January - March 2003

Vaccination Risk Awareness Networkewsletter Inc. THE PARADIGM SHIFT IN MEDICINE INSIDE THIS ISSUE AND SCIENCE Page Taken from a talk presented at the National Information 12 - in the Vaccination Age Center Conference, September, 2002 13 - What’s Under the Hump? 15 - Letters By Philip F. Incao, M.D. - February 10,2003 18 - Always Do Your Homework The word paradigm in present usage knowledge governments are based, on 20 - Shaken Baby Syndrome means the living model in our mind what kind of knowledge the education which we use to understand and of children and the pursuit of science 21 - Who Let the Cat Out of the Bag explain the world. Our paradigm are based, in short on what kind of 22 - News Clips incorporates all of our basic assump- knowledge enlightened civilization is tions about the nature of reality. It is based. If we could ask a well-educated our worldview, it’s the lens through citizen of ancient times what kind of Editorial which we look at the world and it col- knowledge should form the basis of an Edda West ors everything we see. This paradigm- enlightened civilization, the answer lens is itself created and formed from most certainly would be “well, of IS FEAR OF FEVER HURTING the primal feelings living at the deepest course, knowledge of the gods and of OUR CHILDREN ? levels of our heart and mind. Primal their will.” The ruling paradigm As paradigms go in the world feelings are shared by all human shared by the peoples of the ancient of disease management, there is beings, each of us having our own par- world was God-centered and spirit- none more deeply ingrained than ticular mix depending on our individ- centered. the fear driven belief that without ual constitution and experience and on But all that changed, because vaccinations we are doomed to the culture in which we live. Most human consciousness is in constant attack from legions of killer dis- important in this inner mix of primal, evolution and the human heart and eases. It’s shadow partner, “fear basic feelings toward life and the world mind never stand still. Paradigms are of fever” compels us to suppress is whether love or fear rules. In like living things which grow, reach fever whenever it arises and ancient times the ruling paradigm was maturity and then become old, over- insures our captivity to monop- based on love for the world. Today ripe and prone to illness and decay. oly, sickness oriented medicine. our ruling scientific paradigm is based The ancient spirit-centered ruling para- The medical/pharmaceutical on fear of the world. At a deep uncon- digm in Europe had become institu- empire flogs us with these tactics, scious level, but in medicine just below tionalized in the church and by the imprinting fear in the collective the surface, we live today in a fear- 1500’s had grown old and corrupt, no psyche, the favourite tool with based paradigm. Because of this longer able to keep up with changing which they dominate the masses underlying fear, science and medicine evolving human consciousness. and usher us down the slippery assume that we must control, master Then came a mighty paradigm shift slope of health breakdown and and change nature in order to survive. as western science was brought to birth drug dependency. The new paradigm now struggling to by Copernicus, Galileo and Newton. Vaccinations and fever suppres- be born challenges us to develop the The human mind and senses had grad- sants, along with the overuse of courage and selflessness to master and ually been losing their capacity to antibiotics and exposure to multi- change ourselves in order to survive. experience spirit as a concrete reality. ple chemical contaminants in the The ruling paradigm of a cul- After Galileo, the physical matter of ture determines on what kind of Paradigm Shift cont. on page 4 Editorial cont. on page 6

VRAN Newsletter January - March 2003 Page 1 VRAN NEWSLETTER The contents of this publication reflect the opinion of the authors only. The Vaccination Risk Awareness Network Inc. P.O. Box 169, Winlaw, B.C. V0G 2J0 authors are not licensed to practice medicine, nor are the opinions in any way Coordinator and newsletter editor: Edda West to be construed or intended as medical information. This publication is for infor- [email protected] 250-355-2525 mational purposes only and should not be construed as medical advice. The VRAN Board of Directors: particulars of any person’s concerns and circumstances should be discussed Mary James, Leona Rew, Edda West, Frank Luschak with a medical doctor prior to making any decision which may affect the health VRAN Core Members: and welfare of that individual or anyone under his or her care. DISCLAIMER Edda West, Susan Fletcher, Lana Belvis, Catherine Diodati, Andreas Schuld, Rita Hoffman, Mary James cation. We are suggesting $35 for With thanks to Lisa Farr for the newsletter layout. VRAN NEWS family membership and $75 for Statement of Purpose professional. Thank you for tak- •VRAN was formed in October of 1992 in response Fundraising Help Needed ing the time to renew your mem- to growing parental concern regarding the safety of bership. current vaccination programs in use in . Deep appreciation goes to those •VRAN continues the work of the Committee Against VRAN members who have sent Annual General Meeting Compulsory Vaccination, who in 1982, challenged donations to help with this year’s Ontario’s compulsory “Immunization of School Pupils fundraising efforts. To date we VRAN’s annual general meeting Act”, which resulted in amendment of the Act, and will be held by telephone confer- guarantees an exemption of conscience from any have received $4,025, which is one ‘required’ vaccine. fifth of VRAN’s yearly operating ence from Winnipeg on Sunday, •VRAN forwards the belief that all people have the budget of $20,000. Fundraising is April 27. If you wish to partici- right to draw on a broad information base when an ongoing challenge and needs a pate, please call Mary James at: deciding on drugs offered themselves and/or their 204-895-9192 children and in particular drugs associated with committee of dedicated people to potentially serious health risks, injury and death. make this their special VRAN pro- ARE SUCH DRUGS. ject. Please help us by donating Total Health Conference •VRAN is committed to gathering and distributing your time, your ideas, and by With special thanks to VRAN information and resources that contribute to the creation of health and well being in our families and organizing fundraising efforts in members who so generously donat- communities. your area. ed their time at the recent Total We are still offering Dr. Sherri Health Conference in Toronto. VRAN’s Mandate is: Tenpenny’s dynamic vaccine video VRAN was given a spot at the •To empower parents to make an informed decision when considering vaccines for their children. as a bonus offer for your donation conference book table. Dr. Jason •To educate and inform parents about the risks, of $150 or more. We also thank Whittaker, Josephine Solomons adverse reactions, and contraindications of those members who have signed and Santo D’Agostino talked to vaccinations. on with the Excel phone plan conference attendees about vaccine •To respect parental choice in deciding whether or not to vaccinate their child. which we hope will be a long term risk issues, handed out brochures •To provide support to parents whose children have fundraiser for VRAN. Virtually and sold some information pack- suffered adverse reactions and health injuries as a everyone uses long distance. By ages. Their commitment and result of childhood vaccinations. trying the Excel plan(s) you are enthusiasm is greatly appreciated. •To promote a multi-disciplinary approach to child and family health utilizing the following modalities: helping VRAN and getting low, herbalist, chiropractor, naturopath, homeopath, competitive rates at the same time. BC REPORT, March, 2003 reflexologist, allopath (regular doctor), etc. Please call or email Edda for more By Susan Fletcher •To empower women to reclaim their position as pri- details: 250-355-2525 or mary healers in the family. I’ve caught the attention of two •To maintain links with consumer groups similar to [email protected] Edda and a few high-profile organizations. The ours around the world through an exchange of infor- helpers will also continue to phone Troubadour Foundation was estab- mation, research and analysis, thereby enabling par- VRAN members asking for your lished by child entertainer Raffi to ents to reclaim health care choices for their families. help with this. •To support people in their fight for health freedom promote “honouring” of the and to maintain and further the individual's freedom world’s children. I wrote a letter from enforced medication. VRAN Memberships Due For to Raffi, enclosed several vaccine Renewal articles and expressed my wish VRAN publishes a newsletter 4 times a year as a means of distributing information to members and Please remember that your that we and others of like mind the community. Suggested annual membership fees, VRAN membership is renewed could “form a synergistic partner- including quarterly newsletter and your on-going yearly in January. Membership ship to work towards rescuing our support to the Vaccination Risk Awareness Network: renewals have been trickling in, children’s health.” This package $25.00—Individual $50.00—Professional We would like to share the personal stories of our but many remain outstanding. was delivered by hand and I soon membership. If you would like to submit your Membership donations is what received a warm reply from story, please contact Edda West by fax or e-mail, funds the costs of newsletter print- Troubadour manager, Caterina as indicated above. ing and mailing and is still our Geuer. She said they are aware of VRAN website: www.vran.org main vehicle for vaccine risk edu- VRAN News cont. on page 3

Page 2 January - March 2003 VRAN Newsletter VRAN News cont. from page 2 it”. As for the rest of Canada the problems I raised and, like us, …step up all of you willing to help DID YOU KNOW ? are concerned. She told us about a with a Canadian Tenpenny speak- There is no law that can force you ing tour! new group, the ‘Canadian to vaccinate your children. The only Partnership for Children’s Health If you wish to receive a copy of laws relating to vaccination govern and the Environment’. Edda has “Ethics of Polio Eradication” school pupils, not infants, and these had a positive exchange with con- please contact Edda West at: tact, Tonya Surman, who told her [email protected] can be waived through available she would take her message to the or call 250-355-2525 exemptions. If your child has exhibit- group’s first meeting March 5th. ed any of the following adverse reac- We will contact them again. Manitoba News tions or conditions, you may wish to The second group I tackled was By Mary James defer from continuing the course of Rotary. A four page spread in a On January 13, 2003, the CBC- vaccinations. January newspaper said Rotary’s National News camera crew along • If your child is ill or running a main purpose is “to encourage with producer Grazyna Krupa and fever. high ethical standards” and that health reporter Maureen Taylor • If the child collapses or goes into a the 4 clubs on the ‘Coast’ (popula- were in Winnipeg, filming a mini shock-like state following a vac- tion under 30,000) were set to documentary entitled, “Kicking cine. raise US$12,000 during March to the Sacred Cow of Vaccination.” • If the child has high pitched help in “Fulfilling our Promise to The producers at CBC -National screaming for several hours; and Eradicate Polio” and “immunize were aware that a growing number more than 2 billion children.” of parents are very worried about cannot be comforted I decided another campaign was the severe adverse reactions to • If the child has a temperature of in order, wrote ‘The Ethics of routine childhood immunizations 38° C or higher after vaccination. Polio Eradication’ and Edda sent it that increasing numbers of chil- • If the child develops pain, redness, out on VRANWEB and to others dren have experienced. They swelling, lump at the needle site including the head of ‘Polio Plus’. decided to investigate. • If the child develops severe diarrhea The latter sent articles on AIDS, Twelve members of The and/or vomiting BSE and the defunct NIH SV40 Association for Vaccine Damaged • If the child has one or more con- review, all of which I critiqued. Children were present for a two vulsions or has a family history of My husband and I hand delivered hour filming session. We were convulsive disorders (eg. epilepsy); 320 copies of ‘The Ethics…’ to encouraged to voice our concerns if the child has an evolving neuro- local businesses; most people, even with the present vaccination pro- logical condition. a couple of Rotarians, thanked us. gram and to share our children’s To the campaign coordinator, stories of how they reacted to • If there is a family history of severe Heather, I delivered thirty articles their childhood vaccinations. The and/or history of vaccine and a letter pointing out that interviewer encouraged us to share reactions. Albert Sabin had publicly dispar- the reception we received from our • If the child has signs of brain injury aged vaccines in 1985, the same family doctors and pediatricians such as a bulge in the soft spots of year ‘Polio Plus’ began and he once our child suffered a severe the head or a severe change of con- became Rotary’s advisor. Heather reaction to his or her vaccination. sciousness. said she would read all. In her Every parent present had experi- • If the child is receiving treatments next email she fingered WHO and enced the same total denial from that suppress the immune system UNICEF. their doctors that there was any • If the child has a widespread aller- Things were quiet in March connection, despite the fact that gic reaction, rashes, hives, wheez- except for two ads asking for vol- in some cases the child reacted by ing, trouble breathing. unteers to work for a “Polio-Free seizuring within hours of the vac- World”….could it be that some of cination.. • If the child develops swollen the troops rebelled? Gloria and Lawrence Dignazio joints/arthritis like symptoms Several people, on seeing my dis- were interviewed earlier in the day • If the child has an irregular heartbeat play at our Health Festival, regarding their daughter Sara’s within several hours after vaccination. remarked “Haven’t they got it reaction to her vaccination eight • If the child is excessively sleepy fol- yet?!!” Well, some have, ie the and one half years ago. Sara was lowing vaccination. people who watched the Tenpenny diagnosed with a form of autism • If the child has an episode of sleep video I’ve been showing. They following her 18 month DPT-Polio apnoea (stops breathing during thanked me for helping them “get sleep) VRAN News cont. on page 4

VRAN Newsletter January - March 2003 Page 3 VRAN News cont. from page 3 @ PO. Box 500, Station A, Paradigm Shift cont. from page 1 vaccination. Toronto M5W 1E6 , Attention the universe assumed ever-growing We were informed that the docu- Grazyna Krupa or email @ kru- importance for the mind, and for sci- mentary would air sometime in [email protected] demanding ence. To understand the deep inner February, unless the war in Iraq that CBC-National show the full reality of matter became the quest of started, in which case the producer documentary to Canadians. science, eventually leading to the did not know when it would be On March 6, 2003, Mary James unsettling conclusion by modern broadcast. At any rate, we would spoke to a University of Winnipeg physics that the basis of all matter was be notified of the date well in class, in a course entitled, Health, advance. The producer asked us Healing and Spirituality on the after all non-material: . Things for pictures of our vaccine injured risks and adverse reactions of rou- were coming full circle, as our para- or deceased children, as she tine childhood vaccination. The digm, having shifted from spirit-based thought they would be incorporat- VRAN newsletter and web-site to matter-based, then shifted to energy- ed into the documentary. was shared with the participants. based in the 20th century. Much to our surprise and dis- The class was filmed and broad- The birth of western science may, CBC Newsworld broadcast cast on Shaw cable television was also the birth of a freer and more the Dignazio family portion of the locally. individualized human thinking. Galileo documentary a few weeks ago on On March 16, 2003, Leona Rew was a pioneer fighting for the freedom Health Matters, without notifying and Mary James spoke in Selkirk, to think about reality in a way that anyone. The Dignazio family Manitoba to a group of parents respected no outer authority but found out about it when Sara’s about the vaccination controversy respected only the truth as he saw it. aide at school phoned to inform in an informal session. There them that she had just seen the were many questions and a great He stood for the inviolable right of the family interviewed on a health discussion followed. Special scientist to follow ones own con- show linking vaccines with autism. thanks to Terry Morriseau for science, free from outside pressure. When the Dignazio family arranging the meeting and for the This fresh, young scientific paradigm demanded an explanation as to group donation of $100.00 for represented by Galileo became mature why they were never informed of VRAN. over the next couple of centuries. It the broadcast, they were told by became well-established and institu- Alternatives to SARS the producer, Grazyna Krupa that tionalized, and now has become it was mistakenly aired as part of Long time VRAN member and entrenched and very powerful. Now a feature on naturopathic physician, Dr. Verna the free spirits in science are again hav- for Health Matters. She assured Hunt has compiled a SARS ing a hard time. Their freedom to call them that the CBC-National had Prevention Program, listing dietary it as they see it is again being curtailed; not yet broadcast the documen- recommendations, botanical medi- their academic freedom is threatened. tary. She informed us that the cine, supplements, essential oils documentary would be a much and homeopathic remedies. You And of course, today it’s not the shorter version than originally may obtain her recommendations church which threatens freedom of planned, and that it would not be via email: [email protected], or send thought in science, it is the system that as comprehensive as she had a stamped, self addressed envelope institutionalized science has become hoped it would be. to VRAN – P.O. Box 169, Winlaw, which stifles individual freedom and In fact, the documentary would B.C. V0G 2JO. creativity. Most Americans today focus only on Sara Dignazio and believe that a scientist is free to pursue another family in Britain whose Our Appreciation to the truth as she or he sees it, free from Vaccination Liberation for child also experienced autistic any influence whatsoever. This is sadly producing their excellent Smallpox symptoms following her vaccina- not the case. tion. Assurances were given to the Alert which we’ve included as a History is repeating itself. The cor- family that they would receive supplement to this edition of the ruption, immorality and tyranny of the advance notice when the documen- VRAN newsletter. We’ve had to tary would be broadcast on CBC reduce the size of the VRAN church that fueled the Reformation in National News. newsletter in order to accommo- the 16th century are now happening in We still have not heard when it date the extra mailing weight of institutionalized and commercialized will be aired but will inform this supplement. You can also science and medicine. These are symp- everyone on the VRAN email list access the complete text of toms of a terminal illness in a para- as soon as we hear of the date. We Smallpox Alert via the Vaclib web- digm that has already made its greatest also encourage you to write CBC site at: www.vaclib.org Paradigm Shift cont. on page 5

Page 4 January - March 2003 VRAN Newsletter Paradigm Shift cont. from page 4 domination. Today’s institutionalized centered paradigm in biology and medi- contributions to the evolution of and commercialized biology and medi- cine will be based on an ecological con- humanity, and is now too old and cine will apply its knowledge of the sciousness, affirming that we humans inflexible to adapt to the changing con- underlying mechanisms of physical real- are intimately interconnected with and sciousness of the 21st century. ity to create a mega-technology with inter-dependent with all of creation. In It is human nature to resist change ever increasing power over the forces of the new paradigm, the freedom of and to fear loss of control and a loss of nature, both in the environment and in thought of the individual scientist, the security. But a paradigm that must the human being. individual physician, and the individual limit human freedom of thought in Science will develop the 200 or so client/patient will be held sacred and order to preserve its power is not vaccines now in the pipeline, and will will be honored. healthy, and in fact is dying, and needs also increasingly develop and apply The basic assumption and attitude of to be honored and to be laid to rest. If genetic engineering, gene therapy, the new paradigm will no longer be that change is to occur from the top down, cloning and a host of other things. It’s we must control and dominate Nature then the day must come when it is the often said that you can’t stop progress, in order to survive, but instead, that we rule, rather than the exception that you can’t put the Genie back in the bot- must, with great humility, learn about leading scientists love truth, and their tle. That’s true, it would be going back- and respect Nature’s ways in order to freedom to pursue the truth, more than wards in human evolution to try to put live in harmony with her – in order for they fear the loss of their position and the Genie back in the bottle. But the the human spirit to survive. their material security. real point is, we need to have the awak- I am reminded of some lines by the When a paradigm dies, all of its gifts ened moral discernment to reexamine poet-playwright Christopher Fry, from which have stood the test of time are our concept of progress and to under- his play A Sleep of Prisoners – the title honored, taken up and given fresh new stand just what kind of Genie we are alone describes our modern conscious- life by the infant paradigm which suc- dealing with, and we need to learn to ness very well : ceeds it, just as in successive generations master that Genie and not be its slave. “Thank God our time is now when of human beings. Paradigm shifts are We’ll never learn that until we develop wrong comes up to face us everywhere, deaths and births unfolding a greater the courage to stop fearing the world never to leave us until we take the evolution. and to change our paradigm. longest stride of soul we ever took.” We are at a crossroads, and the forces Change is inevitable, but the kind of of change are moving in two opposing change, the kind of progress that comes If humanity is to evolve in the direc- and irreconcilable directions. We have about can also happen from the bottom tion of greater health and freedom, and a choice between actively working for up. We, ordinary citizens can make if we are to avoid destroying ourselves the birth of a more human-centered change happen if we have the values and the world, then our new paradigm paradigm, or standing by while the pre- and the vision, and if we have the must be one that puts the human spirit sent dying paradigm in biology and courage to be activists for that vision at the center of medicine and of science. medicine further expands its world and those values. A new more human-

Medical Science Present Paradigm - Matter-based New Paradigm - Energy-based ✦ Consciousness is a product of the physical body, and ✦ Consciousness is not a product of the physical body, it plays no role in physical illness. and it plays a role in all illness. ✦ Illness and healing are processes that follow physical ✦ Illness and healing have a spiritual dimension to them laws. which strongly influences the underlying physical processes. ✦ Vaccines most likely strengthen the immune system. ✦ Most vaccines change the immune system to decrease the expression of acute inflammation and increase the expression of chronic inflammation.

About the author: Dr. Philip Incao is an Anthroposophic physician with a family practice in Denver, Colorado and has written many articles on children’s health from a wholistic perspective. He is a contributing author to a new book, The Vaccination Dilemma written by doctors, nurses and knowledgeable authorities on the vaccination debate. The book reveals an alternative health care system that removes much of the fear from childhood disease. The book helps parents to understand how illness serves a unique need for every child and embraces health creating philosophies like , anthroposophy and encourages parents to trust themselves and their children’s innate wisdom. Published by Lantern Books: www.lanternbooks.com, the book inspires trust in Nature’s wisdom.

VRAN Newsletter January - March 2003 Page 5 Editorial cont. from page 1 an often fatal disease affecting the measles and roseola are needed in environment, are at the root of the brain and liver, a primary reason doc- order to discharge the virus. In a clini- decline in children’s health and vitality, tors switched to acetaminophen, which cal study of 56 children during a manifesting at large in the disablement we now know to be the major cause of measles epidemic in Ghana, Africa in of immune function, neurological func- liver failure. One disaster after anoth- 1967, it was standard practice to treat tion, and upsurge of chronic diseases er! every case of measles with sedatives, in large segments of society today. Acetaminophen is such a common antipyretics like aspirin and tylenol, Children in particular have been hit ingredient used in both over-the- cough suppressants, and also as needed hard as they are the most vulnerable counter and prescription medications, with antibiotics. In the first half of the members of society. New evidence is people may be unaware of its presence epidemic, 35% of the children died. now emerging that fever suppressant in the many popular brands of fever, But the treating doctors also observed drugs may be another contributing fac- pain, colds and flu medications. Health that the children who survived were tor to the explosive epidemic of neu- Canada recently issued an alert cau- usually the ones who had higher fevers rodevelopmental disorders like autism. tioning that the overuse of these over- and more severe rashes than the ones As loving and caring parents, we the-counter remedies can lead to seri- who died. Although the ones who died naturally want to help our children feel ous liver toxicity and death. seemed less sick than the survivors at better when the inevitable fevers, flus, “Parents should be especially cau- the beginning of the illness, they then colds and various illnesses arise in tious when giving children any prod- later got pneumonia and died. childhood. Many will reach for popu- ucts containing acetaminophen. For At a vaccine risk conference in 2000, lar over-the-counter remedies to sup- example, the parent of a child with a Dr. Philip Incao cited this study as an press fever and alleviate symptoms in flu-like illness may use one product to example of the vital role of fever. “The the belief that these products are reli- treat the child's fever and another to doctors began to think that the higher able, effective, and safe. But how safe treat a runny nose, without realizing fevers and rash helped clear the are they really? And what are the risks that both products contain the same measles virus from the body and when fever is suppressed and symp- ingredients. A recently published arti- enhanced survival. And so half way toms masked? Does fever have a criti- cle identified acetaminophen overdose through this measles epidemic, the cal function in fighting sickness that as the number one cause of acute liver doctors revised their treatment and we have lost sight of? failure in the US, and most of these gave no sedatives, no aspirin or There is plenty of scientific evidence overdoses were unintentional. Often, tylenol, nor cough suppressants, but validating the benefits of fever in fight- several preparations of the same brand still gave antibiotics, antimalarials and ing viral/bacterial inflammations and (e.g. Tylenol Pain and Tylenol Sinus) or blood transfusions if needed. In this it’s important role in the healing several medications for the same symp- group, also of 56 children, only 7% process. Fever increases survival rate toms (e.g. Tylenol Cold, Neo-Citran died compared to 35% in the first during infectious diseases - basic infor- and Sinutab) are found in the same group. This is a dramatic demonstra- mation that has yet to reach the major- household and, when used together, tion, and there are many others, of the ity of people who remain misinformed can result in an overdose.” (1) vitally important basic principle that it and misled by pharmaceutical and It is important to understand that is dangerous to suppress an inflamma- medical propaganda which still shame- fever is not a disease, but rather a tory discharge.” lessly advocates the use of antipyretic symptom of an illness. Controversies “Hippocrates recognized this over drugs at the first sign of fever. The surrounding the management of fever two thousand years ago. In any myth that untreated fevers will lead to cause enormous anxiety in parents, inflammatory infectious disease, what seizures and brain damage is perpetu- often resulting in a knee-jerk, fear is discharged out of the body can be ated ad nauseam. Fever is maligned, based reaction to kill the fever with frightening to look at, but that’s not misunderstood and seen as an enemy drugs. As long as we remain captive to what kills us. What can kill us comes to be feared rather than an ally that the medical myth that nature made a from the toxic effects of what’s left signals the immune system gearing up mistake in causing fever to arise during inside the body and what’s not being for action. illness, our children will be put at risk. discharged.” Aspirin was once commonly used to There is an urgency for us to re-exam- “What I read in this study twenty suppress fever until it was linked to ine our basic assumptions about the years ago confirmed what I experi- Reye’s syndrome when given to chil- nature of fever and its evolutionary enced in my own practice, that the dren with viral infections like influenza role in the survival of the species. children who produced higher fevers and chickenpox. Reye’s syndrome is High fevers in some diseases like Editorial cont. on page 7

Page 6 January - March 2003 VRAN Newsletter Editorial cont. from page 6 an infection-induced temperature from such as respiratory difficulty, extreme and strong rashes, and good discharges reaching 106 degrees F (41 degrees C) listlessness or loss of consciousness. of mucous and pus, were healthier and (3) The height of a fever is not a measure more robust and had stronger immune Mendelsohn emphasizes that, “Only of the severity of an illness.” (3) systems than the children who pro- in the case of heatstroke, poisoning, or Numerous studies have shown that duced a low intensity of these symp- other externally caused fevers is this fever enhances the immune response by toms. These robust children in my bodily mechanism overwhelmed and increasing mobility and activity of practice, who vigorously externalized inoperative.” This would also include white cells called leucocytes which dis- and healed their infections sponta- drug reactions and overdose. able bacteria and viruses and remove neously, often without antibiotics, had Fever: Your Body’s Defense Against damaged tissue from the body. A com- had little or no antibiotics, or Disease is the title of chapter 7 in Dr. plex sequence of immune activities is antipyretics, or vaccinations in their Mendeloshn’s book, and undoubtedly activated by fever. Antiviral and lives. And the other children who had one of the best guidelines ever written antibacterial properties of interferon had all their vaccinations, and lots of for parents seeking a balanced and are also increased with fever. With a antipyretics, and antibiotics – who had accurate perspective of the beneficial rise in temperature, iron is removed had a lot of suppressive, internalizing and defensive role of fevers in child- from the blood and stored in the liver, medical treatments, these children hood. He condemns the useless and further disabling the rate at which bac- never got high fevers. And these chil- dangerous practice of fever suppression teria can multiply. Studies of artificially dren were the ones who were more through drugs. “If your child con- induced fevers in laboratory animals likely to have allergies and autoim- tracts an infection, the fever that infected with disease have shown that mune problems.” (2) accompanies it is a blessing, not a elevated temperatures enhance The pervasive belief that fever is curse. The spontaneous release of survival, while lowered temperatures dangerous and must be suppressed dis- pyrogens cause the body temperature increase the death rate. (4) regards the scientific evidence demon- to rise, a natural defense mechanism There is an exception however. strating its beneficial role in inflamma- needed to fight disease. The presence When fever arises in a newborn baby tory diseases. The immune system of fever tells you that the repair mech- in the first few weeks of life, there is a depends on the essential role of fever anisms of the body have gone into heightened level of caution. to accomplish myriad tasks when gear- high gear. It is something to rejoice “Newborn babies may suffer from ing up to fight infections. New over, not to fear.”(3) infections related to obstetrical inter- Zealand researcher Hilary Butler has He counters the myth that high fever ventions during delivery, prenatal or assembled an impressive list of cita- causes seizures. “Many parents are hereditary conditions, aspiration pneu- tions from medical literature to prove fearful of fevers because they have wit- monia from amniotic fluid forced into this point. We are grateful for her nessed a convulsive seizure and believe the lungs because of overmedication of work, and include these excerpts as an that their child may experience one if the mother during delivery…and expo- addendum to this article. his temperature is allowed to rise too sure to the legion of germs that “Doctors do a great disservice to high. High fevers do not cause convul- abound in the hospital itself”, writes you and your child when they pre- sions. They result when the tempera- Dr. Mendelsohn who advises parents scribe drugs to reduce fever” says Dr. ture rises at an extremely rapid rate to seek medical help if a baby runs a Robert Mendelsohn, pediatrician and and are relatively uncommon. It is esti- fever in the first two months of life. author of How To Raise A Healthy mated that only 4 percent of children Breastfeeding plays a critical role in Child in Spite of Your Doctor. “Fever with high fever experience fever related preventing infections in infants. phobia is a disease of pediatricians, not convulsions. There is no evidence that Breastfed babies are superbly protected parents, and to the extent that parents those who do have them suffer any from a vast range of pathogens and are victimized by it, doctors are at serious aftereffects as a result.” (3) have a lesser risk of developing fevers fault.” Parents are left to fear that “Fevers produced by viral or bacteri- in the newborn phase of life. their child’s temperature will keep ris- al infections will not cause brain dam- It is known that the blood-brain bar- ing unless measures are taken to con- age or permanent physical harm. rier is not intact until at least 6 weeks trol it . “They don’t tell you that Fevers are a common symptom in chil- of life. This is why fever in very young reducing his temperature will do noth- dren and are not an indication of seri- infants, raises a big caution flag ing to make the patient well or that ous illness unless associated with because of the ease with which our bodies have a built-in mechanism, major changes in appearance and pathogens, viruses/bacteria can gain not fully explained, that will prevent behavior or other additional symptoms access to the baby's brain/nervous sys-

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VRAN Newsletter January - March Page 7 Editorial cont. from page 7 to worried parents calling the doctor’s with antipyretic drugs preventing the tem creating a higher risk for meningi- office with a fussy, feverish newly vac- normal mobilization of the immune tis. When medical help is sought for a cinated baby, is “It’s perfectly normal – system? feverish infant under 6 weeks of age, it nothing to worry about. Just give the A new theory regarding a potential may lead to invasive procedures like baby some tylenol.” cause of autism is currently being spinal taps, antibiotics, steroids and In their determination to initiate vac- explored by Dr. Anthony R. Torres, fever suppressants, which are also not cine agendas as soon as possible, there M.D., Senior Scientist and Director of without risk. If a parent disagrees with is a curious and willful blindness the BioMedical Lab at Utah State the course of treatment, they are likely amongst doctors in the vaccine estab- University. His hypothesis questions to encounter hostility from the medical lishment. Why is there no concern whether fever suppression is involved staff, as recently happened to a Boise about the impact of vaccine induced in the etiology of autism and neurode- area mother who lost custody of her 5 fevers in infants during this critical velopmental disorders. week old baby when she took her to early period of life? Why is it that if a Dr. Torres is investigating evidence the local ER for a check up. spontaneous fever arises in the new- suggesting that the etiology of autism The baby had been fussy and fever- born, it is viewed as a potential med- involves infections of the pregnant ish all day, and the mother wanted to ical emergency, but if the fever is vac- mother or of a young child. “Most make sure everything was alright. She cine induced, it is brushed off as “nor- infections result in fever that is rou- consented to blood tests, urinalysis, x- mal” and parents are advised to sup- tinely controlled with antipyretics such ray and I.V., but declined the spinal press it with antipyretics? as acetaminophen. The blocking of tap and wanted to wait for what the The medical mindset that imposes fever inhibits processes that evolved test results might show. She calculated vaccine schedules in early infancy vio- over millions of years to protect that there was about a 95% chance lates a fundamental precautionary against microbial attack. Immune her baby did not have meningitis and principle which disregards the fragility mechanisms in the central nervous sys- likely had the same cold the family had of the baby and the vulnerability of the tem are part of this protective just gotten over. Her decision to forgo immature brain/nervous process.” (4) the spinal tap and antibiotics prompt- system/immune system. Just look at the “Pathological infections, including ed the hospital to call Child Protective double standard operative here. On vaccinations, commonly result in fever. Services and the baby was taken from the one hand parents are cautioned to For example, 50-60% of young chil- her. The doctor felt the child’s life was seek immediate medical help if fever dren develop fever after receiving in danger because the mother refused develops in the newborn, yet are heav- MMR vaccine”, and are routinely “life-saving treatment”, despite the fact ily pressured to submit their babies to treated with fever suppressants. Many that the baby had improved signifi- multiple vaccines without regard for parents report their children slipped cantly after some hours on I.V.. the fact that these injections are the into autism following MMR shots. Dr. It would seem prudent to protect primary cause of fever in young Torres has also found that “43% of newborn infants during this early, vul- infants. Fever is knowingly induced mothers with an autistic child experi- nerable time from exposure to any sit- during these early weeks of life, when enced upper respiratory tract, influen- uation, or procedures that would put all common sense and instinct should za-like, urinary or vaginal infections them at risk of developing fevers. Yet, prevail to protect the infant from this during pregnancy compared to only the majority of newborns and young outcome. 26% of control mothers”, suggesting infants are vaccinated in the first 6-8 It is not only the vaccine induced that in some cases autism may be weeks of life. Doctors know full well fevers which raise a caution. While linked to the “sequella of pathogenic that the injection of vaccine cocktails the fever signals the infant’s immune infections, especially those of viral ori- containing a brew of viral/bacterial response to the artificially implanted gin.”(4) particles, foreign proteins, adjuvants viral/bacterial and chemical agents Suppressing fever during pregnancy and chemical preservatives will likely he/she is forced to cope with, the big- and labour may effect the fetus as precipitate a feverish reaction in a ger question is - what deeper affect do research has shown that aceta- large number of babies. They even these toxic substances have, now that minophen “significantly decreased anticipate this, and often advise par- they have access to the blood stream, maternal and fetal serum IL-6”, an ents to dose the child with “baby vital organs and the immature immune factor the infant is incapable tylenol” prior to going in for the brain/nervous system? And what addi- of producing at birth and depends on shot(s). And in the aftermath of vacci- tional insult to injury occurs when the from the mother.(4) A press release nation, the standard reassurance given resulting fever is then manipulated Editorial cont. on page 9

Page 8 January - March 2003 VRAN Newsletter Editorial cont. from page 8 Blanco found that the majority advise, strong doses of fever suppressants as (Oct./02) from the British Thoracic ‘If your child has a fever during a reac- well……which has left me wondering Society cautions that a recent study tion to a vaccine, give them aceta- whether antipyretics diminished the links paracetamol, an acetaminophen minophen’. immune capabilities of those who have based drug similar to tylenol to child- “This all too common advice may died from SARS. Is this one of those hood when used by the mother actually cause autism. However, if Dr. diseases that needs a high fever to rally in late pregnancy.(5) Torres’ groundbreaking theory proves the immune system to optimal output? The central nervous system and true, it could be the means of saving Are the aggressive medical treatments scores of factors in the immune system thousands of children from becoming actually creating a higher risk of work synergistically to achieve opti- autistic.” death? mum immune function. What affects Currently, a tremendous amount of Homeopathic and Naturopathic one affects the other. Dr. Torres points fear is being whipped up over the out- healing modalities have a long and to evidence that acetaminophen is an break of SARS (severe acute respirato- trusted history in the prevention and immunosuppresive agent. In highly ry syndrome) in this country. Health treatment of epidemic diseases. One of technical language, he describes the officials are in an uproar, even hinting the greatest antivirals known is vita- complex activities launched by the that this may be the “Big One” - the min C, which has been used with stu- immune system and the many signals pandemic they’ve been anticipating for pendous success in both the prevention relayed to control centres in the brain years, even though it’s not influenza. and treatment of infectious diseases. when the body is fighting pathogenic Draconian quarantine measures are Highly effective treatment protocols organisms. The activation of pyrogens being implemented, and some sources have been developed by administering stimulates the rise of fever and “pro- are speculating whether this is a train- ascorbates of vitamin C intravenously duction of various cytokines (immune ing exercise to test the population’s in critical situations and are document- cells) from organs in the viscera (gut)” willingness to submit to quarantine in ed in medical literature and accessible – the gut being the primary and largest preparation for biowarfare attack. To through Dr. Robert Cathcart’s website immune organ of the body. Key sig- date there has been no definitive iden- with links to Dr. Klenner, and Linus nals carried along the vagus nerve tification of the pathogen, although Pauling. (7) Intravenous vitamin C which connects the gut/brain immune there is speculation that it is a form of should be available for every patient pathways, and which are normally corona virus, the family of viruses facing acute and critical illnesses, but mediated by prostaglandins, can be found in the common cold. At one the current medical monopoly blocks blocked by antipyretics like aceta- point it was thought it might be relat- access to this simple and highly effec- minophen, thereby derailing the com- ed to the paramyxo virus which is tive treatment. plex sequences of immune signals that related to measles and canine distem- Writes health activist Croft flow between the gut and the brain. (4) per –there’s even speculation that Woodruff, “In the spring of 2000 I Dr. Torres postulates that the block- chlamydia could be involved. The referred a young relative, who was suf- age of fever with antipyretics, whether measles virus has been mutating and fering from an acute case of mononu- induced by infections or vaccinations, its footprint identified in some nasty cleosis, to a medical doctor who interferes with normal immunological cases of encephalitis and respiratory administered four separate intravenous development in the brain, leading to infections in Asia in recent years. injections of vitamin C as sodium neurodevelopmental disorders in cer- Already plans are rolling to start vac- ascorbate over as many days. The tain genetically and immunologically cine development which is surprising results were quite dramatic. The disposed individuals. The effects may since the virus or viral combination is patient recovered completely, albeit occur in utero or at a very young age yet to be identified. with a newly acquired respect for the when the immune system is rapidly Early reports described SARS as power of vitamin C as a healing developing. (4) beginning with a dry cough that keeps agent.” Kathy Blanco, President of CHILD- getting worse, and that some people Our mistrust of natural processes, SCREEN www.childscreen.org, herself get headache, body ache, a “skyrocket- and reliance on drug oriented medicine a mother of autistic children, predicts ing fever or blotchy rash on their bod- has obscured our understanding of the that these findings will not be popular ies”, and as illnesses go, this one seems importance of childhood illnesses and with mainstream medicine and are fairly “vicious”. Treatment? People the necessity of fever as a vital aspect “potentially a public relations time are given a “battery of drugs – cock- of the maturation of the immune sys- bomb”. Searching for advice on fevers tails of antibiotics and antiviral med- tem enabling a strong & resilient foun- and vaccine reactions on the internet, ications”.(6) They’re probably getting Editorial cont. on page 10

VRAN Newsletter January - March 2003 Page 9 Editorial cont. from page 9 8 Philip Incao, M.D. Chapter on How To Treat tion with the changes in plasma iron dation of health to evolve. When we Childhood Illnesses, pge. 61; The Vaccination levels known to occur during infec- Dilemma, and personal communication, April, 2003. discard the old fears and lift the veil of tions is a synergistic host defence ignorance, we are then empowered to Sources of Complimentary and response." (Pediatrics 1980, No: 66 (5) see with our innate intelligence, the Alternative Healing Modalities: : 720 - 723) real picture unfolding in front of us - Fever in children: A Blessing in Disguise, "Parental fever phobia and its corre- and recognize that the artificial manip- by Linda B White, M.D. and Sunny Mavor, lates...surprising, higher socioeconomic ulation of children’s immune systems, Mothering Magazine, Issue 95, status was not associated with a lesser via mass vaccination programs, indis- July/August, 1999, available on line at: degree of fever phobia...undue fear and criminate use of antipyretics and www.mothering.com overly aggressive treatment of fever are antibiotics, rather than protecting, is Sheri Nakken website – great links to epidemic among parents of infants and threatening their health – their future. homeopathic sources of information: young children, even among the highly The encouraging and wise words of http//www.nccn.net/~wwithin/vaccine.htm educated and well-to-do. considerable Dr. Incao may help us shed old fears Alternatives & Antidotes to Infectious effort will be required on the part of and embrace a new relationship to Diseases – Year end VRAN Newsletter, pediatricians and other child health Nature – “Every childhood inflamma- 2001, lists many alternative healing modal- workers to reeducate parents about the tion, every cold, sore throat, earache, ities – available electronically at: definition, consequences and appropri- fever and rash is a healing crisis and a [email protected] cleansing process, a strong effort by ate treatment of fever." (Pediatrics the human spirit to remodel the body, 1985 June;75 (6) 1110-1113) to make it a more suitable dwelling. EXTRACTS FROM MEDICAL LITERA- "There is no convincing evidence Anthroposophic and homeopathic TURE: TYLENOL, PARACETAMOL, that naturally occuring fevers are remedies aid and promote this cleans- IBUPROFEN etc. harmful. In contrast, animal studies ing process and help the illness to Compiled by Hilary Butler have shown that fever helps animals to work its way out of the body so that survive and infection whereas healing can occur.”(8) In a personal Could the increase in all forms of antipyretic increases mortality. conversation recently, Dr. Incao meningitis and other infectious disease Moreover there is considerable in vitro reminded me that – “ It takes a while complications and deaths be because evidence that a variety of human to free our mind from the imprison- for the last 40+ years, the first thing immunological defences function better ment, and our need to adhere to politi- parents do at the slightest sign of tem- at febrile temperatures than at normal cal correctness for fear of being judged perature is push paracetamol? I one." (The Lancet, Volume 337, radical. Illness is part of life. It is not believe so, because what you weren’t March 9, 1991) alien or abnormal and has to be told was this: accepted as a part of life. Every break- "Not all fevers need to be treated "Many cytokines are endogenous down is a spiritual growth opportuni- but many physicians do so to relieve mediators of fever including inter- ty. We need to learn how to deal with parental concern." (Eur J Ped 1994 leukin (IL) -, 1 beta, IL-6 and others. and work through it – this is part of Jun; 153 (6): 394-402) Tumor necrosis factor-alpha may be the new paradigm.” both an endogenous pyrogen and an "An elevation in temperature fol- endogenous antipyretic or cryogen." References: 1. Health Canada Advisory, Feb. 13/2003: . lowing bacterial infection results in a (Neuroimmunomodulation 1995 Jul- 2. Philip Incao, M.D. – excerpt from a talk given at significant increase in host survival" Aug; 2 (4):216-223) NVIC conference 2000 (Science 1975 Apr 11; 188 (4184): 3. Robert Mendelsohn, M.D. How To Raise a Healthy 166-8) "There is overwhelming evidence in Child in Spite of Your Docotor. 4. Anthony R. Torres, M.D.-Is Fever Suppression favor of fever being an adaptive host Involved In The Etiology Of Autism And "Many components of the nonspe- response to infection... as such, it is Neurodevelopmental Disorders?” . cific host defence response to infection probable that the use of 5. Press Release, British Thoracic Society (BTS), such as leukocyte mobility, lymphocyte antipyretic/anti-inflammatory/analgesic 28/10/2002 http://www.brit- thoracic.org.uk/admin/action.lasso?- transformation, and the effects of drugs, when they lead to suppression database=btsnews&-layout=cgi&- interferon, appear to be enhanced by of the fever, result in increased morbid- response=news_detail.html&-op=eq&id=209&-search elevations in temperature that simulate ity and mortality during most infec- 6. The Globe & Mail, Mar.17/03 –Cause of Deadly Pneumonia Still Eludes Scientists moderate fevers. In addition, some evi- tions; this morbidity and mortality 7 Dr. Robert Cathcart MD: at: / dence indicates that a fever in conjunc- Editorial cont. on page 11

Page 10 January - March 2003 VRAN Newsletter Editorial cont. from page 10 result in an improvement in mood, Meningococcal Disease: "use of may not be apparent to most health comfort, appetite or fluid intake." analgesics were associated with dis- care workers..." Infect Dis Clin North (Family Practice, Volume 13, No 2, ease...analgesic use was defined as Am 1996 Mar;10(1) : 1-20.) 1996 pgs 179 - 181) analgesics taken in the past 2 weeks, excluding, for cases, those taken for Acetaminophen can induce pneumo- "Fever is rarely harmful. Only identified early symptoms of meningo- nia...'These finding suggest that aller- extremely high fevers of 42.2C or 108 coccal disease. These analgesics were gic mechanism was involved in the F or higher have been known to cause predominantly acetaminophen prod- pathogenesis of the pneumonitis. brain damage. Only fevers of 40.5C or ucts...... because analgesics showed a Underlying immunological disorders 105F and higher need immediate atten- stronger relationship with meningococ- may have enhanced the occurrence." tion, mainly because they are a clue cal disease, the use of analgesics may Nihon Kyobu Shikkan Gakkai Sasshi that a serious infection could be pre- be a better measure of more severe ill- 1997 Sep; 35 (9) 974-9) There are sent "(such as meningitis) (Sunday Star ness than reported individual symp- other reports of this as well... Times, May 3, 1998, C3) doctor's col- toms....we cannot exclude the possibili- "the results suggest that lung disease umn. ty that acetaminophen use itself is a (rheumatoid lung) associated with col- risk factor for meningococcal disease" "Paracetamol has no antipyretic lagen vascular diseases may be exacer- (Ped Infec Dis, Oct 2000, Vol 19, No benefits over mechanical antipyreses bated by drug-induced (aceta- 10, 983-990) minophen) pneumonitis." Nihon alone in ..malaria. Moreover, paraceta- Kyobu Shikkan Gakkai Sasshi 1997 mol prolongs parasite clearance time, "Antipyretics prolong illness in Oct; 35 (10) 1113-1118) possible by decreased production of patients with Influenza A.... The dura- TNF and oxygen radicals. " (Lancet tion of illness was significantly pro- "Despite our lack of knowledge 1997;350:704-709) longed from 5 days(without) to 8 1/2 about its therapeutic mechanism, it has days (with). Pharmacotherapy 2000, "The data suggest that frequent been claimed to be a safe drug, espe- 20: 417-422) Take two aspirin, pro- administration of antipyretics to chil- cially for children... paracetamol syrup long the flu - 2 January 2001 Anne dren with infectious disease may lead (presumably for children) is extensively Burke, HealthScout Reporter (also to a worsening of their illness." (Acta prescribed in large volumes...There is reported by Reuters medical news...) Paed. Jpn 1994 Aug;36 (4) 375-378) mounting evidence that paracetamol is "Taking aspirin or Tylenol for the flu not the benign drug that it was formal- "Fever is an important indicator of actually prolongs the illness by up to 3 ly thought to be... We would question disease and should not be routinely 1/2 days, say researchers at the the whole rationale of prescribing the suppressed by antipyretics...fever may University of Maryland. That is drug in near epidemic proportions. If it actually benefit the host defense mech- because fever may be the body's natur- is to be used as a placebo, then it is a anism...fever is short-lived and causes al way of fighting an infection and tak- very dangerous placebo... The whole only minor discomfort...routine ing aspirin or acetaminophen - the place of paracetamol prescribing for antipyretic therapy should be avoided generic name for products such as children has been questioned. While but may be necessary in individual Tylenol - may interefere with the there is little concern about its use in patients with cardiovascular or neuro- process. "You are messing with the short term as an analgesic, there is logic disorders."(Infect Dis Clin North Mother Nature," Says Dr Leland considerable controversy over its use Am 1996 Mar;10 (1) 211-216) Rickman, an associate clinical profes- as an antipyretic....there is little evi- sor of medicine at the University of dence to support the use of paraceta- "Studies of bacterial and viral- California San Diego. "An elevated mol to treat fever in patients without infected animals have shown that mod- temperature may actually help the heart or lung disease. Paracetamol may erate fevers decrease morbidity and body fight the infection quicker or bet- decrease antibody response to infection increase survival rate" (Yale J Biol ter than if you don't have a fever." and increase morbidity and mortality Med 1986 Mar-April; 59 (2) : 89-95) "Whatever you do, don't give in severe infections...too many parents aspirin or Tylenol to children who and health workers think that fever is "Antipyretic drugs are effective in have the flu or any other viral illness", bad and needs to be suppressed by diminishing fever, but have significant Rickman said paracetamol when, indeed, moderate side effects and may suppress signs of fever may improve the immune ongoing infections" (Arch Intern Med "These results suggest that the sys- response...the use of paracetamol in 1990, Aug; 150 (8): 1589-1597) tematic suppression of fever may not children with acute infection did not Editorial cont. on page 12

VRAN Newsletter January - March 2003 Page 11 Editorial cont. from page 11 be useful in patients without severe MEASLES IN THE VACCINATION AGE: cranial trauma or significant hypox- IS IT NOW DEADLIER ? emia. Letting fever take its natural By Sandy Mintz - September 13,2002 course does not seem to harm patients with systemic inflammatory response One of the statistics that is bandied case-fatality ratio dramatically higher syndrome, or influence the discomfort about these days is that 1-3 out of at 3 out of 1,000. At this rate, fewer level AND MAY SAVE COSTS." 1000 die of measles in developed than 175,000 cases per year would be (wow!!!) (Arch Intern Med 2001, Jan countries like the United States. necessary to result in the same number 8; 161 (1) 121-123) If that is the case, however, it begs of deaths which used to occur when the question, “Why?” Because, in the there were millions of cases.” hickenpox treated with C past, at least in the United States, the While as reported by Elisabeth Tylenol/Ibuprofen provokes bacterial death rate from measles was consider- Rosenthal, in the New York Times in skin infections into fulminant necrotis- ably lower. 1991, “Officials at the Centers for ing fasciitis (Pediatr I(Pediatrics Vol The Washington Post and others Disease Control note that the death 103, No 4, April 1999, 783-784 and have reported that measles has become rates may be somewhat inflated 785-790) (Infect Med1999 16 (5):307) more deadly because the epidemiology because mild cases of measles are Just two of many references for has shifted to infants and adults, for probably not being reported. antipyretic induced complications of whom the disease is more serious. As I Such underreporting would make chickenpox. (In MMWR - May 15, stated in my 1993 testimony to the death rates artificially high. Atkinson 1998, Vol 47 No 18. All cases of Institute of Medicine: (of the CDC) said there may be twice Varicella related deaths were treated “We also cannot ignore the impact as many cases nationally as have been with antipyretics. No causal associa- of vaccines on changing epidemiology reported.” tion was investigated or ascribed. The when considering their risks and bene- She went on to write: “But many "solution" to the problem was consid- fits. For instance, measles may have doctors still believe the trend is real ered to be mandatory vaccination.) been made a more serious disease and alarming. ‘The death rates are Hilary Butler – “What you do as a because of measles vaccination. Prior clearly much higher this time around, parent, is your choice. Make sure that to widespread vaccination, once a pop- and the hospitalization rate is extraor- it is an "informed" choice. Get the ulation had been exposed to measles, dinary.’ said Dr. Samuel Katz, profes- articles referenced, do a med-line few adults or infants contracted it, sor of pediatrics at Duke University search - retrieve any others. READ the adults due to lifelong immunity and Medical School who is a measles whole articles. Give them to your doc- infants due to maternal antibodies. expert.” tor to read, and discuss them with (Full text at website below) Now, And as I wrote in an open letter to him/her. Most importantly, if you feel adults AND infants are getting the the producers and sponsors of NBC’s your child has an immunodeficiency, measles, with serious consequences. I “ER”, which garnered many hundreds get your child tested so that you know would like to include reference to a of signatures: what you are dealing with. How a recent Washington Post article entitled: “An example of an unexamined child handles any infectious disease is “Measles Still Menace to Infants: ‘fact’ you presented to your viewers dependant upon the immune system Vaccinated Moms Pass Less Immunity was the statement that 1 out of 500 inherited, nutritional status, life-style, to Babies’. In this article it was noted measles cases die. Perhaps your sources environment and resultant stresses and that although in 1976 3% of measles did not explain this to you, but the how the child reacts to them. The cases occurred in children less than U.S. measles death rate used to be far choice is yours.” one, today more than 25% do. The lower prior to vaccination. So if this author also indicated that prior to vac- statistic is correct, one should ask With appreciation to Hilary Butler cination, 3 to 4 million measles cases what is the likely reason for this and The Immunization Awareness occurred with around 500 deaths. This increased measles death rate. The Society, New Zealand for their per- would make the case-fatality ratio for probable cause is that adults and mission to reprint this review, pub- that period between 1 to 2 per 10,000. infants, for whom measles can be quite lished in WAVES – Vol. 14, No. 4, In the years 1989, 1990 and 1991 serious, now get the measles, rather 2002 combined, however, it was reported than children, for whom it is generally that around 55,000 people got the benign. (Please bear in mind that the measles and 166 died, making the Measles cont. on page 13

Page 12 January - March 2003 VRAN Newsletter Measles cont. from page 12 of vaccination? Or are we to acknowl- WHAT’S UNDER greater risk for adults and infants is edge it as a risk? not our opinion, but the opinion of If measles vaccine fails to control THE HUMP ? many, including Dr. Sam Katz, one of measles over time, i.e., the vaccine Public Health Service admits the developers of the measles vaccine. wanes and revaccination does not “substantial uncertainty” In a chapter on measles vaccine in the work, and at the same time the disease regarding vaccine safety Third Edition of ‘Vaccines’, he writes fails to be eradicated, is our future to By Michael P. Wright with two others: ‘The risk of serious be filled with large outbreaks and high complications and death is increased in death rates because measles vaccine Mandated vaccinations, or vaccina- infants and adults.’ And later, ‘The has changed the epidemiology of tions administered without the recipi- highest risk of death was in children measles in such a way that increased ent's knowledge of risks, or fully younger than 1 year and adults.’)* incidence among infants and adults is informed consent, begs what is per- *It is interesting to note that in a the result? haps the most fundamental of all ques- 1990 article on measles vaccine, writ- Wouldn’t it be a good idea for us tions: Who owns our bodies? We ten by Drs. Walter Orenstein, Director take our heads out of the sand and believe that we are in control of our of the National Immunization Program thoroughly investigate the benefits and lives and, therefore, “own” ourselves. at the CDC, and Lauri Markowitz, one risks of vaccination without presuppo- But, if someone outside of ourself has of the co-authors of both the 1990 sitions, preconditions, or the influence the authority to subject us to medical article and the Katz article and former- of those who seek to gain financially experimentation without our knowl- ly of the CDC, it was stated: ‘>From from their use? edge or fully informed consent, then 1950 to 1959, an annual average of we cannot logically argue ownership of more than 500,000 cases and 500 About the Author: ourselves any more convincingly than deaths were reported. However, the Sandy Mintz, is a mother, health a laboratory animal, can we? true number of infections was estimat- researcher and veteran vaccine risk An article entitled “The Complicated ed to be 10 times as high.’ In other educator. She has been widely Task of Monitoring Vaccine Safety” words, if only reported cases are con- acclaimed for her weekly “Scandals” appeared in the Public Health Reports sidered, the death rate appears to be column, a series of well researched and of January/February 1997. This is a 1/1000. If you factor in the number of hard hitting articles that shed light on publication of the U.S. Department of unreported cases, quite high during the the far reaching health impact of mass Health and Human Services. The era when measles was common, the vaccination policies. authors were Susan Ellenberg and death rate drops to 1/10,000. In the For a broader perspective of the con- Robert Chen. Below is an excerpt from more recent Katz ‘Vaccines’ article, co- cerns raised in this article, you may their rather revealing synopsis: written with Redd and Markowitz, it access all supportive articles and back- “Vaccines, like all other pharmaceu- says that the death rate is 1 to 3 in ground research by going to: tical products, are not entirely risk- 1000 cases (pg.223), even though later http://www.vaccinationnews.com/Scan free; while most known side effects in the article they say that there used dals/Sept_13_02/Scandal33.htm are minor and self-limited, some vac- to be, ‘in the prevaccine era’ (pg. 229), cines have been associated with very around 500 deaths among 4,000,000 Sandy Mintz home site at Vaccination rare but serious adverse effects. cases (actually 1.25/10,000 cases). News: Because such rare effects are often Either they are exaggerating the cur- http://www.vaccinationnews.com not evident until vaccines come into rent death rate, or it has gone up. We widespread use, the Federal govern- submit that if the death rate has risen, ment maintains ongoing surveillance measles vaccine is the cause, having programs to monitor vaccine safety. changed measles epidemiology so that The interpretation of data from such high-risk groups now more often get programs is complex and associated the measles. “ with substantial uncertainty. A con- Thus it would appear that the tinual effort to monitor these data measles death rate post-vaccination has effectively and to develop more pre- indeed become higher. cise ways of assessing risks of vac- Are we to take the fact that measles cines is necessary to ensure public appears to have become more deadly confidence in immunization programs.” to mean a higher death rate is a benefit

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VRAN Newsletter January - March 2003 Page 13 Under the Hump cont. from page 13 skepticism. In nature we have all kinds of mea- The writers admit that the clinical For those who remain skeptical, con- surable events and phenomena. Some trials of vaccines are not sufficient to sideration of problems of vaccine safe- humans are tall, some are short, but identify and measure the risk levels ty should take place with the common most are of medium height. Regarding associated with adverse events. In statistical concept of the normal distri- adverse events to vaccines, some are effect, the vaccinated population itself bution (bell-shaped curve) in mind. An very mild, and some are very serious. becomes an experimental group. They old statistics book from my college We can expect the normal adverse also admit that there is “substantial days provides a good starting point for event to be somewhere in between. If uncertainty” associated with interpre- the argument: all adverse events were known and tation of data from surveillance pro- scored by severity level, the results ...it is interesting to note that a very grams. expressed as a graph most likely would large number of random variables Further, the writers do not see any form a bell-shaped curve. At one end observed in nature possess a frequen- need to assess the belief that vaccines of the curve would be the “rare” cata- cy distribution which is approxi- are effective and good for public strophic adverse effects and at the mately bell-shaped or, as the statisti- health. They accept this view as a pos- other end the mild effects such as tem- cian would say, is approximately a tulate. They see the questioning of vac- porary redness and swelling without normal probability distribution. cination programs by some members of other problems. The big question is: ~William Mendenhall the public as a problem, and the only What do we have under the hump of (Introduction to Statistics, p. 116) challenge for them is to defeat the the curve?

The writers for Public Health which have not been recognized as serious than the rare catastrophes Reports use the phrase “known side consequences of vaccination? noted contemporaneously with vacci- effects,” and assure us that most are From what we know about normal nations but still serious enough to be “minor and self-limited.” Are there distributions we would expect that in figured into the process of weighing unknown adverse effects which devel- the middle would be the most common risks versus benefits (if there are any) op later in childhood or adult life and types of adverse events -- those less of vaccination.

Page 14 January - March 2003 VRAN Newsletter Under the Hump cont. from page 14 expressed stern disagreement with my I propose that the adverse effects statement. I was also told by an arro- LETTERS include neurological damage from gant British doctor that I was “hope- Ameeta Mathur, repeated doses of mercury and other lessly wrong.” Vaccine safety advocate Hepatitis B Vaccination Program factors in vaccines and that these prob- Dr. Kristine Severyn identified him to Director, lems manifest at a later stage of child- me as being on the payroll of a phar- Toronto, Publich Health Department hood development in the form of maceutical company. She is with the October 1, 2002 behavioral disorders and learning dis- Ohio Parents for Vaccine Safety. This ability in many of our youth. This kind was a disillusioning experience. Dear Ameeta, of adverse event has not been recog- There is much to criticize about the In October of 1999, my son Mark nized by the vaccine-pushers in govern- flaws in American medical culture. We was a student at JB Tyrrell Senior ment and industry. It needs to be are over-medicalized, over-diagnosed, Public School. We received notification researched and the risk levels need to over-drugged and over-vaccinated. A that all grade 7 students would be be measured. good argument was made along these immunized against Hepatitis B. there lines by Richard D. Lamm, former American public health agencies not were mild side effects outlined in the governor of Colorado. It is entitled interested literature provided. Unfortunately we “The Ethics of Excess,” and is in Unfortunately, I learned at the 1996 assumed that the information had been Public Health Reports, May/June CDC conference that the advanced well researched. 1996. No. 3. medical diagnostic system I had Mark received his first dose on designed to assess risk of HIV infec- October 23. Within days he developed About the Author: tions (which may also be applied to nausea, fatigue, a croup like cough Michael Wright is the inventor of an hepatitis B and chlamydia) did not which required Emergency room inter- innovative medical diagnostic system have a chance of being implemented by vention, headache and general malaise. designed to anonymously assess risk of American public health agencies. Other These sympotoms persisted on and off HIV infections. It can also be applied literature at the conference indicated over the next two months. We were to chlamydia and hepatitis B. It is a that the big push was on for indiscrim- assured that although they began soon state-of-the-art system for use by com- inate universal vaccination of infants after the Hepatitis B immunization, puters for medical diagnostic decision for hepatitis B. Since the hep B virus is there was no possibility that the two support (MDDS). He was the first in blood-borne and contracted by behav- were related. Countless times we were the medical press to report using a sys- iors and risk situations that usually told, “This is the safest vaccine on the tem of this nature. His project report don't emerge until adolescence or market.” The pharmaceutical compa- was published in the 1996 CDC con- adulthood, I think this practice is both nies have obviously been very effective ference abstracts. wasteful and hazardous from the at conveying their message. standpoint of adverse effects from vac- Michael Phillip Wright AIDS dissent By January, Mark was healthy again, cination. At the conference I noticed website readers can link to government attending school, playing competitive many booths of pharmaceutical com- websites confirming his grant history hockey. We were advised to get the panies. and publication record: second shot in the series, at a clinic at http://members.aol.com/mpwright9/aid the Scarborough Board of Education. British vaccine-pusher calls me s10.html Within 12 hours of the second immu- “Hopelessly wrong” http://members.aol.com/mpwright9/aid nization, Mark developed severe nau- In particular I remember one meet- s.html sea, fatigue, headache, photophobia ing in which there was a discussion and muscle pain. The croup like about vaccine safety. During the ques- Story excerpted from the Idaho cough returned and he was treated tion and comment period I made the Observer, - January 15, 2003. For the twice in ER for severe respiratory dis- statement that the decision to vaccinate full story – go to: tress. He developed dizziness and then for a particular disease should be http://proliberty.com/observ- an odd pattern of nausea and gagging based upon the comparison of two er/20030104.htm that would last for several hours at a risks: time. He was admitted to North York 1. the risk of contracting a serious General Hospital and invetigated by illness if not vaccinated; and an Infectious Disease Specialist. We 2. the risk of a serious adverse event if vaccinated. I recall that two CDC officials Letters cont. on page 16

VRAN Newsletter January - March 2003 Page 15 Letters cont. from page 15 cularly, have no significant side effects drug….. People with scientific back- were assured that he had contracted a or risks? Why aren’t physicians suspi- grounds are paid to stay in the shad- virus. Despite exhausitve viral studies, cious when an unusual and unex- ows and crank out favourable reports no virus was identified. Mark was plained illnes follows vaccine adminis- for drug companies. Then, drug com- bedridden and did not return to school tration? Why are these incidents not panies get doctors to put their names for 3 months. reported? on the studies - for money, prestige, or I spoke to several nurses at the Since Mark became ill, I have done a perks.” Toronto Public Health Department. I great deal of research. I would hope http://www.cbc.ca/consumers/indepth/ was told that they were not familiar that the Toronto Public Health medical/index.html with this type of adverse reaction. Department takes responsibility for Susan Fletcher responds They had no information about med- ensuring informed consent, communi- ical support for this type of situation. cating parents’ rights to forgo immu- “It is tragic that what used to be a They advised me to see my family doc- nization for reasons of conscience or noble and humanitarian pursuit, ie tor and made no attempt to follow religion, and for monitoring children pure science, is being systematically Mark’s progress. where an advers reaction is suspected. trashed by the contemptible trickery of Over the next three years, Mark All the potential risks of this vaccine ghostwriters, the medical professionals missed countless days of school. He should be clearly communicated. How who endorse their reports and, of suffered from nausea, fatigue, arthral- many parents know what Thimerosal course most of all, the pharmaceutical gia so severe he could barely walk to is? How do you expect them to know industry. With such a dragnet of decep- the bathroom, dizziness, headache, if their child has an to this mer- tion how are we to trust even the flushing, repeated bouts of gagging cury based preservative? Given all the "raw" data from research? How med- and multiple episodes of croup and information available about its toxic ical professionals and "scientists" can asthma. Even in grade 9, two years effects, why is the Toronto Public continue to mouth their reverence for after the initial immunizatin, he con- Health Department allowing a vaccine, the "god of science" while corrupting tinued to suffer from the same odd which still contains it, to be adminis- it to gain personal wealth and power is pattern of symptoms and was absent tered? beyond me. for a total of 89 school days. As a parent, I have watched my No greater deception has occurred After being assessed by a number of child suffer immeasureably. In light of than that of the vaccine industry where physicians at The Hospital for Sick increasing evidence that vaccines may newborns are offered up as sacrificial Children, he was finally diagnosed be linked to a wide spectrum of neuro- lambs, their guardians brainwashed with Chronic Fatigue Immune logic and autoimmune disorders, I urge into thinking they are doing the right Deficiency syndrome. What we had you to take your responsibility very thing for their child and society. suspected all along was finally seriously so that other children are not Neither they nor most of the medical acknowledged. There have been severe damaged by this vaccine. Be sure that profession who do the brainwashing, and debilitating side effects from the children like Mark don’t fall through having themselves been brainwashed in Hepatitis B vaccine. In the medical lit- the cracks. medical school, have a clue that these erature, this phenomenon has been children are participating in the real Sincerely, well documented. This was not an iso- "safety study". Maureen Dragasevich lated incident. The whole of the world’s population In retrospect, as a mother with a Note: We thank VRAN member, is gradually becoming increasingly baccalaureate degree in nursing, I real- Maureen D. for forwarding us the let- immune crippled through vaccine- ize how naïve it was to assume that the ter she wrote to Toronto Public induced loss of natural and passive potential side effects had been ade- Health, to which she has received no immunity and endangered by the quately communicated. In the acknowledgement of any kind. threat of vaccine-induced pathogenic Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and mutants. WE SHOULD ALL BE UP * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Specialties, every medication has a ON OUR FEET IN OUTRAGE! CBC T.V’s Marketplace Expose on complete listing, symtom by symptom, Susan’s response – Posted March 28, Medical Ghostwriting (Intro to the of side effects that have been identi- 2002 on Marketplace messageboard segment) fied, regardless of how rare. How http://interact.cbc.ca/cgi- could a genetically engineered protein March 25, 2003 -“Medical ghost- bin/WebX?8@@.ee8a9dc.773a90fe mixed with Thimerosal, a mercury writing. It's a world that could make based preservative, injected intramus- your doctor prescribe the wrong Letters cont. on page 17

Page 16 January - March 2003 VRAN Newsletter Letters cont. from page 16 drawal side effects and still trying to by pure chance. While on an Ottawa Scott and Sheri Hunter share Kirk’s make time to be a "normal" family for bound flight in February 2000, my Story - 3 years later the sake of our first son who is mostly father spoke by accident with a left to fend for himself. Watching his woman who worked for the Manitoba It's been a three year epic story of a parents struggle while his brother laps- Minister of Health. After hearing of battle-weary family persevering es into yet another intractable grand our story she referred him to a coura- through difficult heart-ripping pain mal seizure, turns blue and the EMT's geous woman she had met attempting and medical ridicule against all odds. arrive for the second time in two to change the way government sees It amazes me how time has screamed months with oxygen. Only the hearti- homeopathic care... enter Dr. Leelama by. Many of you in similar circum- est of old friends still call. Family is Nielsen. We decided to visit her as an stances can relate I'm sure. Watching scared to death to be within miles of after thought while attending my your child every hour of every day the demilitarized Hunter house but brothers wedding the following concerned that they might yet be eagerly offer unqualified help. September 2000. ripped from your steadfast grip. What a truly tragic story...it's surre- As Kirk's condition was aggravated Sleeping when you can, waking hun- al, beyond belief and it's happening to by the stress of travel he was having dreds of times through the night to us. It's been three years and we're 15 seizures a day several minutes long subtle changes in breathing patterns, completely and thoroughly rung out. when we walked into the clinic. We suffering through toxic drug therapy The story is incomplete however. were taken by surprise when Dr. your infant child won't take unless dis- The rest has yet to be written as Sheri Nielsen looked Kirk over and within guised in a meal, drugs designed to and I do all we can to influence the minutes declared without tests he had help that often can cause more trouble author…..we're writing a story of tri- a urinary tract infection. With equal than the disease. Then realizing he umph and faith. Despite the odds our haste she began shoving unmeasured refuses to eat because the food taste neurologist and statistics gave Kirk, he drops of Colubrina (a remedy) in his like drugs and still refusing to eat even is making incredible progress. Not the mouth, and when we began to when they are removed because of the kind you see as a casual observer but protest.…ours too. We were skeptical association. monolithic advances to the initiated. and afraid because previous attempts The emergency staff know you by After 16 months of 10 seizures a day to help Kirk homeopathically were met name, you fight daily a host of health (lasting10-20min each), on daily drug with even more seizures. We left for professionals, pediatricians, neurolo- therapy that included maximum doses Saskatoon the following day on a gists, that deny vaccine injury. You of tegretol (carbamazepine) and homeopathic regimen and Kirk went fight for occupational therapy, speech clobozam (frisium) as well as a 4:1 without a seizure for three weeks and language pathology, physio, and ketogenic diet, we now have a 3 year had one seizure a month total for the understanding. All the while research- old son that walks, runs, climbs stairs, next EIGHT following our visit ! He ing on your own the drugs, their side laughs, eats regular food (gluten-lac- had previously not enjoyed a seizure effects, alternative therapy, treatment tose free) and causes his brother trou- free day since the vaccine injury in options, traveling to city after city ble. He is gaining weight and growing December1999. We began to eliminate picking large professional brains too like a weed and most tegretol by Christmas, and by the fol- strained to really help. Trying to keep importantly…..drug free! He is not lowing April he was off all drugs. We employed as the bills mount, losing completely without seizures and does- slowly weaned him off the ketogenic income while a spouse becomes a full n't yet talk but is developing despite diet until completely by January 2002. time caregiver…..$'s for the Mayo the professionals’ insistence it was a Today he has small seizures that are clinic…..$'s for non-recovered drugs congenital condition possibly triggered purposefully aggravated by remedies and remedy costs, countless $'s on gas by vaccine. They said he would cease and has the occasional "bad day" as and hotels, unrecovered respite care, to develop beyond the onset of seizures we continue to right the immunologi- special therapy devices, diet scales, at 6 months. They were wrong! cal ship. Dr. Nielsen's clinic now processors, special organic food and His seizures were not congenital, enjoys another 100 or so clients made drink....and don't even talk about dia- they were a product of his own broken up of friends, family and other injured pers! $$$$! immune system hopelessly thrown into children who have witnessed Kirk's Exhaustively meeting and e-mailing chaos by the vaccine. The reason I progress. It's hasn't been easy as we health administrators, policy makers, know this is a direct result of his suc- still are strapped in every fashion. We politicians, pharmaceuticals, media cessful therapy. Over two years ago we can't yet imagine where the strength and governments...all the while work- began seeing a homeopath in Winnipeg ing through depression, Paxil with- Letters cont. on page 18

VRAN Newsletter January - March 2003 Page 17 Letters cont. from page 17 and money will come from each and ALWAYS DO YOUR HOMEWORK every day, but there are good days and By Priscilla Pajda began to notice that my nose would weeks, and that for now is enough. bleed frequently. Some episodes would It is important to Sheri and I to tell Lupus is a devastating autoimmune last up to one hour. Weeks passed and others our story of hope knowing there disease that no one should have to deal I returned home to begin another is precious little out there. In no mea- with, let alone a teenager with the rest school year. It was in the fall of that sure do we profess others might see the of her life ahead of her. My name is year that I was called into the emer- same results, but truly feel we must Priscilla and I am currently 22 years gency department because my nose share the seeming miracle God and this old and have been coping with this life would not stop bleeding. My family woman have performed thus far. We altering disease for the past five years. doctor had found a low platelet count cannot know what's ahead and it's As a teenager, I was active, energetic in one of my blood tests from blood very much two steps forward - one and healthy with no major health con- work to determine why I was bruising. back. We can only pray things will cerns other than the odd cold. I went At that point, I was diagnosed with continue to improve. We encourage to school, played the piano, worked a ITP. I was first injected with platelets, those who would like to know more to part-time job, and was a member of which did not help, then later I was contact us through Edda West at the Royal Canadian Sea Cadets attend- treated with high dose oral steroids, VRAN. For Kirk's original story, ing and teaching various summer train- intravenous steroids and another form Collateral Damage, visit ing programs. I was a happy girl of treatment, which seemed to work www.vran.org enjoying my life and looking forward well was IVIG (gamma-globulin). I to new experiences. I was not expect- went through several of the IVIG treat- ing the subsequent events that changed ments, which seemed to improve my my life after receiving the hepatitis B platelets and bring them from a dan- vaccination. gerously low 2,000 up to an acceptable In grade eleven, my high school was 50,000 (normal range from 150,000 to running a mandatory hepatitis B vacci- 400,000). I was taking a regular dose nation clinic. We were all obligated to of oral steroids called Prednisone to receive the vaccine. The school had keep my immune system under control provided us with an information pack- so that my platelets would remain sta- age about the vaccine, which led my ble. This treatment seemed to work mother and I to believe that the vac- for a while; however, prednisone is an cine was safe and that by taking it, it anti-inflammatory drug that suppresses could only help. Nowhere amongst the immune system. Soon after, I came the two pages were listed any of the down with a cold which caused anoth- side affects associated with the vacci- er steep drop in my platelets and; nation. My mother signed the consent therefore, I had to endure more aggres- form and I received a series of three sive treatment. At this point, my shots, the last was in April of 1997. Oncologist had tested me for Lupus; Shortly after, I began to notice changes the results had read that I was on the in my health. borderline of Lupus. The doctor had In the summer of 1997, I was seven- told me that Lupus was an autoim- teen years old and attending a summer mune disorder and that I need not training course in Kingston, Ontario worry since I was only borderline. I for 8 weeks. It was additional training listened to him and tried to move on offered by the Sea Cadet program with my life. which required a high amount of phys- After hurdling over this first obstacle ical exercise. I was rather excited and with my health, my mother and I had up to the task; however, throughout begun researching about my condition. the duration of the 8 weeks, I began to Upon digging through various reports, notice that I would bruise fairly easily, we discovered one that linked the and most bruises, I was unable to hepatitis B vaccination with various explain what had caused them. I Do Your Homework cont. on page 19

Page 18 January - March 2003 VRAN Newsletter Do Your Homework cont. from page 18 reaction to the cyclophosphomide and to counter the effects of other drugs. I diseases such as multiple sclerosis, I had to convince my doctors that I was concerned about the side effects I Lupus, ITP and the many more. If would not take any more of that drug. was experiencing from the various only we had received this information Over the next few weeks, my kidney medications. I felt that the drugs alone package before the vaccine, we would function began to improve, enough so would not cure me. I researched alter- have been better informed and would that I was able to be discharged from native methods to combine with my have fought not to receive the vaccine. the hospital and go home. Due to the medical treatment. Over the next few For one year, my platelets were on a ill effects of the cyclophosphomide years, I went to see iridologists, home- roller coaster ride, going up and down treatment and my medical condition, opaths and even a doctor that practices constantly. My mother and I even my muscle mass decreased as did my in environmental medicine. I changed went to see an ITP specialist at strength. It was difficult to walk and my diet, taken herbal supplements and McMaster University in London, climb stairs. I was eventually rehabili- vitamins, anything that could possibly Ontario. The doctor strongly suggest- tated and after three months of thera- help. I even went to see a chiropractor ed that I have my spleen removed, py and extra tutoring, I was able to and an acupuncturist to see if they because he felt that this would be the return to school to complete my final could help. best possible treatment. I decided, year and graduate from high school. Furthermore, the dialysis was physi- with the support of my mother that I Over the next couple of years, my cally and emotionally draining. I had would keep my spleen. I felt that disease seemed to be well managed. I no strength or energy to do anything. removing my spleen would not be the was able to complete one year of stud- I was constantly miserable. I even answer. ies at the University of Toronto; how- changed my acupuncturist to one that I continued treatment with pred- ever, in October of 2000, my lupus used a different technique. While nisone and began to notice the undesir- flared up and I was admitted to the going to him for treatment, I also able physical side affects of bloating hospital yet again. This time around, changed my diet. I avoided meat and and weight gain. This continued over the kidneys were hit even harder. I animal products and continued to do the year and in the fall of 1998, I was experiencing renal failure. In so over the next 6 weeks. After 8 began to notice severe joint pain, order to save them, and myself, my months of being dialysis dependant, I migraines, nausea, which I thought doctors started me on kidney dialysis. was able to stop dialysis. My doctors were all symptoms of the flu. I soon In one week, I gained 50 pounds of were amazed that I did not need any- realized that it was something much water weight and ballooned out to the more dialysis since my blood tests were more serious. When I started to notice point where it felt like my skin was relatively stable. that my urine was turning red, that is cracking. It was very difficult for me I know that my kidneys are severely when I visited my family doctor. Upon to walk and I was practically bed-rid- scarred and could never be repaired; looking at the urine sample, she den until the dialysis machine was able however, I am grateful that for the acknowledged that there was a prob- to remove a considerable amount of time being, I do not require dialysis. I lem and the test confirmed that my water from my body. To this day I closely monitor the status of my condi- kidneys were in distress. Upon further have horrible stretch marks all over my tion and continue to take my medica- testing in the emergency department, body that may fade with time, but tion along with alternate forms of my Oncologist re-diagnosed me with never go away. After spending three treatment. To conclude, I regret taking acute Lupus Nephritis and I was hospi- months in my hospital bed, I was the Hepatitis B vaccination. I believe talized for the following four weeks. cleared to go home; however, I would that if I refused the vaccine, I would He later told me that the ITP was the have to return to the hospital 3 times a currently be living a normal and beginning of my disease with Lupus. week to be dialyzed for four hours healthy life. To this day, none of my He also told me that this was grade each time. Needless to say, I was family members have taken the four Lupus, the most aggressive form unable to complete my second year of Hepatitis B vaccination nor would they that attacks the body itself, in my case, university and I am still waiting to be even consider it. After diligently the kidneys. Not only did I now have healthy enough to resume my studies. researching the side effects of various low platelets, but also my kidneys were Although I am still being treated vaccinations, they have chosen to now on the verge of shutting down. with prednisone, I have been taking a decline the newly advocated Flu vac- The doctors tried all sorts of treat- cocktail of other drugs; some to sup- cine. My advice to anyone who is con- ment from high dose steroids, IVIG press my immune system, one to lower sidering taking any sort of vaccina- and even cyclophosphomide (a form of blood pressure and another to lower tion…please do your homework! chemotherapy). I had a bad allergic my heart rate. Some drugs I take are

VRAN Newsletter January - March 2003 Page 19 a cover for vaccine induced injuries SHAKEN BABY SYNDROME and medical malpractice is familiar to many. In the prevailing climate, this A COVER FOR VACCINE INJURY could happen to any one of us. Yurko Dr.Patrick D. Barnes, M.D., is one of hundreds, possibly thousands The father of a two month old Pediatric Neuroradiolgist, cautions of innocent parents who have been Calgary boy, who suffered bleeding in about jumping to conclusions when imprisoned for SBS which has replaced the brain and retinal hemorrhaging, diagnosing brain injuries - "To date, sudden infant death syndrome as a faced a charge of aggravated assault in there is no scientific basis that indi- cover for vaccine induced injuries. connection with injuries discovered cates how much, or how little force is Despite being born premature and after the child was admitted to hospital necessary to produce traumatic injury having a multitude of health problems for emergency care. The court was to the developing CNS, (central ner- contraindicating the administration of told that the baby was in good health vous system)…..The medical and imag- vaccines, the baby Alan was injected at 7 a.m., then deteriorated later in the ing evidence, particularly where there with the most reactive lot of DTaP vac- day and was rushed to hospital. is only CNS injury, cannot accurately cine, one of 810 vaccine “hot” lots Pediatric specialist in child abuse, Dr. diagnose presumed intentional injury.” reported to the U.S.Vaccine Adverse Neil Cooper testified that the baby had He goes on to say that there are many Event Reporting System (VAERS). all the “typical injuries associated with clinical features that may mimic abuse, Contributing to the baby’s death on having been violently shaken.” which include……”accidental injury, admittance to hospital for “cardiac Under cross-examination by the certain coagulopathies, vascular dis- arrest and apnea”, were excessive defense lawyer Laurie Hnatiuk, eases, infectious or post-infectious doses of sodium bicarbonate and 8.8 Cooper said it is not uncommon for conditions (e.g. post vaccinal), meta- times the amount of heparin recom- children to be shaken shortly after bolic disorders, neoplastic diseases, mended for an infant, causing bleeding being immunized. The baby had his certain therapies, and some congenital of the brain and all the symptoms two-month shots five days prior – and dysplastic disorders.” (2) leading to the misdiagnosis of SBS. because they become irritable and Frighteningly, the Canadian Joint More than two dozen autopsy mis- “people lose it easier” in those Statement on Shaken Baby Syndrome, takes have been identified which instances. an official policy paper endorsed by include listing baby Alan as black (story reported in Calgary Herald, Health Canada and other agencies, is when he is white, a head circumference Nov.5/02) (1) constructed on erroneous, and scientif- 10 cms less than when he was born, a Child abuse “experts” in North ically unsubstantiated presumptions detailed exam of non existent heart tis- America, UK, Australia jump on any that promulgate the SBS myth and sue as baby Alan’s heart and internal case that involves brain swelling/bleeds ignores recent studies which disprove organs were “harvested” for trans- and retinal bleeding as grounds for SBS violent shaking as the sole cause of plants to other infants prior to autop- prosecution. In their determination to these type of injuries.(3)(5) sy. prove child abuse, they refuse to con- Dr. Harold E. Buttram, M.D. has, Last December, two Florida men’s sider evidence of vaccine complicity in for several years intensely studied the sentences were commuted when it was brain injuries. Shaken Baby Syndrome field of SBS and followed the work of discovered an incompetent medical (SBS) remains an unproven theory, yet veteran physicians and researcher in examiner incorrectly established the is increasingly used to prosecute inno- this field. In his detailed rebuttal to deaths of the babies in their care to be cent parents whose babies succumb to the Joint Statement on SBS he shows shaken baby syndrome. Since the life threatening vaccine injuries. that many of the premises and claims release of those two men, local media Writes Dr. Frederick H. Roy, M.D. on which SBS accusations and convic- interest in Yurko’s case has increased in Ocular Differential Diagnosis, tions are being made are flawed and dramatically and Yurko supporters all “increased intracranial pressure (from erroneous…“if a large portion of SBS over the world have been writing let- any cause) are listed as possible causes accusations are the result of misdiag- ters, sending emails and faxes, and of retinal hemorrhages, as well as the nosis, as many are coming to believe, making phone calls to those who could DPT, polio, and MMR vaccines. then we are witnessing a rapidly grow- have a say in reopening this case. Retinal hemorrhages have been caused ing reign of terror against the families If Yurko’s appeal is heard and won, or by occlusion of the central retinal vein of English-speaking countries.” (4) sentence is commuted, a convincing following a hepatitis B vaccine, and The tragic case of Alan Yurko, precedent will have been set and other childhood resuscitation following wrongfully sentenced to serve life + ten events other than trauma.” (4) years for the death of his baby boy as Shaken Baby Syndrome cont. on page 21

Page 20 January - March 2003 VRAN Newsletter Shaken Baby Syndrome cont. from page 20 innocent parents may be released from OOOPS - prison. Your supportive letters will greatly enhance Alan Yurko’s chances WHO LET THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG ? for a successful appeal. portion of people with peanut allergy Editor’s note: With appreciation to rises along with consumption but it's Sample letters: long time VRAN member Rita more than that. There are factors to do http://www.vaclib.org/news/dyurkolet- Hoffman for sending us this admission with how we vaccinate our kids very ter.htm#letters from allergist, Dr. Peter Vadas, early on in life, how much drugs, Yurko website: Research, articles, Director of Allergy and Clinical antibiotics we give the kids early on in appeal documents: Immunology at St. Michael’s Hospital life all of which tend to predispose www.freeyurko.bizland.com in Toronto when he appeared on more towards allergy. Health on the Line – Discovery Health Final Note: The Yurko Project is in Channel, 2002. Says Rita, “ Perhaps A. Haines: So do you think early vacci- desperate need of funds in order for we are at least partly responsible for nation is not a good thing? the upcoming appeal trial to have the forcing these allergists to deal with the successful outcome we are anticipating. immune system carnage that has been P. Vadas: No, I think it's a wonderful Donations can be made at: caused by vaccination. It looks like thing. It's an absolutely crucial thing http://freeyurko.bizland.com/donate they can't deny it any longer!! from the standpoint of public health to minimize the likelihood of severe infec- References: A. Haines: Welcome back. Joining us tions, but on the other hand, one of 1. Pediatrician tells court baby violently now is Dr. Peter Vadas, Director of the spin offs is that there are a certain shaken; Calgary Herald, Nov.5/02 Allergy and Clinical Immunology at St. proportion of the population that are 2. Patrick D. Barnes, M.D. Ethical Issues in Imaging Nonaccidental Injury: Child Michael's Hospital in Toronto. Dr. going to be more prone to developing Abuse; Topics in Magnetic Resonance Vadas has written numerous research allergies as a consequence of that. Imaging Vol. 13 No. 2 :85-94, Nov. articles about allergies. Thank you for 2002 3. Health Canada weblink to Joint being here. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Statement on SBS: http://www.hc- sc.gc.ca/dca-dea/publications/jointstate- P. Vadas: It's my pleasure. Says Rita, “The sad part is the inter- ment_web_e.html viewer left it at that. Further on in the 4 Dr. Harold E. Buttram, M.D. A Rebuttal to the Joint Statement on Shaken Baby A. Haines: I wanted to ask you first show it showed that as many as Syndrome, Minister of Public Works and off, as an expert in this field, whether 600,000 Canadians may be affected by Government Services, Ottawa, 2001. – or not we are seeing more peanut aller- anaphylaxis. All that immune system www.vran.org General Issues – Shaken Baby Syndrome gies or is it just that there is more carnage for the so called “good of all”. 5 Brain Study Casts Doubt on Shaken awareness? Between 1986 and 1990 there were 63 Baby Deaths : The Telegraph 21/06/01 deaths in Canada from anaphylaxis. reports new study lead by Dr. Jennian Geddes, Journal Brain as reported in the P. Vadas: No, there is a combination of "A conservative estimate is that 2% of New Scientist June 13, 2001 both factors. Generally speaking all the population (approx. 600,000 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?x allergies are on the rise in Western Canadians) may be affected by poten- ml=/connected/2001/06/21/eenshak21.xml&secureR Industrialized nations and that includes tially life-threatening allergies". - efresh=true&_requestid=150771 food allergies in particular and peanut Source Anaphylaxis Network of allergies specifically. Canada

A. Haines: Why is that?

P. Vadas: Well, there are a number of factors, it's a little bit technical, but the easy answer is part of it has to do with the amount of consumption. There is more exposure to peanuts at susceptible ages and if you look at the amount of consumption then the pro-

VRAN Newsletter January - March 2003 Page 21 VACCINE REACTION REPORTS Currently Canada has no accessible vaccine reaction reporting system, and Health Canada’s unspoken policy seems to be to block the search for records of vaccine adverse reactions – to make it so difficult that only the most persistent will succeed in obtaining these records. The following is from the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS). Please remember it represents between 1-10% of vaccine reactions that actually happen. The majority, 90% or more of vaccine reactions, injuries and deaths remain unreported and obscured. In Canada, death following vaccination is not counted in any official records that we are aware of, but hidden away and lumped into Sudden Infant Death statistics.

Adverse Reactions reported to VAERS from Deaths reported to VAERS from 1999-2002, age 0-6 years. 1999-2002, age 0-6 years Source: http://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/ DTaP - 394 deaths reported DTaP - 16,544 adverse reactions reported Flu - 11 Flu - 419 Hep - 642 Hep - 13,363 Hib - 843 Hib - 22,463 MMR - 110 MMR - 18,680 OPV - 866 OPV - 22,915 *VARC - 34 (1995-2002) *VARC - 11,246 (1995-2002) * VARC = Chickenpox vaccine Hospitalizations reported to VAERS from 1999-2002, age 0-6 years. DTaP - 1,631 hospitalizations reported Flu - 41 Hep - 1,840 Hib - 3,224 MMR - 1,736 OPV - 2,868 *VARC - 576 (1995-2002) NEWSCLIPS Ontario Universal Flu Program a Dud jcmu/004-00.cjem/vol-4.2002/v44- and Surgeons For the complete article A retrospective study of 5 Ontario 245.htm go to: http://www.aapsonline.org hospitals published in the July, 2002 Health Canada states that mercury issue of Canadian Journal of Childhood Vaccines Linked to Autism, based thimerosal, has been removed Emergency Medicine found that “there Heart Disease - March 27, 2003 from 11 of the “routinely recommend- was no significant correlation between A new study authored by Dr. Mark ed” pediatric vaccines currently in use influenza rates and Emergency Geier, M.D., President of the Genetic in Canada, but that trace amounts still Department volumes.” Data from 5 Centers of America, appears to con- remain in some from the manufactur- hospitals showed that, “during influen- firm the link between thimerosal con- ing process. According to table 3 of za season, acute respiratory diagnoses taining vaccines and the proliferation Health Canada’s statement on accounted for only 4.4% of ED visits of neurodevelopment disorders such as thimerosal, “many licensed vaccines and influenza for only 0.34% of visits. autism, speech disorders, as well as contain thimerosal as a preservative”. During the influenza season after the heart disease. Over the last 20 years, Presumably these are for adult use. For universal immunization campaign, ED and since the widespread use of the Statement on Thimerosal and vac- visits increased at all sites. The study thimerosal in vaccines, autism rates cine tables, please refer to: concluded that, “a universal influenza have increased by more than 800 per- http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/pphb- immunization campaign is unlikely to cent, from one in about 2,500 children dgspsp/publicat/ccdr-rmtc/03vol29/acs- affect ED volume.” Since 2000, in the mid-1980s to one in about 300 dcc-1/index.html Ontario has spent over $100 million children in 1996. The findings of the Third death after smallpox shot, on its “universal” flu vaccine program. study are published in the current issue restrictions urged – Mar. 28/03 http://www.caep.ca/004.cjem- of the Journal of American Physicians

Page 22 January - March 2003 VRAN Newsletter Newsclips cont. from page 22 tigations into thimerosal and adverse Fletcher’s complete letter go to: The Centers for Disease Control and neurological outcomes. http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/elet- Prevention's Advisory Committee on http://www.safeminds.org/ ters/168/5/533 Vaccine Practices (ACIP) held an emer- Vaccine Articles in Canadian Medical Voices of Safety International (VOISI) gency meeting to discuss two heart Association Journal A Voices of Safety International attack deaths, two incidents of heart The March, 2003 issue of the report has concluded that “Children inflammation, and three cases of chest Canadian Medical Association Journal who received all of the AAP recom- pain in healthcare workers who had has published several interesting vac- mended vaccinations were 14 times recently received the smallpox vaccine. cine articles that offer a glimpse of the more likely to become learning dis- The third death was a 55 year old prevailing mindset and are available on abled and 8 times more likely to National Guardsman who was found line at: http://www.cmaj.ca/cti/collec- become autistic compared with chil- to have “substantial” heart disease. tion/vaccination?page=1 dren who were never vaccinated.” The The virus used in the vaccine, vaccinia Best of all is Susan Fletcher’s bold research is based on the response from virus, is known to cause inflammation and feisty letter to the editor, which parents of approximately 1400 chil- of the heart muscle and lining, so the the CMAJ has also posted on its web- dren. The children were divided into cases of inflammation were not sur- site, and titled “Why all the Chronic three groups: those who received prising, said Melinda Wharton of the Diseases in Children? Canada Needs "All", "Some" or "None" of routinely CDC's National Immunization Rigorous Vaccine Studies” Following recommended vaccines. Report and Program. Some experts speculate that is an excerpt from her letter: research tables can be viewed at: the inflammatory reaction to the live “It is heartening to see that Health http://www.voicesofsafety.com/t1-ph- virus might be triggering heart attacks Canada and public health authorities v50-2-research-addendum.htm or other problems in people already at are now starting to show concern VOISI is also working to set stan- risk. Excerpted from : about the dismal state of Canadians’ dards for newborn screening for http://www.reutershealth.com/en/index. health, especially young Canadians’, immunologic fragility. In the first stan- html and actively promote lifestyle changes. dard for screening the strength of a EPA Children’s Health Report Altered But with all the autism, learning dis- newborn's immune system before giv- Parents are questioning how a pur- abilities, asthma, diabetes, etc afflicting ing the Hep B shot, the results of a portedly comprehensive report released so many of our children today it is recent 1623 sample study showed that by the U.S. Environmental Protection imperative that we go beyond that and approximately 2 1/2% of newborns Agency (EPA), that clearly acknowl- find and rout the environmental and have hyper IgE, a sign of immunune edges concerns about mercury damage other factors that are causing this anomaly. V50.3A - Standard to Delay to the neurological development of chronic disease. Vaccine information Vaccinating Newborns fetuses, infants and children, can fail groups such as the one to which I http://www.voicesofsafety.com/tl-ph- to mention vaccines, a major source of belong have for many years suggested v50-3a-standard.htm exposure to these vulnerable groups. a connection between such disease and National Immunization Conference They have accused the Environmental the use of vaccines, especially multi- Victoria, B.C. - December, 2002 Protection Agency (EPA) of altering dose vaccines. To date we have not A main conference theme was the the report and failing to include vac- seen any NIH reviews or vaccine trials development of a national immuniza- cines as an important source of mer- that have had the validity to conclu- tion strategy which would co-ordinate cury exposure. Lyn Redwood, RN, sively show that such a connection vaccine agendas across Canada. On a President of SAFE MINDS and parent does not exist. In view of the tremen- humorous note, health officials are of a child who received 125 times his dous amount of non-infectious disease looking for chiropractors willing to EPA allowable exposure to mercury in our children, I propose that, rather forward the cause of vaccinations. from thimerosal containing vaccines, than lobby the federal government for There’s also a rather humorous picture asks, "How can EPA caution pregnant additional universal vaccine programs, of the Queen waving a stick over Dr. women to avoid tuna that contains the CMAJ lobby the government to Arlene King of the Planning approximately 17 mcg of mercury, but sponsor vaccine trials of unquestion- Committee as if knighting her for vac- remain silent on the fact that some able rigour so that once and for all we cination deeds well done: infants were exposed to 237.5 mcg of can determine whether or not vaccines http;//www.hc-sc.gc.ca/pphb- mercury from their vaccines?" Parents are a source of chronic ill health in our dgspsp/cnic-ccni/2002/dn-pq- are demanding the original EPA report children….. It’s my guess that, if this 02/20021202_e.html#a be released immediately and that were done, it might lead to a different money be allocated for unbiased inves- “Enlightenment”. To read Susan

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VRAN Newsletter March - June 2002 Page 25 Hepatitis A Vaccine cont. on page 27

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VRAN Newsletter March - June 2002 Page 37 THE SUM OF ALL FEARS by Kathy Blanco

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Page 38 March - June 2002 VRAN Newsletter The Sum of All Fears cont. from page 38 FETAL ALCOHOL EFFECTS OR IMMUNIZATION EFFECTS? by Diane Fuller

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