSE THEY WERE LIVING WITH PEOPLE WHO MIGHT EXPERIENCE A SEVERE REACTION IF THE VIRUS FROM THE VACCINE JUMPED FROM THE RECIPIENT TO THEM.
This represents yet another fast-breaking phase in the complete government turnaround re this vaccine. BOOM.
However, this "careful medical screening" the Army is doing right now to identify those who should be exempted from the shot? What will happen soon when the big wave of 500,000 soldiers is due for the vaccine all at once? The usual style is, get in line, roll up your sleeve, keep moving, keep your mouth shut. That's exactly how they can process so many people. They are going to sit these 500,000 guys down, one at a time, and put them through an extensive interview to determine whether they should get the shot? No possible way.
So there are three choices. One, they quietly cancel the whole vaccine campaign. Two, they shoot up all the soldiers and lie about the damage and death that actually results. Three, they stage a bio-war attack with the smallpox germ and thereby justify giving them all the shot---in which case vaccine deaths are blamed on the "bio-attack."
NOTE: I'M NOT DEFENDING THE IDEA OF GIVING ANYBODY THIS SHOT. I'M DESCRIBING HOW THE HEALTH AUTHORITIES ARE WORKING THEIR VARIOUS SCAMS.
There are still very important snakes in the grass. As Jane Orient, MD, points out, the Homeland Security Act, which was passed without a single congressional hearing or testifying witness, contains, in Section 304, Subsection C, a provision that empowers the secretary of health and human services (Tommy Thompson, at the moment)to declare states of emergency. He can order "countermeasures" against bio-attacks. He can order quarantines and detainments for "categories of individuals" he invents according to his own guidelines. This broad power, undefined, opens the door for all sorts of medical/police actions.
So although Thompson says he's not taking the smallpox vaccine himself, don't assume we are looking at a moment of enlightenment.
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“What good fortune for those in power that the people do not think.” ~Adolf Hitler
"Through clever and constant application of propaganda people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise." ~Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, 1923
“It also gives us a very special, secret pleasure to see how unaware the people around us are of what is really happening to them." ~Adolf Hitler
Smallpox
by Dr. Vivian Virginia Vetrano
vvvetrano@rionet.cc
A dead disease is being resurrected. Now the media will have something exciting to talk about everyday and to frighten the benighted American public with. For whatever reason, the revivification of smallpox is certainly on the current agenda.
Not too long ago Fox News showed us a picture of a man who was covered with smallpox pustules on his arms, face, legs and abdomen. The pustules were big, black, ugly, scabby and closely compacted. He looked like he was a
monster from some other world. It was enough to scare me, were it not for the fact that I know that it was drug treatment that caused that ugly picture and not the disease at all. The cause of those ugly marks was carbolic acid that had been used to kill the supposed germ that caused the eruptive rash.
Who are the terrorists? The pharmaceutical companies or the Taliban? Because of what the terrorists may or may not do, the pharmaceutical industry (the largest industry in the world), is gearing us up for mandatory vaccinations,
especially for certain people in areas that may be targeted by the terrorists. The authorities claim that we will be safe from terrorists attacks using the pox virus because there are adequate stockpiles of cultivated smallpox viruses in Russia and in the USA to make most all the vaccines "needed."
It is claimed by medical historians that the vaccination process wiped out smallpox throughout the world. However, the truth is that compulsory vaccination was abandoned because more deaths were caused by the vaccinations than there were cases of smallpox. A slight of the hand trick was used to foster the claim that smallpox was eradicated by the vaccination practice. Everyone who had been vaccinated and who developed smallpox was diagnosed as having chicken pox!
The doctors who were interviewed on recent television shows admit that the vaccine may cause many serious side-effects and that a certain number of persons will develop painful and sometimes lethal sequelae. Yet, they advise
that it is better to take the chance and be vaccinated in spite of these dangers.
Edward Jenner, a notorious fake and quack, is credited with having "discovered" vaccination. However, it was a practice of many ancient peoples long before his time. Savage and barbaric tribes in various parts of the world practiced inoculation even before Jenner's time. It is conjectured to have begun in India and then spread to Africa and Europe. Lady Mary Wortley Montague, wife of the British Ambassador to the Ottoman Court in l7l7 introduced the practice to Europe. But, due to its proven evils, one of which was an increase in smallpox in England, the practice was abolished in l840.
It is pertinent that James Phipps, the eight year old boy vaccinated by
Jenner in l896, died at the age of 20. He had been re-vaccinated twenty
times. Jenner's own son who had also been vaccinated more than once died at
the young age of twenty-one. Both succumbed to tuberculosis, a condition
that some researchers have linked to the smallpox vaccine. (Eleanor McBean,
The Poisoned Needle, 28,29,66 ).
According to the medical profession, smallpox or variola is an acute highly
infectious and contagious disease characterized by a specific rash.
According to past and present Natural Hygienic practitioners smallpox is
primarily a disease brought about by gastrointestinal putrescence.
Fermenting and rotting food in the intestinal tract enervates, and causes
increased digestive impairment accompanied by increased systemic toxemia.
The toxins are from the absorption of the fermentation products formed in
the intestinal tract. Since those who overeat, especially on animal
products, are enervated, meaning they lack normal nerve function, all the
organs of elimination are functioning on a lower physiological level and
greater toxicity ensues. Toxins from decomposing animal foods are highly
irritating, so the body has to get rid of them quickly and must use
extraordinary means since the organs of elimination are not functioning
well. Therefore, the poisons are carried by the blood to the skin and the
body eliminates them in various forms of skin eruptions.
Smallpox is about as contagious as stumbling over a rock. Dr. Herbert M.
Shelton slept in the same bed with his brother while the latter was in the
so-called infectious stage with vesicles all over. Yet Dr. Shelton did not
develop smallpox.
Smallpox begins with the same symptoms that many acute diseases do; such as
chills, fever, backache, and vomiting. This is indicative of a common cause
and a common way to deal with the cause. The body is a magnificent ecosystem
and when it finds abnormal and extraneous substances anywhere within its
domain, it creates a higher temperature, purposely, to overcome the foreign
proteins, toxic substances, viruses, bacteria or other microorganisms.
Whatever is upsetting the ecosystem must be corrected by the organism
itself. It needs no alien "cures." The symptoms should not be "cured." To
suppress these symptoms assures that some other worse problem will develop.
Some substances, such as an excess of protein putrefactive products, are so
toxic that it is urgent to eliminate them immediately. The papular eruption
of smallpox is purposely created and chosen as the correct channel at the
time for the elimination of these types of noxious substances. Furthermore,
the body may not have the specific enzymes to biodegrade whatever it is.
Instead of being taken care of by the liver or the kidneys the body chooses
to eject them through the skin. Vicarious eliminations such as this are
often natural emergency measures.
Smallpox begins with chills, fever, backache, headache and vomiting. A fever
of l03 to l04 degrees F is customary. The high fever increases the healing
activities of the cells, and it is a most efficient way to accomplish the
needed detoxification. This means that the toxins are now out of the
functioning cells and in the blood near the skin. The body no longer needs
to speed up cellular metabolism in order to cast out the extraneous
substances and the fever subsides. In about two days the fever, and other
symptoms subside. This is when the inflammatory rash appears. It turns into
an elevation of the skin called a papule. The blister becomes dimpled or
umbilicated. The rash and the development of the papules indicate that the
irritants or toxic substances have been removed by the hyperactive, feverish
cells and carried to the skin to be cast out.
Next the little papules become vesicles, like a blister, except that each
papule has a little dimple in it. This is the so-called stage that is
supposed to be infective or contagious, should anyone touch the person
having smallpox. After the vesicles are formed, they may become pustules
filled with white blood cells if the individual is extra toxic. The white
blood cells are there to destroy the toxins in the vesicles. But, this stage
would never be reached if cared for Hygienically. The papules dry up and
form scabs that eventually fall off. When treated improperly they will leave
a scar.
It is pertinent to recognize that when the eruption begins, the fever
subsides. The patient would normally be on the road to recovery were it not
for the medications given by the doctor. Medical treatment however, consists
in using something that kills the microbes which they assume cause the rash,
so it has to be something such as a disinfectant that destroys cell life.
This is consistent with their medical dogma. Therefore, in the past, the
profession applied gauze that had been soaked in antiseptic solutions such
as phenol (carbolic acid) or bichloride of mercury ( aka mercuric chloride
and corrosive sublimate). Both these agents, carbolic acid and mercuric
chloride are corrosive.
After applying the gauze, soaked in either carbolic acid or mercuric
chloride, to the lesions, they were covered with more gauze. Being tightly
wrapped with gauze, the exudate from the vesicle or papule was retained in
the lesion and not allowed to drain away when it ruptured. Naturally,
bacteria are going to invade this lesion to clean up the excreted matter.
This corrosive treatment also destroyed living tissues including the
protective phagocytic white blood cells and the surrounding skin and
subcutaneous tissues. A high second fever was urgently needed to once again
begin warfare on the extraneous poisons and the invading bacteria.
Either of the two corrosive drugs used can now ooze its way into the vital
domain and impede normal function of all the cells in the body; while
completely annihilating many. Ugly black confluent pustules mar the skin.
The rash gets worse. Vesicles turn into pustules. The pustules become
swollen and more inflamed. The inflammation around them spreads and the
lesions fuse together. These pathological effects were caused by the drugs.
It is clear that the condition worsens because of the treatment. The primary
symptoms, i.e. the fever, chills, headache, and backache were suppressed by
pharmaceuticals. The stifling of symptoms with medication prevented the body
from completing its job of cleansing, and increased the internal toxemia. As
a result, the umbilicated blisters with clear fluid in them became pustules
filled with dead and dying tissues and white blood cells. The change to a
pustule is the direct result of the damaging effects of medications whether
taken internally or applied to the skin. It is incredible that the
physicians did not recognize the lethality of their practice. But, then,
they do not recognize it today either. They are blinded by bygone theories.
These substances may have killed microorganisms but they also killed human
tissues and in reality caused the pustules and all the terrible
complications and symptoms thought to be caused by the germ. Let me
emphasize, the symptoms thought to be smallpox are symptoms caused by the
treatment. They were so yesterday just as they are today and always will be
in the future as long as we insist on clinging to the idea that disease is
something "caught" and that symptoms must be gotten rid of by unnatural
means. As long as we try to eradicate disease with anything, and especially
man-made chemicals, we will suffer more than if we merely put up with the
symptoms.
All the various treatments to kill microbes which are "causing" the disease,
are killing the patient. They are not permitting the body to eliminate
toxins or restore the blood and tissues to their normal healthy condition.
All treatments, no matter how benign they are claimed to be, impede the
recovery process itself. By using treatments of any kind and getting rid of
a rash by rash means, or to doctor it in any way, is the disastrous blunder
that causes horrible side-effects, more disease and even death.
Hemorrhagic or what is known as "black smallpox" is an even more serious
type of smallpox and the patient often died. Again, this serious type of
smallpox was directly caused by the cell-killing drugs. Pustules often
developed in the throat and mouth. When an acidic drug is placed on living
tissues, it kills them. The skin and mucous membranes are already inflamed
and are less protective than normal skin. Therefore, the destructive acids
can be absorbed and cause greater internal toxemia. Carbolic acid or
mercuric chloride caused the hemorrhaging of the skin and also hemorrhaging
into the pustule. Either of the corrosive drugs also destroyed the kidney
cells and caused bloody urine noted in many hapless smallpox patients.
There were also many serious complications of this type of treatment in
addition to the common ordinary ones that were erroneously thought to be
symptoms of smallpox, but we won't go into them now.
From time immemorial people have been frightened of disease. It was a curse,
an evil spirit, or evil demon that caused the problem. Also from time
immemorial people have thought it necessary to exorcize the disease, to
placate and appease the evil spirit or demon, to give sacrifices to some god
in order to get the demon or evil spirit out of them. In modern times we do
the same. We have not grown in knowledge. We just put the evil spirits in
the magician's top hat and pulled out the evil germs and evil viruses. We
still exorcize, placate, appease, and eradicate the evil microbe or evil
virus. Whatever symptoms we have, they are felt to be extraneous, foreign
and not from us, so they must be eradicated or extirpated. We still fear
death from the simplest of diseases. Whatever it is, it must be extirpated
or eradicated. We do it not with incantations but with substances much more
evil than anything used in the past.
Hygienic Care
If Hygienic care had been resorted to in the beginning of smallpox no
complications would have occurred and there would rarely be a genuine
pustule. With Hygienic management the disease would not have to progress to
the second stage with pustules or a second fever. It would only become
pustular if the individual prevented drainage of the vesicle and continued
eating a heavy diet. The vesicles containing the unwanted debris that was in
the organs and tissues would burst. The clear fluid containing the toxic
substances would flow out onto the skin. Frequent warm sponge baths would
wash away all the poisonous debris. The inflammation of the skin would heal
and that would be the end of the disease. There would be no horrendous
pustules, or other complications brought about by the medications. If
individuals kept themselves clean, but did not take off the scabs until they
fell off naturally, there would be no unsightly pock-marks. People are
always too anxious to pull scabs away. To do so is to expose the lesion to
the atmosphere before the skin has completely healed below it. The skin then
has to quickly heal over before it has completed restoring the underlying
tissues. This, naturally leaves a pit or scar. The extensive boils and
gangrene that regularly occurred would not have taken place had no corrosive
drugs been used.
If you think those symptoms are bad, and that we do not use any medicine so lethal as corrosive sublimate and carbolic acid today, you'd better rethink the problem. Today's drugs are even more lethal because they are designed to be easily absorbed, and to spread to every tissue and cell in the body and kill cells all over the body. Do not put your hope in medical "care". The only care you need is a healthy body and to let it do its thing.
You do not have to fear smallpox, even if you should develop it, as long as you immediately quit eating and go to bed and rest, drinking pure water only when thirsty. Smallpox is a disease of the bon-vivant, epicurean, who overeats on a daily basis, especially on animal foods. The condition of enervation is built by anyone who does not secure sufficient rest and sleep to permit the elimination of endogenic and exogenic toxins, and for the restoration of the nervous system. Once the stage of enervation is established digestion is further impaired and the body is flooded with fermentation and decomposition products from the intestines. This is what is called Toxemia, and Toxicosis. Toxicosis makes it exigent and imperative that these toxins be eliminated immediately by extraordinary means, such as
through the skin.
Every single cell in your body is capable of eliminating and destroying various microorganisms and their waste products, as well as man-made organic products, but most man-made products are more toxic than those made by
bacteria and they cause more damage than bacterial waste products. It can be disastrous when the body is overwhelmed by substances that do not belong inside it, and which the body cannot use under any circumstance of life. And this is what happens when diseases are "treated." Your body is inundated with toxic substances and it may drown.
***
Dr. Vivian Virginia Vetrano graduated in l965 from the Texas Chiropractic College, summa cum laude. After working at Dr. Shelton's Health School for several years she went on to study Naturopathy, Homeopathy, and Medicine. In addition to her Chiropractic degree she holds degrees in Homeopathy and Medicine. When she was an undergraduate she studied Radiation Biology at Trinity University, San Antonio and was the first person to make the public
aware of the dangers of ionizing radiation through the many articles she authored on this subject. Dr. Vetrano gives personal consultations by telephone. For information you may write Dr. Vetrano at P.O. Box l90, Barksdale, Texas 78828; or call 830-234-3499; or fax 830-234-3599.
Smallpox Vaccination Risks Versus Natural Healing of Smallpox
Foreword
by Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H.
The following article is one of the best I've seen on the topic of smallpox which is currently headlining many news sites. Clearly, this effort to frighten people into compliance with harmful, if not lethal, smallpox vaccination needs to be exposed for what it is-a grave hoax and genocidal scam.
I say "grave hoax" because there is no rational public health value in "mandating" a vaccine most of which dates back to the 1950s, has been diluted five times for current consumption, without any scientific justification that it may be effective against ANY modern form of hyper-weaponized smallpox that derives from bioweapons laboratories in Iraq, North Korea, or Russia, as Bush administration and health officials have been warning, with its milieu of health and life-threatening consequences no less.
I say "genocidal scam since the terms best fit the promotion of this alleged preventative. The mass inoculation outcomes are consistent with the strict definition of genocide that includes "the mass enslaving and killing of people for economics, politics and/or ideology." In this case the enslavement comes in the form of chronic degenerative diseases induced by the vaccine's side effect, enslaving people to drugs for the "management" of their diseases that effect mortality-the mass killing of people, in this case representing all races and religions.
Clearly, the ideology expressed by most scientists and medical clinicians who wrote their considered opinions to the FDA last summer does not support this current genocidal policy. The consensus proclaimed that mass smallpox vaccinations would be contraindicated during these troubled times. At most, "we"
health care professionals proclaimed, 15,000 "front line defenders" might wish to receive this vaccine. (Even this was, in my opinion, tragic.) Two days after that consensus was reached, the medical deities (MDs) representing Bush administration and pharmaceutical industry interests upped the number of targeted "front line defenders," without any logical justification, to 500,000 where it stands at the time of this writing. (Dec. 6, 2002)
Thus, the word "scam" adequately applies to this ruse, while the apt term genocide might be more specifically stated as "iatrogenocide"-physician induced injury and death deriving from professional negligence (a scatomatous state of ignorance associated with a dereliction of duty to learn the whole truth) and homicidal behavior consistent with "Manchurian candidates" for a global petro-chemical/pharmaceutical population controlling elite.
WAKE UP FOOLS! Declare religious and medical exemptions from this mechanism of mass murder. Go into hiding, quit valued jobs, run the other way. Do anything and everything you need to do to avert this catastrophy. Do I make myself clear? And if you hear this, but fail to receive it, then go ahead in your stubborn ignorance, get vaccinated with this cow pus-the world needs fewer fools.
Smallpox
by Dr. Vivian Virginia Vetrano
A dead disease is being resurrected. Now the media will have something exciting to talk about everyday and to frighten the benighted American public with. For whatever reason, the revivification of smallpox is certainly on the current agenda. Not too long ago Fox News showed us a picture of a man who was covered with smallpox pustules on his arms, face, legs and abdomen. The pustules were big, black, ugly, scabby and closely compacted. He looked like he was a monster from some other world. It was enough to scare me, were it not for the fact that I know that it was drug treatment that caused that ugly picture and not the disease at all. The cause of those ugly marks was carbolic acid that had been used to kill the supposed germ that caused the eruptive rash.
Who are the terrorists? The pharmaceutical companies or the Taliban? Because of what the terrorists may or may not do, the pharmaceutical industry (the largest industry in the world), is gearing us up for mandatory vaccinations, specially for certain people in areas that may be targeted by the terrorists. The authorities claim that we will be safe from terrorists attacks using the pox virus because there are adequate stockpiles of cultivated smallpox viruses in Russia and in the USA to make most all the vaccines "needed."
It is claimed by medical historians that the vaccination process wiped out smallpox throughout the world. However, the truth is that compulsory vaccination was abandoned because more deaths were caused by the vaccinations than there were cases of smallpox. A slight of the hand trick was used to foster the
claim that smallpox was eradicated by the vaccination practice. Everyone who had been vaccinated and who developed smallpox was diagnosed as having chicken pox!
[Dr. Horowitz notes that smallpox was never fully eradicated since monkey pox, genetically 92 percent identical to the variola virus associated with smallpox, has persisted.]
The doctors who were interviewed on recent television shows admit that the vaccine may cause many serious side-effects and that a certain number of persons will develop painful and sometimes lethal sequelae. Yet, they advise that it is better to take the chance and be vaccinated in spite of these dangers.
Edward Jenner, a notorious fake and quack, is credited with having "discovered" vaccination. However, it was a practice of many ancient peoples long before his time. Savage and barbaric tribes in various parts of the world practiced inoculation even before Jenner's time. It is conjectured to have begun in India
and then spread to Africa and Europe. Lady Mary Wortley Montague, wife of the British Ambassador to the Ottoman Court in l7l7 introduced the practice to Europe. But, due to its proven evils, one of which was an increase in smallpox in England, the practice was abolished in l840.
It is pertinent that James Phipps, the eight year old boy vaccinated by Jenner in l896, died at the age of 20. He had been re-vaccinated twenty times. Jenner's own son who had also been vaccinated more than once died at the young age of twenty-one. Both succumbed to tuberculosis, a condition that some researchers have linked to the smallpox vaccine. (EleanorMcBean, The Poisoned Needle, 28,29,66 ).
According to the medical profession, smallpox or variola is an acute highly infectious and contagious disease characterized by a specific rash. According to past and present Natural Hygienic practitioners smallpox is primarily a disease brought about by gastrointestinal putrescence. Fermenting and rotting food in the intestinal tract enervates, and causes increased digestive impairment accompanied by increased systemic toxemia.
The toxins are from the absorption of the fermentation products formed in the intestinal tract. Since those who overeat, especially on animal products, are enervated, meaning they lack normal nerve function, all the organs of elimination are functioning on a lower physiological level and greater toxicity ensues. Toxins from decomposing animal foods are highly irritating, so the body has to get rid of them quickly and must use extraordinary means since the organs of elimination are not functioning well. Therefore, the poisons are carried by the blood to the skin and the body eliminates them in various forms of skin eruptions.
Smallpox is about as contagious as stumbling over a rock. Dr.Herbert M. Shelton slept in the same bed with his brother while the latter was in the so-called infectious stage with vesicles all over. Yet Dr. Shelton did not develop smallpox. Smallpox begins with the same symptoms that many acute diseases do; such as chills, fever, backache, and vomiting. This is indicative of a common cause and a common way to deal with the cause. The body is a magnificent ecosystem and when it finds abnormal and extraneous substances anywhere within its domain, it creates a higher temperature, purposely, to overcome the foreign proteins, toxic substances, viruses, bacteria or other microorganisms. Whatever is upsetting the ecosystem must be corrected by the organism itself. It needs no alien "cures." The symptoms should not be "cured." To suppress these symptoms assures that some other worse problem will develop.
Some substances, such as an excess of protein putrefactive products, are so toxic that it is urgent to eliminate them
immediately. The papular eruption of smallpox is purposely created and chosen as the correct channel at the time for the elimination of these types of noxious substances. Furthermore, the body may not have the specific enzymes to biodegrade whatever it is. Instead of being taken care of by the liver or the kidneys the body chooses to eject them through the skin. Vicarious eliminations such as this are often natural emergency measures.
Smallpox begins with chills, fever, backache, headache and vomiting. A fever of l03 to l04 degrees F is customary. The high fever increases the healing activities of the cells, and it is a most efficient way to accomplish the needed detoxification. This means that the toxins are now out of the functioning cells and in the blood near the skin. The body no longer needs to speed up cellular metabolism in order to cast out the extraneous substances and the fever subsides. In about two days the fever, and other symptoms subside. This is when the inflammatory rash appears. It turns into an elevation of the skin called a papule. The blister becomes dimpled or umbilicated. The rash and the
development of the papules indicate that the irritants or toxic substances have been removed by the hyperactive, feverish cells and carried to the skin to be cast out.
Next the little papules become vesicles, like a blister, except that each papule has a little dimple in it. This is the so-
called stage that is supposed to be infective or contagious, should anyone touch the person having smallpox. After the
vesicles are formed, they may become pustules filled with white blood cells if the individual is extra toxic. The white
blood cells are there to destroy the toxins in the vesicles. But, this stage would never be reached if cared for
hygienically. The papules dry up and form scabs that eventually fall off. When treated improperly they will leave a scar.
It is pertinent to recognize that when the eruption begins, the fever subsides. The patient would normally be on the road to recovery were it not for the medications given by the doctor. Medical treatment however, consists in using something that kills the microbes which they assume cause the rash, so it has to be something such as a disinfectant that destroys cell life. This is consistent with their medical dogma.
Therefore, in the past, the profession applied gauze that had been soaked in antiseptic solutions such as phenol (carbolic acid) or bichloride of mercury ( aka mercuric chloride and corrosive sublimate). Both these agents, carbolic acid and mercuric chloride are corrosive.
After applying the gauze, soaked in either carbolic acid or mercuric chloride, to the lesions, they were covered with more gauze. Being tightly wrapped with gauze, the exudate from the vesicle or papule was retained in the lesion and not allowed to drain away when it ruptured. Naturally, bacteria are going to invade this lesion to clean up the excreted matter.
This corrosive treatment also destroyed living tissues including the protective phagocytic white blood cells and the surrounding skin and subcutaneous tissues. A high second fever was urgently needed to once again begin warfare on the extraneous poisons and the invading bacteria.
Either of the two corrosive drugs used can now ooze its way into the vital domain and impede normal function of all the cells in the body; while completely annihilating many. Ugly black confluent pustules mar the skin. The rash gets worse. Vesicles turn into pustules. The pustules become swollen and more inflamed. The inflammation around them spreads and the lesions fuse together. These pathological effects were caused by the drugs.
It is clear that the condition worsens because of the treatment. The primary symptoms, i.e. the fever, chills, headache, and backache were suppressed by pharmaceuticals. The stifling of symptoms with medication prevented the body from completing its job of cleansing, and increased the internal toxemia. As a result, the umbilicated blisters with clear fluid in them became pustules filled with dead and dying tissues and white blood cells. The change to a pustule is the direct result of the damaging effects of medications whether taken internally or applied to the skin. It is incredible that the physicians did not recognize the lethality of their practice. But, then, they do not recognize it today either. They are blinded by bygone theories.
These substances may have killed microorganisms but they also killed human tissues and in reality caused the pustules and all the terrible complications and symptoms thought to be caused by the germ. Let me emphasize, the symptoms thought to be smallpox are symptoms caused by the treatment. They were so yesterday just as they are today and always will be in the future as long as we insist on clinging to the idea that disease is something "caught" and that symptoms must be gotten rid of by unnatural means. As long as we try to eradicate disease with anything, and especially man-made chemicals, we will suffer more than if we merely put up with the symptoms.
All the various treatments to kill microbes which are "causing" the disease, are killing the patient. They are not permitting the body to eliminate toxins or restore the blood and tissues to their normal healthy condition. All treatments, no matter how benign they are claimed to be, impede the recovery process itself. By using treatments of any kind and getting rid of a rash by rash means, or to doctor it in any way, is the disastrous blunder that causes horrible side-effects, more disease and even death.
Hemorrhagic or what is known as "black smallpox" is an even more serious type of smallpox and the patient often died. Again, this serious type of smallpox was directly caused by the cell-killing drugs. Pustules often developed in the throat and mouth. When an acidic drug is placed on living tissues, it kills them. The skin and mucous membranes are already inflamed and are less protective than normal skin. Therefore, the destructive acids can be absorbed and cause greater internal toxemia. Carbolic acid or mercuric chloride caused the hemorrhaging of the skin and also hemorrhaging into the pustule. Either of the corrosive drugs also destroyed the kidney cells and caused bloody urine
noted in many hapless smallpox patients.
There were also many serious complications of this type of treatment in addition to the common ordinary ones that were erroneously thought to be symptoms of smallpox, but we won't go into them now.
From time immemorial people have been frightened of disease. It was a curse, an evil spirit, or evil demon that caused the problem. Also from time immemorial people have thought it necessary to exorcize the disease, to placate and appease the evil spirit or demon, to give sacrifices to some god in order to get the demon or evil spirit out of them. In modern times we do the same. We have not grown in knowledge. We just put the evil spirits in the magician's top hat and pulled out the evil germs and evil viruses. We still exorcize, placate, appease, and eradicate the evil microbe or evil virus. Whatever symptoms we have, they are felt to be extraneous, foreign and not from us, so they must be eradicated or extirpated. We still fear death from the simplest of diseases. Whatever it is, it must be extirpated or eradicated. We do it not with incantations but with substances much more evil than anything used in the past.
Hygienic Care
If Hygienic care had been resorted to in the beginning of smallpox no complications would have occurred and there would rarely be a genuine pustule. With Hygienic management the disease would not have to progress to the second stage with pustules or a second fever. It would only become pustular if the individual prevented drainage of the vesicle and continued eating a heavy diet. The vesicles containing the unwanted debris that was in the organs and tissues would burst. The clear fluid containing the toxic substances would flow out onto the skin. Frequent warm sponge baths would wash away all the poisonous debris. The inflammation of the skin would heal and that would be the end of the disease. There would be no horrendous pustules, or other complications brought about by the medications.
If individuals kept themselves clean, but did not take off the scabs until they fell off naturally, there would be no unsightly pock-marks. People are always too anxious to pull scabs away. To do so is to expose the lesion to the atmosphere before the skin has completely healed below it. The skin then has to quickly heal over before it has completed restoring the underlying tissues. This, naturally leaves a pit or scar. The extensive boils and gangrene that regularly occurred would not have taken place had no corrosive drugs been used.
If you think those symptoms are bad, and that we do not use any medicine so lethal as corrosive sublimate and carbolic acid today, you'd better rethink the problem. Today's drugs are even more lethal because they are designed to be easily absorbed, and to spread to every tissue and cell in the body and kill cells all over the body. Do not put your hope in medical "care". The only care you need is a healthy body and to let it do its thing.
You do not have to fear smallpox, even if you should develop it, as long as you immediately quit eating and go to bed and rest, drinking pure water only when thirsty. Smallpox is a disease of the bon-vivant, epicurean, who overeats on a daily basis, especially on animal foods. The condition of enervation is built by anyone who does not secure sufficient rest and sleep to permit the elimination of endogenic and exogenic toxins, and for the restoration of the nervous system. Once the stage of enervation is established digestion is further impaired and the body is flooded with fermentation and decomposition products from the intestines. This is what is called Toxemia, and Toxicosis. Toxicosis makes it exigent and imperative that these toxins be eliminated immediately by extraordinary means, such as through the skin.
Every single cell in your body is capable of eliminating and destroying various microorganisms and their waste products, as well as man-made organic products, but most man-made products are more toxic than those made by bacteria and they cause more damage than bacterial waste products. It can be disastrous when the body is overwhelmed by substances that do not belong inside it, and which the body cannot use under any circumstance of life. And this is what happens when diseases are "treated." Your body is inundated with toxic substances and it may drown.
***
Dr. Vivian Virginia Vetrano graduated in l965 from the Texas Chiropractic College, summa cum laude. After working at Dr.Shelton's Health School for several years she went on to study Naturopathy, Homeopathy, and Medicine. In addition to her Chiropractic degree she holds degrees in Homeopathy and Medicine. When she was an undergraduate she studied Radiation Biology at Trinity University, San Antonio and was the first person to make the public aware of the dangers of ionizing radiation through the many articles she authored on this subject. Dr. Vetrano gives personal consultations by telephone. For information you may write Dr. Vetrano at P.O. Box l90, Barksdale, Texas 78828; or call 830-234-3499; or fax 830-234-3599. vvvetrano@rionet.cc
Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H.is an internationally known authority in the overlapping fields of public health, behavioral science, emerging diseases, and bioterrorism. He received his doctorate in medical dentistry from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in 1977, was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship in behavioral science at the University of Rochester, earned a Master of Public Health degree from Harvard University, and another Master of Arts degree in health education from Beacon College, all before joining the researchfaculty at Harvard. Dr. Horowitz is best known for the monumental national bestselling book, "Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola-Nature, Accident or Intentional?" (1-888-508-4787)
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Contacts of Vaccinees
Transmission of vaccinia virus can occur when a recently vaccinated person has contact with a susceptible person. In a 1968 10-state survey of complications of vaccinia vaccination, the risk for transmission to contacts was 27 infections/million total vaccinations; 44% of those contact cases occurred among children aged <5 years (53). Before the U.S. military discontinued routine smallpox vaccination in 1990, occurrences of contact transmission of vaccinia virus from recently vaccinated military recruits had been reported, including six cases resulting from transmission from one vaccine recipient (59--61).
Approximately 60% of contact transmissions reported in the 1968 10-state survey resulted in inadvertent inoculation of otherwise healthy persons. Approximately 30% of the eczema vaccinatum cases reported in that study were a result of contact transmission (53).Eczema vaccinatum might be more severe among contacts than among vaccinated persons, possibly because of simultaneous multiple inoculations at several sites (54,62). Contact transmission rarely results in postvaccinial encephalitis or vaccinia necrosum.
Vaccine Safety Group Calls Liability Protection
P.R.Newswire, 1/17/2003 08:01
http://boston.com/dailynews/017/wash/_Vaccine_Safety_Group_Calls_Li:.shtml
With No Compensation for the Vaccine Injured 'Heartless'
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The nation's largest and oldest vaccine safety organization, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), called
the Bush Administration's plan to protect drug companies, hospitals and medical workers from liability for smallpox vaccine injuries and deaths, while leaving smallpox vaccine victims without any help, a "heartless" public policy.
"It is heartless to leave the victims of a government-sponsored mass vaccination program without any recourse to either civil litigation or federal compensation for the vaccine injuries they sustain. It is wrong for the US government to tell Americans to take the smallpox vaccine and then, when someone dies or is injured because of that public policy, nobody takes responsibility," said NVIC President and Co-founder Barbara Loe Fisher.
The National Vaccine Information Center represents more than 40,000 parents of vaccine-injured children, health care professionals and those who advocate reform of the mass vaccination system. Fisher and other parent co-founders of NVIC worked with Congress in the early 1980s on the historic National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, which created the federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) to provide financial support for victims of federally recommended childhood vaccinations.
"We are very concerned that the attitude that the Department of Justice is taking toward smallpox vaccine victims is the same attitude that will prevail as Congress prepares to go back into the VICP to fix the many problems with it. Big drug company lobbyists and public health officials have always tried to discount the extent of vaccine injuries, and it is clear that an attempt will be made to shield drug companies from all liability while leaving most vaccine victims out in the cold," said Fisher.
The federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) was created under the 1986 law in response to a threat by drug companies that if Congress did not protect them from liability for vaccine injuries and deaths, they would stop producing vaccines. Since the VICP has been in operation, there have been 7,580 applications by victims of childhood vaccinations and 1,783 awards for a total of $1.4 billion. In 1995, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice changed the Table of Compensable Events and raised the standards to prove causation in order to limit the number of awards. As a result, nearly two out of three children who apply for financial help with their vaccine injuries are turned away.
The 1986 law protected access to the civil tort system to sue vaccine manufacturers or negligent doctors if the child was turned down for compensation. Only a handful of vaccine injury lawsuits had been brought against manufacturers since the 1986 law was passed until the recent threat of lawsuits by parents who believe their children developed autism because of the mercury preservative in many vaccines. In response to the mercury lawsuits, a clause was inserted into the Homeland Security Act to shield vaccine manufacturers from liability for components of vaccines, like
mercury, that can cause brain and immune system injuries.
Both Democrat and Republican legislators have vowed to remove the liability shield clause but have indicated that vaccine manufacturers will be granted added liability protection when legislation is introduced to reform the federal vaccine injury compensation program. "In reality, no amount of money can compensate anyone for the loss of their life through vaccine injury or death. But cutting off the threat of lawsuits will cut off all incentive for the government and industry to make the compensation program work properly. It will remove the financial incentive for the drug companies to continually improve the safety of their vaccines. If you combine mandated vaccines with no liability and no accountability for anyone involved, it is a prescription for injustice and abuse of the public trust," said Fisher. SOURCE National Vaccine Information Center
The following is the final section of a story on smallpox inoculations done
Friday (1/31/2003) at Womack Army Medical Center, Ft. Bragg, N.C.)
Barbara
Precautions explained
Soldiers attended a 6 a.m. briefing about smallpox in which they were told precautions to take after vaccination. People vaccinated against smallpox must wait 21 days before donating blood. Pregnant or breastfeeding women cannot receive the vaccine, nor can those sharing a household with a pregnant woman. People who have received the vaccine will not spread the virus to others as long as they don't touch the spot of the inoculation. Contact with infected skin can transmit the virus.
Soldiers were reminded to be vigilant in washing their hands and keeping the arm covered."I have a 4-year-old," said Spc. Natasha. "I have to watch the hugs." Soldiers were told to do their own laundry, placing it in the washing machine themselves. Doctors said there was one question soldiers kept asking: "Can I have sex afterwards?" The answer is yes, as long as they wear a bandage and a T-shirt.
Staff writer Tanya Biank can be reached at biankt@fayettevillenc.com or
323-4848, extension 370.
From the January 2003 Idaho Observer:
Smallpox vaccine virus' curious relationship to syphilis
by Don Harkins
The virus in the smallpox vaccine is called the vaccinia virus. Historical references clearly illustrate the origin of the vaccinia virus. However, modern science claims its presence is a “mystery” and poses five theories, none of which have been proven, in an attempt to explain the origin of this virus.
The five theories 21st century science offers are that the vaccinia virus is: 1. derived from variola virus by passage in cows; 2. derived from variola virus by passage in humans (variolation); 3. derived through hybridisation between cowpox and variola viruses; 4. a fossil virus maintained in the laboratory but otherwise extinct; 5. derived from cowpox virus by repeated passage on the skin of animals (Fenner, 1992; Behbehani, 1983).
Not one of the five theories even consider the well-documented contents of 19th century books such as “Cowpox and Vaccinal Syphilis,” by Dr.Charles Creighton (1891), a professor of microscopic anatomy at Cambridge University. It is not difficult to understand why the government-supported public health community prefers to keep the public in the dark about the most likely origins of vaccinia. The truth is disgusting and reminiscent of modern medicine's “eye-of-newt, spleen-of-bat, Dark Ages medicine roots. If the public was told vaccinia was the product of sores that developed on the irritated udders of cows milked by the syphilitic hands of 18th century milk maidens, they may be less inclined to stand in line for a smallpox vaccination.
In 1796, when the father of modern vaccinology Ed Jenner “discovered” the smallpox vaccine, the serum-making process was crude and amazingly nonscientific. With a little background, a layperson can easily understand what happened. Dr. Creighton, who also wrote “Epidemics of Great Britain (1893),” observed that cowpox (vaccinia) is, “an eruption of a few pimples which are made to bleed by the merciless manipulations of the milkers... The blood forms crusts that are dislodged every six hours, the indurated [hardened], phagendemic [rapidly spreading] ulcers form on the sites of the original pimples...Cowpox undisturbed by the milkers' hands, has no existence in the originating cow. It is the persistent irritation that makes it a pox.”
In other words, at the time smallpox vaccine was being observed, it was understood that cow milkers with syphilitic hands caused pox-like sores on the udders of cows. Secretions from this diseased material were then taken from the cow, mixed with various compounds and rendered into a preparation. This material was then administered to persons by applying it to broken skin.
Forced vaccination in England was discontinued in 1898 after a Royal Commission, upon which Dr. Creighton and playwright George Bernard Shaw sat, determined that smallpox vaccine caused epidemics of several diseases -- including smallpox and syphilis. “...[d]eaths from infantile syphilis per million births, under enforced vaccination (1867-1878) were 1,738 as compared to 564 per million under voluntary vaccination (1847-1853), wrote Dr. William Collins in 1881.
In a 1905 letter to anti-vaccinist Chas Higgins of New York, Parke Davis & Co. described what little it knew about the smallpox vaccine it produced. “No one seems to know the exact nature of this product. It would seem to us, however, that the theory that cowpox is but modified smallpox, is the most tenable one. Particularly does it seem true in view of the facts reported by Dr. Monkton Copeman, Director of the Government Vaccine Work in London, that he had been able to transmit smallpox virus to monkeys, from monkeys to heifers, and from heifers to man, the resulting vaccination on the human subject being identically the same as that produced by vaccine as originally prepared.”
By “properly” transferring the smallpox virus from man to animals vaccinia was produced and was determined to provide immunity to smallpox. “On theoretical grounds, it seems to us that this is a very plausible explanation of the origin of vaccinia,” Parke Davis concluded in the letter.
It was well-known at the time that mass and mandated vaccination against smallpox, as previously stated, was responsible for epidemics of syphilis. Even the pro-vaccine textbook “Vaccines,” by Plotkin & Mortimer (1994) recognized the historic relationship of the smallpox vaccine to the dreaded disease. “As the 19th century progressed, however, the initial wave of enthusiasm for vaccination subsided when difficulties were experienced....when it was found that, on some occasions, syphilis was transmitted in the process.”
Plotkin & Mortimer even went on to explain that syphilis appeared in Europe during the 15th century and how, “...writers began to use the prefix small to distinguish variola, the smallpox, from syphilis, the great pox.” The 1979 Encyclopedia Britannica concurs that syphilis first appeared in Europe after Columbus returned from the Americas. However, leprosy was prevalent in Europe prior to the 1500s. Certain similarities between the two diseases indicate, “it is likely that many cases thought to be leprosy were actually syphilis.”
Smallpox vaccine has not changed very much from the days when pus was squeezed out of the sores from cows milked by syphilitic milkers. Plotkin & Mortimer described how modern smallpox vaccine is made: “Most [smallpox] vaccine now available for use is grown on the skin of a calf and harvested after sacrifice of the animal.” Are we to make the assumption that the calf is then butchered and sold as veal?
The point of the exercise
The point of this article is to show that those who have been masterminding pandemic preparedness plans have ignored history to come up with five ridiculous “theories” for the origin of vaccinia virus. Why? Because the truth is so simple to understand and so disgusting people would be less likely to fall in line with their sleeves rolled up if they knew. For whatever reason, fooling millions of Americans into being vaccinated with a virus associated with syphilis, leprosy (and numerous other diseases [see Smallpox Alert! ordering info page 3]) is more important than a different outcome that would prevail under the truth. History is the greatest teacher. We have already learned that smallpox vaccine causes more public health problems than it solves. We have also learned that it leaves pain, misery and death in its wake.
If public health officials are intentionally obscuring smallpox vaccine's sordid past to help achieve the mass and mandated objective,then we must assume that pain, misery and death -- not public health --are the intended outcomes.
http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20030102.htm
The Real World Of Vaccinations
MUST READ: HEALTH ALERT
EXCERPT:
This quotation is by J.W. Hodge MD. In his book "The Vaccination Superstition" he states:
"After a careful consideration of the history of vaccination gleaned from an impartial and comprehensive study of vital statistics, and pertinent data from every reliable source, and after an experience derived from having vaccinated 31,000 subjects, I am firmly convinced that vaccination cannot be shown to have any logical relation to the diminution of cases of smallpox. Vaccination does not protect, it actually renders its subjects more susceptible by depressing the vital power and diminishing the natural resistance, and millions of people have died of smallpox which they contracted after being vaccinated"
Subterfuges & Syringes - The Real World Of Vaccinations
By Thomas Smith
Feb. 1, 2003
From: Christopher Ruby
Vaccination programs in the late 19th and early 20th century decimated the populations of many countries where government sponsored vaccination programs were introduced. Japan suffered 48,000 deaths from smallpox vaccination; England and Wales experienced 45,800 smallpox deaths in a population that was 97% vaccinated against smallpox. Australia and Germany combined with a total of 120,000 deaths from the very smallpox for which they had been vaccinated. European deaths amongst the vaccinated portion of the population totaled 3,000,000. Deaths from smallpox vaccination programs began to decline when a revolt against mandatory vaccination programs emerged from the chaos.
The revolt started in England. In the late 19th century, England was jailing an average of 2000 parents a year for refusal to vaccinate themselves and their children. Property seizure and prosecution were commonplace for refusal to participate in vaccination programs. The battle was a political one. The people started to win when a number of leading scientists went public with the truth about these vaccination programs.
Doctor Edgar Crookshank Professor of Biology at Kings College led the charge against mandatory vaccination programs with his book "The history and Pathology of Vaccination." Other leading scientists of his generation soon jumped on the bandwagon. They demonstrated the scientific poverty of the entire vaccination concept. The revolt was successful. Within twenty years mandatory smallpox vaccination laws in England were repealed. In 1919 the death rate from smallpox promptly plummeted to a total of 28 deaths in a population of almost 40,000,000 people. Previously, with mandatory vaccinations they had averaged over 44,000 deaths from smallpox.
Meanwhile at the same time in the Philippine Islands, with a population of 10,000,000, a compulsory smallpox vaccination program administered by the US government produced over 47,000 deaths from smallpox. Over the entire ten year span of the vaccination program mandated by the US government in the Philippines 25,000,000 vaccinations were forced on a population of 10,000,000 people in a series of three per person. This produced 170,000 cases of smallpox of which 75,000 were fatal.
In the USA, an article in the July 1969 issue of Prevention Magazine described how 300 children had died from smallpox vaccination in the period from 1948 to 1969. In that very same reporting period there were no incidences of smallpox in the country. In the USA in 1937, Dr. William Hay in his address to the Medical Freedom Society on the Lemke bill to abolish compulsory vaccination said: "I have thought many times of all of the insane things we have advocated in medicine, that is one of the most insane - to insist on the vaccination of children, or anybody else, for the prevention of smallpox when, as a matter of fact, we are never able to prove that vaccination saved one man from smallpox."
We are indebted to the work of Ian Sinclair for the excellent investigative work involved with the discovery of many of the relatively suppressed facts in the archives of history. He has published this information in his book "Vaccination: The Hidden Facts" The true story of the horror produced by compulsory vaccination somehow seems to be totally lacking in today's media reporting.
The theory of vaccinations.
In theory, vaccinations are designed to provoke a healthy immune system to manufacture antibodies to defend itself against some future exposure to disease. Vaccinations are specific. Each vaccination is purported to offer protection against a single specific disease or combination of diseases. There is no evidence whatsoever, that vaccination provides immunity beyond what the immune system without vaccination would normally provide.
There is much evidence that the "one size fits all" philosophy of the vaccines overwhelms the childhood immune system, those with weakened immune systems, those already coping with some other disease and those with allergies and sensitivities. Our immune systems are more unique than our fingerprints. To presume that all will have the desired response to vaccination is not just bad science, it borders on lunacy. Albeit, it is a very profitable lunacy for the drug companies.
In an article that appeared in the New York Journal of Medicine in July 1899 Charles Rauta,Professor of Hygiene and Material Medical in the University of Perguia says: "Vaccination is a monstrosity, a misbegotten offspring of error and ignorance; it should have no place in either hygiene or medicine....Believe not in vaccination, it is a world wide delusion, an unscientific practice, a fatal superstition with consequences measured today by tears and sorrow without end."
Professor Rauta was involved with the horrible smallpox epidemics in Italy at a time when Italy had achieved 98.5% compliance with the compulsory vaccination laws of the country. Professor Ari Zuckerman, a member of the World Health Organization advisory panel on virus' said: "Immunization against smallpox is more hazardous than the disease itself." The British medical Journal in January 1976 stated: "It is now accepted that the risks of routine smallpox vaccination outweigh those of natural infection in Britain." Doctor Robert Gallo a well known AIDS researcher said: "I have been saying for some years that the use of live vaccines such as that used from smallpox can activate a dormant infection such as that from AIDS (HIV)."
The active ingredient in each vaccine usually consists of an attenuated form of the infectious agent. When the infectious agent is simply weakened it will multiply in the host body and theoretically stimulate the production of antibodies by forming a pocket of rapidly growing infection without producing the disease. Historic practice was to grow the active agent in animal tissue and then use it in human tissue. This greatly reduced its virulence in human tissue.
For example when smallpox is grown in cow tissue it acclimates to the cow tissue. When the vaccine thus made is then transferred to human tissue it is found to be much less virulent to humans. When its virulence is thought to be sufficiently attenuated by successive cow hosts, it can be harvested and used for humans. The term "vaccine" actually comes from the root word "vaca" meaning cow. However, it is now applied to any vaccine used in any vaccination program and now often has little or no association with a cow.
However, this process is slow, marginally profitable and subject to whatever contamination exists in the animal tissue. So a variety of chemical ways to attenuate or kill these agents have been developed amongst which are: the use of carbolic acid, formaldehyde and heat treatment. Modern practice is to attenuate the active agent with chemistry and to grow it in a more controlled environment such as human fetal tissue. This speeds up the process and unfortunately places late term abortion on the firm commercial base needed to insure profitability for the industry. It also often leaves traces of carbolic acid, formaldehyde and fetal serum in the retail version of the vaccine.
The vaccination itself, in addition to the presumably attenuated infectious agent, contains adjuvenants, preservatives and a remnant of the media in which the vaccine was grown. In theory these contaminants are of little or no consequence. In practice they are of immense importance. For example one theory of the origin of the AIDS virus is that it was caused by contamination of the Hepatitis and Smallpox vaccines by growing the virus' in monkey serum media.
When the active agent is killed however, it does not rapidly reproduce or spread in our bodies. Our immune system then has a tendency to dispose of it quickly before a satisfactory development of antibodies throughout the body can occur. To prevent this, adjuvenants are added to the vaccine. These adjuvenants prevent the rapid assimilation of the active agent throughout the body. They cause the active agent to be localized in a small pocket of foreign protein thus providing a longer stimulus to the immune system. In theory this will result in the increased production of host antibodies. Thus the adjuvenant actually inhibits the natural tendency of our immune response to remove the foreign proteins from our system.
Since the active agents consist of proteins that have been killed or attenuated, it is necessary to include preservatives in the vaccine in order to provide a profitable shelf life for the product. Thimerosol is the preservative of choice in our vaccines. Thimerosol is an extraordinarily toxic Mercury compound. The amounts contained in a single vaccination contain up to 125 times the EPA permissible amount of toxic mercury. This mercury comes in a particularly toxic form that has been known since 1929 to severely damage the nervous system and to overwhelm the kidneys, liver and immune systems of children.
Thimerosol has now been determined to be a causal agent in the exploding epidemic of autism, ADD, ADHD devastating our children. Instead of simply removing the cause of these disorders, the State, in many cases, has mandated the use of Ritalin to counteract their symptoms.
Vaccinations are routinely given in childhood on the theory that they will confer immunity upon the child in the event of future exposure to infectious disease. Before the age of five many children are required to have over 30 vaccinations, many of them are multiple vaccinations. Some of these vaccination requirements are simply idiotic, for example a Hepatitis vaccine for an infant. Drug users and the promiscuous are at risk for Hepatitis, certainly not the large majority of infants.
Congressman Burton, in a recent congressional hearing on the use of Thimerosol in vaccines, has threatened criminal charges against the government agencies that are responsible for this horrific example of negligence. In the hearings it was revealed that the dangers of Thimerosol had been well understood since 1929. The only test ever conducted on the safety of this preservative was conducted in 1929. All patient participants in the test died and all investigations as to the safety of Thimerosol were abruptly discontinued. It has been used in childhood vaccines since without investigation or comment.
This poison was finally removed from veterinary vaccines in the early 1990's. However, it was retained in human childhood vaccines until just recently when the huge numbers of vaccine damaged children could no longer be ignored. Dr. Rimland MD when discussing this said: "When the link between unsafe mercury laden vaccine and autism, ADHA, asthma, allergies and diabetes becomes undeniable, mainstream medicine will be sporting a huge, self inflicted and well deserved black eye. Then will come the billion dollar awards, by enraged juries, to the children and their families. I can't wait".
It was the explosive growth of diabetes in America that directly caused this investigative reporter to become interested in the medical community. He contracted a serious case of Diabetes and quickly discovered that the medical community no longer cures it. This, despite the fact that a cure has been well understood since the late 1950's. After having to cure his own diabetes because his doctor would not cure it, he began to take a good hard look at some other widespread medical practices, particularly the highly profitable ones.
Deceptive medicine.
Note that the vaccination itself does not confer immunity. The immunity, in theory, results from the body successfully developing sufficient antibodies quickly enough to avoid acquiring the disease conferred by the vaccination. The childhood immune system is heavily dependent upon the antibodies it receives from its mother's milk. To stimulate the immature immune system in an effort to produce antibodies that it can not yet produce is at best insanity; at worst it is a most culpable criminal activity.
Neither the kidneys nor the liver of an immature child can clear the relatively huge amounts of mercury poison given along with the active agent in these vaccines. Perhaps the most pernicious of the incredible deceptions foisted upon a trusting public is the idea that vaccination programs ended the smallpox epidemics of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The only thing about these vaccination programs that ended the epidemics was the discontinuance of the programs. Sometimes many people were jailed and disenfranchised by an arrogant and unresponsive government before they changed the law.
What then did finally eradicate smallpox, which at one time really was a serious matter irrespective of vaccines? The great improvements in the health of people came through the eradication of diseases of filth and of filthy water. These advances consisted of major improvements in diet, hygiene, sanitary and health measures, underground sewage disposal, availability of uncontaminated water, as well as refrigeration and better preservation and distribution of food. The Center for Disease control in their Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, July 20, 1999, 48:621-628 stated that improvements in water quality, sanitation and hygiene were the most important factors in the improvement of health and the control of infectious disease. Vaccines were not even considered to be among the factors.
Scientist's John and Sonia McKinlay show the same thing in their research. In fact they were able to quantize these findings. They stated that 97% of the increase in life span since the beginning of the twentieth century is due to the enormous improvements in sanitation of food, water and environment.
World Health statistics Annual 1973-1976 Volume II also attributes the vanishing of infectious disease to improved standards of cleanliness in our food, water and environment. Do vaccinations really reduce either the incidence of or the severity of smallpox? From the many, many quotations from responsible knowledgeable, and honest, medical professionals that could be used to answer this question perhaps this one will give the most focused response.
This quotation is by J.W. Hodge MD. In his book "The Vaccination Superstition" he states:
"After a careful consideration of the history of vaccination gleaned from an impartial and comprehensive study of vital statistics, and pertinent data from every reliable source, and after an experience derived from having vaccinated 31,000 subjects, I am firmly convinced that vaccination
cannot be shown to have any logical relation to the diminution of cases of smallpox. Vaccination does not protect, it actually renders its subjects more susceptible by depressing the vital power and diminishing the natural resistance, and millions of people have died of smallpox which they contracted after being vaccinated"
Perhaps the second most damaging deception provided by the modern medical propaganda ministry is that medical intervention, particularly vaccinations, played a decisive role in the reduction of infectious disease. The real truth is just exactly the opposite. Coincident with the rise in improved sanitation, massive compulsory vaccinations were discontinued and the disease epidemics disappeared very shortly thereafter.
We often hear the statement "there is no doubt that vaccines save lives". Actually there is a very great deal of doubt that vaccines are helpful at all and a great deal of evidence that they are quite harmful. That information just doesn't make it into the popular consciousness. It often doesn't even make it to the retail medical practitioner. The American propaganda ministry makes sure that popular belief is well controlled. By taking credit for something that they did not do and by suppressing the history of what really happened, our medical elite set the stage for the calamities that now face us as a nation.
Criminal government legislation.
The Model States Health Powers Act contained provisions to mandate compulsory vaccination. Property confiscation, incarceration in "quarantine" centers and the use of law enforcement to ensure compliance was all carefully detailed. This is reminiscent of the "concentration" amps employed by another twentieth century despot when he was redesigning the government of his country. This was to be essentially a state activity. However, many States failed to adopt this totalitarian monstrosity as being alien to our American sense of fitness. Many States tabled it, one State, Alabama, rejected it outright.
To many, it appeared to provide too much power to a government that is showing disturbing signs of being willing to kill large numbers of people any way that they can just so long as they can accomplish their hidden goals.When it became clear that mandatory vaccination was dead at the State level, it was included in the most totalitarian piece of legislation ever attempted here in America. It was included in The Homeland Security Bill which recently passed and will soon be signed into law by the president. Even many that voted on this bill do not realize what it contains. Many congressmen did not even read the final draft upon which they voted.
This bill provides for "mandatory vaccination of the entire population at the discretion of the director of Homeland Security." All options for refusal of the vaccine have been deleted. Personal, religious and medical exemptions have been deleted; informed consent is no longer required. Refusal will lead to arrest, property confiscation and imprisonment. Tommy Thompson, Secretary of Health and Human Services is already on record as saying "I have a vaccination with the name of every American on it."
This bill also authorizes "other medical interventions" as specified by the director of Homeland Security. One of the most outrageous clauses in this bill is known as the "vaccine injury indemnity clause." This clause holds the makers and distributors of vaccines harmless for any injury that they cause. The theory is that vaccination is a necessary response to terrorism and that any injury caused by the vaccine is an unavoidable collateral casualty. This clause removes any redress at law. If, as will happen to many, you are injured by the vaccine you or your survivors cannot even sue for damages.
Prior to the passage of the Homeland Security bill, federal law required all suits against vaccine makers to go before a special court before any civil action could be brought in the State civil court system. This court is known as the "vaccine court." It was set up to help protect vaccine makers against large punitive awards provided by outraged jurors in the State courts. This court is presently facing over 1000 suits brought by parents of autistic children whose autism was caused by MMR vaccines.
On November 25, 2002 the Bush administration asked this court to order the evidence from hundreds of cases of autism by vaccine be kept from the public. The "special master", George Hastings, of this court has promised a "speedy" ruling on this request.
If this request by the Bush administration is approved it will make it very difficult for the parents of these damaged children to obtain redress in the State civil courts. It is to be noted that the State civil courts were set up to handle precisely this sort of action.
Michael Hugo, a Boston lawyer, in commenting on this situation said: "We dealing with real injury to real children in a program that is funded by taxpayer dollars. It is unbelievable to me that the president of the United States, in the name of trying to help the drug industry, would put the interests of the drug industry over the interests of neurologically impaired sick children and their parents."
In another current vaccine issue, Boyd E. Graves J.D. has been given the right to file a lawsuit in a federal court of his choice. Mr. Graves is charging the federal government with "the creation, production and proliferation of HIV (AIDS) through the secret federal virus development program." Mr. Graves is a civil rights lawyer and decorated naval veteran.
He charges in his lawsuit that "The United States purposefully and intentionally, complemented the "smallpox" vaccine that went to Africa and the "Hepatitis B" vaccine with the HIV virus and that this latter was then given to homosexuals in the United States recruited for that purpose."Graves and his supporters say that they are confident that the evidence of the laboratory birth of the AIDS virus as a biowarfare agent is irrefutable.
Making sense out of nonsense.
When we observe highly educated and intelligent men and women in government doing heinous criminal things with our health and life expectancy, our tendency is to think that they really do not understand. We think that it is all a horrible mistake and that it will soon be corrected. It is only when we observe carefully that we see a frightening pattern emerge in the posture of modern governments toward their people.
Modern medical practice is deadly to those that must depend upon it. Disease is no longer cured; it is treated. The defenseless unborn are now fetus' to be murdered at will. In our schools great pressures exist to turn our young people into ignorant promiscuous homosexuals. All of these practices as well as many other similar politically correct cultural norms are being forced upon a people that really do not want them.
Promiscuous homosexuals have no issue; an ignorant citizenry need never realize the motivations of government; aborted children never burden our commercial system; vaccination no matter how criminal and deadly, is to be presumed an Orwellian public good regardless of the facts of the matter.
It all makes sense when we realize the underlying motives of our governing elite. These problems of our people can be summed up in the words of Robert McNamara, when he was president of the World Bank. During an address to a group of international bankers that he gave on October 2, 1979 he remarked: "We can begin with the most critical problem of all, population growth...short of a nuclear war itself, it is the greatest issue the world faces over the decades ahead...Either the current birth rates must come down more quickly, or the current death rates must go up. There is no other way."
This same Robert McNamara was later quoted by the French j"ai tout compris" as saying "One must take draconian measures of demographic reduction against the will of the populations. Reducing the birth rate has proved to be impossible or insufficient. One must therefore increase the mortality rate. How? By natural means. Famine and sickness" A major, politically contrived, famine is going on in Africa at this time. An unprecedented program to innoculate the masses is being forced upon America.
Henry Kissinger, speaking before a Bilderburg conference in Evian France May 21, 1992 made quite clear the management policies of the US government when he stated: "Today Americans would be outraged if UN troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful. This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing that every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government."
Many in our trusted leadership very much subscribe to these expressed beliefs of Robert McNamara and Henry Kissinger. These beliefs are widely taught in our Universities. Many in high government office in the US are now known to have been involved with the murder of Africa by the use of smallpox vaccines contaminated with the biowarfare virus (AIDS). This agent is known to have been developed here in the US. These same people, obsessed with the population problem of the world, also administered a contaminated Hepatitis B vaccine to the gay population of both New York and San Francisco.
Now we are asked to trust this same group of government administrators, as they ready a sneaky and unconstitutional program for the compulsory vaccination of America. The underlying cover story offered to justify this act is that some terrorist might attack us with the very same agents that America developed in its laboratories. The underlying assumption is that the vaccines work as advertised and are administered by ethical people who do not lie to us.
At this point, it would be smart for Americans to do their homework. We must make sure that any decision we make about the vaccination issue is a voluntary one that doesn't outrage our trust in government and grossly violate our common sense.
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Woman Vaccinated Against Smallpox Dies
By LAURA MECKLER,
Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON
- Federal officials are investigating whether the smallpox vaccine contributed to the heart attack death of a Maryland woman and brought on heart problems in six others.
The vaccination has never been associated with heart problems before, but health officials are now recommending that people with a history of heart trouble refrain from being vaccinated while authorities investigate a possible link. "It's a balance, and I think we want to err on the side of safety," Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, said Tuesday. Three of the seven people under investigation suffered heart attacks, including the Maryland woman who died, another woman who is now on life support and a third woman who was hospitalized and released. All three were health care or public health workers in their 50s. Two other people developed angina, or chest pain.
All five of these patients had risk factors for heart disease before the vaccination, such as diabetes, obesity, hypertension or use of tobacco, Gerberding said. The other two patients under investigation suffered from heart inflammation, which is not associated with those risk factors. Gerberding said she does not expect to find a link between the heart trouble and the vaccine but wants further study before ruling it out.
Based on historic data, a small number of people who receive smallpox vaccinations will die and a few will develop life-threatening complications. Those complications have never included heart problems, but the data were gathered during a time when most people being vaccinated were young children who were not likely to have heart trouble, Gerberding noted. We acknowledge that we don't have a lot of epidemiological or scientific information about the relationship between vaccine and cardiac illness in persons who are older," she said.
The CDC planned to gather cardiac experts on Wednesday to consider whether something in the vaccine might be triggering heart problems in people who already have risk factors.
Health officials also plan to compare the rate of heart problems in the pool of smallpox vaccine recipients with the rate expected in a similar population of people who have not been vaccinated. Under the new temporary guidelines, people who have been diagnosed with serious heart disease such as coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, heart attack and angina are being told not to get the vaccine. The change was ordered by Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson.
Gerberding emphasized that the program must move forward as the nation prepares for the possibility that smallpox could be used as a bioterror weapon. She said she does not expect the new guidelines to significantly affect the number who wind up being vaccinated.
"The potential for terrorism has probably never been higher," she said. "We must continue to be prepared." The woman who died, a hospital worker in Salisbury, Md., was vaccinated a week ago. She died five days later, on Sunday, in Arlington, Va., according to Karen Black of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. An autopsy was performed Tuesday. Her death is the first associated with either the civilian vaccination program that began two months ago or the military program launched in December.
As of March 14, states had vaccinated 21,698 civilians, mostly in public health departments and hospitals. Concerns about the vaccine's risk have helped keep the numbers well below the 450,000 initially expected. The military program, where vaccinations are mandatory, has vaccinated "well over" 100,000 soldiers, the Pentagon said. Based on studies in the late 1960s, experts estimate that one or two people out of every million being vaccinated for the first time will die. The death rate for those being revaccinated was lower: Two people died out of 8.5 million who were revaccinated in a 1968 study. Additionally, 14 to 52 people out of every million being vaccinated for the first time are expected to suffer life-threatening side effects.
That's because the smallpox vaccine is made with a live virus called vaccinia, a cousin to smallpox which can cause illness if it escapes the inoculation site and infects another part of the body. Vaccinia can also infect those who touch someone else's vaccination site. The question now, Gerberding said, is whether the viral infection caused by the vaccine is somehow exacerbating pre-existing heart conditions.
The last U.S. case of smallpox was in 1949, and routine vaccinations against the disease ended here in 1972, as the disease was on the wane globally.In December, President Bush ordered that vaccinations resume for health workers, emergency responders and the military amid fears that smallpox could be used as a bioterror weapon.
