Vaccination: an Analysis of the Health Risks - Part III by Gary Null, Phd, and Martin Feldman, MD
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Vaccination: An Analysis of the Health Risks - Part III by Gary Null, PhD, and Martin Feldman, MD In Parts 1 and 2 of this series, we published a treatise on this idea in doctors about the possibility of this examined factors countering our beliefs 1798. He called his treatise Inquiry, and complication, cases of bowel that vaccines are safe and effective. We became famous for it." intussusception started being reported also discussed the effects of specific around the country. This is yet another vaccines, including those for diphtheria, Rotavirus Vaccine important example of how vaccine pertussis and tetanus, polio, Rotavirus is a common virus that co mplications, unless s pecifically chickenpox, hepatitis B, and measles, usually causes mild and self-limiting looked for, go unnoticed by the medical mumps and rubella. In this final diarrhea in children. In 1998 Wyeth community and thus by society at large. installment, we look at the smallpox Laboratories, Inc., of American Home After it was approved, an estimated vaccine, the withdrawn rotavirus Products, released RotaShield, a new 1 million US infants were vaccinated vaccine, and the provocation diseases vaccine against the infection. Since four with RotaShield. What is even worse associated with vaccines. Finally, we major types of rotavirus cause disease about the history of the rotavirus discuss the economic, political and legal in humans, the vaccine was tetravalent, vaccine is not only the fact that it issues of vaccination, the right to refuse consisting of genes from four viral caused the hospitalization and deaths vaccination, and the need to achieve strains. of several children, but the fact that freedom of choice. The Advisory Committee on prelicensure trials had already Immunization Practices (ACIP), demonstrated that it caused bowel The Smallpox Vaccine American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) intussusception at rates 30 times It was Jenner who first popularized and American Academy of Family higher than those expected. This is the vaccine program with his smallpox Physicians (AAFP) recommended what emerged from analysis of vaccine. A close look at history reveals universal use ofRotaShield for healthy prelicensure trial data by the that the procedure never worked, infants at 2, 4, and 6 months of age. Association ofAmerican Physicians and however. In England, compulsory (Although the AAFP had been in favor Surgeons (AAPS).4 vaccination against smallpox was first of voluntary vaccination or vaccination Is the Approval Process introduced in 1852. Yet, from 1857 to of high-risk infants only, the ACIP had Tainted? So here is the question: If the 1859, the smallpox epidemic killed wanted the universal recommendation.) fact that the vaccine could cause a 14,244 people. From 1863 to 1865, a A year later, though, the vaccine was potentially lethal complication was second outbreak claimed 20,059 lives. removed from the market after 99 cases already known, why did the FDA A more stringent compulsory of bowel intussusception - a bowel approve it? Why had nobody warned vaccination law was passed in 1867, obstruction in which one segment ofthe doctors to watch for this complication? and those who evaded inoculation were intestine telescopes inwardly into Indeed, these and more questions prosecuted. An intensive four-year another-and two deaths were reported prompted the AAPS to request a effort to vaccinate all people between to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting Congressional investigation of the the ages of 2 and 50 resulted in 97.5% System. vaccine approval process. of the population being vaccinated. The Bowel intussusception is a severe As Dr. Jane Orient, executive following year, though, England condition that often requires surgical director of the AAPS, writes in a letter experienced its worst-ever smallpox intervention and can lead to death in to Representative Dan Burton, "The epidemic; 44,840 lives were lost. the absence of prompt treatment. For situation with the rotavirus vaccine Overall, from 1871 to 1880, during this example, of the first 15 reported infants may be a clue to a far more serious period of compulsory vaccination, the who developed bowel intussusception, problem with the vaccine approval death rate from smallpox leapt from 28 eight had to have surgical reduction, process." to 46 per 100,000. including one infant who had 7 inches Dr. Orient makes the important Neil Miller, a medical research of intestine removed.' These 15 cases, point that "Decisions about vaccines journalist, natural health advocate and it should be noted, constituted but a given to children should be made by author of Immunization Theory Vs. small fraction of the actual number of parents in consultation with the child's Reality: Expose on Vaccinations, 1 intussusception cases caused by RRV attending physician, not mandated by recounts a different history of the TV, as the new vaccine was called. a small group of'experts' with minimal smallpox vaccine than is taught in According to the Morbidity and accountahili ty. "5 school. "In 1796, Jenner came on the Mortality Weekly Report of July 16, scene saying that when dairy maids 1999, "because reporting to VAERS of Lessons of History caught cowpox they could no longer adverse events following vaccination is As we've seen again and again, there catch smallpox. His medical colleagues incomplete, the actual number of has been a direct relationship between disputed his claims, as the research of intussusception cases among RRV-TV vaccinations and an increased incidence the times indicated numerous cases of recipients may be substantially greater of the diseases they supposedly prevent. dairy maids and other individuals than that reported."2·3 And so it was. As This contradiction has prompted catching cowpox and coming down with soon as the Centers for Disease Control several researchers to conclude that smallpox. Yet Jenner persisted, and he and Prevention (CDC) began warning vaccines are neither safe nor effective. 78 TOWNSEND LETTER for DOCTORS & PATIENTS- DECEMBER 2003 In a 1926 British Medical Journal article, a Dr. Parry asks why vaccine Vaccination · ~ · ' ~ 1, statistics reveal a higher death rate among the vaccinated: "How is it that L--------~- J.hJt·oAUnM~, .~ there is no way of knowing when such ~ .4 () ~·r··:;,S;::Pi.f •. smallpox is five times as likely to be fatal in the vaccinated as in the latent or incubating situations may be ~.:.-_o~· ·""I I =t~l w.·. o• operating, and therefore no way of .r- K~ unvaccinated? How is it that in some of knowing when a vaccination may h• our best vaccinated towns, for example, 14 t t produce this sort of provocation. He · a"',., 11' Y-ffi.~• a . Bombay and Calcutta, smallpox is rife, goes on to warn that provocation of a .:..,;r--- r \} while in some of our worst vaccinated latent virus is a potentially dangerous b ff ? b towns, such as Leicester, it is almost possibility with every vaccination Music u s. May e. unknown? How is it that something like procedure. Detox experts? Oh, Yes! 80% of the cases admitted into the Many diseases thought to be caused smallpox hospitals have been at least partially by vaccinations do not BioRay conducts clinical research and vaccinated, while only 20% have not surface until years later, by which time manufactures NDF and NDF Plus used by been vaccinated? How is it that in it is difficult to prove a connection. Germany, the best vaccinated country leading health practitioners for the Some of the relationships between removal of systemic heavy metals. Assist in the world, there are more deaths in vaccines and the specific conditions proportion to the population than in people to restore the normal balance of they provoke are discussed below. metal ions that may be affected by England? For example, 28 deaths in Allergies. According to Dr. Harris exposure to pollution in air, water, foods, England in 1919 per 100,000, and 707 Coulter, co-author of A Shot in the 6 medicines and dental amalgam fillings. in Germany? What is the explanation?" Dark15 and author of Vaccinations, In addition, those who take issue Social Vwlence, and Criminality, among with universal immunization programs other experts, 16 vaccines and allergies point out that the programs don't are clearly connected. "What does discriminate between children who may allergy mean? It means that your body benefit from a certain vaccine and those is ready to react very, very quickly when who might be hurt by it. Babies are exposed a second time to a substance given blanket immunization regardless to which it is allergic. Ifyou are allergic of their previous or current state of to ragweed, [a small amount] of health and regardless of their varying ragweed will start you sneezing. Now, susceptibilities to side effects. Ideally, if you vaccinate a person against there should be a much more selective pertussis or some other bacillus, you are vaccination system, with parents given making that person allergic to that NDF and NDF Plus: The safe and proven complete information so they can make bacillus. That's what being vaccinated method to: up their own minds as to whether the actually means. It means you are • Mobilize and eliminate systemic heavy risks associated with a particular allergic to that bacillus, in the sense metals. procedure outweigh its potential that your body will react very, very • Improve neurological and mental benefits. Just as different races are rapidly if exposed to that bacillus a symptoms beyond that provided by known to suffer disproportionately from second time." other chelators. various allergies and food sensitivities, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome • Bind to and eliminate methyl mercury studies also indicate that they may (SIDS). Sadly, many studies have vapor in the mouths of people with experience different reactions to shown vaccination to be a cause of dental amalgam fillings. vaccines.