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.)"
