THE PARENT ISSUE THREE 2009 ANEWSLETTERONVACCINATIONISSUESANDHEALTH Polish Health Minister, a family doctor, tells Parliament she will notinform allow use of untesteded swine flu jabs www.theflucase.com Pharma. She noted that there are three Also, she said that trials for the swine flu Thursday, 05 November 2009 vaccines proposed for Poland with different jab were being conducted on a relatively types of adjuvants and was concerned that small number of healthy people and that he Polish Health Minister Eva Kopacz these vaccines were all being treated as if these were not adequate for her to today told Parliament during a heated they were the same. recommend the jab. debate on the swine flu vaccination that In addition, she observed that only 13% Moreover, Kopacz said that the regular she,T as a qualified family doctor with more of the people in Germany want to take the flu was much more common and dangerous than 20 year of experience, will not swine flu jab even though 5 times more than the swine flu - and yet no pandemic authorise the use of untested vaccines on people in Germany take the regular flu shot had been declared over the seasonal flu. millions of people in Poland when there is than in Poland, and asked why the Why is there such a panic about the swine inadequate information about the safety of Germans are so unwilling to take the jab. flu virus? She asked. the jabs. She said the secret contract that She said there was secrecy surrounding the Kopacz said that the Polish people can the Polish government was supposed to contents of the vaccines. There is no tell the difference between objective facts sign with pharmaceutical companies had information about the amount of adjuvants and the truth and lies. She noted that all more than 20 clauses which are against the in the vaccines, she added. 193 people who allegedly had the swine flu law. Kopacz noted that governments in Furthermore, the family doctor and in Poland had survived. Western Europe had signed secret Health Minister said there is absolutely Finally, she called on the people of agreements with pharmaceutical no information about the side effects of Poland to show their support for her as she companies, but suggested that the the swine flu jab. The pharmaceutical comes under growing pressure from the prosperity of the people of Poland was more companies did not want to take pushers of the "swine flu" jab to give the important to her than the profits of Big responsibilty for the jab. people the dangerous and untested jab. GPs & practice staff on frontline turn down swine flu vaccine

BY NIGEL PRAITIES 04 Nov 09 - said he, the four other GPs and six staff would not have the vaccine, and nor would members at his practice planned to refuse her practice staff and many of her patients: www.pulsetoday.co.uk the vaccine, and that he did not believe ‘I usually get 100% uptake for seasonal flu, ANY GPS and practice staff are there was enough evidence it was safe. ’It’s but for swine flu the response is very low.’ refusing to be vaccinated against not been around very long. The fact we are Dr Liz Miller, a locum GP in London, swine flu, even in ‘hot-spot’ areas where testing it out on pregnant women does not said she would not recommend the vaccine ratesM of infection are rising fastest. bear thinking about,’ he said. Dr Louise to her patients because of safety concerns: At some practices no front line staff have Warburton, a GP in Telford – identified as ‘I do not intend to be vaccinated, nor will I agreed to have the vaccine, despite BMA one of the country’s hotspots, with nearly recommend it to patients. It is untested and and Government warnings that it is ‘crucial’ three times the national average unnecessary. It’s time doctors started to the success of the campaign. consultations for influenza-like illness – said thinking for themselves instead of And some GPs warned there were early she was planning to say no to the vaccine, as mindlessly obeying the Department of signs that take-up among patients might were many other local GPs. Health because they are terrified of missing also be disappointing, amid continued fears Practice staff were also reluctant in many out on free money.’ over vaccine safety. A Pulse survey in areas. Dr Helen Groom, a GP in But Dr David Wild, a GP in Hebden August found nearly half of GPs had at that Sunderland – also a hot-spot – said she Bridge, West Yorkshire, said: ‘I will be time been planning to turn the vaccine would have the vaccine, but around a third having the swine flu vaccine and it will be down, with doubts over safety one of the of her 23 staff planned to refuse it. offered to all our staff. Our practice is a key reasons. And some GPs warned their own doubts team and if people start having problems Dr Niall Finegan, a GP in Salford, were shared by patients. Dr Andra we will not be able carry out the vaccination Manchester – close to a hot spot in Trafford Jayaweera, a GP in Rayleigh, Essex, said she programme effectively. ‘

ISSUE THREE 2009 www.informedparent.co.uk 1 Editor’s note WELCOME TO THE selection so that you can make your own mind up as to the LAST ISSUE FOR 2009. validity or usefulness of the information. Some articles may be We continue to hear about swine viewed as ‘conspiracy theories’ by some whereas others would flu, especially now the vaccine is find them totally acceptable. My aim is to give you a being introduced in many parts reasonable mix. It is good to remember that sometimes the of the world. In this issue I have truth can be stranger than fiction! I do include articles that I included a number of reports do not necessarily adhere to personally because I feel it is my regarding the concerns about this duty to pass on to you as much information as I can, to enable latest vaccine from doctors in the you to come to your own conclusions. I appreciate your UK and overseas. It is refreshing feedback and suggestions as this enables me to continue to when doctors openly admit that meet your needs, so please keep sending in your comments and Magda Taylor they have concerns and will be queries. refusing the vaccination for themselves and their families. I am pleased to say that I have now had a new revised Let’s hope that their frankness will spread to others in their version of Ian Sinclair’s popular booklet ‘Health: The Only profession and start an epidemic of ‘thought-based medicine’! Immunity’ published. It is available from The Informed As usual I continue to be inundated with articles from a Parent for £7.00 including postage and packing. Payment can wide array of sources and as the next issue of the newsletter be made either by cheque or via the website. As a Special approaches I then have to decide which articles to choose to Christmas offer I am making it available to subscribers for ensure that I give you an interesting selection. I do try and just £5.50 until 31st January 2010. bring forth a wide variety of articles which hopefully will Wishing you all a jolly Christmas and good health and satisfy your needs and give you food for thought. Obviously, happiness for the forthcoming year! Thank you very much for there will be times when certain articles may not appeal to your continued support! you, as clearly we as individuals have different philosophies, beliefs and knowledge. However, I do aim to give you a diverse Magda Taylor, Editor, December 2009

behind vaccination is flawed right from Vaccination – what is the point? the start, therefore trying to ‘protect’ from something that is NOT the cause is BY MAGDA TAYLOR, AUGUST 2009 Parents often ask me for advice as to completely inappropriate. whether they should go ahead with the When I first embarked on this subject VER THE LAST EIGHTEEN vaccinations, and I always stress that they I had almost no knowledge on the YEARS I have been researching the must come to their own conclusion, subject, I probably shared similar views subject of vaccination, and I have been provided it is based on a wide range of to the majority of people. Sadly, the Oasked on a number of occasions to write study, alongside their gut feeling. Firstly, majority share the view that vaccination an article about the subject. It is an I encourage them to look at the main has wiped out diseases like smallpox and enormous subject and I used to find it theory that vaccination is based on, ie the polio, and is on its way to eradicating all difficult in deciding what aspects to germ theory of disease. When you look those childhood infections, such as, cover. thoroughly at the main theories which whooping cough, measles and mumps. I However, these days I have reached a form the foundation of vaccination, you recall a pro-immunisation doctor stating point of simplicity, as regards to talking may come to view germs and disease in a that most parents have their children or writing about vaccination, as I feel that different way resulting in other concerns vaccinated to which I agreed, but I had to a lot of energy can be used up of the issue becoming irrelevant. point out to him that most parents hold questioning aspects, such as: What do What do I mean by this? Well, if you this view not due to any study of the vaccines contain? Are single vaccines safer come to the conclusion that germs are subject, but mostly out of absolute faith than combination ones? Are some NOT the cause of disease then the idea of that the medical professionals must know vaccines useful? Are the pharmaceutical vaccination does not make sense. Even if what they are doing, and that the companies just in it for the money? - and vaccines were 100% safe and did not procedure and all the vaccines must be so on. contain substances, such as, aluminium, extremely safe and effective. Many are Keeping it simple for me, means just mercury, formaldehyde, and animal and under the illusion that if we stop looking at the basic questions bird tissue, what would be the point in vaccinating we will return to the ‘dark surrounding health and disease, and trying to protect yourself and your family ages’ and disease will once again become whether vaccination plays any positive from specific germs when they are not rife. role in the matter. the cause? In other words the philosophy In 1988, when I became a mother for

www.informedparent.co.uk ISSUE THREE 2009 2 the first time, it did not even cross my edge off your health or it may be to a deathbed he admitted that Bernard was mind to look into the pros and cons of greater degree. The effects are obviously right regarding the germ theory, but this vaccination, instead I diligently reported very dependent on the individual’s seems to have been completely ignored to my surgery with my baby daughter for constitution and lifestyle. So why then and Pasteur came to be known as the all of the vaccinations that were due. I do would we want to risk tolerating Father of Germ Theory. not believe that any parent likes to take vaccination if the theories behind it are Numerous books have been written on their baby to be vaccinated because there erroneous? Pasteur’s life and his experiments which is an instinctive feeling that you are George Bernard Shaw, who was an highlight many concerns regarding the betraying your baby’s trust by handing anti-vaccinist, as well as a well-known quality of Pasteur’s work. In 1995 them over to a stranger, who then author and playwright, said that if Professor Geison of the Historical proceeds to stick a needle into one or two Pasteur’s germ theory were true there Institute, University of Princeton, USA, of their limbs – unexpectedly. Most would be no one alive to believe it. wrote a book entitled “The Private babies do cry at that moment, however, We are all teeming with microscopic Science of Louis Pasteur” after reviewing the mantra that is frequently chanted at life from the day we are created to the day over 10,000 pages of Pasteur’s diaries. He new parents ‘that a few moments of pain we depart. At any given time many reported that if the results of Pasteur’s will mean a lifetime of protection’ can be bacterial forms could be isolated from our experiments did not live up to his very effective, especially if you have bodies and yet we are not sick. Many of expectations, he modified his minimal knowledge and are swayed by us will be carrying the meningococcal experiments until they provided the the fear that is often projected on to you bacteria or the pneumococcal bacteria but outcome desired to prove his ideas. This by the health professionals. means in simple terms that theories based It wasn’t until my second daughter “The mantra that is frequently on Pasteur’s experiments, such as, was coming up to 12 months old that I ‘immunity’ ‘immune protection’, chanted at new parents ‘that a started to investigate this subject, which ’immune defence’ and ‘antibody’ are was triggered by a two-page article few moments of pain will mean based on false premises. featured in a September 1991 edition of a lifetime of protection’ can be There have been many scientists over the London Evening Standard very effective, especially if you the years, before and after Bernard, who supplement entitled ‘Vaccination – The have reached similar views on germ Hidden Facts’ by journalist Andrew have minimal knowledge and theory, and I would highly recommend Tyler. I began to wade my way through a are swayed by the fear that is you look at the writings of, for example, great deal of literature, attend lectures, often projected on to you by Bechamp, Enderlein, Nassens and Rife, and discuss the subject with various to name a few. This is such an important individuals, including some medical the health professionals.“ area to grasp and makes studying professionals. vaccination a much easier task. A year later The Informed Parent was most of us do not go on to develop My own definition for immunity is set up by four concerned mothers, meningitis because we are relatively simply health, and the best way to have including myself. The main aim being to healthy. These types of disease are diseases good immunity (health) is to strive for encourage parents to look into the subject of a compromised system, they do not healthy living habits. before they make a decision about just strike randomly - there will be Whilst much has been written about whether or not to allow their children to underlying reasons. the obvious importance of a good healthy receive all the recommended vaccines. I The presence of a variety of bacteria diet, reasonable physical exercise and can only say that in all the years I have does not automatically mean that you reasonable living conditions for achieving been studying the subject I have never will develop a disease. There are a higher level of health and vitality, an had any doubt arise that, maybe numerous examples in scientific literature area that is often forgotten is the vaccination has some positive effects on highlighting various doctors and importance of sound and stable emotional the body. The more research I scientists of the past who would swallow nourishment. You could be eating a fairly participated in, the more I became totally large quantities of bacteria to prove to good diet, organic and wholesome, you convinced that there were no health their academic colleagues that germs do could be taking some regular exercise, benefits from this procedure at all. I have not make you sick if you maintain a but if there are emotional stresses that now come to the point where I would not healthy internal environment. lead to negative thinking, this will even consider vaccination as an option, as At the time of Louis Pasteur, another undoubtedly have an effect on your body. in my opinion it will do absolutely academic by the name of Claude Bernard In more recent years this aspect has been nothing to enhance a baby, child or apparently, in amidst of a group of addressed from a more scientific view. adult’s health. physicians and scientists, stated: ‘The One such scientist, who started to Yes, vaccines may be tolerated if you terrain (meaning the internal soil of the question much of his orthodox training, are reasonably healthy, but other than body) is everything; the germ is nothing,’ Bruce Lipton PhD, now lectures on the that, I believe that they can only have a and then drank down a glass of water subject of how our own thoughts, the negative effect on your well-being. This filled with cholera to prove his point. It way we personally perceive any given may be very minimal, just taking the has also been written that on Pasteur’s situation will have an effect on our › ISSUE THREE 2009 www.informedparent.co.uk 3 physiology. If we chose to look negatively generation, that was the immunity they result in a lengthier process. Either way, at every thing we are actually weakening gained. This inherited health (immunity) if the acute is allowed to run its course the cells of our body and making should have continued to increase in and not be suppressed, the result is likely ourselves susceptible to disease. A strength had the world populations not to be a much healthier child after the positive outlook and, most importantly, a been bombarded by the increasing disease is resolved. I would like to stress I positive belief system will go a long way number of vaccinations and suppressive am referring to acute childhood illness, to keeping your body in ease rather than medications that have been introduced, not diseases of a compromised system, dis-ease. It is easy to fall into bad habits particularly over the last sixty years. This such as meningitis, which I mentioned of always thinking the worse, and any interference in the progression of natural earlier on in this article. kind of negative thoughts, for example, health has sadly resulted in more These days it is more difficult to hatred, jealousy, unforgiveness, and so on, compromised individuals. Young parents establish the level of health the average can deplete your vitality and effect your child has. How do we define health? A internal chemistry. To find out more “If we chose to look negatively parent may consider that their child is about this aspect a good starting point healthy because they are never ill. This at every thing we are actually would be to read Bruce Lipton’s book: is not necessarily the case – absence of ‘The Biology of Belief’. For those of you weakening the cells of our body symptoms of disease does not who would like to learn more about how and making ourselves suscepti- automatically mean health. If a child has to promote healthy thinking a ble to disease. A positive outlook been fully vaccinated, received regular particularly interesting writer I have and, most importantly, a positive doses of fever suppressants, had a less found very useful is Dr Wayne Dyer. belief system will go a long way healthy diet, little exercise, and so on, Much of Dyer’s writing/philosophy is, in to keeping your body in ease then this will result in a compromised a sense, things we already know deep system. A child in this category may not down inside, but which have been buried rather than dis-ease.“ even have the vitality to throw a good by all the hype and propaganda by so- fever and start off the process of called ‘experts’ that is thrust upon us are not passing on such good immunity elimination. Instead the toxins that are daily through the media. There is always (health) on to their offspring as they accumulating in their system will build room for improvement for all of us, and themselves have mostly been vaccinated up to a point where more chronic when one starts to shift in to a positive and medicated throughout their youth conditions will start to emerge. There thought pattern the rewards are very and this may be resulting in skewed have been huge increases in, for likely to be success, happiness and good immune systems. Recent generations are example, allergies, asthma, juvenile health. now developing more chronic disease diabetes, mental disorders, various I no longer believe that you can be than before, and also at earlier ages, learning difficulties and more chronic immune to disease in the sense that has rather than just going through a few disease over the last fifty years, and been promoted for numerous years. It is acute childhood diseases instead. From a many researchers who have become said that over generations we become holistic, naturopathic point of view this concerned by the vaccination procedure immune to certain diseases, that we may would be due to their inability to throw a are convinced that the growth in these pass on immunity, or that we become good fever and go through a typical type of conditions are the result of the immune after developing certain diseases. childhood disease. These acute illnesses many vaccines a child receives in its However, if this were true than why do are viewed as the body’s way of early years. some people develop the same disease two eliminating surplus toxins that have been I have only touched lightly on one of or three times over? Also, I feel absolutely building up within the child. The body’s the main foundations of vaccination in certain that if we returned back to living intelligence deliberately starts the process this article in the hope that it will inspire in the same conditions as, for example, of elimination which may result in a rash you to start to look at the whole health London in the late 1800s, then we would disease or mucus discharge to clear out and disease story from a different angle, gradually witness the rise in smallpox, the system and put it back into a state of then you can decide for yourself if tuberculosis, scarlet fever, diphtheria, ease rather than leave it in a state of dis- vaccination provides any benefits. There measles and so on, regardless of whether ease. are flaws in all the aspects of vaccination, we’re supposedly immune or not. These Children with good health will not and we can certainly see that in the diseases declined and became less severe develop much acute disease, if they are developed countries of the world where due to increased health in the population. particularly healthy they may only need ‘health care’ systems have been This was achieved mostly by improved to have minimal disease, maybe a 24 – 48 established, and vaccines and medications living conditions, better nutrition and hour fever and some mucus, and this will are regularly used, there is an increase in sanitation. So the following generation be enough to clear them out. They may more chronic and long lasting sickness, inherited better health from their parents, never need to develop, for example, full rather than creating extremely healthy and grandparents, which then led the blown measles. A less healthy child will populations. next generation to be healthier resulting obviously produce stronger symptoms of As the late Dr Robert Mendelsohn in less disease. They had better health disease as they have more toxic matter to stated: ‘Have we traded mumps and passed on to them by the previous be removed from the body and this will measles for cancer and leukaemia?’

www.informedparent.co.uk ISSUE THREE 2009 4 Two thousand schoolgirls suffer suspected ill-effects from cervical cancer vaccine

BY LAURA DONNELLY, suspected reactions recorded by drug They say many of the patients who HEALTH CORRESPONDENT safety watchdog Medicines and Health experienced an "adverse" reaction to the care products Regulatory Agency jab since April 2008, including some 12 Sep 2009 (MHRA) were mild, with dozens of who took part in drug trials or bought Telegraph.co.uk girls recording rashes, pain in the arm, the drug privately, only suffered short- HOUSANDS of schoolgirls have and allergies. term side effects from the injection suffered suspected adverse But the report prepared by the process, not as a result of the drug. reactions to a controversial cervical MHRA earlier this month also There was no evidence to suggest Tcancer vaccine introduced by the discloses cases in which teens have "isolated cases of other medical Government. suffered convulsions, eye rolling, conditions" were actually caused by the Doctors' reports show that girls of muscle spasms, seizures and vaccine, and not just a coincidence, the 12 and 13 have experienced hyperventilation soon after being given regulator's report said. convulsions, fever and paralysis after the jab. Cancer charities urged parents to being given the vaccine, which is now The analysis by the MHRA, drawn continue allowing their daughters to administered in schools as part of up this month, found 2,107 patients have the jabs, saying the numbers efforts to prevent women developing had reported some kind of suspected were well within what would have cancer. adverse reaction to Cervarix. Several been expected for a large-scale Others suffered nausea, muscle reported multiple reactions, with 4,602 programme, and that most of the weakness, dizziness and blurred vision, suspected side-effects recorded in total. side effects were minor. according to a special report drawn up Robert Music, director of cervical by drug safety watchdogs. “The report prepared by the cancer charity Jo's Trust said: "I can The parents of one teenage girl given understand why parents would feel the jab last autumn believe it was to MHRA earlier this month also cautious, but this programme could blame for repeated seizures which have discloses cases in which teens reduce 70 per cent of cervical cancers. left her with brain damage and We need to keep reviewing the psychosis. have suffered convulsions, eye evidence, but we would really urge The immunisation programme for rolling, muscle spasms, seizures parents to make sure their daughters teenage girls is controversial because it have the vaccination." protects them from the sexually and hyperventilation soon after Stacey Jones is one of those who transmitted human papillomavirus being given the jab.“ believes she has suffered side effects which causes 70 per cent of cervical from the vaccine. She was 17 when she tumours. had her first Cervarix injection. When the Government introduced Jackie Fletcher, founder of Jabs, a Her parents Julie and Kerry, from the Cervarix vaccination programme support group for families whose Bilston, West Midlands, noticed her last year, some campaigners dubbed it a children have fallen ill after becoming increasingly emotional in the "promiscuity jab". immunisation, said she had taken weeks following the first two jabs, but Campaigners and families said the dozens of calls from parents who feared their "happy-go-lucky" girl had new figures showed the vaccination believed their daughters had been finally succumbed to adolescent should not have been introduced via a damaged by the cervical cancer vaccine. moodswings. mass programme. She said: "We have spoken to parents Within four days of the third More than one million girls have whose daughters have had seizures, injection in March of this year, Stacey already been given the jab, which is paralysis, blurred vision, severe suffered an epileptic seizure, followed offered to all as they enter their teens. headaches and the loss of feeling in by 17 more in the following week. Until 2011 it will also be administered parts of their body. She has now been diagnosed with a to older girls, so that all female teens "Doctors will try to convince parents brain injury, caused by inflammation of below the age of 18 will be covered by that these problems are in their child's the brain, and is being treated in an the programme. mind, or have nothing to do with the NHS rehabilitation unit in Ministers say that ultimately the vaccines, but we don't think there is Birmingham, which helps her with scheme will save 700 lives a year, while sufficient evidence to show Cervarix is basic tasks like making a sandwich. drug safety experts insist the number of safe." Seizures are minimised by five types suspected reactions are outweighed by Medical safety experts insist the of medication, but her memory is badly the benefits from the jab. benefits of the vaccine outweigh the damaged. Most of the more than 2,000 risks. The family has been given no › ISSUE THREE 2009 www.informedparent.co.uk 5 explanation for how the damage has been used as a guinea pig." adverse events relevant to Cervarix and occurred. Mrs Jones, 44, said: "She was A spokesman for GlaxoSmithKline, there is no evidence to suggest that the such a lovely, happy go-lucky girl, now which makes Cervarix, said the drug vaccine carries any long-term side she is just a shell. had to undergo rigorous testing, with effects. "When we go to see her, she can't over 70,000 doses used in trials before "The symptoms this girl has remember what she has just eaten for a licence was granted. experienced are clearly upsetting and it tea. The impact on her and all of us has He said: "The UK medicines safety is understandable that the girl and her been absolutely devastating. I feel she agency has reviewed all reported parents want to uncover the cause."

David Kirby: New Study – Hepatitis B Vaccine triples the risk of Autism in infant boys

BY DAVID KIRBY members of the media. associated risk of developing an autism To begin with, it is unscientific and spectrum disorder. Sept. 17, 2009 (www.ageofautism.com) perilously misleading for anyone to An abstract of the study was http://www.ageofautism.com/2009/09/da assert that "vaccines and autism" have published in the September, 2009 issue vid-kirby-new-study-hepatitis-b-vaccine- been studied and that no link has been of the respected journal Annals of triples-the-risk-of-autism-in-infant- found. That's because the 16 or so Epidemiology. In it, Carolyn Gallagher boys.html#more studies constantly cited by critics of the and Melody Goodman of the Graduate hypothesis have examined just one Program in Public Health at Stony "The science is largely complete. Ten vaccine and one vaccine ingredient. Brook University Medical Center, NY, epidemiological studies have shown The current US childhood wrote that, "Boys who received the MMR vaccine doesn't cause autism; immunization schedule calls for 28 hepatitis B vaccine during the first six have shown thimerosal doesn't injections with 11 different vaccines month of life had 2.94 greater odds for cause autism." Dr. Paul Offit, against 15 different diseases by two ASD compared to later- or "Autism's False Prophets" years of age. Of those 11 vaccines, only unvaccinated boys. Non-Hispanic the Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) white boys were 61% less likely to have "16 studies have shown no causal shot has been studied in association ASD." The authors used U.S. association between vaccines and with autism, (although a CDC study of probability samples obtained from autism, and these studies carry an MMR-plus-chickenpox vaccine did National Health Interview Survey weight in the scientific industry."Dr. show that the risk for febrile seizures in (NHIS) 19972002 datasets. Nancy Snyderman, NBC Today Show infants was doubled.) The conclusion states that: "Findings Medical Editor Meanwhile, those 11 vaccines suggest that U.S. male neonates contain scores of ingredients, only one vaccinated with hepatitis B vaccine had ONVENTIONALWISDOM of which, thimerosal, has ever been a 3-fold greater risk of ASD; risk was holds that the autism-vaccine tested in association with autism. greatest for non-white boys." question has been "asked and It is illogical to exonerate all The authors noted that an earlier answered,"C and that least 16 large, vaccines, all vaccine ingredients, and study by them found that hepatitis B well-constructed epidemiological the total US vaccine program as a vaccination was associated with receipt studies have thoroughly addressed and whole, based solely on a handful of of early intervention/special education debunked any hypothesis that epidemiological studies of just one services (EIS); in probability samples of childhood vaccination is in any way vaccine and one vaccine ingredient. It U.S. children, and that "children with associated with an increased risk for is akin to claiming that every form of autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) autism spectrum disorders. animal protein is beneficial to people, comprise a growing caseload for EIS." But there are several critical flaws in when all you have studied is fish. The author's new study used a such an oversimplified generalization, Now, a new study has shown that different database than their earlier and they are rarely given close giving Hepatitis B vaccine to newborn study (NHIS vs. NHANES) and they examination by public health experts or baby boys more than triples the found same thing, suggesting a

“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” Buddha

www.informedparent.co.uk ISSUE THREE 2009 6 validation of their findings. that particular immunization is at least Critics will point out that this “In addition, some recent one environmental factor that did sample was limited to boys born before studies and vaccine court demonstrably change during the period 1999, so the results are only applicable decisions have supported the in question. to that U.S. male birth cohort, and that In addition, some recent studies and the study's cross-sectional design limits contention that Hepatitis B vaccine court decisions have supported inferences on causality. Another vaccine can damage myelin, the contention that Hepatitis B vaccine weakness is that the autism diagnoses can damage myelin, the nervous were parent reported. On the other the nervous system's main system's main insulating component, at hand, these results are generalizable to insulating component, at least in certain genetically susceptible US boys age 3-17 born prior to 1999; least in certain genetically adults and infants. vaccination status was confirmed A study published last October in through medical records; and there was susceptible adults the journal Neurology found that controlling for confounders that may be and infants.” children who received the Hepatitis B associated with care seeking behaviors. vaccine series were 50% more likely to (The P-value equaled 0.032) The full develop "central nervous system manuscript is currently under review 60-per-10,000. (This has since been inflammatory demyelination" than by another journal. revised to 67-per-10,000, or one in children who did not receive the Assuming that the full manuscript is 150). vaccine. published in a peer-reviewed journal, it But CDC data for the same six Most of this increase was due to the will be among the first university- ADDM locations showed an increase in Engerix B brand of the vaccine, based population studies to suggest an ASD from 6.7 for 1992 births to 7.4 manufactured by the UK's association between a vaccine and an for 1994 births. GlaxoSmithKline. That brand increased risk for autism. And that And now the total average number increased the risk of demyelination by would be in direct contradiction to all expected to exceed 100-per-10,000 for 74%, and patients with confirmed those MMR and thimerosal studies that the 1996 birth cohort, born just two multiple sclerosis were nearly three purportedly found no such link. years later. The overarching question, times more likely to develop the Does that mean that Hepatitis B of course, will be, "why?" disorder. vaccine causes autism? Of course not There are many possible "Hepatitis B vaccination does not (though any relative risk above 2.0 is explanations, though a 50% increase in generally increase the risk of CNS general considered to prove causation just two years is astonishing, no matter inflammatory demyelination in in a US court of law). what its cause. childhood," the authors concluded. But there are other studies, both One possible answer is the Hepatitis "However, the Engerix B vaccine published and greatly anticipated, B vaccine, (which also contained 25 appears to increase this risk, which might support a hypothesized micrograms of mercury containing particularly for confirmed multiple causal association between HepB thimerosal up until 2002). Introduced sclerosis, in the longer term. Our vaccine and ASD, at least in boys. in 1991, it was the first vaccine ever results require confirmation in future Any day now, data culled from given on a population basis to newborn studies." CDC's Autism and Developmental babies (within the first three hours Let's hope that future studies of Disabilities Monitoring network after delivery) in human history. neonatal HebB administration, (ADDM), is expected to be published But according to the CDC's demyelinating disorders, and ASD are in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly National Immunization Survey, only completed as quickly as possible. Report, and the numbers are expected 8% of infant children received the Hep to put the rate of autism at around 1 in B vaccine in 1992, when that birth 100, or higher. cohort showed an ASD rate of 1-in- FURTHER INFORMATION ADDM researchers examine the 150. David Kirby is author of Evidence of education and (when possible) medical By 1994, the number of children records of all eight-year-old children in receiving Hep B vaccine at birth had Harm, a founding contributor to selected US cities and states. They look reached just 27% --and the same cohort Huffington Post and a contributor to only at eight-year-old cohorts to allow showed a 10% ASD increase in Age of Autism. His next book, Animal time for all diagnoses to be made, locations where both years were Factory: The Looming Threat of reported and counted. measured. Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry So far, ADDM has published data But by 1996, Hep B coverage rate Farms to Humans and the from just two birth cohorts: children had risen to 82%. And that is the Environment will be released within born in 1992 (eight-year-olds in 2000) cohort whose ASD rate rose to around and those born in 1994 (eight-year-olds 100-per-10,000 or more. the year and is available now for in 2002). The 1992 cohort revealed an Correlation, obviously, does not pre-order at Amazon. estimated ASD rate of one in 166, or equal causation. But the uptake rate of

ISSUE THREE 2009 www.informedparent.co.uk 7 didn’t want to ramble and get stuck but Fly in the Ointment: How parents at no time did he want to finish - I hope that the lines are open the next time I are causing such a Buzz want to talk with him. After posting my experience on the BY ANNA WATSON Arnica Parents Yahoo Group, Fleur [email protected] Atkins, Nottingham, took up this issue with the NHS Immunization website hen I decided to start a natural who fail to make it clear that patients health support group for are now “allowed” to report adverse concerned parents in my hometown, I reactions as well as health professionals. hadW no idea that there were so many others who felt the same. Forty groups Dear Sir / Madam, later with a thriving Yahoo group, Introduced in 1964 after the thalidomide Arnica is becoming more than a support tragedy, the Yellow Card Scheme allows for families… many of its members health professionals to report any suspected seem to be steering the boat of change adverse reactions that happen after a drug or head long into the wind. vaccine has been given to a patient. Here is a little celebration of our Anna Watson The Yellow Card scheme is managed by efforts to challenge the myths and the the Medicines and Healthcare products mythmakers and to raise awareness Show gave out a free booklet, supported Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and is used for about vaccination and health. This small by the NHS, which called us “nutty the reporting of suspected adverse reactions to selection of examples I am presenting to anti-vaccinators”. Some of these “nutty medicines. you are significant in the grass roots anti-vaccinators” were parents of very Reports are submitted to the Committee on movement of Natural Immunity. sick children whom they believed were Safety of Medicines (CSM) on a voluntary Perhaps you too will be encouraged to damaged after vaccines. basis by doctors, dentists, pharmacists and speak up in the future! NO COMMENT FROM nurses. If your child has a severe or From conversations with Professor DR SALISBURY unexpected reaction to a vaccine, you should David Salisbury and Paul Offit, Well, I continued... we were tell your doctor, practice nurse or health communications with the Gillian concerned about the possible mandatory visitor. Merron MP Secretary of State at the plans for the swine flu vaccine. However, I have noticed on your website Department of Health, other folk in the Emphatically NO he said. “And I am (on the text copied above) that in regards the Department of Health, and local health on record for saying that. The cost of Yellow Card Scheme , it omits to say that a care professionals… here is an edited implementing it is not high but we just patient (or a parent/ carer, or a named person summary. DON’T NEED IT, he stated. It would on behalf of a patient) can report a suspected prove counter active to mandate it.” adverse reaction to a vaccine (as with all CHALLENGING EXAMPLES I moved onto adverse reactions and medicines) completely independently of a I recently rang the JCVI offices to check David Salisbury defended the Yellow medical professional. the details for their quarterly meeting Card system. “It may not be statistical, This important change was made back in and to find out how to register an as it is passive, and will be under used 2005. interest in sitting as a lay member on but it gives us leads to follow”. I An Independant review of access to the the JCVI. Prof David Salisbury, Head of explained that most doctors tell the Yellow Card Scheme in April ’04 from the Immunisation, answered the phone! parents that it is not the vaccine which MHRA states: We were both as shocked as each is to blame so it takes a bold parent to The Steering Committee recommends that a other and it took some moments to calm ask for the Yellow Card to be filled in. direct patient reporting system should be Prof Salisbury as he was very cross that I Well, he answered, the parents can fill it introduced. This should be via a mechanism wanted to turn up at a closed meeting. I in themselves. Well it takes a bold and through which patients could themselves explained that no one had replied to my informed parent to know that fact, I report ADRs which they consider were due to emails or phone calls or indeed when I replied. medicines, irrespective of whether the left a card at the last JVCI meeting. I I mentioned several cases of severe prescriber has reported the ADR or agrees represented hundreds of parents from damage after the MMR when the child with the patient’s view. (3.12) around the UK who were concerned had recently been exposed to, or was And in the Recommendations it states: about mandatory vaccination. recovering from chicken pox. It would Indirect reporting is insufficient to give He kindly said he had time to talk, seem logical, I offered, that another patients the opportunity to inform MHRA of and we did for 15 minutes. I asked virus and toxic load injected at this time their experience. There is good evidence that, whether he thought that the phrase may be too much for some children to in some situations, important features of officially used to describe parents like deal with. NO COMMENT. ADRs have not been reported, as an indirect me was appropriate? The Measles Road I ended the call after 15 minutes as I system can only provide the reporter’s

www.informedparent.co.uk ISSUE THREE 2009 8 interpretation of the patient’s experience information on the ingredients of month throughout pregnancy yet they (section 3.12). vaccines from the NHS’s website on now give newborn babies Hep B jabs in Please could you let me know the thoughts immunisation but I can’t find any the US. I believe this is just a ploy to of the Immunisation Team about this section on your FAO’s or anywhere else scare parents into thinking Hep B is a omission. on your website where you list the killer disease spread by children at Fleur Atkins ingredients. sleepover parties. I find it outrageous This set of letters between Joanna and that doctors like him are trying to make Their reply: Edward Corbett Customer Service Hep B sound like some contagious Centre are really worth reading! killer by spreading the wrong Thank you for your email dated 19 October Especially when Mr Corbett gives up the information.” to the Department of Health about patient debate conceding that “Measles is a The website may not have changed reporting of suspected adverse reactions, and leading cause of death among young but it is still important to respectfully information contained on the NHS children worldwide” as though that is challenge each other personally. immunisation website: reason enough why the Green Book over The detailed reply from Gillian www.immunisation.nhs.uk reports measles complications, why the Merron MP Secretary of State at the You are correct in stating that patients can web site does not list ingredients, and Department of Health, following here, now report side effects to vaccines and why parents are not given the drug shows that the original letter from medicines directly, via the Yellow Card inserts. Full text can be found at: Carmel O’Dell, Hove Arnica Group Scheme. www.vaccineriskawareness.com/Vaccine- must have been extremely thorough. Patient reporting is a valuable part of the Debate-Page (Credit to Celia Barlow MP, Hove and Yellow Card Scheme, of which the “For Mr Corbett’s information, Portslade for taking up this issue as my Department is keen to continue to promote measles is not the leading cause of death MP wrote back saying that “she could awareness. Thank you for bringing this anywhere. In the developing world it is remember the days before vaccines and omission regarding patient reporting to the a combined effect of poverty and how disastrous if less people Department’s attention, and we will be in malnutrition with lack of clean water vaccinated….) contact with the team responsible for and war, and in the developed world it is Many Arnica members write letters managing the immunisation website to ensure complications due to prematurity or low to MPs, some to TV stations, or that this information is updated. birth rate, SIDS, (under1), accidents and Advertising Authorities, but I include a We will be keeping an eye on that cancer and other health issues linked to relevant edit of this letter below as it website! birth problems, (1-4 years), Accidents, clarifies the government’s position on Cancer and Homicide (5-14)” concludes compulsory vaccines, the role of the Joanna, Nottingham Arnica, and Joanna on Yahoo. JVCI and the possible shift of authority founder of Vaccination Risk Awareness One Leatherhead Arnica parent came from the parent to the child, issues Network, had a fascinating across a University website which really which we have been very concerned communication about the changes in the annoyed her. The University of about. new Green Book. Philadelphia website stated that that “I have a copy of the 1996 version of you can catch Hepatitis B through Thank you for your letter of 13 August Immunisation Against Infectious sharing a washcloth and this enclosing further correspondence from your Disease, the Green book, and on the contradicted advice given on the Hep B constituent Ms Carmel O’Dell about measles pages, it states that measles Foundation website. compulsory vaccination. encephalitis affects about 1 per 5000 Lynnea Arnold called the States and Ms O’Dell is concerned that the Health children. I have recently looked at the spoke to the infamous “immune systems Protection (Vaccination) Regulations 2009 2006 version of this book and it now of young children can deal with have shifted responsibility for UK states that the rate for measles thousands of different antigens at the vaccination policy from the Secretary of State encephalitis is 1 in 1000 children. I same time” Dr Paul Offit, but had no for Health to the Joint Committee on would like to know why have the figures idea who he was at the time. “I spoke to Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI). I been changed? Why has measles been a Dr. Offit on the phone. I wanted him can assure Ms O’Dell that the Department written as more serious than in the to change the information on his retains responsibility for vaccination policy. previous edition? If the rates for website immediately. He was very Any decision to introduce compulsory encephalitis have indeed risen, why has defensive on the phone and made it vaccination would be a policy decision, and there been such a big increase in the 10 clear that you can definitely contract the JCVI would therefore never be able to years between 1996-2006? Hep B through sharing washcloths! impose compulsory vaccination. As I Can I ask where the NHS get their Really it’s near impossible for explained in my previous reply, vaccination rates for complications of infectious newborns/babies/children to contract in the UK is voluntary and we have no plans diseases? Are the figures based on the Hep B unless their mother has it. Most to change that. UK or on third world countries? mothers are tested for serious illnesses I should explain that the provisions of the .. I have two further questions about during their first midwife appointment Health Protection (Vaccination) Regulations vaccination. I have tried to get and in America they take blood every 2009 are necessary to deliver the right to

ISSUE THREE 2009 www.informedparent.co.uk 9 receive recommended vaccinations by ensuring Ms O’Dell refers to the JCVI minutes item has been completed. This practice also the Government cannot choose to ignore a life which state the JCVI was pleased the applies to other advisory bodies such as those saving vaccine if it can be shown to be cost recommendations of the committee would have of the National Institute for Health and effective, safe and efficacious. In addition to the force of the law behind it. The committee Clinical Excellence. the regulations, directions create a asked for clarification on the constitution The register of members’ interests is requirement for Primary Care Trusts to (NHS) including what exactly `right’ meant updated regularly and details of individual ensure, as far as is reasonable practicable, with respect to the right of a child to receive a declarations of interest, along with minutes of that any new vaccine is offered to every vaccine when their parents were opposed to all the JCVI meetings, are published on the individual for whom it is recommended. The vaccination and how the constitution affected Department of Health website: regulations and directions together form the the recommendations of the JCVI with respect www.advsorybodies.dh.gov.uk/jcvi/ mechanism of the right to be offered a to legal challenge. I hope Ms O’Dell finds this reply recommended vaccine as s stated in the NHS Ms O’Dell is concerned that this does not reassuring. Constitution. sound like a body committed to maintaining Yours sincerely, The NHS vaccination right is intended to the voluntary nature of vaccination in the Gillian Merron ensure that a recommended vaccine is offered UK. However, the JCVI was asking this to every child and adult. It does not override question specifically because it was concerned I hope this small selection of any existing laws about consent. Where a that the rights of the parent not to vaccinate challenges will encourage you to ask for child is too young to consent themselves to be their child might be overruled by the new clarification at the highest levels, vaccinated, the power to consent rests with the regulations. The department was able to explain how you feel in situations when person with parental responsibility. The reassure the committee that this was not the members of the medical profession bully NHS vaccination right for a child therefore case. I must point out that at no time has the you or challenge anyone when they offer does not override a parent’s responsibility to JCVI ever supported compulsory vaccination. poor information regarding vaccinating give consent or withhold it. With regard to Ms O’Dell’s concerns that your children. Feel free to sign up for a To clarify, the purpose of the JCVI is to the JCVI’s members have links to vaccine free newsletter or join our Yahoo group! advise the Department on which vaccines manufacturers, I should explain that Anna Watson should be added to the voluntary members are required to observe the `Seven www.arnica.org.uk immunisation schedule. Under the new Principles of Public Life’ set out by the Health Protection (Vaccination) Regulations Committee on Standards in Public Life, and Please sign up for the free 2009, The Secretary of State is only required must comply with the JCVI Code of Practice. newsletter or join our Yahoo group, to add a vaccine to the voluntary routine Members are required to declare relevant and take a look at the website - schedule if he asks the JCVI to consider the interests, including personal and non-personal vaccine and the JCVI then shows it to be safe, interests, in any particular matter to be there may be a group near to your efficacious and cost effective. However, the considered by the JCVI. If a member has a family. Perhaps you will even delivery of the vaccine (though schools, GPs specific personal interest in a pharmaceutical consider starting one! or another provider) is a policy matter, and company, they are required to leave the www.arnica.org.uk the JCVI has no binding power over this. discussion and can return after that agenda

Polish PM slams drug companies over vaccine

JAVNO Poland has not yet signed a contract vaccine if the European Commission WWW.JAVNO.COM for delivery of the vaccine against the were to take legal responsibility for any November 06, 2009 A(H1N1) virus and has yet to record its side effects. first swine flu-related death. Public The Polish prime minister said HE POLISH prime minister said health officials say 200 people have Poland wants certainty that A(H1N1) Poland wants certainty that tested positive for the virus. vaccines are - safe from the point of view A(H1N1) vaccines are - safe from the Today we are dealing with huge of Polish patients. - Tpoint of view of Polish patients. pressure from pharmaceutical companies The zealousness of certain countries Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk - he said. (in administering the vaccine) seems on Friday slammed drug companies They expect the kind of terms which exaggerated and out of step with the real selling swine flu vaccines for allegedly are probably not in line with Polish law epidemic - he added. refusing to take legal responsibility for and in which all the responsibility is put More than 5,700 people have died any of their possible side effects. on national governments for any legal worldwide since the swine flu pandemic We know that the companies offering claims connected to any possible side was first discovered in April, with most H1N1 vaccines don't want to take effects - Tusk added. deaths 4,175 reported in the Americas responsibility for (the) side effects - Tusk Tusk also said his country would be region, according to the most recent told reporters Friday in Warsaw. more inclined to buy the A(H1N1) World Health Organisation data.

www.informedparent.co.uk ISSUE THREE 2009 10 Why is Pleomorphism unknown to modern medicine?

DR ROBERT YOUNG aggregate or assembly of non-living microorganism associated with a www.phmiracleliving.com substances can ever do". (Divided specific disease always stays the same Legacy, Harris Counter, pg. xvii.) and always causes that same disease. DICHOTOMY in medical "Monomorphism was above all, a speculation, an unresolved IN 1946, THE QUANTUM practical response to an emergency philosophical conflict, has existed from PHYSICISTERWIN situation in bacteriology. This concept Aancient times to the present. This SCHROEDINGERPOINTED of disease, emerged in a context of conflict is between two theories known OUT... intense anxiety over the social traditionally as Empiricism and "that biological material has a totally depredations inflicted in every country Rationalism. different character from all other states in Europe and the United States by a "While this conflict can be discerned of matter density of life - that is, the series of diseases whose very names - in the earliest writings of the information stored per unit volume - tuberculosis, diphtheria, typhus, Hippocratic Corpus, from the fifth and that of any inorganic system that cholera--were chilling reminders of century BC, the names Empirical and has not been produced by living human mortality," (Divided Legacy, Rationalist became current in Rome at forms...The silicon chip must use many Harris Coulter, pg. 37) the beginning of the Christian era - orders of magnitude more atoms to designating groups of physicians store the same amount of information MORE TO THE POINT; competing with one another as a gene." "involved in the concept of ideologically and economically." Pleomorphism was the role and (Divided Legacy, Harris Counter, pg. "Accepting Pleomorphism importance of the host organism - xv.) THE PATIENT! Microbes altered their The main form of medicine practiced meant acknowledging the forms in response to the patient, in today is of the Rationalist or response to the diet, environmental host organism's, the patient's Rationalist/Methodist point of view. stresses the patient encountered, what Rationalism involves a mechanistic or capacity to defend itself poisons the patient consumed etc.." chemical understanding of the human (ibid.), Harris Coulter) organism. It maintains that life itself (him or her) against, and can be explained by physics and dominate, the microbe. SUCH IDEAS HAVE LITTLE chemistry, or, more generally speaking, TO DO WITH THE DOCTOR. by mechanics. Rationalism maintains Pleomorphism meant that the host that there is no essential difference THIS IS VITALISM, organism or patient was an active between the structural chemistry of life QUANTUM VITALISM. participant in infection and disease - in and that of inanimate nature. According to Harris Coulter, no perfect contrast to Koch and Pasteur and the This idea of the body viewed as a Rationalist therapeutic doctrine has monomorphists who held the microbe machine composed of many little ever been devised. Even Galen, who of to be all-powerful, the host organism a machines is contrary to the Empirical all physicians in history worked hardest passive victim. Pleomorphism meant view that the laws governing the living at theoretical consistency, left a few downgrading the microbe or organism differ from those of lifeless loose ends. But the formulation which microform, since the host, by resisting matter. This concept is called Vitalism. emerged in the late nineteenth century the latter's onslaught, could alter its The person as a whole is something - the specific bacterial disease treated characteristics and make it return to a different from a collection of viscera; by the 'contrary' medicine - seemed to normal form as again. The patient had the wholeness gives some extra, if its devotees an almost unblemished control over the bacteria, not the other undeniable, quality to the individual depiction of the Rationalistic reality. way around. The microform found in organs. Today we pay for our The above is what is what 'modern', the body are the result, not the cause of knowledge of the parts in ignorance of allopathic medicine has become. dis-ease or so-called disease. the whole. The microbe and the Germ Theory Even the common so-called Vitalism maintains that; "the of Disease became a new organizing "communicable" dis-eases, e.g. strep organism is reactive, at all times coping principle in medicine, bringing much throat or chickenpox, can not take with, and attempting to overcome, the scattered clinical data together into a hold, grow, if the internal milieu is not stresses which impinge upon it from series of new specific entities with some conducive to their reproduction or outside. It behaves purposively, the cures, specific cures. The 'germ theory' growth. One third of people in Europe nature and form of its reaction being was bolstered by the doctrine of did not get bubonic plague. In treating determined by the specific 'monomorphism' - meaning again that cancerous condition with an alkalizing environmental stress encountered. It microbial genera and species are fixed pH Miracle approach, for example, one responds to challenge, which no and eternal, that the form of each does not attack or treat the tumor at › ISSUE THREE 2009 www.informedparent.co.uk 11 all, instead one changes the internal dogmatic. Rene Dubious states that still retains a peculiarly tenacious hold. environment, the internal milieu that Koch and Pasteur; "overestablished" In school I learned cultured bacteria caused the cancerous condition in the the doctrine of the specificity of disease on very particular growth media. For first place. causes and that blind acceptance by example, all the strep "germs" in What this all means then, this several generations of bacteriologist of hospital microbiology labs anywhere pleomorphism/monomorphism the dogma of constancy of cell forms are grown on blood agar (sterile human controversy, is that at its most and immutability of cultural or rabbit blood mixed with agar). fundamental level it has socioeconomic characteristics discouraged for many Therefore all the germs grow the same dimensions that still effect us years the study of the problems of way, all streptococcal bacteria look like profoundly today. morphology, inheritance, and variation little round balls in strings, if they are "Accepting Pleomorphism meant in bacteria. grown on blood agar, at a very specific acknowledging the host organism's, the "Upon clear contemplation, not only pH's, pH 7.6 - 7.8, and temperatures. patient's capacity to defend itself (him the cancer problem but the entire Change any of these conditions, the or her) against, and dominate, the pathology, as taught by school pH etc. and the germs or microforms microbe. medicine, have become unsustainable. change their form and their function. Monomorphism, on the contrary, In any case, it is extremely revealing of According to Enderlein's enhanced the role of the microbe in the insight that Prof. Sauerbruch, in formulations, the protits which are disease, and consequently that of the following a series of cancer patients he used as medicine actually are grown on physician who combats the microbe. treated isopathically (with a culture medium composed of a broth This is the principal reason for the pleomorphic medicines) in his hospital made of asparagus and agar. instinctive hostility of the majority of at the Charite and who, subsequently, In medical school you learn to never physicians to Pleomorphism and in the closing years of his life again grow anything on an asparagus/agar Wholistic/Alternative Medicine in and again had pointed out that: "IF broth so, you never see the Protits or general." ENDERELEIN,ANDNASSONSET Antione BeChamp's (An antagonist of This gives the responsibility for AL, ARE CORRECT, THEN WE Louis Pasteur)Microzymas or Nassen's health back to the patient...if they want CANTHROWOUTOURENTIRE Somatid or God's Dust. it! LITERATURE". What you see is determined by how Pleomorphism has been a great you look at something. threat to this "control" factor. This (Blutuntersuchung im Dunkelfeld, control factor means; "control of the nach Prof. Dr. Günther Enderlein, ISTHISSCIENCE? disease with poisons that need pg. 77, 1993, Compiled by Dr. med. The thing is, that to classify all the monitored and controlled, controlling Maria M-Bleker) different microforms that bacteria can therefore, the patient and their pocket and do assume, in the terms of book." THECONSEQUENCESOFTHIS contemporary microbiology would be a The phenomena are forced into ARE PROFOUND. taxicological (taxonomy- the science of categories which can be manipulated to Also, there are many problems that classification) nightmare. I knew in make a living from the practice of monomorphism has not been able to school that syphilis microbes could medicine. The monomorphists have explain. Bacterial resistance to grow as fungal forms, on old culture identified their doctrine with science antibiotics is one that is becoming plates. These plates were just ignored itself, as science itself, that quite critical in today's world. The and thrown away. Monomorphism is a law of nature, bacteria don't 'mutate' into a drug To say that the above syphilis which it is not. This viewpoint has, resistant form, they just change, organism began as a protit or through the years, taken on such an evolve, de-volve. There is a big microzyma, somewhere, sometime, in aspect of truth that to question it now difference between the two forms of some other generation even, and then seems a scientific sacrilege. change. Mutation occurs rarely, went through all the stages that it The followers of Koch proclaimed Pleomorphism occurs all the time. would take to end up on an old culture Monomorphism with 'religious Another problem has been plate in some microbiology lab, would fanaticism', stated Max Gruber in microbiology's inability to classify require an impossible classification 1885. F. Loehnis stated in 1922 that microorganisms in proper families and system, if done in the mono- the intransigence and verbal violence the like, genera and species because the morphistic way. displayed by the various factions in this organisms do change form. Despite the This begs a quantum system of conflict resembled certain historic inability of a century of bacteriological classification, like the definition of theological quarrels. research to define the boundaries of vitalism given by Schroedinger above. these supposed genera and species, the (As an aside, when these organisms THISBATTLEHASBEENGOING suggestion is never heard that the do change their form and function, for ON FOR A LONG TIME! search for them should be abandoned. example when the protit or microzyma For all these reasons, Monomorphism The monomorphist conviction that changes into a yeast from a bacteria, was at first excessively rigid, even genera and species do exist somewhere well, it just changes, instantaneously -

www.informedparent.co.uk ISSUE THREE 2009 12 as if it made a quantum jump. You derived from a single Somatid/Protit. form, all known bacteria are have to watch awhile though, through "Naessens demonstrates and manifested, if the conditions for their the microscope, to see this. I have seen describes each such stage, with return manifestation, are right. This fungus this happen thousands of times!!!!!!!!) to the starting point, thus meeting an then, Mucor racemosis, is the end, of "If Pleomorphism were correct, earlier objection as to the idea of a the beginning. After it has decayed all scientific investigation of bacteria bacterial life cycle. In effect this view the organic matter present it would be an impossibility. One grasps rejects all bacterial classification. The disintegrates back into the Protit it one's head to make sure it is still on French have a proclivity for came from. the shoulders. The whole structure of Pleomorphism, are more radical, and Of all the impediments to the our science threatens to collapse." (F. also more theoretical, and contend acceptance of Pleomorphism: Loehnis, 1922) Winogradsky in that the whole of the earth's microbial Rationalism vs. Empiricism; the need (1930) called pleomorphism; life constitutes a single collection of for Magic Bullets, specific cures and "chaotic...truly, the whole of a genetic material, "GENOME", (the disease entities in the face of the researcher's lifetime would hardly be self reproducing portion of a cell), epidemic type so-called diseases sufficient to follow directly all of the adequate to supply every microbial prevalent at the end of the last transformations indicated by [Felix genus and species." (Divided Legacy, century; the "control" factor consisting Loehnis]." Harris Coulter, pg. 197) of the contradiction between the Hans Zinsser in 1932 stated that; Sonea and Panisset, representing the patient healing his or herself and the "If the pleomorphic surmise is a French view, maintain that; "each doctor doing the job with allopathic, correct one, acid base--the entire microorganism has access to this potentially dangerous drugs; the structure of our attitude toward the genome (genetic pool) and borrows religious fanaticism and intransigence biology of disease must be changed...If from it genes as needed - employing of the monomorphists; the inability of these conclusions are correct, this will conjugation, transformation, modern science to classify bring about a revolution in transduction, and other mechanisms of microorganisms into families etc. and biology...At the present time it is gene transfer which are still the other inconsistencies contained in dangerous for the progress of incompletely known. Genes are the monomorphist 'science' including bacteriology to accept this work until relinquished when environmental drug resistance; of all these it has been satisfactorily circumstances no longer require their impediments I feel the most demonstrated...Nothing short of use for survival."(Ibid pg. 196) important one is the so called absolute proof should be accepted or The German view represented by "complexity" factor. we may risk making research more Günther Enderlein is not much "The phenomena are forced into difficult than it already is." different. Enderlein finds that all categories which can be manipulated To this end, the French microorganisms originate from a and named, to make a living from the microscopist and bacteriologist, Protit that, in its culminant and most practice of medicine, as easily as Gaston Naessens has described the degenerative phase, turns into the possible." (Harris Coulter) whole cycle of the Somatid/Protit, fungus Mucor racemosis. In going maintaining that all bacteria are from the original Protit to the fungal It isn't complex.

Many Italian physicians reject swine flu vaccine

PRESS TV weeks. Italian media outlets have, advise vaccination for his patients, however, claimed that many of these adding, "This virus is not aggressive www.presstv.ir Sat, 07 Nov 2009 vaccines would be useless as the and there is no reason to force TALIAN FAMILY physicians refuse majority of Italians including the individuals to get immunized against to prescribe the A/H1N1 vaccine Deputy Health Minister Ferruccio the virus." for their patients, claiming that the Fazio and the Mayor of Rome Gianni Mario Nejrotti, the director of risksI of the vaccine outweigh its Alemanno have decided against torinomedica.com, similarly, stressed benefits. vaccination. According to a recent that healthcare workers should only be Latest figures revealed that swine flu survey conducted, six out of every ten urged to get vaccinated based on the has infected more than 540,000 Italian family physicians do not severity and spread of the virus. individuals, claiming the lives of 30 in prescribe the A/H1N1 vaccine for their He added that a similar vaccine Italy. The country has ordered some 48 patients particularly those with heart manufactured in the US in 1976 had million doses of the A/H1N1 vaccine, diseases. A member of the European contributed to a considerable number enough to immunize 24 million of its Association for Quality in General of cases with a severe neurological population, and plans to start a mass Medicine(EQUIP), Gianluigi Passerini disease known as Guillain-Barré vaccination program in the coming told L'espresso that he would not syndrome.

ISSUE THREE 2009 www.informedparent.co.uk 13 What Has The HPV Cancer Vaccine Done To Our Girls?

BY DANIEL FOGGO, ROSIE MILLARD the maker of Cervarix, along with 10 common side effects. THE SUNDAY TIMES other sets of parents whose daughters Julie Jones, another of the parents who have suffered adverse reactions to the has joined the class action, thinks the October 4, 2009 vaccine since the programme began last vaccine is to blame for her daughter’s FTER ONE CHILD’S DEATH, we autumn. deterioration. On May 16, Stacey, 18, talk to parents who blame the “We are being contacted every day by went to the local sports centre in vaccination for serious illnesses in their new people,” says Peter Todd, a solicitor Ringsfield, West Midlands, for her third daughters.A of Hodge Jones and Allen in London, who and final inoculation. It was the last day Clare Ramagge says her daughter is handling the case. “The basis of the Julie would see her daughter behaving Rebecca has suffered from chronic fatigue claim is under the Consumer Protection normally. since having the jab; she is among Act, implemented after the thalidomide “That evening she went out with my pafrents taking legal action against its scandal. Consumers are entitled to redress sister and brother-in-law to a party. She maker. if they suffered injury as a result of a was very agitated all night. The next A year ago Rebecca Ramagge was a defective product and this turns on a night she had a panic attack. She kept happy, sporty teenager, a high achiever at reasonable expectation of safety. As the saying she couldn’t breathe, she was school and a tournament-level tennis hyperventilating.” Two days later she player. Today she’s a 13-year-old crippled suffered an epileptic fit and was admitted with chronic fatigue syndrome who has “Paige Brennan, 13, from to hospital. “They told us it was sleep been laid up in bed for seven months and Telford, remains seriously ill at deprivation. But the seizures continued. needs her mother’s help to tackle such Birmingham children’s hospital, We took her straight back and she was basic tasks as brushing her hair and six months after suffering brain admitted for eight weeks.” getting dressed. damage within five days of It is thought Stacey is suffering from Last September Rebecca, along with being given the last vaccination encephalitis. She is now in a brain the rest of the girls in her class at St Bede’s rehabilitation unit in Birmingham. “To school in Redhill, Surrey, received the first in her course of three.” me it’s like looking at a shell,” says Julie. of three inoculations of Cervarix, the “She has a sort of zombie look in her eyes. cervical cancer vaccine. As part of a manufacturers themselves give a big long She walks with her head down and her nationwide programme the jab is being list of adverse effects, presumably they arms pulled in. It’s turned our lives offered to every girl in the UK aged 12 to accept that reactions will occur.” around.” 13 to try to prevent the spread of the Cervarix burst into the headlines last Paige Brennan, 13, from Telford, sexually transmitted human week when Natalie Morton, 14, died two remains seriously ill at Birmingham papillomavirus, which is linked to most hours after being given the jab at the children’s hospital, six months after cases of cervical cancer. By 2011 every girl Blue Coat Church of England school in suffering brain damage within five days under 18 will have been offered the jab. Coventry. After a post-mortem of being given the last vaccination in her A few days later Rebecca “had quite examination revealed that she had a course of three. She has been unable to severe joint pains”, says her mother Clare previously undetected tumour in her speak or feed without a tube and has only who, with her husband John, runs a car chest which a Home Office pathologist recently been trying to communicate. sales business in Reigate. “We took her to described as “so severe that death could Her parents say they were not made see doctors, who asked me if anything have arisen at any point”, health officials aware of any side effects associated with different had happened in her life. The in the city declared the vaccination Cervarix. If they had been, they would only thing that had changed was that she programme would resume. never have allowed her to have it. had had the jab.” Glaxo Smith Kline, it seemed, was off “She had nothing wrong with her After a second inoculation in the hook. Yet privately some National before. She was healthy. Soon after having November she felt worse and by March Health Service doctors are of the view this injection she collapsed with a she was on crutches. Nevertheless, she that the injection might well have been a seizure,” says her mother Margaret was given a third dose that month. catalyst. Certainly Clare Ramagge says Brennan, 46. “I’m there every day at the Within hours she was “extremely ill”, that consultants who have examined hospital. It can take two years for the says Clare: “She hasn’t been to school for Rebecca have indicated that the brain to recover, so all we can do right seven months. I have to help her do most vaccination was a trigger for her collapse. now is hope.” things, sit up in bed, brush her teeth, “It is being made clear that in children Such stories are certain to alarm tend to all her basic needs. I have become who have got any condition that could be parents who otherwise might have been her carer. My husband is having to run triggered by this jab, it will trigger it,” satisfied that their daughters were being the business alone.” says Clare, who points out that the properly protected against cervical cancer Clare is now taking part in a class consent letter Rebecca had brought home in later years. The death of Jade Goody, action suit against Glaxo Smith Kline, from school mentioned only the most the reality TV star, led to a rise in young

www.informedparent.co.uk ISSUE THREE 2009 14 women wishing to have the vaccine. Now slightly higher figures reported and want it for Hayley. She’s a clever girl and Natalie Morton’s death and emerging acknowledges that the risk seems I want her to go to university. But girls news of the other claims is throwing that “relatively low” but points out that if you are going to do what they are going to into doubt. were one of the hundreds affected, you do, aren’t they? They just do what they As with the MMR jab, Cervarix is not might feel differently. want.” a one-shot treatment. It has to be Certainly some are now deciding it is a Maybe that’s the problem, says administered on three separate occasions risk too far. Kirstene Glynn, 33, a Richard Millard, a Hampshire GP. over six months. So parents whose community carer from Musselburgh, near “There is a view that simply inoculating daughters have had the first injection Edinburgh, will not let her daughter young women is taking the line of least must now have two more moments of Hayley, 15, have the vaccine: “I refused resistance, a sort of liberal agenda which worry as their daughters go forward in because when I found out online about has been peddled since the 1960s with the scheme. the vaccine, all I found out was pretty disastrous effects,” he says. “We Doctors want to vaccinate as many horrendous. And the more I discovered, have more teenage pregnancies than young girls as possible before they become the worse it got. There are all these side anywhere else in Europe, and the amount sexually active, so they will be protected effects which we are not being told of STD [sexually transmitted disease] in during their teenage years. It is thought about.” Such as? “Seizures. Migraine. this country now is frankly out of the vaccine is effective for 10 years, thus Muscle pain. Obviously in Natalie control.” potentially protecting women until they Morton’s case she was killed by her Why not rethink the whole landscape are 22 or 23, after which time sexual tumour, but in my view you shouldn’t of teenage sex, he suggests: “There are habits typically tend to calm down. give it to children with underlying plenty of other things one could do which Should parents be worried? Jim conditions. If she hadn’t had the jab she would reduce the risk of contracting Boddington, a GP in Hackney, east might be alive now.” cervical cancer, such as encouraging young London, says that in his view Cervarix is a This is not to say that Kirstene is anti- women to start sexual activity later and safe bet. “It’s been widely trialled and vaccines per se. Her three daughters have discouraging promiscuity. A giant produced excellent data,” he says. “When all had the MMR jab “because the vaccination programme is a sort of tacit you roll out a programme of vaccinations benefits outweigh the risk. And you are agreement that sexual activity for teenage to millions, a minority will develop more likely to catch measles than cervical girls is all right.” symptoms. Some would have developed cancer, aren’t you? I have talked to Julie Jones is in no doubt. Asked those symptoms anyway and people are Hayley about her sexual health and she whether she would advise parents to let very quick to make causal affiliations.” knows all about condoms and having their daughter have the jab, she says: “I This spring the Medicines and regular smears. You still have to have don’t want it to happen to anyone else. I Healthcare Regulatory Agency showed smears, you know, whether you have been want the programme to be stopped in that of the 700,000 schoolgirls inoculated or not”. schools. They are only kids and they are vaccinated last year, more than 1,300 had Yet Kirstene had her daughter at the being ushered into a scheme like cattle. officially reported an adverse reaction, age of 17. Surely she should know about And they are too young. It is ridiculous ranging from convulsions and nausea to the dangers posed for young women by to expect that young girls of 12 or 13 pain in the joints. That is a percentage of having sex early: “I wouldn’t recommend will be having sex anyway. They are 0.2%. Peter Todd says he has seen having a child at 17 and I certainly don’t young and very vulnerable.”

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ISSUE THREE 2009 www.informedparent.co.uk 15 and it is”, and I said “OK,” and let her The Doctor's inject it...... my poor daughter had a terrible reaction, but I was so convinced Dilemma that it was all for the best that I carried on with the rest of the vaccines then DR JAYNE LM DONEGAN MBBS available at two, three and four months. DRCOG DCH DFFP MRCGP MFHOM GP & Homeopath That is where I was coming from – even my interest in homeopathy didn't dent AVING TRAINED as a my enthusiasm for vaccines, so far as I conventional medical doctor and could see, it was the same process – give a qualifying from St Mary's Hospital small dose of something and it makes you HMedical School, University of London, in immune – no conflict. 1983; my undergraduate teaching and Dr Jayne L.M. Donegan post graduate experience in Obstetrics & SO WHAT HAPPENED? Gynaecology, Family Planning, Child “My poor daughter had a In 1994 there was the Measles Rubella Health, Orthopaedics, Emergency Campaign in which seven million school Medicine and General Practice led me to terrible reaction, but I was so children were vaccinated against measles being a strong supporter of the Universal convinced that it was all for the and rubella. The Chief Medical Officer Childhood Vaccination Program. Indeed, best that I carried on with the sent out letters to all GPs, Pharmacists, I used to counsel parents in the 1980s Nursing Officers and other health care who didn't want to vaccinate their rest of the vaccines then staff, telling us that there was going to be children against whooping cough – available at two, three an epidemic of measles. The evidence for which was regarded as the 'problematic' this epidemic was not published at the vaccine in those days. I used to tell them and four months.“ time. In later years it seems that it was that there were, indeed, adverse reactions, predicted by a complicated mathematical associated with the vaccine – I was not social conditions improved the health of model based on estimates and so might one of those doctors who would gloss the population with respect to some never have been going to occur at all. over such unpleasant details – but that diseases, would they not improve their We were told, “Everybody who has we doctors were told that the adverse health with regard to them all; but the had one dose of the vaccine will not reactions that might occur after the amount of information that you are necessarily be protected when the pertussis vaccine were at least ten times required to absorb during medical epidemic comes. So they need another less likely than the chance of getting training is so huge, that you just tend to one.” Well, that's OK,” I thought, complications from having the disease, take it as read and not make the “because we know that none of the and that, essentially, the point of giving connections that might be obvious to vaccines are 100% effective.” their child the vaccine was to prevent someone else. What did worry me, however, was disease. So it was a received article of faith for when they said that even those who had Indeed, I used to think that parents me and my contemporaries that had two doses of measles vaccine would who didn't want to vaccinate their vaccination was the single most useful not necessarily be protected when the children were either ignorant, or health intervention that has ever been epidemic came and that they would need sociopaths. I believe that this view is not introduced and when my children were a third. You may not remember, but in uncommon amongst doctors today. born in 1991 and 1993 I those days there was only one measles unquestioningly – well that is to say I vaccine in the schedule. It was a live virus WHY DID I HAVE THIS ATTITUDE? thought it was with full knowledge vaccine, so it was supposedly like coming Well, throughout my medical training I backed up by all my medical training - in contact with the wild virus, just was taught that the people who used to had them vaccinated, up as far as MMR, changed slightly to make it safer and die in their thousands or hundreds of because that was the ‘right’ thing to do. I leading to immunity. (Since then, of thousands from diseases like diphtheria, even let my four-week-old daughter be course, the pre-school dose has been whooping cough and measles – diseases injected with an out-of-date BGC vaccine added because one dose didn't work, but for which there are vaccines - stopped at a public health clinic. I noticed (force in those days there was just 'one shot for dying because of the introduction of of habit, I automatically scan vials for life.') vaccines. At the same time I was taught drug name, batch number and expiry And now we were being told that even that diseases like typhus, cholera, date) that the vaccine was out of date and two shots of a 'one shot' vaccine would rheumatic and scarlet fever for which said, “Oh, excuse me, it looks like it's out not protect people when the epidemic there are no vaccines, stopped killing of date”, and the doctor answered matter- came. At this point I I began to ask people because of improvements in social of-factly, “Oh don't worry, that's why the myself, “Why have I been telling all conditions. It would have been a logical clinic was delayed for an hour, we were these parents that vaccines are safer than progression to have asked myself why, if just checking that it was OK to give it, getting the disease and that basically,

www.informedparent.co.uk ISSUE THREE 2009 16 having the vaccine will stop their THERE WAS NOTHING FOR IT. children getting the disease - the vaccines “I was astonished and not a I had to go to the Office for National are not 100% effective, but that's little perturbed to find that when Statistics in Pimlico, with my two young basically what they are designed to do. you draw a graph of the death children aged six and four in tow, to But now it seems that children can be rate from whooping cough that extract the information myself. The girls vaccinated, have whatever adverse starts in the mid nineteenth were very good – they were used to reactions are associated with the vaccine century you can clearly see that travelling/ following me around – and and still get the disease with whatever the library staff were very nice; they complications may be associated with at least 99% of the people who kindly gave my daughters orange juice that, even when they've had two doses of used to die from whooping to drink, and paper and crayons to draw the 'one shot' vaccine? cough in the nineteenth and with and amuse themselves, while I early twentieth century has pulled out all the mothy old books from SO WHAT WAS THE POINT? stopped dying before the 1837 until 1899, after which, thankfully, If you are wondering how come anyone vaccine against whooping there was a CD ROM that could be would have had two doses of the 'one bought at vast expense and taken home. cough was introduced“ shot vaccine’ at that time, it is because It was the most user-unfriendly piece of when the MMR was introduced in data storage that I have ever come across 1988, many children had already been just accept what these books were but it was better than having to vaccinated against measles, but we were telling me, especially as the message was physically be there day after day. So I told that we should give them the MMR the opposite of what I had learned up went home with all my notes and the anyway as it would, “protect them until now. The graphs in my text books CD Rom and eventually produced my against mumps and rubella and boost and the Department of Health own graphs. I was startled to find that their measles immunity.” Immunisation Handbook (the Green they were similar to the graphs in the We were also told that the best way Book) all appeared to show that the books that I had recently read. of vaccinating was en masse, because introduction of vaccines caused I was astonished and not a little this would 'break the chain of precipitous falls in deaths from perturbed to find that when you draw a transmission'. So I thought, “I wonder vaccinatable diseases. I needed to do graph of the death rate from whooping why we vaccinate all these small babies some research. cough that starts in the mid nineteenth at two, three and four months, why I decided that if I were going to century you can clearly see that at least don't we just wait two or three years and seriously question what I'd been taught 99% of the people who used to die from then vaccinate everyone who has been at medical school and by my professors, whooping cough in the nineteenth and born in the meantime, and 'break the I would have to go and get the real data early twentieth century had stopped chain of transmission'?” for myself. dying before the vaccine against So some things just didn't seem to Accordingly, I called the Office for whooping cough was introduced, quite add up. However, it is very hard National Statistics (ONS) and asked initially in the 1950s and universally in to start seriously questioning whether or them to send me the graphs of deaths the 1960s. I also realised that the reason not vaccination is anything other than from the diseases against which we the Department of Health's graphs made safe and effective especially when it is vaccinate from the middle of the the vaccine appear so effective was something that you have been taught to nineteenth century, when we started because they didn't start until the 1940s believe in so strongly. The more keeping records, until now. They said, when most of the improvements in medically qualified you are, the more “We don't have them – except for health had already occurred, and this was difficult it is, as, in some ways the more smallpox and TB, we suggest you try even before antibiotics were generally brainwashed you are. It's not easy, or at the Department of Health,” which I did. available. If you only looked at deaths in least it wasn't then, to start going down They didn't have graphs from the under 15 year-olds, the drop is even a path that might lead you in the nineteenth or early twentieth century more dramatic - by the time whooping opposite direction to all your colleagues either. They said, “You'd better try the cough vaccine was part of the universal and the healthcare system in which you Office for National Statistics.” “I've immunisation schedule in the early work. already tried them,” I said, “They were 1960s, all the hard work had been done. I read some books that questioned the the ones who advised me to contact I now began to realise that graphs wisdom of universal vaccination and you.” It seems to be getting rather such as those featured in the in the these contained graphs showing that the circular, so I called up the ONS once Department of Health, Green Book majority of the decrease in deaths and again and told them my problem. were not a good or clear way of showing incidence of the infectious diseases for “Well,” they said, “We have all the the changes in mortality (death) and which we have vaccines occurred before books here from when the Registrar morbidity (incidence of disease) that the vaccines were introduced in the General started taking returns of deaths occurred before and after vaccination was 1950s and 60s for example with from infectious diseases in 1837, you introduced against these diseases. whooping cough; and the late 1960s can come along and look at them if you Measles is similar: the Department of with measles. I decided that I couldn't like.” Health Green Book features a graph that

ISSUE THREE 2009 www.informedparent.co.uk 17 does not start until the 1940s. There there may be other ways of achieving appears to be great drop in the number of “When you visit your GP or health that are better and longer lasting? cases after the measles vaccine was Heath Visitor to discuss the Possibly it is the fear of stepping out of introduced in 1968, but looking at a vaccination issue, and you come line and being seen to be different – with graph which goes back to the 1900s you all the consequences that this can entail, can see that the death rate – death being away feeling scared this is as I know from personal experience. As the worst case complication of a disease - because you are picking up George Bernard Shaw says in his preface had dropped by 99% by the time the to 'The Doctor's Dilemma' :- vaccine was put on the schedule. Looking how they feel.“ “Doctors are just like other Englishmen: specifically at under 15-year-olds, it is most of them have no honour and no possible to see that there was a virtual one they may be left disabled or dead by the conscience: what they commonly mistake hundred percent decline in deaths from random hand of fate. I was like that for these is sentimentality and an intense measles between 1905 and 1965 – three myself, and when the awful realisation dread of doing anything that everybody years before the measles vaccine was began to dawn on me that vaccines else does not do, or omitting to do introduced in the UK. weren't all they were cracked up to be, I anything that everybody else does.” started looking in a panic for some other LION PROWLING way of protecting my children and myself November 2009 In the late 1990s there was an – some other magic bullet. © Dr Jayne LM Donegan MBBS advertisement for MMR which featured a DRCOG DCH DFFP MRCGP baby in nappies sitting on the edge of a MY LONG, SLOW JOURNEY MFHom 2009 cliff with a lion prowling on the other My long, slow journey researching www.jayne-donegan.co.uk/ side and a voice over saying, "No loving vaccination and disease ecology involved parent would deliberately leave their learning about other models and baby unprotected and in danger." I think philosophies of health and the gradual FURTHER INFORMATION it would have been more scientific to realisation that it was true what people have put one of the graphs using had told me all along, that 'health is the More detailed information about information from the ONS in the advert only immunity.' We don't need vaccination: the diseases against – then parents would have a greater protecting from out there. We get which we vacccinate and the chance of making an informed choice, infectious diseases when our body needs vaccines used may be obtained in rather than being coerced by fear. to have a periodic clean out. Children Dr Donegan's report:: especially benefit from childhood spotty 'Vaccinatable Diseases & Their WHEN YOU VISIT YOUR GP rashes, or 'exanthems' as they are called, Vaccines' at: http://www.jayne- When you visit your GP or Heath Visitor in order to make appropriate donegan.co.uk/LinkClick.aspx?fileti to discuss the vaccination issue, and you developmental leaps. When we have cket=d%2ffky%2fIvwv4%3d&tabid come away feeling scared this is because fevers, coughs and rashes, we need to =826 you are picking up how they feel. If all treat them supportively, not you have is the 'medical model' for suppressively. In my experience, the To book a telephone or in person disease and health, all you know is that worst complications of childhood consultation to discuss health or there is a hostile world out there and if infections are caused by standard medical vaccination issues, or if you would be you don't have vaccines, antibiotics and treatment which involves suppressing all interested in hosting a lecture or 100% bactericidal hand wash, you will the symptoms. workshop in your area, please call: have no defence at all against all those What is the biggest obstacle to doctors T/F 0044 (0)20 8632 1634 germs with which you and your children even entertaining the possibility that the (and leave a clear message) are surrounded. Your child may be OK Universal Childhood Vaccination or email: when they get the measles but you can Program may not be the unmitigated [email protected] never tell when disaster will strike, and success that it is portrayed to be? Or that

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Two Brands of Swine Flu Jab, Prepandrix and Celvapan SAFETY DATA & SIDE-EFFECTS M A previous version of Celvapan CELVAPAN BY BAXTER which was a H5N1 vaccine (bird flu) Ingredients: Active ingredient (I Joanna Karpasea-Jones had the following side effects: assume this is bird/pig/human Injection site reactions, headache, engineered flu virus, which is listed as “There is NO data yet for the arthralgia, myalgia. whole cell virus),vero cell line H1N1, swine/bird/human flu, These were only THE MOST (diseased monkey tissue that the virus i.e. This is a big EXPERIMENT. COMMON side-effects, the NHS did was grown on which will be present They have no idea of the not include details of more serious in the vaccine in trace amounts), safety before they inject side-effects for its staff. haemmaglutinin, tween 80 (this is polysorbate 80), sodium chloride, tris your child!“ There is NO data yet for the H1N1, (trometamol), water. swine/bird/human flu, i.e.This is a big EXPERIMENT. They have no Haemmaglutinin - This causes red • haemorrhagic diatheses, including idea of the safety before they inject blood cells to clump together. coagulation disorders your child! • hypersensitivity to ketorolac Tween 80 - a stabilizer that is a trometamol or other NSAIDs and CONTRAINDICATIONS known infertility agent. Linked to those patients in whom aspirin or Information NOT yet available!!!! infertility in male painters and other prostaglandin synthesis decorators due to it being in some inhibitors induce allergic reactions PREPANDRIX BY GSK paints. Used by the population (severe anaphylactic-like reactions Ingredients: council of WHO in developing have been observed in such patients) Haemagglutinin, split cell virus pregnancy vaccines since the 1960's. I • The complete or partial syndrome grown in egg, Adjuvant will post more info on my site soon of nasal polyps, angioedema or (AS03)squalene, Alpha-tocopherol, about this. bronchospasm polysorbate 80, Octoxynol 10, • concurrent treatment with other Sodium chloride, Disodium Sodium Chloride - this is refined NSAIDs including cyclooxygenase 2 phosphate, Potassium dihydrogen table salt which is bad for your heart specific inhibitors, oxpentifylline, phosphate, potassium chloride, and clogs up your arteries. It is probenecid or lithium salts magnesium chloride, thimerosal, particularly bad for children as they • hypovolaemia from any cause or water. can't take as much salt as adults. A dehydration healthier kind of salt is sea salt or • moderate or severe renal For haemagglutinin, polysorbate rock salt, rather than the refined impairment (serum creatinine > 160 80 and sodium chloride see text version. micromol/l) further back for explanations. • a history of asthma Tris - a buffer which is also an anti- • severe heart failure Alpha-tocopherol - E number E307. inflammatory drug that has numerous • patients who have had operations side-effects including asthma and with a high risk of haemorrhage or Octoxynol 10 -ASPERMICIDE! heart attack. incomplete haemostasis According to Dr Jane Harrison- • patients on anti-coagulants Hohner from Web MD, "The active Contraindications to Tris are: including low dose heparin (2500 - ingredients in spermicides are • active or previous peptic ulcer. 5000 units twelve hourly) surfactants that attack the sperm • history of upper gastrointestinal • during pregnancy, labour, delivery membrane and immobilize the sperm: bleeding or perforation, related to or lactation nonoxynol-9, -10, or -11, and previous NSAID therapy. • children under 16 years of age octoxynol-9,-10, 13, and-40. Aerosol • suspected or confirmed • Ketorolac is contra-indicated as foams and creams tend to disperse cerebrovascular bleeding prophylactic analgesia before surgery better in the vagina; spermicides are › ISSUE THREE 2009 www.informedparent.co.uk 19 also available as inserts and vaginal thimerosal in them. Proven to cause • Health and social care workers. film." developmental disorders and Other groups: The mind boggles as to why they implicated in autism. Those less than 65 in high risk groups are putting a known spermacide into including pregnant women a vaccine. Squalene - an oil found in shark • Children under 5 years as part of livers. Triggered arthritis in rats and the childhood immunisation schedule Disodium phosphate - a sodium salt implicated in Gulf War Syndrome. • School aged children in a schools of phosphoric acid used as an anti- based programme caking agent. SAFETY DATA • All other adults. ANDSIDE-EFFECTS Potassium dihydrogen phosphate - There is NO data yet for the H1N1, So basically they want to vaccinate a food additive and fungacide. swine/bird/human flu, i.e.This is a everybody in the whole big EXPERIMENT. They have no country/world! Potassium Chloride - this is idea of the safety before they inject potassium and chlorine. Used in your child! Sources: processed foods, medicines and in this http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache: vaccine. Too much potassium chloride CONTRAINDICATIONS RbuvyWzwBe4J:www.nes.scot.nhs.uk/hai paralyses you so you are unable to Information NOT yet available! /pandemic_flu/documents/H1N1v1.003- breathe, hence it's used as a method of 08-09.pdf+Celvapan+data+sheet&cd=8& execution. Who do they want to vaccinate and hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-a how many doses? H1N1 Immunisation Programme - Magnesium Chloride - this is They want to give people 2 doses of a resource pack to support the magnesium and chlorine, a powerful vaccine, 3 weeks apart. training of immunisers, nhs. infection fighter and helps regenerate cells. They probably put that in there They want to vaccinate the following http://emc.medicines.org.uk/medicine/2 to counter all the ‘poisons’ they put in groups: 0922/SPC/Ketorolac%2030mg%20ml%20 the vaccine. 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Expert Pediatrician exposes vaccine myths

EXTRACT TAKEN FROM: otherwise. All the information that I the research, listened to more and more DR MAYER EISENSTEIN MD WEBSITE. was taught was pretty standard in all parents, and found other practitioners the medical schools and the teachings who also shared the same concern that 17 November 2009 www.homefirst.com and scientific literature throughout the vaccines had not been completely R. LARRY PALEVSKY is a country. I had no reason to disbelieve it. proven safe or even completely effective, board-certified pediatrician Over the years, I kept practicing based on the literature that we have trained at the New York School of medicine and using vaccines and today. DMedicine, and one of the leading thinking that my approach to vaccines ... It didn't appear that the scientific physicians in the country who, from my was completely onboard with studies that we were given were actually view, is actually able to compellingly everything else I was taught. appropriately designed to prove and test and convincingly provide sound, But more and more, I kept seeing the safety and efficacy. rational, scientific justification as to that my experience of the world, my It also came to my attention that why you need to seriously reconsider experience in using and reading about there were ingredients in there that were the wisdom of choosing vaccines as an vaccines, and hearing what parents were not properly tested, that the comparison option to prevent against most diseases. saying about vaccines were very groups were not appropriately set up, "When I went through medical school, different from what I was taught in and that conclusions made about vaccine I was taught that vaccines were medical school and my residency safety and efficacy just did not fit the completely safe and completely training. scientific standards that I was trained to effective, and I had no reason to believe ... and it became clearer to me as I read uphold in my medical school training."

www.informedparent.co.uk ISSUE THREE 2009 20 Silence about vaccine deaths in media is due to the confidential contracts with vaccine manufacturers http://www.nationalexpositor.com/ government propaganda to sign up "to News/1897.html “What I found mind boggling, protect the weak in our society", while 3rd Nov 2009 as a doctor, is to discover de facto subjecting themselves to be Glaxo Smith Kline's "Green List" guinea pigs in this "H1N1-dry-run" HE FLU CASE - I am a Swedish of what the government MAY study for the future benefit of general practioner working in communicate (hardly anything!) registering GSK's AVIAN flu vaccine Belgium, and quite involved in this "Pre-PandRix". and the "Red List" of what Tissue, as together with three citizens If you are to receive the "Pandremix" and another GP we advised the Belgian may absolutely NOT be against the benign “new-type” H1N1- Government last Friday in court that made public...” flu this season, we recommend that you this is a disguised pharmaceutical trial first learn about the possible side on human subjects, with real risks was announced in Sweden in October, effects, as GSK asked their own involved. that these pandemic vaccines where employees to sign an "informed consent I put in two comments on the story actually ordered already back in 2006: form" before receiving the vaccine: see (see below), that are quite relevant in there was a standing order to foresee a for ex: the context that the Swedish vaccination for large parts of the http://www.asanat.org/Declaration_of_Free Newspapers have seemingly stopped population IF the WHO would declare _and_Informed_Consent.pdf reporting the intermediary results of a PANDEMIC of degree 6. When the These contracts were labeled "secret this disguised pharmaceutical trial. "New-Type" A/H1N1 appeared, and it defense", and we learn a lot about "who If you can read French, you will started spreading to other continents, is the boss, Government, or Big discover at: http://www.lepoint2.com/ the WHO changed their definition of Pharma?" by reading them! You can sons/pdf/vaccin-H1N1 medias.pdf that grade 6 pandemic by dropping the still access them here: Keep them on the maker of PandemRix, that is used criteria that it should be highly deadly. your computer, they are historic! in Sweden, passed a secret contract, the Thus, the government discovered that http://www.lepoint2.com/sons/pdf/vaccin- same in every European country, which it’s signed standing orders were passed H1N1 medias.pdf specified a "Green List" of what the simply to combat a new (designer!) What I found mind boggling, as a government MAY communicate (hardly strain of flu that may or may not doctor, is to discover Glaxo Smith anything!) and the "Red List" of what become more or less lethal than the Kline's "Green List" of what the may absolutely NOT be made public, common Influenza A or B flu. government MAY communicate (hardly like intermediary results of the side This has allowed GSK to do a large anything!) and the "Red List" of what effects that appear in the studies of the scale tolerance experiment of their may absolutely NOT be made public, controversial squalene (and thiomersal) specialy formulated AVIAN-flu vaccine like intermediary results of the side adjuvantated PandemRix until they "Pre-PandRix" paid for by the effects that appear in the studies of the have been sanitized by Glaxo Smith governments, where doctors are controversial squalene (and thiomersal) Kline researchers, and published by recruited for a large scale pharmaco- adjuvantated PandemRix until they GSK themselves. vigilance study, without being paid as have been sanitized by GSK, and These contracts also confirm what researchers, and patients receive published by GSK themselves.

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ISSUE THREE 2009 www.informedparent.co.uk 21 The Transmission & Cause of Influenza – A Study From 1919

TAKEN FROM: ANNUAL REPORT United States Public Health service, at experiments were made with OF THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY, the United States Quarantine Station, secretions, both unfiltered and 1919 MISCELLANEOUS REPORTS. Gallups Island, Boston, Mass. The filtered, from the upper respiratory (EXTRACTS; PAGE 2475 & 2478) subjects of experiment were 68 tract of typical cases of influenza in volunteers from the United States the active stage of the disease. In these Naval Detention Training Camp, Deer experiments a total of 30 men were DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY, NAVAL HIS- Island, Boston. These volunteers had subjected to inoculation by means of TORICAL CENTER, 805 KIDDER BREESE SE, been exposed in some degree to an spray, swab, or both, of the nose and WASHINGTON NAVY YARD, WASHING- epidemic of influenza at the training throat. The interval elapsing between TON DC 20374-5060 camp or at some station prior to securing secretions from the donors http://www.history.navy.mil/library/on- coming to Deer Island; 47 of the men and inoculation of the volunteers was were without history of an attack of progressively reduced in these line/influenza_secnavptb.htm influenza during the recent epidemic, experiments, so that in the third of the and 39 of these were without history series the interval at most was 30 MODESOFTRANSMISSION of an attack of such illness at any time seconds. In no instance was an While it is presumed now, just as it attack of influenza produced in any was before the pandemic, that the of the subjects. An experiment was causative agent of influenza is “The study was begun made in which the members of one of transmitted from person to person, November 13 with an the groups of volunteers which had either directly or indirectly, by moist been subjected to inoculation with secretions or fresh discharges from the experiment in which a secretions were exposed to a group of mouth and nose no proof of this has suspension of a freshly isolated cases of influenza in the active stage of been forthcoming. It may be culture of Pfeiffer's bacillus was the disease in a manner intended to assumed that the disease is highly simulate conditions which in nature communicable and that it spreads instilled into the nose of each are supposed to favor the transmission both by direct and indirect contact of of three nonimmunes and into of the disease. Each of this group of 10 healthy persons with patients. It may volunteers came into close association be that the virus is carried by healthy three controls who had a for a few minutes with each of 10 persons, but this can neither be proved history of an attack in the selected cases of influenza in the wards nor disproved at the present time. recent epidemic.“ of the United States Naval Hospital, Many of the cases of influenza are so Chelsea. At the time the volunteers mild that the infected individual is were exposed to this infection the able to go about his business and is during their lives. cases were from 10 to 84 hours from thus capable of spreading the disease. The experiments consisted of the onset of their illness and 4 of them Just after the crests of the earlier inoculations with pure cultures of were not over 24 hours after the onset. epidemics were reached two series of Pfeiffer's bacillus, with secretions from Each volunteer conversed a few experiments were authorized by the the upper respiratory passages, and minutes with each of the selected Navy Department under arrangements with blood from typical cases of patients, who coughed into the face of made by the Bureau of Medicine and influenza. The study was begun each volunteer in turn, so that each Surgery in cooperation with the November 13 with an experiment in volunteer was exposed in this manner United States Public Health Service which a suspension of a freshly to all 10 cases. The total exposure for the purpose of determining, if isolated culture of Pfeiffer's bacillus amounted to about three-quarters of possible, the mode of transmission of was instilled into the nose of each of an hour for each volunteer. None of influenza as well as the causative three nonimmunes and into three these volunteers developed any agent. controls who had a history of an attack symptoms of influenza following in the recent epidemic. None of these this experiment. BOSTON EXPERIMENT volunteers showed any reaction Advantage was taken of the These experiments were carried on following this inoculation. Another opportunity for making this study to jointly by Lieutenant Commander, experiment was made at a later date attempt to confirm the reported M.J. Rosenau, Medical Corps, United with a suspension of a number of positive results of transmission of States Naval Reserve Force, and different pure cultures of Pfeiffer's influenza by Nicolle. Secretions from Lieutenant W.J. Keegan, Medical bacillus, of which four were recently five typical cases of influenza were Corps, United States Naval Reserve isolated. Ten presumably nonimmune secured, filtered, and some of the Force, and by Surgeon J. Goldberger volunteers were inoculated with the filtrate inoculated subcutaneously into and Assistant Surgeon G.C. Lake, same negative results. Three sets of each of a group of 10 volunteers. At

www.informedparent.co.uk ISSUE THREE 2009 22 the same time blood was drawn from disease of the respiratory type is a very the same cases and pooled, and some “The outstanding facts are that simple matter. While the transfer of the of the mixed blood injected all attempts to transfer the causative agent of such a disease from subcutaneously into each of another one individual to another may group of 10 volunteers. The time lost disease from patients ill with reasonably be assumed to take place between drawing the blood and commonly by means of the "droplet inoculating it in no case exceeded influenza in the acute stages, spray" directly, as well as indirectly, by three quarters of an hour. None of the from 10 to 84 hours from the means of a freshly contaminated article, men subjected to these inoculations such as a drinking utensil or by the developed any evidences of onset of symptoms, failed.“ fingers which have touched a illness……. contaminated article, it is nevertheless probable that immunological conditions PAGE 2478: pooled nose-and-throat secretions from play a most important part and that the The outstanding facts are that all patients acutely ill would appear to time of exposure has a determining attempts to transfer the disease from leave little to be desired in respect to influence as well as the duration of patients ill with influenza in the acute the completeness with which this exposure, the immunological state of stages, from 10 to 84 hours from the research work was performed. Further the patient (aggressiveness of the onset of symptoms, failed. The direct attempts were made later in Boston to causative microörganism) and the exposure of volunteers in the hospital secure more conclusive results by immunological state of the person ward, each volunteer to several obtaining secretions from patients in exposed. From the results obtained in influenza patients, thus affording the very early stages of the disease, but these efforts to transmit the disease, opportunity for transmission of the these subsequent experiments led to influenza especially would appear to disease by what has been presumed to findings which were scarcely more require particular conditions for its be the natural and usual method of definite than those described. transmission and yet the gross dissemination, as well as the Negative as the results of these epidemiology of the disease indicates promptness with which fresh moist experiments were the work itself was of that it is highly communicable and secretions were transferred from the utmost importance and it serves spreads promptly wherever it is patient to volunteer, and the well to check the generally introduced. precaution to make subcutaneous entertained belief that the inoculations with pooled blood and transmission of an acute communicable (Editor: bold type my emphasis)

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ISSUE THREE 2009 www.informedparent.co.uk 23 The Quanten Theory HEALING VERSUS CURING by Patrick Quanten MD HE STRUGGLE to rid the world of and breathing problems. However, don't disease has intensified during the last worry because those complaints are due century. An obscene amount of resources to the "roughness" of the products. Once hasT been made available in the war against we have refined it a bit, you will all be illness. So far the overall impression we better off. The other problems that we Patrick Quanten MD are left with is that there is no sign of us noticed related to the fact that some winning this war. It feels like a guerrilla bacteria were not dying as easily as they “The sooner the attention of war where you think you have found the did when we started using these our society can be switched enemy and then it turns out you haven't. antibiotics. Well, don't worry about that The enemy keeps disappearing into the because it makes sense that not all from curing illnesses to healing jungle. We seem to be chasing a ghost. bacteria are exactly the same. So what people the sooner we will see This seems so true for infectious diseases we'll do is, we'll learn more about the peace descend upon the where victory is claimed, only to have the individual bacteria and we will develop individual and the earth as disease return at some later date. products that are very specific. And so a whole.“ Our Western belief that the enemy is the killing continues. somewhere out there has taken root As we sophisticated our weaponry we legislate our business. thanks to Louis Pasteur and his became more cocky about our power and Laws have come into force which colleagues. They were able to our abilities. We ignored the fact that regulate and control the development and demonstrate that diseased tissues both the problems with the medication manufacturing of medication, a nicer contained "bugs", which they called tolerance as well as the problems with word than ‘drugs’. We have protected bacteria. The logical conclusion drawn bacterial resistance increased. Convinced and secured our field. We can claim the from that observation is that once we get as we were that one day we would know natural product ingredients as our own rid of the bacteria disease will disappear. all there is to know about every bacteria and manufacture these artificially as So, the commercial bandwagon started under the sun, we continued increasing medication. We increase our resources of rolling. Money, time and effort were the resources to find the illusive all- money, time and energy to study invested in the search for the magical powerful antibiotic. In the same way as ingredients and find a disease to fight for stuff that would do the trick because it we continued to be convinced that one each one of them. Once we have was soon realised that whoever found it - day we would find the all-powerful successfully negotiated this hurdle and a The Holy Grail - would be famous pesticide which would give us total disease or condition has been found forever and rich beyond belief. control over the insect population. which improves whilst taking this War was declared and the arms race They didn't read the script and neither medication we can start the money had begun. Soon the first products, did the bacteria! collection, our reward for our efforts in antibiotics, were developed which had the name of the health of the population. been proven to be effective against the TO CURE OR NOT TO CURE And people are so grateful they will growth of bacteria under laboratory In the mean time the idea that a person "invest" even more money in our conditions. Now these products proved gets ill when he gets attacked from the business, hoping for more successes. Laws their worth in human beings and nasty outside had taken root in the whole of become more and more sophisticated and bacteria were dying quickly, saving our Western Society. This belief meant we now determine that anything that is thousands of lives. that we could create an industry seen to improve a medical condition is A party was thrown, victory was dedicated to eradicate the invading force. deemed to be a medication and will declared and bacteria were sneered at. It To destroy became the theme tune for the therefore come under the prescription had turned out to be a lot simpler than medical profession. The endless search for drug law. And furthermore, no one anticipated, but since we are the highest invading organisms took on gigantic outside the "industry" is allowed to make evolved creation of our world we should proportions. From bacteria we moved on any medical claims as we are the only not have doubted our strength. As we to viruses, parasites, worms, and fungi. ones who are investing money, time and were still celebrating, the first problems We find the blithers everywhere giving effort into this industry. And started to show up. Some people reacted us good ground to develop more consequently, we are the ones who are badly to the medication: people were products. The industry is booming. And saving thousands of lives. having digestive problems, skin rashes, more so, because we have managed to We are licensed to find the cures;

www.informedparent.co.uk ISSUE THREE 2009 24 nobody else is. That means that nobody forces of our surroundings and the balance between "constructive" and else can find a cure. Anything anyone environment continues. "destructive" forces. Out there, there is no outside the industry says has to be a false war amongst the plants and animals; claim, as they have no license to "cure". DEFINITIONS OF "TO CURE" there is just evolution. Everything The law which we invented, states that • spiritual and pastoral charge changes all the time but no one species these people must be wrong and therefore • relief or recovery from a disease has got it all its own way. Wouldn't it they are. • something that corrects a harmful or make sense to acknowledge that, as we troublesome situation are part of and living in Nature, our lives AND WE CONTINUE TO CURE. • to restore to health, soundness, or are following similar lines and laws. What does "to cure" mean? – “It means: normality Changing environments bring changes to restore to health”. That's fine, I've got • to bring about recovery within plant and animal life. If they are that. And then again there is a problem • to rectify detrimental to health then we, as here. Since we all die, ultimately nobody • to free from something objectionable conscious human beings, have the gets "restored to health", do they? or harmful capability of altering our ways in order to Therefore, measured by that yardstick "to • to prepare by chemical or physical create "a cure", to correct a harmful cure" is a total failure. Well that's a pity as processing, especially to preserve by situation, to restore health. We don't we have invested so much money, time salting, drying, or smoking need to fight; we need to change. and effort into the industry that we cannot be a failure. We need to do "To cure" obviously means more than just TO HEAL something about that. Like what? recovery from a disease. The Western • to make sound or whole Well, we could put time limits on the Medical Authorities have hijacked the • to restore to health "cure". We could for instance say that we definition through the use of legislation. • to restore to a sound or normal state will call you "cured" of cancer if you are It now turns out that anything that helps • to mend still alive five years after the initial to restore health or normality, anything diagnosis. We can then encourage an that helps to free us from harm, anything Healing also means restoration to health, "early detection system", in which we that helps to correct harm or trouble is but the definition mentions "making invest a lot of money, time and effort, per definition "a cure". This does not whole" which is not a feature of curing. which will dramatically increase our solely apply to drugs produced in Curing busies itself with situations or "cure-rate" figures. How? Very simply. If a pharmaceutical laboratories. A mother bits that have gone wrong, whilst healing certain cancer will take ten years to kill a who picks up her child after it has fallen seems to concentrate on the "wholeness". person, and we manage to detect it when and hurt its knee and the mother kisses When you restore something to a sound it is still in it's infancy, say in the first year the knee better, she effectively produces a or normal state you do not necessarily of its development, we will have "cured" cure. have to restore it to its original state as that person without doing anything else. In order to correct a harmful or described in the manual. Early detection saves thousands of lives. troublesome situation one needs to change When we heal people, we very often Other limits need also to be set, such that situation. Covering up the situation notice that the disease does not disappear. as test levels. We can call a cure when through, for instance, pain control or Yet, somehow we have the feeling that certain blood levels have been achieved. "anti"-medication, does not change the we did help that person. Healing is not Or when certain weight or strength levels situation. It only changes our perception about "curing diseases"; healing is about are reached. Or when certain tasks have of the situation, i.e. I can't feel the pain "making whole". In healing no one is been performed. Any "improvement" can anymore, or the excess stomach acid is fighting anything or anybody. There are be called a "cure" providing you put the now neutralised. To effectively change the no bugs or mystery causes to be "finishing line" inside the improvement situation one has to make changes. These destroyed. Healing is not about boundaries. And as we are the only ones will inevitably involve changes in the way destroying; healing is about making who are licensed to cure, we are the only one is doing things right now, as it is that whole. A person, an animal, a country or ones allowed to call a cure a cure. We behavioural pattern which has created the culture can be made whole without make the definitions, we set the limits harmful situation in the first place. So, a overcoming all illness and discomfort. and hand out the prizes. cure will only really be established by Even Nature has its own discomforts, its And what about the annoying making changes. own pains and anxieties, but none of it problem when we don't find an invading But what about our war then? imbalances the structure. "Evil" and critter to hold responsible for the disease. Fighting an unknown enemy, who also "goodness" are human concepts which Well, then we just speculate. There adapts to the new environment much colour our world in good and bad. These certainly must be one, but we haven't quicker then we can create it, is going to concepts do not help us to live a more found it yet. We can call it an illusive be an impossible task. Furthermore, we whole life as they separate the seeds from virus or something, and faithfully notice in our environment, in Nature, the husks, the active ingredient from the promise that when we do find it, it will that there really is nothing that is just impurities, the "me" from the "them". It soon be eliminated. dangerous, or just advantageous. is this separation that creates the harmful And the war against the invading Everything seems to depend on the situation we are now desperate to find a

ISSUE THREE 2009 www.informedparent.co.uk 25 cure for. Healing brings together all those become "whole" and "normal" again. amounts of - invested in this belief differences in a whole; it delivers the Everyone heals before dying! system has so far only served us with the normal state. The implications are that not only has knowledge that nothing is working. Healing therefore can take place in "healing" nothing to do with "curing", What is required is a shift in thinking. spite of illness or even death. As a matter but also that healing is an essential part We need to stop blaming outside factors of fact before you can leave this earthly of life. One could even say that it is the for internal problems. We need to regard life you will have to heal to some degree goal in life to heal, because without it life the whole rather than the parts as the because in the spirit-world, in the here- is not complete, life cannot finish, life is essence of life. after, in the beyond, there is no not "whole". Restoring life to normal, making life discomfort, no pain. All is well, after we whole again, will allow all parts to have passed on. Via a medium we can get TO CURE OR TO HEAL continue functioning for their intended some limited information about the way Finding cures for illnesses, uncomfortable life span. It brings out the best in all things are beyond death as messages are situations, seems so insignificant in the parts which together make up the whole. passed on to us. All these messages tell us light of healing. Diseases must have a In other words, life in balance will not that the suffering has finished, that life is meaning in life which goes beyond the only last longer it will also be more fine now, that everything is "whole" fact that they need rectification through comfortable. A long life is no priority and again. This can only be when at some intervention. Curing a disease does not we should not make statistics and stage healing has taken place and life has make the person whole; healing a person compare the length of one life with been "made whole" again. does not cure the disease. Restoring a part another. Not all dogs are expected to live When people are dying we observe of life to normal does not make the whole for the same time span; in effect within some very peaceful and quiet deaths, but life normal. It never can, and never will. every species in Nature we find at any we also experience some disturbing and Restoring one part whilst leaving life as a given time a number of short and long terrible dying processes in which people whole abnormal will only induce another lives for a great variety of reasons. What seem to have a real "fight" before they part to malfunction. This process will remains extremely important though is finally pass away. What's the difference? continue until life itself is no longer the quality of life, and particularly in Well, if the person is healed there will be sustainable. terms of wholeness. The more complete no dissimilarities between the state before Illnesses are not the result of a vicious and balanced life is the more it will reach and after death and therefore the pass attack by an outside aggressor but are its potential. When it has reached its over will be smooth and simple. In internal imbalances. Bugs appear in potential the transition into the faze contrast with the person who has not diseased tissues from within the tissues beyond the Gate of Death will be a healed and is therefore in a different state itself, as has been demonstrated in smooth one. from the one he/she is moving into. One laboratory conditions. There are no The sooner the attention of our society can imagine the difficulties that may mysterious viruses that travel vast can be switched from curing illnesses to arise from making the transition under distances or lie dormant for decades healing people the sooner we will see those circumstances. It may well be that before “attacking” the innocent victim. peace descend upon the individual and it becomes a real struggle to let go of the Illness has not so much to do with “out the earth as a whole. To find a cure will life as we know it in order to move into there” as it has with “in here”. It is an remain an illusive wish for the non-seer. I the more whole life that is awaiting us. internal affair and should therefore be am afraid to say that it will not and can This struggle is painfully visible to treated as one. No aggression directed not happen, ever. anyone watching the dying process of a toward an outside cause is making any Curing diseases does not make people person in that state. However, once the real impact on alleviating distress caused better. transition has been made the person has by illness. Money, time and effort - vast Making whole does.

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www.informedparent.co.uk ISSUE THREE 2009 26 Teenage girl left brain-damaged after receiving cervical cancer jab

BY DAILY MAIL REPORTER carries any long-term side effects. October 2009 This would suggest that the timing of Stacey's seizures is mere coincidence TEENAGE GIRL has been left rather than being linked to the vaccine. brain-damaged after suffering The post-mortem on 14-year-old epileptic seizures just days after being Coventry schoolgirl Natalie Morton givenA the controversial cervical cancer who died hours after having the jab jab. found this week that the girl had died Stacey Jones, 18, suffered her first from a malignant tumour on her chest. seizure in March when she was 17, days Stacey Jones (centre) However, a leading expert who after she had the Cervarix injection. helped develop the cancer jab today In the following weeks she had told the Sunday Express that the several more fits, causing such severe “'I don't think there is enough vaccine may be riskier and more deadly brain injury that she had to be evidence that the vaccination than the cancer it aims to prevent. admitted to a rehabilitation unit, where programme is safe - this all The doctor also claimed the jab she is relearning simple tasks. happened days after Stacey would do nothing to lower the rates of Stacey Jones (centre) pictured with cervical cancer in the UK. was given the vaccine, and her cousins at her 18th birthday party Dr Diane Harper, who was involved started to suffer epileptic seizures just we don't have any other in the clinical trials of Cervarix said the days after having the cancer jab explanation for what vaccine was being 'over-marketed' and According to the Sunday Telegraph, triggered her brain injury.“ parents should be warned about the parents of the teenager, from possible side effects. Bilston in the West Midlands, are Dr Harper, of the University of convinced that the vaccination caused 'I don't think there is enough Missouri-Kansas told the newspaper she swelling in the brain. evidence that the vaccination believed the risks were 'small but real'. The swelling has been diagnosed as programme is safe - this all happened She said: 'All this jab will do is the cause of Stacey's neurological days after Stacey was given the vaccine, prevent girls getting some problems. and we don't have any other abnormalities associated with cervical Mother, Julie Jones, 44, told the explanation for what triggered her cancer which can be treated. newspaper: 'She was such a lovely, brain injury.' 'It will not decrease cervical cancer happy-go-lucky girl, now she is just a Amid growing concern among rates at all. shell. parents about the safety of the jab, 'Parents need to know this and that 'I really feel she has been used as a drug manufacturers insist that there is in a small number of cases there are guinea pig. no evidence to suggest that the vaccine serious side effects.'

No-fault payment for vaccine side-effects

RTÉ IS A PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTER, A NON-PROFIT that, in limited cases, an adverse event MAKING ORGANISATION OWNED BY THE IRISH PEOPLE. could take place following immunisation. 17 November 2009 http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/1117/vaccine.html The report says it is difficult to say N EXPERT GROUP report for the event of moderate damage, and what the likely cost of the payment the Department of Health €200,000 for severe damage. scheme would be. (Ireland) has recommended that a no- The scheme would apply to all cases It would be a condition of Afault payment scheme be introduced of vaccination whenever they occurred acceptance of an award that any claims for the rare number of cases where and an assessment would be made by a against the State in relation to the children suffer serious adverse reactions three-person panel. alleged vaccine damage would be to vaccinations provided under public The Vaccine Damage Steering waived. immunisation programmes. Group report says payments to any The Department of Health, which It says that for minor damage individual should not be regarded as published the report today, said it is €15,000 should be paid, €75,000 in compensation but would recognise under consideration.

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