Fall 2003 ewsletter Vaccination Risk Awareness Network Inc. THE CHALLENGE TO MASS VACCINATION INSIDE THIS ISSUE page By Barbara Loe Fisher 1 - The Challenge to Mass Vaccination It is one of the most successful pub- flicts of interest involving vaccine mak- lic relations stories of the last two cen- ers and federal health agencies. In the 1 - Message to Autism turies: the worldwide acceptance of middle of this scientific, legal and Conference mass vaccination to suppress infectious political battle are defensive pediatri- diseases. Yet the universal use of vac- cians backing parents into a corner and 3 - VRAN News cines as a worthy goal that prevents losing their trust and a booming phar- 13 - Shaken Baby Accusation needless suffering and benefits all maceutical industry with billions of mankind has begun to be challenged dollars invested in new vaccine devel- 15 - Vaccination Risks & Options by a growing number of parents and opment. 18 - No Vaccination Safety Net physicians in the U.S., Canada and Europe. At the heart of the heated pub- How It All Began 19 - Letters lic debate is a challenge to the premise It has been 207 years since British that mass vaccination with multiple 23 - Influenza Shots? physician Edward Jenner acted on a vaccines safely and effectively controls hunch and scraped cowpox pus onto 27 - Dealing With Flu Naturally diseases and improves individual and the arm of an eight-year-old boy. He public health. 28 - News Clips theorized that a mild bout of cowpox The voices of critics are heard in the would prevent a more virulent case of living rooms of families whose children smallpox, and then convinced enough have been injured or have died from people he was right because his proce- vaccine reactions, and in courtrooms dure was quickly adopted by physi- MESSAGE TO AUTISM and state legislatures, where parents cians. But it failed in Jenner’s own 11- CONFERENCE are suing vaccine makers and challeng- month old son and lethal reactions ing mandatory vaccination laws. At were legendary. By Viera Scheibner, Ph.D scientific conferences and in the pages One mother in England bitterly com- (Principal Research Scientist- of prestigious medical journals, retired) plained in 1883 about mandatory vac- researchers and physicians are risking cination laws that allowed public their careers by discussing their Kanner described autism for the health officials to issue a summons, research into vaccine side effects. On first time in 1943. At the time, the threaten parents with imprisonment, network TV, millions are watching par- administered vaccines were diphthe- and impose stiff fines for refusing to ents, who say vaccines hurt their chil- ria, tetanus and occasional whooping vaccinate their children. She said, "In dren, square off with mandatory vacci- cough. Nowadays, babies and small no country has the cry of the mothers nation proponents, who say vaccines children are given a multitude of vac- been allowed a hearing. They who see rarely hurt anyone at all. And in cines besides DPT and Polio: Hib and realize that their children suffer Congress, federal legislators are trying since late 1980's; in the US and from this practice have never been con- to come up with a way to fix the bro- Australia since early 1990's HepB at sulted as to its initiative or its continu- ken federal Vaccine Injury birth and more doses at 1 months or ance. If the will of the mothers could Compensation Program (VICP) while at two and 4 months later, and, be made potent and effective, this cruel others are holding investigative hear- recently in the UK, USA and ings into vaccine safety issues and con- Challenge to Mass Vaccination cont.on page 5 Autism Conference cont. on page 11

VRAN Newsletter Fall 2003 Page 1 VRAN NEWSLETTER The contents of this publication reflect the opinion of the authors only. The Vaccination Risk Awareness Network Inc. P.O. Box 169, Winlaw, B.C. V0G 2J0 authors are not licensed to practice medicine, nor are the opinions in any way to be construed or intended as medical information. This publication is for infor- Coordinator and newsletter editor: Edda West mational purposes only and should not be construed as medical advice. The [email protected] 250-355-2525 particulars of any person’s concerns and circumstances should be discussed VRAN Board of Directors: with a medical doctor prior to making any decision which may affect the health Mary James, Leona Rew, Edda West, Frank Luschak and welfare of that individual or anyone under his or her care. DISCLAIMER VRAN Core Members: Edda West, Susan Fletcher, Lana Belvis, Catherine Diodati, Andreas Schuld, Rita Hoffman, Mary James or more. This year’s bonus offer is a wonderful book entitled “The With thanks to Lisa Farr for the newsletter layout. VRAN NEWS Vaccination Dilemma”, a compilation Statement of Purpose EAR EMBERS of essays by wholistically oriented •VRAN was formed in October of 1992 in response D VRAN M , physicians like Dr. Philip Incao, as well to growing parental concern regarding the safety of November, 2003 current vaccination programs in use in Canada. as Dr. Jason Whittaker’s excellent CD •VRAN continues the work of the Committee Against As we approach the end of the cal- Compulsory Vaccination, who in 1982, challenged audio seminar – “Vaccinations: Ontario’s compulsory “Immunization of School Pupils endar year, fundraising for VRAN Science or Dogma”. Dr. Jason Act”, which resulted in amendment of the Act, and becomes a top priority. VRAN’s exis- Whittaker shares his many years of guarantees an exemption of conscience from any tence as an educational society ‘required’ vaccine. research in this dynamic and inspiring •VRAN forwards the belief that all people have the responding to the public’s need for vac- vaccine awareness lecture which he has right to draw on a broad information base when cine risk information rests on our also presented to many groups in both deciding on drugs offered themselves and/or their children and in particular drugs associated with shoulders. We have no government nor Canada and the U.S. The retail value potentially serious health risks, injury and death. corporate sponsors, and our ability to of the book and CD are $45. VACCINES ARE SUCH DRUGS. continue with this critically important Our deep appreciation goes to a •VRAN is committed to gathering and distributing information and resources that contribute to the work depends on the financial support VRAN family who has pledged $3000 creation of health and well being in our families and you, our members, are able to give. as a matching “dollar for dollar” ini- communities. VRAN operates on a shoestring budget tiative in the hope of inspiring a spirit VRAN’s Mandate is: and last year’s income fell well below of generosity in everyone concerned •To empower parents to make an informed decision the bare minimum we need to cover about the impact of vaccines on chil- when considering vaccines for their children. our operating expenses. This budget dren’s health and public health. Every •To educate and inform parents about the risks, adverse reactions, and contraindications of shortfall threatens our ability to main- dollar you donate is equal to $2 with vaccinations. tain a visible presence as the lone this matching pledge. Please help us •To respect parental choice in deciding whether or “voice in the wilderness” in the face of not to vaccinate their child. enable this generous pledge to swell to •To provide support to parents whose children have overwhelming pro-vaccine propaganda many times it’s worth. suffered adverse reactions and health injuries as a by which a misinformed public is result of childhood vaccinations. •To promote a multi-disciplinary approach to child coerced to submit to the ever expand- and family health utilizing the following modalities: ing vaccine agendas. Where would MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL & herbalist, chiropractor, naturopath, homeopath, people turn to for balanced and truth- EMAIL BULLETINS reflexologist, allopath (regular doctor), etc. ful vaccine information in Canada if •To empower women to reclaim their position as pri- Please remember that your VRAN mary healers in the family. VRAN ceased to exist? membership is renewed in January, the •To maintain links with consumer groups similar to We are appealing for help from a ours around the world through an exchange of infor- beginning of our calendar year. For mation, research and analysis, thereby enabling par- few dedicated members to form a new members joining VRAN, you will ents to reclaim health care choices for their families. fundraising committee which would receive all newsletters issued within the •To support people in their fight for health freedom work throughout the year on fundrais- and to maintain and further the individual's freedom calendar year, regardless of when you from enforced medication. ing initiatives to insure that we not join. Please send us your email address only ‘exist’, but that we thrive and so we can complete our members’ VRAN publishes a newsletter 3 to 4 times a year as forge ahead with larger vaccine aware- a means of distributing information to members and email list and can inform you of break- the community. Suggested annual membership fees, ness initiatives and projects, especially ing news in between Newsletter issues. including quarterly newsletter and your on-going ones that tackle government white- A recent email bulletin urged our support to the Vaccination Risk Awareness Network: washing of vaccine reactions and $35.00—Individual $75.00—Professional members to protest the Ontario We would like to share the personal stories of our injuries and focus attention on the Chiropractic College’s plan to alter membership. If you would like to submit your absence of vaccine injury compensa- Chiropractors’ scope of practice which story, please contact Edda West by fax or e-mail, tion in Canada. as indicated above. would prohibit them from speaking of VRAN website: www.vran.org Every year, we offer a fundraising VRAN News cont. on page 3 bonus to members who donate $150

Page 2 Fall 2003 VRAN Newsletter VRAN News cont. from page 2 brochures as time and place allowed. work. vaccine concerns to patients. A deluge This is something I’ve done in the past Sometimes a parent would be wheel- of protest letters from our members on my own turf. Doing it across the ing an infant or toddler toward me as I has hopefully sent a strong message to country further clarified for me the walked along a street or exercised the College that the public will not tol- enormity of the void of complete vac- along a jogging path. I usually wore erate interference with freedom of cine information and the desire of clothes with large pockets that could speech and a practitioner’s right to Canadians to receive it. hold a few bro’s at the ready. I gave share vaccine awareness information In the Rocky Mountain town of one to a father pushing a baby carriage with patients. Invermere a chiropractor already knew in Trois Riviere. His English was as of us; a VRANewsletter poked out of a limited as my French but we still made VRAN ANNUAL GENERAL display rack in her waiting area. It was the connection. However, things did MEETING the only one I saw on the trip. At slow down in the province of Quebec. Okotoks, south of Calgary, things It felt especially good to be able to get A tentative date is set for our AGM started getting interesting. A camp- information out in the Maritimes to insure that interested members have ground attendant there had no qualms where VRAN is all but non-existent. In an opportunity to join us. The VRAN about adding VRAN bro’s to her Charlottetown my hairdresser and I annual general meeting has been held tourist info rack. Her 7 yr old grand- discussed her and her children’s ill by teleconference these past few years son had become autistic following the health and how vaccines might play a as travel to a conference destination MMR shot. A laundromat custodian part; she had found help from alterna- would be prohibitive for many people. found my offering serendipitous; she’d tive therapies and was receptive to If you are interested in joining us, been debating the merits of Hep B vac- VRAN’s line of thought. please note Saturday, March 13 on cine for her 7 mos old. Further east, When time or opportunity to make your calendar. Call Edda West (250) Alberta yielded another misfortune – a direct contact were lacking, I’d often 355-2525 or Mary James (204) 895- pretty 6 yr old suffering from epilepsy leave small piles of bro’s here and 9192 for details. due, her mother thinks, to DPT vac- there. Of course, health food stores cine. The young mother with babe welcomed them. Sometimes coffee Correction to error in Dr. Incao’s article tending the museum nearby had no shops would take them too. Restrooms We apologize for the misprint in Dr. problem accepting my bro’s for both were a favourite spot – near baby Incao’s article, “Reflections on herself and for the museum’s visitor change tables or on top of toilet tanks Immunity, Vaccinations and Smallpox” info racks. By now the residents of (for closet readers). When a bulletin in the spring/summer 2003 issue of the their tiny town must be quite thor- board caught my eye I’d pin up a fold- VRAN newsletter. Close to the end of oughly educated about the downside ed bro or, if there was room, spread the last paragraph, column 2 on page of vaccinations. two out to show both sides. My most 10 should have read: “The early or The necessity for clean clothes pro- exhilarating bulletin board moment immediate reaction is an indication of vided chat time with the young mother came in Carbon, Alberta on the trip sensitivity to the virus and may be of a pale 3 mos old at Saskatchewan home. The Laundromat there was given by persons who are either sus- Landing. Her father-in-law disapproves located across the hall from the ceptible or immune to smallpox. It of vaccines but she had agreed to the “Wellness Centre” whose hallway bul- cannot be regarded as a successful first three “needles” for her daughter. letin board held the August schedule result and cannot be guaranteed to Whether the brochure’s message will for visits from the chiropractor, foot induce or increase the person’s resis- have any effect on her future choices doctor, etc. The last “well baby clinic” tance to smallpox.”(3) was unclear. At Kakabeka Falls, I had been in July and it wouldn’t reoc- waved the bro at a young couple with cur until September. Naturally, I filled CANADIANS SAY “THANKS” baby camped next door. For them the the gap by providing vaccine informa- By Susan Fletcher timing couldn’t have been better; they tion from VRAN. had delayed their child’s first shots Rarely was there a problem in hand- This summer I was lucky enough to until she was 6 mos old and the second ing out the brochure. One mother with spend three months sauntering across shots were imminent. The father asked a cartload of children in a Portage la Canada on a camping trip from my how I became involved with VRAN. Prairie grocery store literally snatched Pacific coast home to the most easterly He said it was good to be able to it from my hand so keen was she to shore of Newfoundland and back. relate real life stories to relatives who have it. My approach to people was Without compromising my enjoyment criticized their reluctance to vaccinate of the trip, I handed out VRAN VRAN News cont. on page 4 and he urged me to carry on with my

VRAN Newsletter Fall 2003 Page 3 VRAN News cont. from page 3 VRAN BROCHURE simple: usually I’d show the brochure We hope Susan Fletcher’s cross and say “You might be interested in Canada trip will inspire many others reading this.”…..no pressure, just prof- to reprint and distribute the VRAN fer. About 1% refused the bro and brochure in their communities. We walked away; a few were ambivalent. have included a brochure with this The only vitriol I encountered was newsletter for you to photocopy and from two relatives, both scientists. distribute it in your area. Keep them Despite the truth-seeking nature of in your car and have them available to their profession, concerning vaccina- hand out as the opportunity arises and tions their minds were as closed as a post on bulletin boards in every likely geoduck’s shell. Most people took the corner. The following flu shot press bro, read a few lines, kept it and gave release recently sent out to media me their thanks. across Canada can also be copied and distributed in your community.

“Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human free- dom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.” No need to worry about those silly old warnings... I never pay William Pitt (1759 - 1806) any attention to them anyway.

G IVE U S A SHOT O F T RUTH S AYS V ACCINE G ROUP

October 27, 2003 – Winlaw, B.C. Vaccination Risk from BC Vital Statistics Agency disclose an annual aver- Awareness Network Inc (VRAN) is warning Canadians age of 59 deaths directly due to influenza, 2 to 3 indi- they are being fed distortions to encourage their accep- rectly. Considering this, Health Canada’s declared “500 tance of flu shots. Misleading statistics and statements to 1500” direct and indirect flu deaths per year for the regarding flu deaths, incidence and the effectiveness of whole country seems a touch high. For years, the BC the shots are being disseminated by health authorities, Centre for Disease Control has fudged the stats, using ministries of health, the media and pharmacies. 1,400 as the death total for BC alone. In a lock step of deceit, the BC Interior and Vancouver Island Health For those who get influenza-like illness (ILI) once or Authorities blame influenza by itself for “about 7000” twice a year, chances are slim that it’s influenza. and “up to 4500” annual deaths across Canada. Canadian labs consistently show that only about 10% of all ILI reported each year is actually caused by influenza VRAN is Canada’s premier group to advocate for virus; 7% influenza was recorded for 2002/2003. The informed choice in making vaccination decisions. vast majority of flu-like illnesses are caused by other Formed in 1992, it was born of the committee that in viruses against which the vaccine is completely ineffec- 1984 won an exemption of conscience from vaccines tive. Unless the viruses in the vaccine closely match those required by the Ontario ‘Immunization of School Pupils circulating, the vaccine is useless. Even with a good Act’. VRAN recommends consumers beware of flu shot match, only healthy individuals can hope for the “70- propaganda; we hold individuals and organizations 90%” efficacy commonly claimed. These facts are being accountable for misleading information about influenza suppressed.. Millions of taxpayers’ dollars are being and its vaccines. squandered annually for a vaccine with minor benefit. The suggestion that SARS would be easier to detect if all Contact: Canada got a flu shot is ludicrous. Edda West – VRAN Co-ordinator, (250)-355-2525, email: [email protected] The public is being scared with combined Susan Fletcher – VRAN Researcher, influenza/pneumonia death figures which undoubtedly email: [email protected] include all pneumonia deaths. Records preceding 2002 ww.vran.org Reflections on Immunity cont. on page

Page 4 Fall 2003 VRAN Newsletter Challenge to Mass Vaccination cont. from page 1 The Paradigm Shift many are intuitively moving toward legislation would be at once and uni- the notion that preventing illness and However, despite the millions of dol- versally repealed." maintaining health requires better lars that are committed by industry The mothers prevailed in Victorian nutrition, more exercise, management and government to touting the accom- England and got mandatory vaccina- of stress, adopting a positive attitude plishments and benefits of mass vacci- tion laws repealed in that country, and a less toxic and medically intrusive nation programs, cracks are appearing where vaccination remains voluntary approach. A 1998 survey in JAMA in the united front that the medical today. But 19th century physicians in found 39 million Americans made establishment has maintained for two Europe and the U.S. quickly adopted more than 600 million visits to alterna- centuries. In industrialized countries, and promoted Jenner’s new procedure tive health care practitioners in 1997, dissatisfied patients and alternative despite public protests. Physicians and more than to primary care physicians. health care proponents are questioning politicians were desperate to keep epi- The patients paid most of the $21.2 orthodox medicine’s basic foundations, demic diseases from invading the over- billion cost themselves because health especially its heavy reliance on surgery crowded, filthy cities of Europe and insurance plans generally don’t reim- and synthetic drugs. The proliferating the New World. They failed to realize burse patients or have limited reim- numbers of vaccines are just one more that eliminating the root causes of bursement for alternative health care, target for increasingly well educated poor health — poverty, malnutrition, such as chiropractic. The patients and Internet-savvy health care con- water contaminated by human and wanted alternative therapies primarily sumers, who are wary of the many animal waste, spoiled food, and indus- to "prevent future illness from occur- magic bullets drug companies promote. trial air pollution, among others — ring or to maintain health and vitali- Where doctors once prescribed would help prevent the spread of many ty." antibiotics for every sore throat and diseases. Today, effective public health Embracing the more spiritual con- sniffle, prescription-dependent patients measures such as improving sanitation, cept of achieving better health through are now being blamed for new strains nutrition, living conditions, health edu- better living rather than through better of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. A new cation and access to affordable and chemistry, members of the ME genera- drug promoted as a lifesaver today is convenient health care, especially in tion — who challenged every institu- sometimes pulled off the market underprivileged populations, often take tion and social convention as teenagers tomorrow for killing those who took a back seat to achieving a 100 percent — continue to exercise their counter- it. In the April 15, 1998 issue of the vaccination rate. culture instincts as adults and parents Journal of the American Medical Health officials and doctors point to by asserting their right to make inde- Association (JAMA), an analysis of how successful mandatory mass vacci- pendent health care choices for them- drug side effects found that toxic reac- nation policies have been in dramati- selves and their children. And they tions to correctly prescribed medica- cally reducing the numbers of cases of have been joined by segments of the tions make more than two million once routine childhood diseases, such "X, Y and echo" generations who Americans seriously ill every year and as measles. In 1965 before routine use grew up going to health food stores kill 106,000, putting the side effects of of measles vaccine, there were more with their parents and now can pick doctor-directed drug taking among the than 400,000 cases of measles reported up bottles of Echinacea, Goldenseal top 10 causes of death in the United in the U.S. By 1995 with nearly 95 and soy vitamin drinks at the chain States. Among children, antibiotics and percent of American children receiving grocery and drug stores. vaccines cause more adverse reactions measles vaccine, there were only 309 The pharmaceutical industry and than any other prescribed medicines, cases. Baby boomers, who lined up in organized medicine, which have had a according to a Canadian study present- school in 1955 for polio vaccinations, stranglehold on the popular imagina- ed at the American Academy of witnessed the eradication of polio from tion when it comes to how we view Allergy and Asthma in 1998. An the western hemisphere in 1979. These health, may be gritting their collective analysis of Canadian data on more impressive declines in childhood infec- teeth about the people’s move toward than 1,500 cases of drug reactions tious diseases have made mass vaccina- herbal supplements and yoga and between 1985 and 1995 found that the tion policies the cornerstone of govern- away from Ritalin and Prozac, but antibiotics amoxicillan and ampicillan ment preventive health programs they are not about to tolerate indepen- accounted for 24 percent of total around the world. dent thinking when it comes to vacci- adverse reactions, with vaccines com- nation. The public demand for the ing in second at 19 percent. freedom to make vaccination choices As the over-drugged, over-vaccinated baby boomer generation comes of age, Challenge to Mass Vaccination cont. on page 6

VRAN Newsletter Fall 2003 Page 5 Challenge to Mass Vaccination cont. from page 5 nity got into the act. An article on about the individual successfully over- puzzles and worries MDs, including what the parents in Texas managed to coming illness. He is part of a group of some outspoken alternative health care do became hyperactively discussed in physicians in the U.S. and Europe who advocates. the pages of The Lancet. PROVE are taking a holistic approach to health Andrew Weil, MD, a respected President Dawn Richardson comment- and healing that marks the paradigm leader in the alternative health care ed "I didn’t know we were creating an shift that is occurring in health care. movement, defends mass vaccination. international incident by standing up According to Incao: Sparring with Richard Moscowitz, MD for the right to exercise informed con- "Physically, health is about balanc- in Natural Health magazine in 1997, sent to vaccination. If vaccines are so ing acute inflammatory responses to Weil asserted, "The debate about safe and so effective, why are doctors infection, which stimulate one arm of immunization could only be going on so afraid of people having the freedom the immune system, and chronic in a country where the people are to follow their conscience and make inflammatory responses to infection, mostly immunized. If people in this informed vaccine choices?" which stimulate the other arm of the country lived with these diseases, you immune system. Just like a seesaw, the wouldn’t hear them questioning immu- Vaccines: Man vs. Nature two arms of the immune system must nization." Moskowitz, a clinician who remain in balance to maintain health. Vaccines are supposed to fool the specializes in homeopathy, countered, Vaccines tend to stimulate only one body’s immune system into producing "For us to bombard a newborn baby side of the immune system. Overuse of antibodies to resist viral and bacterial with a whole battery of vaccines as, in vaccines to suppress all acute, external- infection in the same way that actually effect, their first immunological experi- izing inflammations early in life can set having the disease usually produces ence I think is reckless beyond mea- up the immune system to respond to immunity to future infection. But vac- sure. I would say it borders on the future stresses and infections by devel- cines atypically introduce into the criminal." oping chronic internalizing disease human body lab altered live viruses And as questioning parents are later in life." and killed bacteria along with chemi- thrown out of pediatricians’ offices if However, visitors to the US Centers cals, metals, drugs and other additives they do not submit their children to for Disease Control and Prevention such as formaldehyde, aluminum, mer- every state mandated vaccine and the (CDC) website are told that "vaccines cury, monosodium glutamate, sodium American Medical Association (AMA) give your baby’s immune system the phosphate, phenoxyethanol, gelatin, and American Academy of Pediatrics chance to practice and make protective sulfites, yeast protein, antibiotics as (AAP) adopt a "no exemption to vacci- antibodies before real germs invade. If well as unknown amounts of RNA and nation" stance, parent vaccine safety left totally to chance, your baby’s first DNA from animal and human cell tis- and informed consent advocates are exposure to a disease may be from a sue cultures. organizing in states and fighting for germ too strong for your baby to fight. Whereas natural recovery from the right to freely make vaccine choic- That’s why before parents had vaccines many infectious diseases stimulates es. In 2003, after seven years of work for their children, many children died lifetime immunity, vaccines only pro- in Texas and two years of work in from whooping cough, measles, diph- vide temporary protection and most Arkansas, citizens of both those states theria and other diseases. Those same vaccines require "booster" doses to won the legal right to exercise consci- germs exist today but today’s babies extend vaccine-induced artificial immu- entious, philosophical or religious are protected by vaccines." nity. The fact that manmade vaccines belief exemptions to vaccination. At the center of the vaccination cannot replicate the body’s natural Outraged by the success of the effort debate, then, are two equally con- experience with the disease is one of in Texas led by Parents Requesting tentious questions. First, is it better to the key points of contention between Open Vaccine Education (PROVE), protect children against infectious dis- those who insist that mankind cannot physicians and public health officials ease early in life through temporary live without mass use of multiple vac- mounted a public protest in an unsuc- immunity from a vaccine or are they cines and those who believe that cessful attempt to convince the legisla- better off contracting certain conta- mankind’s biological integrity will be ture in special session to repeal the gious infections in childhood and severely compromised by their contin- conscientious belief exemption just attaining permanent immunity? ued use. signed into law by the Governor. Second, do vaccine complications ulti- Philip Incao, M.D., a Colorado Sensing a threat to their dominance mately cause more chronic illness and physician who utilizes a multidiscipli- that could become contagious, even death than infectious diseases do? Both nary approach in his alternative health the international public health commu- care practice, maintains that health is Challenge to Mass Vaccination cont. on page 7

Page 6 Fall 2003 VRAN Newsletter Challenge to Mass Vaccination cont. from page 6 betes and a 300 to 600 percent appear to be a result of the aging of questions essentially pit trust in human increase in autism in most states. These the population. intervention against trust in nature and increasingly common brain and In Europe, a 2000 report by the the natural order, which existed long immune system disorders plaguing our EURODIAB study group published in before vaccines were created by man. children are forcing public school sys- The Lancet evaluated the incidence tems to build special education class- rate of diabetes from 1989 to 1994 in More Vaccines and More rooms to accommodate the special Europe and Israel and found a 63 per- Immune and Brain System needs of these children who are "stuck cent increase in children under 5 years Dysfunction on sick." old, a 31 percent increase in children After heart disease and cancer, five to nine years old; and a 24 percent Between 1964 and 2002, the US autoimmune disease has become the increase in children 10 to 14 years old. added eight new vaccines (a total of 23 third leading cause of illness in the They said "The rapid rate of increase doses) to the mandatory vaccination United States and in many technologi- in children under 5 years old is of par- schedule, including five doses of live cally advanced countries. According to ticular concern." There is no explana- virus polio; two doses of live MMR the American Academy of Allergy, tion for why adult-onset diabetes, once (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccine; four Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI), extremely rare in children, has become doses of Hib (haemophilus influenzae the autoimmune disease, asthma, is more prevalent in American children in type b, which is a type of meningitis); now "the most common disorder in the past ten years. three doses of hepatitis B vaccine; one children and adolescents, affecting In addition to an unexplained dose of live virus varicella zoster nearly five million children under the increase in autoimmune disorders dur- (chicken pox) vaccine; four doses of age of 18, including an estimated 1.3 ing the past three decades, there also pneumococcal vaccine and more strict- million children under the age of five. has been an unexplained increase in ly enforced existing laws mandating Fifty to 80 percent of children affected the numbers of minimally brain dam- five doses of DPT (diphtheria-pertus- with asthma develop symptoms before aged children who are filling class- sis-tetanus) vaccine. they are five years old." rooms for the learning disabled in In addition to more than doubling A 1997 study published in Science schools across America. A disability the number of doses of vaccine chil- found that asthma has doubled in survey of US children under 17 years dren have received during the past four Western societies during the previous old published in the Morbidity and decades, vaccination coverage rates 20 years and in the United States caus- Mortality Weekly Report (August 25, rose in the US from between 60 and 80 es one-third of pediatric emergency 1995) stated that the "6 to 14 year old percent in 1967 for MMR, polio and room visits. A 1995 report by the age group had the greatest number of DPT vaccines to between 80 and 95 CDC stated that between 1982 and disabled people." Learning disability percent coverage in 1996 for MMR, 1992, asthma increased 52 percent for led the way, occurring in nearly 30 polio, DPT, hepatitis B and Hib vac- persons between 5 and 34 years old percent of all disabled children. A total cines. Since 1996, vaccination coverage and asthma deaths increased 42 per- of 1,435,000 children were listed as rates for American children entering cent. learning disabled with another kindergarten have continued to hover Another autoimmune disorder, 1,446,000 children reported as suffer- around 95 percent with the "core" arthritis, is also "on a steady rise" ing from speech disorders, mental vaccines. Reported coverage rates are according to the CDC in 1998, which retardation, mental or emotional disor- lower in states that include the two estimated that arthritis now plagues ders, epilepsy and autism. newest mandated vaccines, hepatitis B more than 40 million Americans and The 1997 Digest of Education and chicken pox, in their reports. projected that the number will grow to Statistics looked at children 0 to 21- During the same time period that the 60 million by 2020. Cases of diabetes, years-old served in federally supported number of doses of childhood vaccines yet another chronic autoimmune disor- programs for the disabled between have more than doubled and vaccina- der, have tripled in the US since 1958, 1976 and 1996 and found that the tion coverage rates have neared 95 per- now affecting nearly 16 million numbers of children with specific cent for five year olds, the number of Americans and ranking fourth in the learning disabilities more than tripled American children suffering from leading causes of death in America. in those years; those with serious emo- immune and brain system dysfunction The CDC concluded in 1997 that "the tional disturbances nearly doubled; has risen dramatically. There has been number of newly diagnosed cases of and the numbers of autistic children a doubling of learning disabilities, diabetes was almost 50 percent higher served rose from 5,000 in 1991-92 to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in 1994 than in 1980" and did not (ADHD), and asthma, a tripling of dia- Challenge to Mass Vaccination cont. on page 8

VRAN Newsletter Fall 2003 Page 7 Challenge to Mass Vaccination cont. from page 7 autism, which is affecting more and revealed that during a 15 year period 39,000 in 1995-1996 to produce a more children in the US, Canada and from 1987 to 2002, the number of staggering 680 percent increase. Europe and has caused the most con- new cases of autism increased by 634 About five percent of US children (at troversy in the vaccine safety debate. percent while the number of other dis- least two million children) are estimat- abilities only increased between 57 and ed to have attention deficit disorder Autism Numbers Soar 79 percent. Between the years 1999 (ADD) or attention deficit hyperactivi- and 2002, the number of new autism The Autism Society of America ty disorder (ADHD). A 1990 survey of cases entering the system nearly dou- (ASA) estimates that "more than one- 2,400 practicing physicians showed bled. Autism, once rare (1 in 10, 000 half million people in the US today there were about two million patient births) is now the number one disabili- have autism or some form of pervasive visits with the diagnoses of ADD. By ty entering California’s DDS system developmental disorder," making 1994, ADD diagnoses had increased to and is estimated to be occurring in 1 in autism one of the most common devel- 4.7 million, with 90 percent being pre- 323 children. Because these latest fig- opmental disabilities. Autism is also scribed drug therapy. By 1995, there ures only represent those cases which the fastest growing developmental dis- were 1.5 million children taking are professionally diagnosed as full ability affecting children in the U.S. Ritalin and a 2000 study reported that spectrum autism and does not include A 1998 Maryland Special Education the number of two to four year olds milder forms of autism or those chil- Census Data report revealed that the taking prescription drugs like Ritalin dren born before 1997, the autism state experienced a 513 percent and Prozac rose 50 percent between prevalence numbers for California may increase in autism between 1993 and 1991 and 1995. be closer to 1 in 150 children. 1998, while the general population in According to one NIH official, 40 Although public health officials and Maryland increased just seven percent percent of children diagnosed with doctors in the US, Canada and Europe from 1990 to 1998. Between 1992 and ADHD have learning disabilities and are claiming that autism in children is 1997, data from the 16th and 20th "anywhere from 20 to 70 percent of not actually increasing but just appears Annual Reports to Congress on the children who have ADHD also have to be increasing because of changes in implementation of the Individuals with conduct disorder" often involving diagnostic criteria, better diagnosis and Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) delinquent behavior. The growing better record keeping, parents of autis- showed a 300 percent increase in autis- numbers of children with an ADHD tic children disagree. Rick Rollens, the tic children served under IDEA in 25 diagnosis is cause for concern because, father of an autistic son and co- states. as one researcher observed in an article founder of the M.I.N.D. Institute at In an April 1999 report, the state of in JAMA in 1998: "Adults with a his- the University of California-Davis, said California’s Department of tory of attention deficit hyperactivity "Anyone who knows anything about Developmental Services (DDS) found a disorder appear to be over represented autism knows it can’t be better diagno- 273 percent increase between 1987 in the ranks of felons." This observa- sis because you can’t hide an autistic and 1998 in the numbers of new chil- tion coincides with the evidence pre- child. You can spot an autistic child dren entering the DDS system with a sented by medical historian Harris from across an airport." professional diagnosis of autism. The Coulter, Ph.D. in his 1990 book report concluded that "the number of Vaccination, Social Violence and Conservative Institute of persons with autism grew markedly Criminality, where he draws parallels Medicine Weighs In faster than the number of persons with between the residual learning disabili- other developmental disabilities (cere- Because the brain and immune sys- ties and hyperactive/abnormal behav- bral palsy, epilepsy and mental retarda- tems develop at their most rapid rate ior caused by complications of disease tion) and "compared to characteristics in the first three years of life, it is a or vaccine-induced encephalitis and the of 11 years ago, the present population legitimate scientific question to ask hyperactive/abnormal behavior and of persons with autism are younger whether artificial manipulation of the learning disabilities being exhibited by (and) have a greater chance of exhibit- immature immune system with vac- more and more American children. ing no or milder forms of mental retar- cines can cause permanent damage and Many children with learning disabil- dation…" death and could be contributing to an ities, ADHD and developmental delays In a report in April 2000, the CDC increase in immune mediated neurolog- exhibit signs of autoimmune dysfunc- found the incidence of autism in Brick ical and autoimmune dysfunction in tion, with severe allergies to foods, Township, New Jersey in 1998 was 1 children. Underlying the skepticism drugs, and environmental toxins. This in 150 children. In 2003, the state of about the safety of national one-size- is particularly true for a brain disorder, California issued another report that Challenge to Mass Vaccination cont. on page 9

Page 8 Fall 2003 VRAN Newsletter Challenge to Mass Vaccination cont. from page 8 enough, the IOM could not conclude Committee on vaccines and autoim- fits-all vaccine policies, which do not whether or not vaccines were involved mune dysfunction, the committee take into account biodiversity and in the development of many other found that scientific evidence from epi- genetic differences and justify vaccine brain and immune system disorders demiological studies on whether aller- casualties with the utilitarian "greater such as residual seizure disorders, gy, including asthma, can be caused by good" argument, is a basic challenge aseptic meningitis, learning disabilities, multiple vaccination was conflicting to the quality and quantity of the sci- attention deficit disorder, erythema and concluded the evidence "was inad- ence which is used to under-pin mass multiforme (lesions of the skin or equate to accept or reject a causal rela- vaccination policies. mucous membranes), or certain tionship." The committee found there When Congress passed the National demyelinating diseases of the brain was biological mechanism evidence Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, such as optic neuritis and transverse that vaccines could increase the risk of they included a mandate for the myelitis. immune dysfunction in some children Institute of Medicine (IOM), National The 1991 IOM report concluded "In that could lead to increased infections Academy of Sciences, to convene inde- the course of its review, the committee and allergy, including asthma. It stated pendent experts to examine the med- found many gaps and limitations in that "the biological mechanism evi- ical literature and gather other evi- knowledge bearing directly and indi- dence regarding increased risk for dence to find out whether vaccines can rectly on the safety of vaccines. Such infections is strong." The report or cannot cause permanent disability shortcomings relate, for example, to added: and death. Between 1991 and 2003, pathologic mechanisms of specific "The committee was unable to the IOM published reports which have infectious agents, the molecular basis address the concern that repeated been both praised and denounced by of vaccine injury, and the natural histo- exposure of a susceptible child to mul- public health officials and parents ry of conditions such as encephalopa- tiple immunizations over the develop- alike. thy, mental retardation and chronic mental period may also produce atypi- But whatever the two sides have to arthritis….many of the population cal or non-specific immune or nervous say about the IOM reports, it is clear based epidemiologic studies are too system injury that could lead to severe that one of the most conservative seg- small or have inadequate lengths of disability or death. There are no epi- ments of the scientific community has follow-up to have a reasonable chance demiological studies that address this. looked at the evidence and concluded of detecting true adverse events, unless Thus, the committee recognizes with that, yes, vaccines can cause a range of these effects are large or occur prompt- some discomfort that this report autoimmune and brain dysfunction ly and consistently after vaccination. If addresses only part of the overall set of and there is a lot that is still unknown research capacity and accomplishment concerns of some of those most wary about vaccine side effects. And, like in this field are not improved, future about the safety of childhood immu- the National Childhood Vaccine Injury reviews of vaccine safety will be simi- nizations." Act of 1986, this is the first "official" larly handicapped." acknowledgement of that fact in the The 1994 IOM report again noted Evidence that Diseases and history of vaccination in the U.S. that "the lack of adequate data regard- Vaccines Adversely Affect In the 1991 and 1994 reports, IOM ing many of the adverse events under Brain Function committees found a causal relationship study was of major concern to the Inflammation of the brain between certain vaccines and autoim- committee. Presentations at public (encephalitis, encephalomyelitis, mune disorders such as acute and meetings indicated that many parents encephalopathy) has been documented chronic arthritis, Guillain Barre syn- and physicians share this concern." for more than 200 years in the medical drome (GBS), and thrombocytopenia The report added, "The committee was literature to be caused by viral and (failure of blood to clot) as well as able to identify little information per- bacterial infections as well as by vac- brain inflammation and encephalopa- taining to why some individuals react cines containing altered viruses and thy (degenerative disease of the brain). adversely to vaccines when most do bacteria. It is well known that small- Two live virus vaccines — oral polio not. When it is clear that a vaccine can pox infection and smallpox vaccine (OPV) and measles — were found to cause a specific adverse event, research can both cause brain inflammation as cause vaccine strain viral infections should be encouraged to elucidate the can rabies and rabies vaccine. that could end in death. Because either factors that put certain people at risk It is widely accepted that pertussis or too few scientific studies had been con- for that adverse reaction." whooping cough can cause brain ducted or the quality of the studies In a report in 2002 issued by the inflammation and permanent brain which were conducted were not good IOM Immunization Safety Review Challenge to Mass Vaccination cont. on page 10

VRAN Newsletter Fall 2003 Page 9 Challenge to Mass Vaccination cont. from page 9 autoreactive T-cells. And in individuals The virus that causes hepatitis B dis- damage, with endotoxin and pertussis genetically susceptible to developing ease attacks the liver and can cause toxin in the B. pertussis bacteria autoimmunity, chronic inflammation such severe joint pain, fatigue and responsible for most of it. In 1994, the and/or autoantibodies may occur that weakness that the disease is sometimes IOM acknowledged that the whole cell selectively destroy organs in the body mistaken for rheumatoid arthritis or pertussis vaccine in the DPT shot, such as the brain. lupus. Rare complications of hepatitis which contains endotoxin and pertus- The pertussis toxin has been shown B disease include demyelinating dis- sis toxin, can cause both acute brain in animal studies to provoke excess ease, such as transverse myelitis and inflammation and chronic neurologic production of insulin by the pancreas neuropathy. dysfunction in previously healthy chil- and diabetes in mice. And from the Likewise, clinical symptoms that fol- dren within seven days of receipt of earliest days of pertussis vaccine use, it low hepatitis B vaccine complications DPT vaccine. has been associated with development are similar to lupus or rheumatoid Measles virus infection has long of asthma in previously healthy chil- arthritis as well as optic neuritis and been associated with demyelinating dren . multiple sclerosis. GBS, chronic fatigue disorders and brain damage. In 1998, The primary complications for and vascular disorders have also been officials of the federal Vaccine Injury rubella disease and live rubella vaccine reported following hepatitis B vaccina- Compensation Program found that a are autoimmune. There is evidence that tion. Researchers have also described causal relationship exists between live persistent rubella viral infection in con- CNS inflammation within 10 weeks of measles vaccine and encephalopathy genital rubella victims can cause dia- hepatitis B vaccination and concluded after analyzing cases of children who betes. And chronic arthritis has been that, "The persistent inflammatory received measles vaccine alone or in confirmed to be caused by both the activity observed clinically and on the combination MMR shot and, with- disease and vaccine. MRI in these patients is comparable to in 15 days of vaccination, suffered Since the late 1800’s, the develop- that usually observed in multiple scle- neurologic signs that progressed to ment of diabetes after mumps infection rosis," hypothesizing a triggering role death or mental regression, retarda- has been reported and there have been of hepatitis B vaccination in CNS tion, chronic seizures, motor and sen- case reports of diabetes following demyelination. sory deficits and movement disorders. mumps vaccination and after measles- mumps vaccination and MMR vacci- Barbara Loe Fisher is co-founder Evidence that Diseases and nation. In 2003, a study conducted by and president of the National Vaccine Vaccines Cause Immune Barthelow Classen and David Carey Information Center (NVIC). She is co- Dysfunction Classen, published in the Journal of author of DPT: A Shot in the Dark Pediatric Endocrinology and and editor of THE VACCINE REAC- In addition to brain inflammation, Metabolism, identified clusters of cases TION newsletter. She served on the however, viral and bacterial diseases of type 1 diabetes mellitus, occurring National Vaccine Advisory Committee, and viral and bacterial vaccines have in consistent temporal time periods the Institute of Medicine Vaccine been associated with the development after Hib vaccination, and it concluded Safety Forum and the FDA Vaccines of autoimmune dysfunction. In 1935, that there are also clusters of cases of and Related Biological Products scientists investigating the neurological diabetes occurring 2-4 years after per- Advisory Committee. complications of rabies vaccine discov- tussis, MMR and BCG vaccination. For more information about vac- ered they could deliberately induce The study data were also consistent cines and NVIC: http://www.nvic.org brain inflammation in lab animals by with the occurrence of clusters follow- NVIC has a free Vaccine E-News injecting them with brain myelin, caus- ing mumps infection. daily bulletin service. ing an autoimmune reaction whereby A gastrointestinal disorder thought the animal develops antibodies to its to be caused by infectious or immune This article was reprinted from the own brain tissue, causing demyelina- mechanisms is Crohn’s disease, which Redflags Weekly Online Vaccine tion. has been linked to measles infection Conference. Part 2 will be reprinted in The autoimmune diseases, diabetes, and measles vaccine. Crohn’s disease the March, 2004 VRAN Newsletter. multiple sclerosis and lupus, for exam- and ulcerative colitis, both thought to http://www.redflagsweekly.com/confer- ple, involve chronic inflammation that be autoimmune disorders, have also ences/vaccines/index.html causes tissue destruction including cen- been reported to occur at a high rate in tral nervous system damage. It is persons who had measles and mumps thought that these diseases may be infections in the same year of life. triggered by an infection that activates

Page 10 Fall 2003 VRAN Newsletter Autism Conference cont. from page 1 contains animal microorganisms. The a vaccinated child: vaccinated children Australia, also meningococcal C and amount of toxins, such as mercury often have difficulty developing natural pneumococcal vaccines. I am surprised exceeds manifold what is considered a immunity and may come down with that any babies survive such an assault safe level. There is no safe level for measles several time. Those vaccinated, of toxic substances as vaccines are, formaldehyde. Is it surprising that it and only those vaccinated, also may containing not only a number of for- was published already in 1990's that develop atypical measles, which is an eign proteins (antigens) which are bac- the US infant mortality rates rival those especially vicious form of measles due teria or their protein envelopes and of the Third World? As if this was not to immunosuppression by vaccination. viruses, but also adjuvant and tissue disconcerting enough, when babies die I observe that even many of those fixatives and preservatives. However, from vaccines, parents and other care- doctors trying to warn of the dangers no babies survive without some delete- of rious effect, even though most parents think that their babies were 'perfectly Infectious diseases are beneficial normal' until the last assault by MMR. Their babies had previous reactions, for children... provided they are but parents believed their doctors that it was normal and to be expected. properly managed. MMR was just the last straw that broke the camel's back! When I attended the Conference on givers are accused of Shaken Baby vaccines, say that they are not against Autism at the Tulane Medical School Syndrome (SBS)! Vaccinators not only vaccination and that they do not want in New Orleans, I told one of the kill your babies, then they also throw to see those large epidemics of measles, mother-doctors who organized the you into prison. No thanks for your mumps and rubella. I urge these doc- seminar that her son experienced seri- unquestioning compliance. tors to take the time to study what has ous reactions to his first vaccines, not Many parents vaccinate because they already been documented in medical just MMR. First she said "No" and are told and hence mistakenly believe research about the dangers and ineffec- then when I asked her to have a look that infectious diseases represent a tiveness of individual vaccines. The at the photos of her child she was surge that has to be prevented at ANY only safe vaccine is the one never showing during her lecture (from birth price; quite the opposite is true. administered. to after MMR), put her hand over one Infectious diseases are beneficial for The Amish who claim religious eye and have a look where the other is children by priming and maturing their exemption to vaccination, did not aiming and then change hands, she immune system, provided they are report a single case of measles between would notice that the child was not properly managed. Complications and 1970 and 1987 (for 18 years!) That focusing properly and the color of the death may arise if such diseases are was the time when the well-vaccinated eyes changed into pitch black (indicat- mismanaged, by the inappropriate communities experienced regular 2-3 ing toxicity). Then she admitted that he administration of antibiotics in a viral year epidemics amongst those who screamed for 3 days after every DPT, disease such as measles; this damages were vaccinated. Then, starting in Hib and Polio vaccines. I asked her the gut flora and suppresses the December 1987, the Amish reported "What do you think he screamed of?" immune system. Antibiotics are useless large outbreaks of measles already in and she said she did not know. I told in a viral disease anyway, even if they 1982, just when the US health authori- her that he screamed from excruciating worked. ties were going to pronounce measles pain due to brain inflammation. She Relentless suppression of fever (an eradicated (by 1 October 1982). should have prudently stopped any important healing process) is another Obviously, infectious diseases have vaccination after the first screaming example of quackery in the orthodox their own dynamics which are not event. medical system. studied, because of the morbid preoc- Animal viruses (the most well-known The best treatment in any infectious cupation with vaccination. are the monkey, simian, viruses and diseases is sufficiently high doses ofvit- When the individual US states man- amoebas in the polio vaccines) contam- amin C. dated DPT vaccination starting in inate the vaccines because most of There is also a substantial difference 1978, the incidence of whooping cough them are cultured on animals tissue between acquiring measles by an increased in a sustained manner, with and one does not have to be a rocket unvaccinated healthy child (meaning the majority of cases occurring scientist to realize that animal tissue no vaccines at all, not just MMR) and Autism Conference cont. on page 12

VRAN Newsletter Fall 2003 Page 11 Autism Conference cont. from page 11 Many medical researchers now see the value of their own research between 6 weeks and 6 months and in admit that a pandemic of such results. One or two cases of adverse the vaccinated! In contrast to this, immunoreactive disorders as asthma events after vaccination may be coinci- when the UK parents stopped vaccinat- and allergies is caused by too much dental, but not hundreds of thousands ing in 1975, it was followed by the hygiene and mass vaccination pro- of cases all over the vaccine-crazy longest interepidemic period with the grams, but that does not mean that we developed world. Do vaccines cause lowest incidence of whooping cough should change these (harmful) health autism? Quite obviously, they do! You on record. When the normal 4-year practices. They just fall short of saying have seen it with your own eyes and epidemic arrived in 1978 the age distri- that infectious diseases are desirable, some even video-recorded it. I am re- bution returned back to normal: the because having measles prevents asth- introducing the word OBVIOUS into majority of cases occurred in 4 year ma and other immunoreactive diseases, science. Besides this, there is plenty of olds. The same happened in Sweden degenerative diseases of bone and car- published research documenting how after 1979 when they discontinued the tilage, sebaceous skin diseases and cer- and why vaccines cause autism (and use of pertussis vaccine: no incidence tain cancers (as published in the Lancet many other deleterious effects): by deranging all systems in the body, starting with the immune system. There are many angles to approach Parents believe your own eyes. this problem, but they all point in the same direction. Stop vaccinating and you will have healthy and normal chil- below the age of six months, with very in 1985). That having mumps prevents dren, as non-vaccinating parents all low incidence below the age of 2 1/2 ovarian cancer, was published already over the world will confirm. The only years and the majority of cases occur- in 1966. That rubella vaccination does people who should get vaccines are the ring between 2 1/2 and 10 years. At not prevent congenital rubella syn- vaccinators. Medical Observer pub- that age, whooping cough is not a dan- drome and that immunity acquired by lished another of my letters to the edi- gerous disease. It is only potentially having the disease is superior to that tor, in which I challenged an aggressive dangerous in small babies. acquired by vaccination, has been pub- pro-vaccinator to go on TV and to When you hear about outbreaks of lished in Australia and elsewhere. show us how safe vaccines are, by any 'vaccine-preventable' infectious Babies and small children do not allowing himself to be injected with all diseases, first ask how many of the need any vaccines. Individually admin- baby vaccines and either put up put up 'victims' were vaccinated (you will istered, measles, rubella and mumps or shout up. He chose to shut up. I usually hear that most, if not all). In vaccines are just as harmful as given told a few prosecutors in the US to the last four years, Australia has been together. Medical Observer published take their flu injections every year. Tell experiencing large outbreaks of my letter to the editor in which I wrote vaccinators to take their own medicine whooping cough, after our former that the best way to know whether and then watch the horror in their health minister increased the vaccina- MMR causes autism or not is to stop eyes. tion compliance by unlawful means, by using it. Japan admitted the causal link http://vacinfo.org/viera.htm making certain social security pay- between MMR and the OBSERVED ments depend on vaccination (even side effects such as meningitis and sim- DEFINITION * TREATMENT * PREVENTION though this can be circumvented when ply discontinued MMR vaccination. Autism is 1 in 150 children today, 1 in 'conscientious objection' is lodged; this No epidemics of higher magnitude 68 families! TAAP (The Autism is an equally questionable practice than normal of measles, mumps or Autoimmunity Project) is a non profit since vaccination is not mandatory in rubella followed. There is nothing charity dedicated to obtaining funding Australia, so why would anybody have wrong with that. When people tell me for independent research addressing to claim conscientious objection to it). that the UK Health Department pub- immune and immunogenetic abnor- Large epidemics of polio followed lished that so many children then died malities in autism. Please visit our mass vaccination drives in Taiwan, from measles, I always ask "And you website for more information at: Oman, Namibia, Gambia, Jordan, believe it?" Vaccinators are capable of http://www.AutismAutoimmunityProje Albania and many other countries, publishing not only lies, "They publish ct.org and help us put an end to this typically mostly after the first dose. total lies", as one TV cameraman said. silent epidemic!!! Know the Cause, This is all published in the Lancet and Parents believe your own eyes. Sadly, FUND the Cure! other reputable medical journals. you can't trust doctors who can't even

Page 12 Fall 2003 VRAN Newsletter They caused Lucas’s diabetes, metabol- ANOTHER FAMILY DESTROYED BY ic acidosis, reduction of potassium lev- els in cardiac muscles and other tis- SHAKEN BABY ACCUSATION sues, vitamin K deficiency, and bacteri- By Lisa Mullenax al infections.” “The vaccines given to Lucas on July Our beautiful 3 1/2 month old Baby took him to his pediatrician because he 23, 2002 induced an upper respiratory Lucas was killed by adverse reactions was still suffering from an upper respi- tract infection within 1-2 days post- to vaccines and over-dose of medica- ratory tract infection. Also, one day vaccination and I believe that this tions. As a result, my husband and I prior to Lucas’s vaccination, his moth- infection also caused Lucas’s urinary have lost our home, our savings, our er suffered from mastitis and she was tract bacterial infection observed on careers, and our reputations because treated with a 10 days-course of August 28th and his pneumonia dis- we were accused by the medical estab- Dicloxallin. She breast-fed Lucas dur- covered at autopsy. Lucas’s systemic lishment of having killed our precious ing her treatment with an antibiotic infections caused hyperglycemia and baby. Our lives have radically changed and he developed diarrhea. metabolic acidosis, which subsequently in this past year. The police investigat- Furthermore, Lisa was also treated led to the reduction of the levels of ed our son's death for 11 1/2 months with an eleven days-course of an potassium in the cardiac muscle and and then came by surprise and indicted antibiotic on May 20th, when Lucas nervous tissues and that led to cardiac my husband. My husband, Alejandro was four-days old and she also breast- arrest. Serious adverse reactions to is currently incarcerated due to incom- fed him during her treatment.”. vaccines and death in children have petent physicians and blatant medical “The clinical data collected during also been reported in the medical liter- malpractice. He is charged with 1st Lucas’s hospitalization following his ature. For example, in the USA, and 3rd degree murder and the state of cardiac arrest on August 27th revealed reports to the Vaccine Adverse Event Pennsylvania is seeking the death that he suffered from serious health Reporting System (VAERS), concerning penalty. problems, which were responsible for infant immunization against pertussis Dr. Mohammed Al-Bayati, a highly his cardiac arrest and the bleeding in between January 1, 1995 and June 30, respected toxicologist and pathologist the brain, subdura, retina, and other 1998, revealed 285 cases of death and conducted a thorough investigation locations. These included diabetes mel- 971 cases of non-fatal serious illness- into the true causes of our son's death litus; metabolic acidosis, liver damage, es.” which led him to make some startling urinary tract bacterial infection, pneu- “The treatment of Lucas’s mother discoveries.. The evidence produced in monia, vitamin K deficiency, anemia, with antibiotics predisposed Lucas to his report will speak for itself. We are and brain edema. Lucas’s health prob- vitamin K deficiency by reducing the not by any means an isolated incident. lems were induced as a result of his levels of vitamin K in her breast-milk, This "Shaken Baby Syndrome" epi- seven vaccines received on July 23rd , causing Lucas’s diarrhea, and reducing demic is becoming a national crisis as and the treatment of his mother with vitamin K synthesis in Lucas’s gastroin- thousands of innocent people are being antibiotics during Lucas’s breast-feed- testinal tract (GIT), and vitamin K victimized by these false allegations. ing period used to treat her upper res- uptake from the GIT. Lucas also suf- Many are wrongly convicted. piratory tract infection and mastitis.” fered from liver damage and other sys- Following is a brief excerpt from Dr. “On day six of Lucas’s hospitaliza- temic problems that reduced the syn- Al-Bayati’s report: tion, it was determined that the baby thesis of coagulation factors in liver “Baby Lucas was born at 41 weeks was not breathing spontaneously. and reduced food intake. Vitamin K of gestation on May 16, 2002. He was Brain death protocol was initiated and deficiency was the primary cause of in excellent health until the day of his followed. Lucas was pronounced dead bleeding in the brain and other tissues vaccination on July 23rd when he was at 1200 on 9/2/02. An autopsy was in this case. I presented the clinical 9 weeks of age. He was simultaneously performed on September 4, 2002 by evidence that show Lucas suffered administered seven vaccines (DTaP, Dr. Samuel Land and he determined from vitamin K deficiency. Vitamin K Hepatitis B, Hib, IPV, and that the cause of injury and death was deficiency is the common and well- Pneumoccocal vaccine) and developed blunt force trauma to the head. documented cause of bleeding in an upper respiratory tract infection However, the clinical events described breast-fed infants in Section IV of this within one to two days post-vaccina- above indicate that the cardiac arrest report.” tion. He was treated with Tylenol for and the bleeding in the brain and other “Furthermore, the treatment of two to three days for fever. At seven locations were caused by the adverse days post-vaccination, Lucas’s mother reactions to vaccines and medications. Shaken Baby Accusation cont. on page 14

VRAN Newsletter Fall 2003 Page 13 Shaken Baby Accusation cont. from page 13 commit.” Baby Syndrome" findings is that they Lucas with epinephrine in the hospital “I urge the doctors who are involved are based upon a theory that has not on August 27th and thereafter also in this case, health care workers, and been borne out of current scientific or contributed to the subdural bleeding officials in the state of Pennsylvania to medical evidence. Furthermore, there is and bleeding in other locations as review the medical evidence presented a dichotomy of testimony between var- shown by several brain CT scans taken in this report. It clearly shows that ious medical experts who strongly on August 27th through August 30th. Lucas died as a result of the adverse debate the validity of this theory. In addition, on August 28th, the blood reactions to vaccines and medications This can happen to anyone. Our pH reached a critical low of 6.64 and and Lucas’s parents are innocent. Lucas was a healthy baby until he was the baby was treated with sodium Actions should be taken to prevent administered his two-month immuniza- bicarbonate. Unfortunately, he was similar tragedies from occurring again. tions. Young parents tend to not know treated with excessive amounts of sodi- The objective of the state and health or understand the potential lethal ram- um bicarbonate and the blood pH care workers should be to determine ifications of immunizations and med- reached a critical high of 7.67. This the factual causes that lead to the ill- ications. My only goal is to increase treatment caused severe brain and pul- ness and death of a child and to pre- awareness of this growing epidemic so monary edema, hypoxia, and vent such problems from happening to that other innocent babies do not hypokalemia.” other children. Accusing innocent par- needlessly die and so that other inno- “The radiology findings show that ents of abusing and killing their chil- cent families are not afflicted by these Lucas had an old-healed fracture of rib dren based on unsupported theory, as heinous allegations, because no matter #11. Rib fractures have also been in this case, will not prevent the death which of the two happen, the families' observed to occur during labor in of other children from the adverse lives will be profoundly affected forever. babies as explained in this report (V). reactions to vaccines and medications. These iatrogenic (doctor induced) Lucas was born by vaginal delivery at However, it certainly puts innocent injuries must be exposed so that the 41 weeks of gestation with manual people in prison and causes great suf- same grave errors will not continue to assistance and the force used caused fering. It also costs the taxpayers huge be repeated. Our society has an obliga- his mother to suffer from vaginal lacer- sums of money in order to pay for tion to its citizens to not allow these ation, severe bleeding, hypotension, unnecessary trials and legal fees while miscarriages of justice to perpetuate. A and anemia that required a blood destroying the lives of innocent parents paradigm shift is approaching within transfusion. It is likely that Lucas’s rib and caretakers.” Dr. Al-Bayati’s recom- the medical establishment and we must fracture happened during labor.” mendations to prevent future infant act now to expose this tragedy for the “This family has suffered from two deaths and false accusation of innocent sake of our children. tragedies because the physicians who parents as a result of adverse reactions treated Lucas with vaccines and those to vaccines and medications can be To read full details of Dr. Al-Bayati’s who treated his mother with antibi- viewed at the Redflags Weekly website extensive report published at the otics during the breast-feeding period below. Shaken Baby Syndrome Conference co- did not take into consideration the We are asking for your assistance in hosted by Nicholas Regush and Sandy adverse reactions of those agents on exposing this witch-hunt so that it will Mintz, go to: Lucas’s health. In addition, the physi- increase awareness of this growing http://www.reflagsweely.com/confer- cians who treated Lucas during his tragedy and will in turn help to pre- ences.shaken_baby/aug22_A_Bayati. hospitalization following his cardiac vent future infant deaths. We ask that html and much more documentation arrest and the medical examiner in you please consider linking Lucas's on Shaken Baby Syndrome at: charge of this case did not consider the toxicology report to your web-site. http://www.freeyruko.bizland.com/alba adverse reactions of medications and Until more cases like ours are exposed, yati1.html vaccines given to Lucas and the babies will continue to needlessly die adverse reaction of antibiotics given to as a result of adverse reactions to these Susan Kreider, RN has more informa- Lucas’s mother in their investigation. allopathic drugs. Devastating accusa- tion pertaining to this case. She is a The first tragedy is the loss of Baby tions will continue to destroy other vaccine-injured adult. Lucas due to adverse reactions to vac- innocent peoples' lives if the medical http://www.informedchoice.info/SIDS. cines and medications. The second establishment continues to refuse to html or tragedy is the false allegation, accusing perform differential diagnoses once http://www.informedchoice.info/SIDS_ the parents of killing their Baby Lucas mention of "Shaken Baby Syndrome" aux4.html - a horrible crime that they did not is made. The tragedy of many "Shaken

Page 14 Fall 2003 VRAN Newsletter enters from the “back door” causing a THE POWER OF KNOWING - “paranoid and chronically reactive Th2 system” and a “weak Th1 search VACCINATION RISKS & OPTIONS and destroy” side of the immune sys- By Rita Hoffman tem. Dr. Whittaker told the audience that health problems including allergies and with vaccine research the “antibodies On October 11, 2003 the grassroots hearing impairment due to chronic oti- are the be all and end all of producing organization Know Vaccines hosted a tis media to the vaccines he received as immunity” and that if a vaccine pro- national conference on vaccine issues a child. duces the desired antibody response it in Rochester, New York. The day was Parents in the audience could easily is considered effective, passed and in honor of Alexis Spaker, the daughter understand Dr. Whittaker’s descrip- marketed. The problem is that anti- of conference organizer and Know tions of the workings of the immune bodies are only one small part of the Vaccines founder Sevaste (Sam) Spaker. system and the effects of vaccinations. still largely undiscovered immune sys- Alexis died of Hodgkin’s disease in He covered natural immunity vs. artifi- tem. He stressed that clinical efficacy 1998 at the age of 17. After her cial immunity from vaccines, and the trials described in vaccine package daughter’s death, Sam Spaker discov- sides of the immune system called the inserts use only healthy children that ered research indicating links between Th1 (cell mediated, “search and have received vaccines. He also point- vaccination and childhood disease. destroy”, deals with infections and ed out that new vaccines aren’t com- The discovery in Alexis’ medical cancer) and Th2 (humoral - memory, pared to placebos which are inert, but records that indicated an allergy to the support, suppression, clean-up). to another vaccine product which DPT vaccine as an infant and the Dr. Whittaker described how the means that negative results can be MMR vaccine as a teen raised more immune system is designed to learn excluded from the final conclusions. questions as it was shortly after her sequentially and that the sequence is Questioning whether germs cause MMR that Alexis was diagnosed with important. A pregnant woman’s infectious disease Dr. Whittaker quoted Hodgkin’s. The more the Spakers immune system shifts from Th1 to Th2 German pathologist Dr. Rudolph learned the more they became commit- so that she does not reject the baby. Virchow who said, “If I could live my ted to educating parents about the side Infants are born with a Th2 skewed effects of vaccines. Sam Spaker welcomed the crowd. She described the thirst for informa- ...parents have a need and a right to information tion on the topic of vaccines and stressed that parents have a need and a immune system. After birth the transi- life over again, I would devote it to right to information in order to make tion from Th2 to Th1 begins. This proving that germs seek their natural a decision about vaccination for their transition is assisted by breastfeeding. habitat, diseased tissue, rather than children. After thanking her husband Dr. Whittaker provided the audience being the cause of diseased tissue.” An Bill, her son and others who assisted with an excellent example of how vac- example is streptococcus bacteria, her with organizing the conference she cines bypass the sequence of the which may be present in your mouth introduced the first speaker of the day, immune system. The “army” - people without causing the symptoms of strep Dr. Jason Whittaker, DC, who, with at the front half of the conference throat. It is only when the body’s nat- his wife Danella, run a family wellness room were the “Th1” search and ural resistance is lowered that the bal- practice in King City, Ontario. destroy side of the immune system and ance of health is shifted toward illness. Dr. Whittaker presented a dynamic the back half of the army was the Dr. Whittaker admitted his bias and power-point presentation, “Th2” memory, clean-up side. he encouraged the audience to research Vaccinations, Science or Dogma. He Everyone was to watch the two exit the information and resources them- told the crowd that his interest in vac- signs at the front of the room where selves. He encouraged the audience to cines developed after learning through the “enemy” comes from. But – the read a paper by researcher Hilary his chiropractic studies about wonders enemy (via vaccination) came in Butler entitled “The Role of Vaccines of the immune system. He has through the back door bypassing the in SIDS”. He also told the audience researched vaccination for eight years Th1 and blindsiding the Th2! The about VRAN and our website. He and has been speaking about vaccina- whole army was surprised and said that VRAN has the best newslet- tion for five. Through his studies he ambushed. Vaccines actually weaken began to connect his own childhood our systems because the “enemy” Vaccination Risks & Options cont. on page 16

VRAN Newsletter Fall 2003 Page 15 Vaccination Risks & Options cont. from page 15 bad effects of vaccination, even in the gave his son homeopathic remedies, ter on vaccine issues in the world. media. calendula cream and changed dress- Boston area homeopathic physician Dr. Moskovitz stated that he is not ings, the impetigo spread from head to and author Richard Moskowitz, MD against all vaccines in all circum- toe. He started to think the homeo- spoke regarding vaccines and chronic stances, and that he is pro-choice. He pathics may not work, and that he diseases. He described how reactions admitted to not having all the answers may need penicillin. But he then real- run a wide spectrum for small to but questioned mandatory vaccine ized that his son’s skin was not being major problems and those extreme policies and reiterated that the other attacked – he was shedding or throw- cases are the “tip of the iceberg”. side of the issue needs to be heard! ing off (Th1) the strep germ and mov- Many of you may have read Dr. Dr. Philip Incao, MD was next to ing it out of his body. In ancient med- Moskowitz’s paper “Vaccination, A speak about ways to strengthen our icine pus was always thought of as a Sacrament of Modern Medicine”. He children and their immune systems. good thing as it meant the body was describes vaccination as a religion. After earning his MD in 1966 Dr. cleansing. A rash indicates that the Dr. Moskowitz described numerous Incao continued his studies in anthro- body is getting rid of something, either case studies seen in his practice that posophic medicine in Europe because a cellular waste or toxin. The strep in showed how vaccines “aggravate he “hadn’t learned about healing in the impetigo sores may have been an what’s already there” and that homeo- pathic medicine can help clear up vac- cine damage. One case described a 2- He describes vaccination as a religion. year-old boy with allergic asthma where the homeopathic remedy he pre- scribed cut his inhaler use by 50%. After a DPT vaccine booster the child medical school.” Dr. Incao was opportunistic scavenger. If the strep developed bronchitis and his allergies delighted and surprised by the number went inward instead of outward that worsened. A repeat of the same reme- of people in attendance at the confer- would have been dangerous. His son dy at a different dosage eliminated the ence and felt that it showed how wide- recovered uneventfully without peni- problem. spread the concern of vaccination is cillin. Dr. Moskowitz called measles a today. Dr. Incao said the immune system graduation ceremony for the immune After learning anthroposophic medi- stirs up toxins with inflammation and system by providing a mechanism for cine, which is a more humane and then the toxins work their way out. expulsion of the virus. The immunity holistic approach, he started to think Inflammations that don’t discharge are is qualitative, absolute and life long differently. When Dr. Incao’s first the problem ones. He said the most and provides specific and non-specific child was born he waited to vaccinate important thing is how the patient is immunity because it primes the and now 33 years later he’s still wait- acting or behaving. To strengthen chil- immune system. He asked why we ing to vaccinate and none of his three dren to have good resistance to illness don’t let people alone that don’t want children were vaccinated. He decided it’s important to not suppress or mask the shots? He told the audience about to risk Mother Nature than the symptoms with painkillers. Antibiotics a study in the Journal of the American “changeable recommendations of med- have their place but should be used Medical Association (1992 Feb icine.” His children have never taken only in a toxic crisis, not indiscrimi- 12;267(6):823-6) entitled “Measles antibiotics or painkillers. He treated nately. Dr. Incao recommended that herd immunity. The association of his children with homeopathic reme- the healthiest way to get better is to attack rates with immunization rates in dies when through the years they fast, drink liquids, purge (laxative preschool children.” Schlenker et al developed fevers, earaches, Rubella such as prune juice, and sweat (wrap concluded that “coverage of 80% or and whooping cough. in blankets). Dr. Incao stressed that less may be sufficient to prevent sus- He described his most important les- inflammation is your friend as it’s try- tained measles outbreaks in an urban son with his middle son who, at the ing to cleanse the body. community.” age of 6, had his skin break out in Dr. Incao urged the audience to He described how the cost/benefit weeping oozing sores called impetigo, remember that children are more sensi- analysis for vaccines leave out the bil- which his traditional medical training tive than we realize and that we should lions spent on otitis media, asthma, taught him was caused by streptococ- protect them from unnecessary stress autism and behaviour difficulties and cus bacteria and that “strep” had to be which is ever increasing in the modern that we almost never hear or see the treated with antibiotics. Although he Vaccination Risks & Options cont. on page 17

Page 16 Fall 2003 VRAN Newsletter Vaccination Risks & Options cont. from page 16 She searched for another attorney conference where Dr. Friedman also world and with modern healthcare. and she contacted Barbara Loe Fisher spoke. “Once there was a man on the One of the leading stresses in children of the National Vaccine Information beach throwing washed up starfish today is vaccination. Centre who put her into contact with back into the ocean. A stranger pass- Dr. Lynn Friedman, DC, spoke on Joel Oster of the Liberty Council, a ing by asked why was he doing that her attempt to get a religious exemp- law firm located in Orlando, Florida because he knew he could not possibly tion to vaccination for her child Luke that specializes in handling religious save all of them. The man picked up a to attend public school in New York liberty cases. Dr. Friedman obtained a starfish and threw it into the water State. New York is supposed to pro- temporary restraining order for her and said, ‘I made a difference for that vide exemptions from vaccination for son’s admission to school. She cried one.’” The crowd cheered as Dr. religious and medical reasons but the out to God and a quiet calm and clari- Friedman proudly introduced her son Department of Health regulations ty and the words “trust in me Lynn, Luke, who is now 7. allow individual school districts to trust in me” led her to know that God After a question and answer session determine whether a person is entitled was in control. She described how the with the speakers Sam Spaker was to an religious exemption. Bible contains the words “fear not” given a standing ovation from the In a riveting speech, Dr. Friedman 365 times, one for every day of the crowd in thanks for organizing the described how her faith in God and his year. informative day. design led her to choose not to vacci- Dr. Friedman filed suit in District The conference concluded with the nate her child. She told the audience Court against the school district and viewing of Direct Order, a film direct- of a scripture in 1 Corinthians 2:5 the New York State Department of ed by Scott Miller and narrated by “Your faith should not stand in the Health claiming they violated state and actor Michael Douglas. This incredi- wisdom of men, but in the power of federal law by refusing to grant reli- bly powerful film is about the men and God.” Her personal relationship with gious exemptions to forced vaccina- women of the US military suffering God has helped her through the great tions. from the devastating after effects of the adversity she has faced for her decision The opposing attorneys subpoenaed anthrax vaccine as well as the fallout to not vaccinate her child. medical and dental records. Dr. experienced by members of the mili- When Luke was to begin school Dr. Friedman and Luke’s Godparents tary who chose to speak out, question Friedman submitted a religious exemp- underwent hours of grueling question- or refuse the shot. tion form and notarized letter from her ing at the trial. After 2 days of testi- Pastor to school officials. One week mony with three attorneys cross-exam- Sources: later she received a certified letter ining, Dr. Friedman lost the case in Know Vaccines questioning her “alleged” religious court. Joel Oster told Dr. Friedman, www.knowvaccines.com beliefs and a 9-page questionnaire pry- “God may want this to touch many ing into her personal life and her more lives than just ours.” She then Jason Whittaker, DC beliefs. She then contacted an attorney enrolled her child in a private www.drwhittaker.ca and completed the questionnaire with Christian school where they found she Vaccinations – Science or Dogma CD him. A meeting was set up with the had true beliefs and had full religious or Audio tape from the website School Superintendent and attorney exemptions. or call 1-877-773-1568 where she was asked to provide 5 days Dr. Friedman appealed the decision Part proceeds to VRAN prior to the meeting, her medical and and in September of this year the 2nd Richard Moskowitz, MD dental records for the past 10 years, Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the http://members.aol.com/doctorrmosk/ and all of her sons medical records original District Court’s judgement. which she refused. Her attorney con- The case may be appealed to the Philip Incao, MD vinced her to bring her son’s records. Supreme Court of New York. The www.philipincao.com She went through, what Dr. Friedman U.S. Constitution guarantees all Direct Order by Scott Miller calls a “4 hour inquisition” into her Americans free rights to religion but www.directorder.org personal life and her chiropractic opin- the courts seemed to be trying to take ions. She was also asked to quote that right away for Dr. Friedman and Please note: Hilary Butler’s “The Role Biblical scripture. She then received a her son. of Vaccines in SIDS” can requested via letter denying her religious exemption Dr. Friedman closed with a story email from VRAN and we will send and Luke was expelled from told by Barbara Loe Fisher at the 2002 you an electronic version of the article. Kindergarten. National Vaccine Information Center Write to [email protected]

VRAN Newsletter Fall 2003 Page 17 behavioral problems with no answers AMERICANS TEND TO BELIEVE THERE IS and no support. Our baby was vacci- nated at 6 months of age with suppos- A VACCINE SAFETY NET FOR CHILDREN. edly thimerosal-free DTaP and IPV. He THERE ISN’T ONE. reacted so severely that we thought we were going to lose him on several By Virginia Young occasions. The reaction started within we brought him to the E.R. I was told hours of the shots and lasted for two The following is one mother’s account I was over-reacting and his hives were months. At six months of age he of vaccine reactions suffered by her probably "his reaction to my stress". stopped smiling, babbling, and inter- children, currently posted on the Red He had numerous other side effects acting with others. The reaction was so Flags Weekly online Vaccine such as gelatinous stools. Thankfully, obvious that even my 9 year old knew Conference (November 15, 2003) he still nursed from me a little, but he the vaccines were to blame as soon as was barely wetting one to two diapers There is no doubt in my mind that she saw the changes. We had never dis- a day. These symptoms lessened over vaccines are a cause of SIDS. We chose cussed the dangers of vaccines with time, but nonetheless lasted for two to not vaccinate our youngest until she her. I had always told my children that months. turned 6 months of age. At that time they were necessary and important for On the day of his vaccines he was a we reluctantly tried the DTaP and IPV. the protection of their health and well- very happy, healthy, strong, 25-pound He fell ill within hours of the inocula- being. tions. He ran a low-grade fever and became pale and fussy. The next day he had staring spells punctuated by ... unable to list the contents of the intermittent screams. He no longer smiled and babbled, and he absolutely vaccines, and ... unaware of the dangers. refused to eat solid food. He lost his voice and could not sleep, and instead baby ready to crawl at any moment. he would cry out in five-minute inter- My husband and I have medical The day after his shots he could not vals. The following morning he broke backgrounds. The medical community even sit up. I have heard the same out in hives on his upper body. The is so fully indoctrinated into the belief story over and over again. In general, hives stopped at the nipple line. The that vaccines are safe and necessary the American public believes a safety lower body was pale. He was given that we are blind to the truth. Most net is in place for children. Common prednisolone and benadryl in the emer- pediatricians that I have spoken with sense tells us that long-term studies are gency room and sent home. That day are unable to list the contents of the necessary. I made the mistake of he either stared or cried out in pain. vaccines, and they are unaware of the assuming that such studies had been He did not want to be held, but he did dangers of these chemicals and possi- performed. It boggles my mind that not want to be put down. His breath- ble contaminants. I never asked ques- vaccines would be mandated without ing was shallow and rapid. tions or thoroughly researched the vac- long-term tracking, and looking at all On the third day, he had a seizure in cines. I had blind faith in "the sys- possible side-effects. my arms. That night I watched him cry tem", and my family has paid a high My three youngest children have all out, posture, and take shorter and price. reacted severely to vaccines. I was told more shallow breaths until he stopped time and time again that the reactions breathing. This went on for several Virginia Young were coincidences and the subsequent days. The worst of it was over by the illnesses were blamed on ear infections, time the apnea monitor arrived. He Reprinted from Vaccines: An Online viral infections, even food allergies. urinated enough to soak his diaper, conference sponsored by Redflags My twins were vaccinated simultane- clothes, and our king-size bed; and he Weekly and Vaccination News ously, and they reacted simultaneously did so twice in a two-hour period. We http://www.redflagsweekly.com/confer- with 105 degree fever and high-pitched made many trips to the doctor's office ences/vaccines/index.html#p4f5 screaming. Despite these classic reac- and more calls than I can count. http://www.redflagsweekly.com/confer- tions we were never given medical All we could do was watch and ences/vaccines/index.html exemptions. My middle children were wait. After one episode of hives and left with a list of neurological and fussing he appeared to pass out. When

Page 18 Fall 2003 VRAN Newsletter ty is monitored by Health Canada.” screaming episode, hypokinesia, persis- LETTERS The buck seems to have stopped tent crying, severe vomiting and/or with the Federal Government. As you diarrhea, lethargy, fever, cyanosis, rash- September 30, 2003 did not address this data in your last es, eczema, pneumonia, lymphocytosis, Anne McLellan, M.P. response, I am re-sending via registered sterile abcess/nodule/necrosis, infective Minister of Health mail, copies of the following adverse abcess, tachycardia, gait abnormal, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6 event reports for the following vaccine ataxia, bulging fontanelle, sepsis, vaso- lot numbers: vagal reaction, tremor, arthritis, celluli- Dear Minister McLellan, tis, bradyapnoea, delirium, reduced DPT-P 24008-11 Re: Epidemic of Anaphylaxis in consciousness, shaking, somnolence, exp. June '94 Children and vaccine adverse events anaphylaxis, apnoae, encephalopathy, 49 adverse events (1 death, asthma, injection site reaction, short- Thank you for the response regard- 2 seizures/convulsions) ness of breath, and confusion. ing the relationship between vaccina- Hib 3A0896 The National Report on tion and anaphylaxis dated June 26, exp. June '94 Immunization, 1996 states: "If the 2003. 42 adverse events (4 seizures/convul- number and type of reports for a par- You have provided information on a sions) ticular vaccine lot suggested that it was few studies that have not indicated a associated with more serious adverse link between vaccines and allergies, DPT-P 24009-11 events or deaths than are expected by and you have determined that “Taken exp. Nov. '94 chance, the federal government has the together, these studies fail to support 76 adverse events (3 seizures/convul- responsibility and will, as well as the the hypothesis that vaccines cause sions) legal authority, to immediately recall allergic disease”. Unfortunately, you Hibtitre 3J0158 that lot." totally ignored the numerous studies exp. Nov. '94 The U.S. Centers for Disease that I provided that do indicate a link 6 adverse events (1 seizure/convulsion) Control considers a vaccine "hot lot" – not even a mention of these! I must one that generates reports of more then assume that your government has DPT-P 24010-11 than two deaths or two convulsions or no intention of investigating the link exp. Nov.'94 a total of 10 adverse reports. Health between the changes in the vaccine 111 adverse events (8 seizures/convul- Canada officials reported an investiga- schedule in the early 1990’s and the sions) tion should be initiated after a “cluster epidemic of anaphylaxis in young chil- Hibtitre 3C0629 of reports” and that means “3 or dren and the cause will remain “unex- exp. July '94 more.” Vaccines that my child received plained”. 21 adverse events (2 seizures/convul- had as many as 664 adverse events You also did not address the 975 sions) reported and 34 seizures/convulsions. adverse events reported for the vac- If this is the case, the majority of the cines my 9 year old anaphylactic child 5 doses conbined in one syringe – vaccines my child received should have received as an infant. Local and “PENTA” been recalled. Please answer this provincial health authorities will not DPT-P 24017-11 question: Why weren’t these vaccine comment on this data and informed exp. June '96 lots recalled? me that the federal government is 664 adverse events (34 seizures/con- I will feel responsible, on behalf of responsible for this area. vulsions) all children and parents in this country, Dr. Kirsten Rottensten, on behalf of Act-Hib K0421 to contact the Royal Canadian the Ontario government, wrote “I exp. Apr. '96 Mounted Police for their interpretation would suggest that you address your 6 adverse events of this data if I do not receive a concerns to Health Canada, as Health response from you that includes a Canada has the responsibility for the TOTAL ADVERSE plausible reason why these vaccines licensure and the national monitoring REACTIONS REPORTED - 975 continued to be administered to chil- of vaccines and other biologicals in The reactions, attached, include: dren even though it was clear that they Canada.” death, seizure/convulsion, dysopnoae, were causing severe health problems Dr. A. Lynn Noseworthy, Medical speech disorder, allergic reaction, and death. Officer of Health for my area, stated, adenopathy, hypotonic-hyporesponsive I eagerly anticipate your swift “As you may also know, vaccines used episode, severe pain and/or swelling, in Canada are regulated and their safe- Letters cont. on page 20

VRAN Newsletter Fall 2003 Page 19 Letters cont. from page 19 chemicals into the body. Our profes- system that we purport to enhance the response to this most important chil- sion's position is to do no harm. function of? dren’s health issue. Changing the internal Our patients are really students of environment/chemistry by injection is wellness as we as chiropractors per- Sincerely, conducive to harming the nervous sys- form our duty to do no harm and edu- Rita Hoffman tem and may depress the nervous sys- cate them on natural preventive health R.R. #2, Stirling, Ontario K0K 3E0 tem to the point that it cannot respond by teaching them how to maintain a [email protected] to invading pathogens, giving the healthy nervous system. Let us contin- appearance of maintaining health ue to perform our God given duty to ******************** through lack of response. If numbers teach health knowing that our govern- In October, the College of are properly calculated, I would sus- ing bodies protect the principles of our Chiropractors of Ontario proposed a pect there are more children dying founding fathers and are committed to change to the scope of practice for from vaccination related responses, truth and will stand against treason. Chiropractors in Ontario which would than from the diseases themselves. Thank you for this opportunity to prohibit them from discussing vaccine Public Health is to protect the public submit my concerns on this monumen- concerns with patients. We appealed and NOT force the public into non- tal decision facing our profession. to VRAN members to vigorously optional programs. Supporting the Sincerely, protest this proposal. We know the advent of Mandatory Vaccination Dr. Julie K. Bjornson College was deluged with impassioned Programs is not in the best interest of objections to what is nothing less than our profession. ******************** a gag order on practitioners. I question your policy when so many To: College of Chiropractors of Following is a sampling of submissions recorded risks are associated with the Ontario, Oct. 22, 2003 to the College. introduction of vaccines beneath the Joint Statement from VRAN & The College of Chiropractors of level of the skin. The nervous system, Association for Vaccine Damaged Ontario the foundation of our specialty, needs Children 130 Bloor Street West, Suite #902 healthy receptors to provide the need- Toronto, Ontario M5S 1N5 ed afferent supply to the brain. If oral Vaccination Risk Awareness antibiotics can affect the hair cells of Network Inc. and the Association for Dear Colleagues: hearing, what more can injected sub- Vaccine Damaged Children (AVDC), Thank you for the opportunity to stances do to the system. I personally Canada’s longest existing vaccine voice my concerns regarding the had as patients one family that lost information groups advocating for change to the CCO policy on vaccines. two infants at two months to vaccine families suffering from vaccine reac- As a Chiropractor licensed in Ontario injections and had a third child brain tions and injuries, and providers of in 1983, I have grave concerns about damaged. This is an outrage. I fought reliable information not available from our position as a profession on this to defend this family from vaccinations government and medical sources, are matter of vaccinations as our profes- as they were threatened with having all alarmed that the CCO is considering sion's founding principles and philoso- their children removed for child abuse this amendment. We believe that it phy indicate that chiropractic is to if vaccinations were not administered. would eliminate the critical “balance” remove interference to the nervous sys- These parents tried to fight for the that your current Policy P-033 endors- tem without drugs or surgery and lives of their children and lost. I es, i.e. to ensure that “the public without going beneath the level of the warned the MD not to give the last receives balanced and accurate infor- skin, one of the body's primary defense male infant the vaccination. His atti- mation with regard to immunization.” systems. tude was that this family didn't deserve VRAN and the AVDC contend that Vaccinations do go beneath the level to have children anyway. The child the public has not and will not receive of the skin, though new avenues are died three days after the injection and “balanced and accurate” information being created. They do not enhance the this MD had the gall to attend the from a majority of physicians, nurses immune system and work to depress funeral. What kind of system are you and health officials, many of whom and/or shutdown the T-Cell production supporting? We as chiropractor know habitually suppress information which has been implemented in the that the nervous system develops the regarding legal exemptions to vaccina- cause of cancer. They introduce heavy most the first seven years of life. Why tions, minimize and deny serious reac- metals into the system, as well as, would we support any program that tions, side effects of vaccines, fail to interferes with the development of the introduce environmentally sensitive Letters cont. on page 21

Page 20 Fall 2003 VRAN Newsletter Letters cont. from page 20 VRAN and the Association for die of whooping cough! Out the door disclose documented contraindications Vaccine Damaged Children request he went. By the time I got Thomas to vaccines, and consistently fail to that the College of Chiropractors of dressed and got back to the clinic report vaccine reactions and injuries to Ontario reject proposed Standard of parking lot I was feeling like a really Health Canada. Practice S-015: Immunization. shitty parent. Here we go again!!!! The scientific community cannot That night I had nightmares about ******************** claim cost effectiveness of vaccination Thomas becoming seriously ill, the programs because the hidden cost to Dear VRAN, next night the same thing. For the next society of vaccine reactions, 4 days I didn't take Thomas anywhere, I will be sending you an article that injuries/disabilities, chronic disease and we stayed on the farm and away from appeared in our Peterborough deaths have never been calculated in everyone, I was becoming completely Examiner on Wednesday regarding the Canada or included in the equation. paranoid. Lucky for me I have a voice ingredients put into many of the Without the rigorous science in place of reason, in the form of my Mother. Vaccines being given to children. The to prove that mass vaccination pro- We are in contact every day and live woman is a Professor at Trent grams are safe and not contributing to close but I figured I could manage this University and her husband died of the explosion of neuroimmune and one on my own...besides I didn't want mercury poisoning. I also read in yes- autoimmune disorders, the much tout- her nagging at me for taking Thomas terday's paper that there is a new ed reassurances of safety are theoreti- to a 'well baby' visit, which she says is Whooping Cough vaccine being dis- cal, and NOT factual. The only way totally unnecessary (I do agree with tributed to doctors here. It is called to scientifically prove that the use of her now). Adacel. Has anyone contacted you multiple vaccines does not significantly I told my Mom what had transpired about the ingredient in this new vac- contribute to the incidence of chronic at the doctor's office and that I was cine??? I will try some research and see disease such as autism, asthma, learn- feeling like a real crappy Mommy and what I come up with. ing disabilities, diabetes, is to conduct what if Thomas got sick, and what if, Also, I took Thomas (now a whop- methodologically sound, controlled and what if... She reminded me that ping 25 pounds, with his first tooth, large, long term studies comparing babies didn't die of whooping cough standing and walking around already groups of highly vaccinated, lesser vac- either. She reminded me of my cousin and was 9 months old on October cinated, and completely unvaccinated that had it as a baby and also that my 28th!!!!) to see the doctor for a regular children, and measure for all morbidity future sister-in-law went through it check up (that is stopping as of now!). and mortality outcomes, including with her son, now a healthy 7 year I figured we were past the point of pathological changes in immune and old. Also my eye doctor who is a making me feel guilty for not getting brain function in the individual chil- friend of the family who is 41 and was Thomas vaccinated until that visit on dren participating during the entire vaccinated as a child and STILL got a October 16th. First his nurse said, "So course of the study. case of whooping cough. It has been which needle is Thomas getting To the shame and discredit of the almost a month since that visit and I today?"...I said "He doesn't get nee- scientific community, these studies am now just beginning to unclench my dles thank you." I got the side way have never been done and permit body from the fear and guilt. glance and the "Ohhhhhhhhhh", you health officials to make unproven and There was a paragraph on the could hear the tsk tsk in the voice. I fraudulent claims about vaccine safety. Whooping Cough Vaccine that said wasn't in the mood to explain and felt As well, we have evidence that some that there were 26 cases so far this I didn't have to. statistics they use to support the use of year reported and there were 30 last Then in comes the doctor...again vaccinations are misleading and deceit- year, none resulted in death. "So, what vaccination are we doing ful. If Standard of Practice S-015: So Edda keep your eyes open for an today?" I said "Let me refresh your Immunization is adopted, the public envelope coming from me with these 2 memory...Thomas isn't getting vacci- will be left with even less chance of articles. I hope all is well in Winlaw nated." Period...so we move onto the making thoughtful, informed decisions and look forward to my next issue. weight and length and general about vaccinations than they are now. health...all excellent!!! During the Sincerely, It is imperative that chiropractors exam he off-handedly said he had his Heather Zischler retain their ability to provide their first case of whooping cough last Peterborough, Ontario patients with data relating to vaccina- week. I said that was too bad and I tions and/or refer them to independent hoped everyone was getting better. He educational sources such as ourselves. said it was a teenager and they don't Letters continued on page 22

VRAN Newsletter Fall 2003 Page 21 Letters cont. from page 21 daughter, her death or vaccine reaction her mouth, contradicted herself con- Letter to the Vancouver Sun at all on the show tomorrow. Their stantly but still managed to end every Nov. 17/03 legal department has advised against sentence with "everyone should get this and they fear lawsuits because the vaccinated" or "the risks are so great Thanks to Matthew Ramsey (Van story is too compelling and will make from disease (the flu) and so small Sun; B11, Nov 15) for distinguishing the show too anti-vaccine. "They don't from the vaccine" bla bla bla. If I between confirmed cases of influenza want to cause public panic, which may made a point that was too good for the and all flu-like illness. According to lead parents to not vaccinate" anti vaccine side she outright lied to Fluwatch records, influenza vaccine I told the TV people that I would defend the vaccine. I just found it can possibly prevent only about 10% not go on the show and say "A vaccine utterly shocking and I still have diffi- of all flu-like illness. The 70-90% effi- killed my child" I would simply give culty comprehending why anyone cacy commonly stated for the vaccine the facts, that she was vaccinated, had believes this crap. They change their is an approximate measure for healthy a reaction and then died." The cause of story so many times. "The vaccine pre- individuals when circulating viruses death is listed as SIDS, which means no vents disease...oops, the vaccine does- closely match the influenza viruses in known cause. I would just give the n't prevent the disease but makes the the vaccine. facts. They still said no. symptoms less severe, oops, that last Due to the combining of all pneumo- Instead they want me to be on the vaccine was no good but now we have nia deaths with those of influenza in show as a nurse and talk about the sci- the new 'safer better' vaccine avail- Vital Statistics’ records, the impression ence and the facts only. I have also able" is made that influenza deaths are much been told I can only discuss the flu I just hope there comes a day that higher than is truly the case. Ramsey shot and no other vaccines because the the majority wakes up and fears the stated “Influenza kills approximately pro vaccine doctor on this show does- doctors, the lies and the vaccines more 1,200 British Columbians each year.” n't have the knowledge on other vac- than the disease. I believe the flu shot If he had contacted BC Vital Statistics cines. I was specifically told I cannot being used here on a mass scale will directly, he would have discovered discuss autism and vaccines. I know wake up a lot of people. It will be that, from 1990 to 2002, BC has had a the media is often gagged here on what more difficult to hide so many adverse yearly average of 66 deaths directly they can discuss when it comes to vac- reactions under the rug. Of course that due to influenza, only 3 to 4 indirectly cination but I have never been told won't stop them from trying! due to influenza. what I am and not allowed to say Vaccination Risk Awareness Christine Colebeck, through the media. I am considering Network Inc believes there would be Kitchener, Ontario still doing the show. There are plenty less risk to health and life from all of "facts" I can still discuss and then Editor’s note: Canadian media is used causes, including adverse vaccine reac- go to another form of media and tell to being gagged!! Last year when the tions, if yearly flu shots were replaced them my story. That I was asked to do Montreal Autism Society, ATEDM by healthy lifestyles and the occasional a vaccine debate and stick to the facts convened a large conference on the vitamin and/or herbal supplement. and pretend my daughter didn't die relationship between mercury in vac- Susan Fletcher, Sechelt, B.C. after a vaccine. How can the public cines and the epidemic of autism spec- know the truth if they are only being trum disorders, media was called to a ******************** given half a story? So much for free- large meeting at a Montreal hospital * dom of speech! and were told point blank that if they Has anyone ever done this type of reported the vaccine/mercury/autism Re: Canadian Media media and been instructed on what issue, they would be held responsible if Vaccine Debate on T.V.O you can say or not say? Any ideas? vaccine uptake declined and diseases October 25, 2003 made a comeback and would be held And after the debate, Christine writes: Tomorrow they tape the vaccine liable for the deaths of children result- debate for the TV show "Second I did the televised debate last week ing from a drop in vaccine compli- Opinion" They asked me to participate and had my first face to face experi- ance!! on this show as a parent to discuss the ence with the lies. I have read about fact my daughter died a few hours the lies, heard about the lies, but to see after an adverse reaction to a vaccine. them first hand that way, was a real Last night they phoned me to tell me eye opener for me. The doctor, (Mary that I am not allowed to mention my McGeer) talked out of both sides of Letters cont. on page 23

Page 22 Fall 2003 VRAN Newsletter Letters cont. from page 22 Re: Flu shots could help to identify INFLUENZA SHOTS? NO THANK YOU! SARS cases CTV National News The Flu vaccine is worthless and damaging! It is impossible to prevent dis- Wednesday Sept. 24, 2003 ease by artificial means. Dear CTV News, By Vivian Virginia Vetrano, D.C. hM.D., M.D., PH.D. Avis Favaro and Lloyd Robertson, ous, adverse reactions, so a new one Your flu shot report on the 24th of Does the influenza virus vaccine had to be concocted. The latest 2002- September has Dr. McGeer saying that really protect us from the flu? Hygienic 2003 formula for flu vaccines is called "...... and for kids getting their flu doctors proclaim “DEFINITELY the “subvirion.” This is a mutilated shot -- it substantially reduces their NOT.” virus “blended, spliced and macerated” risk they'll have an ear infection." Physicians hypothesize: “Yes, Maybe until nothing but bits and pieces of the A fellow parent researching vaccine and No! It depends.” Yet, they still virus are left. However, splitting the safety and efficacy had that same day recommend that persons of selected virus makes it no less harmful. The sent me the abstract of a study from groups take the newly concocted flu toxic antigens, usually protein or car- the September 24th Journal of the vaccine. Those targeted for the vaccine bohydrate in nature, are still present American Medical Association which range from babies six months or older; and are still poisonous. If they were concluded, "Administration of inacti- to persons age 65 or older; special not poisonous they would not cause vated trivalent influenza vaccine to groups, such as those with chronic dis- the body to produce antibodies in self- children aged 6 to 24 months DID orders of the pulmonary or cardiovas- defense. Medically speaking, this is NOT (emphasis mine) reduce the bur- cular systems, and others too numer- why they are thought to produce den of AOM (Acute Otitis Media) or ous to mention. Actually, the list takes immunity. Physicians are trying to their utilization of selected health care in practically everybody. cause a mild disease based on the and related resources." The Hygienic theory of the develop- ancient idea that if you suffer the dis- Who do we believe? ment of influenza is the antithesis of ease once you won’t get it again. We And where are the safety studies for medical orthodoxy. Physicians believe very well know that flu, colds, pneu- giving the flu shot along with the the disease is due to various and monia and other acute diseases can numerous doses of other vaccines numerous bacteria or viruses. develop in the same individuals multi- (diphtheria, pertussis, polio, tetanus, Hygienists realize that the development ple times. Although the split virus is hib, meningococcal, pnemococcal, of any disease is dependent on the purported to be less toxic than former measles, mumps, rubella and chicken- lifestyle of the individual. Hygienists flu vaccines, after scrutinizing and ana- pox) that may be given to 6 to 18 live in such a clean manner that their lyzing its components and their chemi- month old babies? Have babies vacci- bodies retain no excess toxins and cal attributes, I have serious doubts. nated with all of these vaccines been their Defense Mechanisms are in per- Should We Be Vaccinated? compared with a completely unvacci- fect condition! nated control group? And have the It is impossible to prevent disease by Is the 2002-2003 influenza virus vaccinated and unvaccinated babies artificial means. You are a living crea- vaccine helpful or detrimental? Will it been followed up for their developing ture and your body will develop dis- protect us or will it cause a great chronic diseases like asthma, diabetes, ease when the physical, mental and ruckus in the body? Studying the anaphylaxis, autism and learning dis- environmental conditions are so unsat- effects of the components of the orders? No they haven't. isfactory they force the body to initiate influenza virus vaccine is not as enjoy- God bless you Lloyd Robertson for an acute elimination crisis, such as able as drinking a delicious mango- bringing up parents’ concerns after the influenza--which, if cared for properly, banana smoothie, but it will help segment above, and thank you Avis is not the dreaded disease as pictured answer your questions. In fact, learn- Favaro for including Mr. Wylde, the by the purveyors of vaccinations. ing the contents of this new vaccine homeopathic specialist, in this piece. Vaccines add to the toxicity of the may make you want to either retch or body and hence, cause disease. You shout: “No thank you!” Thank you for the opportunity to comment. can't make a healthy person a sick one The flu vaccine contains a variety of Sincerely, unless you overwhelm him with poi- other substances besides the molecules Rita Hoffman sons. And vaccines are poisons! of the subvirion that wreck havoc with Stirling, Ontario Former flu virus vaccines, using your health. I am sorry to have to tell “live” viruses, produced too many seri- Influenza Shots? cont. on page 24

VRAN Newsletter Fall 2003 Page 23 Influenza Shots? cont. from page 23 glycoproteins. Glycoproteins consist of opposite; they give you false hopes of you that it is grown in an embryonic a spine of protein with carbon chains protection and then slash away at you chicken or in the allantoic fluids that of oligosaccharides jutting off its sides with enzymic knives. surround it in the egg. All flu vaccines like centipede legs. The enzyme neu- The liver recognizes and destroys all are manufactured a little differently, raminidase, found in the flu vaccine is glycoproteins that are missing their and contain slightly different compo- very damaging. It can cut out neu- sialic acids, inactivating the glycopro- nents, but they all contain hemagglu- raminic acid from any or all of the gly- teins. tinin antigens that can cause clumping coproteins in the cell membrane just The pharmaceutical companies say of the red blood cells. If this happens like a good cutting horse cuts out the that neuraminidase aids the virus to in the bloodstream, it will cause an exact calf wanted by his master. leave the cell, but this is at the expense even greater blockage of circulation Cutting out one calf weakens the herd. of cellular life itself. The cell has that than an accident on a busy freeway. Cutting out neuraminic acid from the lost its glycoproteins is now function- The hemagglutinin antigens coupled cell membrane weakens the cell mem- ally crippled, because its glycoproteins with the body's antibodies against brane. are damaged. If one pile of a bridge is them can block arteries, killing cells by Glycoproteins: Our Lives damaged, this leads to a weakening of the thousands. The cells in vital organs Depend on Them the whole bridge, which becomes a will be starved for air, food and water, hazard to those crossing it; just as our just as they are in serious cardiovascu- Glycoproteins are complex carbohy- cell membranes are a hazard to us lar diseases. In short, this could easily drates that are practically omnipresent when their glycoproteins are function- lead you to premature death and a and needed everywhere for very crucial ally damaged. functions. All the plasma proteins are beautiful but gloomy casket. Medical Theory of glycoproteins, except for albumin. It may be difficult to understand Vaccination is Flawed how this little 0.5 milliliter dose could Glycoproteins are in all cell mem- be so devastating, but this will become branes; in bone and cartilage, in the Medical theory holds that increased clearer as we explore the disruptive brain, etc. If they are disrupted or levels of antibodies against specific effects of each component of the vac- destroyed by vaccines containing neu- antigens by vaccination will prevent cine on your body. The 2002-2003 raminidase, untold detrimental effects the development of a particular dis- influenza vaccine contains 15 ug occur throughout the entire body! Like ease, such as influenza. On the other hemagglutinin antigens of different a Jack Of All Trades, glycoproteins hand, Hygienists hold that our suscep- viruses thought to cause influenza, perform many VIP functions. Similar tibility to disease increases with the such as New Caldonia, Panama, to private limousines that transport number of vaccinations. This includes Moscow, and Hong Kong. In addition VIP people to special places, glycopro- the dreaded demon disease, cancer. to the “jet-set” hemagglutinins, the teins transport VIP substances such as Red blood cells and all cells have vaccine also contains the enzyme neu- vitamins, lipids, minerals and trace ele- antigenic properties because all have raminidase. The hemagglutinins are the ments throughout the body. both protein and carbohydrates in the factors that are supposed to engender Additionally, glycoproteins are pro- cell wall, as we have just learned. antibodies to render you immune to duced by cells when exposed to virus- Research has demonstrated that N- influenza. Both hemagglutinins and es, bacteria, and experimental chemi- neuraminidase causes red blood cells neuraminidases are on the surface of cals. They actually become antiviral to lose their antigenicity. It follows the virus and end up as toxic mole- substances themselves, and are called then that the virus hemagglutinins in cules in the split virus, the subvirion. “interferons” because they interfere the vaccine also lose their antigenicity Neuraminidase is an enzyme that with viral multiplication. because of N-neuraminidase, and con- catalyzes chemical reactions of N To damage glycoproteins in any sequently those who are vaccinated acetylneuraminic acid and other neu- manner can be compared to the demo- cannot form antibodies against the raminic acids, which are members of a lition of a huge building by pulling out hemagglutinins! If antibodies can’t be group of substances classed as sialic several of the basic parts of its founda- formed then according to medicine, the acids. Neuraminic acid is one of the tion. The whole body falls apart, as vaccine is useless, because it is the anti- major species of sugars found in does the building. That is what neu- bodies that, in medical thought, create humans and it is a component of prac- ramidases can do to you when you immunity to influenza. If the pharma- tically all the glycoproteins. N-acetyl- allow them to be injected in the form ceutical companies think they are pro- neuraminic acid and other neuraminic of "immunizations." Actually, rather ducing immunity with this vaccine they acids are the predominate sugars in than immunizing you, they do just the Influenza Shots? cont.on page 25

Page 24 Fall 2003 VRAN Newsletter Influenza Shots? cont. from page 24 So, at this point, we see that the vac- virus. Any protection afforded is only had better rethink their hypothesis. cine contains: Allantoin and its break- against those strains of virus from The small oligosaccharides in glyco- down products; various egg proteins; which the vaccine is prepared or proteins of mammalian tissues are gentamicin, an antibiotic; formalde- against closely related strains.” Our formed with just a few monosaccha- hyde; resin, and tri butylphosphate, as body’s defense mechanisms do better rides and neuraminic acid is the pre- well as polysorbate 80, which is used than that! It has natural killer cells dominate one. Furthermore, neu- as an excipient in formulating tablets. that attack all strains of viruses and raminidases also split off other sugars In other words, polysorbate 80 is the bacteria. from glycoproteins, producing as much vehicle or carrier for most drugs, and The 2002-2003 vaccine is not damage as cutting off neuraminic acid. it is also found in ice creams and other “effective” against any other strain of These oligosaccharides are found in fabricated fake foods. To preserve this influenza virus or some that are closely the glycoproteins of all cell mem- witches' brew, thimerosal, a mercury related. You are not protected even if branes. So the vaccine is worthless as derivative, is used. Therefore, each 0.5 you are vaccinated! So many different well as very damaging to all the tissues milliliter dose influenza vaccine con- viruses and bacteria supposedly cause in the body. tains 25 micrograms of mercury. Do influenza that it is a wonder people The Growing and Preparation you want all that in your body? don’t see that there is something wrong of Influenza Virus Vaccine Some companies use polyethylene here! How can one be artificially glycol and Isooctylphenyl for various immune to any disease when hundreds The allantoic fluids in which the flu reasons when producing the subvirion. of different viruses and bacteria vaccine is grown, contain a white crys- Such chemicals cannot produce health. “cause” the same disease? How can we talline substance called allantoin. As Polyethylene Glycol is a relative of eth- even believe that they cause disease in an animal waste product, it is not ylene glycol (antifreeze) which is often any case, since they are always present usable and hence it is toxic. Allantoin used to poison dogs and other preda- in health and disease? Most of the time has a high nitrogen content, which is tors of sheep. The body has a very dif- they are our benefactors–they actually why it is used as fertilizer. Allantoin is ficult time expelling it because it is help us rid the body of toxins. broken down to dirueidoacetic acid. resistant to biodegradation. Vaccines Build Disease! Diureidoacetic acid can be further bro- Isocctylphenyl ether is a compound of ken down to another product that is ether and has anesthetic properties. Perhaps you have been assured by partly responsible for the development Isooctylphenyl ether is a teratogen, your physician that Influenza virus of kidney and bladder stones. causing abnormal prenatal develop- vaccine contains only dead viruses and Five hundred micrograms of gentam- ment. It also induces testicular atrophy that it cannot cause influenza. This is icin, a broad spectrum antibiotic, is in animals, and possibly in people. nonsense. Influenza vaccine contains added to each embryonated chicken I wish to caution you that animal the proteins found in the RNA of the egg to inhibit the growth of bacteria. reproductive studies have not been virus. These proteins, like egg or chick- Formaldehyde, which is often used as a conducted with influenza virus vaccine. en protein, are alien to our bodies. preservative, and thought to be car- It is also not known whether influenza Our bodies can only use the proteins cinogenic in humans, is used to inacti- virus vaccine can cause fetal harm and carbohydrates we make ourselves. vate the virus. when administered to a pregnant All others are toxic and must be Two chemicals, tri butylphosphate woman or if it might affect reproduc- degraded and tossed out. Therefore, and Polysorbate 80, USP are added to tive capacity. when you take vaccines, the foreign the subvirion to inactivate and disrupt proteins and carbohydrates increase Vaccines Guarantee Nothing a significant proportion of the virus. the toxicity of your body sufficiently to Then, resin is added to eliminate “sub- Please be aware that the vaccinating warrant an elimination crisis. Not only stantial portions” of these two chemi- profession does not proclaim complete could you get influenza but you could cals, tri butylphosphate and immunity for you, but states that it get any other disease to which you Polysorbate 80. You can be certain merely "reduces the likelihood of have a physical tendency. This is why that some of these chemicals are still infection; or if you do develop the dis- physicians state that “...coincidental components of the vaccine when ease it will be a milder case.” Listen to respiratory disease unrelated to injected. Still, more purification is another confession: “It is known defi- influenza vaccination can occur after required because of the presence of nitely that influenza virus vaccine, as vaccination.” Excuses, excuses... undisclosed other “undesirable materi- now constituted, is not effective The most frequent “side effect” of als” in the vaccine. against all possible strains of influenza Influenza Shots? cont. on page 26

VRAN Newsletter Fall 2003 Page 25 Influenza Shots? cont. from page 25 body parts. You may find yourself should find out what in his or her vaccination is soreness at the site of leaking from the nose, or throat, or lifestyle is causing the sickness, elimi- the vaccination site for up to two days. lungs, or eyes and ears, and sometimes nate it; and then work towards a more Does that sound like something that is all of these at once; or the inflamma- healthful lifestyle. If you desire to keep good for you? Your body tissues tion may march along like a band well it certainly helps to know what become red, swollen and inflamed going from one block to the next, until can make you sick and avoid it. because of the toxic vaccine. Other the toxic level has come down to the Medical treatments of all kinds can injection site reactions are: pain or ten- toleration point of the individual. You predispose you to influenza. In short, derness, erythema, inflammation, skin are apparently well, and you are anything that enervates, or saps energy, discoloration, induration, a mass or indeed free of symptoms because the can exacerbate any tendencies we may lump; and hypersensitivity reactions body ceases its eliminations upon have toward disease. All “enervators,” including puritus and urticaria. In reaching your particular toleration i.e., those things which rob you of nerve energy and weaken you physical- ...homeopathy can be very helpful during ly and mentally, will predispose you to the fluand cold season. an acute disease. Some of the greatest enervators are all drugs, medications, addition, the following types of sys- point. However, you are not really and poison habits such as indulging in temic problems have occurred after healthy until your body tolerates only coffee, tea, alcohol, and smoking. All vaccination: Fever, malaise, myalgia, the normal amount of wastes, as in a bad health habits are enervating, but and other systemic symptoms such as genuinely healthy individual. It takes the greatest enervators of all are phar- arthralgia, asthenia, chills, dizziness, time and right living to get to that maceuticals, including vaccines. headache, lymphadenopathy, rash, point. Fasting hastens this process. It is difficult for individuals to see all nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, pharyngi- An acute disease, such as influenza, this clearly, because for 24 hours a day tis, angiopathy and vasculiltis, as well is a necessary pathophysiological they are under the barrage of medical as anaphylactic shock. Many asthmat- process instituted by the body itself, propaganda and coercion. They fear ics have severe reactions from taking designed to eliminate the excess body for their lives and know nothing about flu virus vaccines and anaphylaxis is wastes by way of the mucous mem- the healing powers of the living organ- one of them, sometimes ending in branes. The bodily intelligence decides ism. The ill-fated individual does not death within one hour. which area is the most appropriate and know what to think or do, being lost The human body learns to tolerate best avenue to rid itself of certain in the hazy woods of the mysticism of poisons if given to them often enough waste products, and when these are so medicine. What we need in this world and long enough. But the price is dear, overwhelming that the ordinary is truth and enlightenment! To quote because changes in tissues are taking avenues of elimination such as the kid- Dr. Herbert M. Shelton’s favorite slo- place that are detrimental to your neys can't handle them all, they are gan: “Let us have the truth though the health, ending up in one or more then pushed out through other chan- heavens may fall." degenerative diseases. The only way nels such as the skin and mucous out is to live healthfully so you do not membranes. When cared for Dr. Vertrano is a Physiologist, lecturer, tolerate toxins! Hygienically, influenza never becomes Co-director of The Rest of Your Life Getting vaccinated builds a deadly disease. Healing Center. She has a health infor- disease–not immunity! All vaccines are The point is that the body is self- mation service and will be pleased to poisons and every new vaccine is a protecting and self-healing. If we all answer any quetions. Call "Dr. new poison! gave up the idea of "cures" and lived Vetrano's Health Information Service" Why We Get the Flu correctly, there would be no need for at 830-234-3499 medications to suppress our symptoms http://www.livingnutrition.com Sickness already exists before the or vaccines to give us a false idea that [email protected] virus or bacteria can propagate in large we are “protected.” numbers. The body’s toxic tissues are Keeping Well Dr. Vetrano’s excellent smallpox essay the basic cause of the disease; not the is posted on VacLib's smallpox index bacteria. When your body finds itself Neither healthy nor sick persons for those who would like to reference overflowing with excess waste, like a need to be vaccinated. The healthy per- it. stopped up toilet, it flows over too, son should continue on with a health- www.vaclib.org/basic/smallpoxindex.htm with mucus exuding from one or many ful lifestyle, and the sick individual

Page 26 Fall 2003 VRAN Newsletter dous body pain, which is more severe DEALING WITH THE FLU SEASON - than the Gelsemium body ache or heaviness. The Eupatorium body pain NATURALLY feels like it is going right through the By Ingri Cassel bones. The bones ache as if they were broken. So, if the common flu symp- critical to expedient recovery. Cold toms of fever, flush, chills and fatigue There are two herbs that are essen- and flu bugs love the partially digested are accompanied by a severe body and tial to have on hand during the cold fecal matter in our digestive tract. We bone pain, consider Eupatorium. and flu season: raspberry leaves and use a quality colon cleanser such as Ferrum Phosphoricum is a homeo- yarrow. They are also my favorite Perfect 7 or Dr. Schulze’s Intestinal pathic remedy noted for its usefulness since they are simple to harvest making Formulas 1 and 2 to promote the elim- at the beginning stages of inflamma- them a remedy freely given to us – ination of toxins and other “pathogen- tion. If you don't feel quite as well as costing only your time and energy. ic-organism habitat” material from our you normally do, and feel it could be If anyone in our family begins feel- colons. the early or first stage of oncoming ing nauseous and throwing up for any Homeopath, Jennifer Zint, director flum symptoms, now is the time to try reason, I immediately make a large pot of Vaccination Liberation in South Ferrum Phosphoricum. This remedy is of raspberry leaf tea. The person Indiana, tells us her favorite flu remedy generally not as effective once the flu drinks nothing but raspberry leaf tea is Oscillococcinum by Boiron, avail- has progressed past this early stage. until the symptoms subside. This is a able at health food stores – www.oscil- Homeopathic Belladonna is a reme- sure cure that fixes the problem in less lo.com It works fast – about 16-24 dy which can be helpful for acute than 24 hours. The first cup of tea hours after the first dose. symptoms which appear and disappear may be thrown up, but the rest of the Recommended is three doses a day and suddenly. The symptom picture often tea is assimilated, giving the body each dose about 6 hours apart. includes a sudden high fever with a essential minerals and nutrients with Frequency medicine: Mary hot, red face and dilated pupils. A pro- which to recover. delaFuente uses a zapper as soon as longed fever will generally not respond If there is no nausea or vomiting but someone in her family experiences flu to Belladonna. the usual high temperature, weakness symptoms. She also uses tincture of Sometimes the easiest and most and chills instead, make a large pot of cayenne pepper, raspberry leaf tea and effective plan is just to go with a yarrow tea. Drink nothing but yarrow compious amounts of vitamin C. A homeopathic combination remedy. tea for the 24 hours. In both instances zapper can be obtained at These combinations are available and it is good to take a hot bath to both www.drclarkstore.com include the remedies mentioned and hydrate and increase the temperature Homeopathic Remedies more. of the fever. Adding a tablespoon each Recommended by Dr. Grant L. Reich, In recent years, one remedy seems to of cayenne, ginger root powder to the Homeopath have risen above the rest. It's called bath water is a great way to stimulate Anas Barbariae. In my family, it's a a good sweat while drinking a cup of Gelsemium (Yellow Jasmine) is for mainstay during the fall and winter yarrow tea. It is important to go right symptoms that come on slowly. You months. In any case, homeopathy can to bed after the bath (source: Herbal may feel tired for 2 or 3 days before be very helpful during the flu and cold Home Care by Dr. John. R. the flu or cold takes hold. Along with season. The homeopathic remedies Christopher). nthe tiredness and fatigue, comes a mentioned above are available at When my family gets sick, we stop generalized body ache and trembling. Nature's Bounty Nutrition Centre. consuming acid-forming food and Trembling because of the chills running drinks such as meat, dairy products, up and down your back. An irritating, With appreciation to Susan Fletcher carbohydrates, coffee, sugar and alco- watery, runny nose, heavy, droopy eye- for submitting homeopathic remedies hol. Actually, we usually stop eating lids and headache which starts at the recommended by Homeopath, Grant altogether and start drinking large back of the head are all common. If L. Reich, RHom (Homeopath) quantities of alkalinizing beverages you have been weak and basically Nature's Bounty Nutrition Centre in such as purified water, fresh-squeezed never well since the flu, Gelsemium Sechelt, BC - 604-885-7001, and to lemonade with cayenne and maple may be the answer. Ingri Cassel of Vaccination Liberation syrup in addition to the herbal teas Eupatorium (Boneset) is another for sharing her favourite herbal reme- mentioned above. remedy which can be very helpful dies she and her family have used for Alkalinization and hydration are when the main complaint is a tremen- many years.

VRAN Newsletter Fall 2003 Page 27 Researchers Claim Vaccines Whole-cell DTP, single diphtheria and NEWS CLIPS Cause Nine out of 10 tetanus and some influenza and hepati- Neurodevelopmental Disorders tis B vaccines contain thimerosal. Canadian Field Trials of New Taken from: Pulse, 19 May 2003, By MMR uptake in the UK currently Nasal Spray Flu Vaccine Begin Brian Kelly – and reprinted in Britain’s, stands at a record low of just 81% in The Informed Parent 2 year-olds. Oct. 16, 2003 - ID Biomedical announced today that it has received a GPs have been warned to brace ******************** "No Objection" letter from Health themselves for a controversial study to Doctors giving MMR 'by Canada conveying approval to begin be published in a peer-reviewed journal stealth' its scheduled field study of that ‘confirms and extends’ the work by Beezy Marsh, Daily Mail - Britain FluINsure(TM) trivalent influenza vac- by Dr. Andrew Wakefield on MMR, cine, a non-living vaccine for autism and bowel disease. GP leaders Family doctors have been accused of intranasal administration. In addition, fear the national press will ‘sensation- administering the MMR jab by stealth Health Canada has provided lot alize’ the research causing confidence to children coming into their surgeries release for all of the test articles to be in childhood vaccinations, and espe- to receive other vaccinations. At least used in the trial, which allows adminis- cially MMR to plummet to an all-time 50 horrified parents have complained tration of the vaccine to begin. low. that their GPs have 'mistakenly' given Screening of potential subjects and The US researchers also claim to their children the combined measles, shipments of study vaccine are under- have established a causal link between mumps and rubella vaccine, it has way. mercury in thimerosal-containing vac- emerged. The 2003 "in-season" field trial is cines and brain disorder in a further All the children had been recalled to being conducted at approximately 25 three papers due out this summer. Dr. their GP practice to receive a booster sites across Canada, and is planned to Mark Geier, leader of the studies and a jab of the Hib vaccine, which protects enroll a target of 1,320 healthy adult geneticist at the National Institutes of against the potentially deadly subjects, 18 to 64 years of age. Health in the US, concluded his haemophilus influenza type B disease, Subjects will be assigned randomly, research that “thimerosal contributed which causes meningitis. Once there, with stratification on age and receipt to about 75% of cases of neurodevel- they have been given the MMR jab in of influenza vaccine in the prior two opmental disorders while MMR con- an apparent mix-up - but there are seasons, to one of three approximately tributed to 15%.” fears that some GPs are using it as an equal-sized treatment arms receiving Dr. Geier told Pulse, “The studies opportunity to administer the MMR either placebo, one dose of active vac- tend to confirm and extend the work without parental consent. cine, or the same total amount of of Dr. Andy Wakefield that caused so The jab is at the centre of fears of a active divided into two sequential much concern in the UK.” The possible link to autism and bowel dis- doses separated by two weeks. The research has been presented to solici- ease, leading to a dramatic fall in trial will collect safety and immune tors and medical advisers at law firm uptake, which now stands at 82 per response data on both vaccine regi- Alexander Harris, which is leading the cent nationally in Britain. In London, mens. In addition, subjects will be fol- MMR litigation against the manufac- the rate has plummeted to 67.5 per lowed from December 01, 2003 to turers of the vaccine in the UK. cent, prompting fears of measles out- April 18, 2004 for the occurrence of Dr. Geier told Pulse the study, to be breaks. influenza-like illnesses, and viral cul- published in International Paediatrics, In Britain, GPs get more money for ture specimens from the nose and found statistically significant increased vaccinating 90 per cent of children but throat will be obtained from suspect relative risk of autism, cerebellar atax- those who fail to meet the target - by cases to confirm influenza. Close-out ia, mental retardation and encephalitis even one child - can lose more than visits will occur in April and May of within 5 to 20 days of MMR immu- £2,000 a year. Some critics say family 2004. nization. He based his study on the doctors are being pressured into under- Biocompare News _ ID Biomedical official U.S. VAERS (Vaccine Adverse hand methods in order to help meet Receives Approval To Begin Field Trial Events Reporting System) database of vaccine targets and win extra pay- Of FluNhttp://www.idbiomedical.com/ vaccine reactions. One of his papers ments. on thimerosal-containing vaccines is One distraught mother was allegedly due to appear in Experimental Biology told by a practice nurse who had just and Medicine (July). administered the MMR without con- News Clips cont. on page 29

Page 28 Fall 2003 VRAN Newsletter News Clips cont. from page 28 dard/article.html?in_article_id=200847 Funding Pulled on British MMR sent: 'You were on our target list for &in_%0Dpage_id=169 Class Action Suit the MMR.' ******************** September19 - 2 October 2003 Many of the children had already Private Eye reports that “Last received single measles, mumps and 'Antibiotics link' to MMR and week's decision to pull the plug on rubella vaccinations from private clin- autism legal aid for more than 1,000 families ics. One mother from Bedfordshire By Stephen Hull , Metro(Daily Mail) - who claim their children were dam- whose four-year- old son was vaccinat- UK aged by the MMR vaccine appears ed with MMR without her consent Antibiotics may be to blame for perverse and serves no public interest. said yesterday: 'I had purposely given hundreds of children developing Indeed, the court case everyone hopes my son single vaccines because I was autism after having the controversial will settle the controversy is now only concerned about autism. 'But the GP MMR jab, it has been claimed. More six months away; and crucial tests and gave the MMR to him without my than two-thirds of youngsters with the experiments on the children are contin- consent when we went in for the Hib condition received four or more antibi- uing. booster - I only found out because I otics in their first year, a survey So far the case has cost taxpayers asked why he was giving my son two revealed. It is thought the drugs weak- about £10m - about £10,000 for each injections. 'It made me feel distraught ened their immune systems, leaving child - a pittance compared to the huge and angry. I was beside myself with them unable to withstand the impact sums available to the three defendant concern about what was going to hap- of the triple jab. drug companies. Yet the MMR case is pen to my son's health.' Jon Tommey, publisher of Autism vital not only to the families involved, Sarah Dean, director of the private File magazine, attacked a 'cavalier atti- some of whose children have died and jabs clinic Direct Health 2000, said: tude' to the measles, mumps and rubel- others who are severely disabled; but 'We have been receiving about ten calls la jab and similar inoculations. to all parents who are bewildered a week for the past five weeks and all 'Doctors need to pay more care to about whether the vaccines they are of the parents are telling a similar whether a child is well enough to be giving their healthy children are safe. story. 'They go in for the Hib booster vaccinated,' he said. Mr. Tommey said The case is also vital because of the and end up with their child having the youngsters received four sets of multi- ongoing research into the causes of MMR without their consent.' ple vaccines in their first year. what is described as an autism ''epi- Questions are being asked about 'There is evidence that giving chil- demic''. whether GPs are doing this because of dren with weakened immune systems Because of previous health scandals, a financial motive in order to meet vaccinations such as MMR could dam- people no longer trust the government their MMR practice targets age sensitive areas, such as chemical and its allies in the powerful drug Last night the British Medical pathways in the brain,' he added. Mr companies who between them control Association warned that giving an Tommey said his seven-year-old autis- information and most research. With injection without seeking full and tic son was perfectly normal but MMR, many people are angry that informed parental consent constituted received five courses of antibiotics in they have been denied a choice of vac- an assault on the child which could his first year. Shortly afterwards, he cine and have either sought costly sin- lead to criminal charges. The BMA has had the MMR jab - not long after a gle jabs or left their children unvacci- already warned that the MMR target course of antibiotics and while he was nated (which helps no one). They too payments system is undermining trust ill. need an independent judgement on the between doctors and patients. The Autism Research Centre said: safety of the jab. A Department of Health spokesman 'There seems less care these days about The decision by the Legal Services said: 'No children should be immu- checking to see if a child is fit for Commission (LSC) to dump families nised unless their parents have given immunisation.' Anti-MMR campaign now will only confirm their view that consent. None of the childhood vacci- group JABS said: 'There must be an the combined Goliath powers of gov- nations available in the UK are com- urgent investigation into why our chil- ernment and drug companies are pulsory.' Some parents have been con- dren are ill.' working against them. cerned that giving the MMR after sin- Ever since they first voiced concerns gle jabs could pose the threat of an http://www.femail.co.uk/pages/stan- that their children’s often catastrophic 'overdose' of the vaccine, but health dard/article.html?in_article_id=199412 plight might have been the rare result experts say this is not the case. &in_page_id=169 of vaccination, these parents have been http://www.femail.co.uk/pages/stan- News Clips cont. on page 30

VRAN Newsletter Fall 2003 Page 29 News Clips cont. from page 29 is involved in the case, said: 'It seems casein. This peptide was found to shunned and accused of ''scaremonger- incredible that the scientists can come inhibit the growth of gram-positive ing'' and being ''anti-vaccine''. They this far and then the powers that be and gram-negative bacteria as well as have seen doctors and scientists who decide that we should not take the case yeasts (Hakansson A et al. Mol treat their children and share their con- to court.’” Microbiol. 2000;35:589-600). Human cerns, notably Dr Andrew Wakefield, milk contains relatively large amounts ******************** being accused of junk science and los- of xanthine oxidase, and this enzyme ing their research grants and jobs. Human Milk and the Prevention has been linked to antibacterial activi- These ''scaremongerers'' are coping of Infection ty. The combination of xanthine oxi- often with little financial and physical From Infections in Medicine dase and nitrites present in the new- help with sick and often very challeng- Posted 07/23/2003 born's GI tract generates nitric oxide, ing children - children who, when their By Benjamin Estrada, MD - Associate which inhibits the metabolism of parents can no longer cope, are head- Professor of pediatrics, University of Enterobacteriaceae, Escherichia coli, ing towards an isolated adulthood South Alabama, Mobile. and Salmonella enteritidis (Hancock JT et al. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. dependent on the state. Breast-feeding is the recommended 2002;46:3308-3310). These families want to know what, form of infant nutrition. In addition to It has been proved that human milk if not MMR, is a trigger. Lawyers act- nutritional and psychological benefits, contains protective cytokines, such as ing for them are to appeal the LSC’s it is well known that breast-feeding has granulocyte colony-stimulating factor decision on 30 September. But to stop a protective effect against infection. (G-CSF). The concentrations of this the action now would serve no use - Human milk contains significant con- cytokine have been found to be higher not even to the defendant drug compa- centrations of secretory IgA and during the first 2 postpartum days, and nies. The controversy will not go away, oligosaccharides, which provide pro- they are lower in breast milk of moth- it will grow.” tection against bacterial infection. In ers who have given birth to premature And London’s Daily Mail reports addition, the bifidus factor present in infants than in milk of mothers who that: “Compelling evidence of a link human milk stimulates the develop- have given birth to full-term infants. In between MMR, autism and bowel dis- ment of protective intestinal microflora addition, G-CSF receptors are present ease has emerged in research carried in breast-fed infants. Protective effects in intestinal cells of breast-fed infants out for a landmark legal battle. of human milk against infection caused (Calhoun DA et al. Pediatrics. Experts say children suffering autism by rotavirus, enterobacteria, and 2000;105:e7). and gut disorders have the same strain Streptococcus pneumoniae are well Among the major protective factors of the measles virus in their bowel, known. The following are a series of present in human milk are secretory blood and spinal fluid as the one used recent findings that add significant IgA and sialic acid, which have activity in the triple jab. information to our understanding of against infections with enteric The findings are the closest scientists the anti-infective properties of human pathogens. Recently, investigators have have come to proving a causal link milk. demonstrated that these factors present between the jab, autism and painful Recently, the presence of different in human milk survive passage through gut disorders. But campaigners claim natural antibacterial agents has been the GI tract and are present in higher authorities are trying to prevent the described in human milk. Hakansson concentrations in the stool of breast- evidence being made public after legal and collaborators (Hakansson A et al. fed infants than in the stool of bottle- aid was withdrawn from more than Mol Microbiol. 2000;35:589-600) fed infants (Kohler H et al. J Pediatr 1,000 families suing vaccine manufac- have reported that alpha-lactalbumin Gastroenterol Nutr. 2002;34:188-193; turers. It means their case - seen as a present in human milk has bactericidal Fernandes RC et al. Diagn Microbiol crucial test of whether MMR is safe - activity against S pneumoniae. The Infect Dis. 2002;44:331-336). is unlikely to go ahead because the antibacterial activity of this substance Two recent studies support previous families will probably not be able to seems to be independent of S pneumo- research that suggested a role of afford to continue their fight against niae bacterial serotype or antibiotic breast-feeding in protecting against drug firms GlaxoSmithKline, Merck resistance pattern. In addition, Liepke infection caused by rotavirus. In a and Co and Aventis Pasteur MSD. and collaborators (Liepke C et al. J study performed in Italy, breast-feeding Legal aid bosses said yesterday that Chromatogr B Biomed Sci Appl. was found to be associated with a sig- they were 'mistaken' to have backed 2001;752:369-377) have identified a nificantly lower rate of nosocomial the families' case. Richard Miles, peptide in human milk similar to a whose 14-year-old autistic son Robert proteolytic fragment of human k- News Clips cont. on page 31

Page 30 Fall 2003 VRAN Newsletter News Clips cont. from page 30 demonstrated substantial protection cytopenia, with emphasis on the rate of rotavirus infection. Breast-feeding was against thimerosal-induced neuron complications and outcome. METH- more effective than administration of death. In contrast, the addition of ODS: A prospective survey was con- lactobacillus GG in the prevention of testosterone caused a very large ducted by 12 pediatric centers in nosocomial rotavirus infection in the increase in thimerosal-induced neuron Canada during 1992 to 2001. At each same setting (Mastretta E et al. J death. A low nanomolar level of center a nurse monitor searched for Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. thimerosal that gave less than 5 per- inpatient cases. Cases were defined as 2002;35:527-531; Gianino P et al. J cent neuron death in three hours could having onset of clinical signs or labora- Hosp Infect. 2002;50:13-17). be increased to 100 percent cell death tory measures of thrombocytopenia New data suggest that the anti-infec- by the addition of one micromolar (platelet count, <50 x 10(9)/l) within tive properties of human milk can be level of testosterone. Testosterone 30 days after immunization. Cases preserved for up to 3 months after its alone at this level also showed less were described in a standardized man- expression when the milk is frozen at than 5 percent cell death. The oppos- ner, including follow-up data as avail- 2200C (24.00F) (Ogundele MO. Br J ing effects of estrogen and testosterone able. RESULTS: Sixty-one cases were Biomed Sci. 2002;59:205-211). may explain the gender-based four-to- detected, an average of 6 per year or These findings should encourage the one ratio. Most important, the tremen- approximately 1 case per 15,000 gen- promotion and acceptance of breast- dous enhancement of thimerosal toxici- eral hospital admissions. Median age feeding as the ideal form of infant ty by testosterone points out the of cases was 13 months. The mean nutrition. Time spent in the promotion impact of synergistic effects when platelet count at diagnosis was 8.6 x of breast-feeding is always time well addressing mercury toxicity. 10(9)/l. Most cases (79%) followed invested. http://www.autismautoimmunitypro- measles-containing vaccines. Only 1 ject.org/responses.htm child had a serious (fatal) complica- ******************** tion. Platelet counts returned to normal ******************** A Theory of why the Autism within 30 days of onset in 46 of 57 Ratio is Approximately Four Thrombocytopenia after immu- children (80.7%) with information Boys to Every Girl nization of Canadian children, available. Five children (8.2%) had 1992 to 2001 persistent or intermittent thrombocy- One theory published in Mothering Alberta Children's Hospital, Calgary. topenia for 3 months or more. CON- Magazine, Issue 115, Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2003 CLUSION: Thrombocytopenia associ- November/December 2002 by Boyd Feb;22(2):119-22 ated with routine immunization of chil- Haley, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of dren is rare and usually benign, resolv- the Chemistry Department, University BACKGROUND: ing within 1 month in most children. of Kentucky, Toxic Overload: Assessing Thrombocytopenia occasionally fol- the Role of Mercury in Autism, tested http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/que lows immunization of children, espe- the possibility that this could be hor- ry.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&lis cially after administration of measles- mone related. The results were quite t_uids=12586974&dopt=Abstract containing vaccines. The purpose of marked in their effects. Neurons that this study was to describe the clinical PMID: 12586974 [PubMed - indexed were pre-incubated with estrogen features of postimmunization thrombo- for MEDLINE] ❊ ❄ ❆ ❄ ❈ ❄ ❊ May the season find you in good health, ❊ good company, ❈ ❆ ❋ and good spirits. ❇ ❆ ❋ ❊

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VRAN Newsletter April–June 2000 Page 37 Leading edge Research Group: The IMMUNIZATION Biological Manipulation of Human DID YOU KNOW ? Populations INFORMATION ON http://www.trufax.org/menu/bio.html There is no law that can force you Center For Complex Infectious Diseases— to vaccinate your children. The only THE INTERNET info re. stealth viruses & Dr. John Martin’s laws relating to vaccination govern research school pupils, not infants, and these Compiled by: VRAN (web site hosted http://www.ccid.org by Freedom of Choice in Health Care: can be waived through available ) Tetrahedron — AIDS, Ebola, vaccines, Gulf exemptions. If your child has exhibited War Syndrome any of the following adverse reactions Eagle Foundation http://tetrahedron.org/ or conditions, you may wish to defer http://www.eaglefoundation.org International Advocates for Health from continuing the course of vaccina- Canadian organization in support of Freedom — John Hammell tions. vaccine injured families. http://www.iahf.com/index1.html • If your child is ill or running a fever. WHALE Vaccination Resource Networking between health freedom http://www.whaleto.freeserve.co.uk/vac- activists • If the child collapses or goes into a cines.html Health World Online- Discussion Forums shock-like state following a vaccine. Excellent site. on Vaccines • If the child has high pitched scream- New Atlantean Immunisation Resources http://www.healthy.net/ ing for several hours; and cannot be http://www.new-atlantean.com/ Vaccination Information & Awareness— comforted global/vaccine.html Links to many sites • If the child has a temperature of 38° A good list of resources; global pro-choice http://www.access1.net/via C or higher after vaccination. vaccine groups books, tapes and videos. Vaccine Safety Website—Dr. B. Classen • If the child develops pain, redness, Vaccination Information Paradigm http://vaccines.net/risks.htm swelling, lump at the needle site http://www.cco.net/~trufax/vaccine/ vacindex.html Australian Vaccination Network • If the child develops severe diarrhea Very good information, updated regularly. http://www.avn.org.au/ and/or vomiting This group is forging ahead with legal • If the child has one or more convul- Sebastiana’s Medical Journal listings of actions challenging government violation of sions or has a family history of con- vaccine risks informed consent laws. http://www.omen.net.au/~pienaar/index.html vulsive disorders (eg. epilepsy); if the National Vaccine Information Center MEDICAL INFORMATION & child has an evolving neurological http://www.909shot.com PRO-VACCINE LINKS: condition. Excellent site run by the largest N.A. group. • If there is a family history of severe WHO & Communicable Diseases Attachment Parenting & Natural Nurturing allergies and/or history of vaccine Surveillance & Vaccine Links http://www.who.int/emc/ reactions. www.geocities.com/Heartland/Fields/2460 • If the child has signs of brain injury Excellent site offering concepts that create Vaccine News Updates— Immunization such as a bulge in the soft spots of health in the family and access to Briefs Vaccination OneList network. www.infoinc.com/imnews2 the head or a severe change of con- sciousness. Natural Immunity Network Vaccine Weekly Magazine—For the medical http://www.i-wayco.com/niin/index.html world • If the child is receiving treatments http://www.holonet.net/homepage/1v.htm that suppress the immune system Concerned Parents for Vaccine Safety Covers new vaccines. http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/Gyrene/Ho • If the child has a widespread allergic me.htm Infectious Diseases in Children reaction, rashes, hives, wheezing, Excellent site—links to many others. http://www.slackinc.com/child/idc/199805/v trouble breathing. accine.htm#speclink Informed Parents Home Page • If the child develops swollen http://www.unc.edu/~aphillip/www/ Immunization Action Coalition— joints/arthritis like symptoms vaccine/informed.htm Pro-Vaccine site • If the child has an irregular heartbeat http://www.immunize.org/ Excellent site—well researched. within several hours after vaccination. Immunisation Awareness Society Achoo & MD • If the child is excessively sleepy fol- http://www.achoo.com http://www.ias.org.nz lowing vaccination. Excellent site—offers international research. Consultation source for travel vaccines • If the child has an episode of sleep Medscape—Online medical info FEAT (Families for Early Autism Treatment) apnoea (stops breathing during http://www.feat.org http://www.medscape.com √ sleep) Dr. Harris Coulter’s Website http://home.earthlink.net/~emptherapies/

Page 38 April–June 2000 VRAN Newsletter SIX REASONS TO QUESTION VACCINATION

By Walene James

1. Vaccinations are forced. For example, there are compulsory vaccination laws in every state. If something is good it doesn’t have to be forced*. 2. Vaccinations are toxins by definition. 3. Vaccinations are indigenous to only one model of healthcare—the allopathic medical model—and its practitioner’s particular understanding of disease phenomena. 4. Vaccinations are promoted by fear, guilt, and ‘creative’ statistics. 5. Vaccinations are represented as safe and effective when evidence suggests they are neither. 6. Vaccinations are aggressively pushed by public health departments and other government agencies as though they were a public health issue when they are not. This is done to insure a high rate of compliance.

*Vaccination is not mandatory anywhere in Canada.

TEN REASONS TO JUST SAY ‘NO’ TO VACCINATIONS

By Walene James

1. Vaccinations are toxins by definition. 2. Vaccinations are aggressively promoted by those who have a financial stake in their consumption. 3. Vaccinations are promoted using fear, intimidation, and coercion. 4. Vaccinations are big business. 5. Vaccine manufacturers are nearly liability proof for their products. 6. Vaccinations are not only forced upon us, but those who deny us the exercise of our free will refuse to take responsibility for the consequences of their actions. 7. Evidence suggests that vaccinations damage the immune system, the nervous system and the spirit-mind-body connection. 8. Compulsory vaccinations ignore biochemical and psychospiritual individuality. 9. Vaccinations are misrepresented by government agencies as a public health issue which they are not. 10. Vaccinations are heavily subsidized, heavily propagandized and can be seen as a wake-up call for us to see how we allow ourselves to be programmed by huge vested interests.

Philosophical questions:

“Perhaps more important than anything else is for our group to consider the larger picture: What lessons do we need to learn trying to stem the tide of coercion from an out-of-control medical-pharmaceutical industry and the Mass Mind that allows this? How does understanding and working with the vaccination issue contribute to our mat- uration as spiritually aware and fully alive human beings?”

~Walene James

Walene James has authored an exceptional book that is a must read for everyone involved in educating themselves, their families and communities about vaccine risks and health creating alternatives to vaccination. She helps us take a quatum leap out of the fear-based vaccine paradigm. Walene’s insightful analysis of the history of vaccines and infec- tious disease is complemented by a thorough investigation of the factors that create health in human populations, and what we all need to do to create health in our families. For more information, contact Ingri Cassel at Vaccination Liberation in Idaho: 208-267-8037

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