Fred Burks of WantToKnow.info takes the vaccine industry head-on.

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" Just before President Bush signed the homeland security bill into law an

unknown member of Congress inserted a provision into the legislation that blocks

lawsuits against the maker of a controversial [mercury-based] vaccine

preservative called " thimerosal, " used in vaccines that are given to children. "

-- CBS, 12/12/02

 

February 15, 2006

Dear friends,

Many vaccines may have more dangers than you might know. The major media

articles below raise serious questions about dangers which have not been

adequately addressed by the producers of many vaccines. Each entry provides a

one-paragraph summary of key excerpts taken verbatim from these articles, along

with the headline, date, and link to the full article on the media website. Most

of the articles deal with a controversial mercury-based preservative called

Thimerosal which was routinely used in many vaccines, and its link to the rapid

rise in autism. The last article from the London Times presents revealing

evidence of a connection between a major smallpox vaccine campaign and the early

spread of AIDS.

 

To understand why you likely have not heard about most of these vaccine

dangers, don't miss the excellent summary of a highly revealing book by the

former editor of the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine at

http://www.WantToKnow.info/truthaboutdrugcompanies. Dr. Angell clearly depicts

how the pharmaceutical companies have used their immense wealth to exert control

over all branches of government and prevent information which might hurt their

profits from getting significant media coverage. By spreading the word on these

important matters, we can and will make a big difference. Thanks for caring, and

have a great day!

 

With best wishes,

Fred Burks for the WantToKnow.info Team

Former language interpreter for Presidents Bush and Clinton

 

 

The Age of Autism: 'A pretty big secret'

December 7, 2005, Washington Times/UPI

http://www.washingtontimes.com/upi/20051204-060313-6829r.htm

Thousands of children cared for by Homefirst Health Services in metropolitan

Chicago have at least two things in common with thousands of Amish children in

rural Lancaster: They have never been vaccinated. And they don't have autism.

" We have about 30,000 or 35,000 children that we've taken care of over the

years, and I don't think we have a single case of autism in children delivered

by us who never received vaccines, " said Dr. Mayer Eisenstein, Homefirst's

medical director who founded the practice in 1973. The autism rate in Illinois

public schools is 38 per 10,000. Eisenstein, in fact, is author of the book

" Don't Vaccinate Before You Educate! " Earlier this year Florida pediatrician Dr.

Jeff Bradstreet said there is virtually no autism in home-schooling families who

decline to vaccinate for religious reasons -- lending credence to Eisenstein's

observations. " It's largely non-existent, " said Bradstreet, who treats children

with autism from around the country. Thimerosal, which is

49.6 percent ethyl mercury by weight, was phased out of most U.S. childhood

immunizations beginning in 1999, but the CDC recommends flu shots for pregnant

women and last year began recommending them for children 6 to 23 months old.

Most of those shots contain thimerosal.

 

Debate over vaccines, autism won't die

June 26, 2005, MSNBC

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8336821

http://www.WantToKnow.info/050705vaccineautismlink

Mercury in shots blamed for rise in brain disorder among children. Vested

interests make it tough to know who to believe. Many parents have filed

lawsuits. Many scientists have ties to vaccine makers or are selling their

expertise in court cases. Government officials don’t want people to turn away

from vaccines, which have clearly benefitted public health. Flu vaccine sold in

multidose vials still contains the [mercury] preservative, and the government

urges flu shots for pregnant women and young children even though not enough

thimerosal-free ones are available, critics say. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr....who

has pushed the issue on news shows and in an article in Rolling Stone magazine,

said that when he looked at the government’s evidence it was laughably flawed.

“It was clear to me that the reports they’re relying on are ’cigarette

science,”’ he said, referring to tobacco companies’ past arguments that there

was no proof cigarettes caused cancer. Deadly Immunity

June 16, 2005, Robert F. Kennedy

http://www.WantToKnow.info/050825mercuryautismlink

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0616-31.htm

In June 2000, a group of top government scientists and health officials

gathered for a meeting at the isolated Simpsonwood conference center...to ensure

complete secrecy. The federal officials and industry representatives had

assembled to discuss a disturbing new study that raised alarming questions about

the safety of a host of common childhood vaccines administered to infants and

young children. A mercury-based preservative in the vaccines -- thimerosal --

appeared to be responsible for a dramatic increase in autism. But instead of

taking immediate steps to alert the public and rid the vaccine supply of

thimerosal, the officials and executives at Simpsonwood spent most of the next

two days discussing how to cover up the damaging data. According to transcripts

obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, many at the meeting were

concerned about how the damaging revelations about thimerosal would affect the

vaccine industry's bottom line. The CDC paid the Institute of Medicine to

conduct a new study to whitewash the risks of thimerosal, ordering researchers

to " rule out " the chemical's link to autism. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist,

who has received $873,000 in contributions from the pharmaceutical industry, has

been working to immunize vaccine makers from liability in 4,200 lawsuits that

have been filed by the parents of injured children. More than 500,000 kids

currently suffer from autism. The disease was unknown until 1943, when it was

identified and diagnosed among 11 children born in the months after thimerosal

was first added to baby vaccines in 1931. Internal documents reveal that Eli

Lilly, which first developed thimerosal, knew from the start that its product

could cause damage -- and even death -- in both animals and humans.

 

A child's return from autism

May 25, 2005, San Francisco Chronicle

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/05/25/BAGU0CU2K71.DTL

A Lafayette couple, certain that chelation therapy has helped their autistic

son, stepped squarely into the controversy surrounding the causes of autism and

its treatment Tuesday as they joined 150 other parents in launching an

international support group that will aggressively promote the treatment. The

Handleys are now among a small minority of parents -- who, believing that the

autism was caused by the mercury in thimerosal, a preservative that was

routinely used in vaccines until recently -- are treating their children with

chelation therapy, a lotion or pill that strips the body of heavy metals. It has

been used for decades to detoxify people contaminated in industrial accidents,

but no studies have proved whether it is an effective treatment for autism. For

Jamie's parents, the proof they need is in front of them: Jamie, now 3 years old

and several months into treatment, is plump and playing baseball. His smile has

returned. The Handleys said the new support group, Generation

Rescue, www.generationrescue.com, will offer information on chelation therapy

and connect parents with those who can help.

 

The Age of Autism: The Amish anomaly

April 18-19, 2005, Washington Times

http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20050321-115921-9566r.htm - Part 1

http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050417-052541-5549r.htm - Part 2

Where are the autistic Amish? Here in Lancaster County, heart of Pennsylvania

Dutch country, there should be well over 100 with some form of the disorder. I

have come here to find them, but so far my mission has failed, and the very few

I have identified raise some very interesting questions about some widely held

views on autism. The Amish have a religious exemption from vaccination. So far,

there is evidence of only three, all of them children, the oldest age 9 or 10.

Julia is one of them. She...is adopted from China. " She had most of her vaccines

given to her in the United States before we got her. " [Of the other one

definitely had a vaccine, and the other's vaccine status is unknown.] The

mainstream scientific consensus says autism is a complex genetic disorder, one

that has been around for millennia at roughly the same prevalence. That

prevalence is now considered to be 1 in every 166 children born in the United

States.

 

Possible Mercury, Autism Connection Found in Study

March 17, 2005, Los Angeles Times

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-autism17mar17,1,1770760.story?coll=la\

-news-science

http://newsmine.org/archive/nature-health/health/toxic-mercury-in-environment-ca\

using-autism.txt

Studying individual school districts in Texas, the epidemiologists found that

those districts with the highest levels of mercury in the environment also had

the highest rates of special education students and autism diagnoses. There was

a strong, direct relationship between mercury and autism levels. The incidence

of autism has grown dramatically over the last two decades, from about one in

every 2,000 children to as high as one in every 166. The purported link between

autism and mercury has been a subject of intense debate. In the past it has

centered primarily on the mercury-containing preservative thimerosal, which was

once widely used in vaccines. Many parents have argued that thimerosal causes

autism because their children seemed to develop the neurological disorder

shortly after they received childhood vaccinations.

 

Merck's infant vaccine stirs new controversy

Los Angeles Times/Newsday, March 8, 2005

http://www.nynewsday.com/news/health/ny-usglan084168623mar08,0,3713664.story

http://www.mercuryexposure.org/index.php?article_id=344

Merck & Co. continued to supply infant vaccine containing a mercury

preservative for two years after declaring that it had eliminated the chemical.

Rep. David Weldon (R-Fla.), a physician, said that what Merck did was

" misleading. " " You had people literally into 2002 getting shots with mercury,

having been told it was all taken out in 1999, " he said. " There should have been

a much more cautious announcement that we're going to eliminate the mercury over

time. " Thimerosal, which is nearly 50 percent ethyl mercury, has largely been

eliminated from most routine childhood vaccines, although it is present in most

flu shots. More than 4,200 parents have filed claims in the federal Vaccine

Injury Compensation Program, alleging that their children suffered autism or

other neurological disorders from mercury in their shots.

 

The Man Behind The Vaccine Mystery

December 12, 2002, CBS

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/12/12/eveningnews/main532886.shtml

It's been a mystery in Washington for weeks. Just before President Bush signed

the homeland security bill into law an unknown member of Congress inserted a

provision into the legislation that blocks lawsuits against the maker of a

controversial vaccine preservative called " thimerosal, " used in vaccines that

are given to children. Drug giant Eli Lilly and Company makes thimerosal. It's

the mercury in the preservative that many parents say causes autism in thousands

of children. But nobody in Congress would admit to adding the provision, reports

CBS News Correspondent Jim Acosta – until now. House Majority Leader Dick Armey

tells CBS News he did it to keep vaccine-makers from going out of business under

the weight of mounting lawsuits. " I did it and I'm proud of it, " says Armey,

R-Texas. " It's a matter of national security, " Armey says. Because Armey is

retiring at the end of the year, some say the outgoing majority leader is the

perfect fall guy to take the heat and shield the White

House from embarrassment.

 

Smallpox vaccine 'triggered Aids virus'

May 11, 1987, London Times

http://www.WantToKnow.info/870511vaccineaids

The Aids epidemic may have been triggered by the mass vaccination campaign

which eradicated smallpox. The World Health Organization, which masterminded the

13-year campaign, is studying new scientific evidence suggesting that

immunization with the smallpox vaccine Vaccinia awakened the unsuspected,

dormant human immuno defence virus infection (HIV). Doctors who accept the

connection between the anti-smallpox campaign and the Aids epidemic now see

answers to questions which had baffled them. How, for instance, the Aids

organism, previously regarded by scientists as 'weak, slow and vulnerable,'

began to behave like a type capable of creating a plague. The smallpox vaccine

theory would account for the position of each of the seven Central African

states which top the league table of most-affected countries; why Brazil became

the most afflicted Latin American country; and how Haiti became the route for

the spread of Aids to the US. The greatest spread of HIV infection coincides

with

the most intense immunization programmes. Although detailed figures of Aids

cases in Africa are difficult to collect, the more than two million carriers,

and 50,000 deaths...are concentrated in the Countries where the smallpox

immunization programme was most intensive. Brazil, the only South American

country covered in the eradication campaign, has the highest incidence of Aids

in that region.

 

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