Autumn 2010 Double Issue Risk Awarenessewsletter Network Inc.

The Stepchildren of Modern Medicine, INSIDE THIS ISSUE as Applied to Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS)/ Non-accidental Injury (NAI) 2: VRANews By Harold E. Buttram, MD July 20, 2010 6: Rotavirus Approved

Abstract: Historical Perspectives 10: Five-in-One Led to Death

In hospital emergency rooms through- Ignatz Semmelweiss was an Austrian 12: UBC Researchers Put Aluminum out the USA [and ] it is standard obstetrician who practiced his profes- Under Microscope procedure to attribute infantile brain sion at a birthing center in Vienna in the hemorrhages, with or without retinal mid-nineteenth century, a time when 13: Vitamin D to the Rescue hemorrhages, to inflicted child abuse, maternity death rates were an appalling generally referred to as Shaken Baby 30 percent from “childbed fever,” due to 13: Vaccine Accountability Demanded Syndrome/Non-Accidental Injury (SBS/ poor sanitary practices and conditions of NAI) in the absence of a known ma- the times. Semmelweiss observed that 15: Vaccine Causes Drug Resistant jor accident. However, beginning with medical students would perform autop- Pneumonia the work of A. Kalokerinos, Austra- sies on the victims of childbed fever and lian health officer among the Australian then often go to maternity wings and de- 17: The H1N1 Debacle aborigines, who reduced a 50 percent liver babies without washing their hands. infant mortality to 3 percent by avoiding Deeply troubled about the losses at the 20: The Marvellous Health of vaccines during viral illnesses, supple- birthing center, it occurred to him that the Unvaccinated Children menting children with vitamin C, and students might be carrying some noxious giving vitamin C injections during crises. substance on their hands to the mothers 22: Families Compensated for MMR In a study by Pourcyrous et al (2006) in- in the delivery wards. Acting upon this Vaccine Damage volving 239 preterm infants, it was found impression, he mandated that no doctor that 70 percent of infants administered should touch a woman in labor without 24: The Man-made Peanut single vaccines and 85 percent of infants first washing his hands in the rather harsh Epidemic administered multiple vaccines had el- soap of the times. As a result the mortal- evated C-Reactive proteins (markers of ity rate soon dropped from 30 percent 26: Quack inflammation). to approximately 3 percent, while other wings in the birthing center continued 28: Letters Among the general population, surveys with their usual 30 percent mortalities. In have been conducted showing general spite of this enormous humanitarian con- 30: Newsclips and significant inverse relations between tribution, his work was ignored, and he C-Reactive proteins and blood levels of became ostracized from his colleagues 32: VRAN Membership / Order Form vitamin C and other antioxidants. By the and remained so until his death. inherent nature of the human infant brain, it is highly vulnerable to lipid peroxida- In the field of nutrition rather than The Impact of Vaccines tion. Vaccine adjuvants are designed to infectious disease, the story of A. enhance and prolong immune responses Kalokerinos, an Australian health officer on the First Two Years to vaccines, which are inherently pro- who worked among the Australian ab- of Life inflammatory. origines in the 1960s and 1970s, is quite By Edda West similar. When he first began his work It is the hypothesis of this paper that Kalokerinos became appalled by the many infant brain hemorrhages now be- nearly 50 percent infant mortality that The first two years are the most vul- ing attributed to inflicted child abuse are was taking place. Noting signs of scurvy nerable in a young child’s life. It is the actually from adverse vaccine reactions. among some of the infants, and observ- time of most rapid brain growth, from the ing that they frequently died following last trimester of pregnancy to two years Key words: Kalokerinos, Clemetson, , especially if ill with a of age. During this time, critical windows Pourcyrous study, C-reactive proteins, viral illness, Kalokerinos began admin- of brain development occur, and the im- antioxidants, adjuvants, adverse vaccine mune system begins to mature. reactions. Stepchildren of Modern Medicine cont. on page 8 Editorial cont. on page 3 VRAN NEWSLETTER VRANews diseases. VRAN picks up where health Vaccination Risk Awareness Network Inc. officials leave off. P.O. Box 169, Winlaw, B.C. V0G 2J0 Coordinator and newsletter editor: Edda West [email protected] 250-355-2525 Members’ Area on the VRAN Public health institutions exhibit a VRAN Board of Directors: Website willful blindness to the fallout of its vac- Mary James—President cine programs. They purport to act for Rita Hoffman—Vice-President We’re pleased to announce that the the greater societal good, yet discount Edda West —Secretary/Treasurer VRAN website now has a Members’ Area the need for a thorough evaluation of the Dr. Jason Whittaker—Director VRAN Speakers Bureau Leona Rew—Board Member where you can access all previous and biochemical/biomedical effects of mul- Gloria Dignazio—Board Member current newsletters online. We created this tiple vaccines on the infant’s developing Susan Fletcher—VRAN Researcher valuable archive so that our Members will brain, and immune system. 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Unhampered chronic diseases in young children—an VRAN publishes a newsletter 2 to 3 times a year as a means of distributing information to members by the constraints of government/cor- epidemic that coincides with the more and the community. Suggested annual membership porate policy makers, we have the than doubling of vaccines imposed on fees, including quarterly newsletter and your on- intellectual freedom to explore emerging children since the 1980s. going support to the Vaccination Risk Awareness research on the effect of vaccine policies Network: $35.00—Individual $75.00—Professional on human health. Please note: Donations are in addition We would like to share the personal stories of our to annual membership. membership. If you would like to submit your story, For some time a disturbing picture has please contact Edda West by phone or e-mail,as Bonus Items: indicated above. been emerging which indicates that mass vaccination policies are not enhancing • Vaccine Safety Manual, by Neil VRAN website: www.vran.org √ children’s health, but are pushing them over the brink into a state of chronic VRANews continued on page 3 VRANews cont. from page 2 Editorial continued from page 1 The infant immune system and brain Miller It is during the first few months of life are uniquely different from that of an • Immunization: History, Ethics, Law that the majority of vaccines are injected older child or adult, and are particularly and Health, by Catherine Diodati into the child. Today a child in Canada vulnerable to toxic assault. A pressing • Jabs, Jenner & Juggernauts, by Jen- can receive up to 42 doses of 14 vaccines concern that has not been adequately ad- nifer Craig in the first 18 months of life. Long term dressed by science is whether multiple • Shots in the Dark, A powerful docu- studies comparing the overall health out- vaccines injected during critical develop- mentary, in DVD format in French & come of vaccinated and unvaccinated mental phases of the brain and immune English children have not been done. system, alter normal development—the first two years of life being a unique time Jabs, Jenner & Juggernauts is a Nor has it been proven safe to inject of accelerated brain growth and immune small book that tells a big story—the sto- the infant with complex viral/bacterial system maturation. ry of , the revered father of particles, foreign proteins & DNA along vaccinology. It is the story of a charlatan with harsh chemical adjuvants which arti- Brain Development and who, by deceit managed to wrangle him- ficially “turn on” and manipulate immune “Windows of Susceptibility” self into the medical societies of the late response. Growing numbers of research- 1700’s. The story of the origin of vacci- ers are concluding that environmental “Windows of susceptibility” are criti- nation is a fascinating one—a story that toxins and multiple vaccines are likely at cal phases in brain development which reveals the foundation of deceit on which the root of the current epidemic of neuro- occur during the first two years. the vaccine paradigm is constructed. developmental disorders in children. The Institute of Child Health cautions Shots in the Dark is the best vaccine While mainstream medicine aggres- that, “Exposures at critical periods of documentary produced in many years. sively promotes vaccination as the most development—notably during embryo- The film was created by Canadian film important disease preventive measure, it genesis, fetal life and infancy - can result maker Lina Moreco. The film’s sensi- fails to inform parents that vaccines are a in irreversible damage to growing nervous tive interviews with affected families is class of drugs which carry both a risk of systems and affect emerging behaviour enriched by the critical insights of dedi- injury and death. Vaccines can trigger a patterns, cause immune dysfunction, and cated doctors and scientists who reveal range of neurological and immunological have serious reproductive effects. If a tox- the biomedical mechanisms at the root injuries which often don’t become appar- ic exposure occurs during critical growth of neurological injuries triggered by vac- ent until weeks or months later. stages, the system affected can sustain per- cines. It is an international inquiry into manent damage.” These critical periods of the tragedy shared by so many families Parents are not told that these inju- development are thought of as ‘windows whose once healthy children fell into the ries have increased dramatically in the of susceptibility’. abyss of disorders and last twenty years along with the huge other neuroimmune illnesses following increase in the number of vaccines that The ‘windows of susceptibility’ are vaccination. have been added to the early childhood specific periods of vulnerability to neu- vaccine schedule. rotoxic effects. They occur over a broad Please send your donations to: time frame because age-related develop- VRAN Fundraising, P.O. Box 169, Parents are not told that the explosion ment of the brain and nervous system Winlaw, BC, V0G 2J0 of autism spectrum disorders (ASD), extends from fetal stage into adoles- ADHD & behavioural disorders, the cence. Damage to the “wiring” process Remembering Zack epidemic of allergic diseases which in- of the brain is thought to underlie such clude , , eczema and life permanent adverse effects as cogni- Our hearts go out to Tara and Dale threatening anaphylaxis, diabetes and tive disability, developmental language Harvey, long time VRAN supporters other degenerative diseases have also disorders, learning disabilities, motor who lost their dear son Zackery Rain increased dramatically as the number of disorders, effects on intelligence and be- on September 9, 2010. Zack was 10 vaccines has increased. Allergic diseas- havioural disorders, attention deficits and years old. He leaves his mom and dad, es, including asthma are the endpoint of sensory abnormalities.” younger brother Ayden, his grandpar- a malfunctioning immune system. They ents and many friends in the Slocan don’t tell you that there has been a pre- We know that cellular structures Valley community in British Columbia. cipitous decline in children’s health - that change so rapidly during embryonic and At the moving memorial celebration of children are less healthy today than in fetal growth that a toxic exposure at the Zack’s life, we shared in the grief and previous generations. wrong moment can permanently damage ultimate heartbreak—the loss of a dear- further development. Small doses of neu- ly beloved child. We are reminded that The doctors and nurses who routinely rotoxins during critical periods of brain life is precious. “Let us remember your vaccinate children don’t mention that the development can alter those crucial neural life and love rains gratitude from up medical profession has little understanding pathways—“one mistake early on, and above. Your heart and soul is part of us of how the infant immune system works in the brain may be forever changed in forever whole. In your passing dream the first six months of life. Nor do they tell subtle or serious ways”, warns Dr. Land- you teach us all what family means.” √ you that multiple vaccines given too early rigan, Chairman, Preventive Medicine, Mt. in life may interfere with the normal devel- opment of the brain and immune system. Editorial continued on page 4 VRAN Newsletter ¤ Autumn 2010 —Double Issue ¤ Page 3 Editorial continued from page 3 growth in the early months of life. “No Other researchers have shown that ex- Sinai School of Medicine. clinical studies have been conducted to posure to as little as 4 to 5 micrograms of establish the safety of aluminum adju- aluminum per kg/bw/day has “long-term Canada’s Institute of Child Health vants in infants and children”, report detrimental outcomes on neurologic de- in Ottawa, stresses that the environ- neuroscientist Chris Shaw PhD and his velopment in preterm infants. In adult ment must be viewed as the “ultimate colleague Lucija Tomljenovic PhD. They human subjects, aluminum toxicity has health determinant”. “The fact that the ask the question, “Does an elevated alu- been linked to a host of neurodegenerative endocrine and immune systems and the minum burden from vaccine adjuvants complications and diseases”, including developing brain are susceptible to these contribute to the rising prevalence of Parkinson’s, ALS, multiple sclerosis, Gulf ubiquitous pollutants [lead, PCBs and autism?” War Syndrome and epilepsy. methylmercury, etc.] must be viewed with major concern.” Shaw and Tomljenovic remind us “It appears that the consistently rising that, “due to their low body weight chil- trend in ASD prevalence should perhaps be But curiously, child health experts dren are more susceptible to hazardous of little surprise, given that two month old limit their focus to toxic substances chil- chemicals than adults. Furthermore, the children in developed countries routinely dren are exposed to from the external developing nervous system of a child is receive 245 to 270 micrograms per kg/bw environment, i.e. from food, air, water. more vulnerable to neurotoxic insults of aluminum per vaccination session—a They fail to take into account the im- than that of an adult. Thus, the earlier in burden equivalent to 38 standard adult- pact of the most obvious and common life a vaccine is given, the greater the po- dose injections of ”, say source of chemical/biological stressors tential for harming the nervous system.” Shaw and Tomljenovic. It would be naïve the baby’s neurological system must deal to assume that such an excessive burden of with—multiple (and increasing) vaccines They have calculated the amount of aluminum is safe for babies. containing lab altered pathogens, chemi- aluminum injected into young babies cal adjuvants which manipulate immune in the first 15 months of life. In the first It is a well known fact that male response and various foreign proteins & 2-3 months, babies receive the highest children are at a much higher risk of de- DNA particles, injected into the child’s amount of aluminum per body weight veloping autism spectrum disorders. Boys sensitive internal micro-environment from vaccines—270 micrograms per ki- run a 4 X higher risk of developing ASD during critical phases of brain and im- logram of body weight per day (ug/kg/ compared to girls. Shaw and Tomljenovic mune system development. bw/day). Thereafter, infants at 4, 6 and 15 suggest, “It would thus appear that the months also receive very high amounts of risks of adverse affects in children (espe- Aluminum is Hazardous to vaccine-derived aluminum, ranging from cially young boys) as a result of multiple Normal Brain Development 110.3 to 177.6 micrograms ug/kg/bw/day. vaccinations, outweigh the uncertain ben- efits of preventing .” The researchers have calculated that “It should be of high concern that we two month old babies in Canada, the In addition to large doses of aluminum know nothing about the potential U.K., U.S and Australia are exposed to from injected vaccines, babies on certain hazards of aluminum adjuvants in 49 to 54 times the current safety limit for soy-based formulas may ingest as much children despite the fact that world- aluminum exposure. This limit is set at as 250 times the amount they would get wide, preschool children are regularly 5 micrograms of aluminum per kilogram from mother’s milk and three times more exposed to the highest amounts of of body weight per day from paren- than the “provisional tolerable weekly aluminum from vaccines through teral sources—i.e. by means other than intake” set by the U.S. Department of [mandatory] immunization pro- through the digestive tract such as via in- Food and Agriculture (FAO) who con- grammes.” (C.Shaw & L. Tomljenovic) travenous or intramuscular injection. cluded that, “aluminum compounds have the potential to affect the reproductive A close examination of vaccine in- Shaw and Tomljenovic’s research has system and developing nervous system gredients leaves little doubt that we are found that aluminum burden from vac- at doses lower than those previously set.” exposing our children to substances that cines highly correlates with increased have the potential to damage the brain prevalence of ASD (autism spectrum dis- It is important to stress that only and impair immune function. A case in orders) in western countries. In the U.S. 0.25% of aluminum from dietary point is aluminum—an important vac- the greatest annual increase of ASD “was sources is absorbed into systemic cir- cine ingredient. Aluminum is used as observed in 1992, when ASD cases rose culation, whereas aluminum from a vaccine adjuvant to ramp up immune by 189%. This event was closely pre- vaccines is absorbed at nearly 100% response to vaccine antigens. Without ceded by the addition of 6 doses of [two efficiency! the aluminum adjuvant, the body fails new] aluminum containing vaccines to to mount an adequate immune response, the immunization schedule, 5 of which Shaw and Tomljenovic’s research with the exception of live and attenuated are administered in the first 4 months reveals that “The sizes of most antigen- vaccines. Aluminum is a heavy metal and of life.” The researchers report that cur- aluminum complexes are higher than the a well established neurotoxin. rently, 1 in 91 children in the U.S. are molecular weight cut-off of the glomeru- diagnosed with ASD, while the current lus of the kidney (~18kDa) which would The highest quantities of aluminum prevalence in the United Kingdom is 1 in preclude efficient excretion of aluminum are injected into the infant’s fragile micro- 64 children. Canada has no clear statistics environment during the most rapid brain on ASD. Editorial continued on page 5 Page 4 ¤ Autumn 2010—Double Issue ¤ VRAN Newsletter Editorial continued from page 4 evaluate the entire picture of complex Dr. Blaylock refers to a growing number adjuvants.” In other words, the body has multifactoral toxicities contributing to of scientific studies which demonstrate“seri - difficulty eliminating the aluminum burden the collapse of children’s health today. ous dangers in our present vaccine policy, it receives from vaccines. “Thus, vaccine- including altered brain development, sei- derived aluminum would have a much Too Many Vaccines Too Close zures and loss of brain cell connections, greater potential to induce neurological Together Too Early in Life called synapses. These studies all point damage than that obtained through diet”, to over-vaccination as a real and present and as already emphasized, “they are ad- Professor of Neurosurgery, Russell danger to our children, and in certain in- ministered frequently during the most Blaylock, MD, has written a series of ar- stances, to adults.” critical period of brain development.” ticles based on extensive review of the scientific literature in which he examines Keep in mind”, writes Dr. Blaylock, Parents often find that their baby is in great detail the destructive effects of “that the child by age one will already much more susceptible to “bugs going excessive immune stimulation often trig- have had 20 vaccine , each around” after they are vaccinated with as gered by too many vaccines given too spaced no more than one or two months many as 8 or 9 vaccines at the same time. close together, too early in life - a problem apart. This means, the brain microglia Little wonder when one realizes that vac- that will worsen as more vaccines are add- (immune cells) are maintained in a con- cine ingredients like aluminum skew the ed to the already overcrowded schedule. stant primed state. Each vaccine increases immune system, suppress the child’s abil- dramatically the damage done by the pre- ity to fight infections, while setting up a As a neurosurgeon, Dr. Blaylock has vious vaccine series. One is not surprised range of autoimmune disease possibilities. intimate knowledge of the neurological that so many vaccinated children develop Persistent ear infections commonly devel- system, and brain chemistry—a back- seizures, or that we have such a high in- op after vaccination prompting doctors to ground which eminently qualifies him to cidence of autism I can assure the elite of prescribe antibiotics which studies have interpret complex studies in neurology, the American Academy of Pediatrics and shown do little to prevent ongoing ear in- immunology & chemistry to present an the CDC that over one million autistic fection, but go a long way in reducing gut in depth perspective of the factors that children far exceeds the danger , health, further compromising immunity can interfere with brain function, and mumps, diphtheria, chickenpox, tetanus, and the child’s overall health. cause long term damage. rotavirus, Hib meningitis and hepatitis pose to our youth. Also, keep in mind “In order to fully understand the patho- A key concept for parents to under- that for every fully autistic child, there logical effects on the developing brain stand is that impact to the child’s immune are ten times that many with lesser de- and immune system of this kind of vac- system is going to affect his/her neurolog- grees of impairment.” cination schedule, researchers would have ical system. Dr. Russell Blaylock’s work to conduct a prospective, case controlled brings this knowledge home in the most A stark emblem of the arrogance of study comparing completely vaccinated to profound way. When the immature im- mainstream medicine is the assumption completely unvaccinated children. They mune system of the infant is bombarded that an infant can be injected with an would have to evaluate the children for with vaccines, it sets off the brain’s own unlimited quantity of vaccines without at least 10 to 20 years for all morbidity unique immune system. The neuroscience deleterious effect to brain and immune and mortality outcomes, for pathological literature indicates that “excessive and es- system development—an assumption changes in immune and brain function pecially repeated immune stimulation can that has resulted in an unprecedented at the cellular and molecular levels, and result in severe disruption of brain devel- health disaster. for changes in chromosomal integrity. opment and even neurodegeneration”. Within the first five to seven years, differ- As humans, our brain is what sets us ences between the two groups, in terms of That the immune system and nervous apart from other species and enables us bilogocial integrity and rates of autism, system are intimately interconnected has to interact socially and participate in our learning disabilities, ADD/ADHD, asth- been known for some time. What effects complex society. Normal brain function ma, juvenile diabetes and other brain and one effects the other. “There is compel- enables us to be creative beings, to be immune system disorders, would begin to ling evidence that overactivation of the academically or scientifically proficient, emerge”, writes Barbara Loe Fisher in her brain’s key immune cells (microglia) can to be artistic and musical, to be able to new book, Vaccines, Autism & Chronic result in alterations in brain growth and choose our direction in life. There are in- Inflammation: The New Epidemic. connectivity during rapid brain growth, finite ways in which we can develop our the so-called ‘brain growth spurt’.” individual gifts and capabilities, thanks So far, medical science has declined to a normally functioning brain. to conduct the kind of comparative study The science is already in place which proposed by Barbara Fisher and other shows that excessive vaccination over- When the infant’s brain and immune vaccine awareness activists. Across the stimulates the immune system, which system is protected from toxic assault and board, ‘public health’ institutions exhibit in turn hyperstimulates the brain’s im- is optimally nourished, ideally through a willful blindness while purporting to mune activity leading to an outpouring extended breastfeeding, the critical win- act for the greater societal good. By ex- of excitotoxic substances which result dows of brain growth are able to unfold in cluding a discussion of the biochemical/ in varying degrees of brain injury. “Un- the species specific sequences that make biomedical impact of multiple vaccines fortunately, this knowledge has not yet us uniquely human. Protecting and nour- on the developing brain, and immune filtered out to vaccine policy makers, pe- Editorial continued on page 12 system, they fail in their duty to critically diatricians, or parents”, says Blaylock. VRAN Newsletter ¤ Autumn 2010 —Double Issue ¤ Page 5 Rotavirus Vaccines Approved for Canadian Babies porary suspension of Rotarix vaccine because of contamination with parts of a By Edda West non-lethal pig virus, only to withdraw the Recently Health Canada approved two “There’s a difference between the two recommendation after a meeting on May rotavirus vaccines for the prevention of vaccines: Rotarix contains parts of a pig 7th, when it was revealed that RotaTeq diarrhea in young children. The liquid virus that does not make pigs sick while vaccine is contaminated with DNA from vaccines are given orally in a series of Merck’s RotaTeq contains parts of a pig a pig virus that is lethal?” asks Fisher. doses beginning at two months of age. virus that kills baby pigs. How many Both vaccines contain genetically engi- mothers know that, when Merck’s diar- DNA Can Infect Human Cells neered live attenuated human rotavirus rhea vaccine is squirted into the mouths strains or hybrid human-bovine reassort- of their two month old babies, they are “Why should we care about vaccines ment rotavirus strains. swallowing parts of a pig virus that sup- being contaminated with foreign DNA presses the immune systems of baby pigs from deadly animal viruses? Because it Symptoms of rotavirus include watery so badly, they waste away and suffer re- is a well known fact that DNA from ani- diarrhea, vomiting and fever. Signs of de- spiratory, kidney, reproductive and brain mal viruses can infect human cells and hydration in a baby include dry skin, low damage before dying?” asks Barb Fisher. change human DNA to cause disease in urine output, sunken eyes, and no tears humans”, said Barbara Fisher. when the baby cries, dry mouth, a faster Rotavirus Vaccines Use Monkey, heart rate and listlessness. Most young Cow, Pig Materials for Production Dangerous to Assume Safety children have had a bout with rotavirus by the time they are five. GlaxoSmithKline’s Rotarix is a ge- NVIC joined with holistic health pio- netically engineered vaccine created by neer Dr. Joseph Mercola in calling for Rotashield, the first isolating human rotavirus strain and uses Merck to recall its live rotavirus vaccine, was withdrawn from the U.S. market in African Green monkey kidney cells to RotaTeq which is contaminated with por- 1999 after it was linked with an increased produce the original viral seed stock from cine circovirus2 (PCV2) and to clean it risk of intussusception, a condition in which all Rotarix vaccine has been made. up. “No company marketing a product which the bowel twists or slides into itself, “In the FDA licensing process, Rotarix found to be contaminated should be giv- causing a potentially life-threatening in- had to meet certain FDA standards, that en a free pass,” said Dr. Joseph Mercola. testinal blockage. The Canadian Pediatric included demonstrating the vaccine was “It is always dangerous to assume safety. Society denies such a risk with the new ro- not contaminated with, for example TSE Vaccines contaminated with viral DNA tavirus vaccines now available in Canada. (Transmissable Spongiform Encepha- that could evolve and infect humans can- lopathy or “mad cow” disease, a brain not, and should not be assumed to be Earlier this year however, the U.S. wasting disease) or with cow viruses safe,” said Dr. Mercola. “Responsible public was informed that the two new in- because bovine (cow) serum was used corporations voluntarily recall contami- fant diarrhea vaccines are contaminated to prepare the original viral seed stock. nated foods and drugs that could possibly with pig virus DNA. The two pharma- Porcine trypsin, an enzyme in the pancre- compromise safety”, stressed Fisher. ceutical giants given the green light to atic juice of a pig, was also used to make launch their diarrhea vaccines in Canada the viral seed stock”, informed an NVIC An article by health reporter Sharon are Merck Frosst, maker of Rotateq (has press release. Kirkey on rotavirus vaccines was picked 5 viral components) and GlaxoSmith- up by media outlets across Canada. The Kline maker of Rotarix. Health Canada Merck’s RotaTeq is a genetically inclusion of misleading statements by Dr. is not concerned. It has glossed over the engineered vaccine containing five hu- Robin Walker, vice-chair of the Board of fact that both vaccines are contaminated man-cow reassortment strains of rotavirus the Canadian Institute of Child Health, with pig virus DNA. that were created at the Children’s Hospi- once again underscores the laissez-faire tal of Pennsylvania (CHOP), where strains attitude of mainstream journalists toward The National Vaccine Information Cen- of rotavirus that give cows diarrhea were vaccine risk issues. ter’s (NVIC) Barbara Loe Fisher reported combined with strains of rotavirus that that independent lab testing found the cause diarrhea in humans. “The reassort- Walker said most concerns about contamination. “The surprising discovery ment viruses were transported to Merck, vaccines are not founded on evidence. was made after the independent lab used where master seeds were produced us- “Serious ill effects from vaccine are ab- new technology to evaluate the purity of ing African Green Monkey kidney cell solutely incredibly rare and the rotavirus eight live virus vaccines for polio, rubella, cultures. Fetal bovine (cow) serum and vaccine has gone through the same kind measles, yellow fever, human herpes 3 porcine trypsin was used to make the of testing as other vaccines. Responding (varicella or chicken pox), rotavirus (Ro- “seed” stock. There are small amounts to VRAN’s statement of concern that yet tarix and RotaTeq) and MMR. In addition of bovine serum and cell culture media another vaccine is being added to the al- to pig viral DNA found in Rotarix vaccine, (monkey viral DNA) that remain in Ro- ready crowded infant schedule, he said, low levels of DNA fragments from avian taTeq vaccine”, said the NVIC report. “Yes, kids get a lot of immunizations, but (bird) leukosis virus (a retrovirus) was there’s now excellent science to show found in and DNA frag- “And how many mainstream media that it doesn’t really matter how many ments of a virus similar to simian (monkey) outlets are not covering this important immunizations you give,” Walker said. retrovirus was found in RotaTeq vaccine.” story, a story that broke on March 22, 2010, when the FDA recommended tem- Rotovirus Vaccines continued on page 7 Page 6 ¤ Autumn 2010—Double Issue ¤ VRAN Newsletter Rotovirus Vaccines continued from page 6 people who spout flawed assurances of vac- Breastfed babies have a much lower Dr. Walker’s “excellent science” de- cine safety does a disservice to society as a risk for various infections, including diar- rives from a theory promulgated by whole. The unprecedented decline in the rhea or gastrointestinal infections. Some rotavirus vaccine developer Dr. Paul Of- overall health of today’s highly vaccinated of the compounds in human milk that pro- fit who says a baby can withstand 100,000 children deserves more than mindless obei- tect infants from gastrointestinal diseases vaccines without risk or side effect. Offit sance to the medical establishment. include SigA (secretory IgA- an impor- has earned untold millions as the develop- tant immunoglobulin), lactoferrin (a whey er and patent holder of the first rotavirus Seizure Rates Double When Four protein) and lysozyme (an enzyme). vaccine that caused life threatening in- Live Virus Vaccines Given tussusception, later withdrawn from the Together Lysozyme and lactoferrin work together market. He is also the developer of the to destroy invading viruses and bacteria. current new Rotateq vaccine produced A recent study looked at the rates of While lactoferrin takes away nutrients from by Merck. His other hat is media mouth seizures in children vaccinated with 4 viruses and bacteria, lysozyme enzymes at- piece for the U.S. vaccine establishment. live virus vaccines at the same time. It tack their cell walls. The immunoglobulin was found that toddlers who got a vac- SigA coats the lining of the intestines and National Autism Association president, cine that combines the measles, mumps, stomach to prevent any remaining viral/ Wendy Fournier said, “Offit has zero cred- rubella and chickenpox vaccine are at bacterial cells from attaching onto the cell ibility in matters of vaccine safety,” “Not twice the usual risk for fevers that lead to walls of the baby’s gut. only does he advance the absurd sugges- convulsions. According to the study, the tion that children could safely get 100,000 risk for a febrile seizure after any mea- The more of these substances infants vaccines at a time, he opposes any studies sles vaccination is less than 1 seizure per receive, the lower their risk of having a of the comparative health of unvaccinated 1000 vaccinations but among children gastrointestinal . This protective children that could shed light on the ex- who received the vaccine which com- effect of breast milk appears to last up to tent and nature of vaccine-caused injuries, bines 4 live viruses , there is 1 additional two months after weaning. Formula does leading to their prevention……“ his fi- seizure for every 2,300 vaccinated. not contain any of these substances. nancial conflicts of interest disqualify him as a credible source for vaccine safety Adequate research has never been The Lancet (Apr/1998) reported a commentary as well.” done to demonstrate the safety of giving study from City in which stool multiple vaccines to young babies. With samples of 200 infants were monitored “Quoted doctor didn’t tell the whole the addition of the rotavirus vaccine to for presence of rotavirus. story about vaccines”, says Professor the routine infant schedule, Canadian Christopher Shaw, neuroscientist at the babies can receive up to 42 doses of 14 “Milk samples from breast-feeding University of British Columbia and col- vaccines by 18 months of age. mothers were analyzed weekly until 4 league Lucija Tomljenovic in an October weeks post partum, then monthly. Those 7, 2010 rebuttal to the Vancouver Sun Breastfeeding protects against samples taken just before the infant had version of Sharon Kirkey’s article: acute gastroenteritis due to rotavirus infection were assayed for a col- rotavirus in infants lection of substances, including lactadherin, “This front-page article about ro- Rotovirus Vaccines continued on page 10 tavirus vaccination quoted Dr. Robin Walker on vaccine safety. His comments are summarized by his statement that, ‘There’s no evidence whatsoever that giving immunizations together, or giving more immunizations, is in the slightest bit harmful’.”

“What is disturbing” say Shaw and Tomljenovic, “is that even a cursory survey of the scientific literature shows quite the opposite conclusion, particu- larly for children. It may be that Walker is unaware of this literature or has chosen to ignore those published peer-reviewed articles that don’t agree with his opinion. Regardless, reporter Sharon Kirkey does readers a disservice by failing to note that the available evidence concerning vaccine safety, testing and outcome is far more complex.”

Media willingness to give credence to unproven statements advanced by medical VRAN Newsletter ¤ Autumn 2010 —Double Issue ¤ Page 7 Stepchildren continued from page 1 Elevated Blood Histamine as By way of explanation, the term “lipid istering vitamin C supplements to the Cause of Capillary Fragility and peroxidation” refers to free-radical gen- children, improving their diets, avoid- Bleeding from Scurvy eration from a series of chain reactions, ing vaccines during viral illnesses (even which can be very damaging if the pro- if just a runny nose), and administering Far from being uncommon, vitamin C cess is prolonged. “Free-radicals” in turn vitamin C injections during crises. Sub- deficiency still does occur in the Western refer to atoms with unpaired electrons, sequently death rates dropped to three (1) World. When people attending a Health which results in heightened instability percent in his district. Maintenance Organization (HMO) clinic and reactivity. The end result of abnor- in Tempe, Arizona, were tested for plas- mally prolonged lipid peroxidation may The Australian government awarded ma vitamin C, it was found to be depleted be abnormal brain inflammation and Kalokerinos a medal of merit for his (between 0.2 and 0.5 mgs/100 ml) in 30 brain swelling. work. Also, in 1989 his work gained percent of subjects, and to be deficient academic validation with the publica- (below 0.2 mgs/100 ml) in 6 percent.(5) In essence, the brain might be com- tion of a 3-volume work, Vitamin C, by pared with highly inflammable dry grass CAB Clemetson.(2) However, similar As reviewed by Clemetson, when the or brush enclosed with elevated oxygen to the experiences of Semmelweiss, the human plasma ascorbic acid level falls be- levels, needing only a spark to set off work of Kalokerinos has been largely low 0.2 mg/ml, the whole blood histamine a conflagration of inflammatory lipid overlooked or ignored by the medical level is doubled or quadrupled.(6) Blood peroxidation. In all likelihood, vaccine profession. In my opinion this is tragic, histamine is also increased by vaccines or adjuvants provide this spark far more of- as similar deaths among children are , by stresses such as heat or cold, ten than generally realized. still taking place, although they are now and by various drugs in guinea pigs.(7) in many instances being attributed to Vitamin C has been shown to inactivate In addition, the infant’s immature Shaken Baby Syndrome/Non-Acciden- tetanus toxin(8) and diphtheria toxin.(9) It brain and nervous system tissues are go- tal Injury (SBS/NAI). has been shown that bleeding from scurvy ing through an extended period of rapid results from increased blood histamine, or growth and development, which also In my 10+ years of experience with histaminemia, which causes separation of bring heightened vulnerability to cellu- over 100 case reviews involving SBS/ endothelial cells from one another in cap- lar damage. As reported by R.I. Haynes NAI areas, I have found record of only illaries and small venules.(10) This process et al(22)(2005)(Journal of Comparative one case in which vitamin C blood lev- may result in subperiosteal hemorrhages, Neurology), cerebral axons (lengthy el was tested, and even this was several the latter resulting in callus-like bone extensions of brain cells) achieve ap- weeks following hospital admission swellings commonly misinterpreted as proximately one-fourth of adult level of the infant and therefore irrelevant. fractures, extensive spontaneous bruising, from the 24th to the 34th weeks during When the truth of this issue does be- and subdural hemorrhages, which were pregnancy, with rapid axonal growth come known, as it will be, I believe included in early descriptions of classical and elongation taking place between 21 that vitamin C, administered orally, scurvy.(11-12) weeks during pregnancy and 24 weeks intramuscularly, or intravenously de- following birth. Onset of myelin devel- pending on the situation, will be found The Human Infant Brain: opment (fatty coating that protects nerve to play an indispensable protective role Uniquely Susceptible to Lipid cells and provides nerve impulse insula- in the complications now being attrib- Peroxidation tion), does not commence until 14 weeks uted to SBS/NAI. following birth with gradual progression Although an infant’s brain receives to adult-like staining at 32 to 52 weeks. While the recommended 30 mgs of 15 percent of normal cardiac output, it It is during this period of furious brain vitamin C per day is generally adequate utilizes nearly 25 percent of the body’s growth, limited myelin protection, and for a healthy infant, it may be rapidly oxygenation.(13) In addition to being a increased vulnerabilities that infants consumed and totally inadequate when highly oxygenated organ, the vulner- receive over 21 vaccines, according to the infant is stressed or ill, as with viral ability of the human brain to harmful today’s recommended schedule. or bacterial infections, or toxic chemi- peroxidation rests on the fact that it has cal exposures. The common cold, for by far the highest fat content of any or- Hazards of Free Iron In and instance, has been shown to reduce vita- gan of the body with membrane lipids Around the Brain min C levels in the blood by 50 percent. constituting 60 percent of the solid mat- (3) Vaccines contain numerous toxic ad- ter.(14) In addition, both brain and retina Standard pediatric texts list prolonged juvants, (to be reviewed below) which contain a relatively high percentage of labor, fetal malpresentation, and large create pro-inflammatory free radicals. the omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid, babies as risk factors for significant brain All vaccine adjuvants are pro-oxidants docosahexaenoic acid (DHA),(15-21) which hemorrhages. Tauscher et al reported an that drain the body’s supply of antioxi- serves as a primary building block of the association between histologic chorio- dants including vitamin C.(4) Another membranes of these structures. The DHA amnionitis (inflammation of the placenta) risk factor may be the use of microwave and other polyunsaturated fatty acids are and brain hemorrhage in preterm infants. ovens for heating infant formulas. Also, high in energetics, but they are far more (23) Intracerebral hemorrhage occurs in up fruits and vegetables need to be reason- unstable and prone to pro-inflammatory to 50 percent of very low-birth-weight ably fresh, as vitamin C content declines peroxidation (rancidity) than saturated infants and is thought to represent a with their aging. fats.(15-21) Stepchildren of Modern Medicine cont. on page 9 Page 8 ¤ Autumn 2010—Double Issue ¤ VRAN Newsletter Stepchildren continued from page 8 pathophysiology of adverse vaccine re- Even these trace amounts are poten- substantial cause of morbidity and mor- actions, Russell Blaylock has compiled (24) tially toxic because of the universally tality in these infants. Small subdural a mass of evidence that repeated stimu- recognized principle of toxicology that hemorrhages (SDH) are not uncommon lation of the systemic immune system combinations of toxins will increase tox- in uncomplicated births and asymptom- results in intense reactions of microglial icity exponentially; that is, two toxins atic term newborns. Based on magnetic and astraglia cells, which serve as the will increase toxicity 10-fold, or three resonance imaging (MRI), Whitby et al brain’s immune system, with each suc- (25) toxins increase toxicity 100-fold. In vac- (2004) reported subdurals in 9 of 111 cessive series of vaccinations. This is the cines special attention should be given infants in 2004, all of which had resolved result of vaccine adjuvants that are added (29-30) to the two toxic heavy metals, aluminum favorably when MRIs were repeated one for that purpose. and mercury, each noted for its potential month later. toxicity. The same principle applies in In explanation, microglia and as- other classes of toxic chemicals.(32-34) V.J. Rooks et al (26)(2008) performed trocytes are first-line-immunological MRI scans on 101 term infants at 72 responder cells located in the brain that In view of these findings, R. Blay- hours, 2 weeks, one month, and 3 months. defend against foreign infectious invad- lock has referred to the inconsolable, Forty-six had asymptomatic SDH within ers. Normally this response, such as to high-pitched cry that commonly occurs 72 hours of delivery. All 46 had supra- a viral infection, is of limited duration following infant vaccinations as an “en- tentorial SDH in the posterior cranium. and harmless to the brain. However, cephalitic cry.” Forty-three percent also had infratento- when microglia and astrocytes are over- rial SDH. Most SDH were < 3 mm in stimulated for prolonged periods, which The Pourcyrous Study: The First sizes, all of which were resolved within vaccine adjuvants are designed to bring of Its Kind, Presents a Unified one month. Larger hematomas dissolved about, this extended activation can be Theory of Adverse Vaccine within 3 months. very destructive to the brain. Reactions Consequently, small hemorrhages are Because of the critical dependence not uncommon even in uncomplicated of the developing brain on a timed se- It has long been known from animal childbirths, but little consideration has quence of cytokine and excitatory amino studies that vaccines can cause brain in- been given to the residual iron. As the acid fluctuations, according to Blaylock, flammation,(35-37) which has now been red blood cells begin to lyse (break up) sequential vaccinations can result in al- confirmed in human infants in a study and release their iron following a hemor- terations of this critical process that will on primary immunization of 239 prema- rhage, a process that takes place in two not only result in synaptic and dendrit- ture infants with gestational ages of less or three weeks, the iron is scavenged by ic loss, but abnormal (nerve) pathway than 35 weeks by M. Pourcyrous et al. (38) white blood cells and carried into nearby development. When microglia are exces- (Journal of Pediatrics, 2007) The study tissues in the form of hemosiderin.(27) sively activated by vaccines, especially was designed to determine the incidence chronically, they secrete a number of in- of cardio-respiratory events and abnormal Free-iron in and around the brain also flammatory cytokines, free radicals, lipid C-Reactive protein (CRP) elevations as- may result when there are critical drops peroxidation products, and the two exci- sociated with administration of a single in levels of vitamin C following admin- totoxins, glutamate and quinolenic acid, vaccine or multiple vaccines simultane- istration of vaccines, followed in turn which may become highly destructive ously at or about two months age. (CRP by a precipitous rise in serum histamine when activated for prolonged periods. is a standard blood test indicator for body bringing increased capillary fragility and (Emphasis added) This process was inflammation, which in the present study leakage of blood into and around the brain. suggested as the principle mechanisms would represent brain inflammation.) resulting in the pathological as well as CRP levels and cardio-respiratory mani- It is known that iron overload in the clinical features of autism.(29) festations were monitored for three days liver, pancreas, and kidneys can be very following immunizations in a neonatal destructive, a condition known has he- Vaccine adjuvants are substances intensive care unit sponsored by the Uni- mochromatosis. The concern here is that added to vaccine formulations during versity of Tennessee. Elevations of CRP residual iron in and around the brain from manufacturing that are designed to boost levels occurred in 70 percent of infants an earlier brain hemorrhage, such as from and prolong the overall immune system administered single vaccines and in 85 per- birth trauma, may act as a lighted fuse that response when the vaccine is injected. cent of those given multiple vaccines, 43 could ignite a firestorm of lipid peroxida- These substances include albumin, sev- percent of which reached abnormal levels. tion in the brain following vaccines.(28) eral forms of aluminum, formaldehyde, Overall, 16 percent of infants had vaccine- various amino acids, DNA residues, egg associated cardiorespiratory events with Vaccine Adjuvants and Their protein, gelatin, surfactants, monoso- episodes of apnea (cessation of breathing) Role in Causing Prolonged dium glutamate (MSG), Thimerosal (50 and bradycardia (slowing of pulse). It can Immune Responses to Vaccines percent ethyl mercury, which is still in a be reasonably assumed that the cardio- (31) and their Potentially Adverse number of vaccines) , and various an- respiratory events and CRP elevations tibiotics. Regarding mercury, even if it primarily reflected brain inflammation Consequences is not added as a preservative, it is com- and swelling following the vaccines. Most monly used in the manufacturing process, important for our present topic, intraven- In what may be the most com- which leaves “traces” as residues. prehensive review to date on the Stepchildren of Modern Medicine cont. on page 11 VRAN Newsletter ¤ Autumn 2010 —Double Issue ¤ Page 9 Rotovirus Vaccines continued from page 7 less immunogenic and efficacious among Five-in-one vaccine led which was found to have the highest antiro- children in poor developing countries to child deaths tavirus activity. Importantly, the protective compared with middle income and indus- effect of lactadherin was independent of trialized countries for reasons that are not By Killugudi Jayaraman - Bangalore, products of the secretory immune system.” yet completely understood. We assessed July 29, 2010 whether the neutralizing activity of breast “Lactadherin, a human-milk glyco- milk could lower the titer of vaccine virus. The pentavalent or the five-in-one conjugate, has been found to protect Strategies to overcome this negative effect, vaccine that has been recommended in babies from the symptoms of rotavirus such as delaying breast-feeding at the time India by the National Technical Advisory infection, the commonest cause of diar- of immunization, should be evaluated.” Group on Immunization actually killed rhea in infants and young children.” children in Sri Lanka and Bhutan, warns Ironically, rather than applaud the fact an article in the latest issue of the British Another study from the Institute for that the highly active immunological Medical Journal (BMJ). Hygiene and Environment, Hamburg, properties of human milk neutralize and Germany in July 2010, assessed whether mitigate the ability of rotavirus to cause The report by a group, including pae- breastfeeding protects against acute gastro- acute gastrointestinal infections in babies, diatricians, professors, health activists enteritis (AGE) due to rotavirus infection the researchers are fixated on a negative and a former Indian health secretary, in children age 0-12 months. The study perspective in which breastfeeding pre- cautions against the introduction of the found that being breastfed in the period of vents the vaccine from eliciting a good five-in-one vaccine that combines - anti disease inception reduced the risk of AGE antibody response. Instead they want to gens against five diseases—diphtheria, due to rotavirus. In the first six months of develop strategies to delay breastfeeding pertussis, tetanus (DPT), hepatitis B and life the protective effect was stronger than at the time of vaccination so that the anti- Haemophilus Influenzae type B (HIB) - in older children. The study adds to the evi- infective properties of breastmilk don’t in a single shot. dence of a protective concurrent effect of interfere with the vaccine. breastfeeding to diminish rotavirus-related Notes & References: “Our article describes how the World infection in infants, particularly in children Health Organisation (WHO), in an elab- 6 months and younger. • NVIC Press Release—June 1, 2010, Vaccine orate cover-up, changed its own criteria Safety Critics Call For RotaTeq Vaccine Recall & Clean-Up; for classifying adverse effects to say the Breast Not Best? Study Sug- http://www.nvic.org/ Downloads/Rotavirus-Campaign/VACCINE- vaccine was not responsible for the gests Rotavirus Vaccines Work CONTAMINATION--A-THREAT-TO-HU- deaths in Sri Lanka,” Jacob Puliyel, head Better With Formula. MAN-HEALTH.aspx of paediatrics at St Stephen’s Hospital in • Vancouver Sun October 7, 2010: http://www. Delhi and key author, told IANS. Rotavirus vaccines are heavily pro- vancouversun.com/opinion/letters/Quoted+d moted in third world nations where lack octor+didn+tell+whole+story+about+vaccin Former union health secretary K.B. of clean water and proper healthcare often es/3636076/story.html#ixzz12qJudwTy Saxena, professors of community health leads to infection, diarrhea and even death. • NY Times Combination Vaccine & Seizure in Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi An abstract from The Pediatric Infectious Risk, June 28, 2010: http://www.nytimes. Debabar Banerji, Imrana Qadeer and Disease Journal suggests that mothers com/2010/06/29/health/research/29child.html?_ Ritu Priya, co-conveners of All India should not breastfeed r=2&ref=health during the time of ad- • Peel Health on Protective Effects of Breast- Drug Action Network Mira Shiva and ministration of rotavirus vaccines (RotaTeq feeding; http://www.peelregion.ca/health/ Gopal Dabade and former adviser in fi- and Rotarix) in order to increase vaccine family-health/breastfeeding/informed-decision/ nance ministry N.J. Kurian are the other efficacy. How would women, who do not diarrheal-infections.htm authors of the report. have access to clean water, make safe in- • More Evidence That Breastfeeding Protects fant formula which requires clean water? Babies; The Lancet,Volume 351, Number 9110, The authors point out that the pentava- 18 April 1998; http://rehydrate.org/facts/breast- lent vaccine was withdrawn in Sri Lanka The study set out to determine whether feeding.htm in April 2008 after 25 serious adverse reac- • Breastfeeding protects against acute gastro- breastmilk inhibits the effectiveness of live enteritis due to rotavirus in infants. Pubmed tions that included five deaths and Bhutan virus oral rotavirus vaccines. Breast milk 2010: Institute for Hygiene and Environment, stopped its use within two months of intro- samples were collected and analyzed from Hamburg, Germany. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih. duction in July 2009 after eight deaths. mothers in India, South Korea, Vietnam gov/pubmed/20617343 and the who were breast- • Inhibitory Effect of Breast Milk on Infectivity Bhutan has so far resisted pressure feeding infants 4 to 29 weeks of age. of Live Oral Rotavirus Vaccines. Pediatr Infect from WHO to restart immunisation but Sri Dis J. 2010 May 3. [Epub ahead of print] http:// Lanka reintroduced the vaccine this year The researchers found that “Breast milk journals.lww.com/pidj/Abstract/publishahead/ after a WHO expert panel, which investi- Inhibitory_Effect_of_Breast_Milk_on_Infectiv- from Indian women had the highest IgA and √ gated the events, declared that the vaccine neutralizing titers against all 3 vaccine strains. ity_of.99301.asp was ‘unlikely’ to have caused the deaths. Lower but comparable median IgA and neu- tralizing titers were detected in breast milk The panel, however, could not conclu- from Korean and Vietnamese women, and the sively attribute the deaths to any other cause. lowest titers were seen in American women.” However, Puliyel and co-authors who “Live oral rotavirus vaccines have been Five-in-One cont. on page 13 Page 10 ¤ Autumn 2010—Double Issue ¤ VRAN Newsletter Stepchildren continued from page 9 adjuvants with antioxidant deficiencies, International Medical Council on Vaccination website: http://www. tricular (brain) hemorrhages occurred in as the true cause of many subdural brain vaccinationcouncil.org/2010/07/21/ 17 percent of infants receiving single vac- hemorrhages now being attributed to in- the-stepchildren-of-modern-medicine- cines, with 24 percent incidence in those flicted child abuse, in a cross-sectional as-applied-to-shaken-baby-syndrome- receiving multiple vaccines. analysis of the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data, Ford sbsnon-accidental-injury-nai/ et a (40) The first study of its kind, The l reported that C-Reactive Protein Pourcyrous study provides evidence for concentrations were inversely and sig- References a unified theory of adverse vaccine reac- nificantly associated with concentrations 1. 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Journal of Toxicology and Environmental UBC Researchers cont. on page 14 Page 12 ¤ Autumn 2010—Double Issue ¤ VRAN Newsletter Five-in-One Vaccine continued from page 10 the country, saying WHO’s own studies One More Time— obtained the full report of the investiga- have shown that the incidence of the dis- Vitamin D to the Rescue tion say the WHO panel in Sri Lanka did ease in India is lower than projected and not follow the standard protocol of the studies elsewhere in Asia show that the By Dr. Joseph Mercola UN agency for classification of adverse vaccine does not significantly reduce the events following immunisation but in- burden of disease compared with placebo. I’ve written about the benefits of vita- stead used its own method. min D to ward off the flu in the past, and Another letter published in the same I’m pleased to announce that more and The authors point out that the Sri journal notes that there have also been more studies about how Vitamin D can Lankan deaths would have been classi- three deaths in Pakistan— one child who prevent infections, disease, and flu are fied as ‘very likely’ or ‘probably’ related died within half an hour of receiving the coming out. to the vaccine, had the standard WHO and two others who classification been employed. passed away within 14 hours of the ad- For example, if you’re pregnant or ministration. planning to become pregnant, you’ll be Changing its own criteria for classify- pleased to know that an article published ing adverse effects following vaccination “In no case was the vaccine blamed May, 2010 in the American Academy is “an elaborate cover up” by WHO to and no alternate cause of death was of Pediatrics News recommends preg- remove any connection between pen- found for any of the deaths,” says its nant women take 4,000 IUs of Vitamin tavalent vaccine and the deaths in Sri author S.K. Mittal, chairman of paediat- D3 daily to fight infection and disease, Lanka, alleges Puliyel. rics department at Pushpanjali Crossway to maintain good health, and to deliver Hospital in Ghaziabad, near Delhi. healthier, stronger babies. The authors also ask the wider question whether this new classification of adverse Mittal says that although Pakistan A Japanese study last year, showed events adopted for Sri Lanka should be allowed reintroduced the vaccine on assurance that a group of children taking to replace the standard WHO classification. from WHO that the deaths were not re- Vitamin D3 was 58 percent less likely lated to it, “the large cluster of ’sudden to catch influenza A. That’s a higher If so, deaths occurring following deaths’ in Asia, following immunisation effectiveness than any flu vaccine any vaccination will almost always be with pentavalent vaccine needs to be in- can claim... blamed on something else and not the vestigated dispassionately before more vaccine and “lives may thus be put at lives are lost”. But even this seemingly large amount risk,” they say. http://www.thaindian.com/ may be seriously inadequate in many newsportal/health1/five-in-one-vaccine-led- women. Some may need more than The article also questions the need for to-child-deaths-experts_100403720.html 10,000 units per day and the only way to HIB (haemophilus influenza B) vaccine in know for sure is to have your vitamin D level tested. British Medical Journal: Vaccine Accountability Demanded A Japanese study last year, showed that a group of children taking Vitamin Lee and Harmer’s editorial marking 10 years of Global Alliance for Vaccines and D3 was 58 percent less likely to catch Immunisation (GAVI) was published before discussion of a controversial press re- influenza A. That’s a higher effective- lease issued by the World Health Organization jointly with GAVI and others in 2007 ness than any flu vaccine can claim, after the Bangladesh study on Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib) vaccination. and doesn’t come with a barrage of po- tentially devastating side effects! The press release suggested that the vaccine was useful whereas the study showed no benefit. No statistical difference was seen in the vaccination state of those with pneu- Dr. Adit Ginde, of University of Colo- monia or meningitis compared with controls. This misleading press release looks like rado Denver School of Medicine, who a smoking gun. GAVI (which includes representatives of vaccine manufacturers on its was not involved in the study, told Re- board) “encouraged” developing countries in Asia to avail themselves of the vaccine at uters Health: “This is the first time a study subsidized rates. The subsidy came from money given by donor countries and the Bill has been done that rigorously shows that and Melinda Gates Foundation for achieving millennium development goals. vitamin D supplementation can reduce a type of influenza in a dedicated clinical Given that the probe studies in Asia had failed to confirm benefit from the vaccine, trial.” Ginde and colleagues published a millions of dollars from the Millennium Development Goals Fund seem to have been study a year ago showing that asthmatics wasted. Those responsible need to be called to account. If that is not seen to happen, with lower vitamin D levels were at five the credibility of WHO and GAVI and other global organizations will be eroded. times the risk for colds and flu. Vitamin D also appeared to suppress asthma attacks Dr Jacob M Puliyel, in children with a history of asthma. Letter to the British Medical Journal - August 4, 2010 Since we already know that most http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/documents/vaccines/GAVI%20%26%20WHO%2C%20 children and teenagers are Vitamin D-de- BMJ.pdf √ ficient, I urge you to get your children’s One More Time cont. on page 14 VRAN Newsletter ¤ Autumn 2010 —Double Issue ¤ Page 13 UBC Researchers continued from page 12 One More Time continued from page 13 The regular immunization schedule “If any part of this is true, it’s very for children six years of age and under in vitamin D levels tested, and if found scary stuff,” Shaw told the Straight in a B.C. includes up to 17 vaccines, several deficient, follow my recommendations phone interview. of which contain aluminum. Tomljen- for optimizing their levels. Do this, and ovic and Shaw found that the schedule they’ll be far less likely to catch any cold Their paper, “Does an Elevated Body exposes children to 20 to 50 times the or flu this year. Burden From Vaccine Aluminium Adju- amount of aluminum known to be toxic vants Contribute to the Rising Prevalence to the human body. I often find that some of the sim- of Autism?”, hasn’t been published yet, plest explanations are the truest, but they will be presenting their findings At the new Seymour-Capilano filtra- and this sounds about as simple as it at the ninth Keele Meeting on Alumini- tion plant, hydrated potassium aluminium gets. Getting appropriate amounts of um in February 2011. sulfate, or alum, is used as a coagulant sunshine (or taking a vitamin D sup- to pull impurities out of the water, plant plement when you can’t get healthy Don’t refuse immunizations based on superintendent Sharon Peters told the amounts of sun exposure) is one of my this single study, urges Monika Naus, Straight by phone. That means that since KEY preventive strategies against the the associate director of January, the tap water in much of Greater cold and flu, as it has such a strength- for the B.C. Centre for Disease Control. Vancouver has been clarified with an alu- ening effect on your immune system. Although 93 percent of kids are vac- minum compound. cinated in this province, she explained, For those with no or very limited the numbers have slipped over the past Baking powder often contains alumi- exposure to sunshine in the winter, decade—a situation she associates with num. Soda comes in aluminum cans. Some 4,000-5,000 units per day would seem the fear of mercury in vaccines. kitchen pans are made from aluminum. It’s appropriate for most adults. If you are in paint, leather, antacids, fertilizer, pesti- very heavy you may need to double “It would be a travesty if the same cides, and, of course, aluminum foil. that dose, and for children the dose thing [people refusing vaccines] hap- can be half that. The key though, is to pened with aluminum and autism,” she It’s also the active ingredient in an- make sure you monitor your vitamin D told the Straight by phone, noting that tiperspirant. For example, aluminum levels by blood testing, to make sure complex factors such as genetics seem compounds are found at levels of 16 per- your levels are therapeutic and not to contribute to autism. “This could turn cent in Gillette Clear Gel Arctic Ice and toxic. (see notes re links to testing) into another witch-hunt.” Soft & Dri DriGel, 19 percent in Arm & Hammer Advance Invisible Solid, and 21 You can also use vitamin D thera- Naus allowed that an environmental percent in Secret Platinum Asian Pear. peutically to TREAT the flu. But study such as Tomljenovic and Shaw’s is please understand that if you are tak- usually the first step in finding a cause for Getting science and government ing the above doses of vitamin D the a condition. to change direction on something odds of you getting the flu are VERY like this is “like turning around the remote. Theirs is just the latest lighthouse to Titanic”, Shaw said. flash a warning about aluminum body Here are the other “secrets” I use to burden. Aluminum is the third most com- Health Canada’s webpage on alu- keep the flu (and other illnesses) at bay: mon element on Earth, Shaw explained, minum research ends with: “While • Eat right for your nutritional type, in- but the human body doesn’t need any of there is evidence…for the interaction cluding avoiding sugar it. In fact, if it builds up in the body—and with and impact of aluminum on dif- • Eliminate sugar from your diet it tends to collect in the brain—it’s toxic. ferent components of the neurological • Eat garlic regularly In a number of peer-reviewed studies, it system, available data are inadequate • Consume a high quality Krill oil daily has been linked to macrophagic myofas- to serve as a basis for a hypothesized • Exercise ciitis, cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome, mode of action of aluminum in induc- • Get adequate sleep and Alzheimer’s disease. ing specific neurological disorders such • Address emotional stress as Alzheimer’s disease.” • Wash hands regularly (but not exces- “In terms of Alzheimer’s, people sively) pooh-poohed it [the aluminum link] for Getting science and government to years, and only now is it getting some change direction on something like this is Another useful supplement you could grudging acceptance,” Shaw said. “like turning around the Titanic”, Shaw said. try, should you come down with a case of the flu, is olive leaf extract, which you How great the aluminum body burden In the meantime, he’s not wearing can find in most any health food store. is depends on a few factors, Shaw noted: antiperspirant. Olive leaf extract has been found to be whether or not the blood-brain barrier a potent broad-spectrum antiviral agent, is solid (it isn’t in infants), how well the active against all viruses tested, includ- kidneys are working (an issue for the el- Article reprinted with appreciation from: http:// ing numerous strains of influenza and derly), how the aluminum gets into the straight.com/article-353763/vancouver/alumi- para-influenza viruses. body (vaccines are a more direct route, he num-under-microscope √ said, than food), and how much of it we take in. And in B.C., we’re taking in a lot. One More Time cont. on page 15 Page 14 ¤ Autumn 2010—Double Issue ¤ VRAN Newsletter One More Time continued from page 14 veloping ALRI, and since the child’s Vaccine Pushed on Is Influenza a Symptom of Vita- vitamin D level strongly correlates Infants Causes Drug- min D Deficiency? with its mother’s, the researchers rec- Resistant Pneumonia: ommend that all mothers’ optimize JAMA Study Vitamin D, “the sunshine vitamin,” their vitamin D levels during pregnan- may very well be one of the most ben- cy, especially in the winter months, to eficial vitamins for disease prevention. safeguard their baby’s health. Aside from the direct risks of Unfortunately it’s also one of the vita- 3. A similar Indian study published in vaccination, another is now mins that a vast majority of people across 2004 also reported that vitamin D de- clearly documented: drug-resis- the world are deficient in due to lack of ficiency in infants significantly raised tant forms of the diseases. regular exposure to sunshine. their odds ratio for having severe ALRI. by Heidi Stevenson—September 6, The hypothesis presented by Dr. 4. A 2009 analysis of the third National 2010 John Cannell and colleagues in their Health and Nutrition Examination Sur- 2006 paper, Epidemic Infuenza and vey examined the association between A drug-resistant strain of pneumonia is Vitamin D actually makes a lot of vitamin D levels and recent upper the result of a highly-praised vaccine rou- sense. They raise the possibility that respiratory tract infection (URTI) in tinely given to infants three times in their influenza is a symptom of vitamin D nearly 19,000 subjects over the age of first year of life, according to a study that deficiency! 12. The positive correlation between will be published in tomorrow’s Journal lower vitamin D levels and increased of the American Medical Association The hypothesis presented by Dr. John risk of URTI was even stronger in (JAMA). The timing of this study is par- Cannell and colleagues in their 2006 pa- individuals with asthma and chronic ticularly interesting, as it comes shortly per, Epidemic Infuenza and Vitamin D obstructive pulmonary disease. after the replacement of the heptavalent actually makes a lot of sense. They raise 5. Another 2009 report in the journal pneumococcal (PCV- the possibility that influenza is a symp- Pediatric Research stated that infants 7) with an updated version, PCV-13. tom of vitamin D deficiency! and children appear more suscep- tible to viral rather than bacterial The study’s introduction reads: The vitamin D formed when your infections when deficient in vitamin skin is exposed to sunlight regulates the D. And that, based on the available The rapid increase in multiresistant expression of more than 2,000 genes evidence showing a strong connection serotype 19A as a cause of invasive throughout your body, including ones between vitamin D, infections, and and respiratory pneumococcal disease that influence your immune system to immune function in children, vitamin has been associated in time with the attack and destroy bacteria and viruses. D supplementation may be a valuable widespread implementation of 7-valent Hence, being overwhelmed by the “flu therapy in pediatric medicine. pneumococcal conjugate vaccination bug” could signal that your vitamin D Notes & Resources: (PCV-7) in several countries. Because levels are too low, allowing the flu virus spontaneous fluctuations in time and to overtake your immune system. antibiotic selective pressure may have The above article is excerpted from induced this serotype 19A increase, con- At least five studies show an inverse three recent articles by Dr. Mercola at the trolled studies are needed to assess the association between lower respiratory following links: role of PCV-7. tract infections and vitamin D levels. • Dr. Mercola A: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/ That is, the higher your vitamin D level, articles/archive/2010/08/21/barbara-loe-fisher- There can be no reasonable doubt the lower your risk of contracting colds, on-flu-vaccine-changes.aspx that pneumonia vaccinations are cre- flu, and other respiratory tract infections: • Dr. Mercola B: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/ ating a new, more virulent and less articles/archive/2008/10/21/avoid-flu-shots- treatable form of the disease. 1. A 2007 study suggests higher vitamin vitamin-d-is-a-better-way.aspx D status enhances your immunity to • Dr. Mercola: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/ microbial infections. They found that articles/archive/2008/10/21/avoid-flu-shots- subjects with vitamin D deficiency vitamin-d-is-a-better-way.aspx The goal of this study was to see if had significantly more days of absence • Researchers recommend pregnant women take suspicions of a connection between the from work due to respiratory infection 4,000 IU vitamin D a day use of PCV-7 vaccinations has caused than did control subjects. • http://aapnews.aappublications.org/cgi/content/ the increase in drug-resistant pneumo- 2. A 2009 study on vitamin D deficiency full/aapnews.20100501-2 nias. The results are impressive. There in newborns with acute lower respi- • Vitamin D helps fend off flu, asthma attacks- can be no reasonable doubt that pneu- Study of Japanese schoolchildren: http://www. ratory infection (ALRI) confirmed a reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62I3MK20100319 monia vaccinations are creating a new, strong, positive correlation between • Mercola on testing for Vit. D : http://articles. more virulent and less treatable form of newborns’ and mother’s vitamin D mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2002/02/23/ the disease. Now that it’s been released, levels. Over 87 percent of all newborns vitamin-d-deficiency-part-one.aspx √ what can stop it? and over 67 percent of all mothers had vitamin D levels lower than 20 ng/ The authors also point out that the full ml, which is a severe deficiency state. effects of PCV-7 on development of the Newborns with vitamin D deficiency appear to have an increased risk of de- Vaccine Pushed cont. on page 16 VRAN Newsletter ¤ Autumn 2010 —Double Issue ¤ Page 15 Vaccine Pushed continued from page 15 However, we need to be aware that Editor’s Note: As we see more virulent drug-resistant bacteria may not be fully other serotypes with similar characteris- and drug resistant forms of pathogens defined by the study, since it focused tics and disease potential may be the next emerge because of the pressure exerted on only the first three PCV-7 vaccina- in line to proliferate and therefore pneu- by more and more vaccines, new par- tions, ignoring that the series consists mococcal surveillance remains important ents are reminded that they can protect of a fourth. They note, also, that their after introduction of expanded pneumo- their babies superbly with nature’s sampling method may have minimized coccal conjugate vaccines. most effect disease preventive—breast- the real story—that more drug-resistant feeding. bacteria may have emerged than they had It’s a shame that the authors don’t state Breastfeeding is a sophisticated liv- accounted for. the obvious: The introduction of pneu- ing immune system which responds to monia vaccines is resulting in far greater pathogens the baby is exposed to and The Study pneumonia risk than existed before. Even provides specific antibodies and protec- if the PCV-13 vaccine does protect tive enzymes. Breastmilk is constantly Entitled “Pneumococcal Conjugate against pneumonia, the fact is that, ulti- changing, responding to the baby’s Vaccination and Nasopharyngeal Acqui- mately, it is producing more virulent and developmental needs, stages of growth sition of Pneumococcal Serotype 19A less treatable forms of the disease. and pathogens he/she encounter. Strains”, the study was performed in the Breastfed babies have a more than Netherlands and funded by the Dutch Doctors owe it to patients to inform 12 fold reduced risk of contracting Ministry of Health. Interestingly, sever- them that any protection they might gain infectious diseases, particularly gas- al authors have significant financial ties against pneumonia will ultimately come trointestinal and respiratory diseases, with Big Pharma. Many of them have at the cost of worse disease for which including pneumococcal organisms. received grants from GlaxoSmithKline, there is no treatment. Parents of new- Wyeth, Pfizer, Baxter, and Novartis, borns should consider the plight of their Breastfeeding endows the baby with a making the results of this study even own children as their grandchildren face unique and highly protective immune more remarkable. However, the lead au- virulent disease that was unknown to ecology, reducing the risk of allergies, thor, Elske J.M. vanGils, MD, reported their grandparents, disease created by the asthma, diabetes, ear infections and no such conflicts. vaccines their doctors are now pushing SIDS (sudden infant death). Breastmilk on them. protects from pathological germs such The study consisted of 1,003 healthy as E.coli, polio, rotaviruses, pneu- newborns and followed them to age 24 What is absolutely clear is that the mococcal organisms, C. diphtheriae months. The infants were randomly as- vaccination scheme is not a carefully toxin, Haemophilus influenzae, N. signed to groups. One group received two thought out program with testing to as- meningitides, Salmonella (6 groups), doses of PCV-7 at ages 2 and 4 months, sure that the public’s health is protected. C. tetani, otitis media, bacteraemia, the second group received three doses at Instead, the public is nothing but a vast bacterial meningitis, botulism, urinary ages 2, 4, and 11 months, and the third testing lab, with each and every person a tract infections, and much more. Swed- group was not vaccinated with PCV-7. potential lab rat. ish researchers have discovered that breastmilk kills cancer cells. √ At the end of the study, 16.2% of the three-dose group had been found to harbor serotype 19A bacteria. The unvac- cinated group had a 9.2% rate, and the two-dose group had a 13.2% rate.

Will the Replacement Vaccine Improve Matters?

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recently replaced PCV-7 with PCV-13, and those children who have al- ready received PCV-7 are being pressed to also take the new version.

There is little reason to believe that the new vaccine will improve matters. It is, in fact, more likely to make things worse. It consists of 13 strains of pneumonia, including the ones in PCV-7. The only difference the new vaccine could make is to worsen the situation by causing even more drug-resistant bacteria to emerge. “Our Current Environment” The authors’ conclusion is fairly tame: Cartoon used in a Presentation for Nursing Students in B.C. Page 16 ¤ Autumn 2010—Double Issue ¤ VRAN Newsletter The H1N1 Debacle and futility of Canada’s “quixotic efforts” years of age not previously vaccinated Other Flu News saying that, “A recent study of Ontar- with a seasonal . - Ap io’s program, published in the for-profit parently it has limited effectiveness in By Edda West Journal Vaccine, claims that this was all those over 59. worthwhile—preventing a million cases The H1N1 hysteria whipped up by of disease and saved more than 50 lives. Warnings published on the FluMist™ the World Health Organization last year Editorial writers have been quick to en- website state that, “Animal reproduction forced member countries to squander dorse this study. Too quick.” studies and studies in pregnant or lactat- billions of dollars on a useless vaccine ing women have not been conducted with whose only benefit was to fill -pharma Schabas said, “The truth is more pro- Flumist™”. The package insert says, ceutical industry coffers. While there’s a saic. The Vaccine study is flawed. It is “some viruses are excreted in human measure of relief that last year’s unprec- based on a theoretical modelling and as- milk”. The vaccine is linked to a higher edented avalanche of vaccine hype is sumptions rather than on real data. Its incidence of wheezing and hospitaliza- subdued this season, don’t be fooled. Ev- conclusions are unreliable.” tion among children younger than two. It ery man, woman, child, pregnant woman also warns against giving the vaccine to and infant are targeted to get annual flu “Our analysis, based on real Ontario anyone with asthma or children younger shots. Regardless of their proven inef- disease and immunization data, paints than five who have a history of wheezing. fectiveness, flu vaccines are the emblem a very different picture. The impact of of “cradle to grave” vaccine policies im- immunization appears to have been The Immune Deficiency Foundation is posed on populations absent any idea of tiny—reducing the outbreak by less concerned that the vaccine may shed live long term health ramifications. than one per cent. Immunization prevent- virus up to three weeks and its potential ed fewer than 20,000 cases of influenza impact on people with primary immune In June 2010, the European Parlia- illness and no more than three deaths. This deficiency diseases who they say should mentary Assembly criticized the lack of is not nothing but it is a very small return NOT receive the FluMist™ vaccine. It is transparency and “grave shortcomings” for an outlay of more than $250 million (in also not recommended for close contacts in the decision-making processes relating that province)”. of primary immune deficient patients. to the pandemic, stating it was “alarmed about the way in which the H1N1 influ- In conclusion he wrote, “Public Flu Vaccine Does Not Prevent enza pandemic had been handled, not health officials can and should change Death in Elderly says U.S. Health only by the World Health Organization their minds when new evidence emerges. Official (WHO) but also by health authorities at Our persistence with H1N1 immuniza- the level of the European Union and at tion long after it had any value had much Five years ago, Dr. Tom Jefferson of national level”. Ditto for North America. to do with political face-saving. Public The Cochrane Collaboration, (an inter- health authorities—federal and provin- national network of researchers who The Assembly decried the “distortion of cial—have yet to produce any rigorous analyze the scientific evidence used in priorities of public health services across evidence-based analysis of the H1N1 clinical trials), led a meta analysis of flu Europe, waste of large sums of public experience. If we don’t identify our mis- vaccine studies. The researchers found money and the unjustified fears about takes, how can we learn from them?” that, “The majority of published influ- health risks faced by the European pub- enza studies are so poorly designed, they lic at large. It expressed grave concerns By mid October, the provinces will have not demonstrated that influenza vac- regarding the absence of “transparent have rolled out the new flu vaccine for- cine is effective or safe”. Is mainstream decision-making processes relating to the mulation which includes H1N1 A and medicine finally poised to acknowledge pandemic which have generated concerns two other strains, H3N2 influenza A the uselessness of flu vaccines? about the influence of the pharmaceutical Perth and influenza B Brisbane. industry on some of the major decisions Michael Osterholm, director of the relating to the pandemic.” A recent Canadian Press article re- University of Minnesota’s Center for ported that for the current 2010-2011 Infectious Disease Research and Policy, Even when it was obvious that the influenza season, “The Public Health told a national conference on vaccine killer pandemic was a dud, there was Agency of Canada has ordered 11.2 mil- research that it’s time to be more open little or no flexibility to scale down pan- lion doses of the trivalent vaccine from about the flu vaccine and its lack of pro- demic plans in case of a mild outbreak. manufacturers GlaxoSmithKline and tection for the elderly, reported MPR In an article in The Star on August 13 Sanofi Pasteur, based on requests from News in April. titled ‘The Real Lessons of H1N1’, Dr. the provinces and territories. Total cost Richard Schabas reflected that, “Every- of the bulk order: about $40 million to Osterholm said the idea that the flu thing was geared to a 1918-style disaster $45 million.” vaccine does not prevent deaths in the —more of a phantom than a real threat elderly sounds almost blasphemous and in our modern world. Once activated, the This year, Health Canada also ap- that he didn’t want to believe it at first ei- plans took on lives of their own”. proved the licensing of Flumist™, a live ther. “I know that some people are going triple virus nasal spray vaccine which to find it very challenging to understand Dr. Schabas, Medical Officer of contains the same viral formulation as that much of what we’ve probably done Health for Ontario’s Hastings and Prince this season’s injectable vaccines. It is Edward Counties sharply criticized the being promoted for children ages 2 to 8 H1N1 Debacle cont. on page 18 VRAN Newsletter ¤ Autumn 2010 —Double Issue ¤ Page 17 H1N1 Debacle continued from page 17 Vaccinating Health Care Work- influenza was big news, it contributed only has had little impact on deaths.” But he ers to Prevent Flu in Elderly approximately 6 % to all flu like illnesses says the new research is incontrovertible, Canadian’s suffered. It’s very doubtful Patients Has No Effect and that data must drive health policy.” that this low figure was due to the H1N1 Health care workers are often threat- vaccine; most of the H1N1 “pandemic” The new research Osterholm is refer- ened with layoff or loss of employment if had already passed before the first shots ring was done by Lisa Jackson, a doctor they refuse to submit to annual flu shots. were given, and H1N1 comprised at least at Group Health Center for Health Stud- VRAN receives dozens of desperate inqui- 86% of all the 2009/2010 samples which ies in Seattle who found that previous ries from nurses and other health workers tested positive for influenza. flu vaccine studies had a “selection seeking a way out of forced vaccination. A bias”, meaning an error was made in se- recent Canadian-led study affiliated with Are Flu Vaccines Hazardous in lecting the people who were enrolled in the Cochrane Collaboration, analyzed the Pregnancy? the research, which resulted in distorted largest flu-vaccination campaign in this and unreliable findings. “Influenza only country’s history, concluded that vaccinat- There has been a steady stream of causes about five percent on average of ing nursing home workers had no effect reports from women in the U.S. who deaths in seniors during winter months. on confirmed influenza cases among - el miscarried within hours or days of get- So even if the vaccine was perfect, derly residents of nursing homes. ting the H1N1 vaccine. you could prevent only five percent of deaths,” Jackson said. She also found The study’s lead researcher Dr. Roger A survey compiled by the National there was no difference in the number Thomas explained: “What troubled us Coalition of Organized Women (NCOW) of pneumonia deaths between people is that [shots] had no effect on labora- in the U.S. estimated the number of who got the vaccine and those who tory-confirmed influenza. What we were miscarriages and stillbirths due to the didn’t. looking for is proof that influenza ... is H1N1vaccine during the 2009/10-flu decreased. Didn’t find it. We looked for season to be 1,588, but that the number Instead of accepting that flu vac- proof that pneumonia is reduced. Didn’t of miscarriages and stillbirths could have cines really don’t work for the elderly, find it. We looked for proof deaths from been as high as 3,587. and shift the emphasis to strengthen- pneumonia are reduced. Didn’t find it”, ing immunity and disease resistance reported Dr. Mercola NCOW’s analysis found that vaccine- through healthy lifestyle, nutrition and related fetal deaths reported in the U.S. to micro-nutrient supplementation, phar- Penetrating the Veil of VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Events Report- maceutical driven medicine is gearing Misinformation ing System), increased 2,440%–from 7 up to develop new high potency vac- cases in 2007/8 to 178 in 2009/10. These cines. Already available this year in the Influenza vaccines have been shown to numbers are the “tip of the iceberg” as U.S. for use in people over 65, approval be ineffective in the two most vulnerable only 1-10% of vaccine adverse reactions has been given to Fluzone High-Dose age groups for which they are promoted are reported to VAERS. with four times the amount of influenza - seniors and young children. Data gath- antigen compared to other inactivated ered every year consistently shows that Despite these data, health officials seasonal vaccines. influenza A & B viruses (contained in flu continue to assure pregnant women that shots), comprise only a small percentage the vaccine presents no risk. “In light Well known natural health physician, of ‘influenza-like-illnesses’ (ILI). There of the overwhelming adverse events re- Dr. Joseph Mercola is concerned that no are hundreds of other bugs that can make ported, we emphasize that inoculating safety evaluation has been done on this you feel just as sick - respiratory syncy- pregnant women with another untested new high potency vaccine. He says, tial virus, bocavirus, coronavirus, and vaccine containing a combination of “Again, the CDC is asking you to be a rhinovirus, to name just a few. Together, components found in the offending 2009 part of a large public health experiment.” these pathogens produce by far the ma- H1N1 vaccine is insupportable”, writes jority of ILI but the flu shot is completely NCOW director, Eileen Danneman “What the pharmaceutical industry ineffective against them. would love for you to believe is that the VRAN is concerned that pregnant flu vaccine is going to somehow magi- ‘Fluwatch’ publishes statistics from women have become a prime target cally protect you from dying from the “sentinel laboratories” across Canada group for flu shots. Influenza vaccines flu, when in fact the evidence couldn’t which test samples from patients with are classified as a “Category C” drug be more clear—It doesn’t work at all in ILI. Every year VRAN analyzes these, whose risks have not been fully studied the elderly! And the data is flimsy at best and every year, the data shows the ma- in pregnant women. when it comes to children and adults.” jority of ILI are NOT associated with influenza viruses A or B, but are linked According to FDA: “Category C “We also know the flu vaccine is fraught to other pathogens unaffected by flu vac- drugs are drugs that are more likely to with side effects and health complications. cines. On average, the influenza virus is cause problems for the mother or fetus. So many people are literally receiving zero associated with only 10% of ILI (influen- Also includes drugs for which safety benefit and all risk when getting this vac- za-like-illnesses) that occur every season. studies have not been finished. The ma- cine. There is a massive attempt to defraud jority of these drugs do not have safety and deceive people to generate profits from The 2009/2010 flu season gives a studies in progress. These drugs often flu vaccines”, says Dr. Mercola. stunning example of this. In a year when H1N1 Debacle cont. on page 19 Page 18 ¤ Autumn 2010—Double Issue ¤ VRAN Newsletter H1N1 Debacle continued from page 18 tiveness of influenza vaccinations found come with a warning that they should be Hundreds of Australian children were hospitalized with high fevers and convul- that in children under age two, the vaccine used only if the benefits of taking them was no more effective than a placebo. outweigh the risks. sions after getting this year’s flu vaccine formulation which also contains H1N. Because of the high rate of adverse reac- Research presented last year (2009) Dr. Sherri Tenpenny’s analysis in The tions experienced by children involving at 105th International Conference of Truth About Flu Shots in Pregnancy, different batches of vaccine, it was with- the American Thoracic Society in San suggests that flu vaccine is not warranted drawn for use in those under five. Diego found that, “The inactivated flu during pregnancy. Some key points are: vaccine does not appear to be effective • It is not known whether influenza vac- The authors of a recent article in the in preventing influenza-related hospital- cines can cause harm to the fetus. British Medical Journal (BMJ) reported izations in children, especially the ones • Animal reproduction studies have not that, “The data also show a dose response with asthma”... .and... “children who been conducted. effect—the larger the vaccine dose, the had received the flu vaccine had three • It is not known whether influenza vac- more severe the harms. There was also an times the risk of hospitalization, as cines can affect reproduction capacity. age relationship: children under the age of compared to children who had not • It is not known whether influenza vi- three developed fevers at more than twice received the vaccine. In asthmatic chil- ruses from vaccines are excreted in the rate. The large number of children suf- dren, there was a significantly higher human milk. fering harm—and subsequent suspension risk of hospitalization in subjects who • 2009: There is insufficient evidence of the vaccine--challenges the assump- received the TIV, as compared to those to recommend routine flu shots as tion that regulators are ensuring the safety who did not.” the standard of practice for healthy and efficacy of all marketed therapeutics. women beginning in early pregnancy. There are actually relatively little data on Another report in the October 2008 REF: Skowronski DM, De Serres G. the effects of vaccinating young children issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Ado- Is routine influenza immunization against influenza.” lescent Medicine, found that “flu vaccine warranted in early pregnancy? Vac- was not associated with reduced hospi- cine. Jul 30;27(35):4754-70. 2009. Of the 20,000 to 30,000 children vac- talizations or outpatient visits among • 1997-2002: A study of 49,585 preg- cinated in Western Australia, 250 had young children; Use of the influenza vac- nant women there was no statistically adverse reactions, high fevers and 55 cine was not associated with preventing significant difference in rates of illness had febrile convulsions. “Last winter, the hospitalizations or reducing physician among vaccinated vs. unvaccinated likelihood that a child without risk fac- visits for the flu in children age 5 and women tors would die from swine flu was less younger during two recent seasons,” The • H1N1 occurs infrequently in pregnant than one in a million. When such a high authors speculate it is “perhaps because women: 34 cases among an estimated proportion of children develop moderate the strains of virus in the vaccine did not 3,392,000 pregnant women in the U.S. to severe febrile reactions to the influenza match circulating strains”. Among the 5,469 confirmed cases in vaccine, it’s likely that we’ll cause more the study, 0.62% were in pregnant harm than good by vaccinating the en- Finland suspended H1N1 vaccine after women tire population”, said Peter Collignon, a cases of narcolepsy in children jumped • Both Tamiflu (oseltamivir) and- Re professor at the Australian National Uni- 300 per cent following H1N1 vaccination lenza (zanamivir) are classified as versity, an infectious diseases physician campaign. Narcolepsy is a neurological “Pregnancy Category C” drugs, mean- and clinical microbiologist and co-author disorder that can be triggered by a virus. ing, there is insufficient information to of the BMJ article quoted above. “A patient suffering from narcolepsy may assess potential risks to the fetus. suddenly fall asleep, for example, while, He speculates that many children had speaking or eating without prior warning. In Canada, little has been publicized been exposed to H1N1 influenza the pre- Their muscles may also suddenly weaken, about the fallout from last year’s H1N1. vious season and “likely that many were causing them to suddenly collapse. The Canadians for Health Freedom web- already immune. So when they were again site has gathered testimonials of reactions exposed to swine flu components, this “We need much better and larger stud- to the H1N1 flu vaccine, a few of which time in the vaccine, they mounted a brisk ies on both safety and efficacy before we we have reprinted in the Letters section immune response that included fever.” roll out influenza vaccine programs to all of this newsletter. populations, especially to children who ap- “I remain surprised that a vaccine that pear to have much higher rates of adverse The Impact of Flu vaccines on produces fever in such a high propor- reactions. There is poor evidence on how Children’s Health tion of children, especially those under well influenza vaccines prevent any influ- three, was allowed to be used in Australia enza complications in children and other In Australia, the sudden death of a Bris- without explicit warnings to parents and age groups. There is good evidence that bane toddler in April was linked to the without any formal, prospective, post- influenza vaccine study reports cherry pick seasonal flu vaccine, prompting health marketing surveillance to look at this results and achieve spurious notoriety. Ex- authorities to warn against immunizing issue in large numbers of children”, said posing human beings to uncertain effects children under five. The two-year-old girl, a Dr. Collignon. is a risky business”, say BMJ authors, Drs. twin, died on April 9, after having received Collignon, Jefferson and Doshi. the trivalent flu vaccine twelve hours earlier. In 2006, the Cochrane Collaboration’s 40-year retrospective study into the effec- H1N1 Debacle cont. on page 20 VRAN Newsletter ¤ Autumn 2010 —Double Issue ¤ Page 19 H1N1 Debacle continued from page 19 65, which is not surprising since they • Fluwatch • 2009-10 Influenza Season: http://www.phac- Few researchers dare utter concern for have been so aggressively targeted for injection with annual flu vaccines. aspc.gc.ca/fluwatch/09-10/w34_10/index-eng. the integrity of the human race whose php#t3 collective immune systems are now Notes & References: • Over three thousand Miscarriages: CDC still manipulated by multiple vaccines from • Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly; lying about H1N1: http://www.naturalnews. early infancy to old age. NVIC’s Barbara Resolution 1749-2010; http://assembly.coe.int/ com/030190_vaccines_miscarriage.html Loe Fisher reminds us that, “There are no Main.asp?link=/Documents/AdoptedText/ta10/ • Miscarriages after H1N1 vax: http://child- clinical studies to evaluate the long term ERES1749.htm healthsafety.wordpress.com/2010/09/22/ positive or negative health effects on hu- • Richard Schabas & Neil V. Rau; The Real Les- flu-vaccine-caused-3587-us-miscarriages- man populations of being injected with sons of H1N1, August 13, 2010; The Star; http:// %C2%A0stillbirths/ • Dr. J.Mercola; FDA risks in pregnancy; influenza vaccine every year throughout www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/ article/847366--the-real-lessons-of-h1n1 http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/ life. Nobody knows whether mass use of archive/2010/11/01/flu-vaccine-and-its-side- influenza vaccine from cradle to grave • Sheryl Ubelacker, The Canadian Press, October 7, 2010; Second chance: 2010 flu vaccine con- effects.aspx will put pressure on influenza strains to tains H1N1 http://lifestyle.ca.msn.com/health- • Sherri Tenpenny, DO; http://vaccinesrisks.com/ become more virulent like has happened fitness/news/canadianpress-article.aspx?cp- vaccination/articles/the-truth-about-flu-shots-in- with other microorganisms and univer- documentid=25864219 pregnancy.html sally used vaccines.” • Canadians To Be Vaccinated With Live • Brisbane Toddler Dies After Receiving flu Jab; H1N1; Virushttp://preventdisease.com/ http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/ “Unfortunately, if public health of- news/10/092310_toxic_flumist_vaccine.shtml brisbane-toddler-dies-after-receiving-flu-jab- 20100425-tkym.html ficials and drug companies marketing • Carly Weeks’ Nsasal Vaccine Against Flu Gets Green Light in Canada, July 14, 2010; Globe • Prof. Peter Collignon, Peter Doshi, Tom Jef- vaccines have their way, your children ferson; -Adverse events following influenza and grandchildren won’t be allowed the & Mail http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/ health/nasal-vaccine-against-flu-gets-green- vaccination in Australia--should we be sur- opportunity to develop important natural light-in-canada/article1640399/ prised?; http://www.bmj.com/content/340/bmj. immunity to type A and type B influenza • The immune Deficiency Foundation; http:// c2419/reply strains. So the question is this: why do we www.imakenews.com/idf/e_article000704177. • Prof. Peter Colignon; Unnecessary injection continue doing something that has been cfm?x=b11,0,w of risk: vaccination, May 2010; http://www. proven ineffective many times over? As • Tom Jefferson; Influenza Vaccination: Policy theaustralian.com.au/news/health-science/ the saying goes, ‘Insanity is doing the Versus Evidence; BMJ Sept. 2006; http://www. unnecessary-injection-of-risk-vaccination/story- bmj.com/content/333/7574/912.full e6frg8y6-1225860392740 same thing over and over again, expecting • Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2006 Jan different results’”, writes Dr. Mercola. • Lorna Benson, Minnesota Public Radio (MPR), April 27, 2010; Research suggests flu vac- 25;(1):CD004879. Abstract; Vaccines for pre- cine doesn’t prevent deaths among the elderly; venting influenza in healthy children In Canada, there is no publicly acces- http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/ • Eurekalert; Flu shot not effective in prevent- sible reporting system of vaccine adverse web/2010/04/27/flu-vaccine-not-effective-in- ing flu-related hospitalizations in asthmatic reactions where we can discover how many elderly/ children http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releas- children suffered adverse events from the • Influenza vaccination for healthcare workers es/2009-05/ats-fsn051209.php • Eurekalert; H1N1 vaccine, or how many will reactive who work with the elderly; Department of Medi- Flu vaccine not associated with adversely to this season’s new vaccine for- cine, University of Calgary; Cochrane Database reduced hospitalizations or outpatient visits among young children; http://www.eurekalert. mula with its H1N1 component. Feb. 17, 2010; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ pubmed/20166073 org/pub_releases/2008-10/jaaj-fvn100208.php • Finland Suspends Swine Flu Shots; http:// Seasonal Flu Shots Increase • Dr. Joseph Mercola; Nov. 1. 2010; New Proof Medical Treatment is Ineffective; http://articles. www.infowars.com/finland-suspends-swine-flu- Susceptibility mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/11/01/ shots-after-vaccine-linked-with-neurological- flu-vaccine-and-its-side-effects.aspx disorder/ A clue into the detrimental effects of • Dr. Joseph Mercola, Summary of a Failed Pan- • Canadian Surveillance Studies Help to Under- immune manipulation by flu vaccines demic; August 21, 2010; http://articles.mercola. stand H1N1 Patterns, Medscape Medical News, May 4,2010; http://www.medscape.com/view- was provided in May when Medscape com/sites/articles/archive/2010/08/21/barbara- √ reported that seasonal flu vaccine might loe-fisher-on-flu-vaccine-changes.aspx article/721219 increase risk for H1N1 infection. Six studies from Canada consistently found The Marvellous Health of Unvaccinated Children that prior year vaccination in 2008/09 for seasonal influenza was associated with a Françoise Berthoud, MD 1.4- to 2.5-fold increased risk for hospi- talization for H1N1 infection. “As for Once upon a time, in April 2009 to be exact, I was invited to give a speech at a the mechanism behind those differences, conference on vaccination. I was to talk after two of the best speakers France has studies in swine suggest that a vaccine to offer on the subject had their turn, journalist Sylvie Simon and biologist Michel that induces nonneutralizing or subneu- Georget. At hearing them speak in the past, it was absolutely clear to me that the best tralizing concentrations of antibody can option is to stay as far away from vaccines as possible. I just did not know what to do enhance the infection rather than protect instead to best assure staying alive and well. from that infection,” said Dr. Naveed Z. Janjua, MD, from the British Columbia As a paediatrician and homeopath qualified to speak on the subject, I decided to Centre for Disease Control. Reported setup a conference called The Marvellous Health of Unvaccinated Children along also was the fact that mortality rates from with my friends, Sylvie and Michel. This work would later evolve into a book that H1N1 were actually higher in those over analyses various life choices often made Marvelous Health cont. on page 21 Page 20 ¤ Autumn 2010—Double Issue ¤ VRAN Newsletter by families that do not vaccinate, includ- Throughout Europe, a group of mostly AUSTRALIA ing home birth, breastfeeding, simple paediatricians studied 14,893 children therapies, good food (often vegetarian), in Steiner schools in Austria, Germany, In 1942, Leslie Owen Bailey, founder a tranquil living environment and trust in Holland, Sweden and Switzerland and of the Natural Health Society of Austra- the capacity of the body to heal itself. found that children living in “anthrop- lia, accepted guardianship of 85 children osophist culture” (where vaccination is whose mothers were unable to care for In my life as a paediatrician, I had largely shunned) were in better health them. Among these 85 children, no vac- spent lots of time in dialogue with the than the controls. (2) cinations were ever given, no drugs were parents who often needed to voice their ever taken or used, and no operations fears about both disease and vaccines. In Germany, one of the European were ever performed. The only malady We worked out together the best route Steiner schools study researchers wrote, that occurred was when 34 of the chil- for their children. Some chose not to “In the eastern part of Berlin before the dren developed chicken pox. They were vaccinate at all. Others held onto fear of fall of the wall, we saw less allergies than immediately put to bed and given only disease, especially tetanus. In those cas- in the west. This population was poorer, pure water or fresh fruit juice. They all es, we postponed vaccination as much as nearer nature and less vaccinated.” Too recovered quickly without after-effects. possible and used a homeopathic protec- much hygiene is not always good. As UK Investigations revealed that these chil- tion and “cleansing” called nosode. researcher and originator of the “hygiene dren whilst at school had been swapping hypothesis” David Strachan might say, their healthy lunches for unhealthy con- I worked in Switzerland where there “give us this day our daily germs”. ventional foods, so this outbreak was not is no real legal obligation to vaccinate, altogether surprising. only great social pressure. In France, just In Spain, Xavier Uriarte, MD and J. a few kilometres from my office, there Manuel Marín, MD published a study in Many of these children inherited poor were four compulsory vaccinations at the 1999 on 314 children they followed be- health due to a history of illness and mal- time (BCG was fortunately removed in tween 1975 to 2000. (3) This group of nourishment in their mothers. Despite this, 2007, and three remain: Di Te Pol). children is characterized by a majority and the fact that they were never breastfed of homebirth or natural births, prolonged nor could enjoy the normal bonding of Some of the basis of my ability to breastfeeding, no vaccinations, holistic mother to child, they were able to grow speak on the marvellous health of unvac- health education and no allopathic medi- into sturdy, self-reliant children. cinated children comes from my personal cine. There were no serious diseases, few experience as a medical doctor, having hospitalizations (mostly for traumas), NEW ZEALAND collected years of feedback. and 3.3% asthma compared to the 20% in the general population. And of course, Two studies done in New Zealand in “My child began coughing immedi- a lot of money was spared! 1992 and 1995 show that the unvaccinated ately after the vaccination.” children clearly have less allergies, less oti- USA tis (ear aches), less tonsillitis, less running “He has had constant ear aches since noses, less epilepsies and less ADHD. (4) he was vaccinated.” The rate of autism in the U.S. is now an unthinkable 1 in 100. Those who are JAPAN “My 16 years old daughter is completely unvaccinated boast numbers that run in unvaccinated. She is almost never sick. If shocking contrast to the nation’s sta- An interesting period in Japan was she does get sick, it’s two days at the most.” tistics. As this article is directed to the 1975-1980, when a decision was made American people, I will not go on at to begin the first vaccinations at two “The neighbour’s kids followed nor- length here. Most of you know the work years of age instead of at two months. mal vaccination guidelines. They are of your very own journalist The reason was that more and more was constantly sick and on antibiotics.” showing the incredible absence of autism discovered linking vaccines and cot- in the unvaccinated Amish communities death (SIDS). A study was published That was not enough upon which to of Pennsylvania and Ohio. in Pediatrics showing that from 1970 write a book; however. As it would turn to January 1975, there were 57 cases of out, I found these observations were par- Further impressive is Chicago-based serious vaccine reactions, including 37 alleled over and over again all over the Homefirst Medical Clinic run by a group of deaths. From February 1975 to August world. Follow me around the planet. doctors including medical director Mayer 1981 there were eight cases of seri- Eisenstein, MD, JD, MPH. They have no ous vaccine reactions, including three EUROPE known autism and super-scarce allergies in deaths. Unfortunately for kids and their their children, many of whom were home parents, the Japanese vaccination plan In England, Michel Odent, MD deliveries, and most of whom have had is now “normalized” again. The study showed in two studies that children having no vaccinations. In 1985, I translated to shows well that the immune system is received no Pertussis vaccine had 5-6 times French U.S. paediatrician Robert Mendels- stronger at two years than at two months. less asthma than those who were vaccinat- sohn, MD’s How to Raise a Healthy Child How well would these kids have done ed for it. The first study was on 450 babies in Spite of Your Doctor. Now I find con- had they not been vaccinated at all? from La Leche League; the second one on crete result in the marvellous health of kids 125 children in a Steiner school. (1) whose doctors are his pupils! I like these We find the same observation in a Jour- synchronicities in my life. Marvelous Health cont. on page 28 VRAN Newsletter ¤ Autumn 2010 —Double Issue ¤ Page 21 Families Compensated for MMR Vaccine April this year, we thought we’d lost him. Damage in Britain & U.S. He contracted a chest infection and had to go to hospital for several days.’ By Martin Delgado - The Daily Mail, U.K. - August 28, 2010 ‘He is such a lovely boy. When he’s A mother whose son suffered severe The ruling will reignite the debate not ill, he’s so cheerful and seems to brain damage after he was given the con- over the safety of common childhood take everything on the chin. In between troversial MMR vaccine as a baby has vaccines. Mrs Fletcher said she believed seizures he says “Hi, Mum” and tries to been awarded £90,000 compensation. the compensation award to Robert was kiss me. The money is a derisory amount The judgment is the first of its kind to the first to a surviving MMR-damaged though it will help with making adapta- be revealed since concerns were raised person since controversy erupted in 1998 tions to the house for Robert’s benefit.’ about the safety of the triple jab. when Dr Andrew Wakefield raised con- cerns about a possible link between the ‘What matters is the recognition that Robert Fletcher, 18, is unable to talk, combined MMR injection and autism. MMR was the reason this happened.’ stand unaided or feed himself. He endures frequent epileptic fits and requires round- The Government refuses to say how the-clock care from his parents Jackie and many awards have been directly attributed to ‘What matters is the recognition that John. He suffered the devastating effects this jab rather than other inoculations against MMR was the reason this happened.’ after being given the combined measles, illnesses such as diphtheria or whooping mumps and when he was cough. Details of successful claims involv- The first doctor who assessed Robert 13 months old. The Department of Health ing vaccine-damaged children are seldom under the compensation scheme in 1996 had always denied that the jab was the publicized because the Department of concluded that he had suffered a ‘simple cause of Robert’s disability. Health is thought to be anxious not to en- febrile convulsion with no long-lasting courage a rush of applications. consequences’. Although he agreed that But now, in a judgment which will Robert had a degree of disability, he re- give hope to hundreds of other parents ‘It is not a requirement when a case is fused to accept that the MMR vaccine whose children have been severely af- being assessed for the medical adviser to was to blame. fected by routine vaccinations, a medical state which vaccine the damage has been assessment panel consisting of two doc- attributed to. ‘Nor is it a requirement At this month’s appeal, evidence was tors and a barrister has concluded that to list the disabling condition that gave given by a leading expert on vaccine- MMR was to blame. rise to the award.’ Mrs. Fletcher said the damaged children, paediatric neurologist ruling would give hope to hundreds of Dr Marcel Kinsbourne. He explained the Robert’s mother Jackie said the mon- other parents fighting to prove that their biological changes which had occurred in ey would help with his care, though she children’s disabilities were caused by the Robert’s brain following the vaccination. described the amount as ‘derisory’. Her MMR injection. first application for compensation- un The one-day hearing was chaired by der the Government’s Vaccine Damage Mrs Fletcher set up and runs pres- a barrister sitting with two doctors. In a Payment Scheme was rejected in 1997 sure group JABS—Justice, Awareness dissenting judgment, Professor Lingam on the grounds that it was impossible to and Basic Support. Around 2,000 fam- said he believed Robert was ‘genetically prove beyond reasonable doubt what had ilies seeking compensation for their predisposed to epilepsy and that the vac- caused Robert’s illness. vaccine-damaged children are regis- cination triggered it rather than caused it. tered with the group, which provides Robert would have developed epilepsy But Mrs Fletcher appealed and in a advice and support. in any event, even if he had not had the ruling delivered last week, a new panel vaccination’. But Professor Lingam was of experts came to a different conclu- ‘My husband John and I have battled overruled by his two colleagues. sion. In a six-page judgment, they said: for 18 years for the cause of Robert’s dis- ‘Robert was a more or less a fit boy who, ability to be officially recognized,’ she In their final judgment, the tribunal within the period usually considered said. ‘We were told the vaccine was per- accepted that MMR had caused Robert’s relevant to immunization, developed a fectly safe. Like most people, we trusted illness but added: ‘We would stress that severe convulsion... and he then went on what the doctors and nurses were putting this decision is fact-specific and it should to be epileptic and severely retarded. to us.’ Robert is nearly 19 but mentally not be seen as a precedent for any other he is like a 14-month-old toddler. He case. In particular, it has no relevance to ‘The seizure occurred ten days after can’t stand unaided and he is doubly in- the issue... as to whether there is a link the vaccination. In our view, this cannot continent. between the MMR vaccine and autism.’ be put down to coincidence.’ It is this temporal association that provides the ‘He can’t speak except to say “Hi, Last night, Tory MP Nadine Dorries, a link. It is this that has shown on the bal- Mum” or “Hi, Daddy”. member of the powerful Commons Health ance of probabilities that the vaccination Committee, said: ‘If an independent panel triggered the epilepsy. ‘On this basis, we ‘We chop up his food and have to has reached the conclusion that there has find that Robert is severely disabled as a anticipate all his needs. He is prone to been a link between the MMR vaccine result of vaccination and this is why we various illnesses and last week suffered Families Compensated cont. on page 23 allowed the appeal.’ around 40 severe epileptic seizures. In Page 22 ¤ Autumn 2010—Double Issue ¤ VRAN Newsletter Families Compensated continued from page 22 It has been over two years since her fanfare in June of 2007, but the ruling has and the brain damage suffered by this boy MMR-V induced encephalitis, and Julia only now come to public attention. In the in this case, then it is fair to assume that has come a long way, but has a very long remarkably clear and eloquent decision, there could be as many as thousands of way to go. Julia lives with her mom Susan, Special Master Richard Abell ruled that children and parents in the same position. and brother, Jack who is six and so under- the Banks had successfully demonstrated standing of her. Her father recently moved that “the MMR vaccine at issue actually ‘There should be full and easy access to out of state following her parent’s divorce. caused the conditions from which Bailey all documentation relating to the judgment suffered and continues to suffer.” for any parent or professional to read and Julia won her lawsuit with the vaccine assess.’ Dr Michael Fitzpatrick, a London Injury Compensation Program! The Gov- Bailey’s diagnosis is Pervasive De- GP whose own son is autistic, said: ‘It is a ernment conceded. “This means that they velopmental Disorder—Not Otherwise very important principle that parents should agreed that the MMR vaccine caused her Specified (PDD-NOS) which has been be compensated in cases of this kind.’ encephalitis and resultant brain damage. recognized as an autism spectrum disor- Article excerpted from: http://www.dai- The government will reimburse all of der by CDC, HRSA and the other federal lymail.co.uk/news/article-1307095/ her past medical expenses and will pay health agencies since at least the 1990s. Family-win-18-year-fight-MMR-damage-son-- for all future medical expenses that she 90-000-payout-concerns-vaccine-surfaced.html incurs from her vaccine injury. I will up- In his conclusion, Special Master Abell date as I find out more.” ruled that Petitioners had proven that the ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ MMR had directly caused a brain inflam- Julia’s attorneys (Ron Homer and/or mation illness called acute disseminated U.S. Vaccine Court Concedes Kevin Conway) will evaluate her needs encephalomyelitis (ADEM) which, in MMR Vaccine Caused Brain with a “life planner” to try to determine turn, had caused the autism spectrum dis- Damage what her needs will be. “Accepting the order PDD-NOS in the child: loss of the world as I knew it before she Julia’s Case: Julia an almost five year got sick, before my divorce, before I lost The Court found that Bailey’s ADEM old US citizen has won substantial com- my house , this is such a huge, huge, help was both caused-in-fact and proximately pensation in the US Federal Court for brain for Julia and my family. Our struggle is caused by his vaccination. It is well under- damage caused by MMR vaccine. What is going to be lessened!” writes her mother. stood that the vaccination at issue can cause different about this case? They kept the “au- ADEM, and the Court found, based upon tism” word out of the case. Many parents in August 27, 2010: “Julia got the di- a full reading and hearing of the pertinent other US cases have been advised to do this. agnosis, sort of—PDD-NOS (pervasive facts in this case, that it did actually cause developmental disorder—not otherwise the ADEM. Furthermore, Bailey’s ADEM “Julia was born a healthy baby on 12- specified). So, she is “kind of” on the au- was severe enough to cause lasting, residual 28-05. She was a delight to her family and tism spectrum.....its just a diagnosis. I’m damage, and retarded his developmental friends. On January 5th, 2007, one week having mixed feelings about it. Glad for progress, which fits under the generalized after her 1st birthday, our family’s lives the extra opportunities for her, but more heading of Pervasive Developmental Delay, changed forever. Julia (unknowingly to her aggravated than ever with those who or PDD [an autism spectrum disorder]. The family) had been seizing in her crib most of say vaccines don’t cause autism. When Court found that Bailey would not have suf- the night, was transported to the nearest ER I get her case report from the Vaccine fered this delay but for the administration of for stabilization, and then airlifted to Mi- Injury Compensation Program—anyone the MMR vaccine, and that this chain of cau- ami Children’s hospital, where she stayed interested is welcome to read it. Vac- sation was... a proximate sequence of cause in PICU and the neurology ward for close cines do cause brain injuries which lead and effect leading inexorably from vaccina- to one month,” writes her mother. to autism—all I have to say. I have living tion to Pervasive Developmental Delay.” proof.” Bailey Banks award excerpted from: Julia’s mother emphasizes Julia has no Excerpted from: http://childhealthsafety.word- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ formal diagnosis of autism and says, “Af- press.com/2009/06/14/juliawinsmmrcase/ robert-f-kennedy-jr-and-david-kirby/vaccine- ter Julia’s last neuro appointment when her court-autism-deba_b_169673.html doctor said she had signs of autism, I didn’t ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ Editor’s note: While the U.S. and want that “word” in her records until Julia’s Britain grudgingly concede vaccine case was decided. Do I think that there is a Bailey Banks Case: Feb.24/ 10— injuries and award compensation to a link between — abso- “The parents of yet another child with few affected families, Canadians have lutely! Is Julia autistic? I’m not sure.” autism spectrum disorder (ASD) were no recourse—neither through the awarded a lump sum of more than court system which sets extraordinary “Her diagnosis? Encephalitis (inflam- $810,000 (plus an estimated $30-40,000 obstacles preventing successful litiga- mation of her brain) most likely attributed per year for autism services and care) in tion, nor from the federal government to the MMR-V (measles, mumps, rubel- compensation by the Court, which ruled which maintains an ironclad cloak of la, chicken pox) vaccine she had received that the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) denial that its vaccination programs nine days previously. When Julia left the vaccine had caused acute brain damage can and do cause catastrophic injuries hospital, she was functioning at a two that led to his autism spectrum disorder. to some children. √ month level. She was (and in some re- spects still is) globally delayed and with The family of 10-year-old Bailey significant left sided hemiplegia.” Banks won their case quietly and without VRAN Newsletter ¤ Autumn 2010 —Double Issue ¤ Page 23 The Man-Made Peanut Allergy Epidemic, A revealing history of a medical mystery Consumers more afraid of disease than the side effects of treatment embraced By Heather Fraser the tradition of vaccination. For vaccine makers, however, unwanted side effects It is seldom recognized, commented ness was characterized by anaphylaxis, were balanced with the cost of produc- historian René Dubos, that each society swelling, shock, asphyxia and death. tion. They no longer used horse blood or and every civilization creates its own mouse brain—the former was implicat- diseases.1 Is the peanut allergy epidemic Serum sickness was the first man- ed in serum sickness and the latter was man-made? And if so, how has it been made mass allergic phenomenon. The known to create encephalitis. However, created in millions of children in just 20 historical link between vaccination and an irreplaceable ingredient was vegetable years and who or what are its architects? mass allergy is rarely mentioned by oil. While cost effective and potent, oils The features of the epidemic continue to doctors. Health officials have several ra- could also be dangerous—they easily puzzle doctors. tional arguments for not discussing the over stimulated the immune system. subject. One is that US Vaccine Injury In the US alone, 5.6 million people Compensation Program guidelines make Lulled perhaps by medical advance, —2% of the population—are allergic to it impossible to prove a causal link be- officials were surprised by the second peanuts and nuts almost all having expe- tween vaccination and a later “onset” of mass allergic phenomenon that began in rienced onset as toddlers. This epidemic anaphylaxis—that is, when the toddler the 1930s. This was the first outbreak of tipped into critical mass around 1998 when first eats peanut butter. The guidelines food anaphylaxis in history and it was the first flood of allergic children entered only recognize anaphylaxis that occurs caused by just one food: cottonseed oil. kindergarten sending a shock through ed- shortly after injection. Refined cottonseed oil was a primary ucation systems. Prevalence of the allergy excipient in the injected “wonder drug” increases with parental income, education The second argument was summa- antibiotics and in vaccines. and accessible health care. It does not in- rized by Richet himself who wrote that crease with consumption. In developing anaphylaxis “perhaps a sorry matter for Well documented issues had weakened countries where peanut consumption is the individual, is necessary to the species the US seed crusher industry which with high, the allergy is virtually unknown. In ... There is something more important dropping standards was producing con- the west, children who have never eaten a than the salvation of the person and that taminated oils. Protein laden cottonseed peanut experience reactions on initial ex- is integral preservation of the race”. 2 oil was found to have been distributed to posure to the food. pharmaceutical and food manufacturers. And that “something” was protect- Immunologists claim that this allergy ing the whole of society from disease The outbreak might have been investi- is an immune system abnormality. This by vaccination—a goal that justifies the gated more thoroughly if it hadn’t ended view is contrary to that of Dr. Charles unavoidable casualties. A third rational- so soon. Prevalence of the allergy peaked Richet, who identified and named the ization is economic. Vaccine consumers in the late 1940s, gradually declined and condition anaphylaxis in 1901. Richet absorb the cost of damage. Therefore, then fell from the medical journals, his- proved that anaphylaxis is an inevitable it makes financial sense to ignore the tory and memory. This decline may be side effect of vaccination. It is a univer- problem—which can’t be proven any- attributed to a change in vaccine ingre- sal reaction of animals to any protein way. And if litigation brought by angry dients. After WWII, oil from cottonseed injected into the bloodstream—the first parents becomes unwieldy, government was replaced. injection sensitizes, the second injection will intercede with legislation to protect or subsequent consumption of the protein them [vaccine makers] as it did in 2001 This replacement oil was inexpen- unleashes the life threatening reaction. and again in 2008 in the wake of a leaked sive, tariff protected, US grown and report that the mercury-based vaccine pre- controlled tightly by a more reliable Since Richet’s Nobel Prize winning servative Thimerosol, was contributing to industry infrastructure; it came from research, doctors have known “how the massive rise in childhood autism. 3,4 peanuts. Manufacturers improved their to” create anaphylaxis using a needle. refining processes to remove as much Without the invention of the convenient The framework for disease man- of the protein as possible (although not hypodermic needle in 1853, anaphylaxis agement with the needle began as all according to a 2008 FDA report) thus would not have gained common currency business-minded makers of pharmaceu- preventing now well understood allergic much less become epidemic. The needle ticals well over 100 years ago met the implications. With trace peanut protein in allowed doctors to deliver substances demands of government and doctors faced some vaccines, the allergy built a profile directly into the blood, by-passing the with massive immigrant influx during the very quietly in the 1950s but grew more modifying effects of the digestive system. first industrial revolution. Competition noticeable through the late 1960s and And with the introduction of compulsory between pharmaceutical companies fed early 70s. The first peanut allergy study vaccination for diphtheria in 1895, ana- a media soon reliant upon lucrative and in 1974 by S.A. Bock in the US identified phylaxis arrived en mass. Thousands of unregulated medical ads. In the early 20th its growing prevalence. children were made ill or died from what century, a meld of compulsory vaccina- doctors labeled “serum sickness”. By tion for military and civilian populations Vaccine innovations in this period in- 1906, the sickness was understood to be a and persuasive ads quickly transformed cluded genetic modifications of proteins, systemic allergic reaction. Extreme sick- patients into medical consumers. Man-made Peanut Allergies cont. on page 25 Page 24 ¤ Autumn 2010—Double Issue ¤ VRAN Newsletter Man-made Peanut Allergies cont. from page 24 pull this formula together, it seemed to refined peanut oil, levels of peanut con- manipulation of molecular weights to tar- escape notice that the molecular weights sumption, methods of peanut preparation. get specific antigens and the inclusion of of proteins in the were almost They examined long-shot risk factors an “adjuvant”. An adjuvant provokes the identical to those in peanut. Peanut aller- such as birth month, blood type, gender immune system to create antibodies while gy tipped quietly into epidemic between and race. None pointed to vaccination, a requiring less antigen (virus/bacteria). 1987 and 1994. ER records in westernized common childhood event with a proven Adjuvant 65, dubbed the immunologists countries revealed the tip of the iceberg in history of creating mass anaphylaxis. “dirty secret” increased antibody produc- the early 1990s—90% of all admissions tion 13 fold although no one knew exactly for allergy were for peanut. The allergy It is not without irony that in virtually ev- why or how. This useful, cost effective hit critical mass around 1998. The tipping ery medical article on the allergy mice are “black box” ingredient combined refined point came when the first massive wave made anaphylactic to peanut by injection. peanut oil with aluminum. It was added to of food allergic children entered the pub- If vaccination is the functional mechanism childhood vaccines in the 1960s. lic school systems at ages 4 and 5. by which millions of children have been sensitized to peanut why isn’t every child Two further changes to childhood Pre-school and kindergarten teachers and allergic? One researcher pointed out in vaccines were the introduction of hae- principals were taken by surprise at the sud- 2004 that “Adjuvant 65 offers the advan- mophilus influenza B (Hib) vaccine in den appearance of not one but several food tage over mineral oil used [other adjuvants] 1988 that was eventually rolled into an allergic kids in each school, hundreds in in that it can be metabolized”. unprecedented 5 vaccines in one needle, each school board, thousands across the US, the PENTA. Neither parents nor family the UK, Canada and other western countries. “Metabolized” means that the body can doctors questioned these changes autho- break down and eliminate the waste vac- rized by a WHO expert committee and Allergy researchers frantic for an cine. This ability to detoxify varies between recommended to governments in west- answer to this deadly phenomenon ques- ern countries. In the documented rush to tioned the role skin creams with poorly Man-made Peanut Allergies cont. on page 26 Heather Fraser, on the Peanut Allergy Epidemic In her meticulously researched book, The History of the Peanut Allergy Epidemic, historian Heather Fraser pinpoints the precise moment of the allergy’s appearance and describes the perfect storm of social, medical, political and economic factors from which the epidemic has grown. The book is published by McMaster University Innovation Press and is also available on Amazon. In chapter 6 she writes:

“Vaccination was the elephant in the room. Researchers glanced at it, knew it was there but were reluctant to get too close. Only a handful of doctors at the time looked directly at vaccination and asked whether a reduction of common childhood diseases through a policy of mass vaccination was worth the price of a higher prevalence of allergy and other adverse outcomes.

Vaccines are a complex blend of antigens, stabilizers, adjuvants, preservatives, anti-bacterials, anti-fungals, suspending fluids, gels and more. While manufacturers, government and doctors are not obliged to reveal the precise ingredients of vaccines, the CDC offered a limited list. The common childhood vaccine DtaP-IPV/Hib (Pentacel), for example, contains: aluminum phos- phate, bovine serum albumin, formaldehyde, glutaraldhyde, MRC-5 DNA and cellular protein, neomycin, polymyxin b sulfate, polysorbate 80, 2-phenoxyethanol. MRC-5 (Medical Research Council 5) is a cell line developed in 1966 from lung tissue taken from a 14-week-old fetus aborted for psychiatric reason from a 27-year-old woman, and more. Bovine serum albumin (BSA) is blood protein from cattle. Neomycin is an antibiotic. Aluminum phosphate is part of an antigen sparing adjuvant.

Adjuvants, stimulate the immune system to respond to just a small amount of antigen. They reduce the cost of a vaccine and increase its efficacy measured in antibodies specific to the disease being addressed. However, they can be dangerous. The choice of adjuvant (or even whether to use one or not) in any vaccine by a maker or government reflects a compromise between immune stimulation and invariable side effects that would be produced in a percentage of consumers. One of the side effects engendered by is the production of IgE antibodies, [a marker of immune system dysregulation]. The more effective a vaccine is, the greater the risks of allergies and other adverse effects.

The question about vaccination has never been whether there would be damage, but rather how much and what kind in relation to the established vaccination goals. Before 2000, doctors were beginning to admit that there was an uncomfortable unpredict- ability in combining different vaccine products in the same syringe. Doctors knew that iatrogenic conditions were being caused by vaccinations and yet, without comparative data on unvaccinated children officials were not compelled to reduce the pediatric schedule. In fact, it increased.

Neither coincidence nor genetic fluke can explain the speed at which this allergy has spread in children or its peculiar features. The allergy appears primarily in western countries including the US, Canada, Australia and the UK and in boys more often than girls in a 2:1 ratio.”

According to the Ottawa Anaphylaxis Support group, More than 12 million Canadians currently suffer from allergies, asthma and anaphylaxis. √ VRAN Newsletter ¤ Autumn 2010 —Double Issue ¤ Page 25 Man-made Peanut Allergies cont. from page 25 Quack they environmental, emotional or phar- individuals and is today an enormous chal- maceutical; one who uses primarily lenge for western children increasingly By Suzanne Humphries, MD July 5, non-toxic, non-surgical means for rou- weakened by digestive imbalance. And 2010 tine care, and uses pharmaceutical and even if one does not accept the Injection surgical medicine as a last resort. Hypothesis, the balance between fear of Mainstream medicine has hit a new disease and risk of side effects has clearly low in its war against physicians who Who Gets on the List? shifted. Educated parents for whom official have become alternative healers. The rationalizations now ring hollow are begin- battle has been going on for decades, but Physicians who see that the popular ning to refuse vaccination. lately, in bully-like fashion, pharma’s medical-pharmaceutical construct en- minions are ramping up the vilification. dangers its recipients with marginally In the wake of the Thimerosol de- They’re now discrediting any healing tested drugs of questionable efficacy, but bacle in 2000 and the ongoing celebrity method not based in their version of ac- with well documented adverse effects, endorsed media campaign (generation- cepted science—excuse me, I meant their are labeled as quacks. A physician who rescue.org) which insists that vaccination religion of pharmaceutical belief which recognizes the significant conflicts of causes autism, vaccine makers have been has been misnamed as ‘science’. interest, and resultant corruption in the quietly phasing out the use of mercury in circle of influence that comprises the vaccines used in the west. They demand explanation and evi- nation’s government/ public health of- dence when we reject their drugs, yet ficials, lobbyists for the pharmaceutical Stocked batches of these vaccines have they never serve up true evidence or industry, and in many instances his or her been shipped to China and other Asian and proof that drugs do more good than own colleagues is considered a quack. African countries where they have been harm. They insist with religious fervor administered to children, populations of that vaccines are safe, effective and keep As a matter of fact, it seems a quack new medical consumers. In China, where people healthy. They preach as gospel is apparently anyone in the healthcare peanut consumption is high, the allergy that antibiotics are better or safer than industry who does not believe in and was virtually unknown in 2001.6 Recent , herbs, colloidal silver, support the unharnessed proliferation studies in 2008 and 2009 indicate that vitamin D and natural support for non- of the pharmaceutical industry, with its peanut allergy is on the rise in Chinese life threatening infections, despite the virtually unlimited profits from its world- and Singaporean children.7 fact that antibiotic adverse effects are wide distribution of toxic medications common and well documented. Serious and vaccines. When a physician has the Note: Heather Fraser can be contacted di- effects such as anaphylaxis (inflamma- ethical fortitude to reject these massive rectly at [email protected] or tory shock), kidney failure, liver failure, operations and label them as destructive, visit http://www.peanutallergyepidemic.com Stevens-Johnson syndrome (a life threat- s/he will be considered a quack. And ening condition where the epidermis most definitely, any physician who no Resources: separates from the dermis), Clostridium longer wishes to be a mercenary for the 1. 1 Reneé Dubos, The Dreams of Reason: Sci- difficile colitis (commonly referred to as pharma-backed junta that has taken over ence and Utopias (New York, 1961) p. 71. C-diff), and the creation of drug resistant medical schools and medical institutions 2. 2 Charles Richet, “Acceptance Lecture”, super-bacteria are but a few examples. will be tagged “quack”. Nobel Prize for Medicine, 1913. And now, they’ve recruited some very 3. 3 Defense of vaccine damage is explicit in the transcript of famed 2000 Simpsonwood bright (but not necessarily wise) minds I noticed, when Googling the names of conference in which 48 government bodies to attack alternative practitioners. Their some of our most prominent alternative and vaccine makers discuss a report linking latest weapon is name calling—most no- healers, they all earn the title of “quack”. mercury in vaccines to autism. This transcript tably, labeling them ‘quacks’. This new, disparaging label seems to was reviewed by R.F. Kennedy Jr., “Deadly have appeared at a time when there was a Immunity,” Rolling Stone Magazine (June 20, ‘Quack’, as per the Random House growing tension in the world about the ne- 2005). dictionary: cessity, efficacy and safety of vaccines and 4. 4 Anon, “The Man Behind the Vaccine pharmaceutical drugs. Most physicians Mystery”, CBS Evening News, Washington, 1. A fraudulent or ignorant pretender who believe that the current childhood Dec. 12, 2002. www.cbsnews.com In a post 9-11 world, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist to medical skill; 2. A person who pre- vaccination program is not safe or is un- stated, vaccine makers must be free from law- tends, professionally or publicly, to skill, necessary are automatically thrown onto suits so that they can protect Americans from knowledge, or qualifications he or she the list, regardless of their accomplish- bio-terrorist attacks. does not possess; a charlatan. ments, backgrounds, or well-established 5. 5 Wendy Harris, “Abnormal Response to reputations prior to uttering an opinion Normal Things,” Professionally Speaking But from its current usage, I’d say that vaccines may be dangerous. Magazine, Ontario College of Teachers, Sept. they’ve added a new definition: 2000. Some of my favorite “quacks” as de- 6. 6 K. Beyer K, et al. “Effects of cooking meth- 3. A physician or medical healer who fined by #3: ods on peanut allergenicity,” J Allergy Clin does not profit from creating and main- Immunol. 2001 Jun;107(6):1077-81. Sherri Tenpenny, DO 7. 7 Europrevall.org and Chiang Wen Chin, taining disease, but rather respects the : published “Food Allergy in Singapore,” SingHealth.com natural tendency of the body to heal it- author, scholar on a long list of topics, es- (2009) √ self; one who helps the body eliminate pecially the problems caused by vaccines. whatever toxins are causing illness, be Quack cont. on page 27 Page 26 ¤ Autumn 2010—Double Issue ¤ VRAN Newsletter Quack cont. from page 26 er, they are vulnerable to the whims of an a weapon, unleashed on those who notice Russell Blaylock, MD: neurosurgeon industry backed by billions of dollars and the scores of patients spiraling to their death and outspoken advocate of health freedom. supported by a mesmerized, deceived at the hands of FDA-approved, CDC-sanc- medical culture. tioned medical interventions of big pharma Andrew Wakefield, MB: published and their affiliated institutions. The self author, formerly respected surgeon until Doctors are under the spell of a media proclaimed authorities of “science-based- he stepped on the toes of big pharma with that censors the truth and limits access to medicine”, the paid pharma bloggers, a groundbreaking monkey study involv- any information that contradicts the vac- “Quack Watchers” and many others who ing the Hepatitis B vaccine, a study that cination paradigm. They take risks when proselytize the message of drug compa- never got published. That research would they speak out; they do this to support a nies and attempt to discredit the time-tested have ultimately exposed the ravages of trusting, under-informed and vulnerable healing methods used by alternative practi- the entire childhood vaccine program. humanity. Their rewards come in the form tioners, are destined to fail. I take comfort of the many thanks from the millions of in the fact that the masses are becoming Mayer Eisenstein, MD, JD, MPH: pub- parents and patients who are grateful that increasingly disgruntled with the results lished author, attorney, and outspoken natural there are physicians who support their of their conventional medical options. The health advocate, who happens to have more personal beliefs and acknowledge their public trust and confidence in what pharma than 20,000 non-autistic, unvaccinated chil- often tragic observations. and conventional medical doctors have to dren in his group medical practice. offer is, thankfully, dying. The truth is dark and complicated, and Garry Gordon, MD, DO, MD(H): not readily visible to the physician who The day will come when doctors will innovator, heavy metal detoxification ex- starts to question convention because he can freely combine their scientific medical pert, and living example of vibrant aging. no longer live with the apparent contradic- education with time-tested alternative tions. If he dares to question the problems treatments to build a new paradigm. The Joseph Mercola, DO: outspoken nat- of the vaccination program, he must then future of medicine will utilize the heal- ural health advocate who uncovers and critically examine the entire system, one ing arts passed down through generations exposes corruption and inaccuracies in that turns a blind eye to the deterioration and adopted from other cultures, tools conventional medicine through his wide- of health after someone receives a vaccine. that are nearly defunct from disuse and ly viewed website. systematic attack. Physicians will make Doctors should be asking questions a living by maintaining health rather than Lawrence Palevsky, MD, FACP: such as, What are the underlying causes from treating disease and creating new conventionally trained, board certified of our national epidemic of chronic ill- sickness. The physicians listed on my pediatrician, who has publicly expressed nesses that fill our sick care institutions? personal “quack” list will be heroes and disagreement with conventional drugs What are the incestuous, revolving-door known for taking huge risks to change and vaccines and offers a holistic pedi- relationships between government/ pub- the course of healthcare in this country atric option. lic health, pharma and the insurance and beyond. These physician “quacks” companies, and why is this a problem? already have thousands of patients who Why do I support these physicians Why have so many infants and children can attest to the fact that their doctor’s and why am I qualified to lash out at developed so many formerly unheard of unconventional medical innovations, pharma, “science-based medicine” blog- illnesses in their age group? Why is the combined with their conventional medi- gers, “Quackwatch”? I am a Medical link to vaccination uniformly dismissed cal knowledge, enriched and healed their Doctor with a bachelor’s degree in phys- as non-causal? Sadly enough, few physi- lives, without prescription drugs and they ics, certifications in Internal Medicine cians question the current paradigm. Few remained healthy without vaccines. and Nephrology. I have no malpractice want to risk being labeled as “quacks”. suits on my record and I have always It is much simpler- and safer- to remain Those who have attempted to warp been well regarded by my colleagues. comfortably within the status quo, no our reputations by calling us “quacks” However, the respect I have enjoyed for matter how sordid it has become. will not succeed. The primal wisdom of more than 15 years as a physician may the masses is more powerful than all the well start to crack, as a result of speak- As this avaricious machine tramples propaganda promoted by the misnamed ing openly about my view on vaccines, on life, there are people being cured of “science-based medicine” and “quack which, when administered without fully cancer, healed of supposed chronic de- watchers”. The pillars that support the informed consent, are a violation of pa- generative diseases, discarding their sick-care industry are cracking and its tient trust and a threat to their health. unnecessary medications and making architects are getting desperate. In due themselves well by exiting the System time, the Yellow Pages will be abundant Expanding List of Quacks that gave them few options and offered in so-called quacks. Quack watchers little hope. really should watch carefully. The revo- The growing crowd of physician- lution has begun. quacks comes armed with determination. Doctors providing “alternative” meth- Reprinted with appreciation from : Internation- Once they realize what vaccines have ods of healing are scoffed at, challenged by al Medical Council on vaccination: http://www. done and continue to do—to their pa- their state medical boards, belittled by their vaccinationcouncil.org/2010/07/06/quack/ √ tients, and that no one involved is colleagues. And they are called quacks. accountable or responsible, they are compelled to take a deeper look. Howev- This word “quack” has been turned into VRAN Newsletter ¤ Autumn 2010 —Double Issue ¤ Page 27 Marvellous Health cont. from page 21 He woke up many mornings in a pool Logan has always had a weak immune nal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology of his own vomit & urine. He also com- system & getting the H1N1 vaccine is study. Of 11,531 children studied at age plains daily of muscle aches & tells me probably the worst mistake I ever made. seven, here are the results: vaccinated at that his bones hurt. Lab tests have shown My little boy has suffered ever since. To two months, 13.8% are asthmatic, vac- that Logan has none of the good bacteria top it all off our family doctor has now cinated between two and four months, found in his digestive tract & that he has turned us away and won’t see him any- 10.3%, vaccinated after four months, 5.9 an immunoglobulin A deficiency. He also more. We need help desperately and I %. Again, how well would these kids have now has a low red blood cell count & is have no idea what’s going to happen to done had they not been vaccinated at all? slightly anemic. He also has a high level our little boy. of reactive lymphocytes in his blood. Kristie Tait, Cold Lake, AB THE LESSON LEARNED ON VAC- My research has taught me that this is Reprinted from: http://canadians- CINATION usually associated with a viral illness but forhealthfreedom.wordpress.com/ can also be present as a result of immu- h1n1-vaccine-side-effects-canadians-please- As a concerned, compassionate and nizations. report-here/ considerate paediatrician, I can only ar- rive at one conclusion. Unvaccinated Logan’s hemoglobin is also low. He ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ children have by far the best chance of is pale & has splotches all over his face. enjoying marvellous health. Any vacci- He tires easily and generally is moody & October 5, 2010 - Hi, I’m a registered nation at all works to cripple the chances upset. I think he has been in constant pain nurse and had the H1N1 flu shot a year of this end. now for months. We are all worried sick ago in October. I have been feeling my- Reprinted with appreciation from: http://www. about him. We have reported these ad- self deteriorating more and more as each vaccinationcouncil.org/vaccination/articles/ verse effects to Logan’s pediatrician & to day goes by. As a health care provider I the-marvellous-health-of-unvaccinated-chil- our family doctor. I sent a fax to his pedi- felt a lot of pressure to take the vaccine dren.html √ atrician regarding this matter to which he where I work in Northern Manitoba. never responded & the last time we were in Edmonton to see him he wouldn’t dis- I was a healthy active person enjoyed Letters cuss this matter with us. outdoor activities, fishing, camping hik- ing, skidooing, ice fishing, going to the June 7, 2010—My little boy Logan We also told our family doctor here in gym. Now I feel limited in what I’m able has never been the same since the H1N1 Cold Lake what was happening and that to do because of body aches, joint pain, vaccines he received in late Nov & early we suspect the H1N1 vaccine has some- pain at injection site. I keep getting flu Dec 2009. I hardly know where to start thing to do with our son’s deteriorating like symptoms with fever. I never experi- as it has been a long, painful road for me health. He refused to talk about it and enced any of these symptoms until after I and my family. actually pretended he didn’t hear me and had shot. And now a year later feeling all started talking about something else. this pain and aching has me concerned. Logan hasn’t felt well for several months now & continues to get worse. The real kick in the teeth came today It all started shortly after I had the He complained about not really feeling when I took Logan to our doctor again shot. Now in the left tendon of my heel well shortly after his first injection, then to see if anymore lab results came back and ankle I feel pain with a swelling - at seemed a bit better. It was after his sec- and to discuss Logan’s anxiety issues to times my right elbow pains and burns ond shot that things really took a turn for see if there was anything he could do or with limited extension. Lately my right the worse. He started to be less & less suggest to help. He handed me a few pa- knee became very swollen and painful. interested in eating, to the point where pers stapled together and told me to ask At the injection site I feel a sharp stab- he lost a significant amount of weight his receptionist to copy them for me. He bing pain and at times causes swelling & his eyes and cheeks were sunk in. He then told me that he feels there is noth- and soreness right to my wrist. screamed in pain from stomach aches ing more he can do to help Logan and and cried daily from the throbbing head- advised us to find A NEW FAMILY DR! aches he had. He started having severe I just want help from some one to sleep disturbances and his behaviour be- Now that’s all fine & dandy but the reverse the H1N1 injection. I am so came more and more concerning. sad part is that we live in a small com- sorry I took this needle and would munity where we are facing a severe sooner take my chances with the ac- It didn’t take long before I didn’t recog- doctor shortage and there are NO doc- tual flu then to have my body slowly nize my own son anymore. We tried to get tors accepting new patients. I was totally deteriorating. to the bottom of Logan’s health concerns SHOCKED! I spent the remainder of and at first didn’t even think it could be the the day in tears wondering how on earth vaccine doing this to him. He developed we are going to find another doctor. So I have tried taking all kind of medica- severe food sensitivities and could no lon- now we have a little boy who has been tion from Naproxen, Celebrex, Arthrotec, ger properly digest proteins. We had to diagnosed on the autism spectrum, who Motrin, ointments, Tylenol 3, to Percocet change his diet to wheat and dairy free and is chronically ill and we have NO fam- with 30mg codeine for breakthrough pain. if he does get anything that is hard to di- ily doctor. We are devastated and have no While I have a high pain tolerance I’m at a gest he violently throws up. idea where we are going to turn or if we are ever going to find a doctor who cares. Letters continued on page 29 Page 28 ¤ Autumn 2010—Double Issue ¤ VRAN Newsletter Letters cont. from page 28 I have Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS). lowing H1N1 point where I need pain medication just to The next day I had an electromyography function normally on a daily basis. (EMG) and a second neurologist posi- I received the H1N1 vaccine on Octo- tively diagnosed GBS. ber 16th, 2009 and started experiencing I just want help from some one to re- cramping on the 22nd. I was nearly 17 verse the H1N1 injection. I am so sorry I had a medical for my life insurance weeks pregnant and gave birth to a still- I took this needle and would sooner take in October 2009 and was 100% healthy born baby boy on the 23rd. Like many my chances with the actual flu then to at that time. The only thing different in of the other women [reporting reactions], have my body slowly deteriorating. My my life was getting the swine flu and the first thing I suspected was the H1N1 reaction has been reported to Health Can- regular flu shot about 1 week before the vaccine. ada as an adverse effect. muscle weakness occurred. I immediately asked a nurse at the I just don’t know where to turn and Over the past 6 months, the weak- hospital if that would have anything to do now I’m being sent to a rheumatologist ness has progressed to the point that I with it. Without hesitation, she told me but it should have never gotten to this am off work and bed-ridden 23 hours a “absolutely not.” I had reservations about stage. I feel Health Canada needs to do day. I have had 3 IVIG treatments each getting the vaccine, but followed the ad- more investigating into a vaccine before lasting 5 days and my neurologist has vice of my long trusted family doctor. In panicking and pushing it out to such a me on a cocktail of immunosuppressant a follow up appointment with my doctor large number of people. As a nurse I am and steroid drugs (Immuron, Pantopra- 3 days after I lost my baby, I asked him if concerned for the innocent civilians who zole and Prednisone). He believes that I the vaccine would have had any adverse may feel much the same symptoms but may be able to go back to work in 1-2 effects on my baby. He also said that it may not relate their condition to the flu years, but everyone responds differently was not possible. I don’t believe that my shot. I know how well and healthy I felt to treatment and it is difficult to make an doctor was necessarily lying to me, he prior to it. accurate prognosis. was simply following the accepted prac- tices and opinions of his field. So please if you know where I can go Financially, it is a disaster because I or who I can speak to for help it would be expected to work another 6 or 7 years I do, however, believe that as a na- greatly appreciated. at which time our mortgage would be tion, we are being lied to. This vaccine Reprinted from: http://canadians- paid off and we would be on OAS. Both is NOT safe during pregnancy. There forhealthfreedom.wordpress.com/ our daughters are in University and we has not been enough testing done to de- h1n1-vaccine-side-effects-canadians-please- have everyday household expenses to termine this and there are far too many report-here/ deal with. We have already gone through “coincidences” for this to be anything quite a bit of our savings but it is hard but a result of a vaccine that was hastily ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ to know when I will be able to get back pushed into production and distribution to work. Fortunately, my wife is at home in an effort to stop widespread panic. I June 11, 2010—Hello, I am a 59 year and cooks my meals and is a main care- have read so many stories in defense old male living in Edmonton, Alberta. giver. Otherwise, I would probably have of the vaccine that will talk about how For the past forty years I was extremely to be hospitalized for several months. common miscarriages are, but I would healthy and active playing hockey and challenge you to ask ANY health care working in an office/construction type It is very frustrating that the Govern- professional how common second tri- job. In November 2009, I received my ment of Canada promotes and endorses mester miscarriages are. first ever flu shot and H1N1 flu shot. the idea that every Canadian should get About one week later I tried to get up a swine flu shot, even people in my age My baby was doing perfect develop- from my office desk and my leg muscles group who are considered low-risk for mentally and I had felt him move earlier wouldn’t work. It was like someone swine flu, but high-risk for contract- that day. My heart goes out to everyone flipped a switch and they were turned ing illnesses like GBS-CIDP. It is also who has gone through the same heart- off. With some effort I was able to stand frustrating that there is no safety net or ache and loss that I have had in the last and walk around but the muscles just financial support to deal with patients couple of weeks. There is no reason that above the knee were working at about who experience serious adverse effects any woman or family should have to go 5% capacity. Over Christmas, the muscle like myself. through this. Get the word out to all of weakness/paralysis moved upwards into the pregnant women that you know. I my arms and it became extremely diffi- Thank you for your website (Canadi- know that if I had heard that women had cult to lift anything heavier than a cup of ans for Health Freedom) and for giving been losing their babies shortly after they coffee. me the opportunity to express my views. received the vaccine, I would have fol- Charlie in Edmonton lowed my gut and not gotten it myself. At this same time I went to see my GP Reprinted from: http://canadiansforhealthfreedom. From: Sioux falls, South Dakota about the problem and he sent me for a wordpress.com/h1n1-vaccine-side-effects-cana- battery of blood tests, x-rays, etc. and he dians-please-report-here/ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ then referred me to a neurologist. At the end of January 2010, the neurologist ex- ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ July 3, 2010— I am a midwife, and am amined me for about 15 minutes in his office and told me he’s 99% certain that Miscarriages & Stillbirths Fol- Letters continued on page 30 VRAN Newsletter ¤ Autumn 2010 —Double Issue ¤ Page 29 Letters cont. from page 29 ed information I’ve gleaned from various NEWSCLIPS seeing very odd placental anomalies now sources, especially neurosurgeon, Rus- from mothers whose H1N1 vaccinations sell Blaylock. Dr Blaylock has written an 40 Child Deaths Suspected in were taken last fall during first trimester. amazingly comprehensive summary of UK Following Vaccine Reactions Other events include return of serious vaccine risks as an introduction to Neil persistent nausea in third trimester, er- Miller’s ‘Vaccine Safety Manual’, itself October 2010—Forty child deaths are ratic pre-eclampsia symptoms in healthy a powerhouse of information. well-nourished mothers, excess cramping suspected after routine vaccinations in- cluding MMR vaccine, and 2,100 more and threatened pre-term labor, retained He warns, “we are facing a new prob- placentas, lingering lochia after the birth, have suffered a serious reaction, UK lem of astronomical proportions. There health authorities have been forced to unexplainable acute anemia, and one is evidence that the great number of vac- healthy active young mother developed disclose this week—and these figures are cines given to our children, and adults, is just the tip of the iceberg. severe DVT (Deep Vein Thrombophlebi- causing injury to their nervous systems tis) one month after birth. and that it reduces the ability of people to Two of the vaccinated children have think, learn, behave and function as nor- been left with permanent brain damage, My non-vaccinated mothers have not mal adults.” He explains that our brains and 1500 others have suffered neurologi- shown any of these symptoms, but all have immune cells which overreact when cal reactions, including 11 cases of brain of the mothers who received the H1N1 stimulated by multiple or frequently inflammation and 13 cases of epilepsy shot have had some or all of these. With administered vaccines; and/or food addi- and coma. Overall, there have been more eugenicists like Bill Gates pushing mass tives such as MSG and aspartame; and/ than 2,100 adverse reactions to a child- involuntary sterilization using vaccina- or infections acquired due to poor innate hood vaccine in the UK in the last seven tions, all of us need to be asking: Whose health or previous vaccinations. years. The UK’s Medicine and Healthcare brilliant idea was this, giving an untested Products Regulatory Authority (MHRA) vaccine to our pregnant mothers, and The result is ‘excitotoxicity’, an out- was forced to reveal the figures following why has the medical establishment gone pouring of toxic chemicals from those a request from a journalist under freedom along with this scheme without question? cells. Dr Blaylock states: “The vast ma- of information legislation. jority of physicians have never heard of Time to get very, very cynical folks. It excitotoxicity, despite the fact that it is the The true picture is likely to be far is your best self-defense. most discussed mechanism in the field of worse. The MHRA cases are only those Lori neuroscience.” As an example of the pro- that doctors have reported; if the doctor Miscarriage letters from: http:// cess, he discusses what can happen when does not believe the vaccine has caused organichealthadviser.com/archives/shocking- live measles virus from MMR vaccine the reaction, he will not report it. It is h1n1-swine-flu-vaccine-miscarriage-stores- migrates to a child’s brain. He writes, suspected that just 10 per cent of all from-pregnant-women-tell-your-doctors-that- “Any subsequent vaccinations or infec- deaths and reactions from vaccines are vaccines-and-pregnancy-do-not-mix tions will greatly aggravate the immune/ ever reported; if so, as many as 400 chil- excitotoxic degeneration of the child’s dren may have died from vaccination and ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ brain. This can result in developmental 21,000 have suffered an adverse reaction language problems, learning problems, in the UK alone. Children’s Health Holocaust behavioral problems (irritability, anxiety, depression, and violent episodes), in ad- The true situation will be far worse in The woman’s voice was soft, her so- dition to seizures.” countries such as the US where childhood licitation respectful. She was phoning vaccination is compulsory. Last month, to ask for a donation to the Learning My heart goes out to all the families the UK government was forced by a Disabilities Foundation. I replied no, I who’ve put their trust in a health para- court to pay damages to a mother whose wouldn’t do that because, as a longtime digm based on fear, coercion and no son was left with severe brain damage member of Vaccination Risk Awareness accountability. Today, via the Health after an MMR vaccination. Another 500 Network (VRAN), I’m aware that vac- Act, Public Health has its nose in pub- similar cases are currently going through cines can cause neurological injuries. By lic schools, daycares and summer camps, the UK courts. donating, I would encourage a continua- recording adherence to or avoidance From: WDDTY News Oct. 27, 2010 http://www. tion of the status quo: denial of vaccine of vaccine schedules; giving the false wddty.com/40-uk-children-killed-by-mmr-and- damage and no compensation from those impression vaccines are absolutely nec- the-true-picture-could-be-10-times-worse. who promote and administer vaccines essary; and cornering into submission html without allowing fully informed consent. parents unlucky enough to have no sub- stitute for daycare. Why should we worry ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ The woman told me of her 14 yr old about global warming when a children’s who was struggling at school. After a few health holocaust is on the horizon? 50 Year Vaccine Spreads Disease days on Ritalin, she’d stopped the drug Susan Fletcher, Sechelt, B.C. √ since, on it, he’d retreated into his shell A study published March, 2010 in even more. She now has him on a newer ‘Proceedings of the Royal Society of drug, hoping it will allow him to concen- Biological Sciences’ provides evidence trate on his school work. She asked how that the worldwide increase in whoop- vaccines cause brain damage and I relat- ing cough and US increase in its death Page 30 ¤ Autumn 2010—Double Issue ¤ VRAN Newsletter Newsclips continued from page 30 hospitalized or working days lost.” A (Phase III) in India until the deaths. The rate may be due to the previous 50 years 2009 Italian study of 32,457 elderly is vaccines have been implicated in the of widespread pertussis vaccinations. an example of one that similarly found, deaths of at least 67 young women in the Although Bordatella pertussis is con- “vaccination did not significantly reduce U.S. eliciting no response from health of- sidered the usual cause of whooping the risk of in-hospital death, influenza or ficials who keep pushing it on the public. cough, another causative species is B. pneumonia admission.” parapertussis. Researchers determined The Re- the efficacy of a common acellular per- The Cochrane Review also found port System (VAERS) in the U.S. tussis vaccine against both B. species in 1 case of Guillain-Barré per million reports of serious, life-damaging side mice infected with one or both of them. vaccinated. Considering the numbers effects, and officials have done nothing While vaccination appeared to help clear vaccinated worldwide, factors which about it. So it is unlikely that the U.S. B. pertussis, it was also followed by a probably diluted the true injury rate, the will do anything to stop the vaccine from 40-fold increase in lung colonization by low vaccine efficacy, and the generally being marketed around the world as a parapertussis. mild nature of the illness—can this seri- cancer preventative. ous injury be fairly ignored? A synopsis from Penn State U com- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/o/cochrane/ Since many women in the industrial- ments: “Overall, these data suggest clsysrev/articles/CD001269/frame.html ized world are now learning about the that the vaccine may be contributing to http://www.naturalnews.com/029173_nasal_ dangers of HPV vaccinations and reject- the observed rise in whooping cough swabs_influenza.html ing them, Big Pharma has moved on to incidence over the last decade by pro- other populations in its quest to jab the moting B. parapertussis infection.” But ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ entire world with the dangerous shots. rather than drop aP vaccine, it suggests S o u r c e s : http://www.thaindian.com/ the deficiency be fixed with addition of Parents Concerned About Vac- newsportal; http://www.naturalnews. parapertussis antigen. Would all of us ro- cine Safety com/029632_India_HPV_vaccine.html http:// dents be happy? truthaboutgardasil.org http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/con- An Oct 2010 survey found 89% of tent/early/2010/02/26/rspb.2010.0010. parents think vaccine safety should be ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ abstract given the highest priority amongst health http://www.cidd.psu.edu/research/synopses/ research. The C.S. Mott National Poll Did Acetaminophen Provoke the acellular-vaccine-enhancement-b.-paraper- on Children’s Health asked 1,621 U.S. Autism Epidemic? tussis parents to rate everything from research on vaccines and other drugs to research Independent researcher in central Or- ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ on cancer and rare diseases. Apparently egon. After 30 years studying multiple miffed by the result, Matthew Davis, di- sclerosis he was struck by similarities Influenza Nonsense rector of the poll and associate professor between MS and autism. Email: peter- of pediatrics and internal medicine at U [email protected]. A 2010 Cochrane Review of Influenza of Michigan Medical School, remarked: Vaccine reminds us that, as well as in- “Parental concerns about the safety of Schultz et al (2008) raised the question fluenza, over 200 viruses are associated vaccines have increased markedly over whether regression into autism is trig- with influenza and influenza-like illness. the last decade, due to alleged but later gered, not by the measles-mumps-rubella These viruses “produce the same symp- disproven links between vaccines and (MMR) vaccine, but by acetaminophen toms…Without laboratory tests, doctors autism and related concerns about mer- (Tylenol) given for its fever and pain. cannot tell the two illnesses apart. Both cury and other preservatives used in Considerable evidence supports this con- last for days and rarely lead to death or vaccines.” tention, most notably the exponential rise serious illness.” Another issue is that http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/news.php in the incidence of autism since 1980, nasal swab tests can give false positive ?start=4040&end=4060&view=yes&id=5383 when acetaminophen began to replace results. To be accurate, swabs must be #newspost aspirin for infants and young children. taken high into the nasal passage, a lo- The impetus for this shift - a Centers for cation difficult to reach due to extreme ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ Disease Control and Prevention warning discomfort for the patient. that aspirin was associated with Reye’s India Halts HPV syndrome - has since been compellingly By assessing all trials comparing vac- After Six Girls Die debunked. If aspirin is not to be feared cinated and unvaccinated people, the as a cause of Reyes syndrome, and acet- Cochrane Review found that when flu In India, the deaths of six young aminophen is to be feared as a cause of shot antigens all matched circulating vi- girls following injection with human autism, can the autism epidemic be re- ruses, vaccination of 33 healthy adults papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines during versed by replacing acetaminophen with would negate one set of these influenza experimental trials has prompted the aspirin or other remedies? symptoms which “rarely lead to death Indian government to immediately stop Source: PMID: 20030462;http://www. or serious illness.” When the match all trials of the vaccines. Two imported ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20030462 was only average, 100 would need to be brands of the human papillomavirus √ vaccinated to get that result. “Vaccine (HPV) vaccines, and , use did not affect the number of people were allowed to undergo VRAN Newsletter ¤ Autumn 2010 —Double Issue ¤ Page 31 VRAN Membership and Order Form

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