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Posted December 11, 2008
Why Vaccines Aren't Safe
What is known — and unknown — about the effects of immunization policies in the US
About this web page:
This web page is adapted from the page on Mercola.com, Why Vaccines Aren't Safe, which features a video presentation by Barbara Loe Fisher, of the National Vaccine Information Center, given at the November 18, 2008 Natural Living Conference. In addition to some great information about vaccines, there is also a report on the struggle against forced vaccinations in this country. It is excellent, and worth the 45 minutes it runs. This article covers some of the points made.
Government health officials are now recommending that all children — up to age 18 — receive an annual flu vaccine. With this addition to the vaccine schedule, children are now subject to 69 doses of 16 vaccines. Of those, 48 are given in the first six years of life.
With these vaccines, children are injected with live viruses, killed bacteria, as well as mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde, phenol oxyethanol glutaraldehyde, sodium chloride, MSG, gelatin, hydrochloric acid, sodium acetate, hydrogen peroxide, foreign proteins and unidentified adjuvanteous agents; and we're told that doing this to our children — 69 times before they graduate from high school — will keep them healthy.
The medical community in denial
The medical community, blinded by the prestige, money and power of its war against all microbes it considers to be a threat to the health of the state, has lost perspective and abandoned a concern for the truth.
- It does not care that there is more mercury in a flu shot than is allowed to be taken, in liquid waste, to the average garbage dump.
- It does not care that a two-month old baby can be injected with four times the amount of aluminum in vaccines — on one day — than is considered safe when non-vaccine aluminum exposures are measured.
- It does not care that a lethal toxin — still bioactive in Pertusus vaccine — has been used for half a century to reliably induce brain inflammation in lab animals.
- It does not care that there were no large-scale studies conducted to prove the safety of giving 12-hour old babies Hepatitis B vaccine.
Closing its eyes to the truth
The medical community does not accept independent scientific studies that show
- That influenza vaccines do not prevent the flu in young children or the elderly,
- That two doses of mumps vaccine in babies does not prevent mumps,
- That the mass use of the pneumococcal vaccine in babies since 2000 has caused the non-vaccine types of pneuococcal to mutate and cause severe disease in children, for which there is no antibiotic or cure at this time, or
- That the mass use of the chicken pox vaccine since 1995 has caused a shingles epidemic among older children and adults, that is far more devastating and expensive than if chicken pox had been allowed to circulate in the child population.
The dangers of vaccines is recognized, but much is unknown
- In 1986, Congress acknowledged that vaccines could brain injure children.
- In 1992 and 1994, the National Institute of Medicine acknowledged that vaccines could damage the brain and immune system, but noted large gaps in our knowledge of what vaccines could do in the human body.
Yet, despite this acknowledged dangers and our gap in the understanding of vaccines, there has never been a large-scale study conducted in the US to compare the long-term immune and brain function between those who have been highly-vaccinated and those who have had no vaccines at all. As a result, no one knows the true background rates of an unvaccinated child population for seizures, learning disabilities, ADHD, asthma, autism, diabetes, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, peanut allergies, bipolar disorder and so many more health issues that are increasing at alarming rates among out children. So, do these problems present themselves more frequently in vaccinated children than in the non-vaccinated? We cannot say, because the studies have not been done.
Charging blindly into the darkness
Yet, despite what we know about vaccines — and what we don't know about vaccines — public health officials are still insisting that children should get three times as many vaccinations as their parents received.
Children today are not allowed to get measles, mumps, rubella or chicken pox in childhood; and soon, they will not be allowed to get type A or type B influenza. This could, someday, make our entire population exquisitely vulnerable to future flu epidemics, because no one will have natural immunity to deal with it.
And, what public health officials won't tell you is that vaccines only give temporary immunity, at best, and they rob children of the qualitatively superior, longer-lasting natural immunity derived from childhood illnesses. (These illnesses rarely cause complications in healthy children.) And, vaccinated mothers have been robbed of their ability to transfer maternal antibodies to their newborns.
The dangers of vaccination to our long-term good health: An altering of natural immune development
Why has this huge change in the way we've always experienced our environment been so detrimental to our long-term good health?
Follow the money
For the past 25 years, every vaccine developed for children has been recommended by the government for use by all children. There are hundreds of vaccines currently in development, and the human vaccine market will reportedly top $20 billion by 2012.
With the anticipated quadrupling of the vaccine market in the coming years, in 2007, Merck decided to go for the gold. It took its newly-licensed vaccine, Gardasil, and pushed to get it mandated in every state.
Not only did they mount an all-out advertising campaign, they attacked anyone who advocated vaccine exemptions. They knew that the public might have a hard time buying the idea that every little girl in the country was a candidate for sex with multiple partners by age 11, and that there was an emergency need to force pre-adolescent girls to be injected with three doses of Gardasil — at a cost of between $400 and $900 — in order to prevent an infection that cannot be transmitted in the school setting, for a cancer that has dropped 74% since the emergence of routine, preventive pap smears in the 1950s and 1960s.
The fact is: Gardasil is poorly-tested vaccine that is supposed to prevent an infection (HPV) that is cleared naturally by 90% of the women that get it, to prevent a cancer that now represents less than 1% of all cancers diagnosed in the US, and less than 1% of all cancer deaths.
The first 82 adverse events reports, related to the Gardasil vaccine, include sudden loss of consciousness, seizures, joint pain, facial paralysis, disabling fatigue and Guillain-Barré Syndrome. And, in the article by Peter J. Smith entitled "Controversial HPV Vaccine Causing One Death Per Month" (LifeSiteNews.com, July 3, 2008), the author noted an FDA report citing 140 "serious" adverse reactions, including 27 "life threatening" cases, 10 spontaneous abortions, and 6 cases of the debilitating Guillain-Barre Syndrome reported since January 2008. That's one death per month. (See the whole story here.)
Because, the human immune system knows how to deal with viral and bacterial infections from birth. When challenged by a virus or bacteria, the body's first line of defense is for the cellular — or innate — part of the immune system to mount an inflammatory response, which then signals the humoral — or learned — part of the immune system, to mount an anti-inflammatory response, that resolves inflammation and produces antibodies, so healing can take place and resistance to future infections is established.
Good health requires an equal balance of cellular and humoral immune responses. Injecting vaccines into the body is an attempt to fool the body into believing that it has come into contact with the real micro-organism.
But, vaccination does not exactly mimic the natural infection process, which begins with microbes entering the body, primarily through the mucous membranes of the respiratory or gastrointestinal tracts, where the normal inflammatory immune response begins. Going for the quick and temporary fix, vaccines by-pass cellular immunity, in favor of humoral immunity, measured by antibodies. But, when vaccination atypically manipulates the immune system, some individuals — already biologically vulnerable to getting stuck on inflammation, such as those with a personal or family history of auto-immune or brain disorders, such as seizures, asthma, severe allergies, diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, thyroid disease, rheumatoid arthritis, Lupus, chronic fatigue syndrome and more — can have these inflammatory responses triggered by adverse responses to vaccination.
What has been the result of our insane immunization policy?
Today, twice as many children are chronically ill or disabled than in the 1970s and 1980s, when half as many vaccines were given. America spends 75% of its 3 trillion annual healthcare dollars to treat chronic brain or immune system disorders, without knowing how much of that cost is a direct result of too much vaccination.
