*I.P.Newsletter3_2008:Informed Parent 12/12/08 11:05 Page 1 THE PARENT ISSUE THREE 2008 ANEWSLETTERONVACCINATIONISSUESANDHEALTH HOLLYWOOD TAKES ON THE MMR JAB SUNDAY EXPRESSinformthe number of vaccines. Weed want the Wakefield, a father of four, is now toxic ingredients removed and based in Texas, where he operates a 12 October 2008 independent safety studies carried out. charity-run clinic called Thoughtful S CELEBRITIES VOICE their Few parents questioned the use of House for treatment of and research concerns about the triple vaccine the combined vaccine when it was into autism. About 2,000 autistic and measles outbreaks continue to introduced into the UK in October children are being treated. Dr Aplague Britain, Health Editor, LUCY 1988. However things changed Wakefield and two other colleagues, JOHNSTON speaks exclusively to irrevocably in 1998 when Dr Andrew Professor Simon Murch and Professor Andrew Wakefield, the doctor who Wakefield, then a gut specialist at John Walker-Smith, are currently started the debate. London’s Royal Free Hospital awaiting a decision from the General When Tour de France champion, published an explosive article in The Medical Council about whether the Lance Armstrong, and actress Lancet linking autism with MMR. research they conducted in the UK Jenny McCarthy hosted a fundraising breached ethical codes. gala in California recently for families In a rare and exclusive interview “High profile critics of MMR convinced that MMR caused autism in with the Sunday Express Dr Wakefield their children, a debate that has never now include actor Jim Carrey, defended himself against critics and really gone away was thrown to the his girlfriend Jenny McCarthy, denied he was “courting celebrities” to fore once more. and the all-girl rock group the promote his theory. The star-studded event in aid of Dixie Chicks. McCarthy and “I have only met Jenny McCarthy a Ante Up For Autism, highlighted Carrey were recently given an couple of times. I have never tried to the fact that the controversy hour on the Oprah Winfrey influence her,” he said. “She has her surrounding the triple vaccine is now own story to tell about how she blames becoming a celebrity issue. Show to promote her new the vaccine for her son’s autism. Her Meanwhile, in Britain, last week best-selling book, Mother story is so similar to that of many saw the 20th anniversary of the Warriors, which maintains other mothers who say their children controversial triple jab. that vaccines can trigger were developing normally until they High profile critics of MMR now autism in infants. ” had the MMR jab between 12- and include actor Jim Carrey, his girlfriend 18-months, when they developed a Jenny McCarthy, and the all-girl rock form of regressive autism. She is an group the Dixie Chicks. The medical establishment important voice and I have McCarthy and Carrey were recently and government turned on Dr tremendous respect for her courage in given an hour on the Oprah Winfrey Wakefield. He was forced out of his speaking out.” Show to promote her new best-selling job and has been blamed for the Dr Wakefield and his team book, Mother Warriors, which significant drop in uptake of MMR, identified a bowel disorder that causes maintains that vaccines can trigger leading to fears over the widespread “leaky guts”. He theorised that the autism in infants. She says her 6-year- return of the diseases the jab is virus damages the gut, leading to old son Evan developed the symptoms designed to protect against. inflammation and secondary injury to following his triple jab. Last week, a Health Protection the developing brain. He believes this “After the MMR Evan started Agency spokesman pleaded with syndrome, unique to some autistic having seizures,” she said. “After I parents to give their children the children, could be caused by the triple treated his medical issues, which the MMR, pointing to new figures that jab after studies found the measles medical establishment continues to revealed an increase of 231 cases of part of the vaccine virus present in ignore, my son recovered from autism measles from 2006 -2007, bringing the gut. and he is not the only one. I talked to the total number to 971. Overall His critics pronounce him a 60,000 mothers and kept hearing the vaccination rates are currently running maverick but his work has since same story. at 85 per cent across the country but been replicated by other studies from “Vaccines are safe for some children some areas such as London have rates Italy, South America and various and not for others. We want to reduce as low as 49 per cent. centers in the US. › ISSUE THREE 2008 www.informedparent.co.uk 1 *I.P.Newsletter3_2008:Informed Parent 12/12/08 11:05 Page 2

American researchers revealed in 2006 DO GOVERNMENT’S STILL Northants, did not know Hannah had that 85 per cent of samples taken CONCEAL EVIDENCE AND been given the strain of vaccine later from 82 autistic children contained COVER UP? withdrawn after it was deemed unsafe. the vaccine strain of the measles The Sunday Express has discovered In March 1992 a Government tribunal virus. evidence that health officials failed to blamed the vaccine for her death and Recently the former head of the warn of serious risks linked with the the family was awarded a vaccine National Institute of Health in the MMR jab before it was introduced. damage payment. US and the head of the US Centers for According to a secret dossier, five cases Dr Peter Fletcher, former Chief Disease Control and were reported of potentially deadly Scientific Officer at the Department Prevention (CDC) have acknowledged brain inflammation following the use of Health, is also sceptical about the that poor study design may have led of MMR in Canada before it became Government’s position and the safety of to underestimation of the risk of part of standard childhood vaccinations the triple jab. autism following vaccines. in Britain. In a previous interview he said: “The Wakefield said no parent of the refusal by governments to evaluate the children treated at the Royal Free or risks properly will make this one of the at Thoughtful House had ever “Dr Peter Fletcher, former Chief greatest scandals in medical history. complained about his work and that Scientific Officer at the Dept There are very powerful people in his aim was to make sure the of Health, is also sceptical positions of great authority who have children’s problems are recognised about the Government’s staked their reputations on the safety of and treated appropriately. position and the safety of MMR and they are willing to do “My sole purpose is to help these the triple jab. In a previous almost anything to protect children and get to grips with the root themselves.” interview he said: “The refusal of the problem, which is what I am Wakefield does not claim he is doing,” he said. “Despite having by governments to evaluate right about the link with autism but discovered an apparently new disease the risks properly will make he believes it needs investigating, not my colleagues and I are being vilified this one of the greatest ridiculing. In the meantime he says purely because of the vaccine scandals in medical history. “ the Government should offer parents association. This link has threatened the choice of single vaccines. He has, Government policy and drug-company he says, privately asked vaccine policy profit. What we’re witnessing over the The internal documents from the makers why this is not happening and triple jab is a propaganda campaign Government’s Joint Committee been told that “offering single jabs based on who has the biggest budget. on Vaccination and Immunisation would destroy the triple jab I have none while the budget of the meeting also reveal reports that another programme.” UK Government and its allies is brand of MMR had caused This, he feels is not good enough. limitless.” “neurological complications” from the “The first priority should be to protect Dr Wakefield, who is to publish a measles component of the vaccine in children from infection with safe book, The Lesser Truth, on his the US. The minutes of the committee vaccines. A cloud of doubt has been experiences over the controversy next on vaccination meeting in 1988, cast over the safety of MMR and year, added: “Unfortunately much released under the Freedom of parents should have a choice.” of Britain’s media has bought into Information Act, blame the mumps However, parents looking for this this propaganda lock, stock and component of the vaccine, called choice are finding it increasingly barrel. Without the manpower or Urabe, for five cases of brain difficult to obtain single jabs with financial back up, I have waited, inflammation. the handful of private clinics offering watched and just got on with my Despite this, from 1988 these brands them often running out of supplies. work. Now the time has come to tell were administered routinely without The Department of Health insists the story.” any warning of serious risk until the the vaccine is safe. A spokesperson He cites parallels between his story two brands that contained the Urabe said: “We believe that the vaccine has and that of Dr. William McBride, the mumps strain were withdrawn four an excellent safety record and studies Australian gynaecologist who first years later because of health fears. have confirmed this. Neither alerted the world to the danger of Some children died or were seriously population-based studies or studies in thalidomide, the morning sickness brain damaged by this vaccine. One of individual children have confirmed a drug that caused widespread foetal these was Hannah Buxton, who was 18 link between MMR vaccine and malformation, in 1961 in a letter to months old when she reacted to her autism.” The Lancet. Drug manufacturers and first MMR jab given in the first week European governments resisted the of the new campaign. She started However, with Hollywood’s renewed withdrawal of thalidomide until the having fits and died 18 months later in interest it seems this important weight of evidence and media pressure February 1992. debate has moved ever further from a was overwhelming. Parents Carol and Tony of Towcester, resolution.

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Editor’s note HERE IS THE LAST view of immunity is highly questionable anyway, and ISSUE FOR 2008, which so how they would expect to be able to detect something I hope you will find they don’t really understand in the first place is quite a interesting and thought- task!! provoking! However, here are some of the authors’s points as to the Many thanks for your possible reasons for inaccurate test results: continued support and words • Frequent inaccurate report results by inexperienced of encouragement, this has health professionals enabled me to continue with • The fact that a negative tuberculin skin test never The Informed Parent and rules out TB also keep the paper version of • That a variety of host-related factors such as young or Magda Taylor the newsletter available for old age, poor nutrition, immunosuppression by the time being. Many of you kindly sent me your email disease or drugs, viral infections and so on addresses and I do hope to be able to email updates and • False positive reactions also occur forthcoming events in the year ahead! • Recent exposure to environmental mycobacteria can I was recently contacted by one subscriber who was result in cross-sensitization leading to false positive under pressure to have a Mantoux test (she was reactions rejoining the NHS and they wanted to ‘check’ her • The appropriate cutoff size indicating a positive immunity to TB), and she was reluctant to agree. I reaction varies with the person being tested and with referred to a rather large and pro-vaccine publication related epidemiological factors. entitled: ‘Vaccines’ by Plotkin and Mortimer to see So many confounding factors, how on earth do they what they had to say about the test. I was not surprised know what they are doing???!!! to see that the Mantoux test results varied greatly, Wishing you a healthy and happy 2009! making it difficult to establish the usefulness of the test. As many of you are aware the present orthodox Magda Taylor, Editor.

more confident about the vaccine. (Perhaps it is another way Yet another dose of rash to try and increase uptake by giving the impression that more statements on measles parents are saying yes, in the hope that others will follow.) The portrayal of measles is so unbelievably exaggerated that it ONCE AGAIN parents are being subjected to yet another is no wonder many parents grow worried. And yet compared scaremongering campaign on the potential of a ‘so-called’ to, say, travelling in a car there is a much greater risk of death measles epidemic. Dr Mary Ramsey, an immunisation ‘expert’ or serious injuries than any negative consequences from from the Health Protection Agency, has been recently quoted measles. in the media regarding measles. For example, in The Measles is an acute childhood illness, which most Guardian, 28 November 2008, Dr Ramsey is quoted as reasonably healthy children will sail through, and is actually saying: "This rise is due to relatively low MMR vaccine uptake beneficial for their well-being as it is an elimination process over the past decade and there are now a large number of which is necessary for those that develop it. If toxins have children who are not fully vaccinated with MMR. This means accumulated in their systems then the body will mount an that measles is spreading easily among unvaccinated children." elimination, and this may be expressed as a case of measles. If What does ‘not fully vaccinated’ mean exactly? Often it the disease is allowed to run its course and at no stage means that one dose of MMR was given – it does not mean the suppressed the child will swiftly recover and be healthier for child was totally unvaccinated. When there are a few measles it! Complications do not happen randomly as indicated in the cases reported there is usually no mention of their vaccination scaremongering propaganda – there will be underlying status, which is more likely to indicate that they were reasons or total mismanagement and suppression of the vaccinated, as the Dept. of Health would be very quick to symptoms for problems to occur. point out an unvaccinated case in an attempt to scare parents As one subscriber wrote to me after his children had just to vaccinate. It is often what is not said that is more revealing! been through a bout of measles: ‘They had no problems and Threats of measles epidemics have consistently occurred this has confirmed to me that the fear of the childhood over the years, almost on a regular basis, especially since the illnesses are much worse than the reality.’ introduction of the MMR in 1988. One minute we are being If you do have any worries about measles I urge you to told that the uptake of MMR is low and that there will be study more about the role of acute childhood illnesses and measles outbreaks. Then the next minute we are being told how they play a necessary role in improving the overall health that the uptake is picking up and that parents are becoming of the child! Magda Taylor, Editor.

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worsened. Her stomach became bloated made preliminary investigations and 10-month-old and she suffered loose motion. have registered a case. A postmortem This morning, as the child became has been ordered and the report is baby dies after weak and fainted, the parents rushed her awaited. to the Tiruchengode GH where the Meanwhile, the department of public vaccine shot doctors declared the baby “brought health sources said that 11 children were given vaccine shots on Tuesday at the EXPRESS BUZZ - CHENNAI, TAMIL “Speaking to this website’s Jedarpalaym PHC. NADU, INDIA, G RAJASEKHARAN Six of them including Rashidha were newspaper, Dr Elango, Joint 10 Oct 2008 administered the dose taken from the Director (In-charge) Public same vial. Rashidha’s blood and bowel AMAKKAL: A TEN- month old Health, said that as per the samples have been sent for investigation. girl child died today after being preliminary investigations, the Speaking to this website’s newspaper, administered a vaccine shot near Pachan death was not due to the Dr Elango, Joint Director (In-charge) GoundenN Valasu in Paramathy Taluk of vaccine as the child was normal Public Health, said that as per the Namakkal district. preliminary investigations, the death for eight hours after the vaccine. Rashidha, daughter of Raja (32) was was not due to the vaccine as the child given a dose of measles vaccine at the She was given the right was normal for eight hours after the Jaderpalayam Primary Health Centre treatment for fever.” vaccine. She was given the right (PHC) on Tuesday. After returning treatment for fever. home, the child developed high fever dead.” Getting suspicious of his The baby was fed after the treatment and was immediately taken to the same daughter’s death, Raja informed the by the parents at home during which PHC where she was treated by a staff of local police. time she became breathless due to the hospital. Dr Kumar who worked in Paramathy Vellore Police Station regurgitation, claimed Elango while a PHC in a nearby village then treated Inspector N Manoharan and assuring to reveal the full medical report the child. But Rashidha’s condition Jedarpalayam sub-inspector Kandasamy as soon as it was ready. Girl, 13, was given Cancer Vaccine ‘without consent’ THE SUNDAY TIMES, Stromness academy, Orkney, because Although the health department ISABEL OAKESHOTT, she was too young and could also suffer expects girls to discuss the vaccine with DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR an adverse reaction because of existing their parents, those who want it can health problems. receive it even if their parents are 12 October 2008 Orkney NHS Trust said yesterday it opposed. NEW ROW has broken out over was launching an “urgent A spokesman said it was up to the the government’s programme of investigation”. professional administering the jab to be mass vaccination of schoolgirls against Jones said: “We all discussed it at satisfied consent had been dealt with. Acervical cancer after a mother claimed length as a family. I just didn’t feel Jones claims her daughter was not her daughter received the jab without comfortable with it. I told my daughter even asked: “She didn’t say yes or no either of them consenting to it. that if she really wanted it, she could because she was never directly asked. Debbie Jones has filed an official have it, but she agreed with me. I They talked to her, then just gave it to complaint against health professionals couldn’t believe it when she came home her.” who she claims took the 13-year-old and said they’d given it to her anyway.” Jackie Fletcher, a campaigner with aside at school and administered the The cervical cancer programme is a Jabs, a child immunisation campaign, injection. UK-wide initiative and the case will be said: “We have had first-hand accounts About 300,000 girls are receiving keenly watched in England. from parents going to the doctors to the Cervarix vaccine in schools this Campaigners said they had had similar discuss vaccines and the children being autumn to protect them against the reports from other parents. taken by the clinic nurse and vaccinated human papilloma virus, a sexually Disputes over parental consent for without consent.” transmitted infection that causes most children’s medical treatment have raged An Orkney NHS Trust spokeswoman cases of cervical cancer. Some parents for years. A test case in 1983 confirmed it had received the and religious groups are unhappy, established that children can be given complaint, adding: “We take this fearing it could encourage promiscuity, treatment without parental permission. complaint extremely seriously and will and one Catholic school has opted out. Victoria Gillick, a mother of 10, had be investigating fully as a matter of Jones, a Christian, says her daughter, brought the case to stop doctors urgency. If there are lessons to be learnt who has diabetes, agreed with her that prescribing contraception to under-16s they will be incorporated into the she should not have the injection at without parents’ knowledge. vaccination programme in Orkney.”

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Landmark study finds: Mercury poisoning causes Autism

PRESS RELEASE pathway) was significantly lower in tests and full copies of some of the October 10, 2008 patients diagnosed with an ASD in many published papers validating the comparison with its level in UPPA test ASHINGTON, DC - New neurotypical controls. study, “Biomarkers of Increasing mercury-poisoning REFERENCES Environmental Toxicity and severity, as indicated by the UPPA [1] Geier DA, Kern JK, Garver CR, SusceptibilityW in Autism” in the peer- results, was associated with lower Adams JB, Audhya T, Nataf R, Geier reviewed Journal of the Neurological glutathione levels among the patients MR. Biomarkers o f environmental Sciences 1, confirms a causal link diagnosed with an ASD. toxicity and susceptibility in autism. J between subacute mercury poisoning in Based upon these findings, the Neurol Sci. 2008 Sep 24. children and their autism spectrum researchers concluded, “ASDs may [2] http://www.autismvox.com/new- disorder (ASD) diagnosis. The autism result from a combination of genetic/ study-on-heavy-metal-toxicity-and-deto community reported that this study biochemical susceptibilities in the form xification-by/ presents, “some compelling evidence, of a reduced ability to excrete mercury [3] This new study involved a multi- consistent with the author’s theory that and/or increased environ mental national collaboration between mercury exposure plays a role in exposures at key developmental times.” researchers, including: David A. Geier, autism.” 2 The Autism Research Institute, the Janet K. Kern, PhD, RN, Carolyn This paper 3 presents the first non-profit CoMeD, Inc., and, through a Gavery, PhD, James B. Adams, PhD, prospective, blinded cohort study to grant from the Brenen Hornstein Tapan Audhya, PhD, Robert Nataf, examine children diagnosed with an Autism Research & Education MD, and Mark R. Geier, MD, PhD, ASD using: urinary porphyrin profile (BHARE) Foundation, the non-profit FABMG, FACE. These researchers have analysis (UPPA) to assess the body- Institute of Chronic Illnesses, Inc. extensive research backgrounds in burden and physiological effects of their funded this research study. medicine, biochemistry and mercury, glutathione analysis to assess Today, any parent, physician, or neuroscience, and include professors susceptibility to mercury poisoning, healthcare provider can easily confirm from the University of Texas, and Childhood Autism Rating Scale whether or not a non-chelated child Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas) (CARS) scores to measure ASD severity. diagnosed with an ASD is mercury and Arizona State Un iversity (Tempe). These evaluations 4 established: poisoned by having UPPA testing run [4] Laboratoire Philippe Auguste and Non-chelated patients diagnosed at LabCorp (CLIA-certified, test# Vitamin Diagnostics performed with an ASD had UPPA profiles 120980) or Laboratoire Philippe biochemical testing; Dr. Kern conducted indicative of mercury poisoning that Auguste (ISO-certified, 119 Philippe the CARS scoring. strongly correlated with ASD severity, Auguste Avenue, Paris, France 75011). Contacts: CoMeD President [Rev. Lisa measured using CARS scores. Please, visit CoMeD’s web site, K. Sykes (Richmond, VA) 804-364- Glutathione (a key biochemical in http://www.Mercury-freeDrugs.org for 8426] CoMeD Sci. Advisor [Dr. King the body’s mercury detoxification information on how to order UPPA (Lake Hiawatha, NJ) 973-263-4843]

A role for the body burden of Aluminium in Vaccine-Associated Macrophagic Myofasciitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. EXLEY C, SWARBRICK L, characterised by an aberrant immune of these conditions in this individual. GHERARDI RK, AUTHIER FJ. response, have a number of prominent This case has highlighted potential http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/190 symptoms in common and are dangers associated with aluminium- coincident in many individuals. Herein, containing adjuvants and we have 04564?dopt=AbstractPlus we have described a case of vaccine- elucidated a possible mechanism Med Hypotheses. 2008 Nov 10 associated chronic fatigue syndrome and whereby vaccination involving ACROPHAGIC myofasciitis macrophagic myofasciitis in an aluminium-containing adjuvants could (inflammation of the connective individual demonstrating aluminium trigger the cascade of immunological tissue) and chronic fatigue syndrome are overload. events which are associated with severelyM disabling conditions which This is the first report linking the autoimmune conditions including may be caused by adverse reactions to latter with either of these two conditions chronic fatigue syndrome and aluminium-containing adjuvants in and the possibility is considered that the macrophagic myofasciitis. vaccines. While a little is known of coincident aluminium overload disease aetiology both conditions are contributed significantly to the severity PMID: 19004564

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Rapidly fatal invasive Pertussis in young infants – how can we change the outcome?

PREVENTION OF INFECTION MAY BE THE ONLY EFFECTIVE INTERVENTION go on to state that there is a rise in cases AGAINST WHOOPING COUGH FOR UNIMMUNISED INFANTS in the’ non-paediatric population’, in U Theilen, consultant1, E D Johnston, specialist registrar2, P A Robinson, clinical fellow1 otherwords – adults. No mention of how many of these adults were fully 1 Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh EH9 1LF, 2 vaccinated against whooping cough, Medical Paediatrics, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, receiving their vaccinations as babies or Edinburgh EH9 1LF. Correspondence to: U Theilen [email protected] young toddlers. (If anyone has access to the rest of the article I would be EXTRACT (ONLY THE FIRST 150 bronchiolitis was made. interested in a copy.) Is it possible that WORDS APPROX. WERE ACCESSIBLE Both parents and an older sibling those adults developing whooping cough WITHOUT PAYMENT.) reported coughing episodes for the at a much later age is due to the preceding fortnight. The baby’s mother vaccinations they received as youngsters, Published 27 November 2008, gave a history of vomiting after these resulting in a shift in the age of BMJ 2008;337:a343 spells, and classic bouts with "whoop" incidence from a childhood disease to an www.bmj.com were observed. The sibling had been fully adult condition? Also, why would there vaccinated… be more atypical cases – this too, could be LTHOUGH VACCINATION of EDITOR: The opening lines of this as a result of vaccination, ie the vaccine infants has greatly reduced article immediately make claims that the may skew the immune system disabling morbidity and mortality in children,1 the whooping cough (pertussis) vaccine has the body to produce proper symptoms. incidenceA of pertussis is rising in the non- greatly reduced the number of cases and Regarding the two fatalities paediatric population.2 In adults deaths from whooping cough – this is mentioned it would be interesting to see persistent cough for more than two weeks highly debatable. Many of you are aware how much detail is included in the full is the cardinal feature of pertussis, but of the epidemiological data which has article. Over the years of running The with a wide differential and an atypical been collected since as far back as the mid Informed Parent I have spoken to course, pertussis is often undiagnosed.3 1800s. Deaths from whooping cough had parents whose very young babies have Infectious adults in a family are the main been greatly reduced well before the developed whooping cough, eg at 3 and 6 source of infection for unimmunised introduction of a vaccine – by the mid weeks old, and although it was not a infants.4 We report two fatal cases of 1950s it was over 90% in decline and pleasant experience, their babies fully invasive pertussis in unvaccinated infants. this was achieved by improvements in recovered with no obvious negative health, ie better nutrition, better living consequences. CASE REPORTS conditions, sanitation and so on. The I have also noted that those parents CASE 1: A 1 month old boy presented to vaccine was introduced at the tail end of nursing their children through whooping a district general hospital with a five day the decline – it was not responsible for cough in a naturopathic way find the history of cough, runny nose, and the decline. illness much easier to deal with and difficulty feeding. A working diagnosis of It is interesting that the authors then results in a much speedier recovery to good health. Source: The Role of Medicine by Thomas McKeown, 1979 This article reminded me of a medical paper that was published in the Medical Journal of Australia in 1998, which reported on deaths from whooping cough in young babies. Reproduced from Dr Viera Scheibner’s website is an interesting article whereby Dr Scheibner comments on this particular paper, highlighting the four deaths and the possible reasons. Please note that these whooping cough cases were blamed on being caught from ‘unknown, unvaccinated children, who suffered whooping cough’ – which is rather an ambiguous statement since if they were ‘unknown’ then how would they know if they were unvaccinated??

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What really killed the four infants during the NSW Pertussis epidemic in 1996-97?

BY DR VIERA SCHEIBNER (PRINCIPAL Romanian rate was around 14- to 15- “some unknown unvaccinated child”; RESEARCH SCIENTIST- RETIRED) fold (compared with other countries, 5 they all contracted whooping cough www.vierascheibner.org to 17 times higher). In my from well-known fully/partly (and one understanding, this simply reflects the most probably) vaccinated family EDICAL JOURNAL of Australia level of plain misinformation on the members. (vol 168, 16 March 1998: 281- part of the US health authorities; the None of the babies were very ill on 283) published a short report on ‘Infant widely quoted number of vaccine- admission to hospital. The highest pertussisM deaths in New South Wales induced paralysis: 12, extrapolated from temperature was 37.6 C and none 1996-1997 by Williams, Matthews, Romania and other countries, should suffered paroxysmal cough. They were Choong and Ferson. The authors of this actually be at least 12,000 and even doing well initially, until they were article wrote: that figure is grossly minimised. administered intravenous antibiotics “Since 1996, south-eastern Australia has Williams et al. (1998) then, cefotaxime, erythromycin and/or been experiencing a pertussis epidemic predictably, offered an explanation that ceftriaxone. All initially did quite well, which has resulted in the deaths of “the recent sustained high level of but quite obviously started several infants, including four from pertussis in Australia (and the resulting deteriorating and died after the NSW in the 12 months to July 1997. infant deaths) is incomplete vaccination administration of the above antibiotics. All were less than six weeks of age and coverage”, this being 87% for the died from overwhelming cardiovascular primary course at ages two, four and six Baby 1 (five-week-old male twin), compromise “despite intensive care months, only 60% for the 18-months admitted to a Sydney teaching hospital, support”. “The failure of management booster and 20% for the booster at experienced 48 hours of lethargy, poor in three different pediatric intensive school entry. They consider vaccine feeding, tachypnoea, and cough and care units to save their lives reflects the failure as a possible, but less likely temperature 36.5 centigrades; in inadequacy of technology in such cases, explanation. hospital, he was administered and, as all were too young to have been At the time, the media were saying intravenous cefotaxime (from day 3) and vaccinated against pertusiss, emphasises that these young infants contracted erythromycin (from day 5) and while the need to prevent pertussis whooping cough from “some unknown remaining stable over the first five days transmission through good herd unvaccinated children who suffered with satisfactory breast feeding and immunity”. They continued that this whooping cough.” occasional coughing, on day 5, his excessive infant mortality from a Let’s now have a look how these four respiratory distress (not mentioned preventable disease demonstrates the NSW infants contracted whooping within the first five days of the need for better pertussis immunity in cough and what really caused their admission) increased and he developed the community and for erythromycin deaths. “severe pulmonary hypertension and treatment of all suspected cases and Based on the facts described in the cardiovascular compromise and died family contacts, especially infants. above article, the cases 1,2, and 4 [allegedly] 72 hours after admission to Importantly, the article also revealed represented infants aged 5 weeks, 16 Sydney Children’s Hospital”. that the four deaths, plus the death of a days and four weeks, all obviously too Whichever way I look at it, the Victorian infant which was also young to have been vaccinated. authors had the timing of death wrong, attributed to pertussis, represents a All contracted whooping cough from since the baby was on intravenous mortality of about 0.03 per 100,000 their fully or partly vaccinated siblings antibiotics which would hardly have population per year after indexing to and/or fully vaccinated mothers who been administered in his home. the Australian population. “In contrast, suffered whooping cough for a number Nevertheless, it is clear that until the in the United States throughout the of weeks at the time of these babies’ administration of IV erythromycin on 1980s and early 1990s, pertussis birth. hospital day 5, the baby was doing fine mortality varied between 0.0005 and The case 3 was a five-week old male and died at least 120 hours after the 0.002 per 100,000 population per year. whose 11-year old sibling, with initial presentation. Even in peak years, this was at least 15- “immunisation status uncertain” fold less than the Australian mortality (meaning that he still could have Baby 2 was a sixteen-day-old 3.7kg reported here.” vaccinated) suffered paroxysmal cough female admitted to a Sydney teaching The above statement is interesting, for three weeks at the time of the hospital with two days of poor feeding, in that, in other situations, such as polio deceased baby’s birth. cough, tachypnoea and fever (37.6 vaccine-caused paralysis in Romania The above clearly debunks the centigrades, hardly a high fever) who (Strebel et al. 1995), the difference misinformation that none of the above was administered intravenous between the admitted US rate and the babies contracted the disease from cefotaxime (from Day 1) and › ISSUE THREE 2008 www.informedparent.co.uk 7 *I.P.Newsletter3_2008:Informed Parent 12/12/08 11:05 Page 8

intravenous erythromycin (from Day 2), and siblings who suffered whooping of taking medication, were considered to and over 18 hours after the antibiotic cough at the crucial time. The article have medication-associated serum aministration, developed progressive does not give any information on sickness. tachypnoea with respiratory distress, possible administration of paracetamol. There is little excuse for Williams et tachycardia, hypercapnia unresponsive It must be obvious to an objective al’s (1998) misdiagnosis, since serum to different ventilatory regimens. observer that all these babies contracted sickness (or serum sickness-like) Circulatory compromise also developed whooping cough from their vaccinated reactions to penicillin and more modern and was not ameliorated with infusion mothers, and/or siblings who suffered (broad spectrum) antibiotics since of adrenaline or inhalation of nitric penicillin (cephalosporins) have been oxide administered to treat presumed “Why the authors failed to well known since their introduction in pulmonary hypertension. Systemic recognise these material facts is the eighties (Stricker and Tijssen hypotension and severe metabolic (1992); Martin and Abbott (1985), acidosis developed, and the infant died anybody’s guess; however, the Levin (1985). Moreover, since the mass following an asystolic arrest “48 hours obsessive preoccupation with use of any antibiotics, deaths in their after initial presentation”. Again, the vaccination and unproven recipients have been published. authors got lost in their maths. The safety of antibiotics are Coleman et al. (1955) wrote that baby died at least 90 hours after the close to home..” “Severe immediate reactions to the initial presentation. administration of penicillin, some ending in fatalities, are occurring with Baby 3, five-week-old male admitted whooping cough at the crucial time, increasing frequency”. in a country-based hospital, with three and, clearly, started deteriorating and “None so blind as he who will not see”. days of cough and treated with died shortly after being administered ampicillin. He was pale and lethargic, intravenous antibiotics. They would REFERENCES with a minimally elevated temperature have been better off staying at home Williams GD, Matthews NT, (37 centigrades) and was put on and given nothing, particularly those Choong RK, and Ferson M. 1998. intravenous cefotaxime and within who were breastfed. It is also obvious Infant Pertussis deaths in New South minutes required bag-and-mask (this word is a rarity in medicine) that Wales 1996-1997. MJA; 168: 281-283. ventilation for several minutes. Ten they developed whooping cough Strebel PM, Ion-Nedelcu N, hours after admission his respiratory because of the lack of transplacentally- Baughman AL, Sutter RW, distress worsened, he was intubated and transmitted immunity since their and Cochi SL. 1995. Intramuscular transferred to the Women’s and mothers were vaccinated in their injections within 30 days of Children’s Hospital in Adelaide and childhood. 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Homeopathic Remedies for the relief of Colds and Flu

SAM GLADDEN loss of smell and taste. There may be a [email protected] thirst for cold drinks - Nat mur • Due to getting wet or sitting on a ED UP WITH SNEEZING, damp ground, with aching and coughing, feeling tired and having stiffness in the muscles and joints to blow your nose every 5 mins. which is better for moving about. FThe nights are getting darker and There is much sneezing and mucus the weather seems to be very with swollen/ tender throat glands - changeable, unfortunately this is the Rhus Tox time that you can easily catch a cold I tend to use a 30c strength as it is especially with returning to work or stronger than 6c but 6c can still be school and any associated stress that used. may go with that. You may be one of If you suffer with frequent coughs those people that just has to look at Sam Gladden and colds, this may indicate a someone sneezing and you catch a cold weakened immune system. or you may be suffering with one right Professional homeopathic treatment now. I have included some natural and HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES FOR can help prevent colds and strengthen homeopathic tips to speed up your THE RELIEF OF COLDS AND FLU the immune system. recovery time. The homeopathic remedies are for Did you know that fresh lemon FOR A COLD : short term use only, please use your juice and manuka honey in hot water • That started quickly when exposed instincts and common sense when can help with cold symptoms and has to a cold dry wind or being outside in prescribing for yourself or your the added benefit of helping to soothe the cold - Aconite children. If you are at all worried, seek chesty coughs. • With sneezing and a blocked up professional advice and give the I mentioned Homeopathic tips, nose that drips with a fluent, burning prescribed remedy whilst you are well Homeopathy is a natural and watery mucus that leaves the nose waiting. approach to medicine that relies on and upper lip red and sore- Arsenicum gently stimulating your self healing • With a blocked nose or thick For more information contact: ability to alleviate your physical or cheesy smelling mucus together with Sam Gladden LCHE, RSHom, emotional symptoms. sneezing worse in the cold. This may [email protected] Homeopathic treatment is gentle, be accompanied with a feeling of safe and treats your symptoms irritability- Hepar Sulphate Photography by Jamie Gladden, together with the underlying cause. • Where there maybe a tickling or from 3songsnoflash. The remedies are made from natural wriggling sensation in the nose www.3songsnoflash.co.uk sources which are mostly plants and accompanied by a thick mucus which minerals. looks like egg white and a possible

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2008; 62:570-571 Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination and the development of public policies

BRIEF EXTRACT independent vaccine-preventable disease. unique product (the human With the heady mix of young girls papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, Gardasil) ABBY LIPPMAN, MCGILL UNIVERSITY, and their sexual behaviour as to address it, and hyped promises of MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA background, and an open-ended prevention. [email protected] advertising budget providing memorable This presentation has all too often catch-phrases, the powerful major story- silenced, or at least marginalised, other HROUGH heavy, profit-driven tellers (pharmaceutical companies, ways of talking about cervical cancer marketing, cervical cancer has been physicians and their organisations, the (and HPV infection), at the same time (re)constructed in the past couple of years media) have constructed a gripping story arousing controversies, confusions and Tin North America almost solely as an comprising a feared disease (cancer), a conundrums in the minds of many.

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WHY DO CHILDREN GET INFECTIOUS DISEASES?

DR JAYNE LM DONEGAN MBBS and then she got that ....” This is a DRCOG DCH DFFP MRCGP MFHOM description of exactly the same process. So what happens if the child never GP & Homeopath gets a chance to carry out this process, HEN CHILDREN ARE BORN, or did not have enough vital energy or they are, so to speak, an empty immune force to carry out such a vessel. Then, due to the influence of reaction. These are the children who Wperhaps birth trauma, pollution, junk hardly ever get an infection, and people food, sugar, parents arguing or simply mistakenly call this, ‘health’, but one the stresses and strains of being a child look at them shows that it is not – in the twenty-first century, they build sallow skin, dull eyes, no radiant up a level of what can be called toxins. vitality. These children become prone to When these toxins reach a certain chronic disease in later life – auto- threshold a healthy child will initiate a Dr Jayne L.M. Donegan immune problems, rheumatoid disease, clean-out reaction. That is, they will get cancer. themselves a viral infection which So we see that an appropriate causes: “An appropriate infectious infectious disease, well managed, is our disease, well managed, is our friend, not our enemy, and is there to • FEVER – the chemical reactions friend, not our enemy, and is help us to correct the mistakes we make required for the clean-out process to there to help us to correct the by being imperfect parents with work more efficiently at a higher mistakes we make by being imperfect children in an imperfect temperature, as do the white cells in the society. immune system that help to scavenge imperfect parents with The other, slower way that children and clean out rubbish. imperfect children in an get rid of rubbish, is by constant mucus imperfect society.” production which should never be • LOSS OF APPETITE – if you are impeded in any way or dried up. trying to clean yourself out, the last rather like snakes, which have to crack thing you need is to fill yourself up off their old, too small skins before they SO WHY IS VACCINATION with more food that needs processing. can slither out with their shiny new DIFFERENT? ones. Parents who are worried about allowing • DIARRHOEA AND VOMITING Conventional wisdom has it that their children to have multiple vaccines – this happens especially when children fever is bad and that children should be (eg the ‘5 in 1’ plus pneumococcal are fed more milk to make up for their given paracetamol, ibuprofen or both, vaccine at 2 months of age) are not eating, and may also happen as part to lower the temperature. This is rather reassuringly told that babies are capable of the clean-out process. like clearing up your garden after the of dealing with hundreds, if not autumn winds, building a big bonfire, thousands of antigens (the parts of an • RASH – this is a form of toxins and looking forward to a nice clean organism or anything else with which coming out through the skin. garden at the end of it with some ash to the body comes in contact which is If this process is allowed to continue spread under your fruit trees, and capable of stimulating an antibody unhindered, at the end of it your child having your well meaning next door response) from the day they are born, will do something new, depending on neighbour, who thinks your house is on there is ‘no problem’ with overloading their age: a baby may produce a new fire, getting out his big hose and the system. tooth, a toddler who keeps wobbling putting it out. Instead of a nice, clean It is quite true that adequate around and banging their heard on the garden, you are left with a black, slimy exposure to microbes early in life is an corners of the furniture will start to mess. important factor in the maturation of walk straight, a six year old who isn’t However, all is not lost! The human the immune system. As the human reading may suddenly start to read, a body does not give up that easily. It will immune system has evolved under the child who is a bit small will suddenly initiate another clean-out reaction, at a selection pressure of infectious diseases have a growth spurt, another will slightly higher threshold, and will keep it stands to reason that if they are develop new vocabulary or mature on doing so until it finally manages to removed, then problems may occur. emotionally. get its nice hot fever and finish off the Hence the old clinical adage, It can be seen from this that, in order process, some time when, perhaps, the “autoimmunity is the price paid for to take a developmental step forward, parents are asleep and don’t notice! You eradicating infectious diseases.” 1 the child has to clean out their system often hear people outside the school The usual exposure of babies and first, and this takes the form of a crisis, gates saying, “And then she got this ... children to infectious organisms or

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antigens, however, is via the normal the innermost parts of the baby or child The authors themselves do not routes – the mouth, nose, ears, eyes, by unmodified by any of the protective consider that vaccination may be a inhaling or eating them or sometimes processes described, provoking an factor, however, ‘environmental’ through cuts in the skin. Eating a bit of intense, sometimes overly intense, influences are external influences and dirt or being sneezed upon is not at all immune response, as it is designed to include factors such as vaccination (and the same as having the organisms do. This may lead to allergies such as pollution, fluoride etc). Babies only injected though the skin, with direct eczema or asthma, autoimmune disease, used to get four vaccines – diphtheria, access to the blood stream, bypassing all or even the formation of ‘antigen- whooping cough, tetanus and oral polio the ‘non specific’ immune systems that antibody’ complexes which float around – starting at three months, with the the body has in place specifically to deal the body, depositing themselves in the next one not being until the age of five with such eventualities, and they are gut, brain or kidney lining and causing months and the last set at ten months. numerous: the skin acts as a barrier to In 1990 (in the middle of the study) the the outside; mucus washes organism/ age was reduced to two months as the "62% of parents in a Steiner antigens out of the body; the cough ‘accelerated’ vaccine program started, reflex forcibly expels mucus and community in Gloucester with the next two sets being only four microbes; human tears, saliva, and other where an outbreak of measles weeks later, at the age of three and four body fluids contain lysosyme, an occurred in 1997-8 reported months, In 2008, six vaccines are enzyme which is capable of destroying a strengthening and maturing administered, often only four weeks the cell walls of certain bacteria and of their child both mentally after a BCG vaccination. Is the rise in therefore acts as an antiseptic. If the and physically after insulin dependant diabetes in young organism gets as far in as the stomach, children ‘caused’ by vaccination or is it there is extremely concentrated (one measles infection. " completely unrelated? I cannot answer molar) hydrochloric acid which is that question with the data available capable of denaturing protein and thus long term, low grade inflammation. It and neither can anyone else. disabling many intruders by stopping is well known that the incidence of Are there any studies to show benefit their enzymes from functioning. The asthma has been rising in the last few from having infectious diseases? passages of the gut and the airways decades, as has eczema and more severe Italian recruits with antibodies for produce a special type of ‘secretory’ autoimmune diseases, for example hepatitis A (regarded as a marker for antibody called Immunoglobulin A diabetes. Whether this is caused by exposure to ‘dirt’) had a lower incidence (IgA), this coats the organism so that it vaccination is unknown as studies that of atopic (allergic) disease, asthma and is already partially dealt with before it are capable of showing causality (ie that eczema 4 A study in West Germany even reaches the blood stream. In the this caused that) have not and are not found a lower risk of developing asthma case of whooping cough the inhaled being carried out and I find it very in children who had repeated viral organism sticks to the hairs lining the difficult to understand why. infections, other than lower respiratory airways. It is then able to multiply and Conventional medicine regards itself infections, early in life. 5 And 62% of cause the inflammation, mucus, pus and as a ‘science’ and the first rule of parents in a Steiner community in ulceration that may block the narrow ‘science’ (from the Latin root ‘scio’ I Gloucester where an outbreak of airways of young children and babies. know) is observation. One can, measles occurred in 1997-8 reported a These IgA secretory antibodies are very nevertheless, look at trends in the strengthening and maturing of their important as they specifically stop the incidence of diseases over time and child both mentally and physically after bacterium from sticking to the hairs postulate what effect the universal measles infection. ”6 and multiplying. Vaccination against childhood vaccination program is pertussis does not produce this having on them. SO WHAT DO I DO WHEN IgA antibody which is so important In a study which took place in the MY CHILD IS ILL? in protecting against further infection. 2 Oxford region between 1985 and 1996, Nurse them. How? Not too difficult In the blood stream itself there are the incidence of insulin dependent really, apart from the time that it takes. macrophages, cells which engulf foreign diabetes mellitus in children was found material and destroy it. to have risen by 11 per cent per year in GENERAL MEASURES FOR At the end of all these processes, the children under the age of four year. 3 MANAGING ALL ACUTE body sets into motion the ‘specific’ The authors concluded: “Incidence of CHILDHOOD ILLNESS immune response which gives rise to insulin dependent diabetes in children antibodies that are ‘specific’ to the aged under 5 years has risen markedly • FRESH AIR – open the window, organism: IgM and IgG. Injecting a in the Oxford region over the past during mild weather, nurse outside. At vaccine bypasses all these early stages decade. The cause of the increase is night, make sure that the window is and means that the organism – and all unknown, but environmental influences open even if only a little. the other additives in the vaccine such encountered before birth or in early as aluminium salts, formaldehyde and postnatal life are likely to be • LOOSE CLOTHING – made of soft, traces of antibiotics – is able to enter responsible.” natural fibres. › ISSUE THREE 2008 www.informedparent.co.uk 11 *I.P.Newsletter3_2008:Informed Parent 12/12/08 11:05 Page 12

• PLENTY OF CLEAR FLUIDS – for the child with food that they then example, water with Rescue Remedy, RECIPE FOR GINGER, need to process. half diluted apple juice, ginger, honey HONEY & LEMON TEA: Much of the ‘picture’ that we see & lemon tea* (children seem to prefer on a screen has to be filled in by our it cooled), stock. If squash, make sure it One good pinch of grated cognitive processes as comparatively contains no aspartame or saccharin. No * little information is supplied with orange juice. Fluids must be offered ginger (need not be peeled) visual electronic media. frequently, small frequent sips are more * 2 teaspoons of honey (if It can therefore be very tiring to useful than occasional large gulps , over one year)- one quarter watch TV or computer screens. especially in gastric upsets. Reading and studying are also tiring of a lemon, squeezed - put in and are best avoided when ill. • NO DAIRY PRODUCE – no milk, a mug and add boiling water This article contains excerpts from including soya, yoghurt, cheese, eggs * stir, wait until cooled to ‘Vaccinatable Diseases & their Vaccines’ until well on the mend. This does not suitable temperature and sip and ‘Nursing Children Supportively include breast milk which must always through Acute iIlness’ which are both be continued. Dairy increases mucus, * 4-5 mugs for an adult per available on Dr Donegan’s website: upsets stomachs and may increase fever. day. This may be made in www.jayne-donegan.co.uk Babies on formula milk need to restart quantity, sieved, cooled and Dr Donegan runs worksops and by 24 hours if they are not weaned. lectures on these subjects and other used as a fluid replacement in health related matters. If you would • NO FOOD UNLESS HUNGRY cases of diarrhoea and like to arrange for her to speak in AND NO FEVER – this is VERY vomiting. your area please contact her via her important. Children naturally fast when email:[email protected] or by ill, do not attempt to feed them when phone/fax - 020 8623 1634 they don’t want to eat. When the fever is down, if they are hungry feed them a • ROOM TEMPERATURE – November 2008 light diet – starch, minimal fat, to be between 15ºC and 18ºC chewed well, for example: REFERENCES - peeled slices of apple. • NO MEAT, FISH, FATTY FOOD 1 Wilson AG, Duff GW, Genetic - wholemeal toast scraped with Marmite OR DAIRY - until two days after traits in common diseases, BMJ 1995; or honey, with no crusts, cut into better, up to a week if after diarrhoea 310:1482-3 squares about the size of a postage and vomiting. If dairy or normal diet 2 Harrison’s Principles of Internal stamp. Give half a slice at a time. is introduced and symptoms start Medicine Ed Braunwald et al. 11th - mashed potato made with cooked again, especially after diarrhoea and Ed McGraw Hill 1987. USA p606 potato, boiling water and a pinch of salt. vomiting, go back to fasting or light 3 Gardner SG, Bingley PJ, Sawtell - vegetable soup, home made diet until symptom free. PA, Weeks S, Gale EAM, Rising - fruit or cooked vegetables Treating a child without giving incidence of insulin dependent - all in very small quantities them medicines to suppress their diabetes in children aged under 5 symptoms does not mean doing 4 Matricardi PM, Rosmini F, • HONEY on a teaspoon is very good nothing - it means supporting the Ferrigno L, Nisini MA et al, Cross for sore throats and stops harmful body’s processes of elimination by sectional retrospective study of bacteria from multiplying (not advised making sure that there is plenty of prevalence of atopy among Italian in babies less than 1 year) fresh air and fluids. military students with antibodies This will allow the liver, the major against hepatitis A virus, BMJ • REST – this is extremely important. If detoxifier, the kidneys and lungs to 1997;314:999-1003 symptoms are minimal then it is fine for work efficiently. 5 Illi S. von Mutius E, Lau S, a child to run around and rest when tired, A child’s ability to regulate their Bergmann R et al, Early childhood but if there is severe upset, they must rest temperature is immature. infectious diseases and the and sleep otherwise they will not get If the room is hot, the child cannot development of asthma up to school well. This is often easier said than done! radiate their excess heat into their age: a birth cohort study, BMJ surroundings. 2001;322:390-5 • KEEPING THEM in which ever It is important, therefore, that the 6 Duffell E, Attitudes of parents room you are working helps, so that temperature in the room is low towards measles and immunisation they do not feel ‘abandoned’. enough to provide a temperature after a measles outbreak in an gradient to allow this to happen. anthroposophical community, J • NO TV/ COMPUTER/ BOOKS – While this elimination is Epidemiological Community Health audio material or being read to are fine. occurring, it makes sense not to fill 2001;55:685-6

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committed “serious” violations of rules the law to Nemeroff. Yet Emory MORE THAN on reporting financial interests. officials did not audit his income to be Nemeroff accordingly promised in sure that he had reformed. Nemeroff ONE BAD APPLE writing to keep his consulting with stepped down as psychiatry chair only drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to earlier this month, on the eve of the NATURE 455, 835 (16 OCTOBER less than $10,000 annually — the first newspaper report detailing his 2008) | DOI:10.1038/455835A; threshold beyond which, under actions. Of course, the university’s PUBLISHED ONLINE. National Institutes of Health (NIH) financial interests are tied up in the case ABSTRACT rules, institutions must actively manage too. Some $1.35 million of the NIH 15 October 2008 or eliminate entirely their NIH-funded grant went to Emory for overhead costs. researchers’ conflicts. Nemeroff did not respond to Nature‘s GSK was of special concern because, requests for comment. However, in a EDITOR: This article is not about from 2003 to 2008, Nemeroff was statement issued by Emory, he said: “To vaccination as such – it is just principal investigator on a $4-million the best of my knowledge, I have highlighting the corruption as NIH grant examining five GSK followed the appropriate University regards to the pharma industry antidepressant candidates. Figures given regulations concerning financial and the money they dish out to to Grassley’s investigators by GSK disclosures. ... I will cooperate fully and various medical professionals. allege that, despite his written promise, work with Emory to respond to the Nemeroff’s compensation from the alleged conflicts of interest issues raised company totalled $171,000, $78,000 by Senator Grassley and his staff.” CONGRESSIONAL and $33,000 in 2004, 2005 and 2006, It is tempting to dismiss this case as INVESTIGATION alleges that respectively. His disclosure forms to a ‘one-bad-apple’ situation. But some researchers have failed to report all Emory in those same years allegedly Nemeroff is the seventh academic theA drug-company money that they showed payments of $9,999 per year, or psychiatrist this year that Grassley has have received — and that universities of no specified amount. exposed as allegedly underreporting may have been too slow to police them. drug-company income. His office says The case of Charles Nemeroff, who as that there are more revelations to come. chair of the psychiatry department at “The case of Charles Grassley has begun pressuring the NIH Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, Nemeroff, who as chair of the to mete out real punishment — as in, allegedly underreported his income psychiatry department at Emory pulling grants — to spur institutions to from drug companies, offers some stark University in Atlanta, Georgia, enforce proper reporting. The agency revelations. Not only does it seem that allegedly underreported his came close last week, when it imposed Nemeroff was able to skirt around rules income from drug companies, conditions on Emory requiring written for reporting income, but Emory’s assurance that proper disclosures have offers some stark revelations. officials appeared unable to rein him in. been made for every grant before it will A string of internal Emory Not only does it seem that give funds to the university. Departing documents and e-mails made public last Nemeroff was able to skirt NIH director, Elias Zerhouni, has also week after a hearing of the US Senate around rules for reporting launched a time-intensive Committee on Finance, chaired by income, but Emory’s officials administrative revamp of the rules Senator Charles Grassley (Republican, appeared unable to rein him in.” governing conflict-of-interest reporting Iowa), allege a web of consulting, by universities. His successor should lecturing and advisory-board make it a priority to speed up this relationships that Nemeroff maintained Asked by Nature last week why process. with 16 pharmaceutical companies. By Nemeroff was not disciplined in 2004 Grassley, meanwhile, has proposed a obtaining figures from each of the when his violations first emerged, the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. companies and comparing them with university responded that its 2004 Introduced in Congress last year, it Nemeroff’s financial disclosure forms internal report documenting his breach would legally oblige drug and device provided by Emory, the committee’s of the rules “speaks for itself”. It added companies to post in a publicly investigators alleged that, in breach of that the public documents show that it accessible database all payments of more university rules, he failed to report at has “worked diligently” with Nemeroff than $500 that they make to physicians. least $1.2 million in income that these to manage his alleged conflicts of This would markedly ease the task of relationships earned him between 2000 interest. The university also noted that universities in enforcing proper and 2006. it is planning a “thorough reporting, and would exonerate the In fairness, Emory medical school’s investigation” of the allegations made many researchers who play by the rules Conflict of Interest Committee by Grassley and that it is emphasizing but who are nonetheless being cast conducted an in-house investigation of its disclosure policies to all staff under a cloud by Grassley’s Nemeroff’s consulting in 2004. The members. investigation. Congress ought to pass committee alleged that he had The 2004 report did indeed lay down the bill into law when it next convenes.

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Racketeering, corruption and conflict of interest: The criminal organisations that want to vaccinate you and your child. BY JOANNA KARPASEA JONES Australian College of General Practitioners has speculated that some www.vaccineriskawareness.com doctors might say they are too busy to 23/06/2008 immunize. ARENTS who question vaccines ‘Doctors will choose not to and those involved in their produc- vaccinate’, he said, ‘unless they are tion and administration are often told committed to a professional and ethical byP doctors and the media that there is way to vaccinate.’ (Writer’s comment: no money in vaccination, they cost a lot what have incentive payments and ethics got for the drug companies to make and to do with each other?). that medical professionals are shelling He also referred to the GP’s practice out billions of pounds to ensure that as a ‘business’. children are protected from deadly dis- ‘But there’s only so much you can Joanna Karpasea-Jones eases. However, this couldn’t be fur- expect a small business to do. Why ther from the truth. should small business take a hit for a “If doctors were so convinced of public health measure?” THE BOTTOM RUNG OF the necessity of vaccinations and That is the stark reality of the THE LADDER believed they saved thousands situation. GP practices are not health At the lowest end of the chain – the of babies lives as they proport, services for the general public as we nurses and doctors who give the shots – have been led to believe. As Dr. they would not consider stop- there are financial incentives to Hearnden says, their main priority is encourage them to vaccinate. If they ping the programme simply not public health, but in money and don’t vaccinate nearly all of the babies because they hadn’t been given good business sense. If doctors were so in their practice, they lose their rather a bonus. Any medicine system convinced of the necessity of lucrative bonus. In 2002 this bonus which is based on profits first in- vaccinations and believed they saved was £2,730 extra salary for each GP stead of the welfare of its clients thousands of babies lives as they vaccinating 90% of his child patients. should be viewed at the very proport, they would not consider There aren’t many people who would stopping the programme simply say no to that kind of pay rise. (BBC least with suspicion.” because they hadn’t been given a bonus. News, 2nd July 2002). Any medicine system which is based on That’s just for the initial shots, there practice nurses to health visitors, and profits first instead of the welfare of its are also extra bonuses for shots for GPs in Glasgow are mounting a protest clients should be viewed at the very adults, such as the flu vaccine. For over it, stating, least with suspicion. (The Daily instance, in an article in the GP ‘We are profoundly unhappy about Telegraph, Australia, 10 October 2008). magazine, Pulse, entitled ‘Make The the professional consequences of what Most of New Fees From Vaccinating the board is pushing through. This THE DRUG COMPANIES Over 65’s’, they state: represents a very big change in the way Next on the ladder are the drug ‘The Government’s decision to offer services are delivered.’ (The Herald, companies who make the vaccines, who GPs an incentive to increase flu October 26th 2008). just happen to fund medical schools at vaccinations in over-65s could mean a More than likely they are concerned which the GPs train. profit of over £2,000 for every GP.’ about this change because it would According to a survey which was (Pulse, 23rd September 2000). That mean that health visitors would receive published in JAMA, 93% of student would make a staggering £4,730 extra the bonuses for reaching vaccination doctors had been required by a for each GP simply doing childhood targets instead of them. physician to attend at least one vaccines and flu vaccines, discounting Across the globe in Australia, the industry sponsored lunch. Shockingly, all the travel vaccinations currently government has scrapped its GP’s more than 800 third year students in available, and injections for ‘high risk’ incentive payments, and this has been medical schools had reported being people, such as pneumonia. met with an even stronger backlash. given one gift or participating in one More recently, a decision has been GPs are considering scrapping the activity organised by a pharmaceutical made by the Department of Health to vaccination programme if they are not company every single week. As well as transfer the responsibility of giving paid. the sponsored lunches and lectures, childhood vaccines from GPs and their Dr. Hearnden, from the Royal students are offered pens, mugs and

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pads with drug logos on them. In the UK it is the responsibility of old. If you had any dealings with a Drug companies will often withdraw the Joint Committee On Vaccination company prior to that, you don’t even funding from a school if their product And Immunisation to ensure the safety have to mention it. is not endorsed. This has raised of our vaccines yet the Chair Professor In the minutes paper I refer to, the concern about conflict of interest. Andrew Hall said to me (Joanna committee concluded that for tetanus (Journal of the American Medical Karpasea-Jones) at a Nuffield Bio vaccine, having 5 doses in adulthood Association, 7th September 2005). Ethics meeting in 2006 that vaccines should still be recommended, to In another survey published in were their area of interest so it would continue with pneumonia vaccine for JAMA, 60% of responding Department be difficult to find anyone on the older people despite the fact that, ‘This Chairs in medical schools and the 15 committee that wasn’t directly programme was providing protection largest teaching hospitals in the US, involved with vaccinations. I have against invasive pneumococcal disease reported to having a ‘personal looked at their minutes held for at a level estimated prior to the relationship’ with the industry. This subsequent committee meetings and introduction of the programme included being a paid speaker on behalf found the following admitted conflicts although of shorter duration than had of the drug company, acting as a of interest: been predicted.’ (i.e. it’s not working as consultant for the drug company or well as we thought). For Chickenpox serving as a member of a scientific FOR TETANUS VACCINE: vaccine, their aim was to ‘introduce advisory board. It also found that 50% Dr. Ray Borrow had interests with universal chickenpox vaccination, ante- of clinical departments who responded Sanofi Pasteur and GSK, natal screening for chickenpox and received funding from drug companies manufacturer’s of the shot. post-natal vaccination of new mothers’. for food and drinks, 65% received They wrote ‘Such a programme funding from drug companies for their FOR PNEUMOCOCCAL could be introduced quickly at medical education, 37% got financial VACCINE: relatively low cost.’ support for residency or fellowship The following members declared Obviously with high benefits for training and a staggering 80% of all interests in Sanofi Pasteur, Wyeth or those committee members who clinical departments had some GSK. admitted interests in the vaccine relationship with a drug company. Professor Simon Kroll companies. (Journal of the American Medical Professor Jon Friedland Association, 17th October 2007). Professor David Goldblatt FOR PANDEMIC FLU, If the advisory board which monitors Dr Syed Ahmed THEY WROTE: the safety of medicines and vaccines is Dr Ray Borrow ‘Three meetings had been held recently profiting from the sale of those Dr Stephen Inglis to consider pre-pandemic vaccines. The vaccines, then this amounts to a Mrs Pauline MacDonald first held late last year examined the criminal activity. They can no longer Ms Anne McGowan safety and immunogenicity of be impartial because they are being Professor Paul Griffiths candidate H5N1 vaccines. They paid to promote a certain drug, which concluded at this meeting that such is not science. The public who trust in FOR CHICKENPOX VACCINE: products were safe and effective.’Of their recommendations are often not The following member declared course they concluded such, with seven aware of this conflict of interest and interests in Sanofi Pasteur or GSK. doctors on the panel involved in members of the panel may even put Dr Ray Borrow vaccine production and profit. (Minutes people’s lives at risk by recommending Professor Dr Paul Griffiths of the meeting of JCVI, 13 February 2008). a drug or vaccine which has safety concerns. A good example of this is FOR PANDEMIC FLU VACCINE: SOARING PROFITS Merck’s drug, Vioxx, an anti- The following members declared According to ABC Business News, inflammatory medication which was interests in Sanofi Pasteur, GSK, ‘Sales of vaccines, once considered a approved by the FDA in May 1999. It Baxter, Novartis, or Merck. commodity market, are booming with was declared safe and then caused heart Professor Jon Friedland global revenues set to reach nearly $10 attacks in a large number of people. Dr Syed Ahmed billion in 2006 from $5.4 billion in JAMA determined that it caused Dr Ray Borrow 2001... The infant sector currently kidney disease and heart attacks. Dr Stephen Inglis makes up the largest section of the (“Adverse Effects of Cyclooxygenase-2 Mrs Pauline MacDonald vaccine market, with 2001 sales of $2.5 Inhibitors on Renal and Arrhythmia Professor David Goldblatt billion, but adult demand is growing as Events: Meta-Analysis of Randomized Professor Paul Griffiths . governments actively promote flu shots Trials”, 2006). Interestingly, Merck is The majority of the committee for the elderly and more vaccines are the company that make Gardasil, members have ties to the vaccine used by tourists.’ (ABC News, 7th which has currently caused more than manufacturers and current rules state January 2003). 8,000 serious reactions and 27 deaths, that you only have to declare your Since that time we had added to the market the new 5-in-1, Prevnar in the and those are only the reported figures. interests if they are less than 12 months › ISSUE THREE 2008 www.informedparent.co.uk 15 *I.P.Newsletter3_2008:Informed Parent 12/12/08 11:05 Page 16

UK, Hepatitis B vaccine for Irish immunity against prosecution because set up the Committee on Quackery in babies, Cervarix/Gardasil and MMR for of a doctrine called pre-emption. If a 1963, to look at alternative forms of adults. vaccine has been approved by the medicine that may affect the profit government as being safe, that person margins of the pharmaceutical MAINTAINING THE STATUS QUO cannot sue the company who made it. industry. In the following year, the A lot of parents think that if something An injured party or the relatives of Coordinating Conference on Health were to happen to their child, the those killed have to accept a Information was set up and involved doctor concerned would report it and government sponsored compensation numerous government figures. Their they’d get medical help, or the programme, which is a maximum of meetings were private and their government would revise its policies to £100,000 in the UK and that is if you function was to suppress Homeopathy, protect other children. Unfortunately can jump through all their hoops to Naturopathy, Acupuncture, this doesn’t happen. The medical prove it. Chiropractic care and Vitamin profession and drug companies close therapy. i.e. they had no interest at all ranks to protect their profits, and this “Parents cannot usually sue in people being healthy, they just is a universal response to guard the the doctors who performed wanted to carry on making money huge revenue they make from you and with drugs and vaccines. your child. the vaccination and drug This is racketeering and is against For instance, recently there have manufacturers have a legal the law. All industry, when marketing been a number of deaths in India due to immunity against prosecution a product have to advertise fairly and the measles vaccine. You would have because of a doctrine called not try to suppress the competition. thought that this would move the pre-emption. If a vaccine has Certainly, the AMA and CCHI with Indian Academy of Pediatrics to do been approved by the its government officials came under something to protect their patients, but the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt government as being safe, no, here’s what they wrote in Indian Organisations Act. Pediatrics: that person cannot sue the The FDA joined in this work in the ‘On April 23rd, 2008, four children company who made it.” 1980s to advertise against died soon after receiving measles ‘quackery’(alternative medicine) with vaccines stored in ice boxes in In addition to protecting themselves the organisations it was supposed to vaccination camps in two villages. As legally and maintaining their drug and be regulating. Today, this campaign is per the parents and other eye witnesses, vaccine profits even in the face of going strong in all countries, with all children developed frothing at the death, the drug industry has been bans on vitamin tablets being mouth, drooping of the head, rolling of known to pay for health promotions. proposed and ‘safety regulations’ being the eyeballs and died within 15 For instance, in Israel, GSK funded a sought on herbal medicines because minutes of the vaccine being given. TV advertising campaign for apparently they kill, when, in fact, it The LAPCOI attempts to discuss the Chickenpox vaccine, in association is the pharmaceutical and vaccine possible causes for serious adverse with the Israel Family Physicians industry that continues to kill scores reactions...the objective is to reassure Association. of people. paediatricians about vaccine safety...and Advertisements have begun to A Watchdog group has found that to ensure that immunization coverage appear on Israeli television channels deaths from prescription drugs have does not dip.’ and radio stations and in the reached an all time high with a They did not care that four children newspapers urging parents to get their staggering 4,825 deaths and 21,000 had died. Their primary concern was children vaccinated against chicken injuries in the first three months of not allowing the vaccination pox. 2008, and that’s just in the States. programme to dip and damage the The campaign, organised by the (The Los Angeles Times, 23rd October status quo. Since that journal article Israel Paediatrics Association and the 2008). Others believe that was published, there have been another Israel Family Physicians Association, pharmaceutical drug deaths are 9 deaths after measles vaccine in India, is financed by SmithKline Beecham, actually the leading cause of death. In in another three separate incidents. which manufactures Varilrix, the sole a research paper by Dr. Debora Rasio (Indian Pediatrics, volume 45, June 17th, brand of varicella zoster vaccine to be and Dr. Martin Fieldman, et al, 2008). approved so far by the health ‘A definitive review and close ministry.’(BMJ 2000;321:656, 16 Sept). reading of medical peer-review THE GOVERNMENT As well as safety committees sitting journals, and government health At the top of the ladder are the on the boards of the companies they statistics shows that American governments of the world and the big are supposed to regulate, they also medicine frequently causes more harm pharma fat cats. actively try to squash other, safer than good. The number of people Parents cannot usually sue the forms of medicine like alternative having in-hospital, adverse drug doctors who performed the vaccination therapy. reactions (ADR) to prescribed and drug manufacturers have a legal The American Medical Association medicine is 2.2 million. Dr. Richard

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Besser, of the CDC, in 1995, said the annually is 8.9 million. The total www.stopcancer.com/medicalmistakes.htm number of unnecessary antibiotics number of iatrogenic deaths shown is prescribed annually for viral infections 783,936. It is evident that the So next time someone tells you that was 20 million. Dr. Besser, in 2003, American medical system is the doctors vaccinate for public good, tell now refers to tens of millions of leading cause of death and injury in them about the corrupt, bribing unnecessary antibiotics. The number the United States. The 2001 heart racketeers that are in charge of their of unnecessary medical and surgical disease annual death rate is 699,697; child’s health, and they might just procedures performed annually is 7.5 the annual cancer death rate, change their mind. million. The number of people 553,251.’ exposed to unnecessary hospitalization The Nutrition Institute of America, By Joanna Karpasea-Jones.

Vaccines cause Micro-Vascular Strokes: work. He took it to Canadian Members of Parliament including Gurbax Singh Dr. Andrew Moulden, Canadian Doctor Mali (Liberal, Bramalea-Gore) and Michael Ignatieff (Liberal, Etobicoke). NEWSBLAZE, BY ALAN GRAY organs are affected depending on where They refused to respond. He wrote to September 27, 2008 the particles are, which leads to U.S. Senator Charles Grassley. Grassley different symptoms and ‘disease’ refused to respond. He took it to many OW LONG DOES IT TAKE A names, but the basic causes are the established medical bodies. They also medical breakthrough to be same and before this discovery were did not respond. acted upon? unknown. HA Canadian doctor, Dr. Andrew CONFIRMATION OF RESULTS Moulden says he conclusively proved Dr. Moulden has confirmed his seven years ago that vaccines cause “Dr. Moulden says the shots research with hundreds of independent micro-vascular strokes. Dr Moulden cause our body’s own immune doctors and other medical experts has a 21 year record of award-winning systems to hyper-react as large around the world. Many of them medical study and practice starting at white blood cells naturally introduced him to clinically proven Nipissing University, but he has been rush to attack the foreign natural health solutions they provide. unable to get the attention of the particles injected into College of Physicians or politicians to PUTTING PEOPLE BEFORE investigate his findings, which have our bloodstream.” CORPORATIONS been corroborated by other doctors. When The College of Physicians The main cause of the problem is refuses to acknowledge that there is HOW VACCINES CAUSE the additives in the vaccines. The even a problem and politicians refuse MICRO-VASCULAR STROKES purpose of the additives is to generate to investigate, what could be done Dr. Moulden says the shots cause our a faster response from white blood next? body’s own immune systems to hyper- cells. This works perfectly - white Dr. Moulden decided to run for react as large white blood cells blood cells rush to the site of the election as Member of Parliament in naturally rush to attack the foreign introduced foreign matter - and that is the Nipissing - Timiskaming riding particles injected into our bloodstream. the source of the problem. The white where he grew up. By this action, he The white blood cells are too big to blood cells block the capillaries and plans to bring attention to the issue enter, so they surround tiny capillaries also collapse them, trying to destroy and to finally end the political where the foreign particles land, clog the foreign matter. problems that are blocking this and collapse the capillaries. Dr. Moulden has been appointed to medical breakthrough. Dr. Moulden This cuts off pathways for the the Scientific Advisory Board for the says big pharmaceutical companies are smaller red blood cells to carry oxygen First Annual World Congress on exercising control over Canada’s to the organs near those capillaries that Vaccinology in Guangzhou, China, taxpayer-funded universal healthcare contain the foreign particles. When December 1- 5, 2008, where, he is to system. One of the ways the the particles float near the brain, this present to a group of 10,000 experts pharmaceutical companies are lack of blood supply can lead to from around the world. exercising control is in Bills C-51 and autism, SIDS and many other C-52 currently in Parliament which diagnosed illnesses in both children A HISTORY OF IGNORING A would essentially criminalize vitamins and adults. MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGH and supplements and give big Our immune systems will continue In 2001, he took his work to the pharmaceutical companies a virtual fighting the particles leading to long- College of Physicians and Surgeons of monopoly on medical treatments. term or chronic illness. Different Ontario. They refused to review his www.newsblaze.com

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Pasteurian dogma construct. The mind The illusion of the Germ Theory set being that an antibody or now even antibiotics, are defending or responding BY DR ROBERT O YOUNG the skin. Acidity dissolves and enlarges to bodies, microbes or invisible bodies blood vessels for the movement of acidic or what I call phantom viruses, like HE PURPOSE of this article is to fluids or gases. Alkalinity constricts and Avian, SARS, or even HIV - even open your mind to the illusion of normalizes the blood vessels. though HIV is not a virus but an the germ theory that imprisons many us The point being that viruses are alkaline antibody to buffer acid or andT to study the history of how this molecular liquids or gases (venom) that antigens. The chemical response is illusion was created. can be created by chemical imbalances actually due to an introduction, vector One must challenge everything in in humans, plants and animals (by or antigen of a chemical nature, the modern construct of immunology malnutrition or toxic acidic food and/or typically acidic, not a body, microbe or and what is said to be the immune drink consumption), also created in bacteria or yeast. system. The basis of modern humans, plants and animal glands, If bacteria, yeast, fungus or mold are immunology is founded on Louis sometimes used in defense (snake transferred into another individual it Pasteur, the fraud, impostor, deceiver venom) or emergency (overactive must be made in a balanced liquid and self promoter. There is a serious adrenals), also can be crystallized in medium to support that fragile microbe problem to where every word and part laboratories, rarely, if ever crystallized or insignificant entity in order to of the anatomy must be questioned to in vivo, and foolish to call viruses survive. The main point here is that find their use and function because of contagious when viruses are nothing bacteria, yeast, fungus or mold do not the fraud of Louis Pasteur. more than acidic liquids or gases from cause sickness and disease (including For example, the word influenza biological transformation or rotting cancer) as theorized by Pasteur and means influence. Originally, influenza matter. most recently suggested by Dr. was said to come from the stars or Simoncini, an oncologist from Rome, heavens. The Avian Influenza is an "These fragile microforms or Italy - sickness and disease (including influenza of a bird influence. More microbes are the expression of cancer and HIV) is a result of excess specifically, it is an influence of bird acidity or antigens that have not been cellular transformation from waste. The bird consumption industry in properly buffered by antibodies or bases Southeast Asia is overcrowded to the once healthy human, plant or such as sodium bicarbonate. These point that the chickens are consuming animal cells due to an over fragile microforms or microbes are the their own waste, producing an over- acidic environment. Sickness expression of cellular transformation acidification of the birds and workers that and disease can only be from once healthy human, plant or must work in the acidic air and waste. caused by an over acidification animal cells due to an over acidic It could be more accurately called (abundance of antigens) of the environment. Sickness and disease can Acidic Bird or Chicken Excrement only be caused by an over acidification Influenza that is only contagious to fluids of the body due to our (abundance of antigens) of the fluids of those consuming acidic birds, like own personal lifestyle and the body due to our own personal chicken or breathing chemically altered dietary choices." lifestyle and dietary choices. air from chicken excrement. Because As you contemplate the cause of the chickens do not have a urinary tract In snake bites, lifestyle choices and flu, cold or any so-called infection, may system, like humans and animals they diets - it is not the bite or food that I suggest that each of us take personal are more likely to absorb their own kills it is the venom or acid from the responsibility for the consequences of acidic urine into their tissues. I guess bite or food that kills. Ultimately, it is our choices, rather than blame a you could say that's what makes in ones personal choice that gives life or phantom Avian Influenza virus, cold chicken flesh or turkey flesh taste so takes life! Life and death is a virus, flu virus, cancer virus or some juicy and why chicken or turkey flesh consequence of choice! non-existent HIV virus. If you get sick, should never be consumed by humans! My final example is in defining the it is your own fault and not the cause of Here is a second example of truth about antibodies and antigens. some phantom virus that you can blame Pasteurian scientific dogma. The word Antibodies are chemical clusters or to cover your own lifestyle and dietary virus is originally Latin meaning alkaline buffers to a typical acidic transgressions. Save your money and poison, as in snake venom, (being too condition properly referred to as save your life by making alkalizing and acidic). When a serious snake bite antigens or enzymes. So called energizing lifestyle and dietary choices. releases venom or acid into the skin and antibodies are released from healthy This is where true immunity is found -- soft tissues, the small sweat vessels organ cells, such as the liver, in response not in a vaccine or a drug which are all become so enlarged that red corpuscles to buffer and neutralize the acidity or acidic and poisonous to the body but in can flow into the tiny seat glands, liquid acid antigen that was first living an alkaline lifestyle. showing red skin patterns and allowing introduced. It must be noted that the I love the words of Hippocrates when the venom or acids to escape through word, antibody and antigen, are a he said, 'Let your medicine be your food

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and your food be your medicine.' from all sickness and disease? Is it now Dr. Robert O. Young, September 2008. In closing, I quote Abraham Lincoln time for us to be truly free in all ways - who said ' . . . but you can't fool all the physically, emotionally and spiritually? PS For more information on flu, people, all of the time.' I believe with all my heart that the viruses, and vaccines I refer you to Is it now time that we wake up from answers to all questions can be found our book, 'Sick and Tired: and the the fraud and deception of Louis and realized in understanding and technical essay called, 'A Second Pasteur's medical science and break the choosing truth, light and life over Thought About Viruses, Vaccines and chains that can prevent us from deception, darkness and death. For the the HIV/AIDS Hypothesis.' incredible outstanding good health, truth can and will always set us free, in Go to: http://www.phmiracleliving.com/c- energy and a long a prosperous life free all ways! 25-books-dvds-audios.aspx

prevalence rates amongst three year Biomedical interventions olds have fallen for four successive T WAS VERY SAD that a child of people who have never had any quarters. Britain ceased the use of who had undergone chelation in the childhood vaccinations but of these mercury in some vaccines in September USA has died and it undoubtedly does only a handful seem to be autistic and 2004, but it is thought the actual Iraise further concerns about these some of these seem to have question decision was taken soon after officials procedures and some doctors who marks about exposure to mercury from returned from a vaccine safety promote them. Research into these other sources. US researchers looking conference in the USA in the early part activities must be vigilant and robust. at the Amish community and the of that year. Let us hope that this Having said that, however, it was natural medicine Home First Chicago country will experience a similar wrong of NAS (National Autistic based community, neither of which decline in autism within the coming Society) National Councillor Mike vaccinate their children, have found years. Stanton to patronise the thousands of virtually no autistic children in If rates fall, then it will become parents who believe their autistic aggregate numbers of over 300,000 apparent that our children, over half a children have been harmed by mercury people in those groups. million in the UK and millions more by dismissing them as the ‘Mercury Autism did not exist before mass in other countries have been sacrificed Moms’. In fact many thousands of public immunisation became regular on the economic altar of ‘shelf life’. parents believe this to be the case and practice in the USA and Western After all, this is the reason why the the outcome of a long running court Europe. Suggestions that similar second most toxic chemical of all has case may eventually vindicate their conditions were known in historical been used in vaccines. It preserves concerns. times do not bear close scrutiny, except combined vaccines and vaccine for those exposed to heavy metal and materials packed in multi shot vials to SCIENCE mercury poisoning (acrodynia, mad prevent the growth of bacteria in these Everyone knows that scientific proof hatters disease) both of which can bear highly toxic cultivated pathogens. linking cause and effect is extremely an extraordinarily close resemblance to hard to obtain. I worked in the tobacco autism, with some researchers DISCOVERY industry at the time that the US suggesting commonalities that simply The evidence that these complex Surgeon General’s report incriminated confirm the diagnosis. materials can cause harm remains tobacco in lung cancer, a finding circumstantial but it is certainly echoed by Richard Doll who asked why SHELF LIFE devastatingly so. Wide commonalities nine out of ten patients in cardio- Autism, a rare condition when my between the extent of their use and the thoracic wards and diagnosed with daughter was diagnosed as autistic in prevalence of autism are indisputable. lung cancer, were former smokers 1965 has become common place. But Any researcher looking into the whilst only around three in ten of the we should be clear that it is no scientific record of the misuse of general population were smokers. The randomly-caused epidemic, the recent mercury and its consequences will find link between smoking and lung cancer explosion in numbers since the early a massive amount of data, yet data and many other conditions has still to nineties almost exactly parallels the shown in the medical record seems be proven scientifically, today more growth of the use of mercury in strangely depleted. than forty years later, but few people vaccines between the mid nineteen In any event, once autism became so anywhere now believe that smoking is eighties and the late nineteen nineties pervasive the writing was on the safe. both in the USA and the UK. Both wall for the continued use of I have asked a similar question about countries have now withdrawn the use mercury in vaccines since medics, mercury-containing vaccines and of this material in some childhood researchers and powerful people were autism. How many unvaccinated vaccines. In California, where the most drawn into the ‘autism family,’ as they people have fallen prey to autism? reliable autism statistics are kept, it is too became widely affected as a result There are many hundreds of thousands claimed that quarterly autism of producing children who became › ISSUE THREE 2008 www.informedparent.co.uk 19 *I.P.Newsletter3_2008:Informed Parent 12/12/08 11:05 Page 20

autistic. Today the so called ‘mercury pharmaceutical industry, the Geiers’ establishment person as to the merits or moms’ include many hundreds of work must be listened to. The truth has otherwise of the use of mercury in doctors and medical people, US surely always been just under the noses vaccines, especially paediatric vaccines, Senators and Congressmen, a former of those truly concerned to look for it. and he has encouraged me to publicise Secretary of the Californian Senate, his offer. Boyd Haley had much to do mercury experts, research professors NATIONAL AUTISTIC SOCIETY with the US Government’s decision to and world experts in key disciplines The National Autistic Society has, in the recommend that the FDA should request who have combined to become a past, rejected any obligations to pursue the withdrawal of Thimerosal (mercury powerful research engine, as one after research or inquiry on the grounds that it compound used in vaccines). Similarly it the other concluded that mercury is was not a ‘medical charity’. I have always is likely that his submission to the US implicated in their child’s condition. believed that the NAS has an absolute Federal Committee on Vaccine Safety Even their tremendous contribution obligation to pursue any line of inquiry hearings in February 2004 had an towards learning the truth, after fifty that leads to a better understanding of equivalent impact upon UK officials years of evasion by the pharmaceutical autism, especially as it now appears that resulting in the overnight and so far industry, has been mitigated by the the areas to be looked at are principally unexplained withdrawal of Thimerosal in power of the most profitable industry scientific, social and economic rather than UK vaccines from 1 September 2004. on earth to shackle public awareness medical. This obligation arises The NAS could do worse than to accept and debate. But the prosaic truth that unequivocally from their leadership in this challenge and to facilitate such an autism may be the price paid to achieve the field of autism where they must rank event, especially amongst its very large an economic shelf life for vaccines is as one of the world’s leading autism and concerned membership. almost too hard to bear. bodies. Cause and effect should be a In the United States over one billion matter of concern to the NAS and NOTES dollars has been paid out in twenty prevention must surely rank amongst the The author, Tony Bateson was a years or so under the Vaccines Adverse highest echelons of welfare. member of the Board of the NAS Events Reporting System (VAERS), National Councillor Mike Stanton’s between 1979 and 1991 and during funded by an industry levy on vaccines opinion cannot be drawn from a well that time held the post of Vice makers in which mercury containing informed standpoint as the thousands of Chairman for a time. He was founder vaccines have always paid the highest hours of research into the secretive and chairman of the Lindens School Parents levies and those affected by them have well-hidden medical and scientific record Group in Surrey that led to the new received two thirds of the payments. by concerned individuals readily reveals. Linden Bridge School at Worcester Park David and Mark Geiers’ review of the Sixty five years after Kanner, something and of the Mid Counties Autistic Society data from VAERS showed that is clearly not working. which developed Stroud Court at exposure to mercury in vaccines closely However, Professor Boyd Haley, the Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire in paralleled the extent of the condition in world’s leading researcher into mercury 1982 leading on to other residential children compensated under VAERS. and its impact upon the central nervous communities, near Caversham, Reading As one of the very few reports not system, has authorised me to say that he and at Nailsworth in Gloucestershire. written by researchers directly or would welcome the opportunity to Tony Bateson continues to be a trustee of indirectly employed by the debate with any senior health Stroud Court.

Hepatitis B immunisation in persons not previously exposed to hepatitis B or with unknown exposure status

MATHEW JL, EL DIB R, MATHEW PJ, BOXALL EH, BROK J. AUTHORS' CONCLUSIONS: In DEPARTMENT OF PEDIATRICS, ADVANCED PEDIATRICS CENTRE, people not previously exposed to POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDIAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH hepatitis B, vaccination has unclear (PGIMER), CHANDIGARH, INDIA, 160012. effect on the risk of developing [email protected]. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2008 Jul 16;(3):CD006481. infection, as compared to no vaccination. BRIEF EXTRACT: The risk of lacking protective antibody levels as well as serious and non-serious ACKGROUND: The benefits and established. OBJECTIVES: To assess adverse events appear comparable harms of hepatitis B vaccination in the benefits and harms of hepatitis B among recipients and non-recipients of persons not previously exposed to vaccination in people not previously hepatitis B vaccine. Bhepatitis B infection or with unknown exposed to hepatitis B infection or with PMID: 18677780 [PubMed - indexed exposure status have not been unknown exposure status for MEDLINE]

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My girls won't have the cancer jab There's plenty of disagreement over what the cases show. Authorities say they http://www.independent.co.uk/life- saved. Would this pass the NICE criteria aren't necessarily connected to the style/health-and-wellbeing/features/my-girls- for expensive cancer drugs? We already vaccine. Two of the most worrying wont-have-the-cancer-jab-1022918.html have a very effective screening reactions have been blood clots – what programme that has brought deaths from might that be doing if you are one of the Tuesday, 18 November 2008 cervical cancer down from 11 per older girls on the pill? – and 38 reports HE NEW CERVICAL cancer 100,000 in 1950 to 3.4 in 2004, and the of an autoimmune disorder called vaccine offers few benefits, says numbers are expected to continue falling. Guillain-Barré syndrome that can Jerome Burne, father of two daughters. However, the vaccination could cause paralysis. TWhich makes the risks even more actually reverse that. Women still have to It's obvious that we need more alarming be screened because, even when the whole information, which is why the US Food Much as I love my two gorgeous programme is up and running, the and Drug Administration called for daughters – aged 13 and 17 – and wish number who develop precancerous cells is studies to investigate these possible risks. to protect them from all harm, I will not expected to drop by, at best, 50 per cent. But the results won't be in for a decade be consenting to them having the HPV At the moment, the biggest risk factor in some cases. The quickest trial they vaccine against cervical cancer. for cervical cancer is never having been asked for was one involving 44,000 It's a public health initiative that is screened; half of those with the disease vaccinated girls who are being followed unnecessary, reckless and ridiculously haven't. The fear is that the programme for six months to pick up signs of any expensive. Worse, serious doubts about may reduce screening attendance as immediate or medium-term problems its wisdom have not been properly vaccinated women assume they are safe. such as autoimmune disorders or presented to the public. Instead, children But these are arguments about the rheumatism. The results will be out in and parents have been bombarded with HPV vaccine as a public policy. What September next year. Meanwhile, UK publicity – "a totally life-saving, really matters to me and every parent is: experts confidently declare that there are revolutionary vaccine" – while the media what risk does it expose my children to? no dangers; if so, why run this and the have largely parroted official assertions As we've seen that the chance that any other studies? that it is "safe, proven and effective", all of individual girl will benefit is tiny, I want But the uncertainty over side effects which are unfounded. the risk of any adverse reaction to be even isn't all that's unknown. A key factor in The outline of the project is pretty tinier. the success of any vaccine is the length of familiar. This term, "the biggest public Public discussion of risks in the UK time it confers protection. If it is too health programme ever" began to gives little hint of possible dangers. (The short – say, less than 10 years – too many vaccinate all 12- and 13-year-olds against figures that follow all relate to a brand booster shots will be needed. How long the human papilloma virus (HPV): this called Gardasil being used in America. will protection last? No one knows; so involves three separate injections over This was to have been the UK choice far, it's lasted just over six years... several months. Later on, 16- to 18-year- until one called Cervarix was chosen ...And on top of all that, we don't olds will be inoculated as part of a because it was cheaper. We are told that actually know that the vaccine will catch-up programme. By July 2011, otherwise they are equivalent.) prevent cancer. We know it confers more than two million girls will have We plan to vaccinate 600,000 12- and resistance to the virus strains most likely been offered the vaccine which, it is 13-year-olds a year, on the basis of trials to cause cancer, but since the cancers claimed, will protect them against the involving fewer than 1,200 girls under don't usually appear until a woman is in two strains of HPV – numbers 16 and 18 16 that lasted less than two years. More her late forties, definitive proof will be – responsible for 70 per cent of all than 20,000 women aged 16 to 26 were some time coming. cervical cancers. also involved in trials. Side effects So this great public-health initiative At the moment, 3,000 women develop included birth defects and juvenile looks more like a hugely unstable edifice cervical cancer every year and just under arthritis. Only a few; but what happens of wildly optimistic assumptions piled on 1,000 die from it. Government and drug- when millions get the vaccine? Could top of one another. If just one or two company press releases claim that the certain genotypes be particularly prove way out, it could all come crashing programme will eventually cut these vulnerable? No one knows. In fact, I'm down. It's one lottery I won't buy a deaths by about 400 a year. What's not asked to enter my children into a vast ticket for. to like? experiment. Already, patterns of side HPV infects the majority of women, To begin with, it is a fabulously effects are emerging. A body called maybe as many as 80 per cent, by the age expensive way to deal with a problem Justice Watch has been prising figures for of 50 but it very, very rarely causes a which, although horrible for anyone who adverse reactions to Gardasil from the US problem. I believe that my girls will be a develops it, is hardly a major health risk. authorities. Last October, the total was lot safer relying on healthy immune Figures haven't been widely publicised, around 3,500; by this July, the figure had systems that haven't been challenged by but one quoted cost is £100m a year, risen to 8,864, including 18 deaths and too many vaccinations and on regular, which works out at £250,000 per life 140 "serious" reports. cheap, simple and safe smear tests.

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The confidence to make an informed choice HEN I WAS ABOUT six independently run and therefore not “Nothing by chance!”. months pregnant with my tied to the NHS. One of the many I was blessed by Pete saying those daughter, and I worked in IT support, things they did (and do!) was organise words to me over eight years ago, and Wa work colleague of mine ran it past talks, and shortly before my ‘due date’, the subject of vaccination remains a me that his six year old daughter had we went to a series of three talks by passion with me still. (If I can get never been vaccinated. I was stunned. Dr Michel Odent. I forget the exact people to stop, think and investigate a My initial thoughts were, “How titles of the talks but one of them was bit before blindly accepting what the irresponsible, isn’t he scared? What! specifically to do with the question of authorities say, just like he did with Putting the health of others at vaccination against childhood diseases, me, I feel I will be passing on, and risk…?” and also the effects of the new sharing, my good fortune.) I’m not the sort of person who combined vaccination cocktails such as I do understand that the medical speaks without knowing more – and the MMR; he has done a huge amount profession are trying to do their best, I’d got to know and respect Pete in of research on the subject. The talk they were (and are) taught that the time I’d been working with him. reinforced my husband’s and my vaccination is the best thing for Weren’t he and his wife worried about humanity, but I do believe that they their daughter dying of some terrible are very restricted by their knowledge disease that could be vaccinated “If I can get people to stop, – which is backed with a lot of fear. against? Weren’t they really worried think and investigate a bit When you realise that it is also best about even going to a swimming pool before blindly accepting what for their earnings (via the bonuses the with her in case she caught Polio or the authorities say, ... I feel given to them for percentages of their something? I had to know more about I will be passing on, and vaccinated patients), and understand, why on earth they’d taken such a therefore, that they cannot provide sharing, my good fortune.” decision (which seemed so out of you with unbiased information, then character), so at the next opportunity I it is time to stop, think again, and to brought the subject up again and growing knowledge and confidence on start looking for yourself. asked him why. That moment really the subject and provided us with more On talking to another like-minded was the start of my journey, or information to help make our choice. mum at school recently, we decided to certainly the start of the next major (It’s really scary at first saying “no take up the invitation that is always part of it. thanks” to the doctors and nurses, but printed in “The Informed Parent” to Pete talked to me a bit about the strangely empowering too!) organise a talk, in our area, to try and basics behind vaccination, questioning On the day my daughter was born I make a few more people think further the “truths” that we are constantly experienced the pressure of the on the subject. drip fed by the media, and asking me medical community to put her on Magda Taylor (founder of The questions about my evidence for just antibiotics (‘just in case’), and, Informed Parent) couldn’t have been accepting what I was told. It’s although horrified at the idea, more helpful when I rang her, and she interesting what comes up at a time succumbed for a short while. (Lack of gave me the contact details of three like this “…well everyone KNOWS knowledge equals lack of confidence (really well qualified) people who that vaccination protects lives” (how to make one’s choices.) The almost would be happy to travel to the does everyone know?), “Vaccinations funny thing about the doctors’ Midlands and give a talk, and asked stop you from getting diseases” (where reaction to my not wanting her to be me to let her know if we needed any is the evidence for this, and how come on antibiotics (possibly for the first 5- further help. I rang Dr Patrick a large amount of vaccinated 6 years of her life!) was that they tried Quanten MD, again really helpful, and individuals get the disease in spite of to convince me that the amount she we agreed a date which would give us being vaccinated?), etc., etc. We would be on was so small that it was time to organise the publicity, etc. didn’t have a long conversation about like homeopathy!!! We booked a room near the centre of the subject but I listened to what he Well, that was the start of it all, Stourbridge for the talk, and produced had to say, and went away determined and I am now a qualified homeopath simple flyers and posters on the to look into the subject with new eyes working on a part time basis whilst computer (which we then got and a bit more of an open mind – to bringing up my beautiful, healthy, un- photocopied, to help keep the expense think outside the box, in other words. vaccinated daughter. The discovery of down). In the next 3 weeks we visited The Active Birth Centre homeopathy (and my journey through libraries, cafés, alternative health www.activebirthcentre.com was just the most wonderful college, The centres, local papers, sent invitations down the road from where we lived in Lakeland College of Homeopathy) has to doctors, contacted local radio North London, and it proved to be a been a real gift, but then it fits in stations, and publicised it around the very useful resource, being with one of my favourite sayings, school. Although it sounds like a lot

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of ‘leg work’, it actually wasn’t much more people to hear the facts as they The recording of Dr Quanten’s talk at all between the two of us. (We kept are.) It was well attended and really in Stourbridge will soon be available the cost of a ticket as low as we could got people thinking – it allows you to in MP3 format from The Informed to make it accessible to as many step back and listen “with a new ear” Parent website people as possible.) to the fear being spread in the media; www.informedparent.co.uk It was wonderful to meet Dr fear is a great way to control people. Patrick Quanten on the evening of the Information brings confidence, and DVD and CDs recordings of the talk talk, a man overflowing with humility confidence is a place where we should are available for £6.00 (inc p&p). and knowledge, to say the least, in all be able to make our choices from. Please send your address, with a spite of his tough journey. His talk Really I am writing this article to cheque for £6.00 (made payable to: K was incredibly informative and see if I can encourage or inspire others Fullerlove) and stating whether you inspiring; he told us facts that shed a to get together with a friend or require DVD or CD to: whole new light on disease, and left colleague and do the same as we did. K Fullerlove, Westridge, Chapel me with a further sense of It’s easy. So how about it? Lane, Quatford, Bridgnorth, Shrops. empowerment. (He was quite happy WV15 6QH. to let us record the talk, to enable Kate Fullerlove, November 2008.

Autism Doc claims government led witch hunt against him

SUNDAY SUN, BY PHIL DOHERTY colleagues professor Simon Murch and Dr Wakefield said: “I was accused of Sep 28 2008 Professor John Walker-Smith, were going beyond the science when I summoned to the GMC disciplinary suggested that parents should have http://www.sundaysun.co.uk/news/north- hearing over allegations that research single jabs until the MMR had been east-news/2008/09/28/autism-doc-claims- they conducted on children breached properly assessed for risk. government-led-witch-hunt-against-him-793 ethical codes. “I had assessed the data and the 10-21915131/ If found guilty they face being safety study relied upon by the struck off the medical register. Department of Health and it was HE MAN AT THE CENTRE of This follows years of being reviled in derisory. It was no way as good as the the triple jab controversy has parts of the medical world after they research into the single jabs. accused the Government of conducting published a scientific paper in the “Bernadine Healy, the former head of aT witch hunt against him. Lancet that said there could be a link the US National Institute for Health, Dr Andrew Wakefield has been between the MMR vaccine, and autism admitted they had altered evidence on pilloried by the medical establishment and bowel disease. the epidemiological studies conducted after he voiced fears 10 yeas ago the by the US Government to suit the Measles Mumps and Rubella “I had assessed the data and official line. She admitted the evidence inoculation could cause autism in some the safety study relied upon both the US and UK relies on is kids it was given to. useless. by the Department of Health Now working in the USA, he was “The UK Government has a big called back to appear before a General and it was derisory. It was no dirty secret that it doesn’t want the Medical Council disciplinary hearing way as good as the research public to know . . . they agreed to earlier this year to answer charges of into the single jabs.” under write any compensation claims serious professional misconduct. for the MMR. This is why they can’t Speaking for the first time since the At a Press conference in 1998 Dr and won’t let their position fail. hearing was adjourned in July, he said: Wakefield said while further research “It was inevitable I was going to be “What the establishment does is throw was conducted to see if there was a dragged in front of the GMC because I stuff at you continuously and then tie link, parents should have the single dared to question big business. They you up for years with things like the inoculations instead of the triple jabs. always come after those who don’t toe GMC. At the time of the research it was their line.” “It is not a question of not claimed he had been paid to carry out A Department of Health spokesman vaccinating. I’m not against another study to find out if parents said: “We believe that the vaccine has vaccinations. I don’t know for sure who said their children were damaged an excellent safety record and studies vaccines cause autism but I suspect by the MMR had a case. have confirmed this belief. they do. The opposition just states The Lancet said this was a potential “Neither population-based studies or categorically it does not. But they don’t conflict of interest and if they had studies in individual children have know either.” known they would have rejected the confirmed a link between MMR Dr Wakefield and two other research paper. vaccine and autism.”

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Are vaccinations causing early Alzheimer's?

BY BYRON J. RICHARDS, CCN hyper-active to future inflammatory when a leading proponent of the vaccine- EXTRACTS stress of any kind. Such issues would be autism link, Hugh Fudenberg, MD, NewsWithViews.com magnified if a child had a history of presented his research at the NVIC November 19, 2008 stress in the womb, stress as an infant International Vaccine Conference, (unstable environment), poor nutrition Arlington, VA. His data showed that if HE ISSUE OF COGNITIVE in the womb or early life, other health an individual had five consecutive flu decline and the more advanced problems as an infant, or has family- shots between 1970 and 1980 (the years Alzheimer’s disease is predicted to be a related gene weaknesses predisposing to studied) his/her chances of getting Tpublic health crisis in America over the Alzheimer’s (or any other nerve-related Alzheimer’s disease is 10 times higher next 20 years, as the swell of baby disease for that matter). These massive than if he/she had one, two, or no shots. boomers hits the age when problems numbers of early vaccinations could This data was never published in a peer manifest. This past week the Wall Street easily set the stage for early onset reviewed journal. Supporters of Journal ran an article on a man getting Alzheimer’s. At this point there is Fudenberg describe him as “the world’s Alzheimer’s in his 40s, one of 500,000 absolutely no science that refutes this leading immunogeneticist and 13th Americans with early onset. The notion most quoted biologist of our times that this problem is striking ever earlier “...theoretical data on the (nearly 850 papers in peer review sent shock waves through the country journals).” inflammatory nature of and left people wondering why this is The Alzheimer’s Association website happening. Clearly, there are many vaccines, especially in the attempts to discredit Fudenberg, but not inflammatory factors in one’s life and large numbers given to the data he presented, stating that his gene-related weaknesses involved. children at an early age while “license was suspended by the South However, theoretical data on the their nerves are developing Carolina Board of Medical Examiners.” inflammatory nature of vaccines, response patterns for future This is true, but that was due to a classic especially in the large numbers given to life, means that they cannot witch hunt because of his anti-vaccine children at an early age while their position. The Alzheimer’s Association nerves are developing response patterns be ruled out as one main went on to reference a meaningless study for future life, means that they cannot be factor that primes the in which those with a negligible vaccine ruled out as one main factor that primes Alzheimer’s pump”. history had no apparent risk of the Alzheimer’s pump...... We already Alzheimer’s. The data does not begin to know from existing research the recipe theory, and plenty of science to predict approximate the potential risk of massive that leads to Alzheimer’s risk. Data it. Our government, bless their little numbers of vaccines given to American coming from the Canadian Study of hearts, has no interest in proving this not children and future Alzheimer’s risk. Health and Aging found that aging in to be the case or in figuring out a safety Thus, the question of the general, fewer years of education (less threshold for the number of vaccines or immunization link to Alzheimer’s is an brain exercise), and the apolipoprotein E the age they are given. Rather, they open-ended and controversial issue. A epsilon4 allele were significantly operate on the assumption that any responsible government would have associated with increased risk of number of vaccines is harmless. This demanded animal studies with different Alzheimer’s disease. Other research has public health mentality of fire a shot gun levels of immunizations at different ages shown that heavy smoking and drinking and ask questions later (or never ask any in relation to the onset of Alzheimer’s. speed the onset of Alzheimer’s. A questions at all) is good for herd These studies aren’t being conducted sluggish thyroid also increases the mentality and not so good for because OUR GOVERNMENT DOES risk……… personalized wellness and quality of life. NOT WANT TO KNOW THE Any notion that the treatment is ANSWER. THE IMMUNIZATION - problematic, such as a contributor to Since Americans are more vaccinated ALZHEIMER’S CONTROVERSY autism, is met with flat out denial. It than Europeans, a detailed analysis of The adjuvants used in vaccines (putting does not matter to them what data is vaccine amounts compared to the mercury issue aside) are intentionally presented or what new science obviously Alzheimer’s risk or early onset of highly inflammatory so as to provoke a predicts. Our government’s illness is Alzheimer’s could be conducted. more active immune response to the their bizarre concept of control at all However, if the government is behind weakened pathogen. The fact that costs by unelected bureaucrats, risks be this study they will use statistical American children are the most dammed. The bottom line, our techniques that water down the results vaccinated in the world at such an early government doesn’t actually care what so that risk disappears, the favorite age, when their brains are setting up adverse effects vaccinations may cause to strategy employed when any drug or shop, runs the high risk that vaccinations your child, they are treating a herd. medicine has potential risks that would will “train” nerves to become more This issue flared up back in 1997 cause people not to take them……

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Feckless IOM does agency's bidding: sound familiar?

BY DAN OLMSTED Here is the heart of the matter, have been affected at excess rates. In http://www.ageofautism.com/2008/11/fec according to the new report: contrast, the IOM reports have provided "In 1998, with few conclusive answers almost no information on conditions kless-ion-do.html to continuing questions about Gulf War that do occur at excess rates in Gulf War November 17, 2008 illness and the federal response to this veterans. That is, the Gulf War and problem, Congress directed VA to Health reports have not provided HARSH NEW REPORT is contract with the National Academy of findings on possible associations blasting the relationship between a Sciences (NAS) to review available between Gulf War illness or ALS and federal agency and the Institute of research in order to assist the Secretary most Gulf War exposures. Nor do they AMedicine -- saying costly reports the of Veterans Affairs in making decisions provide findings on conditions like IOM produced were worthless and failed about Gulf War-related disability migraines and seizures, which to connect a widespread but baffling compensation. Public Laws directed that preliminary information suggests may epidemic with its true causes. the review identify conditions that affect affect Gulf War veterans at excess rates, No, it's not about autism. This Gulf War veterans at excess rates and in relation to Gulf War exposures. criticism relates to the Veterans assess the scientific evidence concerning The legislation also directed that Administration and studies it associations between those conditions determinations be based on scientific commissioned from the Institute of and a detailed list of Gulf War evidence provided by both human and Medicine to look into Gulf War Illness. exposures. animal studies. Most studies that The Congressionally mandated In response, VA commissioned the evaluate biological effects of hazardous independent review of Gulf War Institute of Medicine (IOM), within the exposures are done in animals, for Studies, in a report to be officially National Academies, to conduct a series ethical reasons. In recent years, a large released Tuesday, calls the VA-IOM of reviews using a methodology number of animal studies have effort a diversion from the search for the previously established to evaluate identified biological effects of Gulf War truth. diseases affecting Vietnam veterans in exposures and combinations of exposures It says that Saddam Hussein didn't relation to Agent Orange. that were previously unknown. cause Gulf War Syndrome - we did. The (Hyams/Brown). To date, the resulting Although animal research was most likely suspects, it concludes, are a Gulf War and Health series has included sometimes described in the IOM nerve gas antidote used protectively nine reports, including two updated reports, findings from animal studies (there was never an attack) and reports, and provided hundreds of were not considered in drawing widespread exposure to pesticides. And conclusions. The Committee was conclusions about the evidence that Gulf it says multiple vaccinations given to concerned to find that the IOM reviews War exposures were associated with the troops cannot be ruled out. were not conducted in accordance with health outcomes. Unlike IOM's earlier Too many vaccines.... a potent and the laws that mandated them. As a Agent Orange reports, the standards inadequately tested medicine used to result, the Gulf War and Health reports used to determine levels of evidence for ward off an attack that never came, one have provided little information that is the Gulf War and Health reports that may have mimicked the effects of directly relevant to health conditions expressly limited IOM panelists to actual exposure…. environmental toxins that affect Gulf War veterans at excess consideration of results from human causing new and catastrophic mental rates, or their association with Gulf War studies. The omission of animal studies and physical damage…. a conflicted exposures. was especially striking in IOM's government agency using the IOM for The 1998 legislation specifically updated report on sarin (nerve gas for its own purposes. directed that VA commission reviews which the antidote was given to U.S. In other words, it sounds a lot like that identify both diagnosed and troops), which had been requested by the autism-vaccines report the IOM undiagnosed illnesses that affect Gulf the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in 2003 produced in 2004 for its client, the CDC War veterans at excess rates and, based specifically because of new research in -- which found no relationship between on a comprehensive consideration of animals that demonstrated adverse the two -- and the belief by many in the available research, determine whether effects of low-level sarin exposure. autism community that the science was there is evidence that those illnesses are The hundreds of findings provided in skewed to produce a predetermined associated with Gulf War exposures or the IOM reports are largely result. It also goes to the issue of Gulf War service. However, the health inconclusive, indicating that there is whether scientific research has become conditions considered in the IOM Gulf insufficient evidence to determine if the so politicized and corporatized, War and Health reports have primarily diseases considered are associated with especially in the past eight years, that a included multiple types of cancer and a the exposures considered, based on the top to bottom review is needed - number of other diagnosed types of studies considered. something President-Elect Obama has diseases¬conditions for which there are The specific information included in said he will order. no indications that Gulf War veterans the Gulf War and Health reports is also › ISSUE THREE 2008 www.informedparent.co.uk 25 *I.P.Newsletter3_2008:Informed Parent 12/12/08 11:06 Page 26

problematic, in that it appears to reflect sand in the umpire's face." CDC, the U.S. Public Health Service a process of reporting selected results This connection was not lost on Steve and their pharma-flacking cronies from from subgroups of studies, rather than Robinson, one of America's leading all oversight and responsibility. integrating and analyzing results from veterans advocates, who was Maybe the debacle at the VA will all available research. This is a pervasive instrumental in exposing the Bush encourage the Obama Administration to problem. Administration's shabby treatment of take another look at the autism-vaccine In short, IOM's Gulf War and Health returning Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. "science" produced by the CDC and series of reports have been skewed and "It's the three-card monte game they stamped "approved" by the IOM. A limited by a restrictive approach to the use to have a pre-determined outcome," number of autism advocates worked scientific tasks mandated by Congress, Robinson told me. And it's no mere hard for years to get the Bush an approach directed by VA in game - at stake are treatment and administration to reconsider the commissioning the reports. These compensation for, in this case, hundreds Immunization Safety Review findings limitations are most notably reflected in of thousands of Gulf War vets whose on autism. They made modest progress: the selective types of information lives have been damaged by their the IOM sponsored a "Workshop on reviewed and the lack of in-depth decision to serve their country. Autism and the Environment" last year. analysis of the research literature and "How do we break the code of how Age of Autism Editor-at-Large Mark scientific questions associated with the Blaxill was a member of the Planning health of Gulf War veterans. There is a “The VA-IOM debacle is an Committee for that workshop. "The fundamental disconnect between the analogous case study to the workshop was a small step in a better Congressional directive to VA and VA's direction," says Blaxill, "but even charge to IOM for reviewing evidence IOM-CDC cover-up, with getting that far was a huge struggle. on Gulf War exposures and their similar consequences - lack of And in no way whatsoever did it undo association with illnesses affecting Gulf understanding of what really the damage done by the 2004 report. War veterans. The reports have caused Gulf War Syndrome; We need to see some intellectual particularly fallen short in advancing lack of understanding of courage from our scientific leadership. understanding of associations between what really caused the So far, all we've seen is systemic Gulf War exposures and Gulf War cowardice and a complete perversion of autism epidemic.” illness, the most prominent health issue the scientific process. In the meantime, affecting Gulf War veterans." families are suffering and no one is This set-up, of course, will be familiar corrupt it is to manipulate science this doing anything about it." to Age of Autism readers knowledgeable way, not just for vets but for autism and A final note - while the IOM may about the CDC-mandated-and- other issues?" asked Robinson, who has claim it was just doing its job as manipulated IOM study of autism and been informally working with the mandated by the VA, that's not good vaccines, which pulled every kind of Obama transition team on veterans' enough, not for an institution that is part punch - from hurrying up the report to issues. He said Obama "is not going to of the National Academies, which calls avoid looking at new studies, to get the ground truth from these people" itself " Advisers to the Nation on ignoring or denigrating studies like the in any of the areas where the science has Science, Engineering and Health." IOM hair-mercury analysis and the violent been corrupted. could just as easily have read the reaction to thimerosal in mice bred to "What does he inherit? A politicized Congressional mandate and told the VA have autoimmune problems, to federal government [science program] that its request was not in accordance overweighting slipshod epidemiological that is defunct and corrupt." The with the law -- in common parlance, studies that even the IOM problem is most acute four or five levels illegal. In fact, why didn't they stand up acknowledged could fail to identify a down from the top, where the actual for good science? Was the contract too susceptible subset of children. manipulation occurs, he said. Those are enticing? Yet the IOM says it advises Bottom line: The VA-IOM debacle is the people who need to come clean. "the nation." an analogous case study to the IOM- The Gulf War review panel basically The nation is not the VA - the nation CDC cover-up, with similar called for a mulligan on the shoddy is veterans. The nation is not the CDC - consequences - lack of understanding of VA/IOM collaboration - recommending it's families and individuals coping with what really caused Gulf War Syndrome; that the VA ask the IOM to redo all its an autism epidemic. And the nation is lack of understanding of what really studies and that the VA office involved certainly not the federal government - caused the autism epidemic. At a deeper in the previous studies, the Office of the nation is the people who elected that level, the study suggests a culture in Public Health and Environmental government to protect and defend them; which "science" is just another political Hazards, be removed from all it's you and me. tool to silence criticism and prevent the participation in the new effort. And we, the people, keep getting truth from emerging. In Patrick Here's an idea, one that's been royally screwed. Fitzgerald's memorable phrase in the circulating in the autism community for Scooter Libby trial, the IOM appears to some time: Redo the IOM studies on Dan Olmsted is Editor of Age of have become a mechanism for "kicking autism and vaccines and remove the Autism.

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Somalia, will CDC officially concur that Breaking news: Autism may be caused autism, at least in these cases, must necessarily have an environmental by “Chemical Exposures!” – CDC component? And here is part of the reply: BY DAVID KIRBY (and the Minnesota Department of While it is important to understand if www.huffingtonpost.com Health) were thorough, thoughtful, and autism is affecting any group of children quite lengthy. They will be published in disproportionately, it is also important 26 November 2008 their entirety shortly at to keep in mind that there are likely OR YEARS NOW, scientists at www.ageofautism.com. multiple causes of the autism spectrum the Centers for Disease Control and But one of the last questions of disorders. Most scientists agree that elsewhere have said that autism is answered by the CDC really stuck out. today's research will show that a person's Fprobably a purely genetic disorder, and I cannot recall anything quite like it genetic profile may make them more or that the dramatic increase in numbers from any Federal agency when asked a less susceptible to ASDs as a result of was due to better diagnostics, wider question about the possible causes of any number of factors such as infections, reporting and greater awareness - and autism. the physical environment, chemical not because of any environmental Instead of the usual, tired, "it's just exposures, or psychosocial components. factors. better diagnostics" mantra one routinely The idea that "chemical exposures" gets from most public health authorities (vaccine induced or otherwise) might THOSE DAYS ARE OVER NOW. (and prominent author-pediatricians), cause autism still brings virtual Today, I received an email from an this particular person at the CDC chose apoplexia to certain scientific circles. official in the Office of CDC Director to tell the refreshing truth - and it is Let's hope they all take a deep breath Dr. Julie Gerberding (rumored to be on something that I have been saying for and consider the CDC's wisdom. her way out in January), "Office of quite some time, myself. Enterprise Communication," replying to Here is the question I posed to CDC: Thank you, Centers for Disease my questions on what the agency is If it is determined that Somali children Control. doing to look into the reportedly high in Minnesota do in fact have higher rates Thank you for your candor, your number (1 in 28) of Somali (with of autism than non-Somali children in courage, and your ability to admit Autism) in Minneapolis. Minnesota, and that they also have that there is no such thing as a The responses I got from the CDC higher rates than Somali children in genetic epidemic.

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AIMS & OBJECTIVES OF THE PARENT GROUP 1. To promote awareness & understandinginform about vaccinationed 6. To establish a nationwide support network and register in order to preserve the freedom of an informed choice (subject to members permission). 2. To offer support to parents regardless of their decisions 7. To publish a newsletter for members. 3. To inform parents of the alternatives to vaccinations. 8. To obtain, collect and receive money and funds by way of 4. To accumulate historical & current information about contributions, donations, subscriptions, legacies, grants vaccination & to make it available to members & or any other lawful methods; to accept and receive any gift interested parties. of property and to devote the income, assets or property of the group in or towards fulfilment of the objectives of the 5. To arrange & facilitate local talks, discussions and group. seminars on vaccination, childhood illnesses & the promotion of health. THE INFORMED PARENT COMPANY LIMITED. REG.NO. 3845731 (ENGLAND)

The views expressed in this newsletter are not necessarily those of The Informed Parent Co. Ltd. We are simply bringing these various viewpoints to your attention. We neither recommend nor advise against vaccination. This organisation is non-profit making.

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