VACCINATION MYTH #1:
"Vaccines are safe..."
--
...or are they?
The Federal government VAERS (Vaccine
Adverse
Events Reporting System) was established by Congress under the National
Childhood Vaccine Injury Compensation Act of 1986. It receives about
11,000
reports of serious adverse reactions to vaccinations annually, which
include
as many as one to two hundred deaths, and several times that number of
permanent disabilities. VAERS officials report that 15% of
adverse
events are "serious" (emergency room trip, hospitalization,
life-threatening
episode, permanent disability, death). Independent analysis of VAERS
reports
has revealed that up to 50% of reported adverse events for the
Hepatitis
B vaccine are "serious." While these figures are alarming, they
are
only the tip of the iceberg. The FDA estimates that as few as 1% of
serious
adverse reactions to vaccines are reported, and the CDC admits that
only
about 10% of such events are reported. In
fact, Congress has heard testimony that
medical
students are told not to report suspected adverse events.
The National Vaccine Information Center
(NVIC,
a grassroots organization founded by parents of vaccine-injured and
killed
children) has conducted its own investigations. It reported: "In
New York, only one out of 40 doctor's offices confirmed that they
report
a death or injury following vaccination." In other words, 97.5% of
vaccine
related deaths and disabilities go unreported there. Implications about
medical ethics
aside (federal law directs doctors to
report
serious adverse events ), these findings suggest that vaccine deaths
and
serious injuries actually occurring may be from 10 to 100 times greater
than the number reported.
With pertussis (often referred to as
"whooping
cough"), the number of vaccine related deaths dwarfs the number of
disease
deaths, which have been about 10 annually for many years according to
the
CDC, and only 8 in 1993, one of the last peak-incidence years
(pertussis
runs in 3-4 year cycles; no none knows why, but vaccination rates have
no such cycles). When you factor in under reporting, the vaccine may be
100 times more deadly than the disease. Some argue that this is a
necessary
cost to prevent the return of a disease that would be more deadly than
the vaccine. But when you consider the fact that the vast majority of
disease
decline this century preceded the widespread use of vaccinations
(pertussis
mortality declined 79% prior to vaccines), and the fact that rates of
disease
declines remained virtually unchanged following the introduction of
mass
immunization, present day vaccine casualties cannot reasonably be
explained
away as a necessary sacrifice for the benefit of a disease free
society.
Unfortunately, the vaccine related deaths
story
doesn't end here. Studies internationally have shown vaccination to be
a cause of SIDS , (SIDS, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, is a "catch-all"
diagnosis given when the specific cause of death is unknown; estimates
range from 5,000 to 10,000 cases each year in the US). One study found
the peak incidence of SIDS occurred at the ages of 2 and 4 months in
the
U.S., precisely
when the first two routine immunizations
are
given, while another found a clear pattern of correlation
extending
three weeks after immunization. Another study found that 3,000
children
die within 4 days of vaccination each year in the U.S. (amazingly, the
authors reported no SIDS/vaccine relationship), while yet another
researcher's
studies led to the conclusion that at least half of SIDS cases are
caused
by vaccines.
Initial studies suggesting a causal
relationship
between SIDS and vaccines were quickly followed by vaccine manufacturer
sponsored studies concluding that there is no relationship between SIDS
and vaccines; one such study claimed that there was a slightly lower
incidence
of SIDS in vaccinees. However, many of these studies were
called into question by yet another study
that
found "confounding" had erroneously skewed the results of these studies
in favor of the vaccine. At best, there is conflicting evidence. But
shouldn't
we err on the side of caution? Shouldn't any credible correlation
between
vaccines and infant deaths be just cause for meticulous, widespread
monitoring
of the vaccination status of all SIDS cases? Health authorities have
chosen
to err on the side of denial rather than caution.
In the mid 1970's Japan raised their
vaccination
age from two months to two years; their incidence of SIDS dropped
dramatically;
they went from an infant mortality ranking of 17 to first in the world
(i.e., Japan had the lowest infant death rate when infants were not
being
immunized). England's vaccination rate temporarily dropped to
about
30% at about the same time following media reports of vaccine-related
brain
damage. Infant mortality dropped
substantially
for about 2 years, then rose again
in close correlation to rising
immunization rates
in the late 1970's. Despite these experiences, the medical community
maintains
a posture of denial. Coroners don't check the vaccination status of
SIDS
victims, and unsuspecting families continue to pay the price, unaware
of
the dangers and denied the right to make an informed choice.
FDA and CDC admissions about the lack of
adverse
event reporting suggests that the total number of adverse reactions
actually
occurring each year may actually fall within a range of 100,000 to a
million
(with "serious" events being approximately 20% of these). This concern
is underscored by a study revealing that 1 in 175 children who
completed
the full DPT series suffered "severe
reactions,"
and a Dr.'s report for attorneys stating that one in 300 DPT
immunizations
resulted in seizures.
England actually saw a drop in pertussis
deaths
when vaccination rates dropped to 30% in the mid 70's. Swedish
epidemiologist
B. Trollfors' study of pertussis vaccine efficacy and toxicity around
the
world found that "pertussis-associated mortality is currently very low
in industrialised countries and no difference can be discerned when
countries
with high, low, and zero immunisation rates were compared." He also
found
that England, Wales, and West Germany had more pertussis fatalities in
1970 when the immunization rate was high than during the last half of
1980,
when rates had fallen.
Vaccinations cost us more than just the
lives
and health of our children. The U.S. Federal Government's National
Vaccine
Injury Compensation Program (NVICP) has paid out over $1.2 billion
since
1988 to the families of children injured and killed by vaccines,
with money that comes from a tax on vaccines that vaccine recipients
pay.
Mean while, pharmaceutical companies have a captive market; vaccines
are
legally mandated in all 50 U.S. states (though legally avoidable in
most;
see Myth #9), yet
these same companies are "immune" from
accountability
for the consequences of their products. Furthermore, they have been
allowed
to use "gag orders" as a leverage tool in vaccine damage legal
settlements
to prevent disclosure of information to the public about vaccination
dangers.
Such arrangements are clearly unethical; they force an uninformed
American
public to pay for vaccine manufacturer's liabilities, while
ensuring
that this same public will remain
ignorant of
the dangers of their products. This arrangement also diminishes any
incentive
that manufacturers might have to produce safer vaccines (after all,
when
the vaccine causes a death or injury, they don't have to pay for it;
they
still get their profit).
It is important to note that insurance
companies,
who do the best liability studies, refuse to cover vaccine reactions.
Profits
appear to dictate both the pharmaceutical and insurance companies'
positions. VACCINATION TRUTH #1:
"Vaccination causes significant death and
disability
at an astounding
personal and financial cost to uninformed
families."
VACCINATION MYTH #2:
"Vaccines are very effective..." --...or
are
they?
The medical literature has a surprising
number
of studies documenting vaccine failure. Measles, mumps, small pox,
pertussis,
polio and Hib outbreaks have all occurred in vaccinated populations. ,
, , , In 1989 the CDC reported: "Among school-aged children,
[measles]
outbreaks have occurred in schools with vaccination levels of greater
than
98 percent. [They] have occurred in all parts of the country, including
areas that had not reported measles for years." The CDC even
reported
a measles
outbreak in a documented 100% vaccinated
population.
A study examining this phenomenon concluded, "The apparent paradox is
that
as measles immunization rates rise to high levels in a population,
measles
becomes a disease of immunized persons." A more recent study
found
that measles vaccination "produces immune suppression which contributes
to an increased susceptibility to other infections." These studies
suggest
that the goal of complete "immunization" may actually be
counter-productive,
a notion underscored by instances in which epidemics followed complete
immunization of entire countries. Japan experienced yearly increases in
small pox following the introduction of compulsory vaccines in 1872. By
1892, there were 29,979 deaths, and
all had been vaccinated. In the
early 1900's,
the Philippines experienced their worst smallpox epidemic ever after 8
million people received 24.5 million vaccine doses (achieving a
vaccination
rate of 95%); the death rate quadrupled as a result. Before
England's
first compulsory vaccination law in 1853, the largest two-year smallpox
death rate was about 2,000; in 1870-71, England and Wales had over
23,000
smallpox
deaths. In 1989, the country of
Oman experienced
a widespread polio outbreak six months after achieving complete
vaccination.
In the U.S. in 1986, 90% of 1300 pertussis cases in Kansas were
"adequately
vaccinated." 72% of pertussis cases in the 1993 Chicago out-break
were fully up to date with their vaccinations. VACCINATION TRUTH#2:
"Evidence suggests that vaccination is an
unreliable
means of preventing disease."
VACCINATION MYTH #3:
"Vaccines are the reason for low disease
rates
in the U.S. today..." ...or are they?
According to the British Association for
the
Advancement of Science, childhood diseases decreased 90% be-tween 1850
and 1940, paralleling improved sanitation and hygienic practices, well
before mandatory vaccination programs. The Medical Sentinel recently
reported,
"from 1911 to 1935, the four leading causes of childhood deaths from
infectious
diseases in the U.S. were diphtheria, pertussis, scarlet fever,
and
measles. However, by 1945 the combined
death
rates from these causes had declined by 95 percent, before the
implementation
of mass immunization programs."
Thus, at best, vaccinations can only be
examined
only for their relationship to the small, remaining portion of disease
declines that occurred after their introduction. Yet even this role is
questionable, as pre-vaccine rates of disease mortality decline
remained
virtually the same after vaccines were introduced. Furthermore,
European
countries that refused immunization for small pox and polio saw the
epidemics
end along with those countries that mandated it; vac-cines were clearly
not the sole determining factor. In fact, both small pox and polio
immunization
campaigns were followed by significant disease incidence increases.
After
smallpox vaccination was being mandated, smallpox remained a prevalent
disease with some substantial increases, while other infectious
diseases simultaneously continued their
declines
in the absence of vaccines. In England and Wales, smallpox disease and
vaccination rates eventually declined simultaneously over a period of
several
decades between the 1870's and the beginning of World War II. It
is thus impossible to say whether or not vaccinations contributed to
the
continuing declines in disease death rates, or if the declines
continued
unabated simply due to the same forces which likely brought about the
initial
declines-improvements in sanitation, hygiene and diet; better housing,
transportation and infrastructure; better food preservation techniques
and technology; and natural disease cycles. Underscoring
this conclusion was a recent World Health
Organization
report which found that the disease and mortality rates in third world
countries have no direct correlation with immunization procedures or
medical
treatment, but are closely related to the standard of hygiene and
diet.
Credit given to vaccinations for our current disease incidence has
simply
been grossly exaggerated, if not outright misplaced.
Vaccine advocates point to incidence
rather than
mortality statistics as evidence of vaccine effectiveness. However,
statisticians
tell us that mortality statistics are a better measure of disease than
incidence figures, for the simple reason that the quality of reporting
and record keeping is much higher on fatalities. For instance, a
survey in New York City revealed that only 3.2% of pediatricians were
actually
reporting
measles cases to the health department.
In 1974,
the CDC determined that there were 36 cases of measles in Georgia,
while
the Georgia State Surveillance System reported 660 cases. In
1982,
Maryland state health officials blamed a pertussis epidemic on a
television
pro-gram, "D.P.T.- Vaccine Roulette," which warned of the dangers of
DPT;
but when former top virologist for the U.S. Division of Biological
Standards,
Dr. J.
Anthony Morris, analyzed the 41 cases, he
confirmed
only 5, and all had been
vaccinated. Such instances as these
demonstrate
the fallacy of incidence figures, yet vaccine advocates tend to rely on
them indiscriminately. VACCINATION TRUTH #3
"It is unclear what impact, if any, that
vaccines
had on 19th and 20th century infectious disease declines."
VACCINATION MYTH #4:
"Vaccination is based on sound
immunization theory
and practice..." ...or is it?
The clinical evidence for vaccines is
their ability
to stimulate anti-body production in the recipient. What is not clear,
however, is whether or not antibody production constitutes immunity.
For
example, agamma globulin-anemic children are incapable of producing
anti-bodies,
yet they recover from infectious diseases almost as quickly as
other
children. Furthermore, a study
published
by the British Medical Council in 1950
during a diphtheria epidemic concluded
that there
was no relationship between antibody count and disease incidence;
researchers
found resistant people with extremely low antibody counts and sick
people
with high counts. Natural immunization is a complex interactive
process
involving many bodily organs and systems; it cannot be replicated by
the
artificial stimulation of antibodies.
Research also indicates that vaccination
commits
immune cells to the specific antigens in a vaccine, rendering them
incapable
of reacting to other infections. Immunological reserves may thus
actually
be reduced, causing a generally lowered resistance.
Another component of immunization theory
is "herd
immunity," the notion that when enough people in a community are
immunized,
all are protected. As Myth #2 showed, there are many documented
instances
showing just the opposite fully vaccinated populations have experienced
epidemics. With measles, this actually seems to be the direct result of
high vaccination rates. In Minnesota, a state epidemiologist
concluded
that the Hib vaccine increases the risk
of illness
when a study revealed that vaccinated
children were five times more likely to
contract
meningitis than unvaccinated children.
Surprisingly, vaccination has never
actually
been clinically proven to be effective in preventing disease, for the
simple
reason that no researcher has directly exposed test subjects to
diseases
(nor may they ethically do so). The medical community's gold standard,
the double blind, placebo controlled study, has not been used to
compare
vaccinated and unvaccinated people, and so the practice remains
unscientifically
proven. Furthermore, it is important to
recognize
that not everyone exposed to a disease develops symptoms (indeed, only
a tiny percentage of a population need develop symptoms for an epidemic
to be declared). Thus, if a vaccinated individual
is exposed to a disease and doesn't
get
sick, it is impossible to know whether the vaccine worked, because
there
is no way to know if that person would have developed symptoms if he or
she had not been vaccinated. It is also worth noting that outbreaks in
recent years have recorded more disease cases in vaccinated children
than
in unvaccinated children.
Yet another surprising aspect of
immunization
practice is the "one size fits all" aspect. An 8 pound 2 month old baby
receives the same dosage as a 40 pound five year old child. Infants
with
immature, undeveloped immune systems may receive five or more times the
dosage, relative to body weight, as older children. Furthermore, the
number
of "units" within doses has been found in random testing to range from
½ to 3 times
what the label indicates; manufacturing
quality
controls appear to tolerate a rather
large margin of error. "Hot Lots" vaccine
lots
associated with dis-proportionately high death and disability rates
have
been repeatedly identified by the NVIC, but the FDA consistently
refuses
to intervene to prevent further unnecessary injury and deaths. In fact,
individual vaccine lots have never been recalled due to their greater
incidence
of
adverse reactions. However, the rotavirus
vaccine
was taken off the market a few months after being introduced when it
caused
bowel obstructions in many recipients. Incredibly, the FDA and CDC knew
about this problem prior to licensing the vaccine, but both
organizations
still gave their unanimous approval.
Finally, vaccines are administered with
the assumption
that all recipients regardless of race, culture, diet, genetic makeup,
geographic location, or any other characteristic will respond the same.
This was perhaps never more dramatically disproved than in Australia's
Northern Territory a few years ago, where stepped up immunization
campaigns
in native aborigines resulted in an incredible 50% infant mortality
rate.
One
must wonder about the lives of the
survivors,
too; if half died, surely the other half did not escape
unaffected.
Almost as troubling was a recent study in
the
New England Journal of Medicine reporting that a substantial number of
Romanian children were contracting polio from the vaccine. Researchers
found a correlation with injections of antibiotics. A single injection
within one month of vaccination raised the risk of polio eight times,
two
to nine injections raised the risk 27 fold, and 10 or more injections
raised
the risk 182 times.
What other factors not accounted for in
vaccination
theory will surface unexpectedly to reveal unforeseen or previously
overlooked
consequences? We cannot begin to fully comprehend the scope and degree
of the danger until public health officials begin looking and reporting
in earnest. In the meantime, entire countries' populations are
unwitting gamblers in a game that many
might
very well choose not to play if they were given all the rules in
advance. VACCINATION TRUTH #4:
"Many of the assumptions upon which
immunization
theory and practice are based are unproven or have been proven false in
their application."
VACCINATION
MYTH #5:
"Childhood diseases are extremely
dan-gerous..."
...or are they, really?
Most childhood infectious diseases have
few serious
consequences in today's modern world. Even conservative CDC statistics
for pertussis during 1992-94 indicate a 99.8% recovery rate. In fact,
when
hundreds of pertussis cases occurred in Ohio and Chicago in the fall
1993
outbreak, an infectious disease expert from Cincinnati Children's
Hospital
said, "The disease was very mild, no one died, and no one went to
the
intensive care unit."
The vast majority of the time, childhood
infectious
diseases are benign and self-limiting. They usually impart lifelong
immunity,
whereas vaccine induced immunity is only temporary. In fact, the
temporary
nature of vaccine immunity can create a more dangerous situation in a
child's
future. For example, the new chicken pox vaccine has an effectiveness
estimated
at 6 - 10 years. If effective, it will postpone the child's
vulnerability until adulthood, when death
from
the disease, while still rare, is 20 times more likely than in
childhood.
"Measles parties" used to be common in Britain; if a child got measles,
other parents in the neighborhood would rush their kids over to play
with
the infected child, to deliberately contract the disease and develop
immunity.
This avoids the risk of infection in adulthood when the disease is more
dangerous, and
provides the benefits of an immune system
strengthened
by the natural disease process.
About half of measles cases in the late
1980's
resurgence were in adolescents and adults, most of whom were vaccinated
as children, and the recommended booster shots may provide
protection
for less than six months. Some healthcare professionals are
concerned
that the virus from the chicken pox vaccine may "reactivate later in
life
in the form of herpes zoster (shingles) or other immune system
disorders."
Dr. A.Lavin of the Dept. of Pediatrics, St. Luke's Medical Center in
Cleveland,
Ohio, strongly opposed licensing the new vaccine, "until we actually
know...the
risks involved in injecting mutated DNA [the vaccine herpes virus] into
the host genome [children]." The truth is, no one knows, but the
vaccine is now licensed, recommended by health authorities, and quickly
becoming mandated throughout the country.
Not only are most infectious diseases
rarely
dangerous, they can actually play a vital role in the developing a
strong,
healthy immune system. Persons who have not had measles have a higher
incidence
of certain skin diseases, degenerative diseases of bone and cartilage,
and certain tumors, while absence of mumps has been linked to
higher
risks of ovarian cancer. Anthroposophical
medical
doctors recommend only the tetanus and polio vaccines; they believe
contracting
the other childhood infectious diseases is beneficial in that it
matures
and strengthens the immune system. VACCINATION TRUTH #5:
"Dangers of childhood diseases are
greatly exaggerated
in order to scare parents into compliance with a questionable but
highly
profitable procedure."
VACCINATION MYTH #6:
"Polio was one of the clearly great
vaccination
success stories..." ...or was it?
Six New England states reported increases
in
polio one year after the Salk vaccine was introduced, ranging from more
than doubling in Vermont to Massachusetts' astounding increase of 642%;
other states reported increases as well. The incidence in Wisconsin
increased
by a factor of five. Idaho and Utah actually halted vaccination due to
the
increased incidence and death rate. In
1959,
77.5% of Massachusetts' paralytic cases had received 3 doses of IPV
(injected
polio vaccine). During 1962 U.S. congressional hearings, Dr. Bernard
Greenberg,
head of the Dept. of Biostatistics for the University of North Carolina
School of Public Health, testified that not only did the cases of
polio
increase substantially after mandatory
vaccinations-a
50% increase from 1957 to 1958, and an 80% increase from 1958 to 1959
but
that the statistics were deliberately manipulated by the Public Health
Service to give the opposite impression. It is
important to understand that the polio
vaccine
was not universally accepted, at least initially. Despite this, polio
declined
both in European countries that refused mass vaccination as well as in
those that employed it.
According to researcher/author Dr. Viera
Scheibner,
90% of polio cases were eliminated from statistics by health
authorities'
redefinition of the disease when the vaccine was introduced, while in
reality
the Salk vaccine was continuing to cause paralytic polio in several
countries
at a time when there were no epidemics being caused by the wild virus.
For example, cases of viral and aseptic meningitis, which have symptoms
similar to polio, were routinely diagnosed and recorded as polio
before
the vaccine, but were distinguished and
removed
from polio statistics after the vaccine. Also, the number of cases
needed
to declare an epidemic was raised from 20 to 35, and the requirement
for
inclusion in paralysis statistics was changed from symptoms that lasted
for 24 hours to symptoms lasting 60 days (many polio victims' paralysis
was
temporary). It is no wonder that polio
decreased
radically after vaccines at least on paper. In 1985, the CDC reported
that
87% of the cases of polio in the U.S. between 1973 and 1983 were caused
by the vaccine, and later declared that all but a few imported cases
since
were caused by the vaccine and most of the imported cases occurred in
fully
vaccinated individuals.
Jonas Salk, inventor of the IPV,
testified before
a Senate subcommittee that nearly all polio outbreaks since 1961 were
caused
by the oral polio vaccine. At a workshop on polio vaccines sponsored by
the Institute of Medicine and the Centers for Disease Control and
Pre-vention,
Dr. Samuel Katz of Duke University cited the estimated 8-10 annual U.S.
cases of vaccine associated paralytic polio (VAPP) in people who
have
taken the oral polio vaccine, and the
[four year]
absence of wild polio from the western hemisphere. Jessica Scheer of
the
National Rehabilitation Hospital Research Center in Washington, D.C.,
pointed
out that most parents are un-aware that polio vaccination in this
country
entails "a small number of human sacrifices each year."
Compounding
this contradiction are low adverse event
reporting
and the NVIC's experiences with confirming and correcting misdiagnoses
of vaccine reactions, which suggest that the actual number of VAPP
"sacrifices"
may be 10 to 100 times higher than that cited by the CDC. For these
reasons,
the live polio virus is no longer in widespread use.
To be sure, polio as it was known in the
first
half of the 20th century does not exist today. However, declines
following
polio peaks in the late 1940's and early 1950's had been underway again
for a period of years by the time the vaccine was introduced.
VACCINATION TRUTH #6:
"The polio vaccine temporarily reversed
disease
declines that were underway before the vaccine was introduced; this
fact
was deliberately covered up by health authorities. In Europe, polio
declined
in countries that both embraced and rejected the vaccine."
VACCINATION MYTH #7:
"My child had no reaction to the
vaccines, so
there is nothing to worry about..."
...or
is
there?
The documented long term adverse effects
of vaccines
include chronic immunological and neurological disorders such as
autism,
hyperactivity, attention deficit disorders, dyslexia, allergies,
cancer,
and other conditions, many of which barely existed before mass
vaccination
programs. Vaccine ingredients include known toxicants and carcinogens
such
as thimersol (a mercury derivative), aluminum phosphate, formaldehyde
(for
which the Poisons Information Centre in Australia claims there is no
acceptable
safe amount that can be injected into a living human body), and
phenoxyethanol
(commonly known as antifreeze). Some of these ingredients are
gastrointestinal
toxicants, liver toxicants, respiratory toxicants, neurotoxicants,
cardiovascular
and blood toxicants, reproductive toxicants, and developmental
toxicants,
to name a few of the known dangers. Chemical ranking systems rate
many
vaccine ingredients among the most
hazardous
substances, and they are heavily regulated. Even microscopic doses of
some
of these ingredients are known to be able to cause serious injury. In
addition,
some vaccine mediums used in the production of vaccines contain human
diploid
cells originating from human aborted fetal tissue, a
fact that might affect many people's
vaccination
choices if they only knew
this was the case.
Medical historian, researcher and author
Harris
Coulter, Ph.D. explained that his extensive research revealed childhood
immunization to be "causing a low-grade encephalitis in infants on a
much
wider scale than public health au-thorities were willing to admit,
about
15-20% of all children." He points out that the sequelae [conditions
known
to result from a disease] of encephalitis [inflam-mation of the brain,
a
documented adverse effect of
vaccination]: autism,
learning disabilities, minimal and
not-so-minimal brain damage, seizures,
epilepsy,
sleeping and eating disorders, sexual disorders, asthma, crib death,
dia-betes,
obesity, and impulsive violence are precisely the disorders which
afflict
contemporary society. Many of these conditions were formerly relatively
rare, but they have become more common as childhood vaccination
programs
have expanded. Coulter also points out that pertussis toxoid is used
to
induce encephalitis in lab animals. The
pertussis
vaccine's ability to cause brain damage is thus not only known, but
relied
upon by clinical researchers studying brain disorders.
A German study found correlations between
vaccinations
and 22 neurological conditions including attention deficit and
epilepsy.
Another dilemma is that viral elements in vaccines may persist and
mutate
in the human body for years, with unknown consequences. Millions of
children
are partaking in an enormous, crude experiment; and no sincere,
organized
effort is being made by the medical community to track the negative
side
effects or to determine the long-term consequences. Since
long-term studies on the adverse effects
of vaccines
are virtually non-existent, their widespread use in the absence of
informed
consent and adequate safety testing constitutes medical
experimentation.
As the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons and the National
Vaccine Information Center have pointed out, this is a violation of the
first principle of the Nuremberg Code, "the centerpiece of modern
bioethics." ,
Bart Classen, MD, PhD, founder of Classen
Immunotherapies
and developer of vaccine technologies, conducted epidemiological
studies
around the world and found vaccines to be the cause of 79% of insulin
type
I diabetes in children under 10. The increase risk ranged from 9% with
the diphtheria vaccine to 50% with the Hepatitis B vaccine. According
to
Classen, CDC data confirms his findings. However, the implications of
Classen's
findings go well beyond diabetes, as his comment in a 1999
issue of the British Medical Journal
points out:
"The incidence of many other chronic immunological diseases, including
asthma, allergies, and immune mediated cancers, has risen rapidly and
may
also be linked to immunization." The diabetes findings may be
only
the tip of the iceberg.
Recent studies in the U.S. and England
suggest
that vaccines cause autism. , , Mercury poisoning and autism have
nearly identical symptoms, and a single day's vaccination regimen
may inject 41 times the level of mercury known to cause harm.
California's
autism rate has mushroomed 1000% over the past 20 years, with dramatic
increases
following the introduction of the MMR
vaccine
in the early 1980's. England had dramatic autism increases beginning in
the 1990's, following the introduction of the MMR vaccine there. Some
infants
receive 100 times the EPA's maximum allowable amount of mercury through
vaccines. In January, 2000, the Journal of Adverse Drug Reactions
reported
that the MMR vaccine was not adequately tested and should
not have been licensed. Further
reinforcing the
suspected vaccine-autism connection is the fact that many physicians
using
a systematic mercury detoxification regimen with autistic patients have
seen dramatic improvements in the health and behavior of their
patients.
Today, one out of every 150 children are affected by autism, according
to the National Vaccine Information Center. In the early 1940's, prior
to the introduction
of most vaccines in current use, it was
considered
a rare condition that few doctors would ever encounter in their
practice. VACCINATION TRUTH #7:
"The long term adverse effects of
vaccinations
have been ignored in spite of compelling correlations with many serious
chronic conditions. Doctors can't explain the dramatic rise in many of
these diseases."
VACCINATION MYTH #8:
"Vaccines are the only disease prevention
option
available..." ...or are they?
Most parents feel compelled to take some
disease-preventing
action for their children. While there is no 100% guarantee anywhere,
there
are viable alternatives. Historically, homeopathy has proven many times
to be more effective than allopathic medicine in the treatment and
prevention
of disease, with risk of harmful side effects. In a U.S. cholera
outbreak in 1849, allopathic medicine saw
a 48-60%
death rate, while homeopathic hospitals had a documented death rate of
only 3%. Roughly similar statistics still hold true for cholera today.
Recent epidemiological studies show homeopathic remedies as equaling or
surpassing standard vaccinations in preventing disease. There are
reports
in which populations that were treated homeopathically after exposure
had
a 100% success rate none of the treated caught the disease.
There are homeopathic kits available for
disease
prevention. Homeopathic remedies can also be taken only during
times
of increased risk (out-breaks, traveling, etc.), and have proven highly
effective in such instances. And since these remedies have no toxic
components,
they have virtually no side effects. In addition, homeopathy has
been
effective in reversing some of the
disability
caused by vaccine reactions, not to
mention many other chronic conditions
with which
allopathic medicine has had little
success. VACCINATION TRUTH #8:
"Documented safe and effective
alternatives to
vaccination have been available for decades. (However, they have been
systematically
attacked and suppressed by the medical establishment.)"
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