Vaccination Thread (articles/news)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul2K5ULmE-w

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Mandatory vaccinations being considered

Meningitis vaccinations could become mandatory for many college students in Florida. That's what a board of health directors with Florida's university system is recommending for incoming students.

It comes after the recent death of a University of South Florida student from the contagious bacterial infection. Southwest Georgia health professionals say high-risk college students should consider getting vaccinated.

"It is something that certainly should be considered because, just by being the nature of the beast being in a dormitory or in close contact with other people. The set up for spreading disease, and you get a bunch of people together coughing, and sneezing there is just an increased risk of spreading disease"said Emergency Room Director Dr. David Ferner.

The disease is spread through sharing drinks or utensils, kissing, sneezing and coughing. Some of the symptoms may include high fever, a headache, stiff neck, vomiting and exhaustion.

http://www.walb.com/Global/story.asp?S=7139028&nav=5kZQ

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An excellent thread!

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Mercury, Autism, and the Global Vaccine Agenda

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6890106663412840646&q=Mercury%2C+Autism

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I LOVE YOU.

G'day Chattanova.

I didn't check to see if these were still available as I have been cut down to a lower speed (64kbs) for going over the 12 GB quota for the month (in the 1st 5 days). Anyway, I posted them elsewhere and thought that they would be great to have on this thread as wll...

Dr. Sherri Tenpenny on Polio - 1 of 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD-IuczagIQ&mode=related&search=

Dr. Sherri Tenpenny on Polio - 2 of 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH8s5aVxf3U

Dr. Sherri Tenpenny on Polio - 3 of 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukdUwgnbwWg

Dr. Sherri Tenpenny on Polio - 4 of 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO3yjQ4WDoE



THE VACCINE EXPERIMENT - In The Service of Good, Pt 1 of 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6JiUwkrTNk

THE VACCINE EXPERIMENT - In The Service of Good, Pt 2 of 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLxhvSLBejs&mode=related&search=

THE VACCINE EXPERIMENT - In The Service of Good, Pt 3 of 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nl9biRB4f4&mode=related&search=


I couldn't find part 4.


Vaccine Fraud: Dr. Len Horowitz Pt.1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2gteHfCa_k&mode=related&search=

Vaccine Fraud: Dr. Len Horowitz Pt.2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwFNMtx2-8g&mode=related&search=

Vaccine Fraud: Dr. Len Horowitz Pt.3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_OcxtakWEc&mode=related&search=

Vaccine Fraud: Dr. Len Horowitz Pt.4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxROe3ESwes

THANK YOU.



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Cheers for creating this thread Chattanova! :)

Has coincidence would have it; I am a member of this forum here:

http://www.thctalk.com/cannabis-forum/index.php

A couple of days ago, another member made a thread asking about the flu jab.

http://www.thctalk.com/cannabis-forum/showthread.php?t=1261

So far i've been a good boy, and haven't mentioned the "c" word yet. But this post has made me post some links to anti - vaccination sites.

I would never let anyone put anything into me. Fuck knows what's in it!!!

The whole idea that we need vaccinations is a lie.

Have a read through some of these links:

http://www.vaclib.org/
Vaccination Liberation

http://www.rense.com/general32/immunityvaccinations.htm
Philip Incao, M.D: Reflections On Immunity, Vaccinations And Smallpox

http://www.redflagsweekly.com/conferences/vaccines/sept15_Fisher.html The Challenge To Mass Vaccination

http://www.sickofdoctors.addr.com/articles/vaccinesandautism.htm
State Of The Vaccine Nation

http://www.rense.com/general34/deo.htm
Subterfuges & Syringes - The Real World Of Vaccinations

http://www.mercola.com/2003/jan/15/vaccine_benefits.htm
Vaccine Safety and Benefits Not Scientifically Proven

http://www.whale.to/vaccines.html
Vaccine Website

http://eagleforum.org/column/2000/mar00/00-03-01.html
Anthrax Vaccine Scandals Won't Go Away -- Phyllis Schlafly

http://www.tetrahedron.org/articles/vaccine_awareness/ingredients.html Dr. Horowitz -Vaccine Ingredients

http://www.mercola.com/2001/aug/18/vaccine_myths.htm or http://www.whale.to/v/phillips.html
Dispelling Vaccination Myths: An Introduction to the Contradictions Between Medical Science and Immunization Policy

http://www.mercola.com/2002/mar/30/mercury_vaccine.htm
Update on Mercury Poisoning from Vaccine

http://www.mercola.com/2002/mar/30/mercury_vaccine.htm
Update on Mercury in Vaccines

http://www.mercola.com/2002/jul/10/mmr_autism.htm
More Research Supports MMR Link to Autism

http://www.reformation.org/vaccine.html
Vaccination – Vatican's Medical Inquisition Revealed at Last

http://www.newswithviews.com/Howenstine/james.htm
Dr. James Howenstine, MD. Why You Should Avoid Taking Vaccines

http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/2003/05/08/story265526733.asp Vaccine not virus responsible for Spanish flu

http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/signs_flu_supplement.htm
Signs Supplement: The Flu Threat



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[chattanova]

An excellent thread!

Thanks, I was missing some vaccine information on here so lets fill this thread up :)

[chattanova]

Great posts i am all i am & auron . A whole lot of information there, thanks.
That THC forum looks cool auron:cool::)
I have to check all this out.

[chattanova]

Vaccine Ingredients - Formaldehyde, Aspartame, Mercury, etc


This following list of common vaccines and their ingredients should shock anyone.

The numbers of microbes, antibiotics, chemicals, heavy metals and animal byproducts is staggering. Would you knowingly inject these materials into your children?

Acel-Immune DTaP - Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis Wyeth-Ayerst 800.934.5556
* diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis adsorbed, formaldehyde, aluminum hydroxide, aluminum phosphate, thimerosal, and polysorbate 80 (Tween-80) gelatin Act HIB

Haemophilus - Influenza B Connaught Laboratories 800.822.2463
* Haemophilus influenza Type B, polyribosylribitol phosphate ammonium sulfate, formalin, and sucrose

Attenuvax - Measles Merck & Co., Inc. 800-672-6372
* measles live virus neomycin sorbitol hydrolized gelatin, chick embryo

Biavax - Rubella Merck & Co., Inc. 800-672-6372
* rubella live virus neomycin sorbitol hydrolized gelatin, human diploid cells from aborted fetal tissue

BioThrax - Anthrax Adsorbed BioPort Corporation 517.327.1500
* nonencapsulated strain of Bacillus anthracis aluminum hydroxide, benzethonium chloride, and formaldehyde

DPT - Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis GlaxoSmithKline 800.366.8900 x5231
* diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis adsorbed, formaldehyde, aluminum phosphate, ammonium sulfate, and thimerosal, washed sheep RBCs

Dryvax - Smallpox (not licensed d/t expiration) Wyeth-Ayerst 800.934.5556
* live vaccinia virus, with "some microbial contaminants," according to the Working Group on Civilian Biodefense polymyxcin B sulfate, streptomycin sulfate, chlortetracycline hydrochloride, and neomycin sulfate glycerin, and phenol -a compound obtained by distillation of coal tar vesicle fluid from calf skins Engerix-B

Recombinant Hepatitis B GlaxoSmithKline 800.366.8900 x5231
* genetic sequence of the hepatitis B virus that codes for the surface antigen (HbSAg), cloned into GMO yeast, aluminum hydroxide, and thimerosal

Fluvirin Medeva Pharmaceuticals 888.MEDEVA 716.274.5300
* influenza virus, neomycin, polymyxin, beta-propiolactone, chick embryonic fluid

FluShield Wyeth-Ayerst 800.934.5556
* trivalent influenza virus, types A&B gentamicin sulphate formadehyde, thimerosal, and polysorbate 80 (Tween-80) chick embryonic fluid

Havrix - Hepatitis A GlaxoSmithKline 800.366.8900 x5231
* hepatitis A virus, formalin, aluminum hydroxide, 2-phenoxyethanol, and polysorbate 20 residual MRC5 proteins -human diploid cells from aborted fetal tissue

HiB Titer - Haemophilus Influenza B Wyeth-Ayerst 800.934.5556
* haemophilus influenza B, polyribosylribitol phosphate, yeast, ammonium sulfate, thimerosal, and chemically defined yeast-based medium

Imovax Connaught Laboratories 800.822.2463
* rabies virus adsorbed, neomycin sulfate, phenol, red indicator human albumin, human diploid cells from aborted fetal tissue

IPOL Connaught Laboratories 800.822.2463
* 3 types of polio viruses neomycin, streptomycin, and polymyxin B formaldehyde, and 2-phenoxyethenol continuous line of monkey kidney cells

JE-VAX - Japanese Ancephalitis Aventis Pasteur USA 800.VACCINE
* Nakayama-NIH strain of Japanese encephalitis virus, inactivated formaldehyde, polysorbate 80 (Tween-80), and thimerosal mouse serum proteins, and gelatin

LYMErix - Lyme GlaxoSmithKline 888-825-5249
* recombinant protein (OspA) from the outer surface of the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi kanamycin aluminum hydroxide, 2-phenoxyethenol, phosphate buffered saline

MMR - Measles-Mumps-Rubella Merck & Co., Inc. 800.672.6372
* measles, mumps, rubella live virus, neomycin sorbitol, hydrolized gelatin, chick embryonic fluid, and human diploid cells from aborted fetal tissue

M-R-Vax - Measles-Rubella Merck & Co., Inc. 800.672.6372
* measles, rubella live virus neomycin sorbitol hydrolized gelatin, chick embryonic fluid, and human diploid cells from aborted fetal tissue

Menomune - Meningococcal Connaught Laboratories 800.822.2463
* freeze-dried polysaccharide antigens from Neisseria meningitidis bacteria, thimerosal, and lactose

Meruvax I - Mumps Merck & Co., Inc. 800.672.6372
* mumps live virus neomycin sorbitol hydrolized gelatin

NYVAC - (new smallpox batch, not licensed) Aventis Pasteur USA 800.VACCINE
* highly-attenuated vaccinia virus, polymyxcin B, sulfate, streptomycin sulfate, chlortetracycline hydrochloride, and neomycin sulfate glycerin, and phenol -a compound obtained by distillation of coal tar vesicle fluid from calf skins

Orimune - Oral Polio Wyeth-Ayerst 800.934.5556
* 3 types of polio viruses, attenuated neomycin, streptomycin sorbitol monkey kidney cells and calf serum

Pneumovax - Streptococcus Pneumoniae Merck & Co., Inc. 800.672.6372
* capsular polysaccharides from polyvalent (23 types), pneumococcal bacteria, phenol,

Prevnar Pneumococcal - 7-Valent Conjugate Vaccine Wyeth Lederle 800.934.5556
* saccharides from capsular Streptococcus pneumoniae antigens (7 serotypes) individually conjugated to diphtheria CRM 197 protein aluminum phosphate, ammonium sulfate, soy protein, yeast

RabAvert - Rabies Chiron Behring GmbH & Company 510.655.8729
* fixed-virus strain, Flury LEP neomycin, chlortetracycline, and amphotericin B, potassium glutamate, and sucrose human albumin, bovine gelatin and serum "from source countries known to be free of bovine spongioform encephalopathy," and chicken protein

Rabies Vaccine Adsorbed GlaxoSmithKline 800.366.8900 x5231
*rabies virus adsorbed, beta-propiolactone, aluminum phosphate, thimerosal, and phenol, red rhesus monkey fetal lung cells

Recombivax - Recombinant Hepatitis B Merck & Co., Inc. 800.672.6372
* genetic sequence of the hepatitis B virus that codes for the surface antigen (HbSAg), cloned into GMO yeast, aluminum hydroxide, and thimerosal

RotaShield - Oral Tetravalent Rotavirus (recalled) Wyeth-Ayerst 800.934.5556
* 1 rhesus monkey rotavirus, 3 rhesus-human reassortant live viruses neomycin sulfate, amphotericin B potassium monophosphate, potassium diphosphate, sucrose, and monosodium glutamate (MSG) rhesus monkey fetal diploid cells, and bovine fetal serum smallpox (not licensed due to expiration)

40-yr old stuff "found" in Swiftwater, PA freezer Aventis Pasteur USA 800.VACCINE
* live vaccinia virus, with "some microbial contaminants," according to the Working Group on Civilian Biodefense polymyxcin B sulfate, streptomycin sulfate, chlortetracycline hydrochloride, and neomycin sulfate glycerin, and phenol -a compound obtained by distillation of coal tar vesicle fluid from calf skins

Smallpox (new, not licensed) Acambis, Inc. 617.494.1339 in partnership with Baxter BioScience
* highly-attenuated vaccinia virus, polymyxcin B sulfate, streptomycin sulfate, chlortetracycline hydrochloride, and neomycin sulfate glycerin, and phenol -a compound obtained by distillation of coal tar vesicle fluid from calf skins

TheraCys BCG (intravesicle -not licensed in US for tuberculosis) Aventis Pasteur USA 800.VACCINE
* live attenuated strain of Mycobacterium bovis monosodium glutamate (MSG), and polysorbate 80 (Tween-80)

Tripedia - Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis Aventis Pasteur USA 800.VACCINE
*Corynebacterium diphtheriae and Clostridium tetani toxoids and acellular Bordetella pertussis adsorbed aluminum potassium sulfate, formaldehyde, thimerosal, and polysorbate 80 (Tween-80) gelatin, bovine extract

US-sourced Typhim Vi - Typhoid Aventis Pasteur USA SA 800.VACCINE
* cell surface Vi polysaccharide from Salmonella typhi Ty2 strain, aspartame, phenol, and polydimethylsiloxane (silicone)

Varivax - Chickenpox Merck & Co., Inc. 800.672.6372
* varicella live virus neomycin phosphate, sucrose, and monosodium glutamate (MSG) processed gelatin, fetal bovine serum, guinea pig embryo cells, albumin from human blood, and human diploid cells from aborted fetal tissue

YF-VAX - Yellow Fever Aventis Pasteur USA 800.VACCINE
* 17D strain of yellow fever virus sorbitol chick embryo, and gelatin

http://www.informedchoice.info/cocktail.html

Vaccine Liberation Information

http://www.vaclib.org/pdf/exemption.htm

http://www.rense.com/general59/vvac.htm

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Gardasil Vaccine Adverse Reaction - A Mother's Account

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnTvAneWBZs

As of August 2007, a review of the National Vaccine Information Centre revealed the following, quite alarming, statistic about this unnecessary vaccine: 2,207 adverse reactions to Gardasil have been reported. Among them: * 5 girls died * 31 were considered life-threatening * 1,385 required a visit to the emergency room * 451 of the girls have not recovered as of July 2007 * 51 of the girls were disabled

This vaccine is also the most expensive vaccine on the market, so you can follow the money trail to find out why Merck is now trying to push this cervical cancer vaccine on boys!

[chattanova]

The Psychology Of Vaccine
Injury Awareness

http://www.rense.com/general78/psyaware.htm

Dr Tim O'Shea
10 -6-7

Recently, I had the good fortune to be invited as a panel member to the Autism Conference in upper Michigan, along with Dr Ed Yazbak and Dr Boyd Haley. The conference was a grassroots event, organized by a local group of parents of autistic kids. It was promoted to the general public.

What brought these people together was the growing suspicion that the local medical authorities might be trying to cover up the reasons why an enormous percentage of their local children were turning out autistic - a proportion obviously far higher even than the estimated national average of 1 child in 150.

As I took the stage to begin my presentation and looked out into the audience, it suddenly occurred to me to ask for a show of hands: how many of you people in this room have an autistic child? I was momentarily speechless when I saw almost every hand go up. It took me so off guard that I did not realize until several days later what I was looking at - the significance of all those hands being raised.

The first thing that dawned on me was the likelihood that what this community was experiencing was the living consequence of one or more hot lots.

As I explain in the new 11th edition of The Sanctity of Human Blood, vaccines are produced in batches, called lots. A lot may comprise anywhere from 20,000 to 700,000 doses, or more. Certain lots cause an unusual number of reactions and deaths. These are called hot lots. Some sources define hot as a lot which has more than 2 deaths or 10 serious adverse reactions, but others assign no set number.

So what we were looking at here in this small backwoods community was very likely the textbook example of hot lot damage. Of course it will never be investigated - there is no government agency responsible for following up on the consequences of even those lots that have been verified as contaminated. In this case no one is even suggesting it, because the locals never heard of hot lots.

The other thing that will never happen is the calculation of the actual ratio of autistics to normal children in this community. With 1 child in 150 as the accepted national average, in this community the true number could really be 1 in 50 or even 1 in 25. No one's tracking it. No reason to, because even if it were proven, there is no law that would force the manufacturer to withdraw the hot lot. No manufacturer has ever withdrawn a hot lot, even a verified one.

But my second realization was even sadder: vaccines are recommended for the entire childhood population. Overwhelming scientific evidence now exists of their potential for permanent neurological and developmental damage - these sources are carefully evaluated in my new book. Yet the only parents who are interested in learning about their kids' chances of vaccine injury seem to be those whose lives have already been directly affected, usually as the result of permanent damage to their own child. When it's too late, they study it. Or as Sascha Sarnov says, the child goes to sleep as the parent wakes up.

This is certainly the case for most of the researchers and activists in the vaccine awareness arena - personal tragedy in their own family motivated them to research and publish. Just like Congressman Dan Burton, the organizer of the Congressional hearings into vaccine damage - he has an autistic grandson. But that's how humans are - why should we worry about something that doesn't affect us?

The answer to that question is that today your chances being affected by vaccine damage are too high for parents to simply ignore. As Mark Geier has shown, 1 child in six today in the US has a neurodevelopmental disorder. That is an astounding indictment: 1 child in six.

As far as autism is concerned, no one really knows how extensive that epidemic is. What is known is that between 1993 and 2004 there was an average increase in autism of 1300% across the US. At present there are at least 1 million autistic children in the US, but it is completely possible that the actual number might be over 2 million. Not only is no government office making an effort to find an accurate count, but on the contrary, there is a systematic effort to cover up the actual figures and data and to publish only those studies which confirm the approved mantra, namely that there can be no possible connection with vaccines, etc.

Upon discovering that their child is autistic, parents often go through five psychological phases:

1. Denial

2. Dawning awareness

3. Anger

4. Guilt

5. Acceptance

These phases are not universal, nor are they always separate and distinct, but most parents experience them in some form or other.

Phase One, the Not My Kid phase, is characterized by a disbelief either in the disease itself, or that the condition will be permanent in their child.

Phase Two, awareness begins to dawn that the child will not learn any more words, and will gradually withdraw and deteriorate mentally.

Phase Three, anger that no one told them about the dangers of vaccines.

Phase Four, the parents blame themselves for not taking the trouble to inform themselves about a defect that has taken away their child's chances of a normal life, a tragedy that they could have avoided.

Phase Five, the inevitable acceptance that the child is truly autistic, which is not necessarily followed by a lifetime commitment to daily care, due to the enormous forces now at work to destroy the family because of the amount of time and money that autistics require.

As we look more closely at vaccines, we find that autism is not the only danger. The shocking increase in the number of vaccines since 9/11, the ingredients, culturing techniques, the sharp increase in childhood cancer and diabetes, the rising percentage of state moneys now devoted to learning disabilities and other defects, the nature of the economic motivators behind the scenes - these are some of the issues that the responsible parent should know about before blindly submitting to the Well Baby Program. To obtain all one's information about vaccines from the same people who make a living selling them may not be the best idea to keep the child out of harm's way.

Parents today must protect their child from all threats, from any quarter. And the only way to do that is to do a little homework.

The new 11th edition of The Sanctity of Human Blood is a careful collection of the best science available today that looks very objectively at this issue. Every fact, every statistic that is stated in each paragraph is meticulously documented and referenced. The book focuses more on what the scientists who manufacture vaccines say about them rather than what the sales personnel claims.


This new book is the easiest way for the parent to begin to find out what the real issues are behind all the controversy over vaccines today.

http://www.rense.com/general78/psyaware.htm

[chattanova]

OUTRAGEOUS - 8 More Deaths Tied To Gardasil HPV Vaccine

8 more deaths connected to HPV vaccine
Adverse reactions from Gardasil number in thousands

Another eight deaths in just the past few months are being connected to Gardasil, Merck & Co.'s vaccine that targets the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus and is being considered by many states as mandatory for all schoolgirls, according to documents released by Judicial Watch.

There also have been another 1,824 adverse reactions to the drug, bringing the "known total" of such problems to 3,461, according to the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption.

"In light of this information, it is disturbing that state and local governments might mandate in any way this vaccine for young girls," said Tom Fitton, the group's president. "These adverse reactions reports suggest the vaccine not only causes serious side effects, but might even be fatal."

WND previously has reported how Merck was lobbying state lawmakers to require the vaccination, but gave that up after its activities were unveiled.

WND also reported when a key researcher into human papillomavirus, which is targeted by Gardasil, reported it needed more testing, and how even the Centers for Disease Control suggested the vaccine should not be mandatory.

(Story continues below)

The dispute primarily has been over proposed state and other governmental requirements that schoolgirls be vaccinated against an infection transmitted only by sexual contact.

The target of the vaccine is cervical cancer, since studies show that those who have HPV have a higher chance of later developing cervical cancer. However, opponents note that such cancers develop most often in older women, while the plan is to require girls as young as 11 or 12 years old to be inoculated. They cite the lack of evidence that the vaccine would have an impact later in life.

Judicial Watch said it obtained documents from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration under the Freedom of Information Act detailing the new 1,824 cases.

Those cases include as many as eight deaths related to the vaccine, on top of the three deaths reported earlier among 1,637 earlier reports of adverse effects.

Among the new information Judicial Watch found:

* "Information has been received … concerning a 17 year old female who in June 2007 … was vaccinated with a first dose of Gardasil … During the evening of the same day, the patient was found unconscious (lifeless) by the mother. Resuscitation was performed by the emergency physician but was unsuccessful. The patient subsequently died."

* "Information has been received … concerning a 12 year old female with a history of aortic and mitral valve insufficiency … who on 01-MAR-2007 was vaccinated IM into the left arm with a first does of Gardasil … On 01-MAR-2007 the patient presented to the ED with ventricular tachycardia and died."

* "Initial and follow-up information has been received from a physician concerning an 'otherwise healthy' 13 year old female who was vaccinated with her first and second doses of Gardasil. Subsequently, the patient experienced … paralysis from the chest down, lesions of the optic nerve…At the time of the report, the patient had not recovered."

The flood of adverse reactions during 2007 reported to the FDA through the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, included 347 serious reactions.

"Of the 77 women who received the vaccine while pregnant, 33 experienced side effects ranging from spontaneous abortion to fetal abnormities. Other serious side effects continue to be reported including, paralysis, Bells Palsy, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, and seizures," Judicial Watch said.

And these numbers may not even include all the cases, Judicial Watch said. It filed a lawsuit this week against the FDA for failing to fully respond to its requests for information involving the vaccine.

Specifically Judicial Watch wanted access to correspondence between Merck and the FDA regarding the vaccine, communications between the FDA and GlaxoSmithKline, which is working on a similar vaccine, called Cervarix, and reports by consumers, health professionals and others regarding problems with the HPV vaccine.

When the organization's investigation into the HPV vaccine issue arose, and the first reports starting coming in, Fitton described it as "a catalog of horrors."

One earlier report, No. 275438-1, describes the reaction as coronary artery thrombosis, sudden cardiac death. "Given Gardasil vaccine dose #1 3/12/07. Collapsed and died on 3/26/07… Echocardiogram revealed very enlarged right ventricle, small left ventricle as well as large blood clots within both the right atrium & right ventricle."

Another report noted that the woman was vaccinated and "died of a blood clot 8 hours after getting the Gardasil vaccine."

Officials with the Abstinence Clearinghouse noted in a position paper that groups including the Texas Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, and the American Academy of Environmental Medicine have come out publicly against mandatory vaccination.

"The reasoning of these medical associations is clear. They are not opposed to medical progress, and certainly support all efforts to combat life-threatening diseases. The problem, as these organizations see it, lies in the fact that the drug only went through three and a half years of testing, leaving the medical community somewhat in the dark as to what serious adverse effects might result in the long term," the group said.

"Along with the potential of serious adverse effects is the question of efficacy. There is evidence that after approximately four years, the vaccine's potency significantly declines. The long-term value of the vaccine has yet to be determined; if it wears off within six years, will girls and women need to repeat the battery of injections they originally received?" the organization wondered.

Michigan was the first state to introduce a plan to require the vaccine to be given to young girls, but the proposal failed. Ohio also considered a failed plan in 2006.

Then in 2007, after Merck's aggressive lobbying campaign and contributions to Women in Government, lawmakers in at least 39 states and the District of Columbia worked on sponsoring such plans.

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58004

[chattanova]

Vaccine-linked polio hits Nigeria

http://img29.picoodle.com/img/img29/9/10/11/f_39949525polm_b39ca8b.jpg

Nigeria is fighting a rare outbreak of a vaccine-derived form of polio, says the UN's World Health Organization.

It says 69 children in the north have caught the paralysing disease from others who had already been immunised.

The WHO says such rare outbreaks have occurred where immunisation campaigns did not reach enough of the population.

In 2003 Islamic leaders brought a temporary halt to the vaccine campaign in the north saying it was a Western conspiracy to sterilise Muslim women.

The WHO says this rare outbreak of vaccine-derived polio demonstrates the need for more vaccination, not less.

But the concern is that the cause of the outbreak could be misinterpreted by people here and reinforce their scepticism of the whole vaccine campaign.

Scare stories

The WHO says the outbreak occurred when some of those who had received the oral polio vaccine excreted a mutated form of the virus which infected those who were not immunised.

It says the outbreak is ongoing but slowing because of the continuing vaccination campaign, and the last reported case was in August.

The WHO says the outbreak occurred because not enough people were receiving the polio vaccine in the first place.

Northern Nigeria still has a low coverage rate for the vaccination campaign, a legacy of a temporary halt to the programme in 2003.

Those scare stories built on existing traditional scepticism of Western medicine.

But more recently the vaccination programme has made some progress.

Polio cases as a whole are down on last year, in part because of a new programme of polio victims accompanying immunisation teams to demonstrate to parents the risks of not having their children vaccinated.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7037462.stm

[chattanova]

Latest AIDS Vaccine A MIserable Failure

HIV vaccine trial held here, throughout world, halted

Early results indicate it didn't prevent infection

Chris Swingle
Staff writer

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(October 11, 2007) — The only clinical trial in the world investigating whether an HIV vaccine works in people at high risk for AIDS — including 40 in Rochester — has been halted early.

The Merck vaccine didn't prevent HIV infection or slow the disease in those who became infected, according to preliminary results of this latest international study.

This setback in the fight to prevent AIDS may have wider implications. Most other HIV vaccine studies in the pipeline are taking a similar approach, which is to prompt the body to produce more of a crucial immune cell called killer T cells.

"It clearly is a disappointment," Dr. Michael Keefer, director of University of Rochester Medical Center's HIV vaccine trials unit, said Wednesday. "Frankly, the Merck vaccine looked as good as anything we had in the test tube."

The STEP study, also known as the HVTN 502 study, began in December 2004 and included 3,000 adults who were HIV-negative when enrolled but who were considered at high risk for the infection that causes AIDS. Participants included both men and women. The UR researchers recruited gay men. The study took 18 months to be fully enrolled, so it wasn't scheduled to end until mid-2009.

The study was stopped in late September after the first evaluation of interim results found that about 3 percent of study participants had developed HIV, both among those who received the vaccine and among those who received a placebo, or fake vaccine. Neither the volunteers nor the researchers knew who received which until the end of the study. Keefer said he wasn't sure whether any Rochester participants developed HIV.

The early global results found that of 741 volunteers who received the vaccine, 24 developed HIV. Among 762 volunteers who received a placebo, 21 developed HIV.

HIV spreads through unprotected sex and through shared needles among injected-drug users. No investigational vaccines can cause HIV infection because no living or killed virus, or pieces of virus, are used.

All study participants were counseled on how to reduce their risk of getting HIV and given various supplies, such as condoms. Those who became HIV-infected during the study were referred for evaluation, medical care and treatment and offered continued immunological and virological follow-up for an extended period of time.

At this time, there is no proven cure or vaccine for HIV. There are highly effective treatments to keep people with HIV healthy longer and to delay the onset of AIDS, which stands for acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

University of Rochester Medical Center was among 27 STEP study sites in North America, South America, the Caribbean and Australia. The HVTN 503 or Phambili study, a trial of the same investigational vaccine among heterosexual adults, started in January in South Africa and was expected to be that country's largest with 3,000 participants. It also has been halted.

Earlier this decade, in the first wave of HIV vaccine attempts, researchers tried to develop an injection that would stimulate antibodies against the virus. That approach hasn't worked so far.

Keefer said other investigational vaccines show promise. URMC and other research centers around the world expect to start a new clinical trial in 2008 called PAVE 100 that would involve 9,000 participants at high risk for HIV.

URMC also is running about a dozen studies of potential HIV vaccines that showed promise in studies of monkeys. The so-called Phase I studies are small and test the safety of the vaccines in people. . Vaccines that pass that test can eventually move to Phase IIB — like the STEP test — to examine whether the vaccine prevents HIV in high-risk individuals. Positive results would lead to Phase III trials and, potentially, a licensed vaccine.

Steven Price, director of prevention services at AIDS Rochester, said Wednesday, "We're disappointed that the vaccine was not working, but are encouraged by the tenacity of those doing the difficult work of finding a vaccine to combat HIV/AIDS. AIDS Rochester will continue to support vaccine research both locally and globally."

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071011/NEWS01/710110362/1002/NEWS

[chattanova]

Nationwide Revolt Against Dangerous Vaccines Accelerates

'Concerned parents across the U.S. are leading a nationwide revolt against unnecessary, untested and dangerous vaccines as CDC records show a growing amount of religious exemptions on vaccine forms, following a media blitz by Jenny McCarthy in which she blamed a vaccine for causing her son's autism.

Far from the biased and prejudiced context in which the Associated Press headline framed it - 'Parents take a shot at lying on vaccine forms' - the move comes as a result of increased understanding and education about the dangers of vaccines.'

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2007/181007_dangerous_vaccines.htm

[chattanova]

Many Pharmacists Now
Administer Vaccinations - Amazing

Many Pharmacists Now Administer Vaccinations
By Patricia Neighmond
NPR Morning Edition
October 18, 2007


As the flu season approaches, you may be thinking about getting a flu shot. Today, there are plenty of places you can go to get it and other vaccines: the supermarket, your workplace and increasingly, the pharmacy. And it's not necessarily a nurse or doctor who will give you your vaccine - it could be the pharmacist.

At the Medicine Chest pharmacy in McLean, Va., owner Ed Danoff has been providing his customers with an array of vaccines for the past eight years.

Located in the middle of town, the pharmacy is an 800-square-foot house crammed with all the usuals: cough and cold medication, and vitamins. But customers can now get any one of the following vaccines: flu, pneumonia, tetanus, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, HPV and shingles.

Patti Veliotes is 76, but looks much younger. She credits 30 years of vitamins, herbs, regular exercise and a good diet. But when it came to the possibility of shingles, Veliotes was concerned.

"I actually ... read about a lot of testimonials from people my age who have had shingles who had really, really bad cases and I thought, gee, I don't want to have that. Maybe I'd better go and get the shingles shot," Veliotes says.

Veliotes' doctor didn't have the shingles vaccine on hand. That's not unusual. Increasingly, doctors are opting not to provide these vaccines because reimbursement from private insurance and Medicare is often inadequate.

There are difficulties storing the vaccines, especially the new shingles vaccine, which must be kept frozen - and most vaccines have to be refrigerated. And because pharmacies are better able to make up any losses by selling "other" merchandise, they can take a greater financial risk than doctors.

Training Pharmacists to Provide Vaccines

The American Pharmacists Association reports the number of states allowing pharmacists like Danoff to provide vaccines has more than tripled in just 10 years. Today, 46 states allow it. States differ when it comes to rules about exactly which vaccines pharmacists can provide, what kind of training they need, and whether they need the supervision of a doctor.

In Danoff's case, it was no problem getting a physician to agree to be available for consultation if needed.

"This all started at the request of a local doctor who wasn't getting reimbursed enough for giving flu shots," Danoff says.

So in 1999, Danoff took the 20-hour vaccine-training course offered by the America Pharmacists Association. He learned how vaccines are made, how to give them and how to screen patients to see who should not get them. For example, because most vaccines are grown in eggs, "Anyone with an egg allergy must consult a doctor before getting vaccinated," Danoff says.

And Danoff's training has helped him steer clear of risks.

"I had one patient who didn't know he was allergic to eggs. He was tentative filling out his form and I happened to notice. I re-questioned him. I usually re-question people while sitting with them, just to go over important questions. He mentioned that he didn't know if he was allergic to eggs but his mother never gave him eggs and he didn't know why. It turned out he was allergic. I asked him to go to an allergist and get tested for it. He was allergic," Danoff explains.

Danoff says that among the nearly 10,000 vaccines he has given at the Medicine Chest over the past eight years, he has never had a patient experience an allergic reaction. But if they did, like most pharmacists, Danoff is trained in CPR and has medication to treat a bad reaction until an ambulance arrives to take the patient to the hospital.

Making Vaccines More Easily Available

Dr. Kenneth Schmader is chief of geriatrics at Duke University Medical School. Schmader says most of the vaccines that pharmacists give are low-risk.

"I think it's a good idea from a public health perspective," Schmader says. "We try to remove as many barriers as we can to vaccination; having as many providers as possible to give a vaccine is a good thing, and that includes pharmacists."

Officials with the American Pharmacists Association report that they have vaccine-trained nearly twice the number of pharmacists this year than they did last year. And like Danoff, many of them say it is not only a service to customers, it helps business.

"I thought it'd be a nice way to get more prescription patients - just a way to get fresh, new faces in the pharmacy," Danoff says. "And so far, it has worked!"


And that is a big deal for small pharmacies like the Medicine Chest, which have to compete with huge, national, discount chains.

http://www.rense.com/general78/admt.htm

[chattanova]

Vaccine Causing Superbug Ear Infections In Kids

Shot may be inadvertently boosting superbugs
Strains tied to kids’ ear infections flourish as vaccine fights common germs

CHICAGO - A vaccine that has dramatically curbed pneumonia and other serious illnesses in children is having an unfortunate effect: promoting new superbugs that cause ear infections.

On Monday, doctors reported discovering the first such germ that is resistant to all drugs approved to treat childhood ear infections. Nine toddlers in Rochester, N.Y., have had the germ and researchers say it may be turning up elsewhere, too.

It is a strain of strep bacteria not included in pneumococcal vaccine, Wyeth's Prevnar, which came on the market in 2000. It is recommended for children under age 2.

Doctors say parents should continue to have their toddlers get the shots because the vaccine prevents serious illness and even saves lives. But the new resistant strep is a worry.

"The best way to prevent these resistant infections from spreading is to be careful about how we use antibiotics," said Dr. Cynthia Whitney, chief of respiratory diseases at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Avoiding antibiotics when they are not needed is the best way to ensure they will work when they are, she said.

Flourishing strains
Prevnar prevents seven strains responsible for most cases of pneumonia, meningitis and deadly bloodstream infections. But dozens more strep strains exist, and some have flourished and become impervious to antibiotics since the vaccine combats the more common strains.

If the new strains continue to spread, "it tells us the vaccine is becoming less effective" and needs to be revised, said Dr. Dennis Maki, infectious diseases chief at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Hospitals and Clinics.

Wyeth anticipated this and is testing a second-generation vaccine. But it is at least two years from reaching the market, and the new strains could become a public health problem in the meantime if they spread hard-to-treat infections through day-care centers and schools.

"I don't think the new strains are moving fast enough to call it a race, but the fact is that certain strains are increasing," said Peter Paradiso, a scientist at Wyeth Vaccines, the Collegeville, Pa., division that makes Prevnar.

"It is very worrying," said Dr. Keith Klugman, an infectious diseases specialist at Emory University. "With the eradication of all the other types in the vaccine, this one is emerging."

Several research teams reported on the situation Monday at microbiologists meeting.

Losing its punch
A different pneumonia vaccine has long been available for adults but it doesn't work in children, so Prevnar was hailed as a breakthrough. It is used in dozens of countries and had sales of more than $1.5 billion last year. In the United States, it is given as four shots between 2 months and 15 months.

Before the vaccine, many babies and toddlers developed pneumonia, meningitis and serious blood infections that led to hearing loss, brain damage and even death. Drug-resistant ear infections also were a problem.

"Prevnar has done a remarkable job. Over the last seven years, it's prevented thousands and thousands of infections," not just in vaccinated kids but also in unvaccinated family members, said the CDC's Whitney.

But it is a unique vaccine because it covers only seven of the 90-odd strains of the germ. By contrast, measles is caused by one type of virus. Booster shots are needed for chickenpox, mumps and measles because immunity wanes, not because the germ changed.

Prevnar, however, is losing its punch because strains not covered by the vaccine are filling the biological niche that the vaccine strains used to occupy, and they are causing disease.

Big trouble
One strain in particular, called 19A, is big trouble. A new subtype of it caused ear infections in the nine Rochester children, ages 6 months to 18 months, that were resistant to all pediatric medications, said Dr. Michael Pichichero, a microbiologist at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

The children had been unsuccessfully treated with two or more antibiotics, including high-dose amoxicillin and multiple shots of another drug. Many needed surgery to place ear tubes to drain the infection, and some recovered only after treatment with a newer, powerful antibiotic whose safety in children has not been established.

Pichichero refused further comment because he has submitted a report to a medical journal. His work was paid for by antibiotic maker Abbott Laboratories and the Thrasher Foundation, which funds projects related to child health.

All 19A strep subtypes tend to be resistant to some drugs and have been growing in prevalence:

* Scientists from a drug company and two labs analyzed more than 21,000 bacterial samples from around the nation and found 19A increasing. Among children 2 and under, the portion of samples that were this strain rose to 15 percent in 2005-2006, from 4 percent in the previous three years.
* A British lab tracking respiratory infections in U.S. kids found that the 19A strain accounted for 40 percent of drug-resistant cases.
* University of Iowa researchers found 19A accounted for 35 percent of penicillin-resistant infections in 2004-05, compared with less than 2 percent the year before the new vaccine came out.

Because these bacteria easily swap gene components to become even more hardy, "new types may emerge that can both escape containment by vaccine and spread throughout the world," Dr. Daniel Musher of Baylor College of Medicine wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine last year.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20825107/

[newparadigm]

Hi, can you help?

I am studying medicine in France. I have created a blog just recently http://medicine-of-sickness.blogspot.com (http://medicine-of-sickness.blogspot.com/) on which I'll be posting the latest medical headlines.

I'm also writing almost weekly newsletters (http://www.box.net/shared/t75vp4ei05)in French ('David Icke' style -- only for the effect)...

Can anybody able to write French concisely help me with posting/writing articles/newsletters in French? I'm rather short of time, that's why I need somebody sometimes to write instead. If you think you can do this, contact me (princesse_sophie07@yahoo.fr)quick.

Thank you for your help.

[auron]

Good luck with that mate! I'd love to help, but i don't know French at all!

[auron]

This is a post i came across on another forum:

mmmm, no. There is no safe level of intake for these substances on a consistent basis because the body has no way to get rid of it. It builds up. However this is not a theory any longer: introducing small amounts of an infectious substance does give the immune system the only chance it needs to learn how to combat it. The immune system does this with everything from dust to the common cold. It is a learning system. So no. You can yell it from the mountain tops and no one is going to stop vaccinating their children.


By the by, have you looked at horror cases of the children who don't get vaccines because their parents are paranoid? It's criminal.


How about Africa? Ever been there to see the results of children who never got their vaccines?

Ahk

http://www.itsallpolitics.com/forum/index.php?topic=611.msg13003;topicseen#msg13003

Frightening eh?? :eek:

[chattanova]

Flu Shot Facts -- Battling Influenza

Why do people get flu shots? Because they believe the advice of their doctors and health agencies who recommend the vaccines for most everyone, young and old. Yet, many people are not aware of the real facts behind flu shots -- and their potential ineffectiveness, side effects, and harmful additives.

While it’s possible to find some positive data about flu shots, there is a significant amount of data from both mainstream medical journals and alternative media sources that question flu shots’ usefulness and efficacy. For instance:

* "We've got an exaggerated expectation of what vaccines can actually do," said one study author, Dr. Tom Jefferson... "I'm hoping American and European taxpayers will be alerted and will start asking questions."

* A study in The Lancet found that even among people for whom the vaccine is most recommended (the elderly), protection can be as low as 30 percent.

* Only 36,000 Americans die from the flu infection each year, yet an average of 195,000 Americans have died each year from 2000 to 2002 due to potentially preventable, in-hospital medical errors. This means that “over five times as many people will die because they happen to be in the hospital and are unlucky enough to experience a preventable error, than will die from getting the flu, if the vaccine itself doesn’t put them in the hospital.”

The article’s author, research scientist Wilton Alston, sums things up by saying about flu shots, “At best it appears that one is opting to inject a foreign substance with likely only 25–45% effectiveness while hoping that no side-effects occur. (Anyone care to pay for the chance to play Russian roulette?).”

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/10/23/flu-shot-facts-battling-influenza.aspx

[chattanova]

California-Oregon Unvaccinated Children Survey

In 1983, the Centers for Disease Control recommended a total of 10 vaccines for our children. In 2007, the CDC recommends 36, an increase of 260%. Yet, no studies have ever been done to compare neurological disorder ("ND") rates of unvaccinated children to vaccinated children. We commissioned a national market research firm to survey more than 13,000 children in California and Oregon. Read the results here.

http://www.rense.com/general78/unvac.htm

[chattanova]

Vaccinations Designed To Sterilize Women?

Women are being drawn into a medical trap.The outcome is toxication and health erosion. The tool is vaccinations * presented as a solution to "fight" an ever growing number of dangers from the world of microbes. The medical world has got its own Al Qaeda * the invisible army of viruses. With exactly the same attributes: Unknown, being everywhere and nowhere. Invincible.

The answer is also approximately the same: More fear, more death. And now, with growing clarity, targeting women. We have for more than a decade had the campaigns for mandatory HIV-tests of pregnant women. Only women. In the Third World, we have had numerous vaccination campaigns targeting women in their fertile age. Only women. Recently, in Denmark, the great drug donor, Bill Gates, has donated USD 10m to a Copenhagen university to further studies on a Malaria vaccine * target group: Women of the Third World.

And then, the latest stunt: Vaccination of 12 year old girls in many countries * allegedly against the HPV virus which might (or might not) eventually cause Cervical Cancer. Target group: Girls in the age of just becoming fertile. In some states mandatory, in others just heavily propagandized.

What is all this about? Money? Of course but that doesn't account for the focusing on women. Special care for women? Nice. But in fatal opposition to the agenda of "women's lib". Women's lib doesn't include reproduction and is uninterested in the female sex.

Could it be ?

Yes, it could be exactly the opposite, and I'll tell you why.

First, "women's lib" is not a population movement fostered by women being sick-and-tired of oppression. It it a masculine invention, defined in policy papers back from the 1950's, most eagerly promoted by the Rockefeller all-seeing-everywhere-being dynasty and it's political operators. Approximately at the same time when the first feminists surfaced, and already up and run as the project culminated. That happened with the 1974 Henry Kissinger <i>National Security Study Memorandum 200</i> about "the consequences of the global population growth for the US security and overseas interests".

This paper, which should be given much much more attention , states that Urgent immediate measures must be taken to reduce fertility. The memo recommends Zero growth rate in the developed countries by 1985 and Zero growth rate in Lesser Developed Countries by 2000. Notice: Defertilization first in the West, then down to the poor.

It also recommends the tools. For the industrialized world:

Reproductive health - a nicer word for abortion, use of condoms etc. Sex education Improved health Women' equality Day care Government participation Improved social security Reduced infant mortality

Well, in Europe, we used to call this "welfare". It now seems, it was just a means to make us stop reproducing ourselves. A great success: Today, we find declining birth rates all over the Western World * only Albania (the poorest country of Europe * no "welfare") is maintaining the size of of its population.

The picture becomes clearer when we learn that our Rockefeller-friend John D. the Third back in the 1950's also began advocating that all vaccines should have added Mercury. That served a tripple purpose: Mercury works as a preservative. It can help the chemical industry get rid of a highly toxic waste product (just like Fluoride in toothpaste did). And, most important, the Mercury is absorbed in our body, is not automatically excreted and has various toxic effects.

One of the effects is that it destroys the cilia inside the female sex, removing the ability of the mucous membrane to transport men's semen to the egg cells. Which obviously impedes natural conception. Another effect is that children who are born become autistic - the frequency of autistic children increases clearly with the amount of Mercury consumed. And there are other effects of this additive which is called <i>thiomesal</i> - such as diabetes.

So, any vaccine containing Mercury, is a defertilization drug. That means almost all vaccines almost all over the world.

We get another clue by studying simple facts on HIV and AIDS. As shown in many papers and documentaries, the existence of a virus destroying our immune system has never been documented * to this day it remains a rumour having obsessed most of the medical world and, by being backed up by deeply corrupt statal medical authorities, a fully controlled political layer and a centralized media network loving the "scary setup", it has also obsessed most common people.

The facts are that as well as there is no disease-causing HIV virus, there is no test which can prove it's presence in human blood. The so-called HIV-tests test the presence of antibodies and antibodies belong in a functioning immune system. The tests are known to crossreact with many conditions having nothing to do with any particular virus. One of these conditions is you better sit down pregnancy.

That's where the AIDS swindle becomes a depopulation tool. For the next step from a positive HIV test is prescription of deadly toxic drugs (charmingly named "Life Prolonging Medication") destroying the immune system and the intestine's ability to absorb nutrients - and causing defective children. These drugs are the most toxic chemicals ever invented by the pharmaceutical industry.

In Africa, HIV tests are only performed on pregnancy clinics. And guess where the deadly drugs go.

Another clue becomes clear when we look at the WHO vaccination campaigns in the Third World. Most famous are the campaigns from the mid nineties against Tetanus. Despite the fact that 70% of all Tetanus occurred in men, the vaccinations were only given to women. And only women between 14 and 44 years old. The vaccines were mixed with hCG Gonadotropine. Now, hCG is a hormone which is naturally formed in the foetus within the first few days, and which is necessary for it's continued life and growth. When the mixture of vaccine and hCG is inoculated in a woman's blood, her immune defence will not only produce antibodies to the Tetanus bacteria but also to the hCG. As a result, she looses her foetus.

These vaccination campaigns were performed on millions and millions of women in Nicaragua, Mexico, Nigeria, Tanzania and the Philippines.

Other vaccination campaigns have had other effects. In Uganda, a polio vaccination was performed, killing 600 children in just one month and just one village (Mbarara) - in which there was by coincidence a counting. In Nigeria, polio vaccine was distributed, contaminated with estradiol and a number of carcinogen (cancer generating) agents. How many more of these criminal campaigns have been performed through the years?

Then we have the bogus on the Malaria vaccine. Malaria is no microbe disease, so what has a vaccine to do with this? Nothing. But the funny scientist came up with a funny story on a "certain molecule" being necessary for the Malaria parasite to fix on the inside of women's uterus. It's the molecule the vaccine is supposed to target. But only in women.

The average age of women getting Cervical Cancer is 50 * as Dr. Tim O'Shea writes in his excellent article "HPV - The First Cancer Vaccine" on Rense.com (http://www.rense.com/general78/hpv.htm). The creator of the HPV vaccine, company Merck, promises an effect-time of five years. So, what the point of vaccinating 12 years old girls?

I have no doubt anymore: This has nothing to do with medicine. It has nothing to do with anything based on science. It has nothing to do with diseases. It is a money machine, yes, but it is more. We have another war, and this war is moving from covert to overt. We have a global war on women. -------

http://www.rense.com/general79/vaxcc.htm

[accuracy]

Many Vaccine Booster Shots Unnecessary: Study

By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter

07 November 2007
(HealthDay News) -- Americans may be over-vaccinated against some diseases, according to a study that found the duration of protective immunity for many vaccines is greatly underestimated.

That means many people may be getting booster shots even though their immunity levels are adequate, the researchers say.

Based on the findings, it may be necessary to reevaluate timelines for vaccinating and revaccinating Americans against disease, said the Oregon Health & Science University researchers.

For this study, they analyzed 630 blood samples from 45 volunteers to determine each person's level of immunity against measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, mononucleosis, tetanus and diphtheria over an extended period of time.

"The goal of this study was to determine how long immunity could be maintained after infection or vaccination. We expected to see long-lived immunity following a viral infection and relatively short-lived immunity after vaccination, especially since this is the reasoning for requiring booster vaccinations," Mark Slifka, an associate scientist at the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, said in a prepared statement.

"Surprisingly, we found that immunity following vaccination with tetanus and diphtheria was much more long-lived than anyone realized, and that antibody responses following viral infections were essentially maintained for life," he said.

The study is published in the Nov. 8 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

"We want to emphasize that proper vaccination is vital for protecting people against infectious disease. We also need to mention that over-vaccinating the population poses no health or safety concerns -- it may just be unnecessary under certain circumstances," said Slifka, who has joint appointments at the Oregon National Primate Research Center and the department of molecular microbiology and immunology in the OHSU School of Medicine.

"What our study found was that the life span of protective immunity for certain vaccines is much longer than previously thought. So, what does that mean? Based on this data and other studies, we may want to consider adjusting some of our recommended vaccination schedules," Slifka said. "Doing so may reduce the number of required shots that are administered each year in this country while at the same time help extend limited health care resources."

More information

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more about vaccines.

Copyright © 2007 ScoutNews, LLC. All rights reserved.

http://www.livescience.com/healthday/609837.html

[lizzy]

Great Thread. Fantastic links. This is a great topic. Ultimate goal. Population reduction. Ours, not to let them .

[joejam]

I have to tell you I am truly confused on this issue. I am a nurse and I give babies and adults shots everyday and parents will tell their kids...."it is keeping you from getting sick." I have to say I am not so sure I agree with this. My 3 kids are vaccinated. But only mainly because I'm just finding out how unsafe they could be. I did take a flu shot this year, or I was going to have to sign a declaration letter. No biggie...but it hasn't bothered me in years past. Well, I may have been getting sick before...but I have had my recent cold for 2 1/2 weeks now. after the flu shot. who knows......but I have to say, I do not like giving shots......I'm still unsure about them. Not a one of us is made the exact same way and I am not going to say they won't affect your kid because they didn't mine.

[chattanova]

Chickenpox vaccine is bad for children (they all are)

News that doctors are calling for all children to be inoculated against chickenpox causes me concern. During the first half of the 20th-century it made sense to be introducing vaccines against whooping cough, diphtheria and tuberculosis, all of which were killing thousands of children every year. But nowadays, the vogue is to recommend immunisation for diseases that are either relatively harmless, or serious but rare.

Chickenpox falls firmly into the former category; most children suffer only a few uncomfortable days. Yet we are being told that it is a serious disease against which we need to vaccinate. These recommendations are based on research that actively looked for serious complications of chickenpox in all children admitted to hospitals in the UK and Ireland over a 13-month period. The researchers found 112 children who had serious complications of chickenpox, most often a secondary infection treatable with antibiotics. Six deaths were reported. Excluding one baby that died in the womb, four had a chronic health problem, such as HIV or cerebral palsy. Only one previously healthy child died, out of a total population of over 10 million. Chickenpox causes serious complications in less than 1 in 10,000 children.

We now give our children 25 different vaccines, in various combinations, before the age of 15 months. We are in danger of becoming dependent on immunisation, rather than on our immune systems, for our future health. This may appeal to vaccine manufacturers, which operate in an increasingly profitable market, but should concern the rest of us.

Vaccines have contributed to the eradication of smallpox and to the fall in deaths from diphtheria and polio; though probably rather less to the decline in the mortality rate of measles and whooping cough – which was largely a result of improved hygiene and nutrition. There must be an overwhelming case before a decision is made to vaccinate the whole population. Not only has the case not been made for chickenpox, but inoculation will pose particular problems. It will push the disease into older age groups, who will catch the illness as their vaccine-induced immunity wears off, as we have seen happen with mumps. The complications of chickenpox are much greater in older people: an adult over 15 years of age is 10 times, and an adult over 50 is 100 times, more likely to die from the illness than a child.

A second problem is that vaccination is likely to increase the number of people getting shingles, more serious than chickenpox, that already causes 60 deaths a year, mainly among older people. A review in 2003 by government doctors concluded, "Routine infant varicella [chickenpox] vaccination is unlikely to be cost-effective and may produce an overall rise in morbidity [illness]". What has changed since then? A further problem is that the vaccine consists of a live virus, like the measles, mumps and rubella vaccines. However, uniquely, a recipient of the chickenpox vaccine can be infectious; though not common, there have been numerous reports from the US of people catching chickenpox from vaccinated children.

We are introducing vaccines too readily and without regard to the long–term consequences. There has been a huge rise over recent years in immune-related diseases, such as diabetes, asthma and eczema; the possible link to vaccines, though controversial, is plausible. Vaccines, by their nature, are designed to affect the immune system and it is widely accepted that most shift the system in an ''allergic" direction. This is not the time to introduce mass vaccination against chickenpox.

Dr Richard Halvorsen is a GP and author of 'The Truth About Vaccines' (Gibson Square Books)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/11/09/do0905.xml

[chattanova]

Adults Beware -- New Vaccine Guidelines Released

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, a division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has released the 2007-2008 recommended immunization schedules for adults in the US.

The schedule includes 11 different types of vaccines for adults, including:

* Tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis (Td/Tdap)

* Human papillomavirus (HPV)

* Measles, mumps, rubella (MMR)

* Influenza

* Herpes zoster (shingles)

Key changes in this year's recommendations include:

* Varicella (chickenpox) vaccination is recommended for all adults that have no apparent immunity to the virus

* Zoster (shingles) vaccination is advised for all adults 60 years of age and older, regardless of whether they have had a prior shingles episode

* HPV vaccine is recommended for women over the age of 26, who have not already completed the three-dose series

It is recommended that flu vaccination be administered to anyone with the following medical conditions:

* Chronic disorders of the cardiovascular or pulmonary systems, including asthma

* Chronic metabolic diseases, such as diabetes

* Renal or hepatic dysfunction

* Immunosuppression, including suppression caused by medications or HIV

* Pregnancy during flu season


http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/11/10/adults-beware-new-vaccine-guidelines-released.aspx

[chattanova]

No Law Says Parents Have To Get Their Children Vaccinated

Government and media propaganda hoax continues as parents in Maryland hoodwinked and threatened into believing it is the law to vaccinate kids, error-strewn Fox news report relays disinformation

News networks and state authorities are once again engaging in mass public deception by claiming that vaccines for children are mandated by law and that parents will go to jail if kids do not take their shots. In reality, there is no law that says you have to vaccinate your children and waiver forms for personal or religious exemptions are freely available.

A situation in Prince George's County, MD. has attracted media attention and once again provided the platform for a propaganda push that falsely implies it is the law for children to be vaccinated with mass produced big pharma shots that are often not stringently tested and have been linked with dangerous side-effects.

More than 2300 children in Prince George's County have been expelled from school for up to a month and a half because they have not received their shots for chicken pox and hepatitis B. This Saturday the parents of more than 1600 children have been ordered to attend Circuit court, where medical officials will be on standby to forcibly inject their children in a scenario befitting of a science fiction horror movie.

School officials have said the parents will receive a verbal reprimand from the judge and be ordered to have their children immunized in the courthouse. The students would then be allowed to return to school. Parents who refuse to comply will get fines and could be jailed for ten days.

Watch a Fox News report: http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2007/141107_no_law.htm

This report is completely riddled with errors and distortions from beginning to end.

The Fox reporter states "A new law was passed last year requiring children from 5th through to 10th grade to have the vaccine". This is completely untrue. The vaccine has been mandated by the state but there is no law in the U.S. that requires mandatory vaccinations of any kind. The report mentions the waiver forms only after claiming that it is the law. How can there be a waiver form that allows someone to break a law?

This is why the parents who do not comply will be charged not under vaccination laws (because there aren't any) but under truancy, neglect or child in need of supervision laws, which state that the parent is culpable after 30 days of a child's unexplained absence from school.

The school itself triggered the truancy violation by unfairly kicking the kids out of school, and failing to inform parents about vaccine waiver forms.

The news report quotes befuddled members of the public, who claim that kids not getting vaccinations endangers those that have had them. How on earth can that be the case if the vaccination is supposed to provide immunity against the disease? In reality, the vaccinated kids are more dangerous to others, considering the plethora of cases where vaccines have induced debilitating side-effects as levels of autism soar to unprecedented levels.

There is no law in America, aside from those applying to medical workers, that says you or your child has to take any vaccine whatsoever, no matter what any executive order, requirement, mandate or policy dictates, there is no situation where you can go to prison for refusing a government vaccine under the U.S. constitution and the law of the land.

As in the case of all other vaccines, executive orders and court mandates merely state that the vaccine is "recommended," yet the mass media drumbeat constantly conditions people to believe that if they don't take their shots they will be kicked out of school, arrested and thrown in jail. This trick will continue to hoodwink Americans into taking all manner of dangerous and untested vaccines, the number of which rises every year, until they realize that there is no law that forces them to take any vaccine.

Here is an example of a vaccine waiver form, this particular one is for Maryland, the state in question in this case, proving that enforced vaccination is not the law and that personal and religious objections are applicable.

http://www.vaclib.org/exemption.htm - Here you can find vaccine exemption forms online by state or country.

The good news is that concerned parents across the U.S. are leading a nationwide revolt against unnecessary, untested and dangerous vaccines as CDC records show a growing amount of religious exemptions on vaccine forms.

Earlier this year we reported on the furor surrounding the HPV vaccine, which experts have slammed as untested and has continues to be linked to dangerous side-effects. A media propaganda campaign along with an executive order issued by Texas governor Rick Perry has had parents in Texas and other areas of the country fooled into believing the vaccine is now the law and young girls must take it. Merck Pharmaceuticals are capitalizing on this fraud by making obscene profits from a crony deal with Governor Rick Perry, while children are put at risk.

Vaccines and drugs that are not stringently tested and are instead foisted upon populations for the purposes of making obscene profits have a clear history of deadly consequences.

Consider the case of Bayer Pharmaceuticals, who deliberately dumped a vaccine that was known to be contaminated with AIDS virus on the European and Latin American market after it killed people in America. Thousands died from an action that the U.S. government allowed to happen through the FDA.

Peruse the plethora of examples where vaccines containing mercury, live HIV virus, live cancer and other horrors have wrought misery after victims were bullied into taking them by government mandates that they were deluded into thinking was the law.

The history alone, a legacy that led former director of the National Institute of Health Dr. James R. Shannon to state, "The only safe vaccine is one that is never used," implores us to stand up and expose this hoax and ensure that similar executive orders and mandates are not passed elsewhere in the country as a result of cynical greed driven lobbying and corporate crony payoffs.

More parents across the country should rally to denounce this development, which sets the pretext for the state to dictate the health of their children, as well as moving us closer to legislation which would allow Americans to be forcibly vaccinated at gunpoint against their will during a time of manufactured crisis, such as in the case of a human to human bird flu pandemic.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2007/141107_no_law.htm

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Maryland - Parents Will Be Jailed If Kids Aren't Injected


You need to click the link posted below to see the video clip from a local TV news station in order to hear the words of the vaccine promoters and the adults being used to push the vaccination agenda. You will notice in the TV report that there is not ONE WORD offered in de fence of NOT vaccinating these children The only comments you get are from the reporters presenting the story and from the people they interview is that it's necessary to crack down on those delinquent and irresponsible parents are are unwilling to PROTECT their children with vaccination Well, "enough is enough" says Maryland States Attorney Glenn Ivey. He's going to haul these "irresponsible" parents into court and throw them in jail if they don't IMMEDIATELY comply with vaccination ORDERS from the school and state. Doctors and nurses will be standing by with syringes in hand ready to pump up those hapless little children with the mandated vaccines. Working hat in glove with Ivey is Dr. Betty Despenza-Green, described as the Chief of Student Services. Speaking from the press conference microphone-which were set up right in front of the courhouse so there is no mistaking the threat implied-Dr. Despenza-Green wanted the TV cameras to know that " We need those students safe" Yea, right.

I can only HOPE that the anti-vaccine community will make an all-out effort to reach those parents so they can tell them how to immediately file a vaccine exemption form and stop this outrage against the parent's rights. Second, an injunction needs to be filed on behalf of the parents in order to prevent any immediate coercive court action before the parents bow to the pressure being put upon them. Third, a lawsuit needs to be filed against the school and the local school board, similar to the action taken by Dr Len Horowitz in Hawaii when his daughter faced this same dilemma a year ago, and force the school to INFORM parents that they can opt out of vaccinations by filing the EXEMPTION form. As it is, the school do NOT want parents to know that they can opt out.

Lastly, Dr. Betty Dispenza-Green and States Attorney Glenn Ivey need to be run out of office. Anyone who would attempt to use the threat of jail to force parents to vaccinate their children against their will is a Nazi and must be removed from positions of power over the public. ...Ken Adachi]

By Mark Century, TruthNews
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/georgescountyMDstateattyGlennIvey14nov07.shtml

Forward courtesy of David William Kimball dwkimball@sbcglobal.net>


Prince Georges County, MD

1,600 school children and their parents have been ordered to appear in circuit court this Saturday where health workers will immediately force them to receive required shots. Parents who don't bring their children to court for the shots are to be jailed.

"We can do this the easy way or we can do this the hard way, but it's going to have to get done." said State Attorney Glenn Ivey.




Nazi #1.
Dr. Betty Despenza-Green : "We need those children immunized. We need those children in school. We need those students safe. "

[Tip from Ken Adachi: If you were really concerned about children's safety, Herr Doktor, you would know that there is a MOUNTAIN of documents and studies which PROVE that vaccines are HARMFUL, dangerous, TOXIC to children (http://educate-yourself.org/vcd/)


Nazi #2.
Maryland States Attorney Glenn Ivey: "We can do this the eay way, or we can do this the hard way, but it's gotta get done."

[Tip from Ken: What's "gotta get done", tough guy, if to kick your fascist ass out of the States Attoney office and get you back to chasing ambulances. And when you have a little spare time, maybe you could pick up a copy of the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights and do some schooling yourself. ]

http://www.rense.com/general79/inject.htm

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The Great Thimerosal (Mercury) Vaccine Cover-Up

'Thimerosal is the preservative of choice for vaccine manufacturers. First introduced by Eli Lilly and Company in the late 1920s and early 1930s, the company began selling it as a preservative in vaccines in the 1940s. Thimerosal contains 49.6 percent mercury by weight and is metabolized or degraded into ethylmercury and thiosalicylate. Mercury, or more precisely, ethylmercury, is the principle agent that kills contaminants. Unfortunately, mercury also kills much more than that.'

You have probably seen your nurse insert a syringe into a large vial, extract some liquid, and then leave a substantial amount of vaccine in the original container. If you've witnessed this seemingly benign procedure, you've seen how vaccine manufacturers are saving money at the expense of public health. In order to store larger amounts of vaccine at a lower cost, companies began offering "multi-dose units" while adding preservatives to prevent contaminations. That way doctors can open and close a vaccine container, inviting germs into the once-sterile solution, while assuring the public that those contaminants are quickly killed by the preservative.

Sound familiar? It's the same story of corporate America's love affair with preservatives. It saves them money, while posing an undue risk to your health. But like many toxic preservatives found in food, a vaccine preservative kills more than just bacteria and fungi; it can lead to extensive neurological damage in your children, and has even been implicated in autism.

Thimerosal

Thimerosal is the preservative of choice for vaccine manufacturers. First introduced by Eli Lilly and Company in the late 1920s and early 1930s, the company began selling it as a preservative in vaccines in the 1940s. Thimerosal contains 49.6 percent mercury by weight and is metabolized or degraded into ethylmercury and thiosalicylate. Mercury, or more precisely, ethylmercury, is the principle agent that kills contaminants. Unfortunately, mercury also kills much more than that.

The Department of Defense classifies mercury as a hazardous material that could cause death if swallowed, inhaled or absorbed through the skin. Studies indicate that mercury tends to accumulate in the brains of primates and other animals after they are injected with vaccines.

Mercury poisoning has been linked to cardiovascular disease, autism, seizures, mental retardation, hyperactivity, dyslexia and many other nervous system conditions. That's why the FDA rigorously limits exposure to mercury in foods and drugs. Some common sources of mercury include dental amalgam fillings, various vaccines and certain fish contaminated by polluted ocean waters.

The toxicity of mercury has never been in question. The real question is precisely how much mercury-laced thimerosal is toxic, and what are the possible consequences for our children at low doses?

Eli Lilly and Co. supposedly answered this question for us back in 1930. Concluding thimerosal to be of "a very low order of toxicity . . . for man," the company hired its own doctors to perform thimerosal experiments in Indianapolis City Hospital on meningitis patients during a severe outbreak in 1929. This 60-year-old evidence was still quoted on the company's brochures as recently as 1990. Andrew Waters, who is involved in a lawsuit against Eli Lilly, claims that most critical studies on the toxicity of thimerosal were suppressed by the company until now.

Banned Around The World - But Not In The US

That might explain why thimerosal was eliminated in many countries 20 years ago. In 1977, a Russian study found that adults exposed to ethylmercury, the form of mercury in thimerosal, suffered brain damage years later. Studies on thimerosal poisoning also describe tubular necrosis and nervous system injury, including obtundation, coma and death. As a result of these findings, Russia banned thimerosal from children's vaccines in 1980. Denmark, Austria, Japan, Great Britain and all the Scandinavian countries have also banned the preservative.

Eli Lilly stuck to its "scientific" facts, but the truth began slipping between the cracks in 1999. After the number of immunizations rose to 12 to 15 per child, the public finally became privy to the possible dangers of thimerosal. One 1999 study revealed that some infants, due to a genetic or developmental factor, lack the ability to eliminate mercury. Trace amounts of mercury in these infants, when accumulated over several vaccines, could pose a severe health risk.

Some vaccines, such as vaccines for hepatitis B, contained as much as 12.5 micrograms of mercury per dose. That's more than 100 times the EPA's upper limit standard when administered to infants.

Hepatitis B vaccines aren't the only immunizations under suspicion. According to Burton Goldberg in Alternative Medicine, scientists are finding stronger and stronger links between thimerosal and neurological damage. One report by Dr. Vijendra Singh of the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Michigan found a higher incidence of measles, mumps and rubella vaccine (MMR) antibodies in autistic children.

The National Vaccine Information Center in Vienna, Virginia, has noted a strong association between the MMR vaccine and autistic features. Reporting similar findings, the Encephalitis Support Group in England claims that children who became autistic after the MMR vaccine started showing autistic symptoms as early as 30 days after vaccination. The diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus vaccine (DPT) given at two, four and six months has triggered autistic symptoms, as well.

When the FDA finally formally released this information in 1999, the news came too little too late for some parents. The damage had already been done.

Links Betweem Autism And Thimerosal

Autism affects 500,000 to 1.5 million Americans and has grown at an annual rate of 10 to 17 percent since the late 1980s. California found a 273 percent increase in autism between 1987 and 1998. Maryland reported a 513 percent increase in autism between 1993 and 1998 and several dozen other states reported similar findings. Some scientists say the estimated number of cases of autism has increased 15-fold *1,500 percent * since 1991, when the number of childhood vaccinations doubled. Whereas one in every 2,500 children was diagnosed with autism before 1991, one in 166 children now have the disease.

This increase in reported autism cases eerily parallels the increase in the number and frequency of thimerosal-containing vaccinations administered to infants. As of today, children are given as many as 21 immunizations in the first 15 months of life. After a number of scientists and concerned activists noticed the correlation, an investigation was launched to get to the heart of the matter.

Statistical evidence links thimerosal with nervous system disorders In June 2000, federal officials and industry representatives were assembled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to discuss the disturbing evidence. According to Tom Verstraeten, an epidemiologist who had analyzed the data on the CDC's database, thimerosal appeared to be responsible for a dramatic increase in autism and other neurological disorders. Verstraeten told those at the meeting that a number of earlier studies indicate a link between thimerosal and speech delays, attention-deficit disorder, hyperactivity and autism.

Verstraeten offered no possible cause for this correlation, but held that the statistical evidence linking vaccines and neurological disorders was strong. Dr. Bill Weil, a consultant for the American Academy of Pediatrics, and Dr. Richard Johnston, an immunologist and pediatrician from the University of Colorado, presented similar concerns to the group. However, given no causal relationship, the CDC and industry representatives were quick to discredit the evidence.

Consequently, the CDC paid the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to conduct another study on thimerosal. According to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., this study was fixed in order to "whitewash" previous findings. In its 2001 report, the IOM's Immunization Safety Review Committee did conclude that the link between thimerosal and neurodevelopmental disorders was biologically plausible, though the evidence neither proved nor negated it. The Committee stated that phasing out thimerosal from vaccines was "a prudent measure in support of the public health goal to reduce mercury exposure of infants and children as much as possible."

However, these findings offered no imperative. The data presented at the 2000 meeting was withheld from publication and the link between thimerosal and autism remained "inconclusive."

But what does "inconclusive" mean? Well, that depends on who you talk to. According to the FDA, these "inconclusive" findings negate the risk of a causal relationship between thimerosal and autism. Even Tom Verstraeten, one of the presenters of epidemiological evidence at the CDC meeting, seemingly changed his tune a bit. In 2000, Verstraeten vigorously campaigned against thimerosal based upon his "inconclusive" correlation, but after he was hired by GlaxoSmithKline, the doctor changed his position. The same evidence from 2000, in Verstraeten's eyes, became "neutral" in 2003. After criticism for this apparent flip-flop, Verstaeten wrote a letter to the editor of Pediatrics in 2004 backing the CDC's actions and his own research methods. Merck continues selling vaccines with thimerosal.

Without an imperative to eradicate thimerosal immediately, vaccine manufacturers like Merck & Co. seemingly took their time in reducing thimerosal levels in vaccines. After a large public outcry in 1999, Merck & Co. began decreasing or eliminating the amount of thimerosal in its vaccines. In September 1999, Merck announced that its new line of vaccines were preservative-free, but still continued to distribute the remainder of thimerosal-preserved vaccines until 2001. Only after a congressional inquiry in 2002 did they stop distributing their stockpile. Rep. Dave Weldon, R-Fla., called Merck's actions "misleading."

While officials at the Center for Disease Control claim evidence is lacking to support the possible risks of thimerosal, Dr. Mark Geier, a Maryland geneticist and vaccinologist, along with his son and research partner David Geier, says the CDC has chosen to ignore the science. According to Dr. Geier, more than 5,000 articles have been published that question the safety of thimerosal in vaccines.

The Geiers analyzed the data and determined that the more thimerosal a child receives, the greater his or her chances are of being autistic. The CDC says the Geiers misused information from a CDC database that was not intended to help prove theories. Given no real causal mechanism linking thimerosal and autism, the game seems to have become one of slanting the data to suit the needs of government and industrial interests. Even Verstraeten has admitted that these "inconclusive" findings certainly don't rule out the possibility of finding a link in the future.

Grassroots Action Against Vaccine Manufacturers

Given the dearth of health organizations owning up to the dangers of thimerosal, many parents followed their gut instincts and took legal action against vaccine manufacturers. More than 4,200 families have filed lawsuits claiming thimerosal caused injuries to their children. These lawsuits often have two goals: First, to seek reparations for the loss of consortium (basically meaning that an autistic child creates emotional and psychological burdens on their family life), and second, to ensure that these companies exercise more concern for public health and less concern for their own bottom line.

The lawsuits are slow in producing results. The first constraint on these lawsuits is the National Childhood Vaccine Act of 1986. This act stipulates that victims cannot seek redress in the courts without first filing a claim for recovery in the federal Vaccine Court. The statute of limitations for this is within three years of "the first symptom or manifestation of onset or of the significant aggravation of a [vaccine-related] injury."

In the cases of many thimerosal victims, the link between autism and vaccines didn't appear until six years after the first vaccine was administered. While this statute has stopped some claims against vaccine manufacturers, including such big firms as Aventis, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck and Johnson & Johnson, many judges are now allowing suits against Eli Lilly, the maker of thimerosal, to stand. While the Vaccine Act shields vaccine manufacturers, one judge reasons that the legislation does not protect the production of thimerosal because it is a "component."

The burden of proof in court is also extremely problematic for most of these suits. Given the supposed lack of scientific data, lawyers are hard-pressed to prove the link between thimerosal and autism. In what seems like an underhanded move, the CDC sold its data to a private company, ensuring that lawyers could not access it under the Freedom of Information Act.

In the past five years, Congress has also aided vaccine manufacturers, supposedly for "security" reasons. In 2002, a mysterious piggyback on the 2002 Homeland Security bill freed drug companies of liability in lawsuits regarding thimerosal. Called the "Eli Lilly Protection Act" by outraged parents and activists, the then-House Majority Leader Dick Armey told CBS News he snuck the amendment in to keep vaccine-makers from going out of business. Armey claimed it was a matter of national security. "We need their vaccines if the country is attacked with germ weapons."

Ironically, foreign biological terrorism hasn't been a big problem for American citizens, but those whose lives (and the lives of their children) have been affected if not ruined by the harmful effects of thimerisol would undoubtedly say these potentially harmful vaccines are indeed a problem. Armey's piggyback bill was repealed in 2003, but that didn't stop lawmakers from continuing to protect the vaccine industry.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is no stranger to the thimerosal debate, having received $873,000 in contributions from the pharmaceutical industry and $10,000 from Eli Lilly. Frist's position allowed him to attempt to help the industry from the inside, according to Kennedy. Kennedy reports that on five occasions, Frist tried to seal the government's vaccine-related documents and shield Eli Lilly from subpoenas. Frist also introduced a provision in the 2005 Senate Bill S-3 called the "Protecting America in the War on Terror Act," that would effectively insulate the pharmaceutical industry from liability for thimerosal poisoning. Pharmaceutical manufacturers, including Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, Aventis, Weyeth and Eli Lilly, can basically get off scot-free for their actions, even as more and more evidence suggests that top company officials were aware of the possible dangers and did nothing.

A secret memo leaked to the Los Angeles Times reportedly implicates one vaccine manufacturer, Merck & Co., for knowing that thimerosal could pose serious threats to infants. Allegedly, Dr. Maurice Hilleman, one of Merck's top scientists, warned the president of Merck of a possible threat as early as 1991. Dr. Hilleman told executives that six-month-old children receiving regular immunizations frequently received mercury doses 87 times higher than guidelines for the maximum consumption of mercury. Given today's more prudent mercury standards, those thimerosal doses would be 400 times that of safe levels.

Dr. Hilleman recommended in the memo that thimerosal be discontinued. Not only do government and industry officials seem to be trying to downplay the possible harms of thimerosal; the media is also denying the issue coverage. Just recently, ABC flip-flopped on whether it will air interviews with Robert Kennedy Jr., a leading critic of thimerosal. ABC has been accused of suppressing the interviews because of its ties to the pharmaceutical industry.

The Thimerosal Debate Continues

Along with the enormous amount of controversy surrounding this issue, the five-year-old plea for "more research" may have finally produced some results. Burton Goldberg notes that a defect in the myelinization process (insulation of nerve fibers) could explain mercury's propensity to cause autism and neurological damage. This may also account for the frequent development of epilepsy in older autistic children.

Scientists are also working on biological links that support the strong correlations. Researchers at Northeastern University, working with scientists from the University of Nebraska, Tufts and Johns Hopkins University, may have recently found the mechanism by which thimerosal interferes with brain activity. If these researchers are right, vaccine manufacturers could do little to keep the damaging effects of thimerosal hidden.

Pharmacy professor Richard Deth and colleagues found that exposure to thimerosal potently interrupts growth factor signaling, causing adverse effects on the transfer of carbon atoms. These carbon atoms play a significant role in regulating normal DNA function and gene expression and are critical to proper neurological development. Additionally, the scientists recently obtained more insight into the mechanism by which thimerosal interferes with folate-dependent methylation. The mechanism inhibits the biosynthesis of the active form of vitamin B12 (methylcobalamin), a vitamin now being administered to autistic children.

The Experts Speak On Mercury, Vaccines And Thimerosal

All childhood vaccines now have at least one mercury-free version, and I urge parents to ask for those versions if they choose to vaccinate their children. Injecting mercury into children, especially infants whose immune systems are still underdeveloped (hepatitis B shots are typically given at birth, before the immune system has developed), can be an assault to the immune system.


What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Autoimmune Disorders

By Stephen B Edelson MD
page 65

In 1999, studies began to surface showing that multi-dose vial vaccines, such as the MMR and hepatitis B vaccines, contained enough thimerosal to expose vaccinated children to 62.5 ug of mercury per visit to the pediatrician. This is one hundred times the dose considered safe by the Federal Environmental Protection Guidelines for infants! Worse yet, some infants will receive doses even higher; because thimerosal tends to settle in the vial. If it is not shaken up before being drawn, the first dose will contain low concentrations of mercury and the last dose will contain enormously high concentrations. If your baby is the unlucky one that gets the last dose, serious brain injury can result


Health And Nutrition Secrets

By Russell L Blaylock MD,
page 166

Thousands of families say they can demonstrate with videotapes and photos that their children were normal prior to being vaccinated, reacted badly to the vaccines, and became autistic shortly thereafter. The number of vaccines given before age two has risen from 3 in 1940, when autism occurred in perhaps one case per 10,000 births, to 22 different vaccines given before the age of two in the year 2000.


Building Wellness With DMG

By Roger V Kendall PhD
page 104

We know that certain forms of mercury, such as methylmercury and phenylmercury, are highly lipid soluble, which makes the brain especially susceptible to mercury accumulation. These forms of mercury are found in vaccines as the preservative thimerosal. Once in the brain, it tends to attach itself to protein structures, especially to the cell membrane, where it can disrupt membrane functions.23 By binding to the cell membrane, mercury changes the membrane's fluid-like quality, making it stiffer and causing the cell to age faster.24 The brain is unique in that neurons depend on special microscopic tube-like structures within the cell, appropriately called neurotubules, for their function. These neurotubules are manufactured by the cell from a substance called tubulin. We know that mercury interacts with tubulin causing it to unravel. Studies in rats have shown that doses of mercury corresponding to those seen in humans can cause a 75 percent increase in tubulin inhibition.


Health And Nutrition Secrets

By Russell L Blaylock MD
page 53

In the case of the susceptible newborn infant and toddler, multiple exposures to mercury-containing and multiple antigen vaccines are highly suspect in the causation of multiple organ injury (Bernard et al. 2000). The GI tract, the liver, the pancreas, the kidneys, the immune system, and the brain are major sites of mercury absorption. Researchers have clearly shown a chronic inflammatory bowel disease due to vaccine strain measles in a subset of children with autism (Thompson et al. 1995; Wakefield et al. 1995, 1999, 2000a,b; Kawashima et al. 2000; Pardi et al. 2000; Uhlmann et al. 2002).


Disease Prevention And Treatment

By Life Extension Foundation
page 153

Studies of autistic children have frequently shown very high levels of mercury, with no other source but vaccines found for the exposure. These levels are equal to those seen in adults during toxic industrial exposures. Several autism clinics have found dramatic improvements in the behavior and social interactions in children from whom the mercury was chelated. Results depended on how soon the mercury was removed following exposure, but permanent damage can be caused if the metal is not chelated soon enough. Still, even in cases of severe damage, because of the infant brain's tremendous reparative ability, improvements are possible. The problem of autism involves numerous body systems including the gastrointestinal, immune and nervous systems; as a result we see numerous infections and magnified effects of malnutrition. Intrepid workers in the shadows, that is outside the medial establishment, have worked many miracles with these children using a multidisciplinary scientific approach completely ignored by the orthodoxy. Some children have even experienced a return to complete physiological normalcy.


Health And Nutrition Secrets

By Russell L Blaylock MD
page 166

Mercury and autism mercury toxicity is a suspected cause of a steep rise-a tenfold increase between 1984 and 1994-in diagnosed cases of autism in children around the world, according to some scientists. Specifically, the culprit is thimerosal, a mercury-based compound used as a preservative in vaccines commonly administered to babies and infants. thimerosal-free vaccines are available. If you have a child who will be receiving vaccinations, ask for and make sure thimerosal-free vaccines are used. Kelp, with its essential minerals (especially calcium and magnesium), helps remove unwanted metal deposits.


Prescription For Dietary Wellness

By Phyllis A Balch
page 198

The pertussis vaccine (DPT) may cause 45,000 cases of autism per year in America, affecting 15 cases out of 10,000 vaccinations; also caused by the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine (MMR) that causes mental impairment, gastrointestinal damage, and increased mortality in 6-12 months from impaired immunity; 9 out of 10 cases were not breast-fed; eating dairy products caused parasites in the autistic (take Vermex; contact Dr. Nelson in Mexico for control of parasites in children with autism). There are now over 500,000 victims of autism residing in the United States, in 1994. The pertussis vaccination is not used in Sweden, which has virtually 0 cases of autism, as does Holland.

This mental illness afflicts environmentally and socially non-reactive persons, of withdrawn personality; with inability to speak, violenttantrums, insomnia, actions such as bolting across aroad with no regard for the dire consequences. May be caused infant antibiotic use in ear infections with subsequent yeast overgrowth, by cumulative genetic Brain damage, Vitamin deficiencies, or milk and additives allergies. Immune disorders in autism include white blood cellneutrophil Myeloperoxidase enzyme deficiency for insufficient hypochlorite ions to kill yeast - genetic type from Chromosome 17 mutation or biotinidase deficiency, or acquired type from lead poisoning, Folic acid or B-l 2 deficiency, infection or leukemias


Anti-Aging Manual

By Joseph B Marion
page 450

Multiple vaccinations, especially in newborns, are another major source of childhood mercury exposure because of the mercury-containing thimerosal preservative. Over twenty-two vaccinations are now recommended for children before the age of two!


Health And Nutrition Secrets

By Russell L Blaylock MD
page 64

In addition, there is some anecdotal evidence that autism may be tied to diet. One theory is that, in very rare cases, a child's immune system could be weakened by the measles-mumps-rubella vaccination (MMR), which is usually administered before a child turns 2. As a result of this weakening, the theory goes, the child's digestive system is unable to break down certain food proteins, leading to abnormal brain development. Proponents of this theory believe that putting the child on a diet that eliminates certain foods, such as wheat and dairy products, could in certain cases reverse the course of the disease. This theory remains speculative, however, and research needs to be done to determine its validity. In fact, a 2001 report issued by an Institute of Medicine committee examining studies about the health effects of the MMR vaccine in young children suggests that there is no proven link between the vaccine and autism. The committee recommends that there be no change in immunization practices that require children to be immunized during early childhood.


The Immune Advantage

By Ellen Mazo and Keith Berndtson MD
page 292

Rather than calling for an all-out immediate ban on thimerosal-containing vaccines, they suggested that parents continue to have their children vaccinated with mercury-contaminated vaccines until new stocks of uncontaminated vaccine could be made available. Here are two doctors' unions that had to be beat over the head with an overwhelming amount of data that mercury-contaminated vaccines were harming children far worse than the actual diseases against which the vaccine was intended to protect them, only to have them suggest that parents continue to harm their children just to satisfy their vaccination obsession.

Are you surprised to discover that recent investigations have found that several doctor-members of vaccine boards were either receiving grants from vaccine manufacturers or held stock in the companies? They were willing to sacrifice the health of millions of children just to fill their pockets with cash. These people should be looking through bars, not serving on boards.


Health And Nutrition Secrets

By Russell L Blaylock MD
page 167

Vaccines may afflict 45,000 cases of autism per year in America, which afflicts 15 victims in every 10.000 births: there are now 5 00,000 of these victims in the U.S. In Sweden not using the pertussis vaccine, there is virtually no autism (and likewise in Holland).


Anti-Aging Manual

By Joseph B Marion
page 600

Many symptoms of autism are similar to those of mercury poisoning. Immune dysfunction, visual disturbances, and motor dysfunction are seen in both. Treating autistic children for removal of mercury and other heavy metals has shown significant improvement in their autistic symptoms. Most autistic individuals have poor liver detoxification, low antioxidant levels, and low levels of glutathione. Vaccines are effective, but the production and use of vaccines should proceed more cautiously. Currently manufactured vaccines still contain harmful substances like mercury. The link between vaccines and autism is far stronger than the medical community is willing to admit, and more research in this area should be an urgent priority.


Building Wellness with DMG

By Roger V Kendall PhD
page 105

Studies indicate that autism may be the result of adverse reactions to childhood vaccinations. Dr. Alan Cohen, an environmental physician from Connecticut, notes that high levels of autism and attention deficit disorder (ADD) did not occur until the mandatory use of childhood vaccinations, and suggests that there may be a connection between certain vaccines and the onset of these conditions.

Complete Encyclopedia Of Natural Healing

By Gary Null PhD
page 46

Almost from the inception of vaccination programs, manufacturers added a mercury preservative called thimerosal to vaccines. The practice continued until recently, and was stopped only because of the outcry from thousands of concerned parents and numerous experts in the field. The American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Family Practice did not warn parents or pediatricians that the mercury was dangerous until they were forced to. That mercury was toxic to cells had been known for over sixty years, but manufacturers apparently were more worried about lawsuits


Health And Nutrition Secrets

By Russell L Blaylock MD
page 165

In fact, a 2001 report issued by an Institute of Medicine committee examining studies about the health effects of the MMR vaccine in young children suggests that there is no proven link between the vaccine and autism. The committee recommends that there be no change in immunization practices that require children to be immunized during early childhood. Another disorder affecting the brain, Alzheimer's disease, may also have an immune connection. Alzheimer's is a degenerative disease that slowly attacks nerve cells in the brain. It eventually results in the loss of all memory and mental functioning. Scientists are currently investigating the role that the immune system plays in producing an overabundance of the amino acid glutamate, a powerful nerve-cell killer. Another immune connection that researchers are investigating is the idea that Alzheimer's might be triggered, in part, by a virus.


The Immune Advantage

By Ellen Mazo and Keith Berndtson MD
page 292

In the past 10 years, the number of autistic children has risen between 200 and 500 per cent in every state in the U.S. This sharp increase in autism followed the introduction of MMR vaccine in 1975. Representative Dan Burton's healthy grandson was given injections for 9 diseases in one day. These injections were followed by autism.


A Physicians Guide To Natural Health Products That Work

By James Howenstine MD
Page 267

"Probably 20% of American children, one in five, suffers from a "development disability'," according to Harris Coulter, Ph.D., Founder and Director of the Center for Empirical Medicine, in Washington, D.C. "This is a stupefying figure and we have inflicted it on ourselves. 'Development disabilities' are nearly always generated by encephalitis. And the primary cause of encephalitis in the U.S. and other industrialized countries is the childhood vaccination program. To be specific, a large proportion of the millions of U.S. children and adults suffering from autism, seizures, mental retardation, hyperactivity, dyslexia, and other branches of the hydra-headed entity called 'development disabilities' owe their disorders to one of the vaccines against childhood diseases."

Alternative Medicine

By Burton Goldberg
page 1101

Martin noted that the increased incidence of chronic fatigue syndrome, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism, and other behavior-linked illnesses "may be an inadvertent consequence of stealth virus vaccine contaminants."


AIDS And Ebola

By Leonard Horowitz PhD
page 493

Just for perspective if we go back to 1971 up to 1980, we see that California consistently added 100 to 200 new cases a year; but in the year 2002, California added 3,577 new cases. Since 1980, the documented start of California's autism epidemic, the number of new cases has steadily increased. If we break down those statistics it means that from 1994 to 1995, California only added on average 2 new autistic children a day into its system. In 2001, it was a rate of 8 new autistic children added a day; in 2002, it jumped up to 10 children a day. mercury-containing vaccines are still in use today, including the most recently recommended addition to the childhood immunization schedule, 2 shots of flu vaccine for infants, bringing the total number of vaccines up to 41 in California that a child will receive before the age of two. It will take a few years to start seeing the effect of the phasing out of the mercury-containing preservative thimerosal from childhood vaccines on this autism epidemic.

Many symptoms of autism are similar to those of mercury poisoning. Immune dysfunction, visual disturbances, and motor dysfunction are seen in both. Treating autistic children for removal of mercury and other heavy metals has shown significant improvement in their autistic symptoms. Most autistic individuals have poor liver detoxification, low antioxidant levels, and low levels of glutathione.


Building Wellness with DMG

By Roger V Kendall PhD
page 105

Since the 1990s, there has been a tenfold or 1000-percent increase in autism, an increase which has been linked by some researchers to the organic mercury preservative commonly found in baby vaccines. A greatly increased incidence of juvenile diabetes has been correlated to specific vaccination sequences and to the number of vaccines given. In some Australian Aboriginal communities, every second child died shortly after vaccination.

The Natural Way to Heal

By Walter Last page
309

The best current estimates are that autism occurs in 40 to 67 children per 10,000 live births. This means that the prevalence of autism has increased 1,000 percent in the last decade. According to the latest figures just released in January 2003 by the California Department of Developmental Services, California experienced an astounding 31 percent increase in the number of new children

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Maryland - No Vaccine, No School

VIDEO http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/ver/249.0/popup/index.php?cl=5055077

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Canadian TV Show Nails The Vaccine Game

VIDEO http://www.cbc.ca/airfarce/vidplayer/AF_single_player.html?/season13/051202m&playerType=wmp

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Poisons In Vaccines - Take A Good Look

http://www.informedchoice.info/cocktail.html

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Doctors Oppose Maryland Vaccine Round Up: Expect Dangerous Reactions When Children Are Treated Like Cattle

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons today condemned the "vaccine roundup" executed in Prince Georges county Maryland this week, and promised to do everything it can to support parents who refuse to immunize their children.

"This power play obliterates informed consent and parental rights," said Kathryn Serkes, director of policy for the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), one of the few national physician groups that refuse corporate funding from pharmaceutical companies.

In a scenario reminiscent of cattle round-ups, the state's attorney has issued summons to more than 1600 parents of children who have not provided certificates of immunization for their children. But instead of toting a cattle prod, this state's attorney chooses to wield a syringe to keep the "herd" in line.

Parents have been told to appear in Court on Saturday, and to subject their children to on-the-spot state-mandated vaccines of up 17 vaccine doses, or face imprisonment. Parents who ignore the court's demands could face a $50 fine for every day their child is out of compliance or up to 10 days in jail.

"This campaign of intimidation to brutally enforce blanket vaccine mandates by government agencies and the school district gives no consideration for the rights of the parents or the individual medical condition of the child," said Serkes.

Children should be carefully screened, medical records taken and decisions made carefully - not in an ad hoc assembly-line clinic in a county courtroom and under the brutal watch of law enforcement. This is a man-made disaster ready and waiting to detonate. Children could receive a dangerous cocktail of several vaccines without proper examinations. "The procedure is reckless and subjects children to the risk of severe reactions. Physicians would not be allowed to treat children in this way, without individual histories and physical exams - or informed consent," said Jane M. Orient, M.D., AAPS Executive Director.

Money and politics may be at the center of the round of threats. The school district will lose a substantial amount of state funding if students do not comply with the vaccine mandate. "Apparently the district wants that money, even if it gets it off the backs of children," said Serkes.

Mr. Ivey apparently has no problem invoking his own right to informed consent and parental control. In a radio interview on Thursday, he admitted that he has chosen to refuse the hepatitis B vaccines for his own children. "It's interesting that parents have to ask the state's permission by filing a form if they want to make the same decision for their children that he made for his own," said Dr. Orient.

But his galling hypocrisy clearly demonstrates that not every vaccine is right for every child, particularly one such as the hepatitis B.

In their efforts to help the targeted parents, AAPS is contacting as many of them as possible to educate them about their rights under Maryland law and questions to ask before deciding whether vaccination is appropriate for their child (see below). "We'll do our best to help the parents make an informed decision," said Serkes. Representatives will also be on hand at the courthouse on Saturday, and AAPS is working to set up a legal team to help parents who refuse the vaccinations.

AAPS will also work with the National Vaccine Information Center to make sure parents are informed on how to report any adverse reactions to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). Such reporting is actually required, but even medical professionals are lax about filing the reports. Don't expect the police to do it. The State's Attorney General, the manufacturers, and the people giving the shots are immune from liability if the shots hurt somebody, however.

AAPS is also acting as coordinator for the "Hands Off Our Kids" coalition of parents across the country who were instrumental in overturning Texas Governor Perry's executive order requiring the HPV vaccine for school girls last spring. The coalition is appealing to Gov. O'Malley to intervene in the case and work with the legislature to pass a philosophical exemption provision. (The letter to the governor is posted at http://www.aapsonline.org/.)

"All eyes are on PG County," said Serkes. "It's not just a local now, and parents across the country are ready to fight."

National Vaccine Information Center "8 Questions to Ask Before Vaccinating Your Child"

1. Is my child sick right now? 2. Has my child had a bad reaction to a vaccination before?

3. Does my child have a personal or family history of: vaccine reactions, convulsions or neurological disorders, severe allergies or immune system disorders

4. Do I know if my child is at high risk of reacting? 5. Do I know how to identify a vaccine reaction? 6. Do I know how to report a vaccine reaction? 7. Do I know the vaccine manufacturer's name and lot number? 8. Do I know I have a choice?

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons


http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,226269.shtml

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UK To Mandate (Deadly) HPV Vax For Girls

(NewsTarget) British Department of Health (DoH) approved the mandatory vaccination of schoolgirls against Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) which is supposedly responsible for causing cervical cancer. The series of three vaccinations are required for girls aged 12 to 13 years old beginning in 2008 with an additional catch-up program for women up to 18 years old to start later.

The National Health Service (NHS) feels this is a step to help prevent disease instead of just treating it.

DoH estimates 400 lives per year could be saved from this vaccination program, but the effects will not be seen for several decades. Cervical cancer is the second most common cause of death for young woman ranking behind breast cancer.

The UK joined the ranks of Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Italy, France, Norway, Luxembourg and Belgium which already have vaccination programs in place.

This program will come at a large cost to the national heath system. Estimates are it will cost 100 million pounds (208 million USD) a year, with the catch-up program costing an additional 200 million pounds (416 million USD) over the next two years. This makes it the most expensive vaccination program undertaken.

The vaccinations will be administered at the public schools with the private schools taking the responsibility to see the program is implemented in their facilities. It was added that the parents have the final say whether or not their child will receive the vaccine.

This move by the DoH just added more fuel to an already heated debate on mandating the vaccination against HPV. The arguments against vaccinating young girls include: it will encourage them to become more sexually active, the vaccine contains aluminum - causing side effects of chronic joint and muscle pain and fatigue, the HPV virus is not caught through casual contact or proximity like small pox or measles, and the direct link between HPV virus and cervical cancer has not been proven in a controlled study.

Other concerns of parents are the long term effects of the vaccine. They ask is it safe?

The vaccine is to protect against the strains of HPV that are believed to cause cervical cancer, genital warts and anal cancer. HPV can be found in about 80% of both men and women, but most do not suffer or die from cervical cancer. Only about 1% of the infected women ever get cervical cancer.

Gardasil, jointly developed by Merck of the United States and Sanofi Pasteur of France, is the first European Union approved vaccine. A rival vaccine, Cervarix, made by the UK group GlaxoSmithKline is waiting approval. Studies are being conducted to see if these vaccines should also be given to young boys.

The potential sales income from Gardasil could be Merck’s biggest money earner with estimated sales of at least 2 million USD. This is income badly needed by Merck to make up for the Vioxx scandals. In order for Merck to reap this income, Gardisil vaccination would have to be a requirement to attend school.

Some health officials are concerned the cost of the three vaccine series will be cost prohibitive to the sector of the population that needs it most, the poor, under insured and not insured. In countries where a national health plan is in effect this is not of concern, but in counties that depend on private health insurance the concern is real. If the vaccine is optional and not mandated most insurance carries will not cover the 360 USD cost.


About the author
Jill R. Schaumloeffel is an amateur researcher in the areas of alternative medicine and procedures. She applies her over twenty-five years of technical engineering training to writing technical white papers, webcopy and product description. More information can be found at jrschaum.googlepages.com.

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as most of you know i am a new mother, so i am researching the hell out of all of this vaccine stuff. found a link from a government website listing ingredients of vaccines. check it out. scary stuff.

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/appendices/B/excipient-table-2.pdf

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http://www.thinktwice.com/hepb.htm

Hepatitis B Vaccine

The Hepatitis B vaccine has been linked to immunological and neurological disorders. Many parents are absolutely certain that this vaccine damaged or killed their child.

Q. My daughter Lyla Rose Belkin died on September 16, 1998 at the age of five weeks, shortly after receiving a Hepatitis B vaccine booster shot.The following comments are intended to be a heads up to parents and potential parents about the risks of the Hepatitis B vaccine (HBV), and a firsthand report questioning the scientific legitimacy of the vaccine industry, which provides $800 million of annual revenue to Merck -- the company which makes the Hepatitis B vaccine distributed in the US.

Lyla Rose Belkin was a lively, alert five-week-old baby when I last held her in my arms. Little did I imagine as she gazed intently into my eyes with all the innocence and wonder of a newborn child that she would die that night. She was never ill before receiving the Hepatitis B shot that afternoon. At her final feeding that night, she was agitated and feisty -- and then fell asleep and didn�t wake up. The autopsy ruled out choking. A swollen brain was the only abnormal finding. Most doctors I spoke to at the time said it must have been Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), a catch-all diagnosis for unexplainable childhood mortality. The first instinctive reaction in such a situation is for parents to blame themselves. For many weeks, my wife and I agonized over what we might have missed or could have done differently. Meanwhile, the logical part of my brain kept returning to the obvious medical event that preceded Lyla's death -- and that internal voice kept asking the question could the Hepatitis B vaccine that Lyla received that afternoon have killed her? Most doctors I asked scoffed at that notion and said the vaccine was perfectly safe. But I began to search around on the Internet and Medline and discovered disturbing evidence of adverse reactions to this vaccine.

In the US, the Hepatitis B disease mainly infects intravenous drug users, homosexuals, prostitutes and promiscuous heterosexuals. The disease is transmitted by blood, through sex or dirty needles. How could a newborn baby possibly get Hepatitis B if the mother was screened and tested negative, as my wife was? It is almost impossible. Unless a newborn child is having unprotected sex or sharing needles with an infected junkie, it is extremely unlikely to get the Hepatitis B disease. So then why are most U.S. babies inoculated at birth by their hospital or pediatrician with the Hepatitis B vaccine? That is a question every parent should ask before getting this vaccination. I've discovered the answer is an unrestrained health bureaucracy decided it couldn't get junkies, gays, prostitutes and promiscuous heterosexuals to take the Hepatitis B vaccine so they mandated that all babies must be vaccinated at birth. Drug companies such as Merck (reaching for new markets) were instrumental in pushing government scientists to adopt an at-birth Hepatitis B vaccination policy, although the vaccine was never tested in newborns and no vaccines had ever been mandated at birth before. It is widely recognized that newborns have underdeveloped immune systems, which can be overwhelmed or shocked.

My search for answers about a link between the Hepatitis B vaccine and my daughter's death led me to a Hepatitis B vaccine workshop on October 26th at the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), Institute of Medicine entitled Vaccine Safety Forum -- Neonatal Deaths. The NAS was concerned enough about reports of Hepatitis B vaccine-related infant deaths and adverse reactions to hold a special workshop on the subject. Doctors and scientists flew in from all over the U.S. and Europe to attend. I sat in the back and soaked it all up. It was a real eye-opener. There were basically four constituencies represented: 1) Serious scientists observing or presenting research studies. 2) Center for Disease Control (CDC) pseudo-statisticians and FDA officials. 3) Merck and other corporate drug officials, and 4) Parents of vaccine-related dead or severely injured children.

The presentations included a study of Animal Models of Newborn Response to Antigen Presentation, which showed that newborn immune systems were undeveloped and strikingly different than those of adults. The message I received was that immune response in a newborn to shocks such as being injected with a vaccine was potentially unknown, since newborn T-Cells have a radically different behavior then those of adults. Another presentation was Strategies for Evaluating the Biologic Mechanisms of Hepatitis B Vaccine Reactions, in which vaccine researcher Dr. Bonnie Dunbar of Baylor College related numerous Hepatitis B-vaccine related cases of nervous system damage in adults, such as Multiple Sclerosis, seizures and blindness. On the more positive side, the FDA presented a seemingly reassuring study from its Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), which showed only 19 neonatal deaths reported since 1991 related to Hepatitis B vaccination.

I found the VAERS study data to be completely deceptive. Since I was sitting in that room and my daughter had died during their sample period and wasn't counted -- I wondered why. In fact, the New York City Coroner called VAERS to report my daughter's Hepatitis B Vaccine-related infant death and no one ever returned their call! What kind of reporting system doesn't return the calls of the NY City Medical Examiner -- and how many other reports were ignored? This is supposed to be the emergency 911 number for disasters such as bad lots of vaccine that could poison thousands of other babies. With the personal knowledge that the VAERS data was completely flawed, I sat in that room and listened in amazement as CDC officials and Dr. Sharrar of Merck (their head of vaccine safety) made disparaging comments about any possible risk from Hepatitis B vaccination, despite the evidence just presented by impartial scientists.

I studied statistics and econometrics at UC Berkeley and have developed innovative methods of applying probability to financial and economic data in my consulting business with some of the largest financial institutions in the world. That training and experience qualifies me to criticize the statistical legitimacy of the VAERS study, on which Sharrar of Merck and the CDC pseudo-scientists based their pro-vaccination stance. Their comments were scathingly dismissive of any possible risk from the vaccine. But that VAERS study is not a legitimate sample of a data set from which any conclusions about the larger population can be made. VAERS doesn't return coroner's calls, leading to the suspicion that deaths and adverse effects from vaccination are woefully under-reported. To conclude that the Hepatitis B vaccine is safe because VAERS only reports 19 deaths is scientific fraud. In fact, I obtained the raw data from the VAERS system and found 54 reported SIDS cases after Hepatitis B vaccination in just the 18 months from January 1996 to May 1997. That's almost 15 times as many deaths per year as their own flawed study reported. There are 17,000 reports of adverse reactions to Hepatitis B vaccine in the 1996-97 raw data. Clearly, something is fishy about VAERS. VAERS was set up by the FDA and CDC and is supposed to be monitored by vaccine manufacturers. If there are 17,000 reports and VAERS doesn't even return the NY Medical Examiner's call, how many other deaths and injuries go unreported? I came away from that NAS workshop with the distinct impression that Merck and the CDC didn't know and didn�t really want to know how many babies are being killed or injured by Hepatitis B vaccination. This is a bureaucratic vaccination program that is on auto-pilot flying into a mountain. The CDC bureaucrats have a vested interest in the status quo. If there were 17,000 reports of a dangerous disease in a 18 month period, the CDC would be all over the case. But when there are 17,000 reports of adverse reactions to a vaccine the CDC advocates for "public health," the CDC dismisses it as a coincidence. Merck charges $50 a shot for the three-shot series. Where do you think the allegiance of their vaccine safety official Dr. Sharrar lies? He was by far the most arrogant character at the workshop. Merck has sales of upwards of $800 million a year from vaccines.

Vaccination can be a lifesaver if an epidemic is raging, but in this case the risk of vaccination outweighs the risk of infants getting the disease. Surely, the hepatitis B vaccine doesn't injure every child that gets it, but in some unknown number of cases, it appears to be a death sentence and/or a nervous system toxin to innocent children who are at no risk of getting the disease the vaccine is supposed to protect against. My observations of Merck and CDC scientists at the Vaccine Safety Forum left me with the distinct impression that they had absolutely no idea which babies might be killed or injured by this vaccine. Furthermore, they used obviously flawed scientific data to arrogantly steamroller any opposition to their power. Parents should beaware that the Hepatitis B vaccine is not administered for the well-being of their child. Rather, it is delivered by the long arm of some incompetent and mindless bureaucracy in the name of stamping out a disease most babies can't possibly get. The Drug Company/CDC/FDA alliance has really pulled the wool over the medical profession's eyes with the Hepatitis B vaccine. The American Pediatric Society bought the alliance's sales pitch and now recommends that all infants get this vaccine at birth. So now the first thing most babies get in life is a shock to their immune system from a vaccine against a non-existent risk of contracting Hepatitis B. Clearly, the interests of newborn babies were not represented on the original panel that created this vaccination policy in 1991. This vaccine has no benefit whatsoever for newborns, in fact it wears off and they will need booster shots later in life when they actually could get exposed to the disease.

This is simply a case of ravenous corporate greed and mindless bureaucracy teaming up to overwhelm common sense. Merck in particular has gone way over the edge with this vaccination program. Ignoring and suppressing reports of adverse reactions to their profitable Hepatitis B vaccine verges on criminal conduct. A major media organization will soon present an investigative report on the issues discussed here. Nothing will ever bring my lovely daughter Lyla back, but other needless deaths and injuries can be prevented if this senseless Hepatitis B newborn vaccination program is halted. Please contact Belkin Limited in New York City if you are aware of other infant deaths that may be related to the Hepatitis B vaccine.

A. Dear Mr. Belkin, I am truly sorry to hear your sad story about Lyla's reaction to the Hepatitis B vaccine. Everyday I receive letters similar to yours. This is why we must continue to speak out against this form of medical tyranny. Parents are entitled to a full disclosure of all available information, and must remain free to accept or reject the shots.

Your letter is especially eloquent. Hopefully, your tragedy will prove to be a blessing to many other parents as you become more involved. Clearly, you can make a difference by choosing to devote your time and efforts toward one or more aspects of this very large "vaccine beast." Best wishes to you.

Q. TESTIMONY OF MICHAEL BELKIN BEFORE THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON IMMUNIZATION PRACTICES -- CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (February 17, 1999) -- Atlanta Georgia

My name is Michael Belkin. I am a father, businessman, former quantitative strategist at Salomon Brothers, and Director of the Hepatitis B Vaccine Project of the National Vaccine Information Center(NVIC).

The NVIC has studied Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act covering the last nine years on hepatitis B vaccine adverse events -- and in 1996 there were more than three times as many reported serious adverse reactions as reported cases of the disease in the 0 to 14 age group. Of the total 2,424 adverse event reports made between 1990 and October 1998 in children under age 14 who only received hepatitis B vaccine, there were 1,209 serious events and 73 deaths. Thus, one half of the reports for children under age 14 who received only hepatitis B vaccine were for serious events that required an emergency room visit, hospitalization, or caused life-threatening health problems or permanent disabilities.

As a UC Berkeley graduate and advisor to some of the largest financial institutions in the world, I am qualified to analyze and make conclusions about statistics. Based on that experience, I am astonished that the scientists on this Committee would disregard or cover up data showing the number and severity of adverse reactions to this vaccine. Science is observing and learning from what is observed. The assertions of the CDC that the many reported adverse reactions to this vaccine do not exist or are a coincidence violates the basic principle of science, which is rooted in the observation and analysis of data.

A benefit/risk analysis of the hepatitis B vaccine for the average infant in America, not born to infected parents, must conclude that the VAERS data on adverse reactions shows the real-world risk of a newborn infant dying or being injured by the hepatitis B vaccine is a greater threat than the remote chance of contracting the primarily blood-transmitted disease.

My 5-week old daughter, Lyla Rose, died within 16 hours of her hepatitisB vaccination, which she received because of the universal vaccination policy this Committee instituted in 1991. At her death, Lyla had four of the eight highest-reported symptoms in the VAERS hepatitis B vaccine adverse reaction data. The NY Medical Examiner observed brain swelling at the autopsy but refused to record that or mention the hepatitis B vaccine Lyla received in the autopsy report.

I hold each one of you who participated in the promulgation or perpetuation of that mandated newborn vaccination policy personally responsible for my daughter's death and the deaths and injuries of all the other beautiful, healthy infants who are victims of the hepatitis B vaccine. Your negligence is the proximate cause of my daughter's death and you have failed to exercise reasonable care.

At the NVIC, we are overwhelmed following up constant new reports of deaths, seizures and autoimmune reactions following hepatitis B vaccination. Because the CDC refuses to acknowledge this large number of serious adverse reactions, hospitals and doctors who have been misled about the risks continue to administer the vaccine and then deny any vaccine connection when children die, get ill or have seizures within hours or days. CDC officials tell parents they have never heard of hepatitis B vaccine reactions.

That is a lie. For this government to continue to insist that hepatitis B vaccine adverse reaction reports do not exist is negligent, unethical -- and is a crime against the children of America.

It is a sad day for the U.S. when the nation's children need protection from the official medical authorities who are charged with protecting them from disease.

Thank you.

A. Thanks for sending the testimony. I will post it to our site with other Hepatitis B information.

Keep pushing! You are clearly a force for positive change. Our site receives emails daily from parents telling horrendous stories -- from Hepatitis B shots and from the others as well. Many parents see the damage after the 1st or 2nd set of shots, yet continue with the series because their doctor denies a correlation. It's absolutely maddening.

Q. MICHAEL BELKIN TESTIMONY TO CONGRESS (Tuesday May 18, 1999)

My daughter Lyla Rose Belkin died on September 16, 1998 at the age of five weeks, about 15 hours after receiving her second Hepatitis B vaccine booster shot. Lyla was a lively, alert five-week-old baby when I last held her in my arms. Little did I imagine as she gazed intently into my eyes with all the innocence and wonder of a newborn child that she would die that night. She was never ill before receiving the Hepatitis B shot that afternoon. At her final feeding that night, she was extremely agitated, noisy and feisty -- and then she fell asleep suddenly and stopped breathing. The autopsy ruled out choking. The NY Medical Examiner ruled her death Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).

But the NY Medical Examiner (Dr. Persechino) neglected to mention Lyla's swollen brain or the hepatitis B vaccine in the autopsy report. The coroner spoke to my wife and I and our pediatrician (Dr. Zullo) the day of the autopsy and clearly stated that her brain was swollen. The pediatrician Dr. Zullo�s notes of that conversation are "brain swollen ... not sure cause yet ... could not see how recombinant vaccine could cause problem."

SIDS is a diagnosis of exclusion ..it wasn't this, it wasn�t that, everything has been ruled out and we don�t know what it was. A swollen brain is not SIDS. Through conversations with other experienced pathologists, I subsequently discovered that brain inflammation is a classic adverse reaction to vaccination (with any vaccine) in the medical literature.

I set out to do an investigation of the Hepatitis B vaccine and attended a workshop at the National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine on "Neo-Natal Death and the Hepatitis B Vaccine," the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) February meeting, and a debate in New Hampshire between the Chairman of the ACIP, Dr. Modlin, and Dr. Waisbren about the safety of the Hepatitis B vaccine. I also obtained the entire Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) database on Hepatitis B vaccine adverse reactions and have investigated it thoroughly.

These are my conclusions, supported by the following pages of text and analysis that are too lengthy to present in entirety in the time allotted for this appearance. Please read the results of my investigation, as it will help you understand the magnitude of the hepatitis B vaccine issue.

� Newborn babies are not at risk of contracting the hepatitis B disease unless their mother is infected.
� Hepatitis B is primarily a disease of junkies, gays, and promiscuous heterosexuals.
� The vaccine is given to babies because health authorities couldn't get those risk groups to take the vaccine.
� Adverse reactions out-number cases of the disease in government statistics.
� Nothing is being done to investigate those adverse reactions.
� Those adverse reactions include numerous deaths, convulsions and arthritic conditions that occur within days after Hepatitis B vaccination.
� The CDC is misrepresenting hypothetical, estimated disease statistics as real cases of the disease.
� The ACIP is recommending new vaccines for premature infants without having scientific studies proving they are safe.
� The U.S. vaccine recommendation process is hopelessly compromised by conflicts of interest with vaccine manufacturers, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the CDC.

Conclusion: If (as with the recently-recommended rotavirus vaccine) Hepatitis B vaccine was recommended in 1991 without scientific proof that it was safe in a broad sample of racially and genetically diverse babies less than 48 hours old before they established that recommendation, then the CDC has been experimenting on babies like guinea pigs and this Committee should suspend that universal immunization policy.

The Hepatitis B vaccine was effectively mandated in 1991 for universal immunization of newborn babies by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) -- an adjunct of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Paradoxically, the CDC�s own Fact Sheet on the Hepatitis B disease does not include newborn babies as a risk group for that disease. That Fact Sheet lists the risk groups as injection drug users, homosexual men, sexually active heterosexuals, infants/children of immigrants from disease-endemic areas, low socio-economic level, sexual/household contacts of infected persons, infants born to infected mothers, health care workers and hemodialysis patients NOT NEWBORN BABIES.

Question: Why then, did the ACIP establish a policy mandating that newborn babies not at risk of the disease be automatically administered the 3-shot Hepatitis B vaccine as their first involuntary indoctrination into the pediatric care of America?

Answer: Here is that rationale from the original ACIP 1991 statement establishing the official vaccination policy "Hepatitis B Virus: A Comprehensive Strategy for Eliminating Transmission in the United States Through Universal Childhood Vaccination ..." "In the United States, most infections occur among adults and adolescents ... The recommended strategy for preventing these infections has been the selective vaccination of persons with identified risk factors ... However, this strategy has not lowered the incidence of Hepatitis B, primarily because vaccinating persons engaged in high-risk behaviors, life-styles, or occupations before they become infected generally has not been feasible ... Efforts to vaccinate persons in the major risk groups have had limited success. For example, programs directed at injecting drug users failed to motivate them to receive three doses of vaccine ... In the United States it has become evident that HBV transmission cannot be prevented through vaccinating only the groups at high risk of infection ... In the long term, universal infant vaccination would eliminate the need for vaccinating adolescents and high-risk adults ... Hepatitis B vaccination is recommended for all infants, regardless of the HBsAg status of the mother ... The first dose can be administered during the newborn period, preferably before the infant is discharged from the hospital, but no later than when the infant is 2 months of age ..." (emphasis added).

So in the CDC and ACIP's own words, almost every newborn U.S. baby is now greeted on its entry into the world by a vaccine injection against a sexually transmitted disease for which the baby is not at risk -- because they couldn't get the junkies, prostitutes, homosexuals and promiscuous heterosexuals to take the vaccine. That is the essence of the Hepatitis B universal vaccination program.

Question: What are the risks and benefits for administering this vaccine to infants?

Answer: Hepatitis B is a rare, mainly blood-transmitted disease. In 1996, only 54 cases of the disease were reported to the CDC in the 0-1 age group. There were 3.9 million births that year, so the observed incidence of hepatitis B in the 0-1 age group was just 0.001%. In the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), there were 1,080 total reports of adverse reactions from Hepatitis B vaccine in 1996 in the 0-1 age group, with 47 deaths reported. Total VAERS Hepatitis B reports for the 0-1 age group outnumber reported cases of the disease 20 to 1.

Question: Why don't they just screen the mother to see if she is infected with Hepatitis B (since that's about the only way a baby is likely to get the disease), instead of vaccinating all infants?

Answer: Selling vaccines is extremely profitable and the process of mandating vaccines is fraught with conflicts of interest between vaccine manufacturers, the ACIP and the American Academy of Pediatrics. The business model of having the government mandate everyone must buy your product is a monopolist's delight.

Question: What studies are being done on the data from the FDA's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)?

Answer: Absolutely nothing. The 25,000 reports are going into a drawer and being forgotten.

[U.S. Vaccination Policy Flowchart]

How many reports are enough to show a drug or vaccine is dangerous -- 2,500? 25,000? 250,000? Chen of the CDC and Ellenberg of the FDA monitor this data, write reports and deliver speeches about how VAERS Hepatitis B adverse reaction reports show nothing out of the ordinary and show "the relative safety of HB vaccine when given to neonates and infants." VAERS shows nothing of the kind. TAKE A LOOK AT THE VAERS DATA YOURSELF. The health authorities continue to negligently downplay the steady stream of serious adverse reactions to this vaccine and more infants and adults continue to die and suffer central nervous system and liver damage after HB vaccination.

Question: Why do the CDC, ACIP and Merck say that there are 140,000-320,000 new infections/yr (70,000-160,000 symptomatic infections/yr) when their own CDC data shows only 10,000 reported cases year?

Answer: They are passing off estimated, hypothetical numbers as actual cases. This is statistical fraud. In the financial world such mis-representation would lead to criminal charges. If a company inflated its earnings or revenues by 300% (as the CDC does hepatitis B disease statistics) and foisted those figures off as official data (and not some back-of-the-envelope guess-timate) -- that company would be investigated by the SEC and sued by shareholders. Why doesn't that happen in the medical world? There's no regulator to keep the CDC honest. They do not say those figures are hypothetical estimates, they misrepresent the data. Go try to audit those 320,000 supposed new infections/yr. You will not find them. The whole exercise is designed to increase public hysteria about the risk of a low-risk disease so the CDC can extend it's pervasive influence and Merck can increase it's $900 million/year vaccine revenues.

Question: What process does the Center for Disease Control employ to make a vaccine recommendation?

I attended the February Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meeting in Atlanta and was absolutely appalled. Every vote by the Committee on new vaccine mandates was unanimous (except for one dissenting vote on Rotavirus vaccine for premature infants). There was hardly any discussion of adverse reactions, the ACIP simply rubber-stamped every proposal on the agenda. I call it Vaccination Without Representation. In one instance, the ACIP passed a recommendation for Rotavirus vaccine for premature infants even though no scientific studies had been done showing it was medically safe. Dr. Modlin, (Chairman of the ACIP), said in a pro-Hepatitis B vaccine debate in New Hampshire "How do we determine whether something is scientifically valid or not? ... 1) Is the theory biologically plausible? 2) Has it been tested by appropriate methods? 3) Is the study well concluded? 4) Are the results statistically sound?" But at the February ACIP meeting, when it came time for the ACIP to rubber-stamp approval of Rotavirus vaccine for premature infants, here are Modlin's quotes from the official transcript: "... available data are insufficient to fully establish the safety and efficacy of rotavirus vaccine in premature infants ... there is a section under Adverse Events that details what little information there actually are with respect to premature infants ... To my knowledge we don't have data from a clinical trial specifically ... Some bit of information from Seattle, as I recall, that had suggested there was a slight increase in relative risk for hospitalization for premature infants ... Obviously a situation where we have to make a judgment in the absence of data, and with a vaccine that has not yet been tested in the group ..." (ACIP transcript, pages 102-112) Modlin then held a vote and the recommendation for premature infants passed nine to one -- Modlin voted yes, Dr. Glode against. This is a clear example of how the medical bureaucracy (led by the CDC and ACIP), is recommending vaccines without scientific evidence that those vaccines are safe in a broad sample of racially and genetically diverse infants.

What Should Be Done? This Committee should investigate the 1991 ACIP recommendation establishing universal hepatitis B vaccination of newborn babies in the hospital -- and if (as with the Rotavirus vaccine example above) no studies were done to prove this was safe in a broad sample of racially and genetically diverse babies less than 48 hours old before they established that recommendation, then the CDC has been experimenting on babies like guinea pigs and this Committee should suspend that universal immunization policy.

VAERS ANALYSIS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System)

I studied statistics at the University Of California at Berkeley and went on to develop sophisticated proprietary risk/reward statistical models at Salomon Brothers from 1986-91 -- and in my subsequent, ongoing business provide statistical economic and financial forecasts to mutual funds, investment banks, pension funds and hedge funds.

I studied VAERS Hepatitis B vaccine data obtained by the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) under the Freedom of Information Act. The data has some flaws (incomplete fields, some multiple reports) but any qualified, impartial quantitative analyst or statistician not affiliated with Merck, Smithkline, the CDC, the FDA or the AAP who examines these reports will find a clear and undeniable pattern of central nervous system (CNS) and liver disease striking thousands of people within 0-4 days after vaccination with Hepatitis B vaccine. These reports have been ignored, explained away, or considered "acceptable" by the FDA, CDC and drug companies. This Committee should launch an investigation of the VAERS Hepatitis B data by a team of independent scientists not beholden to vaccine manufacturers or the FDA/CDC bureaucracy. The following is intended to be a starting point for such an investigation. This does not profess to be a complete, exhaustive analysis -- simply an overview, highlighting aspects of the data that may not previously have been brought to your attention.

The total 24,775 VAERS Hepatitis B reports from July 1990 to October 31, 1998 show 439 deaths and 9673 serious reactions involving emergency room visits, hospitalization, disablement or death. Therefore, more than one third of total reports were serious events. 17,497 of those total reports were for Hepatitis B vaccine only, the remainder were vaccine cocktails where hepatitis B was administered along with DPT, HIB, IPV, OPV, etc.

The Hepatitis-B-vaccine-only reports show a shocking cluster of reactions in females starting in their teenage years (the male/female reporting ratio is balanced before age 16). For ages 16-55, 77% of VAERS reports are women -- more than three times as many women as men are reporting adverse reactions to Hepatitis B vaccine. The median onset of adverse event after vaccination is one day, 70% of reactions happen within four days of vaccination. Independent scientists should investigate why females are more disposed to have adverse reactions to Hepatitis B vaccine and/or report them to VAERS. One possible explanation is that nurses have to take this vaccine for their jobs and are thus more exposed than most adults to Hepatitis B vaccine adverse reactions. Rather than dismiss that factor as an "over-reporting bias" as Dr. Chen of the CDC did at the February ACIP meeting, perhaps investigators might consider that nurses are alert health care workers and ought to be listened to with regard to the dangers of adverse events with any vaccine (rather than ignored). Personal case studies reported to the author have showed many teenage girls getting severe, debilitating adverse reactions to Hepatitis B vaccine, having nothing to do with nursing. Do women have a greater vulnerability to auto-immune reactions to Hepatitis B vaccine? Is the government discriminating against women by administering this vaccine without regard for genetic risk of CNS and liver disease? Those are questions that independent scientists should investigate.

A second area of concern is the VAERS reports involving Hepatitis B vaccine administered with other vaccines (vaccine cocktails). Health officials are fond of dismissing those reports as being attributable to Hepatitis B vaccine, because of the multiple other antigens present (almost as if they wanted to cloak Hepatitis B vaccine reactions from scrutiny). Let's avoid that controversy and focus on the extremely disturbing VAERS data of Hepatitis B vaccine with other vaccines. These reports amount to only one third of total reports (7,275), but account for two thirds of total deaths (291). The median onset of those deaths was 2 days after vaccination -- displaying a clear temporal association. The median age of death was 0.5 years in this group. 50% of all Hepatitis-B-vaccine-cocktail reports were serious (died, emergency room, hospitalized, disabled). I grouped convulsive reactions together from the Hep-B-vaccine-cocktail data and found a deeply disturbing pattern. These were anything labeled convulsions, seizures or tremors in the VAERS Hep-B-cocktail data. Of the 1189 such reports, fully 80% (950) were serious (died, ER, hospitalized, disabled) median age 0.5 years, median onset after vaccination 0 days (less than one day). Someone should do follow-up and find out what happened to those poor infants who suffered severe convulsions after a Hepatitis B-multi-vaccine cocktail. In the personal reports I've taken of similar adverse reactions, the children were left brain-damaged and developmentally disabled. Looking beyond the debate over whether VAERS reports of vaccine cocktails can be attributed to Hepatitis B, the data strongly suggests combining multiple vaccines may be convenient and profitable for pediatricians -- but fatal or debilitating for infants. Where are the scientific studies showing Hepatitis B vaccine is safe to administer with DPT, HIB, IPV, OPV, etc.? Did anyone doing cost/benefit analysis for those studies include data showing the higher mortality and serious reactions present in the VAERS data? Why not? Is there an identifiable genetic marker in those who suffered convulsive reactions to screen out those vulnerable in the future? These are all matters for independent scientists to audit.

Another area that leaps out of the VAERS database is something I dubbed arthritic reactions. These are joint pains, tingling, numbness, aching, fatigue, etc. I found 2,400 of those reports in just a quick survey of the first reporting column of VAERS (Hepatitis B vaccine only). Almost one half of those are serious, involving an ER visit, hospitalization, death or disablement. These are the type of adverse reactions reported by many adults who are forced to take the Hepatitis B vaccine for their jobs. In the reports of such adverse reactions I've taken, the symptoms do not go away, most patients complain it gets worse over time. Scientists not corrupted by drug company or CDC/FDA institutional bias should examine the thousands of VAERS Hepatitis B arthritic reaction reports and develop a diagnosis of their Hepatitis B vaccine-related illness.

Anyone who doubts if Hepatitis B vaccine adverse reactions exist should sit down and read the symptoms and text comments of a random selection of VAERS reports. When one does so, they will find a similar but wide-ranging list of CNS and liver reactions that occur within days of vaccination. The Merck package insert claims "Injection site reactions and systemic complaints were reported following 17% and 15% on the injections, respectively." The standard rule of thumb is only about 10% of reactions are reported to VAERS. So the actual number and full horror of the Hepatitis B vaccine reaction story is potentially much larger than even VAERS suggests.

A. Wow. Thank you.

Q. Can you give me some information on effects of Hepatitis B vaccine on children? My grandson had the first shot when he was only hours old and the second one about a month later. He has had several seizures since and his skin breaks out in a red itchy rash. He has been seizure-free for the last two years but still gets a bad rash. He'll be four this month. Thank you.

A. We have received numerous notices from parents reporting serious reactions following the Hepatitis b vaccine, and after other shots as well. How do you know the hepatitis vaccine, and not the others, is causing the reactions? The DPT vaccine often causes seizures. Is your son or daughter continuing this damaging vaccine regimen? Thinktwice/New Atlantean Books now offers an excellent booklet on Hepatitis B and the Hepatitis B Vaccine: What You Should Know that includes important studies and complete documentation. There is very little else publicly written on this vaccine, that I am aware of, regarding studies and adverse events.

Q. My son, who is in the 7th grade is due to have his Hepatitis shots. I am seriously considering having him exempted from this because he has a brother and a sister with juvenile diabetes (type 1). Do you have any information on autoimmune diseases and vaccines? I read an article in an ALIVE magazine that told of a study that revealed an outbreak of type 1 diabetes following Hepatitis vaccination. Please help, I have to decide soon.

A. We receive many stories detailing problems with the Hepatitis B vaccine. We recommend that you research this topic further before consenting. Many people exempt their children from the shots; you have that legal right. Thinktwice/New Atlantean Press offers Vaccine Books and State Laws. You may benefit from some of these resources.

Q. Hello. I am writing because I am quite concerned about my 18 year old sister who has been getting grand mal seizures for three years now, ever since she was vaccinated against Hepatitis b. She got her first seizure the day of the vaccination and is now taking Tegretol. However, she has recently been complaining of even more annoying symptoms, one of them being that she is constantly seeing flashing lights and dark spots, which make it very difficult for her to read and concentrate on other things. The doctor she just saw said that the seizures could be atrophying her occipital lobe, and that seizure activity could even be spreading to the temporal lobe, which could start to affect her intelligence. He also said that since the MRI he just saw was not too clear, he could not tell whether the small size of the occipital lobe was caused by atrophy or fluid in the brain, and postulated that she could even have viral encephalitis. What do you think about this? Is it possible to get viral encephalitis from a Hepatitis B vaccine, and if so what is one supposed to do to treat it, or prevent the seizures from getting worse? Please respond as soon as possible. Thank you very much.

A. I am sorry to hear about your story. "Viral encephalitis"�is a term that we often hear. It seems to be the preferred diagnosis for several ailments that begin immediately following the administration of a damaging vaccine.

We are not health practitioners and therefore are unfamiliar with the best treatments for your sister's condition. However, our website provides the names of some organizations that may be able to alleviate or reverse vaccine damage. Your sister should be sure to call 1-800-822-7967 to file a report with the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) on this incident. I'm sorry that we cannot be more helpful. Best wishes in your efforts to find a beneficial treatment.

Q. I'm writing this letter to ask if you could tell me what might have happened to my 11 year old daughter when she received her second Hepatitis b shot. After the nurse injected the shot into her arm she got up and almost tripped into the next examination room across the hall and fell flat to the ground. I went to pick her up not knowing what had happened, and when I lifted her up she was lifeless, and then her body started to shake. It was very frightening. The nurse and doctor came over to her and she started to cry. She had passed out, and when she hit the floor her chin was bleeding and she had to get six stitches. The doctor seems to think that she just passed out, but I am concerned about why she shook the way she did! She seems okay now, but I am scared to death to get her third shot. Can you please tell me your opinion or let me know if you ever heard of a reaction to the Hepatitis B shot? Thank you. I'll be waiting for your reply.

A. Have we ever heard of a reaction to the Hepatitis b shot? We receive email responses just like yours regularly. Many of the vaccines are causing damage to our children, yet the medical establishment continues to live in a deep state of denial. I hope you are now prepared to investigate this problem further and take the necessary steps to protect your daughter from this madness. Also, report this incident to VAERS since your doctor probably did not, even though he is required to report it by law. Call: 1-800-822-7967.

Q. I talked to a Dr. Bonnie Dunbar who is a professor of Molecular Biology at Baylor College of Medicine. Her brother, who is also a PhD, had an adverse reaction to the Hepatitis b vaccine and is now bedridden. I am a registered nurse who had a reaction to the same vaccine. My life has also been totally altered by this, but fortunately I am not bedridden. Mine was an autoimmune reaction. I was 44 years old when it happened. Do you know if anything is being done about this problem? I know several other nurses across the country and a doctor in Hawaii that have Lupus or Multiple Sclerosis after taking the same type recombinant vaccine.

A. I am sorry to hear of the problems you mention. However, the stories are common; we hear of people being damaged by the Hepatitis B vaccine (and others as well) on a regular basis, yet authorities continue to deny the extent of the problem. Be sure to contact VAERS to file a report of the incident.

Q. Can you possibly guide me in the right direction. I was a registered nurse until I had an autoimmune reaction to Hepatitis B vaccine. I am now disabled and would like to become more familiar with other cases like mine. My worker's compensation case is still pending, and I would like to review similar cases but don't know where to look for them. I believe we are ready to either settle the case or go to hearing shortly. Thank you for any help you can give me.

A. Try contacting Michael Belkin with the National Vaccine Information Center. Their contact information is listed on our website under support organizations. Good luck.

Q. I am an American working in Pakistan with the United Nations. The 17 year old daughter of one of my staff has experienced a severe reaction to Hepatitis b vaccine. Can you advise on institutions, groups, or individuals with special knowledge or experience relevant to such a case. Thank you.

A. Your experience is one that we hear of quite often. You might try contacting Dr. Viera Scheibner in Australia. She is knowledgeable about this problem. Fax: 61-24-787-8988.

Q. Dear sirs, it seems strange writing to unknown people on the other side of the world in search of an answer to my problem. Maybe you will be able to help me. I am 50 years of age. In 1989 I was given vaccination against Hepatitis B by my employers (Engerix B). The day after vaccination I was very ill -- pains in all parts of my body. This illness never fully went away. I have been attending doctors ever since, with constant infection, severe headaches, fatigue, insomnia, loss of libido. There is no doubt that these symptoms began with the vaccination. My GP at the time said I was suffering the initial reaction to the first dose of Hepatitis vaccine. I have been hospitalised on 3 different occasions for tests. Doctors do not appear to want to look at the possibility that the vaccine was related to my illness. I can find no one that will look at my problem from this angle. For nine years I have been ill, and for the last year I have been unfit for work, or for that matter any activity . My quality of life is destroyed and there does not seem to be any way of getting better. I am certain if I found a doctor to look at my illness from the vaccine side there would at least be a chance of recovery. Can you help? Point me towards a doctor, specialist, consultant in this part of the world who could examine my problem for me?

A. I am sorry to hear of your plight. We receive many letters similar to yours. France recently suspended use of this vaccine due to its association with Multiple Sclerosis. Viera Scheibner in Australia is an expert. She may be able to help. The National Vaccine Information Center (visit their website) recently published an excellent booklet on the Hepatitis B vaccine. I recommend it. They may also know someone in your area to help. You may also wish to contact some of the individuals and organizations listed on our site. Many claim some degree of success reversing vaccine damage. Good luck.

Q. Help! when I took my five-week-old daughter in for her check-up, the doctor made me feel really guilty about not having her vaccinated for Hepatitis B. So, wanting to be a good parent, I agreed to have her get the vaccine. Now, I am terrified that it is going to hurt her! My grandmother had rhreumatoid arthritis and diabetes. My mother has diabetes also. I am afraid that this vaccine will trigger this in my daughter. I couldn't figure out why in the world a baby would need such a vaccine. Usually a person develops Hepatitis B from sharing needles or from unprotected sex. So a baby would not be in danger unless the parents were infected, which we are not. My main concern and question is that I don't want to give her the remaining two shots. I want to know, if she doesn't get the other two shots, if that could hurt her. What would getting only one shot do to her? Could that affect her immune system in some weird way? Please respond soon! Her second shot is coming up and I don't know what to do.

A. If you believe the vaccine is toxic or potentially dangerous, then I don't see how continuing to inject your daughter with it can be beneficial. You are not required by law to vaccinate your daughter, nor to listen to doctors' coercive speeches and intimidation tactics. Good luck with your decisions.

Q. My chiropractor showed me a TV spot which highlighted the correlation between Hepatitis B vaccine in children and multiple sclerosis. The research was out of Baylor University. The TV station got such a huge response that they aired the same spot nightly for two weeks. Do you have any additional information?

A. On January 22, 1999, "20/20" did an expose on the Hepatitis B vaccine. You may be able to acquire a transcript or video of the show.

Q. Our 6 year old son became ill after his 1st dose of Hepatitis B vaccine in August of 1997, and had a fever of 103 degrees for 5 days. After his second dose he had a fever that did not go away. Three months later he was diagnosed with Rheumatic fever. One month later his blood counts dropped and he was rediagnosed with A.L.L. leukemia. Has A.L.L. ever been linked with Hepatitis B vaccinations? If so, can you offer suggestions on what can be done? Thanks for your help.

A. The Hepatitis B vaccine is causing numerous serious reactions throughout the world. The TV show "20/20" recently did an expose' on this vaccine. France suspended use of this vaccine because of its association with multiple sclerosis. Yet, USA doctors and the U.S. government continue to deny the problem, and children continue to become damaged as a result. Be sure to report this reaction to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System: 1-800-822-7967. Best wishes.

Q. I am a mother of 3 boys, 6, 4, and almost 7 months, but the problem with my family is, we no longer have our 7 month old baby. We lost our dear son. And to make matters worse, he passed away 5 days after receiving just one shot -- the HEPATITIS B SHOT! He was born healthy, ate well, was processing well, went for his check up like both of my other children. (The doctor commented how well he was doing, and how healthy he was.) The doctor asked me if I would like to give him the one shot now and the others two weeks later. IF I WOULD HAVE ONLY KNOWN!!!!!! I thought what I was doing was the right thing for my child, and even better than having him get all at one time, not knowing at the time that I would lose him 5 days later. From the day he passed away, I believed it was the shot. I could not see anything else wrong with him. My mind will never be at peace. If I had only known what vaccines can do, and have done, I may have reconsidered, so I thank you for putting out so much information on this. I didn't know at the time what may have happened, but I will do what I have to do to save another life. THANK YOU! (Our son's life: July 7th 1998 to August 30th 1998.)

A. I am sorry to hear your story. The Hepatitis B vaccine is damaging and killing many babies, yet authorities continue to deny this. Best wishes on your grief and healing. Thanks for sharing your story and supporting our efforts to inform other parents.

FRANCE STOPS VACCINATING CHILDREN WITH HEPATITIS B

15,000 French citizens filed a lawsuit against the French government for understating the risks and overstating the benefits associated with the Hepatitis B vaccine. Hundreds of people were reported to have suffered from autoimmune and neurological disorders, including multiple sclerosis, following Hepatitis B vaccination. As a result, in October 1998, the French Minister of Health ended the mandatory Hepatitis B vaccination program for all school children.

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Children herded like cattle into Maryland courthouse for forced vaccinations as armed police and attack dogs stand guard

Following the State of Maryland's threats against parents who refuse to have their children vaccinated, children were herded into a Price George County courthouse being guarded by armed personnel with attack dogs. Inside, the children were forcibly vaccinated, many against their will, under orders from the State Attorney General, various State Judges and the local School Board Director, all of whom illegally conspired to threaten parents with imprisonment if they did not submit their children to vaccinations.

The State of Maryland has now turned to Gestapo tactics to force its medical will upon the People, stripping parents of any right to decide how they wish to protect their own children from infectious disease. Health authorities there have already announced their intent to essentially kidnap parents and throw them in jail, removing them from their children for up to thirty days if they continue to refuse to have their children vaccinated. This will all be conducted at gunpoint, with armed personnel and attack dogs at the ready, making sure nobody steps out of line, and suppressing any attempt at public dissent against the Orwellian vaccination policies.

The entire campaign against these parents is blatantly illegal. There is no law in Maryland requiring the vaccination of children, thus parents who refuse to do so may not be legally charged with violating any law. Instead, Maryland health and school authorities are using Gestapo-like tactics, threatening to charge the parents with child truancy violations, criminalizing them for daring to protect their children from the dangerous chemicals found in vaccines (including thimerosal, a chemical additive containing a neurotoxic form of mercury).

The desperation of organized medicine is becoming increasingly apparent
As more and more parents are becoming informed about the dangers of vaccinations and their link to autism, state health authorities are increasingly turning to "Gunpoint Medicine" to force the People to submit to the poisons of conventional medicine. Parents who attempt to save their children from deadly chemotherapy chemicals are being arrested and having their children kidnapped by Child Protective Services (see http://www.newstarget.com/Abraham_Cherrix.html ), and oncologists who used to be armed only with radiation machines and chemotherapy injectors and now arming themselves with U.S. Marshals and other local law enforcement authorities who are using loaded firearms to enforce "the will of the State" against parents who resist.

Even the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) announced its strong opposition to the Maryland "Gunpoint Medicine" vaccination campaign. In a press release published Nov. 16, the AAPS states:

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons today condemned the “vaccine roundup” executed in Prince George’s county Maryland this week, and promised to do everything it can to support parents who refuse to immunize their children.

“This power play obliterates informed consent and parental rights,” said Kathryn Serkes, director of policy for the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), one of the few national physician groups that refuse corporate funding from pharmaceutical companies.

In a scenario reminiscent of cattle round-ups, the state’s attorney has issued summons to more than 1600 parents of children who have not provided certificates of immunization for their children. But instead of toting a cattle prod, this state’s attorney chooses to wield a syringe to keep the “herd” in line.

Read the rest of the press release at: http://www.aapsonline.org/press/nr-11-16-07.php

Gunpoint Medicine: Why drug pushers must now rely on Gestapo tactics
Conventional (pharmaceutical) medicine is the only system of medicine in the world that is so unpopular with informed consumers that it must be administered at the barrel of a gun. There is no other system of medicine anywhere in the world that resorts to such tactics to recruit patients.

At the Nov. 17th event in Maryland, activists Jim Moody and Kelly Ann Davis from SafeMinds (www.SafeMinds.org) were able to get in front of TV news cameras and voice their opposition to the coerced vaccination policy. Yet, amazingly, most parents just lined up like cattle ready to be branded, not bothering to question the sanity or legality of the very system in which they were now agreeing to participate.

A health freedom blog called Center for the Common Interest (www.CommonInterest.info) also covered the event, and it reports that a local activist named Donovan Hubbard videotaped the event and plans to make the video available online. (NewsTarget would like to contact Donovan and / or publicize his video. If you know of a way we can contact him, please call us at (520) 232-9300 to let us know...)

What's next for Gunpoint Medicine?
As the truth continues to emerge about the extreme dangers of vaccinations and pharmaceuticals, Big Pharma is becoming increasingly desperate to coerce the public into relying on its products. It is now working closely with state authorities (including Governors of several states) to mandate the use of vaccinations on young children. This results in the criminalization of parents who refuse to subject their children to these dangerous chemicals.

In effect, Big Pharma is hoping to turn natural health followers into criminals.

The FDA has already criminalized nutritional supplement companies who dare to tell the truth about the health benefits of their supplements. (Read the true history of armed FDA raids on vitamin companies here: http://www.newstarget.com/021791.html )

Next, parents who refuse to subject their children to the chemical pharmaceuticals proposed by Big Pharma will be criminalized, rounded up and incarcerated for "refusing to comply with public health policy." This is all being done by the State in the name of "protecting the children" from their own natural health parents. (Insane, isn't it, to think that protecting your child from toxic chemicals is now a criminal act in the United States?)

The end game of all this is to apply Gunpoint Medicine tactics to everyone: Adults and senior citizens included. Anyone suffering from high cholesterol, for example, who does not submit to Big Pharma's statin drugs could be arrested, strapped to a table and medicated against their will. People with cancer could be arrested for choosing to treat that cancer with safe and effective botanical medicines instead of patented, high-profit Big Pharma drugs. If you think the prisons are full enough right now from all the arrests for marijuana possession and other victimless crimes, just wait until the State starts arresting all the natural health moms and dads across the country who refuse to participate in the utterly insane and extremely harmful system of medicine that now dominates U.S. health care today.

The State is very clear about medicine: If you want to remain a free citizen, you must submit to the synthetic drugs made by the very same corporations that now control government health regulators. Any person who resists such "treatments" will be branded a threat to public health -- a designation just beneath "terrorist" in the eyes of many government bureaucrats. As such, they believe there is no limit to the level of force they may use to coerce such people into submitting to Big Pharma's chemicals. Today, it's armed guards with attack dogs. Tomorrow, it might be water boarding or other torture methods. Think that's impossible? Think again: Just five years ago, nobody in their right mind would have thought that parents who did not want to get their children vaccinated would end up in prison, their children kidnapped by state authorities and forced to subject themselves to dangerous chemical injections at gunpoint. Yet that is precisely what is happening right now in the state of Maryland. It happened on Saturday, in fact.

Where is the outrage?
What's most interesting about this issue of using the threat of imprisonment to force vaccinations upon children is not necessarily who is speaking out against it, but who has chosen to remain silent.

The American Medical Association, for example, has said nothing in opposition to the policy. Neither has the Food and Drug Administration. Where is the outrage from the Maryland Hospital Association? None of these organizations seem to have a problem with Gunpoint Medicine. The idea of rounding up parents and coercing their children into receiving injections of toxic chemicals does not seem to bother these organizations. And why should it? All of these organizations are closely tied to Big Pharma. They're all in favor of vaccinations for all, it seems, and I have no doubt that some individuals in these organizations (especially the AMA) are strongly in favor of the Gunpoint Medicine coerced vaccination policy being played out in Maryland right now.

Organized medicine believes the People are too stupid to be allowed to make their own health decisions. Bureaucrats and physicians should be the ones making these decisions, we're told, and any person who disagrees with such decisions should be labeled a criminal, arrested and prosecuted. This is no exaggeration. It is, in fact, a shockingly accurate description of Maryland's current vaccination policy.

It wasn't too long ago that Americans would have stood up and rallied against this kind of medical tyranny. The major news networks would have denounced Maryland's vaccination policy with strong language and harsh accusations. People would have been marching in the streets, demanding their health freedom. But today, it's a different America. The People are drugged up on pharmaceuticals and dosed on fluoride. They're too intoxicated to think straight, and they're frightened into submission by a fear-based government that invokes domestic tyranny at every opportunity to control and manipulate the People into doing whatever it wants.

The "free" America we all once knew is long gone, and it has been replaced with The United States of Corporate America, where police tactics are now used to enforce hazardous public health policies, and the people who run the State no longer think there's anything wrong with rounding up the population at gunpoint and performing large-scale medical experiments on their children. That's what modern vaccines are, after all: A grand medical experiment whose effects will only become known after a generation of mass poisoning has come and gone.

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[anoninnyc]

that is a really scary article. from what i know about new york state's laws, there are religious and medical exemptions.

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Yes, they threats us like prisoners, which we are...

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Hi guys!

As my first post in this forum I'm going to ask you about the Tetanus vaccine. Since I'm going on vacation to Thailand this coming february, people advice me to take the Tetanus vaccine before I go there.

Should I take it or stay the hell away from it?

[anoninnyc]

do research and then decide for yourself. best of luck and welcome to the forum.

here are a few links for you. if you type tetanus vaccine into google then thousands of links will come up for you to look at.

http://www.vaccinetruth.org/page_8.htm

http://www.thinktwice.com/tetanus.htm

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

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/tetanus/default.htm

http://www.umm.edu/ency/article/002031.htm

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NEEDLE 'NO'S' DOC SLAPPED
ADMITS FAKING VACCINATIONS
By MELISSA KLEIN
FAKER: Dr. Mark Nesselson admitted falsifying records for families worried about the documented health risks of vaccinations.
FAKER: Dr. Mark Nesselson admitted falsifying records for families worried about the documented health risks of vaccinations.
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SAfer vaccines and expanded scheduling for administration are very good ideas. Very few are aware of how rapidly epidemic many of the diseases can become. I recall my grandmother speaking of entire neighborhoods in NYC being wiped out by diptheria...
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November 25, 2007 -- An Upper West Side pediatrician who conspired with families to get their young kids into school without state-mandated shots has been disciplined in the first case of its kind in New York, The Post has learned.

Dr. Mark Nesselson was fined $10,000 by a state disciplinary panel this month and told he can practice only under supervision. He admitted to state charges of falsifying forms for four children in two families.

The 50-year-old pediatrician told The Post he's done the same for at least a handful of other families over the years.

The parents of his patients were concerned about possible adverse health effects of vaccines.

Nesselson, who has pledged to play it straight from now on so he can continue to practice, thinks the real problem has yet to be solved.

"The central issue has not gone away," said the soft-spoken doctor, who has the bleached-blond highlights and tan of a surfer. "For me, that is the merit behind mandating immunizations that start so early, that are so numer ous."

Nesselson took a stand in the national vaccine controversy that, fueled largely by concerns over autism, has led an increasing number of parents to question the wisdom and safety of the shots - and in some cases to forgo them entirely.

He said he began to question the safety of vaccines in the early 1990s after seeing many children with autism whose parents said the onset of the disorder coincided with the vaccinations.

"The things that we are immunizing against are circulating in such low frequency, it impels those people who do what I do, who offer immunizations to children, to re-evaluate risks versus benefits," he said.

He said he would work with parents who wanted their kids immunized on a slower or reduced schedule.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/11252007/news/regionalnews/needle_nos_doc_slapped_277737.htm

[anoninnyc]

NEEDLE 'NO'S' DOC SLAPPED
ADMITS FAKING VACCINATIONS
By MELISSA KLEIN
FAKER: Dr. Mark Nesselson admitted falsifying records for families worried about the documented health risks of vaccinations.
FAKER: Dr. Mark Nesselson admitted falsifying records for families worried about the documented health risks of vaccinations.
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Why do so many allow themselves to be blinded by what the medical industry has to say? What if there is truth to the damaging effects of many vaccines? Would you want your child exposed to problems at such an early age? A follow up article is...
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November 25, 2007 -- CONTINUED

Nesselson said he got into trouble after he moved to Hawaii two years ago and gave medical records to his patients' parents to take to their new doctors.

The new pediatrician seen by two families turned in Nesselson to authorities, he said.

He signed a consent form with the state Office for Professional Medical Conduct agreeing to its penalties, which include taking a course in medical ethics and three years of monitoring.

Despite Nesselson's concerns, an overwhelming number of public-health officials and pediatricians insist vaccines are safe and necessary. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention maintains: "The great preponderance of evidence is that there's no link between vaccines and autism."

A Manhattan mother of two for whom Nesselson falsified records said she did not want her kids to have the shot for measles, mumps and rubella - the MMR vaccine - until they were older.

The worried mom said since the family never traveled and the diseases were rare in New York, she didn't feel she was putting her kids or others at risk.

"The form was filled out," she said of the falsified record. "We knew what we were doing."

She said her children had the vaccine when they were older - after they entered school.

Some parents who don't want to vaccinate their kids characterized Nesselson as a hero.

Eileen Phoenix, a Staten Island mother of four, said she refused to vaccinate her fourth child because her third was diagnosed with autism.

"I feel terrible for this doctor," she said.

So does the mom for whom Nesselson lied.

"I made the decision with my husband," she said. "The fact that it came back to cause Mark such hardship - it was probably one of the worst days of my life."

http://www.nypost.com/seven/11252007/news/regionalnews/needle_nos_doc_slapped_277737.htm?page=2

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Drive-Thru Vaccinations In Los Angeles

Drive-through flu shots test ways to speedily deliver vaccines

http://img31.picoodle.com/img/img31/5/11/26/f_33836847m_07e5533.jpg

http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-me-flu17nov17,1,1655744.story?track=crosspromo&coll=la-headlines-health&ctrack=1&cset=true

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I guess I wanted one of you to tell me what to do about giving vaccinations. You can't and I know better. Today when I gave a four year old her shots....she told me she loved me before she left and it brought tears to my eyes. Just like many times before. How can I give them to them and hurt them and say i am protecting them from getting sick? I can't. I know I need to find a new job and I am looking. It breaks my heart everytime I stick a child or even and adult that thinks they are being protected......and r they truly? Or just being injected with shit?

[shellygurrrl]

I guess I wanted one of you to tell me what to do about giving vaccinations. You can't and I know better. Today when I gave a four year old her shots....she told me she loved me before she left and it brought tears to my eyes. Just like many times before. How can I give them to them and hurt them and say i am protecting them from getting sick? I can't. I know I need to find a new job and I am looking. It breaks my heart everytime I stick a child or even and adult that thinks they are being protected......and r they truly? Or just being injected with shit?

That's sad. :(

I am in the Army and I often wonder what they are putting inside me when I get shots, vaccinations, etc. I never get sick and they forced me to get a flu mist thingy - why would I need flu shots after 34 years of not having issues with getting sick? Makes you wonder. I got 3 of the anthrax and I'm not getting another one.

[anoninnyc]

That's sad. :(

I am in the Army and I often wonder what they are putting inside me when I get shots, vaccinations, etc. I never get sick and they forced me to get a flu mist thingy - why would I need flu shots after 34 years of not having issues with getting sick? Makes you wonder. I got 3 of the anthrax and I'm not getting another one.

so sorry for you. many of those flu shots have thirmesol (mercury is in it).

[astral_girl]

http://osiris.sunderland.ac.uk/autism/vaccine.htm

[astral_girl]

if they did no damage

can someone please tell me why the dhss offer compensation??

What is it?

People who are severely disabled due to a vaccination against specific diseases may receive a one-off Vaccine Damage Payment of £120,000.
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Basic qualifying conditions

To qualify for a Vaccine Damage Payment, the customer must be at least 60% mentally or physically disabled due to a vaccination against :

* diptheria
* tetanus
* pertussis (whooping cough)
* poliomyelitis
* measles
* rubella (German measles)
* mumps
* tuberculosis
* meningococcal Group C (meningitis C)
* haemophilus influenzae type B (hib); or
* smallpox (vaccination upto August 1971)

Claims can also be made on the basis of -

* combination vaccines for diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP) and for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR);
* close personal contact with a person who has been vaccinated against oral poliomyelitis;
* the mother was vaccinated during pregnancy against one of the above diseases.

The disabled person must also satisfy these conditions -

* be two years old or more on the date of the claim
* have been vaccinated in the Isle of Man or the UK, unless they or someone in their family was in the armed forces and vaccinated as part of the armed services medical facilities.
* vaccination must have been administered before the person's 18th birthday, unless it was against poliomyelitis or rubella (German measles) or meningococcal Group C, or during an outbreak of disease in the UK or the Isle of Man.
* the claim must be made at any time before the customer's 21st birthday, or, if they have died, the date on which they would have attained that age, or up to 6 years after the date of the vaccination; whichever date is later.

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How much could I get and how am I paid

The scheme provides a tax-free lump sum of £120,000.

Payments are made to a trustee if the disabled person is -

* under age 18; or
* unable to manage their own affairs.

If the disabled person lives with the family the parents may be appointed trustees.
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How and when should I apply?

To request a Vaccine Damage Payment claim form, write to :
Vaccine Damage Payments Unit
Palatine House
Lancaster Road
PRESTON
PR1 1HB
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500 Oz Girls Suffer Gardasil Reactions

Cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil sparks reactions



Natalie Tkaczuk Sikora

December 04, 2007 12:00am

ALMOST 500 girls have had adverse reactions such as seizures, rashes and paralysis after taking cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil in Australia since it was released in April.

Of those, almost 200 Victorian schoolgirls were affected and 10 girls were admitted to hospital after fainting or collapsing following the jabs.

But leading experts defended the benefits of Gardasil and dismissed controversial reports of overseas deaths as unrelated and fictitious.
TELL US: Have you experienced an adverse reaction to Gardasil? Post your story below.

Doctors yesterday played down many side-effects as being unrelated, and said figures were low and what was expected in proportion to the number of doses dished out.

More than 13 million doses have been given worldwide.

Some 2.2 million Australian women have received the jab, with almost 500,000 in Victoria.

Gardasil guards against strains of the human papilloma virus that cause 70 per cent of cervical cancers, and is administered to girls under 18 through a national vaccination program.

As of November 30, there had been 496 adverse reaction reports to the Therapeutic Goods Association with the HPV vaccine as the sole suspected cause.

In the US more than 2220 reports were lodged in 12 months, including controversial reports of more than seven deaths.

But Gardasil co-creator Ian Frazer, the Health Department and manufacturer CSL yesterday dismissed allegations of associated deaths in the US, claiming the women died of unrelated causes.

Prof Frazer, a leading immunologist and former Australian of the Year, blamed anti-immunisation groups for exaggerating data as a scare tactic against inoculation.

Immunisation specialist Dr Jim Buttery, who works at the Royal Children's Hospital, declared Gardasil safe but said all reports were taken seriously.

Although the TGA refused to reveal detailed results, it said Gardasil was monitored by the US FDA and Centres for Disease Control, and in Australia by the Adverse Drug Reaction Advisory Committee, the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation and the National Immunisation Committee.

The TGA's Dr Rohan Hammett said: "All . . . advised that current rates of adverse reactions are consistent with those expected with any vaccine."

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0%2C21985%2C22864043-2862%2C00.html

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Vaccines Allowed To Spoil, Thousands Kids At Risk

Every year, thousands of American children go through the tearful, teeth-gritting ordeal of getting their vaccinations, only to be forced to do it all over again. The vaccines were duds, ruined by poor refrigeration.

It is more than a source of distress for parent and child. It is a public health threat, because youngsters given understrength vaccines are unprotected against dangerous diseases. And it accounts for a big part of the $20 million in waste incurred by the federal Vaccines for Children program.

"This is a substantial problem that needs to be addressed through prevention, and when problems are discovered, often times through revaccinations," said Dr. Lance Rodewald, director of immunization services at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

By CDC estimates, hundreds of thousands of doses of vaccines against such diseases as flu, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, polio, mumps, measles, chicken pox and the cervical cancer virus are thrown out each year because of poor refrigeration at clinics, hospitals and doctors' offices.

In one recent case in Sioux City, Iowa, more than 1,000 families were notified by letter and telephone that they needed to get their children revaccinated. State officials found that the refrigerator at the clinic that administered the shots repeatedly dropped below freezing over a 17-month period in 2005 and 2006, potentially ruining the vaccines stored there.

"We just didn't notice it," said Dr. Ray Sturdevant, president of the Prairie Pediatrics and Adolescent Clinic.

Poor refrigeration has been blamed for similar problems elsewhere around the country over the past 2 1/2 years:

In St. Cloud, Minn., a clinic had to revaccinate 8,600 patients, most of them children.

In Lane County, Ore., 500 children and adults had to get another shot.

In western Florida, it happened to about 250 kids.

In Sioux City and other cases, the spoilage resulted from a combination of factors: The refrigerator malfunctioned or was not set or maintained at the proper temperature a problem that can be caused simply by leaving the door open for a while and the workers responsible for regularly logging the temperature did not seem to recognize when the readings were off.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ColdFlu/wireStory?id=3952451

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Vaccines Ruined By Poor Refrigeration

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Every year, thousands of American children go through the tearful, teeth-gritting ordeal of getting their vaccinations, only to be forced to do it all over again. The vaccines were duds, ruined by poor refrigeration.

It is more than a source of distress for parent and child. It is a public health threat, because youngsters given understrength vaccines are unprotected against dangerous diseases. And it accounts for a big part of the $20 million in waste incurred by the federal Vaccines for Children program.

"This is a substantial problem that needs to be addressed through prevention, and when problems are discovered, often times through revaccinations," said Dr. Lance Rodewald, director of immunization services at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

By CDC estimates, hundreds of thousands of doses of vaccines against such diseases as flu, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, polio, mumps, measles, chicken pox and the cervical cancer virus are thrown out each year because of poor refrigeration at clinics, hospitals and doctors' offices.

In one recent case in Sioux City, Iowa, more than 1,000 families were notified by letter and telephone that they needed to get their children revaccinated. State officials found that the refrigerator at the clinic that administered the shots repeatedly dropped below freezing over a 17-month period in 2005 and 2006, potentially ruining the vaccines stored there.

"We just didn't notice it," said Dr. Ray Sturdevant, president of the Prairie Pediatrics and Adolescent Clinic.

Poor refrigeration has been blamed for similar problems elsewhere around the country over the past 2 1/2 years:

- In St. Cloud, Minn., a clinic had to revaccinate 8,600 patients, most of them children.

- In Lane County, Ore., 500 children and adults had to get another shot.

- In western Florida, it happened to about 250 kids.

In Sioux City and other cases, the spoilage resulted from a combination of factors: The refrigerator malfunctioned or was not set or maintained at the proper temperature - a problem that can be caused simply by leaving the door open for a while - and the workers responsible for regularly logging the temperature did not seem to recognize when the readings were off.

"We do everything we can to advise and to make people aware that this is very expensive vaccines they're dealing with and we really want to handle it properly and store it properly to prevent these things from happening - but they do," said Charles Alexander, chief of immunization with the Florida Health Department.

Inadequate refrigeration can cause vaccines to lose their potency, although experts say spoiled childhood vaccines are not dangerous in themselves if given to a youngster.

And there are no known cases of children contracting a disease because they had been given a vaccine rendered ineffective by poor refrigeration. But it could happen, and "that's why we're concerned about it," Rodewald said.

Since 2000 the CDC has pushed state health departments to visit clinics and check their refrigerators. Most states require clinics to use refrigerators with reliable thermometers that can be monitored, and staff members must know what to do when temperatures are above or below the proper range, Rodewald said.

Waste costs the $2 billion-a-year federal Vaccines for Children Program about $20 million a year, and the biggest single problem is improper refrigeration, Rodewald said. Other causes: The vaccines expire or were damaged in shipment.

Rodewald had no breakdown of how much in waste is attributable to poor refrigeration. But he emphasized that the losses amount to an extremely small percentage of the childhood vaccine program.

"The childhood program saves $10 billion each year in direct health care costs by preventing disease among children," he said. "Although preventing vaccine wastage is a priority, the amount wasted should be placed in the context of the overall program economic benefits."

Altogether in 2006, there were 32 instances in Iowa in which vaccines were not refrigerated correctly, said Dr. Patricia Quinlisk, state epidemiologist. Quinlisk would not say how many patients were affected, but estimated $750,000 worth of vaccine in the Vaccine for Children Program was wasted.

"We will get months and months and months of vaccine refrigerator logs where the refrigerator is out of the temperature and nobody has done anything except every day mark down it's out of temperature," she said.

In the Minnesota case, the refrigerator was not kept at the proper temperature and there were gaps in documentation, said Jill Marette of the Minnesota Department of Health.

"It's stressful to vaccinate your children in the first place - just the idea of giving them all those shots. Then you have to think about getting revaccinated," Marette said.

Of greatest concern is the chickenpox vaccine. It must be kept frozen at an average temperature of 5 degrees or lower and should be kept in the dark. Children who receive an ineffective vaccine could easily become infected because the disease is fairly common in the U.S.

Dr. Joseph Bocchini, chairman of the Committee on Infectious Diseases with the American Academy of Pediatrics, said his group and others have issued clear recommendations about storing vaccines, and refrigerators can be equipped with alarms that sound when the temperature goes out of range.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071205/D8TB0PDG0.html

[chattanova]

28 Women Miscarry After HPV Vax - FDA: No Problem



The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil is safe despite that 28 U.S. women who received the vaccination had miscarriages, CNSnews.com reports.

Clinical trials show the vaccine's miscarriage rate is consistent with that of women in the general population who were given placebos, and most of the miscarriages reported cannot directly be connected to Gardasil, the FDA said.

Click here to read the whole story at CNSnews.com.

A 24-year-old woman miscarried in May after being vaccinated with Gardasil and an investigator reported to the federal government that the miscarriage "may have been caused by Gardasil because the patient received the injection within 30 days of the pregnancy."

The vaccine is used to prevent the human papillomavirus — a sexually transmitted disease believed to be the cause of most cases of cervical cancer.

There have been 3,461 adverse reactions, including eight deaths, reported since the vaccine was approved for use in girls as young as 9 in June 2006. The FDA and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have concluded most side effects are minor and believe there is no reason to re-examine the drug's approval.


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0%2C2933%2C315466%2C00.html

[chattanova]

It Just Gets Crazier - Airports
Offering Flu Shots

Hello Jeff - As you note in the article below, it just gets worse. Pharmaceutical companies must be very thrilled with airport flu shot mills because this will bring in more revenue.

I think that taking any vaccine, especially one that people take on a yearly basis is risky. As the article points out below "thimerosal, is a preservative in flu shots." We know the varous poisons like Aluminum and Mercury are in these shots as are other poisonous substances. Taking a yearly flu shot even for 3, 4 or 5 years can increase a persons risk for Alzheimer's Disease tenfold. It is believed the Aluminum which goes directly to the brain sets people up for Alzheimer's Disease.

These "shots 'r us" clinics do not have a patient's records in front of them and have no idea if the traveler has HIV/Aids, Diabetes, etc. which could effect both the efficacy of the flu shot and the patient's health.

Do we need another vaccine mill? Vaccine should be looked upon as a dangerous drug and one would not carelessly take medication without first having a complete physical, tests, etc.

Atlanta airport plans on offering pneumococcal vaccine once flu season ends. In no time at all, we could see airport kiosks offering all types of vaccinations to anyone who wants one (whether they need it or not).

Last year Chicago's Ohare airport offered 5,000 flu shots. The idea of selling flu shots, and eventually pneumococcal vaccine from kiosks next to the airport gates is not a helpful one as the article would have us believe.

I would have preferred to see wash basins and castile soap set up at the gates so that people could wash their hands properly and reduce their risk for influenza. Flu shots do not prevent flu. It was discovered that flu shots are not as efficacious in the elderly and immune compromised as once purported by the vaccine companies. The best hope is that a flu shot MIGHT help in preventing some complications in some people and, maybe shorten duration of flu. It is not a silver bullet at all.

Let us hope these kiosks do not offer nasal flu vaccine sprays because passengers will be shedding flu virus as they use airport facilities and travel. This could cause influenza to travel and spread.

Airports Offering Flu Shots
Time.com

(ATLANTA) - After taking off shoes, pulling change out of pockets and going through security checkpoints, passengers now can roll up their sleeves and get a flu shot at gateside kiosks and health stations in some major U.S. airports.

Although health clinics at many U.S. airports have offered flu shots for years in public areas outside security checkpoints, officials found that few passengers want to risk missing their flights by getting vaccinated before clearing the checkpoints.

So this year, airports including those in Atlanta, Chicago, Denver and Newark, N.J., are offering flu shots in "airside" areas - passenger concourses inside the checkpoints.

"It's helpful being on the airside because people ... don't know how long its going to take getting through security so they don't want to take a risk of waiting in a medical clinic or being stuck in security and not making their plane," said Maureen Zampella, director of nursing and general operations manager of Harmony Pharmacy & Health Center Inc. The company offers flu shots at its clinic in Terminal C of Newark Liberty International Airport.

It takes less than five minutes to get vaccinated at an airside flu shot clinic, says Dr. Dominic Mack, chief medical officer of The AeroClinic, which has two flu shot kiosks in Concourse C of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

The cost ranges from $15 to $35, depending on the clinic. Shots are available to most flyers. Exceptions include people with allergies to chicken eggs and feathers or thimerosal, a preservative in flu shots and contact lens solution. Most of the gateside clinics are in domestic concourses, but clinic officials say they provide service to passengers who connect to other domestic and international flights.

"It's a viable option ... especially for business travelers. They don't have time to go to the physician," Mack said. "This offers another option for the population to get their flu shots."
But passengers taking the shots won't be protected right away. Those vaccinated develop some immunity to the flu virus after three or four days. It takes about two weeks for a flu shot to offer full protection.

Being vaccinated now offers plenty of time for the shot to fully take effect before the peak flu season begins in the U.S., typically after December, Zampella said.

Danny Manzon of Jacksonville, Fla. wanted to get a flu shot for three months but the busy restaurant consultant never had the time to get vaccinated. So he jumped at the chance to get one from a kiosk near his airline gate at the Atlanta airport.

"The convenience is great," Manzon, 53, said after getting a flu shot on Tuesday from The AeroClinic kiosk, located in front of an AirTran Airways gate in Concourse C.

Ultimately, airport health clinics may offer more than flu shots to busy passengers near gates. Health officials say they're considering other kiosk-based services in the future, including more vaccinations and tests for high blood pressure or cholesterol.

"We're finding that's where people are," said Michelle Smith, spokeswoman for Denver Health, which operates the Medical Clinic at DIA, or Denver International Airport. "Especially if you're in an airport where a large percentage of our travelers are there for connecting flights, you want to be able to offer that convenience."

The Atlanta airport clinic is considering offering pneumococcal vaccine once the flu season ends, based on requests from travelers approaching the kiosks. It also may offer blood pressure and cholesterol tests at the kiosks in the future, Mack said. The Denver clinic wants to offer similar services and may also address altitude sickness, Smith said.

Last year, Chicago's O'Hare International Airport offered about 5,000 flu shots to airport passengers and employees from kiosks next to gates.

"We didn't know if it was going to be successful. It went over great and we asked the (Chicago) Department of Aviation this year to do kiosks full-time" at O'Hare and Chicago Midway Airport, said Dr. John Zautcke, medical director for the University of Illinois Medical Center at O'Hare. "Business travelers love it. They are just thanking us."

Dr. Nathaniel Hupert, assistant professor of public health and medicine at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York, says the gate vaccination programs make sense as a public health measure.

"Anything that makes flu shots more accessible is a good thing," said Hupert, who has no connection to the flu shot clinics. "It's always helpful during normal times to try out new mechanisms (to distribute vaccine). This idea of offering vaccine in airports is actually an interesting and helpful step."

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1691202,00.html?xid=rss-topstories

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Required Flu Vaccines For Preschool In New Jersey?

A Proposal to Require Flu Vaccines for Preschool

The New Jersey Public Health Council is expected to vote tomorrow on a rule that would require flu vaccines for any child entering day care or preschool. If it is approved, New Jersey would become the first state in the country to impose that mandate.

The flu vaccine is one of four that the council will consider. There is a vaccine that would be given to children entering day care or preschool to protect against pneumonia, and two others that would be given to those entering sixth grade: one to guard against meningococcal disease, a fast-killing strain of meningitis, and the other an additional booster of a three-part shot already administered at a younger age against tetanus, pertussis and diphtheria.

If approved, the meningococcal vaccine requirement would also be a first in the nation for public school students. Currently, Massachusetts requires this vaccine for high school students at boarding schools. New Jersey and other states also mandate this vaccine for college students living in dormitories.

The final decision on the new vaccines will be up to Fred Jacobs, the state’s health commissioner, who “will take the recommendation of the council under advisement,” according to a spokesman. Currently, New Jersey requires that students be given a series of vaccines against nine diseases. The new vaccines would be required as of next September.

Since the new vaccines were first proposed last December, parents and doctors who oppose them have protested against the Department of Health and Senior Services. Thomas Slater, a spokesman for the department, noted that there had been “a good amount of public comment from both sides, and a very extensive review period” leading up to the meeting tomorrow.

At a public hearing in January, about 30 people complained about the proposed vaccines, citing possible side effects and insufficient evidence that they help prevent disease. On Friday, a group opposing the new vaccines held a news conference at the State House in Trenton. And people will have a chance to speak at tomorrow’s meeting, at the health department building in Trenton.

The decision to propose the additional vaccines, especially the one for the flu, was based on recommendations by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration, according to Dr. Eddy Bresnitz, New Jersey’s deputy commissioner of health and the state epidemiologist. Each year, 108 of every 100,000 children 5 or younger are hospitalized with complications from the flu, and about 100 die, according to the C.D.C.

“If you have children and they go to day care, they’re constantly getting sick,” said Dr. Bresnitz. He noted that children were also the best transmitters of influenza virus.

“We believe this will limit the disease, decrease hospitalization and prevent death,” he said, “not only for the children affected but also in the community at large.”

At present, 13 other states require pneumonia vaccines for preschool students, and 27 states have added the extra three-in-one booster for sixth graders. Two other states, Kansas and Vermont, recommend the meningococcal vaccine.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/nyregion/09vaccine.html?ex=1354856400&en=ecff68b04c4a4037&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

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This stunning censored interview conducted by medical historian Edward Shorter for WGBH public television (Boston) and Blackwell Science was cut from The Health Century due to its huge liability--the admission that Merck drug company vaccines have traditionally been injecting cancer viruses (SV40 and others) in people worldwide.

http://apatriotsmanifest.com/dec2007/index07121012.html

[chattanova]

Alberta Stops Mumps Vaccinations - Severe Reactions

Alberta Health halts mumps inoculations



The Canadian Press

December 12, 2007

Edmonton -- Alberta has suspended its campaign to vaccinate young people against mumps because of severe allergic reactions to the vaccine.

Alberta Health says it is holding off on inoculating 17- to 26-year-olds after five young people with a history of allergies had bad responses.

All five have recovered.

The campaign was undertaken because of an outbreak of mumps around the province.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20071212.NATS12-3/TPStory/TPNational/?page=rss&id=GAM.20071212.NATS12-3

[accuracy]

By Shan Juan (China Daily)
Updated: 2007-12-17 07:12

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-12/17/content_6324751.htm

US pharmaceutical firm Merck & Co and its China importer have recalled 104,930 vials of a children's vaccine against meningitis and pneumonia after they were found to be defective, China's top drug watchdog said Sunday.

Hib is a vaccine for under-five children against meningitis, pneumonia and other serious infections.

The vaccines were distributed in eight Chinese municipalities and provinces, including Beijing and Tianjin, and Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan and Sichuan, said a statement on the State Food and Drug Administration's website (SFDA). But there have been no reports from any of these places of a child falling ill after vaccination.

In fact, Merck has recalled 1.2 million vials of Hib across the world after finding sterilization defects in the lot made at its Pennsylvania factory on Wednesday.

"The SFDA received the recall report from Merck, and immediate action was taken to track down and help recall the products in China," SFDA spokeswoman Yan Jiangying said.

"Medical institutions in all of the eight places have stopped administering the vaccine, and the existing stock has been sealed."

Guangdong Province had bought 26,340 of the vials, 7,120 of which have already been administered to children, the Southern Metropolis Daily said. And 60 of the 2,640 vials distributed in Beijing have been injected, according to Xinhua.

"All provincial disease control centers have issued urgent notices to order the immediate recall of the vaccines," Yan said.

Medical experts have advised parents who had already been administered Hib not to panic because all imported drugs undergo strict tests before entering the country, and would have been banned in the first place had they been found to be harmful.

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Posted by Karen DeCoster at December 15, 2007

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/017751.html

Here we go - mandatory flu shots for pre-school kids. Imagine a place and time where your child's health is not your business, but that of some government and its perceived panel of experts. That place and time is wherever you are and it is now. The government owns your body, your children, and controls your choices.

New Jersey also will require preschoolers to get a pneumococcal vaccine and sixth-graders to get vaccines against meningitis, which New Jersey already requires for college dormitory residents, and a booster shot against whooping cough, which in recent years has seen a resurgence blamed on waning potency of shots given to infants and preschoolers.

Dare I mention Merck's contaminated (and soon to be mandatory in New Jersey) vaccines?

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NO AUTISM FOR UNVACCINATED AMISH?
The Age of Autism: 'A pretty big secret'
UPI | December 7, 2005
By DAN OLMSTED

It's a far piece from the horse-and-buggies of Lancaster County, Pa., to the cars and freeways of Cook County, Ill.

But thousands of children cared for by Homefirst Health Services in metropolitan Chicago have at least two things in common with thousands of Amish children in rural Lancaster: They have never been vaccinated. And they don't have autism.

"We have a fairly large practice. We have about 30,000 or 35,000 children that we've taken care of over the years, and I don't think we have a single case of autism in children delivered by us who never received vaccines," said Dr. Mayer Eisenstein, Homefirst's medical director who founded the practice in 1973. Homefirst doctors have delivered more than 15,000 babies at home, and thousands of them have never been vaccinated.

The few autistic children Homefirst sees were vaccinated before their families became patients, Eisenstein said. "I can think of two or three autistic children who we've delivered their mother's next baby, and we aren't really totally taking care of that child -- they have special care needs. But they bring the younger children to us. I don't have a single case that I can think of that wasn't vaccinated."

The autism rate in Illinois public schools is 38 per 10,000, according to state Education Department data; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention puts the national rate of autism spectrum disorders at 1 in 166 -- 60 per 10,000.

"We do have enough of a sample," Eisenstein said. "The numbers are too large to not see it. We would absolutely know. We're all family doctors. If I have a child with autism come in, there's no communication. It's frightening. You can't touch them. It's not something that anyone would miss."

No one knows what causes autism, but federal health authorities say it isn't childhood immunizations. Some parents and a small minority of doctors and scientists, however, assert vaccines are responsible.

This column has been looking for autism in never-vaccinated U.S. children in an effort to shed light on the issue. We went to Chicago to meet with Eisenstein at the suggestion of a reader, and we also visited Homefirst's office in northwest suburban Rolling Meadows. Homefirst has four other offices in the Chicago area and a total of six doctors.

Eisenstein stresses his observations are not scientific. "The trouble is this is just anecdotal in a sense, because what if every autistic child goes somewhere else and (their family) never calls us or they moved out of state?"

In practice, that's unlikely to account for the pronounced absence of autism, says Eisenstein, who also has a bachelor's degree in statistics, a master's degree in public health and a law degree.

Homefirst follows state immunization mandates, but Illinois allows religious exemptions if parents object based either on tenets of their faith or specific personal religious views. Homefirst does not exclude or discourage such families. Eisenstein, in fact, is author of the book "Don't Vaccinate Before You Educate!" and is critical of the CDC's vaccination policy in the 1990s, when several new immunizations were added to the schedule, including Hepatitis B as early as the day of birth. Several of the vaccines -- HepB included -- contained a mercury-based preservative that has since been phased out of most childhood vaccines in the United States.

Medical practices with Homefirst's approach to immunizations are rare. "Because of that, we tend to attract families that have questions about that issue," said Dr. Paul Schattauer, who has been with Homefirst for 20 years and treats "at least" 100 children a week.

Schattauer seconded Eisenstein's observations. "All I know is in my practice I don't see autism. There is no striking 1-in-166," he said.

Earlier this year we reported the same phenomenon in the mostly unvaccinated Amish. CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding told us the Amish "have genetic connectivity that would make them different from populations that are in other sectors of the United States." Gerberding said, however, studies "could and should be done" in more representative unvaccinated groups -- if they could be found and their autism rate documented.

Chicago is America's prototypical "City of Big Shoulders," to quote Carl Sandburg, and Homefirst's mostly middle-class families seem fairly representative. A substantial number are conservative Christians who home-school their children. They are mostly white, but the Homefirst practice also includes black and Hispanic families and non-home-schooling Jews, Catholics and Muslims.

They tend to be better educated, follow healthier diets and breast-feed their children much longer than the norm -- half of Homefirst's mothers are still breast-feeding at two years. Also, because Homefirst relies less on prescription drugs including antibiotics as a first line of treatment, these children have less exposure to other medicines, not just vaccines.

Schattauer, interviewed at the Rolling Meadows office, said his caseload is too limited to draw conclusions about a possible link between vaccines and autism. "With these numbers you'd have a hard time proving or disproving anything," he said. "You can only get a feeling about it.

"In no way would I be an advocate to stand up and say we need to look at vaccines, because I don't have the science to say that," Schattauer said. "But I don't think the science is there to say that it's not."

Schattauer said Homefirst's patients also have significantly less childhood asthma and juvenile diabetes compared to national rates. An office manager who has been with Homefirst for 17 years said she is aware of only one case of severe asthma in an unvaccinated child.

"Sometimes you feel frustrated because you feel like you've got a pretty big secret," Schattauer said. He argues for more research on all those disorders, independent of political or business pressures.

The asthma rate among Homefirst patients is so low it was noticed by the Blue Cross group with which Homefirst is affiliated, according to Eisenstein.

"In the alternative-medicine network which Homefirst is part of, there are virtually no cases of childhood asthma, in contrast to the overall Blue Cross rate of childhood asthma which is approximately 10 percent," he said. "At first I thought it was because they (Homefirst's children) were breast-fed, but even among the breast-fed we've had asthma. We have virtually no asthma if you're breast-fed and not vaccinated."

Because the diagnosis of asthma is based on emergency-room visits and hospital admissions, Eisenstein said, Homefirst's low rate is hard to dispute. "It's quantifiable -- the definition is not reliant on the doctor's perception of asthma."

Several studies have found a risk of asthma from vaccination; others have not. Studies that include never-vaccinated children generally find little or no asthma in that group.

Earlier this year Florida pediatrician Dr. Jeff Bradstreet said there is virtually no autism in home-schooling families who decline to vaccinate for religious reasons -- lending credence to Eisenstein's observations.

"It's largely non-existent," said Bradstreet, who treats children with autism from around the country. "It's an extremely rare event."

Bradstreet has a son whose autism he attributes to a vaccine reaction at 15 months. His daughter has been home-schooled, he describes himself as a "Christian family physician," and he knows many of the leaders in the home-school movement.

"There was this whole subculture of folks who went into home-schooling so they would never have to vaccinate their kids," he said. "There's this whole cadre who were never vaccinated for religious reasons."

In that subset, he said, "unless they were massively exposed to mercury through lots of amalgams (mercury dental fillings in the mother) and/or big-time fish eating, I've not had a single case."

Federal health authorities and mainstream medical groups emphatically dismiss any link between autism and vaccines, including the mercury-based preservative thimerosal. Last year a panel of the Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academies, said there is no evidence of such a link, and funding should henceforth go to "promising" research.

Thimerosal, which is 49.6 percent ethyl mercury by weight, was phased out of most U.S. childhood immunizations beginning in 1999, but the CDC recommends flu shots for pregnant women and last year began recommending them for children 6 to 23 months old. Most of those shots contain thimerosal.

Thimerosal-preserved vaccines are currently being injected into millions of children in developing countries around the world. "My mandate ... is to make sure at the end of the day that 100,000,000 are immunized ... this year, next year and for many years to come ... and that will have to be with thimerosal-containing vaccines," said John Clements of the World Health Organization at a June 2000 meeting called by the CDC.

That meeting was held to review data that thimerosal might be linked with autism and other neurological problems. But in 2004 the Institute of Medicine panel said evidence against a link is so strong that health authorities, "whether in the United States or other countries, should not include autism as a potential risk" when formulating immunization policies.

But where is the simple, straightforward study of autism in never-vaccinated U.S. children? Based on our admittedly anecdotal and limited reporting among the Amish, the home-schooled and now Chicago's Homefirst, that may prove to be a significant omission.

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The Great HPV Vaccine Hoax Exposed

A NewsTarget Special Report by Mike Adams


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(NewsTarget) For the last several years, HPV vaccines have been marketed to the public and mandated in compulsory injections for young girls in several states based on the idea that they prevent cervical cancer. Now, NewsTarget has obtained documents from the FDA and other sources (see below) which reveal that the FDA has been well aware for several years that Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) has no direct link to cervical cancer.

NewsTarget has also learned that HPV vaccines have been proven to be flatly worthless in clearing the HPV virus from women who have already been exposed to HPV (which includes most sexually active women), calling into question the scientific justification of mandatory "vaccinate everyone" policies.

Furthermore, this story reveals evidence that the vaccine currently being administered for HPV -- Gardasil -- may increase the risk of precancerous cervical lesions by an alarming 44.6 percent in some women. The vaccine, it turns out, may be far more dangerous to the health of women than doing nothing at all.

If true, this information reveals details of an enormous public health fraud being perpetrated on the American people, involving FDA officials, Big Pharma promoters, and even the governors of states like Texas. The health and safety of tens of millions of young girls is at stake here, and what this NewsTarget investigative report reveals is that HPV vaccinations may not only be medically useless; they may also be harmful to the health of the young girls receiving them.

This report reveals startling facts about the HPV vaccine that most people will find shocking:

• How it may actually increase the risk of precancerous lesions by 44.6 percent.

• The FDA has, for four years, known that HPV was not the cause of cervical cancer.

• Why mandatory HPV vaccination policies may cause great harm to young girls.

• Why HPV infections are self-limiting and pose no real danger in healthy women

• Little-known FDA documents that reveal astounding facts about Gardasil

• How Big Pharma promoted its Gardasil vaccine using disease mongering and fear mongering

Click the NEXT button below to continue reading...

http://www.newstarget.com/Report_HPV_Vaccine_0.html

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For those who can read swedish, www.vaccinfakta.com is a very objective and informative site. Spread the news.

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There are many links embedded within this article but you need to go to the original webpage to click on them:
http://uncoverthenews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1159&Itemid=1


Thimerosal doesnt lead to autism?
Wednesday, 09 January 2008

Thimerosal in vaccines doesn’t lead to autism? Who do they think they’re fooling?

A counter to the California study from the Archives of General Psychiatry stating that there are no ties between thimerosal and autism.

By Gibbwake
Sweeping the newswires and dinosaur news media recently is a story from the California Department of Health telling us that there is no mercury autism link and that "conspiracy theorists will continue to engage this theory on the link between autism and vaccinations” The story on ABC is written with strong language, and phrasing the flawed California study as “latest nail in the coffin of a theory that draws a link [between mercury and autism]”. All of this flawed analysis is based on the unfounded claim that thimerosal has been removed from vaccines. No evidence is offered to this claim, which could potentially cause unwitting parents to think the vaccines forced by the state are perfectly healthy.

To those not familiar with this vaccine additive, “Its called thimerosal and it's made from mercury, the second most toxic metal known to man. Uranium is the most toxic. For years, thimerosal has been extremely controversial because there were alternatives to preventing vaccine contamination. Questions remain about how pharmaceutical companies conduct vaccine research and how the government regulates those companies.” Here is video of what mercury does to brain tissue under a microscope.
Thimerosal is a compound that is 49.6% mercury by weight. Although it is not used in all vaccines, it has been part of the manufacture of many vaccines since the 1930s. One of the first published papers on the mercury preservative thimerosal was by a Rockefeller Institute scientist, named Kenneth C. Smithburn, hired by Eli Lilly & Co. to test its effectiveness in treating meningitis patients. Although all of the 22 patients died, it was reported they took the mercury solution “without ill effect.” According to Andrew Waters of the Waters & Kraus law firm, "Lilly then cited this study repeatedly for decades as proof that thimerosal was of low toxicity and harmless to humans. They never revealed to the scientific community or the public the highly questionable nature of the original research."

After that, with thimerosal declared safe after killing all of the people it was tested on, it has been used:

* to kill the bacteria that make the vaccine itself (e.g., whole cell pertussis vaccine)
* to kill bacteria that might enter the vaccine during the production process (e.g., influenza vaccine)
* as a preservative to prevent bacterial and fungal contamination of vaccines during their clinical use. In this case, thimerosal is added at the end of the production process either to the liquid vaccine itself or — in the case of dry powder vaccines — to the liquid used to dilute the vaccine

Reading the headlines and listening to the talking heads on network news channels stumble over their teleprompters reporting on the new study, you would think that the mercury has been removed. Unfortunately, the opposite is the case - it has actually increased and is used in 90% of flu vaccines. It should be noted that fetuses and young children suffer the greatest risk because their nervous systems are still developing. They are four to five times more sensitive to mercury than adults. Not only is it in 90% of the flu vaccines, but President Bush himself vetoed a bill passed by congress that would have banned thimerosal. What kind of logic are these people using to think that it has been removed – why would Bush veto a bill that wants to ban thimerosal if it has already been removed?
Notice how many of the reports, like this US News and World Report story mention that “makers of most childhood vaccines stopped using a mercury-based preservative..” The keyword there being “of most” since many still use it. The study authors conclude that thimerosal had been taken out by 2001 when this is simply not the case. Alex Jones commented on his radio show today on the 1-8-2008 show, "In 2001, the FDA made a recommendation for liability to vaccine makers that they make available small runs of non thimerosal based vaccines - but the others, for some reason, had a 4 to 5 times increase."

12 years ago, autism rates were 1 in 2500, in 2005 they were 1 in 166 (1 in 80 in boys), and current estimates are nearly double that number, but Judith Greher, one of the authors of the study said as late as 2006 that she didn’t even think autism is an epidemic.
At the end of the write up of the study on ABC news, Rockefeller University graduate and head of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, Peter Hoetz says that even talking about the obvious links between mercury and autism is damaging and distracting. "Unfortunately, this whole dialogue around vaccines and autism has been a distraction," Hotez says. It should be noted that the Sabin Vaccine Institute run by this parasite, was originally founded by Dr. Albert B. Sabin, a staffer at the Rockefeller Institute in New York in the 30s, and is dedicated to vaccinating the poor of the world and creating a “worldwide impact” through vaccine promotion and improved international immunization rates.

The Sabin Vaccine Institute is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, who has donated untold millions to population control groups including international Planned Parenthood groups known to force: abortions, sterilization campaigns, contraceptive drugs like depo provera (which cause aids), and vaccines on their populations. Melinda Gates is a Bilderberg Group attendee and she, along with her husband started the Global Fund for Children's Vaccines with a $750 million grant for their goal to immunize every child in the world.

When you get the reporters and vaccine manufacturers to admit that they’re using mercury, they will often use the term “trace amounts.” How much thimerosal in a vaccine is a trace amount? "A common myth is that thimerosal is added to vaccines in 'trace' amounts," says Mike Wagnitz, a senior chemist at the University of Wisconsin, "The concentration of mercury in a multi-dose flu vaccine vial is 50,000 parts per billion. To put this in perspective, drinking water cannot exceed 2 parts per billion of mercury, and waste is considered hazardous if it has only 200 parts per billion. Is it really safe then to inject pregnant women, newborns, and infants with levels of mercury 250 times higher than what is legally classified as hazardous waste?"

There is also no mention of the quick and devastating counter to this report put out by the The National Autism Association (NAA), which is pointing out flaws in the study in a press release, and “believes the authors used data too narrowly to make such sweeping conclusions.” The authors are overlooking “a number of confounding factors.”

"To make such sweeping conclusions regarding thimerosal, all mercury and aluminum would have to have been removed from vaccines and recalled immediately, including pre- and post-natal flu shots," says NAA board chair Claire Bothwell. The NAA press release goes on to state, “..Increasing pressure upon pregnant women and young children to receive annual flu shots has further muddied the waters in determining vaccine mercury exposure levels in recent years. Most flu shots still contain 25 micrograms of mercury, an amount the Environmental Protection Agency considers safe only for adults weighing over 550 lbs. “

Charging that number-crunching can't clear injected mercury from having neurologically injured susceptible infants and young children, NAA is posing the following questions to the authors of the study and government health agencies:

* Why do so many children regress into autism after receiving vaccines, subsequently have symptoms of heavy metal toxicity, then get better when mercury is removed through chelation?
* How can mercury and other toxic metals be removed from the bodies of our children more safely and efficiently?
* What biological abnormalities exist that cause some individuals to be unable to detoxify heavy metals?”

NAA board member Scott Bono then comments on the lies being purported by the media that the mercury has been removed from the vaccines, "Thimerosal isn't completely gone from vaccines. It is still present in trace amounts. Since no safe level of neurotoxins such as mercury and aluminum have been established, trace amounts cannot be cleared of having caused injury, especially in susceptible children."

“Starting in the early nineties, government regulators dramatically increased the amount of Thimerosal exposure to babies by adding two new vaccines to the roster of mandatory immunizations children must have before enrolling in school. The combination of the Hepatitis B vaccine and the HiB vaccine more than doubled the amount of mercury children.” It should be noted that one of the two major vaccine makers for these two vaccines, Merck, had a huge recall last month over the fact it was shipping out vaccines that were not sterile (meaning live). This story broke at least 2 years after the LA Times received an older internal document from Merck saying they knew vaccines had a lot of mercury in them - nearly 87 times safe levels.

How much longer will the population sit back and take these dangerous drugs, pushed by these murdering drug companies? Merck especially, who actively deleted the study data for Vioxx, which showed it to be deadly. While knowing this, they continued marketing and selling the drug while it killed a record number of 60000 Americans. Keep this in mind when the state forces you or someone you know to take a vaccine like they’re doing with Merck’s Gardasil in Texas, which has proven to cause a 44.6% increase in precancerous lesions which lead to cancer in sexually active women that have taken Gardasil. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6131036067931846986&hl=en

Both authors of the study, Robert Schechter and Judith K. Grether are from the California department of public health, the same department that carried out a massive eugenics program on the population of California through most of the last century. In the 1930s, many eugenics supporters cheered the policies in Germany. "Why Hitler Says: 'Sterilize the Unfit!' " ran a headline in a 1935 issue of The Times' magazine. "Here, perhaps, is an aspect of the new Germany that America, with the rest of the world, can little afford to criticise." California, especially couldn’t afford to criticize, as it forcibly sterilized more than all other states combined, all the way through 1969 and it remained “legal” for 10 years after that. 20,000 were admitted forcibly sterilized by the state, and that number doesn’t include all of the criminals, inmates, promiscuous women, or immigrants. The same eugenics department that ran that operation is now telling you that its perfectly safe to take routine childhood vaccines with 87 times safe levels of mercury (or without) and that it isn’t causing autism.

Listen to the original author of the California report in his own words; Dr. Robert Schechter said in an interview after their study was released, “I believe this study adds to the reassurance to the general safety of routine childhood vaccines, whether in the time that they contained thimerosal, or now in the time they almost entirely do not contain thimerosal; that the benefits of routine childhood immunization are immediate, are tangible, direct, immediate, and that routine childhood vaccines are safe and this adds to a large body of evidence to those conclusions.”

With that damning quote, do you believe that Robert Schechter would take up Jock Doubleday on his $115,000 offer to publicly drink a mixture of standard vaccine additives ingredients in the same amount as a six-year-old child is recommended to receive? I can guarantee you he won’t, as he most certainly wouldn’t get any of the same toxic waste in his body that he is proclaiming is perfectly safe for you and your children. Whenever you have to make the decision on whether to vaccinate your child or not, don’t forget the hollow words of Bertrand Russell, who advocated the use of vaccines to induce partial chemical lobotomies and create a servile zombie population,

"Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible." - Bertrand Russell, “The Impact of Science on Society”, 1953, pg 49-50

Gibbwake can be contacted at Gibbwake@gmail.com

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Very informative movie On Vaccines. 6000 Hours of research by Dr. Sherri Tenpenny. (3 hour long)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7018835240451107552

Dr. Boyd Haley on Mercury toxicity & Autism: Part 1
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4115912987954370615
Dr. Boyd Haley on Mercury toxicity & Autism: Part 2
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4841005852560432306
Dr. Boyd Haley on Mercury toxicity & Autism: Part 3
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5705486873371633009
Dr. Boyd Haley on Mercury toxicity & Autism: Part 4
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6234599460826441662

Dr. Jon Pangborn on The Vaccine Autism Connection
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6621244628055743678

Mercury, Autism and the Global Vaccine Agenda
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6890106663412840646
David Ayoub, M.D. goes through the relations of Mercury to Autism as well its connections to “National Security Study Memorandum 200”; for population control. Showing its shocking connections to today’s G.A.V.I. Are powerful forces really trying to help the poor people or could it be for another agenda; the sterilization of the poor?

Dr. Mark Geier & David Geier discuss mercury & testosterone in Autism: Part 1
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6947399413862760097
Dr. Mark Geier & David Geier discuss mercury & testosterone in Autism: Part 2
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-207849668561231723
Dr. Mark Geier & David Geier discuss mercury & testosterone in Autism: Part 3
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3695588266603363009
Dr. Mark Geier & David Geier discuss mercury & testosterone in Autism: Part 4
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5856894585720404543

Dr. Mark & David Geier discuss the CDC's VSD database & Autism: part 1
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5971029446182647842
Dr. Mark & David Geier discuss the CDC's VSD database & Autism: part 2
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6936891226377677448
Dr. Mark & David Geier discuss the CDC's VSD database & Autism: part 3
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3695588266603363009
Dr. Mark & David Geier discuss the CDC's VSD database & Autism: part 4
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4085522114228259952
Dr. Mark & David Geier discuss the CDC's VSD database & Autism: part 5
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7489704663031579649

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As well as autism, mercury is linked to other serious problems, such as chronic fatigue, memory impairment and depression. Those who conducted the following research were, I heard, regarded as on the fringe by their colleagues - now people are realizing they were ahead of the times.

Mercury toxicity presenting as chronic fatigue, memory impairment and depression: Diagnosis, treatment, susceptibility, and outcomes in a New Zealand general practice setting (1994–2006)

Authors: Damian P. Wojcik, Michael E. Godfrey, Derek Christie & Boyd E. Haley

Abstract
In a group of 465 patients diagnosed as having chronic mercury toxicity (CMT),
32.3% had severe fatigue, 88.8% had memory loss, and 27.5% had depression.
A significant correlation was found between CMT and the Apo-lipoprotein E4
genotype (p=0.001). An investigation into an additional 864 consecutively seen
general practice patients,resulted in 30.3% having evidence consistent with CMT, and once again a significant correlation was found with the APO-E4 genotype (p=0.001). Removal of amalgam mercury fillings when combined with appropriate treatment resulted in a significant symptom reduction (p<0.001) to levels reported by healthy subjects.

Full paper is here:
http://www.ibcmt.com/2007-09-26-MercuryToxicityPresentingAsChronicFatigue.pdf

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In the 1920s, in part based on expertise he developed in chemical-warfare research for the United States during World War I, Kharasch filed 11 patents that paved the way for several ethyl mercury products by the end of that decade. His dual focus was evident in his "Who's Who" entry: He had been "awarded patents along pharmaceutical lines, and treatment of fungus diseases of small grains."

Those patents led directly to thimerosal -- trademarked as Merthiolate by Eli Lilly and first used in vaccines by 1931. They also led to three ethyl mercury fungicides, the DuPont and Bayer brands Ceresan and New Improved Ceresan, marketed in a partnership called Bayer-Semesan; and Lignasan, used to treat timber...

...The case that galvanized world attention occurred in Minamata, Japan, in 1956, when wastewater from a Chisso Corp. chemical plant spilled toxic levels of methyl mercury into Minamata Bay, and pregnant women ate contaminated fish. Children born to mothers who ingested methyl mercury from contaminated fish while pregnant had profound physical and neurological problems, even though their mothers did not show any impairment.

In 1972, thousands of people in Iraq ate bread made from grain treated with methyl mercury fungicide that was intended for planting, not human consumption. Hundreds died. A follow-up study on children whose mothers ate contaminated bread after giving birth and who were exposed only through their mothers' breast milk showed problems including language delay that led one parent to describe the children as "needles blunted by the poison." Language delay is one of the hallmarks of autism as well.

Eating ethyl mercury-treated grain led to similar poisonings in Ghana in 1967. Twenty people died. Of those who survived, "toxic effects appeared earlier and were more severe in children than in adults," according to a report of the incident published in 1974 in the journal Archives of Environmental Health. "Four children developed disturbances of speech which led to stammering and scanning. ... Mental abnormality was observed in one boy who showed outbursts of anger unrelated to circumstances. A girl developed encephalitis (brain swelling) and became completely paralyzed ... (with) complete loss of speech."

http://www.vaccinetruth.org/the_cause_of_autism.htm


Eli Lilly and Thimerosal
By Annette Fuentes
Thimerosal is an organic compound that is 49.6 percent ethylmercury. Eli Lilly and Co., the Indianapolis-based drug giant, developed and registered thimerosal under its trade name Merthiolate in 1929 and began marketing it as an antibacterial, antifungal product. It became the most widely used preservative in vaccines. Thimerosal cannot be used with live-cell vaccines, such as MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) or polio, because it would kill the vaccine. The only research looking into the safety of thimerosal was done in 1930 by Eli Lilly-sponsored doctors, who injected it into 22 patients with meningitis. The human experiments failed to prove that thimerosal was nontoxic. Nonetheless, researchers H.M. Powell and W.A. Jamieson published a study in September 1931 in the American Journal of Hygiene that stated thimerosal had a “low order of toxicity” for humans, without mentioning that the human subjects were ill and subsequently died. Internal Lilly documents from the time, however, revealed that the company’s researchers were worried about Merthiolate’s “burning qualities” when used on the skin. By 1935, Eli Lilly’s Jameison had further evidence of thimerosal’s toxicity when he received a letter from a researcher who had injected it into dogs and saw severe local reactions, leading him to state: “Merthiolate is unsatisfactory as a preservative for serum intended for use on dogs.”

In the 70 years since thimerosal/Merthiolate was developed, the FDA never required Eli Lilly to conduct clinical studies of its safety, despite ample evidence of its toxicity and its highly allergic properties. In fact, the FDA today still refers to the 1931 Powell and Jameison study on its Web site as indication of the “safety and effectiveness” of thimerosal as a preservative. Thimerosal/Merthiolate was widely used in over-the-counter products, including ointments, eye drops, nasal sprays and contact lens solution. In 1998, the FDA finally banned Thimerosal for use in OTC products—18 years after it began a safety review of mercury-containing products. It took another year before the CDC and the FDA would ask manufacturers to remove thimerosal from childhood vaccines. Eli Lilly stopped making Merthiolate-containing products in the mid-’80s but still profits from licensing agreements with pharmaceutical companies around the world.

Eli Lilly faces hundreds of civil lawsuits from parents who blame thimerosal for their autistic children. But the pharmaceutical giant has powerful friends in the White House and in Congress. The elder George Bush sat on Lilly’s board of directors in the 1970s, and White House Budget Director Mitch Daniels was a Lilly executive. Lilly CEO Sidney Taurel was named by President George W. Bush to the Homeland Security Advisory Council. In November 2002, Congress passed a provision, tucked into a spending measure for homeland security, to indemnify Eli Lilly from lawsuits and require families to seek compensation through the federally funded Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. It was repealed in February 2003 after public outcry. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) still hopes to pass a similar bill. Congressional consideration for Eli Lilly makes sense: In the 2002 election cycle, the company gave more than $1.5 million to federal candidates, with three quarters to Republicans, making it the fourth-biggest giver in the pharmaceutical industry, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. In the current election cycle, the company already has given close to $230,000 (67 percent to Republicans) to federal candidates.

Eli Lilly may be determined to avoid liability for thimerosal, but that doesn’t mean it has abandoned children with neurological problems. This year, the FDA approved Straterra, a new Eli Lilly drug for the treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. The irony that Eli Lilly profits from damaged children is not lost on parent Robert Krakow: “When Eli Lilly is promoting Straterra on TV, saying up to 10 percent of children can be helped, you realize what we are up against.”

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/649/

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http://www.vaccination.inoz.com/immunization.html

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Study “Disproving” Mercury-Autism Link Published in Journal with Financial Ties to Vaccine Manufacturers

http://www.newstarget.com/022479.html

Mike Adams
News Target
Thursday, January 10, 2008

(NewsTarget) While the mainstream press is widely reporting a new study "disproving" any link between autism and mercury-containing thimerosal in vaccines, no one has bothered to point out that the study was published in a medical journal stacked full of ads from the very same drug companies that manufacture and market vaccines. The Journal, the Archives of General Psychiatry, is the pro-drug psychiatric arm of the American Medical Association, a pill-pushing organization tarnished by a history of conspiracy against alternative medicine and the promotion of toxic substances like cigarettes with full-page ads in its flagship publication, JAMA.

From the outset, the fact that this study appears in a pro-drug, pro-psychiatry journal should bring pause to any scientific-minded person. There is obviously a serious conflict of interest here, especially if this study is to be taken as "fact" and applied to public health policy. There also need to be a close look at any financial links between the researchers involved in this study and various vaccine manufacturers, as virtually all pro-drug "science" (if you can call it that) being published these days is influenced by Big Pharma money.

The only truly honest, independent, peer-reviewed medical journal operating today is PLoS Medicine, an open-source journal that takes no money from drug companies. Notice that the autism/mercury link study did not appear in PLoS Medicine? No, it had to be published with a home field advantage in a pro-drug publication that maintains a strong bias in favor of pharmaceuticals and chemicals.

Junk science and faulty conclusions
Aside from these obvious and worrisome conflicts of interest, the conclusions being made about autism and vaccines in the mainstream media are simply not supported by the study. The (distorted) logic we're hearing goes like this:

Yes, vaccines used to contain mercury. And yes, all those little kids were injected with mercury. And yes, autism rates skyrocketed. But then when the mercury was taken out of the vaccines, the autism rates didn't come back down. Therefore, the logic goes, vaccines are safe!

This is such sloppy cause/effect logic that it makes the idiot CNN Health editors who published a story about "junk foods being good for your waist" look like sheer geniuses!

What's wrong with the logic? Consider the use of mercury in the vaccines: It was used as a preservative chemical to prevent vaccine spoilage. When the mercury was removed, it was replaced with other preservative chemicals that are also toxic to the human nervous system. Thus, the continuing increase in autism rates following vaccination may be due to the toxic chemicals that replaced thimerosal. While mercury injections probably initiated the increase in autism, the toxic substance has been replaced with other dangerous chemicals that are continuing to increase the risk of autism.

Here's an example to explain this a bit more:

We all know that sodium nitrite in processed meat causes cancer, right? Well, let's say that for ten years, somebody feeds all the kids sodium nitrite and cancer rates skyrocket. Then, they take all the sodium nitrite out of the food and replace it with a different cancer-causing chemical that they keep feeding the kids. Guess what? The cancer rates don't come down. Therefore, the logic goes, sodium nitrite didn't cause cancer in the first place!

Notice that when mercury was removed from vaccines (which is not entirely true, by the way, bringing into question yet more details about this study), the rates of autism did not drop? This means the vaccines remain dangerous to children. Autism continued to climb right alongside vaccination rates, indicating the possibility that something in the vaccines (or a combination of various chemicals) may very well be responsible for the increase. Based on the fact that thimerosal was replaced with other toxic chemicals in the vaccines, there is absolutely no scientific way to clear thimerosal of any harmful effects. There are too many variables operating now, and no study can isolate one variable (thimerosal) out of many and prove it to be harmless.

The truth is that scientists have no idea what's causing autism. They acknowledge the alarming increase in the rates of autism now being observed in the population, but with this new study, they claim, "Mercury is safe!"

Let me add this study to the enormous stack of other B.S. studies from modern medical researchers. Let's see, I have a study here that declares aspartame to be safe. A second study in my database says that Vioxx is safe. Another study says Teflon is safe. And yet another study claims that cigarette smoke doesn't cause lung cancer or heart disease! In fact, for virtually every toxic chemical created by industry, there's a B.S. study proclaiming its safety! The history of science is full of such nonsense, all funded or influenced by the corporations that manufacture and sell these toxic chemicals or drugs.

The fact that industry has managed to create yet another study declaring a toxic substance (thimerosal) to be safe when injected into children is certainly not surprising. This is an industry that is not bound by the rules of logic, ethics or common scientific sense. It simply finds ways to influence researchers, cherry pick studies and distort science to get whatever results it wants. That's how we're now hearing things like, "Mercury is safe to inject into children!" -- an idea that's utterly absurd at any dose.

What the mercury / vaccine study actually proves
Even if you believe the results of this study, it only demonstrates that removing mercury from vaccines does not reduce vaccine toxicity to children. Autism rates are still on the rise, right along with vaccination rates. Multiple toxic chemicals and substances are contained in vaccines, and the mercury in thimerosal may have simply been one factor among many.

The only reasonable, scientifically-minded conclusion we can draw from the study is that removing mercury from vaccines does not reduce autism in children. If removing thimerosal from vaccines made them safer, we should have seen autism rates go down, but we did not! Autism rates continued to climb in direct correlation to vaccination rates, indicating that mercury is not the only toxic substance causing neurological problems in children.

Notice, carefully, that this is nothing close to what's being reported in the mainstream media, where headlines are blaring junk science nonsense like, "Vaccines pose no risk for autism" (San Jose Mercury News) and "Thimerosal Does Not Cause Autism" (Slashdot, which should know better). Even WIRED News got it wrong with: "California Study Finds No Link Between Vaccines, Autism."

The correct headline should be, "Removal of Mercury From Vaccines Fails to Halt Rise in Autism."

Or, "Removing Mercury From Vaccines Does Not Make Them Safer."

Nobody reported that. Apparently, telling the truth about research involving vaccines is not a popular option in the mainstream media (MSM). Businessweek, publishing a HealthDay report by Randy Dotinga, invokes particularly bad logic with this opening statement, "Adding to a growing body of evidence that rejects the idea that immunizations boost autism rates, a new study finds no proof that incidences of the disorder dropped after makers of most childhood vaccines stopped using a mercury-based preservative in their products."

Huh? How does a study focused only on mercury "reject the idea that immunizations boost autism rates?" Did the author of that report not notice that autism rates continue to increase as vaccination rates go up? Eliminating one chemical from the causative factors does not in any way clear the safety of all the other chemicals or ingredients used in vaccines.

The mainstream media, which repeatedly demonstrates astonishing ignorance on issues of nutrition and health, also seems to have very little ability to interpret scientific studies and reach reasoned conclusions about what those studies do or do not prove.

Was the vaccine study another example of corrupt science?
Besides, this entire discussion is based on the idea that we can trust the research in the first place. If there's one thing we've learned about modern medicine since watching all the Vioxx scandals, Avandia cover-ups and scientific corruption in research circles, it's that drug companies can help create whatever research conclusions they want.

And let's face it: Big Pharma will always produce science that protects its profits. Gee, Big Tobacco came up with all sorts of research that said tobacco smoke wasn't harmful and nicotine wasn't addictive. Some of that research appeared in peer-reviewed medical journals, too. Does that mean the research was scientifically accurate and "conclusive?" Of course not. It was just plain old junk science, hijacked by a powerful corporation with a clear profit motive.

If all that sounds familiar, it's because drug companies are playing the same game with science today that Big Tobacco played decades ago: Influence the science, bury the bad news and propagandize the good news. It's the oldest play in the spin book, and Big Pharma has patterned it perfectly from Big Tobacco.

You see, the relevant question in this discussion is not simply whether mercury-containing vaccines cause autism. The question at hand is whether we can even trust the "science" being conducted on this subject. Do the researchers who conducted this study have any financial ties to the manufacturers of those vaccines? Have they received any speaking fees? Do they own stock in those companies? If so, this completely discredits their research due to obvious conflicts of interest.

Now, I don't have any direct evidence that the researchers in this particular mercury vaccine study were corrupted or influenced by Big Pharma, but as an honest, independent think who knows the truth about drug companies, the mainstream media and the profit motive behind much of the science appearing in the press today, I maintain a default position of skepticism when it comes to reading these studies.

By default, I distrust the drug companies and any so-called "research" that claims injecting mercury into the bodies of children is harmless. That should be the default position held by any rational person who understands basic human biochemistry. Toxic chemicals and heavy metals must be distrusted from the outset.

The drug and chemical industries, notably, take precisely the opposite approach. To them, all chemicals and drugs are safe until proven dangerous. This is how dangerous drugs get released into the marketplace and only recalled after tens of millions of prescriptions have been written and many thousands of people have died. The drug companies routinely treat the population as drug testing guinea pigs, and the used of vaccines on children is no different.

I find it interesting that genuine scientific skepticism seems to vanish when the topic shifts to pharmaceuticals. Sure, all the skeptics and quack critics will go to town on topics like acupuncture, mind-body medicine or even the efficacy of botanical medicines, but when the discussion turns to things like mercury in vaccines or amphetamine drugs for kids with ADHD, all such skepticism immediately vanishes. They accept the safety and efficacy of such treatments without question. Rational thought is rapidly discarded. Vaccines simply must be safe. Why? Because everybody else in the medical industry says so!

Were the journalists injected with mercury, too?
With this whole charade about a study "disproving" any link between mercury and vaccines, the modern medical industry has once again shown its infantile intellect and its utter lack or scientific integrity or clear-headed skepticism. Is this study really the best they can come up with? A study that shows absolutely no drop in autism rates when ingredients are reformulated in vaccines? A study that didn't even attempt to take into account the other toxic ingredients in vaccines?

This is the new standard of "conclusive" science in medicine today?

Give me a break. The only thing that can be conclusively derived from observing all this is that mainstream media journalists continue to function at a very low level of scientific literacy, lacking any skills of mental reason by which scientific studies might be assessed. There is no thought that has gone into the media's reporting of this story; only bandwagon parroting of each other's bad conclusions of a study that, in reality, proves nothing. It's yet another hilarious mainstream media circle jerk, and the fact that so many people keep buying this dim-witted reporting just proves that this nation remains woefully deficient in basic science education.

One point worth mentioning here is that there is absolutely no requirement to have any real understanding of science, medicine, chemistry or physics to graduate from a top-notch journalism school. And when journalists have no idea what they're talking about, they go the default route and simply rewrite whatever was e-mailed to them in the corporate press release! Thus, modern skills of journalism do not require any independent thought whatsoever. They only require the ability to rephrase something already told to them by the spinmeisters at Corporation X.

Correct me if I'm wrong: Is there a single mainstream reporter -- even one? -- that reported the correct conclusion from this vaccine research?

I challenge you to find one. I've looked. There isn't one.

The dumbing down of the mainstream media is now complete. I can't wait to see what headlines will come next:

"Prescription Drugs That Killed Patients Found Innocent Since Patients Did Not Come Back to Life After the Drugs Were Removed"

Or:

"Radiation From Mammograms Found Harmless Because Death Rates Continued to Climb Even After Mammography was Halted"

Or my favorite: "Ephedra Herb Banned After Ten Deaths; Drugs Are Safer Because They Only Kill 100,000 Americans a Year"

I'm beginning to wonder if all the journalists have been injected with mercury.

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Documentary about the history of vaccines and what they are

The Film About Vaccines You Simply Must See

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edikv0zbAlU

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=159053218219104169&hl=en

This stunning censored interview (top) was cut from the TV program The Health Century due to its huge liability -- the admission that the Merck drug company has been injecting cancer viruses into people worldwide.

If you find the content shocking, consider watching the second video, the entire movie, “In Lies We Trust: The CIA, Hollywood & Bioterrorism”.

This film is produced and freely distributed by consumer protector and public health expert, Dr. Leonard Horowitz, and features the world's leading vaccine expert, Dr. Maurice Hilleman, explaining why Merck's vaccines have spread AIDS, leukemia, and other horrific plagues worldwide.

It may seem inconceivable to some of you, but disease is Big Business. And, if you’re cynical – which seems to become easier with each passing day -- it’s a way to achieve population control while making huge profits in the process.

Take this enlightening 2007 investors’ presentation for GlaxoSmithKline, for example. GSK’s overall sales performance rose 9 percent in 2006, with pharmaceutical sales totaling ₤20.1 Billion, or just under $40 Billion. Other statistics include:

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The U.S. market accounts for more than 50 percent (about $20.6 Billion) of all GSK pharmaceutical sales, with an increased sales volume of 16 percent in 2006
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Europe’s pharmaceutical sales went up by 1 percent, and the international market increased by just 6 percent
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Total vaccine sales rose by 23 percent in 2006, bringing in just under $3.4 Billion (₤1.7 Billion)
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Vaccine sales in the U.S. rose 40 percent, compared to Europe’s 20 percent, or the international market’s 13 percent

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Now, remember – that’s just GlaxoSmithKline’s numbers for ONE year, which does not include sales by any other pharmaceutical companies, such as Merck.

To give you an idea of where Merck stands, in terms of motivation, Merck’s 2005 Annual Report includes Merck’s plan to win, which is centered on five strategic actions:

1. We are prioritizing our areas of research, based on scientific opportunity and value to our customers (That’s the shareholders, folks, not you!)
2. We are committed to completely redefining our discovery and development process to yield new high-value products more efficiently
3. We will devote more resources to bringing relevant information to payers and consumers, all of whom are becoming more and more involved in the choice of medicines. We will provide more information resources through easily accessible channels — for example, on the Internet and through health professionals (That means more direct advertising, and more bribing of doctors to prescribe their blockbuster drugs)
4. Emerging pharmaceutical markets worldwide provide enormous opportunity because the need for our medicines and vaccines is so great and our ability to meet those needs so clear
5. We are committed to leading the industry in supply strategy. These actions to dramatically alter our cost structure will make a significant contribution toward our goal of double-digit earnings growth… As *** Clark, Merck's CEO and president, has said repeatedly, "Effort counts, but results count more, and I am counting on results."

See, pharmaceutical companies are in the business of making money, just like every other competitive business – they’re not in the business of protecting public health. In the financial section of Merck’s 2005 Annual Report to shareholders we find the following statistics, showing a healthy increase in sales of vaccines as well:

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Merck 2005 Annual Report to Shareholders.

Folks, please take the issue of whether to vaccinate or not seriously. Do your homework. You can begin by watching the videos above – it will be worth your time, I guarantee it. Then, you can continue researching through the links provided below. Don’t blindly buy into the lies. Seek the truth. Protect your health, and the health of your loved ones by opting out of dangerous vaccines.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/1/19/the-film-about-vaccines-you-must-see.aspx

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Ron Paul Speaks Out Against Dangerous Vaccines

Nationwide Revolt continues to grow as Presidential candidate denounces FDA and forced immunization

Presidential candidate Ron Paul has spoken out against forced vaccination and the federal government's eagerness to dictate what Americans may and may not put into their bodies.

The Congressman, a fully qualified obstetrics and gynecology doctor, made his position plain in an interview with the Huffington Post's election reporter James Freedman:

"I don't think anything should be forced on us by the government, [and] immunization is one thing that we're pressured and forced into," he said.

"A responsible parent is going to say, 'Yeah, I want my child to have that,' [but] when the government makes a mistake, they make it for everybody. You know, that's what worries me. They don't always come up with the perfect answer sometimes... and people have had some very, very serious reactions from these immunizations."

Besides certain laws that apply only to government medical specialists - there is no law that enforces the mandatory use of any vaccine in the United States. Enforced medical treatment is an assault and a violation of the 14th amendment, the reason Ron Paul, a strict Constitutionalist, is so directly against it.

However, some in Washington seem determined to ignore the Constitution and to make some vaccinations (usually the most profitable ones) mandatory.

There has recently been a spate of cases where officials, with the assistance of directed media propaganda, have attempted to cajole parents into believing that laws require vaccination.

Last February one such media hoax fooled parents in Texas and other areas of the country into believing that the HPV vaccine, which experts have slammed as untested and has continued to be linked to dangerous side-effects, is now required by law and that young girls must take it. Merck Pharmaceuticals hit the headlines after it was revealed that the company was set to capitalize on this fraud by making obscene profits from a crony deal with Governor Rick Perry, while children were put at risk.

Last November we reported on a case in Prince George's County, Maryland, where parents of more than 1600 children were told they could be put in jail for failing to get their kids vaccinated. At the time a local Fox News affiliate reported, "A new law was passed last year requiring children from 5th through to 10th grade to have the vaccine," which was a total lie. A state prosecutor involved in the case then admitted that there is no law that mandates any vaccine.

In addition there is a plethora of examples where vaccines containing mercury, live HIV virus, live cancer and other horrors have wrought misery after victims were bullied into taking them by government mandates that they were deluded into thinking was the law.

Concerned parents across the U.S. are leading a nationwide revolt against unnecessary, untested and dangerous vaccines as CDC records show a growing amount of religious exemptions on vaccine forms. Adults too are turning away from personal vaccination.

Ron Paul also spoke of the dangerous precedent being set in allowing the FDA strict controls over the health of Americans and how such a scenario is a dream come true for the big pharmaceutical corporations the FDA shares a bed with:

"If we accept this notion that the federal government is going to dictate what we can put into our bodies, then it leads to the next step: that the government is going to regulate everything that is supposedly good for us. That's where they are. They have an FDA that won't allow somebody who's dying to use an experimental drug which might speed up the process of finding out which drugs are good and which drugs are bad and the federal government comes in and dictates that they want complete control over vitamins and nutritional products and I just think the whole principal of government telling us what we can take in or not take in is just a dangerous position to take... it's related to the drug industry because they'd like to control all of this."

Paul is right to point out that the relationship that now exists between the FDA and big pharma is tantamount to a business partnership.

The FDA now effectively protects and nurtures the monopoly of big pharma in the name of regulating its activities.

It is well known that the giant pharmaceuticals routinely fix and mark up prices of prescription drugs as much as 500,000% over the cost of the raw ingredients, and they engage in monopolistic, mob-like behaviors to block competing, lower cost drugs from other countries.

All of this is effectively sanctioned by the FDA.

Presidential candidates such as Hillary Clinton and John Edwards advocate a continuation of this monopolistic status quo via their visions for a FDA state-managed socialized health care system where every citizen in the U.S. would have to enroll for regular check ups, including mandatory mental screenings, a practice Ron Paul also speaks out against:

"The other thing they're doing right now is the government's doing this mental health testing of everybody in school and they're putting a lot of pressure, in a way forcing kids to be put on psychotropic drugs, which I think are very, very dangerous. So anything medical that is forced on us I think is bad."

The Congressman is the only candidate who has envisioned a health care system without strict federal regulation and without the resulting big pharma monopoly. As consumer health advocate Mike Adams at newstarget has pointed out:

Ron Paul is the only candidate who believes in health freedom. All the other candidates would support the status quo in health care today: Big Pharma dominance, FDA censorship, monopoly prices in medicine and the assault and imprisonment of individuals who dare to tell the truth about the healing properties of the superfoods and nutritional supplements they sell. The other candidates may talk about "reforms," but all they're really talking about is a shell game of shifting who pays for all disease in this country.

Only Ron Paul believes in genuine health freedom. He's the creator of the Health Freedom Protection Act, a bill that would reestablish Free Speech provisions for makers of superfoods, herbs, nutritional supplements and other natural remedies. Under the HFPA, those individuals would be able to state scientifically-validated facts about the health benefits of their products right on the bottle! Today, the FDA doesn't allow that. All truthful statements about nutritional supplements are presently censored! (It's a way to protect Big Pharma and keep the American people ignorant about how plant-based medicines can prevent and even cure degenerative disease.)

The establishment candidates are promoting a huge monopolistic and federalized profit machine when it comes to health care in America, while once again Ron Paul is truly speaking to the needs and desires of the people in accordance with Constitutional law.

http://www.infowars.net/articles/january2008/230108Vaccines.htm

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Highsenitive kids are developing autism.
The vaccine set their mind partly in a prision. It is wrong to say that kid with autism is developing it cause of vaccine. They are born with it but the "negative aspect" of it is amplified by pollution and lowvib energy. The vaccine weakens the immune system and the body/mind on how to deal with low 3rd density.

Utah is a low pollution area and have what it seems not so many cases of "autism" not just cause of the non-vaccination but they live more in pact with the nature (dont have tv,comp, carsetc...)
when that is said they have as many autism cases as we have but it hasnt developed to that extend that it has in our part of the world (due to pollution and vaccines)

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Researcher Links Asthma To Early Vaccination

U of M researcher links asthma, early vaccinations

By Jen Skerritt

Children who have their routine vaccinations delayed by two months or more cut their risk of asthma by half, a University of Manitoba researcher has found.
Anita Kozyrskyj, an asthma researcher in the U of M faculty of pharmacy, studied the immunization and health records of 14,000 children born in Manitoba in 1995.

Kozyrskyj found nearly 14 per cent of the children who received their first shot of diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus vaccine at two months of age developed asthma — compared with only 5.9 per cent of children who were vaccinated more than four months after the scheduled date.

Manitoba recommends vaccinating children at two months, four months, six months and 18 months of age for diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus (DPT).

The DPT causes an allergic reaction and Kozyrskyj said researchers are speculating whether children's immune systems are better able to handle the vaccine's side effects when they're older. The pertussis vaccine used in Manitoba before 1997 caused fever in some children, and some studies have linked fever in early childhood to a greater risk of developing asthma.

The study's findings are going to be published in the U.S. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology within the next few weeks.

"We're thinking that maybe if you delay this allergic response until a bit later, the child's immune system is more developed and maybe you're not seeing this effect," Kozyrskyj said.

The findings come as little surprise to parents who have spoken out against the risks of vaccinating infants at an early age.

The prevalence of childhood disorders like asthma and auto-immune disorders like autism has increased over the last few decades, leaving many parents wondering whether childhood vaccinations may be contributing to the rise.

"They're barely out of the protection of the womb before we're sticking vaccines in them," said Irene Gergus, a Winnipeg mom whose son Andrew lost his ability to speak shortly after receiving his fourth DPT shot at 18 months in 1993.

"I'm not against vaccination I just think they're too young to be receiving (them)."

Kozyrskyj is the first researcher to study the effect between asthma and vaccines, but said she doesn't believe the findings will spur a change the province's vaccination schedule. She said Japan recommended children under 10 months not be vaccinated between 1975 and 1988, and the country saw a spike in the number of childhood cases of whooping cough.

Kozyrskyj said she is "pro-vaccination" and noted the safety and efficacy of vaccines has been studied for years.
"It's not an alarm bell," she said. "We have many years of research on these vaccines and I would say the benefits, by far, outweigh the risks."

Of the 14,000 immunization records Kozyrskyj studied, 11,531 children received at least four doses of DPT.

Overall, nearly 12 per cent of the children who received at least four doses of DPT had asthma. The majority of children who had asthma lived in urban areas and were predominantly male.

Kozyrskyj said researchers did not compare the risk of asthma among children who did not receive any vaccinations, saying only about 100 children in the province did not receive DPT — a number that would not be statistically significant.

jen.skerritt@freepress.mb.ca

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/story/4113937p-4709728c.html

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Two More Girls Die After Gardasil Vaccinations

Alert over jab for girls as two die following cervical cancer vaccination

A jab that could be given to hundreds of thousands of schoolgirls this autumn was at the centre at a safety scare last night following the deaths of two young women.

European regulators are investigating the "sudden and unexpected" deaths of the women who received Gardasil, one of two jabs to protect against cervical cancer licensed for use in the UK.

The vaccine has been hailed as a breakthrough by the Department of Health, which is backing an annual programme of vaccination for girls aged 11 to 13 years starting in September.

The jab is already available privately and a thirteen-year-old girl from London became the first in the country to receive the cervical cancer vaccine in 2006. Hollie Anderson's mother, Lisa, paid £450 for her to have the jab after seeing her own mother battle against cancer.

The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) said one of the young women who received Gardasil died in Germany while the other was in Austria. It has not released their ages.

It follows the deaths of three young women aged 12, 19 and 22 who were reported to have died in the U.S. days after Gardasil was administered, with 1,700 patients suffering "adverse reactions". There were no previous recorded deaths in Europe.

The EMEA said: "In both cases, the cause of death could not be identified.

"No causal relationship has been established between the deaths of the young women and the administration of Gardasil."

A spokesman said 1.5million people had been given the vaccine in Europe.

She said there were no plans to change advice on the use of the vaccine.

The UK vaccination programme will protect girls against the sexually-transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV) that causes cervical cancer.

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Investigations have begun after two young women died suddenly after receiving Gardasil

It should help cut up to 1,000 deaths a year from the disease.

Gardasil, made by Merck, is one of the jabs to be used initially. The other is Cervarix, made by Glaxo-SmithKline.

Dr Nicholas Kitchin, medical director at Sanofi Pasteur MSD, which markets Gardasil, said: "The authorities in the two countries have looked intensively at these two cases and have not established a causal link, and this has been endorsed by the EMEA.

"The fact that the EMEA is not taking any action on the back of this should be seen as reassuring that the product remains safe."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=510221&in_page_id=1774

[chattanova]

A Vaccine For High Blood Pressure - Madness

Blood pressure vaccine maybe on way

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Robert Worek, 56, sits at his kitchen table in Channahon, Ill., with the collection of medications he takes daily for heart-related ailments.

Robert Worek, 56, a retired safety engineer from Channahon, Ill., says he's fed up with the fistful of pills he takes daily for high blood pressure and other heart ailments. "Nine pills every morning," laments Worek. "Nine pills at night."

Eighteen pills a day are more than anyone would want to swallow, but Worek knows they help keep him alive. What bothers him more than having to take so many pills is how often they slip his mind. "All those pills," he says. "I lay them out, and I still forget them."

Such forgetfulness can increase the risk of heart attack and stroke. Yet studies show that only about half of people with high blood pressure follow doctors' orders. The Swiss biotech firm Cytos wants to make it easier for patients by reducing their dependence on pills. How? With a vaccine.

Vaccinating someone against a chronic illness, rather than an infectious disease like measles, isn't as farfetched as it sounds. Many researchers at Cytos and elsewhere view vaccines as potential low-cost treatments for a variety of ailments, ranging from arthritis to cancer, from smoking to psoriasis, from asthma to Alzheimer's disease.

How would it work?

The "trick," says Martin Bachmann, Cytos' chief scientific officer, is to pick a likely target for vaccination — usually a protein that plays a key role in causing the disease — and "make it look like a virus."

In high blood pressure, the target is called angiotensin II. Angiotensin II is a powerful hormone that acts like a blood pressure switch. When it docks with a special receptor in blood vessels, it causes the blood vessels to constrict. Angiotensin II can be a lifesaver when someone is dehydrated or goes into shock, because it sustains blood pressure, but it is also an obvious target for the vaccines and blood pressure drugs like ACE inhibitors.

The vaccine works like this:

•Dress up a synthetic version of angiotensin II to look like a virus.

•Inject it into the bloodstream.

•The immune system, fooled by the fake angiotensin II, will mistakenly attack the real thing as if it were a virus. Y-shaped antibodies lock onto angiotensin II so that it will no longer fit into its receptors.

The approach is already generating controversy. "There's no question that it's an innovative approach," says Franz Messerli of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital in New York. "The fact that it's innovative doesn't necessarily mean that it's practical."

Critics worry that the immune response will be fleeting and that patients will continually need boosters, creating a different kind of compliance problem for people who don't like getting shots. Doctors also worry that blocking such an important protein might cause unpredictable harm. "If you run into trouble with medication, you can stop the medication," Messerli says. "You can't stop this."

But the doctor who pioneered angiotensin II measurement and whom Cytos tapped to lead the vaccine trials says he's satisfied the approach holds promise.

"I was skeptical at first," says Juerg Nussberger of the University Hospital of the Canton of Vaud in Lausanne, Switzerland. "Then I did a study in rats. In rats, it worked. I said, 'I was wrong. You were right.' "

Results in humans look just as good, so far. Nussberger reported at an American Heart Association scientific meeting in November that a study of 72 patients showed that the vaccine was safe, well-tolerated and generated a potent immune response. "What came out was a tremendous difference in blood pressure that I would not have anticipated," he says.

Three shots over 12 weeks reduced systolic pressure (the top number) by 5.6 millimeters of mercury. They lowered diastolic blood pressure (the bottom number) by 2.8 millimeters, roughly equivalent to the drop produced by a drug in someone with mild hypertension, he reported. The systolic reading reflects the pressure when the heart clenches to pump blood; the diastolic measurement gauges the pressure when the heart relaxes.

What the researchers found most encouraging, Nussberger says, is that reductions held in the morning, when blood pressure goes up to prepare for awakening.

"That's so you don't fall down when you stand up," says George Bakris, an expert on hypertension at the University of Chicago and a board member of the American Society of Hypertension.

Shots aren't the only solution

Yet despite its early success, the vaccine isn't likely to be the sole answer to high blood pressure, Bakris says, because high blood pressure is a complicated disease.

The hormonal system that includes angiotensin II is one of two major systems that influence blood pressure. The nervous system also plays a key role, through sensors and nerve relays in the brain, heart and arteries. "These sensors allow us to sleep, making sure that breathing goes on and blood pressure stays up," Bakris says.

In such a complicated system, many things can go wrong. Sometimes blood pressure sensors in aging or hardened arteries stop working. Fat cells sensitize blood vessels so that they will be more likely to constrict with lower levels of salt. There are also genes that affect how the kidney handles salt, which in turn can ramp up the production of angiotensin II, constricting arteries.

Bakris says the vaccine is likely to be most useful early in the course of the disease, before too many things go wrong. "In the advanced stages of the disease," he says, "it may substitute for one (high blood pressure medication), maybe two."

Nussberger says the jury's still out on how the vaccine might fit into blood-pressure treatment plans:

"We're at the very beginning."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-02-03-hbp-vaccine_N.htm?csp=34

[cruise4]

Mum's fury at MMR jab claim

Kristina Santus
Wigan Evening Post
Friday February 8, 2008

A campaign group has rubbished new claims there is no connection between the MMR jab and autism.

Jackie Fletcher, founder of Jabs support group for vaccine-damaged children, says the results of the latest study are misleading.

The mum-of-three from Golborne, said: "It's appalling how the Department of Health (DoH) has sprung to its conclusions. They have not compared like-with-like which proves nothing.

"The children in the original study had regressive autism, bowel problems and had suffered an adverse reaction to the MMR – nothing like the group used in this latest study."

The new report refutes earlier work by Dr Andrew Wakefield who suggested there was a link between the triple vaccine and autism in a 1998 paper.

In the recent study researchers studied blood samples from 240 children aged 10 to 12, to see if the MMR jab had caused an abnormal immune response that could have triggered autism.

The said increased antibody levels would have indicated such a response, but in the three groups studied – children with autism, those without and those with special educational needs – no difference was found.

Jackie, whose 16 year-old son Robert developed autism and epilepsy weeks after his MMR jab at 10 months, said: "Why would we expect there to be a difference? What is to say that autism is caused by antibodies?"

Mrs Fletcher claimed such reports are brought out by the DoH for "political reasons" and added: "They have had the data which this report is based on for four years. If it was that important why would they sit on it for that long? It's not just a coincidence it is also the anniversary of Dr Wakefield's report."

Dr Wakefield's research, which was published in medical journal, The Lancet, landed him before the General Medical Council, along with co-authors, John Walker-Smith and Simon Murch, accused of serious professional misconduct in relation to the study. The hearing is on-going.

Following his report, take-up for the triple vaccine plummeted, resulting in an increase in measles. The situation has now reversed after a series of denials by the government.

Jackie said: "We asked the government to do a study on 1,200 children whose lives had dramatically changed shortly after having the vaccine, but they said 'bring your science and we'll do it'.
"The latest study is deceitful and misrepresents the situation. It doesn't help a new parent make a decision about their child."

http://www.wigantoday.net/wigannews/Mums-fury-at-MMR-jab.3753338.jp

[lookfar]

Oh whatever next??!!:rolleyes:

Tattoos may help deliver vaccine

More antibodies are created with the tattooing method
Scientists in Germany say that tattoos could be the ideal way of delivering vaccines into the body.

The researchers say that in tests undertaken with mice, tattoos were much more effective in provoking a response from the immune system.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7231913.stm

[chattanova]

Oh whatever next??!!:rolleyes:



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7231913.stm

Incredible, I was thinking of this at work today:eek:. I wondered if 'they' had thought on that. . .:rolleyes:

[lookfar]

Incredible, I was thinking of this at work today:eek:. I wondered if 'they' had thought on that. . .:rolleyes:

Hey chatt honey :)

Yeah it seems they'll stoop at nothing in attempts to get these poisons into us eh!:mad: I posted on the other thread recently about ways that are being looked at using inhalation & stuff, they're desperate to vaccinate & "protect" us it seems!:rolleyes::(

[pri01]

Hey chatt honey :)

Yeah it seems they'll stoop at nothing in attempts to get these poisons into us eh!:mad: I posted on the other thread recently about ways that are being looked at using inhalation & stuff, they're desperate to vaccinate & "protect" us it seems!:rolleyes::(


Hi there guys, somehow I think that doctors are being duped into silently killing us. Most of them do their jobs for the good of the community and do their best to alleviate pain and suffering. Drugs/medicines have to be put through years of trials yet, vaccines seem to be available as and when a strain of virus is detected. If they were put through trials in the same way, then they would be unethical. Since when are mothers going to allow their newborns to be a guinea pig for a childhood vaccine? Where were these drugs tested, if they were?

[lookfar]

Hi there guys, somehow I think that doctors are being duped into silently killing us. Most of them do their jobs for the good of the community and do their best to alleviate pain and suffering. Drugs/medicines have to be put through years of trials yet, vaccines seem to be available as and when a strain of virus is detected. If they were put through trials in the same way, then they would be unethical. Since when are mothers going to allow their newborns to be a guinea pig for a childhood vaccine? Where were these drugs tested, if they were?

Hi pri01

You're absolutely right that they're being duped into believing it, as I'm sure they wouldn't be helping pump them out if it was otherwise. It's a shame that they don't see it, but I've no doubt they're being constantly brainwashed with so called scientific proof that they are doing good & for everyone's best interests.

I have no idea what/how these new ones are being tested, but I bet the evidence is being made to look like there's unfounded proof that they work. IMO most of these viruses are manufactured anyway, so it's all part of the PRS to suddenly have the miracle vaccine available. Just a thought, but how do we not know that mothers aren't already allowing their kids to be used as guinea pigs, as we're only told by the PTB that these vaccines are gonna protect them & therefore, only have their word for that & what's actually in them?:eek: Plus they certainly like to monitor our kids, especially with all the vaccines, making sure they're kept well up to date etc.

[cruise4]

I tried to warn my sister about some of this yesterday. This was both for myself, as I felt obliged to at least try to warn her, and for the sake of my nephews and nieces.

I got one word out... vaccinations... and she was off...

Her reply...

I like my life and I don't want to hear about any 'warnings'
The sheer pig ignorance and arrogance of people with money is astounding.
What a fool.

[lookfar]

I tried to warn my sister about some of this yesterday. This was both for myself, as I felt obliged to at least try to warn her, and for the sake of my nephews and nieces.

I got one word out... vaccinations... and she was off...

Her reply...

I like my life and I don't want to hear about any 'warnings'
The sheer pig ignorance and arrogance of people with money is astounding.
What a fool.

Hey cruise4 :)

I can highly sympathise with you there as I have been there too. It's so frustrating when people just won't even bother to listen & come out with automatic responses. But try not to get too upset about it honey, you did your best in trying to broach the subject & there's not much else you can do. We can't force them unfortunately, even though it sometimes makes you feel like shaking them till they listen, lol!

[enlightenme]

hi all, this is my first post here and happy to join in on this important issue.

actively trying to conceive at moment and immunisation has been playing on my mind alot. i am in 2 minds wether to immunize or not though at siding with not more and more each day. i try and live my life organically and therefor want my child/ren to do the same. how can i do this and pump god knows what into them from birth?

in Oz most schools dont allow children to start unless they are immunized. i understand where they are comming from b/c they have had it drummed into them of the importance of immunization and hey, each to their own, though i just wished that schools would be a bit more leniant on this. it just means i prob wont be able to send my child to certain schools and do a bit more research on place who do accept non-immunized children.

thanks all for your information/links on this thread. it has been a real eye opener.

[lookfar]

hi all, this is my first post here and happy to join in on this important issue.

actively trying to conceive at moment and immunisation has been playing on my mind alot. i am in 2 minds wether to immunize or not though at siding with not more and more each day. i try and live my life organically and therefor want my child/ren to do the same. how can i do this and pump god knows what into them from birth?

in Oz most schools dont allow children to start unless they are immunized. i understand where they are comming from b/c they have had it drummed into them of the importance of immunization and hey, each to their own, though i just wished that schools would be a bit more leniant on this. it just means i prob wont be able to send my child to certain schools and do a bit more research on place who do accept non-immunized children.

thanks all for your information/links on this thread. it has been a real eye opener.

Hi enlightenme & welcome to the forum :)

Yeah it certainly is a tricky one where kids are concerned as we've all had it drummed into us that this is the best course of action & we're frowned upon if we don't, like we're irresponsible parents or something. I wish you the best of luck with everything, I'm sure it won't be long :)

It's good to have you onboard & I hope you enjoy it here.

[montag]

hi all, this is my first post here and happy to join in on this important issue.

actively trying to conceive at moment and immunisation has been playing on my mind alot. i am in 2 minds wether to immunize or not though at siding with not more and more each day. i try and live my life organically and therefor want my child/ren to do the same. how can i do this and pump god knows what into them from birth?

in Oz most schools dont allow children to start unless they are immunized. i understand where they are comming from b/c they have had it drummed into them of the importance of immunization and hey, each to their own, though i just wished that schools would be a bit more leniant on this. it just means i prob wont be able to send my child to certain schools and do a bit more research on place who do accept non-immunized children.

thanks all for your information/links on this thread. it has been a real eye opener.
Hi there and welcome to the forum, I live in Melbourne also and have three children, one at primary school, one just started kinder and a two year old.

I decided against vaccination after my daughter developed a cough that lasted for eight months after one of her shots. At this stage I was unaware of the dangers of vaccination, but after a bit of study I decided no more.

With the schooling it's no problem, I went to the doctor and explained to him that I had chosen not to vaccinate any further, after advising me against it(which is his duty) he gave me a letter which he signed stating that I have sought not to have my child vaccinated, this letter I gave to medicare.
As vaccination is not compulsory in Australia(yet) no school or pre-school can deny you access, medicare or your local council will supply you with a letter of exemption for the school.

Do as much research as you can and this thread is a good start. It took a while for my wife came around to the idea, but once she did the research she came to the same conclusion.

montag

[LasseMaja]

http://www.novaccine.com/
is an informative site about the dangers of vaccination.

I recommend that you recommend this site to all the parents out there. Thanks!

As I mentioned earlier, www.vaccinfakta.com is a good swedish site on the same issue.

[lookfar]

http://www.novaccine.com/
is an informative site about the dangers of vaccination.

I recommend that you recommend this site to all the parents out there. Thanks!

As I mentioned earlier, www.vaccinfakta.com is a good swedish site on the same issue.

Thanks for the link lassemaja, I've saved it on my favourites :)

[enlightenme]

thanks for your kind welcomes lookfar and montag. its great to be here :)

montag, i always thought Oz schools frowned upon non-immunisation. well thats how much research i've done :o

your've made me alittle more releived actually, it was playing on my mind.

as i said i have heaps more reaserch to do though reading many negative stories on immunisation is quickly making up my mind.

[montag]

montag, i always thought Oz schools frowned upon non-immunisation. well thats how much research i've done :o


Whether they frown upon it or not is really none of your business and irrelevant, the fact is vaccination is not compulsory and so long as you have followed the correct procedures they can frown all they like, there's nothing they can do to stop you attending.

In my experience they didn't care a bit anyway, but be weary of your doctor as they have a lot invested in vaccinations and will try to scare you with stories of children dying horribly because they hadn't been vaccinated, IMO if you need to use fear instead of facts to support your argument then you've lost me right there.

Do your own research based on fact, then if you decide not to vaccinate make sure you stick to your guns, it's your child's health and only you can protect it.

Good luck!

[chattanova]

Children's Vaccine - Autism, Disease & Death (pdf) http://generationrescue.com/pdf/080212.pdf

[chattanova]

Human Flu Vaccine Mismatch Drives Flu Virulence

Vaccine Mismatches Drive Influenza Virulence

Recombinomics Commentary 21:25
February 16, 2008

The vaccine match failures in this season’s trivalent vaccine are creating health concerns. Last Friday the CDC held a media conference in advance of the weekly CDC influenza report. Influenza activity nationwide had taken a sudden jump, which was linked to poor vaccine matches with circulating influenza strains. Moreover there had been reports out of Europe on increased Tamiflu resistant which has “startled” influenza “experts.”

The conference last Friday was followed by an MMWR report this Friday, along with another press conference. The poor batting average of 1 for 3 for vaccine matches had really fallen to 0 for 3 because the H1N1 circulation was shifting from Solomon Island-like, to Brisbane/59-like and the Brisbane strain was not a good match for the Solomon Island vaccine. Consequently, next year’s vaccine will change all three components.

Moreover, recent data indicates the Tamiflu resistance is also appearing on the Brisbane strain. The sequence of the Brisbane strain was recently released and it is closely related to Tamiflu resistant isolates from Hawaii. Moreover, recent data from Europe on cross reactivity data between recent isolates indicates the two Tamiflu resistant strains (from France and Norway) were also Brisbane-like. However, all of the above is on isolates from 2007. The levels of resistance in 2008 isolates may be higher.

The Department of Health in Illinois just issued an alert because 10 Tamiflu resistant isolates were identified in Chicago, and eight of the ten were from the same health care facility. It is not clear if the high number was linked to Tamiflu treatment at the facility, but patients in Europe with Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 had not been taking Tamiflu, indicating H1N1 with H274Y is evolutionarily fit.

These match failures are due in part to the rapid evolution of influenza, which may be linked to increasing genetic diversity in seasonal and pandemic flu. A high percentage of swine isolates in the United States also have human genes, which leads to an increase in productive recombination and faster evolution.

The current vaccine failures highlight shortcomings in vaccine target selection, which will continue to deteriorate as influenza evolution is driven by vaccine mismatches and productive homologous recombination.

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/02160805/Vaccine_Virulence.html

[chattanova]

Meningococcal Vaccine Dangers


In its first year on the market, the new meningococcal conjugate vaccine (MCV4) was potentially associated with an increased risk of Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS), a rare neurological disorder that causes increasing weakness in the limbs. The meningococcal vaccine (Menactra) was recommended by the ACIP in May 2005 for routine vaccination of adolescents, college freshmen who live in dormitories, and other high-risk individuals.9

By September 2006, 17 confirmed cases of GBS in recipients of MCV4 had been reported to VAERS (all affected individuals had recovered or were recovering).10 Although this association does not necessarily mean the vaccine caused the illness, the CDC has reported that the timing of the onset of GBS symptoms-within one to five weeks of vaccination-is of concern. As of October 2006, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and CDC were monitoring the situation, and the CDC continued to recommend the vaccine for adolescents and others.11

http://www.rense.com/general80/menin.htm

[weirdwolf71]

My son as per the avatar, is autistic. Thankfully he's only mildly so, but still has had a big impact on us.

He's 4 now and doing well ...he's come on in leaps and bounds through good care from ourselves and very good new local state schemes.

This care also includes not giving him any more jabs of any sort...after the first round of shots inc. MMR etc, he was diagnosed at 3 for autism and since then we've turned the lot down. He's generally pretty healthy and lots of his peers have all sorts of shit allergies and always coming down with stuff...yet the parent s never question vaccines! In fact, they think they need more 'protection' by getting more jabs...what a joke!

I find I am very selective with who I tell this stuff to, as you find people don't wanna know or become very passionately opposed to you, so what is the point with them? They have to find out for themselves.

I know one american mum living over here in the UK who went out of her way to get all the extra jabs they get in the states that we don't get here!!:(

[cruise4]

http://generationrescue.com/pdf/080212.pdf

[enlightenme]

My son as per the avatar, is autistic. Thankfully he's only mildly so, but still has had a big impact on us.

He's 4 now and doing well ...he's come on in leaps and bounds through good care from ourselves and very good new local state schemes.

This care also includes not giving him any more jabs of any sort...after the first round of shots inc. MMR etc, he was diagnosed at 3 for autism and since then we've turned the lot down. He's generally pretty healthy and lots of his peers have all sorts of shit allergies and always coming down with stuff...yet the parent s never question vaccines! In fact, they think they need more 'protection' by getting more jabs...what a joke!

I find I am very selective with who I tell this stuff to, as you find people don't wanna know or become very passionately opposed to you, so what is the point with them? They have to find out for themselves.

I know one american mum living over here in the UK who went out of her way to get all the extra jabs they get in the states that we don't get here!!:(

firstly i'd like to say your son is gorgeous!
thanks for sharing your story. as you've prob read i am in two minds about immunisation though are leaning more toward against. i have started researching and the evidence of the connection toward autism amongst other things is to strong to deny. i dont know much about autism though i hope your son can rid of it soon. :)

[cruise4]

http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/3604/2004229910922582590rslt0.jpg

[weirdwolf71]

firstly i'd like to say your son is gorgeous!
thanks for sharing your story. as you've prob read i am in two minds about immunisation though are leaning more toward against. i have started researching and the evidence of the connection toward autism amongst other things is to strong to deny. i dont know much about autism though i hope your son can rid of it soon. :)

Cheers Enlightenme!! Yeh, he's pretty gorge, mostly gets it from his mummy though...she's Italian and pretty, although having said that, everyone says he looks just like me!

Done plenty of research into autism, and generally if I think there's an opportunity to say something about jabs to prospective parents, I will, but only a gentle push to get them to look into it before deciding.

If I could do it over again, I would not go near any of them. The case to show that immunisations are basically ineffective or worse is big... good cleanliness, clean water and good sewerage are the staples for keeping disease at bay, not to mention strengthening the immune system with good unprocessed food and avoiding the jabs, which undermine immunity.

If you fancy, watch this interview with a father/son doctor team who thru their research found out some startling things about the mercury coverup, and how high testosterone levels are connected with autism...this is why more boys than girls get autism..

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=6947399413862760097

[chattanova]

Vaccine Eugenics

Vaccines, Sterilisation & Abortion

"The HPV vaccine has only been tested for five years on possibly as low as 100,000 ten year old girls in Africa." You read it here first - Gardasil by Erika Schwartz, MD

“Gardasil contains Polysorbate 80, which is linked to infertility in mice,” noted Dee Nicholson, National Communications Director for Freedom in Canadian Health Care. [Nov 2007] Sleight of Handling: More Merck Magic Tricks With HPV Vaccine By Christopher C. Barr
[2006] United States Funding Sterilizations of Philippine Women

Vaccines and the Akha People of Thailand. Tetanus Toxoid and spontaneous abortions

Parenting with Deadly Timely Propaganda --Dr. Len Horowitz

Genocide in a vaccine: Pantheism's moral Chemistry by Suzanne Rini

Vaccine fertility control: the last mass control weapon of the establisment
Supplementary information on vaccine safety WHO/V&B/00

[2007] Gardasil shot implications

[July 2006] British Politician Goes On TV Demanding The Truth Be Told About The Strange Death Of Micro-Biologist, Dr. David Kelly

Vaccine Boycott Grows in Northern Nigeria

See: Vaccine genocide Genocide

Quotes
Kelly was said to be involved in the apartheid regime’s most secret project. According to a previous London press account, Kelly was involved in Code-named Project Coast, trying to create a genetically engineered weapon to attack only the country's black population and to develop a vaccine to block human fertility in blacks. Dr. Kelly had visited the project's headquarters soon after he was appointed in 1972 to be head of the microbiology department at Porton Down, Britain's top-secret biological warfare establishment in Wiltshire.

A northern state in Nigeria that is at the heart of a spreading polio outbreak said Sunday that it would not relent on its boycott of a mass vaccination program, which it has called a U.S. plot to spread AIDS and infertility among Muslims ....Kano state officials say their lab tests carried out late last year found estrogen and other female sex hormones in the polio vaccine -- proof, they say, that the vaccines are contaminated. [Media Feb 2004] Province at heart of outbreak alleges anti-Muslim plot

The Associated Press obtained a copy of the committee's interim report that ruled the vaccines safe. However, it acknowledged the tests showed "trace amounts of estradiol," a form of the female hormone estrogen the vaccine's Muslim detractors claim could cause infertility. ...Muslims in Nigeria's north have been wary of vaccine campaigns since 1996, when families in Kano state accused New York-based Pfizer Inc. of using an experimental meningitis drug without fully informing of the risks.....The company denied any wrongdoing. A U.S. court dismissed a lawsuit by 20 disabled Nigerians who allegedly took part in the study, but a U.S. appeals court later revived it. Vaccine Boycott Grows in Northern Nigeria

"At present, we are doing research on the Tetanus Vaccines that were given last March 1994 by our Dept. of Health to women of reproductive age. Many of the women complained of bleeding (miscarriages) and allergies. We got alarmed recently when we received communications from Magally Llaguno that the vaccine in Mexico contained hCG . . . If you have enough [research] papers, could your group do a press release via international press like Reuters so that all countries could be alerted?" Genocide in a vaccine: Pantheism's moral Chemistry by Suzanne Rini

In the area of the iris that corresponds to the uterus, in three of the girls he saw tissue damage, and in the fourth he saw drug residue. In each of the four cases, on reporting back to the patient what he was observing, he was informed that the girl had recently received the cervical cancer vaccine. All were virgins.
Tissue damage in the uterus is what he sees in women who have had such things as abortions and prolapses, and can be a precursor to cancer. It can also cause infertility - as it can prevent the embryo from being able to hold on to the uterus wall. It also often results in lack of sensitivity with sexual intercourse, pain, discomfort and/or frequent discharges. Gardasil shot implications

Administration of tetanus toxoid (either as TT or Td) in mass campaigns is generally as part of a high risk approach delivering the vaccine to women of childbearing age in a given locality............. 5 doses of tetanus toxoid for women of child-bearing age as for non-HIV infected persons. Supplementary information on vaccine safety WHO/V&B/00 (added emphasis)

"One CFR published policy objective is substantial worldwide depopulation including half of the current U.S. population being targeted. This population reduction program is largely funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Merck Fund, both financially and administratively linked to the Merck pharmaceutical company--the world's leading vaccine manufacturer........Records show the Merck pharmaceutical company received a major share of the Nazi "flight capital" at the close of World War II when its president, George W. Merck, was America's biological weapons industry director. These facts were revealed by Norman Covert, Army public relations director at Fort Detrick in Frederick, MD, and veteran news correspondent Paul Manning in his book "Martin Bormann: Nazi in Exile" (Lyle Stuart, Inc, 1981). "---Dr Horowitz

An astonishing journal paper. 1 November, 1993. FASEB Journal, volume 7, pp.1381-1385. Authors—Stephan Dirnhofer et al. Dirnhofer is from the Institute for Biomedical Aging Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. A quote from the paper: "Our study provides insights into possible modes of action of the birth control vaccine promoted by the Task Force on Birth Control Vaccines of the WHO (World Health Organization)."A birth control vaccine? What? Yes. A vaccine whose purpose is to achieve non-pregnancy where it ordinarily could occur.Sterilization? This particular vaccine is apparently just one of several anti-fertility vaccines the Task Force is promoting. Yes. There is a Task Force on Birth Control Vaccines at WHO. This journal paper focuses on a hormone called human chorionic gonadotropin B (hCG). There is a heading in the paper (p.1382) called "Ability of antibodies to neutralize the biological activity of hCG." The authors are trying to discover whether a state of no-fertility can be achieved by blocking the normal activity of hCG. They state, "We conclude from our results that both the efficacy and safety of the WHO vaccine are not yet ensured."
Another journal paper. The British Medical Bulletin, volume 49,1993. "Contraceptive Vaccines" is the title of the paper. The authors—RJ Aitken et al. From the MRC Reproductive Biology Unit, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
"Three major approaches to contraceptive vaccine development are being pursued at the present time. The most advanced approach, which has already reached the stage of phase 2 clinical trials [human trials testing efficacy], involves the induction of immunity against human chorionic gonadotro-phin (hCG). Vaccines are being engineered ... incorporating tetanus or diptheria toxoid linked to a variety of hCG-based peptides... Clinical trials have revealed that such preparations are capable of stimulating the production of anti-hCG anti*bodies. However, the long-term consequences of such immu nity in terms of safety or efficacy are, as yet, unknown...The authors are talking about creating an immune response against a female hormone....The authors state, "The fundamental principle behind this approach to contraceptive vaccine development is to prevent the maternal recognition of pregnancy by inducing a state of immunity against hGC, the hormone mat signals the presence of the embryo to the maternal endocrine system."...... Rappoport, Jon (Ownership of All Life p66)

"In 1995, a Catholic human rights organization called Human Life International accused the WHO of promoting a Canadian-made tetanus vaccine laced with a pregancy hormone called human choriogonadotropic hormone (HCG). Suspicions were aroused when the tetanus vaccine was prescribed in the unusual dose of five multiple injections over a three month period, and recommended only to women of reproductive age. When an unusual number of women experienced vaginal bleeding and miscarriages after the shots, a hormone additive was uncovered as the cause.
Apparently the WHO has been developing and testing anti-fertility vaccines for over two decades. Women receiving the laced tetanus shot not only developed antibodies to tetanus, but they also developed dangerous antibodies to the pregnancy hormone as well. Without this HCG hormone the growth of the fetus is impaired. Consequently, the laced vaccine served as a covert contraceptive device. Commissioned to analyze the vaccine, the Philippines Medical Association found that 20 percent of the WHO tetanus vaccines were contaminated with the hormone. Not surprisingly, the WHO has denied all accusations as "completely false and without basis," and the major media have never reported on the controversy. For futher details on this issue, consult the Human Life International website (www.hli.org)."--- Dr Alan Cantwell MD

"Non Voluntary Vaccinations of Akha Women. Possibility of link to In-utero deaths among Akha women which are frequent in this region. This vaccination given twice to three times during pregnancy. Akha women in Thailand say that if they object they are told that they will not be given identity papers for their child when born."

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Vaccines, Depression and Neurodegeneration After Age 50

By Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., CCN

It has been estimated that 14.8 million Americans suffer from major depressive disorder and of this number 6 million are elderly. If we include anxiety disorders, which commonly accompany depression, the number jumps to 40 million adults. At a cost of $44 billon dollars a year just for care of the seniors, this impacts the national budget as well.

Depression later in life tends to last longer and be more severe than at younger ages. It is also associated with a high rate of suicide.

Previously, it was thought that major depression was secondary to a deficiency in certain neurotransmitters in the brain, particularly the monoamines, which include serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine. While alterations in these important mood-related neurotransmitters is found with major depression, growing evidence indicates that the primary culprit is low-grade, chronic brain inflammation.

In addition, we now know that inflammatory cytokines can lower serotonin significantly and for long periods by a number of different mechanisms.

MSG and Depression

Researchers have also discovered that most people with major depressive disease (MDD) have higher levels of the neurotransmitter glutamate in their spinal fluid (CSF) and blood plasma. This is the same glutamate found as a food additive-for example, MSG (monosodium glutamate), hydrolyzed proteins, calcium or sodium casienate, soy protein isolate, vegetable protein concentrate or isolate, etc.

Much of the free glutamate in the brain of depressed people comes from within, that is it escapes from special cells within the brain itself (microglia and astrocytes). Free glutamate, that is, existing outside the neurons, is very toxic to brain connections and brain cells themselves -- mainly by a process called excitotoxicity.

This connection between high brain glutamate levels and major depression was discovered quite by accident, when researchers observed that the anesthetic drug ketamine could relieve depression for a prolonged period. Ketamine is a powerful blocking drug for a class of glutamate receptors (NMDA receptors).

For quite some time it was known that depression could cause a loss of neurons in the hippocampus of the brain-the area most important for recent memory (declarative memory or working memory), the form of memory most affected in Alzheimer's disease.

This shrinkage of the brain usually occurred with long-term depression, yet it was shown, using sophisticated testing, that even without brain shrinkage, memory could be adversely affected. Some antidepressants could not only reverse the memory loss but could reverse the shrinkage as well.

The implication was that the elevated brain glutamate, via excitotoxicity, was destroying brain connections and later killing brain cells in the hippocampus and that the antidepressants were lowering brain glutamate levels. Subsequent studies have confirmed that drugs that block excitotoxicity also reduce depression and that some antidepressants reduce brain glutamate levels.

The Link Between Elevated Brain Glutamate and Inflammation

A tremendous amount of research has now demonstrated the link between chronic low-level brain inflammation, elevated brain glutamate levels and major depression. We know that as we age, the level of inflammatory immune cytokines increase (such as interleukin-1ß (IL-1), IL-6 and TNF-a). That is, the level of inflammation in our body increases, with high levels being seen at the extremes of life -- the 80s and 90s.

This progressive elevation in the body's inflammation increases our risk of a number of inflammation-linked diseases, such as cancer, arthritis, muscle weakness, fatigue, sleep disturbances, memory loss and confusion. People with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease have even higher levels of these inflammatory cytokines -- much higher.

When inflammatory chemicals are elevated in the brain it makes brain cells more vulnerable to a number of toxins, many of which are in the environment. One study demonstrated, using a series of sophisticated techniques, that if brain cells were exposed to low levels of a pesticide there was little toxicity seen and that if you exposed these same brain cells to an immune stimulant alone, little damage occurred.

But if you first exposed the brain cells to the immune stimulant, the same low dose of pesticide could destroy a great number of brain cells.

The importance of this observation was that the vaccine made the brain cells hypersensitive to the toxin so that even in concentrations that normally would do not cause harm, could wiped out most of the neurons. One of the strongest connections between an environmental toxin (pesticides) and a neurological disorder is with Parkinson's disease.

The reason it is more common in the elderly is that they have the highest levels of inflammatory cytokines. This also explains the high incidence of Alzheimer's disease, which reaches incidences of 50% after age 80.

The link to depression was also serendipitous

Doctors using immune cytokines to treat patients with cancer or hepatitis found that one third of the patients developed major depressive illness within days of the treatment and that it resolved only when the treatment was terminated. Other studies, in which inflammatory cytokine levels were measured in people with major depressive illness, also found most had high levels of these inflammatory chemicals.

To their surprise, they found that many of the antidepressant medications commonly used lowered inflammatory cytokines levels and that patients who failed to respond had the highest level of the cytokines.

So, how is this linked to excitotoxicity?

Neuroscientists have known for some time that inflammatory cytokines cause the brain to release higher levels of glutamate -- the more intense the inflammation, the higher the brain glutamate level. The highest levels are found in the prefrontal lobes and limbic system, the areas most related to mood control. MSG also increases brain inflammation.

Vaccination and Brain Inflammation

A great number of studies have shown that when you vaccinate an animal, the body's inflammatory cytokines not only increase dramatically, but so do the brain's inflammatory chemicals. The brain has its own immune system that is intimately connected to the body's immune system. The main immune cell in the brain is called a microglia. Normally, these brain cells are lying throughout the brain in a resting state (called ramified).

Once activated, they can move around, traveling between brain cells like amoeba (called amoeboid microglia).

In the resting state, they release chemicals that support the growth and protection of brain cells and their connections (dendrites and synapses). But when activated, they secrete a number of very harmful chemicals, including inflammatory cytokines, chemokines, complement, free radicals, lipid peroxidation products, and two excitotoxins -- glutamate and quinolinic acid.

In essence, these brain immune cells are out to kill invaders, since the body's immune system sent an emergency message that an invasion had occurred. With most infections, this phase of activation last no more than a few days to two weeks, during which time the immune system successfully kills off the invaders.

Once that is accomplished, the immune system shuts down to allow things to cool off and the brain to repair what damage was done by its own immune system.

What researchers knew was that during this period of activation, people generally feel bad and that what they experience closely resembles depression -- a condition called "sickness behavior". Most of us have experience this when suffering from a viral illness -- such things as restlessness, irritability, a need to get away from people, trouble sleeping, fatigue and difficulty thinking.

Studies have shown that there are two phases to this "sickness behavior"; one in which we have the flu-like symptoms and a later onset of depression-like symptoms that can last awhile. They have also shown that all of these symptoms are due to high levels of inflammatory cytokines in the brain, which come from activated microglia.

A number of studies have also shown that after age 50, people have exaggerated and prolonged "sickness behavior", much more so than younger people. This is one of the reasons why many elderly hang onto flu symptoms for months after exposure.

There is also another immune phenomenon that plays a major role in vaccine-related brain injury. Researchers discovered that when you vaccinate an animal, the brain microglia immune cells turn on partially (called priming), that is, they are in a state of high readiness. If the immune system is activated again soon after (days, weeks to months), these microglia explode into action secreting levels of their destructive chemicals far higher than normal. This overreaction can be very destructive and make you feel very depressed.

Stimulating your immune system with a vaccine is far different than contracting an infectious illness naturally. Vaccines are made of two components -- the agent you wish to vaccinate against -- for example, the measles virus; and an immune system booster called an immune adjuvant.

These adjuvants are composed of such things as aluminum compounds, MSG, lipid compounds and even mercury. Their job is to make the immune system react as intensely as possible and for as long as possible.

Studies have shown that these adjuvants, from a single vaccine, can cause immune overactivation for as long as two years. This means that the brain microglia remain active as well, continuously pouring out destructive chemicals. In fact, one study found that a single injection of an immune activating substance could cause brain immune overactivation for over a year. This is very destructive.

Flu Vaccines and an Expanding Vaccine Schedule for the Elderly

Public health authorities and physician societies are in an all out campaign to have every elderly person vaccinated every year with the flu vaccine as well as a growing number of newer vaccines. When I was practicing neurosurgery, the hospitals had an automatic written order on all older patients' charts mandating a flu vaccine, unless it was countermanded by the physician, which I always did.

Now, they are giving the shots in malls, tents and every available site they can muster. And worse still, using lies and scare tactics to frighten the elderly into getting the shots (such as the bold lie that 36,000 elderly die of the flu every year).

As you age, your immune system, including that special immune system in your brain, releases significantly more inflammatory immune cytokines than when you were younger. This serves to prime the microglia, as discussed. So, when you get your first flu shot your microglia overreact and does so for a very long period -- perhaps years.

Many elderly report that the flu shot gave them the flu. Proponents of vaccines, retort with a condescending laugh; that it is impossible because the flu vaccine contains killed flu viruses. In truth, what these people are reporting is a prolonged, intense "sickness behavior" response to the vaccine. To the body, it is worse than getting the flu.

Remember, no one is recording the number of elderly who die after getting the flu shot, especially if they die months later, which can happen with sickness behavior, especially if they have a preexisting chronic illness or are infirm.

The Shocking Truth

With the elderly already having increased inflammatory cytokine levels both systemically and in their brain, stimulating these primed microglia so that a chronic overstimulation of the brain's immune system is triggered, will not only increase their risk of developing one of the neurodegenerative diseases, but will also substantially increase their risk of developing major depression. Remember, this also increases their risk of suicide, and even homicide, dramatically.

Anxiety is a major problem with depression, and vaccinations will greatly worsen the condition. In fact, vaccination, especially multiple vaccinations, will maintain the brain in a state of inflammation that will be self-perpetuating, because the excess release of glutamate in the brain, as well as glutamate in the diet, will further enhance microglial activation and excitotoxicity.

Those who are prone to developing one of the neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease or Parkinson's disease will be at a drastically increased risk as we have seen experimentally when even animals exposed to subtoxic concentrations of environmental toxins and vaccinated develop neurologic worsening.

Most people use pesticides in their home, and studies have shown that the concentrations in homes are sufficient to trigger Parkinson's disease in susceptible people. Vaccinations, as these studies have shown, will greatly increase that risk. Most doctors are completely unaware of this important research.

You must keep in mind that "health authorities" urge the elderly to get the flu vaccine each and every year. This will keep the microglia in a primed and even activated state continuously. Recently, neurologists announced that the incidence of neurodegenerative disease had been grossly underestimated and that neurological diseases of aging were increasing at a frightening rate. They have no explanation.

Over the last three decades the number of elderly receiving yearly flu vaccines has risen from 20% before 1980 to over 60% today.

If this were not depressing enough, now the public health authorities and medical specialty societies are adding a whole new set of vaccines for those above 50 years of age, including the pneumococcal and meningiococcal vaccines. What is being completely ignored by the promoters of these vaccines is the effect of multiple doses of immune adjuvant that accompany each of these vaccines.

Let's say you see your doctor and he talks you into getting the flu vaccine, the pneumococcal and meningiococcal vaccine all during the same office visit. That way, he can save you extra office visits. What your doctor ignores is that he is giving you three doses of powerful immune adjuvant all in one sitting, which means that your body and brain are assaulted by a massive dose of powerful immune activators, which have been proven to activate the brain's immune system to dangerous levels, even when given as a single dose.

Proof of this mechanism exists not only in animal studies, but in humans as well.

Mercury and Aluminum

There are other ways that vaccines can cause havoc in the brain. Most vaccines contain aluminum compounds. A multitude of studies have shown that aluminum, especially if combined with fluoride, is a powerful brain toxin and that it accumulates in the brain. With each vaccine injection, a dose of aluminum is given. These yearly aluminum inoculations accumulate not only at the site of the injection, but travel to the brain, where it enters neurons and glial cells (astrocytes and microglia).

A number of studies have shown that aluminum can activate microglia and do so for long periods. This means that the aluminum in your vaccination is priming your microglia to overreact. The next vaccine acts to trigger the enhanced inflammatory reaction and release of the excitotoxins, glutamate and quinolinic acid.

You must also appreciate that any infection, stroke, head injury or other toxin exposure will also magnify this inflammatory brain reaction initially triggered by your vaccines. Studies have now indicated that the more one's immune system is activated the more like he or she will suffer from one of the neurodegenerative diseases.

Mercury is also a powerful activator of brain microglia and can do so in extremely low concentrations -- in nanomolar amounts. Because of its numerous reactions with sulfhydral compounds in the body (which are ubiquitous), mercury can poison a number of enzymes, both systemically and in the brain. Of special concern is the ability of mercury, especially ethylmercury (the kind found in vaccines called thimerosal) to inhibit the regulation of brain glutamate levels. (It does this by inhibiting the glutamate transfer proteins that control the removal of glutamate from outside the neuron, where it does its harm.)

In essence, mercury, in the concentrations being injected with vaccines, triggers excitotoxicity, increases brain free radicals and lipid peroxidation products, inhibits critical brain enzymes, inhibits antioxidant enzymes and impairs DNA repair ability. The flu vaccine contains enough mercury to do all of these things. You must keep in mind that each flu vaccine adds to the mercury supplied by your last vaccine -- that is, it is progressively accumulating in your brain.

In addition, the aluminum in the vaccines also primes microglia, and when combined with mercury is infinitively more toxic to the brain. Now, if this is not enough, we also have to consider the contamination of vaccines with foreign viruses and viral components. Studies have shown that this is not a rare occurrence, with up to 60% of vaccines being contaminated in one study of several major manufactured vaccines.

When confronted with this fact, vaccine proponents just shrug their shoulders and say -- "We don't think these things are harmful."

Yet, the studies say otherwise.

It has been found that insertion of viral fragments, not even the whole virus, is sufficient to trigger the brain's microglial system and subsequent excitotoxicity, leading to progressive brain degeneration. This is accepted to be the mechanism by which the HIV virus causes dementia in a great number of AIDS victims. Fragments of the virus (gp140 and Tat) are engulfed by the microglia and this triggers chronic brain inflammation and excitotoxicity. The herpes virus and measles virus can do the same thing.

Danger of Live Virus Vaccines

A number of studies have shown that live viruses used in vaccines can enter the brain and reside there for a lifetime. One such study, in which autopsied elderly were examined for the presence of the measles virus, found that 20% of the brains had live measles viruses and 45% of other organs were infected. These viruses were highly mutated, meaning that they could be just as potent as other measles viruses, but could be even more virulent.

Worse, is that in most cases they cause a smoldering destruction of tissues without the obvious symptoms of infection, which has been shown in a number of studies.

Live virus vaccines are made using a process to attenuate the pathogenic or disease-causing virus by passing it through a series of cultures. The problem is that the reverse can also happen within the body. A number of studies have shown that when we produce free radicals in our body (and we produce tons of such radicals over a lifetime), it mutates the viruses residing in our tissues. This is what was found in the autopsy study I referred to above.

Likewise, these viruses can trigger brain inflammation and degeneration, which has been shown in a number of studies -- that is, there exist a chronic degeneration of the brain over years or decades. Because it is so far separated from the time of the original vaccine, physicians just attribute it to old age or heredity. Anything but the vaccines.

Virologists are also concerned that such mutated live viruses can also infect other people, leading to outbreaks of disease totally unsuspected by health authorities.

Conclusion

Current recommendations by the CDC for adult vaccinations include a total of 14 separate inoculations with infectious agents and powerful immune adjuvants. To be fair, some of these are for special medical risks and conditions, such as high-risk behaviors, illegal drug use and HIV infected individuals.

If we eliminate these, women will be exposed to 10 inoculations and men 7, should they follow CDC guidelines, which doctors follow.

According to CDC recommendations, multiple vaccinations for a single disease are separated by no more than 4 weeks, which is close enough together to produce priming and subsequent hyperactivation of brain microglia. We have seen that this can trigger a smoldering process of brain inflammation and excitotoxicity that can not only result in depression, anxiety and high suicide rates, but can increase one's risk of developing one of the neurodegenerative diseases as well.

We have also seen that in many cases a person will be injected with several vaccines during a single office visit and that this means their body is exposed to a very large dose of immune adjuvant. Compelling studies, using many animal species as well as humans, have shown that this overactivates brain inflammatory mechanism that can last for years.

In addition, several additives to vaccines, such as mercury and aluminum, are powerful brain toxins that are known to accumulate in the brain over years and can trigger brain inflammatory/excitotoxic mechanisms. Vaccine contaminants, such as bacteria, mycoplasma and viral fragments can also produce prolonged brain inflammation and neurodegeneration.

Because the elderly already have high levels of inflammatory cytokines, they are at a special risk. The very young (babies and small children) are at a high risk because their brains are undergoing the most rapid development at the very time they receive the greatest number of vaccinations -- the first two years of life. In fact, they receive 22 vaccines during the first year of life, one of which contains a full pediatric dose of mercury.

Like adults, they receive many inoculations (up to 9 inoculations) in one office visit. This is insane and in my estimation, criminal.

Nasal flu vaccines are even worse, because they introduce a live virus into the nasal passages, which can then travel along the olfactory nerves, which leads to the very part of the brain first and most severely affected by Alzheimer's disease. A number of studies have shown that viruses and bacteria can pass along this route to the brain.

In fact, in one study scientists sprayed a bacterium into the nose of mice and observed a rapid development of Alzheimer's type plaques in the mouse's brain.

So What Should Older People Do?

First, studies have shown that the primary cause of immune deficiency in the elderly is purely dietary. The carotenoids, such as beta-carotene, alpha-carotene, canthaxanthin, lutein and lycopene significantly enhance the immunity of the elderly. Zinc, magnesium and selenium are also essential. One should also avoid omega-6 oils (the vegetable oils: corn, safflower, sunflower, canola, soybean and peanut oils), since they greatly enhance inflammation and depress immunity. The EPA component of fish oils (omega-3 oils) is also a powerful immune suppressant. DHA is not.

A healthy immune system means that you can fight infections efficiently and rapidly.

Regular exercise, such as brisk walking or weight exercises three to five times a week also boost immunity, while extreme exercise suppresses immunity. Sugar and refined carbohydrates also suppress immunity and inflame the brain. Exercise protects the brain from aging effects and from degeneration.

Adequate sleep is also vital to both brain health and good immune function.

Pubic health officials and spokesmen for the major medical societies are lying to the public concerning vaccine safety. We now possess sufficient information from a great number of studies to halt this disastrous vaccine policy. We are facing a medial disaster in this country, which is already well on its way.

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New Merck Vax For Kids Tied To Seizures, Fever


ProQuad vaccine linked to more convulsions; CDC panel amends preference for combo'



ATLANTA - Children suffered higher rates of fever-related convulsions when they got a Merck & Co. combination vaccine instead of two separate shots, according to a new study presented Wednesday.

The results prompted a federal advisory panel on vaccines to water down their preference for the combo vaccine ProQuad, which protects against measles, mumps and rubella as well as chickenpox.

In the study of children ages 12 months through 23 months, the rate of seizures was twice as high in toddlers who got ProQuad, compared with those who got one shot for chickenpox and one for the three other diseases.

The risk translates to about one extra case of convulsion for every 2,000 doses of ProQuad given said Dr. Nicola Klein, who lead the federally funded study. She presented the data at a meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

The study focused on children who develop fevers and then go into convulsions — an occurrence that frightens parents but usually has no lingering consequences. There were no deaths in the new study.

ProQuad was licensed in 2005. It's been in extremely short supply since last year, when Merck suspended production because of manufacturing problems. The company expects to resume ProQuad production next year.

The panel had previously taken a position that they preferred doctors give children as few needlesticks as possible, and that ProQuad is preferable to giving separate shots.

It voted Wednesday to amend that, to say they're no longer voicing a preference for ProQuad over the separate shots.

"Safety, shortages, delivery issues — lots of reasons not to state such a strong preference," said member panel Patsy Stinchfield, an infectious disease expert at Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota.

Merck officials said their own research, though preliminary, also showed a doubling of the risk in children within five to 12 days of vaccination. However, the occurrence was low — about 5 cases in 10,000, Merck officials said.

They said there was five times more chickenpox antigen, the key ingredient, in the ProQuad shot than in the stand-alone chickenpox shot. But they said it's not clear that would explain the difference in seizure rates.

For some reason, the difference disappears when comparing rates for 30 days, Merck officials added.

Klein's research checked seizure rates only at seven to 10 days after vaccination, and looked at about 43,000 kids who got ProQuad and 315,000 who got the two other shots together. It found fever-related seizures occurred at a rate of 9 per 10,000 children vaccinated with ProQuad, compared with 4 per 10,000 for those who got separate shots.

Klein is co-director of Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center in Oakland, Calif., one of seven sites in the study. Her work was funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

ProQuad costs $124 per dose, about the same as the two other shots combined.

http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/16054722.html

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US Government Admits Vaccine-Autism Link

Government Concedes Vaccine-Autism Case in Federal Court - Now What?

After years of insisting there is no evidence to link vaccines with the onset of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the US government has quietly conceded a vaccine-autism case in the Court of Federal Claims.

The unprecedented concession was filed on November 9, and sealed to protect the plaintiff's identify. It was obtained through individuals unrelated to the case.

The claim, one of 4,900 autism cases currently pending in Federal "Vaccine Court," was conceded by US Assistant Attorney General Peter Keisler and other Justice Department officials, on behalf of the Department of Health and Human Services, the "defendant" in all Vaccine Court cases.

The child's claim against the government -- that mercury-containing vaccines were the cause of her autism -- was supposed to be one of three "test cases" for the thimerosal-autism theory currently under consideration by a three-member panel of Special Masters, the presiding justices in Federal Claims Court.

Keisler wrote that medical personnel at the HHS Division of Vaccine Injury Compensation (DVIC) had reviewed the case and "concluded that compensation is appropriate."

The doctors conceded that the child was healthy and developing normally until her 18-month well-baby visit, when she received vaccinations against nine different diseases all at once (two contained thimerosal).

Days later, the girl began spiraling downward into a cascade of illnesses and setbacks that, within months, presented as symptoms of autism, including: No response to verbal direction; loss of language skills; no eye contact; loss of "relatedness;" insomnia; incessant screaming; arching; and "watching the florescent lights repeatedly during examination."

Seven months after vaccination, the patient was diagnosed by Dr. Andrew Zimmerman, a leading neurologist at the Kennedy Krieger Children's Hospital Neurology Clinic, with "regressive encephalopathy (brain disease) with features consistent with autistic spectrum disorder, following normal development." The girl also met the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) official criteria for autism.

In its written concession, the government said the child had a pre-existing mitochondrial disorder that was "aggravated" by her shots, and which ultimately resulted in an ASD diagnosis.

"The vaccinations received on July 19, 2000, significantly aggravated an underlying mitochondrial disorder," the concession says, "which predisposed her to deficits in cellular energy metabolism, and manifested as a regressive encephalopathy with features of ASD."

This statement is good news for the girl and her family, who will now be compensated for the lifetime of care she will require. But its implications for the larger vaccine-autism debate, and for public health policy in general, are not as certain.

In fact, the government's concession seems to raise more questions than it answers.

1) Is there a connection between vaccines, mitochondrial disorders and a diagnosis of autism, at least in some cases?

Mitochondria, you may recall from biology class, are the little powerhouses within cells that convert food into electrical energy, partly through a complex process called "oxidative phosphorylation." If this process is impaired, mitochondrial disorder will ensue.

The child in this case had several markers for Mt disease, which was confirmed by muscle biopsy. Mt disease is often marked by lethargy, poor muscle tone, poor food digestion and bowel problems, something found in many children diagnosed with autism.

But mitochondrial disorders are rare in the general population, affecting some 2-per-10,000 people (or just 0.2%). So with 4,900 cases filed in Vaccine Court, this case should be the one and only, extremely rare instance of Mt disease in all the autism proceedings.

But it is not.

Mitochondrial disorders are now thought to be the most common disease associated with ASD. Some journal articles and other analyses have estimated that 10% to 20% of all autism cases may involve mitochondrial disorders, which would make them one thousand times more common among people with ASD than the general population.

Another article, published in the Journal of Child Neurology and co-authored by Dr. Zimmerman, showed that 38% of Kennedy Krieger Institute autism patients studied had one marker for impaired oxidative phosphorylation, and 47% had a second marker.

The authors -- who reported on a case-study of the same autism claim conceded in Vaccine Court -- noted that "children who have (mitochondrial-related) dysfunctional cellular energy metabolism might be more prone to undergo autistic regression between 18 and 30 months of age if they also have infections or immunizations at the same time."

An interesting aspect of Mt disease in autism is that, with ASD, the mitochondrial disease seems to be milder than in "classic" cases of Mt disorder. In fact, classic Mt disease is almost always inherited, either passed down by the mother through mitochondrial DNA, or by both parents through nuclear DNA.

In autism-related Mt disease, however, the disorder is not typically found in other family members, and instead appears to be largely of the sporadic variety, which may now account for 75% of all mitochondrial disorders.

Meanwhile, an informal survey of seven families of children with cases currently pending in Vaccine Court revealed that all seven showed markers for mitochondrial dysfunction, dating back to their earliest medical tests. The facts in all seven claims mirror the case just conceded by the government: Normal development followed by vaccination, immediate illness, and rapid decline culminating in an autism diagnosis.

2) With 4,900 cases pending, and more coming, will the government concede those with underlying Mt disease -- and if it not, will the Court award compensation?

The Court will soon begin processing the 4900 cases pending before it. What if 10% to 20% of them can demonstrate the same Mt disease and same set of facts as those in the conceded case? Would the government be obliged to concede 500, or even 1,000 cases? What impact would that have on public opinion? And is there enough money currently in the vaccine injury fund to cover so many settlements?

When asked for a comment last week about the court settlement, a spokesman for HHS furnished the following written statement:


"DVIC has reviewed the scientific information concerning the allegation that vaccines cause autism and has found no credible evidence to support the claim. Accordingly, in every case under the Vaccine Act, DVIC has maintained the position that vaccines do not cause autism, and has never concluded in any case that autism was caused by vaccination."

3) If the government is claiming that vaccines did not "cause" autism, but instead aggravated a condition to "manifest" as autism, isn't that a very fine distinction?

For most affected families, such linguistic gymnastics is not so important. And even if a vaccine injury "manifested" as autism in only one case, isn't that still a significant development worthy of informing the public?

On the other hand, perhaps what the government is claiming is that vaccination resulted in the symptoms of autism, but not in an actual, factually correct diagnosis of autism itself.

4) If the government is claiming that this child does NOT have autism, then how many other children might also have something else that merely "mimics" autism?

Is it possible that 10%-20% of the cases that we now label as "autism," are not autism at all, but rather some previously undefined "look-alike" syndrome that merely presents as "features" of autism?

This question gets to the heart of what autism actually is. The disorder is defined solely as a collection of features, nothing more. If you have the features (and the diagnosis), you have the disorder. The underlying biology is the great unknown.

But let's say the government does determine that these kids don't have actual "autism" (something I speculated on HuffPost a year ago). Then shouldn't the Feds go back and test all people with ASD for impaired oxidative phosphorylation, perhaps reclassifying many of them?

If so, will we then see "autism" cases drop by tens, if not hundreds of thousands of people? Will there be a corresponding ascension of a newly described disorder, perhaps something like "Vaccine Aggravated Mitochondrial Disease with Features of ASD?"

And if this child was technically "misdiagnosed" with DSM-IV autism by Dr Zimmerman, how does he feel about HHS doctors issuing a second opinion re-diagnosis of his patient, whom they presumably had neither met nor examined? (Zimmerman declined an interview).

And along those lines, aren't Bush administration officials somewhat wary of making long-distance, retroactive diagnoses from Washington, given that the Terry Schiavo incident has not yet faded from national memory?

5) Was this child's Mt disease caused by a genetic mutation, as the government implies, and wouldn't that have manifested as "ASD features" anyway?

In the concession, the government notes that the patient had a "single nucleotide change" in the mitochondrial DNA gene T2387C, implying that this was the underlying cause of her manifested "features" of autism.

While it's true that some inherited forms of Mt disease can manifest as developmental delays, (and even ASD in the form of Rhett Syndrome) these forms are linked to identified genetic mutations, of which T2387C is not involved. In fact little, if anything, is known about the function of this particular gene.

What's more, there is no evidence that this girl, prior to vaccination, suffered from any kind of "disorder" at all- genetic, mitochondrial or otherwise. Some forms of Mt disease are so mild that the person is unaware of being affected. This perfectly developing girl may have had Mt disorder at the time of vaccination, but nobody detected, or even suspected it.

And, there is no evidence to suggest that this girl would have regressed into symptoms consistent with a DSM-IV autism diagnosis without her vaccinations. If there was such evidence, then why on earth would these extremely well-funded government attorneys compensate this alleged injury in Vaccine Court? Why wouldn't they move to dismiss, or at least fight the case at trial?

6) What are the implications for research?

The concession raises at least two critical research questions: What are the causes of Mt dysfunction; and how could vaccines aggravate that dysfunction to the point of "autistic features?"

While some Mt disorders are clearly inherited, the "sporadic" form is thought to account for 75% of all cases, according to the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation. So what causes sporadic Mt disease? "Medicines or other toxins," says the Cleveland Clinic, a leading authority on the subject.

Use of the AIDS drug AZT, for example, can cause Mt disorders by deleting large segments of mitochondrial DNA. If that is the case, might other exposures to drugs or toxins (i.e., thimerosal, mercury in fish, air pollution, pesticides, live viruses) also cause sporadic Mt disease in certain subsets of children, through similar genotoxic mechanisms?

Among the prime cellular targets of mercury are mitochondria, and thimerosal-induced cell death has been associated with the depolarization of mitochondrial membrane, according to the International Journal of Molecular Medicine among several others. (Coincidently, the first case of Mt disease was diagnosed in 1959, just 15 years after the first autism case was named, and two decades after thimerosal's introduction as a vaccine preservative.)

Regardless of its cause, shouldn't HHS sponsor research into Mt disease and the biological mechanisms by which vaccines could aggravate the disorder? We still do not know what it was, exactly, about this girl's vaccines that aggravated her condition. Was it the thimerosal? The three live viruses? The two attenuated viruses? Other ingredients like aluminum? A combination of the above?

And of course, if vaccine injuries can aggravate Mt disease to the point of manifesting as autism features, then what other underlying disorders or conditions (genetic, autoimmune, allergic, etc.) might also be aggravated to the same extent?

7) What are the implications for medicine and public health?

Should the government develop and approve new treatments for "aggravated mitochondrial disease with ASD features?" Interestingly, many of the treatments currently deployed in Mt disease (i.e., coenzyme Q10, vitamin B-12, lipoic acid, biotin, dietary changes, etc.) are part of the alternative treatment regimen that many parents use on their children with ASD.

And, if a significant minority of autism cases can be linked to Mt disease and vaccines, shouldn't these products one day carry an FDA Black Box warning label, and shouldn't children with Mt disorders be exempt from mandatory immunization?

8) What are the implications for the vaccine-autism debate?

It's too early to tell. But this concession could conceivably make it more difficult for some officials to continue insisting there is "absolutely no link" between vaccines and autism.

It also puts the Federal Government's Vaccine Court defense strategy somewhat into jeopardy. DOJ lawyers and witnesses have argued that autism is genetic, with no evidence to support an environmental component. And, they insist, it's simply impossible to construct a chain of events linking immunizations to the disorder.

Government officials may need to rethink their legal strategy, as well as their public relations campaigns, given their own slightly contradictory concession in this case.

9) What is the bottom line here?

The public, (including world leaders) will demand to know what is going on inside the US Federal health establishment. Yes, as of now, n=1, a solitary vaccine-autism concession. But what if n=10% or 20%? Who will pay to clean up that mess?

The significance of this concession will unfortunately be fought over in the usual, vitriolic way -- and I fully expect to be slammed for even raising these questions. Despite that, the language of this concession cannot be changed, or swept away.

Its key words are "aggravated" and "manifested." Without the aggravation of the vaccines, it is uncertain that the manifestation would have occurred at all.

When a kid with peanut allergy eats a peanut and dies, we don't say "his underlying metabolic condition was significantly aggravated to the extent of manifesting as an anaphylactic shock with features of death."

No, we say the peanut killed the poor boy. Remove the peanut from the equation, and he would still be with us today.

Many people look forward to hearing more from HHS officials about why they are settling this claim. But whatever their explanation, they cannot change the fundamental facts of this extraordinary case:

The United State government is compensating at least one child for vaccine injuries that resulted in a diagnosis of autism.

And that is big news, no matter how you want to say it.

NOTE: Full text of the government's statement is posted here.

David Kirby is the author of "Evidence of Harm - Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic, A Medical Controversy" (St. Martins Press 2005.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/government-concedes-vacci_b_88323.html

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CDC Ghouls Try To Force Flu Vax On ALL Kids 6 Mo-18

All Kids Must Get Flu Vaccine, Panel Says

WASHINGTON (Feb. 28) - All U.S. children aged from six months up to 18 should be immunized every year against influenza, a panel of federal vaccine advisers said on Wednesday.

The panel, which advises the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccine matters, agreed unanimously at its regular meeting in Atlanta that the new recommendations should go into effect as soon as possible, but no later than the 2009-2010 flu season.

The vote from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices would add about 30 million children to the list of those who should be vaccinated, CDC spokesman Curtis Allen said. The current recommendations cover children aged 6 months to 5 years old.

"There about 59 million (children aged 5 to 18) but a lot of those children are already covered under current recommendations," Allen said in a telephone interview.

Based on current vaccination rates, the CDC predicts about 7 million additional children will be vaccinated because of the expanded recommendations.

Flu infects between 5 percent and 20 percent of the population each year and kills an estimated 36,000 Americans in an average year, most of them elderly. It can also kill young children, often previously healthy children.

The CDC said last week that 22 children had died in this year's flu season so far. Flu is active in all 50 states now.

Last year, 68 children died of flu in 26 states during a very mild influenza season, according to reports compiled by the CDC. Of them, 39 were aged 5 to 17 and more than 90 percent of all the children who died had not been vaccinated.

"We are very pleased," said Gary Stein of Families Fighting Flu, who spoke to the meeting.

"Doctors follow these recommendations in advising their patients," added Stein, whose 4-year-old daughter Jessica died of influenza in 2002. "Parents read it, and vaccination rates are so low that this awareness strongly follows the guidance."

Not Just a Routine Bug

Dr. Carol Baker, president of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, agreed.

Babies aged 6 months to 2 years have a very high risk of complications and death from flu, but only 20 percent were vaccinated against influenza in 2006-2007, even though they are regularly being vaccinated against other diseases at this age.

"I think most parents do not understand how dangerous influenza is," Baker, a pediatrician, said in a telephone interview.

"I think even some health care providers have that attitude, especially those who choose not to vaccinate themselves and who spread flu to their patients."

This year's flu vaccine is considered a poor match for two of the strains. Because the virus mutates so quickly, the vaccine is usually formulated afresh each year and includes three different strains of the virus.

For the next flu season beginning at the end of 2008, all three strains will be replaced in the vaccines available globally, the CDC and World Health Organization say.

Besides children, people aged 50 and older are advised to get annual flu vaccines, as well as anyone with certain chronic medical conditions such as cancer or diabetes, people in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities, and caretakers of any of these groups.

Five companies now make flu vaccine for the U.S. market -- Sanofi Pasteur, Australia's CSL Ltd, GlaxoSmithKline Plc, Novartis AG and nasal spray maker MedImmune, recently acquired by AstraZeneca Plc.

http://news.aol.com/health/story/_a/all-kids-must-get-flu-vaccine-panel-says/20080227152609990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001

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More Families Are Refusing Vaccinations

More Families Are Shunning Vaccinations

'As states move to require more vaccines for school-age children, an increasing number of parents are saying no to some of the inoculations. They are seeking exemptions from the state in growing numbers, citing religious reasons or saying that they believe the vaccines will do more harm than good.'

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/02Rvaccine.html?_r=3&st=cse&sq=shunning+vaccinations&scp=1&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

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Is Vaccine Driving H5N1 Evolution In Egypt?

Vaccine Driven H5N1 Evolution in Egypt?

Recombinomics Commentary 18:24
March 3, 2008

The National Veterinary labs recently released 18 H5N1 HA sequences. Included were nine sequences collected in December, 2007 or January, 2008. Five of the nine sequences were from birds that had been vaccinated. The sequences from four of the five were closely related. Two were from the Sharkia Governorate, A/chicken/07665S-NLQP/2007 and A/turkey/Egypt/07203-NLQP/2007. A third isolate was from Qalyobia, A/chicken/Egypt/7201-NLQP/2007, while the fourth was in Qena in upper Egypt, A/chicken/Egypt/7202-NLQP/2007.

These isolates had a large number of non synonymous changes, including P78S, D101N, H114R, S127P, R144G, S145P, F148Y, R166K, N166H, A189E, and M230V. This high number of protein changes raise concerns of accelerated H5N1 evolution due to vaccine escape.

Moreover, these changes were present in additional isolates collected from additional locations, including Kom-Hammada, Behera (A/chicken/Egypt/07701S-NLQP/2007), Mansura, Dakahlia (A/chicken/Egypt/088S-NLQP/2008), and Ghamr, Dakahlia (A/chicken/Egypt/86Q-NLQP/2008), indicating this sub-clade is widespread in Egypt.

However, a series of sequences released by NAMRU-3 also had large numbers of non-synonymous changes, which were distinct from the list above. These changes were also found in a large number of recent isolates.

This dramatic increase in genetic diversity in H5N1 in Egypt raises concerns that H5N1 evolution is being driven by large numbers of H5N1 infected birds, coupled with escape from the vaccine(s) currently in use. This added diversity will create problems for future vaccination programs.

This diversity may also be impacting the human cases. Many of the above isolates samples were collected in mid December, 2007, when there were five confirmed cases in Egypt. The sequences from these human cases have not been released.

The release of these earlier sequences, as well as the two cases confirmed in the past week would be useful.

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/03030803/H5N1_Egypt_Vaccine.html

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US Government Concedes Vaccine-Autism Case in Federal Court - Now What?

After years of insisting there is no evidence to link vaccines with the onset of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the US government has quietly conceded a vaccine-autism case in the Court of Federal Claims.

The unprecedented concession was filed on November 9, and sealed to protect the plaintiff's identify. It was obtained through individuals unrelated to the case.

The claim, one of 4,900 autism cases currently pending in Federal "Vaccine Court," was conceded by US Assistant Attorney General Peter Keisler and other Justice Department officials, on behalf of the Department of Health and Human Services, the "defendant" in all Vaccine Court cases.

The child's claim against the government -- that mercury-containing vaccines were the cause of her autism -- was supposed to be one of three "test cases" for the thimerosal-autism theory currently under consideration by a three-member panel of Special Masters, the presiding justices in Federal Claims Court.

Keisler wrote that medical personnel at the HHS Division of Vaccine Injury Compensation (DVIC) had reviewed the case and "concluded that compensation is appropriate."

The doctors conceded that the child was healthy and developing normally until her 18-month well-baby visit, when she received vaccinations against nine different diseases all at once (two contained thimerosal).

Days later, the girl began spiraling downward into a cascade of illnesses and setbacks that, within months, presented as symptoms of autism, including: No response to verbal direction; loss of language skills; no eye contact; loss of "relatedness;" insomnia; incessant screaming; arching; and "watching the florescent lights repeatedly during examination."

Seven months after vaccination, the patient was diagnosed by Dr. Andrew Zimmerman, a leading neurologist at the Kennedy Krieger Children's Hospital Neurology Clinic, with "regressive encephalopathy (brain disease) with features consistent with autistic spectrum disorder, following normal development." The girl also met the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) official criteria for autism.

In its written concession, the government said the child had a pre-existing mitochondrial disorder that was "aggravated" by her shots, and which ultimately resulted in an ASD diagnosis.

"The vaccinations received on July 19, 2000, significantly aggravated an underlying mitochondrial disorder," the concession says, "which predisposed her to deficits in cellular energy metabolism, and manifested as a regressive encephalopathy with features of ASD."

This statement is good news for the girl and her family, who will now be compensated for the lifetime of care she will require. But its implications for the larger vaccine-autism debate, and for public health policy in general, are not as certain.

In fact, the government's concession seems to raise more questions than it answers.

1) Is there a connection between vaccines, mitochondrial disorders and a diagnosis of autism, at least in some cases?

Mitochondria, you may recall from biology class, are the little powerhouses within cells that convert food into electrical energy, partly through a complex process called "oxidative phosphorylation." If this process is impaired, mitochondrial disorder will ensue.

The child in this case had several markers for Mt disease, which was confirmed by muscle biopsy. Mt disease is often marked by lethargy, poor muscle tone, poor food digestion and bowel problems, something found in many children diagnosed with autism.

But mitochondrial disorders are rare in the general population, affecting some 2-per-10,000 people (or just 0.2%). So with 4,900 cases filed in Vaccine Court, this case should be the one and only, extremely rare instance of Mt disease in all the autism proceedings.

But it is not.

Mitochondrial disorders are now thought to be the most common disease associated with ASD. Some journal articles and other analyses have estimated that 10% to 20% of all autism cases may involve mitochondrial disorders, which would make them one thousand times more common among people with ASD than the general population.

Another article, published in the Journal of Child Neurology and co-authored by Dr. Zimmerman, showed that 38% of Kennedy Krieger Institute autism patients studied had one marker for impaired oxidative phosphorylation, and 47% had a second marker.

The authors -- who reported on a case-study of the same autism claim conceded in Vaccine Court -- noted that "children who have (mitochondrial-related) dysfunctional cellular energy metabolism might be more prone to undergo autistic regression between 18 and 30 months of age if they also have infections or immunizations at the same time."

An interesting aspect of Mt disease in autism is that, with ASD, the mitochondrial disease seems to be milder than in "classic" cases of Mt disorder. In fact, classic Mt disease is almost always inherited, either passed down by the mother through mitochondrial DNA, or by both parents through nuclear DNA.

In autism-related Mt disease, however, the disorder is not typically found in other family members, and instead appears to be largely of the sporadic variety, which may now account for 75% of all mitochondrial disorders.

Meanwhile, an informal survey of seven families of children with cases currently pending in Vaccine Court revealed that all seven showed markers for mitochondrial dysfunction, dating back to their earliest medical tests. The facts in all seven claims mirror the case just conceded by the government: Normal development followed by vaccination, immediate illness, and rapid decline culminating in an autism diagnosis.

2) With 4,900 cases pending, and more coming, will the government concede those with underlying Mt disease -- and if it not, will the Court award compensation?

The Court will soon begin processing the 4900 cases pending before it. What if 10% to 20% of them can demonstrate the same Mt disease and same set of facts as those in the conceded case? Would the government be obliged to concede 500, or even 1,000 cases? What impact would that have on public opinion? And is there enough money currently in the vaccine injury fund to cover so many settlements?

When asked for a comment last week about the court settlement, a spokesman for HHS furnished the following written statement:


"DVIC has reviewed the scientific information concerning the allegation that vaccines cause autism and has found no credible evidence to support the claim. Accordingly, in every case under the Vaccine Act, DVIC has maintained the position that vaccines do not cause autism, and has never concluded in any case that autism was caused by vaccination."

3) If the government is claiming that vaccines did not "cause" autism, but instead aggravated a condition to "manifest" as autism, isn't that a very fine distinction?

For most affected families, such linguistic gymnastics is not so important. And even if a vaccine injury "manifested" as autism in only one case, isn't that still a significant development worthy of informing the public?

On the other hand, perhaps what the government is claiming is that vaccination resulted in the symptoms of autism, but not in an actual, factually correct diagnosis of autism itself.

4) If the government is claiming that this child does NOT have autism, then how many other children might also have something else that merely "mimics" autism?

Is it possible that 10%-20% of the cases that we now label as "autism," are not autism at all, but rather some previously undefined "look-alike" syndrome that merely presents as "features" of autism?

This question gets to the heart of what autism actually is. The disorder is defined solely as a collection of features, nothing more. If you have the features (and the diagnosis), you have the disorder. The underlying biology is the great unknown.

But let's say the government does determine that these kids don't have actual "autism" (something I speculated on HuffPost a year ago). Then shouldn't the Feds go back and test all people with ASD for impaired oxidative phosphorylation, perhaps reclassifying many of them?

If so, will we then see "autism" cases drop by tens, if not hundreds of thousands of people? Will there be a corresponding ascension of a newly described disorder, perhaps something like "Vaccine Aggravated Mitochondrial Disease with Features of ASD?"

And if this child was technically "misdiagnosed" with DSM-IV autism by Dr Zimmerman, how does he feel about HHS doctors issuing a second opinion re-diagnosis of his patient, whom they presumably had neither met nor examined? (Zimmerman declined an interview).

And along those lines, aren't Bush administration officials somewhat wary of making long-distance, retroactive diagnoses from Washington, given that the Terry Schiavo incident has not yet faded from national memory?

5) Was this child's Mt disease caused by a genetic mutation, as the government implies, and wouldn't that have manifested as "ASD features" anyway?

In the concession, the government notes that the patient had a "single nucleotide change" in the mitochondrial DNA gene T2387C, implying that this was the underlying cause of her manifested "features" of autism.

While it's true that some inherited forms of Mt disease can manifest as developmental delays, (and even ASD in the form of Rhett Syndrome) these forms are linked to identified genetic mutations, of which T2387C is not involved. In fact little, if anything, is known about the function of this particular gene.

What's more, there is no evidence that this girl, prior to vaccination, suffered from any kind of "disorder" at all- genetic, mitochondrial or otherwise. Some forms of Mt disease are so mild that the person is unaware of being affected. This perfectly developing girl may have had Mt disorder at the time of vaccination, but nobody detected, or even suspected it.

And, there is no evidence to suggest that this girl would have regressed into symptoms consistent with a DSM-IV autism diagnosis without her vaccinations. If there was such evidence, then why on earth would these extremely well-funded government attorneys compensate this alleged injury in Vaccine Court? Why wouldn't they move to dismiss, or at least fight the case at trial?

6) What are the implications for research?

The concession raises at least two critical research questions: What are the causes of Mt dysfunction; and how could vaccines aggravate that dysfunction to the point of "autistic features?"

While some Mt disorders are clearly inherited, the "sporadic" form is thought to account for 75% of all cases, according to the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation. So what causes sporadic Mt disease? "Medicines or other toxins," says the Cleveland Clinic, a leading authority on the subject.

Use of the AIDS drug AZT, for example, can cause Mt disorders by deleting large segments of mitochondrial DNA. If that is the case, might other exposures to drugs or toxins (i.e., thimerosal, mercury in fish, air pollution, pesticides, live viruses) also cause sporadic Mt disease in certain subsets of children, through similar genotoxic mechanisms?

Among the prime cellular targets of mercury are mitochondria, and thimerosal-induced cell death has been associated with the depolarization of mitochondrial membrane, according to the International Journal of Molecular Medicine among several others. (Coincidently, the first case of Mt disease was diagnosed in 1959, just 15 years after the first autism case was named, and two decades after thimerosal's introduction as a vaccine preservative.)

Regardless of its cause, shouldn't HHS sponsor research into Mt disease and the biological mechanisms by which vaccines could aggravate the disorder? We still do not know what it was, exactly, about this girl's vaccines that aggravated her condition. Was it the thimerosal? The three live viruses? The two attenuated viruses? Other ingredients like aluminum? A combination of the above?

And of course, if vaccine injuries can aggravate Mt disease to the point of manifesting as autism features, then what other underlying disorders or conditions (genetic, autoimmune, allergic, etc.) might also be aggravated to the same extent?

7) What are the implications for medicine and public health?

Should the government develop and approve new treatments for "aggravated mitochondrial disease with ASD features?" Interestingly, many of the treatments currently deployed in Mt disease (i.e., coenzyme Q10, vitamin B-12, lipoic acid, biotin, dietary changes, etc.) are part of the alternative treatment regimen that many parents use on their children with ASD.

And, if a significant minority of autism cases can be linked to Mt disease and vaccines, shouldn't these products one day carry an FDA Black Box warning label, and shouldn't children with Mt disorders be exempt from mandatory immunization?

8) What are the implications for the vaccine-autism debate?

It's too early to tell. But this concession could conceivably make it more difficult for some officials to continue insisting there is "absolutely no link" between vaccines and autism.

It also puts the Federal Government's Vaccine Court defense strategy somewhat into jeopardy. DOJ lawyers and witnesses have argued that autism is genetic, with no evidence to support an environmental component. And, they insist, it's simply impossible to construct a chain of events linking immunizations to the disorder.

Government officials may need to rethink their legal strategy, as well as their public relations campaigns, given their own slightly contradictory concession in this case.

9) What is the bottom line here?

The public, (including world leaders) will demand to know what is going on inside the US Federal health establishment. Yes, as of now, n=1, a solitary vaccine-autism concession. But what if n=10% or 20%? Who will pay to clean up that mess?

The significance of this concession will unfortunately be fought over in the usual, vitriolic way -- and I fully expect to be slammed for even raising these questions. Despite that, the language of this concession cannot be changed, or swept away.

Its key words are "aggravated" and "manifested." Without the aggravation of the vaccines, it is uncertain that the manifestation would have occurred at all.

When a kid with peanut allergy eats a peanut and dies, we don't say "his underlying metabolic condition was significantly aggravated to the extent of manifesting as an anaphylactic shock with features of death."

No, we say the peanut killed the poor boy. Remove the peanut from the equation, and he would still be with us today.

Many people look forward to hearing more from HHS officials about why they are settling this claim. But whatever their explanation, they cannot change the fundamental facts of this extraordinary case:

The United State government is compensating at least one child for vaccine injuries that resulted in a diagnosis of autism.

And that is big news, no matter how you want to say it.

NOTE: Full text of the government's statement is posted here.

David Kirby is the author of "Evidence of Harm - Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic, A Medical Controversy" (St. Martins Press 2005.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/government-concedes-vacci_b_88323.html

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Ingredients In US Vaccines - READ (pdf)

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/appendices/B/excipient-table-2.pdf

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Jail For Belgians Who Refuse Polio Vax

LONDON (AP) - As doctors struggle to eradicate polio worldwide, one of their biggest problems is persuading parents to vaccinate their children. In Belgium, authorities are resorting to an extreme measure: prison sentences.

Two sets of parents in Belgium were recently handed five-month prison terms for failing to vaccinate their children against polio. Each parent was also fined $8,000.

"It's a pretty extraordinary case," said Dr. Ross Upshur, director of the Joint Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto. "The Belgians have a right to take some action against the parents, given the seriousness of polio, but the question is, is a prison sentence disproportionate?"

The parents' sentences were delayed to give them a chance to vaccinate their children. But if that deadline also passes without the children receiving the injections, the parents could be put behind bars.

Because of privacy laws, Belgian officials would not talk specifically about the cases, such as why the parents refused the vaccine or how much longer they have to get their children vaccinated.

The polio vaccine is the only one required by Belgian law. Exceptions are granted only if parents can prove their children might have a bad physical reaction to the vaccine. There are no exceptions for people who object to vaccinations on religious grounds.

"Polio is a very serious disease and has caused great suffering in the past," said Dr. Victor Lusayu, head of Belgium's international vaccine center. "The discovery of the vaccine has eliminated polio from Europe and it is simply the law in Belgium that you have to be vaccinated. ... At the end of the day, the law must be respected."

The highly infectious disease is spread through water and mainly strikes children under 5. Initial symptoms include fever, headaches, vomiting, stiffness in the neck and fatigue. The polio virus invades the body's nervous system and can lead to irreversible paralysis within hours. In extreme cases, patients can die when their breathing muscles are immobilized.

Some ethicists back the hard-line Belgian stance.

"Nobody has the right to unfettered liberty, and people do not have a right to endanger their kids," said John Harris, a professor of bioethics at the University of Manchester.

"The parents in this case do not have any rights they can appeal to. They have obligations they are not fulfilling."

Aside from Belgium, only France makes polio vaccinations mandatory by law. In the United States, children must be immunized against many diseases including polio, but most states allow children to opt out if their parents have religious or "philosophical" objections.

In Maryland, prosecutors and school officials in one county threatened truancy charges against parents who failed to vaccinate their children. The measure sharply reduced the number of unvaccinated children although no one has been charged.

The only other case of mandatory polio vaccines is during the Muslim yearly Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. Pilgrims from polio-endemic countries must prove they have been vaccinated. Saudi officials even give them an extra dose upon arrival at the airport.

Since the polio virus can live in the human body for weeks, it jumps borders easily. That makes health officials even in developed countries nervous, since the threat of an outbreak remains as long as the virus is circulating anywhere.

Incidence has dropped by 99 percent since the World Health Organization and partners began their eradication effort in 1988. But the virus is still entrenched in Afghanistan, India, Nigeria and Pakistan, and occasionally pops up elsewhere.

For developed countries, imported polio cases could cause chaos in the health system, warned Dr. Steve Cochi, an immunization expert at the United States' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

He saca;) )


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The Great HPV Vaccine Hoax Exposed

(NaturalNews) For the last several years, HPV vaccines have been marketed to the public and mandated in compulsory injections for young girls in several states based on the idea that they prevent cervical cancer. Now, NaturalNews has obtained documents from the FDA and other sources (see below) which reveal that the FDA has been well aware for several years that Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) has no direct link to cervical cancer.

NaturalNews has also learned that HPV vaccines have been proven to be flatly worthless in clearing the HPV virus from women who have already been exposed to HPV (which includes most sexually active women), calling into question the scientific justification of mandatory "vaccinate everyone" policies.

Furthermore, this story reveals evidence that the vaccine currently being administered for HPV -- Gardasil -- may increase the risk of precancerous cervical lesions by an alarming 44.6 percent in some women. The vaccine, it turns out, may be far more dangerous to the health of women than doing nothing at all.

If true, this information reveals details of an enormous public health fraud being perpetrated on the American people, involving FDA officials, Big Pharma promoters, and even the governors of states like Texas. The health and safety of tens of millions of young girls is at stake here, and what this NaturalNews investigative report reveals is that HPV vaccinations may not only be medically useless; they may also be harmful to the health of the young girls receiving them.

This report reveals startling facts about the HPV vaccine that most people will find shocking:

• How it may actually increase the risk of precancerous lesions by 44.6 percent.

• The FDA has, for four years, known that HPV was not the cause of cervical cancer.

• Why mandatory HPV vaccination policies may cause great harm to young girls.

• Why HPV infections are self-limiting and pose no real danger in healthy women

• Little-known FDA documents that reveal astounding facts about Gardasil

• How Big Pharma promoted its Gardasil vaccine using disease mongering and fear mongering

The Trail of Evidence
This story begins at a company called HiFi DNA Tech, LLC (http://www.hifidna.com) a company involved in the manufacture of portable HPV testing devices based on DNA sequencing analysis. HiFi DNA Tech has been pushing to get the FDA to classify its HPV detection technology as a "Class II" virology testing device. To understand why this is a big deal, you have to understand the differences between "Class II" and "Class III" virology testing devices.

Based on FDA rules, a Class III virology testing device is one that is considered by the FDA to have "premarket approval," meaning that it cannot yet be sold to the public. In order for such a device to be marketed to the public, it must be downgraded to Class II status, which is considered a "special controls" status. Class II devices are, "...those devices for which the general controls by themselves are insufficient to provide reasonable assurance of safety and effectiveness, but for which there is sufficient information to establish special controls to provide such assurance, including performance standards, postmarket surveillance, patient registries, development and dissemination of guidelines, recommendations, and any other appropriate actions the agency deems necessary."

In other words, a Class II device may or may not actually be safe, but the FDA considers is safe enough to release to the public.

HiFi DNA Tech has been trying to get its HPV detection device downgraded to a Class II device based on the following arguments:

• For more than 20 years, the FDA had regulated the HPV test as a "test for cervical cancer."

• But since at least 2003, the FDA has changed its position on the relationship between Human Papilloma Virus and cervical cancer, stating that the HPV strain is "not associated with cervical cancer."

• Accordingly, HiFi DNA Tech is arguing that the HPV test it has developed is no longer a test for cervical cancer, but is merely a test for the presence of Human Papilloma Viruses -- a shift that makes the test far more reliable in its primary purpose. In other words, the test is merely detecting the presence of a virus, not making a diagnosis of a disease (which would be a much higher standard to meet).

On October 12, 2007, HiFi DNA Tech sued the Food and Drug Administration in an attempt to force it to downgrade its HPV detection technology to Class II (see http://www.news-medical.net/?id=31180 ). Earlier in the year -- on March 7, 2007, HiFi DNA Tech filed the HPV PCR test reclassification petition with the FDA. It is the information in this petition document that led us to the FDA's knowledge that HPV is not linked to cervical cancer.

Got all that? This is a somewhat complex story to follow, so here it is again in summary:

• A company that manufacturers a DNA testing device that can detect the presence of HPV (Human Papilloma Virus) is petitioning the FDA (and suing the FDA) to get it to reclassify its medical device as a "Class II" device based on the revelation that the FDA has already adopted the position that HPV infections do not directly cause cervical cancer.

• This would mean that the FDA has been aware for years that HPV does not cause cervical cancer, which means that the FDA's approval of the Gardasil vaccine -- as well as the national push for Gardasil vaccinations -- is based on a grand medical hoax that, not surprisingly, appears to be designed to exploit the fear of cancer to sell vaccines. The victims in all this, of course, are the young girls who are apparently being subjected to a medically useless (and potentially dangerous) vaccine.

• None of this information was apparently known during the more recent debates over the safety and efficacy of Gardasil, the HPV vaccine now in use. This means that the public debate over mandatory HPV vaccinations lacked key elements that now seem essential to reaching rational, evidence-based conclusions over the safety and efficacy of such vaccines.

Next, we reveal the FDA's statement that HPV is "not associated with cervical cancer."

The Text of the Petition
The Reclassification Petition, dated March 7, 2007, is still posted on the FDA's website: http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/dockets/07p0210/07p-0210-ccp0001-01-vol1.pdf

In case the FDA removes this document (as it has been known to do), we've posted a backup copy of the document on our own servers: http://www.NaturalNews.com/downloads/FDA-HPV.pdf

This document reveals the following text:

The FDA news release of March 31, 2003 acknowledges that "most infections (by HPV) are short-lived and not associated with cervical cancer", in recognition of the advances in medical science and technology since 1988. In other words, since 2003 the scientific staff of the FDA no longer considers HPV infection to be a high-risk disease when writing educational materials for the general public whereas the regulatory arm of the agency is still bound by the old classification scheme that had placed HPV test as a test to stratify risk for cervical cancer in regulating the industry.

NaturalNews sought to verify the existence of the FDA news release referenced by this petition reclassification document and found that, indeed, the FDA news release exists. In fact, it's still posted on the FDA website at http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2003/NEW00890.html

In it, the FDA says, "The HPV DNA test is not intended to substitute for regular Pap screening. Nor is it intended to screen women under 30 who have normal Pap tests. Although the rate of HPV infection in this group is high, most infections are short-lived and not associated with cervical cancer." (Emphasis added.)

In other words, the FDA knew in 2003 that HPV infections are not associated with cervical cancer.

Furthermore, the FDA states, in the same press release, "Most women who become infected with HPV are able to eradicate the virus and suffer no apparent long-term consequences to their health."

In other words, HPV infections do not cause cervical cancer! Remember, the entire push for mandatory HPV vaccinations of young girls across the country has been the urgent call to "save" these young girls from cervical cancer. The vaccine push has been about "savings lives." But as these documents clearly reveal, HPV is no threat to the lives of young girls. In fact, as you will see below, HPV infections are naturally self-limiting!

HPV Infections Resolve Themselves, Without Vaccines
As the reclassification petition reveals, HPV infections are naturally self-limiting -- meaning that they are controlled naturally, without requiring intervention with drugs or vaccines. It is not the HPV virus itself that causes cervical cancer but rather a persistent state of ill-health on the part of the patient that makes her vulnerable to persistent infections.

As the petition states:

"Based on new scientific information published in the past 15 years, it is now generally agreed that identifying and typing HPV infection does not bear a direct relationship to stratification of the risk for cervical cancer . Most acute infections caused by HPV are self-limiting [1, 4-7]. ...Repeated sequential transient HPV infections, even when caused by "high-risk" HPVs, are characteristically not associated with high risk of developing squamous intraepithelial lesions, a precursor of cervical cancer.

A woman found to be positive for the same strain (genotype) of HPV on repeated testing is highly likely suffering from a persistent HPV infection and is considered to be at high risk of developing precancerous intraepithelial lesions in the cervix . It is the persistent infection, not the virus, that determines the cancer risk."

The FDA agrees with this assessment of the relationship between HPV and cervical cancer, as evidenced by its 2003 news release quoted above.

Next, we reveal evidence that HPV vaccines actually cause precancerous lesions in women.

Do HPV Vaccines Increase the Risk of Precancerous Lesions?
The reclassification petition cited above also reveals that Gardasil vaccines may increase the risk of developing precancerous lesions by 44.6 percent in some groups of women. This is found in a quote referencing a document mentioned in the petition, which states:

"PCR-based HPV detection device with provision for accurate HPV genotyping is more urgently needed now because vaccination with Gardasil of the women who are already sero-positive and PCR-positive for vaccine-relevant genotypes of HPV has been found to increase the risk of developing high-grade precancerous lesions by 44.6%, according to an FDA VRBPAC Background Document : Gardasil HPV Quadrivalent Vaccine. May 18, 2006 VRBPAC Meeting. www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/06/briefing/2006-4222B3.pdf"

NaturalNews tracked down the correct URL of the document referenced above and found it in the FDA docket archives. We have placed a safe backup copy at: http://www.NaturalNews.com/downloads/FDA-Gardasil.pdf

Sure enough, this document reveals startling information about the extreme dangers apparently posed by Gardasil vaccinations. On page 13, this document states:

"Concerns Regarding Primary Endpoint Analyses among Subgroups

There were two important concerns that were identified during the course of the efficacy review of this BLA. One was the potential for Gardasil to enhance disease among a subgroup of subjects who had evidence of persistent infection with vaccine-relevant HPV types at baseline. The other concern was the observations of CIN 2/3 or worse cases due to HPV types not contained in the vaccine. These cases of disease due to other HPV types have the potential to counter the efficacy results of Gardasil for the HPV types contained in the vaccine.

1. Evaluation of the potential of Gardasil™ to enhance cervical disease in subjects who had evidence of persistent infection with vaccine-relevant HPV types prior to vaccination. The results of exploratory subgroup analyses for study 013 suggested a concern that subjects who were seropositive and PCR-positive for the vaccine-relevant HPV types had a greater number of CIN 2/3 or worse cases as demonstrated in the following table:

Observed Efficacy
- 44.6%

It appeared that subjects in this subgroup of study 013 who received Gardasil™ might have had enhanced risk factors for development of CIN 2/3 or worse compared to placebo recipients."

Revealing the Dangers of Gardasil
This revelation should be quite shocking to anyone who has been following the debate over Gardasil and mandatory vaccinations of teenage girls. First, it reveals that Gardasil appears to increase disease by 44.6 percent in certain people -- namely, those who were already carriers of the same HPV strains used in the vaccine.

In other words, it appears that if the vaccine is given to a young woman who already carries HPV in a "harmless" state, it may "activate" the infection and directly cause precancerous lesions to appear. The vaccine, in other words, may accelerate the development of precancerous lesions in women.

This is information that has simply not been made available in the debate over Gardasil vaccination policies. The pro-vaccination rhetoric has always been about "saving lives" and it carried the implied statement that Gardasil is perfectly safe for all women, posing absolutely no increased risk of cancer. What these documents reveal, however, is that Gardasil may, in fact, pose a serious increase in the risk of cervical cancer in some recipients of the vaccine.

Next: Will health authorities "interrogate" young virgins over their sexual activity (or lack thereof)? What are the bioethical ramifications of this vaccine being mandated to all teenage girls?

Interrogating Young Virgins
The FDA directly admits the vaccine is utterly useless in these women, stating in the same document, "Finally, there is compelling evidence that the vaccine lacks therapeutic efficacy among women who have had prior exposure to HPV and have not cleared previous infection (PCR positive and seropositive)."

What this essentially means is that the "safe" administering of the Gardasil vaccine requires that it be administered only to virgins (because virtually all women who are sexually active carry HPV strains). That, of course, would require the direct questioning of the sexual habits of all young girls before administering the vaccine.

Is this what the Governor of Texas really had in mind when he mandated such vaccinations for all young girls in Texas? ... a male doctor with a vaccination needle in his hand and a thirteen-year-old girl sitting in a private clinic room behind closed doors, with the male doctor asking her, "Have you ever had sex?"

Clearly, this kind of patient questioning crosses all kinds of ethical barriers when such vaccinations are made mandatory (as they have been made in Texas). It puts the State in the positioning of ascertaining the sexual habits of very young teenage girls and then potentially causing them harm. It's not hard to suppose that most sexually active teenage girls would claim to still be virgins (especially if their parents were present), creating a situation where vaccines would be routinely administered to precisely the HPV carrier subgroups for which it has been demonstrated to greatly increase the risk of precancerous lesions.

In other words, under a mandatory Gardasil vaccination scenario like what exists in Texas today, a sexually-active young teenage girl has to make a tough choice:

1) She can lie to her doctor, claim to be a virgin, receive the vaccine and thereby potentially increase her risk of cervical cancer.

2) She can tell her doctor she's sexually active, thereby surrendering her privacy and possibly subjecting herself to various consequences from her sexual status being learned by her parents or guardians. (One would hope, of course, that such sexual habits were not secrets, but alas, we live in the real world where many teenage girls do indeed have sex at a very early age...)

Furthermore, the young girl is unlikely to be given accurate information about the health risks associated with the vaccine, since virtually all health authorities are heavily involved in promoting pro-vaccination propaganda, routinely ignoring scientific evidence that might give reasonable people pause.

Naturally, the better scenario here is that the young girl is not sexually active to begin with, but in a society where 8th and 9th graders are already routinely engaged in sexual activities -- almost always unbeknownst to their parents -- it seems naive to expect that such girls would suddenly honor pledges of celibacy in order to protect themselves from possible future dangers posed by a present-day vaccine (especially when doctors blindly claim the vaccine is harmless).

There are also serious questions about the safety of the vaccine for non-sexually-active young women. Yet even if the vaccine poses no increased risk of cervical cancer for non-sexually-active young girls, there's still the more serious question of: Does the vaccine work? Does it really prevent cervical cancer in the first place? And that question has already been clearly answered by the FDA's own admission that HPV infections are not the cause of cervical cancer in the first place.

Next: Do HPV vaccinations help anyone? We reveal a four-quadrant comparison that shows the vaccine to be more harmful than helpful.

The Four Quadrants of Garsadil Vaccinations
When considering the safety and effectiveness of Gardasil vaccinations on young teens, there are essentially four quadrants to consider, as shown in the table below:

Quadrant I: Non-Sexually Active
No Gardasil Vaccine Quadrant II: Non-Sexually Active
Receives Gardasil Vaccine
Quadrant III: Sexually Active
No Gardasil Vaccine Quadrant IV: Sexually Active
Receives Gardasil Vaccine


Based on what we've learned from the FDA's own documents, here are the likely outcomes of each of the four quadrants:

Quadrant I: Non-Sexually Active, No Gardasil Vaccine
Outcome: No risk of cervical cancer.

Quadrant II: Non-Sexually Active, Receives Gardasil Vaccine
Outcome: No medical benefit from vaccine.

Quadrant III: Sexually Active, No Gardasil Vaccine
Outcome: HPV presence is self-limiting and does not lead to cervical cancer.

Quadrant IV: Sexually Active, Receives Gardasil Vaccine
Outcome: 44.6% Increased risk of precancerous lesions. No reduction in cancer risk.

In other words, Gardasil adds no benefits to any quadrant! There is no subgroup that actually benefits from a Gardasil vaccination. But there is at least one quadrant in which Gardasil achieves an increased risk of disease. Put another way, Gardasil helps no one, but it harms some.

This is hardly a position from which to mandate the vaccine for everyone, especially since the vaccine has been widely prescribed as "completely safe" for everyone. It is widely claimed by medical authorities that the vaccine has no downside: No health risks, no increased risk of disease and no potential to cause harm in women. Clearly, these assumptions have no basis in scientific fact.

Keep in mind, too, that Merck, the manufacturer of Gardasil, has publicly suggested that young boys should receive Gardasil vaccinations! Why? Because they might engage in oral sex with girls who carry the virus. Therefore, the story goes, young boys should be vaccinated against this virus that they claim causes cervical cancer! (Never mind the fact that boys don't have a cervix...) There is no end, it seems, to the pseudoscientific nonsense that will be spouted in an effort to sell more Garsasil vaccines to people who don't need them.

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Jenny McCarthy went on the Oprah show talking about her son that got autism. one segment she frankly explained how one moment she could take pictures of him being a shiny and bright kid, then he gets vaccinated...then we see pictures of him as a little dribbling mong...

anyway here is her book:

Louder Than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism (http://www.amazon.com/Louder-Than-Words-Mothers-Journey/dp/0525950117/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207585015&sr=1-1)

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Vaccines are Russian Roulette


''We'd rather take a chance with the diseases'', say parents who refuse to give their babies jabs

When Max Sullivan was born two years ago, his father Paul, a 41-year-old IT consultant, and his accountant mother Karen, 34, were prepared for their first foray into parenthood.

"We bought the best pram we could, a Bugaboo. It's like a tank," says Paul.

"We checked toys were safe and bought stair-gates and caps for the corners of the tables for when he started walking.

"And when he was two months old we followed the doctor's orders and took him for his first set of immunisations: the five-in-one jab that combines the DPT - diphtheria, pertissus (whooping cough) and tetanus, polio and Hib (haemophilus influenzae type B) vaccines.

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Choice: Layla Evans has fought 'pressure' over her daughter Mya

"We took him for boosters at three and four months, as instructed."

The couple were model parents. But then Paul and Karen received a letter inviting Max to have the new meningitis C jab.

"It seemed like too much to be giving such a tiny baby," says Paul.

"We started to look into it online and read reports of headaches and swollen arms to meningitis-like symptoms that have put some children in hospital.

"The nurse did call and try to persuade us but she couldn't provide us with hard facts about how safe it was and we decided to call things to a halt."

The couple chose to stop vaccinating their son and instead use a healthy diet to boost his immune system.

They claim they were "unnerved" by the uncertainty surrounding the effects that vaccinations can have on children, in the wake of the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccination (MMR) scandal that controversially linked the triple jab to autism.

Max remains vulnerable to life-threatening diseases having not been vaccinated against meningitis C, pneumococcal - an infection that can lead to pneumonia or septicaemia - measles, mumps and rubella.

He will also not be given boosters to assure continued immunity to diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough or polio.

"We believe there is a problem with vaccines in general - the MMR debate just put a spotlight on the issue," says Paul.

"I've heard stories from parents who believe that their child's asthma, skin allergies, eczema or autism has been triggered by immunisations.

"They've taken the mercury out of the jabs but I've read online that there's still aluminium in some.

"I accept science has made amazing progress in treating some very aggressive diseases, but injecting these things into a baby is instinctively wrong for me."

Thiomersal, a mercury-based preservative, was removed from inoculations in 2004.

The change was welcomed by anti-MMR campaigners who believed mercury in jabs was linked to developmental problems in children.

The evidence that thiomersal can harm the developing brain is contentious, with several studies producing conflicting reports.

The decision to remove it from new vaccines came after the World Health Organisation (WHO) said it should be avoided on a "precautionary" basis.

"Of course I have wrestled with this and wondered whether we're doing the right thing for Max," says Paul.

"Even if there's a small risk, it still feels like playing Russian roulette with your child's health.

"We'd rather take our chances with the diseases than potentially damage our son for the rest of his life.

"I had measles as a child and my sister had rubella. We're both OK.

"We're trying to give Max a healthy diet so he's got a good immune system.

"If Max did get measles I'd give him a boost with Vitamin C and Vitamin A from cod liver oil.

"If we have a second child, there will be no vaccinations at all."

Because diseases such as measles are infectious, it's a view that many parents will see as selfish.

But far from being alone in their concerns, the Sullivans are part of a growing number of middle-class parents ignoring NHS guidelines on vaccinations and doing things their own way.

For vaccination to work, however, enough of those in a community must be immunised against certain diseases so it becomes difficult for them to pass between those who have not been.

Diphtheria, for instance, has all but disappeared in the UK.

Fears that the MMR triple jab - introduced in the UK in 1988 - could lead to autism caused take-up to fall from more than 90 per cent in 1998 to less than 80 per cent two years ago, say the Health Protection Agency.

Currently, 81 per cent of children have the combined vaccine before they are two.

Last year, 971 cases of measles were reported in the UK, up 30 per cent in 12 months.

The disease claimed the life of a 14-year-old boy in 2006, the first death since 1992.

According to the WHO, more than half a million children under five die from measles every year - half the number claimed by the disease ten years ago, after successful vaccination programmes in developing countries.

In the UK, since the introduction of the MMR in 1988, the total number of infant deaths from the disease is four.

Layla Evans, 27, a music artist manager who lives in West London with her partner Sandy Rivera, 37, a musician, has spent £200 so far on immunising their four-month-old daughter Mya with single vaccines for polio, tetanus and diphtheria.

However, she has refused to give Mya the pertissus and Hib, meningitis C and BCG (tuberculosis) vaccines.

"I don't want to be pressurised to follow Government guidelines. I don't see why I should when there's nothing proven absolutely for every vaccination," says Layla.

"We waited until Mya was three months old before doing anything. By then she should have had the five-in-one shot but I felt she was too tiny.

"I've done a lot of research, mainly on the internet, and I'm doing what I think is the right thing for her.

"The things I didn't immunise her against are things I don't think there are 100 per cent effective vaccinations against, such as whooping cough."

Born and raised until the age of five in Belgium, like all children there Layla was vaccinated with individual shots.

She says her mother supports her choice not to give Mya certain jabs but admits many friends with children are concerned.

"Some have called me selfish, and even mad," she says. "But it's my baby and our lives not theirs. I'm not hurting her."

Anna Watson, 42, a full-time mother who lives in Kingston-upon-Thames with her partner Jamie Asher, 43, a book publisher, agrees.

Her son Sam, four, is partially immunised and her two-year-old daughter Katherine is not.

"I caved in to pressure from the doctors to start Sam's vaccinations at about five months even though I wasn't happy about it and he had the ones for diphtheria, tetanus and Hib," she explains.

"I had done a little research and felt very strongly that he shouldn't have the live polio vaccine or any containing mercury, so I stood my ground on those.

"Very shortly after, the Government announced it was withdrawing live polio and those containing mercury and it gave me a lot of confidence that I was on the right track."

As a result of her experiences, in January last year Anna decided to set up Arnica, a support network for parents with concerns about vaccinations.

Eight Arnica groups have formed around the UK since the network began, each with several hundred members.

More established online parent groups, Jabs and The Informed Parent, whose numbers swelled during the controversy around the MMR, have more than 3,000 members between them.

"There are hundreds of us now and we believe passionately about the health of our children," says Anna, a former primary-school teacher.

"We've got two nurses in our group who find their position difficult as they have to vaccinate other people's children when they haven't had their own done.

"We have doctors in our group who don't vaccinate their own children either."

Instead, there has been a return to traditional pre-vaccination methods of protecting child health.

"I look at keeping my children well with lots of fresh air, exercise, sleep, nutritious food and lots of happiness," says Anna.

"I like to support my children to get well by themselves because the body can do it and the more you intervene with vaccines and antibiotics you suppress the body's own immune system."

Anna is well aware many parents would think she is cavalier with the health of her children but she disagrees.

"I've been called selfish by doctors and health visitors.

"In fact, I'm more vigilant than most parents - I've chosen to educate myself about immunity and how to deal with diseases, rather than blindly hand over responsibility to the State or doctors."

Despite prevailing medical opinion, Dr Richard Halvorsen, a GP in Central London and author of The Truth About Vaccines, shares many parents' concerns about what he considers the most complex vaccination schedule in the world, where by the age of 15 months, babies receive 25 doses of the various vaccines.

"When the diphtheria vaccine was introduced and when the vaccination trials for whooping cough began, those diseases were killing thousands of children every year and it made sense to look at something quite radical to prevent them. What I'm saying is, hang on, let's just stop and think."

Allergy-related illnesses such asthma and eczema are rising - in Britain, up to a fifth of school-age children are affected - and there is an argument that vaccines are playing a part, says Dr Halvorsen.

Recent research, published in the US Journal Of Allergy And Clinical Immunology, found children who have their routine vaccinations delayed by two months or more cut their risk of asthma by half.

The study, based on health records of 14,000 children, found that 14 per cent of children who received their first shot of diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus vaccine at two months, developed asthma - compared with only 5.9 per cent of children who were vaccinated more than four months after the scheduled date.

In response to demand for a more pick-and-mix approach, Dr Halvorsen is opening a private clinic, Babyjabs, this spring.

It will offer a comprehensive selection of vaccines for all ages in single or small doses.

"There are many mothers who have not had their child immunised at all, but would if they had the ability to get some and not others, or to have them spaced out," says Dr Halvorsen.

"By offering this service we're going to up the immunisation rate."

GP Mike Fitzpatrick is based at a surgery in Hackney, East London where there have been more than 150 cases of measles.

"When you've a young baby, you're not always particularly rational about it," he says.

"You read things in the papers and you want to protect them, but the only real way is with vaccines.

"It's amazing how people's memories fade and how they now perceive measles as only a mild illness. Doctors will always remember the deaths."

• www.immunisation.nhs.uk, www.jabs.org.uk, www.arnica.org.uk, www.babyjabs.co.uk, www.informedparent.co.uk

The 12 jabs that could save your child's life

DTaP/IPV/Hib

Age given: Two, three and four months. The Department of Health says vaccines "stimulate the production of antibodies without us becoming infected with actual diseases, and our bodies can then fight those diseases if they come into contact with them". Officials say it is only through the success of the programme - a series of 12 injections between the ages of two months and 18 years containing vaccines against ten diseases including polio, meningitis C and measles - that incidences of childhood diseases are at an all time low.

Protects against: Diphtheria (D), tetanus (T), pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough (P), polio (IPV - inactivated polio vaccine) and haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib).

Men C

Age given: Three and four months.

Protects against: Meningococcal Conjugate (Men C).

Hib/Men C

Age given: Booster at 12 months.

Protects against: Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib) and meningococcal conjugate (Men C).

Pneumococcal

Age given: Two, three, 13 months.

Protects against: Pneumococcal infection, which can cause diseases such as pneumonia, septicaemia and meningitis.

MMR

Age given: 13 months and three years, four months.

Protects against: Measles, mumps and rubella.

dTaP/IPV or DTaP/IPV

Age given: Booster at three years four months or soon after.

Protects against: Diphtheria (D), tetanus (T), pertussis (whooping cough) (P) and polio (IPV - inactivated polio vaccine).

Td/IPV

Age given: Boosters at 13 to 18 years.

Protects against: Tetanus (T), diphtheria (d) and polio (IPV) inactivated polio vaccine).

BCG

Age given: Non-routine. Given to babies and older people who are most likely to catch the disease.

Protects against: Tuberculosis.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=557442&in_page_id=1774

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New Evidence Links Mercury Emissions to Rates of Autism

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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 by: Teri Lee Gruss

(NaturalNews) Researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center (UTHSC) say that "for the first time in scientific literature, a statistically significant association between autism risk and distance from the mercury source" has been established.

Lead researcher Raymond F. Palmer PhD says, "This is not a definitive study, but just one more that furthers the association between environment mercury and autism". The study, Proximity to point sources of environmental mercury release as a predictor of autism prevalence appears in the journal Health & Place (2008).

"We suspect low-dose exposures to various environmental toxicants, including mercury, that occur during critical windows of neural development among genetically susceptible children may increase the risk for developmental disorders such as autism".

Mercury sources evaluated in the UTHSC study included "coal-fired utility plants (33 percent of exposures), municipal/medical waste incinerators (29 percent) and commercial/industrial boilers (18 percent)". Concrete manufacturing was also listed as a source of mercury emissions.

Autism rates were gathered in 1,040 Texas school districts and distance from mercury sources were measured to a central point in the communities studied.

Researchers noted that children with autism not enrolled in the school districts studied were not included in the data. Therefore autism rates presented in this study may be somewhat under-reported.

Key findings from the UTHSC study news release

* For every 1,000 pounds of mercury released by all industrial sources in Texas into the environment in 1998, there was a corresponding 2.6 percent increase in autism rates in the Texas school districts in 2002.

* For every 1,000 pounds of mercury released by Texas power plants in 1998, there was a corresponding 3.7 percent increase in autism rates in Texas school districts in 2002.

* Autism prevalence diminished 1 percent to 2 percent for every 10 miles from the source.

Adding up the mercury body burden

Considering other sources of mercury exposure, from fish consumption, mercury amalgams and mercury preserved vaccinations along with the data from this revealing study, it isn't hard to see that the total body burden of mercury to pregnant and nursing mothers and young children is increasing at a potentially dangerous rate.

Dr. Palmer emphasizes that mercury pollution is a global issue. We know that coal burning power plants and industrial emissions travel in jet streams and ocean currents, redistributed across the planet and into distant food supplies. So how do we protect children, not only from mercury sources close to home but from global sources as well?

In 2007, the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) reported that "China uses and releases more mercury than any other country in the world". The NRDC is working internationally, to find solutions to this problem including a reduction in global supply and demand for mercury and a strategy to control coal burning emissions in China. We can apply this same model domestically.

In their document "NRDC Finds to Stop Mercury Pollution in China: China is Cornerstone in Solving Global Mercury Problem", the authors say that China mined 1400 tons of mercury in 2004 for domestic use, about half of total global mercury used. Additionally, China imports mercury, much of it coming from the European Union which, according to the NRDC is the world's biggest exporter of mercury.

Reducing exposure to mercury, a potent neurotoxin, is integral to halting our exploding rate of autism. Eliminating the mercury preservative thimerosal in all vaccinations, eliminating consumption of mercury contaminated fish and seaweed and eliminating the use of mercury amalgams are effective steps towards reducing cumulative total body burden of mercury in pregnant and nursing mothers, small children and everyone else.

Reducing industrial mercury emissions is a challenge that has to be addressed both at home and abroad.

Source:

UTHSC News Release, April 24, 2008
Study links autism risk to distance from power plants, other mercury-releasing sources
http://www.uthscsa.edu/hscnews/singleformat.asp?newID=2732

Citation:

Palmer, R.F., et al., Proximity to point sources of environmental mercury release as a predictor of autism prevalence. Health & Place (2008), doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2008.02.001.

[chattanova]

1000s UK Kids To Get DOUBLE Jab Of MMR!

Thousands of children to get a DOUBLE jab of MMR in 'emergency' move to tackle measles epidemic

Thousands of babies and toddlers are being given two doses of the MMR jab in three months under "emergency" measures to tackle the biggest outbreak of measles for decades.

The unprecedented step follows a growing epidemic of the potentially fatal disease caused after too few children were given MMR injections.

Around 40 per cent of parents in some areas are shunning MMR, which has faced controversy over suspected links to autism and bowel disease.

In South-East London, doctors have seen a record 226 cases in the first five months of the year - compared with 167 in the area during the whole of 2007.

Experts fear last year's record of 1,000 infections nationally is certain to be broken, putting children's health at risk.

Government advisers from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation warn the epidemic could spread across the UK and urgent measures are needed to halt the disease in its tracks.

Minutes from its last meeting said: "The committee expressed its concern about the ongoing measles epidemic in London, and noted that other parts of the country may be vulnerable to similar outbreaks."

Two doses of MMR close together have been shown to boost protection to almost 100 per cent. But children whose parents shun the jab are still vulnerable.

Campaigners fear that giving two doses of the triple vaccine over a short period could "overload" infants' immune systems.

But medical experts dismiss this. MMR contains live viruses to provoke an immune response against measles, mumps and rubella.

GPs normally give the first dose at around 14 months and the second before children start school, at around four.

The second dose is needed because 10 per cent of children fail to get immunity to measles from the first. The second dose should "mop up" all but one per cent of them.

There were fears that MMR could cause a form of autism and bowel disease. But this has been rejected by respected scientists, Government experts and all the Royal Colleges.

However, concerns persist and experts say these have combined with a traditionally low uptake among itinerant and some religious communities, which has allowed the disease to flourish in the capital.

Doctors say the emergency vaccination measure follows Government scientific advice on boosting immunity and is needed to prevent children suffering serious complications.

These can include pneumonia, ear infections and, in rare cases, nerve damage which is invariably fatal later in life.

Sufferers are mostly children under five.

Dr Rachel Heathcock, consultant in communicable disease control for the Government's Health Protection Agency, said: "MMR vaccination uptake is not high enough to prevent measles cases.

"We are encouraging parents in South East London to give the second MMR three months after the first dose to protect their children. We are trying to cover tens of thousands of young children.

"If measles spreads then this measure could be introduced more widely and nationally.

"Measles is a very infectious disease and it spreads quickly.

"It started in North London last year and then came to Lewisham. It has spread next door to Lambeth and Southwark. The hotspot seems to be London, but people travel and if someone picks it up here they could take it elsewhere.

"Children's immune systems have a huge capacity. Overloading them with the vaccination is not an issue."

The number of measles cases in England and Wales hit 971 last year, the highest since records began in 1995. Around 300 were in North London.

At least 95 per cent of children need to have the MMR to create a "herd immunity" that stops the disease spreading.

But latest official figures show only 83 per cent of two-year-olds nationally have the first dose of MMR.

In London the figure is 71 per cent and in Lewisham, South London, only 58 per cent have the jab.

At five, nearly 87 per cent of children nationally have had their first dose of MMR and 73 per cent have had the second.

But in London, just 50 per cent have the second dose. In Newham, East London, and Islington, North London, under a third have it.

Vaccination rates are also low elsewhere, such as 79 per cent in Knowsley, Merseyside.

The Government has refused to make single measles vaccines available as an alternative for worried parents.

Dr Richard Halvorsen, who runs the Babyjabs clinic for single and low combinations of childhood immunisations, said: "It is a matter of concern to give so many live vaccines to babies so close together.

"It might be better to separate live vaccines and have a gap of at least several months.

"I am sure it is safe for the majority of children but a small group could be vulnerable. I believe MMR might cause autism in this small group."

Jackie Fletcher, of Justice Action Basic Support, for vaccine-damaged children, said: "If single jabs had been made widely available we would not see a situation of such low vaccination rates and spreading measles. It is a worry that doctors want to give two doses of MMR so close together."

• Measles is one of the most unpleasant and dangerous childhood diseases.

It is highly infectious and symptoms may not appear until several days after a child has become infected.

The first sign is usually fever, with the temperature rising to around 39c (102f).

Other symptoms include a cold, barking cough, sore throat, watery eyes and sensitivity to light.

Grey spots - called Koplik's spots, as tiny as a grain of sand - sometimes appear in the back of the mouth.

They may be seen before the distinctive rash appears, usually around the ears and spreading to the body and the legs within two days.

At first they are very small but soon grow into larger red markings. The child's temperature can rise as high as 40c (104f).

The best treatment is to stay in bed in a cool room without bright lights.

If any of the symptoms get worse, parents should call the child's GP.

Complications include pneumonia and inflammation of the middle ear and the nervous system.

Most children recover within a week. It kills very few in the West, where symptoms are treatable, but globally around 500,000 children a year die of it.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=567206&in_page_id=1774

[frankanne]

I have to tell you I am truly confused on this issue. I am a nurse and I give babies and adults shots everyday and parents will tell their kids...."it is keeping you from getting sick." I have to say I am not so sure I agree with this. My 3 kids are vaccinated. But only mainly because I'm just finding out how unsafe they could be. I did take a flu shot this year, or I was going to have to sign a declaration letter. No biggie...but it hasn't bothered me in years past. Well, I may have been getting sick before...but I have had my recent cold for 2 1/2 weeks now. after the flu shot. who knows......but I have to say, I do not like giving shots......I'm still unsure about them. Not a one of us is made the exact same way and I am not going to say they won't affect your kid because they didn't mine.

Hi Joejam. Thanks for your honesty. This is where a crisis of conscience comes in. If you ever did learn more about vaccination and if you did, then I KNOW that you would realise how dangerous it is- well, would you lose your job if you refused to give it to children?

I think that's what this time on earth right now is all about actually. Real life is putting us all (well, I know it is for myself and others that I know) in a position where we either 'turn a blind eye', or else we put our neck on the line.
What do we choose?

Important question and an important life lesson.

[chattanova]

TIME Skirts Vaccine Dangers In New Article

How Safe Are Vaccines?

Life, if you're a bacterium or virus, boils down to this: finding a pristine human home to provide for your every need, from food and nutrients to shelter against biological storms. As a microbial drifter, you can literally travel the world, hopping from host to host when the opportunity presents itself or when conditions at your temporary residence start heading south. There's no worry about taking along life's necessities either—viruses in particular are adept at traveling light; incapable of reproducing on their own, they think nothing of co-opting the reproductive machinery of their cellular sponsors to help them spawn generation after generation of freeloading progeny.

But ever since Edward Jenner, a country doctor in England, inoculated his son and a handful of other children against smallpox in 1796 by exposing them to cowpox pus, things have been tougher on humans' most unwelcome intruders. In the past century, vaccines against diphtheria, polio, pertussis, measles, mumps and rubella, not to mention the more recent additions of hepatitis B and chicken pox, have wired humans with powerful immune sentries to ward off uninvited invasions. And thanks to state laws requiring vaccinations for youngsters enrolling in kindergarten, the U.S. currently enjoys the highest immunization rate ever; 77% of children embarking on the first day of school are completely up to date on their recommended doses and most of the remaining children are missing just a few shots.

Yet simmering beneath these national numbers is a trend that's working in the microbes' favor—and against ours. Spurred by claims that vaccinations can be linked to autism, increasing numbers of parents are raising questions about whether vaccines, far from panaceas, are actually harmful to children. When the immune system of a baby or young child is just coming online, is it such a good idea to challenge it with antigens to so many bugs? Have the safety, efficacy and side effects of this flood of inoculations really been worked through? Just last month the U.S. government, which has always stood by the safety of vaccines, acknowledged that a 9-year-old Georgia girl with a preexisting cellular disease had been made worse by inoculations she had received as an infant, which "significantly aggravated" the condition, resulting in a brain disorder with autism-like symptoms.

Though the government stressed that the case was an exceptional one, it provided exactly the smoking gun that vaccine detractors had been looking for and vaccine proponents had been dreading. More and more, all this wrangling over risks and benefits is leading confused parents simply to opt out of vaccines altogether. Despite the rules requiring students to be vaccinated, doctors can issue waivers to kids whose compromised immune system might make vaccines risky. Additionally, all but two states allow waivers for children whose parents object to vaccines on religious grounds; 20 allow parents to opt out on philosophical grounds. Currently, nearly one-half of 1% of kids enrolled in school are unvaccinated under a medical waiver; 2% to 3% have a nonmedical one, and the numbers appear to be rising.

Parents of these unimmunized kids know that as long as nearly all the other children get their shots, there should not be enough pathogen around to sicken anyone. But that's a fragile shield. Infectious-disease bugs continue to travel the globe, always ready to launch the next big public-health threat. Pockets of intentionally unvaccinated children provide a perfect place for a disease to squat, leading to outbreaks that spread to other unprotected kids, infants and the elderly. Ongoing measles outbreaks in four states are centered in such communities; one originated with an unimmunized boy from San Diego who contracted the virus while traveling in Europe—where the bug was thriving among intentionally unimmunized people in Switzerland. Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), says, "We are seeing more outbreaks that look different, concentrated among intentionally unimmunized people. I hope they are not the beginning of a worse trend."

If they are, it's possible that once rampant diseases such as measles, mumps and whooping cough will storm back, even in developed nations with robust public-health programs. That is forcing both policymakers and parents to wrestle with a dilemma that goes to the heart of democracy: whether the common welfare should trump the individual's right to choose. Parents torn between what's good for the world and what's good for their child will—no surprise—choose the child. But even then, they wonder if that means to opt for the vaccines and face the potential perils of errant chemistry or to decline the vaccines and face the dangers of the bugs. There is, as yet, no simple solution, but answers are emerging.

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0%2C8599%2C1808438%2C00.html

[chattanova]

Forced Vaccinations Part Of Dark Eugenics Agenda

Government terrorists are continuing their dark eugenics agenda of enslavement and death. The New York State Assembly has proposed a bill that would make all vaccines recommended by the CDC mandatory for any children attending the government’s brainwashing camps. These government brainwashing camps are more commonly referred to by the corporate controlled media as the public school system. Assembly Bill 10942 would force children to take vaccines with or without parental consent in order to be admitted into these government facilities. These terrorists are attempting to setup a system in which the government will force parents to have their children injected with anything that the federal government recommends. Theoretically, if the CDC decided that paint thinner was a recommended vaccination, all children in the state of New York would not be able to attend the brainwashing camps without having paint injected into their veins. These people want to treat your children like they are cattle and this is completely unacceptable. There are already numerous questions about the safety of many of these vaccines. There has been an astronomical rise in autism over the past several decades that have coincided with the increased amount of preservatives that the pharmaceutical companies have included in these vaccines. It is unacceptable to force children to take these vaccines when there’s a great deal of question surrounding their safety.

The bill was introduced at the request of Richard Daines who is the Commissioner of the New York State Department of Health. There should be an immediate investigation to determine if this man is on the payroll of the pharmaceutical companies for requesting the introduction of such ridiculous legislation. No doubt, the companies that make these questionable products will benefit greatly if all children in the state of New York are required to take these vaccines. It really doesn’t matter if the intention of this legislation is good or bad, this bill will be incredibly beneficial to the big pharmaceutical companies. The corporations aside, forcing parents to have their children injected with vaccines so they can attend the government brainwashing camps is not freedom.

Here is a summary of some of the horrifying revelations that are in this particular bill.

Section 7 of the bill makes it easier for the government to forcibly inject residents and employees of care facilities with vaccines.

Section 10 of the bill requires meningococcal vaccinations for students in the seventh grade.

Section 11 of the bill requires college students to take the meningococcal vaccine.

Section 13 of the bill makes a series of vaccinations mandatory for students entering the seventh grade.

Section 15 and 16 of this bill requires that children be injected with a series of vaccinations that are approved and recommended by the U.S. Public Health Services of which the CDC falls under.

Section 17 allows physicians to forcibly inject minors with vaccines that supposedly prevent STD’s without parental consent.

This is not freedom folks. The government has no right to mandate that all children must take vaccines just to attend their brainwashing camps. This is another system of control and it must be resisted. There is too much evidence to indicate that these vaccines are not safe and making them mandatory is disgusting. Take this one report in which 3,500 adverse affects have been reported from young women who have taken Merck’s HPV Vaccine. Or check out this report from the American Chronicle which covers a research project that studied the effects of a typical vaccine load given to children on infant monkeys. The study revealed that the infant monkeys developed autism like signs and symptoms from taking the same vaccines that are commonly injected into children.

There is no doubt that there is a major effort by the establishment powers to hide the fact that there is a great deal of anecdotal and scientific evidence to indicate that these vaccines are the cause of the rampant increase in autism. Steve Watson over at InfoWars has gone into greater detail about this bill, other cases of the government forcing children to be vaccinated and the overall subject of vaccine autism. Be sure to check it out for even more information about this very important subject.

To conclude, this bill is completely insane and there’s little doubt considering the documentation and anecdotal evidence linking these vaccines with autism, that this is part of a dark eugenics driven agenda. Just like in the novel Brave New World, the establishment seeks to dumb down the masses by forcibly injecting our children with tainted vaccines and by making them take a series of psychotropic drugs by intentionally mis-diagnosing normal behavior using junk science. They also use the government brainwashing camps and mass media mind control apparatus to train our children how to think by feeding them all sorts of lies and ridiculous propaganda. Simply put, the elites want the average person to be stupid and easy to control. What better way to do that, than by turning our children into zombies by forcibly injecting them with poison.

http://www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=9675

[wickkidda]

Hey, I just came here to post a picture I put together. It's my latest hidden all-seeing-eye discovery.

http://www.freewebs.com/wickkidda/gardasil.gif

[chattanova]

Hey, I just came here to post a picture I put together. It's my latest hidden all-seeing-eye discovery.

http://www.freewebs.com/wickkidda/gardasil.gif
Good find wickkida! I would never have noticed that, it's well hidden but it's for sure there!
This should also been posted in the symbolism thread http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8389

Welcome onboard btw:)

[kweli]

23 people die and 123 are hospitalised after being given flu vaccine


Twenty-three people have died in the past five years after a routine flu jab.

23 people have died from heart attacks, blood infections and pneumonia after having routine flu jabs
Official figures show that a further 123 people given the winter vaccine suffered a suspected reaction so severe they were taken to hospital.

Causes of death included heart attacks, blood infections and pneumonia, while asthma and kidney failure were among reported side-effects.

The statistics, revealed by Health Minister Dawn Primarolo, raise fears over the safety of the vaccine, which is taken by eight million people in Britain every year.

Government policy is to offer the jabs to everyone over 65 and those with existing conditions that could be worsened by flu.

Experts say the deaths could be coincidental and no direct link to the injection has been established.

But there are now calls for further research to identify whether some people could be put in danger by having the jab.

Ms Primarolo insisted the flu vaccine was safe and added: ‘The balance of benefits to risks remains overwhelmingly positive.’

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/health/article-1026539/23-people-die-123-hospitalised-given-flu-vaccine.html

[boots]

There they go defending the bull again, god I despise them.

In the small town where I live, we know of many people who have taken the flu shots that come up every winter, and a least 50% of them get the flu.:rolleyes: Some very severely after that experience they don't go back the next year.

Then you see the ads in the local paper from the doctors clinic, saying that this years flu is a highly contagious strain, all elderly and small children should be protected:rolleyes:

My in-laws get it, and being old they are worried and take the shot. 50% of the time they come down with it.
There starting to think in a different way now that we have been telling them that it's not necessary.

[chattanova]

12 Babies die during vaccine trials in Argentina

Buenos Aires, Jul 10, 2008 (EFE via COMTEX) -- HPFS | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- At least 12 babies who were part of a clinical study to test the effectiveness of a vaccine against pneumonia have died over the past year in Argentina, the local press reported Thursday.

The study was sponsored by global drug giant GlaxoSmithKline and uses children from poor families, who are "pressured and forced into signing consent forms," the Argentine Federation of Health Professionals, or Fesprosa, said.

"This occurs without any type of state control" and "does not comply with minimum ethical requirements," Fesprosa said.

The vaccine trial is still ongoing despite the denunciations, and those in charge of the study were cited by the Critica newspaper as saying that the procedures are being carried out in a lawful manner.

Colombian and Panama were also chosen by GSK as staging grounds for trials of the vaccine against the pneumococcal bacteria.

Since 2007, 15,000 children under the age of one from the Argentine provinces of Mendoza, San Juan and Santiago del Estero have been included in the research protocol, a statement of what the study is trying to achieve.

"Only 12 have died throughout the country, which is a very low figure if we compare it with the deaths produced by respiratory illnesses caused by the pneumococcal bacteria," pediatrician Enrique Smith, one of the lead investigators, said.

In Santiago del Estero, one of the country's poorest provinces, the trials were authorized when Enrique's brother, Juan Carlos Smith, was provincial health minister.

According to pediatrician Ana Maria Marchese, who works at the children's hospital in the provincial capital where the studies are being conducted, "because they can't experiment in Europe or the United States, they come to do it in third-world countries."

"A lot of people want to leave the protocol but aren't allowed; they force them to continue under the threat that if they leave they won't receive any other vaccine," said Julieta Ovejero, great aunt of one of the six babies who died in Santiago del Estero.

Fesprosa's Juan Carlos Palomares said that "in most cases these are underprivileged individuals, many of them unable to read or write, who are pressured into including their children" in the trials.

According to Fesprosa, "the laboratory pays $8,000 for each child included in the study, but none (of that money) remains in the province that lends the public facilities and the health personnel for the private research." EFE

http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/1750553/

[ericdubay]

My new article on the dangers of Vaccines:

http://www.atlanteanconspiracy.com/2008/07/vaccines.html

~Eric
www.atlanteanconspiracy.com

[phaid]

Sign the petition against forcing British children to accept vaccinations in order to attend school or receive child benefits.
(UK citizens only)

A Labour MP has recently suggested forcing all children to be vaccinated otherwise they cannot attend school and parents should not receive child benefits. Vaccinations can cause various injuries to children and also manipulate only specific parts of the immune system and not necessarily all the appropriate parts.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/forcedvaccines/

[chattanova]

'Vaccine Nation'

In this groundbreaking film, you will see the truth about the dangers of vaccines and their direct relationship to autoimmune diseases, infections, allergies and a massive increase of developmental learning and behavioral disorders in children, such as Autism. Discover the truth about the history of vaccines and how they have NEVER been proven to be safe and effective for anyone.

Vaccine Nation - Director's Cut (Gary Null) - 90 min

For most people, vaccinating themselves and their children seems like a good idea. Vaccines are safe, effective and are supposed to protect us against dangerous infectious diseases - Right? Wrong! What you don’t know can harm you or kill you! In this groundbreaking film, you will: * See the truth about the dangers of vaccines and their direct relationship to autoimmune diseases, infections, allergies and a massive increase of developmental learning and behavioral disorders in children, such as Autism. * Discover the truth about the history of vaccines and how they have NEVER been proven to be safe and effective for anyone. * Witness the legacy of governmental deception and cover-ups associated with vaccines. * Learn about the corruption within the scientific community and how vaccine studies are seriously flawed. * You’ll also follow heart-wrenching, real life stories of the parents and children devastated by the effects of vaccines. Join director Gary Null PhD and over 40 of the worlds foremost vaccine experts in this shocking expose’ that will shatter the truth as you know it.


http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6531447125053615129&hl=en

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6531447125053615129&hl=en

[astral_girl]

'Vaccine Nation'


Vaccine Nation - Director's Cut (Gary Null) - 90 min

For most people, vaccinating themselves and their children seems like a good idea. Vaccines are safe, effective and are supposed to protect us against dangerous infectious diseases - Right? Wrong! What you don’t know can harm you or kill you! In this groundbreaking film, you will: * See the truth about the dangers of vaccines and their direct relationship to autoimmune diseases, infections, allergies and a massive increase of developmental learning and behavioral disorders in children, such as Autism. * Discover the truth about the history of vaccines and how they have NEVER been proven to be safe and effective for anyone. * Witness the legacy of governmental deception and cover-ups associated with vaccines. * Learn about the corruption within the scientific community and how vaccine studies are seriously flawed. * You’ll also follow heart-wrenching, real life stories of the parents and children devastated by the effects of vaccines. Join director Gary Null PhD and over 40 of the worlds foremost vaccine experts in this shocking expose’ that will shatter the truth as you know it.


http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6531447125053615129&hl=en

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6531447125053615129&hl=en

just watched this --very good film

[chattanova]

Vaccines Found to Cause Diabetes in Children

NaturalNews) Two new studies showing that vaccines increase the risk of diabetes have been published in the Open Pediatric Medicine Journal.

In a prior study, published in the journal Autoimmunity, Dr. J. Bartholomew Classen of Classen Immunotherapies and David Carey Classen of the University of Utah compared more than 100,000 children who had received between one and four doses of the hemophilus vaccine with more than 100,000 unvaccinated children. The Classens found that after seven years, children in the vaccination group had a 26 percent higher risk of developing diabetes than children in the non-vaccine group. This amounted to an extra 54 cases of diabetes per 100,000 children vaccinated.

The Classens noted that the vaccine itself is only projected to prevent seven deaths and seven to 26 cases of permanent disability per 100,000 children.

"Our results conclusively prove there is a causal relationship between immunization schedules and diabetes," J. Bartholomew Classen said at the time.

In the more recent study, Classen examined data on the same vaccine, this time looking only at children who had a sibling with Type 2 diabetes. He found that the hemophilus vaccine led to an extra case of diabetes in one of every 50 such children, or 2 percent. This is 40 times higher than the already-elevated rate found in the Autoimmunity study.

"The recent data shows that common childhood vaccines are especially dangerous to children with a strong family history of diabetes," Classen said. "Parents of a child with a strong family history of insulin-dependent diabetes ... should know that the administration of a full series of vaccines may have a greater than 5 percent chance of causing their child to develop diabetes."

Another study, published in the same issue of the Open Pediatric Medicine Journal, demonstrated a connection between the hepatitis B vaccine and Type 2 diabetes.

http://www.naturalnews.com/023902.html

[chattanova]

HPV Vaccine Causes 21
Deaths And Counting

New England Journal of Medicine claims that only about 10% of drug induced side effects are reported

OTTAWA -- Critics say that the reasons to avoid using the HPV vaccine, Gardasil, continue to pile up in the form of thousands of instances of severe side effects, including numerous deaths.

In response to the mounting evidence that the vaccine may not be safe for widespread use, the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) is slated to release a study in October that will attempt to determine the validity of these reports.

Judicial Watch, a public interest group, has closely monitored Gardasil since it was released by creator Merck in 2006, periodically detailing statistics on the numerous side effects users have experienced. The most recent report alleges that the drug has been responsible for 21 deaths and 9,749 adverse reactions, including 78 outbreaks of genital warts and 10 miscarriages.

As daunting as these current statistics are, it seems that even they may be gravely underestimating the health risks associated with using Gardasil. A study by the New England Journal of Medicine claims that only about 10% of drug induced side effects are reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).

Furthermore, FiercePharma.com claims that experts have criticized the actual effectiveness of the cervical cancer vaccine, saying Merck has exaggerated the drug's usefulness.

Despite the alleged dangers of using Garasil and concerns about its actual medical success, Merck is continuing to push the drug into state mandatory vaccine lists and schools.

http://brownpelicanla.com/index.php/all/2008/08/15/hpv_vaccine_causes_21_deaths_and_countin

See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage -

Gardasil - 18 Dead, Thousands Suffer Complications
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jul/08070809.html

Why Medical Authorities Cannot be Trusted on Gardasil HPV Vaccine By Gwen Landolt
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/dec/07121905.html

Ontario Catholic School Board Rejects HPV Vaccine on School Premises
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/oct/07101806.html

Controversial HPV Vaccine Causing One Death Per Month: FDA Report
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jul/08070316.html

http://www.rense.com/general83/hpv.htm

[elpressiedente]

The Man Behind The Vaccine Mystery

"Just before President Bush signed the homeland security bill into law an unknown member of Congress inserted a provision into the legislation that blocks lawsuits against the maker of a controversial vaccine preservative called "thimerosal," used in vaccines that are given to children.
Drug giant Eli Lilly and Company makes thimerosal. It's the mercury in the preservative that many parents say causes autism in thousands of children...

But nobody in Congress would admit to adding the provision, reports CBS News Correspondent Jim Acosta – until now.
House Majority Leader Dick Armey tells CBS News he did it to keep vaccine-makers from going out of business under the weight of mounting lawsuits.

"Critics say the Bush family and the administration have too many ties to Eli Lilly. There's President Bush's father, who sat on the company's board in the 1970's; White House budget director Mitch Daniels, once an Eli Lilly executive; and Eli Lilly CEO Sidney Taurel, who serves on the president's homeland security advisory council." - CBS (12/12/02)

[griswald]

Ireland plans to launch a cervical cancer vaccination programme for its 12 year old girls, but has postponed it at the moment due to money shortages.

Presumably MSD,s new 200 million euro facility in Carlow will have something to do with it, and according to this link,

http://www.vhi.ie/news/n200207b.jsp

They will be inheriting a lot of sadness,

griswald

[accuracy]

Skin cancer vaccine labelled groundbreaking


16th November 2008, 15:15 WST

Cancer Council Australia has welcomed the announcement of a possible vaccine for skin cancer as groundbreaking.

Former Australian of the Year Ian Frazer is on the verge of creating the world's first skin cancer vaccine.

The pioneering scientist, who discovered a vaccine for cervical cancer, revealed at the Australian Health and Medical Research Congress in Brisbane on Sunday that a skin cancer vaccine could be ready within the next five to 10 years.

Clinical trials are set to start next year.

CCA chief executive officer Ian Olver said it was exciting news with huge implications.

“It's an exciting announcement and it's great to see an Australian at the forefront of skin cancer research,” Professor Olver said.

“If the (human) trials are successful it will give us one extra layer of prevention but it doesn't replace the other preventative measures of slip, slop, slap, wearing sunglasses and going into the shade.”

More than 380,000 Australians are diagnosed with skin cancer, with 1600 people per year dying of the disease.

Professor Olver said the vaccine was an extension of Professor Frazer's world-first vaccine for cervical cancer that targets the papillomavirus.
He said papillomavirus was also the trigger for squamous cell skin cancer, a common skin infection that turns abnormal cells into cancer.

Professor Olver said the potential vaccine was not a solution for every skin cancer, including the deadliest of them all, melanomas.

“It is timely this has been announced during National Skin Cancer Action Week,” Professor Olver said.

“Sadly teenagers are still not getting the (sun awareness) message.

“One in four teenagers get sunburnt during summer and 29 per cent said they simply forgot the preventative measures.”

BRISBANE
AAP

http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=2&ContentID=108353

[griswald]

Skin cancer vaccine labelled groundbreaking


16th November 2008, 15:15 WST

Cancer Council Australia has welcomed the announcement of a possible vaccine for skin cancer as groundbreaking.

Former Australian of the Year Ian Frazer is on the verge of creating the world's first skin cancer vaccine.

The pioneering scientist, who discovered a vaccine for cervical cancer, revealed at the Australian Health and Medical Research Congress in Brisbane on Sunday that a skin cancer vaccine could be ready within the next five to 10 years.

Clinical trials are set to start next year.

CCA chief executive officer Ian Olver said it was exciting news with huge implications.

“It's an exciting announcement and it's great to see an Australian at the forefront of skin cancer research,” Professor Olver said.

“If the (human) trials are successful it will give us one extra layer of prevention but it doesn't replace the other preventative measures of slip, slop, slap, wearing sunglasses and going into the shade.”

More than 380,000 Australians are diagnosed with skin cancer, with 1600 people per year dying of the disease.

Professor Olver said the vaccine was an extension of Professor Frazer's world-first vaccine for cervical cancer that targets the papillomavirus.
He said papillomavirus was also the trigger for squamous cell skin cancer, a common skin infection that turns abnormal cells into cancer.

Professor Olver said the potential vaccine was not a solution for every skin cancer, including the deadliest of them all, melanomas.

“It is timely this has been announced during National Skin Cancer Action Week,” Professor Olver said.

“Sadly teenagers are still not getting the (sun awareness) message.

“One in four teenagers get sunburnt during summer and 29 per cent said they simply forgot the preventative measures.”

BRISBANE
AAP

http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=2&ContentID=108353


Is that the same Ian frazer that is associated with Gardasil.

http://www.rrpwebsite.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/category.display/category_id/356/

griswald

[accuracy]

Is that the same Ian frazer that is associated with Gardasil.

http://www.rrpwebsite.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/category.display/category_id/356/

griswald

Yes, it's the same person! The article i posted did not name anyone,:cool:
but i did read up about it : The Sunday Times naming Ian Frazer.

[cluas]

My new article on the dangers of Vaccines:

http://www.atlanteanconspiracy.com/2008/07/vaccines.html

~Eric
www.atlanteanconspiracy.com


Thank You Eric :)

[teri]

Rat Poison Chemical Found in Ingredient List For HPV Vaccine
by Joanne Waldron (see all articles by this author)


(NaturalNews) What do rat poison and the HPV vaccine have in common? The answer is a hazardous chemical known as sodium borate. Savvy readers may wonder what a toxin that is commonly used to kill rats is doing in the ingredient list for the HPV vaccine that is currently being pushed on girls as young as nine and is even being considered for men and boys. Unfortunately, the answer isn't very comforting, especially for new U.S. residents for whom the HPV injection containing sodium borate is now mandated.

What is Sodium Borate?

Sodium borate, a boric acid salt also known as borax, has many common uses. In addition to its use as a rat poison, it is also used in laundry detergents, cosmetics, enamel glazes, flame retardants, and buffer solutions in chemistry. However, sodium borate also has antifungal properties, which means that its probable reason for being in the vaccine is to act as a preservative.

Sodium Borate Banned as Food Additive

Sodium borate is used as a food additive in some countries, but it is now outlawed in many places. For example, one Australian government recall site notes: "Product is Borax (sodium borate) which is a non permitted food additive and is harmful to health." So, if it's "harmful to health," why is it being added to the HPV vaccine?

No Longer Used in Medical Preparations

The U.S. National Library of Medicine states in an article that boric acid is "no longer commonly used in medical preparations." It's a good thing, too, considering that the U.S. National Library of Medicine also reports that this substance used to be used to disinfect and treat wounds and that individuals "who received such treatment over and over again got sick, and some died." In fact, the U.S. National Library of Medicine provides the number for Poison Control for people exposed to this chemical and notes that treatment for those exposed to it may include gastric lavage (stomach pumping), dialysis, and liquids by mouth or IV.

Sodium Borate Poisoning Symptoms Mimic Reactions to HPV Vaccine

Sadly, the information about sodium borate gets even scarier. Another government website article states that exposure to sodium borate can cause convulsions and other ill health effects. Interestingly enough, young girls who receive the HPV vaccine have reported similar symptoms to those that appear in cases of sodium borate poisoning. This particular government site provides the following warning regarding this chemical: "WARNING! HARMFUL IF SWALLOWED, INHALED OR ABSORBED THROUGH SKIN. CAUSES IRRITATION TO SKIN, EYES AND RESPIRATORY TRACT." Given this information, is sodium borate really something that should be injected into humans? This is something the reader should carefully consider, along with the previously reported information, before choosing to receive the controversial HPV vaccine. the link to this is
http://www.naturalnews.com/024872.html

Are Vaccinations Causing Early Alzheimer’s Disease?
by Byron Richards

(NaturalNews) The issue of cognitive decline and the more advanced Alzheimer's disease is predicted to be a public health crisis in America over the next 20 years, as the swell of baby boomers hits the age when problems manifest. This past week the Wall Street Journal ran an article on a man getting Alzheimer's in his 40s, one of 500,000 Americans with early onset. The notion that this problem is striking ever earlier sent shock waves through the country and left people wondering why this is happening.

Clearly, there are many inflammatory factors in a person's life and gene-related weaknesses are involved. However, theoretical data on the inflammatory nature of vaccines, especially in the large numbers given to children at an early age while their nerves are developing response patterns for future life, means that they cannot be ruled out as one main factor that primes the Alzheimer's pump.


How inflammation causes Alzhimer's

We already know from existing research the recipe that leads to Alzheimer's risk. Data coming from the Canadian Study of Health and Aging found that aging in general, fewer years of education (less brain exercise), and the apolipoprotein E epsilon4 allele were significantly associated with increased risk of Alzheimer's disease. Other research has shown that heavy smoking and drinking speed the onset of Alzheimer's. A sluggish thyroid also increases the risk.

On the other hand the Canadian researchers found that the use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, wine consumption, coffee consumption, and regular physical activity were associated with a reduced risk of Alzheimer's disease. There are many great anti-inflammatory nutrients that readily replace the concept of drug use, including the grape seed extracts of red wine (which have been shown to reduce Alzheimer's plaque formation).

Natural vitamin E at the dose of 2000 IU per day has been shown to extend the life of Alzheimer's patients by two years. DHA and folic acid have been shown to be protective against Alzheimer's. Moderate coffee intake has a brain-activating effect, which would be synergistic with learning or other forms of constructive brain exercise that help keep your brain cells fit. Physical exercise is proven to elevate levels of brain-derived neurotropic factor (BDNF) vital for your brain to withstand stress and inflammation and keep your brain cells living longer in a healthier condition. The common theme is that using your brain constructively helps keep it fit and factors that induce brain inflammation, of which there are many, send you in the wrong direction.

Besides the above, obvious factors that cause brain inflammation include a lack of sleep, emotional stress, physical exhaustion, cell phone use, and a poor quality diet. This means that there will never be a specific cause of Alzheimer's identified, other than the idea that too much inflammation combined with genetic weaknesses will lead to the problem. Too much inflammation is the common theme behind all nerve-related diseases, heart disease, and cancer. Thus, the manifestation of various shades of cognitive decline will be common in the overall population and progression into full Alzheimer's, compared to some other serious problem, will depend on genetic weak spots.

For example, healthy children of Alzheimer's patients have adverse changes in their brain structure before any symptoms appear. The greater the amount of inflammation, combined with an individual's ability to tolerate inflammation, will determine the age of onset.

Recently researchers did autopsies on the brains of individuals who maintained sharp memory into their 80s. Those with sharp memory compared to the brains of those with "normal aging" had far less brain tangles. Thus we see a sliding scale of tangles, going from virtually none in true health, to the common averages of "normal aging," down into the diseased ranges of cognitive decline, and eventually into Alzheimer's. With this understanding, "normal aging" can be seen as abnormal from an optimal health point of view. Such brain tangles are driven by inflammatory processes.


The Immunization-Alzheimer's Controversy

The adjuvants used in vaccines (putting the mercury issue aside) are intentionally highly inflammatory so as to provoke a more active immune response to the weakened pathogen. The fact that American children are the most vaccinated in the world at such an early age, when their brains are setting up shop, runs the high risk that vaccinations will "train" nerves to become more hyper-active to future inflammatory stress of any kind.

Such issues would be magnified if a child had a history of stress in the womb, stress as an infant (unstable environment), poor nutrition in the womb or early life, other health problems as an infant, or has family-related gene weaknesses predisposing to Alzheimer's (or any other nerve-related disease for that matter). These massive numbers of early vaccinations could easily set the stage for early onset Alzheimer's. At this point there is absolutely no science that refutes this theory, and plenty of science to predict it.

Our government, bless their little hearts, has no interest in proving this not to be the case or in figuring out a safety threshold for the number of vaccines or the age they are given. Rather, they operate on the assumption that any number of vaccines is harmless. This public health mentality of "fire a shot gun and ask questions later" (or never ask any questions at all) is good for herd mentality and not so good for personalized wellness and quality of life.

Any notion that the treatment is problematic, such as a contributor to autism, is met with flat out denial. It does not matter to them what data is presented or what new science obviously predicts. Our government's illness is their bizarre concept of control at all costs by unelected bureaucrats, risks be dammed. The bottom line, our government doesn't actually care what adverse effects vaccinations may cause to your child, they are treating a herd.


1,000% Increase in Alzheimer's Risk

This issue flared up back in 1997 when a leading proponent of the vaccine-autism link, Hugh Fudenberg, MD, presented his research at the NVIC International Vaccine Conference, Arlington, VA. His data showed that if an individual had five consecutive flu shots between 1970 and 1980 (the years studied) his / her chances of getting Alzheimer's disease is 10 times higher than if he / she had one, two, or no shots. This data was never published in a peer reviewed journal. Supporters of Fudenberg describe him as "the world's leading immunogeneticist and 13th most quoted biologist of our times (nearly 850 papers in peer review journals)."

The Alzheimer's Association website attempts to discredit Fudenberg, but not the data he presented, stating that his "license was suspended by the South Carolina Board of Medical Examiners." This is true, but that was due to a classic witch hunt because of his anti-vaccine position. The Alzheimer's Association went on to reference a meaningless study in which those with a negligible vaccine history had no apparent risk of Alzheimer's. The data does not begin to approximate the potential risk of massive numbers of vaccines given to American children and future Alzheimer's risk.

Thus, the question of the immunization link to Alzheimer's is an open-ended and controversial issue. A responsible government would have demanded animal studies with different levels of immunizations at different ages in relation to the onset of Alzheimer's. These studies aren't being conducted because OUR GOVERNMENT DOES NOT WANT TO KNOW THE ANSWER.

Since Americans are more vaccinated than Europeans, a detailed analysis of vaccine amounts compared to Alzheimer's risk or early onset of Alzheimer's could be conducted. However, if the government is behind this study they will use statistical techniques that water down the results so that risk disappears, the favorite strategy employed when any drug or medicine has potential risks that would cause people not to take them.


Stopping Problems Early

Regardless of factors that set the stage for Alzheimer's it is quite clear that an overall strategy that balances your inflammation checkbook is central to preventing the problem. On one side of the equation is the wear and tear in your life. On the other side are the healthy things you do to rejuvenate and recover. No matter what you believe in, you'd better figure out a way to balance this checkbook.

We definitely know that it takes many years of wear and tear for full blown Alzheimer's to manifest. It is vital to act aggressively to prevent the problem if you are sliding down the Alzheimer's slope. Managing inflammatory stressors is at the top of your list. It is easiest to make changes in your brain before the problem gets large. Various memory glitches are normal and others are not. The Alzheimer's Association does have a list of the ten warning signs that is helpful:

1. Memory loss. Forgetting recently learned information is one of the most common early signs of dementia. A person begins to forget more often and is unable to recall the information later. What's normal? Forgetting names or appointments occasionally.

2. Difficulty performing familiar tasks. People with dementia often find it hard to plan or complete everyday tasks. Individuals may lose track of the steps involved in preparing a meal, placing a telephone call or playing a game. What's normal? Occasionally forgetting why you came into a room or what you planned to say.

3. Problems with language. People with Alzheimer's disease often forget simple words or substitute unusual words, making their speech or writing hard to understand. They may be unable to find the toothbrush, for example, and instead ask for "that thing for my mouth." What's normal? Sometimes having trouble finding the right word.

4. Disorientation to time and place. People with Alzheimer's disease can become lost in their own neighborhood, forget where they are and how they got there, and not know how to get back home. What's normal? Forgetting the day of the week or where you were going.

5. Poor or decreased judgment. Those with Alzheimer's may dress inappropriately, wearing several layers on a warm day or little clothing in the cold. They may show poor judgment, like giving away large sums of money to telemarketers. What's normal? Making a questionable or debatable decision from time to time.

6. Problems with abstract thinking. Someone with Alzheimer's disease may have unusual difficulty performing complex mental tasks, like forgetting what numbers are for and how they should be used. What's normal? Finding it challenging to balance a checkbook.

7. Misplacing things. A person with Alzheimer's disease may put things in unusual places: an iron in the freezer or a wristwatch in the sugar bowl. What's normal? Misplacing keys or a wallet temporarily.

8. Changes in mood or behavior. Someone with Alzheimer's disease may show rapid mood swings – from calm to tears to anger – for no apparent reason. What's normal? Occasionally feeling sad or moody.

9. Changes in personality. The personalities of people with dementia can change dramatically. They may become extremely confused, suspicious, fearful or dependent on a family member. What's normal? People's personalities do change somewhat with age.

10. Loss of initiative. A person with Alzheimer's disease may become very passive, sitting in front of the TV for hours, sleeping more than usual or not wanting to do usual activities. What's normal? Sometimes feeling weary of work or social obligations.

For a fully referenced version of this article:

http://www.wellnessresources.com/health...

[vividchild]

When I was 11 I had an autoimmune disease (acute disseminated encephalomyelitis) which left me paralysed. To this day I remain convinced that it was brought on by vaccinations.

People of any age can develop acute disseminated encephalomyelitis although it is most likely to occur in children. About 80 percent of all cases occur in children younger than age 10 years. and about 3 percent of all cases are reported in adults. ADEM is known to arise after viral infections, particularly measles, and after vaccinations, particularly those for rabies, pertussis, and influenza. Among adolescents, ADEM is three times more common than MS. Males are affected slightly more often than females.

I went from being 100% healthy to my parents being told I was dying in the space of a week. Despite extensive tests I have never been offered an explanation.

Just thought I'd share :/

[hagbard_celine]

What's all this about a measles epidemic.:confused: My daughter told me baout it. I've already stopped her having the Papiloma vaccine and now they want to give her another one!:rolleyes::mad:

[chattanova]

Doctors Abandoning Vaccines That Don't Make Them Money

The results of two new surveys published in the medical journal Pediatrics reveal that many U.S. doctors are abandoning vaccines that don't make them money. Due to low reimbursements from insurance companies and government health care programs (Medicare, Medicaid), many doctors are simply refusing to offer such vaccines to children. About half of the doctors surveyed said they had delayed buying at least one vaccine due to the cost.

These survey results bring several important issues to the surface. First, there's the greed of Big Pharma: If the drug industry is here to serve humankind (as they hilariously claim in their advertisements), then drug companies should make vaccines available at cost rather than at the huge markups on the drugs they have in place right now. And that's only if you believe vaccines are actually good for children in the first place.

The second fascinating issue here is that doctors are increasingly fed up with the monopoly price fixing of Big Pharma, too, and they're not going to keep offering services at a loss just because the drug companies tell them to. As long as the pharmaceutical industry continues to exploit the population for obscene corporate profits, more and more doctors are going to drop vaccine services that don't earn them some cash. Doctors are in business to make money, too, and they're not willing to keep eating losses just to vaccinate children (and we shouldn't expect them to).

The third issue is that this reduction in vaccines may actually result in fewer cases of autism which are, of course, caused by the toxic preservative chemicals and inflammatory chemicals found in vaccines. (http://www.naturalnews.com/024867.html)

Public health officials (and the mainstream media journalists who lie for them) are predictably warning the public about a terrible wave of chicken pox, measles and winter flu cases if all the children aren't injected with a combined total of over 130 vaccines. That's what children are given these days. It's not 130 individual shots; it's 130 total vaccines combined into fewer shots (each shot contains more than one vaccine cocktail).

But health authorities' warnings about outbreaks of infectious disease are all nonsense to begin with: Chicken pox isn't fatal! Neither is measles, except in rare cases. When I was a kid, we all had the chicken pox and measles. It was no big deal, and it made our immune systems stronger, which is why we don't need vaccines today. Besides, a healthy blood level of Vitamin D will protect you from the flu far better than any vaccine. Infectious disease typically only strikes nutritionally depleted children with deficient immune systems (caused by junk food and chemicals in food, drugs and personal care products).

Mandatory vaccination policies are, in fact, modern medicine's best example of quackery. And there's no better demonstration of that than the HPV vaccine fraud (http://www.naturalnews.com/HPV_vaccines.html).

Wouldn't it be hilarious if the vaccine industry failed due to its own greed? If more doctors refuse to offer vaccines and more parents refuse to chemically assault their own children with those same vaccines, the vaccine industry could sharply contract and experience a substantial loss of business.

And sure, chicken pox cases will rise. So will measles cases. So what? Autism cases would sharply drop, as would autoimmune disorders, Alzheimer's disease and many other neurological disorders caused by the toxic chemicals found in vaccines. We shouldn't poison our children just to prevent non-fatal infections like Chicken Pox, which heals itself and goes away in a few days anyway.

The entire vaccination philosophy now believes that the human immune system is useless and should be hijacked with Big Pharma's chemicals. It's ridiculous. Sure, vaccines are warranted in laboratory workers who might be exposed to level-4 infectious agents that could be fatal, but pushing mandatory vaccines on all the children in the nation just to prevent non-fatal infections and winter colds is medical madness.

But it does, of course, earn profits for Big Pharma. And that's the whole point of the big vaccination push in the first place. It has nothing to do with public health and everything to do with corporate profits.


http://www.naturalnews.com/News_000569_vaccines_doctors_vaccination.html

[accuracy]

Hep B Jab Linked To Male
Development Disability

1-17-9

Stony Brook University Medical Center researchers found that the odds of requiring early intervention or special education services for a developmental disability are nine times as greater for boys who received the thimerosal containing triple series hepatitis B vaccine.

Boys who did not receive the vaccine had a lesser chance of developmental disabilities such as learning challenges, behavioral problems, autism, speech delays, lower IQ, and functional deficits.

Thimerosal was contained in the hepatitis B vaccine until 2000 and contains 49.6% mercury (Hg), a recognized neurodevelopmental toxicant. Studies have correlated prenatal mercury exposure to poor cognitive performance. Cord blood mercury levels have also been associated with lower IQ.

Mercury-induced neurodevelopmental disorders cost 8.7 billion dollars annually in lost productivity alone. Pollution of the ambient air with mercury from coal fired power plants is associated with increases in autism.

Vaccination with the Hepatitis B triple series vaccine preserved with thimerosal also exposed newborns and infants to mercury.

Consistent with the higher rate of boys who develop autism, boys who were vaccinated were also at a higher risk of developmental disabilities than girls. This was true regardless of whether the girls were vaccinated or not.

Researchers have also found that thimerosal-induced cytotoxicity is associated with depletion of glutathione in human brain cells. Depleted glutathione has been linked to poor detoxification and environmental illnesses such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, multiple chemical sensitivity, autism, gulf war syndrome, cancer, autoimmune disorders, and others.

Other factors which may influence the chances of developmental disorders include childhood exposures to other immunizations, whether an infant was first vaccinated at birth or later, and non-vaccine-related exposures.

The Institute of Medicine cites studies which do not demonstrate a link between thimerosal containing vaccines and autism; however, these studies come from population samples in the United Kingdom (UK), Denmark, and Sweden where universal vaccination of newborns with the hepatitis B vaccine is not recommended or practiced.

The hepatitis B vaccines in United States no longer contain thimerosal; however, the vaccine given to children in developing countries does. Additionally, the flu shot that is now recommended for annual administration to all children under age 18 does contain thimerosal.

Thimerosal-free versions of the flu shot are available upon request, though they usually cost more because they come in a single dose vial. Thimerosal acts as a preservative in multi-dose vials.

Gallagher & Goodman say, "Children's previous and potential future exposure to thimerosal remains an important public health concern. Future research should (1) examine how public health efforts might better identify harmful exposures and susceptible children; (2) institute effective protective and quality improvement measures; (3) conduct cost-benefit analyses that more comprehensively consider the costs and more accurately assess the risks for the US population of children, especially subpopulations of susceptible children."

Parents should be aware that most states offer religious or philosophical exemption from mandated vaccinations. Despite this, many doctors, schools, and case workers attempt to bully parents into vaccinating their children.

A naturopath in India who refused the polio vaccine for his 5 year old son, citing the dangers and his alternative methods of boosting his son's immunity, was recently visited at his home numerous times by vaccine pushing zealots who claim he must be convinced of his errant ways.

Parents cannot allow zealots to decide what is best for their children. With the epidemic increase in developmental disabilities that coincides with vaccination, the only real "way" is to make fully educated and informed decisions after examining both sides of the equation.

Reference

Gallagher C, Goodman M. Hepatitis B triple series vaccine and developmental disability in US children aged 1­9 years. Toxicological & Environmental Chemistry. 2008;90(5):997-1008.



Gayle Eversole, DHom, PhD, MH, NP, ND

Founder and Director, <http://leaflady.org/>Creating Health Institute and <http://simply4health.org/>The Oake Centre for natural health education

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[always_rebel]

Alex Jones’ Audio Blog: January 27, 2009 on Vaccine & Other Gov’t Propaganda

Infowars
January 27, 2009

In the seventh installment of his new audio blog, Alex Jones and his wife Violet discuss various government propaganda, as well as television programs, which advance the idea that those who don’t vaccinate will contaminate the rest of society.

Violet discusses an episode of Private Practice which features a scenario where the mother of an autistic child had refused to vaccinate another child out of concern about the link between vaccine & autism. That action is portrayed as a dangerous misjudgment leading to the second child spreading measles– which the doctors see as evidence that the woman’s children should be taken by CPS.

Alex also discusses USA Service ads that are promoted by Obama, government propaganda about the supposed dangers of marijuana smokers, the pro-abortion culture, and other issues.

Click the player button below to hear the latest installment.


For audio go to:

http://www.infowars.com/alex-jones%E2%80%99-audio-blog-january-27-2009-on-vaccine-other-govt-propaganda/

[accuracy]

INFORMED CHOICE : Vaccine Ingredients



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In a compulsory inoculation program, it is the responsibility of the developers, promoters and enforcers to prove safety and efficacy


Check it out!!

http://www.informedchoice.info/cocktail.html

[accuracy]

NHS blunders are behind a spate of 'vaccine overloads'


By Beezy Marsh and Jo Macfarlane
Last updated at 10:27 PM on 21st February 2009

Children are being given the wrong vaccinations and repeat doses of jabs they have already had due to mix-ups at GPs’ surgeries.
Nearly 1,000 safety incidents involving child immunisations were reported in a single year.
Of those studied in detail, more than a third involved babies and children given a different vaccine to the one they were supposed to have.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/02/21/article-1151805-03986D6D000005DC-243_468x575.jpg
Suing: Pat and Bill Merchant with their daughter Jodie

Other blunders included delays to children having important vaccinations, infants given drugs that were out of date and allergic reactions.
It is said all of the incidents could have been avoided if doctors or nurses had checked medical records or drug details thoroughly.
Last night campaigners said these mistakes were the ‘tip of the iceberg’ and expressed fears of a ‘vaccine overload’ from Britain’s growing childhood immunisation schedule.
A report by the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA), the watchdog which monitors NHS errors, looked at 949 incidents involving jabs reported in 2007. A detailed study was made of 138 of these cases, picked at random. Eight caused children ‘moderate harm’.
In 36 per cent of cases a child was given the wrong vaccination. If the sample is representative, it means that hundreds are given the wrong immunisation every year. And, as the reporting of incidents by medical professionals is voluntary, the true number could be much higher.
In 23 per cent of incidents there were errors in documenting the vaccine, while there were delays in 17 per cent of cases. Other problems included incorrect storage of the jabs or out-of-date vaccines having to be thrown away.

GP Dr Richard Halvorsen, of the Babyjabs clinic in Central London, said: ‘These cases are probably the tip of the iceberg. It’s worrying when children are getting the wrong vaccines at the wrong times but it’s an inevitable consequence of the vaccination schedule, which is one of the most complex in the world.

‘Of course things are going to go wrong – it’s a recipe for mistakes.’
Children receive 32 immunisations before they reach four. And the Government is now discussing whether also to give chickenpox and flu jabs. The most controversial vaccine is combined measles, mumps and rubella (MMR).
Jackie Fletcher, of campaign group Justice, Action, Basic Support (JABS), said: ‘Children are sometimes given MMR when they go to get their pre-school booster for diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough, even if parents have explicitly said they do not want them to have it. To think mistakes occur time and time again is horrendous.’
Previously healthy Jodie Marchant, who is now 17, was left severely brain-damaged and with a gut disorder after being given seven vaccines in a single jab at 14 months. Her parents, Bill and Pat, from Southampton, had requested that she was given only MMR.
A claim for damages failed because there was not enough research into the vaccines. The Marchants are now suing their GP practice. Mr Marchant, 68, said: ‘To think so many other children suffer vaccine mix-ups is appalling.’
The NPSA said new packaging guidelines for jabs would ‘eradicate’ errors.
The Department of Health said: ‘Staff are trained to administer vaccines safely, follow the childhood immunisation schedule and to record it all.’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1151805/NHS-blunders-spate-vaccine-overloads.html

[boots]

INFORMED CHOICE : Vaccine Ingredients



http://www.informedchoice.info/vial2.jpg


In a compulsory inoculation program, it is the responsibility of the developers, promoters and enforcers to prove safety and efficacy


Check it out!!

http://www.informedchoice.info/cocktail.html

Thanks for the info accuracy:)


The above post^ Yep they are fucking up constantly. In 1997 the autism rate was 1 in 1500 cases now it is 1 in 150. WHAT.

No one cares, no one give's a damn.:( As long as the idiot box is on and everyone else is getting their kids jabbed from the time they are born....so what. The doctors are there to help aren't they :rolleyes::mad:

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[accuracy]

Thanks for the info accuracy:)


The above post^ Yep they are fucking up constantly. In 1997 the autism rate was 1 in 1500 cases now it is 1 in 150. WHAT.

No one cares, no one give's a damn.:( As long as the idiot box is on and everyone else is getting their kids jabbed from the time they are born....so what. The doctors are there to help aren't they :rolleyes::mad:

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That's for sure, boots, all these brainwashing methods used by the Zionists media for the sake of a depopulation agenda.

[accuracy]

Patients at risk as NHS staff refuse flu jabs
Hospital patients are being put at risk because health workers are ignoring government advice to have flu jabs, medical experts have warned.


Last Updated: 8:40AM GMT 28 Feb 2009

A new report discloses that fewer than one in seven front line NHS staff received a flu vaccine last year despite a recommendations that they do so.

The Royal College of General Practitioners warned that lives were being put at risk by the reluctance of staff to get immunised and called for compulsory jabs for those in direct contact with patients.

It also feared that by not getting jabs, GPs nurses and carers could be exacerbating winter flu outbreaks.

Dr George Kassianos, the immunisation spokesman for the Royal College, told The Times: "The only way to boost the effectiveness of the flu vaccine is to immunise the people who are delivering the care – in hospitals, nursing homes, residential homes and GPs' surgeries.

"We are now so hot on infections such as MRSA, so why are we not on influenza? You are placing patients' lives at risk if you give them the flu.

"It may make sense to say that if staff want to work in contact with patients, then they need to be immunised. We have to think of the patient on the hospital bed. They have a right not to contract flu from a carer."

The Department of Health is to release figures next week, which show that only 14 per cent of front line workers had a flu jab before the 2008-09 season.

This comes despite warnings from Sir Liam Donaldson, the Chief Medical Officer for England, that immunisation rates had to improve.

The flu outbreak over Christmas and the new year was the worst for eight years, with more than 60 cases per 100,000 people.

At Royal Liverpool University Hospital, nearly 100 patients caught flu, including on high-dependency wards treating blood diseases and kidney problems.

Low levels of vaccination among staff were identified by the Health Protection Agency as a significant factor in the outbreak.

Under the code of practice for health-care-acquired infections issued by the NHS, and monitored by the Healthcare Commission, trusts are required to "ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that health care workers are free of, and protected from, exposure to communicable infections".

However, a study of NHS attitudes conducted by the Government last year found that most staff did not view flu as a serious illness and thought the vaccine unnecessary because they were not at risk.

Michael Summers, the vice-chairman of the Patients' Association, told The Times that the latest figures were "very concerning".

He said: "NHS staff must lead by example. They know that patients are vulnerable to flu if they themselves are infected but also if they fall sick and have to stay at home, which will also affect patient care. They know the risks this is posing to patients."

A Department of Health spokesman said: "We want to see flu immunisation rates in health care workers increase because it will benefit both patients and staff.

"The recently published code of practice emphasises the need for NHS organisations to have an immunisation policy in place and to ensure staff's immunisation status is reviewed and updated."


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/4865614/Patients-at-risk-as-NHS-staff-refuse-flu-jabs.html

[accuracy]

H5N1 Mixed With
Human Flu Vax - Huh?


From Patricia Doyle, PhD
2-28-9

Hello Jeff - How does something like this happen? How in the world does H5N1 AVIAN virus get into human flu vaccine? This just boggles my mind. Is this some sort of test or, worse yet, is this a deliberate attempt to jump start a pandemic?

For the life of me, I just cannot understand how this could happen. I haven't taken flu shots in a very very long time. Every year the thought of getting flu scares me and a thought to get a shot enters my mind, but then, I come to my senses. Half the time they don't even have the strain of flu in the shots that are circulating. Seems like every year the vaccine is mismatched.

I just wonder what the investigations will turn up. If we get the truth? That too, is doubtful.

I am sure Henry will have a comment on this. In March, we must ask him about this.

Patty

"Officials are trying to get to the bottom of how vaccine manufacturer Baxter International Inc. made "experimental virus material" based on a human flu strain but contaminated with the H5N1 avian flu virus and then distributed it to an Austrian company. That company, Avir Green Hills Biotechnology, then disseminated the supposed H3N2 virus product to subcontractors in the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Germany. Authorities in the 4 European countries are looking into the incident, and their efforts are being closely watched by the World Health Organization and the European Centre for Disease Control."

Patricia A. Doyle DVM, PhD Bus Admin, Tropical Agricultural Economics Univ of West Indies Please visit my "Emerging Diseases" message board at: http://www.emergingdisease.org/phpbb/index.php Also my new website: http://drpdoyle.tripod.com/ Zhan le Devlesa tai sastimasa Go with God and in Good Health




Disclaimer

http://www.rense.com/general85/h5n.htm

[accuracy]

Officials investigate how bird flu viruses were sent to unsuspecting labs


Provided by: Canadian Press
Written by: Medical Reporter, THE CANADIAN PRESS
Feb. 25, 2009

Officials are trying to get to the bottom of how vaccine manufacturer Baxter International Inc. made "experimental virus material" based on a human flu strain but contaminated with the H5N1 avian flu virus and then distributed it to an Austrian company.

That company, Avir Green Hills Biotechnology, then disseminated the supposed H3N2 virus product to subcontractors in the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Germany. Authorities in the four European countries are looking into the incident, and their efforts are being closely watched by the World Health Organization and the European Centre for Disease Control.

Though it appears none of the 36 or 37 people who were exposed to the contaminated product became infected, the incident is being described as "a serious error" on the part of Baxter, which is on the brink of securing a European licence for an H5N1 vaccine. That vaccine is made at a different facility, in the Czech Republic.

"For this particular incident ... the horse did not get out (of the barn)," Dr. Angus Nicoll of the ECDC said from Stockholm.

"But that doesn't mean that we and WHO and the European Commission and the others aren't taking it as seriously as you would any laboratory accident with dangerous pathogens - which you have here."

Accidental release of a mixture of live H5N1 and H3N2 viruses - if that indeed happened - could have resulted in dire consequences. Nicoll said officials still aren't 100 per cent sure the mixture contained live H5N1 viruses. But given that ferrets exposed to the mixture died, it likely did.

H5N1 doesn't easily infect people, but H3N2 viruses do. They are one of two types of influenza A viruses that infect people each flu season.

If someone exposed to the mixture had been co-infected with H5N1 and H3N2, the person could have served as an incubator for a hybrid virus able to transmit easily to and among people. That mixing process, called reassortment, is one of two ways pandemic viruses are created.

Research published last summer by scientists at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control found that in the laboratory, H5N1 and H3N2 viruses mated readily. While less virulent than H5N1, a number of the offspring viruses appeared to retain at least a portion of the killing power of their dangerous parent.

Baxter International, which is based in Deerfield, Ill., said the contamination was the result of an error in its research facility in Orth-Donau, Austria.

The facility had been contracted by Avir Green Hills to make what Baxter refers to as "experimental virus material" based on human H3N2 viruses.

Christopher Bona, Baxter's director of global bioscience communications, said the liquid virus product was not a vaccine and was developed for testing purposes only. He deferred questions about the purpose of the testing to Avir Green Hills, but said the batch was to be used in animals and was never intended for use in humans.

Avir Green Hills said in an email that it took possession of the material in late December. It later sent the product to the sub-contractors. The email said the material was stored and handled throughout under high biosafety conditions.

Alarm bells rang in early February when researchers at the Czech sub-contractor inoculated ferrets with the material and the animals promptly died. Baxter learned about the problem on Feb. 6, Bona said from Deerfield.

Ferrets are susceptible to human flu strains, but they don't die from those infections. Preliminary investigation found the material was contaminated with H5N1 flu virus, which is lethal to ferrets.

Nicoll said the fact the ferrets died supports the working assumption that there were live H5N1 viruses in the material Baxter produced.

Bona said Baxter has identified how the contamination happened and has taken steps to ensure it doesn't happen again. He said Austrian authorities audited Baxter's Orth-Donau research operations after the problem came to light and are satisfied with the steps taken.

Baxter is the only flu vaccine manufacturer to work with wild type flu viruses, felt to be more dangerous than the altered and attenuated (weakened) viruses other manufacturers use.

The company uses what is known as BSL3 level precautions in all its vaccine research facilities, Bona said. (Researchers at the U.S. CDC use BSL3-plus biocontainment when working with H5N1 viruses, a spokesperson for the agency said.)

People familiar with biosecurity rules are dismayed by evidence that human H3N2 and avian H5N1 viruses have somehow co-mingled in the Baxter research facility. That should not be allowed to happen, a number of experts insisted.

The company isn't shedding much light on how it did.

"It was a combination of just the process itself, (and) technical and human error in this procedure," Bona said. When asked to elaborate, he said to do so would give away proprietary information about Baxter's production process.

Bona said when Baxter realized its error, it helped the various companies destroy the contaminated material and clean up their facilities. And staff who had been exposed to the contaminated product were assessed and monitored by infectious diseases doctors. They were also offered the antiviral drug oseltamivir (Tamiflu).

Baxter's error is reminiscent of a 2005 incident where a U.S. manufacturer of kits used by laboratories to test their detection capabilities included vials of H2N2 virus in several thousand proficiency kits. H2N2, the virus that caused the 1957 pandemic, has not circulated since 1968 and is thought to be a prime candidate to cause the next pandemic.

That mistake, discovered by Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory, set authorities around the world scrambling to retrieve and destroy the vials of virus, which had been sent to labs in 18 countries.


http://chealth.canoe.ca/channel_health_news_details.asp?news_id=27436&news_channel_id=1020&channel_id=1020

[noewhan]

A simple analogy:

These are seen as pests which spread all sorts of disease:

http://www.geocities.com/stopbreedingmosquitoes/mosquito6a.jpg

And these are what? Considered to be healthy to some people, but in reality much much worse than a mossie.

http://www.fda.gov/consumer/updates/pics/vaccination.jpg

[freedom from within]

my 13 year old daughter has had 2 of the the first cervical cancer injections her third and last is due this Thursday we have now decided not to allow it. any thoughts on this are welcomed.

peace and love Andy

[boots]

my 13 year old daughter has had 2 of the the first cervical cancer injections her third and last is due this Thursday we have now decided not to allow it. any thoughts on this are welcomed.

peace and love Andy

IMO certainly dont get the last one.

It's only supposed to protect you from 4 of over a 100 so called cervical cancer viruses. Makes me wonder why do they call it a virus??

If your concerned about the vaccines that she has had, then I suggest MMS or colloidal silver to kill the bugs. As for heavy metal toxicity the one that I know off that isn't harsh are Zeolites.

Good Luck Andy:)

[the worm that turned]

Apologies if someone has already posted this:

Drug company Novartis has withdrawn 21,000 batches of the meningitis C vaccine after two samples proved to be contaminated with bacteria.

The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency said the batches had not been sent out in the UK and the withdrawal was "entirely precautionary".

Novartis stated it was "committed to being a safe and reliable provider".

The Menjugate Kit, which was made in Italy, had left the factory and was being driven to the UK.

However a few samples were flown over by plane in order to see if the vaccine would stay uncontaminated when exposed to varying air pressure.

Some samples were discovered to contain staphylococcus aureus bacteria.

The Department of Health warned GPs who were sent the vaccine to send it back. The vaccine is usually given to babies aged around 3-4 months.

A spokeswoman for the MHRA said: "The tested samples that failed the sterility test were part of a non-routine study undertaken by the company and were not part of the UK market product."

Dr Ged Lee, from the MHRA, said they were taking precautions and that no contamination had been found in any of the samples sent to the UK.

He said: "The batch that was contaminated I can reassure you was not distributed into the UK and I can also reassure parents that the product that has been used in the UK has passed all the necessary quality standards and is perfectly safe."

Nothing to worry about here!!

[ex sheep]

Have been waiting for this MMR 2nd jab to come through the door, and its here.

I will call them on Monday to give them the news that its not going to happen.

I will keep you fully updated on the proceedings :D

no fucking way :D

[wells]

Thanks for this awesome thread guys. I had a marathon vaccine-research session yesterday... it's amazing how much more info you can find when you use an alternative site as your starting point. I remember googling for vaccine risks a few months ago and it actually didn't turn up much.

If anyone hasn't seen it yet, I highly recommend the "Mercury, Autism and the Global Vaccine Agenda" video mentioned somewhere in this thread. The video again is here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6890106663412840646

[halo]

I watched a similar video to that one :), it is what stopped me from having my vaccination for Tetanus and polio etc. It was the first time id been offered it at school and as i refused they seemed to be trying everything they could to make me take it. My Dad, who shares the sames views signed the form saying i wasn't to have it but when i went into school, they tried to get me to self sign which at the time since i was under 16, technically isn't allowed. The teachers were the worst, one telling me that "i was being very stupid and i was probably going to die". They spent around half an hour trying to convince me that i should have it, even though i had clearly stated i didn't want it. I even took ridicule from my friends, i replied to all of them ill guess ill die then. I was quite shocked in the way they acted and it make me feel quite upset that they could not accept what i wanted to do. Its such a shame people aren't willing to accept what are in these vaccinations. :(

[ex sheep]

I watched a similar video to that one :), it is what stopped me from having my vaccination for Tetanus and polio etc. It was the first time id been offered it at school and as i refused they seemed to be trying everything they could to make me take it. My Dad, who shares the sames views signed the form saying i wasn't to have it but when i went into school, they tried to get me to self sign which at the time since i was under 16, technically isn't allowed. The teachers were the worst, one telling me that "i was being very stupid and i was probably going to die". They spent around half an hour trying to convince me that i should have it, even though i had clearly stated i didn't want it. I even took ridicule from my friends, i replied to all of them ill guess ill die then. I was quite shocked in the way they acted and it make me feel quite upset that they could not accept what i wanted to do. Its such a shame people aren't willing to accept what are in these vaccinations. :(

Welcome halo,
well done to you and your dad,
what we have to understand is that these so called educated ones like nurses and doctors and teachers for that matter, think 100% that they are doing the right thing, they have been educated to a certain mindset, that of the string pullers.
I am doing the same as you this week, for my daughter, and I am armed with information as to why she is not getting it, by printing it out to try and show these people, whether it will help or not we will see.

[lightgiver]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LxWqAQXj3w

This may cheer you up.

[noesis]

I watched a similar video to that one :), it is what stopped me from having my vaccination for Tetanus and polio etc. It was the first time id been offered it at school and as i refused they seemed to be trying everything they could to make me take it. My Dad, who shares the sames views signed the form saying i wasn't to have it but when i went into school, they tried to get me to self sign which at the time since i was under 16, technically isn't allowed. The teachers were the worst, one telling me that "i was being very stupid and i was probably going to die". They spent around half an hour trying to convince me that i should have it, even though i had clearly stated i didn't want it. I even took ridicule from my friends, i replied to all of them ill guess ill die then. I was quite shocked in the way they acted and it make me feel quite upset that they could not accept what i wanted to do. Its such a shame people aren't willing to accept what are in these vaccinations. :(


It's great that you have the courage of your convictions. My man-friend's work is trying to force him to have the flu jab and he's being bullied because he has refused. They've even told him it wouldnt look good on his permanent record ... he said "so what". His refusal has led a couple of his work mates to delve into it a bit deeper and do their own research which is a good thing.

Welcome to the forum btw.

[noesis]

Hi all, we've had our first confirmed case of bacon flu in Aus today on the back of a push to get adults to get the whooping cough vaccine in New South Wales (one of our states). What's going on to have such a big surge -- if that is, these figures are correct.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25452530-662,00.html

[cafetimes1991]

I watched a similar video to that one :), it is what stopped me from having my vaccination for Tetanus and polio etc. It was the first time id been offered it at school and as i refused they seemed to be trying everything they could to make me take it. My Dad, who shares the sames views signed the form saying i wasn't to have it but when i went into school, they tried to get me to self sign which at the time since i was under 16, technically isn't allowed. The teachers were the worst, one telling me that "i was being very stupid and i was probably going to die". They spent around half an hour trying to convince me that i should have it, even though i had clearly stated i didn't want it. I even took ridicule from my friends, i replied to all of them ill guess ill die then. I was quite shocked in the way they acted and it make me feel quite upset that they could not accept what i wanted to do. Its such a shame people aren't willing to accept what are in these vaccinations. :(

Wtg, halo! People at school were pressuring me to get the MMR vaccine (due to be given next week), but there's no way I'm getting that poison injection.
I tried to tell people of the dangers, but they refused to discuss it. Yet again, my arguments are just dismissed as conspiracy theories...
Oh, and welcome to the forum!

[hordeari]

its hard to fight the sheople mentality caffetimes... they're programmed hard and deep in the fake reality :)

when I was in elementary school(90's) there were much less vaccinations than nowdays... these days I see must-have propaganda on vaccinations just about everywhere, even in public transportation etc. awful posters ..always smiling kids with their mums happy they got a poison shot :eek:

and commercial ads psss even worse, smiling with aspartam.. smiling with mercury.. smiling :(

[waiting41]

Hi. I've been reading here for a while, but this is my first post.

I delayed my first daughter's immunizations until right before kindergarten, because I saw the insanity of overloading the immature systems of infants with multiple vaccines that she didn't even need yet because I was a stay at home mom. I wish I had known more about the subject then, in 1994, because I would have done what I did with the second daughter, and that was not allowing them at all. I live in the states and I didn't know that I had the right to refuse them and still be able to enroll her in public school. Unfortunately, I had to claim religious conflicts as the reason. In some U.S. states, they allow for a philosophical reason for refusal to immunise your child. My state only allows for medical reasons and religious reasons.

My first daughter suffers from terrible allergies and I have always attributed that to the shots and the effect they have on the immune system. Though my second daughter has allergies as well, they are far less severe than the daughter's that received the shots.

[cafetimes1991]

http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20090523.gif

[accuracy]

Parents - Watch How The Hep B Vaccine Kills Babies

http://temporary5432.services.officelive.com/images/02-640-480.jpg

http://temporary5432.services.officelive.com/images/03-640-480.jpg

Pictures on this site may be difficult to view. This was our son Ian's reality, though, once he received the hepatitis B vaccine. We encourage you to see all of what Ian endured to grasp the depth of pain that characterized most of his life.


http://iansvoice.org/default.aspx

[mila]

Dutch newsarticle May 26th:

Doctors (about five) refuse to give cervical cancer vaccine
From this: http://www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/article1204849.ece/Artsen_weigeren_te_prikken_tegen_kanker

Translation: (a bad one though)

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.volkskrant.nl%2Fbinnenland% 2Farticle1204849.ece%2FArtsen_weigeren_te_prikken_ tegen_kanker&lp=nl_en&btnTrUrl=Translate

Snippet (I've tried to correct it)

"He especially fears the extra negative attention. The vaccination programme had a bad start this year. Several horrorstories concerning the vaccination circulate the Internet.This is the reason that less than half of the little girls between 13 and 16 years showed up for their first and second jab.
In September a third jab follows. Van Bolderen: (Dutch Association of Doctors) "Because of Internet many doubts have already risen. If doctors also refuse to cooperate, the vaccination problem certainly won't become smaller"

I hope MANY doctors will follow their example!

[cafetimes1991]

From our school MMR "vaccine" injection day.
I insisted on seeing an ingredients list for injection, and expected to find mercury, aspartame etc. but got this instead. I expect they're lying as per usual:

http://eu.ipstatic.net/photos/10130/r40_1243540590.jpg

[hordeari]

From our school MMR "vaccine" injection day.
I insisted on seeing an ingredients list for injection, and expected to find mercury, aspartame etc. but got this instead. I expect they're lying as per usual:

http://eu.ipstatic.net/photos/10130/r40_1243540590.jpg

hmm wait a second, and don't be paranoid :D

Ingredient called THYMEROSAL(mercury) is not present in every vaccine out there, and as far as I know aspartam also is not usual ingr in vaccines...?!

I don't know enough on this particular vaccine, but I know that today big pharma boys are pushing the fear propaganda more than ever.. I would not believe a single shit that comes out of their mouth, lol, nor the majority of puppet doc's, they are just repeat what they've been told..sad

this group on fcb has a lot on info reg. vaccines, check it out if u have an fcb acc, and pls don't tell me cia inflitrated facebook :eek: I know...so what :D
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=100535026404

cheers :cool:

p.s. few more links I found
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2008/09/22/mmr_vaccine_damage_conflicted_prosecution.htm
http://www.vran.org/vaccines/mmr/mmr-vaccine.htm

[gilly]

http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-4381-0-5-5--.html

Imagine how this will be abused - particularly once Codex Alimentarius is here, and it'll be a foregone conclusion that all food is tampered with in the vilest possible ways before it reaches anyone's plate!

Also, utilising mosquittos - WTF?

Edible Vaccines and Flying Syringes

Published on 06-02-2009


Source: Old-Thinker News - Daniel Taylor

When genetically modified foods were first introduced, the biotech industry hailed tomatoes that were frost resistant and round-up ready crops. Now, there is a further development in biotech that has received little attention in the mainstream media. Serious environmental and health concerns still surround GM food safety, but new technologies are being developed to turn foods into vaccine delivery systems. While there may be positive angles to this technology, we must take into account the long term goals of the establishment, which is already invested in the research and development of edible vaccine technology.

Edible vaccines

In 1996 the Rockefeller Foundation supplied grant money for early research on edible vaccines. The $58,000 grant, given to the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research at Cornell University, was aimed at developing and transferring edible vaccine technology to developing countries. Cornell University reports,

"Researchers at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc. at Cornell now will begin exchanging new vaccine information with scientists in developing countries, starting with Mexico, thanks to a new Rockefeller Foundation grant.

Gomez-Lim and his American colleagues will try to verify the value of "edible" vaccines and to begin educational efforts in Mexico to facilitate the rapid adoption of these vaccines for safe and effective use."

Charles Arntzen, who served as President of the Boyce Thompson Institute, can be heard here explaining the use of bananas as edible vaccines in developing countries.

In 1998 the Boyce Thompson Institute became the first to develop genetically modified potatoes which were successfully tested on human subjects. "The potatoes were developed through a process known as transgenic implantation, in which a gene is transferred from one species to another. In this case the gene for a bacterial antigen -- the protein that stimulates the production of protective antibodies -- was inserted into the potato plant cells," reports BTI.

The article continues,

"Children of developing countries may not be the only beneficiaries of this new technology. Says Arntzen: 'American kids will also probably prefer being vaccinated by an edible vaccine rather than by a needle.'"

Edible vaccines - which have been given scant coverage in the mainstream media - received attention in the wake of the recent swine flu outbreak. Iowa State University research "...may someday allow pigs and humans to get a flu vaccination simply by eating corn or corn products," reports ISU. "The corn vaccine would also work in humans when they eat corn or even corn flakes, corn chips, tortillas or anything that contains corn, said Harris."

The prospect of delivering vaccines through food inevitably raises the issue of mass medication. Calls for statins and lithium to be placed in tap water have recently been made in the name of promoting "good mental and physical health." A recent AP report stated that lithium, along with hundreds of other active pharmaceutical ingredients have already been found in drinking water. Mosquitoes are also being turned into mass medication systems. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently gave a $100,000 grant to a Japanese research program aimed at genetically engineering mosquitoes to act as "flying syringes" to deliver vaccines.

People planners

The Rockefeller family - and in turn the entire Anglo-American establishment - has a history of consistently supporting population control and reduction. David Rockefeller, Bill Gates, and other billionaire philanthropists met in secret in New York City recently to discuss this very issue. The meeting was secret, according to an attendee, because "...anything they said would end up in the newspapers, painting them as an alternative world government." Research in the realm of biotech and edible vaccines, as openly stated in prominent medical journals, will aid this long term agenda. This same group, primarily the Rockefeller family and their various foundations, was instrumental in shaping twentieth-century science, from the molecular sciences to social engineering. Dr. Lily E. Kay's seminal work, The Molecular Vision of Life: Caltech, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Rise of the New Biology, documents this fact.

Past incidents

In 1989 research was conducted by the National Institute of Immunology in New Delhi India into the use of hCG conjugated Tetanus and Diphtheria vaccines as a method of birth control. The research discussed the use of Tetanus and Diphtheria 'carriers' to bypass the immune system and deliver the female hormone called human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG). While hCG is required to maintain pregnancy, the injection of hCG bound to Tetanus Toxoid triggers an auto-immune response against hCG. The Rockefeller Foundation is listed in the document as giving grants for the research.

On November 4, 1996 the publication Vaccine Weekly carried an article titled "Study Suggests Women Were Injected with Contaminated Tetanus Vaccine." The article details an investigation that was carried out by the Philippine Medical Association into the discovery of hCG in tetanus vaccines. Similar incidents have also occurred in Thailand.

Further evidence is found in a 1995 BBC documentary titled "The Human Laboratory". The film covered the Philippines Tetanus hCG controversy in depth. The transcript for the program states,

NARRATOR: There are several research programmes around the world testing the contraceptive vaccine linked to tetanus which creates an immune response. The vaccine contains Beta HCG, part of a hormone necessary for pregnancy. This Beta HCG stimulates antibodies so that if a woman's egg becomes fertilised her own natural HCG will be destroyed and pregnancy will not occur.

MARY PILAR VERZOSA: I began to suspect that here in the Philippines that's exactly what's happening. They have laced the tetanus toxoid vials with the Beta HCG. The only way I could make sure that they hadn't done that was to examine the vials, and how to get a hold of those vials was going to be a problem. Who was I to collect them from the health centres?

NARRATOR: Sister Mary was helped through the Catholic network. A friend who worked in a health clinic removed the vials unnoticed. The nuns packed them with ice and sent them to an independent laboratory.

MARY PILAR VERZOSA: Oh boy that was really something when this came out of my fax machine. Report on HCG concentration in vaccine vials. Three out of those four vials registered positive for HCG, so my suspicions are affirmed that here in our country they are not only giving plain tetanus toxoid vaccination to our women, they are also giving anti-fertility.

"A socioculturally acceptable alternative"

Word has spread in the developing world of these documented cases, but these stories are dismissed as rumor by the United Nations and World Health Organization. Vaccination has been met with increased resistance across many developing countries. UNICEF reports from Ethiopia that, "All sorts of misguided rumours go round that the injections will sterilize them or harm them in some way. But here, the village elders are on board. They are here, encouraging the women to come along.”

Edible vaccines, according to the Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology, will be a more socioculturally acceptable alternative to needles. In other words, people will be less resistant to eating a mundane banana than taking a shot in the arm. The Journal states that new edible vaccine technology may serve a dual purpose of birth control. As stated,

"Edible vaccines hold great promise as a cost-effective, easy-to-administer, easy-to-store, fail-safe and socioculturally readily acceptable vaccine delivery system, especially for the poor developing countries... A variety of delivery systems have been developed. Initially thought to be useful only for preventing infectious diseases, it has also found application in prevention of autoimmune diseases, birth control, cancer therapy, etc."

The journal points out that, "There is growing acceptance of transgenic crops in both industrial and developing countries," and that, "Resistance to genetically modified foods may affect the future of edible vaccines." Indeed, GM foods are increasingly being presented as a solution to world hunger and food crises.

Will edible vaccines be used as a tool for birth control in the developing countries? The ability to do so has been demonstrated, and the agenda for population reduction and control has been admitted by the billionaire philanthropists who's foundations are involved with developing the technology.

[boots]

Fuck me edible vaccines :mad:

Even more reason to keep well away from GM food.

Could they have help spread the swine flu dis-ease in Mexico by these methods? Makes you wonder. How insidious these bastards are.

.

[hordeari]

geez ..look at this shite.. totally insane

"Children should be banned from going to school if they have not had the MMR jab, a senior doctor has said.

Sir Sandy Macara, former chairman of the British Medical Association, said the vaccine should be made compulsory, with children who have not had it turned away at the school gates.

His call came amid concerns over low levels of take-up for the jab, which protects against measles, mumps and rubella (German measles) - diseases which can be fatal." ...
........
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1190551/Children-dont-MMR-jab-banned-school-says-health-expert.html

[drhemp]

Robert F Kennedy explains vaccines and the autism coverup

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry7toSjjgXE

Interesting clip.

[sunrise]

I would home school then, fuck them!
They are now giving the MMR in British schools to kids over 14Yrs, i refused.

[drhemp]

I would home school then, fuck them!
They are now giving the MMR in British schools to kids over 14Yrs, i refused.

That is your right, do not be bullied into letting them force this poison into your kids.

The Fabian Society (the think tank behind New Labour) have proposed making vaccinations mandatory for all school children.

[griswald]

Now for all us irish we are to get a free vaccination in the coming weeks.


http://www.independent.ie/national-news/swine-flu-jab-for-all-after-virus-toll-alert-1805686.html

Swine flu jab for all after virus toll alert

Allison Bray and Eimear Ni Bhraonain


Saturday July 04 2009

EVERYONE in the country is shortly to be offered a free swine flu vaccination as health authorities brace themselves for a worst-case scenario of up to 100,000 new cases a week.

The vaccines -- which will cost the Exchequer €88m -- will be administered either through GPs or a network of 121 swine flu clinics.

They will be set up nationwide as soon as sufficient amounts of the vaccine are available in late summer or early autumn, the Health Services Executive (HSE) confirmed last night.

The clinics will be provided in public buildings and sports halls. They will be open 12 hours a day, seven days a week, to deal with the growing pandemic.

The Department of Health has so-called "sleeping contracts" with pharmaceutical giants SmithGlaxoKline and Baxter Pharmaceuticals for the vaccine

Thanks for the offer, but no thanks.

griswald

[freckles]

[QUOTE=griswald;1093947]Now for all us irish we are to get a free vaccination in the coming weeks.

:rolleyes: GROAN...... some information coming through they are going to use the schools as vaccination centers??? 88 million - thats a bloody joke!!!! :mad: Suit them better to push that money into the hospitals..... Thats it, I am writing a letter to complain :D

[griswald]

Hi freckles, cool name:), we must be neighbours, i,m from the midlands too, so I,ll keep you a place in the queue:D

Absolutely mind boggling. I,m convinced that ireland is being used a a proving ground. first we got the crippling tax hikes recently in order to bail out the banks. And we said nothing, and bent over and took it all. Now they are going to give us the OFFER of a free vaccine. And most of us will take that as well, and we,ll say nothing.

Well I wont be queueing for it any way. they can give it to a more deserving soul:D

griswald

[freckles]

Hi freckles, cool name:), we must be neighbours, i,m from the midlands too, so I,ll keep you a place in the queue:D

Absolutely mind boggling. I,m convinced that ireland is being used a a proving ground. first we got the crippling tax hikes recently in order to bail out the banks. And we said nothing, and bent over and took it all. Now they are going to give us the OFFER of a free vaccine. And most of us will take that as well, and we,ll say nothing.

Well I wont be queueing for it any way. they can give it to a more deserving soul:D

griswald

Hi Griswald,

Well nice to virtually meet you :D

It's quite unnerving how quiet people are being about it all to be honest. Like you say, the tax hikes, the revote on the Lisbon treaty and now this... where is the pandemic??? They can stick their needle up their hole :D (sorry for being vulgar) :D :D :D

Perhaps its the chemtrails and the flouridation making people docile and robotic...... the chemtrails in the midlands are becoming progressively worse and worse, especially early in the morning. Have you noticed .....

[griswald]

Hi Griswald,

Well nice to virtually meet you :D


Perhaps its the chemtrails and the flouridation making people docile and robotic...... the chemtrails in the midlands are becoming progressively worse and worse, especially early in the morning. Have you noticed .....

Nice to meet you too...........

As for the chemtrails. I,m sick of looking at them. I ve posted up plenty on youtube, and will keep doing so. Lots of vids there now, and increasing every day.
I would imagine that folks will flock to get the jab, despite what you tell them. I wont be there anyway, I,ll stick to colloidal silver and the elderberry tincture posted on this forum.:)

griswald

[freckles]

Nice to meet you too...........

As for the chemtrails. I,m sick of looking at them. I ve posted up plenty on youtube, and will keep doing so. Lots of vids there now, and increasing every day.
I would imagine that folks will flock to get the jab, despite what you tell them. I wont be there anyway, I,ll stick to colloidal silver and the elderberry tincture posted on this forum.:)

griswald

Thankfully anyone I spoke to today said they would not be getting the vaccine, but then, I didnt speak to many people today :D

I really hope people take offence to this, 88 million :eek: in a recession :eek: (Trying to use this energy positively).. We have children sleeping on the streets, THOUGHT WE HAD NO MONEY??? And why are we " 'much more likely' to see an increase in the incidence of H1N1 swine flu"? Has there even been one confirmed case of swine flu yet?

They are sure to cause an outbreak and blame it on those of us who didnt get the vaccine :p :D

[limelady]

I don't know if anybody has posted a link to this site before, but its SO comprehensive, with so many articles about ALL vaccines, I thought I'd post a link here.... even if it is a repeat. :)

http://www.thinktwice.com


Worth posting David's vid here again as well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkL8KbEW6P4

[griswald]

Recent article about the proposed swine flu vaccinations. By Dr. Richard Halvorsen.

Full Article

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6722428.ece

A mass vaccination programme moves ever closer. Orders have been placed; priority groups identified. There will be enough swine flu vaccine to inoculate the entire population, starting with NHS staff, in an attempt to halt the spread of the disease and save lives.

Is all this really necessary? To start with, swine flu is far milder than we first feared, so the case for vaccinating millions of healthy adults against a disease that is no more unpleasant than a bad cold is questionable. There is a stronger argument for vaccinating those at greater risk, such as those with lung, heart or kidney disease, those with suppressed immune systems (such as those on cancer treatment), pregnant women and children under 5 — but only if the vaccine works and is safe. But there are serious doubts about this.

Rushing the vaccine on to the market means we will have no idea how effective it is, although we do have a body of research on the effectiveness of flu vaccines in general, which gives some idea of what we might expect from the swine flu vaccine. Provided that we have matched the vaccine well with the virus, it is likely to be up to 80 per cent effective in healthy adults, the group at least risk from the virus.

griswald

[surfer91]

Jefferson highlights the fact that there are hundreds of viruses circulating, some of which are potentially deadly, that produce the same symptoms as influenza, such as rhinoviruses and RSV, which the public knows virtually nothing about because they haven’t had the same “machine” behind them as swine flu.

Why haven’t such viruses received anything like the attention given to swine flu? “It’s easy: They can’t make money with it,” says Jefferson. “

[keithm]

Let's not beat around the bush on this issue: The swine flu vaccines now being prepared for mass injection into infants, children, teens and adults have never been tested and won't be tested before the injections begin. In Europe, where flu vaccines are typically tested on hundreds (or thousands) of people before being unleashed on the masses, the European Medicines Agency is allowing companies to skip the testing process entirely.

And yet, amazingly, people are lining up to take the vaccine, absent any safety testing whatsoever. When the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. announced a swine flu vaccine trial beginning in early August, it was inundated with phone calls and emails from people desperate to play the role of human guinea pigs. The power of fear to herd sheeple into vaccine injections is simply amazing...

[snip]

Notably, there is absolutely no safety data on the use of adjuvants in infants and expectant mothers -- the two groups being most aggressively targeted by the swine flu vaccine pushers. The leads us to the disturbing conclusion that the swine flu vaccine could be a modern medical disaster. It's untested and un-tried. Its ingredients are potentially quite dangerous, and the adjuvants being used in the European vaccines are suspected of causing neurological disorders.


The 10 things:


Ten things you're not supposed to know about the swine flu vaccine

(At least, not by anyone in authority...)

#1 - The vaccine production was "rushed" and the vaccine has never been tested on humans. Do you like to play guinea pig for Big Pharma? If so, line up for your swine flu vaccine this fall...

#2 - Swine flu vaccines contain dangerous adjuvants that cause an inflammatory response in the body. This is why they are suspected of causing autism and other neurological disorders.

#3 - The swine flu vaccine could actually increase your risk of death from swine flu by altering (or suppressing) your immune system response. There is zero evidence that even seasonal flu shots offer any meaningful protection for people who take the jabs. Vaccines are the snake oil of modern medicine.

#4 - Doctors still don't know why the 1976 swine flu vaccines paralyzed so many people. And that means they really have no clue whether the upcoming vaccine might cause the same devastating side effects. (And they're not testing it, either...)

#5 - Even if the swine flu vaccine kills you, the drug companies aren't responsible. The U.S. government has granted drug companies complete immunity against vaccine product liability. Thanks to that blanket immunity, drug companies have no incentive to make safe vaccines, because they only get paid based on quantity, not safety (zero liability).

#6 - No swine flu vaccine works as well as vitamin D to protect you from influenza. That's an inconvenient scientific fact that the U.S. government, the FDA and Big Pharma hope the people never realize.

#7 - Even if the swine flu vaccine actually works, mathematically speaking if everyone else around you gets the vaccine, you don't need one! (Because it can't spread through the population you hang with.) So even if you believe in the vaccine, all you need to do is encourage your friends to go get vaccinated...

#8 - Drug companies are making billions of dollars from the production of swine flu vaccines. That money comes out of your pocket -- even if you don't get the jab -- because it's all paid by the taxpayers.

#9 - When people start dying in larger numbers from the swine flu, rest assured that many of them will be the very people who got the swine flu vaccine. Doctors will explain this away with their typical Big Pharma logic: "The number saved is far greater than the number lost." Of course, the number "saved" is entirely fictional... imaginary... and exists only in their own warped heads.

#10 - The swine flu vaccine centers that will crop up all over the world in the coming months aren't completely useless: They will provide an easy way to identify large groups of really stupid people. (Too bad there isn't some sort of blue dye that we could tag 'em with for future reference...)

[windeyaho]

All these statistics are all well and good, however, when martial law is declared due to the phoney "pandemic" and you are hauled out of your home for failure to produce a form saying that you have had your shots, what do you do? When you are taken to stand in line with armed guards around you, all the statistics in the world aren't going to save you.

If it were me and I could get my hands on each series of forms (there will be 3 series of shots), I would forge as many as I could. Then when the civilian enforcement troops come to the door, I'll wave the form and say " 'ere ya go luv, I've had me jab. There's a good lad, now take your little gun and go out and play."

However, since those forms will probably be heavily guarded and I just don't seem to know the "right" people, I will be another one of the "useless eaters" who has never been vaccinated (= healthy, or relatively free of vaccination dangers) who will have to go underground, ie. vanish.

[antiem]

In Switzerland, the vaccines are planned to be for free, offered either by our helath insurances or the government.

http://www.news.ch/Schweinegrippe+Impfung+duerfte+fuer+alle+gratis+se in/398275/detail.htm

We already have recieved the first part of the 16 Mio injections and injection needles. :rolleyes:

http://www.news.ch/Erste+Impfspritzen+in+der+Schweiz+eingetroffen/398607/detail.htm

Sorry if this has been posted before... The Arabian health minister have now denied people over 65, under 12 and chronically ill to pilgrimage to Mekka.

http://www.news.ch/Schweinegrippe+Wallfahrt+nach+Mekka+eingeschraenkt/397637/detail.htm


What a joke.






All my love, Antiem

[ytch]

"Children should be banned from going to school if they have not had the MMR jab, a senior doctor has said.



Hey kids, be smart!

Another good reason NOT to take the vaccine!;)

Love and Labamba,

y

[antiem]

There's an article here: http://birdflu666.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/swiss-army-stockpiles-swine-flu-vaccines-in-preparation-for-mass-forced-vaccination-in-autumn/ where they state that
Swiss army stockpiles “swine flu” vaccines in preparation for mass forced vaccination
which is NOT true. They refer to an article in the "Basler Zeitung" where there is not a single word about a forced vaccination mentioned. :D All they say there is that the first injections (as I mentioned in an earlier post), and not even the vaccines, have arrived and are stored in the armys drug store.
Made me aware again to double research... :rolleyes:



All my love, Antiem

[gutami23]

This is my first post, just wanted to let you all know that I work in a NHS dental practise and we have been told that we are going to be used as an innoculation clinic for the swine flu jab, The dentist's have been told that they will be required to give the vaccine!! we will have to decide who has swine flu and who has regular seasonal flu. We were told this 2 weeks ago, a NHS cross infection nurse who is funded by the "patient care trust" came in to tell us the plan and tried to sell us these fancy breathing masks that look like something from 28 days later. Because I am the only person there that has any idea about the NWO and their evil eugenics plan they just, as expected laugh at me and they call me their resident conspiracy theorist they see me as a cute little mascot some one to laugh at. Looks like im out of a job soon then because it will be a cold day in hell before they experiment on me or my family.
Anyway just thought Id put this out there just incase anyone thinks we wont be going for forced innoculations because im telling you they are and they have already prepared NHS dentists for this event.

[buntus00]

I'm an Irish person living in the U.S. Here trainloads of what certainly appear to be coffins, plastic and concrete, are being transported from East to West. Long never-ending trainloads of hum-v military vehicles can be seen parked outside of LA. Youtube is awash with footage of these facts. FEMA detention camps have carefully been built all over the country, for "catastrophic emergencies".
Last year the military carried out military urban war games in major US cities, executed by the Marines and Special Forces in some 20 cities across the U.S. terrifying nearby residents, something hitherto unthinkable here. This is fact. The mayor of one city was so horrified at the proposal, he refused to allow this. (Chester, Pennsylvania). The government let that one rest, presumably because they didn't want to draw any attention.
We daily hear a repeated mantra here, that another outbreak “could” happen in 'the autumn' Hmm...the autumn? I wonder why the autumn? Why not the winter, for example? If it “could” happen, why couldn’t it happen tomorrow or in two weeks? Do they know something we don’t? Well I guess that’d be around the time they'd be planning to release H1N1 version 2, wouldn't it? (courtesy of CIA/ military-industry complex). Well, I guess the first lab-created strain was just to test the waters.
Their preparations will shortly be complete.
We hear how many beyond-idiot volunteers have catapulted themselves forward to happily participate in the guinea-pig vaccine trials, here in Seattle, where David Icke is coming to speak in October. They’re talking about making the vaccine compulsory. Compulsory? What? Why would they not want to leave it up to the individual to take the shot or not? Do you really think they give a fuck about peoples' health?

'Tamiflu' (Baxter International) achieved some nic super- profits in the last quarter, but that's probably just a co-incidence. They took out a new patent on a new swine flu vaccine, – just BEFORE the swine flu outbreak occurred in Mexico. That too, is probably just a co-incidence, no doubt.
I see on Youtube the hysteria has reached the point where they're are spreading the thought virus that in Ireland the swine flu 'could' affect one million Irish people. This is the greatest scaremongering from start to finish.
Are the people just going to lie down and take this? The plan (the initial part) is to scare people so badly that they will willingly take the vaccine, which contains a live version of the virus, paving the way for any future manipulations. What mugs the people are. Governments know this. How are people standing for this? How dumb are people that don't want to question this. If they don't, it's because of programmed perception.

-Hah! The government wouldn't do that now, would they? -Are you a conspiracy theorist?

It’s time we started waking up and believing in the existence of conspiracies before it’s too late, and we become the victims of conspiracy fact.

The government wouldn't do that now, would they…?

Rather, is there anything they would NOT do. Email and inform as many people as possible now. People are sleeping and they have to be shaken from their unsuspecting slumber.

But I’ve got to the point where I ask if there is anything that the Government could do that would trigger a response of anything but apathy or the refusal to accept or see what is in front of their faces, or dismiss as crazy.

[qeutey]

Email and inform as many people as possible now. People are sleeping and they have to be shaken from their unsuspecting slumber.



Suppose you are wrong. How many people would you be happy to die by not protecting themselves with a vaccine, on YOUR say so. (not that they will listen) It is JUST a flu vaccine. Tens of millions take it every year and it has been used for about six decades. It has saved hundreds of thousands of lives. Most of us probably know people who take it every year.

The current pandemic strain despite the potential that it has, is just a minor change in strain, just like the vaccine makers accomodate for, every year. They are following the normal testing procedures that are required for a new strain. That said, there is alreay extensive testing going on in at least half a dozen countries around the world. This is not to see what potential minor side-affects there are - that is well know but to see how affective the vaccine is against the pandemic strain and to see how much vaccine is needed per person.

It has not been decided whether adjuvants will be needed. That will depend in part on the testing to see how much vaccine is needed per person and how quickly demand will increase particularly if the virus becomes much more deadly. Note that 40 million doses of adjuvants have already been used in Europe alone, so we have plenty of data available on that. I am aware of the issues that occurred 30 years ago but vaccines have improved dramatically since then. (quality control, purity of ingredients, testing, understanding etc.)

If you want a conspiracy theory then how about this: The government won't care, if a handful of nuisance non-compliant people decide to take their lives into their own hands by refusing a vaccine. I say 'decide', because it WILL be your choice, however much you want to think otherwise.

If you want to know more about pandemic vaccine safety from WHO, read here:

http://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/notes/h1n1_safety_vaccines_20090805/en/index.html

Finally, over two thousand people are known to have died from this pandemic strain already and this is perfectly in-line with previous deadly pandemics and we are still several weeks away from flu "season" in the northern hemisphere. It will mutate, flu always does. It can mutate a thousand times into something less harmful. It only has to mutate once into something more harmful for serious damage to occur. History has shown that a second and even third wave IS inevitable.

[bornfree]

Suppose you are wrong. How many people would you be happy to die by not protecting themselves with a vaccine, on YOUR say so. (not that they will listen) It is JUST a flu vaccine. Tens of millions take it every year and it has been used for about six decades. It has saved hundreds of thousands of lives. Most of us probably know people who take it every year.

The current pandemic strain despite the potential that it has, is just a minor change in strain, just like the vaccine makers accomodate for, every year. They are following the normal testing procedures that are required for a new strain. That said, there is alreay extensive testing going on in at least half a dozen countries around the world. This is not to see what potential minor side-affects there are - that is well know but to see how affective the vaccine is against the pandemic strain and to see how much vaccine is needed per person.

It has not been decided whether adjuvants will be needed. That will depend in part on the testing to see how much vaccine is needed per person and how quickly demand will increase particularly if the virus becomes much more deadly. Note that 40 million doses of adjuvants have already been used in Europe alone, so we have plenty of data available on that. I am aware of the issues that occurred 30 years ago but vaccines have improved dramatically since then. (quality control, purity of ingredients, testing, understanding etc.)

If you want a conspiracy theory then how about this: The government won't care, if a handful of nuisance non-compliant people decide to take their lives into their own hands by refusing a vaccine. I say 'decide', because it WILL be your choice, however much you want to think otherwise.

If you want to know more about pandemic vaccine safety from WHO, read here:

http://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/notes/h1n1_safety_vaccines_20090805/en/index.html

Finally, over two thousand people are known to have died from this pandemic strain already and this is perfectly in-line with previous deadly pandemics and we are still several weeks away from flu "season" in the northern hemisphere. It will mutate, flu always does. It can mutate a thousand times into something less harmful. It only has to mutate once into something more harmful for serious damage to occur. History has shown that a second and even third wave IS inevitable.

So we go to the source of the virus for "proper" statistics about it?

So vaccines have dramatically improved in the last 30 years or so? Tell that to the parents of the 1/150 children who have autism, whereas in 1940 its was practically non-existent.

The death rate for who-flu (swine? what pigs?) is said to be as low as 0.003% if all those that dont report it are considered (up to 20 times the number that do report it).

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Opinion/054976-2009-08-05-depopulation-by-inoculation-part-1-motive-and-intent.htm

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Opinion/055184-2009-08-08-depopulation-by-inoculation-part-two-means-and-opportunity.htm

Thank you to Matt Engelmann for translating this report from the Dutch newspaper:

NRC HANDELSBLAD

MEXICAN VIRUS IS ORDINARY FLU
====================

BILTHOVEN, 7 Aug. — From now on, the Mexican flu will be treated by the authorities as an ordinary flu. Patients will no longer receive the antiviral drug Tamiflu as standard treatment. These policies were announced this morning by the [Dutch] National Institute for Public Health and the Environment [R.I.V.M.].

Cases of Mexican flu no longer need to be officially confirmed or reported.

All Dutch residents will shortly receive a folder mailed to their homes with information about the flu, the standard treatment, and the diagnostic procedures. “We expect to send out the folder in the week of 17th August”, according to a spokesman from the Ministry of Health.

The decision to stop the standard treatment of flu patients with Tamiflu was due to its side effects, according to Professor Jaap van Dissel of the Leiden University Medical Centre. Giving Tamiflu to 200 otherwise healthy flu patients will only protect 1 patient from complications, but meanwhile 20 to 30 people will experience serious side effects.

From the details so far available, the Mexican flu seems relatively mild, and the symptoms are very much like ordinary flu. 1% to 3% of patients experience complications – usually pneumonia. In approximately two thirds of these cases the patients belong to traditional risk groups. They already come under consideration for the annual winter flu shot. The World Health Organization announced yesterday that the first vaccines against the Mexican flu would be available in September.

According to Van Dissel, the risk groups also come under consideration for Tamiflu. This includes people with very serious flu cases. “For this kind of case Tamiflu treatment is useful, especially in the early stages after infection.” People between the ages of 15 to 50 have a higher risk of infection with Mexican flu. Also pregnant women in their third trimester have a greater risk.

All Dutch hospitals will meanwhile prepare for an eventual flu pandemic, said the Dutch Society of Hospitals [N.V.V.Z.].

[qeutey]

They already come under consideration for the annual winter flu shot. The World Health Organization announced yesterday that the first vaccines against the Mexican flu would be available in September.

According to Van Dissel, the risk groups also come under consideration for Tamiflu. This includes people with very serious flu cases. “For this kind of case Tamiflu treatment is useful, especially in the early stages after infection.” People between the ages of 15 to 50 have a higher risk of infection with Mexican flu. Also pregnant women in their third trimester have a greater risk.

All Dutch hospitals will meanwhile prepare for an eventual flu pandemic, said the Dutch Society of Hospitals [N.V.V.Z.].

Sensible stuff. So he is in favour of the vaccine then. (It's only the flu vaccine after all!) Seems Tamiflu resistance is already widespread though.

Of course it is no different to "normal flu" (that millions are protected against by the flu vaccine every year). Just so happens that most people don't have natural or aquired immunity to this strain unlike "normal flu" which means that 6.7 billion are potentially susceptible so scale-up your "death-rate" accordingly, allowing for future mutation for the worse.

>>The death rate for who-flu (swine? what pigs?) is said to be as low as 0.003% if all those that dont report it are considered (up to 20 times the number that do report it).>>

Is that including those who called-up the hotline because their cat sneezed?

[griswald]

[QUOTE=qeutey;1177327]Suppose you are wrong. How many people would you be happy to die by not protecting themselves with a vaccine, on YOUR say so. (not that they will listen) It is JUST a flu vaccine. Tens of millions take it every year and it has been used for about six decades. It has saved hundreds of thousands of lives. Most of us probably know people who take it every year.

How. I dont take it every year, and I,m still here. Your statement presupposes that I will die without it.:)

griswald

[qeutey]

How. I dont take it every year, and I,m still here. Your statement presupposes that I will die without it.:)

griswald

How do you equate "tens of millions take it every year, saving 100's of thousands of lives over 6 decades" to mean - I think you would be dead.

[patrish]

Any Vaccine.................Bad

Do your research, this sounds like disinformation to me.

This is the most agressive post I've ever made.

Pat

[hunkahunka]

please listen to this audio interview on the fake swine flu scare, the
useless vaccines, the poisonous toxicity of the vaccines, etc.

you can also download this audio and play it to other people , send the file via instant messenger to others, or repost the link all over the internet!!

2 hour interview: Dr. Stan Monteith interviews Dr. Russel Blaylock
Two medical doctors/researchers discuss the swine flu vaccine fraud

audio:

http://radiolibertyarchives.gsradio.net:8080/080409c.mp3

[crocoduck]

Vaccines do not cause autism. (http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/09-06-03#feature)

[crocoduck]

Andrew Wakefield is a fraud. (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article5683671.ece)

[crocoduck]

Jenny McCarthy Body Count (http://www.jennymccarthybodycount.com/Jenny_McCarthy_Body_Count/Home.html)

“I do believe sadly it's going to take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines that are safe. If the vaccine companies are not listening to us, it's their f___ing fault that the diseases are coming back. They're making a product that's s___. If you give us a safe vaccine, we'll use it. It shouldn't be polio versus autism.”
-Jenny McCarthy, Time, April, 2009 (http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1888718,00.html)

Medical quackery kills, and its spokespersons know it.

[crocoduck]

In just 2006 and 2007 there were 2,000 cases of measles in the UK. That's more than the previous decade, a surplus of roughly 1,600 cases. The increase is blamed on parents reluctant to vaccinate their children. (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1043673/The-anti-MMR-mothers-putting-danger.html)

Measles cases reached their worst levels in over a decade in the U.S. in 2008, with 131 cases including 15 serious enough to be hospitalized just in the first half of the year. 90% of these people were not vaccinated against the disease. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080821/hl_nm/measles_usa_dc)

One child whose parents claimed a religious exemption from vaccination was the source of a measles outbreak that affected 137 people. (http://www.apologeticsindex.org/news/an201108b.html)

A religious community with a low rate of vaccinations was the source of a mumps outbreak. 116 Confirmed and 74 suspected cases occurred in a region that normally has 10. Mumps is easily preventable via vaccine. (http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/08/26/bc-mumps-outbreak-spread.html)

[griswald]

British Doctors are warning against use of Tamiflu for young patients , because its of little use, and causes vomiting and other side effects,

Full Article.
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9A05B280.htm

British doctors say no to Tamiflu for healthy kids

British doctors say Tamiflu should not be given to children suffering from flu because it does little good and increases vomiting and other side effects.

A study published Monday in the medical journal BMJ says Tamiflu can reduce the course of flu in children by up to a day and a half. But it says the drug has little or no effect on complications including asthma attacks, ear infections or bacterial infections.

Griswald

[crocoduck]

Refusal to vaccinate children has been growing in Israel, resulting in many preventable deaths from illnesses such as whooping cough and measles. In 2007 an ultra-orthodox community in Jerusalem had 250 cases of measles. (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/941535.html)

[crocoduck]

The largest outbreak of Hib meningitis in this state since 1992 has occurred among several infants who were unvaccinated due to parental refusal. One infant died, several others were injured. (http://children.webmd.com/vaccines/news/20090123/hib-outbreak-kills-unvaccinated-child)

[antiem]

I'm sorry if you've already seen those videos (from 1979), but they were new to me... They were aired once and then seemed to have been deleted out of the archieve, it says.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lcJt4jX1Vo&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mmnews.de%2Findex.php%2F2009 08153569%2FMM-News%2FDie-Schweinegrippe-Luege.html&feature=player_embedded#t=23

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4c9Is1T3z4&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mmnews.de%2Findex.php%2F2009 08153569%2FMM-News%2FDie-Schweinegrippe-Luege.html&feature=player_embedded

It's about the Swine Flu panic in 1976, millions and millions got the swine flu vaccine that wasn't tested properly before (heard that before?).

Mike Wallace talks to President Ford, Judy Roberts (injured by the 1976 swine flu vaccine, paralyzed similar to Gardasil injury) Dr. David Sencer and others about the Swine Flu vaccine of 1976. Note the admitted lack of safety and informed consent to the public, even as TV ads frightened
American citizens into getting a shot. Think anything has changed today?

60 MINUTES, Sunday Nov 4, 1979

"SWINE FLU"

MIKE WALLACE: The flu season is upon us. Which type will we worry about
this year, and what kind of shots will we be told to take? Remember the
swine flu scare of 1976? That was the year the U.S. government told us
all that swine flu could turn out to be a killer that could spread
across the nation, and Washington decided that every man, woman and
child in the nation should get a shot to prevent a nation-wide outbreak,
a pandemic.

Well 46 million of us obediently took the shot, and now 4,000 Americans
are claiming damages from Uncle Sam amounting to three and a half
billion dollars because of what happened when they took that shot. By
far the greatest number of the claims - two thirds of them are for
neurological damage, or even death, allegedly triggered by the flu shot.

We pick up the story back in 1976, when the threat posed by the swine
flu virus seemed very real indeed.

PRESIDENT GERALD FORD; This virus was the cause of a pandemic in 1918
and 1919 that resulted in over half a million deaths in the United
States, as well as 20 million deaths around the world.

WALLACE: Thus the U.S. government's publicity machine was cranked into
action to urge all America to protect itself against the swine flu
menace. (Excerpt from TV commercial urging everyone to get a swine flu
shot.) One of those who did roll up her sleeve was Judy Roberts. She was
perfectly healthy, an active woman, when, in November of 1976, she took
her shot. Two weeks later, she says, she began to feel a numbness
starting up her legs.

JUDY ROBERTS: And I joked about it at that time. I said I'll be numb to
the knees by Friday if this keeps up. By the following week, I was
totally paralyzed.


All my love, Antiem

[griswald]

Bacterioligist Professor Pennington cautions against using an untested vaccine in mass vaccinations.

Full Article.
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/health/swineflu/swineflunews/4508927.Swine_flu___Prof_says_England_could_soon_b e_over_the_worst/

Speaking to the BBC, Prof Pennington also cautioned against a mass vaccination programme before a vaccine had been fully tested.

He said proposals to bypass normal testing procedures were laid out in the flu pandemic plan, but this virus was not proving as fatal or virulent as predicted.

Griswald

[crocoduck]

Here are some more great resources:

Every Child By Two (http://www.ecbt.org/)

The Vaccine Education Center (http://www.vaccine.chop.edu/)

Vaccines and Autism on Science-Based Medicine (http://sciencebasedmedicine.org/reference/vaccines-and-autism/)

[antinwo]

Oh so this is your evidence then??? Well how about some of mine.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1206807/Swine-flu-jab-link-killer-nerve-disease-Leaked-letter-reveals-concern-neurologists-25-deaths-America.html

Chew on that croc:D

[crocoduck]

Oh so this is your evidence then??? Well how about some of mine.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1206807/Swine-flu-jab-link-killer-nerve-disease-Leaked-letter-reveals-concern-neurologists-25-deaths-America.html

Chew on that croc:D

Another appeal to authority - not evidence. LOL

[antinwo]

Another appeal to authority - not evidence. LOL

Did you not know that the swine flu vaccine killed more people than the swine flu itself in 1976???? Because of this info and the info on the article I have just posted are you going to be stupid enough to take the swine flu vaccination?? I wont neither will any of my family as we are not going to be taking the risk.

[crocoduck]

Did you not know that the swine flu vaccine killed more people than the swine flu itself in 1976???? Because of this info and the info on the article I have just posted are you going to be stupid enough to take the swine flu vaccination?? I wont neither will any of my family as we are not going to be taking the risk.

Show me the EVIDENCE. Not just your assertions. Not just a list of people who think that maybe it might have been the cause. Show the EVIDENCE. Put up or shut up. Thanks.

[antinwo]

Show me the EVIDENCE. Not just your assertions. Not just a list of people who think that maybe it might have been the cause. Show the EVIDENCE. Put up or shut up. Thanks.


I have just showed you the evidence but you don't want to know cos you are a shill and are on here to promote your disinfo. Stop telling me to shut up shill. Why donn't you go and promote your disinfo elsewhere as it aint welcome on the Icke forum.

[boots]

Here are some more great resources:

Every Child By Two (http://www.ecbt.org/)

The Vaccine Education Center (http://www.vaccine.chop.edu/)

Vaccines and Autism on Science-Based Medicine (http://sciencebasedmedicine.org/reference/vaccines-and-autism/)

Another appeal to authority - NOT evidence. None at ALL.

[crocoduck]

I have just showed you the evidence but you don't want to know cos you are a shill and are on here to promote your disinfo. Stop telling me to shut up shill. Why donn't you go and promote your disinfo elsewhere as it aint welcome on the Icke forum.

No, you didn't show any evidence at all. All you're doing is appealing to authority. A list of people with certain degrees that agree with you is not evidence.

How do you know what I'm saying is "disinfo" when you have no evidence to support that belief? Is it just wishful thinking or what?

[crocoduck]

Another appeal to authority - NOT evidence. None at ALL.

Nope, not an appeal to authority at all. You should maybe look up what an appeal to authority actually is. Anyway, those are some great resources which contain lots of evidence.

[crocoduck]

Mainstream fearmongering over Gardasil (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/08/20/mainstream-scaremongering-over-gardasil/)
from Bad Astronomy (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/)

Gardasil is the brand name of a vaccination that protects young girls and women against the human papillomavirus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hpv) (HPV), a virus that has been positively linked with cervical cancer along with other horrible diseases. It also can trigger cancers in men as well.

I’ve written about this topic before (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/04/09/vaccines-on-the-left-vaccines-on-the-right/); 4000 women in the United States die every year alone from cervical cancer, an appalling 1/3 fatality rate for those diagnosed with the disease. Tens of millions of people — both men and women — carry HPV.

Gardasil protects young women from ever getting HPV. These women have a substantially lower chance of contracting the virus and getting cervical cancer. I consider that a very, very good thing.

But you wouldn’t think so if you read the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/health/research/19vaccine.html?_r=1&ref=us), or the (Australian) ABC News (http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/19/2660978.htm). Both posted articles playing up the dangers of Gardasil as revealed by a new government study of the vaccine. That would be fine if it were true, but both reports, in my opinion, unfairly inflate the apparent danger. The ABC article is particularly egregious, with a headline saying "US doctors question Gardasil side effects" when it’s clear from the article that this isn’t really the case.

What are the dangers? The worst one would of course be death. In a study of the vaccine, there were 20 deaths of young girls at some time after they got the shot. Twenty! That sounds like a lot! However, there are two MAJOR problems with that statement:

1) There is no obvious link between the deaths and the vaccination other than in time. One girl died from drug abuse. Another from hepatitis, and others from embolisms, cardiac failure, and other problems. While these are all very sad — and as a father of a young girl at the age to get Gardasil, my heart aches for those families — none of these can be directly tied to the vaccination.

2) There were 20 deaths out of 7 million girls who received the vaccine. Those odds are 1 in 350,000. That’s roughly the same odds as dying from falling off a bed, chair, or other furniture (http://www.nsc.org/research/odds.aspx).

I can just imagine the antivaxxers yelling "It’s a BIG FURNITURE CONSPIRACY!" over that one.

In truth, I imagine the antivaxxers are already licking their chops over this news, ready to fold, spindle, and mutilate reality as they oh-so-often do. The last thing we need are misleading articles like these two. It’s like red meat for them.

The New York Times article quotes a doctor who urges caution over giving girls the shots. She says that proper cancer screening will prevent women from getting cervical cancer. That’s true, but misses the point entirely. Not everyone can or does get screened for cancer. If they did, we wouldn’t be losing 4000 women every year to it. I’d rather close the barn door before the horse escapes.

I’m not a doctor, so I can’t tell you to go get your daughters vaccinated with Gardasil. What I will tell you is that your best weapon here is to simply understand the situation, and don’t just believe what you read. Don’t even believe me. Read up on this yourself and talk to your doctor.

Oh, and to the antivaxxers who will no doubt descend on the comments here and try to muddy the situation with distortions and spin, I’ll answer your question before it’s even asked: Yes, The Little Astronomer did get her course of Gardasil vaccinations. And now she gets an even better shot at living a long, long time to talk about it.

[crocoduck]

August Is Vaccine Awareness Month (http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=802)
from NeuroLogica (http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/)

I applaud the recent attempts by the American Academy of Pediatrics to fight back against the anti-vaccine misinformation scare-mongering machine. As part of that goal August is Vaccine Awareness Month. However, this just brought home for me how much better the PR machine is on the anti-vax side than on the side of science. Here we are half way through August and I am just learning it is Vaccine Awareness Month. This is a topic I track quite closely, and blog about frequently. Where was the media blitz? Where was the rallying of troops?

The Good

OK – it’s not all bad. They did put out an open letter (http://www.vaccinateyourbaby.org/pdfs/20090817_open_letter.pdf) with a fair number of authoritative signature. Here is a brief excerpt:

We, the undersigned, support immunizations as the safest, most effective way to control and eradicate infectious diseases. This August, as another National Immunization Awareness Month comes to a close, we are reminded that diseases such as smallpox and polio were once commonplace in the United States. Thanks to vaccinations, we have not seen or experienced many of the infectious diseases that gripped past generations, but other countries have not been so fortunate and outbreaks continue in the United States.

There is also the Every Child by Two (http://www.ecbt.org/) campaign cofounded by Rosalyn Carter and Betty Bumpers (former first lady of Arkansas) and also supported by Amanda Peet. Their website is an excellent source of information on vaccine safety, the benefits of vaccines, and the risks of losing herd immunity through the efforts of anti-vaccinationists.

There is also a significant push-back coming from the scientific arena. On my own site, Science-Based Medicine, as I blogged about yesterday, we are building a resource on many topics, but starting with Vaccines and Autism (http://sciencebasedmedicine.org/reference/vaccines-and-autism/) because of the urgency of this topic. More and more pediatricians and scientists are starting to be vocal in this area. Dr. Joe Albietz, a pediatrician, became involved in SBM because of this issue.

Many scientific and medical organizations have publicly supported the safety of vaccine. The CEO of the American Medical Association, Michael D. Maves, M.D., made the following statement in 2008 (http://vaccinesafety.ecbt.org/ecbt/website_documents/ExpertStatementChanges2.pdf):

“Scientific data overwhelmingly show that there is no connection between vaccines and autism…We need more research to investigate the actual causes of autism, but it would be a disservice to the health of our children if we let vaccines take the blame for this tragic and complex disease.”

The fight is also international. The Young Australian Skeptics (http://www.youngausskeptics.com/2009/08/australian-vaccination-network/) (correction – the campaign was run by a separate group – The Australian Skeptics, but the link I give is a report on the YAS site) have had particular success against the AVN (which stands for Australian Vaccination Network but is really the Anti-Vaccination Network). Sponsored by Dick Smith, they were able to put out an ad campaign against the AVN. Their efforts inspired a formal complaint against the dangerous misinformation put out by the AVN. They had great media coverage over the tragic death of Dana McCaffery from whooping cough, which she contracted largely due to the lack of herd immunity in her area, which in turn was a direct result of the AVN’s campaign.

But also – they exposed the fact that the AVN, in addition to being dangerous anti-vax loons, are also conspiracy theorists endorsing the shadowy world government known as the illuminati.

From my perspective it seems that momentum is growing. But we have an uphill battle.

The Bad

Part of the problem is that until recently those organizations that should be promoting vaccines and fighting back against anti-vaccine propaganda have either been reluctant to do so, or half just been half-hearted or ineffective. The Centers for Disease control has famously made some wishy-washy statements that are easily twisted.

As stated above, from a PR point of view, the efforts to promote vaccines and fight against anti-vaccine propaganda have been lackluster. Vaccine Awareness Month will come and go with barely a whisper.

Part of the problem is that PR campaigns run contrary to the inclinations of scientists. Scientists tend to be guarded and conservative in their statement, they avoid skimming over uncertainty and complexity, and they generally are in the business of persuading through cold hard data. Unfortunately – as a species we are moved not by data but by emotion. It has become conventional wisdom, for example, that intellectuals do not do well in political campaigns. Long explanations don’t play well – emotional manipulation does.

This causes a serious dilemma for scientists and skeptics – how do we hold true to our dedication to good science and intellectual honesty while still being persuasive. I think it can be done, it’s just not easy. Of course, the other side can optimize their message for maximal emotional appeal, sound bites, and manipulation. They are not constrained by science or intellectual honesty – so the playing field is definitely not level.

But there is a lot that can be done without any compromise of message or integrity. We have the data on our side, after all. And the efforts of the anti-vaccine groups are misguided, based entirely on misinformation, and they are very dangerous, and have caused real harm. We have plenty of PR ammunition with the truth – we just have to use it. We need more op-eds by scientists explaining the importance and safety of vaccines. We need to respond quickly to misinformation. We need to grab media attention away from the antics of the anti-vaccinationists. And we need to hold media outlets accountable for propagating dangerous health misinformation

The Dangerous

The recent H1N1 pandemic and efforts to stem the tide of infection through vaccination is a great opportunity to teach the public about the importance and potential of vaccines. Instead I am seeing a wave of anti-vaccine misinformation. Some of it, I think (I can’t really know) is just lazy journalists who haven’t done their research. Two articles in a local online news outlet, the Examiner.com Hartford, seem like lazy journalism (which seems to fit the low standards of this paper, which seems to be mostly a glorified blog collective).

Ed Kellner wrote a piece: Autism worries raise concern about swine flu vaccine (http://www.examiner.com/x-19950-Boston-Disability-Examiner~y2009m8d18-Autism-worries-raise-concern-about-swine-flu-vaccine), in which he makes some blatantly false and reckless statements, such as the myth that mercury poisoning has been linked to autism. He then gives the standard sciencey statement from the CDC followed by a long list of false claims and misleading statements by the anti-vaccine Autism Research Institute. This wasn’t even false balance – this was grossly slanted toward the cranks. Kellner never mentions that thimerosal was removed from the vaccine schedule in the US by 2002 and yet autism rates continued their rate of increase without any change.

Jennifer Tinch then follows up with Flu Vacciantion Side Effects – Guillian Barre Syndrome (http://www.examiner.com/x-12709-Lexington-Disease-Prevention-Examiner~y2009m8d19-Flu-Vacciantion-Side-Effects--Guillian-Barre-Syndrome). She uses anecdotal accounts to scare her readers about the risks of GBS from the flu vaccine – without ever quoting actual scientific data, such as the fact that the risk of GBS from the flu vaccine is about one in a million. I already dealt with the GBS issue here (http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=784), so I won’t repeat it. I wonder if the examiner.com is going to become Hartfords answer to the Huffington Post. Let’s hope not.

There is lazy journalism, and then there is giving a voice to a known anti-vax crank. The daily green published an article by Deidre Imus (wife of shock-jock Don Imus, also an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist). She wrote an article called The 6 Do’s and Don’ts of Childhood Vaccines (http://www.thedailygreen.com/living-green/chemical-free-kids/vaccine-side-effects-47081805). This is framed as a friendly health advice column, as if Imus is distilling conventional wisdom from trusted sources. Instead, she is just repeating the talking points of the anti-vaccine movement.

She warns against thimerosal. Tells parents to as if vaccines are really necessary, suggesting that some may not be. She repeats the myth (summarized as “too many too soon”) that vaccines should be spread out more. She also plays the “toxin gambit” by pointing out there are “toxins” in vaccines, like formaldehyde. She fails to mention that we have more formaldehyde naturally in our bodies – this is a chemical that is normally byproduct of certain biochemical reactions. There is also no evidence that it is harmful in the doses present in vaccines. This is pure scare tactics.

But the PR machine of the anti-vax movement is well-funded and effective. They have slick websites, celebrity backers, and good slogans (you gotta give it to them for “green our vaccines.”) It appears they have swindled some of the liberal press into thinking that anti-vaccine propaganda is a liberal issue, while simultaneously playing to the anti-government conspiracy minded on the right (well-played).

Conclusion

Despite having the facts overwhelmingly on our side, we are definitely behind the PR curve and are playing catch-up. But this is an issue we can tackle, because the evidence is so clear.

Vaccines work – they are the most effective public health measure devised by humans.

Vaccines are safe – nothing is without risk, but vaccines are one of the most tried-and-true medical interventions we have. The risks are statistically tiny and overwhelmed by the benefit.

Herd immunity saves lives – getting vaccinated protects others, not just yourself or your children.

Anti-vaccine misinformation kills. Dana McCaffrey is just one example, but a tragic one. We are seeing measles and mumps outbreaks. The flu continues to kill half a million people world wide every year, and we do not yet know how serious the H1N1 pandemic will be. The Jenny McCarthy Body Count website (http://www.jennymccarthybodycount.com/Jenny_McCarthy_Body_Count/Home.html) tracks the incidence of vaccine-preventable diseases and deaths.

This is a fight we can win – this time the scientific data and emotion are on our side.

[crocoduck]

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[antinwo]

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Lots of proof there then :rolleyes:

[antinwo]

Lots of proof there then :rolleyes:

Shill:D

[hagbard_celine]

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LOL

The 5th box is the very "appeal to authority" fallacy that you accuse us of!:eek::D:p

[boots]

Quote crocofshit.

Gardasil protects young women from ever getting HPV. These women have a substantially lower chance of contracting the virus and getting cervical cancer. I consider that a very, very good thing.


You crocofshit are a repeater who doesn't do any research and shot's his mouth off, like a true idiot.

The FACT is this "vaccine" is good for only 4 of the 100 types of cervical cancer viruses. Did you understand that last part VIRUS.

[johan niklasson]

www.theflucase.com

[crocoduck]

Quote crocofshit.



You crocofshit are a repeater who doesn't do any research and shot's his mouth off, like a true idiot.

The FACT is this "vaccine" is good for only 4 of the 100 types of cervical cancer viruses. Did you understand that last part VIRUS.

None of those attempts at sentences actually succeed at communicating a coherent message. Please try again. Thank you.

[crocoduck]

Lots of proof there then :rolleyes:

It seems to be all you can even attempt to respond to though. LOL

[crocoduck]

Shill:D

I'll keep asking this each time you make this claim, so you might as well try to eventually respond to it one of these times.

If I were a shill, how would that change the facts of the matter? Instead of focusing on the claims made, you're focusing on the person making them - which is completely irrelevant to the actual claims.

[crocoduck]

The 5th box is the very "appeal to authority" fallacy that you accuse us of!:eek::D:p

Nope, it's an appeal to the actual studies. An appeal to authority would be to simply say that because they are in a position of authority they are right, without examining their studies which reveal evidence. So it's an appeal to evidence, which is not a logical fallacy.

[antinwo]

I'll keep asking this each time you make this claim, so you might as well try to eventually respond to it one of these times.

If I were a shill, how would that change the facts of the matter? Instead of focusing on the claims made, you're focusing on the person making them - which is completely irrelevant to the actual claims.

Are you a shill then???? Why not admit it then if you have nothing to hide??

[boots]

None of those attempts at sentences actually succeed at communicating a coherent message. Please try again. Thank you.


Yep. You cant debate the fact, that the vaccine for cervical cancer, is ineffective.

You cant answer the post. You just troll.

.

[boots]

Nope, it's an appeal to the actual studies. An appeal to authority would be to simply say that because they are in a position of authority they are right, without examining their studies which reveal evidence. So it's an appeal to evidence, which is not a logical fallacy.


Your arguments are hypocritical.

This is exactly what the pharmercutial company's are,(positions of authority) which you envy so much.

.

[bornfree]

Of course vaccines work! They produce the end product of short term profits with the jab and long term mega profits from all the ilnesses, diseases & infections that result from the lowering of the immune system. They work very nicely for the dividend reciever.

In fact the pharmaceuticals are so confident in their "wonder" solution for their "wonder" problem, that they refuse to supply vaccines to any country that refuses to give them "immunity" (oh the irony) from prosecution for their (profit before people... oops i meant people before profit) jabs.

pharma reminds me of war, where the profits are counted in £ & $, the losses counted in lives. The only way they can make a loss if people wake up and "just say no" to drugs :D

Just had a thought. These jabs have already been bought & paid for. So there is a 0% chance of a loss to pharma. And with governments taking on the liability, who also just happen to own the judiciary, chances of compensation for the undoubted complications that will arise are conveniently off-set to some far, FAR off date in your offsprings future....

[crocoduck]

Are you a shill then???? Why not admit it then if you have nothing to hide??

It's completely irrelevant. I'll ask again - what difference would it make if I were one?

I had to resist the temptation to add a bunch of unnecessary question marks there. LOL

[crocoduck]

Yep. You cant debate the fact, that the vaccine for cervical cancer, is ineffective.

You cant answer the post. You just troll.

.

I can't answer your post because it's incoherent. Try putting a sentence together and then we'll talk. Thanks.

[crocoduck]

Your arguments are hypocritical.

This is exactly what the pharmercutial company's are,(positions of authority) which you envy so much.

.

But I'm not saying that they are correct simply because they are in positions of authority. I'm saying they're correct because the evidence for them is overwhelming. I was responding to a repeated post which simply listed the opinions of some people and their credentials, which really is just an appeal to authority.

[hagbard_celine]

Nope, it's an appeal to the actual studies. An appeal to authority would be to simply say that because they are in a position of authority they are right, without examining their studies which reveal evidence. So it's an appeal to evidence, which is not a logical fallacy.


Not true:rolleyes:. I know that most forum members have studied the content of the literature they link to.

[accuracy]

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[accuracy]

The Engineering of 'Pandemics'
By A. True Ott, PhD, ND
8-23-9



http://www.rense.com/general87/indu.htm

[crocoduck]

Not true:rolleyes:. I know that most forum members have studied the content of the literature they link to.

They haven't linked to any actual studies. Go ahead with that any time now. Thanks.

[hagbard_celine]

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David Dees does it again!:cool:

[hagbard_celine]

They haven't linked to any actual studies. Go ahead with that any time now. Thanks.

By "studies" do you mean they have to include Peer-Review?;)

[crocoduck]

By "studies" do you mean they have to include Peer-Review?;)

Of course. That's just a first minimal step anyone would take if they wanted to be taken seriously.

[them]

What I think the Croc is after are published papers from respected sources.

As a sound scientist you simply present results & allow your peers to judge them.

It's all very straight forward, albeit a bit painful at times ;)

As an example of scientific honesty in the pursuit of a vaccine for dis-ease I will quote a paper entitled Pathogenesis of RSV lower respiratory tract infection: implications for vaccine development.

I'll quote the abstract

Abstract

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection is the most prevalent cause of severe respiratory disease in infants. It also causes considerable morbidity in older children and adults with underlying risk factors. RSV vaccine development has been complicated by the need to administer the vaccine at a very young age and by enhanced disease observed after vaccination with formalin inactivated RSV. For infants live attenuated vaccines, which may not be expected to predispose for vaccine induced enhanced pathology, hold the greatest promise. However, the balance between attenuation and immunogenicity appears to be delicate. For older risk groups, results with subunit vaccines are most promising.


I've highlighted a sentence in which the authors reveal a, well you can read what it says for yourselves.

I have upped (http://www.speedyshare.com/520720699.html) a pdf of the paper should any of you wish to graze it.

http://www.speedyshare.com/520720699.html (http://www.speedyshare.com/520720699.html)

[ustane]

It doesn't make any sense though:confused:

[them]

It doesn't make any sense though:confused:

How so?

Did you download and read the paper in it's entirety, no..

[bsmurph83]

Of course vaccines work! They produce the end product of short term profits with the jab and long term mega profits from all the ilnesses, diseases & infections that result from the lowering of the immune system. They work very nicely for the dividend reciever.

In fact the pharmaceuticals are so confident in their "wonder" solution for their "wonder" problem, that they refuse to supply vaccines to any country that refuses to give them "immunity" (oh the irony) from prosecution for their (profit before people... oops i meant people before profit) jabs.

pharma reminds me of war, where the profits are counted in £ & $, the losses counted in lives. The only way they can make a loss if people wake up and "just say no" to drugs :D

Just had a thought. These jabs have already been bought & paid for. So there is a 0% chance of a loss to pharma. And with governments taking on the liability, who also just happen to own the judiciary, chances of compensation for the undoubted complications that will arise are conveniently off-set to some far, FAR off date in your offsprings future....

bornfree, what's wrong with you??? why don't you just shut up and get jabbed, you know it's what you need to stay healthy. the body's immune system is just there for decoration and doesn't actually DO anything! we need to inject cocktails of poison into our blood that bypass our natural external defenses and ultimately undermi... er... boost our immune system.

it's merely a giant coincidence that big pharma makes billions off this sca... er... scheme. they really just want to make us healthy, see? isn't that kind of them? thank god for big pharma and pseudo-science and all its glorious propaganda. the bigger the lie, the more people believe it.

as for the peer review system... it is tightly controlled and one of the best mechanisms that exists for scientific censorship. it is merely another weapon in corporate science's arsenal. anything that challenges the status quo can be weeded out through the peer review system BEFORE it ever makes it to the eyes of other scientists for rational appraisal. peer review = censorship. many scientists know this from first hand experience with it... many.

back to history: history shows the major reductions in the best known diseases vaccines are used to treat occurred BEFORE the advent of vaccination, due to increased hygiene and nutrition. after its advent, history shows that toxic and lifelong side effects were legion and continue to be.

take yer jab and like it bitches. :D

[ustane]

How so?

Did you download and read the paper in it's entirety, no..

No. Not going to download it, my computer's played up enough already, got enough to be going on with that I want to discuss on vaccines

[them]

No. Not going to download it, my computer's played up enough already, got enough to be going on with that I want to discuss on vaccines

Oh alright, I just thought that you did want to discuss it as you made a reply :)

[hagbard_celine]

Of course. That's just a first minimal step anyone would take if they wanted to be taken seriously.

Well we've been through that on the other thread.;)

(I wondered if you were David Colquhoun, but you're not funny enough.:p:D)

[griswald]

Considering that vaccine trials will soon be underway for the swine flu. I wonder will big pharma use tactics similar to those used in other trials.

Apparently from the 60,s onwards at various times vaccine trials were done in Ireland by Glaxo Welcome, using children in orphanages, and mother and baby homes. And there are a lot of issues related to ethics and consent regarding these trials.

Full Article
http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/D/0480/D.0480.199707090033.html

Dáil Éireann - Volume 480 - 09 July, 1997

Adjournment Debate. - Test Trials on Orphans

Newspaper reports have now been confirmed by Glaxo Wellcome that the Wellcome pharmaceutical company used children in orphanages in Ireland in 1973 and 1960 for the carrying out of trials on new vaccines. That is extremely disturbing. It appears from what has been reported in our newspapers and from a statement made by the Wellcome Corporation that it accepts that orphans were used as guinea pigs in drug trials.

Between 1982 and 1984 an offer of an ex gratia payment of £10,000 was made in each of the 16 cases, from the group of 93, where the expert medical group found in favour of the children. Thirteen families accepted the offer of the ex gratia payment. One other case was processed through the courts. The Supreme Court held in that case that the pharmaceutical company was liable for that person's brain damage.

http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/D/0525/D.0525.200011090016.html

griswald

[turquoisefire777]

today i have refused vacciations that my workplace deems mandatory, at the possible risk of my job.

but i still said no!

[hagbard_celine]

today i have refused vacciations that my workplace deems mandatory, at the possible risk of my job.

but i still said no!

Well done!:) I think I'm going to have to do the same.

But we won't be alone. A third of nurses are going to refuse too. Are they seriously going to sack one in three of us?:eek::D:p