Really I am not trying to antagonize. Becoming aware of ALL issues that affect us is NECESSARY. I would like to share a few statistics. WE need to make ALL institutions accountable and responsible.
In 1871-72, England with 98 percent of the population aged between 2 and 50 vaccinated against smallpox, experienced its worst outbreak with 45,000 deaths. During the same time period in Germany, with a vaccination ratio of 96 percent, there were over 125,000 deaths from smallpox. (The Hadwen Documents) can be found on the internet.
In Germany, compulsory mass vaccinations against diphtheria commenced in 1940 and by 1945 diphtheria cases were UP from 40,000 to 250,000. (Don't Get Stuck!, Hannah Allen.)
In the USA in 1960, two virologists discovered that both polio vaccines were contaminated with SV 40 virus which causes cancer in animals as well as changes in human cell tissue cultures. Millions of children had been injected with these vaccines. (Medical journal of Australia, March 17, 1973, p. 555.)
In 1967, Ghana was declared measles-free by the World Health Organization after 96 percent of its population was vaccinated. In 1972, Ghana experienced one of its worst measles outbreaks with its highest ever mortality rate. (Dr. H. Albonico, MMR Vaccine Campaign in Switzerland, March 1990.)
In the UK between 1970 and 1990, over 200,000 cases of whooping cough occurred in FULLY vaccinated children. (Community Disease Surveillance Centre, UK).
In the 1970's a tuberculosis vaccine trial in India involving 260,000 people revealed that more cases of TB occurred in the vaccinated that the UNvaccinated. (The Lancet, January 12, 1980,p.73)
In 1977, Dr. Jonas Salk, who developed the first polio vaccine, testified along with other Scientists that mass inoculation against polio was the cause of most polio cases through the USA since 1961. (Science, April 4, 1977, 'Abstracts") My cousin after vaccination in Puerto Rico came down with crippling polio in the 50's.
In 1978, a survey of 30 states in the U.S. revealed that more than half of the children who contracted measles had been adequately vaccinated. (The People's Doctor, Dr. R. Mendelsohn)
In 1979, Sweden abandoned the whooping cough vaccine due to its ineffectiveness. Out of 4,140 cases in 1978, it was found that 84 percent had ben vaccinated three times (British Medical Journal 283: 696-97,1981)
The February 1981 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association found that 90 percent of obstetricians and 66 percent of pediatricians refused to take the rubella vaccine.
In the USA, the cost of single DPT shot had risen from 11 cents in 1982 to $11.40 in 1987. The manufacturers of the vaccine were putting aside $8.00 per shot to cover legal costs and damages they were paying out to parents of brain-damaged children and children who died after vaccination. (The Vine, no. 7, Janurary 1994, Nambur,Qid.)
In Oman between 1988 and 1989, a polio outbreak occurred amongst thousands of fully VACCINATED children. The region with the highest attack rate had the highest vaccine coverage. The region with the lowest attack rate had the lowest vaccine coverage, (The Lancet, September 12, 1991)
In 1990, the Journal of the American medical Association had an article on measles which stated, "Although more than 95 percent of school-aged children in the US are vaccinated against measles, large measles outbreaks continue to occur in schools and most cases in this setting occur among previously vaccinated children." (JAMA, November 21, 1990).
In the USA, from July 1990 to November 1993, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration counted a total of 54,072 adverse reactions following vaccination. The FDA admitted that this number represented only ten percent of the real total, because most doctors were refusing to report vaccine injuries. In other words, adverse reactions for this period exceeded half a million. (National Vaccine Information Centre, March 2, 1994.)
In the New England Journal of Medicine July 1994 issue a study fond that over 80 percent of children under five years of age who had contracted whooping cough had been fully vaccinated.
On November 2, 2000, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) announced that its members voted at their 57th annual meeting in St. Louis to pass a resolution calling for an end to mandatory childhood vaccines. The resolution passed without a single "NO" vote. (Report by Michael Devitt.)
The following is a recommendation by a Surgeon
Dr. Donald Miller, a cardiac surgeon and professor came up with this user-friendly vaccination schedule in 2004. although he personally question the validity of most all vaccinations.
1. No vaccinations until your child is two years old. (brain development is 80 per cent complete)
2. No vaccines that contain thimerosal ( mercury)
3. No live virus vaccines
4. The following vaccines should be given ONE AT A TIME (not as a combination vaccine) EVERY SIX MONTHS, beginning at age 2:
* Pertussis (acellular, not whole cell)
* Diphtheria
* Tetanus
* Polio (the Salk vaccine, cultured in Human cells) not monkey
This schedule takes the best interests of the individual into consideration rather than what the government judges best for society. If your pediatrician does not like this schedule (and most won't), I'd suggest finding a new one who does.
my note (find one who cares and is informed) A. Poulin
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100% absolute junk science.
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NOT ONLY, but medicine itself is a form of eugenics, anything but letting nature take its course is a form of artificial preservation or protection of life.
"The government should be afraid of its people, not the other way around".
>>"anything but letting nature take its course is a form of artificial preservation or protection of life."
Eugenics also involves manipulating heredity, so prolonging the life of someone who is past reproductive age wouldn't qualify as eugenics. In any case I think your definition is way too broad. By my definition eugenics has to be deliberate. Otherwise I would call it just trying to improve living conditions for yourself and others.
It may be true that by "letting nature take it's course" the doctors who saved my life when I was an infant allowed me to grow up and have children, but that was not their intention. If they had deliberately refused to treat children whose parents were not particularly intelligent, or who were a bit short, or nearsighted, then that would have qualified as eugenics.
When my mother was a child, she was among the first in her town to get the polio vaccine because her father was a doctor. That summer several of the children who swam in the same pool as my mother and her sisters got polio, but the kids who were vaccinated escaped it. There is no question that mass vaccination has greatly reduced the incidence of several deadly and debilitating childhood diseases. Vaccinations have saved countless people from death and disability, and people like my mother who have gone on to lead happy and productive lives are very happy to have benefitted from them.
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Another influenza season is beginning, and the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will strongly urge Americans to get a flu shot. In fact, the CDC mounts a well-orchestrated campaign each season to generate interest and demand for flu shots.
But a recent study published in the October issue of the Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine found that vaccinating young children against the flu appeared to have no impact on flu-related hospitalizations or doctor visits during two recent flu seasons.
At first glance, the data did suggest that children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years derived some protection from vaccination in these years. But after adjusting for potentially relevant variables, the researchers concluded that "significant influenza vaccine effectiveness could not be demonstrated for any season, age, or setting" examined.
Additionally, a Group Health study found that flu shots do not protect elderly people against developing pneumonia -- the primary cause of death resulting as a complication of the flu. Others have questioned whether there is any mortality benefit with influenza vaccination. Vaccination coverage among the elderly increased from 15 percent in 1980 to 65 percent now, but there has been no decrease in deaths from influenza or pneumonia.
There is some evidence that flu shots cause Alzheimer’s disease, most likely as a result of combining mercury with aluminum and formaldehyde. Mercury in vaccines has also been implicated as a cause of autism.
Three other serious adverse reactions to the flu vaccine are joint inflammation and arthritis, anaphylactic shock (and other life-threatening allergic reactions), and Guillain-Barré syndrome, a paralytic autoimmune disease.
One credible hypothesis that explains the seasonal nature of flu is that influenza is a vitamin D deficiency disease.
Vitamin D levels in your blood fall to their lowest point during flu seasons. Unable to be protected by the body’s own antibiotics (antimicrobial peptides) that are released by vitamin D, a person with a low vitamin D blood level is more vulnerable to contracting colds, influenza, and other respiratory infections.
Studies show that children with rickets, a vitamin D-deficient skeletal disorder, suffer from frequent respiratory infections, and children exposed to sunlight are less likely to get a cold. The increased number of deaths that occur in winter, largely from pneumonia and cardiovascular diseases, are most likely due to vitamin D deficiency.
Unfortunately, now, for the first time, flu vaccination is also being pushed for virtually all children -- not just those under 5.
This is a huge change. Previously, flu vaccine was recommended only for youngsters under 5, who can become dangerously ill from influenza. This year, the government is recommending that children from age 6 months to 18 years be vaccinated, expanding inoculations to 30 million more school-age children.
The government argues that while older children seldom get as sick as the younger ones, it's a bigger population that catches flu at higher rates, so the change should cut missed school, and parents' missed work when they catch the illness from their children.
Of course, this policy ignores the fact that a systematic review of 51 studies involving 260,000 children age 6 to 23 months found no evidence that the flu vaccine is any more effective than a placebo.
Sources:
• LewRockwell.com October 3, 2008
• EMS Responder September 9, 2008
• WebMD October 6, 2008
• Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine October 2008; 162(10):943-51
Dr. Mercola's Comments:
Back in 2005, The Federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended that all children between 6 months and 5 years old receive flu shots each year. Now they have expanded their guidelines to include children up to 18 years, which means everyone except those between the ages of 19-49, who are in good health, are urged to get a flu shot.
It should come as no surprise to find out that a majority of the ACIP members who came up with these guidelines have financial ties to the vaccine industry, and stand to gain personally for every additional person getting a yearly injection. It’s actually the only explanation that makes any sense for recommendations as insane as these.
Three Reasons to Reconsider Flu Shots
There are three major reasons why this government push to vaccinate 84 percent of the U.S. population with a yearly flu vaccine is so incomprehensible:
1. The majority of flu shots contain 25 micrograms of mercury; an amount considered unsafe for anyone weighing less than 550 pounds! And which groups are most sensitive to the neurological damage that has been associated with mercury? Infants, children, and the elderly.
2. No studies have conclusively proven that flu shots prevent flu-related deaths among the elderly, yet this is one of the key groups to which they’re pushed.
3. If you get a flu shot, you can still get the flu (or flu-like symptoms). This is because it only protects against certain strains, and it’s anyone’s guess which flu viruses will be in your area.
So why would you take a flu shot – EVERY YEAR -- that has NEVER been proven to be effective, that can give you the very illness you’re trying to prevent, and has potential long-term side effects that are far worse than the flu itself?
The powers that be have done an excellent job of instilling fear into the population so they believe that they must get a shot to stay healthy, but the simple reality is it’s doing you more harm than good.
And, even if the flu vaccine could effectively prevent the flu, there have been several examples in past years where government health officials have chosen the incorrect influenza strains for that year’s vaccine. In 2004, the National Vaccine Information Center described how CDC officials told everyone to line up for a flu shot that didn't even contain the influenza strain causing most of the flu that year.
Two-Thirds of This Year’s Flu Vaccines Contain a Full-Dose of Mercury
According to Dr. Donald Miller, MD, two-thirds of this year’s flu vaccines contain 25 micrograms of thimerosal. Thimerosal is 49 percent mercury by weight.
Each dose of these flu vaccines contains more than 250 times the Environmental Protection Agency’s safety limit for mercury.
By now, most people are well aware that children and fetuses are most at risk of damage from this neurotoxin, as their brains are still developing. Yet the CDC still recommends that children over 6 months, and pregnant women, receive the flu vaccine each year.
In addition to mercury, flu vaccines also contain other toxic or hazardous ingredients like:
• Formaldehyde -- a known cancer-causing agent
• Aluminum -- a neurotoxin that has been linked to Alzheimer’s disease
• Triton X-100 -- a detergent
• Phenol (carbolic acid)
• Ethylene glycol (antifreeze)
• Various antibiotics: neomycin, streptomycin, gentamicin – which can cause allergic reactions in some people
The Evidence Against Flu Vaccines
For those of you who are still unconvinced, know that there’s plenty of scientific evidence available to back up the recommendation to avoid flu vaccines – if nothing else, then for the simple reason that they don’t work, and don’t offer any real benefit to offset their inherent health risks. For example:
• A brand new study published in the October issue of the Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine found that vaccinating young children against the flu had no impact on flu-related hospitalizations or doctor visits during two recent flu seasons. The researchers concluded that "significant influenza vaccine effectiveness could not be demonstrated for any season, age, or setting" examined.
• A study published in the Lancet just two months ago found that influenza vaccination was NOT associated with a reduced risk of pneumonia in older people. This supports a study done five years ago, published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
• Research published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine last month also confirms that there has been no decrease in deaths from influenza and pneumonia, despite the fact that vaccination coverage among the elderly has increased from 15 percent in 1980 to 65 percent now.
• Last year, researchers with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the National Institutes of Health published this conclusion in the Lancet Infectious Diseases: “We conclude that frailty selection bias and use of non-specific endpoints such as all-cause mortality have led cohort studies to greatly exaggerate vaccine benefits.”
• A large-scale, systematic review of 51 studies, published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews in 2006, found no evidence that the flu vaccine is any more effective than a placebo in children. The studies involved 260,000 children, age 6 to 23 months.
Might Influenza be Little More Than a Symptom of Vitamin D Deficiency?
Vitamin D, “the sunshine vitamin,” may very well be one of the most beneficial vitamins there is for disease prevention. Unfortunately it’s also one of the vitamins that a vast majority of people across the world are deficient in due to lack of regular exposure to sunshine.
Published in the journal Epidemiology and Infection in 2006, the hypothesis presented by Dr. John Cannell and colleagues in the paper Epidemic Influenza and Vitamin D actually makes a lot of sense.
They raise the possibility that influenza is a symptom of vitamin D deficiency!
The vitamin D formed when your skin is exposed to sunlight regulates the expression of more than 2,000 genes throughout your body, including ones that influence your immune system to attack and destroy bacteria and viruses. Hence, being overwhelmed by the “flu bug” could signal that your vitamin D levels are too low, allowing the flu virus to overtake your immune system.
How to Prepare For Flu Season Without Getting a Flu Shot
I often find that some of the simplest explanations are the truest, and this sounds about as simple as it gets. And, getting appropriate amounts of sunshine (or taking a vitamin D supplement when you can’t get healthy amounts of sun exposure) is one of my KEY preventive strategies against the cold and flu, as it has such a strengthening effect on your immune system.
Interestingly, last week the American Academy of Pediatrics doubled its recommended dose of vitamin D. Unfortunately this is still a woefully inadequate recommendation as the dose should be TEN times larger. Rather than going from 200 to 400 units per day, it should have increased to about 2,000 units per day.
For most of you reading this it is “vitamin D winter,” which means there simply isn’t enough sunshine to make significant amounts of vitamin D, so you will need to use a tanning bed or take oral supplements.
Although supplements are clearly inferior to sunlight or safe tanning beds, I am becoming more convinced of the value of vitamin D supplements as they are less potentially toxic than my initial impression, and they are certainly more convenient and less expensive than a tanning bed.
For those in the winter with no or very limited exposure to sunshine, 4,000-5,000 units per day would seem appropriate for most adults. If you are very heavy you may need to double that dose, and for children the dose can be half that.
The key though is to make sure you monitor your vitamin D levels by blood testing, to make sure your levels are therapeutic and not toxic.
I advocate getting your vitamin D levels tested regularly, but as I reported recently, you now need to beware of where you’re getting your test done. For an in-depth explanation of what you MUST know before you get tested, please read my updated article Test Values and Treatment for Vitamin D Deficiency.
You can also use vitamin D therapeutically to TREAT the flu. But please understand that if you are taking the above doses of vitamin D the odds of you getting the flu are VERY remote. The dose of vitamin D you can use would be 2,000 units per kilogram of body weight (one pound is 0.45 kg). The dose would be taken once a day for three days.
This could be a very large dose if you were very heavy (2-300,000 units per day) This is the dose that Dr. John Cannell, founder of the Vitamin D Council, has been using very successfully for a number of years.
I have not received a flu shot nor had the flu in over 20 years. Here are the other “secrets” I use to keep the flu (and other illnesses) at bay:
• Eat right for your nutritional type, including avoiding sugar
• Eliminate sugar from your diet
• Eat garlic regularly
• Consume a high-quality krill oil daily
• Exercise
• Get adequate sleep
• Address emotional stress
• Wash your hands regularly (but not excessively)
Another useful supplement you could try, should you come down with a case of the flu, is olive leaf extract, which you can find in most any health food store.
Olive leaf extract has been found to be a potent broad-spectrum antiviral agent, active against all viruses tested, including numerous strains of influenza and para-influenza viruses.
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is that your mother infected them. This is why selective vaccination is controversial. When no one gets vaccinated or everyone gets vaccinated the chances of infection are dispersed fairly equally.
However, your mother was carrying a bit of the disease in her vaccination -- and since the other children hadn't been vaccinated she was a danger to them.
I don't know if Polio spreads through pool water but if it does the other parents, by unknowingly allowing their children to swim with your mother, were dipping their children in a vat of poison.
So while your grandfather protected your mother he also recklessly endangered the unvaccinated children in that community.
This is one reason why the gov't mandated a uniform vaccination policy - Because individuals randomly vaccinating their children poses a serious health risk to the greater community.
The kids in my mother's circle of friends were getting polio before she ever got vaccinated. My grandfather had her vaccinated precisely because polio was on the rise in the area.
If polio was commonly contracted from vaccinated people, then we should have seen an INCREASE in the incidence of polio when the vaccine was first introduced, but that did not happen. In fact, after the introduction of the Salk vaccine, cases of polio declined precipitously.
Freedom from devastating childhood diseases like polio is really taken for granted in this post-vaccination age. But they will come back if enough people decide not to vaccinate. That being said, I want to state emphatically that I do not support mandatory vaccination. This is not because I think it is better not to vaccinate; on the contrary, I think it is a very good idea. But the government has no right to force anyone to have anything injected into them. People must be free to decide for themselves what goes into their bodies.
Good to hear from you. That is a very interesting anecdotal, you do know what an anecdotal comment or story means? Comments made without any documentation/references of studies or investigations which have taken place with the purpose of proving the hypothesis which would substantiate the comments being made. In other words, comments made without reference have very little meaning in the world of science.
There will always be exceptions to the rule. Its not a perfect world. And, because it is not a perfect world I choose to not get hung up on principle. That's how people end up dying. There are plenty examples of that World War I and World War II ; korea . viet nam and on and on.
I support the idea of accountability and responsibility. That is the moral way to live life. And if that means questioning institutions that support Vaccinations on a global scale... Well they just may have to come under suspicion if patterns of harm seem to emerge, reported in studies, reports, surveys and other similar data collecting instruments.
Your story while real and true to the moment in which it occurred in time is not sufficient evidence to support or back up your conclusion as proof that vaccinations totally with out a doubt are NOT and never will be harmful to any human in the world. Just like freedom you are either free or NOT free there is no in between.
Claire, it just takes once for something to be harmful.
How many times must people or a person have to suffer before others are willing to recognize the harm something or some practice or some belief has caused.
It is this lack of recognition that has landed many of the American people into a shocking state of apprehension about the future of OUR government, the economy and the betrayal of our basic principles as established by our Constitution.
Every institution must become accountable and responsible to any individual to whom it has caused harm to. If the institution is not willing to admit to any harm, then that institution has violated the "individual's" state of personal freedom, as well as the "Individual's" civil rights. The present state of our government is doing just that, "harming our rights, causing the downfall of our economy. Hopefully, a sufficient number of American people have awaken to stop and turn this ship around before we become another "Titanic". (the movie was great - wasn't it?)
We must question.
poulianna
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I never said that vaccinations could never be harmful. But the benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks. You say all it takes is one adverse reaction for vaccines to be considered harmful. To that I would answer that all it would take is one case of measles rendering your son sterile and blind, or one case of polio paralyzing your daughter to make you regret for the rest of your life that you didn't vaccinate your children. You have to choose between a possible adverse reaction to the vaccine and the possibility of your child suffering permanent damage from an infectious disease. You can take your pick. Either way you are taking a risk. I'm sure you know by now that there is no such thing as a risk free life.
By the way, vaccination does not cause autism, and serious side effects are extremely rare. In spite of this, many people are now choosing not to vaccinate and are relying instead on "herd immunity" to protect their children. The problem is, when enough people don't vaccinate anymore the diseases will come back, and you never know when or where that will happen.
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I liked your many facts stated and documentation and sources. Great job.
I won't be taking another flu shot.