VACCINATION: What You Need to Know

The only safe is a vaccine that’s never used. Dr James A Shannon, US National Institutes of Health

There is a great deal of evidence to prove that immunization of children does more harm than good. Dr J Anthony Morris, former Chief Vaccine Control Officer and research virologist, US FDA

consider such a minor health problem [ie an evolving neuro- logical condition], Marina was injected with all the usual infant on schedule at 2, 4, 6 and 12 months. Looking back, she did have reactions to most of the vaccines but we never linked it the way we should have. At 18 months, Marina was due for the seven vaccines given then: diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, polio, Haemophilus influenzae B, chickenpox and meningococcus. She had been free of seizures for a year except for one possible seizure we didn’t see but suspected two weeks before the 18 month vac- cines. We told our paediatrician and the health nurse about this but the nurse told me they changed the vaccine and it no longer affected seizures. At the time of the vaccines Marina had a cold. I kept asking the nurse if it was all right to go ahead. She said yes – just give Marina Tylenol for the next twenty four hours.” The result was: a two week stay at Children’s Hospital MARINA’S STORY with one week in the ICU; unremitting seizures followed by seizures almost daily, up to more than fifteen per day; Janaia McQuaig of Calgary recounts: “I was given a flu Marina came close to death 60 hrs after the seven doses. shot with thimerosal [a mercury-containing preservative] Unbelievably, public health carried on as if nothing had hap- when I was eleven weeks pregnant with Marina. The flu shot pened. was recommended because I’m asthmatic. After the shot I Janaia continues: “We have a copy of her chart and it is felt wretchedly ill to the stomach and had nausea and diar- written in there that ‘Communicable Diseases’ believes that rhea. Normally, I avoided using medication because I Marina should go ahead with the regular vaccine schedule. didn’t want to harm my developing baby, but then I had to Since then we have seen an immunologist who was skeptical use it because the flu shot gave me oculo-respiratory syn- at first, but after a two hour appointment and listening to drome and I couldn’t breathe. I guess I never considered vac- our story, said he would not be comfortable recommending cines a medication because of the way they’re so advertised. any vaccine for Marina or myself. The quote in the letter he Marina was born with cutis applaisia [improper skin devel- wrote was that it is ‘difficult to predict the risk with subse- opment] on her hands and feet, which to me is an obvious quent vaccines for either mom or Marina with this history.’ result of the vaccine because the last layer of skin forms at The statement from the neurologist was that the vaccines around the eleventh week of pregnancy. At two months she were a ‘major contributing factor’ to Marina’s adverse reac- was diagnosed with epilepsy but she usually would never tions. The genetics department, I believe, does believe that have more than one or two seizures a day. Because health Marina’s damage initiated with the flu shot, it is just not authorities do not withhold vaccination for something they clear exactly how she was damaged. But because public

VACCINATION: What You Need To Know ✲ Page 1 health denies any connection, what’s happened to Marina covering of nerve fibres which transmit messages. MMR and will not go to ‘statistics’ to help prevent the same thing hap- Hepatitis B vaccines are being studied intensively for neu- pening again. I hope one day, if enough parents continue to roimmune effects. In 2002 the Vancouver law firm, Klein tell their stories, our children will be protected.” Lyons, launched the first Canadian lawsuits regarding neuro- At age three, Marina was still not doing well. Life was a logical damage to children from thimerosal in DPT and constant struggle, taking her in and out of hospital, trying Hepatitis B vaccines. At that time many similar lawsuits had various drugs that didn’t work. She was only then beginning already been initiated in the USA. Anaphylaxis is an adverse to crawl and was severely developmentally delayed. Recalling reaction to vaccination that is recognized by health authori- the horror of the severe reaction, Janaia says: “When we ties. Previously unheard of life threatening to things walked into her room 60 hours afterwards and she was hav- like peanuts are now an everyday problem for schools and ing one seizure after another, we were shocked. She still has parents who must avoid even minute traces of such allergens this pattern to cluster and the fear is that one day there will in an affected child’s lunches and those of classmates. VRAN not be a drug to stop it.” member, Rita Hoffman’s son is an example of this. Included Marina’s case is not an isolated incident. VRAN knows in our package is a letter Rita has written to the Minister of many cases of children severely damaged or dead due to vac- Health showing there were 975 reported adverse reactions to cinations. In the 1980’s, paediatrician, Robert Mendelsohn, the vaccines her son received as a baby. (Note that, since we MD voiced his concern: “There is growing suspicion that know reactions are seldom reported, the total number was immunization against relatively harmless childhood diseases likely closer to 10,000 or more.) may be responsible for the dramatic increase in autoimmune ’S ‘CHRONIC DISEASE CLOCK’ diseases since mass inoculations were introduced. These are As of midnight, Feb 4, 2004 fearful diseases such as cancer, leukemia, rheumatoid arthri- (Estimated Canadian Population: 31,499,560) tis, multiple sclerosis, Lou Gehrig’s disease, lupus erythe- matosus, and the Guillain-Barre syndrome.” Deaths so far this year (1 month +) Some children experience no vaccine reaction but most do Chronic Diseases…………………16,028 react. Mild, short-lived effects like redness or swelling at the Cardiovascular Disease …….……7,325 injection site are very common. Reactions up to a few days Cancer…………………………… .. 6,145 or weeks after vaccination may include a temperature of Chronic Respiratory Disease….….1,207 38oC or higher, irritability, severe diarrhea and/or vomiting, Diabetes…………………….…………644 excessive sleepiness, periods of breathlessness during sleep Mental Disorders……………………..574 (apnoea), irregular heartbeat, swollen joints, widespread Musculoskeletal Diseases……...…….134 rash, wheezing, collapse, high pitched screaming for several Deaths today (Feb 4, 2004) hours, convulsions, bulges in the soft spots of the head and a Chronic Diseases……………………..446 severe change of consciousness. These reactions may indicate Cardiovascular Diseases………..……198 that damage has been done or is about to occur. In the case Cancer…………………………………166 of anaphylaxis, the damage occurs immediately after the Chronic Respiratory Disease…………33 shot, with little or no warning. Other possible damage that Diabetes…………………………..……17 may not show itself until days, weeks, months or years later Mental Disorders……………………..16 includes: neurological illness such as autism, learning and Musculoskeletal Diseases……………..4 attention deficit disorders, hearing or visual impairment and the epilepsy that Marina suffers; autoimmune diseases such Above is a copy of Health Canada’s ‘Chronic Disease as insulin dependent diabetes, arthritic conditions and chron- Clock’ copied from their website only one month and four ic fatigue syndrome; allergies; and thyroid dysfunction.(1) days into 2004. Despite the short time period, it is obvious An interesting statement is made in the May 2001 mono- Canada has a major problem with chronic disease. Long graph (package insert) for ‘Prevnar’ pneumococcal vaccine. It term figures for specific chronic diseases are not easily says that in a study conducted between 1991 and 1998 in accessed in Canada but we know that there have been dra- eleven paediatric centers across Canada, “the proportion of matic increases in allergic, autoimmune and neurological dis- children with an underlying condition increased with age, eases in general. Next is a graph showing the near quadru- from 15.9% in those under 2 years of age to 30.4% in those pling - from 11 doses to 39 - of the number of government 2-5 years of age, and to 44.5% in those over 5 years of age”. funded vaccine doses given to infants and children up to six There has been great consternation recently about a huge years old between 1950 and the present. Beginning with increase in autism and related disorders, due, increasingly smallpox, diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis in 1950, vaccines more evidence is suggesting, to the thimerosal in vaccines subsequently added were: polio, , an additional DPT, and/or autoimmune vaccine reactions or neurological reac- rubella, MMR, Hib, hepatitis B, ‘Quadracel’ (DPT+polio) tions that lead to demyelination, ie erosion of the protective and, around 2002, meningococcus C, pneumococcus and

VACCINATION: What You Need To Know ✲ Page 2 That is absolutely the wrong approach, to give so many new vaccines. Dr J Anthony Morris

Recent studies have shown that type 1 insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) is more likely to occur in vaccinated than unvaccinated children. The latest in a series of studies by immunologist Bart Classen was one with co-author, David C Classen published in 2003 in the Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Medicine. It showed that Hib (Haemophilus influenzae B), pertussis, MMR and BCG vaccines can cause IDDM two or more years after they are injected. Previous studies had shown the following increased risks for IDDM due to vac- cines: a 50% increased risk from Hepatitis B vaccine; 25% from Hib; 25% from pertussis; 23% from mumps/rubella; 20% from tetanus and 9% from diphtheria. A study by Hurwitz and Morgenstern published in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics in 2000, which reviewed US data gathered 1988 to 1994, supported the find- ings of previous studies that children injected with DPT or tetanus vaccines had an increased risk of asthma and -related symptoms. Many other chickenpox.(2) While several factors may be contributing to diseases that can result from vaccinations are reported in this the rise in chronic disease, our graph suggests that increases package in the articles on specific vaccines and we have in vaccination may be one of them. (Note that supporters of included the article, ‘Vaccine Reactions’ that lists 139 dis- vaccination are quick to point out that “correlation does not eases and other health problems that have been cited in med- mean causation”, ie the fact that the rise in disease parallels ical literature from around the world. a rise in vaccinations does not necessarily mean that vaccines Some risks bring into question the effectiveness of vac- have caused the rise in chronic disease – a perfectly correct cines; they also might make you wonder about the idea pro- statement. But when they talk of a possible relationship moted by health officials that vaccination of your child between vaccinations and decline in infectious diseases, they would help protect everyone. Vaccines which contain live, contradict this logic by always concluding that vaccinations albeit “weakened” viruses such as the MMR for mumps, are the main reason for the decline.) measles and rubella, and some influenza vaccines have the The correlation between increasing vaccinations and ability to pass on infection. Years before it was abandoned in increasing chronic disease has also become obvious in other this country (unfortunately, it’s still used in overseas “eradi- countries where vaccine schedules are the norm. For cation” programs), the oral polio vaccine was the only instance, a University of California study published in 1996 source of polio disease. The new live aerosol influenza vac- by the US Department of Education said “the proportion of cine, ‘FluMist’ would seem even likelier to infect others, the US population with disabilities has risen markedly in the especially if its administration isn’t carefully controlled! But past quarter century”. The authors concluded that this was there’s a less direct way in which vaccines cause infection: due to “increases in the prevalence of asthma, mental disor- because vaccines can possibly be effective for only a few ders (including attention deficit disorder), mental retardation years, pre-teens, teens and adults who were successfully vac- and learning disabilities among children in recent years.” In cinated as children (and therefore didn’t receive natural another 1996 study, by Italian physicians, Montinari, immunity from having had the diseases) are now contracting Favoino and Roberto, published in the Mediterranean mumps, measles and whooping cough at an age when these Journal of Surgery and Medicine, it was noted that “autoim- diseases can be much more problematic than in the child- mune diseases are more frequent in nations where vaccines hood years. Even for children who have had these diseases, it are widely used”. The study showed that vaccines can cause appears that, without re-exposure to them later in life, ie a autoimmune diseases of the central nervous system. natural “booster”, they may not retain the lifelong immunity that was usual before vaccines were used. Three different

VACCINATION: What You Need To Know ✲ Page 3 analyses conducted by Gary Goldman, PhD in the Oct 2003 are given without thorough knowledge of how they might issue of ‘Vaccine’ showed that since introduction of chicken- affect the physiology, chemistry and genetics of your child’s pox vaccine in the US and a subsequent dramatic decline in body. the disease, there has been an increase in shingles cases in We do know that there are at least two different branches children who had previously had chickenpox. (Shingles is a of our immune system. One branch, called the “cellular”, very painful, itchy skin disease caused by reactivation of dor- cell-mediated” or “Th1” branch, is the part whose work is mant chickenpox virus.) Goldman thinks this is due to lack outwardly visible when your child is ill with an infectious of re-exposure and predicts a large outbreak of shingles in disease. Antigens (organisms or particles capable of provok- adults, an age group much more likely to develop severe ing an immune response) continually enter your child’s body. complications. Vaccine manufacturers plan to solve this Except for tetanus and rabies, the viral and bacterial antigens problem by substituting a booster shingles vaccine to com- of “vaccine preventable” infectious diseases enter through pensate for the lack of the natural booster, chickenpox dis- the nose and throat. Some antigens are normally carried in ease. Do you see a trend here?….as Goldman says: “This those areas with no outward signs. These and other antigens will likely lead to endless disease-and-cure cycles.” which enter but do not produce symptoms are held in check A horrific indirect risk from vaccinations is that parents or by a swift response from the Th1 branch of the immune sys- caregivers of children who die suddenly and show signs of tem whose function it is to destroy, digest and discharge for- “shaken baby syndrome” may be falsely accused of battering eign antigens. If the antigens multiply quickly in large num- their babies to death. We know there are cases where such bers, your child will develop an “infection” and you will wit- abuse does occur, but what appears to be trauma from vio- ness the signs that Th1 is at work: fever, pain, malaise, lent shaking – brain and/or eye hemorrhages – can also be mucous, pus, skin rash, diarrhea. The latter four are methods caused by vaccinations. Bone injuries may occur during birth of ridding the body of toxins and other remnants of or later, when resuscitation is attempted, if the bones are pathogens; fever enhances immune response in ways too brittle due to ongoing vitamin C deficiency. Currently there numerous to describe here (see ‘Is Fear of Fever Hurting Our are many families who have not only suffered the loss of a Children?’ in this package). If your child’s immune system is child but have also been torn asunder by imprisonment of healthy and the infectious antigen is not especially active, father or mother and loss of other children who have been few or no signs will manifest. The Th1 branch includes cells taken away by court order. The poster-father of these fami- of the thymus gland, tonsils, adenoids, spleen, lymph nodes lies is Alan Yurko, a young man imprisoned in Florida for and lymph system throughout the body. life plus ten years. You can learn more about his case and the The other part of the immune system we are aware of is amazing army of supporters he has gathered, including med- called the “humoral” or “Th2” branch. As the name sug- ical experts, scientists and researchers from around the world gests, it involves a body fluid, in this case blood. Th2 is the at www.freeyurko.bizland.com branch of the immune system that senses, recognizes and remembers foreign antigens through its production of anti- MULTIPLE DOSES SKEW THE IMMUNE SYSTEM bodies which circulate throughout the bloodstream, helping It is extremely unlikely that, other than through vaccina- to destroy the antigens. It is the branch which vaccines are tion, an infant would encounter all or even any of the designed to engage, the theory being that, by delivering small pathogens in a multi-antigen vaccine such as ‘Pentacel’. To but significant amounts of antigenic pathogens or parts encounter them all at the same time is inconceivable. Yet this thereof directly into the bloodstream, the Th2 branch will is exactly what happens if your child is injected with produce antibodies which, in future will recognize and ‘Pentacel’; a pathogenic cocktail is suddenly introduced destroy those same antigens if they enter the bloodstream directly into her/his bloodstream. We don’t need to be scien- again. When a child gets an infection the Th1 and Th2 tists to realize what a shock this must be to the immune sys- branches work simultaneously and, if the child has a healthy tem. immune system, the one will help the other. Essentially, although man has learned and continues to While it would seem to be a dandy system to be able to learn much about how our immune system works and how it thwart disease with no consequence but a tiny needle mark, interrelates to all the other systems in the body, what we as we’ve already seen, it often doesn’t work that way. One know is probably miniscule compared with what there is to reason could be that, as more and more vaccines are injected know (if, in fact, everything can ever be known). Generally, into your child’s bloodstream, the more sensitive and reactive children’s immune systems have fully matured by age 12 but the Th2 branch becomes. At the same time, because the vac- at any given age during childhood, the degree of maturation cine antigens bypass the normal entry points, the nose and varies. Nevertheless, the same dosage of vaccine is given to a throat, the Th1 branch is not engaged and becomes lazy; the baby at 2, 4, 6 or 12 months, whether born prematurely or immune system is thrown out of balance. If this happens, not, and often, whether healthy and developing normally or your child is more likely to get allergies and autoimmune dis- not. These facts alone should make you realize that vaccines ease. Infections such as colds and earaches may beomce fre-

VACCINATION: What You Need To Know ✲ Page 4 quent or, if skewing is extreme, his/her immune system will tions, once in your child’s body, they may persist, causing a respond very little to pathogens. Ironically, vaccine “effica- continual state of immune alert and/or genetic modification. cy” may not be due to vaccine-derived antibody memory but Cattle can be life-long carriers of BVDV, continually replicat- to weakened Th1.(3) ing and shedding virus that can then infect others. Or, they can develop serious digestive problems followed by death; VACCINE LEFTOVERS CAN CAUSE PROBLEMS some get lung disease from it. In humans under 2 years old, a study by Yolken et al in the Lancet, March 1989, found As we have seen, because injection allows them direct bovine virus in cases of gastroenteritis which often differed access to the bloodstream, the viral antigens of vaccines are from non-bovine cases in that it was associated with symp- processed by only a small part of the immune system. toms of respiratory inflammation. Therefore, some viruses and bits and pieces, including their Especially worrisome is that some vaccines, including ones genetic material, RNA and DNA, may remain in the blood- for polio and rabies, are cultured using “immortal”, ie can- stream or cells for a long time or permanently. The possible cerous type, cells which can divide forever. While these cells consequences are many. (For more on this, read pgs 14-17 of cannot produce tumours when first used, after repeated cul- ‘Immunization: The Reality Behind the Myth’ by Walene turing they can become cancerous. Another scenario is that James.) the tumour-producing portion of their DNA can easily be Vaccination has been a disaster on the immune incorporated into a contaminating virus such as BVDV system. It actually causes a lot of illness. We are which could also be injected into your child. A May 1990 changing our genetic code through vaccination. study by Maurice Hilleman in the Journal of Medical Virology noted that “induction of cancer is a single-cell phe- Guylaine Lanctot, MD, Canadian author nomenon and a single unit of foreign DNA integrated into the host genome might serve to induce cell transformation”. VACCINE CONTAMINANTS – VIRAL SOUP, ANYONE? Hilleman noted that vaccine standards allowed the presence Of all the problems with vaccines, this may be the worst. of 100 million “functional lengths” of DNA contaminant. The scientific literature provides a great deal of evidence that Reactions between any of the intended or unintended viruses vaccines carry potentially noxious contaminants: viruses, in vaccines or viruses and cells in your child’s body can lead bacteria, viral or bacterial components or toxins and animal- to new combinations or production of retroviruses with and cancer-related proteins and DNA. The antigenic viruses unknown consequences. of vaccines are produced in large quantities by having them Despite early recognition and after almost half a century reproduce in living cells that nourish them and, in turn, of it’s injection into the human population, scientists have those cells must also be nourished. The viral reproduction finally acknowledged that a monkey virus, SV40, contami- occurs in monkey kidney cells, chicken embryos and other nated polio vaccines which were first used in the late 1950’s. animal cells as well as in human cells, usually from a human This virus has been found in 43% of cases of non-Hodgkins foetus. These cells and embryos are nourished by a mixture lymphoma, 36% of brain tumours, 16% of healthy blood that is usually composed mainly of bovine (ie “cow”) serum, cell samples and 22% of healthy semen samples tested. Since usually serum extracted from the blood of a calf foetus. This SV40 has been found in children of our era, unless current calf serum can carry many types of bovine viruses and is one polio vaccines still contain SV40 from traces of the original of the main sources of vaccine contaminants. Of course, con- seed stock on which the vaccine is cultured, their SV40 must tamination may also be present in the “seed stock” antigenic have been passed down from previous generations. If the lat- viral material itself before it begins to reproduce. ter is the case, SV40 may eventually reside in all human Of the many viruses and other contaminants of bovine calf beings, initiating cancer in those who are susceptible. serum, bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) is very common Other contaminating monkey viruses have been cited in to the point that a 1996 study by Yanagi et al in the Journal science journals: one is another oncogenic (capable of pro- of Infectious Disease concluded “most commercially avail- ducing cancer) virus, SV20. Other bovine viruses that may able bovine sera are contaminated with BVDV.” contaminate calf serum include: oncogenic bovine poly- Unfortunately, since it is small in size BVDV is not easily omavirus, parvovirus, bovine herpes virus-1 and -4, parain- screened out of the serum. A July 2001 study by fluenza-3 virus, bovine enterovirus-4, bovine leukaemia Giangaspero et al in the Journal of Veterinary Medical retrovirus, bovine visna retrovirus and bovine immunodefi- Science found 13% of human MMR and polio vaccines they ciency virus. tested contained RNA of this virus. Bovine herpes viruses –1 and –4 replicate very easily in It’s not certain whether or not BVDV can cause outright human cell cultures commonly used to make viral vaccines, illness in humans or if doctors would recognize human cases eg the vaccines for rubella, chickenpox and smallpox. if they saw them. But, just like the “leftovers” from vaccina- Chicken embryos (eggs) used in making vaccines against influenza, mumps, measles and yellow fever commonly con-

VACCINATION: What You Need To Know ✲ Page 5 tain the retrovirus, avian leukosis virus (ALV) which has the heavily contaminated with them. amazing ability to mutate into numerous other viruses by Mycoplasma are another very elusive type of bacteria, incorporating oncogenic gene segments into its own genome. their unusually thin walls allowing them to slip through fil- Some of these segments which can be easily incorporated ters. Their survival is increased even further due to the fact include human oncogenes strongly associated with common they are resistant to some antibiotics and can change form forms of breast cancer. As well, ALV can incorporate itself under varying conditions. They can travel throughout a lab directly into the human genome. The 2001 edition, Volume 1 via cultures and their materials, work and human surfaces of Fields Virology states: “At the present time vaccines pro- and even the air. Needless to say, the science literature duced by some of the world’s 12 manufacturing institutes are abounds with reports of contamination by this bacterium. contaminated with avian leucosis virus.” Aside from ALV, Studies confirm that mycoplasma can alter cell metabolism scientists acknowledge vaccine contamination by other avian both in cultures and in humans. Diseases long associated viruses as well as reverse transcriptase, an enzyme compo- with them include: cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome, nent of retroviruses. One piece of evidence that vaccines may fibromyalgia, arthritis, Gulf War Illness and many others. be infecting humans with ALV and its associated viruses is Some of the latest types of vaccines, called “subunit” and found in a study by Johnson, Overly and Philpot in Cancer “naked DNA” vaccines, are produced by genetic engineering Detection and Prevention, 1995, which relates that “subjects and contain antigens that consist of only parts of infectious with no occupational exposure to these viruses had antibod- disease pathogens or their DNA. These vaccines involve ies in their sera specifically directed against ALSV [avian leu- replication using yeast DNA. Recombinant vaccines such as cosis/sarcoma viruses]”. the Hepatitis B vaccine have been genetically engineered to Of concern to medical research as well as vaccine produc- combine genetic material from an infectious disease pathogen tion is the most infamous example of prolonged contamina- with that of another organism or other material designed to tion of cell culture lines, that by the HeLa cancer cells which boost its effect. Some recombinant technology involves mam- first appeared in labs worldwide in the 1960’s. Reports of its malian cells which may encourage tumour growth. A major detection have continued right up to the present. A Jan 2002 concern with all genetically engineered vaccines is the possi- study revealed that two major cell culture lines used in bility of interaction of the vaccine constituents with human research projects turned out to be HeLa cells. A 1986 book proteins or DNA, similar to possible effects of contaminants by M Gold, ‘A Conspiracy of Cells: One Woman’s Immortal previously described in this section. Legacy and the Medical Scandal it Caused’ details the HeLa As alluded to earlier, it is also possible that any of the fiasco. infectious disease antigens that are intentionally included in Bacterial toxins have been recognized as vaccine contami- live virus vaccines may themselves contribute to production nants for many years. They can come from the culture mate- of viral mutants in your child’s body. They may be able to rial itself or from bacterial infection during the manufactur- replicate sufficiently to interact with each other or with viral ing process. Serious reactions to vaccines for diphtheria, contaminants from the vaccine or with viruses left over from tetanus and pertussis may be due to unprocessed residues of previous vaccinations. The conclusion from a study in the antigenic toxins themselves. A 1976 study by Whitaker ‘Science’, Nov 7, 1986 reads: “Two avirulent viruses may and Smith in Developmental Biological Standards reported interact in vivo [in the body] to produce virulent recombi- that bacterial toxic contaminants of calf serum can cause nants that can be lethal.” When two mice were injected with breaks in human DNA. equal amounts of two different benign herpes viruses, both Nanobacteria, a recently discovered human/mammalian mice survived. However, when a third mouse was injected pathogen is the smallest existing bacterial form known and with a combination that included only 1/100th of the previ- slips through common filtering processes. It can kill cells and ous amount of each of the two herpes viruses, that mouse can change its physical form. Human nanobacteria have died. Experimenters went on to demonstrate that successively been found to cause or be associated with numerous condi- lower doses of the mutant virus they extracted from the third tions, a few of which include: atherosclerosis, coronary mouse were needed to kill fourth and fifth mice. artery/heart disease, kidney stones and kidney disease, arthri- tis, MS, Alzheimer’s disease and some cancers. According to I didn’t have a child so somebody could use her a study by Breitschwerdt et al in the Journal of Clinical precious life as an experiment. Microbiology, March 2001, in Europe “more than 80% of Melissa Mehan, letter #48, CBC commercial bovine serum lots contain Nanobacterium”; ‘Marketplace’ Forum on vaccinations, Jan 21, 2004 100% of serum from a herd of US cattle showed the pres- ence of this bacterium. It is easy to understand why TOXIC ADDITIVES MAKE LIFE EXCITING nanobacteria have been found in 2 out of 3 lots of inactivat- ed polio vaccine (ie the one in ‘Pentacel’) and to realize that Aside from the antigenic pathogens or parts thereof by other vaccines using mammalian products must likewise be which a vaccine is supposed to produce immunity to infec-

VACCINATION: What You Need To Know ✲ Page 6 tious disease, there are other vaccine components which large amount of fluoride. serve to preserve, enhance immune response, stabilize, etc. Neomycin and polymixin B, found in ‘Pentacel’ are antibi- Thimerosal, the most infamous of these, is a derivative of otics which must be used with extreme care, especially in mercury which began to be used as a preservative in vaccines anyone with kidney problems. Since infants’ kidneys aren’t in the 1930’s. There are questions about this use since tests fully developed we wonder about side effects even though have shown it is more toxic to white blood cells than to bac- these antibiotics are present in tiny amounts. These two can teria. Mercury is known to be toxic even in extremely tiny produce nasty reactions – everything from allergy symptoms amounts, especially to brain, kidney and liver cells and it and poor nutrient absorption to kidney and nervous disor- appears to be able to accumulate in our bodies injection to ders. injection. After many decades of use, and after first being Yeast protein found in Hepatitis B vaccine is another potent removed from pet vaccines, in 1999 it was finally suggested allergen.(4) to vaccine manufacturers that they remove it from human Please note that this is just a partial list of vaccine addi- vaccines. The flu shot and Hepatitis B vaccine for elementary tives; Health Canada will not provide all vaccine ingredients. school children still contain thimerosal. Although these ingredients constitute only a very small part 2-phenoxyethanol (ethylene glycol monophenyl ether) has of a vaccine dose, they can be very potent, especially consid- largely replaced thimerosal as a vaccine preservative. It is one ering the immaturity of a newborn’s organs of elimination, of a group of compounds found in antifreeze, solvents, deter- the kidneys and liver, and a newborn’s poorly protective gents and emulsifiers used for industrial/consumer purposes. immature blood/brain barrier. Also, considering how alu- Numerous studies have demonstrated toxic effects to an minum potentiates fluoride, we wonder how other vaccine embryo and foetus and to blood, and atrophy of reproduc- additives might affect each other. With vaccines, it appears, tive and lymph organs due to 2-phenoxyethanol. It can the possibilities for harm are endless. quickly cross the blood-brain barrier and has produced headache and persistent cognitive impairment. A 2002 study Every vaccine carries certain hazards and can by Komatsu et al in the Journal of Health Science found produce inward reactions in some people…In gen- that, at low temperatures, 2-phenoxyethanol was less effec- eral, there are more vaccine complications than is tive than thimerosal against yeast and fungi (which may be generally appreciated. introduced when vaccine is withdrawn from a vial). Professor George Dick, London University Formaldehyde, commonly known as embalming fluid, is used to kill viral and bacterial disease antigens but is not trust- ADVERSE EVENTS ARE MORE COMMON THAN ACKNOWLEDGED worthy for this purpose. It is a carcinogen. The Hepatitis B vaccine formulations for infants and children both contain You will have been told that the risks from vaccines are formaldehyde. minor compared to risks from the diseases they are supposed Aluminum salts, aluminum phosphate and aluminum to prevent. There are several reasons this may seem true: hydroxyphosphate, are used as adjuvants in most vaccines; Vaccine reactions are seldom reported. It has been they slow down exposure of the vaccine antigens to the acknowledged by government bodies in the USA that no immune system so that antibodies will be produced for an more than 10% of all vaccine adverse events are reported; a extended period of time. Something that is not commonly survey of doctors offices in New York State showed the known is that aluminum greatly increases the poisonous abysmal reporting rate of 2%. There’s no reason to believe effects of fluorides in the body and fluorides enter our bodies Canada does any better. A ‘National Post’ article of Dec 3, from many different sources, not just fluoridated water and 2002 revealed that Dr Wikke Walop, epidemiologist in dental products. (For more information on this visit the web- charge of Health Canada’s records, site of Parents of Fluoride Poisoned Children, .) Small had suffered oculo-respiratory syndrome shortly after her flu amounts of aluminum salts in the blood can cause long term shot. She was quoted as saying “Did I report it? No.” If this poisoning, with paralysis, numbness and fatty degeneration is the kind of reporting compliance practiced by the keeper of the kidneys and liver. Studies have shown that aluminum of the records, what can we expect from others much less salts in the fluid surrounding the brain may cause learning closely involved? disabilities and dementia. Vaccinators believe vaccination rates must be kept high in Tween 80, also known as polysorbate 80, is used in order to prevent disease outbreaks. Most express a fervent ‘Pentacel’ vaccine. A 1993 study by Gajdova et al at the belief in there being an overwhelming benefit to vaccines. Institute of Preventive and Clinical Medicine, Bratislavia, Considering this, it’s likely they tune out many events that showed estrogenic effects on newborn rats when Tween 80 should be acknowledged and reported. In these cases, lack of was injected. reporting compliance is not due to lack of time but to lack of Hydrolyzed gelatin and sorbitol are two stabilizers found in will. MMR vaccine. Gelatin is highly allergenic. It also contains a Some vaccinators and parents might not have the knowl-

VACCINATION: What You Need To Know ✲ Page 7 edge to be able to recognize all vaccine adverse reactions. revealed that science papers may actually be written by Except for anaphylaxis, most reactions are delayed; just as “ghostwriters”. It said “People with scientific backgrounds - Janaia McQuaig realized, the connection between abnormal often, with PhDs - are paid to stay in the shadows and crank events and prior vaccination is not always made. It is very out favourable reports for drug companies. A Medical important that anyone who has their child vaccinated is able Ghostwriter can make $100,000 a year writing favourable to recognize vaccine reactions. drug reports. Then, drug companies get doctors to put their Criteria for accepting adverse events as being caused by names on the studies - for money, prestige, or perks. …John vaccination are unrealistic. To be recorded as such, vaccine Hoey, the editor of CMAJ [Canadian Medical Association adverse events must have occurred within very precise and Journal], admits….’We have no way of checking.’” limited time periods following vaccination. Time limits are specified according to type of vaccine and type of reaction. The real safety test is on infants Harold Buttram, MD points out that there is much informa- and children who are vaccinated, tion in the scientific literature that disputes such rigid and but rarely are we told the results. restrictive time periods. There’s more concern to improve reporting of infectious Due to various human interventions the risks from infec- diseases and vaccine compliance than to improve reporting tious diseases may have actually increased since pre-vaccina- of adverse events. Since the early 1990’s a joint venture tion times. Recent antibiotic resistance, loss of immunity due between the Canadian Paediatric Society and Health Canada to frequent use of fever-suppressing drugs, emergence of has ostensibly been working to improve Canada’s vaccine mutant viruses (likely due to the pressures of mass vaccina- adverse event reporting system. IMPACT, as it is called, has tion) and vaccinations themselves could have resulted in less instead, mainly been working to: collect data on hospital resistance to diseases and their complications. In her 1993 admissions for “vaccine-preventable” illness; write reports testimony to the US Institute of Medicine, vaccine researcher using this data to help persuade provincial governments to Sandy Mintz pointed out that: “Prior to widespread vaccina- finance new vaccine programs; and establish nation-wide tion, once a population had been exposed to measles, few computerized vaccination tracking systems. These systems adults or infants contracted it, adults due to lifelong immuni- will be used to record adverse events which have been scruti- ty and infants due to maternal antibodies. Now adults AND nized for adherence to the aforementioned criteria and also, infants are getting the measles with serious consequences.” to store vaccination records so that vaccine compliance can Mintz quoted the third edition of ‘Vaccines’ where Dr Sam be easily determined whether a family is stationary or moves Katz and two others wrote “The risk of serious complica- province to province. tions and death [from measles] is increased in infants and Health Canada’s vaccine adverse events records are adults.” Dr Katz, a professor of paediatrics at Duke extremely difficult to access, as many parents with vaccine University and one of the developers of measles vaccine, injured children can verify. With determined effort, it took expressed his alarm at current measles epidemiology saying Rita Hoffman a year to get the data for the vaccines her son “The death rates are clearly much higher this time around, was given as a child. and the hospitalization rate is extraordinary.” Safety studies used to gain licensure for vaccines do not THE VACCINE CONGLOMERATE provide realistic assessments of risks. They usually do not include children with underlying conditions who, in real life, When thinking about vaccines, it is important to realize would be vaccinated nevertheless. Vaccines being tested are that the highest priority of vaccine manufacturers is to make compared to other vaccines, not something benign such as a profit for themselves and their shareholders – the well sterile water. Post vaccination observations are recorded for being of your child is a secondary consideration. They and too short a time to detect all adverse events, some of which their allies have said that vaccine manufacture is not a very can take years to manifest. And, often, the numbers of chil- profitable business, the implication being that they are doing dren in the studies is too small. it mainly for altruistic reasons. But, while it may be true that In general, science studies aren’t what they used to be. the percentage profit on vaccines is generally less than for Although members of the medical establishment commonly other drugs, they do not entail such huge marketing expenses base their opinions on “science” and dismiss anecdotal evi- since the market is ready made by taxpayer funded vaccina- dence as being too speculative, today’s “science” seems to be tion programs. Unlike lawsuits over other drugs, compensa- much less scrupulous than in earlier times. In the British tion for adverse reactions to vaccines (presently available Medical Journal, Volume 303, Oct 5, 1991, Dr David Eddy only in Quebec in Canada ) is not paid for by the manufac- reports “up to 85% of medical interventions are not sup- turers, but by taxpayers. Vaccination programs also involve a ported by scientific evidence and only 1% of papers in med- massive number of private and government pay cheques, ical journals are scientifically sound.” As if that isn’t enough, from those of researchers, technicians, health officials, statis- on March 25, 2003 a CBC TV ‘Marketplace’ program ticians, etc right down to the doctors and nurses who inject

VACCINATION: What You Need To Know ✲ Page 8 the vaccines. son for the large decline in infectious disease during the The various news media can generally also be included in twentieth century. They also say that such diseases have the vaccine conglomerate. TV, radio, newspaper and maga- increased when vaccination rates have dropped in other zine articles seldom present a realistic view of the risks and countries and warn parents that they could flare up again failures of vaccines and tend to grandstand vaccination bene- here, if they quit having their babies vaccinated. They say fits and the risks of infectious disease. A recent example was that polio or measles “is just a plane ride away”, conjuring the foofaraw over the new A Fujian influenza strain during visions of grotesque infections transported from foreign winter 2003-04, painted as a deadly villain in news reports lands. across Canada and the USA. Although it was revealed that Many statements have been made that attribute the decline this season’s ‘flu shot’ does not contain A Fujian, the media of infectious disease during the first half of the twentieth continually regurgitated messages from health officialdom century to factors other than vaccinations. These factors that, in their opinion, the vaccine was nevertheless effective include: increasing human resistance to the diseases over enough that it was vital for just about every man, woman time and parallel decline in the vigour of the pathogens; and child to receive the shot. Finally, on Dec 28, 2003, Ian improvements in nutrition, hygiene and sanitation; less MacCleod’s ‘Ottawa Citizen’ article, ‘Fooled by the flu’, crowded living conditions; refrigeration; and advances in quoted Dr Theresa Tam, Health Canada’s chief of immuniza- medical treatments including the introduction of antibiotics tion and respiratory infections as saying: “Other flu experts (ie in an era when antibiotic resistance had not yet had time who say the vaccine could be 70 to 90 percent effective to develop). One piece of evidence for lack of vaccine against Fujian in healthy adults are being ‘misleading’.” This, involvement in the decline, comes from a 1948 publication after millions had hustled into flu clinics across the country. of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co which states: “the Depending on the particular news report, we were told with combined death rate of diphtheria, measles, scarlet fever and certainty that 2, 3 or 4 children had died from influenza. whooping cough declined 95 percent among children ages 1 Health Canada stated that influenza was the confirmed cause to 14 from 1911 to 1945, before the mass immunization of death of two children, the “suspected” cause of death of programs started in the United States.” In fact, there never two others. News reports said at least one of the confirmed has been a vaccine for scarlet fever and it went away on its cases had an “undisclosed underlying condition”. Also undis- own. closed was how many of the four had been injected with It’s quite possible that infectious diseases would increase if influenza vaccine or any of the many other vaccines given vaccination rates dropped, but from comments we’ve already children. Unless you live in Alberta, you probably didn’t hear made and information in the next section, you will under- of a fifth death: a child mysteriously suffered seizures and stand that this may be beneficial. The old chestnuts that vac- brain swelling and died about one month after having her flu cine supporters repeatedly regurgitate to send you scurrying shot. This news item was carried very briefly, having with babe to the nearest “immunization” clinic are often prompted phone calls to health officials from worried par- flawed. For instance, they tell us that in the former Soviet ents. On Jan 10, 2004 a New York Times report by Union in the early 1990’s an epidemic of diphtheria “raged” Laurence Altman, trumpeted that 93 children in the US had when vaccination rates dropped. “Due to” the drop, they died from influenza and highlighted the fact that 33 of them say, cases and deaths increased enormously. However, they had not been vaccinated. Presumably, Mr Altman and his don’t remind us that, at that time the USSR was in a state of editor thought most readers would not do the math to learn major transition with all the lack of normal facilities, food that 60, almost two-thirds of the flu deaths, must have been supplies, hygiene and sanitation, medicines, comfortable liv- of children who had been vaccinated against the disease! ing quarters and stress-free living that a war zone entails. Another situation where important information is often BUT VACCINES ARE USUALLY EFFECTIVE, AREN’T THEY? omitted is in the use of graphs and tables. An example of As we’ve already seen, nowadays vaccine “efficacy” may this can be seen in the Jan/Feb 2004 issue of the ‘Skeptical come from lack of a response to pathogens (and therefore, Inquirer’ in which graphs are used to show rises in disease no “infection”) due to a weakening or skewing of the rates following drops in vaccinations in various countries. immune system by previous vaccinations and/or use of fever Very little data from the years before the drops are shown, suppressants. We’ve seen that vaccines against pertussis, so we cannot tell if the disease increases were unprecedented measles, mumps, and chickenpox provide only short-term or not. We know that, under natural conditions, diseases protection, if any. We know that the flu shot has many fail- increase and decrease in cycles. To demonstrate this and ures. Even according to medical authorities it is less effective other flaws, we present overleaf, figure 2 from page 23. The the more immune deficient, and therefore, more in need of article accompanying this graph tells us on page 24 that prevention, one is. Experience and history tell us that vaccine Sweden stopped vaccinating against pertussis in 1979. Page failure is common. 25 tells us that “Sweden…remains plagued with high pertus- Supporters of vaccination claim that vaccines are the rea- sis rates.” However, as you will notice, the graph shows min-

VACCINATION: What You Need To Know ✲ Page 9 160 tagious, does not spread rapidly and it is quite likely that quarantine alone, with no vaccina- 140 tions, would have accomplished its eradica-

120 tion. Ironically, recent news reports have told us there have been outbreaks of vaccine-resis- 100 tant new strains of polio in countries where vaccination campaigns have been conducted. Rate 80 And in summer 2003 human outbreaks of

60 monkey pox, a disease almost indistinguish- able from smallpox, were occurring in the 40 USA.

20 Infectious pathogens, just like us, pre-

0 fer to live. Just as has happened with Year 1980 1990 2000 the misuse and overuse of antibiotics, Figure 2. Sweden’s pertussis rate (per 100,000 population) misuse and overuse of vaccinations is imal rates for 1998-99. What the author doesn’t say is that leading to new, more virulent strains vaccination was resumed in 1996 with a new pertussis vac- of pathogens. cine. In a recent discussion on Health Canada’s Web Site about Sweden’s experience with waning immunity from this Other than epidemiological studies, the test that vaccine “acellular” vaccine, Dr. Patrick Olin states: “Analysis of vac- manufacturers use to determine efficacy of vaccines is one cine failures shows that at 6 to 7 years of age there is a clear that measures antibody levels following vaccination. But con- increase in the number of failures”. The steep rise in pertus- cerning production of antibodies, also called “sero-conver- sis rates shown on the graph for the year 2000 obviously sion” or sero-response”, even individuals with low or no represents the start of this increase resulting from vaccinating detectable levels have been known to be immune. On the in 1996. On page 24 the article states: “The 1975 pertussis other hand, people with high antibody levels can still come rate (figure 2) was around 50 per 100,000 (Gangarosa et al. down with disease. It is easy to understand how this is possi- 1998).” but when we look on the graph we read 25-30 per ble from our previous discussion of the immune system. Dr 100,000. (Was this error deliberately made so that the C J Clements of the World Health Organization’s Global increase in rates in later years would appear greater than it Program for Vaccines and Immunization has admitted actually was? We wonder if the other higher bars accurately “there’s not a precise relationship between sero-response and represent the statistics.) Another point to be made here is protection”. So when you hear someone say that the flu shot that death statistics are more reliable than case statistics. Due is “70 to 90% effective in healthy adults against the same to expense, lack of opportunity, or - in the case of a vacci- viral strains as are in the vaccine”, all that means is that nated child - lack of willingness to suspend belief in efficacy, studies showed that 70 to 90% of test subjects produced testing to confirm disease is often not done. In reality, the some level of antibodies, the remainder showing no antibod- case figures used to determine pertussis rates for the graph ies at all. Whether the antibodies in the 70 to 90% are actu- above could have been too high or too low. In order to help ally capable of preventing them from getting any of the three you wade through the pitfalls of evidence presented to you, types of influenza in the vaccine is unknown. (And since the we encourage you to read chapter twelve, “Waking from the choice of strains used in the flu shot is made by guessing Propaganda Trance” in ‘Immunization: The Reality Behind what strains will be circulating, the chance of it being able to the Myth’ by Walene James. prevent influenza if you are exposed to it – and that is not The threat of polio with visions of the grim “iron lung” certain either - are slim indeed.) and the declared near extinction of polio from the face of the Epidemiological studies, ie those which show population earth through vaccination programs has been a large factor trends, can give possible indications of efficacy but these in the acceptance of vaccines in general. Therefore, we relate only to populations as a whole, not to individuals. include in the package the article, ‘Polio Perspectives’. Apart Obviously, no matter what your doctor might tell you, it’s from polio vaccines, smallpox vaccine, the forerunner of impossible to predict how likely it is that a vaccine will pre- them all, has been extolled as no other, yet it too becomes vent disease in your child. very questionable when we look back in history to discover the truth. Suffice it to say that Walter Orenstein, MD, direc- THOSE YUCKY, SCARY DISEASES ARE…..HEALTHY !!! tor of the National Immunization Program at the US Centers for Disease Control has said that smallpox is not highly con- It is odd that over the years, as our standards of health care and dollars spent on health care have gone up and infec-

VACCINATION: What You Need To Know ✲ Page 10 tious disease rates have plummeted, we seem to have become was no fever.” Frederick Klenner, MD did amazing research more fearful of disease. With all the advantages that a high on intravenous vitamin C therapy, treating all manner of ill- standard of living brings, one would think that maintaining ness and injury: burns, snake bites, barbiturate poisoning, health would be relatively easy, but exactly the opposite mononucleosis, herpes, smallpox, polio, viral hepatitis, viral seems to be true. As discussed earlier, our children and all of pneumonia and viral encephalitis. During the late 1940’s us seem to be getting sicker and sicker, not from infectious Benjamin Sandler, MD discovered polio could be prevented disease but from debilitating chronic disease. by eliminating refined carbohydrates and sugary foods from Robert Zieve, MD is one of a group of medical doctors, children’s diets. Later, in the 1970’s, Dr Cheraskin showed other health professionals and parents who have observed that an hour after we eat a few teaspoons of sugar our white benefits from children contracting and overcoming infectious cell count is lowered 50% or more and doesn’t return to disease. He says: “when we permit the child to go through normal until 5 to 6 hours have passed. Today, cod liver oil is one of these childhood illnesses, receiving treatment with making a comeback in a new purified form with no fishy natural remedies that greatly minimize the occurrence of taste. It provides vitamin A, so beneficial to health in general complications, he or she emerges from this illness stronger. and particularly helpful with recovery from measles. Vaccine More specifically, the immune system is stronger. Many peo- researcher, Hilary Butler, tells us: “That research clearly ple have observed how after one of these illnesses the child’s shows the benefits of vitamin A, in both avoiding and treat- constitution and emerging temperament change for the better.” ing measles complications, is clearly and concisely provable Aside from the enormous advantage of lifetime immunity in medical literature.” Cod liver oil also contains vitamins D that contracting and overcoming infectious disease can bring, and K and is high in omega 3 essential fatty acids which help there appears to be other advantages specific to certain dis- brain and nerve development. In the 1980’s and 90’s several eases. Vaccine researcher, Viera Scheibner, PhD tells us that large studies conducted in developing countries around the many practitioners know that cancer patients have had very world showed that supplementing with vitamin A could few infectious childhood diseases. A study by West in reduce child mortality by about one third. Cancer, July 1966 found that having mumps infection pre- Apart from a healthy diet - exercise, fresh unpolluted air vented ovarian cancer. In 1989 a large group of Swiss doc- to breathe and water to drink, intellectual stimulation, relax- tors questioned the policy of vaccination with MMR, noting ation and love in the family all play a part in a child’s innate that until 1969, at the Basel University Paediatric Clinic, good health. Sleep is paramount in healing. Hygiene is Switzerland, artificial infection with measles was used to important but it’s best not to be fastidious. These days we treat kidney disease. use antibacterial soap, mattresses doused with fungicide, etc. Since the 19th century there have been two conflicting the- The “hygiene hypothesis” contends that frequent exposure to ories of disease: one says that microorganisms just happen pathogens as a normal part of everyday living helps strength- along, enter our bodies and begin to replicate and produce en the immune system of a child who is reasonably healthy, infectious disease – this is the “germ theory” upon which the making her/him less prone to allergies and asthma than concept of vaccination is based; the other, the “cellular theo- would be the case if pristine cleanliness were maintained. ry” says microorganisms are lodged within our bodies and (This makes life much easier too!) Philip Incao, MD lists the only replicate if cells surrounding them become unhealthy. In following as factors correlating with a lower risk of getting the case of the latter, the microorganisms are thought to act allergies and asthma: as scavengers, cleaning up when cells become diseased and ✧ having older siblings; entering daycare by six months old die through the lack of innate health. ✧ reacting positive to a TB skin test Although she may not have realized it, it is the “cellular ✧ having had the measles theory” of disease which your mother embraced if she told ✧ not having had the DPT or MMR vaccinations you to “wash your hands”, “eat your greens” or “get to ✧ having had little or no antibiotics, especially before the bed!”. Healthy lifestyle practices reap benefits far beyond age of two any that are possible from vaccines; they confer resistance to ✧ eating fermented foods containing live lactobactocilli all diseases, not just a few infectious ones and help provide (eg yogurt) physical endurance, mental clarity and a zest for living. ✧ growing up with frequent exposure to farm animals Nutritionist and best selling author, Adelle Davis, in her ✧ not washing much 1970 edition of ‘Let’s Eat Right To Keep Fit’ tells how her 5 year old son and subsequently, every other member of her The beginning of immune health starts long before a child family, overcame mumps in one day by taking a massive is born – in the healthy bodies of her/his parents prior to amount of vitamin C in hourly doses. She says “The children conception. The health of the mother continues to influence weathered all of the childhood ‘diseases’ in the same delight- her child’s health during pregnancy and breastfeeding, which ful fashion. There was no irritability, nausea or vomiting; no is the basis of all future immune health of the child. The ben- meals were missed; and after vitamin C had been given, there efits of breastfeeding are enormous; it is no wonder that

VACCINATION: What You Need To Know ✲ Page 1 1 breastfed babies are more than ten times less likely to con- tract disease than those who are fed formula. Breastfeeding is References and Notes: not only a passive means of transferring immunity to your 1 Many of these are listed as “adverse reactions” in the mono- baby. It is known that human mammary glands are able to graphs (package inserts) of the childhood vaccines. You should actively respond to microbes brought to them by a breast- be able to obtain these from your doctor or public health office. feeding infant by quickly producing antibodies specific to The US VAERS database is an excellent source. Medical writer, those microbes. Harris L Coulter PhD has written an article, “Vaccination and We have included articles concerning prevention of disease Social Violence” which includes reactions which he and Barbara without using vaccines and the treatment of childhood ill- Loe Fisher, president of the US National Vaccine Information nesses. Please refer to ‘Pertussis Remedies’, ‘Diptheria & Center, researched and identified in their groundbreaking 1985 Tetanus’, ‘Tetanus’ and ‘What if my child gets measles?’. In book, ‘DPT: A Shot in the Dark’. Both VAERS reports and addition, we again recommend the book, ‘The Vaccination Coulter’s article can be found at the website Dilemma’ edited by Christine Murphy. For further informa- http://www.whale.to/vaccines.html Fisher refers to reports of tion on non-drug prevention and infectious disease manage- the conservative US Institute of Medicine in her recent article, ment we suggest you consult a knowledgeable health practi- ‘The Challenge to Mass Vaccination’: “In the 1991 and 1994 tioner in any of the fields of , , reports, IOM committees found a causal relationship between Chinese medicine, , etc. certain vaccines and autoimmune disorders such as acute and At an international public conference on vaccination in chronic arthritis, Guillain Barre syndrome, and thrombocytope- Sept 2000, Dr Incao said: nia (failure of blood to clot) as well as brain inflammation and encephalopathy (degenerative disease of the brain). Two live “no parent today needs to be afraid that you are virus vaccines – oral polio and measles – were found to cause putting your children at an unacceptable risk if vaccine strain viral infections that could end in death…..The you decide not to vaccinate them. In my experi- 1991 IOM report concluded ‘In the course of its review, the com- ence of 27 years with hundreds of unvaccinated mittee found many gaps and limitations in knowledge bearing children in my practice, they fared better than directly and indirectly on the safety of vaccines…’…..In a report their vaccinated peers by any measure of physical in 2002 issued by the IOM Immunization Safety Review and emotional health that you would care to use. Committee on vaccines and autoimmune dysfunction, the com- And I’ve had mothers with both vaccinated and mittee found that scientific evidence from epidemiological studies unvaccinated children in the same family tell me on whether allergy, including asthma, can be caused by multiple the same thing.” vaccination was conflicting and concluded the evidence ‘was WE SAY ONE THING, THEY SAY ANOTHER – WHO’S RIGHT? inadequate to accept or reject a causal relationship.’ The commit- tee found there was biological mechanism evidence that vaccines Neither we nor anyone else can make your vaccination could increase the risk of immune dysfunction in some children decisions for you. We only present information that we hope that could lead to increased infections and allergy, including asth- will help you to reach a decision. You, as a parent know ma. It stated that ‘the biological mechanism evidence regarding your child better than anyone else. It is not an easy job, but increased risk for infections is strong.’” only by researching all sides of the vaccination issue will you be able to make a truly informed decision that feels right for 2 The horizontal position of each dot on this graph corresponds you and your child and leaves you knowing you’ve done the with the approximate year in which a new vaccine began to be best you possibly can to make a wise choice. Good luck on used in at least some parts of Canada. Health Canada has no your journey – may you and your child share a long and records of dates of introduction; these were obtained from infor- healthy life together! mation recorded in past public health immunization cards and data related from memory by Dr Paul Varughese, Division of February, 2004 Immunization, Health Canada. Susan Fletcher, B.Sc. 3 Please see ‘How Vaccinations Work’ by Philip Incao. MD at Vaccination Risk Awareness Network Inc www.garynull.com/Documents/niin/how_vaccinations_work. www.vran.org html Also see ‘Immunization: History, Ethics, Law and Health’ by Catherine J M Diodati, Chapter II, ‘Natural and Artificial Immunity’.

4 Vaccine additives are listed in manufacturers’ monographs under ‘Pharmaceutical Information’ and ‘Description’. More on the chemicals in vaccines can be found in ‘Immunization: History, Ethics, Law and Health’, pgs 67 to 71.

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