What's All the Fuss About? Intro to Vaccination Controversy

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What's all the fuss about? An introduction to the vaccination

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What's all the fuss about?

 

An introduction to the vaccination controversy

 

Many parents who have contacted us have requested that we " send them

all the information on vaccination " so that they can make an

informed choice for themselves. It would be great if it was that

easy. Unfortunately, the issue is complex and it is not a simple

task to become informed. However, knowing how to find the

information along with a basic understanding of the issues can help

get you there more quickly . The aim of this leaflet is to do just

that.

 

The key issues that members of the IAS and other similar

organisations worldwide believe and are concerned about can be

listed as follows:-

 

1. Vaccination has not been solely responsible for the major decline

in infectious diseases, despite what you may have heard from those

promoting vaccines. Improvements in living conditions including

sanitation, water supplies and nutrition have been the main reasons

for this. One study concluded that vaccines had been responsible

for " less than 3% " of the decline. Scarlet fever, for example,

declined steadily throughout the last 100 years to the point of

being totally eradicated without a vaccine ever being widely used.

 

2. Vaccines are not always very effective in preventing the disease

that they are supposed to protect against. There have been several

medical studies done where outbreaks of diseases have occurred in

highly vaccinated populations (up to 98% vaccinated). As is the case

with many outbreaks of diseases, the majority of reported cases of

measles during the 1997 New Zealand epidemic were vaccinated. A

recent whooping cough epidemic in the Netherlands occurred mainly in

vaccinated people.

 

3. Vaccines work by producing antibodies, but the presence of

antibodies will not necessarily prevent disease. This can be shown

in the disease called agammaglobulinemia where the body does not

produce antibodies. People with this disease still don't catch every

disease going, and conversely studies of outbreaks of disease in

highly vaccinated populations found that many cases of the diseases

occurred in people with a supposed 'protective' level of antibodies

to that disease.

 

4. The whole basis of modern infectious disease treatment including

vaccination is based on the 'germ theory' as attributed to Louis

Pasteur. Many scientists including Pasteur himself have admitted

that the theory is flawed and some of his findings were based on

fraudulent results of studies, and plagiarism of Bechamp's work,

which Bechamp maintained that Pasteur did not even understand.

 

5. Vaccines contain very toxic substances that are poisonous to our

bodies. For example, some vaccines contain formaldehyde, which is a

very poisonous compound with no known 'safe level'. Many contain

thimerosal, which is a mercury compound that has recently been

banned by the US FDA for over-the-counter drug use. Neomycin,

another common ingredient, is contraindicated for injection. Other

components include aluminium salts which have been linked to

alzheimer's disease, and human albumin that has been linked to

cancer. Traces of foreign genetic material from the host animal

tissue can also cause severe adverse reactions.

 

6. Vaccines have much higher rate of side effects than is officially

recognised. Preliminary vaccine safety studies usually have enough

numbers to gauge only the minor adverse effects. These studies are

done only on infants selected from strict criteria so give a poor

reprentation of the general public. Manufacturers rely on the

reporting of adverse events by medical staff administering the

vaccines once they are licensed to give the full picture on these

side-effects. These figures are grossly incorrect due to

underreporting and the fact that many vaccine side-effects are not

recognised. A study in the USA where the reporting of adverse

affects is mandatory found that less than 10% of events were ever

reported. In New Zealand reporting is voluntary, and most of the

serious adverse events that we are aware of would not have been

reported if we had not done so. Despite this, between 1 July, 1996

and 31 March 1998, there were a total of over 1400 adverse vaccine

reactions reported to CARM (Centre for Adverse Reactions Monitoring)

in Dunedin of which 4 were deaths. We believe that this is the tip

of the iceberg because many adverse effects are considered to be

coincidental by health professionals who are not aware of what

constitutes a vaccine reaction and won't admit that they do occur.

 

7. No proper long-term studies of vaccine side-effects or their

effects on the immune system have been done using unvaccinated

children as " normal " controls.

 

8. Very few scientific, " double-blind, placebo based, controlled

trials " have ever been done on vaccines. These trials are what the

medical profession use as the benchmark to test the effectiveness of

other medical procedures. They involve comparing a group of people

given one treatment against another group of people given a placebo.

There is therefore very little sound scientific proof of vaccine

effectiveness. One large World Health Organisation trial that was

done on the BCG vaccine for tuberculosis found more cases of TB in

the vaccinated group than the unvaccinated.

 

9. Because the majority of children in the world are vaccinated, it

is becoming increasingly difficult to compare the health of

unvaccinated versus vaccinated children. The incidence of side

effects of vaccination are often compared to what is called

the 'background incidence' of such a disease. This 'background

incidence' is the usual incidence of this occurring over the whole

population. As the majority of the population is vaccinated, such a

comparison is unscientific.

 

10. Most vaccine studies published in medical journals are funded by

the vaccine manufacturer yet are considered " independent and

unbiased " in spite of an obvious conflict of interest.

 

11. Vaccines can contain foreign viruses or genetic material that

was present in foetal bovine serum or the host animal issue that was

used during production. Some of these viruses have been linked to

diseases such as cancer, as is the case with the SV40 [simian

(monkey) Virus no.40] virus which contaminated the polio vaccine

worldwide in the 1950s and early 60s. Another monkey virus, Simian

Foamy Virus, is now believed to be another contaminant of the polio

vaccine.

 

12. Some vaccines are grown from cells from aborted human foetuses.

The main reason these are now being used is to eliminate the problem

of viral contamination of animal tissue culture with latent viruses

such as the SV40. However, foetal bovine serum is used with aborted

foetal cells, and WHO certified batches of foetal bovine serum are

still known to cause problems.

 

13. Vaccination has been proved in medical studies to make children

more susceptible to disease for a period afterwards due to

its 'overload' effect on the immune system.

 

14. Vaccination has been linked to serious chronic problems such as

asthma, eczema, autism, as well as serious brain damage. A number of

studies have found a much higher incidence of asthma and allergic

diseases amongst vaccinated children. Autism has been linked to

vaccination in a number of studies, especially relating to the MMR

(measles mumps rubella) vaccine. SIDS has been linked to vaccination

also, and death is a rare side effect of vaccination.

 

15. Polio vaccination causes nearly all the cases of paralytic polio

in the USA today (and in other developed countries as well). This is

because of the use of a live virus in the vaccine, which can spread

from a vaccinated person to others. The MMR (Measles Mumps Rubella

vaccine) manufacturers have confirmed that the measles virus can

also be shed by people for up to two weeks after vaccination.

 

16. Some diseases that we vaccinate against, such as tetanus, are

extremely rare so that the risk of getting the disease is close to

zero, whereas the risk of side efects from the vaccine are much

higher.

 

17. The vaccine industry earns billions of dollars annually. The

manufacturers all have to provide a return on their shareholders'

investment and to this end have been known to place profit before

safety, placing more risk on the people receiving the vaccine.

Vaccine manufacturers are also immune from being sued for any

vaccine damage by special government compensation schemes for their

victims in many countries. This absolves them from the legal

responsibility to improve vaccine safety. Even in today's volatile

financial market, some of the safest investments are companies

involved in vaccines and AIDS research and treatment.

 

18. Doctors and health professionals worldwide who speak out against

vaccination have been known to lose funding for research, be

ostricised by their peers, and in New Zealand can risk losing their

RHA contracts or their jobs.

 

19. There is growing pressure in many countries for vaccination to

be made compulsory for school entry as it is in some already. This

is contrary to the basic human right of being able to consent to any

medical intervention.

 

20. Organisations promoting vaccination sometimes use 'fear tactics'

and over-emphasise the risk of disease and its complications

to 'scare' people into vaccinating.

 

21. There is growing concern that vaccines are changing the

immunological integrity of humans thus affecting future generations.

 

Note: A full list of references to the above points will be

available on request from the IAS.

 

To find out more about any of the above issues, please consider the

following options:-

 

1. Join the IAS so that you can receive our informative

newsletters, have access to our support groups and use our library

service.

 

1. Visit our website on the Internet:-

http://www.netlink.co.nz/~ias/ias.htm - it will inform you and guide

you to doing your own research.

 

1. Find and read the following books in your library or

bookseller:-

 

Vaccination Book List

 

The following titles represent a selection from books that are

available. Some of these are available in libraries, through

bookstores, or by mail order from VINE, PO Box 149, Kaeo, Northland.

On the Internet a good book list with information is at the

following URL:-http://www.new-atlantean.com/global.

 

Neil Z Miller Vaccines: are they really safe and effective? 1996

ISBN 1-881217-10-8

 

Immunisation: Theory vs Reality 1996 ISBN 1-881217-12-4

 

Immunisation: The People Speak 1996 ISBN 1-881217-16-1

 

Randall Neustaedter The Vaccine Guide, Making an Informed choice

ISBN 1-55643-215-1

 

Archie Kalokerinos Every Second Child - Keats Publishing -1991 ISBN

0-8793-250-9

 

Harris L Coulter and Barbara Loe Fisher A Shot in the Dark - Avery

Publishing - 1991 ISBN 0-89529-463-X

 

Harris L Coulter Vaccination, Social Violence & Criminality ISBN 1-

55643-103-1

 

Robert Mendelsohn, MD How to Raise a Heailty Child In Spite of Your

Doctor Ballantyne Books 1984 ISBN 0-345-34276-3

 

Viera Scheiber, PhD Vaccination, 100 Years of Orthodox Research

Shows that Vaccines Represent a Medical Assault on the Immune System

ISBN 0-646-15124-X

 

Ian Sinclair Vaccination, The Hidden Facts ISBN 0-646-08812-2

(available from the author - Ian Sinclair, 5 Ivy St, Ryde, NSW 2112,

Australia)

 

The Vaccination Bible Edited by Lynne McTaggart - A What Doctors

Don't Tell You Publication Wallace Press

 

Lynne McTaggart What Doctors Don't Tell You 1996 ISBN 0-7225-3024-2

 

Toni Jeffreys Your Health at Risk 1998 Howling at the Moon-pub

 

Leslie Kenton Nature's Child 1993 ISBN 09-177836-0 Ebury Press,

London

 

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