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Mercury in vaccines
Hepatitis B jab illogical
Immune system left switched
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Mother accused of murder - whooping cough vaccine could
be culprit
Cot death and
DPT
Fatal MMR jab?
MMR coercion
MMR, IBDs & Chron's disease
Autism linked to MMR is "regressive type"
Jabs and autism - possible links explained
Under-reporting of vaccine damage
Vaccinated mothers pass on less immunity
to their babies
MMR, blood clotting and autism
A major US study found evidence of thrombophilia (a tendency towards blood
clotting) in 70% of children where autism developed shortly after an MMR
jab. In people with thrombophilia the blood supply to the brain is lower:
a possible cause of autism. Furthermore, 70% of the children with thrombophilia
came from families with a histories of the disease. This suggests that
the children may have been genetically more susceptible to damage from
the MMR jab.
Original source: What Doctors Don’t Tell You 7.2.02
(9080) Greenfiles 1.3.02 p10
Animal vaccines tested better
than children’s
Dr. John March from the Government-funded Moredun Research Institute warns
that three simultaneously delivered live vaccines (as in MMR) may well
cause problems for some, perhaps 1 in 200, children and that adequate
safety research has simply not been done. He states that research on animal
vaccines is far more thorough. Whereas, for a human vaccine, blood samples
are only taken once and the separate results pooled and averaged out (which
minimises the chance of picking up individual reactions), for animal vaccines
blood samples are taken at regular intervals over months and years, and
logged individually, to measure whether the immune system is suppressed
or modified, and for how long.
In two potential combined animal vaccines, one measles-rubella the other
measles-pneumonia, the measles element was shown to interfere with the
second component and damage the animals’ immune systems. The vaccines
were abandoned as unsafe. In humans “they say that it is not going
to happen so they are not going to investigate”.
(9027) Sarah-Kate Templeton. Informed Parent 1.3.02 p13
The Golden Shot
Researchers at Sheffield’s Children’s Hospital are testing a
new quadruple jab on 200 children - MMR plus chickenpox. Team leader Dr.
Adam Finn justifies a chickenpox jab on the grounds that, although not
usually severe, it is a miserable illness which people would prefer not
to catch and can cause serious complications as well as unsightly pock
marks. He also points out that in adults it is a more severe illness with
a greater risk of complications.
Ed.- Dr. Finn appears not to be aware of the US’s
experience of measles and measles jabs. Thanks to the fact that the jab
is (a) only 50% effective and (b) queers the immune system response to
the measles virus, the average age for catching this once ‘childhood
illness’ is now 15-25. When caught at this age it is more severe
with a greater risk of serious complications, e.g. pneumonia.
However, perhaps this research provides a clue to the DoH’s desperation
to preserve the triple MMR jab at all costs rather than offer parents
the option of giving their children the three jabs separately. (GPs have
recently been told that they risk prosecution if they agree to administer
single measles, mumps or rubella jabs.) We have heard that researchers
in the US are developing a 22-illness jab nicknamed the ‘Golden Shot’.
(7641) Daily Mail 25.1.01
Government acclaim meningitis C jab
The UK Government’s Medicines Control Agency received 16,000 reports
of adverse reactions and 11 reports of deaths following vaccination since
it began its meningitis C vaccination campaign in October 1999. Fourteen
million children have now been vaccinated. The MCA says that all the deaths
have been fully investigated but none were due to the vaccine. It also
points out that the vast majority of adverse reactions were mild, like
dizzy spells or headaches. Jacqueline Fletcher of JABS (Justice Awareness
and Basic Support) has received reports ranging from headaches to seizures,
and of parents being called paranoid when they contacted their GPs about
their child’s adverse reaction.
(7203-04) Sandra Laville. Daily Telegraph 28.8.00 p7
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MMR
and autism
America has experienced a huge upsurge in autism in babies. It coincides
with the introduction of the Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) triple vaccine,
leading some doctors to suspect a link and conclude that three vaccines
at once may be too much for some children’s immune systems. In some
towns the incidence of autism has tripled over the last ten years. Like
the UK’s Department of Health, the US’s Centers for Disease
Control cannot contemplate the fall-out of admitting any link and is denying
the possibility.
(7551-52) Informed Parent 1.7.99 p1
A study comparing 80 children with autism to 60 children without strongly
suggests a link between the Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) triple jab and
autism. 53% of the autistic children had antibodies associated with MMR
in their blood, whereas none of the non-autistic children did. US Professor
Vijendra Singh believes this to be the first laboratory-based evidence
that MMR is one of the causes of autism, and that it backs the diagnostic
studies which already suggest links. Professor Singh suggests that autism
is caused by an auto-immune action within the brain, itself triggered
by the MMR jab. If this auto-immune response (an abnormal reaction where
the body’s immune system begins to attack itself) attacks the myelin
sheath surrounding the nerves in the brain, that could cause the nerve
fibres to stop functioning properly, leading to autism.
The UK Government is not impressed by the study and does not intend to
change its policy on MMR.
Ed.- The evidence for an MMR-autism link is growing. The autism found
in David Wakefield’s 1998 study was extremely unusual in that it
was ‘regressive’, i.e. that previously healthy children became
autistic after having an MMR jab. In the UK, approximately 2,000 families
consider that the MMR jab has caused damage to their children - in many
cases causing autism - and are now taking legal action. The classic ‘damaged
myelin sheath’ illness is, of course, multiple sclerosis. Many believe
that this, too, can be triggered by vaccination.
(7171-73) David
Wilkes. Daily Mail 11.9.00 p21
MMR-autism link cover up
Although it concluded that there was no evidence of a link between the
MMR vaccination and autism, research by B. Taylor et al. funded by the
UK’s Medicines Control Agency in fact revealed that autism in the
UK has risen 25% year on year since the introduction of the MMR vaccination.
It also recorded a significant clustering of parental concern about their
children’s behaviour six months after they had received the jab.
The study’s methodology and conclusions have been roundly condemned
by the Allergy Induced Autism organisation as “a cynical attempt
to disguise the truth”, “a scandalous public dupe of BSE proportions”
and “propaganda”. For more information contact: Allergy Induced
Autism. Tel/Fax 01733 331771.
(7553-54) Informed Parent 1.7.99 p3
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The
UK MMR debate
The publication of Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s review of the research
carried out to date on the safety of the MMR triple jab has undermined
the UK Departmernt of Health’s (DoH) attempts to reassure anxious
parents. Immunisation rates have fallen to 75% in some areas: 92+% coverage
is considered ideal by pro-vaccination experts. Predictably, rather than
engage with the substance and conclusions of Dr. Wakefield’s paper,
the medical establishment has dismissed its relevance on the grounds of
“no new information”, “Wakefield has only included research
which backs his argument”, “Wakefield wants media coverage to
further career”, etc.
In fact, of the four experts who peer-reviewed Wakefield’s paper
before publication, two supported its findings, and the other two did
not dismiss them. His principal finding - that insufficient safety testing
was carried out before MMR was introduced in the UK - is also supported
by former DoH Principal Medical Officer Dr.Peter Fletcher, who agrees
that DoH evidence of the triple jab’s safety is “thin”
and argues that there should have been a year-long test involving, say,
15,000 patients, rather than a three week test involving 10,000 children.
A 1969 US study suggested the double onslaught could damage overall immune
system response. Other US studies of several hundred children found that
a significant portion developed stomach bugs throughout the trial, but
the researchers took no long-term data.
Dr. Wakefield, a highly respected scientist, has countered the attempts
to demonise him by stating again that he is a supporter of mass immnuisation
but concerned about the dangers of combining live vaccines.
He also points out that this latest paper supports single measles jabs.
Ed.- The Department of Health’s attempts to reassure the public demonstrates
that spin-doctoring is not the exclusive domain of politicians. For instance,
it quotes two Irish babies dying from measles without mentioning that
they were already seriously ill and malnourished when measles struck*.
It also links the lack of MMR in Japan to 79 measles deaths 1992-97 without
any analysis of the children’s overall health status. The DoH propaganda
also fails to inform that the Japanese Department of Health decided to
abandon MMR when it gave rise to worrying levels of adverse reactions
in the form of a 0.5% incidence of aseptic (usually uncomplicated) meningitis.
In September 1989 the official Japanese line was that MMR was safe. By
October the advice to doctors had changed to “be vigilant”.
By December this was “vaccinate only if the parents want it”.
By May 1991 the parents’ consent was required, and in April 1993
MMR was withdrawn. Instead the DoH merely states that Japan does not have
a suitable MMR jab licensed.
* Source: Dr. Mary Cronine, an Irish Public Health Specialist
(7639) Louise Jury. Independent 21.1.01
The
Finnish MMR study
The Department of Health sees the results of a new Finnish study on the
safety of the MMR jab as their main weapon against peoples’ fears
that it might cause autism. Following the health histories of 1.8 million
children taking a total of 3 million MMR jabs across 14 years (1982-96),
it found just 173 adverse reactions of which 45% were “probably caused”
by a factor other than the vaccine.
Original research: The Paediatric Infectious Disease Journal. December
2000
Ed.- The Finnish study was not designed to investigate a possible link
between MMR and autism. What the UK DoH also does not publicise is that:
• the Finnish study
was supported by a grant from MMR vaccine manufacturers Merck & Co
• adverse reactions to vaccinations are known to be under-reported.
In the UK, the Public Health Laboratory Service estimates a fivefold level
of under-reporting, one study in the West Midlands found under-reporting
to be just under twentyfold
• the medical establishment are notoriously reluctant to accept that
any reported adverse reactions are caused by vaccination
(7640) Jeremy Laurence. Independent 13.1.01
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In 1999 the US Government asked manufacturers of diphtheria, tetanus, meningococcal and influenza vaccines to remove thimerosal from their products. Thimerosal, added since the 1930s to prevent bacterial contamination, contains mercury. By 2001 its removal will reduce childhood exposure to mercury in vaccines by 60%. The US authorities have always considered that the slight risk of neuro-developmental damage was outweighed by the benefits of vaccination and is happy for the practice to continue for a further twelve months.
Ed.- Preliminary data from a Vaccine Safety Data Link Study found a weak but significant association betewen cumulative exposure to mercury from vaccines and attention deficit disorder, language and speech delay, some neurological delays, and tics.
(7089) Reuters News Service 14.7.00
Analysing National Health Interview Survey data for 1993 and 1994, two US scientists have concluded that:
• hepatitis B is not a childhood disease in the US
• there is no evidence to suggest that the hepatitis B vaccination has a protective effect for the population at large
• children who had been vaccinated against hepatitis B ran 1.5-2 times the risk of developing liver problems
• universal childhood hepatitis B vaccination in the US was illogical
(6981) Fisher,MA & Eklund,SA. Epidemiology
1999;10:3,337-39
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Immune
system left switched on
Champions of immunisation fail to understand that the immune system is about more than just the creation of antibodies: the aim of vaccination. In fact there are two well established elements - called Th1 and Th2 - and further elements are suspected but not well understood. The most important element is Th1 immunity. This is the `detect an invader, search and destroy' mechanism. This is what the tonsils and adenoids (amongst other organs) are all about. Th2 immunity takes place further down the line. While Th1 is seeking out and destroying, Th2 presents particles of the invader to the cells which create antibodies to prevent another invasion later in life. A strong Th1 response ensures a strong and enduring Th2 response, which also serves to shut down Th1 activity when sufficient antibodies have been created.
The problem with vaccinations is that they bypass the Th1 system and then weakly engage the Th2 system, leaving the latter permanently switched on. This could be the explanation for the huge rise of auto-immune diseases in recent years (e.g. multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile onset diabetes, Chron's disease). In more industrially developed countries this is now the third major category of illness after heart disease and cancer.
Vaccine researcher Hilary Butler asks, "Could
it be that early injections "teach" the immune system a "back
to front" immunity?"
Original publication: Exploring natural traditions and current controversies,
the promise of primary health in the developing world - Dr. R. Obomsawin.
CIDA Audit and Evaluation Dept. Sept. 1991. This has now been revised
and self-published as `Universal Immunisation - Medical Miracle or Masterful
Mirage" and is available from Health Action Network in Burnaby, British
Columbia (Canada).
(6998-902) Edda West. Informed Parent 1.6.00 p4
ALIS (France) and La Liga Para la Libertad de Vacunacion (Spain) have formed a collective to document and promote awareness of the side-effects of vaccinations. They also wish to present a formal report to the European Parliament. They believe that the authorities promote vaccination campaigns without being fully aware of the potential damage these can cause and that the medical profession tends to belittle both short term and long term reactions (or treat them as coincidental). They call on all parents who think their children have had an adverse reaction to a vaccination to complete a special (anonymous) questionnaire and send it in.
A questionnaire may be obtained from: Lesley King, 62 Paynton Road, St. Leonards TN37 7DZ. Please send a large stamped addressed envelope.
(6452-53) Informed Parent 1.1.00 M
When Sally Clark's two babies died of SIDS - sudden infant death syndrome - a Home Office pathologist was called in. Based on evidence of bleeding near the spinal cord and in the retina of the eye - both considered evidence of shaking, and traces of blood in the first child's lungs - possibly indicating smothering - Mrs. Clark was tried and found guilty of murder. She is now serving two life sentences pending an appeal.
The principal arguments for an appeal are:
• midwives, health visitors, neighbours, friends and family all attest to the strong bond of love between mother and children
• the paramedics, doctors and nurses "found not a mark on either child" when they were taken to hospital following their deaths
• the first baby died at 11 weeks old, in September 1996, one day after having a whooping cough jab, the second died at 8 weeks old, in November 1997, on the day he had a whooping cough jab (past research has linked whooping cough jabs with cot death - see following item).
• a third baby born later to the Clarks was born with immunity deficiency. If the two babies who died were also immuno-deficient they would be more susceptible to damage from a vaccination.
(6028-30) Salisbury Journal 20.1.00
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Cot death and DPT
Hypotheses concerning the cause of cot death continue to surface. Another, implicating DPT vaccination (diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus) is proposed by Dr. Viera Scheibner in her book, Vaccination - 100 years of orthodox research show that vaccines represent a medical assault on the immune system.
Dr. Scheibner argues that:
• in the US, DPT vaccinations are usually administered at the ages of two months, four months and six months. Cot deaths cluster just after these times.
• US research has consistently showed an ‘unusual temporal association between DPT vaccination ... and SIDS (cot death)’. One study of 70 randomly reported cot deaths found that 66% had been given a DPT immunisation just prior to death: 6.5% within 12 hours, 13% within 24 hours, 26% within 3 days and 37%, 61% and 70% within 1, 2, and 3 weeks respectively. It also found that, whereas cot deaths where babies had not been vaccinated with DPT tended to occur during the winter months, cot deaths of babies who had received the vaccination occurred all year round, clustered immediately after the vaccination.
• recordings of babies breathing patterns before and after vaccination show unstressed breathing during the six days before and periods of stressed breathing during the 12 days after. The pattern of stressed breathing days correlated with the pattern of cot deaths following vaccination in 41 babies measured by a separate study.
• when Japan raised the minimum age for DPT vaccinations to two years in 1974, cot death following a DPT vaccination disappeared in that country and Japan zoomed to the lowest infant mortality rate in the world.
• the whooping cough element (the pertussis) in DPT is not the only dangerous element, as was originally thought. DT vaccinations have been found to cause similar numbers of deaths.
(904) Viera Scheibner PhD Vaccination - 100 years of
Orthodox Research shows that Vaccines Represent a Medical Assault on the
Immune System.
14-month old Emma Jane Gentle had a Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) vaccination at 4.30 one afternoon. She became grizzly and by 6pm was running a fever. Her mother put her to bed and gave her some calpol. She died at 10pm.
At the hearing later, Coroner Nigel Meadows said he was unable to establish the cause of death because attempts to resuscitate Emma at the hospital appeared to have destroyed vital evidence. Dr. Elizabeth Miller, a neurologist at the Department of Communicable Diseases' Public Health Laboratory told the hearing that Emma's death was 'coincidental' and not caused by the vaccination. She claimed that the fever would not have developed until five or six days later if it had been linked to MMR. Magda Taylor, Editor of The Informed Parent, wonders why, if that is the case, parents are warned by GPs that their babies might develop a fever in the first couple of days after an MMR. She also points to an advertisement for the measles vaccine written by its manufacturer, Merck. She quotes, "There are possible side effects from measles vaccine . .. Occasionally high fever (103°C) occurs. Very rarely, more serious reactions have been reported ... such as severe allergic reaction, convulsions, seizures, eye problems, complicated skin problems, blood abnormalities, inflammation of blood vessels, temporary or permanent muscle paralysis and loss of feeling, and encephalitis, which may result in permanent brain damage and even death. Your doctor can provide you with information about other possible side effects reported following measles vaccination".
Ed.- Why risk all these to give your child 50% protection against what is normally a mild childhood illness with little risk (provided the child is well nourished and any unusual symptoms treated promptly)?
(5738-41) Magda Taylor. Informed Parent 1.5.99 p1
Many doctors are concerned about the safety of multiple vaccines and have recommended taking the MMR vaccines separately. In this country, sadly, this is no longer possible. To boost public uptake of the MMR vaccination the Department of Health (DoH) has withdrawn the licences for the single vaccines. Dr. James le Fanu judges this restriction of parental choice in the current state of uncertainty "outrageous", and advises parents not to allow their children to have MMR until the option of single vaccines is restored.
Ed.- The DoH's decision to withdraw the single vaccine licenses can only be economic and recalls the shameful 1997 MMR campaign when a potential measles epidemic was invented and tenders for supplying the unnecessary vaccines were invited (illegally) from just two manufacturers who just happened to have vaccines on the shelf with use-by dates expiring that Christmas.
(5606-08) Dr. James le Fanu. Sunday Telegraph 12.9.99 p4
Researchers from the Royal Free Hospital in North London have discovered that a child who catches measles and mumps close together runs a fourfold higher risk of developing Chron's disease and a sevenfold higher risk of developing ulcerative colitis - both incurable bowel disorders.
The study covered 7,000 people from throughout Britain who caught the diseases naturally before MMR mass vaccination was introduced. The researchers are optimistic that this discovery of a link between infections leading to inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) will help find a cure. IBDs now affect five times as many young people as in the 1970s.
Anti-MMR vaccination campaigners see this discovery as another part of the jigsaw linking autism and bowel disorders to vaccination but the Department of Health urges caution. It points out that: the data is based on parents' recall, not on medical records; and that the data is imprecise. It does not measure the difference between, for instance, cases where measles preceded mumps and vice versa. The authorities are keen to avoid further erosion of confidence in the MMR vaccine. Dr. Montgomery, one of the Royal Free team, felt that, having no children himself, he was lucky not to have to make the decision about letting a child have MMR.
(5713) Rory Carroll 2.6.99 p7
The debate over the possible links between MMR vaccinations and autism does not appear to have considered the significance of the fact that the cases of autism allegedly linked to MMR jabs are of a particular "regressive type" (i.e. it turns normally developing children into autistic children). This is extremely unusual. Recognising this, Dr. Ken Aitken, an expert in the field, now states that he is less confident about the safety of the triple vaccine.
Ed.- Dr. Ken Aitken was on the Government's special panel on MMR vaccination. He says that the panel decided that it could not rule out the possibility that MMR vaccinations had caused autism and has now agreed to be a key witness for parents seeking compensation. (Sunday Times 5.9.99)
(5606-08) Dr. James le Fanu. Sunday Telegraph 12.9.99 p4
The Department of Health relies on the Medicines Control Agency's 'Yellow Card' system to pick up adverse reactions to vaccinations. These are supposed to be sent in by GPs and pharmacists but it is accepted that far too few are received. Doctors may not link an adverse reaction to a vaccination when it occurs several months later, especially when all Department of Health propaganda denies the possibility of such links. The Public Health Laboratory Service estimates a fivefold level of under-reporting. In one study in the West Midlands under-reporting was found to be nearly twenty fold.
(5756-57) Informed Parent 1.5.99 P9
40% of the 200 cases of claimed vaccination damage referred to the legal firm Dawbarns are for children who now have autism. Struck by this they are looking into possible links.
They have found that present levels of autism are far higher than can be explained by genetic predisposition. Cases have increased considerably since 1988, the date when MMR was first introduced. Dawbarns have the minutes of an Extraordinary Meeting of an Education Authority having difficulty in coping with the increase.
In most of the cases referred to Dawbarns the children concerned showed no indication of autism before the vaccination. This challenges the ‘coincidence’ hypothesis (autism is often finally diagnosed at two years old, the age many children are given their first MMR jab). Cases after a period of normal development are very rare.
• Children becoming autistic following an MMR jab have high levels of antibodies to myelin basic protein, the white, fatty substance that covers certain nerve fibres,
• yelin protein is also found in the chick embryos in which the vaccine is cultured,
• the production of antibodies against traces of myelin in the vaccine can set up an allergic response against the body's own myelin. Without the myelin sheath neural networks cannot develop properly and existing nerves will not work correctly resulting in regression of development.
• under a similar hypothesis babies exposed to high levels of rubella (German measles) antibody in the womb may inherit these antibodies and be sensitised to a rubella vaccine. The rubella antigen in the vaccine may combine with the babies existing antibodies, triggering an allergic response against their own brain components, causing damage to the myelin sheath.
(1941) Richard Barr and Kirsten Lamb. International Vaccination Newsletter 1.3.97
A French Canadian study demonstrates why the practice of mass vaccination endangers future generations.
The foetus receives its antibodies against diseases from its mother during the last weeks of pregnancy, ending up with higher overall levels than the mother. Women who have had measles naturally have higher levels of antibodies than women who have only had measles jabs, and thus pass on higher levels to their offspring. These antibody levels in the babies gradually decline over the first year or so of life.
In the study children were divided into two groups according to whether their mother had had measles naturally or from a jab. At birth both groups of children had antibodies. The levels fell to 88% in both groups at 4 months. At 8 months, however, 49% of the natural measles group still had detectable antibodies compared to only 15% of the vaccine group. In this case it would seem that vaccinating one generation leads to the next being more susceptible to illness when they are at their most vulnerable.
(2098-99) De Serres, G et al. Passive immunity against measles during the first eight months of life. Vaccine 1997;15:6/7,620
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