How safe are vaccines? - Part 1.

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VACCINATION MYTH #1:"Vaccines are completely safe..."...or are they?(courtesy Kandy of secrets_revealed group. This is a NVIC article)The FDA's VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Effects ReportingSystem) receives about 11,000 reports of seriousadverse reactions to vaccination annually, some 1%(112+) of which are deaths from vaccine reactions.[1]The majority of these reports are made by doctors, andthe majority of deaths are attributed to the pertussis(whooping cough) vaccine, the "P" in DPT. This figurealone is alarming, yet it is only the "tip of theiceberg." The FDA estimates that only about 10% ofadverse reactions are reported, [2] a figure supportedby two National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC)investigations. [3] In fact, the NVIC reported that"In New York, only one out of 40 doctor's offices[2.5%] confirmed that they report a death or injuryfollowing

vaccination," -- 97.5% of vaccine relateddeaths and disabilities go unreported there.Implications about the integrity of medicalprofessionals aside (doctors are legally required toreport serious adverse events), these findings suggestthat vaccine deaths actually occurring each year maybe well over 1,000.With pertussis, the number of vaccine-related deathsdwarfs the number of disease deaths, which have beenabout 10 annually for recent years according to theCDC, and only 8 in 1993, the last peak-incidence year(pertussis runs in 3-4 year cycles, though vaccinationcertainly doesn't). Simply put, the vaccine is 100times more deadly than the disease. Given the manyinstances in which highly vaccinated populations havecontracted disease (see Myth #2), and the fact thatthe vast majority of disease decline this centuryoccurred before compulsory vaccinations (pertussisdeaths declined 79% prior to vaccines; see Myth

#3),this comparison is a valid one--and this enormousnumber of vaccine casualities can hardly be considereda necessary sacrifice for the benefit of adisease-free society.Unfortunately, the vaccine-related-deaths storydoesn't end here. Both national and internationalstudies have shown vaccination to be a cause ofSIDS[4,5] (SIDS is "Sudden Infant Death Syndrome," a"catch-all" diagnosis given when the specific cause ofdeath is unknown; estimates range from 5 - 10,000cases each year in the U.S.). One study found the peakincidence of SIDS occurred at the ages of 2 and 4months in the U.S., precisely when the first tworoutine immunizations are given,[4] while anotherfound a clear pattern of correlation extending threeweeks after immunization. Another study found that3,000 children die within 4 days of vaccination eachyear in the U.S. (amazingly, the authors reported noSIDS/vaccine relationship), while yet

anotherresearcher's studies led to the conclusion that halfof SIDS cases--that would be 2500 to 5000 infantdeaths in the U.S. each year--are caused byvaccines.[4]There are studies that claimed to find no SIDS-vaccinerelationship. However, many of these were invalidatedby yet another study which found that "confounding"had skewed their results in favor of the vaccine.[6]Shouldn't we err on the side of caution? Shouldn't anycredible correlation between vaccines and infantdeaths be just cause for meticulous, widespreadmonitoring of the vaccination status of all SIDScases? In the mid 70's Japan raised their vaccinationage from 2 months to 2 years; their incidence of SIDSdropped dramatically. In spite of this, the U.S.medical community has chosen a posture of denial.Coroners refuse to check the vaccination status ofSIDS victims, and unsuspecting families continue topay the price, unaware of the dangers

and denied theright to make a choice.Low adverse event reporting also suggests that thetotal number of adverse reactions actually occurringeach year may be more than 100,000. Due to doctors'failure to report, no one knows how many of these arepermanent disabilities, but statistics suggest that itis several times the number of deaths (see "petitions"below). This concern is reinforced by a study whichrevealed that 1 in 175 children who completed the fullDPT series suffered "severe reactions," [7] and aDr.'s report for attorneys which found that 1 in 300DPT immunizations resulted in seizures. [8]England actually saw a drop in pertussis deaths whenvaccination rates dropped from 80% to 30% in the mid70's. Swedish epidemiologist B. Trollfors' study ofpertussis vaccine efficacy and toxicity around theworld found that "pertussis-associated mortality iscurrently very low in industrialised countries and

nodifference can be discerned when countries with high,low, and zero immunisation rates were compared." Healso found that England, Wales, and West Germany hadmore pertussis fatalities in 1970 when theimmunization rate was high than during the last halfof 1980, when rates had fallen.[9]Vaccinations cost us much more than just the lives andhealth of our children. The U.S. Federal Government'sNational Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP)has paid out over $650.6 million to parents of vaccineinjured and killed children, a rate of nearly $90million per year in taxpayer dollars. The NVICP hasreceived over 5000 petitions since 1988, includingover 700 for vaccine-related deaths, and there arestill some two thousand total death and injury casespending that may take years to resolve. [10]Meanwhile, pharmaceutical companies have a captivemarket: vaccines are legally mandated in all 50 U.S.states (though

legally avoidable in most; see Myth#9), yet these same companies are "immune" fromaccountability for the consequences of their products.Furthermore, they have been allowed to use "gagorders" as a leverage tool in vaccine damage legalsettlements to prevent disclosure of information tothe public about vaccination dangers. Sucharrangements are clearly unethical; they force anonconsenting American public to pay for vaccinemanufacturer's liabilities, while attempting to ensurethat this same public will remain ignorant of thedangers of their products.It is interesting to note that insurance companies(who do the best liability studies) refuse to covervaccine adverse reactions. Profits appear to dictateboth the pharmaceutical and insurance companies'positions.VACCINATION TRUTH #1:"Vaccination causes significant death and disabilityat an astounding personal and financial cost

tofamilies and taxpayers."Back to Contents--VACCINATION MYTH #2:"Vaccines are very effective..."...or are they?The medical literature has a surprising number ofstudies documenting vaccine failure. Measles, mumps,small pox, polio and Hib outbreaks have all occurredin vaccinated populations. [11, 12, 13, 14 ,15] In1989 the CDC reported: "Among school-aged children,[measles] outbreaks have occurred in schools withvaccination levels of greater than 98 percent. [16][They] have occurred in all parts of the country,including areas that had not reported measles foryears." [17] The CDC even reported a measles outbreakin a documented 100 percent vaccinated population.[18] A study examining this phenomenon concluded, "Theapparent paradox is that as measles immunization ratesrise

to high levels in a population, measles becomes adisease of immunized persons." [19] A more recentstudy found that measles vaccination "produces immunesuppression which contributes to an increasedsusceptibility to other infections."[19a] Thesestudies suggests that the goal of completeimmunization is actually counterproductive, a notionunderscored by instances in which epidemics followedcomplete immunization of entire countries. Japanexperienced yearly increases in small pox followingthe introduction of compulsory vaccines in 1872. By1892, there were 29,979 deaths, and all had beenvaccinated. [20] Early in this century, thePhilippines experienced their worst smallpox epidemicever after 8 million people received 24.5 millionvaccine doses; the death rate quadrupled as a result.[21] In 1989, the country of Oman experienced awidespread polio outbreak six months after achievingcomplete vaccination (98%). [22] In the

U.S. in 1986,90% of 1300 pertussis cases in Kansas were "adequatelyvaccinated." [23] 72% of pertussis cases in the 1993Chicago outbreak were fully up to date with theirvaccinations.[24]VACCINATION TRUTH #2:"Evidence suggests that vaccination is an unreliablemeans of preventing disease."Back to Contents--VACCINATION MYTH #3:"Vaccines are the main reason for low disease rates inthe U.S. today..."...or are they?According to the British Association for theAdvancement of Science, childhood diseases decreased90% between 1850 and 1940, paralleling improvedsanitation and hygienic practices, well beforemandatory vaccination programs. Infectious diseasedeaths in the U.S. and England declined steadily by anaverage of about 80% during this century

(measlesmortality declined over 97%) prior to vaccinations.[25] In Great Britain, the polio epidemics peaked in1950, and had declined 82% by the time the vaccine wasintroduced there in 1956. Thus, at best, vaccinationscan be credited with only a small percentage of theoverall decline in disease related deaths thiscentury. Yet even this small portion is questionable,as the rate of decline remained virtually the sameafter vaccines were introduced. Furthermore, Europeancountries that refused immunization for small pox andpolio saw the epidemics end along with those countriesthat mandated it. (In fact, both small pox and polioimmunization campaigns were followed initially bysignificant disease incidence increases; duringsmallpox vaccination campaigns, other infectiousdiseases continued their declines in the absence ofvaccines. In England and Wales, smallpox disease andvaccination rates eventually declined

simultaneouslyover a period of several decades.[26]) It is thusimpossible to say whether or not vaccinationscontributed to the continuing decline in disease deathrates, or if the same forces which brought about theinitial declines--improved sanitation, hygiene,improvements in diet, natural disease cycles--weresimply unaffected by the vaccination programs.Underscoring this conclusion was a recent World HealthOrganization report which found that the disease andmortality rates in third world countries have nodirect correlation with immunization procedures ormedical treatment, but are closely related to thestandard of hygiene and diet. [27] Credit given tovaccinations for our current disease incidence hassimply been grossly exaggerated, if not outrightmisplaced.Vaccine advocates point to incidence statistics ratherthan mortality as proof of vaccine effectiveness.However, statisticians tell us that

mortalitystatistics can be a better measure of incidence thanthe incidence figures themselves, for the simplereason that the quality of reporting andrecord-keeping is much higher on fatalities. [28] Forinstance, a recent survey in New York City revealedthat only 3.2% of pediatricians were actuallyreporting measles cases to the health department. In1974, the CDC determined that there were 36 cases ofmeasles in Georgia, while the Georgia StateSurveillance System reported 660 cases.[29] In 1982,Maryland state health officials blamed a pertussisepidemic on a television program, "D.P.T.--VaccineRoulette," which warned of the dangers of DPT;however, when former top virologist for the U.S.Division of Biological Standards, Dr. J. AnthonyMorris, analyzed the 41 cases, only 5 were confirmed,and all had been vaccinated. [30] Such instances asthese demonstrate the fallacy of incidence figures,yet vaccine advocates tend

to rely on themindiscriminately.VACCINATION TRUTH #3"It is unclear what impact vaccines had on theinfectious disease declines that occurred throughoutthis century."Back to Contents--VACCINATION MYTH #4:"Vaccination is based on sound immunization theory andpractice..."...or is it?The clinical evidence for vaccinations is theirability to stimulate antibody production in therecipient, a fact which is not disputed. What is notclear, however, is whether or not such antibodyproduction constitutes immunity. For example, agammaglobulin-anemic children are incapable of producingantibodies, yet they recover from infectious diseasesalmost as quickly as other children.[31] Furthermore,a study published by the British Medical Council in1950 during a

diphtheria epidemic concluded that therewas no relationship between antibody count and diseaseincidence; researchers found resistant people withextremely low antibody counts and sick people withhigh counts. [32] Natural immunization is a complexphenomenon involving many organs and systems; itcannot be fully replicated by the artificialstimulation of antibody production.Research also indicates that vaccination commitsimmune cells to the specific antigens involved in thevaccine, rendering them incapable of reacting to otherinfections. Our immunological reserve may thusactually be reduced, causing a generally loweredresistance. [33]Another component of immunization theory is "herdimmunity," which states that when enough people in acommunity are immunized, all are protected. As Myth #2revealed, there are many documented instances showingjust the opposite--fully vaccinated populations docontract

diseases; with measles, this actually seemsto be the direct result of high vaccination rates.[19]A Minnesota state epidemiologist concluded that theHib vaccine increases the risk of illness when a studyrevealed that vaccinated children were five times morelikely to contract meningitis than unvaccinatedchildren.Carefully selected epidemiological studies are yetanother justification for vaccination programs.However, many of these may not be legitimate sourcesfrom which to draw conclusions about vaccineeffectiveness. For example, if 100 people arevaccinated and 5 contract the disease, the vaccine isdeclared to be 95% effective. But if only 10 of the100 were actually exposed to the disease, then thevaccine was really only 50% effective. Since no one iswilling to directly expose an entire population todisease--even a fully vaccinated one--vaccineeffectiveness rates may not indicate a vaccine's

trueeffectiveness.Yet another surprising concern about immunizationpractice is its assumption that all children,regardless of age, are virtually the same. An 8 pound2 month old receives the same dosage as a 40 poundfive year old. Infants with immature, undevelopedimmune systems may receive five or more times thedosage (relative to body weight) as older children.Furthermore, the number of "units" within doses hasbeen found upon random testing to range from 1/2 to 3times what the label indicates; manufacturing qualitycontrols appear to tolerate a rather large margin oferror. "Hot Lots"--vaccine lots withdisproportionately high death and disabilityrates--have been identified repeatedly by the NVIC,but the FDA refuses to intervene to prevent furtherunnecessary injury and deaths. In fact, they havenever recalled a vaccine lot due to adverse reactions.Some would call this infanticide.Finally,

vaccination practice assumes that allrecipients, regardless of race, culture, diet,geographic location, or any other circumstances, willrespond the same. This was perhaps never moredramatically disproved than an instance a few yearsago in Australia's Northern Territory, wherestepped-up immunization campaigns resulted in anincredible *50%* infant mortality rate in the nativeaborigines.[34] Researcher A. Kalokerinos, M.D.discovered that the aborigine's vitamin C deficient"junk food" diet (imposed on them by white society)was a critical factor (studies had already shown thatvaccination depletes vitamin C reserves; children inshock or collapse often recovered in a matter ofminutes when given vitamin C injections). Heconsidered it amazing that as many survived as did.One must wonder about the lives of the survivors,though, for if half died, surely the other half didnot escape unaffected.Almost as

troubling was a very recent study in the NewEngland Journal of Medicine which revealed that asubstantial number of Romanian children werecontracting polio from the vaccine, a less commonphenomena in most developed countries. Correlationswith injections of antibiotics were found: a singleinjection within one month of vaccination raised therisk of polio 8 times, 2 to 9 injections raised therisk 27-fold, and 10 or more injections raised therisk 182 times [Washington Post, February 22, 1995].What other factors not accounted for in vaccinationtheory will surface unexpectedly to reveal unforeseenor previously overlooked consequences? We will notbegin to fully comprehend the scope of this dangeruntil researchers begin looking and reporting inearnest. In the meantime, entire countries'populations are unwitting gamblers in a game that manymight very well choose not to play if they were givenall the "rules" in

advance.VACCINATION TRUTH #4:"Many of the assumptions upon which immunizationtheory and practice are based have been proven falsein their application."see also:Dispelling VaccinationMyths: Part II--For information on how to obtain a copy of "DispellingVaccination Myths" and the "Vaccination ResourceDirectory" (publishers, books, tapes, videos,newsletters, government agencies, nonprofits,vaccination alternatives, internet and WWW sources,etc.), send email to AlanINFORMATION SOURCES:(1) National Technical Information Service,Springfield, VA 22161, 703-487-4650, 703-487-4600.(2) Reported by KM Severyn,R.Ph.,Ph.D. in the DaytonDaily News, May 28, 1993. (Ohio Parents for VaccineSafety, 251 Ridgeway Dr., Dayton, OH 45459)(3) National Vaccine

Information Center (NVIC), 512Maple Ave. W. #206, Vienna, VA 22180, 703-938-0342;"Investigative Report on the Vaccine Adverse EventReporting System."(4) Viera Scheibner, Ph.D., Vaccination: 100 Years ofOrthodox Research Shows that Vaccines Represent aMedical Assault on the Immune System.(5) W.C. Torch, "Diptheria-pertussis-tetanus (DPT)immunization: A potential cause of the sudden infantdeath syndrome (SIDS)," (Amer. Adacemy of Neurology,34th Annual Meeting, Apr 25 - May 1, 1982), Neurology32(4), pt. 2.(6) Confounding in studies of adverse reactions tovaccines [see comments]. Fine PE, Chen RT, REVIEWARTICLE: 38 REFS. Comment in: Am J Epidemiol 1994 Jan15;139(2):229-30. Division of Immunization, Centersfor Disease Control, Atlanta, GA 30333.(7) Nature and Rates of Adverse Reactions Associatedwith DTP and DT Immunizations in Infants and Children"(Pediatrics, Nov. 1981, Vol. 68, No.

5)(8) The Fresno Bee, Community Relations, 1626 E.Street, Fresno, CA 93786, DPT Report, December 5,1984.(9) Trollfors B, Rabo, E. 1981. Whooping cough inadults. British Medical Journal (September 12),696-97.(10) National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program(NVICP), Health Resources and Services Administration,Parklawn Building, Room 7-90, 5600 Fishers Lane,Rockville, MD 20857, 800-338-2382.(11) Measles vaccine failures: lack of sustainedmeasles specific immunoglobulin G responses inrevaccinated adolescents and young adults. Departmentof Pediatrics, Georgetown University Medical Center,Washington, DC 20007. Pediatric Infectious DiseaseJournal. 13(1):34-8, 1994 Jan.(12) Measles outbreak in 31 schools: risk factors forvaccine failure and evaluation of a selectiverevaccination strategy. Department of PreventiveMedicine and Biostatistics, University of Toronto,Ont. Canadian Medical

Association Journal.150(7):1093-8, 1994 Apr 1.(13) Haemophilus b disease after vaccination withHaemophilus b polysaccharide or conjugate vaccine.Institution Division of Bacterial Products, Center forBiologics Evaluation and Research, Food and DrugAdministration, Bethesda, Md 20892. American Journalof Diseases of Children. 145(12):1379-82, 1991 Dec.(14) Sustained transmission of mumps in a highlyvaccinated population: assessment of primary vaccinefailure and waning vaccine-induced immunity. Divisionof Field Epidemiology, Centers for Disease Control andPrevention, Atlanta, Georgia. Journal of InfectiousDiseases. 169(1):77-82, 1994 Jan. 1.(15) Secondary measles vaccine failure in healthcareworkers exposed to infected patients. Department ofPediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA19104. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.14(2):81-6, 1993 Feb.(16) MMWR, 38 (8-9),

12/29/89).(17) MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)"Measles." 1989; 38:329-330.(18) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).33(24),6/22/84.(19) Failure to reach the goal of measles elimination.Apparent paradox of measles infections in immunizedpersons. Review article: 50 REFS. Dept. of InternalMedicine, Mayo Vaccine Research Group, Mayo Clinic andFoundation, Rochester, MN. Archives of InternalMedicine. 154(16):1815-20, 1994 Aug 22.(19a) Clinical Immunology and Immunopathology, May1996; 79(2): 163-170.(20) Trevor Gunn, Mass Immunization, A Point inQuestion, p 15 (E.D. Hume, Pasteur Exposed-The FalseFoundations of Modern Medicine, Bookreal, Australia,1989.)(21) Physician William Howard Hay's address of June25, 1937; printed in the Congressional Record.(22) Outbreak of paralytic poliomyelitis in Oman;evidence for widespread transmission among fullyvaccinated children Lancet vol 338:

Sept 21, 1991;715-720.(23) Neil Miller, Vaccines: Are They Safe andEffective? p 33.(24) Chicago Dept. of Health.(25) See Note 23 pp 18-40.(26) See Note 23 pp 45,46 [NVIC News, April 92, p12].(27) S. Curtis, A Handbook of Homeopathic Alternativesto Immunization.(28) Darrell Huff, How to Lie With Statistics, p 84.(29) quoted from the internet, credited to KeithBlock, M.D., a family physician from Evanston,Illinois, who has spent years collecting data in themedical literature on immunizations.(30) See Note 20, p 15.(31) See Note 20 p 21.(32) See Note 20, p 21 (British Medical CouncilPublication 272, May 1950)(33) See Note 20, p 21; also Note 23 p 47 (Buttram,MD, Hoffman, Mothering Magazine, Winter 1985 p 30;Kalokerinos and Dettman, MDs, "The Dangers ofImmunization," Biological Research Inst. [Australia],1979, p 49).(34) Archie Kalolerinos, MD, Every Second Child,

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