The Danger of Excessive Vaccination During Brain Development

 

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Adapted from an article by
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., CCN.

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Children today are subjected to 36 vaccine injections before they start school.  That's an increase of 360% since 1976.  And, we are told, it is completely safe to give these vaccines at one time.

But, is this really true?  Before you take the word of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Center for Disease Control (CDC), you need to understand that one oft-repeated study found that almost 80% of medical practice has no scientific backing.  For example:

• The proponents of vaccination safety say that vaccines are safe, without any supporting evidence what-so-ever.
• They announce that mercury is not only safe, but that it seems to actually increase the IQ.
• They proclaim thimerosal safe to use in vaccines, without there having ever been a single study on its safety, in over 60 years of use.

The evidence that autism is linked to vaccinations

Yet, despite the fact that we now have enough scientifically and logically compelling evidence that vaccines can be linked to autism to call a halt to the present vaccine program recommended by public health officials and to ban any level of mercury in vaccines, this evidence is ignored.  What is that evidence?  It includes the following:

• In 1983, children received 10 vaccinations before attending school, and the autism incidence was 1 in 10,000.
• Today, children are receiving 24 vaccines before 1 year, and 36 by the time they attend school, and the autism rate is now 1 in 150.

Also, keep in mind that for every fully autistic child, there are ten times that many with lesser degrees of impairment.  Medical "experts" have provided no other explanation for this dramatic and sudden rise in autism cases, yet they dismiss the link to vaccinations.

• They attempted to say it is genetic; but geneticists were quick to respond that genetic disorders do not suddenly increase in such astronomical proportions.
• Then they said it was because of better diagnosis, despite the fact that the diagnosis is obvious in virtually every case, and that the criteria officially accepted for diagnosis has become more restrictive, not less.
• Then they resort to epidemiological studies; but statisticians will tell you that this is the least reliable type of study, because it is easy to manipulate the data, so that it tells you anything you wish it to.  Every defense offered by vaccine defenders is based on such studies, and never the actual science.
• Then they announce that the issue is settled, and no further studies need be done.  After the media has been informed of this, those who continue to present the evidence are considered kooks and the great unwashed ignorant.

One undeniable fact

The fact is: The alarming increase in the incidence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) — and other neurodevelopmental disorders — has its strongest link with the drastic change in the vaccine programs of the US and other countries, including the dramatic increase in the number of vaccines given at a very early age.  The medical community has never offered another viable explanation.

The major problems with vaccines on brain development

Mercury, found in most vaccines, is part of the problem; however, a number of studies in neuroscience literature indicate that excessive — and especially repeated — immune stimulation can result in severe disruption of brain development, and even neurodegeneration.  Research has shown that this immune activation in the brain, resulting from vaccinations, can persist for decades.  It should also be noted that this type of immune activation includes an inflammatory response, along with the release of a flood of damaging free radicals.

A number of studies have also suggested a link between autoimmune disorders (such as asthma, allergies, type 1 diabetes and eczema) and autism risk.  This includes an increased risk of ASD in the children of mothers with autoimmune disorders, resulting from the transfer of autoantibodies from the mother to child.  For those susceptible to autoimmune disorders, exposure to vaccines or other enviro-toxins triggers an autoimmune response, which can then lead to ASD-like behaviors.  This is caused by damage done to brain structures — especially the cerebellum and brain connections called dendrites and synapses.  It seems that the main damage is not due to direct immune reactions with brain structures, but in what can be called bystander damage — in something like throwing a hand grenade into a crowd to kill one person, but killing everyone else there, as well.

A key factor: Dysfunctional immune response

However, autoimmune disorders are not the result of excessive activation of a normal immune system, but of a dysfunctional immune system.  The questions is: What is causing such widespread immune dysfunction among our population?  The answer seems to bring us full circle again.

Vaccination damages normal immune function

Vaccines and autoimmunity

There is compelling evidence that vaccines themselves can damage the immune system of immature animals (including children), leading to a higher incidence of autoimmunity and abnormal brain development.  Mercury, even in small concentrations, is also known to induce autoimmunity in a high percentage of those exposed. 

This autoimmune disorder (where the body essentially attacks itself) is accompanied by a suppressed immunity to outside threats, leaving the child more susceptible to infections, including H. Influenza meningitis, meningiococcal meningitis, rotavirus, measles, chickenpox, etc.  Not only that, but numerous studies have shown that such immune suppression greatly increases the number of severe complications associated with these infections. This means that, should your child be exposed to measles or chickenpox, he/she is more likely to suffer neurological damage, seizures or other systemic disorders.

Vaccines and the suppression of normal immunity

It is also known that certain viruses — such as the measles virus — powerfully suppress immunity.  The MMR vaccine contains live measles viruses; and recent studies have shown that immune suppression, following vaccination with this virus, suppresses immunity in a profound way — that last as long as six months.  This makes the vaccinated child more susceptible to other naturally-occurring infections, such as hemophilus B influenza meningitis, meningococcal meningitis, persistent measles infection, influenza infection and even chickenpox.  This has been strongly suggested by a number of studies.

Not only would the child be more susceptible to infections, but severe complications — and even death — would be more common, as well.  The risk is even greater in households with several children, or for children in schools or daycares.  The MMR vaccine also increases the risk of measles virus persistence in the brain, and can leave a child more susceptible to cytomegalovirus.

Immunosuppressive properties of mercury and fluoride, and the shifting of dominant viral or bacterial strains

It should be noted, as well, that vaccines that cover only a few strains of a virus or bacteria that naturally have a great number of strains (some have over a hundred strains), can cause a shift in strain dominance toward those strains not included in the vaccine.  When combined with mercury, which is also an immune suppressing substance, the effect is compounded.

Fluoroaluminum, formed in fluoridated drinking water, also interferes with immune function, as do many insecticides and herbicides used around the home.

Vaccines contain toxic levels of aluminum

Another adjuvant used in vaccines is aluminum.  The FDA has approved a dose of 0.85 mg per dose of vaccine.  The problem is: This aluminum does not readily clear the body, and can infiltrate the tissues of the body — including the brain — where it will linger for years.  And, with the 36 vaccines recommended by the CDC, the level of aluminum in the body is closer to 30.6 mg — not the 0.85 mg approved by the FDA.  Aluminum also enhances the toxicity of mercury, and increases inflammation in the body.

Omega-6 oils' effect on inflammation and immune suppression

The substantial evidence that omega-6 oils powerfully induce inflammation and immune suppression, when consumed in large amounts, is also often forgotten.  Those eating a Western diet are consuming 50-fold higher amounts of this type of oil (called linoleic acid) than needed for health.  These oils include corn, safflower, sunflower, canola, peanut and soybean oils.

The cumulative challenges to normal immune function

So, we see that the average child is exposed to a number of substances in his/her food and environment that can alter immunity, making him/her not only more susceptible to natural infection, but also to vaccine complications.

Special immune challenges of ASD-prone children and the added danger that vaccine present

ASD-prone children often have a developmental immune deficiency, which can affect only a portion of the immune system.  This is often missed by pediatricians.  For example, many physicians, treating autistic children, have noted a high incidence of ear infections.  These are treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics, which often lead to a high incidence of Candida overgrowth in the child's body.  The Candida infections in these children trigger a prolonged systemic immune reaction, which means a prolonged brain immune response, as well, which worsens of any autoimmune disorder it may have produced.

Both ear and Candida infections will prime the brain's specific resident immune cells, shifting them into overdrive.  If stimulated again within weeks —or even months — they generate extremely high levels of free radicals, lipid peroxidation products, inflammatory cytokines and the two excitotoxins, glutamate and quinolinic acid.  These have been linked to seizures in autistic children, often manifesting themselves as behavioral problems.  Studies have shown that this is the major mechanism for both viral and vaccine-related brain injury.

Recommended vaccine schedules creat continuous brain inflammation and mercury poisoning

With the schedule of vaccination recommended by public health officials, the average child will receive 24 inoculations in his/her first year, and 36 by the time he/she enters school.  Most of these inoculations will be spaced within one month of each other, meaning that the priming and activation of the brain's immune response (including inflammatory cells) will be continuous. 

These vaccines also include full doses of thimerosal (mercury).  Those who promote vaccinations will say that the mercury in thimerosal is cleared from the blood stream within several days.  The problem is: it doesn't clear from the brain and other tissues.

Immune reaction of mother damaging to developing baby's brain

It is also known that women who are infected with the flu during pregnancy are significantly more likely to give birth to an autistic child, or a child with schizophrenia, depending on when the infection occurs.  At first, it was assumed that this was due to the virus being passed to the fetus; but subsequent studies found that it was not the virus, but the mother's immune reaction that was causing the injury to the baby's developing brain.

In this light, it is an absolutely insane policy to have every pregnant woman vaccinated with the flu vaccine.  It flies in the face of everything we know concerning the neurotoxic effect of excessive immune stimulation during pregnancy.  Even if the vaccine prevented the flu (and studies show it reduces it only in a select few), instead of a small percentage of pregnant women being at risk of causing harm to their babies' brain development, due the immune response from having the flu, they would make sure every woman was at risk.

And, keep in mind that these pregnant women have been receiving the flu shot (containing mercury) every year since age 6 months (according to present CDC recommendations).  This means that they will have accumulated a significant amount of mercury and will, as a result, have a hyperintense inflammatory response to the flu vaccine which, during their pregnancy, only serves to increase the damage done to their unborn children.  In addition, they will have accumulated a significant amount of neurotoxic mercury which can be passed along to their offspring.

Immune activation from vaccine not the same as with natural immunity

It is also important to keep in mind that immune activation with vaccination differs from natural immunity, in that it persist much longer — even for years following a vaccination.  This does not allow the brain time to repair itself — in either the mother or the unborn child.

From this, it should be clear that vaccinations present a very real and serious threat to the health of our children (and the elderly).  Given the utter lack of any viable proof as the the safety or effectiveness of vaccines, to pursue a public health policy of universal vaccination — and even mandatory vaccination — is utterly insane, and should not be tolerated by an educated population.