Autumn 2011

Vaccination Risk Awarenessewsletter Network Inc. Scare 2011 INSIDE THIS ISSUE Dr Jayne L.M. Donegan, MBBS 02: VRANews DRCOG DCH DFFP MRCGP MFHom 09: Denying Evidence of Risk GP & Homeopath 10: An Interview with Judy Converse on GMO and Vaccine Damage • Measles outbreak in the UK deadlier 12: What is Happening to our this year Children? A Compromised • Measles outbreak prompts plea to Generation vaccinate children 15: Are a Gift from God? • European outbreak threat to children 16: Flu Shot Unchanged, Program Expanded … Scream the headlines. 17: Why Children May React to Milk Proteins in DPT Shot Unvaccinated children are being ex- 19: Duty to Warn: Flu Shots, cluded from Swiss schools; private Fosamax and Pharmaceutical clinics are running out of single measles What are they panicking about? Fakery: The Common Use of jabs… What are they panicking about? Heart attacks, strokes, paralysis? Misleading Statistics in the Heart attacks, strokes, paralysis? No, No, they are talking about measles—a Medical Literature they are talking about measles—a regu- regular childhood illness that most 21: Potential Biohazard Found in lar childhood illness that most children children sail through. Gardasil Vaccine sail through. 22: Annabelle Morin Yes, there are about 170 000 mea- ing, drinking water contaminated with 23: Why is CDC Ignoring Life and sles deaths per years world wide (2008 sewage—were similar to those in poorer Death Studies on Vaccine Safety? figures), but, as the World Health Organi- countries today, it used to be a feared 24: Letters sation (WHO) states: killer here also. But all that changed long 26: In the News “The overwhelming majority (more ago. In England & Wales the death rate 28: VRAN Membership / Order Form than 95%)of measles deaths occur in declined from over 1100 per million cases countries with low per capita incomes in the mid nineteenth century to a level of and weak health infrastructures... Most virtually zero by the mid 1960s. measles deaths are caused by complica- When Vaccine Theology tions associated with the diseases” and Was this due to vaccination? No. Clashes with Nature’s “Severe measles is more likely among Blueprint poorly nourished young children, espe- 99% of the reduction in deaths due to by Edda West cially those with insufficient vitamin A, measles in England & Wales occurred or whose immune systems have been before the introduction of the measles When you manipulate nature in a weakened by HIV/AIDS or other dis- vaccine in 1968 and has continued to fall way you don’t completely understand, eases… As high as 10% of measles cases since then. Fig on Page 4. the consequences can be unpredict- result in death among populations with Dr David Miller, Deputy Director of able and absolutely disastrous”—Dr. high levels of malnutrition and lack of the Epidemiological Research Laboratory Jacques Pepin (1) adequate health care”. in Colindale, Middlesex, stated in 1964, The World Health Organization “In this country at least, measles is now (WHO) has estimated that every year un- Are children in Europe and the usually regarded as a minor childhood safe injections result in 80,000-160,000 United States suffering from illness through which we all must pass new HIV-1 infections, 8-16 million hep- malnutrition? Does your child rather than as a public health problem.” atitis B infections, and 2.3—4.7 million In fact measles and other childhood hepatitis C infections worldwide (this have HIV/AIDS? infections were so much regarded as part figure does not include transfusions).(2) If not, why all the fuss? of normal childhood development in the Together, these illnesses account for In the UK, measles used to occur in 1960s that mothers sent their children off 1·3 million deaths and 23 million years epidemics about every two years starting to measles, mumps, chicken pox and ru- of lost life. in the autumn with the peak being in April bella ‘parties’ so that they would get them “Even under the auspices of WHO and then waning for another two years. at the best time—in childhood. They are regional immunization programmes, In the nineteenth century when social which constitute 10% of all mass vac- conditions—malnutrition, poor hous- Measles Scare 2011 cont. on page 4 Editorial cont. on page 3 VRAN NEWSLETTER VRANEWS Fundraising Vaccination Risk Awareness Network Inc. P.O. Box 169, Winlaw, B.C. V0G 2J0 Coordinator and newsletter editor: Edda West Annual General Meeting VRAN fundraising is an ongoing ef- [email protected] 250-355-2525 fort. VRAN is solely supported by the VRAN Board of Directors: The VRAN Annual General Meeting generosity of our Members and receives Mary James—President was held by telephone conference on Au- no corporate or government funding. We Rita Hoffman—Vice-President gust 25, 2011and was attended by VRAN are privileged with the intellectual free- Edda West —Secretary/Treasurer Board members & Directors, Mary dom to speak the truth about the effects Leona Rew—Board Member James, Edda West, Rita Hoffman and of vaccine policies on human health and Gloria Dignazio—Board Member Susan Fletcher. We discussed the future to publish news of cutting edge research Susan Fletcher—VRAN Researcher, Board Member Thanks to Catherine Orfald for the newsletter layout. of the VRAN Newsletter, and possibly precisely because our support base is moving to one print issue annually to YOU, OUR MEMBERS, and not corpo- Statement of Purpose: • VRAN was formed in October of 1992 in re- be mailed to members at the end of each rate or government ideology. sponse to growing parental concern regarding calendar year. The print newsletter would For a donation of $150, please the safety of current vaccination programs in be a synopsis of the year’s key vaccine select one of the four fundraising bo- use in . awareness news. nuses listed below. Please send your • VRAN continues the work of the Committee We also discussed launching a bi- donations to: VRAN Fundraising— Against Compulsory Vaccination, who in 1982, monthly E-Bulletin newsletter which P.O. Box 169, Winlaw, BC, V0G 2J0 challenged Ontario’s compulsory “Immunization of School Pupils Act”, which resulted in amend- would bring Members a more timely Please note: Donations are in addition ment of the Act, and guarantees an exemption report of current vaccine news. An E-Bul- to annual membership. of conscience from any ‘required’ vaccine. letin newsletter would also help us save on Bonus Items: • VRAN forwards the belief that all people have the printing and mailing costs which increase 1. Vaccine Epidemic, edited by Louise right to draw on a broad information base when every year. Edda gave the annual financial Kuo Habakus & Mary Holland is a pow- deciding on drugs offered themselves and/or their report. The financial report is available to erful new book I consider a ‘must read’, children and in particular drugs associated with Members in good standing on request. exposes the bitter truth about vaccination potentially serious health risks, injury and death. VACCINES ARE SUCH DRUGS. Revenues have declined and VRAN’s mandates. The more than 20 contribut- • VRAN is committed to gathering and distributing infor- existence is on a precipice. We urgently ing authors explore how corporate greed, mation and resources that contribute to the creation of need fundraising ideas, Members to help biased science and coercive government health and well being in our families and communities. with fundraising, and Members to renew threaten our human rights, our health, VRAN’s Mandate is: their annual donations in a timely way. and our children. • To empower parents to make an informed deci- Please remember that your member- 2. The History of the Peanut sion when considering vaccines for their children. ship renewal is due at the beginning of Epidemic by Canadian author Heather • To educate and inform parents about the risks, adverse each calendar year. Fraser, documents how highly allergenic reactions, and contraindications of vaccinations. • To respect parental choice in deciding whether The Board discussed the potential ad- peanut oil came to be used in vaccinations or not to vaccinate their child. vantages of a and Twitter page. without being listed on the package insert. • To provide support to parents whose children Rita Hoffman volunteered to look into this, This has resulted in an epidemic of life have suffered adverse reactions and health in- and has launched a Twitter page for VRAN. threatening and anaphylaxis. juries as a result of childhood vaccinations. Rita Hoffman is VRAN’s new web- 3. Vaccine Safety Manual, by Neil • To promote a multi-disciplinary approach to master. We welcome her help and are so Miller takes you through the A to Z of child and family health utilizing the following grateful that she has taken on the chal- vaccine risk information. Dr. Russell modalities: herbalist, chiropractor, naturopath, homeopath, reflexologist, allopath (regular doc- lenges of running the VRAN website. Blaylock MD in his forward to the book tor), etc. Rita has just completed an upgrade of writes, “This book will go a long way • To empower women to reclaim their position as our site initiated by Susan Fletcher, who toward helping people make critical vac- primary healers in the family. worked tirelessly to review our website cine decisions….absolutely fantastic.!” • To maintain links with consumer groups similar to ours content and has updated and rewritten 4. A set of two booklets—A Com- around the world through an exchange of information, many of the pages on our site. Our heart- mentary on Current Childhood Vaccine research and analysis, thereby enabling parents to felt thanks go to Susan and Rita for their Programs by Harold E. Buttram, MD reclaim health care choices for their families. • To support people in their fight for health free- ongoing dedication to this work. is a 124 page booklet intended to serve dom and to maintain and further the individual's The Board discussed a possible ad as a teaching aid for families question- freedom from enforced medication. campaign using artwork & copy sent ing vaccine safety. It offers insight into VRAN publishes a newsletter 2 to 3 times a year to us by a concerned mother in Ontario the health impact of vaccines from the as a means of distributing information to members who felt that catchy posters made avail- perspective of neurology, immunology, and the community. Suggested annual membership fees, including quarterly newsletter and your on- able through our website could be used toxicology and physiology. Also the going support to the Vaccination Risk Awareness by people to disseminate our message companion booklet (77 pages + referenc- Network: $35.00—Individual $75.00—Professional about vaccine risks. We also discussed es) Shaken Baby Syndrome or Vaccine We would like to share the personal stories of our creating a webpage where families who –Induced Encephalitis, by Dr. Buttram membership. If you would like to submit your story, have chosen NOT to vaccinate can tell and health journalist Christina England please contact Edda West by phone or e-mail,as their stories and bear witness to the good disproves the false theory that babies pre- indicated above. health of their unvaccinated children and senting with symptoms like brain bleeds VRAN website: www.vran.org √ grandchildren. If you’d like to share your have been shaken by their parents. The “unvaccinated” story, please considering submitting it to us. VRANews cont. on page 3 Page 2 ¤ Autumn 2011 ¤ VRAN Newsletter VRANews cont. from page 2 chemicals without consequence. Today two years of life, he/she is protected from research presented in this booklet shows these assumptions still dominate the be- bacterial infections and from hazardous current childhood vaccination programs lief system of vaccinologists who cling inflammatory episodes. A normal ecol- as the true source of many brain and reti- to an obsolete vaccine paradigm that ogy of immune system integrity and brain nal hemorrhages being misdiagnosed as undermines the natural ecology of the in- growth is able to unfold, resulting in vigor- SBS or “Inflicted Child Abuse”. Shaken fant immune system. Rather than protect ous health and optimal brain development. Baby Syndrome is emblematic of the ex- health, it spawns chronic disease, im- Until recently, the brain and the im- tent medical science will go to deny the mune dysfunction and brain injury. mune system were considered as two reality of vaccine induced brain injuries. The vaccine disaster has been precipi- separate entities. We now know that the Dr. Buttram’s insightful research and tated by medical ignorance of how and brain and immune system are intricate- wise commentary over many decades has why a baby’s immune system is so dif- ly connected and engage in significant enabled families to make fully informed ferent from the adult. Compounding the “crosstalk” to maintain homeostasis, i.e. vaccine decisions. Dr. Buttram is one of ignorance has been the arrogant assump- normal balance. What affects one, affects the first medical doctors in North Amer- tion that the neonate immune system the other. Specific immune cells are also ica, along with Dr. Robert Mendelsohn is “defective” because it does not re- key components in remodeling neuro- to question the safety of mass vaccina- spond to bacterial challenges the way an nal pathways in the brain of babies. If tion policies. I consider him an honoured adult does. Medical science has assumed these immune cells are triggered into an mentor who has inspired the work we do it can improve on nature by forcing the inflammatory mode during critical win- at VRAN. √ infant to respond inappropriately to dows of pre-programmed brain growth, multiple lab altered viral and bacte- serious damage to the “wiring” process Editorial cont. from page 1 rial stimuli. Vaccination is a biological/ of the brain can result. cination campaigns, an estimated 30% chemical weapon that manipulates, alters Hilary Butler’s new series of articles of injections are done with unclean sy- and overrides the immunological blue- inspire a renewed respect for nature’s ringes that are commonly reused. And, print evolved by nature over millennia to evolutionary immune programming. for other medicinal injections, over 50% enhance optimal survival of our species. She offers insight into what is known are deemed unsafe, with rates as high as In contrast to nature’s blueprint, about the neonate immune system and 90% in some campaigns.” (2) the of vaccinology has contrasts this with the current climate Dr. Jacques Pépin MD, a Sherbrooke only been around for a couple of hun- of disconnect in medicine as applies to Quebec infectious disease specialist dred years. By its own admission in the vaccine policies: 1. Vaccines & Neona- worked in Africa in the early ‘80s. His new medical literature, knowledge of the tal Immune Development, 2. How a Baby book on The Origins of AIDS documents complexity of the neonate immune sys- Fights Infection & Develops its Immune that some Africans received as many as tem is still in its infancy. System, and 3. Can vaccines become cra- 300 vaccines over their lifetime. Syringes nial and immunological cluster bombs? and needles were recycled and re-used to Defining what is normal These articles with embedded links to inject hundreds of patients a day against key medical research serve to enlighten diseases such as sleeping sickness, lep- The neonate immune system is very the reader. I’ve attempted to offer some rosy and tuberculosis. This practice, he different from that of the adult. The brain key points from the articles posted on her believes, turned an obscure virus infecting and the immune system are the two key blog, Beyond Conformity.(3) a lone ape hunter decades earlier, into a fundamentals of successful, appropriate If we are ever to reverse the declining global epidemic. “If there hadn’t been adaptation to the environment we live in. state of children’s health, here is a start- those medical campaigns, in my opin- To achieve this, the baby’s immune sys- ing point. ion, there probably wouldn’t have been tem needs to learn what to react to and We learn from Butler’s research that the an AIDS epidemic”, writes Dr. Pepin. (1) what not to react to. The baby learns ap- evolutionary blueprint intends for the hu- Today’s epidemic of chronic illness propriate immune responses through the man neonate and other mammalian species affecting large numbers of children in highly protective external immune sys- to remain in a NON-INFLAMMATORY western industrialized nations is em- tem provided by the mother’s breastmilk. state for a period of time after birth, that in- blematic of what happens when nature is The baby’s inability to respond immu- flammation (vaccines and some infections) manipulated in ways not understood. The nologically to certain bacterial infections can negatively impact brain development “unpredictable and absolutely disastrous” like H. influenzae and S. pneumoniae is and damage the immune system. We learn consequences of vaccine manipulation reflective of the neonate’s normal default that OPTIMAL immune protection from of the immature infant immune system position evolved by nature to favour pathogens is provided to the baby through is a failed experiment driving the col- early brain development over the need its mother’s breastmilk. lapse of children’s health today. It is an to protect from bacterial infections. iatrogenic disaster without precedent in Until its own immune system matures, Hilary Butler writes: human history. nature has provided the child with abun- Mass vaccination programs were dant immunological protection from • Breast milk’s mission for at least two launched without even a rudimentary un- pathogens via its mother’s breastmilk. As years, is to prevent as much inflamma- derstanding of how the neonate immune well, by maintaining a NON-INFLAM- tion in the body, as possible, to reduce system works. Reckless assumptions MATORY immune state, the infant is the possibility of serious infection, were made that infants could tolerate protected from autoimmune diseases. allergies and chronic disorders unlimited injections of antigens, foreign When the human infant is adequately throughout life. proteins, foreign DNA and neurotoxic nourished with breastmilk during the first Editorial cont. on page 7 VRAN Newsletter ¤ Autumn 2011 ¤ Page 3 Measles Scare cont. from page 1 Measles - Deaths Per Million All Ages - England & Wales 1901-1999 now described as so likely to cause death Source: "20th Century Mortality" Office for National Statistics England or disability that the only sensible choice 500 is to vaccinate. 450

The incidence of measles cases also 400 declined. Great credit was given to the introduction of measles vaccine in 1968 350 for the lowering of measles notifications 300 in the UK, however, the uptake was only 33% in that year. The level that did not 250 get above 55% until 1980 when inci- 200 1968 dence was already well down. Measles vaccination 150 introduced ? What happens, then, when unvac- 100 cinated children get measles? Virtually 100% 50 decline in deaths 1900-1965 Measles outbreaks in unimmunised 0 people tend to be mild in those who do 1904 1910 1916 1922 1928 1934 1940 1946 1952 1958 1964 1970 1976 1982 1988 1994 not have underlying medical conditions. 1901 1907 1913 1919 1925 1931 1937 1943 1949 1955 1961 1967 1973 1979 1985 1991 1997 In communities which generally do not are talking about generally well fed and and mortality (death) in severe infec- immunise, the attack rate in infants less housed people with a clean water supply. tion. Heinz Eichenwald, Professor of than one year of age is low because of Paediatrics at the South Western Medical protection by the superior maternal an- Then why are they suffering School, University of Texas, states in the tibodies derived from natural infection complications or dying? Bulletin of the WHO: compared to those derived from vaccina- tion. Almost without exception, deaths When you meet a virus, whether you “Fever represents a universal, ancient, occur in those with underlying medical get infected at all, or have a mild, dis- and usually beneficial response to in- conditions or poor nutrition or in those abling or deadly episode depends on: fection, and its suppression under most religious groups who refuse timely • The state of your immune system circumstances has few, if any demon- medical care when complications occur. when you meet it and strable benefits. On the other hand, some Those most at risk of complications from • How you treat the illness. harmful effects have been shown to oc- the disease are also those least likely to Whatever the state of your immune cur as a result of suppressing fever. It is produce a good antibody response from system, you get complications from not clear, therefore, that the widespread use being given the vaccine. treating infectious diseases correctly. of antipyretics should not be encouraged The first step in this process is to recog- either in developing countries or in in- What is happening now? nise that the infection is not your enemy dustrial society.” (Eichenwald, 2003) but your friend. From an holistic point of MMR vaccination started in the UK in view, diseases causing fever and rashes How are people with measles 1988 with a second dose added in 1996. are regarded as detoxifying processes, en- generally treated? Nevertheless, in the first five months of abling the body to clean itself out and go 2011 almost 500 cases of measles have up a developmental step. Suppression of The World Health Organisation has been notified. such processes is thought to lead eventu- some pretty good advice: In France, from having less than 50 ally to long term, chronic illness. “Severe complications from measles reported cases of measles per year, there can be avoided though supportive care was an increase to 600 in 2008; 1500 in Fever represents a universal, ancient, that ensures good nutrition (beforehand?), 2009; 5000 in 2010 and 10 000 cases up to and usually beneficial response to adequate fluid intake and treatment of the end of April 2011. Having measles is infection, and its suppression under dehydration (through diarrhoea or vom- not a problem in itself. The problem is the most circumstances has few, if any iting) with WHO-recommended oral cases of pneumonia and encephalitis with demonstrable benefits. On the other rehydration solution.” two deaths in 2010 (1 death/2500 noti- hand, some harmful effects have “Antibiotics should be prescribed to treat fied cases) and six deaths so far in 2011 (1 been shown to occur as a result of eye and ear infections, and pneumonia.” death/1666 notified cases). There haven’t suppressing fever. been case fatality levels like this in the UK Is this what happens? No. since the 1950s! In terms of health out- comes, we seem to be going backwards! The most important part in this process The first thing that children are given The measles cases are not coming from is fever. There is a substantial body of ev- is paracetamol or ibuprofen to reduce abroad. The European Centre for Disease idence indicating that fever is a beneficial their fever—despite the fact that the Prevention and Control states that less response to infection which improves the WHO don’t recommend it and the NHS than 10% of European Union (EU) cases ability of the immune system to carry NICE Guidelines 2007 state: are imported and more than 60% of those out its function and that reducing fevers “Antipyretic agents should not routine- come from another EU country. So we can increase morbidity (complications) Measles Scare cont. on page 5 Page 4 ¤ Autumn 2011 ¤ VRAN Newsletter Measles Scare cont. from page 4 place you should be if you have measles after. It is estimated that 90% of non- ly be used with the sole aim of reducing is in a hospital, full of sick people, infec- immune people exposed to an infective body temperature in children with fever tious diseases and MRSA. Six out of ten individual will contract the disease. who are otherwise well”. They should deaths from measles are from pneumo- I was contacted in May 2011 by an only be considered, “in children with fe- nia. The main complications of measles indignant parent living in Switzerland ver who appear distressed or unwell.” are infections. Is it any wonder that there whose healthy child had been excluded They also stress: “Antipyretic agents have been six deaths already this year? from school as he a) was not vaccinated do not prevent febrile convulsions and and b) had been in contact with a measles should not be used specifically for this There is also the vitamin A factor. case at school. She received a letter from purpose.” the Assistant Director of Health Services However the NHS Website NHS Measles virus grows in the cells that for Youth telling her: Choices recommends them as first line: line the back of the throat and lungs. Vi- “Taking into account the incuba- “If your child has measles, you may tamin A is essential for the maintenance tion period of measles, the risk of being find the following advice useful: Use of this lining and others throughout the contagious is from day 6-21 following liquid baby paracetamol or ibuprofen to body. Vitamin A deficiency is a recog- contact with a case. As your son is not relieve fever, aches and pains.” nized risk factor for severe measles and vaccinated against measles, we ask you GPs recommend it six hourly, in hos- since 1987 the WHO and UNICEF have to keep him at home for the period when pital it is given four hourly, alone or in recommended vitamin A treatment of he could be contagious.” combination (even though NICE advise children with measles; two doses of 200 against using paracetamol and ibuprofen 000 IU for children over one year and together). Antihistamines are given for 100 000 IU for infants, was found to re- So what about the single measles itches and coughs; antibiotics are given duce measles mortality by 62% in poorer vaccine? Everyone seems to think when there is no bacterial infection—just countries. Measles can also lower serum that this is the safe option. Well, it de- in case; children are fed, over heated and concentrations of vitamin A in well nour- pends what you mean by safe. In my kept in stuffy rooms—is it any wonder ished children to less than those observed opinion it is safer than the MMR but I that they get complications? in non-infected malnourished children. wouldn’t go so far as to call it safe. When a child with marginal vitamin A And this is just what is happen- stores gets measles, available vitamin A ing in France. is quickly used up… reducing the abil- So the child was made to stay away ity to resist secondary infections or their from school for two and a half weeks. As France has had the Measles Mumps consequences, or both. a home educator I can only think what Rubella (MMR) vaccine since 1986 with a lovely opportunity it was to have your coverage of over 90% for the first dos- How can you make sure your child away from school without being es and 40-70% for the second dose. So child has enough Vitamin A? hounded by the authorities for non-atten- instead of children being able to get mea- dance, as well, hopefully, as the chance sles, mumps and rubella at a beneficial Vitamin A is found abundantly in dairy to contract measles and develop good age there is now an epidemic of measles products: butterfat, cream and cheeses quality, long lasting antibodies. Alas, it sweeping across the country where 8% of from cows eating green grass; eggs from was not to be; despite measles being one cases are under one year old and 34% are free range hens; liver; fish, shellfish, cod of the most contagious of the childhood over 20 years, when complications are liver oil. The best plant sources of beta- exanthems (red spotty rashes) he did not more common. This is compared to 1963 carotene are yellow/orange vegetables get it. Instead, as his Mum said: (England & Wales) when less than 4% of and fruits like carrots, sweet potatoes, “We passed a nice couple of weeks togeth- cases were under one and 0.4% of cases pumpkins, apricots, nectarines, peaches er, he was very tired at the end of the school over 20 years old. cantaloupes, papayas, mangoes, sour year anyway. Sadly he did not get measles Worse, it seems that no-one knows cherries, prunes, plums; and dark green but I will try to find someone with it.” how to nurse a case of measles any more. leafy vegetables: spinach, broccoli, en- In 2010, 30% of cases were hospital- dive, kale, chicory, watercress and beet So what about the single ised (38 % under one year, 47% over 20 leaves, turnips, mustard, dandelion, measles vaccine? years). In 1963, 1% of cases in the UK asparagus and peas. In order to be ab- were sent to hospital and 13% of those sorbed, vegetable sources requires fat, so Everyone seems to think that this is were for ‘social’ reasons. Even more in- serve them with butter, coconut or olive the safe option. Well, it depends what credible, of the cases admitted to French oil. Chopping and pûréeing also enhance you mean by safe. In my opinion it is hospitals, only 30% had complications! their bioavailability. safer than the MMR but I wouldn’t go so If they don’t have complications (and far as to call it safe even if they do) why one earth would How contagious is measles? I was called in June 2011 by a dis- anyone in their right mind send someone traught mother in the UK whose son had with measles to hospital? Measles is transmitted by coughing had a single measles shot. He had a histo- When you have measles (the disease or and sneezing. The virus containing parti- ry of milk protein intolerance from birth, the vaccine) it lowers a part of your im- cles can remain in the air for several hours reflux and inflammatory bowel problems. mune system, known as ‘cell-mediated’. and remain infective on surfaces for up to “He was OK with the first set of baby This makes you susceptible to infection two hours. People are contagious for five vaccines but had a bad fever with the by other organisms—so the very last days before the rash appears to four days Measles Scare cont. on page 6 VRAN Newsletter ¤ Autumn 2011 ¤ Page 5 Measles Scare cont. from page 5 your child against measles”, though room. I remember lying in a boiling hot second and was worse with the third. He this is hard to believe when adverse re- room in the dark, many years ago when had settled down by the time he was due actions are not appropriately recorded. I had measles as a child in Bahrain. It his 12 month vaccines (at that time, Hib was horrible. But at the end of it I had and meningococcal C) so he had them, Are there any benefits to having good quality antibodies which have kept me immune from measles ever since, I and he got really ill the next day. He had the measles? an encephalitic cry (high pitched scream- was able to pass them on to my children ing) and fever. It took seven days to settle • A study conducted by the Danish when they were babies—and I don’t have and lots of paracetamol for the fever. Af- epidemiologist Tove Rønne and pub- either! ter loads of research we decided not to lished in the Lancet in 1985, found A study of a measles outbreak in 1997– give him the MMR. that having measles with a typical rash 8 in a Steiner community in Gloucester, He’s now two and a bit and is OK, was associated with a lower incidence England, reported that there were no severe apart from the medications for reflux of developing immunoreactive diseas- cases. Moreover, 62% of the respondents and diarrhoea,but because of the measles es, sebaceous skin diseases, diseases to a questionnaire reported a strengthening epidemic that is happening around here, of bone, cartilage and certain tumours and maturing of their child both mentally I got so scared that I decided to give him in adult life, unlike the ‘atypical’ va- and physically after the measles infection. the single measles vaccine. riety with suppressed rash that occurs Dr Duffell from Gloucestershire Health He was fine for the first week, then, on in people with immune disorders and Authority remarked, the eighth day he was playing on the floor after vaccination. “The findings of low levels of morbid- when he looked up at me strangely, and • Having measles was associated with a ity (complications) associated with measles then he started screaming and screaming reduction in risk of skin testing positive are similar to previous studies in the United with that high pitched cry—like before. He to housedust mite at age 14-21 years. Kingdom,and support the notion that mea- was beside himself. He felt really hot. I took • Early exposure to measles and family sles is not a severe illness in most children. him to the A&E Department where they size may be associated with a lower risk These cases were, however, in fit, well gave him paracetamol. He had fever on and of adult onset doctor diagnosed asthma. nourished children from a community that off for the next three days with screaming. • Sensitivity to housedust mite was less advocates a healthy lifestyle and there were We gave him lots of paracetamol. On the frequent in children with a history of insufficient numbers of cases to observe third night the fever stopped. We’re now measles than in those without. A his- many of the rarer sequelae.” many days after that and he’s still very dif- tory of nebulized salbutamol use in However, advocating a heathy life- ferent. Can you help?” A&E in the previous 12 months was style is not an option that the Department less frequent in the measles group. of Health or GPs offer to parents who ask Was it caused by the vaccine? Inhaled corticosteroid use was more what they can use as a viable alternative common in the group without measles to measles vaccination. The onset of the symptoms is within the (these all indicate lower incidence of incubation period for measles, the vaccine asthma in the measles group). Which will you choose? is a live one. If a child has a vaccine and A statistically significant inverse asso- becomes unconscious or has a high fever ciation between measles vaccination and with inconsolable crying, bowel changes, atopic (allergic) sensitization was found ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ permanent disability or death, there will in relation to allergen-specific serum IgE Dr. Jayne Donegan is a medical doctor be one of two explanations given: level of 3.5 kU/L. (meaning those with & homeopath with a busy wholistic 1. A certain number of these cases hap- measles had less allergy). health practice in London, England. pen every day/ year, it would have There were 1131 deaths from asthma in She can be contacted through her web- happened anyway but as it occurred the UK in 2009 (12 were children aged 14 site at: www.jayne-donegan.co.uk near the time that the vaccine was giv- years or under). There haven’t been that en, the vaccine is unfairly blamed or many deaths from measles since 1941. We appreciate Dr. Donegan’s kind 2. Your child has an underlying condition Paracetamol use is also associated with permission to reprint this article, first and the vaccine just revealed the pre- increased wheeze and diagnosed asthma published in the Informed Parent disposition that was already there—it in the countries with the highest sales. Newsletter. Please note that almost would have happened anyway. Are we trading a generally benign every reference referring to measles However, if a child with an underlying childhood illness for a chronic disease quoted in this paper recommends that condition suffers severe complications or with a higher death rate when we try to children are vaccinated against mea- dies during an episode of measles, it is eradicate measles and suppress fevers? sles. All references for which there is a always the measles that is blamed. link were last accessed in June 2011. 3. In addition, there is no reliable sys- What should you do if your child tematic monitoring of vaccine adverse develops measles? References: reactions in Europe. “Implementation 1. WHO Measles Fact sheet N°286 December of vaccine registers and monitoring Put them to bed, open the window 2009 http://www.who.int/mediacentre/fact- systems for adverse events following (preferably nurse them in the garden), sheets/fs286/en/ immunisation are a priority for EU give then plenty of clear fluids and NO 2. Brincker JA A Historical, Epidemiological and AEtiological Study of Measles (Morbilli; member states”, meaning they aren’t FOOD unless STARVING. You might Rubeola): (Section of Epidemiology and- implemented yet, nevertheless MMR is want to give them some homeopathic still said to be “the safest way to protect remedies or keep them in a darkened Measles Scare cont. on page 7 Page 6 ¤ Autumn 2011 ¤ VRAN Newsletter Measles Scare cont. from page 6 13. Shaheen SO, Aaby P, Hall AJ, Barker DJP sources/for_journalists_key.html et al, Cell mediated immunity after measles 25. Newson RB, Shaheen SO, Chinn S, Burney State Medicine) Proc R Soc Med. 1938 May; in Guinea—Bissau: historical cohort study, PG. Paracetamol sales and atopic disease in 31(7):807-28. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ BMJ 1996; 313:969-74 (6a) Aaby P et al children and adults: an ecological analysis. pmc/articles/PMC2076936/?tool=pubmed. ‘Long-term survival after Edmonston-Zagreb Eur Respir J. 2000 Nov;16(5):817-23. http:// 3. Source of information for graphs: Deaths/Popu- measles vaccination in Guinea-Bissau: In- erj.ersjournals.com/content/16/5/817.long lation1867-1900, Registrar General’s Annual creased female mortality rate’ The Journal of 26. Donegan JLM Nursing Children Supportively Returns, 1901-1994 Twentieth CenturyMortality Pediatrics 1993;122:904-8. Through Acute Illness 2008 http://www.jayne- CDROM Office for National Statistics. Measles 14. Sudfeld CR, Navar AM, Halsey mortality . From: Donegan JLM, Childhood donegan.co.uk/articles √ NA.Effectiveness of measles vaccination and Vaccinatable Diseases and their Vaccines, a vitamin A treatment. Int J Epidemiol. 2010 Editorial cont. from page 3 Review http://www.jayne-donegan.co.uk/articles Apr;39 Suppl 1:i48-55. Review. http://www. 4. Miller DL Frequency of complications of ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2845860/ • The breastfed baby is still an exten- measles, 1963. Report on a National Inquiry pdf/dyq021.pdf sion of the mother in terms of immune by the public health laboratory service in col- 15. Barclay AJ, Foster A, Sommer A. Vitamin A programming and brain development. laboration with the society of medical officers supplements and mortality related to measles: The breast fed baby is dependant on of health. Br Med J. 1964 Jul 11;2(5401):75-8 a randomised clinical trial. Br Med J (Clin http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/ the mother’s breastmilk to switch on Res Ed). 1987 Jan 31;294(6567):294-6. PMC1815949/pdf/brmedj02558-0019.pdf and off specific genes—which will op- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/ 5. Immunisation Uptake Rates—completed pri- timize that baby’s future development PMC1245303/pdf/bmjcred00005-0036.pdf mary course: two year rate England and Wales programming, immune protection and 16. Vitamin Basics: The facts about vitamins in 1966-77, England only 1978-195/6. Depart- appropriate recognition of “patho- nutrition http://www.vitamin-basics.com/index. ment of Health Statistics Division, Communi- php?id=35, Fallon S, Vitamin A Vagary http:// gen associated molecular patterns” cable Diseases surveillance Centre, UK www.realmilk.com/vita.html, Enig MG & (PAMPS)”. 6. 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Report 1995 ;1:1-5 from a mother’s lungs and digestive topics/measles/basicfacts/Pages/health_pro- Lennon JL, Black FL, Maternally derived tract, partners them with macrophages fessionals.aspx?MasterPage=1&PDF=true measles immunity in era of vaccine-protected 18. Annual Epidemiological Report on Com- in the breastmilk, and directly presents mothers, J Pediatrics 1986;671-6 municable Diseases in Europe 2009 ECDC them to a baby as a message saying, 7. Novotny T, Jennings CE, Doran M, March RC p25p172 http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/publica- “These are safe”. et al, Measles outbreaks in religious groups tions/Publications/0910_SUR_Annual_Epide- • Breast milk correctly teaches recogni- exempt from immunization laws, Public miological_Report_on_Communicable_Dis- Health Reports 1988;103:49-54 Rodgers tion of self and definition of what is eases_in_Eur ope.pdf (3) DV, Gindler JS, Atkinson WL, Markowitz dangerous—the right way. 19. Rønne T, Measles virus infection without rash LE, High attack rate and case fatality during Our brain is what sets us apart from in childhood is related to disease in adult life, a measles outbreak in groups with religious the rest of the animal kingdom. “A great Lancet 1985 Jan 5;1(8419):1-5 exemption to vaccination, Pediatric Infectious deal of the brain is formed in humans 20. Shaheen SO, Aaby P, Hall AJ, Barker DJ, Disease Journal 1993;12:288-92 Heyes CB, Shiell AW, Goudiaby A. Measles during the first two years after birth and 8. Annual Epidemiological Report on Communicable and atopy in Guinea-Bissau. Lancet. 1996 Jun continues until age 25-27. Excess vacci- Diseases in Europe 2009 ECDC p25p172http:// 29;347(9018):1792-6. nation disrupts this critical process and ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications/Publications/0910_ 21. Bodner C, Anderson WJ, Reid TS, Godden can result in a malformed brain, which SUR_Annual_Epidemiological_Report_on_Com- DJ. Childhood exposure to infection and risk municable_Diseases_in_Europe.pdf manifests as either subtle impairment in of adult onset wheeze and atopy. Thorax. 9. Eichenwald HF Fever and antipy- thinking, concentration, attention, be- 2000 May;55(5):383-7. http://www.ncbi. resis Bull World Health Organ [on- havior or language, or serious problems nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1745751/pdf/ line]2003;81(5)2003:372-74 http:// with these processes.” writes Russell v055p00383.pdf www.scielosp.org/scielo.php? Blaylock, MD. Blaylock teaches that 22. Kucukosmanoglu E, Cetinkaya F, Akcay script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042- F, Pekun F. Allergol Frequency of allergic excess immune stimulation by vacci- 96862003000500012&lng=en&nrm=is diseases following measles. Immunopathol nation can trigger brain inflammation 10. NICE Guidelines 2007 Feverish illness in (Madr). 2006 Jul-Aug;34(4):146-9. http:// which greatly “magnifies the damage” childrenAssessment and initial manage- apps.elsevier.es/watermark/ctl_servlet? which can go on for decades. (4) ment in children younger than 5 years pp _f=10&pident_articulo=13091040&pident_ 8 & 27 http://www.nice.org.uk/nicemedia/ Today’s system of pharmaceutically usuario=0&pcontactid=&pident_revista=105 live/11010/30523/30523.pdf driven medicine seems to operate in a &ty=135&accion=L&origen=elsevier&web= 11. Parent du Châtelet I et al Spotlight on measles vacuum of misinformation and denial. www.elsevier.es&lan=en&fichero=105v34n04 2010: update on the ongoing measles outbreak Rather than wholeheartedly promote a13091040pdf001.pdf in France, 2008-2010 Euro Surveill. 2010 Sep nature’s most effective immune protec- 23. Rosenlund H et al,.Allergic disease and atopic 9;15(36). pii: 19656 http://www.eurosurveil- sensitization in children in relation to measles tion for the young infant—its mother’s lance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19656 vaccination and measles infection Pediatrics. breastmilk for the first two years of life, it 12. Epidémie de Rougeole en France, Donées 2009 Mar;123(3):771-8. http://pediatrics. coerces new parents to submit their infant de déclaration obligatoire en 2010 et donées aappublications.org/content/123/3/771.full. to every vaccine in the schedule. All new provisoire pour début 2011 http://www.invs. pdf+html sante.fr/surveillance/rougeole/Point_rouge- parents deserve to fulfill their most pri- 24. Key Facts & Statistics,Asthma UK. http:// ole_220311.pdf mal protective impulse toward their new www.asthma.org.uk/news_media/media_re- Editorial cont. on page 8 VRAN Newsletter ¤ Autumn 2011 ¤ Page 7 Editorial cont. from page 7 with autistic children, have discovered By 2007, researchers were beginning baby and understand that they already that cleaning up their own diet, and to concede that the “defective” unrespon- have the tools with which to achieve op- doing things differently—including siveness of the neonate immune system timal health for their child. NOT vaccinating subsequent children, to inflammation, was in fact an important results in children with no autistic spec- (3) “developmental program” and that “This How things have gone wrong trum disorders.” anti-inflammatory phenotype may be beneficial to the neonate at a time when For decades, vaccinologists have op- Conjugate Vaccines Shock the tissue growth and remodeling events are erated under the assumption that more Immune System taking place at a rapid pace… thus the vaccines is better—that the ever increas- inability of the neonate to respond to in- ing doses of complex biological/chemical From the medical literature, we fection with encapsulated bacteria may formulas engineered to elicit atypical learn that until around 2007, the infant be the risk the organism takes for suc- immune responses will be tolerated by immune system was considered “defec- cessful development.” (5) (emphasis ours) infants without ill effect. It is an arrogant tive” because a baby’s immune system And even more explicitly, an October and reckless assumption without any “persistently and defiantly” refused to 10, 2011 article in Medical Hypotheses basis in an elementary understanding of produce antibodies against “capsule cautions that, “the potential effects of con- how and why the infant immune system containing bacteria” such as Hib (hae- jugate vaccines on neural development is so very different from the adult. mophilus influenza B), pneumococcal merit close examination. Conjugate vac- Vaccinology seems content to ignore and meningococcal organisms. cines fundamentally change the manner the cutting edge research in immunology When the first Hib (haemophilus in- in which the immune system of infants and neuroscience which is beginning to fluenza B) polysaccharide vaccine was and young children functions by deviat- reveal that the artificial manipulation of developed in 1985, it was ineffective in ing their immune responses to the targeted the infant immune system jeopardizes children younger than 18 months and in carbohydrate antigens from a state of hy- the delicate balance held in early life many older children, actually increased po-responsiveness to a robust B2 B cell between the developing brain and the im- their susceptibility to Hib infection. mediated response. This period of hypo- mune system. When the infant immune Something about the immune system responsiveness to carbohydrate antigens system is forced into a pro-inflamma- of younger babies blocked an antibody coincides with the intense myelination tory response by vaccines, normal brain response to the vaccine. process in infants and young children, development may be derailed as well Within a few years, the old polysac- and conjugate vaccines may have dis- as normal immune function, setting the charide Hib vaccine fell by the wayside rupted evolutionary forces that favored stage for chronic disease. and the new generation of conjugated early brain development over the need to Hilary Butler’s detailed scrutiny of the Hib and pneumococcal vaccines was protect infants and young children from medical literature on the impact of vaccines developed, eliciting a robust immune capsular bacteria.” (6) (emphasis ours) on human health, emerging research on the response in previously, normally unre- immune system, neuroscience, and the in- sponsive infants. At age 2, 4, 6 and 18 The Risks of Provoking timate relationship between the immune months, tens of millions of babies were Inflammation system and the brain uniquely positions her now injected with the new conjugate vac- to offer the most insightful and intelligent cines. Vaccine engineering had reached a A complex system of signaling mol- commentary on the effects of the environ- new threshold. The new conjugate vac- ecules called cytokines orchestrate a mental assault posed by today’s overloaded cines had successfully overcome the balanced immune system response to vaccine schedule on children’s health. infant’s “defective” immune system by infection. There are both pro-inflamma- • Butler writes, “Because vaccines are forcing it to mount an antibody response tory cytokines and anti-inflammatory given at a time when the immune sys- that could not previously be elicited. The cytokines. The major pro-inflammatory tem is normally being orchestrated conjugate Hib vaccine is engineered by cytokines called up by the mature im- in an “anti-inflammatory” mode to chemically bonding the capsular poly- mune system as a first line of defense are repeatedly force it into a pro-inflamma- saccharide of the haemophilus influenzae IL-1B or TNFa. However, nature has tory mode, is a recipe for disaster which type b organism to tetanus protein. The designed the neonate immune system aluminium will augment in spades, in recalcitrant neonate immune system was to refuse to produce these pro-inflam- those babies who are susceptible for finally tricked into accepting the Hib matory cytokines for a good reason… whatever reason.” particle tucked in alongside the tetanus “Up until recently, the brain and the • “Vaccines during babyhood have the protein carrier. immune system were considered to be two potential to be both immunological I’ve stated before that conjugate vac- separate entities”, writes Butler. “While and cranial cluster bombs, AND do cines like Hib (haemophilus influenza B) Il-1B and TNFa are part of the active im- serious mitochondrial damage. The are akin to a “Trojan Horse” that invades mune system process in adults, what was most common “evidence” of im- the infant immune system by stealth, forc- NOT considered in this equation, is that mune system irregularities after ing it to respond in atypical ways that they are also key components in remod- vaccines are allergy, atopy, and damage the immature immune system eling neuronal pathways in the brain in asthma, but most people are also told and put normal brain development at risk. babies, so if you trigger them at a cru- that they are “coincidental”. The explosion of life threatening food cial time when neuronal connections • “No, vaccines aren’t the one-stop- allergies that started in the early 90’s is di- are being built faster than the speed of damage-shop—they are the bullet in rectly traceable to the launch of Hib, the the loaded gun—but many parents first “Trojan Horse” conjugate vaccine. Editorial cont. on page 9 Page 8 ¤ Autumn 2011 ¤ VRAN Newsletter Editorial cont. from page 8 light, you are seriously compromising Denying Evidence of Vaccine Risks the baby.” (3) Butler writes, “It seems to me that the ethical background to vaccination—giving potentially “So, the “risk” you take in upregulat- harmful medications to healthy individuals in the hope of keeping them that ing inflammation provokers, just might way—has never been clearly addressed… Who gave us the right (a) to invade be that a baby’s brain won’t work as the bodies of healthy people who never asked us to, and (b) to do it not only smoothly. And it’s no fluke that breastmilk without explanation of the possible risks, but in some countries even apply- also has in it unique compounds which help ing coercive pressures, denying the existence of the risks, and suppressing to programme a baby’s brain correctly.” (3) relevant information”?—Dr. David Freed, British Society for Ecological Medicine (8) “Why “protect” tissue growth and re- modelling? What is being remodelled? Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) is a bacteria that can cause upper respiratory From what—to what? If a baby’s prime di- and ear infections, pneumonia, epiglottis, septic arthritis and meningitis. Incidence rective is NON-INFLAMMATION, what of the disease peaks in babies between 6-11 months after 3 doses of DPT vaccine could inflammation do to tissue growth and has been given most babies. Known and identified sero groups of H influenzae remodelling that would be so bad?” bacteria range from serotype a to f. “Everything in a baby is growing so fast. The body, the gut, the immune sys- Viera Scheibner, PhD writes, “All vaccines, including DPT cause infections of tem, the brain—cognitive function. Your increased severity”. Scheibner’s tabulation of statistics from the medical litera- baby learns the fundamentals of language ture shows that “A 399% increase in the incidence of invasive Hib infections at an astonishing speed and can be speak- was recorded from 1942-50 through 1951-59 to 1960-68. The best demonstrable ing single nouns within 7 months of you common factor in this period is a documented push for mass vaccination. This ex- doing nothing but talk to your baby.” planation is especially plausible since the number of cases of Hib has not increased “If it is important for successful de- in babies below three months of age since 1942!” velopment of a baby to allow the RISK of infection by NOT allowing two key Provocation disease is a well known phenomenon in which a vaccine or other injec- parts of the primary infection defense to tion increases the susceptibility to other diseases. A 1992 paper examined the effect of “fire”, what’s the OTHER risk you might prior injections with DPT vaccine on the pattern and severity of paralytic polio in India. take, if you force an immune system to “Of 262 children with acute polio, 176 had received unnecessary injections less than 48 do something it’s not supposed to do… hours before paralysis”. Often paralysis would be localized in the injected limb. by causing repeated, chronic inflamma- tion at the end of a needle?” Neil Miller in his Vaccine Safety manual cites further research from Sweden and Japan to “Peripheral inflammation and vaccine support the case of provocation disease. “Sharp increases of insulin-dependent diabetes adjuvants can cause brain inflammation; mellitus have been recorded in the United States, England, and other European countries create allergies, autoimmunity—constant following mass immunization campaigns with the Hib vaccine.” Citing experts who analyzed inflammation all around the body— the data, we are told that “the potential risk of the vaccine exceeds the potential benefit.” not just at the site of the injection... and... cause mitochondria to stop work- Just as the overuse of antibiotics has forced pathogenic bacteria to mutate into resistant forms, ing properly.” so we see evidence that the suppression of one serotype of bacteria with mass vaccination “The brain and the immune system, are can result in other potentially more virulent serotypes of the organism gaining prominence. the two key fundamentals of successful, appropriate adaptation to the environ- This is confirmed by a multi-centred Canadian study published Nov 2007 in Pediat- ment you live in. Your baby’s immune ric Infectious Disease Journal which states: “Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) system needs to recognize what to react immunization has changed the epidemiology of pediatric bacterial invasive to, and what NOT to react to. Your ba- disease.” and concludes “In 1996-2001, two-thirds of H. influenzae invasive by’s brain needs to accurately, mentally disease in the 12 IMPACT centers was caused by non-b serotypes, which were respond to everything around it.” (3) associated with significant morbidity and mortality.” Note: There are no vac- cines for the non-b serotypes of H.influenzae disease. (emphasis ours) And the key to this is a non-in- flammatory phenotype http://www.pidj.org/pt/re/pidj/abstract.00006454-200711000-00011.htm;jse ssionid=L4RQG1jZ6vLh3pQfQqMHrkHdTvHhqp2wTRZDmrGLyct3c4v39g “If a baby’s default position is NOT to GN!1270838445!181195628!8091!-1 respond to toxin-mediated bacterial dis- eases, what chance does a baby have to makes no sense whatsoever, and is cer- immune system develops appropriately.” survive potentially serious infections?” tainly not supported by their own medical “At and after birth, neonates are in a pe- literature.” writes Butler. (3) The main and unique intermediary step riod of transition where they are exposed between a NON-INFLAMMATORY pheno- to a barrage of antigens in the mouth, and “In order to adjust to the world type, which is the default setting in pregnancy lungs. Injecting (vaccine) antigens at this appropriately, not only is a “non-inflamma- and for all baby mammals—and a more indi- critical time, and claiming that they, “do tory phenotype” critical, but breast milk is vidually competent educated immune system nothing to the immune system compared essential to protect the baby from toxin- with the numbers of natural antigens…” mediated and other diseases while the Editorial cont. on page 10 VRAN Newsletter ¤ Autumn 2011 ¤ Page 9 Editorial cont. from page 9 turn enhances the ability to handle pubmed/21993250 better able to handle the world’s dangers and stress, long term.”, says Butler. (7) 7. HilaryButler; BeyondConformityhttp://www. beyondconformity.org.nz/_blog/Hilary%27s_ challenges… is breast milk. Hilary Butler lists eight key things Desk/post/How_a_baby_fights_infection_ We learn from Butler’s research that, which will affect a developing baby’s and_develops_the_immune_system/ “The prime directives programmed immune system, and their mitochon- 8. Dr. David Freed, quote from his speech at into breast milk in the first two years— drial function: (Mitochondria are the the British Society for Ecological Medicine— apart from “food”... ARE: tiny power generators within cells that March, 2011: http://www.ecomed.org.uk/ 1. “To reinforce and control a good bal- power the cell’s metabolic activities) (3) publications/the-health-hazards-of-disease- ance of gut flora which help block out 1. the mother’s diet before pregnancy. prevention/403 √ disease causing pathogens, whether 2. the mother’s diet during pregnancy. bacterial like Hib and Penumococcus 3. the mother’s diet during breastfeeding An Interview with Judy or viruses like Measles and Rotavirus. 4. whether or not a mother has enough Converse on GMO and 2. “To maintain, teach and regulate the macro and micronutrients to keep her Vaccine Damage immune system and to MAKE SURE own mitochondria functioning as they that the prime directive is REDUC- should. By Anne Dachel TION OF ALL INFLAMMATORY 5. manner of delivery—a vaginal de- Anne Dachel is Media Editor at the processes, and ASTHMA or ALLER- livery primes the baby’s inate immune Age of Autism blog. Here she interviews GY producing markers. The reason system in an optimal fashion, some- dietician & nutritionist Judy Converse for this is to learn to distinguish “self” thing caesarian babies don’t get. about what parents can do to improve from an “outside” pathogenic antigen. 6. immediate clamping of the cord de- their children’s health. They discuss Ju- 3. “To control the body for cancer and prives a baby of significant amounts dy’s new book, Special Needs Kids Go nuke anything multiplying incorrectly, of blood AND stem cells. Pharm-Free. “I carried this book around with a molecule called HAMLET or 7. For however long a mother breast- everywhere in my purse, taking spare Human Alpha-lactalbumin Made LE- feeds, her baby receives constant minutes to read it. I learned so much thal to Tumor cells. infusions of pluripotent stem cells about how our bodies respond to the 4. “To optimize bone density, and other capable of rectifying damage any- things we eat and what we need to do to hormone or enzyme pathways. where in a baby’s body. Formula make our children healthy”, says Anne. 5. “To supply stem cells, so that in the feeding does not contain stem cells. AD: Your book gives dire statistics event of something going seriously 8. Vaccines, given at the time when a ba- right at the beginning about the state wrong, those stem cells help the body by’s body is programmed to suppress as of the health of American children. to self-heal. much inflammation as possible. How What has happened to children in this 6. “To provide the baby with ready made long is that for? The medical system country during the last 25 years? (Ca- immediate and long term T-cells for the doesn’t really know, because the nadian children suffer a similar plight baby to use, which the baby immune sys- study of that is “in its infancy”— to those in the U.S.) tem isn’t yet “primed” to make for itself. meaning “Um, we don’t know very Judy: Two major changes happened 7. “To prevent the development of fu- much”. But what they do know is in the 1990s in the US, making American ture disease chronicity.” (3) already sending out warning signals. children born since then extremely vul- nerable: One, the FDA permitted, with no To reiterate: “Human milk is the ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ safety review, the introduction of geneti- richest known source of such immuno- References: cally modified (GMO) foods—including modulation and protection.” 1. Quote attributed to Dr. Jacques Pepin author soy and corn, which both go into infant “So it’s no surprise that Il-1B and of The Origins of AIDS; See book review formulas and most processed foods. Two, TNFa along with other inflammatory cy- at: http://emfguy.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/ we upped the vaccine schedule dramati- tokines are not going to be produced in vaccines-catalysts-for-the-aids-epidemic/ cally for infants and children. Both have a baby whose core prime directive is to 2. Lancet December 8, 2001; 358: 1989-92 shown potential to injure the human im- PREVENT AND REDUCE INFLAM- reported that Over One Million Die Every mune system, brain, gut or other organs‘ MATION AT ALL COSTS. Babies are Year World Wide by Injections. For com- development and function, from birth on- plete article see: http://www.whale.to/v/inj. NOT supposed to RESPOND to any html ward. We’re just beginning to understand bacterial diseases because the baby 3. Hilary Butler; Beyond Conformity Blog; how detrimental this is for triggering gets protection from toxin mediated http://www.beyondconformity.org.nz/_blog/ asthma, allergies, inflammation, seizure disease by neutralizing toxins with gan- Hilary%27s_Desk/post/Vaccines_and_neona- disorders, autism, or gut/brain inju- gliosides from the mother’s breast milk.” tal_immune_development/ ries that may mean poor outcomes like “The reinforcement patterning from 4. Russell Blaylock MD—Forward to Vaccine Crohn’s disease, eosinophilic esopha- breast milk, is... to continue suppressing Safety Manual by Neil Miller gitis, learning disabilities and conduct inflammation, preventing celiac disease, 5. Lakshman Chelvarajan; Molecular Mecha- disorders—all of which have risen dra- creating good neuronal development, nisms Underlying Anti-Inflammatory Phe- matically in children since 1990. notype of Neonatal Splenic Macrophages; which determines a child’s future—not Journal of Leucocyte Biology, Vol. 83 August Synergistic effects of GMO foods in just in terms of babies being brighter, 2007 pregnancy, in utero, in infancy—plus all but also in terms of children not having 6. Richmand BJ; October 10, 2011; Medical the vaccines now recommended—are en- future behavioural problems and adoles- Hypotheses Hypothesis: Conjugate vac- tirely unknown. For example: The gene cent depression. Breast milk has a key cines may predispose children to autism inserted into GMO soy makes soy pro- impact on the pituitary gland, which in spectrum disorders.www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ GMO and Vaccine Damage cont. on page 11 Page 10 ¤ Autumn 2011 ¤ VRAN Newsletter GMO and Vaccine Damage cont. from page 10 at the wrong time, and an injury occurs, AD: What are sources we can trust duce its own insecticide. It was found there is no recourse at all other than to file for information on safe and beneficial in gut bacteria of human volunteers a government claim and wait. My own foods and supplements? eating GMO soy—meaning, the gene family waited nine years for my son’s case Judy: The organic label is one help. transcribed to the bacteria in the gut, and to reach the docket, only to have it thrown It’s not perfect, but hopefully your gro- “taught” the volunteers’ gut bacteria to out. I think this—along with how lucrative cer is honest and sourcing with integrity. make insecticide. I believe this may be it is to vaccinate children in a pediatric prac- I encourage buying organic, and that in- why some children with autism and GI tice—has kept doctors easy for industry to cludes meat and eggs as well as produce. problems are so treatment resistant, when manipulate. This also leaves physicians Organic foods are non-GMO foods at it comes to correcting their bowel micro- free of any accountability to treatments for least in intent; pollen from GMO crops flora. Do they have genes operating in the injured—if they are brainwashed that can drift into organic crops, but there is there that make antibiotics and probiotics these injuries aren’t happening, then there no knowing for sure right now if this is less effective? Nobody knows. is nothing to treat. This leaves families happening. Knowing your growers and GMO crops are banned in most Euro- scurrying for help elsewhere. grocers is another step, and this is catch- pean countries. The approach there in the AD: Your book is about nutrition- ing on more and more around the US. ’90s was that no data existed to show these al needs… What’s wrong with what Use this map to find what’s in your area foods were safe, so it was an unacceptable we’re feeding our children? in this regard. As for supplements, Spe- risk. The US approach was the opposite: Judy: Lots can go wrong with how we cial Needs Kids Go Pharm-Free devotes The FDA said there is no proof this is feed our kids, even with all our best in- a chapter to picking reputable supple- unsafe, so they allowed these highly prof- tentions. But the book is not about what ments. These can be just as fraught with itable crops into the food supply. These parents are doing wrong, or even what is contaminants, unwanted metals or chem- can trigger allergies more often than their wrong with food. It’s about strategies that icals, and toxins as food can be. naturally occurring counterparts; other restore a child’s normal appetite, normal AD: What do you consider that most findings of detrimental effects on animals curiosity for a variety of foods that are critical changes that need to be made? eating GMO feed crops are very discon- healthful, normal bowel habits, and spe- Judy: The biggest need I see is wak- certing, from increased miscarriages and cific tools to replenish and support brain ing up the medical community on this. I organ failures to death. Consumers are function with food and nutrients, instead would love to train pediatricians on the just beginning to understand this issue. of drugs, where ever possible. role of nutrition in conditions like ADHD, Eating food that’s genetically modified to AD: Aren’t agencies like the Food autism, learning disabilities, conduct produce its own pesticide is something we and Drug Administration supposed to disorders, and depression/anxiety in chil- wouldn’t want to do if given the choice, be making sure all our food is good for dren, and the potential for helping these but Americans were not given the choice. us? What do you mean when you say children, without prescription drugs. Interestingly, the UK is also a GMO the FDA is “overwhelmed”? Right now the pediatric community friendly nation, and has an even a higher Judy: The FDA’s focus has histori- seems to be asleep at the wheel. A genera- rate of autism than the US. cally been about bacterial contaminants tion of children has slipped through their AD: Why aren’t doctors expressing in food, not chemical toxins. There is fingers, fallen victim to chronic disabili- alarm over what they’re seeing? less of a focus on agricultural chemicals, ties and diseases, and they aren’t doing Judy: Doctors are at a disadvantage dyes, preservatives, additives, heavy anything about it. I include a chapter in for two reasons. One, they don’t study metals, toxins, or colorings in food. the book on working with other provid- nutrition to a meaningful degree, and There is no focus at all for monitoring the ers, if you’ve become too frustrated with have a limited exposure to it. They are in- healthfulness of food, and certainly none your pediatrician. undated with pharmaceutical information at all for monitoring what GMO food AD: How can nutritional changes re- during their education and in practice, at does to human beings—the FDA has duce the need for prescription drugs? the expense of valid information about made it clear it doesn’t care about this Judy: Nutrition impacts learning, nutrition or special diets. So, they don’t with recent industry-friendly steps. It’s sleep, cognition, mood, behavior, and know how to assess kids for nutrition an overwhelming task to chase whether development in children. Most children problems beyond the most obvious, and the food supply is safe, even in the FDA’s I encounter are not eating diets that sup- they don’t know how to provide nutrition simplest terms; when you have beef in a port those in a normal fashion, and/or, care. This leaves children unscreened and single hamburger coming from dozens they have problems absorbing their diets untreated; doctors may not even know of cows raised in different countries, or that no one has ever assessed or treated. there is potential for treatment here. juice in one carton from oranges in four You can’t fix nutrition problems with Two, they have no accountability for the countries, that’s a lot of processing over psychotropic medications, reflux meds, injuries that may be caused by vaccines, many locations to monitor. That’s just inhalers, or steroids…You have to identi- due to the Vaccine Injury Compensation two foods. Parents can be a lot more pro- fy, sort and prioritize the nutrition puzzle Program set up in the 1980s and the re- active than waiting to hear what’s okay to pieces. It’s not unusual for parents to tell cent Supreme Court ruling that vaccines eat from the FDA. Buy organic foods if me after we’ve had a few months with are “unavoidably unsafe”. Doctors have you can afford them; support your local nutrition care process that their child no zero liability and zero accountability for farmer’s market it you have one; or even longer needs a medication, is using less vaccine injuries. If a child is injured by a grow a few things yourself. This year I of it, or has found a totally different one vaccine, the doctor never gets sued; they am working with an outfit called Person- that works much better. We remove the suffer no penalty whatsoever. If a nurse alFamilyFarmers.com to help us grow confounding of nutrition problems from goofs and gives a baby the wrong vaccine more of our own food this year. GMO and Vaccine Damage cont. on page 12 VRAN Newsletter ¤ Autumn 2011 ¤ Page 11 GMO and Vaccine Damage cont. from page 11 sports team when engaging in sports prior to nutrition care was out of the question; What is Happening to the whole picture. Our Children? A Com- AD: What is “Splash”? getting a job; and making friends. Judy: This is a medical food made AD: What do our children need that promised Generation for children with intestinal inflammation, they’re not getting from doctors? By Beth Lambert Crohn’s disease, or multiple food protein Judy: We need our doctors to stop allergy. The protein source in it is ready to regarding children with diarrhea, consti- The Epidemic absorb, that is, it is made up of individual pation, shiners, bloated bellies, chronic amino acids, rather than whole or partial illness, frequent infections, anxiety, in- Thirty years ago, very few people had protein molecules that require some di- somnia, and developmental disabilities heard of diagnoses like ADHD or autism. gestion. I first used it for children with as healthy enough. I would like to see Today, these are household words. These autism in my practice about 12 years ago. doctors recover their curiosity: Why did illnesses, and others like them, are just It was clear that in some cases, it made they become doctors in the first place? the earliest signs of an epidemic of his- a dramatic difference. I wanted to know Hopefully it was to do more than hand toric proportions that is affecting our if replenishing the brain with the amino out prescriptions for Prevacid, Adderall, children. [North] American children are acids would help them progress. The for- Amoxicillin, Miralax, and Albuterol, af- being diagnosed with chronic illnesses mula is not made for this purpose; it is ter jabbing a young patient with multiple (such as autism, asthma, allergies, dia- made to avoid allergic reaction, and to vaccines at once. This isn’t health care; betes, ADHD and many others) at a help the gut wall heal. But children with this is drug-pushing. It may be common breathtaking rate, and even more undiag- autism may not digest proteins very well; now, but it isn’t normal for children to nosed children suffer silently. besides causing allergy for some of them, live on polypharmacy. And, though I This crisis stems from very specific and I wondered if this could leave their brains have a masters degree in public health, I insidious environmental factors (beyond bereft of neurotransmitter ingredients, do not believe children need all the vac- “pollution”) that have been introduced which we get from proteins in our diets. I cines they now get. We have forgotten slowly into our lives over the course of noticed that kids in my caseload whom I the role of nutrition in infection. It needs the past few decades. Our children are placed on special diets and who added this to be re-engaged. I do think we are over- experiencing a “perfect storm” of envi- formula progressed more for language vaccinating infants and children, and that ronmental factors that are, quite simply, and reduction of autism features than kids it is causing more harm than good in the destroying their immune systems, affect- who didn’t add the Splash formula. There US at this point. The polypharmacy-and- ing their growth and development, and is great potential here. Caveats too; the hypervaccination approach hasn’t helped handicapping and debilitating hundreds formula has some ingredients that I don’t our kids, who are more chronically ill of thousands. like; but I do think a subset of kids can do and disabled than ever before. We can’t well with this tool or a similar approach, slip into this as a New Normal. In fact, in The Perfect Storm no matter what the developmental diagno- the book, Vaccine Epidemic, that is the sis is, if there are certain deficits in their dilemma I wrote about in my chapter. The rates of chronic illnesses like diets or GI function. AD: Are your protocols strictly for autism, ADHD, allergies and asthma in AD: Can you describe some exam- “special needs” kids? North American children are skyrocket- ples of improvements you’ve personally Judy: Nope! I tried to convince my ing. What’s more, seemingly “healthy” witnessed in children that you’ve publisher to title the book differently to children are showing subtle signs of worked with? reflect that, but they felt parents weren’t chronic illness marked by symptoms Judy: First, kudos to these parents, be- ready to hear that this affects everybody’s such as food intolerances, eczema, con- cause they were the boots on the ground. I kids. I don’t agree. I sense every week stipation, diarrhea, reflux, and behavioral do the work teasing out the problems and how frustrated parents are with what is or learning disorders. crafting the care plans, but the most suc- happening to their children, and how they The epidemic of chronic childhood ill- cess happens when the parents roll up their feel so unheard and unhelped by the medi- ness is the product of “a perfect storm” sleeves and work it. I have seen children cal community. Maybe in my next book! of environmental factors including: move far away from an autism diagnosis; • the overuse of medications (especially from needing an aide to not needing one; Judy Converse, MPH, RD, LD has been a regis- antibiotics) from facing a feeding tube and missing tered dietitian since 1989. She has a master’s degree • poor diet and nutrition school due to physical weakness, to gain- in public health nutrition, and a bachelor’s degree • lifestyle factors such as excessive in food science and human nutrition. She has un- ing weight and playing, learning, living dergone biomedical treatment trainings since 1999 hygiene, indoor sedentary lifestyles, again. I’ve seen kids leave behind debili- and is well versed in Defeat Autism Now(DAN) modern birthing and infant feeding tating eczema or asthma symptoms, and treatment protocols. A pioneer in her field, Judy is practices, i.e. lack of breastfeeding reverse poor growth and gain, after being a sought-after speaker on infant and child nutrition, greatly increases disease risk. told they were going to be stunted for life growth and feeding concerns, and the potential of • excessive or improperly administered and need growth hormone injections. I nutrition tools for children with autism. vaccinations have witnessed a teen who was suicidal, • continuous exposure to a panoply of nearly non-verbal, constantly bullied, and Excerpted from Age of Autism for complete environmental toxins disengaged while on SSRIs turn into a interview go to: http://www.ageofautism. Together (or in varied combinations), happy, talkative, engaged, and successful com/2011/05/judy-converse-on-gmo-and-vac- these environmental factors can initiate a cine-damage-and-how-to-fix-it.html#more √ youngster without medications—by suc- vicious cycle of biological dysfunctions cessful I mean getting a varsity letter on a A Compromised Generation cont. on page 13 Page 12 ¤ Autumn 2011 ¤ VRAN Newsletter A Compromised Generation cont. from page 12 • Dyspraxia (Impaired coordination Central Biological Dysfunctions in our children’s bodies. These under- and motor skills): 1 in 10 children & Immune Dysregulation lying biological dysfunctions are what • Pediatric Depression: 1 in 30 chil- cause the symptoms that we then classify dren To understand what causes chronic as “chronic illnesses,” such as autism, • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: 1 illness in our children, we must first un- ADHD, allergies, asthma, diabetes, and in 100 children derstand that the symptoms that appear in many others. For every child diagnosed with a chronic our children (wheezing, constipation, be- To be sure, genetics and genetic his- illness, there are many more undiagnosed havior issues, etc.) are the result of much tory play a role in the development of children. There are millions of children more complex underlying biological dys- illness for particular children, but does with undiagnosed chronic illness. functions in their bodies. not explain the widespread prevalence of The wheezing that accompanies asth- biological dysfunctions among children ma, for instance, does not simply mean today. There are simply too many sick that something is wrong with the lungs, children to substantiate the theory that rather, it is a symptom that tells us that genetics cause their illnesses. Epidemics other systems and functions in the body are not genetic. are breaking down. Two very important To understand how the body begins systems in the body, the immune system to break down under these environmen- and the gastrointestinal system, appear to tal stressors, we must first look at two be most affected in children showing signs systems in the body that are critical to of chronic illness. When the immune sys- health, the immune system and the gas- tem and the gastrointestinal system are trointestinal system. not functioning properly, you begin to see When you look at the bodies of chil- signs and symptoms of illness–all sorts of dren that are suffering from chronic illness (everything from eczema to depres- symptoms, you will find that their sion). Very few people would think that immune systems are essentially dysfunc- the symptoms of asthma have anything to tional, and their gastrointestinal systems do with the gastrointestinal system or that (their “gut” or GI) are in a state of disre- the symptoms of autism have anything to pair. Children in this condition are said do with the immune system, but they are to have “Immune Dysregulation” and all exquisitely involved. “Gut Dysbiosis.” To understand how the symptoms of illness appear, we must first understand Facts & Statistics what happens when the immune system Here are just a few signs that a child and the gastrointestinal system begin to Millions of children live with diag- might be chronically ill: breakdown. When the immune system nosed chronic illnesses. Below are the • Chronic ear infections (more than 2 a is not functioning properly, we call this prevalence rates of some of the most year) condition immune dysregulation. When common illnesses affecting our children • Chronic sinus infections (more than 2 the gastrointestinal system is not able to (U.S. stats): a year) do its varied and complex jobs, it is often • Asthma: At least 1 in 8 children, and • Chronic diarrhea or loose stools because there is a state of gut dysbiosis. approximately 1 in 6 African Ameri- • Chronic constipation (does not have a Although there are many envi- can children bowel movement everyday or at least ronmental factors that contribute to • Allergic Eczema: 1 in 5 children every other day; passes hard “pellet” chronic illness in children, one of the • Hay Fever (seasonal allergies): 2 to 3 stools, difficulty or straining with a most important outcomes of all these en- out of every 5 children bowel movement) vironmental influences is a dysregulated • Food Allergies: 1 in 12 children under • Constant runny nose immune system. A dysregulated immune 4 years of age have a “true” food al- • Reflux, abdominal pains, or other system simply means that an individual’s lergy (IgE mediated). It is estimated signs of gastrointestinal distress immune system is not working properly. that 1 in 3 children (or more) have • Sensory disorders (i.e., aversions to Here are some examples of what happens food intolerances (are sensitive to par- sights, sounds, smells) when an immune system malfunctions: ticular foods) • Recurrent urinary tract infections • It can over-react to innocuous stimulus • Celiac Disease: 1 in 80 children • Obsessive or compulsive type behaviors (like cat dander) and cause symptoms • Obesity: 1 in 7 children • Persistent skin rashes (eczema, psoria- like sneezing or itching. Millions of children struggle with sis, cradle cap, rashes after eating) • It can attack its host’s own cells and tis- “psychiatric” disorders, developmental • And many, many more . . . sues (like what happens in an arthritic delays and learning disabilities: The most stunning part of this epi- joint). This is called autoimmunity. • Autism: 1 in 57 boys (1 in 91 chil- demic is that all these seemingly disparate • It does not have the ability to detoxify dren) illnesses and disorders may all have the and eliminate harmful substances that • ADHD: 1 in 10 children same underlying causes. Immune dys- enter the body. • Learning Disability: 1 in 6 children regulation and gut dysbiosis are central • It cannot effectively combat patho- • Severe Mood Dysregulation (e.g., bi- biological dysfunctions that occur in chil- genic (disease-causing) microbes polar disorder): 1 in 30 children dren with symptoms of chronic illness. A Compromised Generation cont. on page 14 VRAN Newsletter ¤ Autumn 2011 ¤ Page 13 A Compromised Generation cont. from page 13 gut (due to gut dysbiosis), a whole host production is affected on a cellular lev- (germs!) that invade the body. of physiological problems can arise. One el. Gut dysbiosis can therefore result in • It can keep the body in a heightened state of the more common consequences of symptoms associated with mitochondrial of “attack” causing inflammation and gut dysbiosis is a phenomenon known dysfunction such as fatigue, low muscle oxidative stress which can lead to disrup- as “,” or intestinal tone, failure to thrive, motor delays and tions in cellular functions and operations. hyperpermeability. Intestinal hyperper- other complex health problems. The immune system is how the body meability simply means that the normal Immune dysregulation can be caused defends itself from harmful substances barrier function of the intestinal mucosa by a number of factors including gut in the environment. A dysregulated (or (the “living” lining of the intestines) dysbiosis, exposure to environmental dysfunctional) immune system is unable is compromised by the presence of mi- toxins and heavy metals, high levels of to protect a body from harmful environ- croscopic “holes” (caused by the “bad exposure to electromagentic radiation, mental influences and it can unleash a germs”). The holes permit substances nor- or excessive or improperly administered cascade of harmful effects upon the body. mally contained within the intestines to vaccinations. Many of our children live with chronic “leak” into the circulatory system. Con- infections in their ears, sinuses, and gas- sequently, under-digested food particles Immunizations and the Immuno- and microbes leak into the immune cells trointestinal systems, yet because their compromised immune systems are dysregulated, they and circulatory system. The immune are unable to effectively “kick out” these system views these food particles as for- The subject of childhood immunizations infections. eign invaders rather than molecules of is extremely controversial, but it may be an More often than not, we do not even nourishment. The immune system then important piece of the puzzle concerning know that they have these infections launches an attack on everyday food and the epidemic of chronic childhood illness. because they do not show up on any you get the symptoms of food allergies— Dr. Bernadine Healy, former head of both conventional medical tests, and the early everything from bright red cheeks and the National Institutes of Health agrees signs associated with these infections can eczema to anaphylaxis. with many vaccine safety advocacy groups be subtle and easily confused for some Living in your gut are trillions of bac- that a study needs to be conducted that other medical or mental health problem. teria and other microorganisms that are compares the health and wellness (includ- When a body lives in a state of chronic essential to the most basic biological ing mental health and cognitive function) infection, a whole cascade of physiologi- mechanisms required for human life such of vaccinated to unvaccinated children. cal problems can unfold. as digestion, production, and de- American children are the most highly For example, immune dysregulation can toxification. vaccinated children in the world. In 1979, lead to chronic inflammation which can de- “Gut dysbiosis” means that there is an children were immunized against seven stroy cells and tissues in all parts of the body upset in the natural balance of microor- infectious diseases before 6 years of age; (including the brain, liver, pancreas, lungs, ganisms in your gut. Normally, your gut today, they are immunized against fifteen, and kidneys). Chronic immune stimulation is inhabited by trillions of good bacteria, most by the age of 2, and more vaccines are can lead to mitochondrial dysfunction. the ones that help you digest your food, slotted to be added to the existing sched- produce energy, and produce important ule. Some parents are concerned about the Gut Dysbiosis: Did you know? biological chemicals like serotonin and number of vaccines required of children dopamine (needed for brain function). today and are asking that more research be That the gastrointestinal system is the When your gut is dysbiotic, this means done to establish safety and efficacy. “headquarters” of our immune systems? that the “bad germs” (disease causing New research is beginning to bear out Over 70% of our immune function is bacteria, for instance) begin to edge out the fact that vaccines may cause immune housed in the gastrointestinal tract. the “good germs.” When the bad germs dysregulation (sometimes severe) in cer- One of the physical conditions in edge out the good germs, basic biologi- tain children, with or without mercury. a body that can lead to immune dys- cal functions (such as digestion) begin to In particular, vaccines have been shown regulation is something known as “gut breakdown, and symptoms (like diarrhea to stimulate immune system irregulari- dysbiosis.” The “gut,” or gastrointes- or constipation) begin to appear. Not ties such as autoimmunity and excessive tinal system, simply refers to the long all symptoms of gut dysbiosis are obvi- “T-cell skewing,” (causing repeated im- hollow tube that stretches from the tip of ous. Because gut dysbiosis can lead to balanced immune responses that could your tongue right down to your rectum. any number of physiological problems precipitate chronic disease). “Dysbiosis” refers to a state of imbalance throughout the body, it can be responsi- In the short history of modern vac- among the colonies of microorganisms ble for symptoms as varied as depression cination, there is quite a bit of evidence (bacteria, yeast, viruses, parasites, etc.) and asthmatic wheezing. demonstrating that vaccines can cause within your body. When a body is unable to effectively autoimmunity, autoimmune diseases There are many ways that gut dysbio- combat the bad germs in the gut (or else- (such as Guillain Barré Syndrome), “T- sis and immune dysregulation can cause where in the body) a state of immune cell skewing,” and other dysfunctions symptoms of illness or disease. Following dysregulation can occur. Thus, immune related to the immune system. Recent is a brief explanation of how gut dysbio- dysregulation and gut dysbiosis often studies show that certain vaccines (con- sis and immune dysregulation cause the occur simultaneously, and each can oc- taining certain components, such as live symptoms of food allergies, just one of cur as a result of the other. Additionally, attenuated viruses or aluminum adju- the many illnesses affecting our children. gut dysbiosis and immune dysregulation vants) may indeed be responsible for When colonies of friendly bacteria can both lead to mitochondrial dysfunc- causing immune dysregulation. (and yeasts) are unable to populate the tion, a condition where the body’s energy A Compromised Generation cont. on page 15 Page 14 ¤ Autumn 2011 ¤ VRAN Newsletter A Compromised Generation cont. from page 14 and addicted to the power endowed to Are Vaccines a Gift them. They strut about, cock-sure that The hypothesis (that has yet to be from God? proven) is that vaccines cause immune they were rightly taught the one and only dysregulation through a variety of physi- Suzanne Humphries, MD true form of medicine, and they are ful- ological mechanisms, and this immune filling their service to humanity. They dysregulation (in conjunction with other It’s fall in the northern hemisphere and have been successfully ordained into the environmental factors such as heavy an- more than one type of darkness has set in. Brotherhood. They have no intentions of tibiotic use) may in fact lead to chronic Vaccines are being injected at lightning doubting or abandoning their program- illnesses such as autism, ADHD, or asthma. speed. New vaccines, untested vaccines, ming, even when they witness someone Vaccines may be contributing to the double-strength flu vaccines for the healing without drugs, or being healthy epidemic of chronic childhood illnesses over 65 group; none of which have been without vaccines. Where would they be because they are being administered to shown to be effective at keeping anyone if they realized that the earth would be children who could be considered “im- healthy. The naïve are lining up at clinics, better off without their temples and holy munocompromised.” shopping malls, and retail stores. They water? They are unintentionally depen- One of the main concerns with today’s don’t know which kind of vaccine they dent on their devotees’ illnesses and on childhood immunization schedule is that will receive. Which manufacturer is it? the system that taught them to spar with a full load of vaccines is being given to Does it have mercury? What chemicals disease rather than heal it. The temple of children who have severe gut dysbiosis, does it contain? Why should they care? mirrors is filled with smoke, and creates nutritional deficiency, and toxic overloads Why would they not trust their doctor (or illusions that will keep the sick coming because of their particular environmental their local pharmacist)? back for more. exposures. Yet, no doctor is trained to These healthcare professionals say it Vaccine reactions can look to those look for this type of immunodeficiency. is a good idea to get a flu vaccine to stay who do not consider a vaccine to be a An infant or toddler who has received four healthy this winter, so they allow disease potentially toxic drug, like bad luck or or five courses of antibiotics, eats a nutri- to be injected into their muscles. The like a new problem that randomly mate- ent-poor diet, and is exposed to a variety people have been mesmerized, duped and rialized out of nowhere. No matter that of toxic substances (like lead, mercury, frightened by a bogeyman illness called the new symptom or illness arrived a BPA, and others) in their environment the flu. Ironically, the real bogeyman—the few hours, days or weeks after a vaccine; may actually have a compromised im- silent monster that can wreak unrecog- the new problem is considered a random mune system. This toddler is not atypical; nized havoc—just slipped beneath their event. People with heart attacks, strokes, many American children have these sort skin, completely unnoticed, and mas- infections(namely pneumonia),organ of environmental exposures—they are querading as something healthy, called a failure, cancer, autoimmune diseases, truly a compromised generation. vaccine. Despite the lack of any logic or arthritis, allergies, blood disorders, sei- A child with compromised immunity science behind the mass marketing of the zures, exacerbation of chronic diseases may not be able to “kick out” infectious flu and pneumonia jabs, these vaccines almost always have a past history of al- agents injected into their bodies via vac- remain the most recommended solution lopathic “treatment” and vaccinations cination. Studies have shown that some to preventing disease by the uninformed, that could have led up to today’s medi- autistic children have chronic infections in propaganda-parroting practitioners. cal conditions rather than prevented their guts with certain viruses such as the The people who are getting vaccinat- them. Scientific safety studies and long measles virus or the varicella (chickenpox) ed and the practitioners who are pushing term follow-up studies demonstrating the virus. The inflammation that can be found vaccines are parishioners of the largest lack of association between vaccines and in these children is off the charts. It is as if church on earth. They can be very de- the above listed conditions do not exist. they are in a perpetual battle against some vout and unreasonable. They believe this Whoever doubts this, please produce unrelenting infectious agent.The impact medical religion, vaccination, has saved some evidence to the contrary since the that vaccines have on babies’ bodies is millions of lives. They’ve read the holy burden of proof is not on me. I am just a complex and poorly understood, especially bible of Merck and believe the mantras doctor, bearing witness from the bedside. in light of the fact that babies receive so of the CDC that vaccines have eradicated To the average practitioner, if vaccine many vaccines so early in their lives. More disease from the Earth. They must be a reactions don’t occur within hours of the research is certainly warranted. gift from some god, right? But what else injection and if they are not on a list of have these indoctrinated persons in white likely vaccine reactions, then the vac- Note: Article is reprinted with permission from coats read about vaccines? With few cines are removed from the suspect list the Epidemic Answers website: http://www. exceptions, precious little. Most who ad- by the medical priests. And those who epidemicanswers.org/ The website material is minister these slurries don’t even know question, or point out the connections, based on Beth Lambert’s book, A Compromised what ingredients are in them. are summarily dismissed. The pharma- Generation: The Epidemic of Chronic Illness in America’s Children No matter how obvious the true cause faithful priests will say, “This correlation “Until I read this book I never understood how of so much human misery becomes— cannot be proven; this is anecdotal. It food sensitivities and allergies can affect a that people are actually being sickened could have been anything.” Anything… child’s behavior and brain. I didn’t even realize and immunosuppressed by vaccines like what? A bad hamburger, bad luck, how connected our brain is to what is going on and drugs—the pharma-faithful can’t bad genes, cold air, too much choles- in our gut. By reading this book, I understood see the cause. Here’s why: Doctors are terol? Anything. Anything, that is, except the underlying factors compounding the problem the modern day priests and priestesses, their most beloved potion, the vaccine. and was better able to advocate for my child”, anointing their followers with prescrip- Not the solution of lore. Not the great- wrote one reviewer. √ tions. The priests are infatuated with Vaccines a Gift from God? cont. on page 17 VRAN Newsletter ¤ Autumn 2011 ¤ Page 15 Flu Shot Unchanged, Program Expanded—October 2011 By Susan Fletcher The World Health Organization has A new recommendation for 2011- for those in the vulnerable early stages of recommended that, in the Northern 12 is injection of influenza vaccines life? And, finally, WHY do “infants and Hemisphere, the 2011-12 influenza vac- into egg-allergic Canadians despite the toddlers have a high burden of illness”? cine contain the same three viral strains risk of severe reactions and even death. The NACI informs us that, according to as those used in 2010-11. If their predic- (This recommendation does not include IMPACT data on 533 patients at Cana- tion of circulating strains is reliable, many the live virus nasal vaccine which is dian children’s hospitals, “Among the 151 Canadians, through previous exposure to acknowledged to be risky for any im- paediatric cases between 6-23 months of the infection or the vaccine, will already mune-compromised people, egg-allergic age, 41 (27.1%) had an underlying condi- be immune. If the prediction is faulty, the or not.) The protocol for injection will tion…Among the 157 cases between 2-4 new vaccine will have little or no efficacy. be a full dose for those “at lower risk for years of age, 65 (41.4%) had an underly- The National Advisory Committee on severe allergic reaction” followed by 30 ing health condition”. The steep increase Immunization (NACI) contends that, “Even minutes observation; “higher risk” peo- in severe disease between 6 months and 4 when the vaccine strains have not changed, ple will first be injected with 10% of a years suggests that the 46-47 recommend- as in 2011-2012, annual immunization re- full dose, observed for 30 minutes and, if ed doses of the 14 vaccines (including inforces optimal protection.” However, there’s no lasting reaction, injected with influenza vaccine) recommended for in- knowing the dismal efficacy of the flu shot the remaining 90% and observed for 30 fants/children 2 months to 4-6 yrs old is a and the fact that influenza comprises only minutes, 60 minutes or more. Meanwhile, possible factor. about 10% of all flu-like illness experienced “Appropriate resuscitative equipment Considering the predicted repeat of by Canadians, one wonders how “optimal” should be immediately available”. last year’s circulating influenza viruses the reinforcement would be. Carrying their recommendation to and consequent likelihood that even few- An interesting question to ask is why the extreme, the NACI continues, “Chil- er Canadians than usual will be infected has there been little change in the circu- dren who are to get a second influenza by them, it’s ironic and curious that ev- lating viruses since last influenza season? vaccination [note that they don’t say ‘im- eryone is being urged to have a flu shot Viral populations generally survive ei- munization’] during the same season can, and extraordinarily risky measures have ther by a great ability to multiply in their if the first dose is tolerated well, be given been recommended. hosts or by having many easily-infected a single dose of the same product used for One of the two influenza vaccines hosts available. Could it be that, despite the initial administration, which need not which will not be used in the “free” clinics continually expanding vaccine programs, be from the same vaccine lot. A graded is Sanofi Pasteur’s Fluzone®. In Canada the immunity of Canadians has been process is not needed for this second dose.” this vaccine is recommended for people 6 waning? If so, have these programs actu- And those childhood doses?… the months and older and contains a total of ally helped degrade overall good health new recommendation for the egg-al- 45 micrograms of haemagglutinin (HA) and associated strong immunity? lergic is coupled with a recommended per 0.5 ml dose (HA is an influenza virus Eight influenza vaccines are licensed for increase from half to full doses of influ- surface protein which can stimulate the use in Canada. Six will be taxpayer-funded enza vaccine for children 6-35 months immune system to produce antibodies). for “free” vaccinations: GlaxoSmithKline’s old “whether the child is being given one In USA, another version, Fluzone High- Fluviral®, Sanofi’s Vaxigrip® and Intanza®, dose of TIV [trivalent inactivated vac- Dose® is available for use in those 65 yrs Novartis’ Agriflu® and Fluad® and Astra- cine] or a two dose series.” The NACI’s and older. It contains 180 micrograms of Zeneca’s Flumist®. The latter is the only one excuse for this is that, “it will simplify HA per 0.5 ml dose, an amount four times containing live viruses and sprayed into the the administration schedule” and, “In- greater than that in Canada’s Fluzone®. nostrils rather than injected. Fluviral® con- fants and toddlers have a high burden of The excuse for this excessive amount of tains the mercury compound thimerosal as illness and their response to TIV is not stimulant is that, without it, seniors’ im- do the multi-dose vials of Vaxigrip®. Fluad®, as robust as older children….NACI has mune systems are usually too weak to which is the only one restricted for use in reviewed published and unpublished produce enough antibodies for vaccine ef- those 65 yrs and older, contains a powerful evidence for use of full dose in infants ficacy. (Recall that the immune systems of squalene-containing adjuvant, MF59. It’s that suggests moderate improvement in Canada’s seniors will be hyper-stimulated similar to the controversial adjuvant which antibody response without increase in re- by the squalene-based adjuvant, MF-59 was used in the 2009-10 ‘pandemic’ H1N1 actogenicity with use of full doses.” contained in Fluad®.) But the Fluzone vaccine, but that vaccine contained only one These new recommendations raise sev- High-Dose® monograph admits, “There viral strain. Intanza® is the only one of the eral questions. Why does it apparently not have been no controlled clinical studies six restricted to those 18 yrs and older and matter that, as well as being inherently demonstrating a decrease in influenza the only one injected into the skin rather than risky, the new protocol for egg-allergic disease after vaccination with Fluzone into muscle tissue. It is recommended for people will be complex, inefficient and High-Dose®.” And it’s not surprising that, immune compromised adults and injected quite possibly unpredictable and confus- compared to Fluzone®, Fluzone High- in lower-than-usual doses with higher-than- ing enough to result in administration Dose® produces more adverse reactions, usual concentrations of immune stimulating errors? Why is it so important to “simplify especially serious ones. antigen. All the Canadian licensed influenza administration schedules” and possibly vaccines contain egg protein, most contain gain “moderate improvement in antibody References: formaldehyde and antibiotics and all contain response” [which doesn’t necessarily indi- 1. Statement on Seasonal Influenza Vaccine other undesirables. cate improved efficacy] by doubling doses Flu Shot Unchanged cont. on page 17 Page 16 ¤ Autumn 2011 ¤ VRAN Newsletter Flu Shot Unchanged cont. from page 16 expectation from birth to death, and the trust your doctor-priest because s/he’s for 2011-2012; CCDR: Volume 37.ACS-5; time will shorten between the two. been fooled too. Many will profit on your September 2011. http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/ Once in a while, a patient, doctor or disease, but only you will profit from your publicat/ccdr-rmtc/11vol37/acs-dcc-5/index- nurse sees some truth through a half open health. If a vaccine causes damage, there eng.php eyelid. When that happens, s/he gets a will be no man behind the curtain to give 2. Fluad for Seniors: http://vran.org/about-vac- you a new life and no one to help you get cines/specific-vaccines/influenza-vaccine-flu- glimpse of the unbelievable, the unimagi- nable. To everyone else, the fable of the back home. There will just be you, your shot/fluad-influenza-vaccine-for-seniors/ sad family, and a doctor with a prescrip- 3. VRAN influenza page. http://vran.org/about- germ theory lives on, as the shareholders vaccines/specific-vaccines/influenza-vaccine- bank their dividends. Few of us were born tion pad. It’s time to wake up, while the flu-shot/ Warn Your Friends and family: This enlightened, and waking up is painful. choice is still yours. New Vaccine is Dangerous http://articles.mer- The truth almost always sneaks in, unan- Suzanne Humphries, MD is a medi- cola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/10/17/dan- nounced. It startles the best of us, jogs our cal doctor who is board certified in gerous-new-ineffective-flu-vaccine-released- souls, riles our egos. And if righteous in- Nephrology, formerly board certified for-seniors.aspx?e_cid=20111017_DNL_art_ √ dignation doesn’t keep us imprisoned, the in Internal Medicine. After 18 years in truth will liberate and cause the observer conventional medicine, she has left to Vaccines a Gift from God? cont. from page 16 to seek a new path, a true vocation (trans- build her own practice using homeopa- lated literally to “calling”). In the world thy, cleansing and natural medicine to est discovery of the past 200 years. Not of conventional medicine, those who are help people get off of their prescrip- the holy grail of pharma. No, no. It sim- comfortable need to be shaken, and the few tion drugs. Dr. Humphries serves on ply cannot be the vaccine for which they who are shaken often need comforting. the board of directors of International hold so much blind trust. The walls of deception—that vaccines Medical Council on Vaccination. Article In the days and weeks that have passed are necessary, safe or effective—are date—December 6, 2010 http://www. since this fall’s vaccines, the sick and cracking . Each week, fewer people are vaccinationcouncil.org/2010/12/05/are- wounded have stumbled into emergency figuratively deaf, blind and less are sim- vaccines-a-gift-from-god/ √ rooms and clinics. Or they have been ple-mindedly naïve. The masses are not wheeled in, obtunded, disoriented, dys- lining up these days the way they did just pneic, coughing up blood, seizing. I have a few years ago. Public trust is declining Why Children May seen this first hand, from the emergency despite the propaganda of the media ma- React to Milk Proteins room to the intensive care units, and if chine. Truth is indestructible and the web in DPT Shot they are lucky, to the wards. And if they of lies around the value of vaccines is un- were not lucky, they were noted in the raveling. The day will soon come when By Lawrence B Palevsky, MD obituaries. The hospital was mysterious- the weight of the lies will collapse on Editor’s note: In March 2011, Med- ly filled to capacity in mid-October. The the heads of the priests, who have been page Today reported that a number of search for the cause of so much illness recruited to maintain the distorted truths children highly allergic to milk products was hunted down with millions of dollars about vaccines. should be watched with caution when of tests. The cause of this big wave of sick In the meantime, many will be maimed receiving the diphtheria, pertussis, and patients just might be right beneath the and many will die. Sadly this will happen tetanus (DPT) vaccine because trace priests’ noses, yet they continue looking without anyone in the temple making the milk proteins in the vaccine could trig- for something that makes sense to them association between the vaccine and the ger reactions. What they don’t discuss is within the bounds of their programming. death. German physician, Samuel Hahn- WHY children become allergic to milk You know what “they” say, “If you want emann MD, the founder of products and other every day foods. to hide something, put it right out in the once said that if an allopathic doctor It has been scientifically understood open”. In the case of vaccines, that tactic deepens an illness with their suppressive since the early 1900s that injection of has been surprisingly successful. drugs long enough, the patient would be- foreign proteins can trigger allergies and Here’s the plan by the vaccine enthu- come incurable. He knew the truth: when anaphylaxis. Yet doctors pretend that to- siasts: Vaccinate everyone. Tell them it is the damage is deep enough, short of a day’s explosion of allergies, asthma and necessary to prevent death and disease. miracle, there is no returning to health. increasingly, fatal anaphylactic reactions, Make it easy for them, and if necessary, Vaccines shorten the time between mild is a mystery in our highly vaccinated pop- make it free. Tell them it is irresponsible illness and incurable disease, especially ulation. They don’t tell you that injections to refuse the shot. Threaten them and co- when they are given to persons who al- have been used to create allergies in test erce them. Tell them they could lose their ready have compromised health. When animals. Any food protein remaining in livelihood if they do not comply. If too injuries are piled on top of illness, the the vaccine from the culture medium or many refuse, declare states of emergency, only thing left to do is damage control— diluent oils when injected along with an ramp up production, make the shot man- and pray for that miracle. adjuvant can cause a food allergy.(3) datory. If enough people are vaccinated, There is credible information read- In his 1913 acceptance speech of the it will soon become impossible to discern ily available on each and every vaccine’s Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work regular illness from vaccine-induced dis- risk . There is a mountain of evidence that with anaphylaxis, Charles Robert Richet ease. Everyone will simply appear to be speaks differently than the vaccine man- said, “We are so constituted that we can sick and every human will become des- tras told by doctors and seen on television. never receive other proteins into the perate enough to swallow at least two The chanting of vaccination necessity and blood than those that have been modi- or three of pharma’s widgets (pills) ev- safety is dissonant with logic and rea- fied by digestive juices. Every time ery day for life. Disease will become the son…and science. Maybe you shouldn’t Reactions to Milk Proteins cont. on page 18 VRAN Newsletter ¤ Autumn 2011 ¤ Page 17 Reactions to Milk Proteins cont. from page 17 ment of inflammatory, allergic responses US government and the medical com- alien protein penetrates by effraction, in the body once the cow milk proteins are munity for regular consumption by the the organism suffers and becomes re- ingested. These other bio-immune markers American people. The authors of this sistant.”(1,2) can cause many different types of allergic/ report got it right—Kids May React to In plain language, you can’t inject inflammatory reactions in the body that are Milk Proteins in the DaPT Shot. What proteins into the body without risking far less serious than that of an anaphylactic, they are not addressing are the many allergy and anaphylaxis. or IgE response. other clinical reactions kids may demon- For many, the symptoms developed strate in response to the milk proteins in due to these inflammatory reactions to this vaccine, and how much more wide- ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ spread the injection of milk protein may injected, and then ingested, cow milk (5) Dr. Palevsky explains how foreign proteins, are subtle, and are often missed be in childhood vaccines. proteins injected via vaccines sensitize by clinicians. Therefore, the potential for, If we were to fully address 1) the the infant immune system to reject the and the existence of, cow milk protein amount of milk protein being injected protein(s) via allergic reactions: sensitivity is much greater than the con- into our children; 2) the extent of immune The potential for people to develop al- ventional medical community attributes to reactions that happen in children and lergies and sensitivities to milk proteins the injection of milk protein in the DaPT. adults when they are injected with milk goes way beyond what is adequately and The problem with reactivity and sensi- proteins, and; 3) the ramifications of their correctly described in this report. One tivity to the cow milk protein in the DaPT injection beyond the myopia of viewing scientific fact is clear—the injection of is much greater than this report lets on. the IgE response as the only response a foreign protein into the body, past the According to how medicine is con- accepted as a legitimate indicator of al- body’s primary immune defense system ventionally practiced today, milk protein lergy once the milk proteins are ingested, (skin, lining of the intestines and airway), is consistently injected into the bodies of we might see that the injection of milk in the presence of an adjuvant like alumi- children and adults on a regular basis. It is protein, or any type of foreign protein, num, causes the internal immune system clearly stated in all of the DaPT vaccine is wreaking more havoc on our immune to see that injected protein as foreign. As package inserts that, “Tetanus toxin is pro- systems than we could ever imagine. a result, this immune response against the duced by growing Clostridium tetani in a If children do not show blood or skin foreign protein causes the body to reject the modified Latham medium derived from IgE responses to any of the proteins they protein. The rejection of the protein by the bovine casein.” (Here is a sample pack- eat, it doesn’t mean they are not allergic immune system leads to the development age insert—http://us.gsk.com/products/ to these foods. It just means they are not of many types of inflammatory responses, assets/us_infanrix.pdf ). The potential for IgE allergic. They could still be allergic, regardless of whether or not it leads to the milk proteins to remain in the final vac- just in a more subtle way. The smartest expression of clinical symptoms. cine products is very high, as is the degree thing is not to inject the foreign food pro- of difficulty in removing all of them from teins into their bodies in the first place. With the injection of a foreign the final vaccine product. Dr. Palevsky’s comments reprinted from protein into the body, the memory of Children receive the tetanus vaccine The Refusers website: http://therefusers. seeing this protein as an enemy is as part of the DaPT vaccine 6 times by com/refusers-newsroom/kids-may-react- forever embedded into a person’s the time they are 11 years old—2, 4, 6 to-milk-proteins-in-dpt-shot/ immune system. and 21 months, 4-6 years, and 11 years old. All 6 of these vaccines are potential References: With the injection of a foreign protein introductions of bovine casein into their Rita Hoffman; Anaphylactic Children— into the body, the memory of seeing this bodies via injection. Subsequently, adults Canaries in the Public Health Mine Shaft; http://vran.org/health-risks/anaphylaxis- protein as an enemy is forever embed- are routinely given the tetanus vaccine allergies-and-asthma/anaphylactic- ded into a person’s immune system. Thus, every 10 years. In addition, for those chil- children%E2%80%94canaries-in-the-public- with any subsequent ingestion of the pro- dren who receive the ActHIB vaccine, as health-mine-shaft/ tein that has been previously injected into a separate vaccine against the bacterium Heather Fraser; The Peanut Allergy Epidem- the body, the immune system is going to Haemophilus influenzae B (HIB), they ic: What’s Causing It and How to Stop It. reject it, leading to the development of an are also receiving a potential injection of a Barbara Feick. Nasty side Effect from Vacci- inflammatory response anywhere in the greater load of milk proteins 4 additional natins: A Lifetime Fear of Dying from Eating: body that the ingested protein is transport- times—2, 4, 6 and 15 months. The HIB (28) http://dermatology.cdlib.org/DOJvol5num1/ ed and imbedded into the cellular material. bacteria in the ActHIB vaccine are con- reviews/black.html, Delayed Type Hypersensitiv- ity: Current Theories with an Historic Perspec- A second scientific fact is also clear— jugated with the tetanus toxoid, which tive, C. Allen Black, Ph.D., Dermatology Online despite what this report will have the public is grown on a modified Mueller-Miller Journal 5(1): 7 , Department of Obstetrics, believe, a person’s inflammatory, allergic casamino acid medium. Casamino acid Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences Magee- immune response to an injected cow milk medium means a medium grown with bo- Womens Research Institute Pittsburgh, “ protein is not solely limited to the identi- vine casein amino acids and proteins. (4) HIB vaccine product monograph: https:// fication of a skin or blood IgE response, The potential for injection of bovine www.vaccineshoppe.com/image.cfm?doc_ or by the presence of an anaphylactic re- casein continues throughout a person’s id=11167&image_type=product_pdf action. There are more than a dozen other life, as long as he/she is given a DaPT, Articles re: bi-polar disease & schizophre- bio-immune markers in our bodies that can TdaP, tetanus vaccine, or any vaccine nia linked to milk allergies:http://www.ncbi. nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21176030 and http:// react to the presence of injected cow milk conjugated to a tetanus toxoid. And, www.schres-journal.com/article/S0920- proteins, many of which cannot and are not milk, and milk products are the number 9964(09)00621-5/abstract √ measurable, and do lead to the develop- one food products recommended by the Page 18 ¤ Autumn 2011 ¤ VRAN Newsletter phrase was prominently reported in the Duty to Warn media, which pointed out the commonly- Flu Shots, Fosamax and Pharmaceutical Fakery: The Common Use accepted past estimates of 90% efficacy. The problem was that both were mis- of Misleading Statistics in the Medical Literature leading RRR figures. But what wasn’t By Gary G. Kohls, MD reported in the media coverage was the fact that the actual risk reduction (ARR) Nov. 4, 2011—Last week there was a the Relative Risk Reduction [RRR] with the flu shots was a miniscule 1.5%. media buzz generated by a recent article statistic, which intentionally inflates If that figure had been used, people in The Lancet (a pro-vaccine, pro-phar- embarrassingly low or even statistically would have balked at consenting to the maceutical industry medical journal that insignificant results that have been ob- shot. And, as any honest, non-co-opted, is published in Britain) that showed that tained from research studies. thinking person can see, the difference flu vaccinations are far less effective than What the public deserves to be in- between the misleading figure of 60% had been previously believed. In fact, formed about but usually doesn’t get is and the real figure of 1.5% is huge—and the study suggests that the trivalent flu the far more meaningful Absolute/Actual represents just another cunning statistical vaccines currently being pushed may ap- Risk Reduction [ARR] figure, which are trick that is used to promote highly prof- proach worthlessness. often too small to call attention to. Hence, itable products, that, incidentally, can The article’s principle author was Mi- the invention of the misleading RRR. I also be toxic. chael Osternolm, PhD, MPH, a widely will deal with the important mathemati- published infectious disease researcher cal differences further below. Blowing the whistle on decep- who, prior to his current faculty posi- tive advertising in medicine tion at the University of Minnesota, had The deceptive relative risk served in various capacities with the CDC reduction statistic Seeing the truth of the matter and and the Minnesota Department of Health hearing the misleading media interpreta- (MDH), including a high profile role as A lot of medical research these days tion, I knew that some somebody needed the MDH’s Chief of the Acute Disease is done by academic scientists that may to blow the whistle. Hence this article. Epidemiology Section. 15 years of that not be clinicians. The vast majority of One of the reasons to be truthful about association with the MDH was served as these researchers (estimated to be over flu vaccine efficacy is the fact that the Minnesota state epidemiologist. Oster- 80%) are in the employ of the for-profit benefits for the elderly have been con- holm has published over 300 articles and drug and medical device industries. The sistently exaggerated over the years, is highly respected in his field. research articles that list them as authors both in the medical literature and in the are frequently written by ghost-writers advertisements by medical clinics, trade The disconnect between the sci- who are salaried by the corporations that associations, departments of health and ence and the propaganda designed and funded the study and have, the CDC. Many studies have failed to by contract, exclusive control of how the show any reduction in mortality for el- The Lancet study, in the reports that research is utilized. derly recipients, despite an increased I listened to on NPR and read about in The researchers involved in such stud- vaccination rates in that group (from various print media, was deceptively ies are naturally highly motivated to help 15% to 65% over the past 30 years). reported as showing that the trivalent sell the products they are working on, (Ref: The Lancet Infectious Diseases, flu vaccines should still be regarded as with the hope that positive results will October 2007) “moderately effective” for flu prevention increase the value of any stock holdings rather than being brought into question as that may be part of their compensation And here is the math the minimally effective vaccine that the package. I hasten to add that there is article suggested. What could explain the nothing wrong with making money in To make my point about the deceptive- disconnect between the science and the an ethical and honest manner, but a lot ness of the RRR statistic to those who are propaganda? of medical research intentionally over- non-scientists or non-mathematicians, Seeing no sign of a public retraction states the benefits of the products that are here is the essential math that needs to be from Osterholm or his co-authors about being marketed and minimizes or even pointed out: the glaring misperceptions, I began to hides the negatives of their newly discov- In the Lancet study, there were only 357 wonder if they were even aware that they ered drugs, vaccines or medical devices. victims of influenza among the non-vacci- had stooped to the depths that so many One of the problems alluded to above nated pooled sample of 13,195 that were other medical, psychiatric and pharma- is the widespread use of the grossly mis- studied. That means that only 2.7 persons ceutical industry researchers have gone leading statistic called the Relative Risk out of every 100 non-vaccinated person to when their articles are published in Reduction (RRR). It is important for con- (2.7%) got symptoms compatible with the mainstream medical journals. Misleading sumers of new drugs or medical devices flu, meaning that 97.3% of unvaccinated statistics that have appeared in medical to understand the differences between it people did not get the flu despite not get- journals are also used in drug commer- and the ARR. Usually, if the differences ting the shot. Good odds that many people cials and by drug sales representatives are mentioned at all, they are only men- would accept if we had known the actual when they try to convince us physicians to tioned in the fine print. risks of forgoing the shot. prescribe their company’s synthetic drugs. The Lancet article that revealed the The study also states that 1.2% of the What I am talking about is the com- lack of efficacy of flu shots did indeed mon statistical trick of the trade called report a “60% efficacy rate”, and that Duty to Warn cont. on page 20 VRAN Newsletter ¤ Autumn 2011 ¤ Page 19 Duty to Warn cont. from page 19 misleading “relative” hip fracture reduc- device usage or surgical procedure used vaccinated population still got flu symp- tion (a RRR) calculation. What was not to be solely the obligation of the involved toms even after having received the shot. prominently advertised was the ARR of health care provider. Nowadays it seems So 98.8% of people who were vaccinated only 1%, a minuscule rate for elderly that such health information is being did not get the flu (virtually the same as women who continuously took the drug taken over by the propaganda techniques the 97.3% of non-vaccinated people that over a 4-year period. of cunning megacorporations who can did not get the flu). The Fosamax hip fracture study for afford to pay the billions of dollars for Simple subtraction tells us that a tiny older women at high risk for future frac- propagandizing patients and their physi- 1.5% (98.8—97.3 = 1.5) of people ben- tures (that was funded and controlled by cians, for lobbying Congresspersons and efited and that approximately 98% would the British pharmaceutical giant Glaxo) presidents to enact favorable legislation not have become sick with the flu wheth- revealed that hip fractures occurred in and to pay the costs of the inevitable er or not they were vaccinated. Again, only 2 out of every 100 untreated (pla- and expected lawsuits for damages done a risk many people would be willing to cebo) patients, a 2% incidence. when the injured patient hadn’t been giv- take if they were told the truth! In the drug-treated patients there were en fully informed consent. Here is more about how the RRR sta- only 1 out of 100 patients who suffered Only in America (and New Zealand) tistical trick is calculated, using the flu hip fractures, a 1% incidence. So the would this be expected to happen for vaccine study results: RRR (1% divided by 2% = 50%) had to they are the only two nations in the de- Relative risk reduction is calculated be used to convince patients to take the veloped world where direct-to-consumer by dividing the 1.5% number above by drug, but the calculated ARR was well advertising for synthetic pharmaceutical 2.7%, which equals a seemingly large hidden because it was a miniscule 1% drugs is not against the law. number of 55%, (which was rounded up (2% minus 1% = 1%). There is some slim good news I suppose to get the talking point figure of 60%). To and that is that the spirit of Hippocrates, he get the more meaningful ARR of 1.2%, Being fully informed about all the of the “First Do No Harm” code of medi- one subtracts 1.5% from 2.7%. Therefore pros and cons of any treatment, cal ethics, may still be alive, and that spirit the calculated benefit (the “absolute/ac- medical device usage or surgical could save us, if there is any justice left in tual risk reduction”) for getting the flu procedure used to be solely the this crashing nation. Hippocrates has been shot is a miniscule figure. obligation of the involved health care spinning in his grave ever since the phar- Knowing that there are a number of provider. Nowadays it seems that maceutical industry and big corporations studies that show that taking extra doses such health information is took control of and spoiled the honorable of the far cheaper and safer vitamin D3 being taken over by the propaganda practice of medicine. during the winter months can give definite techniques of cunning Our patients, who have already been protection from the flu, one realizes that megacorporations... losing respect for what, in its current there are alternatives to being vaccinated. incarnation as a hard-hearted, highly ef- An important point that needs to be ficient Big Business, would forgive us if reiterated is the fact that the 98 % of the That also means that 98% of non- we admitted that our profession is flawed vaccinated population who weren’t going treated patients did not get a hip fracture and compromised. to get the flu anyway were unnecessarily after 4 years of observation and 99% of Dr. Kohls is a retired Duluth-area exposed to the toxic ingredients of the in- Fosamax-treated patients did not get a hip physician who, prior to his retirement, tra-muscular trivalent viral influenza shot. fracture, thus receiving no benefit from practiced holistic, non-drug, mental Included among these potentially danger- taking the drug. 80% of media ads de- health care. He writes about issues of ous substances that are acknowledged to ceptively claimed that “Fosamax cut the peace, justice, nonviolence, theology, be in the flu shots are the mercury pre- risk (of hip fracture in elderly women) by war and health. He recommends to servative Thimerosal, formaldehyde, 50%” And not many of us physicians saw readers that they discuss their personal aluminum, immune system-stimulating through the clever subterfuge!! healthcare concerns with a trusted, adjuvants like squalene, viral contami- Again it must be emphasized that open-minded practitioner. nants, and who knows what else?). 98—99% of elderly patients who were regarded as being at high risk of having a Article is reprinted with kind per- Fosamax prospered because of hip fracture had no hip fractures, whether mission of the author and is also the same statistical trickery they were drugged or not. But the treated posted at: www.PreventDisease.com/ group risked experiencing the often se- news/11/110411_Flu-Shots-Fosamax- Fosamax was the first popular and rious side effects including esophageal Pharmaceutical-Fakery-Misleading-Sta- highly profitable “osteoporosis pre- ulcerations and the disfiguring and in- tistics-in-the-Medical-Literature.shtml vention” drug that, among many other curable osteonecrosis of the jawbone, unknown and unappreciated effects (at among dozens of other potentially seri- Sources: Lancet Infect Dis. 2011;doi:10.1016/S1473- least at the time of marketing approval), ous adverse reactions that the untreated 3099(11)70295-X . interfered with a patient’s fragile, com- group were not at risk for. http://www.naturalnews.com/033998_influenza_ plex and incompletely understood bone vaccines_effectiveness.html metabolism. The drug had been proven Fully informed consent: Is it a http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/ to increase bone density in many patients thing of the past? PIIS1473-3099%2811%2970295-X/abstract √ (but did not necessarily increase bone strength), but the claim that it reduced Being fully informed about all the hip fractures by 50% was based on the pros and cons of any treatment, medical Page 20 ¤ Autumn 2011 ¤ VRAN Newsletter new market for sales and profits. The Potential bio-hazard found in Gardasil vaccine vaccine could be added to vaccination Compiled by VRAN, Sept. 2011 schedules in pediatricians’ offices across the country. SANE Vax Inc, a consumer group ad- as genetically engineered viral DNA.” In a November 11 update, Sanevax vocating for vaccine safety, has notified the SANE Vax emphasizes that, “All recom- Vice-President of Public Relations Carol US FDA that thirteen vials of the Garda- binant or genetically engineered DNAs Botha wrote, “In the past month global sil HPV4 vaccine currently on the market are considered potential biohazards government health agencies went from worldwide have been found contaminated if injected intramuscularly into the demanding that the vaccine contamination with recombinant HPV (human papilloma body. Merck’s Gardasil™ HPV4 vaccine be investigated—to accepting a universal virus) DNA. Of concern is that this hitherto is administered intramuscularly—as are statement possibly written by Merck— unknown contaminant may have triggered many other vaccines.” (emphasis ours) that the agencies were well aware that the some of the autoimmune disorders, malig- Since its US launch in 2006, Cana- ‘presence of DNA fragments was to be ex- nant tumors, and joint and central nervous dian in 2007, children have suffered pected and did not pose a safety risk. And system inflammation which have arisen in catastrophic injuries including death life went on as usual. children and young women following their following vaccination with Merck’s Gar- Meanwhile—a well-known doctor Gardasil™ vaccinations. dasil vaccine, and GlaxoSmithKline’s from Peru, concerned about the safety and The vials tested all came from differ- Cervarix HPV vaccine. Some of their efficacy of Gardasil, was scheduled to de- ent lot numbers of the vaccine and were parents have launched websites to warn bate a doctor from Merck at a conference. sourced from New Zealand, Australia, other families that the risks may far out- Just prior to the scheduled debate, the con- Spain, Poland, France and three states in weigh any potential benefit claimed by ference moderator told the audience that the U.S. All the vials tested positive for the manufacturers and health agencies the doctor from Merck was in a hurry so the presence of the genetically modified who promote them. A Google search he could not stay for the debate regarding HPV DNA. with the words “Gardasil dangers” the vaccine and instead he would be the SANE Vax contracted Dr. Sin Hang brings up hundreds of articles discussing first one to address the conferees. Lee to analyze the vaccine samples af- side effects and injuries linked to these When it was the Peruvian doctor’s turn ter a request for help by the mother of vaccines. In the September 2008 FDA to speak she shared the data and research a young girl who’d developed the auto- Closing Statement on Gardasil™ it was regarding the contamination of Gardasil immune disease, acute onset Juvenile noted that 73.3% of girls in the clinical with HPV rDNA attached to the alumi- Rheumatoid Arthritis, within 24 hours of trials developed “new medical condi- num adjuvant. The conference attendees her third injection of Gardasil™. Toxic- tions” post vaccination and 17 girls died were shocked. ity tests had found HPV DNA in the girl’s during them. Despite this, in February Following the conference, the Peruvian blood two years after that injection—a 2010 Health Canada approved use of doctor and her gynecologist husband at- highly significant finding as it’s unusual Gardasil® for boys and men aged 9-26 tended a party for medical professionals. to find HPV DNA in the blood. HPV (hu- years for prevention of infection caused To her great surprise the doctor from Mer- man papilloma virus) normally exists by HPV types 6, 11, 16, and 18. And, ck was at the gathering. When approached on the skin and mucous membranes and again—despite the April 2011 US FDA’s by the Peruvian doctor, he told her that does not survive for any length of time in rejection of Merck’s fourth application the findings on Gardasil contamination the bloodstream. to extend its Gardasil™ licence for use were indeed correct—and the fragments Dr. Lee, a pathologist at Milford Hos- in US women ages 27-45—that same of HPV rDNA did not belong in the vac- pital pathology laboratory, a lab which month, a Merck press release announced cine. Perhaps this admission of guilt is the uses the most advanced DNA sequenc- Health Canada had approved Gardasil® reason he could not or would not debate ing techniques for molecular diagnoses, for use in Canadian women up to age 45. the vaccination contamination issue? had this to say: “Natural HPV DNA According to Sane Vax Inc, the FDA’s The Gardasil vaccine controversy does not remain in the bloodstream for rejection coincided with the removal of a reads like a well-scripted science fiction very long. However, the HPV DNA in statement in the Gardasil™ Patient Prod- novel since medical professionals and re- Gardasil™ is not ‘natural’ DNA. It is a uct Insert that the vaccine contained “no searchers have not yet developed a test recombinant HPV DNA (rDNA)—ge- viral DNA”. But Medpage Today only to conduct studies on the short-term or netically engineered—to be inserted into reported that, “The decision was based long term medical effects of a run-way yeast cells for VLP (virus-like-particle) on a trial in 3,253 women ages 27 to 45. genetically engineered virus bound to protein production. rDNA is known to Although the vaccine appeared to prevent aluminum being injected into the body.” behave differently from natural DNA. persistent HPV infection, no significant It may enter a human cell, especially in benefit was found for more important Unanswered questions & concerns: an inflammatory lesion caused by the outcomes such as high-grade neoplastic effects of the aluminum adjuvant, via lesions or cervical cancer when all par- • Since viral DNA cannot replicate by poorly understood mechanisms….Once ticipants were included irrespective of itself (it needs a host cell) what hap- a segment of recombinant DNA is insert- baseline HPV status.” pens if genetically engineered viral ed into a human cell, the consequences On October 25, 2011, an advisory DNA enters a human host cell? are hard to predict. It may be in the cell panel to the CDC, who actually receives • How will this now “genetically-engi- temporarily or stay there forever, with a ‘kick-back’ on Gardasil sales recom- neered cell” replicate? Will it mutate or without causing a mutation. Now the mended that the vaccine be administered the host cell leading towards cancer? host cell contains human DNA as well to boys ages 9 to 26—creating a whole Potential Biohazard in Vaccine cont. on page 22 VRAN Newsletter ¤ Autumn 2011 ¤ Page 21 Potential Biohazard in Vaccine cont. from page 21 • How will genetically engineered cells The Canadian Gardasil Awareness Network affect the reproductive health of future is a new website dedicated to Annabelle Mo- generations? rin, age 15, who died 15 days after her second • How does the immune system react to Gardasil injection. http://www.canadiangar- the detection of a combination viral dasilawarenessnetwork.com/ DNA and human DNA in what was once a ‘normal’ cell? Will the immune Annabelle Morin—Quebec—De- system fight the now genetically engi- cember 1993—December 2008 neered human cell? We are left wondering what will happen From the day Annabelle was born, she to the millions of girls and young women was an exceptional child. Early on, Annabelle who have been injected with genetically was determined to make the world a kinder, engineered viral DNA and the possibility gentler place. The first sign was her great of it infecting more and more host cells love for animals. It was not unusual for her in the body. Carol Botha asks, “Will they to rescue any stray animal she found. At only fall victim to a multitude of autoimmune 12 years old, she worked as a volunteer for world in silence. Almost two years later, An- disorders caused by the marauding viral the SPCA. Annabelle’s life had one guiding nabelle’s family still has no answer from the contaminants eroding their immune sys- principle, “All that is necessary to achieve, coroner as to her cause of death. Other than tem? Will their bodies become riddled is to believe.” Annabelle believed she would drowning, the coroner could find no reason. with ‘cancerous’ cells? How will the become a veterinary surgeon. In the name of Annabelle, and all presence of rDNA affect their fertility or Her family had heard the advertisements of the girls across Canada, her family the health of future generations?” for Gardasil for two years prior to when she fights for a public investigation into the “At this point, no one knows the actually received the first shot. They had circumstances surrounding Annabelle’s answers to these questions—and the discussed it and agreed that based on the death. They want disclosure of fatality innocent have truly become human advertisements, the vaccination would be a reports after HPV vaccinations. medical experiments.” good idea. Annabelle decided to get the vac- Annabelle died without making a cine without mentioning it to her parents. sound. Now her mother, Linda Morin References: In school settings across Canada, finds herself fighting the silence every day. • SANE Vax Letter to FDA http://sanevax.org/ students are being proselytized with incom- She fights the silence of the manufacturer sane-vax-to-fda-recombinant-hpv-dna-found-in- plete and unbalanced information about about the true side effects of HPV vac- multiple-samples-of-gardasil/ vaccines. Vaccine risks are played down cines. She fights the silence of the medical • Entire SANE Vax report : http://sanevax. org/sane-vax-inc-discovers-potential-bio-ha- while benefits are inflated. They are told community, who should have asked if An- zard-contaminant-in-merck%E2%80%99s- they don’t need their parents’ consent to nabelle had been recently vaccinated. She gardasil%E2%84%A2-hpv-4-vaccine/ make a vaccine decision—they can decide fights the silence of the press, who should • Policy on the use of biohazardous agents and for themselves. Under the “Mature Minor be reporting the adverse events and fatali- recombinant DNA in research and teaching Ruling” incorporated into various provincial ties associated with Gardasil. laboratories at the University of North Carolina Health Acts across Canada, minor children In Linda’s words, “The Health System at Greensboro; Sept 24, 2008 http://www.uncg. under the age of 19 have the right to make in Canada let my daughter down by not edu/orc/pdf/IBC_Policy.pdf “health care decisions” such as obtain birth listening to her. As a consequence, my • VRAN’s HPV vaccine page http://vran.org/ control services, abortions and vaccines lovely girl has paid with her life. about-vaccines/specific-vaccines/hpv-vaccine- cervical-cancer-vaccine/ without parental knowledge or consent. “Her father and I cannot come to terms • Global concerns about HPV vaccines; SANE 16 days after Annabelle’s first shot, she with the fact that her autopsy report can- Vax Inc; 2011 http://sanevax.org/wp-content/ suffered from aphasia (the inability to under- not find a cause of death. This is not uploads/2011/04/03.27.11-HPV-Vaccine-Fact- stand spoken or written language), weakness, normal in one so healthy, and yet, now Sheet121.pdf amnesia, inability to speak and difficulty I know more and have researched Gar- • Gardasil™ Patient Product Insert http://www. standing. Annabelle made the decision to get dasil. I find that there are 75 deaths on merck.ca/assets/en/pdf/press/product_info/ the Gardasil shot. VAERS reports, and all of these deaths gardasil/press_releases/Gardasil_Adult_Wo- Not knowing she had received a Gardasil have one thing in common: each of these men_Release_EN.pdf shot, her parents took her to the hospital to girls was vaccinated with Gardasil. • FDA Rejects Licensure of Gardasil vaccine for women between aged 27-45 http://www.prlog. find answers. No one at the hospital asked if “How significant is that? How reveal- org/11443952-parents-of-daughters-women- she had recently received a vaccination. Even ing that our authorities appear to have injured-from-gardasil-react-to-fda-decision.html though many of her symptoms were neuro- turned their backs on the young, vulner- • Medpage Today article re FDA rejection of logical, her brain scan came back normal. All able girls and women who have died Merck application for extension of Gardasil™ they could say was that it was not normal for following vaccination with Gardasil. to older women http://www.medpagetoday.com/ such a previously healthy girl to suffer these They will be held accountable for this OBGYN/STDs/25776 symptoms. There were no answers. one day.” • Nov. 11 Update: http://sanevax.org/news-blog/ 9 December 2008, 15 days after her sec- Note: Annabelle Morin’s story is excerpted page/2/ √ ond shot of Gardasil, Annabelle went to take from Norma Erickson’s tribute at: http:// a bath less than 10 feet from where her family www.canadiangardasilawarenessnet- was sitting. 30 minutes later, she was found work.com/annabelles-story.html √ dead. No cry, no unusual sound, she left the Page 22 ¤ Autumn 2011 ¤ VRAN Newsletter Why is the CDC Ignoring Life & Death Studies on Vaccine Safety? By Dr. Joseph Mercola—May 26, 2011 Dr. Peter Aaby has spent more than 30 dren’s lives by embarking on new studies Explosive Data on Other Vaccine years studying the causes of excessively that duplicate the decades of research that Dr. Safety Issues also Ignored high child mortality in Guinea-Bissau, and Aaby has already done, while they do noth- has published his research in dozens of ing to address the issues his studies raise. It’s puzzling why world health offi- professional journals. He was awarded the What’s outrageous is that they are ig- cials are so hesitant to trust Aaby’s logic, Novo Nordisk Prize for distinguished re- noring DOZENS of studies, not just one when his tenacious record-keeping al- search on measles and measles vaccination or two. For example, in a study published ready saved lives in 1990, when a new in 2000. His research lead to WHO (World in 2007, Aaby reported that fatality vaccine for measles was withdrawn by Health Organization) withdrawing high- was increased for children ages 6 months the WHO after Aaby alerted investiga- titre measles vaccine which was associated to 17 months old, if they received the tors that it was possibly harming girls. with increased female mortality in 1992. DTP with or after measles vaccination. Later, Aaby and the investigators He also has vaccinated thousands of The increase was significant enough for learned that it wasn’t the new measles children during his career, and it’s this Aaby to suggest that the DTP reduces the vaccine causing the problems—it was part of his research that is causing a global benefits of the measles vaccine. the way it interacted with the DTP vac- controversy. With archives of more than Dr. Aaby also found that a girl’s vac- cine. The implications of these findings 1 million research files to back him up, cination status is critical in determining are huge and go far beyond the borders Dr. Aaby has published several papers her chances of surviving pneumonia: if of Guinea-Bissau: questioning the safety of the DTP vaccine she’s had the measles vaccine as the last “If I’m right about DTP, you’re prob- (diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis). His first ar- vaccination before she comes down with ably increasing the mortality rate at least ticle appeared 10 years ago. Since then he pneumonia, she’s more likely to survive 50 percent in this age group,” Aaby told has published 34 other papers, all ques- than if her last vaccination was DTP. And the BBC. tioning the safety of the DTP. the studies go on, 34 of them, all question- Aaby’s records, published over a 10- Offering unequivocal scientific evi- ing the safety and/or timing of the DTP. year period in those 34 studies I mentioned dence going far and beyond what any The evidence from Dr. Aaby’s research earlier, indicated that it was possible that other vaccine researcher has done, Aaby is so compelling that the WHO actually the DTP vaccine was making the immune and his team give compelling reasons for sent an investigator, Dr. Kim Mulholland, system of girls more susceptible to other changing the schedules for DTP vaccina- to Guinea-Bissau to scrutinize Dr. Aaby’s infections. It also showed that vitamin A tion, and for possibly modifying other records. But when Mulholland report- may amplify the negative effects of the vaccination protocols. ed that he couldn’t find a single thing DTP vaccine on girls! wrong with the records, WHO officials Again, why are they risking children’s Information that Could Change seemed disappointed, Mulholland said. lives—particularly girls’—while they Public Healthcare Forever Ten years later, the WHO still has nei- wait on more studies? As the BBC pointed ther confirmed nor refuted Dr. Aaby’s out, the vitamin A connection is terribly Clearly, Dr. Aaby has science-based studies, leading Mulholland to question, important because there is a strong push information that could change public “Why is it that the international com- by the WHO to give it to all newborns healthcare forever—and perhaps even munity is sitting back on their hands and in low-income countries. Hoping to re- change the vaccine schedule for infants ignoring this?” duce infant mortality in Guinea-Bissau in the U.S. His work is highlighted in According to Peter Smith, chair of the by as much as 30 percent, Dr. Aaby and the BBC broadcast, The Vaccine Detec- WHO’s Global Advisory Committee on his wife and research partner, Christine tives—see link at the end of this article. Vaccine Safety (GACVS), it’s because Benn, gave this supplement to thousands Some of Dr. Aaby’s studies showed that: the evidence isn’t “sufficiently strong of Guinea-Bissau newborns. • A single dose of DTP vaccine not enough” to accept the “hypothesis” that They found that boys had a slight ben- only doubled the mortality rate in in- the DTP has a negative effect on children. efit by getting the vitamin. But girls who fants, but more than quadruped the I suppose that’s why the WHO and CDC received the supplement had a 41 percent rate after the second and third DTP are stalling making any changes to the DTP higher chance of dying—indicating that doses. schedule while they do their own studies. there may be a non-specific, gender-based • Vaccines and vitamin supplements But the new studies will take years to com- effect of the vaccine and vitamin A on have unexpected, long-term effects— plete—if ever. Why would they do this? girls that health officials need to address. good and bad—on the immune Why would they ignore data that obviously On this issue, Benn is so sure that the systems of children. show that children are dying from possible risks to girls so clearly outweigh the ben- • There is a definite increased mortal- problems with the DTP, the vaccine sched- efits to boys that she doesn’t believe any ity risk to girls of combining DTP and ule, and vitamins given to newborns? other further studies need to be done on measles vaccines. Dr. Aaby has the answer: giving vitamin A at birth. • Girls were 41 percent more likely to “If the DTP was to be found to have The gender issue is a new concept in die if they were given vitamin A at a negative effect, it would be devastat- vaccine safety because, previously, vac- birth, while boys seemed to slightly ing to the vaccination program,” he said. cine trials have only been carried out on benefit from the supplement. “You can understand why they don’t like men, so as to avoid ill effects on women I think it’s criminal that the CDC and the it. But I don’t think that’s a good reason were they to become pregnant, said Dr. WHO are possibly risking thousands of chil- for not examining the logic.” CDC Ignoring Studies cont. on page 24 VRAN Newsletter ¤ Autumn 2011 ¤ Page 23 CDC Ignoring Studies cont. from page 23 of Medicine). LETTERS Katie Flanagan, an immunologist who • Denying vaccines to children while works for the British Medical Research officials test for possible long-term ad- Vaccine Reaction Council. And now that Dr. Aaby’s re- verse effects from the vaccines—even search shows that girls appear to have deaths—may not be “ethical,” (Smith) October 23, 2011—Before telling my different responses to both vaccines and Woolly thinking? A dilemma for Bill story I just wanted to say thank you for vitamins than boys, Flanagan thinks it’s a Gates? “Ethical” questions about wait- your website. My story is not as bad as safety aspect that should be studied: ing to make sure vaccines are safe? If many that are posted there, but I was “It makes perfect sense,” Flanagan that’s not all politics, I don’t know what looking for vaccine reactions and I’ve said. “Now that Peter (Aaby) has brought is. Personally, I think the non-political- not come across anything similar to my this issue up … I think it’s time to get on ly-correct reason that Benn gave for the children’s reactions. and investigate it and understand it.” WHO’s and CDC’s stalling tactics hits In May 2006 we went to the doctor to Similar trials in Zimbabwe, where the nail on the head: get my daughter’s 4-6 yr old booster shot 14,000 children received vitamin A, came “It goes for vaccines and vitamin A, done. She was fine for the next couple of up with similar results. But, still, the WHO that there is such a fear that the public weeks although she complained her arm is ignoring this life-and-death information, will get any kind of feeling that there was sore from the needle. The soreness and forging ahead with three new major could be anything problematic about the persisted, then on June 8th, after a day studies in India, all giving vitamin A to public health interventions.” of fun at the amusement park and later newborns. This worries Benn, who be- Sadly, the history of vaccines is riddled trying to settle her down at bedtime, she lieves that at least 30 girls died in her own with stories like Dr. Aaby’s, of adverse started to cry and said she couldn’t sleep. trial, before she and Aaby determined that events that are largely dismissed by world We thought she was trying to delay bed- the vitamin was triggering their deaths. health officials who fear that acknowl- time, but after 15 minutes of crying, her “This must be explained before we edging problems might make the public father decided to check her arm which give vitamin A to all girls in Southeast aware of the truth about vaccine safety. was red and sore with a lump the size of Asia,” Benn said.” I would personal- Is what Peter Smith said on behalf a toonie just below her shoulder. ly not ever again conduct another vitamin of the WHO really true—that world The next day I took her to a nearby walk- A trial in an area with high mortality.” health leaders don’t believe Dr. Aaby has in clinic, where the first doctor thought it enough evidence to warrant an alarm call was odd and wanted to rule out a blood The Politics Behind ‘Vaccine on the DTP? Or would it be closer to the disorder so he sent us for blood work. The Safety’ truth that what health officials are really next morning when we checked her arm, afraid of is that Dr. Aaby’s right, and that the lump was racquet ball size. Back we Dr. Aaby is not against vaccines. His people will hear about it and refuse vac- went to the walk-in clinic where the sec- life’s work involves giving children vac- cines for their children in record numbers ond doctor said he wasn’t sure what it was cines, so he’s not being “anti-vaccine” by in both developed and Third World coun- and ordered an ultrasound. questioning vaccine safety paradigms. tries, and thus “endanger” world health I was getting worried as the swelling He is merely suggesting that from his officials’ global plan for vaccines? had increased and it looked as if she had observations, some vaccines have certain The good news is that a growing num- grown another shoulder. The next day serious adverse events—life and death ber of scientists around the world are we went for the ultrasound and waited 2 safety issues—connected to them that concerned enough about this issue that weeks while the lump remained the same warrant slight changes to global health they’re demanding that world health of- size. Where the needle had gone in, there policy and vaccination protocols. ficials pay attention. was a black dot surrounded by a small area It seems simple. But in reality, it ap- In the meantime, I urge you to stand of yellow skin that was starting to peel. pears that vaccines are too tied to industry up for healthcare freedom, for the right Our family doctor (3rd doc to look at politics to allow for things like paying at- to choose what is best for you and your my daughter) told me he highly doubted it tention to data that show increased infant children when it comes to vaccines. was from the vaccine and if it did not re- mortality for girls. solved in 3 weeks to bring her back. I did So what excuses did health officials give Article excerpted from Dr. Mercola’s web- not agree with him so we then went back the BBC for ignoring Dr. Aaby’s work? site—to read the complete article with references to the walk-in clinic on the way home. Here’s a sampling of what they said: go to: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/ The 4th doctor looked at her and agreed archive/2011/05/26/why-is-the-cdc-ignoring-life- • Immunization in general is a field and-death-vaccine-studies.aspx it should be looked at but couldn’t help us plagued by “woolly thinking” with To listen to the BBC Podcast on Dr. Peter Aaby’s because we had already seen another doc- rational argument suppressed by the work in Guinea-Bissau entitled The Vaccine tor that day and he wouldn’t be able to bill need to counter “anti-vaccine” propa- Detectives—Part 1 & 2: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ OHIP(health insurance) for the visit. ganda. (Mulholland). podcasts/series/discovery/all#playepisode27 I went home angry and frustrated. • Working out all the possible adverse I even called public health who had no effects of vaccines poses a dilemma Editor’s note: When vitamin A is given in high idea what could be wrong with her arm. for pharmaceutical companies that doses to mitigate the severity of measles cases The next day I receive a phone call say- have invested billions in vaccines, and during a disease outbreak it has been shown to re- ing that her ultrasound was normal. duce morbidity and mortality from the disease—a for funders like Bill Gates, who have very different story than giving unnaturally high Next I took my daughter to the put their faith in vaccines, vitamin doses at birth when the immature newborn im- “prompt care” center where we saw a 5th supplements and other interventions mune system is unable to handle it. √ (Paul Fine, professor, London School Letters cont. on page 25 Page 24 ¤ Autumn 2011 ¤ VRAN Newsletter Letters cont. from page 24 I am sorry you find my decision not to thing we should not blindly trust. Ask doctor, who prescribed antibiotics and vaccinate my children so appalling. You yourself a few questions: Who has your said it would be gone in 2 weeks. Over are flabbergasted, you say? Flabbergast- child’s best interest at heart? The pharma- the next two weeks, while the swelling ed that today’s parents are actually asking ceutical industries that make billions of went down, the area was still red with the questions like “Why are you assaulting dollars from vaccines? The government? black dot and yellow peeling skin. I took my newborn baby’s perfect immune sys- Did you not follow the recent H1N1 her back to “prompt care” and saw the 6th tem with so many toxins, animal/ human deception? Anyone who has to resort to and 7th doctors who told me she would tissue and diseases?” Flabbergasted that using fear and propaganda to peddle their be fine and it should be gone in 2 weeks. some parents may not trust the phar- snake oil is not someone I’ll be trusting Frustrated and upset, we then decided maceutical companies that are making for my family’s well being, but you go to try the walk-in clinic again. The doc- billions of dollars off these vaccines? right ahead. tor on call that day was from Toronto. What might surprise you is that the Sandra Jones, Coquitlam After explaining the events of the past majority of people who choose not to Letter reprinted from The Now: 2 months, he seemed to know what was vaccinate their children are usually very http://www.thenownews.com/health/ wrong with her arm. He said her flesh was educated and have actually taken the Vaccination+concerns/5231932/ rotting and that she would need surgery. time to research vaccines—and sorry, it story.html The next morning I drove 45 minutes to has absolutely nothing to do with a fear the children’s hospital where they put of needles. Please. ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ numbing cream on her arm thinking it I had the measles as a child. So did all was just below the skin. my friends and siblings. You see, when The Environment of Medical In- As they sliced her arm, they found the I was a child, measles was just another tervention infection was almost to the bone. They held harmless childhood illness that kept you July 13, 2011 down my 4 year old daughter and dug out out of school for a week. No one I knew all the rotting tissue with her feeling all of of ever died or ended up in the hospital. As we learned last week, a new study it. They could not close the hole as they I also had chicken pox, mumps, rubella, released by the NIH (National Institutes wanted to make sure that any remaining the now “fearsome and deadly” flu a few of Health) has determined that the envi- infection drained out. She now has an ugly times—yep I’m still here. I’m sorry you ronment plays a larger role than genetics scar on her arm that really bothers her. got sick and almost died. That does hap- in Autism than previously thought. Com- After her surgery, my only comfort was pen to some children, and it’s sad. Some bined with a study released the same day being told it was a good thing I had her children also die from complications of that shows a correlation between anti-de- looked at when I did because if the infec- a bad cold. Heartbreaking, but I know it pressant usage among pregnant women tion had gone into the bone, she would happens. and Autism diagnoses in their children, have lost her arm. Because plastic surgery Let’s be clear. I don’t want my children it’s been a breath of fresh air. is considered cosmetic, unless we’re will- getting sick. Quite the opposite. I want The most obvious place to begin en- ing to pay 3500 dollars, she will have this the perfect immune systems that they vironmental research are the places that scar forever. We’re not able to get plastic were born with intact. Without dangerous have the most immediate and relevant im- surgery covered by health insurance be- neurotoxins swimming around in their pact on a child: where they are nourished, cause none of the doctors who saw her little bodies. We’re trading measles and how they are nourished, and what they will say it is from the vaccine. chicken pox for ADD, autism, diabetes, are directly exposed to that could logi- This past Thursday October 20 2011 leukemia—our children are getting sicker cally and likely affect them in ways that my son went for his 18 month booster in many ways. And I know, the medical result in the developmental delays and which I believe is the same as the one my establishment wants us to believe that chronic illnesses we see in our kids. In daughter had. His arm is now red with a vaccines have wiped dangerous diseases other words, their womb, their food, and large lump and 2 doctors have told me he like small pox and polio out of our exis- the medicine they are given that could af- is fine even though I have told them of tence, but truth be told, they were already fect them both. The antidepressant study my daughter’s reaction. on the decline due to clean water and im- exhibits this very thought process nicely. Thank you for your website and al- proved sanitation before vaccines were On Facebook I recently spouted off in lowing me to share my story with you. I introduced. Just another little embellish- jest I could save the NIH millions by fo- am now going to be getting vaccine ex- ment by the almighty establishment. cusing on the real environment that caused emption paperwork as my children are Other serious diseases like rheumatic my daughter’s problems. I made a simple never going through this again. fever and scarlet fever also pretty much equation out of my daughter’s health his- N. Boyd—Ontario disappeared—without a vaccine. Hmm ... tory that went something like this: By all means, Mr. Groeneveld, do what Take one healthy, susceptible child you feel you need to do to protect your with a familial history of metal al- ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ children, but please, don’t criticize those lergies and homocysteine problems who choose to do it differently. I am hap- (MTHFR positive) + a strep B posi- Vaccination Concerns—August py to be one of those parents who have tive/ mercury toxic mother (1 in 6 of us 10, 2011 chosen to become educated on the subject are) + intravenous antibiotics + a spinal instead of one of the sheep who just line block + meconium + more antibiotics + Reply re: “Anti-vaccination trend up for “shots” because I’m told to. a mercury/aluminum laden vaccine + a ‘flabbergasts,’” opinion column by Bob I think vaccines started off as a good metal allergy + more vaccines + Tyle- Groeneveld, Friday, Aug. 5. thing, but have since turned into some- Letters cont. on page 26 VRAN Newsletter ¤ Autumn 2011 ¤ Page 25 Letters cont. from page 25 stipation; Loss of IQ; Inability to reputations and that of the US CDC, de nol + more antibiotics + mercury toxic sleep; Self stimulatory behaviors; Loss of facto centre of ‘Vaccine World’? Could breast milk (tuna, very bad idea) + anti- imaginary play; Loss of language recep- the answer possibly be found in the latest biotic laden breast milk (breast infection) tion; Night terrors; Eczema; Night sweats; projections for vaccine sales? A Jan 2010 + more vaccines + more Tylenol + more and repeated ear and bronchial infections. business report by businesswire.com re- antibiotics (repeat 5 times with 4 differ- The explanation for these results un- veals a predicted Compounded Annual ent antibiotics and numerous vaccines) + til last week? She didn’t have the right Growth Rate of 11.5% for the global vac- anesthesia and surgery = one very sick genes. Is this our only logical explana- cines industry between 2009 and 2016. child by age 2 who can’t speak, poop, tion moving forward? The poor thing is According to the Center for Vaccine Eth- sleep, and has seizures. ics and Policy/U Penn, “These dynamics lucky to be alive and must have some 2,3 Multiple people chimed in that our damn good genes to have helped her sur- clearly affect vaccine ethics and policy.” stories were identical, take or leave a vive and recover as well as she did. One wonders if CDC officials have few ingredients or results. This is signifi- The bottom line is this: The time has children or grandchildren and, if so, those cant. This is what happened to my child come to take an honest look at the dif- children receive the benefit of their elders’ medically in the first two years of her life, ference between medical intention and inside knowledge about vaccine dan- and apparently many others. THIS is what medical results for our children. Now that gers. Such wasn’t the case for a Houston needs to be studied. (ALL of it, not just one we can put the elusive genetic theory to couple’s 15 months old daughter who suf- or two of the shots and one of their ingre- rest, we must demand our environmental fered brain inflammation and permanent dients in theoretical exposures.) Was she research first go for an independent and brain dysfunction after a reaction to DTaP in flame retardant pajamas? Yes, probably. exhaustive study of the environment of injected together with six other vaccines. Do we live near a coal burning plant? Yes, perinatal and pediatric medical inter- For any child this would have been risky we do. But those things in and of them- vention, the most logical and promising but this little girl’s family has a 3-genera- selves did not cause my daughter’s health place to begin. tion history of vaccine reactions.4 and brain development to deteriorate. The But will her DTaP shot at least prevent combination of what we did to her did. It Excerpted from Julie Obradovic’s column at the girl from becoming seriously ill or dy- is now our responsibility to figure out how the Age of Autism http://www.ageofautism. ing from pertussis? Not likely, unless she so that we may prevent it from happen- com/2011/07/the-environment-of-medical-inter- comes into contact with someone infected ing to others. THIS is the environment, vention.html#more √ with it not long after receiving the shot. A despite its intent to do otherwise, that ac- In the News new study re efficacy of pertussis vaccine tually made her very, very sick. THIS is in babies and toddlers has found it fades se- the environment we need to study: the by Susan Fletcher riously within three years. Lead researcher, environment of medical intervention. David Witt, chief of infectious disease at Likewise, we also need to examine the Vaccination dogma appears to be fray- Kaiser Permanente Medical Center/San environment of the lack of appropriate ing at the edges. An October 2011 press Rafael has admitted, “I was disturbed to medical intervention. I should have been release by the Coalition for Mercury-Free find maybe we had a little more confidence screened for toxicity. All pregnant women Drugs informs us of likely deception in in the vaccine than it might deserve.” Of should be. My breast milk, and all nurs- a much vaunted study which concluded: course, this raises the possibility of yet an- ing mothers’, should have been tested. A “The discontinuation of thimerosal-con- other booster to sustain efficacy, Pharma warning, like on alcohol and cigarettes, taining vaccines in Denmark in 1992 was profits and Pharma-related earnings.5 should have been plastered across the followed by an increase in the incidence Similarly, health authorities have tuna can and other fish products. My of autism.” Quite the contrary, docu- been shocked by their discovery that, at daughter, as she started to deteriorate, ments obtained via the US Freedom of one Quebec high school, 52 of 98 teens should have been tested for toxicity. Just Information Act show that CDC officials who’ve contracted measles were fully as exposing her to all of these chemicals were aware of unpublished study data vaccinated. Dr Gaston De Serres, an in- proved irresponsible and catastrophic, which showed a decline in autism rates fectious disease expert with Quebec’s the failure to assess what they had done after removal of thimerosal (49.55% public health agency remarked, “There to her is equally as heinous. mercury). An email to the CDC from a may be more vulnerability than we know The tragic fact remains, we ruined study coauthor states: “I need to tell you and were planning for.” He wonders if her gut flora with antibiotics right out of that the figures do not include the latest natural immunity (conferred to infants the womb; Fed her toxic breast milk; In- data from 2001…but the incidence and via the placenta at birth and breastfeed- jected her with heavy metals, foreign prevalence are still decreasing in 2001.” ing afterwards) has remained active in DNA and viruses; Artificially and repeat- Nevertheless, the CDC didn’t protest the some up to, and possibly beyond, the edly provoked her immune system to do 2003 Pediatrics publication of the study time of their 12 months injection of the so; Medicated her with a substance that which excluded this information, misrep- live measles viruses in MMR.6 inhibited her ability to detoxify; Left resented the decline as an increase, and But would the risk of re-scheduling years of yeast overgrowth unchecked and led to the uncorroborated conclusion that the first dose of MMR or adding another untreated; and never bothered to test her thimerosal in vaccines does not cause DTaP booster be determined prior to mak- for any issues this protocol could have autism. In fact, in Dec 2002 the CDC ing those changes to vaccine schedules? caused. recommended that review and publica- In researching all pertinent science for And the tragic results remain. She tion of the study be expedited.1 their 2011 statement, ‘Adverse Effects experienced a loss of speech; Brain So what could possibly be the rea- of Vaccines: Evidence and Causality’, an swelling; Yeast infections; Seizures; Con- son that officials would risk their own In the News cont. on page 27 Page 26 ¤ Autumn 2011 ¤ VRAN Newsletter 12 In the News cont. from page 26 enpox vaccine schedule in August but vibrant, mother and grandmother. IOM review committee was hampered Salvadori’s position statement urges that Apparently, despite the fact that GBS by the same gaps of knowledge as they’d taxpayers in all provinces and territories has been acknowledged as a possible encountered when producing similar pay for the extra “free” shots. However, ; despite the fact statements in 1991 and 1994. Therefore, according to a September CBC report, that early vaccination with live virus it’s not surprising the IOM once again was “The pediatricians called for more re- chickenpox vaccine can result in later unable to conclude definitively that vac- search such as on how long the immunity onset of shingles and increased chick- cines cause or don’t cause adverse effects. lasts and what is the best spacing of the enpox complications such as pneumonia NVIC summarizes: “The Committee’s two doses.” Globe and Mail reported: and death; despite the adverse events clear acknowledgement that there is a lack “Adults who get chickenpox have a high- documented on the ‘Greater Good’; de- of adequate scientific understanding about er death rate from the disease than kids, spite the permanent brain damage in a 15 the way that vaccines act in the human and are more likely to get pneumonia, the month old girl post-DTaP plus six other body, including how, when, why and for society noted.” and, “The painful disease vaccines; and despite all the other well- whom they are harmful, is confirmation shingles is a reactivation of the varicella documented adverse events—there’s that more and higher quality vaccine safe- virus in adults who have previously had still not enough proof that vaccines ty science is urgently needed.” Of course, chickenpox.” Regarding the latter, recall cause harm. The IOM must have abso- a major problem is that rarely if ever do that shingles can also be a reactivation of lute proof delivered to them in replicated mainstream institutions like the IOM— live chickenpox virus from the vaccine. studies reviewed by peers who adhere to and certainly not drug companies which Undoubtedly, that was the reason for the conventional vaccine dogma. It seems 7 invention of the related money maker, make vaccines—fund such studies. 9,10 it matters not to them that these studies shingles vaccine. are filtered to eliminate non-conforming A documentary, ‘The Greater Good’, But we must give the CPA credit for ‘bias’ or data that could pose problems or recently posted on mercola.com in- omitting pregnant women from their new that many have not even been done. cludes discussions by Chris Shaw PhD recommendations for chickenpox vac- Never mind, problems are mounting: and Diane Harper MD, PhD re the gaps cine. Perhaps they’d heard of conclusions possible lawsuits on the horizon re cov- in vaccine safety science. The film also of a study which was published online er-up of more autism when mercury’s in includes the perspectives of prominent September 22nd in Vaccine. Using the vaccines; vaccine refusal; failing effica- pro-mandatory vaccination proponents flu shot, the study examined the possibil- cy; mounting costs for more vaccines and associated with vaccine manufacturers, ity that vaccines injected into pregnant more pricey high-tech vaccines; more the American Academy of Pediatrics and women cause inflammation. It noted that, people speaking out. Vaccine dogma is federal health agencies. To counter their “As adverse perinatal health outcomes showing its age. noise, it features the perspectives of fam- including preeclampsia and preterm ilies with children who’ve been injured birth have an inflammatory component, a References: or died from vaccinations along with tendency toward greater inflammatory re- 1. http://mercury-freedrugs.org/docs/111025_ pro-informed-consent advocates. The sponding to immune triggers may predict PR10_ScandalExposedInMajorStudyOfAu- latter include Barbara Loe Fisher; pe- risk of adverse outcomes” and, “data on tismMercuryb.pdf diatricians Lawrence Palevsky MD and the maternal inflammatory response to 2. http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/ Bob Sears MD; Stephanie Christner DO vaccination is lacking and would better home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&n ewsId=20100115005381&newsLang=en (whose infant daughter died after a se- delineate the safety and clinical utility of 3. http://centerforvaccineethicsandpolicy.word- ries of vaccinations in Oklahoma), Gabi immunization. In addition, for research press.com/2010/01/17/global-vaccines-reve- Swank (who suffered a severe reaction to purposes, vaccination has been used nues-projected-to-more-than-double-by-2016/ a series of Gardasil shots in Kansas), and as a mild immune trigger to examine in 4. http://www.nvic.org/NVIC-Vaccine-News/ the King family of Oregon (whose now- vivo inflammatory responses in nonpreg- October-2011-%281%29/Video---Pertussis- teenage son suffered regressive autism nant adults.” The study concluded, “The Vaccine-Reaction-Leads-to-Develo.aspx after childhood vaccinations).8 inflammatory response elicited by vacci- 5. http://www.optimum.net/News/AP/ But it’s business as usual for the Ca- nation is substantially milder and more Article?fmId=53822480 nadian Paediatric Society (CPA). Marina transient than seen in infectious illness… 6. http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/ Health/20111020/measles-vaccination-out- Salvadori, principal author of the So- However, further research is needed to break-111020/#ixzz1czcHNJTn ciety’s latest statement re chickenpox confirm that the mild inflammatory re- 7. NVIC’s Statement on the Institute of Medi- explained to media: “It’s becoming ob- sponse elicited by vaccination is benign cine Report on Adverse Effects of Vaccines vious that one dose is unlikely to give in pregnancy.” We hope that if further re- 8. http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/ar- lifetime protection, and is unlikely to pre- search finds it’s not benign, that research chive/2011/10/30/the-greater-good.aspx vent all outbreaks of chickenpox.” (Oh, will be published.11 9. http://cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/09/06/ really? Who would ever have guessed?) The flu shot is the subject of a film chickenpox-vaccine-two-doses.html The recommendation is for an extra dose posted on the NVIC website during Vac- 10. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/ at 4-6 yrs; two doses “at least four weeks cine Awareness Week, Oct 30-Nov 5. It new-health/health-news/two-shots-now- recommended-to-prevent-chickenpox/ar- apart” for teens who’ve never received tells the heartbreaking story of a flu shot ticle2154206/ the benefit of natural immunity and a complication which led to strokes and 11. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ shot (or two?) for women post partum if ended in complete paralysis from Guil- pubmed/21945263 prenatal assessment showed no chicken- lain Barré Syndrome (GBS). The injured 12. http://www.nvic.org/NVIC-Vaccine-News/Oc- pox immunity.9,10 person was once a professor of nursing tober-2011-%281%29/Video---Flu-Vaccine- Ontario launched a two-dose chick- at a Connecticut university and an active, Reaction-Leaves-Former-Nurse-a.aspx √ VRAN Newsletter ¤ Autumn 2011 ¤ Page 27 VRAN Membership and Order Form

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