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Vaccination: An Informed Choice

 

Questions All Parents Should Ask

One of the most important health decisions facing parents today is whether or not to have their child vaccinated. This decision should be based on facts rather than coercion or pressure. I therefore ask you to keep an open mind to the information that is being presented.

The imperative questions that should be asked when considering vaccinations are:

  • Are vaccines necessary?
  • Are vaccines safe?
  • Are vaccinated children healthier than non-vaccinated children?
  • Do the benefits of vaccine outweigh the risks?

So often my patients tell me they asked these questions of their pediatrician. The answer they received was “There may be some risks involved but the benefits far outweigh the risks”. The problem with that statement is that it has never been proven. There is no evidence; there is no study that shows the benefits outweigh the risks. There is, however, overwhelming evidence that shows the risks far outweighs the benefits.

That is the purpose of this presentation; to give you ample information for you to consider which is true for you.

Recommended Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedule

By the time a child is 6 months old they are to be injected with 45 vaccines; at 18 months 64, and at 4-6 years at least 74!! We’re counting DTP (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis) as 3 vaccines, MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) as 3 vaccines and Prevnar (pneumococcal) vaccine as 7 (it contains 7 different vaccines). Most parents have no idea how many shots their children receive.

Schedule to be found at: http://www.cdc.gov/nip/recs/child-schedule

The opposition of vaccine mandates, vaccine safety and effectiveness!

Robert Mendelsohn, MD

“There is no convincing scientific evidence that mass inoculations can be credited with eliminating any childhood disease…I urge you to reject all inoculations for your child." Mendelsohn R. How to raise a healthy child...in spite of your doctor. Chicago: Contemporary Books. 1984:210.

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons calls for an end to mandatory childhood vaccines. “Our children face the possibility of death or serious long-term adverse effects from mandated vaccines that aren’t necessary or that have very limited benefits.” Jane M. Orient, MD, AAPS Executive Director. Nov. 2, 2000. www.aapsonline.org

Are vaccinated children healthier than non-vaccinated children?

Isn’t this the most basic question of all? Shouldn’t any discussion about vaccinations ask whether vaccines actually make our children healthier?

There is no proof vaccinated children are healthier.

No major study has compared vaccinated and non-vaccinated children to see which is healthier. Although, parents have their kids vaccinated so they’ll be “protected” from disease. What they really want is for their children to be healthy. In fact, a normal child should be able to deal with any childhood disease and benefit from the experience (more on that later).

How can the government promote mandatory vaccines if there’s no proof that they are making our children healthy? In fact quite the opposite appears to be the case. It appears that it is the vaccinated children who have allergies, asthma, autism, seizures, dyslexia, chronic illness, ADD, ADHD, skin conditions, nervousness and other nerve and immune system disorders - NOT the vaccination-free children.

Vaccine Research

The research done regarding vaccination safety and efficacy is so very poor it doesn’t even qualify as science. For example: Let’s say you own a drug company and you want to see if your drug is safe. You take two groups of people; match them for age and other factors. Half get the drug and the other half – the control group - gets a placebo – a sugar pill. Now you compare the groups. You’d watch them for days, weeks, months and even years to see if there is any long-term damage. That’s a long-term study. A short-term study does not give you the information that you need. The long term study is the logical, the scientific way to do things.

How many long-term controlled studies are there for vaccines? Zero!

What research should be done? A controlled study: You take two large groups of people, match them by age and other factors, vaccinate one group and don't vaccinate the other. Then compare incidence of disease over a period of several years. That's a long-term study. Short-term studies don't give us any information about vaccination efficacy.

Example of vaccine “science”

  • 2,588 Navajo infants were given Hib, DPT and OPV (the “vaccine” group).
  • 2,602 Navajo infants were given DPT, OPV AND lactose (the “placebo” group). Santosham M, Wolff M, Reid R, et al. The efficacy in Navajo infants of a conjugate vaccine consisting of Haemophilus influenza type b polysaccharide and Neissereia meningitidis outer-membrane protein complex. New England J of Med; 1991, 324(25):1767-1772.

The study was ended early because of the large number of deaths and injuries in both groups. Death and injury from a placebo?

Note: HiB stands for haemophilus influenza B vaccine, DPT = diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis and OPV = oral polio vaccine. 

I know it sounds crazy but they don’t compare vaccinated with non-vaccinated kids; they compare kids vaccinated with an approved vaccine and kids vaccinated with an experimental vaccine. If both groups of children have a similar amount of neurological disorders, seizures, shock and deaths then the experimental vaccine is approved. This is just one example, out of many, of the sloppy, so-called science of vaccination research.

Another problem is this research was done on Navajo babies. Would there be more or less damage in babies of English, Irish, Italian, Jewish, German, French, African, Polish, Russian or other ancestry? We don’t know.

And there’s one last problem: this is not independent research. The people doing this research work for the drug companies. This work should be done by independent researchers.

The science we need that has not been done: Long-term studies using non-vaccinated control groups, so we can look to see if chronic diseases such as autism, childhood diabetes, Crohn’s disease, attention deficit disorder, childhood arthritis and other conditions show up more in vaccinated children as research today shows. Before-and-after studies that test children before and after immunization, to better assess the impact on the body. We especially need studies conducted by researchers who do not receive monetary support from the companies that produce the vaccines, as is the case today.

”Most of the studies are designed in a way that will never detect many types of potential damage. In fact, the federal Institute of Medicine’s protocol for verifying causality of vaccine damage consists of comparing health problems of recently vaccinated children to health problems in background control groups of already vaccinated children (not comparisons to non-vaccinated subjects). Because the test group and the control group are both vaccinated, such tests will show only immediate effects of the vaccination, and are of course unable to detect any long-term or widespread damage in the vaccinated population, because any such damage would become a "normal" background parameter of the control group.”

http://www.vaccinationnews.com/Out_of_Control/2003/Sept_9/OOC1.htm

To repeat: we do not know if any vaccine is safe because vaccinated children are not compared to non-vaccinated ones in safety tests. Also test children are healthy, unlike those often vaccinated in real life. Premature, low birth weight or ill babies are not permitted in the test group. If a test child has a bad reaction, they aren’t revaccinated and are removed from the study. However, in real life, what really happens? MDs vaccinate all children, sick and well, high and low birth weight, full term and premature, with predispositions for allergies, or neurological disease and other conditions. One example of sloppy science: the hepatitis B vaccine was declared safe to give to newborns and premature babies but was only tested on older babies and children.

There are however, some studies that do in fact compared vaccinated to non-vaccinated children….

Immunized children: 23.1% had asthma, 30% had other allergic illnesses.

Non-immunized children: 0% had asthma or other allergic illness

This was a New Zealand study published in Epidemiology, a respected, peer-reviewed medical journal….” Did you hear about this paper on the evening news? How about in Time and Newsweek? In your local paper? No? That’s the problem, the media doesn’t report these stories. You aren’t being told the whole story.”

Pertussis vaccination and asthma

  • 10.69% of children immunized (with pertussis) got asthma.
  • There was 1 case of asthma out of 91 who had no vaccinations at all.

Odent ME, Culpin EE, Kimmel T, Pertussis vaccination and asthma: is there a link? Letter. JAMA. 1994; 272(8):593. 

DPPT or MMR and allergies/asthma

Children vaccinated with DPPT (or MMR) had 14 times more asthma and 9.4 times more eczema than non-vaccinated children. McKeever TM, Lewis SA, Smith C.

Note: DPPT is DPT plus polio.

Here is another study, from the British medical journal Thorax. The conclusion of this study is bizarre: “It is unlikely…vaccinations are a risk factor for asthma or eczema.” How can the researchers make this statement? The researchers bent over backwards to deny the obvious findings – that vaccinated kids have more allergies and asthma. How did they do it? They did it by using “creative imagination.” They concluded that the people who vaccinated their kids were the ones who visit doctors and the ones who didn’t vaccinate their kids don’t usually go to doctors. Therefore, they concluded, the vaccinated kids were much more likely to be diagnosed with any health problem than the kids in the non-vaccinated group.

An old Persian story is about the drunk man on his hands and knees looking for his keys. A friend bends down to help. “Where do you think you dropped them?” he asks. “Over there, down that dark alley” the drunk responds. “Why are you looking here?” his friend asks. “Because there’s more light here” says the drunk.

In the same way, the medical profession will apparently look everywhere to explain vaccine injury, except vaccination.

Asthma and vaccination

Question: Do the “benefits” of vaccination outweigh the risks?

This is the most important question we can ask. The justification for vaccination, in spite of all the damage it is known to cause, is that the damage is miniscule: “one in a million.” Whenever vaccination criticism surfaces, the media will interview some health department official or MD who will repeat the mantra: ‘Sure vaccines have some slight chance of causing damage, but (repeat after me) the benefits far outweigh the risks.’ The only problem with that statement is that it has never been proven.

No one knows… No one knows what the chances are that your child may be hurt or killed by a vaccine. Why? In order to do a risk/benefit analysis we need to know how many children are being hurt. We do not know that because MDs and health officials rarely report vaccine injuries.

This is incredible. We are being pressured to inject chemicals into our children and have no idea how many children can be hurt by it. Here is the proof…

Doctors rarely report damage

“Doctors underreport adverse vaccine reactions by 90%.”

US Food and Drug Administration "Investigative Report on the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System.“ NVIC.

Even though by law MDs must report vaccine injuries to the government’s vaccine adverse event reporting system (VAERS), only one in ten vaccine-injured children is ever reported according to the FDA. This government statistic may be conservative; the actual amount of underreporting may be far greater. Kessler D. JAMA, 1993; 269 (No.21): 2785. Only about 1% of serious events are reported to the FDA.

Here is an example of how vaccine injuries and deaths are underreported. This is from the book A Shot in the Dark. “Janet asked the coroner why he could not state point-blank that Richie's death was due to a DPT shot reaction, when it was obvious… He said he couldn't write down on the death certificate that Richie had died from a DPT reaction because 'the state's standing on immunizations would be in an uproar'.”

Government agencies are pro-vaccine, government agencies promote vaccination and are not likely to criticize their own polices. The contact info for the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is 512 Maple Ave. W. #206, Vienna, VA 22180, 703-938-0342; www.nvic.org

“Japanese research indicates that adverse reactions to MMR vaccine are 78 times as frequent as the UK’s Chief Medical Officer of Health has admitted. If those figures are correct, then the vaccine is more dangerous than the illness.” Richard Barr, Alexander Harris, Mumps, Measles and Rubella (MMR) Vaccines and Measles Rubella (MR)

www.whale.to/vaccines/dawbarns.html Dawbars (UK) 1997

National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program

Health Resources and Services Administration, Parklawn Building, Room 7-90, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857, 800-338-2382. Compensation totals to date with statistical breakdown available with written request.

In the early 1980s pharmaceutical companies were settling so many lawsuits (out of court – records sealed) from vaccine-injured children and their families that they threatened Congress that if they didn’t have protection from liability they were going to stop making vaccines. Congress then passed laws protecting the vaccine companies from liability and created the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. Extra fees were added to each vaccine to pay the damages for vaccine-injured children. Over a billion dollars has been paid, even though most parents do not know this system exists and most requests are rejected by Justice Department lawyers. Further, the government only compensates for a limited number of severe injuries and only if they’ve occurred a few hours after a shot. It is a very bad, broken system and its reform is being discussed in Congress and fought by the vaccine lobby.

What are the real numbers?

By December 2002,VAERS received 244,424 reports of possible reactions to vaccines including:

99,145 emergency room visits

5,149 life-threatening reactions

27,925 hospitalizations

5,775 disabilities and

5,309 deaths

This is what’s reported. What are the real numbers? God only knows. Is it ten or 50 or 500 the numbers above? No one knows and no one in the FDA is making any real effort to find out.

How many children are hurt?

“Between 15 and 20% of American school children are considered learning disabled with minimal brain dysfunction directly caused by vaccine damage.” Coulter HL. Vaccination, Social Violence and Criminality: The Medical Assault on the American Brain. Washington, DC: Center for Empirical Medicine. 1990.

That’s one in 5 or 6! Dr. Coulter’s statement doesn’t include other forms of vaccine damage such as asthma, allergies, immune system problems, etc. The actual number of children damaged by vaccines may be one in two or greater. We are creating a generation of vaccine-injured children.

Are vaccinations “effective?”

What does effective mean? The CDC (Center for Disease Control) says “Effective” means antibodies are produced, not clinical effectiveness (i.e. no disease). However, there is often no correlation between antibodies and resistance to disease. That means people with high antibody counts may get sick while people with low antibody counts may not get sick.

For example: Crone NE, Reder AT. Severe tetanus in immunized patients with high anti-tetanus titers. Neurology 1992;42:761-764. Article abstract: Severe (grade III) tetanus occurred in three immunized patients who had high serum levels of anti-tetanus antibody. The disease was fatal in one patient. One patient had been hyperimmunized to produce commercial tetanus immune globulin. Two patients had received immunizations one year before presentation.

Outbreaks have occurred in 100% vaccinated populations. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. US Govt. 12/29/89/38(S-9):1-18.

“80% cases of measles are contracted in vaccinated people.” Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. US Govt. 6/6/86/35(22):366-70.

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report is put out by the US Government.

Alan Nelson MD testifying on behalf of the AMA in Coulter H, Fisher BL. A Shot in the Dark New York: Warner Books 1985; 385.

“The increase in pertussis incidence was higher among vaccinated than among non-vaccinated persons of all ages. This resulted in lower estimates of vaccine effectiveness.” De Melker HE, Schellekens JFP, Neppelenbrock SE et al. Reemergence of pertussis in the highly vaccinated population of The Netherlands: Observations on surveillance data. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2000; 6(4).

More pertussis since vaccination

With mandatory vaccination and 5 doses of DPT vaccine, pertussis occurs at a far higher rate now than before the introduction of the vaccine. “There is substantial underreporting of pertussis…including hospitalizations.” Sutter RW and Cochi SL. Pertussis hospitalizations and mortality in the United States, 1985-1988. JAMA. 1992;267(3):386-390. 

There’s more pertussis now than before vaccination started and increased deaths in infants. Some vaccine! Why do they still give it? 

The rate of pertussis was declining consistently until 1978 when the DPT vaccine was mandated for school entry in 41 states. The decline immediately slowed, then stopped and began to rise again, and it has been rising ever since. This is comparing epidemic peaks with other epidemic peaks and inter-epidemic troughs with other inter-epidemic troughs, which is the only kind of comparison that reasonably can be done.

An outbreak of 137 cases of measles…

98.7% of students were appropriately vaccinated. Davis RM, Whitman ED, Orenstein WA, A persistent outbreak of measles despite appropriate prevention and control measures. Am J Epidemiol. 1987;126(3):438-449.

Whooping cough deaths increase despite all the vaccinations

“The number of infants dying from whooping cough is raising despite record high vaccination levels. All the deaths in 2000 occurred among infants under the age of 4 months.”

“Since the early 1980s, reported pertussis incidence has increased cyclically with peaks occurring every 3-4 years.”

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Feb 1, 2002;51:73-76. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5104a1.htm

Hepatitis B vaccine – more dangerous than the disease

“The risk of a serious vaccine reaction may be 100 times greater than the risk of hepatitis B….asthma and diabetes… autism and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder have [increased greatly ] since the introduction of many new vaccines….” Jane Orient, MD, Executive Director Association of American Association of Physicians and Surgeons.

Another useless vaccine is the hepatitis B vaccine. Hepatitis B is a disease usually found in prostitutes and IV drug users. Why do they give the shot to babies? This condition is practically unknown in US children; and even so almost all children who get this condition recover completely.

Dr. Orient is Executive Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. She spoke at a subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources of the Committee on Government Reform US House of Representatives. June 14, 1999.

Hepatitis B Vaccine

  • The number of injuries and deaths from the Hepatitis B vaccine are 20 times greater than that from the disease. Mothering Magazine.May/June 1999.
  • Hepatitis B vaccine is linked to lupus and multiple sclerosis (MS). The role of vaccines in arthritis and autoimmunity – ‘vaccinosis’ : a dangerous liaison? J Autoimmun 2000;14(1):1-10

On March 27, 2001, Judy Converse, testifying before the Massachusetts House of Representatives Committee on Education, Arts and Humanities stated the following:

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is not a childhood disease. No agency, the CDC included, lists children or infants among individuals at risk. Hepatitis B is an adult lifestyle disease spread in the United States primarily by sexual contact and sharing of needles. Adults age 20-40 are typically affected and over 90% recover with no permanent effects. Even for adults, hepatitis B virus incidence is almost a non-issue in the US. Incidence is so low in fact that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stated in 1997: "State level incidence rates of hepatitis B are deemed unreliable. This item is not amenable to survey data collection due to low incidence. National estimates of hepatitis B incidence are corrected for underreporting by using an algorithm that adjusts reported incidence upward by approximately 6-fold".

Administration of the Hepatitis B vaccine to a newborn who is not at risk to prevent an adult lifestyle disease makes as much sense as taking an aspirin on Monday to prevent a hangover on Friday.

Chickenpox (varicella)

  • A mild self-limiting disease that gives permanent life long immunity if caught as a child but is much more dangerous in adults.
  • The chances of a child becoming seriously ill and dying from chicken pox are about equal to winning the lottery.

The chickenpox shot was not produced for health reasons but for economic reasons - so that parents would not have to miss work taking care of a sick child. This is the first time such a reason for vaccination was promoted.

It is extremely rare for a child to die from chickenpox. A review of some of the records of such deaths shows the children received suppressive medical care (anti-fever drugs, steroids etc.). The chickenpox vaccine may result in significantly increased risk of shingles, an extremely painful, often difficult to treat, sometimes fatal condition among adults. Voilá, a shingles vaccine!  Note: In order to prevent shingles adults appear to need repeated exposure to the virus. 

Tetanus

  • Associated with improper wound cleaning, malnutrition and a weak immune system.
  • Decreased 92% from mid-1850s to early 1900s (before vaccination).

There are between 50 and 130 cases of tetanus each year in the US irrespective of vaccination status. It appears to be most dangerous in the elderly. For example, of the approximately 130 cases/year from 1998-2000 in the US, not one fatality was in individuals under 30 years of age. Almost all fatalities were in intravenous drug users or diabetics, all over 30 years old. So why inject children with this? Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 7/98;47(5-2):13.

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5203a1.htm#tab1

Tetanus vaccine reactions

…include Guillain-Barre syndrome, brachial neuritis, demyelinating disease, arthritis, joint inflammation, anaphylactic shock, asthma, allergy and others.

What about polio?

“It is commonly believed that the Salk vaccine was responsible for halting the polio epidemics…if so, why did the epidemics also end in Europe, where polio vaccine was not so extensively used?” Mendelsohn R. How to raise a healthy child...in spite of your doctor. Chicago: Contemporary Books. 1984:210.

People often ask, ‘But what about polio?’ Polio was a dangerous disease and an epidemic and did disappear. But there is no proof that the vaccine had anything to do with its’ disappearance.

In fact, there is evidence that polio and polio-like conditions such as aseptic meningitis and paralysis are caused by vaccinations. The term “provocation polio” is used to describe polio caused by vaccination.

Vaccinations cause polio

“During a poliomyelitis outbreak investigation in Oman…a significantly higher proportion of cases received a DTP injection within 30 days before paralysis onset than did controls… This study confirms that injections are an important cause of provocative poliomyelitis.” Sutter RW, Patriarca PA, Suleiman AJ, et al. Attributable risk of DTP (diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and pertussis vaccine) injection in provoking paralytic poliomyelitis during a large outbreak in Oman. J Infect Dis. 1992;165(3):444-9.

Meningitis too is associated with vaccination. For years it was noticed that meningitis outbreaks would occur in military bases, among the freshly vaccinated recruits. Many members of the military have become seriously ill from vaccinations. Gulf War Syndrome is one example.

Do vaccines cause meningitis?

Meningitis increased in 1990 after the MMR-vaccine was introduced in New Zealand. A meningitis outbreak in Brazil was linked to MMR vaccination 3 weeks after “National vaccination Day.” American Journal of Epidemiology. 2000;151:524-530.

Can vaccines cause damage months or years later?

Congressman Dan Burton, who is investigating vaccine safety, said this:

“Instead of hiding our heads in the sand to protect the status quo, it is time to admit that [there are] no adequate studies to determine the long-term effects of vaccines on our children and future generations.” US Rep. Dan Burton, April 24, 2000 LA Times.

We don’t know if a vaccine given to your child today may cause a disease in 5, 10, 20 or more months or years! How long do they observe children given new, experimental vaccines? What should be done? A controlled study: You take two large groups of people, match them by age and other factors, vaccinate one group and don't vaccinate the other. Then compare incidence of disease over a period of several years. That's a long-term study. Short-term studies don't give us any information about vaccination efficacy. How many long-term controlled studies are there for all vaccines for all diseases in the world since the beginning of science? Zero!

Did vaccines eliminate diseases?

We’ve heard it said, ‘Before childhood vaccinations, thousands of children died every year from measles and whooping cough.’ And they’ll give you a statistic from 1910, 1920 or 1930 to prove it. It’s true, thousands of children died from these diseases in 1910, 1920 and 1930, but is vaccination the reason why these diseases are no longer the scourge they once were?

The quote from Dr. Ivan Illich, the world famous sociologist was based on extensive analysis of health data. “Nearly 90% of the total decline in mortality (scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping cough, and measles) between 1860 and 1965 occurred before the introduction of antibiotics and widespread immunization.” Illich, I. Medical Nemesis. Chapter 1-The Epidemics of Modern Medicine, NY: Bantam Books 1976

What made deaths from childhood disease fall? Less crowding, better nutrition, clean, running water, indoor plumbing and an overall higher standard of living were responsible.

The following graphs are from Vaccines, Are They Really Safe and Effective? by Neil Miller. You’ll see that deaths from childhood diseases were falling dramatically for decades before vaccination was introduced.

Measles death rate had decreased by 98% before the vaccine was introduced.

The pertussis death rate had declined by 79% before the vaccine was introduced in 1935. In 1935 there were no compulsory immunization laws and it didn’t get used much until the 1950s at which time the death rate had declined by about 99%.

Scarlet fever, typhoid fever and pertussis

  • Scarlet fever, typhoid fever and pertussis were major killers.
  • No vaccine was introduced for scarlet fever and typhoid fever.
  • All three diseases declined to virtually zero.

What if we stopped vaccinating?

It’s been predicted that we’d have massive epidemics and lots of deaths. This is a hypothetical cost/benefit analysis from the CDC and Harvard School of Public Health. The authors predicted doom and gloom. However they ignored what had actually occurred when pertussis vaccination stopped or decreased in other countries. 

What really happened? When pertussis vaccination decreased (Sweden, the UK and Germany) pertussis deaths decreased. Trollfors B. and Rabo E. Whooping cough in adults. British Medical Journal. 1981; 696-697 (September 12) cited in Coulter H. & Fisher BL A Shot in the Dark. NY: Warner Books 1985; 255-6.

However MDs did diagnose more whooping cough. They did that because they were told to look for more whooping cough because vaccination rates were dropping. So instead of diagnosing bronchitis, a cold or some other condition, they called it whooping cough and suddenly there was an epidemic and they said, “See, we told you so.” However the real measure is the death rate and after parents stopped pertussis vaccination the death rate from whooping cough in the UK was the lowest in recorded history.

This is a very important chart and it helps illustrate one of the major hurtles in the vaccine debate: many of the people who tell us how many kids are hurt and how many kids get diseases are MDs who have a financial interest in vaccinations. All they have to do is report that a child has measles, whopping cough, rubella, chicken pox, etc. without laboratory conformation and it becomes part of official statistics.

However as this report from England shows, they checked the reported cases using laboratory confirmation. In some cases the MDS were over 99% wrong in their diagnosis of measles. As you can see, only a tiny fraction of the children who the MDs reported as having the measles actually, really had measles.

Are we “protecting” children from diseases that no one is getting? There are diseases that look like measles, pertussis and other childhood diseases. Doctors usually don’t confirm their diagnosis with a lab test - that is time consuming and expensive. In a sense we have the fox guarding the hen house.”

Polio was disappearing on its own. It disappeared in Europe even though the vaccine was not so extensively used.

However the number of cases of polio peaked immediately after the vaccine came out and then continued its downward slide.

After the polio shot came on the market, if a person had polio-like symptoms AND had the polio shot he/she was diagnosed as having meningitis (after all they couldn’t have polio if they got the shot). People who had polio-like symptoms and didn’t have the polio shot were diagnosed with polio. They rarely did lab confirmation. Today, much of what was once diagnosed as polio is aseptic meningitis and other conditions.

What’s in a vaccine?

In addition to live and killed bacteria, viri and their toxins, children are injected with some of the most lethal poisons known: formaldehyde, mercury, aluminum, phenol (carbolic acid), borax (ant killer), ethylene glycol (antifreeze), dye, acetone (nail polish remover), latex, MSG, glycerol, polysorbate 80/20, sorbitol, monkey, cow, chick, pig, sheep and dog tissues and cells (may be contaminated with animal viruses), gelatin, casein, human fetus cells, human viruses, antibiotics, genetically modified yeast, animal, bacterial and viral DNA (may affect recipient's DNA).

This is a partial list. Parents who are very careful about their child not eating junk food with artificial colors and flavors would be shocked to find out what is injected into their child’s body. Aluminum and mercury in foods for example, is a serious issue and not to be taken lightly but an injected substance is far more dangerous than an ingested substance. Injected substances bypass the immune defenses (skin and mucus membranes etc.) and have direct access to internal organs.

Are there benefits to acute illness?

Do childhood diseases, and acute (sudden) diseases in general, serve a purpose? The Hygienic (Empirical or Vitalistic) school, which dates back thousands of years, has always looked upon symptoms as the body’s way of detoxifying and cleansing.

"Diseases are crises of purification, of toxic elimination. Symptoms are the natural defenses of the body. We call them diseases, but in fact they are the cure of diseases." Hippocrates

We are among the most vaccinated people in the world and the sickest. Half of all Americans have at least one chronic disease; 1/5th have 2 or more chronic illnesses.

Chronic illnesses cause 70% of all deaths. http://www.whale.to/m/illness.html AP Nov 2000. Hoffman C., Rice D, Sung H., Persons with chronic conditions. JAMA. 1996;l 276(18):1473-1479.

Is the dramatic increase in chronic illness such as allergies, asthma, arthritis, learning disorders, dyslexia, multiple sclerosis, lupus, skin conditions, diabetes, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, autism, rheumatoid arthritis, seizure disorders, Crohn’s and cancer due to vaccination?

For hundreds of years natural healers have warned us that symptoms serves a purpose, to expel toxins, to cleanse the body, to externalize disease. When we suppress symptoms such as fever, rash, vomiting, diarrhea, aches and pains with drugs and vaccines we are preventing the body from eliminating toxins. The result appears to be chronic or long-standing disease which we never get rid of – we’re always sick.

Developmental disabilities

“A large proportion of the millions of U.S. children and adults suffering from autism, seizures, mental retardation, hyperactivity, dyslexia, and other… 'developmental disabilities,' owe their disorders to…vaccines.” Coulter Ibid.

“Speak to special ed teachers who have been around awhile and they’ll tell you that the numbers of children with learning and behavioral disorders began skyrocketing a few years after mass vaccination programs began. The cover story of the July 23, 2003 issue of Time magazine was “Overcoming Dyslexia.” The editors write: ”Up to 1 in 5 kids may simply not be wired to read.” This is incredible. Suddenly we have a generation of ‘poorly wired’ children? What cause their brain wiring to be damaged? Was it the encephalitis or demyelination caused by vaccination? The authors interview medical doctors and scientists who have no idea why this is happening. Vaccination was not discussed in the article.

Personality disorders

“The so-called ‘sociopathic personality,' which is at the root of the enormous increase in crime of the past two decades, is also largely rooted in vaccine damage.” Coulter Ibid.

Criminals often have neurological disorders. You cannot function properly if your nerves are damaged.

The number of 2 to 4-year-olds taking psychiatric drugs like Ritalin™ and Prozac™ soared 50% between 1991 and 1995. The results are troubling since the long-term safety and effects of these drugs on a child’s developing brain are largely unknown. Zito JM, Safer DJ, dosReis S et al. Trends in the prescribing of psychotropic medications to preschoolers. JAMA. 2000;283(8):1025-30 also see Coyle JT. Psychotropic drug use in very young children. JAMA. 2000;283(8):1059-1060. 

As more and more vaccines are administered at younger and younger ages, we see behavioral problems affecting more, and younger children.

Do vaccines cause autism?

  • One in 10,000 births were autistic in 1970s
  • One in 500 in 1980s
  • One in 100 in 1990s
  • One in 86 in 2002 (UK study).

 What does the future hold?

 Today 1% of all males born in the US are later diagnosed as autistic. They aren’t born that way. There are over a million people with ASD in the US today.

Scared yet? The relationship between autism or autism spectrum disorder and vaccines has been noticed by parents for many years, only most doctors refused to listen to the parents.

As Mark R. Geier, MD, Ph.D in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons (Vol. 8 No. 3) Fall 2003 writes: “The United States is in the midst of a devastating epidemic of neurodevelopment disorders. From 1992-93 to 2001-02 there was a 714% increase (statistics from US Dept of Ed) See statistics at http://www.jpands.org/ [This epidemic is a] threat…to the very existence of our society.” It is not surprising that our recent article, in which we have shown an epidemiologic link between thimerosal and neurodevelopment disorders, has generated a tremendous controversy. (Geier MR, Geier DL. Thimerosal in childhood vaccines, neurodevelopment disorders and heart disease in the United States. J Am Phys Surg; 2003;8(1):6-11.

It seems that any vaccine can cause autism. The MMR shot has been implicated, as has the DPT shot (given at two months of age) and even the Hepatitis B shot (given at birth!) or it could be a combination of shots. Some children may not exhibit autistic symptoms until weeks or months after their shots.

Who got shots in 1939?

“No one at the time, or for many decades thereafter, noted that the first cases of autism emerged in the United States at a time when vaccination against whooping cough was becoming increasingly popular and widespread.” Coulter H. ibid:1.

Can vaccine damage be reversed?

Paul Herscu ND, The New England School of Homeopathy. www.nesh.com 

For a directory of classical homeopaths go to www.homeopathicdirectory.com , www.homeopathic.org and www.homeopathy.org

Hugh Fudenberg, MD has success treating those with autism. Go to www.nitrf.org

The answer is yes in many cases. I recommend a number of approaches in addition to chiropractic care. One is classical homeopathy, and one contact is Dr. Paul Herscu who has students around the US. Autistics have been called the ‘children with the crystal skulls’ because of the fixations and tension in their skull bones and for that reason I recommend cranial osteopathy and/or craniosacral therapy (go to www.upledger.com to find a craniosacral therapist in your area) craniopathy, vision therapists, nutritional therapists and others as early as possible. Much brain damage may be prevented or reversed if it’s found early enough.

Dr. Paul Herscu is one of the world’s leading homeopaths. In a private interview he said that out of about 400 autistic children and adults he has treated, he’s helped “all but 3 or 4 of them.” I have known people whose severely autistic children were completely cured of their autism using Dr. Herscu’s classical homeopathy protocols, plus cranial care, vision therapy, nutritional therapy and other combinations of treatment. Dr. Herscu has students all over the country who follow his protocols. Contact him at the above address.

Can you avoid vaccination?

“When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we, in essence, accept that the state owns our bodies.” U.S. Representative Ron Paul

To whom do your children belong? You or the state?

Exemptions

To find exemptions in your state

Vaccine Liberation organization http://www.vaclib.org/pdf/exemption.htm

National Vaccine Information Center http://www.909shot.com/Issues/state%20exemptions.htm

Foundation For Health Choice www.foundationforhealthchoice.com

There are vaccine exemptions in every state. Unfortunately most health department officials, school officials and medical offices don’t know the law and try to intimidate or coerce parents into vaccinating their children. They almost never discuss adverse reactions, telling the parents that the vaccines are perfectly safe or the only reaction may be a sore arm, slight fever or fussiness. That is untrue, but in their defense, have been taught that vaccines are very safe and reactions are exceeding rare. Also they are usually untrained to recognize vaccine damage and therefore are unable to report it.

Please check out the above organizations.

The Foundation for Health Choice, www.foundationforhealthchoice.com is currently fighting for healthcare freedom to change laws to permit everyone to have the freedom to “just say no” to all drugs.

Spanish site about vaccination, visit www.librevacunacion.com.ar 

Summary

There is no proof vaccinated children are healthier than non-vaccinated children.

There is no proof “benefits” outweigh risks.

There is no proof vaccinations are effective.

Vaccinations cause illness and disease.

There are no long-term safety studies.

Deaths from the diseases were mostly gone before vaccines.

Vaccines contain toxins and poisons.

Childhood diseases strengthen and mature the immune system.

The fox is guarding the hen-house.

You can legally avoid vaccinations.

It’s nice to rely on experts but they aren’t always right. Here are some examples of experts opinions…oh, they also told Columbus the world was flat.

Expert’s Opinions

“This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.” Western Union, 1876.

“The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value.” David Sarnoff’s associates rejecting investment in the radio in the 1920’s.

“We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out anyway.” Decca Music rejecting the Beatles, 1962.

“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.” Ken Olson, Digital Equipment Corp., 1977.

The experts said:

Bloodletting is good for you

Formula is as good as breast milk

DDT is safe

Cigarette smoking is good for you

Hormone replacement therapy works

The swine flu is coming

Vaccination is safe

Vaccinations will one day go the way of bloodletting. Doctors of tomorrow would be shocked that, without any good research showing any benefit and with much research showing harm, we continued using this bizarre 18th century medical practice of injecting viri, bacteria, toxins and other chemicals into our children well into the 21st century. Don’t follow advice blindly. Question authority, think for yourself, read, learn, don’t do anything unless you are sure the benefits outweigh the risks. Remember, you can’t fool mother nature.


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