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By Tim O'Shea
The Chinese tell us one picture says
a thousand words. The graphs
clearly show that most diseases we vaccinate for were
reduced prior to immunizations.
We've always been told that vaccines are safe, effective,
and necessary. We hear how modern civilization has been
saved from the ravages of infectious disease by the invention
of miraculous vaccines. We hear how important it is for
children to get their shots so they'll be safe from disease.
And we all agree that children have a right to be protected
from harm.
But there's a growing body of
information today that indicates that vaccinations are dangerous
and experimental.
There are just too many unanswered
questions:
Do vaccines put infants at risk
of sudden death?
Do vaccines really give our
children immunity to disease?
Are all these vaccines really
necessary?
Are our children immune-impaired
as a result of vaccination?
Are the climbing rates of infectious
and degenerative diseases among adult Americans partly
attributable to the effects of vaccination?
We're programmed to think of immunization and vaccination
as synonyms. That's no accident. It cost plenty to make
us think they're the same thing. The word immunization instead
of vaccination is pervasive in both medical and mainstream
literature, creating a semantic reality that cannot be supported
by scientific evidence.
In actuality, there's a big difference.
Immunization means to make someone immune to something.
Vaccination, by contrast, just means to inject something
into the bloodstream. Big difference.
Vaccination Certainly Does Not
Guarantee Immunity.
True natural immunity happens only after one recovers from
the disease itself. With the actual disease, the microorganism
had to pass through many of the body's natural immune defense
systems in the nose, throat, lungs, and digestive tract
before it ever gets as far as the bloodstream.. It's very
likely that the microorganism triggers many biological events
that are essential in building true natural immunity, about
which doctors know little or nothing. When a child gets
a new disease, he may feel sick for several days, but in
the vast majority of cases he will recover.
The first vaccines by Jenner, Pasteur and Koch, and also
most modern ones, are experimental proteins made from rotting,
diseased samples of animal tissue (cows, sheep, monkeys,
humans, and horses) carrying some "weakened" infectious
agent. Others are toxins (poisonous by-products of microorganisms)
that are neutralized by formaldehyde and aluminum.
Most vaccines have components like
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formaldehyde
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aluminum
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mercury
which are called adjuvants,
or helpers.(PDR, 2001) Formaldehyde is a carcinogenic liquid,
used for embalming. Mercury is added in the form of thimerosal,
a preservative known to cause nerve damage, autoimmune disorders
and cancer. Aluminum is a proven neurotoxin, positively
associated with Alzheimer's and several other neurological
disorders. Can we really get immunity from these concoctions?
The thinking behind vaccination is that if the person gets
a "minor" case of the disease under the "controlled"
conditions of vaccination, he will produce his own antibodies
to the disease agent, and this will confer immunity, since
his immune system will remember what the "bad bug"
looks like. The next time the bug shows up, immune defense
cells will be ready to kill it.
Unfortunately there is no general
agreement that this is what vaccination really does.
Researchers like Alan Phillips say that "natural immunity
is a complex phenomenon involving many organs and systems;
it cannot be fully replicated by the artificial stimulation
of antibody production."
In the words of famed Australian scientist Viera Scheibner,
PhD : There is only one immunity, natural immunity, which
is achieved by going through the infectious diseases of
childhood. (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Letter
to Congress, Summer 1999)
Artificial immunity, by contrast, is the result of the
suppression of disease symptoms by injecting drugs or vaccines.
Vaccination by direct injection makes the unproven assumption
that the mere artificial stimulation of antibodies by the
sudden presence of a foreign agent in the bloodstream is
the whole story of immunity.
Obviously it isn't. Many studies have shown, for example,
low antibody counts in vaccinated people and high antibody
counts in sick people. If the body is allowed to figure
out how to fight the disease on its own, without the added
confusion and burden of vaccines and drugs, the body can
develop natural immunity and not be susceptible to the same
disease in the future. It now has a memory of how to fight
the disease.
Artificial Immunity From Vaccination
Is Temporary.
Artificial immunity carries a very high chance of reinfection.
This is the reason for the unproven modern concept of booster
shots, and also helps explain why a significant number of
individuals develop the disease they were vaccinated against.
This is the reason for booster shots. Artificial immunity
from vaccination has also created the modern phenomenon
of atypical forms of the original disease appearing during
adulthood, especially with measles, rubella, and chickenpox.
By allowing the injection of an attenuated (half-killed)
virus or bacteria into the body, we have done something
nature would never permit. We have violated the sanctity
of the bloodstream. We have tricked the immune system into
not mounting an all-out response to a foreign agent. If
the vaccine's microorganisms were not attenuated, all the
powers of the natural immune system would join together
to repel and attack the invader.
Harvard Medical School's Richard Moskowitz, M.D., explains
that the way vaccines are evolved is to make them weaker
and weaker, just to the point where they don't produce any
immediate inflammatory response. The problem is that in
this form, the altered virus or
bacteria can penetrate deeper into our tissues than would
naturally be possible.
They can remain latent there for years, or for a short
time. Then when something triggers these hidden allergens
into action, they can manifest themselves in virtually any
place or system of the body, causing major dysfunction,
degenerative disease, or even death. But not from the original
disease!
There is no convincing scientific evidence that mass inoculation
can be credited with eliminating any infectious disease.
If vaccination were responsible for the disappearance of
these diseases in the U.S., why did these diseases disappear
simultaneously in Europe, where mass vaccinations did not
take place? International biostatistician Michael Alderson
does a thorough job of showing how infectious diseases had
sharply declined before mass vaccination ever came upon
the scene. Many researchers feel from looking at the data
that infectious diseases would have largely disappeared
without any vaccines.
There was an obvious decline of the major infectious diseases
due to improvements in sanitation and hygiene before mass
inoculations took place. (See charts.)
Australian medical researcher Viera Scheibner, Ph.D., summarized
her investigation of some 60,000 pages of medical literature
on vaccination: (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Letter
to Congress, Summer 1999)
"Immunizations, including those practiced on babies,
not only did not prevent any infectious diseases, they caused
more suffering and more deaths than has any other human
activity in the entire history of medical intervention.
It will be decades before the mopping-up after the disasters
caused by childhood vaccination will be completed. All vaccinations
should cease forthwith, and all victims of their side effects
should be appropriately compensated."
Jane Orient MD, Executive Director of the Association of
American Physicians and Surgeons agrees:
"Public policy regarding vaccines is fundamentally
flawed..permeated by conflicts of interest. It is based
on poor scientific studies that are too small, too short,
and too limited."
Dozens of other legitimate researchers and doctors have
come to the same conclusion. Yet amazingly most pediatricians
and parents are completely unaware of these findings.
As Of Dec 2000, 40 Vaccinations Are Currently Mandated
For Children In The Immunization Schedule.
By the time they enter school, most children have received
26 vaccines, according to the American Pediatric Association's
Dec 2000 Immunization Schedule (www.aap.org)
Here's another word trick: the word "mandated"
doesn't mean the same thing as mandatory. Mandated just
means there are laws about something. Mandatory means you
have do it. In every state but two, parents have the legal
right to sign an Exemption Form, which exempts the child
from all vaccines.
Yes, there are laws about vaccination. Children must be
vaccinated unless parents sign exemption forms. The problem
is, parents are almost never informed about the existence
of the Exemption Form. They are simply told over and over
again that the child must be vaccinated before being admitted
to school. This half-truth hides one of the best kept secrets
in America today.
An excellent website that spells out the laws for each
state is: http://www.access1.net/via/STATES/toc-states.htm
In 1910
There Were Only Two Recommended Vaccines.
In the 1940s, there were nine. Today we have 40, with dozens
more in the pipeline, trying to get FDA approval.
Pharmaceutical companies are inventing new vaccines every
year, each with the hope of being included in the mandated
schedule. Yet there are never long-term safety studies before
vaccines get approved for mass use. There are also never
any follow-up studies about long-term effectiveness of vaccines,
or even proofs that the vaccines are better than a placebo.
(PDR, 2001) This is why vaccines are always being altered
and replaced. With no truly scientific studies for safety
and efficacy, the vaccines are actually tested on the live
population. Our children are the lab rats. That's why the
schedule keeps changing.
And that's why over $1.2
billion in compensation for vaccine injuries has been paid
out by the NVICP since 1986.
Before mass vaccination programs, the term Sudden Infant
Death Syndrome (SIDS) didn't exist. Now at least 10,000
American babies mysteriously die each year with the catch-all
SIDS diagnosis. Meanwhile, the declining health of our children
is becoming obvious. According to the Centers for Disease
Control (CDC), the figures for asthma incidence since 1980
has gone from 6.7 million to 17.3 million cases.
Most of the increase is in children. More than 5,000 die
each year from asthma attacks. The overall health of American
children is pathetic: asthma, allergies, autoimmune disease
and the very infectious diseases for which they were vaccinated
-- all are on the rise.
Over 15 years ago, Robert Mendelsohn MD, wrote, "There
is a growing suspicion that immunization against relatively
harmless childhood diseases may be responsible for the dramatic
increase in autoimmune diseases since mass inoculations
were introduced."
Three brand new diseases of infants have appeared for the
first time in the human race since the advent of vaccines:
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infant diabetes
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Crohn's disease
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bowel intussusception
In addition, the incidence of cancers and childhood leukemias
has skyrocketed between 1960 and 1980, at the same time
the number of vaccines increased dramatically. (Koren) Could
this have anything to do with the fact that no vaccines
are tested for carcinogenicity? (PDR 2001)
Some of the most frequent complications of vaccinations
"gone wrong" seem to be diseases of the central
nervous system. It's easy to understand why in the case
of children. Their nervous systems are in the process of
forming, and nerve tissue is exquisitely sensitive to minute
changes in its biological environment.
The blood brain barrier has not formed until six months
of age. The insulation around the nerves -- the myelin --
is not complete yet. It is beyond controversy that the presence
in the blood of a disease agent, plus the mercury, aluminum
and formaldehyde found in vaccines, can trigger processes
that disrupt normal nerve growth and development.
Harris Coulter, Ph.D. has chronicled a skyrocketing incidence
of post-vaccination neurological disorders, including hyperactivity,
learning disabilities, mental retardation, encephalitis
and Guillain Barre syndrome.
These statistics seem to be missing within the pediatric
profession - just ask your pediatrician. Adverse reactions
usually don't get reported and are routinely met with denial.
In the Congressional hearings chaired by Representative
Dan Burton in April 00 we saw on TV many examples and case
histories of mothers given the brush-off when reporting
a vaccine reaction to their pediatricians.
It's Just Basic Economics.
Vaccinations are the key to the whole Well Baby program,
which introduces a child to the American health care system.
Vaccination is the real bread and butter of the entire pediatrics
profession. This is how people are trained from the beginning
of life that the responsibility for their own body's health
is something they can't be trusted with, but must rely on
outside authority. That message is clear from the first
moment when the baby is taken from the mother, with the
rationale that the mother "needs to rest."
Unbelievably, not until recently
was there a centralized U.S. record keeping agency to which
physicians could report vaccine reactions.
Even though we have had mass vaccination for the last 100
years, it wasn't until 1991 that the Vaccine Adverse Effect
Reporting System (VAERS) was finally set up by the FDA and
the CDC. Some 33,000 reactions were reported between 1992
and 1996. Before that time it's anybody's guess how many
reactions and deaths there were, because no agency was keeping
track.
The FDA estimates that doctors
still only report a small fraction of these adverse reactions
-- less than 10%. In 1998 the National Vaccine Information
Center did a survey of New York pediatric offices and found
out that "only one doctor in 40 reports a death or
an injury following vaccination." That's 2.5%. Yet
this information has not been acted upon by either the FDA
or the CDC, even with documented reports of death and neurological
damage to infants and the fact that over $1.8 billion has
been paid in vaccine injury damages since 1991.
Chances are you won't hear any information about vaccines
risk from a pediatrician during a "well baby"
visit. A national survey written up in the Mar 01 issue
of Pediatrics discovered that 40% of pediatricians giving
vaccines admitted that they did not mention risks. (Davis)
Clarence Darrow, the famous early 20th century lawyer,
voiced an oft-quoted objection to mandatory vaccination
that's still relevant today. He asked, if vaccinations really
work, those vaccinated will be immune to the disease, right?
So what does it matter if some people choose to go unvaccinated?
What do the vaccinated have to worry about? Aren't they
protected?
When You Were A Child, Who Protected
You?
A lot of medical doctors today know enough to withhold
vaccines from their own children, even though they continue
to administer them to patients. Others just take the intellectually
impotent position that "we don't really know enough
not to vaccinate people."
Now, if doctors are going to stick a needle into a child's
arm and inject something into the bloodstream, they should
be absolutely certain that they have a thorough knowledge
of all the short-term and long-term consequences. Is that
asking too much? And before a parent lets a doctor do such
a thing, they need to be equally well-informed.
A parent should be able to ask
the pediatrician, "Before
you inject my child, can you prove to me that vaccines are
safe and necessary?"
Try that sometime.
It makes one wonder: if those in power were faced with a
choice between the health of our children and $30 billion,
which would they choose? And if those involved in the vaccine
industry had actually done the studies and discovered that,
beyond all doubt, vaccinations were not only ineffective
but instead are the cause of much disease
and death, would they tell us? would we be reading about
it in the New York times and the
Alternative
Medicine July
2001
Excerpted from the third edition ( May
01) of The Sanctity of Human Blood: Vaccination Is Not Immunization
by Tim O'Shea.
Dr. Tim O'Shea is a chiropractor and clinical nutritionist
in San Jose, California. His articles have appeared in holistic
periodicals throughout the world.
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