The Vaccine Reaction / Contraindications to vaccine

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The Vaccine Reaction

Barbara Loe Fisher, Editor

 

Contraindications: According to Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine,

contraindications to vaccinia virus vaccine include: B or T cell immune

system disorders, eczema, pregnancy, disorders of the central nervous

system, neoplasms of the reticuloendothelial system, and use of

immunosuppressive drugs.19

 

The CDC now lists the following contraindications in the absence of an

emergency (actual exposure to smallpox):20

Persons who experience anaphylactic reactions to polymyxin B sulfate,

streptomycin sulfate, chlortetracycline hydrochloride and neomycin sulfate

should not be vaccinated with Dryvax;

 

Persons with eczema or other skin conditions: " Vaccinia vaccine should not

be administered to persons with eczema of any degree, those with a past

history of eczema, those whose household contacts have active eczema, or

whose household contacts have a history of eczema.

 

" Persons with other acute, chronic or exfoliative skin conditions (e.g.,

atopic dermatitis, burns, impetigo or varicella zoster) might also be at

higher risk for eczema vaccinatum and should not be vaccinated until the

condition resolves. "

Persons Infected with HIV;

 

Persons with immunosuppression (leukemia, lymphoma, generalized malignancy,

solid organ transplantation, cellular or humoral immunity disorders, therapy

with akylating agents, antimetabolites, radiation or high-dose

corticosteroid therapy); Infants and Children under age 18;

 

Pregnant Women: " Vaccinia virus has been reported to cause fetal infection

on rare occasions, almost always after primary vaccination of the mother.

Cases have been reported as recently as 1978. When fetal vaccinia does

occur, it usually results in stillbirth or death of the infant soon after

delivery. "

 

Other contraindication considerations : Although the CDC does not list

herpes infection as a contraindication in non-emergencies, the case reports

of progressive vaccinia in persons with herpes suggest that use of the

vaccinia virus vaccine today may result in many more cases of progressive

vaccinia than in the past. Herpes infection, like HIV, is more widespread

today than it was prior to the early 1970's, when routine vaccinia virus

vaccination was discontinued.

 

CDC Eliminates Absolute Contraindications In Emergency: The CDC states that:

" No absolute contraindications exist regarding vaccination of a person with

a high-risk exposure to smallpox. Persons at greatest risk for experiencing

serious vaccination complications are also at greatest risk for death from

smallpox.

" If a relative contraindication to vaccination exists, the risk for

experiencing serious vaccination complications must be weighed against the

risk for experiencing a potentially fatal smallpox infection.

" When the level of exposure risk is undetermined, the decision to vaccinate

should be made after prudent assessment by the clinician and the patient of

the potential risks versus the benefits of smallpox [vaccinia virus]

vaccination. "

 

Other Considerations: Whether a person dies from a disease or a vaccine, a

death is a death and one cause of death is no more important than another

when individual human life is valued.

Because there are no genetic or other biomarkers to definitively predict

ahead of time who will be harmed by vaccination, there must be strict

adherence to the informed consent ethic, especially during times of

emergencies when all contraindications are officially suspended.

 

To do any less, places public health officials and anyone, who forces

vaccination on a person without that person's informed consent, in the role

of judge and executioner of the genetically and biologically vulnerable.

Preventing Contact Transmission of Vaccinia Virus: Care must be taken to

prevent spread of the vaccine virus from the vaccination lesion site to

other areas of the body or to another person. Use of gauze or porous

bandages (to allow air to dry the site lesion) is advised with bandages

changed every 1 to 2 days. No salves or ointments should be placed on the

vaccination lesion.

 

The most important action for preventing vaccinia virus transmission is

frequent hand washing with soap and water or disinfecting agents after

contact with the vaccination site. Disposal of bandages that have covered

the site in sealed plastic bags and decontaminating clothing or materials

that have contact with the site by laundering in hot water with bleach is

also important.20,52

 

Recombinant Vaccinia Virus Vaccine Transmission: Scientists are using

vaccinia virus as a vehicle for creating new vaccines. Genes from herpes

simplex virus, hepatitis B virus, HIV and malaria reportedly have been

inserted into the vaccinia genome.19

 

In the 1970's and 1980's, as researchers began experimenting with

genetically engineering different strains of vaccinia viruses to contain and

express foreign DNA to induce protection against infectious agents such as

HIV, there were reports of laboratory-acquired infections with vaccinia or

recombinant viruses.20,24

In 1991 the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)

advised that health care workers, who were exposed to volunteers in new

vaccine trials using genetically engineered vaccinia virus, be vaccinated

with vaccinia virus vaccine. The CDC recommendations stated that::

 

" With the initiation of human trials of recombinant vaccines, physicians,

nurses and other health-care personnel who provide clinical care to

recipients of these vaccines could be exposed to both vaccinia and

recombinant viruses. The exposure could occur from contact with dressings

contaminated with the virus or through exposure to the vaccine.

 

" The risk of transmission of recombinant viruses to exposed health care

workers is unknown.however, because of the potential for transmission of

vaccinia or recombinant vaccinia viruses to such persons, the ACIP suggests

that health care personnel who have direct contact with contaminated

dressings or other infectious material from volunteers in clinical studies

be considered for vaccination. " 24

 

Health Secretary Orders 300 Million Doses of Vaccine: One month after the

September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon,

DHHS Secretary Tommy Thompson called on industry and government to produce

and stockpile 300 million doses of vaccinia virus vaccine by the end of

2002.

 

He said that all Americans should know they " have their name on a vaccine

shot in our inventory. " Cost estimates range from $500 million to nearly $2

billion.1,15,78 In order to be able to accomplish this goal, some in

industry are calling for cutting the number of participants in vaccine

trials and bypassing standard safety and efficacy requirements to quickly

create a stockpile of vaccine.16,17,25

 

Industry Asks for Immunity From Lawsuits: Drug companies competing for the

multi-million dollar contract to produce enough vaccinia virus vaccine to

vaccinate every American are asking Congress to pass legislation shifting

all liability for vaccine injuries and deaths to the government (American

taxpayer). Already, there are bills being drafted in Congress to create a

federal fund to compensate victims of bioterrorism vaccines, such as

vaccinia virus vaccine.79

 

New Office of Preparedness Created: DHHS Secretary Thompson has appointed

D.A. Henderson, founding director of the Center for Civilian Biodefense

Studies at Johns Hopkins University and architect of the worldwide smallpox

eradication effort, as well as Philip Russell, a retired Army major general

specializing in vaccine development, to head a new Office of Preparedness

that will expand new vaccine programs and develop strategies to respond to

public health emergencies.

 

Dr. Henderson has been quoted as saying his top priority is to improve the

" communications system " that will allow the medical community and government

to mount a coordinated response.80

Emergency Plan Will Militarize Public Health System: The Working Group on

Civilian Biodefense has stated " The discovery of a single suspected case of

smallpox must be treated as an international health emergency. " 49

 

Although it is very important to have a well crafted bioterrorism emergency

response plan in place, along with enough vaccine for everyone who wants to

use it, it is difficult to envision the necessity for giving public health

officials the kind of sweeping police powers now being advocated by the

Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

With funding and direction provided from the CDC, a lawyer at the Georgetown

University Center for Law and the Public's Health, Lawrence Gostin, has

created model state legislation that will allow public health officials to

mobilize and use " all or any part of the organized militia " to isolate,

quarantine and force vaccination and medical treatment on

 

American citizens in states where a Governor has called a " state of

emergency " for 30 days or more. (Go to www.publichealthlaw.net to read the

law).

 

Public health officials would be given the power to " coordinate all matters

pertaining to the public health emergency, " including the right to seize

private property such as " communications devices, carriers, real estate,

fuels, food, clothing and health care facilities " and take control of " the

use, sale, dispensing, distribution and transportation of food, fuel,

clothing and other commodities, alcoholic beverages, firearms, explosives

and combustibles " as well as take control of roads and public areas.

 

If passed by the states, the law would give unprecedented police powers to

public health officials and those they designate to charge citizens with

misdemeanors and imprison them if they refuse to comply with vaccination,

medical treatment or isolation orders without being able to go to court

first. Those who participate in enforcing the law would not be held liable

for any injury, death or loss of property which resulted.

In the preface to this model state legislation, Gostin justified the law he

wrote for the CDC by referring to the 1905 Supreme Court decision Jacobsen v

Massachusetts, which upheld the right of US states to pass mandatory

vaccination laws.

 

Gostin, who is a longtime forced vaccination proponent, will be working with

the National Governors Association, National Conference of State

Legislatures, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials,

National Association of City and County Health Officers, and National

Association of Attorneys General to get this legislation passed in every

state. It has already been introduced in Massachusetts.

 

Jacobsen v Massachusetts Revisited: How did we get to this point in America,

where public health officials would presume to appropriate the kind of

police power they are now saying they should be given? It all goes back to a

man name Jacobsen who, in 1905, sued the state of Massachusetts for

requiring him and his son to get a second vaccinia virus (smallpox)

vaccination or pay a $5 fine.

 

Jacobsen refused to get revaccinated or pay the fine, saying that he and his

son had had a bad reaction to a previous vaccination for smallpox and were

afraid they would be injured or die from a second one. Jacobsen maintained

that forcing him to be revaccinated was " an assault upon his person " and

violated his constitutional rights.

 

In its majority opinion in Jacobsen v Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11(1905), the

Supreme Court rejected the evidence Jacobsen presented to show that the

vaccine can cause injury and death and that doctors cannot distinguish

between those who will be harmed and those who will not be harmed.

 

The Court concluded, " The matured opinions of medical men everywhere, and

the experience of mankind, as all must know, negative the suggestion that it

is not possible in any case to determine whether vaccination is safe. "

 

Doctors Cannot Predict Who Will Be Harmed: The fact the Supreme Court at the

turn of the 20th century did not have accurate medical information upon

which to base their precedent-setting decision is unfortunate.

 

It has been proven in the succeeding 96 years, most recently in the US Court

of Claims in Washington, D.C. where nearly two billion dollars has been

awarded to families whose children have been killed or been injured by

mandated childhood vaccines, that often doctors cannot predict ahead of time

which individuals will react to vaccines and die or be left with mental

retardation, medication-resistant seizure disorders, paralysis, learning

disabilities, ADHD, autism, chronic arthritis, or other immune and brain

dysfunction.6

 

Cruel and Inhuman To The Last Degree: This is a critical point in measuring

the consequences of assigning police powers to public health officials for

the purpose of enforcing vaccination, particularly in cases where parents

suspect their children are at increased risk for reacting to vaccines - even

though government health officials, anxious to achieve a 100 percent

vaccination rate, disagree.

 

In their opinion, the 1905 Supreme Court justices acknowledged that

vaccination must not be forced on a person whose physical condition would

make vaccination " cruel and inhuman to the last degree. We are not to be

understood as holding that the statute was intended to be applied in such a

case or, if it was so intended, that the judiciary would not be competent to

interfere and protect the health and life of the individual concerned. "

 

Therefore, when interpreting Jacobsen v Massachusetts in 2002, it is

important to remember that, although the Court agreed that states may enact

" such reasonable regulations established directly by legislative enactment

as will protect the public health and the public safety, " the Supreme Court

made it clear that mandatory vaccination laws must not be applied

unreasonably so as to result in harm to individuals.

In other words, the state does not have the right to command that an

individual sacrifice his or her life in the name of the public health.

 

Utilitarianism Was in Fashion: What, then, did the 1905 Supreme Court mean

when it went on to declare that " it was the duty of the constituted

authorities primarily to keep in view the welfare, comfort and safety of the

many, and not permit the interests of the many to be subordinated to the

wishes or convenience of the few? " The " wishes or convenience " of the few

certainly does not translate into the " lives " of the few, but still, the

historical context in which this declaration was made is very important.

 

In 1905, the political doctrine known as " utilitarianism " was a popular

philosophical tenet, which judged the rightness or wrongness of an action by

its consequences and held that an action that is moral or ethical results in

the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers of people.

With its emphasis on numbers of people, utilitarianism became a convenient

way to justify state legislative policy. Karl

 

Marx used utilitarian principles to formulate his economic theories and

modern cost benefit analyses are also descendents of utilitarianism.12

Individual Autonomy Must Come First: In 1927, jurist Oliver Wendall Holmes

embraced the utilitarian rationale when he used Jacobsen v Massachusetts to

justify the forced sterilization of a mentally retarded woman to, in effect,

protect the public welfare.

 

Writing for the majority in a 8-1 Supreme Court decision, Buck v Bell, 274

U.S. 200 (1927), Holmes said " The principle that sustains compulsory

vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes. "

 

Not long after, Hitler would embrace the same kind of rationalization used

by Holmes in that stunning 1927 legal opinion and go on to pursue his own

brand of social engineering to eliminate from society those persons the

Third Reich had judged to be genetically inferior, physically or mentally

compromised, or socially unacceptable (homosexuals, political dissidents)

because they were thought to be a threat to the public health and welfare.81

 

The tragic moral failure of utilitarianism was finally revealed at the

Doctor's Trial at Nuremberg after World War II, where it was discredited by

the Nuremberg Tribunal as a pseudo-ethic.11 In its place stands the

Nuremberg Code, which places the right of individuals to self determination

and autonomy above the right of the state, science and medicine to derive

benefits from them.

 

The human right to informed consent to medical interventions that can injure

or kill is the centerpiece of modern bioethics. It insures that the

individual has control over decisions and actions involving life and death,

which are the most sacred of all decisions and actions humans are ever

called upon to make.

Editorial: Vaccinating America at Gunpoint

by Barbara Loe Fisher

 

Like every American, I never imagined that I would experience the kind of

shock and horror that came on September 11 with the terrorist attacks on New

York and Washington, D.C. While our world has changed forever, there are

some things that never change. Truth does not change. What it means to be

free does not change.

 

In response to the fear and anxiety that still hangs like a bad dream over

our nation, in the mad scramble to " do something " to make Americans feel

safe again, government officials employed by the Centers for Disease Control

(CDC) have stepped forward to suggest that they and their state health

department counterparts are the only ones who can keep us safe whenever they

decide there is a " public health " emergency - if only we will give them the

power to use the state militia to arrest, quarantine and forcibly vaccinate

and medicate us.

 

Not satisfied with that, they also want the power to seize our private

property, including our homes, as well as our telephones, fax machines,

computers, cars, fuel, food, clothing, firearms, prescription drugs and the

alcoholic beverages in our refrigerator. Just in case you were thinking you

could make it to the border before the public health militia comes to get

you, they want the power to take over all roads in and out of your city and

state, too.

And to make sure they can't get sued by anyone for anything they do, they

are asking for total legal immunity for destroying your property or killing

you or your children when they enforce the law. They are joined in this ques

t by the drug companies making " bioterrorism " vaccines, like the notoriously

reactive smallpox vaccine never tested for safety in clinical trials.

 

Not only are the drug companies demanding that Congress give them total

legal immunity for all vaccine-induced injuries and deaths, they are also

demanding that the bioterrorism vaccines they produce be exempt from normal

federal safety and efficacy standards.

 

What is wrong with this picture?

Certainly, America should have enough smallpox vaccine or other

" bioterrorism " vaccines for everyone who voluntarily wants to use them: but

not ones that haven't been properly tested. Certainly, America should have a

sound, workable emergency plan in place in the event of a bioterrorism

attack: but not one that places the life and liberty of the majority of

citizens in the hands of an elite few, who will have the power to take both

from citizens without their consent.

 

This CDC-funded and initiated legislation treats us like runaway slaves in

need of subjugation. The law's proposed elimination of the informed consent

principle, which has governed the ethical use of medical interventions that

can injure or kill ever since the Doctor's Trial at Nuremberg after World

War II, is clear indication that public health officials want the sole

authority to decide who will live and who will die and under what

conditions.

 

No state of emergency in a free society justifies the sacrifice of the most

sacred human right: the right to voluntarily decide what you are willing to

risk your life for or your child's life for. What it means to be free doesn'

t get more basic than that.

 

I have said many times during the past decade, that if the state can tag,

track down and force citizens to be injected with biologicals of unknown

toxicity today, then there will be no limit on what individual freedoms the

state can take away in the name of the greater good tomorrow. Now, tomorrow

is here.

In this time of great sadness, fear and confusion, Americans have a choice

to make: either we defend the individual freedoms our forefathers fought and

died to give us, or we sacrifice those freedoms and let the terrorists win.

What we do will define who we are as a nation for many years to come.

National Vaccine Information Center

 

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