Friday, August 8, 2008

Gardasil

If you or your daughter has been affected by Gardasil, please contact me.


MYTHBUSTING
VACCINE REPORT
Focus on Gardasil™: the cervical cancer vaccine

August 2008 by Tedd Koren, DC

Myth: Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is dangerous.

FACT: HPV is usually harmless.


Nearly all adults carry HPV in their bodies and in almost all instances HPV is harmless. It causes no symptoms and is naturally eliminated from the body. No treatment is needed (i.e., it is self-limiting).


For example, out of 200 women with HPV, 199 will be unaffected – their bodies will clear the virus with no symptoms. That 200th woman will develop cervical cancer in a few decades but only if other factors are involved such as malnutrition, repeated exposure to toxins, extended use of oral contraceptives, smoking, exposure to harmful chemicals and multiple sex partners. Christiane Northrup, M.D. emphasizes this: “Remember, it is not HPV per se that causes the cancer. It’s the immune system’s inability to fight the virus that is the issue. The rapid, widespread, and unquestioning acceptance of the HPV vaccine as “the answer” to cervical cancer prevention speaks volumes about our cultural misunderstanding of the root causes of health and disease.

[http://www. ghchealth. com/forum/viewtopic. php?p=2956&sid=4d0011c7833b2ab04facfef23fd6b4db]

Although it is true that a woman with cervical cancer may also have an HPV infection, there is no proof HPV caused her cancer. Cancer cells are more susceptible to infection than normal cells and the HPV could merely be an indicator (rather than the cause) of abnormal cell growth.

[Duesberg PH and Schwartz JR. Latent viruses and mutated oncogenes: no evidence for pathogenicity. Progress in Nucleic Acid Research and Molecular Biology. 1992;43:135-204.
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MYTH: Gardasil™ is a cervical cancer vaccine.

FACT: Gardasil™ was developed to prevent a limited number of HPV infections.

Gardasil™ was developed to prevent 4 out of 127 types of HP (Human Papillomavirus) virus (HPV) infections yet it is advertised as an anti-cervical cancer vaccine.
[http://www. fda. gov/bbs/topics/news/2006/new01385. html]

MYTH: HPV causes cervical cancer.

FACT: There is no proof that HPV causes cervical cancer.

Although the shot is given to “prevent” cervical cancer caused by HPV, the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearly states that there is no proof HPV is the cause of cervical cancer:
Most [HPV] infections are short-lived and not associated with cervical cancer…
FDA News. P03-26, March 31, 2003.


MYTH: Cervical cancer rates are on the rise, affecting many women.

FACT: Cervical cancer has been in decline for years with no vaccine.


Cervical cancer declined by 74% from 1955 to 1992 without any vaccine. Cervical cancer is in fact relatively rare in the U.S., accounting for 0.7% of cancer diagnoses and death. Additionally, according to the American Cancer Society, cervical cancer declined an additional 17% between 1998 and 2002.


MYTH: Gardasil™ is an effective vaccine against cervical cancer.

FACT: Gardasil™ is ineffective in preventing cervical cancer and may actually cause cervical cancer.


The uselessness of this vaccine was reported in a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, "No significant evidence of a vaccine therapeutic effect was observed … it is unlikely that vaccination could have a significant beneficial impact on rate of lesion progression. There is little, if any, therapeutic benefit from the vaccine in the population we studied.

[Hildesheim A, Herrero R, Wacholder S. Effect of Human Papillomavirus 16/18 L1 virus-like particle vaccine among young women with preexisting infection. JAMA. 2007;298(7):743-753.
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While there is no evidence that Gardasil™ prevents cervical cancer, the FDA reports that there is evidence that the vaccine can cause a harmless HPV infection to become precancerous, increasing the chances of developing precancerous lesions by 44.
6%!
[FDA VRBPAC Background Document: Gardasil™™HPV Quadrivalent Vaccine. May 18, 2006. www.fda.izov/ohrms/dockets/ac/06/briefing/2006-4222B3.
pdf]

Myth: Gardasil™ is thoroughly tested for safety.

Fact: Gardasil™ has not been thoroughly tested for safety.


Merck’s package insert (page 8) says: "Gardasil™ has not been evaluated for the potential to cause carcinogenicity (cancer) or genotoxicity (gene mutation)." In addition, Gardasil™ has not been tested for its ability to cause sterility.


Barbara Loe Fisher of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) asks: “How many girls will develop fertility or reproductive problems, cancer or damage to their genes, all of which Merck admits in its product insert that it has not studied at all? We just don't know enough to be mandating Gardasil™ for anyone, much less vulnerable 11 to 12-year-old girls entering puberty.
" [http://www. nvic. org]

This view is echoed by none other than Diane M. Harper, M.D., a chief developer of the Gardasil™ vaccine. She calls mandating the vaccine for 11-year-old girls “a great big public health experiment.
” [www. kpcnews. com/articles2007/03/14/online_features/hpv_vaccine/hpv01. txt] She also said, “The vaccine has not been out long enough for us to … understand what all of the potential side effects are going to be.
” [FWdailynews. com]

MYTH: Gardasil™ is safe.

FACT: Gardasil™ is dangerous.


Gardasil™ is touted as being safe despite the fact that 102 serious adverse events including 17 deaths were reported in the clinical trials. Researchers dismissed most of these events as “unrelated” to the vaccine.
However, since the vaccine was released many adverse reactions have been reported:

• Approximately 9,700 adverse events were reported as of July 22, 2008.

• While most were not life-threatening, they included genital warts, paralysis, blood clots, Bell’s Palsy, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, seizures as well as 20 deaths. Of the 20 deaths, 11 occurred within a week after vaccination and 7 occurred within two days. Blood clotting was the cause in one-fourth of all deaths. One girl died from inflammation of the heart, one from arrhythmia and one from meningitis. An 11-year-old died from anaphylactic reaction and a 17-year-old girl died the very day she was vaccinated.

[http://www. whale. to/vaccine/vaers_gardasil. html]
[http://www. reuters. com/article/healthNews/idUSN2231596120080722?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews&sp=true]

Reports from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) include:

• 14-year-old female. Received vaccine, took 6 steps, fell to the ground, 60 sec grand mal seizure. Foaming at mouth.
ID: 305259-1
• Female vaccinated with Gardasil. Experienced coma and is now paralyzed. Outcome unknown.
ID: 303188-1
• 20-year-old female. 01-APR-2008 vaccinated with Gardasil....Died four days later.
ID: 310262-1

And:
• A 12-year-old girl lost all feeling in her leg and collapsed two weeks after receiving Gardasil. She needs braces and a walker to get around. She was diagnosed with Acute Demyelinating Encephalomyelitis (ADEM), a condition characterized by inflammation of the brain and associated with the vaccination.

[http://www. firstcoastnews. com/news/local/news-article. aspx?storyid=95517]

Other adverse reactions

Other reported reactions include pain and swelling at injection site, fever, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, muscle pain, gastroenteritis, appendicitis, pelvic inflammatory disease, asthma, bronchospasm, juvenile arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus.


Also, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, myalgia/paresthesia, loss of consciousness, sudden collapse, chest pain, heart irregularities, kidney failure, eye disorders, fainting, paralysis, Bell’s Palsy, (facial paralysis), seizures, convulsion, arthritis, joint pain, rashes, itching, hives, severe vomiting, depression, fatigue, menstrual irregularities, reproductive system complications, HPV, genital warts, vaginal lesions and many other serious health problems have been reported after Gardasil™ vaccination.


The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) Health Policy Analyst, Vicky Debold, R.N., Ph.D., reports: “Young girls are experiencing severe headaches, dizziness, temporary loss of vision, slurred speech, fainting, seizures, muscle weakness, tingling and numbness in the hands and feet and joint pain. Some of the girls have lost consciousness during what appears to be seizures.


Diane M. Harper, M.D. told Medscape Oncology, “Serious neurologic, thromboembolic, and autoimmune complications have been reported in patients who received human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines…. The side effects that have been reported are real and they cannot be brushed aside.
" [http://www. medscape. com/viewarticle/578110 Medscape (July 26, 2008).
]
Spontaneous abortion and fetal abnormalities after Gardasil™ vaccination

Thirty-three out of seventy-seven pregnant women who received the vaccine experienced side effects that included spontaneous abortion and fetal abnormalities. The Gardasil™ package insert states that, “If you are pregnant or planning to get pregnant, you should not receive this vaccine.


[Gardasil adverse events include deaths, seizures, judicial watch says. FDAnews Drug Daily Bulletin. Oct. 11, 2007;4(200).
http://vaclib. org/news/2006/Judicial-Watch-Report. htm]

Myth: Medical doctors always report vaccine injuries.

FACT: Medical doctors rarely report vaccine injuries.


Underreporting is estimated at between 90-99%. This means that for every 100 people who are hurt by a vaccine, only one to ten are reported to the government agency collecting this information (even though it is required by law). The real number of vaccine injuries from Gardasil™ (and other vaccines) is surely many, many times the number reported (9,700 Gardasil™ adverse reactions as of July 22, 2008).

[Statement of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), Hearing of the House Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources, "Compensating Vaccine Injuries: Are Reforms Needed?" September 28, 1999.
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[Kessler DA. Introducing MEDWatch: a new approach to reporting medication and device adverse effects and product problems. Journal of the American Medical Association. 2 June 1993;269(21):2765–2768.
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Myth: The ingredients in Gardasil™ are safe.

FACT: The ingredients in Gardasil™ are dangerous and life-threatening.


In addition to viri, Gardasil™ contains 225 mcg of aluminum, a neurotoxin (kills nerve cells) that can enter the brain. It can cause inflammation at the injection site leading to chronic joint and muscle pain and fatigue. Aluminum has also been associated with Alzheimer’s and cancer. Gardasil™ also contains L-histidine, polysorbate 80 (linked to infertility in mice) and sodium borate – boric acid – an insecticide and anti-fungal banned in the U.S. as a food additive and toxic to all cells.

[http://Tuberose. com]
[http://vaclib. org/links/a. htm#alum] [http://www. nvic. org/doctors_corner/lawrence_palevsky_aluminum_and_vaccine_ingredients. htm]
[http://www. vran. org/vaccines/polio/vaccine-pol. htm]
[Food Chem Toxicol. 1993;31(3):183-190. Institute of Preventive and Clinical Medicine, Limbova, Bratislava.
]

Myth: The HPV will not mutate or change as a result of Gardasil™.

Fact: The HPV may mutate or change as a result of Gardasil™.


By attacking only 4 out of 127 viri in a family we may create an ecological niche that causes other subtypes to flourish.


This has already occurred with the Prevnar™ and HiB (meningitis) vaccines, which are given to children. The number of infections from all members of those families of microorganisms is unchanged or may have actually increased.


We are already seeing this with Gardasil™. In one study a relatively large number of women who did not develop precancerous lesions from the viri strain in the Gardasil™ vaccine developed precancerous lesions from other HPV strains not associated with the vaccine.


In 78 separate cases of girls vaccinated with Gardasil™, patients experience an outbreak of warts in the groin and genital area, even among girls who tested negative for HPV. Other outbreaks of warts were found on the face, hands and feet and were all caused by strains of the papilloma virus.
[http://www. injuryboard. com/national-news/fda-adverse-reports-on-gardasil-made-public. aspx?googleid=.
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In Medscape Oncology, Sharmila Makhija, M.D., who investigates vaccines for Merck and GlaxoSmithKline, commented that the emphasis on just 2 types of HPV – 16 and 18 – could result in the emergence of more virulent cancer-causing strains.
[http://www. medscape. com/viewarticle/578110]
Myth: Cervical cancer is a young woman’s disease.

Fact: Deaths from cervical cancer occur primarily among older women.

Peak mortality for white women is between the ages of 45 and 70 years, and peak mortality for African American women is in their 70's.
[http://www. son. wisc. edu/ce/programs/asynch/bccd/Cervical1/4-1-incidence. htm]

Why mandate the shot for 9 to 11-year-olds? That makes no sense since the manufacturer admits that the vaccine is only “effective” for four and a half years. While only one shot is being suggested at this time, if prior vaccine history is any guide, women will be told they need “booster” shots every five years for the rest of their lives. No one knows the cumulative effects of this injection.


According to Cosette Wheeler of the University of New Mexico, who conducted clinical trials of Gardasil™, "Unless you force people to get it, penetration is low." Gardasil™ "could become the best-selling vaccine in history" as Merck "prepares to expand its use to men." Merck made $1.4 billion in Gardasil™ sales in the drug's first year on the market.
[http://www. judicialwatch. org/archive/2007/Gardasil™VAERSUpdat...]
For more information go to http://www. vaclib. org/news/2006/Gardasil™. htm

Gardasil™ product insert: http://www. merck. com/product/usa/pi_circulars/g/Gardasil™/Gardasil™_pi. pdf

Saturday, July 12, 2008

Aspartame in vaccines???

Why on earth would a sweetner be in a vaccine?

check out this site for more info...

http://www.aspartametastesfunny.blogspot.com

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Fraudulent conveyance of facts is manipulation.

Who profits, is this a sure thing? Is the disease so harmful? Have people died? Is there mercury in the vaccine? Is this mercury linked to the 6000% increase in autistic kids? Why??? Do you get 'kickbacks?"

Step 1: Fraud in the Inducement: “… is intended to and which does cause one to execute an instrument, or make an agreement… The misrepresentation involved does not mislead one as the paper he signs but rather misleads as to the true facts of a situation, and the false impression it causes is a basis of a decision to sign or render a judgment” Source: Steven H. Gifis, ‘Law Dictionary’, 5th Edition, Happauge: Barron’s Educational Series, Inc., 2003, s.v.: ‘Fraud’.

Step 2: Fraud in Fact by Deceit (Obfuscation and Denial) and Theft:

• “ACTUAL FRAUD. Deceit. Concealing something or making a false representation with an evil intent [scienter] when it causes injury to another…”. Source: Steven H. Gifis, ‘Law Dictionary’, 5th Edition, Happauge: Barron’s Educational Series, Inc., 2003, s.v.: ‘Fraud’.

• “THE TORT OF FRAUDULENT DECEIT… The elements of actionable deceit are: A false representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth, and with intent to induce reliance thereon, on which plaintiff justifiably relies on his injury…”. Source: Steven H. Gifis, ‘Law Dictionary’, 5th Edition, Happauge: Barron’s Educational Series, Inc., 2003, s.v.: ‘Deceit’.

Step 3: Theft by Deception and Fraudulent Conveyance:

THEFT BY DECEPTION:

• “FRAUDULENT CONCEALMENT… The hiding or suppression of a material fact or circumstance which the party is legally or morally bound to disclose…”.

• “The test of whether failure to disclose material facts constitutes fraud is the existence of a duty, legal or equitable, arising from the relation of the parties: failure to disclose a material fact with intent to mislead or defraud under such circumstances being equivalent to an actual ‘fraudulent concealment’…”.

• To suspend running of limitations, it means the employment of artifice, planned to prevent inquiry or escape investigation and mislead or hinder acquirement of information disclosing a right of action, and acts relied on must be of an affirmative character and fraudulent…”.

Source: Black, Henry Campbell, M.A., Black’s Law Dictionary’, Revised 4th Edition, St Paul: West Publishing Company, 1968, s.v. ‘Fraudulent Concealment’.

FRAUDULENT CONVEYANCE:

• ‘FRAUDULENT CONVEYANCE… A conveyance or transfer of property, the object of which is to defraud a creditor, or hinder or delay him, or to put such property beyond his reach…”.

• “Conveyance made with intent to avoid some duty or debt due by or incumbent on person (entity) making transfer…”.

Source: Black, Henry Campbell, M.A., ‘Black’s Law Dictionary, Revised 4th Edition, St Paul: West Publishing Company, 1968, s.v. ‘Fraudulent Conveyance’.

Human papillomavirus (HPV)

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recently advised parents to have their middle-school-aged daughters vaccinated against a common sexually transmitted disease closely linked to cervical cancer. But legislators in 10 states are seeking to go one step further and require vaccinations against the human papillomavirus (HPV) for all girls entering middle school.

Could they not just sell condoms??? Why don't they focus on education??? THAT IS THE JOB OF A SCHOOL.

It is up to parents, doctors and the children to protect against all the 'evils' of the world. If all the facts are not told to parents this is fraudulent conveyance of the facts and in fact manipulation of sorts. The conflict of interest is obsfucated within an uneducated 'YES' nod or a must do everything to prevent cancer....

THIS IS THE MOST EXPENSIVE VACCINE EVER!

They could remove all the toxins from our food, educate on Cancer prevention even let the students know a STD can morph into cancer.

Do they still sell pop at this school? How about diet pop???

Girls have died and the fact this is an experiment should ALSO be told!!!! Follow the money ... who profits.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Why




Why on earth should we vaccinate our newborn baby against Hepatitis B – a virus that is contracted mostly through intravenous drug use and sexual contact? That is the question my husband and I had for the doctors and nurses at the hospital where our son was born two and a half months ago.

We didn't get very good answers. It was "convenient," "recommended" and "routine," the medical staff assured us. We wanted more information. A nurse gave us a brochure, which explained that babies whose mothers had the Hep B virus were at high risk of developing acute Hep B infections. Well, I tested negative for Hep B. The Centers for Disease Control named unprotected sex, IV drug use and being stuck with a needle on the job as the likeliest routes of Hep B transmission. Well, my husband and I both work primarily from home, our two children stay at home, and neither we nor our 3-year-old daughter nor our baby (for heaven's sake!) live the Kid Rock-and-Pamela Anderson Lee lifestyle.

When we told the hospital staff that we simply wanted more time to think about giving the Hep B shot to our son – doesn't "informed consent" mean we should be truly informed? – we were badgered aggressively. Some lectured us about the need to "get on the proper vaccination schedule." Others warned that Maryland, like more than 40 other states, requires all schoolchildren to be vaccinated for Hep B. Teachers, however, are not subject to the mandate, which is driven not just by altruistic concern for children's health. Ohio legislator Dale Van Vyven snuck the Hep B mandate into a 1998 hazardous-waste bill at the behest of profit-maximizing vaccine manufacturers' lobbyists.

The "everybody does it" and "for the greater good" arguments worked when we were overcautious, over-trusting, first-time parents who submitted our daughter to every single vaccine without question. This time, we resolved not to be rushed or bullied. We declined to give our son the politically correct Hep B shot, decided to do more research, and then took up the issue with our pediatrician.

Boy, were we in for a rude awakening. Our doctor parroted the American Academy of Pediatrics line and mindlessly emphasized the efficacy of vaccines in eradicating childhood diseases. Well, we weren't questioning their collective efficacy. We questioned what the individual health benefits and health risks to our newborn were. Physicians have blindly plied vaccines before that have done more harm than good. A childhood rotavirus vaccine, for example, was approved for widespread use in 1998 and withdrawn from the market less than a year later after causing an increase in the incidence of painful bowel obstruction among infants.

Our doctor, however, pooh-poohed our inquiries about potential side effects. He seemed to have no idea what those risks were and no interest in finding out. He was also incredibly condescending: "95 percent of what you read on the Internet" is unreliable, he sermonized, as if we were too dumb to separate scientific fact from fraud.

In the end, we concluded that some of the vaccines were more worth the risks than others. At my son's two-month checkup, the pediatrician expected him to receive a triple-combination shot called "Pediarix" (consisting of Hep B, inactivated polio, and DTaP, which covers diphtheria, tetanus and acellular pertussis), as well as HiB (for certain bacterial infections) and Prevnar (for meningitis and blood infections). I reiterated my refusal of Hep B, accepted DTaP and HiB, and asked to put off polio and Prevnar. In response, I received a threat: Get all the vaccines or get out of our practice.

"Informed consent"? Ha. This was uninformed coercion.

We're leaving for another practice, a little bitter but wiser. The strong-arm tactics of the medical establishment mustn't intimidate parents from challenging the universal vaccine orthodoxy. When it comes to protecting our children's health, skepticism is the best medicine.

The Appalling Truth Revealed


Mercury in Vaccines: The Appalling Truth Revealed
Nothing could expose the truth about the drug industry's greed and selfishness more than this must-read Rolling Stone piece by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. He begins with a summary of a secret meeting held in the isolated Simpsonwood conference center in Norcross, Georgia ...
A Secluded Gathering
It was June 2000. A group of top government scientists and health officials -- including high-level officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the top vaccine specialists from the World Health Organization and representatives from every major vaccine manufacturer -- secretly gathered to discuss the use of a mercury-based preservative in vaccines, known as thimerosal.
It appeared a new study had raised questions about the safety of a host of common childhood vaccines that contained thimerosal. Data indicated that the toxic heavy metal appeared to be responsible for a drastic increase in autism and a mass of other neurological disorders (speech delays, attention-deficit disorder and hyperactivity) among children.
However, rather than taking immediate action to inform the public of the side effects of thimerosal-tainted vaccines and rid the vaccine supply of the toxin, the officials at the secluded meeting instead spent the majority of the next two days plotting how to cover up the troubling data.
In fact, many at the meeting were more concerned about the vaccine industry's bottom line.
Ditching the Evidence
The CDC worked hard at burying the unwanted data. Specifically:
The CDC paid the Institutes of Medicine to produce a new study that would debunk the link between thimerosal and brain disorders.
The organization also withheld unflattering findings by claiming the original data had been "lost" and could not be replicated.
And to prevent the Freedom of Information Act, the CDC handed its giant database of vaccine records over to a private company -- pronouncing it off-limits to researchers.
Help From the Government
Up until last year, vaccine manufacturers continued to sell off their mercury-based supplies; and, of course, the CDC and FDA were more than willing to offer a helping hand by buying up the toxic vaccines for export to developing countries (some of which are now experiencing a sudden explosion in autism rates) and allowing drug companies to still use the preservative in some American vaccines.
What's more, instead of focusing on child safety, the FDA continues to permit manufacturers to include thimerosal in numerous over-the-counter medications.
Kennedy's Take
Kennedy explains that in light of the evidence against the use of thimerosal in vaccines, he is undoubtedly convinced that the link and the epidemic of childhood neurological disorders are real.
Moreover, he describes the collaboration between the government health agencies and the drug industry a "chilling case study of institutional arrogance, power and greed."
Though, perhaps the most arresting aspect of the story is the extent to which many of the leading detectives were willing to go to hide the disturbing evidence. Consequently, their failure to admit the dangers of thimerosal will come back horribly to haunt America and the world's poorest populations.
And what will happen, Kennedy asks, if Third World nations come to believe the help they're receiving from this country, in the form of vaccines, is poisoning their children?
Let's hope we're not around to find out.
Rolling Stone June 20, 2005 (Free Full-Text Article)



Dr. Mercola's Comment:
The shocking story above is a mere summary of a far more comprehensive review in Rolling Stone magazine. I would encourage you to read the entire article by clicking on the link above.
If you would like to delve even deeper into the topic of thimerosal-laced vaccines, especially the events, I also recommend reading the series of articles written by Dr. Russell Blaylock last year, which discuss these details more thoroughly.
This type of morally repressible behavior is a further strong illustration of why the American conventional "health" care system is fatally flawed. The drug companies just got too far away from their roots of helping to serve people.
It is clear they abandoned any semblance of morally responsible behavior and they leave us no choice but to remove them from the current health care equation. The legal battles Merck is experiencing from Vioxx is clear evidence society is moving in this direction.

infects human subjects


1931 Dr. Cornelius Rhoads, under the auspices of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Investigations, infects human subjects with cancer cells. He later goes on to establish the U.S. Army Biological Warfare facilities in Maryland, Utah, and Panama, and is named to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. While there, he begins a series of radiation exposure experiments on American soldiers and civilian hospital patients.

1932 The Tuskegee Syphilis Study begins. 200 black men diagnosed with syphilis are never told of their illness, are denied treatment, and instead are used as human guinea pigs in order to follow the progression and symptoms of the disease. They all subsequently die from syphilis, their families never told that they could have been treated.

1935 The Pellagra Incident. After millions of individuals die from Pellagra over a span of two decades, the U.S. Public Health Service finally acts to stem the disease. The director of the agency admits it had known for at least 20 years that Pellagra is caused by a niacin deficiency but failed to act since most of the deaths occured within poverty-striken black populations.

1940 Four hundred prisoners in Chicago are infected with Malaria in order to study the effects of new and experimental drugs to
combat the disease. Nazi doctors later on trial at Nuremberg cite this American study to defend their own actions during the Holocaust.

1942 Chemical Warfare Services begins mustard gas experiments on approximately 4,000 servicemen. The experiments continue until 1945 and made use of Seventh Day Adventists who chose to become human guinea pigs rather than serve on active duty.

1943 In response to Japan's full-scale germ warfare program, the U.S. begins research on biological weapons at Fort Detrick, MD.

1944 U.S. Navy uses human subjects to test gas masks and clothing. Individuals were locked in a gas chamber and exposed to mustard gas and lewisite.

1945 Project Paperclip is initiated. The U.S. State Department, Army intelligence, and the CIA recruit Nazi scientists and offer them immunity and secret identities in exchange for work on top secret government projects in the United States.

1945 "Program F" is implemented by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). This is the most extensive U.S. study of the health effects of fluoride, which was the key chemical component in atomic bomb production. One of the most toxic chemicals known to man, fluoride, it is found, causes marked adverse effects to the central nervous system but much of the information is squelched in the name of national security because of fear that lawsuits would undermine full-scale production of atomic bombs.

1946 Patients in VA hospitals are used as guinea pigs for medical experiments. In order to allay suspicions, the order is given to change the word "experiments" to "investigations" or "observations" whenever reporting a medical study performed in one of the nation's veteran's hospitals.

1947 Colonel E.E. Kirkpatrick of the U.S. Atomic Energy Comission issues a secret document (Document 07075001, January 8, 1947) stating that the agency will begin administering intravenous doses of radioactive substances to human subjects.

1947 The CIA begins its study of LSD as a potential weapon for use by American intelligence. Human subjects (both civilian and military) are used with and without their knowledge.

1950 Department of Defense begins plans to detonate nuclear weapons in desert areas and monitor downwind residents for medical problems and mortality rates.

1950 I n an experiment to determine how susceptible an American city would be to biological attack, the U.S. Navy sprays a cloud of bacteria from ships over San Franciso. Monitoring devices are situated throughout the city in order to test the extent of infection. Many residents become ill with pneumonia-like symptoms.

1951 Department of Defense begins open air tests using disease-producing bacteria and viruses. Tests last through 1969 and there is concern that people in the surrounding areas have been exposed.

1953 U.S. military releases clouds of zinc cadmium sulfide gas over Winnipeg, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Fort Wayne, the Monocacy River Valley in Maryland, and Leesburg, Virginia. Their intent is to determine how efficiently they could disperse chemical agents.

1953 Joint Army-Navy-CIA experiments are conducted in which tens of thousands of people in New York and San Francisco are exposed to the airborne germs Serratia marcescens and Bacillus glogigii.

1953 CIA initiates Project MKULTRA. This is an eleven year research program designed to produce and test drugs and biological agents that would be used for mind control and behavior modification. Six of the subprojects involved testing the agents on unwitting human beings.

1955 The CIA, in an experiment to test its ability to infect human populations with biological agents, releases a bacteria withdrawn from the Army's biological warfare arsenal over Tampa Bay, Fl.

1955 Army Chemical Corps continues LSD research, studying its potential use as a chemical incapacitating agent. More than 1,000 Americans participate in the tests, which continue until 1958.

1956 U.S. military releases mosquitoes infected with Yellow Fever over Savannah, Ga and Avon Park, Fl. Following each test, Army agents posing as public health officials test victims for effects.

1958 LSD is tested on 95 volunteers at the Army's Chemical Warfare Laboratories for its effect on intelligence.

1960 The Army Assistant Chief-of-Staff for Intelligence (ACSI) authorizes field testing of LSD in Europe and the Far East. Testing of the european population is code named Project THIRD CHANCE; testing of the Asian population is code named Project DERBY HAT.

1965 Project CIA and Department of Defense begin Project MKSEARCH, a program to develop a capability to manipulate human behavior through the use of mind-altering drugs.

1965 Prisoners at the Holmesburg State Prison in Philadelphia are subjected to dioxin, the highly toxic chemical component of Agent Orange used in Viet Nam. The men are later studied for development of cancer, which indicates that Agent Orange had been a suspected carcinogen all along.

1966 CIA initiates Project MKOFTEN, a program to test the toxicological effects of certain drugs on humans and animals.

1966 U.S. Army dispenses Bacillus subtilis variant niger throughout the New York City subway system. More than a million civilians are exposed when army scientists drop lightbulbs filled with the bacteria onto ventilation grates.

1967 CIA and Department of Defense implement Project MKNAOMI, successor to MKULTRA and designed to maintain, stockpile and test biological and chemical weapons.

1968 CIA experiments with the possibility of poisoning drinking water by injecting chemicals into the water supply of the FDA in Washington, D.C.

1969 Dr. Robert MacMahan of the Department of Defense requests from congress $10 million to develop, within 5 to 10 years, a synthetic biological agent to which no natural immunity exists.

1970 Funding for the synthetic biological agent is obtained under H.R. 15090. The project, under the supervision of the CIA, is carried out by the Special Operations Division at Fort Detrick, the army's top secret biological weapons facility. Speculation is raised that molecular biology techniques are used to produce AIDS-like retroviruses.

1970 United States intensifies its development of "ethnic weapons" (Military Review, Nov., 1970), designed to selectively target and eliminate specific ethnic groups who are susceptible due to genetic differences and variations in DNA.

1975 The virus section of Fort Detrick's Center for Biological Warfare Research is renamed the Fredrick Cancer Research Facilities and placed under the supervision of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) . It is here that a special virus cancer program is initiated by the U.S. Navy, purportedly to develop cancer-causing viruses. It is also here that retrovirologists isolate a virus to which no immunity exists. It is later named HTLV (Human T-cell Leukemia Virus).

1977 Senate hearings on Health and Scientific Research confirm that 239 populated areas had been contaminated with biological agents between 1949 and 1969. Some of the areas included San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Key West, Panama City, Minneapolis, and St. Louis.

1978 Experimental Hepatitis B vaccine trials, conducted by the CDC, begin in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Ads for research subjects specifically ask for promiscuous homosexual men.

1981 First cases of AIDS are confirmed in homosexual men in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, triggering speculation that AIDS may have been introduced via the Hepatitis B vaccine

1985 According to the journal Science (227:173-177), HTLV and VISNA, a fatal sheep virus, are very similar, indicating a close taxonomic and evolutionary relationship.

1986 According to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (83:4007-4011), HIV and VISNA are highly similar and share all structural elements, except for a small segment which is nearly identical to HTLV. This leads to speculation that HTLV and VISNA may have been linked to produce a new retrovirus to which no natural immunity exists.

1986 A report to Congress reveals that the U.S. Government's current generation of biological agents includes: modified viruses, naturally occurring toxins, and agents that are altered through genetic engineering to change immunological character and prevent treatment by all existing vaccines.

1987 Department of Defense admits that, despite a treaty banning research and development of biological agents, it continues to operate research facilities at 127 facilities and universities around the nation.

1990 More than 1500 six-month old black and hispanic babies in Los Angeles are given an "experimental" measles vaccine that had never been licensed for use in the United States. CDC later admits that parents were never informed that the vaccine being injected to their children was experimental.

1994 With a technique called "gene tracking," Dr. Garth Nicolson at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX discovers that many returning Desert Storm veterans are infected with an altered strain of Mycoplasma incognitus, a microbe commonly used in the production of biological weapons. Incorporated into its molecular structure is 40 percent of the HIV protein coat, indicating that it had been man-made.

1994 Senator John D. Rockefeller issues a report revealing that for at least 50 years the Department of Defense has used hundreds of thousands of military personnel in human experiments and for intentional exposure to dangerous substances. Materials included mustard and nerve gas, ionizing radiation, psychochemicals, hallucinogens, and drugs used during the Gulf War .

1995 U.S. Government admits that it had offered Japanese war criminals and scientists who had performed human medical experiments salaries and immunity from prosecution in exchange for data on biological warfare research.

1995 Dr. Garth Nicolson, uncovers evidence that the biological agents used during the Gulf War had been manufactured in Houston, TX and Boca Raton, Fl and tested on prisoners in the Texas Department of Corrections.

1996 Department of Defense admits that Desert Storm soldiers were exposed to chemical agents.

1997 Eighty-eight members of Congress sign a letter demanding an investigation into bioweapons use & Gulf War Syndrome.

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Remove the mercury!!!


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Continuing Use of Mercury in Vaccines Questioned Consumer Groups Call On Drug Makers, Congress and the White House to Stop Thimerosal Use


WASHINGTON, DC (E-Wire)-- Parents and advocates are meeting today on Capital Hill to ask the Nationâs leaders and pharmaceutical companies to stop using the mercury preservative thimerosal in all vaccines, to inform Americans about vaccines with mercury, and to recall existing thimerosal stocks from health care facilities. Mercury is a known neurotoxin and has been linked to brain disorders including autism, Alzheimerâs and other chronic neurological dysfunction.

"Why are vaccine makers still using thimerosal and unnecessarily exposing infants, pregnant women an unsuspecting Americans÷including members of Congress÷to mercury?" asked Michael Bender, Director, Mercury Policy Project. "Vaccines are supposed to help prevent health problems and not create them. Continued use of mercury in medical products for any human use, where avoidable, is simply irresponsible and not worth the risk."

US health and governmental officials seem to agree. In 1982, a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expert panel recommended that mercury be eliminated from over-the-counter health products. In 1999, the FDA and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) urged manufacturers to remove thimerosal from childhood vaccines. In 2001, the Institute of Medicine recommended that children and pregnant women avoid thimerosal whenever possible.

While today, most but not all infant vaccines are mercury-free, the preservative is still added to formulations for influenza (flu vaccines), diphtheria-tetanus, tetanus, hepatitis B, pneumococcal and rabies. This year the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommended for the first time that healthy children receive influenza vaccine. No influenza vaccines are available that are completely mercury-free, although two brands only contain trace amounts.

"During the past decade children were given many more vaccines containing mercury, and the rate of autism skyrocketed. Mercury can cause the same symptoms and abnormalities we see in autism. Like lead exposures, there is no "safe" level for mercury," said Sallie Bernard, Director, SAFE MINDS. "The removal of thimerosal from OTC products and most childhood vaccines shows this preservative is an absolutely unnecessary ingredient. We urge that US policies be changed and that vaccines manufacturers completely and unequivocally refrain from using this deadly toxin without delay."

The US health science panel that extensively reviewed thimerosal was unable to "either accept or reject a causal relationship" between autism and thimerosal, and stated that additional studies were needed. According to the Institute of Medicineâs 2001 Immunization Safety Review Committee, "While the available scientific data do not establish that these neurodevelopmental disorders are caused by thimerosal, at the same time, they do not establish that these neurodevelopmental disorders are not caused by thimerosal. The hypothesis that exposure to thimerosal-containing vaccines could be associated with neuordevelopmental disorders was biologically plausible."

"Vaccine manufacturers have now been given protection from financial liability for mercury-related vaccine injuries in the Homeland Security Act so they donât have to worry about the harm it's caused to the brains of children and adults," said Barbara Loe Fisher, Co-founder & President, National Vaccine Information Center. "They may be off the hook financially but they are not off the hook morally. They should do the right thing and make all vaccines mercury-free.

To view the Center for Disease Controls list of influenza vaccines containing mercury, see: http://www.909shot.com/Issues/mercury.htm.

To view the manufacturers list of vaccines still containing mercury, see: http://www.vaccinesafety.edu/thi-table.htm.

More information is available at ö aap.org/advocacy/archives/julvacc.htm http://www.iom.edu/IOM/IOMHome.nsf/Pages/thimerosal+report www.safeminds.org www.mercurypolicy.org www.909SHOT.com


Mercury Policy Project

01/08/2003

Michael Bender, Mercury Project 802-223-9000; 802-249-8543

Sallie Bernard, SAFEMINDS 908 295-6648

Barbara Loe Fisher, National Vaccine Information Center 703-928-0465/

http://www.mercurypolicy.org

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The web they weave....



Oh, what a tangled web! Now that Congress is sifting through the issues surrounding vaccine safety, the politicians might want to determine whether the vaccine policy experts they and the government health bureaucracy rely on are too one-dimensional in their thinking, and, in some cases, much too close to industry for comfort.

Lately, there has been a swell of complaints from groups and individuals about vaccine side effects and the lack of long-term scientific studies and safety data on vaccines. And, at a time when there are about 200 vaccines in the pipeline, concern is mounting that high-profile vaccine advocates and the lobbies they represent have an inordinate influence on the setting of government vaccine policy.

These days, it's obvious to everyone except Rip Van Winkle that the pharmaceutical industry funds a wide range of medical ventures - everything from symposia to scientific studies to hospital research institutes. So it's common that physicians who are "players" will have some form of relationship with industry. For my taste, this union has gotten way out of whack, but for the sake of argument, let's regard it as the standard medical bedrock of our times.

Planetary Alignment Problem

These ties that bind must be looked at more closely, however, when the players are on committees established to help government set health policy. In the vaccine arena, two of the key groups offering recommendations are the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), overseen by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the so-called Red Book Committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics. (The FDA, which evaluates the safety and efficacy of vaccines, has its own scientific advisory panel.)

Medical advisory committees usually have mechanisms to disqualify members from voting on a product when they have a potential conflict of interest. Let's allow that these mechanisms work for specific vaccine evaluation. Those working on a vaccine bow out when that vaccine is up for discussion and vote. So everything is just fine, right?

Does the Earth spin around Jupiter?

Dr. Samuel Katz of Duke University has made a great contribution to vaccination efforts and the development of new vaccines. This week, I asked him whether he is so much an advocate for vaccines (for example, hepatitis B) that he can any longer see the forest for the trees when it comes to safety issues.

Loyal, But Objective?

Katz has served as chair of both the ACIP and the Red Book committees. He co-chairs a group called the Vaccine Initiative, which is an information and advocacy group that benefited from start-up funds from at least six vaccine manufacturers. He is listed as an advisory board member to the Immunization Action Coalition (which includes the Coalition for Hepatitis B), an advocacy group that receives funding from several vaccine makers, including SmithKline Beecham, Merck and Wyeth-Lederle.

Katz, soft-spoken and friendly, said he is sensitive to the issue of the appearance of conflict of interest and that he is determined to be objective when it comes to his involvement with any vaccine recommendations. Katz feels strongly that his colleagues take the same cautious approach when it comes to vaccines. He also allows that "there is much we don't know about vaccines, and a lot of research must be done."

Here is a brief take from Katz's presentation on May 18 to a congressional committee looking into vaccine safety:

"As a parent, grandparent, and physician, I feel great sympathy for the people who testified on the first panel. I wish we could find the true causes for serious, complicated and often vexing medical conditions such as multiple sclerosis and autism. But the fact is, there are no scientifically sound studies that demonstrate current immunization recommendations are a cause of autism, diabetes, asthma, inflammatory bowel diseases, SIDS, multiple sclerosis or any number of acute or chronic illnesses."

I reminded Katz of this statement and the fact that not having evidence for a link between vaccines and illness doesn't mean there isn't a link; rather, in this case, it means not having enough research. He answered that there is enough research to at least conclude that most vaccines are not likely to be related to disease.

Show Me the Data

We didn't get a chance to get into the details of his claim because he had a meeting. But since it's a claim that I reject as mysterious, given the paucity of appropriate science on the potential link between vaccines to disease, I am issuing Katz the following challenge: Send me abstracts of the molecular studies that you deem sufficient to nullify concern about complex reactions to vaccines. In other words, show me the compelling biological science upon which your views rest.

I am issuing the same challenge to Dr. Bruce Gellin, staff director for the Vaccine Initiative, which Katz chairs, and whose aim is to "serve as a source of comprehensive information on vaccination and vaccination-related issues for parents, health-care professionals and the media." Scrutinizing the group's Web site, I found strong advocacy for vaccines and not much else, although Gellin emphasized on the phone that much needs to be learned about vaccines.

In one item on the Vaccine Initiative Web site, I read that Katz and his co-chairman, Dr. Louis Sullivan, formerly head of the federal health department, are informing doctors that some issues are brewing about vaccines. "These events can be opportunities to reinforce the tremendous value of immunization to the individual and society while assuring that safety concerns are being appropriately investigated and addressed," they write, pointing out that materials to convey this message to the media are available from the Vaccine Initiative. How remarkably instructive.

(Gellin informed me this week that his group no longer accepts funding from manufacturers because money from a major foundation made it unnecessary. "We always felt sensitive about our start-up funding," he said. Gee, isn't that terrific, I thought.)

Loose Ends

One vaccine advocate I didn't reach this week - at his office or by e-mail - is Dr. Neal Halsey of Johns Hopkins University. Like Katz, he is a vaccine pioneer and served on ACIP and the Red Book committees. He, too, is an advisor to the Immunization Action Coalition and the Hepatitis B Coalition. Halsey is also director of the Institute for Vaccine Safety, which he founded at Johns Hopkins to provide a forum on vaccine safety, among other things. According to a Johns Hopkins' spokesperson, the institute receives funds from Merck, SmithKline Beecham, North American Vaccines, Connaught/Pasteur Merrieux and Wyeth-Lederle.

Maybe when Halsey makes it back to his office, he can also send me scientific abstracts that will nullify concerns about long-term effects of vaccines on the immune system. Maybe his institute can investigate why there is such poor data on the subject.

What do I make of all this? I don't think it's very pretty. The scene has more to do with politics than vaccine science. Unfortunately, the quality of human life is at stake; somehow, we had better get beyond this folly.


Nicholas Regush produces medical features for ABCNEWS. In his weekly column, published Wednesdays, he looks at medical trouble spots, heralds innovative achievements and analyzes health trends that may greatly influence our lives. His latest book is The Breaking Point: Understanding Your Potential for Violence

Medical trap

Women are being drawn into a medical trap.The outcome is toxication and health erosion. The tool is vaccinations ­ presented as a solution to "fight" an ever growing number of dangers from the world of microbes. The medical world has got its own Al Qaeda ­ the invisible army of viruses. With exactly the same attributes: Unknown, being everywhere and nowhere. Invincible.

The answer is also approximately the same: More fear, more death. And now, with growing clarity, targeting women. We have for more than a decade had the campaigns for mandatory HIV-tests of pregnant women. Only women. In the Third World, we have had numerous vaccination campaigns targeting women in their fertile age. Only women. Recently, in Denmark, the great drug donor, Bill Gates, has donated USD 10m to a Copenhagen university to further studies on a Malaria vaccine ­ target group: Women of the Third World.

And then, the latest stunt: Vaccination of 12 year old girls in many countries ­ allegedly against the HPV virus which might (or might not) eventually cause Cervical Cancer. Target group: Girls in the age of just becoming fertile. In some states mandatory, in others just heavily propagandized.

What is all this about? Money? Of course but that doesn't account for the focusing on women. Special care for women? Nice. But in fatal opposition to the agenda of "women's lib". Women's lib doesn't include reproduction and is uninterested in the female sex.

Could it be ?

Yes, it could be exactly the opposite, and I'll tell you why.

First, "women's lib" is not a population movement fostered by women being sick-and-tired of oppression. It it a masculine invention, defined in policy papers back from the 1950's, most eagerly promoted by the Rockefeller all-seeing-everywhere-being dynasty and it's political operators. Approximately at the same time when the first feminists surfaced, and already up and run as the project culminated. That happened with the 1974 Henry Kissinger National Security Study Memorandum 200 about "the consequences of the global population growth for the US security and overseas interests".

This paper, which should be given much much more attention , states that Urgent immediate measures must be taken to reduce fertility. The memo recommends Zero growth rate in the developed countries by 1985 and Zero growth rate in Lesser Developed Countries by 2000. Notice: Defertilization first in the West, then down to the poor.

It also recommends the tools. For the industrialized world:

Reproductive health - a nicer word for abortion, use of condoms etc. Sex education Improved health Women' equality Day care Government participation Improved social security Reduced infant mortality

Well, in Europe, we used to call this "welfare". It now seems, it was just a means to make us stop reproducing ourselves. A great success: Today, we find declining birth rates all over the Western World ­ only Albania (the poorest country of Europe ­ no "welfare") is maintaining the size of of its population.

The picture becomes clearer when we learn that our Rockefeller-friend John D. the Third back in the 1950's also began advocating that all vaccines should have added Mercury. That served a tripple purpose: Mercury works as a preservative. It can help the chemical industry get rid of a highly toxic waste product (just like Fluoride in toothpaste did). And, most important, the Mercury is absorbed in our body, is not automatically excreted and has various toxic effects.

One of the effects is that it destroys the cilia inside the female sex, removing the ability of the mucous membrane to transport men's semen to the egg cells. Which obviously impedes natural conception. Another effect is that children who are born become autistic - the frequency of autistic children increases clearly with the amount of Mercury consumed. And there are other effects of this additive which is called thiomesal - such as diabetes.

So, any vaccine containing Mercury, is a defertilization drug. That means almost all vaccines almost all over the world.

We get another clue by studying simple facts on HIV and AIDS. As shown in many papers and documentaries, the existence of a virus destroying our immune system has never been documented ­ to this day it remains a rumour having obsessed most of the medical world and, by being backed up by deeply corrupt statal medical authorities, a fully controlled political layer and a centralized media network loving the "scary setup", it has also obsessed most common people.

The facts are that as well as there is no disease-causing HIV virus, there is no test which can prove it's presence in human blood. The so-called HIV-tests test the presence of antibodies and antibodies belong in a functioning immune system. The tests are known to crossreact with many conditions having nothing to do with any particular virus. One of these conditions is you better sit down pregnancy.

That's where the AIDS swindle becomes a depopulation tool. For the next step from a positive HIV test is prescription of deadly toxic drugs (charmingly named "Life Prolonging Medication") destroying the immune system and the intestine's ability to absorb nutrients - and causing defective children. These drugs are the most toxic chemicals ever invented by the pharmaceutical industry.

In Africa, HIV tests are only performed on pregnancy clinics. And guess where the deadly drugs go.

Another clue becomes clear when we look at the WHO vaccination campaigns in the Third World. Most famous are the campaigns from the mid nineties against Tetanus. Despite the fact that 70% of all Tetanus occurred in men, the vaccinations were only given to women. And only women between 14 and 44 years old. The vaccines were mixed with hCG Gonadotropine. Now, hCG is a hormone which is naturally formed in the foetus within the first few days, and which is necessary for it's continued life and growth. When the mixture of vaccine and hCG is inoculated in a woman's blood, her immune defence will not only produce antibodies to the Tetanus bacteria but also to the hCG. As a result, she looses her foetus.

These vaccination campaigns were performed on millions and millions of women in Nicaragua, Mexico, Nigeria, Tanzania and the Philippines.

Other vaccination campaigns have had other effects. In Uganda, a polio vaccination was performed, killing 600 children in just one month and just one village (Mbarara) - in which there was by coincidence a counting. In Nigeria, polio vaccine was distributed, contaminated with estradiol and a number of carcinogen (cancer generating) agents. How many more of these criminal campaigns have been performed through the years?

Then we have the bogus on the Malaria vaccine. Malaria is no microbe disease, so what has a vaccine to do with this? Nothing. But the funny scientist came up with a funny story on a "certain molecule" being necessary for the Malaria parasite to fix on the inside of women's uterus. It's the molecule the vaccine is supposed to target. But only in women.

The average age of women getting Cervical Cancer is 50 ­ as Dr. Tim O'Shea writes in his excellent article "HPV - The First Cancer Vaccine" on Rense.com (http://www.rense.com/general78/hpv.htm). The creator of the HPV vaccine, company Merck, promises an effect-time of five years. So, what the point of vaccinating 12 years old girls?

I have no doubt anymore: This has nothing to do with medicine. It has nothing to do with anything based on science. It has nothing to do with diseases. It is a money machine, yes, but it is more. We have another war, and this war is moving from covert to overt. We have a global war on women. -------

Heising is a Danish Men's activist. He can be reached at kjeld@heising.dk

mercury poisoning



CAMBRIDGE (U.S. Newswire) -- A study published this month in the International Journal of Toxicology, the official journal of the American College of Toxicology, provides the strongest clinical evidence to date supporting the theory that mercury exposure is tied to autism.

The study, co-authored by Mark Blaxill, a director of Safe Minds, suggests a biological mechanism for the hypothesis first advanced by Safe Minds that autism is a form of mercury poisoning and that exposure to the mercury-based preservative thimerosal in vaccines has likely caused neurological damage to thousands of children.

Blaxill, along with co-investigators Amy Holmes, MD and Boyd Haley, PhD, assessed mercury exposure levels among 94 autistic children and 45 normally developing controls. They found higher pre- and postnatal exposures in the autistic group. Then they took a novel approach to measuring mercury distribution in the study subjects during infancy: they collected the first lock of baby hair that had been taken years earlier from each child to determine its mercury content. In a result that appears surprising at first, they found that the autistic hair mercury levels were only a fraction of the controls'.

"Our findings might seem counter-intuitive," says Blaxill, "but if you take into account the higher exposures of the autistic children, you quickly see that these reduced hair levels suggest that less mercury was being excreted by these babies. This is because mercury must be in the blood in order to be taken up by the hair follicle, and mercury must be in the blood in order to be eliminated from the body. If it's not in the hair, then it is not in the blood. And if it's not in the blood to be eliminated, more mercury is retained and available to cause neurological damage in infants who subsequently develop autism."

One finding of the study that will be sure to draw attention is the relatively high levels of mercury in the hair of normal infants. These levels appear to be a direct result of the number of mercury-containing amalgam fillings in the mother, as well as the mother's fish consumption, during pregnancy. Many popular fish species contain high levels of mercury. These results appear consistent with the notion that mercury levels in women of child-bearing age are already dangerously high. Thimerosal-containing infant vaccines can then push vulnerable children over the edge.

"This study provides the clearest proof we have seen so far," said Sallie Bernard, executive director of Safe Minds, "that small differences in mercury exposure and detoxification ability can drive huge differences in the brain development of small children. Recent studies sponsored by vaccine health officials that have attempted to reassure parents about the safety of so-called "low dose" mercury exposures from vaccines have completely failed to assess individual sensitivity to this neurotoxin. It only takes one child in 100 to have reduced excretion capacity and you can have an epidemic of neurological disease on your hands."

Safe Minds renews its call for action based on this latest report. The group calls for the following measures.

- The NIH must implement and fund the Institute of Medicine's research recommendations on thimerosal, mercury and neuro-developmental disorders, including autism.

- The CDC must be removed from any supervisory role in vaccine safety research. Such research should be undertaken by independent researchers without ties to the CDC or to vaccine manufacturers.

- The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should issue an immediate recall of all thimerosal-containing vaccines. The FDA and the World Health Organization should require the immediate production of thimerosal-free formulations and the investments in sterile production required to make these vaccines safe.

- The Bush administration should hold a summit on the autism epidemic and encourage large-scale investigation into the environmental causes of autism, a public health crisis that dwarfs the threats from infectious diseases like SARS and the West Nile virus.

- The CDC should make available its internal data from vaccine safety records to independent researchers in order to investigate the likely role of thimerosal in causing neurodevelopmental disorders in children exposed to thimerosal-containing vaccines.


-- Safe Minds (Sensible Action For Ending Mercury Induced Neurological Disorders) is a non-profit parents organization founded to investigate the continuing risks to infants and children of exposure to mercury from medical products, including thimerosal in vaccines. Its Web site is http://www.safeminds.org.

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Molecular Food & Vaccine

Aspartame Is Neurotoxic Genotoxic
Molecular Food & Vaccine
Pharmaco-Genocide
By Dr Bill Deagle
MD FCFP DABFP AAEM A4M ACOEM CIME
4-2-8


Aspartame was approved by the FDA for food and medicine in the 1980s after the intervention of Donald Rumsfeld, recently Minister of Defense to Geo Bush Jr. Terms 1 and 2. The poison of Aspartame dipeptide is a deadly neurotoxin and genotoxin. This paper will analyze results of extensive animal studies, human case reviews, cellular pathology and a logical analysis of biochemical and cellular toxicology. It is not a matter of incompetence but of malicious pharmaco-genocide that this toxin is present in from 6,000 and over 90 countries. It is even registered with MSG, Ethyl Salicylate Mercury Thiomerosal, and other adjuvant immunologic and neurotoxic substances that are now approved by FDA for vaccine antigenic amplification as an adjuvants.

Aspartame is manufactured in North America in Aiken, South Carolina with a genetic engineered GMO bacterial factory. The sludge of bacterial proteins is centrifuged to separate out differing molecular weights, and the dipeptide is spun out for transfer to tankers to transport for packing and marketing at other facilities. During my work at the Humana - Augusta Regional Trauma Center in Family Practice and as a near full time at the Emergency Department, we had the emergency occupational contract with this facility. Our director of the Emergency and the ARTC director told us not to talk to media at any time about reactions to the airborne particulates in the facility, neurological emergencies such as seizures, neuropathy, disabilities or any other illness including other acute or chronic serious and unusual medical conditions. During this time, I observed a disproportionate high rate of polyneuropathy, organic brain dysfunction, ALS amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, MS multiple sclerosis, seizures, aggressive brain tumors of multicentric gliomas and astrocytomas, to name of few, and high incidence of diabetes, obesity, and optic neuropathy and autoimmune disorders. It was evident from the warnings, that any physician whistleblower would be dismissed and defrocked via the hospital administration.

Dr Olney personally advised me in 1978 of his preliminary Aspartame research that identified chromatin clumping of the DNA similar to the DNA changes of gliomas of the most aggressive type of multicentric astrocytomas. Dr Roberts found diabetic control induction and endocrine disorders of Hashimoto's throiditis, cancer and neurological disorders such as transverse myelitis, ALS amyotrophic lateral sclerosis etc. Dr Blaylock has written extensively on the Glutamate toxicity of Aspartame and Hydroperoxyl Radical damage to glial cells, brain cell damage and neuron death, and biochemical toxicology of methanol and the genotoxic effects of the Aspartame metabolites. Reduced Glutathione depletion is serious with oral or injected Aspartame and co-toxicity with Mercury, MSG, GMO organic acids, and other polytoxins in air, food and water and ubiquitous Xenoestrogenic Antifolate toxins such as Halides of Chlorine, Chloramines, Bromides and Bromamines and Fluorides and Fluoramines. Cancers of brain, and many organs and significant lymphomas and leukemic induction is proven with animal studies induced by Aspartame. Cellular replication is reduced and micronuclei result similar to radiation exposure.

Aspartame is a ELF electromagnetic wave sensitizer, and induces phasic brain and peripheral nerve entrainment to fire neurons to external pulsed magnetic field effects. WiFi networks, AC power fields, and other electromagnetic fields from cell phones, computers, appliances effects on cells are amplified by Aspartame Glutamate neural network amplification and lowering of threshold to activation potential.

Searle Pharmaceuticals identified for the C.I.A. Dr Delgado MD at Yale and his mind influencing technologies as a 'mind tenderizer' for entraining brains of animals for externally pulse training electromagnetic field IS Induced Stimulus for paradigms of control of brain function. ELF pollution 1,000,000 fold more than in 1998 in Western Nations is a major cotoxin with Aspartame and other lesser NMDA receptor toxins in food and medicines.

Aspartame directly affects the NMDA N-Methyl D-Aspartate subtype Glutamate receptors, injuring neurons and directly and indirectly interfer with AChE Acetylcholinesterase receptors, functionally interfering with the ability to learn new tasks and causing a functional frontal lobotomy of those suffering toxicity.

Cytochrome P450 Phase I enzyme induction depletes the brain of Glutathione Peroxidase Phase II enzymatic ability to clear hydroperoxynitate free radical. This is cotoxic with MSG, DU and organic acids in new GMO foods that induce NMDA receptor Glutamate pathways.

Loss of executive inhibitory influences may explain more violent or spontaneous out of control behavior, autism of all forms, and onset and progression of many neurological disorders from cortical to midbrain motor interneuron Parkinson's to ALS amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and peripheral motor and sensory neuropathic disorders.

Increased mental illness, behavioral and learning disorders, autism, dementia and violent behaviors can be now explained by population neurotoxicity. Autism rates have gone up 2800% in three decades, organic dementia in the over 60 age group 1000% in 20 years, and Aspartame is a major player in this toxic soup that has pushed the canary in the mineshaft, the neuron to sing its swan song.

Aspartame is directly toxic to Beta Islet cells and induces diabetes as does MSG to a lesser extent in animal models. This would explain MODY Mature Onset Diabetes of the Young and the exploding diabetes and obesity with Glutamate toxins that destroy insulin production and amplify tissue insulin resistance. It is a major factor destroying appestat control of appetite control with blood sugar, and endorphin related hypothalamic pituitary axis.
I conclude that along with DU NotSo Depleted Uranium, MSG and other toxins that have similar or lesser toxicities of these types, are contributors to the diabetes and obesity global pandemic.

Testing of Aspartame enzymatic induction which can cause accumulative effects can be evaluated with Genova Labs organic acids, amino acids, and Gene panels for Phase I and II pathway polymorphisms. Those people with GSMT1 pathway deletions or abnormal polymorphisms, will be more toxically damaged by Aspartame and other NMDA toxins. Mitochondrial damage results from enzymatic induction and peroxynitrate radicals, results in tissue targeted long-standing mitochondrial pathology. Mitochondriopathy is a final pathway for much of the chronic effects of Aspartame.
Also, iNOS, Induce Nitric Oxide Synthase enzymatic induction and production of Hydroperoxyl Free Radical is the step resulting in mitochondrial gene damage, and loss of cellular energetic metabolism. This explains the vaccine suit evidence in the Poling Federal Vaccine Damage Suit, where mitochondrial defects from adjuvants resulted in neurological deficits and autism. Aspartame is the worst of NMDA toxins in our food and vaccines, but MSG and many others are cotoxins.

Protocols for evaluation may include quantitive EEG or QEEG demonstrates coherent frequency anomalies, voltage pattern from frontal to occipital and temporal cortex, and P300 index abnormalities, that can monitor dynamic higher cortical function and neural net plasticity and learning capacities for holographic learning paradigms. SPECT scans indentify blood flow abnormalities consistent with microvascular defects consistent with loss of glial cell energetic metabolic support of neurotransmitters, myelinated neuron action potentials and proper neural network cortical to cortical learning and motor, sensory and abstract concept processing functions. fMRI Functional MRI can demonstrate abnormal myelination and neural pathway functioning with changes in neural traffic and dysmyelination patterns that can be verified on T2 Weighted MRI. PET Positron Emission Tomography is most sensitive at identification of abnormal AChE Acetylcholinesterase metabolism and Positron-Fluoro-Glucose metabolism deficits in neural tissues. Frontal lobe hypofunction, loss of temporal and transcortical metabolic patterns should correlate with full tracking neuropsychological testing and QEEG voltage patterns and coherence pattern analysis of intercortical frequencies. Enzymatic induction of Phase I CYP450 and Reduced Glutathione levels with high levels of Peroxynitrate should show in urine and blood analysis. Platelet bioamines in blood, urine or saliva for NE norepinephrine, Dopamine and Serotonin, Melatonin, Acetylcholine, GABA should reflect NMDA induction and depletion of presynaptic inhibitory neurotransmitters.

Core Asparatame acute or chronic exposure testing should include QEEG available from PhD psychologists certified on QEEG testing in America, Canada and overseas; Genova Labs or similar functional medicine lab - organic acids and amino acids and oxymarkers with Gene polymorphisms for Phase I and II Detox pathways; PET Scan for brain hypometabolism AND / OR SPECT Scan for abnormal microcirculation; fMRI scans for neural pathway traffic abnormalities and neuropsychological evaluation of higher cortical functions to identify deficits correlated with above imaging and neurological studies.

Essential testing should be QEEG and organic acids and Gene Phase I & II Detox polymorphisms. The cotoxic effects of MSG, GMO Frankenfoods with organic acids that induce NMDA receptors, and 7,700 ppm water drug, heavy metals, chemical toxins in our water.

Aspartame cell toxic effects are the tip of the spear against human biology, made worse by Agribusiness, Big Pharma, Big GMO, and world trade with reintroduced previously banned pesticides forced on nations acception the WTO Codex Alimentarius Food Rules.
Aspartame has already received a nod across the board approval by WTO UN FAO bureaucrats, to the danger of the world's peoples.

When you review the extensive analysis by Dr HJ Roberts MD, Dr Russell Blaylock MD and Dr Olney MD and the Ramazzini Foundation cancer research, there is no excuse for continued toxic contamination of food of vaccines. Aspartame must be banned from all foods, medicines, and vaccines. It is the first step for mankind, of many to steps needed to restore healthy functional support for future generations of the nations of Earth.

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This following list of common vaccines and their ingredients should shock anyone.

The numbers of microbes, antibiotics, chemicals, heavy metals and animal byproducts is staggering. Would you knowingly inject these materials into your children?

Acel-Immune DTaP - Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis Wyeth-Ayerst 800.934.5556
* diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis adsorbed, formaldehyde, aluminum hydroxide, aluminum phosphate, thimerosal, and polysorbate 80 (Tween-80) gelatin Act HIB

Haemophilus - Influenza B Connaught Laboratories 800.822.2463
* Haemophilus influenza Type B, polyribosylribitol phosphate ammonium sulfate, formalin, and sucrose

Attenuvax - Measles Merck & Co., Inc. 800-672-6372
* measles live virus neomycin sorbitol hydrolized gelatin, chick embryo

Biavax - Rubella Merck & Co., Inc. 800-672-6372
* rubella live virus neomycin sorbitol hydrolized gelatin, human diploid cells from aborted fetal tissue

BioThrax - Anthrax Adsorbed BioPort Corporation 517.327.1500
* nonencapsulated strain of Bacillus anthracis aluminum hydroxide, benzethonium chloride, and formaldehyde

DPT - Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis GlaxoSmithKline 800.366.8900 x5231
* diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis adsorbed, formaldehyde, aluminum phosphate, ammonium sulfate, and thimerosal, washed sheep RBCs

Dryvax - Smallpox (not licensed d/t expiration) Wyeth-Ayerst 800.934.5556
* live vaccinia virus, with "some microbial contaminants," according to the Working Group on Civilian Biodefense polymyxcin B sulfate, streptomycin sulfate, chlortetracycline hydrochloride, and neomycin sulfate glycerin, and phenol -a compound obtained by distillation of coal tar vesicle fluid from calf skins Engerix-B

Recombinant Hepatitis B GlaxoSmithKline 800.366.8900 x5231
* genetic sequence of the hepatitis B virus that codes for the surface antigen (HbSAg), cloned into GMO yeast, aluminum hydroxide, and thimerosal

Fluvirin Medeva Pharmaceuticals 888.MEDEVA 716.274.5300
* influenza virus, neomycin, polymyxin, beta-propiolactone, chick embryonic fluid

FluShield Wyeth-Ayerst 800.934.5556
* trivalent influenza virus, types A&B gentamicin sulphate formadehyde, thimerosal, and polysorbate 80 (Tween-80) chick embryonic fluid

Havrix - Hepatitis A GlaxoSmithKline 800.366.8900 x5231
* hepatitis A virus, formalin, aluminum hydroxide, 2-phenoxyethanol, and polysorbate 20 residual MRC5 proteins -human diploid cells from aborted fetal tissue

HiB Titer - Haemophilus Influenza B Wyeth-Ayerst 800.934.5556
* haemophilus influenza B, polyribosylribitol phosphate, yeast, ammonium sulfate, thimerosal, and chemically defined yeast-based medium

Imovax Connaught Laboratories 800.822.2463
* rabies virus adsorbed, neomycin sulfate, phenol, red indicator human albumin, human diploid cells from aborted fetal tissue

IPOL Connaught Laboratories 800.822.2463
* 3 types of polio viruses neomycin, streptomycin, and polymyxin B formaldehyde, and 2-phenoxyethenol continuous line of monkey kidney cells

JE-VAX - Japanese Ancephalitis Aventis Pasteur USA 800.VACCINE
* Nakayama-NIH strain of Japanese encephalitis virus, inactivated formaldehyde, polysorbate 80 (Tween-80), and thimerosal mouse serum proteins, and gelatin

LYMErix - Lyme GlaxoSmithKline 888-825-5249
* recombinant protein (OspA) from the outer surface of the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi kanamycin aluminum hydroxide, 2-phenoxyethenol, phosphate buffered saline

MMR - Measles-Mumps-Rubella Merck & Co., Inc. 800.672.6372
* measles, mumps, rubella live virus, neomycin sorbitol, hydrolized gelatin, chick embryonic fluid, and human diploid cells from aborted fetal tissue

M-R-Vax - Measles-Rubella Merck & Co., Inc. 800.672.6372
* measles, rubella live virus neomycin sorbitol hydrolized gelatin, chick embryonic fluid, and human diploid cells from aborted fetal tissue

Menomune - Meningococcal Connaught Laboratories 800.822.2463
* freeze-dried polysaccharide antigens from Neisseria meningitidis bacteria, thimerosal, and lactose

Meruvax I - Mumps Merck & Co., Inc. 800.672.6372
* mumps live virus neomycin sorbitol hydrolized gelatin

NYVAC - (new smallpox batch, not licensed) Aventis Pasteur USA 800.VACCINE
* highly-attenuated vaccinia virus, polymyxcin B, sulfate, streptomycin sulfate, chlortetracycline hydrochloride, and neomycin sulfate glycerin, and phenol -a compound obtained by distillation of coal tar vesicle fluid from calf skins

Orimune - Oral Polio Wyeth-Ayerst 800.934.5556
* 3 types of polio viruses, attenuated neomycin, streptomycin sorbitol monkey kidney cells and calf serum

Pneumovax - Streptococcus Pneumoniae Merck & Co., Inc. 800.672.6372
* capsular polysaccharides from polyvalent (23 types), pneumococcal bacteria, phenol,

Prevnar Pneumococcal - 7-Valent Conjugate Vaccine Wyeth Lederle 800.934.5556
* saccharides from capsular Streptococcus pneumoniae antigens (7 serotypes) individually conjugated to diphtheria CRM 197 protein aluminum phosphate, ammonium sulfate, soy protein, yeast

RabAvert - Rabies Chiron Behring GmbH & Company 510.655.8729
* fixed-virus strain, Flury LEP neomycin, chlortetracycline, and amphotericin B, potassium glutamate, and sucrose human albumin, bovine gelatin and serum "from source countries known to be free of bovine spongioform encephalopathy," and chicken protein

Rabies Vaccine Adsorbed GlaxoSmithKline 800.366.8900 x5231
*rabies virus adsorbed, beta-propiolactone, aluminum phosphate, thimerosal, and phenol, red rhesus monkey fetal lung cells

Recombivax - Recombinant Hepatitis B Merck & Co., Inc. 800.672.6372
* genetic sequence of the hepatitis B virus that codes for the surface antigen (HbSAg), cloned into GMO yeast, aluminum hydroxide, and thimerosal

RotaShield - Oral Tetravalent Rotavirus (recalled) Wyeth-Ayerst 800.934.5556
* 1 rhesus monkey rotavirus, 3 rhesus-human reassortant live viruses neomycin sulfate, amphotericin B potassium monophosphate, potassium diphosphate, sucrose, and monosodium glutamate (MSG) rhesus monkey fetal diploid cells, and bovine fetal serum smallpox (not licensed due to expiration)

40-yr old stuff "found" in Swiftwater, PA freezer Aventis Pasteur USA 800.VACCINE
* live vaccinia virus, with "some microbial contaminants," according to the Working Group on Civilian Biodefense polymyxcin B sulfate, streptomycin sulfate, chlortetracycline hydrochloride, and neomycin sulfate glycerin, and phenol -a compound obtained by distillation of coal tar vesicle fluid from calf skins

Smallpox (new, not licensed) Acambis, Inc. 617.494.1339 in partnership with Baxter BioScience
* highly-attenuated vaccinia virus, polymyxcin B sulfate, streptomycin sulfate, chlortetracycline hydrochloride, and neomycin sulfate glycerin, and phenol -a compound obtained by distillation of coal tar vesicle fluid from calf skins

TheraCys BCG (intravesicle -not licensed in US for tuberculosis) Aventis Pasteur USA 800.VACCINE
* live attenuated strain of Mycobacterium bovis monosodium glutamate (MSG), and polysorbate 80 (Tween-80)

Tripedia - Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis Aventis Pasteur USA 800.VACCINE
*Corynebacterium diphtheriae and Clostridium tetani toxoids and acellular Bordetella pertussis adsorbed aluminum potassium sulfate, formaldehyde, thimerosal, and polysorbate 80 (Tween-80) gelatin, bovine extract

US-sourced Typhim Vi - Typhoid Aventis Pasteur USA SA 800.VACCINE
* cell surface Vi polysaccharide from Salmonella typhi Ty2 strain, aspartame, phenol, and polydimethylsiloxane (silicone)

Varivax - Chickenpox Merck & Co., Inc. 800.672.6372
* varicella live virus neomycin phosphate, sucrose, and monosodium glutamate (MSG) processed gelatin, fetal bovine serum, guinea pig embryo cells, albumin from human blood, and human diploid cells from aborted fetal tissue

YF-VAX - Yellow Fever Aventis Pasteur USA 800.VACCINE
* 17D strain of yellow fever virus sorbitol chick embryo, and gelatin

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Addressing parents concerns

Addressing Parental Objections to Vaccinations
Parents may object to some or all vaccines for a variety of reasons. Here are some of the most common objections
and proposed responses you can use when discussing vaccination issues with parents and others.
Objection: Vaccines are not safe.
Response: Vaccines are much safer for children than getting the diseases they prevent. But, like all
medications, vaccines carry some risk.The most common side effects are pain, redness or tenderness at the
injection site. Some vaccines can cause low fever, fussiness or tiredness; these side effects are usually mild and
pass quickly. More severe side effects are very rare. Remember, the benefits of vaccines – a healthy, protected
child – far outweigh the potential risks.
[Add information specific to the vaccine(s) the parent is most concerned about and offer the VIS]
Objection: Vaccines cause autism and/or other diseases.
Response: Many studies, both inside and outside the U.S., have failed to show any link between vaccines
and autism or an increased risk of diabetes, arthritis or other diseases.
For example, some people have focused on a preservative that was once used in all childhood vaccines and
claimed that it caused autism. In fact, several scientific studies have proved this is not so. In any case, the
preservative isn’t in any routinely recommended childhood vaccines anymore, with the exception of the
influenza vaccine.
Objection: Vaccines don’t work.
Response: Before vaccines were available, thousands of babies died or were permanently harmed each year
from illnesses like whooping cough, diphtheria, smallpox and measles.This doesn’t happen now because the
vaccines babies receive work so well.
Here’s an example of how well they work. Until the late 1980s, about 15,000 people in the U.S. used to get
a certain type of bacterial meningitis each year and as many as 500 of them would die.Vaccines that protect
against this type of bacteria, called Hib, became available in 1990 and now there are fewer than 50 cases each
year and very few deaths overall.
Objection: Infants are too young to be vaccinated.
Response: On the contrary, infancy is the most important time to be vaccinated because – from birth
through age 2 – babies are most vulnerable to severe consequences – even death – from these diseases.
The vaccine schedule that all health care providers try to follow is designed as the best way to get babies
vaccinated as young as possible against more than a dozen diseases.The established spacing of the vaccines
matches when babies can respond to the vaccines and how much time needs to occur in between doses for
optimal protection.
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Addressing Parental Objections to Vaccinations
Objection: It’s better to be naturally infected than vaccinated.
Response: In some cases, the protection from vaccines (like Hib, pneumococcal and tetanus) is actually
better than from natural infection. But the real issue is the risk to your child if he/she gets a disease. For
example, Hib infection can cause mental retardation, hepatitis B can cause liver failure, mumps can cause
deafness, and chickenpox can cause pneumonia. Furthermore, the potential side effects from vaccines are
generally much milder than any complications caused by the disease.
Objection: My child can’t handle so many vaccines in a short period.
Response: Babies encounter and manage a huge number of challenges to their immune systems. From birth
on, babies deal with thousands of bacteria living on their skin and in their nose, throat and intestinal tract.
Their bodies have billions of immune cells that keep these bacteria in check.Vaccines are just a small part of
what babies encounter every day, but they provide essential protection against more than a dozen diseases to
help babies get through the most vulnerable period of their lives.
Objection: My child is getting too many shots in one visit.
Response: Even though it may be hard to see your baby get so many injections, the vaccines can be given
safely at the same time. Giving your child all of his/her shots at one time according to the vaccine schedule
helps make sure that he/she is protected against more than a dozen diseases during the most vulnerable
period.
Objection: Vaccines aren’t necessary anymore.
Response: It may seem that way since certain diseases are not very common today, but vaccines are very
necessary. If we stop vaccinating, we will start to see these diseases again.The bacteria and viruses that cause
measles, mumps, rubella and Hib disease, for example, still circulate in this country, but vaccinated children
are protected against them. Other diseases, like polio, have virtually been eliminated in this country, but given
the amount of international travel today, it would be very easy for polio to be brought back into our country
and, if children were not protected, for it to spread again.
Objection: Vaccines cause the disease they are designed to prevent.
Response: The vaccines that contain inactivated – or killed – viruses or bacteria (like tetanus or polio)
cannot cause the disease they protect against.Vaccines that contain live, but weakened viruses (like
chickenpox and measles) can, in very rare cases, cause a mild form of the disease.These cases usually pass
more quickly and with much less risk than if your child got a full blown case of the disease.
Objection: I can’t afford all these vaccines.
Response: There are programs in place to make sure that children not covered by Medicaid or private
insurance receive all recommended vaccinations for little or no cost. For example,VFC, or Vaccines for
Children, provides for children to receive vaccines as part of routine care. SCHIP, or State Children’s Health
Insurance Program, gives states permission to offer health insurance for children who are not already insured,
and covers all recommended immunizations.
[If you do not offer vaccinations under VFC or SCHIP, direct parents and underinsured children to the nearest
federally qualified health center.]
Portions adapted from “Vaccine Concerns” available from the Immunization Action Coalition. For more information, go to
http://www.immunize.org/catg.d/4038myth.pdf